The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-16 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Sarah Matthews, Ann Lamb, and Sarah Welch, three girls
apparently about 16 years of age, were placed at the bar,
charged with being disorderly in the West London Union.
The -officer of the Union stated that the prisoners were
brought home last night in a state of intoxication, and he re-
fused to take them in. They immediately commenced abusing
him, and created a great disturbance. Each of the prisoners,
taking up a stone, deliberately threw it through a wiedow.
Mr. Alderman GlBBS—Matthews, what have you to say to
this charge? Matthews—Nothing.
Mr. Alderman Gums—Lamb, what have you to say?
Lamb—Nothing.
Mr. Alderman GlBBS—Welch, what have you to say?
Welch—l\ °thing.
The Police-officer—Please, your Worship, they don't care
for going to prison at all.
Mr. Alderman Glass—Well, I must try them. They must
go to prison for 14 days; and during that time must•be kept t•
hard labour. • •
Matthews (leaving the bar)—That's right, your Worship.
130 IV-STREET.

A neatly attired, good-looking young female, named Mary
Anne Broddick, was brought up before Mr. Jwxurxa, charged.
with the following robbery :
Mrs. Matthews, the prosecutor, of No. 12, Crown-street,
stated that oa Wednesday last, about half-past seven in the
evening, she sent a little girl named Ann Eagles, who was in
her employ, to Queen-street, with a bundle of linen, containing
1 sheet, 4 petticoats, 4 pairs of socks, I pair of stockings, 2
shawls, an apron, 5 pinhefores, 4 nightgo ns, 4 towels, and
other articles—value, in the whole, about Ws.

Ann Fagles corroborated the prosecutrix's evidence, and
sated that when she went with the linen, she took her mistress's
little boy with her ; just before she arrived at Queen-street, tlie.
prisoner came up and said to witness—alluding to the child—
" Poor little fellow, let me carry him for you." She then
asked witness to go and get change of a sovereign for her, at
the same time giving her a p►ece of paper with something
wrapped up in it. Witness said she would, and was about to
unfold the piper when the prisoner said, " Don't undo it, or
perhaps you'll lose it." She then told witness to leave her
bundle and go and get the change. Witness !eft her bundle
accordingly, and proceeded on her errand. She turned the
corncr of the street, but previous to goirg into a shop to ask
for change she undid the paper to get out the sovereign. when.
to her surprise, all that she could see was a poor, solitary, un-
conscious, farthing ! She immediately retraced her steps to
the spot where she had parted from the prisoner; but alas, she
was gone ; or as Mr. Wakley might express it in the exuber-
ance of his poetical fancy—
Prisoner and bundle had fled together,
And though witness tried to, she couldn't end neither.

The twit day witness observed the prisoner going past her mis-
tress's house, whom, when the prisoner s tw, she made off as last
as her legs could carry her. Witness gave the alarm, and the
expert young damsel wtts pursued and secured by Policeman l',
10, who held her tight, and conveyed her to the station•house.
Eliza Steele kept an old clothes shop in Crown-street, St.
G!cs's. Pri4oner sold her some of the property, which prose.
cutrix identified as part of that which had been stolen.
The prisoner declining to say anything in her defence, was
fully committed for trial, and the witnesses having made their
respective marks" to the depositions, the prisoner was re-
moved.

W e understand these cases are of very frequent occurrence
just now, and people cannot be too cautious haw they tract
young children with property in the streets, when there are so
many ways of defrauding and robbing them, which may be prac—
tiseci by persons cunning in the art.
mARLIIonoUGII-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Ann Church, a good-looking►
young woman about 18 years of age, was charged with robbing
her master. Mr. Matthew Bentley, of No. 338, Piccadilly,
tobacconist and cigar dealer, under the following eircumst antes.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner ha,l been in his service
only three weeks, when she came to him she was destitute and
had not as she herself stated any money in her possession.
From time to time. be the prosecutor missed money from out.
of the pockets of his cloth-r, which of a night on going
to bed he generally placed over a cot in which one
of his children slept. At first he did not Stl9-
pea the prisoner of being the thief, but in a few
days coming to the knowledge that, she had money in her po,-
session, and had also purchased a shawl and some other articles
of wearing apparel, he last evening placed in his waistcoat
pocket some marked silver money, to the amount of 2s. tid.,
which he this morning missed, and in consequence called in a
policeman, and gave the prisoner into custody, and on her box
being searched the marked money in question was found, and
also some other coins, which he (the prosecutor) was able to
identify as having been stolen from him.
The prisoner, on being called on for her defence, stated that
she picked the money up from the floor of the room, an•i
tho:ight she was entitled to it as the " sweeper's perquisites."
She was cAninitted to take her trial at the Central Criminal
Court.