The Sun. — 1868-08-25 (London, England)

THAMES.  IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—James Scanlan, a youth about 19 years of age, and recently a pot-man in a bar-house, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with stealing a small barrel of ale, the property of ➢ir. Robert Henry, brewer. Charles Fisk, drayman, said that on the Bth of the present month he was in Lambeth-street, Whitechapel, with his dray, laden with stout, ale, and beer. He left his dray and horses is the street for a minute, and was returning, when he saw the prisoner leaving the dray with a cask of ale on his shoulder. The prisoner carried the ale into a common lodginghouse, No. 25, Lambeth-street. He left a boy in charge of his dray, and went to the station-house in Leman-street and returned with two policemen. The cask contained six half gallons of bitter ale, and was valued at 11s. He saw the prisoner again last night.  Hugh Andrews, a police constable, No. 62 H, said he went to the house, No. 25, Lambeth-street, on the Bth of August, and found the cask of ale stolen from the dray in the kitchen. Police-sergeant Dunaway, No. 1.1 H, said he arrested the prisoner last night at a shop in Wellstreet, near the Sailors' Home, He put him among the others about his own age and size, and Fisk picked him out in a moment. The prisoner said he was innocent of the robbery, and called two witnesses, who knew nothing of the matter.  Mr. Benson said the prisoner had been in custody before.  Th 6 Prisoner—Yes; you fined me sa. for being drunk.  Mr. Benson committed the prisoner for trial.  FALL OF PART OF A HOUSE,  Shortly after seven this morning much excitement was caused in Marshall-street, Golden-square, and the neighbourhood by what at first was supposed to be the fall of a house. It appears that several houses in the above street have recently been pulled down by Messrs. Patrick, the contractors of Westminster, for the purpose of erecting some warehouses, and about the time stated the party wall of the house, No. 23, which had adjoined those pulled down fell with a heavy crash, leaving „the interior of the whole of the rooms, and the inmates, and one of whom was in bed, exposed. Fortunately the occupants of the different) rooms sustained no bodily harm. Inspector Harrison, of the G division, was shortly after the occurrence on the spot, and took every precaution to prevent accidents, and Messrs. Patrick have taken the necessary steps for securing the s Ifety of the house by shoring it up.  A murder of peculiar atrocity has lately been committed near Limoges. A shoemaker's wife, named Babinaud, strangled her husband in his sleep and afterwards cut his body in pieces. For four days successively she went into the woods and lanes about Limoges scattering little bits of her husband's body in various directions far and wide. Every night she returned to her house, and lay down to sleep by the side of what was loft. Six days after the murder she put on her best gown and danced at a village fete. She has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. This " cold" cruelty would seem to be peculiarly French, as it is found in nearly every French murderer we hear of. But, doubtless, this is because we are presented with none but the selected cases.