The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. —This Day.

The December sessions of this Court commenced to-day.
Owing to the shortness of the interval that has eloped since
the adjournment of the Court there are not more than
fifty prisoners for tri.tl. There are two charges of wil-
ful murder, one against the German, Kohl, for the
murder of his countryman in the Plaistow Marshes,
and the other against a man named Jackson,
for killing a persm with whom he had formerly
been on friendly terms, and who had lent him money. The
judges who will preside are Lord Chief Justice Erle, Mr
Justice Crompton, and Mr Baron Pigott. On Saturday
morning Kohl was removed from Ilford gaol to Newgate.
He has lost much of the hardihood he displayed when first
apprehended, He has been visited in Ilford gaol by seve-
ral German gentlemen, and has had frequent interviews
with his solicitor. The Rev. Dr. Cappel, who attended
Muller in his last moments, has been frequently with Kohl
The Recorder having charged the Grand Jury, the busi-
ness of the session commenced.
THE MURDER IN THE PLAISTOW MARSHES.

Mr Best, on the part of the accused man Kohl, made an
application for the postponement of the trial till the next
sessions.

Mr Giffard, wile appears for the prosecution, offered no
objection to such a course. '
The application was granted.
TILE ROBBERY BY A FICTITIOUS HEIRESS.

Mary Horsfall, whose trial stood over from last session,
was this morning placed in the dock charged with stealing
two gold bracelets, one diamond ring, and a gold chain,
value £2,0, the property of Caroline 011ey.
The ptisoner, it will be recollected, represented herself as
the heiress to a large fortune. and by this she was enabled
to victimise a number of ladies and tradesmen.

The jury found the prisoner guilty.
The Recorder sentenced her to 18 months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

FORGERY.

William Topham, clerk, was indicted for forgery, and
uttering a forged cheque, with intent to defraud the Bank
of London of £784.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the uttering.
The Recorder sentenced him to five years' penal servi-
tude.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

SINGULAR CIIARGB OF ROBBING A PHOTOGRAPHER.
—Edward Korner, a young man described as an engineer,
and who gave an address in Bridge-court, Westminster,
was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with stealing a lens of the
value of XL the property of Mr Morris Rouse, photo-
grapher, of 376, Oxford-street.
Mr Rouse said—Or Sunday, July 17th last, about one
o'clock, the prisoner came into my place to have
his likeness taken. There were several other per-
sons present waiting to have their portraits taken. The
prisoner said he was in no hurry, and he gave his turn up
to every one and waited till the last, I took the prisoner's
likeness, and he then said he would have some cartes de
visite as well. I went into the dark room with the likeness,
and when I came out with it the prisoner had "hooked it,"
with the lens from the camera. I ran downstairs with the
likeness in my hand and saw the prisoner running. I cried
K Stop thief," but it was no use. I then took copies of
the likenesss, and sent them round to the different
stations. We heard no more of the matter. Yesterday, about
the same time as on the former occasion, in walked the pri-
soner into my room. As soon as he saw it he tried to
" hook" it, but I called my doorsman and he prevented him
doing so. I then went for a constable and gave the pri..
soner into custody.
Mr Tyrwhitt—What did the prisoner say ?
Mr Rouse— Ido not remember. I was very nervous.
On asking him if he remembered the likeness, he said he
did not remember me. I am positive the prisoner is the
same man, and I have his portrait.
The portrait was handed to the magistrate. It was a very
good portrait of the prisoner.
The Prisoner—l have several times had my likeness taken
at the same place, and the portrait produced may be a spoilt
one the prosecutor had by him. I know nothing about the
lens, I can assure you.

Mr Tyrwhitt—l shall remand the prisoner lor a week,
and I will take his own bail.

Mr Rouse—l have witnesses here who will say the pri-
soner only had his likeness once taken.

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A POLICE CONSTABLE,—llenirich
Ullanger, a German musician, was brought before Mr
Paget, charged with violently assaulting 'William Jenkins,
a police constable, No. 220 H.

On Saturday night the prisoner came home to his lodg-
ings in Charles-street, Gunfield•street, Commercial-road, in
a state of intoxication, and broke the pannel of the sheet
door, because he was refused admittance by a young man
named John Muller, his fellow lodger. Muller called upon
a police constable to remove the prisoner, and he requested
him to go away. The prisoner refused to leave,
and abused the constable with all the English slang,
scurrility, and expletives at his command. the
constable then took him into custody, and the
prisoner then raised a kind of German war• whoop,
which brought seven or eight of his countrymen to the
spot. They made a furious attack on Jenkins, who defended
himself single-handed until he was thrown down. The
prisoner knelt on the policeman, and seized him by the
throat and attempted to strangle him, in which he would
have succeeded it' two "civilians," as the policemen de•
scribed them, had not come to his assistance. They pulled
the prisoner off the constable, and after a furious contest
secured him. The constable, a well regulated and kinlly
man, was very much injured.
Nicholas Magrath, an Irishman, of No. 4, New-street,
Commercial-road, saw the prisoner seize the policeman by
the throat and make an attempt to choke him.
John Muller,
„a German, gave similar evidence, and
added, "There were seven or eight Germans on the
policeman all at once. The prisoner knocked him down
and then seized his throat. The policeman's tongue was
coming out of his mouth.
Elizabeth Ullinger, an Englishwoman, married to the
prisoner's brother, swore that all the violence was on the
part of the constable.

Mr Paget did not believe the witness Elizabeth Ullinger,
and said it was clearly proved many of the prisoner's coun-
trymen attacked the constable. He sentenced the prisoner
to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.