The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-27 00:00:00

MART BOROUGH-STREET.

A Tuoinir,asolatif TENANT.—Mrs. Harriet Meek, of Lei•
cesicr-stree!. Leicester-square, was summoned before Mr.
Hardwick, for threatening to indict summary vengeance on
her landlady, Mrs. Kemp, of No. 6, Leicester-street.
Mrs. Kemp proceeded to say that she had let part of a house
in Leceister-street to the defendant's husband, a barber by
trade, but she cou;cl get neither rent nor possession of her
house. The whole neighbourhood had been kept in an uproar
weeks past, owing to the defendant's goings on. And mat-
••••••l4o.tue to such a pitch, that the inhabitants had got up
tern Magistrates of this Court to interfere, in order
a petition to •
,sce ,;f the neighbourhood.
to preserve the pe..
'4 h recollected that a petition had re-
Mr. HAanavicif Pak,
cently been sent to him, '''14.44 by about twenty of the inhabi-
---4,:-11/ proceedings at a house
tents, complaining of some dist,
4 been referred to the
in Leicester• street, wh ch petition ha. -
police.
.n She "'I. ower to
M s. Kemp—Your Worship. I've done allczet,
get rid of Mrs. Meek, but she won't go away.
drink sent in through a hole in the window and, when
three parts drunk, she collects a mob, and harangues them j'it.
the treatment she has received from me and my husband.

Mr. HA RDWICK—What threats has she used ? Mrs.
Kemp—she said last week she'd take the first opportunity of
stabbing me and my olitman.
_ _ _

Mr. 'HA Rnw ici— Why did you say this ? Defendant—lt's
all false. They're lawless villains; for they've set the law at
defiance, and took my gods for rent several times. I'll explain
all the circumstance from the beginning to th• end.
ilr HARDwicic —l'd rather not hear them.

Mrs. Meek would not be denied her say, an I accordingly
she was permitted to give her own history of the various
seizures, commencing at the first attack on the four-post bed-
stead, and ending with the abstraction of the brass bowels of a
Dutch clock for broker's expenses. Having at last made an end
of her story,
Mr. HARDWICK asked her why she threatened to stab the
complainant? Mrs. Meek—l never said such words. I told
the people outside of the house that Mrs. Kemp and the old
man ought to be stuck for using me so shamefully, not leaving
me a bed to sleep on.
Mr. HARDWICK-It appears that your husband's distress
has been brought on by drink? Mrs. Meek—Everybody re-
spects my husband, and it was because he is so much respectod
that he took to drinking. _ _

Air. HA RDWlCl—That's the oddest reason for taking to
drinking 1 ever heard. But, Mrs. Meek, you must recollect
that the neighbours complain of the noise you make.
Mrs. Meek—lsn't a woman allowed to scream murder when
her goods are seised ? What else could she do but scream and
hollow ?

Mr. HARDWICK—There is apetition against your disorderly
conduct fining on you must recollect.
Mrs. Meek—A petition ! Pooh ; that's got up by Mr.
Pope, because Mr. Kemp promises his sons situations under
Governm-nt if he'd sign it. Mr. Kemp says he's got great in-
fluence with the Ministers, because he got a good many •otes
for Mr. Leader and Evans.

Air. HA RDWICK—The complainant has sworn that she goes
in bodily fear of )ou, and I must therefore call on you to find
bail. two securities in 201. each.

EITANSIVE HO/SWEAT Or JAWALLIAY AND RECOTEITT
or THE Pao?Ears —John Clarke, a middle-aged Irishman,
who des• rib'-d himself as a laboere., living in Church. street,
St. Gile.'s, was charged on suspiei,,n of stealing a rosewood
dresxing-ease, courainirag jeweliery of the value of 3001., from
the hou.e of Sir John Campbell, of No. 39, Curson•street,
~lay fair.

It appeared that on Friday afternoon the butler of Sir John
Campbell arrived fr m Leith at Blackwell, and hired an orn-
iiNfs to convey the family luggage he had brought with him to
CurzGn-strut. On arriving there, and as the unloading of the
omnibus v-as being proceeded with, the prisoner came up and
began to assist. and, as the butler supposed he was one of the
men belonging to the carrage, he was permitted to carry diffe-
rent packages into the hall. Amongst the luggage was the
dressing-case in questioe, which the butler had himself placed
in the ball. In about a quarter of an hour afterwari-is it was
missed, end the prisoner had also taken himself off. As he wee
passing along Curzon-street with a package under hi+ arm he
was met by the housemaid, who knowing that he had been
assi,ting in unloading the luggage asked him where he was
going o; he repi -I that he was sent with a message to Gi afton-
street, and passed on. Information of the robbery
was ;.,:iven at the station-house cf the C
in Vine-street, Piccadilly, and between eight and nine
o'clock yesterday evening Sergeants Driscoll and Miller, ail-
prehended the prisoner in the gallery of the Adelphi Theatre.
On being informed of the nature of the charge against him, he
deni d knowing anything abut it, or that he had been in
Curzon-street, on the evening in question. The constables
having also ttared nut that the prisoner had taken a box to No.
5, Pipe-maker's-alley, Beam dbury, immediately proceeded
there, and in the front rem, on the second Poor, the door of
e bkh was opened by a key found on the prisoner, the dress-
ing-case was found, with the whole of the contents excepting a
brooch and finger-deg, which the prisoner is supposed to have
disposed of, to furnish himself with ready money. The landlady
of the house also identified him as being the person who brought
the box th• re ; he had but a few days previously hired the
room The lock of the dressing-case had been forced, and a
key of a patent luck, which had been taken from the inside,
was found on the prisoner. When taken into custody he bad
only Is. 6d. about him.
He declined saying anything in his defence, and was re.
mended until Tuesday next.