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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 398, 1 August 1868, Page 2

A shocking outrage took place in Seeth-ing-lane, in the City of London, on Friday night, May 1. A woman named Nunu, who had charge of a pile of warehouses and offices, was left alone in the evening by her daughter and her son-in-law, John Ellis, going out. On iheir return in the evening, at about 9, no answer could be obtained to the summons of the door-bell. After walking about the neighbourhood for three quarters of an hour Ellis re^ turned to the house and found Mrs Nunn, sitting on the door-step, in an unconscious state, covered with blood, her head and face having been bsaten in with a, mallet. A box in her room was found to have been forced, and £2 taken there-* from, but some plate left untouched. In, the course of May 2 Mrs Nunn so far recovered as to be able to say that her assailants were two lads, and eventually two boys, named Smith, one 16 and the other 13 years of age, being arrested, they confessed to having committed the robbery, and said that they should, not have, hurt the woman if she had not screamed ou finding them in her bedroom. The. prisoners were examined at the Mansion-. house before the Lord Mayor on May 4. Their extremely youthful appearance, even for their years, and still more, perhaps, their very diminutive size— the. head of the younger of the two being scarcely visible above the bar — seemed to. excite astonishment in all present. They were respectably dressed, and appeared to be very much ashamed. They were formally charged with feloniously assaulting Mary Ann Nunn, 65 years of age,? bystriking her several blows on her head with a wooden mallet, with intent to kilt and murder her. They were likewise accused of stealing £2 Os. 6d., her money, from a box. The prisoners are still under remand. . > •- .