The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-01 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Mrs. Carter, a very smart lady, who is mistress of
the house, No. 11, Duke-street, Manchester-square,
was charged on Saturday, before Mr. RAWLINSON,
with assaulting a maid-servant belonging to another
family, which occupies apartments there. The cir-
cumstance was occasioned by the alleged misconduct
of a cat, which, it was said, made a dirt in the draw-
ing-room of the complainant's master, and she rub-
bed its nose in it. Taking it for granted, upon the
oath of Catherine, the complainant, that the cat held
decency in contempt, Mr. RAWLINSON thought the
correction it received was good, and he believed
everybody else, when they heard of it, would think
as he did, for it was universally resorted to on such
occasions in every quarter of the globe.
Catherine resumed her statement—After this
took place, Mrs. Carter desired her girl to carry
"her poor little pussey" into the back yard, and
wash its face at the water-butt, and she afterwards
wiped the cat's nose herself with a pair of clean
stockings belonging to Catherine, which were hang-
ing upon a clothes-line to dry. Catherine endea-
voured to prevent it, and Mrs. Carter caught up a
" big broom," and beat her off with the stick of it.
Catherine offered to remove her neckerchief and
show some bruises on her shoulder, but her state-
ment appeared artless, and it was not thought ne-
cessary.
" It's a pity, madam," said Mr. RAWLINSON to
Mrs. Carter, " that a lady like you should appear
here in such a trumpery case. Why did you treat
the young woman in this way ? Mrs. Carter (with
some vehemence)—lt's all false. It was not our
cat that did it.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Whether it was your cat or
not, you ought not to have beaten her with a broom-
stick. Mrs. Carter—When I wag wiping the cat's
nose, she pushed me against the wall, and—
Mr. RawuNsoN—She tried to keep her stock-
ings clean.
Mrs. Carter—She pushed me with great violence
against the wall, and I took up the broom in self-
defence, but my witness will prove I did not
strike her.

The servant's evidence was taken, but it did not
disprove the charge, and the Magistrate was about
to convict Mrs. Carter in a penalty, when Mr. Car-
ter came forward, and said he had some very im-
portant facts to communicate, which would change
the complexion of the case materially. He stated,
with great gravity, that the cat in question is a kit-
ten belonging to him, and a pet with his children,
and too well trained to be guilty of the misconduct
imputed to it. " No, Sir," said he, " the mess was
not made by her, but I will tell you how it happen-
ed. For some cause which I cannot discover, all the
cats in the neighbourhood make our house a ren-
dezvous, and hold their midnight revels there. By
a little stratagem, I caught two of these strange cats
on Thursday night, and locked them up in the wash-
house by way-of punishment, and it was one of
these cats, Sir, not ours, that made the dirt. Now,
Sir, our cat suffered for it innocently, and was taken
into the back yard to be cleaned. Mrs. Carter went
there to see the washing performed, the complainant
followed her and pushed her against the wall, and
then Mrs. Carter took hold of a broom to protect
herself, but she struck no blow."
Mr. RAWLINSON—What was the cat's nose wiped
with ? Mr. Carter—A coarse cloth.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Nothing else ? Mr. Carter—
A stocking.
M. RAwussoN—Whose stocking ? Mr Car-
ter—Catherine's.

Mr. RAwuNsoN—Don't you think it would have
been better to have settled this foolish matter else-
where ? However, we (Mr. Griffith and himself)
have been obliged to hear it, and we think Mrs.
Carter committed the assault, and we fine her 10s.

Yesterday Thomas Hemmings, a lad about 17
years of age, who is apprenticed to Mr. Tomlin, a
respectable baker in Clarence-gardens, Regent's-
park, was charged before Mr. RAWLINSON with
having violated his master's daughter, a delicate-
looking little girl, eight years younger than himself.
The object of his brutality stated, that at half-past
six o'clock on Sunday evening, she was sent to
church by her parents, in company with a litle boy
who is six years old, and who is her first cousin.
When they returned, Thomas (the prisoner) told
her her father and mother were gone out, and they
had left orders for them to cut some pie for their
supper, which was set out on the parlour table.
After they had supped, Thomas put her cousin to
bed in the kitchen, where he usually slept, and un-
der his instructions she went to her bed, in a baek
room upon the first floor, and as the candle she took
up wig h her was nearly a whole one, she requested
Thomas to wait until she was in bed, and fetch it
down. Soon after she got into bed he came up,
and instead of retiring immediattly, he partly un-
dressed himself, got in with her, and according to
the unfortunate girl's statement, perpetrated the
crime with which she is charged.
In answer to Mr. RAWLINSON, she said he had
never taken any liberty with her, nor kissed her,
before.

Mrs. Tomlin, her mother, confirmed the girl's
story. She came home at half-past nine, for the
purpose of putting the children to bed, and was
surprised to find them there already. She went to
the bedside of each, they were asleep, and she
went back to her husband, who was spending the
evenincrat a friend's house. She and her hnsband
returned home between eleven and twelve; the little
girl slept in their bed. She had occasion to take
her up is her arms, and found reason to put some
questions to her; she answered them with reluct-
ance, fearing her parents would punish her; and the
father went down to the sleeping-room of the
prisoner._ a a

Mr. Tomlin found the prisoner awake ; he had
been roused a short time before, to let in a journey-
man, who come to his work at midnight. He seized
him by his shirt collar, and said, " You villain,
what have you been doing to my child ?" The pri-
soner replied, " Nothing." Mr. Tomlin took up a
stick, and struck him two or three times, and he
cried out—" Oh, pray forgive me."
Benjamin Smith, a watchman belonging to the
Regent's-Park, was requested by Mr. Tomlin to take
the prisoner to the watch-house, and on his road he
said, " I know I have done very wrong; for God's
sake speak to master fur me."
To complete the case, the opinion of Mr. Lamb,
a surgeon, was taken; and he thought less injury
had been done than, judging by the marks of vio-
lence which he observed, had been intended.

The prisoner stood in tears at the bar, and after
being admonished by the Magistrate to bero• in mind
his awful situation, he was committed to Newgate
for trial.

Edward Goodrich, the driver of a cabriolet, was
placed at the bar under the following circumstances :
Mr. Thomas Parkes, a wine-merchant, at No. 12,
in the Minories, represented that on Thursday night
lie received of a Mr. Pope, in Newport-street, thirty
sovereigns, and a guinea coined in the reign of
King Charles 11. It is usual for a wine-merchant
when he receives money of a customer to call for a
bottle of wine, and he drank a glass too much. He
left the place at half-past ten. Mr. Pope was fear-

iul he was not quite capable of taking care of his
money, but he thought otherwise; and when lie got
into the Strand he called a cab, and ordered the
driver to take him to his dwelling-house in Deverell-
street, Great Dover-road, Southwark. As he at-
tempted to get in, his foot slipped, and two persons,
who bore the appearance of gentlemen, came up to
assist him. The driver of the cab seemed to be
acquainted with them, and he said to the com-
plainant, " These gentlemen are going your
road, will you allow them to ride with you ?"
Mr. Parkes readily consented, and they drove off,
he sitting between the two gentlemen, arid the driver
in his little box, between the body of the carriage
and the wheel. Mr. Parkes believes he went to
sleep on the road, for, without noticing the streets
he passed through, he found himself at the door of
a public-house in Great Suffolk-street, Borough.
The driver of the cab went in for a glass of brandy,
but really he cannot say whether he drank any of
it, arid one of the gentlemen left him there. The
driver then proceeded to Trinity•square, South-
wark, and stopped on the dark side of it, and the
other gentleman, who was dressed in a black coat
and a white hat, got out, and the driver told Mr.
Parkes he could go no farther. Mr. Parkes asked,
" What have I to pay ?" The driver replied,
" Oh, nothing; these gentlemen have paid me."
Mr. Parkes went home; his family were in trouble
because of his absence, arid in a minute or two a
friend said, " Why, Parkes, you have been robbed;
your amethyst brooch is gone." " And so is my
purse; good God, and my pocket-book also," added
Mr. Parkes, after feeling his pockets.
He and his friend went immediately to see if they
could find the cabriolet, but their endeavour was
vain, for the watchmen in Trinity-square told him
the two gentlemen who were his companions got
into it again, and were driven back.
He applied at the office in Bow-street the next
morning, for assistance; he did not see either of the
Magistrates, but an officer there said it was out of
their district, and referred him to Marylebone.
" Sent away from Bow-street without assist-
ance," said Mr. RAWLINSON, " because it was not
their district ! Why you were robbed either in the
Strand or in Southwark, and surely that was nearer
to Bow-street than here."

The complainant told the Magistrate he had rea-
son by that time to believe that the driver lived in
Marylebone. He went to several cab-owners, and
Mr. Brown, of Great York-mews, told him he
thought he could give him a clue whereby to find
him, for one of his c,wn men sent his cab home on
Friday morning at two o'clock broken, and with a
message that his seat had given way, and that he
was much hurt, and spoke of him as being to his
knowledge connected with bad characters.

Mr. Parkes obtained the man's address, and on
Saturday night he was apprehended.
Daniel Dutch, a Marylebone officer, directed by
Mr. Parkes, found the prisoner at his lodgings in
Barlow-street, on Saturday night, and he took him
into custody. He denied the charge, and said that
at the time when Mr. Parkes was robbed, be was
driving a fare from Holborn to No. 39, We!beck-
street, Cavendish-square. The seat of his cab
afterwards gave way, and let him down ; the wheels
went over him; he was much stunned: how long he
remained senseless he could not tell, and when he
came to himself, he sent the cab home. He went
out in a black hat, and came home in a white one;
he lost the black one when he fell, and some one,
he does not know who, clapped a white one upon
his head. Dutch took him to Welbeck-street, ac-
companied by the complainant, to point out the
house where he put down his fare, for to No, 39 no
person came on Thursday night, and he was unable
to do so.

The prisoner said in his defence, he could almost
swear it was No. 39, WeTheck-street, where he
drove to, but he could not to I exactly.

Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mr. Parke; if he took no-
tice of the cab and the driver Mr. Parkes had
seen the prisoner's cab in his master's yard, and he
thought it was the same; but he did not take suffi-
cient notice of the driver to identify him.

Mr. RAWLINSON said the contradictions of the
prisoner were a sufficient ground for his detention,
unless he gave security for his appearance ; and he
thought his master should come forward and bail him.
Dutch was sent with a message to that effect ; but
Mr. Brown declined, and two housekeepers entered
into recognizances of 401. each to produce him when
required.
UNION.HALL.

Yesterday William Humphrey and John Hem-
min ',ham, two privates belonging to the 2d battalion
of the Coldstream Guards, were brought before Mr.
CHAMBERS, charged on suspicion with stealing a
silver watch, the property of Mrs. Mary Claridge,
who resides at Camberwell. The prisoners are
both young men, and belong to the same company in
the above regiment.
Mary White, on being morn, stated that she
lives in the service of Mrs. Claridge, who keeps a
dairy at Camberwell. On Friday last the prisoner
Humphrey, who formerly lodged with her mother
in the country, accompanied by Hemmingham,
called to see her at Camberwell. Not having seen
him for a considerable time, with the permission of
her mistress, she invited both the soldiers into the
kitchen, and Pet some refreshment, consisting of
bread and cheese and ale, before them. At the
time of their entrance a silver watch belonging to
her mistress was hanging up in its usual place, over
the mantel-shelf, and having occasion to leave the
kitchen, she looked at the watch, and saw it was
then 25 minutes after eleven o'clock. When she
returned back to the kitchen, Hemmingham was
gone, and the other prisoner followed soon after-
wards, after having returned thanks for the hospi-
tality with which he and his comrade had been
treated. In a few minutes after their departure, the
witness missed the watch, and was confident they
had taken it.

Mr. CHAMBERS—You have stated that you left
the kitchen for a short time ; now was it not pos-
sible that some stranger might have entered without
your knowledge and taken the watch ?—The wit-
ness, in reply said that the time she left the kitchen
she went up a flight of stairs to scour them down,
and must have observed a stranger enter the place,
if one had done so.

In reply to the Magistrate, the witness said that
Humphrey was not her sweetheart,—that he merely
called to see her out of friendship, having lodged
with her mother in the country, and she was de-
sirous, on that account, of treating him and his
us well as she was enabled to do.

Mrs. Claridge gave the young woman a most ex-
cellent character for honesty and industry.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, that if the robbery was com-
mitted by the prisoners, it was an aggravated one,
particularly after having experienced such kind treat-
ment on the part of the witness White.
A serjeant belonging to the regiment was then
called, and he stated that both the prisoner's were
absent from barracks on Friday night. Hemmingham
returned the next morning drunk, and when asked
by the serjeant of the guard whether he had any
money, he replied in the negative. This was, how-
ever, found to be untrue, for he had 6s. in his pocket.
In reply to the Magistrate as to where be got the
money that enabled him to get drunk, and also that
found in his possession, Hemmingham said tliat his
brother's wife lent him half-a-sovereign on the Fri-
day morning. He declared that he knew nothing
whatever of the offence with which he was charged,
and had not seen his comrade from the time he left
the kitchen until he saw him at the bar of that office.
The prisoner Humphrey also protested his inno-
cence of the alleged charge, saying, that however
bad he might be in other respects, still he was not
so completely devoid of all feeling as to rob the per-
son at whose hand he received kind and hospitable
treatment.
The witness White said, that notwithstanding the
asseverations of the prisoners, she was convinced
they had taken the watch.
Mr. CHAMBERS very closely questioned Humphrey
as to the manner in which he was occupied from the
time he left Camberwell, until his return the next
morning to the barracks, and in reply the latter

stated, that he went from one public-house to
another, until at length he became drunk, and Wr.,
in that state was taken to the Tower, and lodgeu„'
the Mint guardroom. He could not state W" t

particular house he went into.
The Magistrate asked the serjeant what kin.. ci
characters the prisoners bore in the regiment, on
he said that both of them had been frequently
punished for intoxication, not by flogging, but by
solitary confinement and extra duty. In addition t°c,
this propensity Humphrey had long been suspeete f
in the regiment of thieving, but as yet no charge Qt
that description had been fully substantiated again
him. Hemminghatn, on the contrary, was never
suspected of felony, but he was a sad drunken teflon':
The Magistrate inquired whether inquiries boa
been made at any of the pawnbrokers' shops whether
a watch, answering the description of the one
stolen, had been pledged ? The reply was, that or
plication had been made at several on the Sorrel
&de, but no trace was as yet discovered of it.
Mr. CHAMBERS recommended that inquiries show
be also made at the different pawnbrokers in west.
minster ; and until then he remanded Humphrey
and discharged Hemmingham, who was directed,
for the sake of his own character in the regiment, t°
assist in tracing the watch, the seijeant promisieg
that he would be responsible for his appearance
the next examination.