At the Hatton Garden Office, on Monday, Mrs. Susannah Raw-
linson, with her mother and sister Mrs. and Miss Hextall, were charged with stealing a quantity of jewellery front Miss Julia Newman, who lodged with the prisoners, in the house of a Mr. Elderton in Goswell Street, Clerkenwell. Mrs. Rawlinson is the wife of a lace-merchant and manufacturer in Cateaton Street, who has also a factory, in which several hundred hands are employed, in Tiverton. Ile was very indig. nant that his wife and her relations, should be subjected to such a charge, and the ladies appeared to be exceedingly distressed at being placed in the prisoners' dock. The principal winless against them was Miss Newman ; Ito having found her boxes broken open, and many very valuable articles purloined, made inquiries, the result of which was a seareh, and the discovery of most of the stolen property in Mrs. Raw. linsmes chamber. Mr. Rawlinson asserted that this was a conspiracy of Mrs. Eldertou, who had been Mr. Elderton's servant, to revenge herself for some affront on the part of his wife. The Magistrate admitted the prisoners to bail.
Ott Thursday, Mrs. Rawlinson was reexamined ; when Miss Newman prevaricated so much in her testimony, and was proved by her own account to be a person of such bad repute,—having been repeatedly charged with stealing herself in America, in the West Indies, and in England,—that Mrs. Rawlinson was discharged, without a spot on her character. It appeared that Mrs. and Miss Newman (the latter of whom behaved like a hardened hussey) were in the habit of charging people falsely with stealing valuables from them ; and on this occasion, a pair of ear-rings, which they swore had cost between 30/. and 401., were proved to be worth only 2/., being made of paste. There can hardly he a doubt that they had themselves concealed the jewellery in Mrs. Rawlinson's room.
At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, the Honourairle Charles Dundas, of the Guards, was fined five shillings for wrenching the knockers off the doors of some "low fellows," tradesmen at the West end of the town. Mr. Dundas, being very drunk, had picked up a housebreaker's tool, called a "jemmy," in the streets, which be had used in his operations on the knockers. He was at first very saucy to the Magistrates ; but a threat to commit him to gaol brought him to his senses. [It is lucky for Mr. Dundas that he is a gentleman and an officer in the Guards ; otherwise he would have been sentenced to a month's imprisonment and a sound whipping.]
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