The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

tieorge Jane. Sneed; icalistatit to Mr. Wood pawnbroker
liereford•place, COlitftiercial•rool 16aat, produeed the piss.ecti-
tut'. 3 Via wwikh, planed for 41.
Mr. V ttOsi.4.l: Wins pawned it cant say who pawned it.
Ito you wean to say that you take in a valuable gold u &telt
and can't say also pawned it? Tate care, sir.—.l don't know
who pawned it.
rid a woman 16411111 it air, it war a W. 1111411.
Wilai it the 1.1 ',otter ?—WcII, I think it Wag.
Think it aa. Do pot teL know abc war the wouaau U 114)
1.14% lied it, and nn other?—Yea, I swear it wit-, her.
sir, how dare you tell we at find that you slid not know
who pawned thy Wiitell,a4.l atitorMiirtinhes.itote about at don I
L111..1V, y • a urithilo.
Voolt M4illi tell why, but I will tell you. Because you know well,
it the lornsolser oats voisVnotsessi of stealing the ware's, poltrcur
eloper %Amid to gi‘e it up. 1./b1 yogi ask the prisoner alter.-
..1w hied air,—at No. :t, York-street. . . .

I Pi.l hrr Hhil•h Yuck-stmt?—Nu, sir; 1 stipposol it
v.. 1% the .nee Hear 4.111. . . . .

.....
yar.ll.l took sip the Post•ooce Directory, and, after looking
it oier, mint then. N.•l•.•Kixteen sine
in I ...anion, Mill
had 410 doubt die toe,i•itatit knew there were a .4 rent many, awl
e peeted racier u. see the tirieoUer *gaits, 4.r that any inquiries
woithl be made after the watch idler it %A+. its 111,4 waster's pee
.e.ban„ The conduct of the witneaa was highly iiiiproper
The cunlplainaut maid the watch, on which it. hail been lent,
waa north 14., and that, when he went to inquire idiom it, Swot
opened a alnuAer, 411.1 said lie did not think he had mteh a one as
that •li,wrila4l, at the atone t* a of g i 'hewer and taking
Idle out. Witil4.o4 lit lotlet• MIN it V.M., Ilk .5%11

Ml'. l A MILEY maid that %as quite on it par %ilia the ilismacefol
4,ooluet of Un• wittu•ry steet..l that 1111, NMI ladelyd 1111111...11'11%4'r
the wwt.•h to Billion, w .let.t.vti‘e ottierr, %la° had eltatge of the
ea.e.

Sneed : My master t. 01,1 llle t.. bring it. back.
Mr. lAunt.t:a (peremptorily): iive that wateli to the isaistablu
instantly. )uu lune any regard for yourself y.iii will 11..
It is not, worth Isl.
Nlr. : I dun t care About that ; I %mild rather take
the prusecun•r's opinion tl olll'4. Nuw, sir, do you intend to
ulie my ,lirectimisur not:'
slier.' reluctantly Ina the watch into Button's hands.

A woman named Waller was traced by the same
Hillevi, and at it sl'e'oll4l examination committed for
trial on suspicion of hat stolen Mr. flarber's
watch.

ANoTIIER SIIIH CASE OE WIFE AssAELT Witt 4
ilnestigated at, 31arIllorough-street on Tuesday.
Samuel Dalai), who seenttsl to be a respectable me-
chanic, was charged with having dreadfully beaten
Ilk wife. The sufferer presented a pitiable appear
ance. Iler face was one niass Of contusions, and
frightfully swollen:—

She said she lend been married Os kut ae yksar4 during nearly
the a hula of %Melt wriest pris..mer MO been ite the leethit of
cruelly heating her Int Saturday night her 11114111101 111111 11.11110
111'1111k, 11r tee•etely yaw her :Ms. of leis wages. I then
went out fur .e drink. she was going 1111 t for • 1
1.4•1• 11111• 0111111'..11, 14104.111, 1111 11011 r /1111. r t 111•4, IAIII.II 1111' 1111sli811.1
emit, home, steel sill se...nigher in the passage instantly struck her
re!.tlet mud left fill the 614.1*, 'situ COlll 11111..11 1111111111,11114 11,1 with
Complainant had nu isifiteit ill het arms, but was
.low never, ankl when d..wu her husband pressed
on her chest w ith ono of his feet so its he valise her great pain,
and to snake her tery ill I.ler since. After mist /4j111111! were
Isl'itlillg, she euntrived to 1.11:411 OW of the 11011S1', 1.0V1•142.1 with
Llessl and ill a fainting stale. Auanig sillier injuries, her hus-
lkunkl, about nine months sago, had deliberately broken her allot
with it poker. She hail peel tip with his vnu ltc as long as
possible hei• the sake sit' her ebildren, but if suutelltiug was nut
dune 111 pruteet her .ho was a lerekl woman.
IN•11.••••,•4111$1/11,11` !lily saw 1111. %1 01111111 I.llsll oat of the house.
with elishe%elleel hair 141111 .m. 011441,1 ill hlkaid. 1 1 aul pre% iteet,ly
hear,' the elefeneleteet ieleitsiee.: his wile med maltrt•etting her. Ileetrel
the wife heg,ting piteously that it' he killed her not to Intel the
Not a week passed without complaints of the elefettelant's
ill-usage of 11111 was', 111111 11'111 of murder were eonstantly being
I ',lull.
The defendant said lee was drunk. Ile bast 1111 Guth to find
with Isis with. Ills lee•atel had unit injured by a bad tall.

Mr. BIN 111 Am ►egretted to see a man who could
bring home :Ws. wages give way to drunken habits,
and when drunk nearly murder his wife by heating
her almost to death. It was neee..u►y that wives
should lie protected trio►► brutal husbands. and there-
fore he sl Id send him to prison for six months
wider the new act.

Titu CREDULITY or TRADESMEN, who tru:t a thiCf
in hopes of finding a cnioomer, has been the means
of livelihood to One tieorge. Edward:, who was tried
at, the Middlesex Se*sions tin' appropriating font•
watches, value 31.4., front a watchmaker, who had
ramie,' he was going to purchase them. Valions
accounts of former depredations of similar charader
were given upon the trial. On one of these ocea
:ion.: it was related that the prisoner hired three
rooms at a coffee house, and got a tradesman fig. Send
wat..he: there on *pp; oval. While the person who
took them waited in one room, he made oil through
nit 'then with the property. The prisoner had lived
with *woman in a complete den of thieve:, in Sydney-
street, and twenty persons had been robbed in the
..one Manner. One tradesman had been induced to
send him :uNtt. worth of watches. The primmer, who
pleaded guilty, took front hi; I ocket a written paper,
which lie commenced moiling :

It stated that lie heal been in the itaxal nen is e si‘teen 3'e**s.
owl M the Werth,. lin m hen oflpleted 10 Ilullalnl. Ifs way
afierMillhl 1.411‘i ~there ship ad war, one of which ronveye.l
sir w,411,..r r 4,011 and swite from Malta. $j veers he had Isere§ its
the istereliatit seivier. Ile, •le taa his seesaw, had got itsio
es.mently hil.l Women, and had giv ma 1,1 a
ttt r,se et•liter, Wllleh had brought I • it lii. Pl.-...'111
and he amilal wet help thitiLitig that 11. was a I .Amnia the Al.
mighty tiltss ii.ittug upset It i 11l forties sites lie. wretrlied Mall, had
ertisiiiiiteal Ws deserting hi, wife stud twelve children. lit May
M;1, 111.41 ter au Miellee ill the SIIITCV SeS.Maiy, suit Way
Sellielmett to four iii. us 1,. imprisonment. That perio.l he hail
nested iu tollilllty 0011111101110111. and %lOWA lie WA, .09111,01100.11 110
hot 10,12:41o. of 1t0,41. Ile 40%110.1 that he deserved all he hail
met with, but three times daily lie had prostrated behwe
WI Maker, yrs; ins for furgivelsevo, aud, kuva lag that the judge

SATURDAY,

of the court Iva.; influenced by feeling. ef mercy as well a. of
Justice, he would bruded knee implore of hula
mercy. on account of his deeply-injured wife and children.
The prnioner then went ou In, kitties and cried for mercy.
Sentence, eight months' hard labour.
Two Mors, of Mile years, Evans and Armstrong,
who were too small 141 look over the dock, were tried
at the same sessions for having stolen and driven
away an ass and cart. The prosecutor was a coster
monger, who left his cart at the entrance to Covent-
garden Market, one morning, with some fruit and
vegetables in it, while he went through the market to
complete his purchases. On returning he found
donkey, earl, and contents all gone. lii the evening
the prisoners were seen driving the cart iu the New-
road, but had sold all that it contained. During
the trial it came out that the prisoners, young as
they were, were old offenders. Not long before they,
or one of them, had driven away a cart with coals
from the King's-cross station, while the owner's back
was turned, afterwards selling the coals and abandon-
ing the cart, which was a dangerous and unsaleable
commislity under the circumstances. The jury
returned a verdiet of Guilty, recommending both
prisoners to mercy on account of their youth :

.I,astst-vx r said the question for the t to eon.
wider was, what would be trite 'nervy in dealing with these
in 01%111' kJ carry out tow ttrw the jury had expressed. Arol•
stisaig was on his list as having been on N previ tttt /4 °evasion seta
to the I louse of correction for a Month. lie hwl not any suoli
positive account of Evans. but from the Juror hat he Intl
received it scented that both wire very us 1.11 known ti/ Illtl
Ile felt that the I.Nl.l'i'llletil IL wise
Mending this 1./Vie nil trial, instead of adjitdicating upon it a -
',wily. it would have 11411111 them Ito (.(11011 thellt 1 1
prison for 101.1 the true mercy to these unfortunato
children would lie to 141.1111..1114. 111 It long iitqwia..lllllolll for
that 11•1041111. It was certainly a roundabout way I.f .ibminitag
their ohjeet, bit the mile they had ut llnrscut, tin 114.
that by 'wilding them t. prison tnr a considerable lime they ws obi
be amr to the l'hilitutlinltie Selntol at Ilea I lilt, where s' too
good might. Le done I'd them. lie believed that the time was
shell this linit'Velling would be
it ttl,lllll 110 l in' to bring children into a elilllilllll I.olllt
µllll li.r the judge to pass a 111.1tVy 111.1111'ill'11 oP iugn is4lnnit ut ill
1.r.1.r to cumin' their twilit: sent to a phwe Pit tecurmutiuu, but
that souse power would be given by which it might be 111.1•0111.
OWII4I without resorting to this roundabout y 0114404 lie then
sentenced the two priaoners M inipriso tttttt 'lit with hail labour
for two years.
THE rooll-114 tot: ST. CI.EMENT'7I CHURCH was
broken open on Sunday afternoon and the contents
abstracted. Ilickson, the sexton, going into the
ehulrh to light the gas tier evening service, noticed
the fact, and made a search rAititl the etlifice. He
found a young man named Henry Field crouched
down in a dark corner. When questioned he pre-
tended to have fallen asleep there during the after-
noon sermon. Nevertheless he was given into
custody. On his way to the police-station the
prisoner said " lie was a poor fellow out of work,
with Ito place or home to go to." Being searched at
the station, ss. 11d., including a shilling's worth of
halfpence, were found in his pockets. Ile said,
" half-a-crown of it was my own, the remainder I
took from the box ; " and also stated that he had not
slept for the last two nights. It appeared that. the
poor.box, which is only opened once a year, had
been emptied a few days previously. The prisoner
was fully committed.