The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-10 00:00:00

LAMBETH.STREET.

On Wednesday evening, an elderly woman, a
singularly forbidding aspect, named Mary Long,
was placed, with her daughter, at the bir, charged
with administering deleterious drugs to three sailors,
for the purpose of effecting their robbery with the
greater security. The discovery took place most
providentially, as one of them was in a state of such
profound stupefaction that it was for some time
feared his life would be the consequence.
Charles Howell, a constable, stated that the
woman and her three daughters, the youngest only
11 years of age, were all prostitutes, and kept a
broth 1 of the lowest description in Jamaica-street,
Commercial-road. On Wednesday morning, a Mrs.
Gent, who resides in the same street, and keeps a
lodging-house fur sailors, came to him, and menti-
oned that a man named Freeman, who lodged with
her, had been seen to enter the house of Long with
two of his shipmate!, and knowing that he had a
considerable sum of money about him, and the noto-
rious character of the house, she requested that he
would go and fetch him away. Accordingly he
proceeded to the house, and when the door was
opened he stated the object of his visit. The woman
denied that any person was within ; and upon in-
sisting on searching the house, one of them rushed
out, and swore bitterly that he should not enter.
Being a resolute man, he forced his passage in, and
ran up stairs after the youngest girl, whose conduct
had excited his suspicion; she gained the front
room, and locked the door; he burst it open with
his foot, and to his great surprise, observed two men
stretched on the bed enveloped in blankets. One
of them was Freeman, whom be was in search of;
and upon going up to him, conceiving him to be
asleep, discovered that he was in a state of insensi-
bility, as likewise the other man, whom he after-
wards found was one of his shipmates. He imme-
diately ran down stairs, and in the parlour found
another sailor, reeling about under the effects of the
stupifying potion. Having secured the mother and
one daughter, he procured proper remedies for the
sufferers, which fortunately had the desired effect,
for they were enabled to appear as witnesses against
the prisoners in the evening. One of them said, that
while he was lying powerless upon the bed with an
unaccountable sensatioa of drowsiness, be observed
the youngest gill put her hands in his trousers
pocket and rob him of 245. '1 he constable pro-
ceeded to search the house, and discovered a bottle,
which he took to Mr. Peter's, a surgeon, in the
Commercial-road, who immediately pronounced its
contents to be opium, and stated that he had been
accustomed daily to sell three pennyworth to the
woman Long. It had been fetched usually by a
young man in the dress of a sailor, who was now in
an hospital, but one of the girls latterly had
fetched it.

Shortly after this disclosure, Prendergast, the
officer, brought in the other two daughters, one of
whom was immediately recognized by the sailor as
the person who robbed him.
The magistrate said this most extraordinary and
diabolical transaction should have the fullest investi-
gation, and ordered the whole of them to be com •
mitted for re-examination next Tuesday.