The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-10 00:00:00

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tween one and two o'clock that morning with a woman, named
Jane Burton, and two male acquaintances, and called for a half-
pint of gin. The prisoner was then standing in front of the bar
with a young child in her arms, and forced herself on the atten-
tion of himself and friends, and
_said she should like a drop of
gin too. He pulled out a black Canvass bag, which contained
three sovereigns and a half, and took Out the half-s&vereign for
the purpose of paying, for the liquor he had ordered, and was
about to deliver it to Jane Burton for the purpose of obtaining
change, but the prisoner forestalled her, took the half-sovereign
from his hand, and said " I'll get change for it." She then
passed her child to another female, and as she gave him the
change, 9s. 6d., she adroitly slipped her right hand into his left
hand trousers' pocket, where he had just before deposited his
bag and money, and drew it out. The moment he felt the bag
withdt awn from his pocket he made a " grab" at her hand, but
could not catch it. He exclaimed to his friends, "My money
is gone," and he was surrounded in an instant by several per-
sons and hustled. The prisoner ran away, and he followed
her through the mob as well as he was able, and upon reaching
the door caught her by the skirt of her gown and detained her
until a policeman arrived.
Jane Burton a woman of the town, stated that she accom-
panied the prosecutor to the Fir Tree, and that directly Mr.
Hughes put the change of the half-sovereign into his waistcoat
pocket, the prisoner took the bag, containing three sovereigns,
out of his trousers' pocket. She told her that would not do,
and that she was determined the prosecutor should net be
robbed in her presence. She had no sooner uttered the words,
than several persons surrounded her. She was struck twice,
and her bonnet was torn off her head. She got away from her
assailants—went out at the ride door, and met with a police-
man immediately, who stopped the prisoner at the front door.
Henry Wilbourn, of Homerton Marsh, was with Hughes,
and saw the robbery committed. Hughes rushed towards toe
pri!oner, and witness was about to follow him, when he was
knocked down by some person ; and on recovering his feet, he
was knocked down again and kicked, and his hat was taken
away. He got up again and followed the prisoner, whom he
found in custody at the door.
John Ross, 50 H, said the prisoner was searched at the sta-
tion-house, and no money was found upon her.
The prisoner denied having committed the robbery, and in-
sinuated that Burton was the thief.
The prisoner was committed for trial ; and she addressed
the Magistrate as follows :—" Please your Worship, I have got
a baby five months old, may I take it with me ?"
Mr. BaonEarr, who, it is supposed, did not hear what the
prisoner said, made no answer to the application.
The gaoler led the prisoner away immediately, and her v ry
reasonable request was no doubt complied with as a matter of
course.

LAMBETH.
FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF INTOXICATION. - Yesterday
John Kel y, a labourer, and Eliza Leek, a common prostitute,
were charges before Mr. Henry with having caused the death
of their illegitimate infant, six months old.
John Constable, a policeman, 43 L, deposed that en that
morning, while o❑ duty at Tower-street station-house, a person
named Saunders came there, and raid he wanted him to take
two persopss into custody for having caused the death of their
child. IA accompanied Saunders to the house, No. 24, in
Tosser-street, a-d upon entering the bedroom in which the
prisoners were, he found the body of a female child on the
bed. Both the prisoners said they went to bed very much
intoxicated, and on awaking in the morning found the infant
dead.
Stephen Saunders said he had the management of a lodg-
ing-house, No. 24, Tower-street, and that o■ the night be-
fore the prisoners engaged a bed there for the night. Both
were intoxicated at the time, but having known them for
some time, he did not object to let them the ledging. They
went to bed with their infant, who then appeared in good
health, and he heard nothing more of them until that morn-
ing, when the female came down stairs running, and ex-
claimed,: " Oh, my poor child is dead." Witness went up
stairs and found the female infant dead in the bed with its
clothes on, and it appeared to him that it had not been stripped
all night. In reply to the questions of Mx. Henry, the wit-
ness said both the prisoners seemed very much affected, parti-
cularly the female ; and from what he had always seen of them,
he thought they were both very fond of the infant.
A certificate from Mr. Wagstaff, a surgeon, who had exa-
mined the body of the child, was put in, and from it it appeared
that the child's death had been caused by suffocation in being
overlain during the night, and that there were no marks of vio-
lence on the body.
The female prisoner, who seemed to be in much grief, said
that herself and her companion went to bed much intoxicated,
and upon awaking that morning she placed the child at her
breast, but finding it did not suckle she became much alarmed,
and awoke its father, and they then found it was dead. She
ran down stairs and told the landlord as soon as she could,
and shortly after the policeman came and took them into
custody.
Mr. HENRY remarked that the case was a very shocking
one, and there could be no doubt the death of the unfortunate
infant had been caused by being overlain by one or other of the
prisoners. He then remanded the prisoners to a future day to
give time for an inquest to be holden on the body.

THE FIGHT FOR THE CHAM-
PIONSHIP.

Yesterday this affair was brought to issue at Sutfield-green,
in the county of Northampton, after two adjournments, includ-
ing in their transit the counties of Buckingham, Oxford, and
Northampton. It may, perhaps, be necessary, for the informa-
tion of those who are not adepts in the mysteries of the ring, to
state that this contest for 2001. aside, the championship, and its
accompanying trophy, the belt, was the result of an ancient
envy and heart-burning between the competitors, this being
their third tourney in the listed field. In the first Caunt was
worsted, he having struck his adversary while down ; in the
second Bendigo was adjudged to have lost the fight for falling
without a blow ; and a third "passage of arms' would then
have come off, had not a serious accident, whereby Bendigo
fractured his kneecap, plated him for a considerable period
hors de combat. After lying by for upwards of two years, the
last-mentioned pugilist again dared his rival, and the other
responded to the cal. The articles were signed, and the day
fixed for Tuesday, the 9th of September.
For some days previous to the event rumour pointed to the
vicinity of Newport Pagnell, in the county of Bucks, as the place
whereat the fistic venue would be laid, and this publicity,
doubtless, was a main cause of the vexatious shiftings of place
—the galloping§ across country—the knocking-up of man and
horse, and the knocking down of vehicles, which, throughout
the entire day, brought back vividly to the fancies of ancient
ring-goers, the humours of " the road to the fight," as chanted
by Mathews. Eleven was named as the hour, but at five
minutes before ten the veteran commissary, Tom Oliver, had
pitched the stakes and completed an admirable outer and inner
ring at a place called Whaddon-field, about six miles from
Stratford, which is about the same distance from New-
port Pagnell. Here, for two hours, did some six
thousand persons broil in a September sun ; but at
five minutes past noon a horseman, fiery-hot with haste,
informed the multitude that there had been magisterial inter-
ference, that the stakes must be pulled up, and the fight would
not take place in Bucks. High and low, those who rode and
those who padded the hoof, were quickly on the move ; Strat-
ford is again reached, and thence, at about half-past one, all
started to the fixture at Sutfield-green, passing through a por-
tion of Oxfordshire. There a second ring was formed and sur-
rounded by at least 10,000 persons. A long and annoying delay
now took place in the appointment of a referee, and it was not
until the men had been nearly an hour in the ring, that a gen-
tleman, a sexagenarian sportsman, well-known on the turf, in a
word, " the old squire," was prevailed on to accept the onerous
and thankless office. The seconds for Caunt were Wharton
and Young Molyneux, the black ; for Bendigo, Nick Ward,
brother to Jem Ward, and Johnny Hannan. A t five minutes
to four, all being ready, the men shook hands, and threw them-
selves in an attitude for