The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-11 00:00:00

WAADSWORTH.

Jane Hawkins, cook in in the service of Mrs. Amelia Tritton,
sen.. of Plough-lane, Battersea, was charged with being con-
cerned, with two other persons, who stand remanded, in plun-
dering that lady of a large amount of property.
Mr. Gilham attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Games
for the defence.
After hearing witnesses, the prisoner was remanded until
Saturday next, when she will be brought up with the other pri-
soners,
Mr. PAYNTER refused to take bail in any amount.
John Tannoch, engineer, at the College of Civil Engineers,
Putney, was finally examined upon a charge of committing an
assault upon Anne Tannoch, his wife.
The assault of which the wife now complained, took place
on Monday night week. The prisoner came home drunk,
accused his wife of infidelity, and then with his iron fists struck
her on the head and face until she was a mass of blood, and it is
extremely probable that the prisoner would have ended his
brutal attack by murdering his victim, but for the interference
of a Mrs. Chance, who rushed into the house, and found the
poor creature pleading for mercy. The surgeon who dressed
the wounds described one on the head as being an incised
wound made by some sharp instrument, and consequently the
prisoner was remanded for the attendance of a medical man.
The complainant and Mrs. Chance both said the prisoner used
no instrument.
The prisoner, in an insolent tone, said he had nothing to
say—be wrs sorry for it. It was done, and couldn't be helped.
Mr. PAYNTER described the assault as the most brutal he
had ever had to adjudicate upon. It ought to have gone for
trial, but the wife was evidently reluctant to prosecute, and,
therefore, he should order the prisoner to pay 51., or in default
to be committed for two months with hard labour.
Committed in default.
THAMES.

A lad named Henry Rainer, aged 15, was put into the dock
to answer a charge of stealing 5/. 10s. in money from a box in
his mother's bed-room.
The case was a very distressing one indeed.
Mrs. Ann Rainer, an infirm old lady, residing at No. 33,
Johnson's-street, St. George's-in-the-East, stated that the
prisoner was her son, and he had frequently robbed her. On
Saturday morning last the prisoner left home, and a few mi-
nutes afterwards she had occasion to go to her box, which she
kept under her bed, and missed two sovereigns, a half-sove-
reign, four half-crowns, and ten shillings, which she deposited
there on the previous day. She at once suspected her son,
who did not return till morning, when, on being questioned, he
became very insolent, and refused to give any account of him-
self, and owing to his throats and violence she was compelled to
give him into custody.
Mr. BKODERir—And is it your intention to prosecute?
The witness, who was much affected, said she scarcely knew
what to do. Her husband, who was the captain of a South
Seaman, would not be home for some time, and her eldest son
was also at sea. She was alone in the world, and had been
most grievously wronged by her younger boy. Two ships
had been procured for him, but he would not remain in either,
and was constantly pilfering any thing he could lay his
hands on.
Edward Gray, a police-constable, No. 59 H, stated that the
boy was given into his custody, and that he brought home with
him a pistol, a powder-horn, and some percussion caps, which
he had purchased with a portion of the money he had stolen
from his mother. The boy said he had purchased a jacket and
waistcoat with some of the money, and bad spent the remainder
with other boys. He asked him what he had been doing
since last Saturday, and he replied that he had been rowing
about the river in boats, and sleeping during the nights in a
barge alongside Execution Dock, Wapping.
The prisoner was asked if he had any defence to make, and
he replied sullenly, " No, Sir."
Mr. Baoneair said this was a most lamentable case. The
poor woman who appeared to prosecute her own child was
quite alone in the world; her husband absent on a whaling
voyage, and her eldest son far away from her at sea ; and, as
the only means of checking the career of the prisoner at the
bar, she was compelled to have recourse to this proceeding,
and a very severe one it was. He hoped this case would be
brought under the notiee of the Worthy Assistant Judge, at the
Middlesex Sessions, and that the lad would be prevented from
returning to his evil ways, fer if he came out of prison he must
either prey upon the public, or upon his unfortunate mother.
The prisoner was then committed to the Middlesex Sessions.
Emma Watts, aged 17, was brought befor Mr. Broderip,
on a charge of robbing Mr. Richard Wiscoe, a gentleman, of
24, Colet-place, Commercial-road East, of property to a. con-
siderable amount.
The prisoner entered into the service of Mr. Wiscoe exactly
five weeks ago, and his daughters had missed property from
various drae ers in the house almost daily ever since. On
Tuesday afternoon one of the young ladies missed a shawl from
a drawer, and some pictures which a child had been playing
with on a bed in the course of the day. On the same evening
the prisoner asked for and obtained permission to go out for
an hour, and one of her master's daughters,:suspecting that she
had been pilfering, spoke to her father on the subject, who
directed a policeman, named Whittleton, 173 K, to take the
prisoner into custody directly she left the house. The police-
man obeyed the instructions given him, and brought back the
prisoner to her master's house, and she immediately dropped a
white cambric handkerchief upon a chair, and a large pot of
scented pomatum, rolled from it. The policeman then asked
gative,Tahnedpsoaideeshre wished to retire to the back part of
her if she had any other
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clothes on, and when she had done so, the policemanprto put her
in and took charge of the property and the
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' delivered to him a key which opened the locks. of all the drawers
in the house. The prisoner said she found the key at the
j bottom of a drawer in the child's bedroom. After Whittleton
bad locked her up, lie proceeded to her mother's dwelling,
where he found a gold pin belonging to a gentleman who