The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-27 00:00:00

H ATTON-G A RDEN.

LAMBETHSTREET.

James Dobbin, an Irishman, was brought before
the magistrates of this office by Hall, the beadle of
Aldgate, charged with refusing to maintain his wife
and children, whereby they had become, burdensome
to the parish.
The magistrate asked why it was that he had
abandoned his family, and left them dependent upon
parochial relief? The defendant replied that he
had good reason for doing so ; his wife was an adul-
tress, and the children with which they wanted to
encumber him were all bastards. He had been parted
from the mother for 12 years, and during that inter-
val had had no intercourse with her whatever.

The magistrate asked the wife if such was the
fact, and she admitted that it was. She said that
all the children were illegitimate, and begotten by a
person named Dawson, with whom she cohabited.
One of them was born in Peter-street, Westminster;
another of them in St. Martin's, and a third in St.
Sepulchre's. The magistrate asked Hall how it
was, if this was the case, that they had became
'chargeable to him. Hall replied that the prisoner
resided in their parish, and that the wife and children
were passed from St. Sepulchre's to them.
The magistrate said, that under the circumstances,
the wife confessing that she had committed adultery,
and that the children were llastards, he could not
think of making the husband responsible for their
maintenance. In adopting this resolution he was
guided by the decisions of the Coasistory Court,
where it was determined that the wife's adultery
precluded her claim to alimony. The children might
be affiliated in the several parishes where they were
born ; and should the defendant Dobbin become
burdensome, the parish had it in its power to pass
him to Ireland.

A gentleman, named Wells, residing at No. IS,
St. Chad's-place, Gray's-Inn-road, gave information
at this office of the following singular robbery :
On Friday night his family went to bed about twelve
o'clock. When the servant got up yesterday morn-
ing, it was discovered that the kitchen and pantry
had been plundered of a large quantity of plate,
consisting of silver table, tea, and dessert spoons,
forks, &c. marked " J.N.W. ;" also a dozen and a
half of wine, some bottles of spirits, and other things.
The door of the back kitchen, and also another
door, which had been locked and bolted the preced-
ing night on the inside, were found wide open, the

bolts having been undrawn without the slightest paid, he hoped the Magistrate would apportion the
mark of external violence, and how admission was moiety to the poor-box in the office, or any charity.
obtained was to him a perfect mystery, there being MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
no person in the house in whom he could not place A young German, of fashionable appearance, was
the greatest confidence. I charged with having attempted to violate the per-
Read, sett., the chief officer, was in consequence son of a young female, the daughter of a tradesman
directed to examine the premises, and from his ex- in Vine-street, Piccadilly, in whose house the de-
amination it appeared that marks of footsteps were fendant had resided. The defendant was in the
traced from a fence across two gardens, to a window service of a Noble Lord, and that morning was to
in the back kitchen, which was secured on the out- have embarked with one of his Lordship's suns for
side by strong iron bars, about four inches apart. Holland.
On inspecting the interior of the kitchen, the Win-
The complainant stated that she went into the de-
dow of which had been found open, the dirty mark fendant's room with some linen, which he was goinc,
of a very small foot was found on the ledge of the to pack up in his portmanteau ; that he then offered
window, on the floor, and on a chain which had evi- her a shilling to consent to his wishes ; and, on her
deafly been stood upon to reach the fastenings of rejecting his proposal, he threw her on the bed, but,
the doors. The immediate conclusion was that a owing to her violent struggles, he did not accomplish
very small and well-tutored child must have been, his purpose.
by some extraordinary means, forced betwixt the The defendant said he was a married man, with a
large family, and had committed no further offence
iron bars, and having obtained admission, opened
the doors to ; the depredators, who thus succeeded
in their work of plunder wi;hout giving the slightest than kissing the young lady.
Mr. CONST said he was bound to believe, from the
alarm. girl's statement, that he had committed a gross out-

rage : and the Magistrate added, he believed that
fureigners were addicted to such practices.
The prisoner ►vas then remanded for further exami-
nation.