A young female, genteelly dressed, and rather good-looking, was committed
CM Tuesday, from Queen's Square Office, on the charge of robbing a Mr. :Waling of a silk handkerchief and a breast-pin, in Par- liammt Street, the previous evening. When she drew the pin from Mr. Maling's breast, be caught hold of her hand, and found in it his handkerchief, of which she bad also endeavoured to possess herself. She struggled to get away ; when a man came up, and knocked Mr. Mining dotvn. The lady was exceedingly eloquent in the Police- Office, and repeatedly appealed to her little hands in proof of the inq awsibility of her being guilty of the theft laid to her charge. She insisted also very strenuously on the fact, that her family was most respectable—one (f her brothers was a traveller in the pichled salmon line. This boast of her kin led to the production of a curious and not unin- teresting docuunent. The Inspector said, that when the prisoner was searched at the Station-house, mu i.tter was found in her pocket, which she snatched from the constable, and tore it in pieces. She appeared so anxious to destroy it, that he had put the pieces together ; and her great respectability migh t be judged of from the contents. The letter runs thus —(the writer is evidently a literary man, notwithstanding Mr. Bulwer's theory, that there are no thieves of that class)—
Nth June IS32.
" r`.1a,la al—Travail; understcod from J. Fortune that you wished to see me, I waited sit ha palid :ding heart yesterday night, and was much disappointed at not meeting you. I, however, sit:cc:0y thank yon for what you sent me ; for, on nr: soul, I had not a farthing in the world, or any one to give me a mouthful of bread to eat, Oh Kate ! to what droadml misery have you reduced nu; by your conduct ! you have obliged me to live in a den of ittlittny, at which my heart shudilers, and also to be compelled to thieve for my daily sapport,—a crime which 1 never thought the name of Earley would be coupled with: but who; ever may happen to me, I shall have to thank you for. I am at present in such a stale. I het I am ashamed to ask any one to wash my shirt, my only shirt, as it is full of vermin. Oh Kate, for God Almighty's sake, when you receive this, leave wont with ally tin' where I can see you, only for a moment, that I may lighten the heaviness of this al most broken heart; for I know I shall not be long ont of prison, and then I shall LH adieu to sorrow, for I cannot live long. Oh Kate, in the name of all that is good- in the name of Ileaven—how could you bring this misery on one NOW loved von—who dearly loved yon? It must be uoulness, or the cursed drink; for to love die man von are now living with, is impossible, after what you have said to me: but if that is ate case, may God bless yna, and make you happy. Yet once, my dear Kan., ?carnelian's think of the miserable and brokenhearted " P.S: I shall be in Coventry Street every night at 10 o'clock." EARLEY."
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