The Sun. — 1859-11-14 (London, England)

ROBBERY BY A BAD.MAID.—Emma King, barmaid, in the :service of Mr. L. Hammond, licensed victualler, and proprietor of the Gloucester Hotel, Park-street, Oxford-street, underwent a re-examination on the charge of robbing her master's bar of various sums of money at various times.  The prisoner entered prosecutor's service in June, and in consequence of suspicion money was marked and given to Roy, the detective officer, and to a Private person, who sent in customers with the same to test the honesty of the prisoner. 'When accused after this she denied taking the money, but finding the officer was sent for, fell on her knees, begged forgiveness of her master, and admitted stealing about £4 10s. In her purse, required of her by Roy, was found, among £l6 10s. in gold, a marked sovereign, stolen from a slab in the bar the over night. Mr. Child, of the firm of Wire and Child, attended for the prosecution ; and Mr. Lewis, of Elyplace, for the defence. Mr. Hammond said be had lost a very great deal of money at various times since the prisoner entered his service, to the extent of full £ll or £l5 a-week,  Mr. Child said the case hid assumed a far more serious aspect thm before, from the fact that a number of letters, amounting to nearly 300, addressed to.the prisoner, had been found—letters of such a character that they defied all description—and that any one calling himself a man could have ventured to address them to a female was a perfect marvel. The letters spoke of the writer being engaged in a burglary that did not come off, and altogether their contents were such as to stamp him as a villain of the deepest dye. He had no doubt this fellow had incited her to rob her master. In one of his letters he boasted that he hat gone home drunk, sold off the whole of his furniture—for he was a married man, with a family—and that he had got blind drunk with the money so raised ; this was the fellow who made love to the prisoner. As a further specimen of what sort of a man he was, he would mention that he signed his letters to the prisoner, " Albert Pearl, alias the Villain." During the whole of the time the prisoner had been in the prosecutor's employ he had lost upwards of £lO a-week. Mr. Lewis said the prisonPr was at the mercy of the prosecutor. He was afraid that what was stated was too true, and that she had been in the hands of an infamous man.  The prosecutor said he would listen to nothing in the shape of a compromise, but was willing to leave the case in the hands of the magistrate. Mr. Child said his only regret was that the great offender was not in custody.  Mr. Bingham (the prisoner pleading guilty) committed her for six months, with hard labour. The prisoner it appears was discharged from a former situation, in the employ of Mr. Amos, for encouraging the fellow Pearl, who is stated to be a notorious skittle sharper, and to have once been convicted, Mr. Amos having been informed of the character of the man. Some of the letters, which were produced by Roy, 338 A, the detective having charge of the case, were of a most singular nature. Mixed up with protestations of love were such expressions as the following : " The joh of burglary did not come off—we were disturbed, and it was spoilt." " I have sold off everything, turned my wife out of doors, and got blind drunk with the money." I feel as if I could murder any one, and hang upon the scaffold." " I care not what becomes of me if the world is going to use me like this. Let that deceiving God above curse me how he likes, for he always was a wretch to me, but never mind." The letter containing this last remark was signed.— "Albert Pearl, alias the Villain," In another, al• luding to an old friend, he styles him " a true lago, -- him." Others of the letters were interlarded with grossly obscene language, perfect abominations, and proving that the fellow Pearl must be, as Mr. Child appropriately termed him, a villain of the deepest dye.