Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-03
NUMBER 5s
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Life in England.

| We take the following touching story from The
police reports of the London Times:
| Robert Burns, 4 slight-made, delicate boyof ~
years old, the bridge Of whose was so injured
as to render it level with his face, was placed at
the bar before Mr.. D. DEyncourt, charged with steal
ing an iron tea-kette ofthe value Of Is Sd. -" ''"
MI. George Cash, an ironmonger in High street,
White chapel, sail-I was in my shop at 6 o'clock
last night, when neighbor ran in and told me some
| boys had stolen q kettle from my door. fastened
out after them, and overlook the prisoner the end
|ofSt. MIarys ST. in company with others, with the a
kettle in an aprons The other boys escaped, and
held this one till constable came up and gave him
| into custody. --''-.''
Mr.. D'Eyncourt Ito the prisoner)-Well, do you q
wish to say anything in answeri s. u ,;E5a'o5u .
Prisoner--l did not steal the kettle, ST.; two boys
came away from this genleman's door, and asked
me to hold the bundle for minute but the mo- 20
ment had got it, they bot went cry quick, and
went on quick too, TO keep up with them, when .
this gentleman took hold Of me or stealing the ket,y,
tie but did not think it was robbery till the 9th
er boys ran away.
Mr.. D'Eyncourt, on hearing this kind of defence
though delivered in artess ard apparently truth-y
| ful manner, had apparently made up his mind to d
convict, and having asked the prisoner in the us
ual formal terms whether he would prefer his deal
ing with the case TO its beng sent before Juryto
which the boy with some hesitation. assented, was
about to sentence the prisoner. when he asked the
prosecutor what excuse the prisoner had made to
him on being detected? 'S i''i 'h'A3 5iii
| Mr.. Cash-Why, he said the boys had given it
him. just the same as he does now, and did not try
to get away really don't wish to hurt the lad,
your worship pleases, and should not have given
him into custody at all, If it had not been for the
incessant robberieS to which we shop keepers are
daily iected. ltisgenerally done by boys, whom
you don't see, and only yesterday my neighbor, Mrs.
| Parker, was shamefully robbed by them, and the .
thieves got away. " 10 'i~F- -''1"
MI D'Eyncourt Ito the boy)-What are your
father and mother? gJg- gligioll s,Ju uEl az
Prisoner-I have not got any father OF mother
My father, who was sailor, went TO sea good
| many years ago, but never can't home again, and
| mother thought he was dead, so lived with her
till she died Ucsl ll!tf bsgilsf. ,gf If, .Yr,f
| MIR. D. 'Eyncourt--Whe did she die, then? A.
Pnsoner-About . year ago, she caught the T-
phns fever and died oft. '.-n@ . " '.--'i'''
Mr.. .lD'Eyncourt-Have D. you any brothers or sis &
ters? sso! . g.i.a!. sEf -ast ss.trA .s.1.e ..-yy
Prisoner-No, sir, only myself. .r... t.--,-
Mr.. D. 'Eyncourt-Then how do You get living,
and where 10 you sleep at night? -. u ia'a 81 lHi
Prisoner-1 take care of carts and hotd ihorses,i
and run of errands, and when can't get any thing
like that to do, pick up bones in the street and
sell them to the ngshopS. sleep where Lean
| sometimes in sheds and stables but now Pm sleep
| ing at place kept by man named Howard, for a
few nights Ii''.3i 'it'tt 3.if ID .959o sGf lst'.
Mr.. DEyncour-Why don't you Try to get emf
ployment? a-sfg 7,, -a.rf..-
Prisoner-Why did, sir; stopped as long as
| / could with man named -, who sells Goals
| about the streets, but he made me work so hard,
| and beat me 50 badly, that was obliged 10 ruu
away from him. and Pve never been able TO get any
other place since.
Mr.. D. Eyncourt-How did you get that dreadful
| wound on your nose? o AoiiEgHHi1p39I ,ihhol
| Prisoner-Why; was sleeping under a pent
house in Houndeditch one night, having no wherc
else to go. when city policeman woke me up with
| three or four heavy blows on my back with Ills
truncheon, and on jumping up and turning rounds
he struck at me again with his ,tzuncheon, and yit
came on the bridge Of my nose such dreadful blow
that the blood poured out, and it never stopped
bleeding from then, half past one i'll the morning.
till hall past eight at night. That was three months
| ago, j. think, but have always got pain in my
nose ever snce. 5rr -fu.sf--T.r To -ruft tcf-s-s.s
Mr.. DEyncourt-And do you mean seriously 10
tell me that YOU have got your living in that way
for the whole of the last twelveInonth, ever since.
you say that your mother died? 4 ys lr5f.it q ID
| d5Prsoner (with apparent earneStneSs)--fes,, ,sr,
l couldn't live IN any other way. "a o.. TO
| Mr.. DEyncourt (after some Observation-Disclosures
IS certainly very extraordinary statement the boy
makes, If true. shall not deal with the case ut
present, let him be remanded for week, and III
the mean time, make proper inquiries OF those wbn
| know him, and ascertain whatyou can about hrs
previous life and conduct. 1 2IuahwgE go! n"1
The constable, of course, promised to do SO, and
the prisoner was transferred 10 the House Of Deten
ton.