The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1852.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CIIANCERY.—Ocr. is.
(Before Sir R. Kindersley,)
His Honour sat at twelve o'clock in the Council
Chamber of Lincoln's Inn Hall, pursuant to notice, as
vacation judge, for the purpose of hearing and disposing
of motions requiring to be heard before the general
sitting of the Court in Michaelmas Term. The business
before his Honour was of an ordinary character, being
confined principally to motions for leave to file claims
and other interlocutory matters.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—Oct. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evan 9.)
IN RE RANDALL AND DICKS.
The bankrupts were leather• cutters, in Greek-street,
Soho. This was the certificate meeting. Mr. Fraser
appeared for the assignees; Mr. Taylor for a creditor;
Mr. Lawrence for the bankrupts.
His Honour said the bankrupts' expenditure had been
excessive, and that the justice of the case would be met
by a suspension of their certificates (second class) three
months.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Gerard, a person of res-
pectable appearance, was brought before Sir R. W. Car-
den upon the charge of having obtained, under false and
fraudulent pretences, 110 tons of iron, value 3001. from
the London agent to the Coltness Iron Company, at
Glasgow, Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humpherys, Morgan, and
Co., for the prisoner.
Mr. Lewis, in stating the case, said the prisoner had
made ingenious efforts to make the transaction appear to
be a regular commercial dealing; but, although expe-
rienced, as it would be proved, in rather sinister ways of
trade, he had made a mistake, which would fully and
legally subject him to disagreeable consequences.
Mr. Archibald M'Nacht said—My office is at 54, King
William-street, London-bridge, and I am agent to the
Coltness Iron Company, at Glasgow. In August, the pri-
soner, accompanied by another man, called at my office
and asked me the price of pig iron. I told him the price,
and that my terms were cash on delivery. I do not really
remember what the price was then, for it was then
somewhat variable, but in a day or two afterwards ho
called again and told me he required a great quantity to
be executed, that he had received some heavy orders
for girders and castings, and he wished to know
when I could deliver the iron to him, and at what
price. I said I had 60 tons in the river, and
that he might have them at 563. 6d. per ton for cat,
on delivery, at his works, which he said were the
Phalaix Iron Works, Hackney, situate on the banks of
the canal, easily accessible by barges, He was to pay
the canal dues, and to pay cash on the delivery of the
iron. I agreed to let him have the 60 tons at that
price. On the evening of the 27th the 60 tons were
delivered. This is the receipt signed by him. The
prisoner called the next day and gave me 501., stating
that he could not give me any more that day, but in
two days he would bring me the balance. He had re-
presented to me, on the first day I saw him, that be was
an iron founder, and that he required the iron to exe-
cute the orders he had received for the girders and
castings. I heard that a person named Paten, who
had the character if being an industrious respecta-
ble man, kept works in the neighbourhood, and a thought
occurred to me that the prisoner was a partner in that
house. When he came and paid me the 501. he said he
had such extensive iron orders he would like to buy
some more iron as the market was then advancing. I
then bargained with him for 60 tons more, at 6d per
ton less, he sending his own barges for it. On the 2d
of September a note came to me for the delivery of
the second order, and the iron was accordingly deli-
vered.

Mr. Morgan submitted that there was no false pre-
tence used by tie prisoner, and there could be no
pretence for detailing him.
Mr Lewis—l contend that he has obtained the
goods under fah) pretences. He pretended that he
was the owner of the Phasoix Iron works, and that he
wanted the iron for girders and castings, and I am
going to prove tfat instead of being the person be re-
presented himself to be, and wanting the iron for such a
purpose as he stated, he is a convicted thief, and that
he sold the iron immediately after he received it for
considerably less than he was to have paid for it.
Sir R. W. Carden said he know there were sometimes
considerable difficulties in proving the sort of false pre-
tence which even lawyers argued to be indispensable to
the making of a case. He would be guided by the whole
of the evidnce in support of any charge of the kind, and
if he thought it right to be submitted to a higher autho-
rity, he would not hesitate to act accordingly.

The witness proceeded—Before the 16th of September
the prisoner came to me and complained of the quality
of the second lot of iron. He said that it did not run
well, and that it did not make good castings. On my
demurring, he said there were one or two little founders
in his neighbourhood who could not afford to buy more
than a ton at a time, and they made the same complaint.
He then wished me to send him 20 tons additional of
rafter iron to mix with the other. On the 16±, the 20
tons were accordingly delivered. lie sent his own
barges or lighteruen fur it.
In answer to questions from Sir R. W. Carden, the
witness repeated the reasons by which he was induced
to part with the iron, and then proceeded thus:—l have
been to the place which he represented as the Phoenix
Iron Works. I found there a little room, fitted as a
counting house, 12 feet square. There was no foundry
or works there belonging to the prisoner. There was
no factory for working castings there. When I found I
was defrauded, I went immediately to the police. I had
back some of the iron forcibly on the the 20th of Sept.,
and I have been since that time endeavouring, with the
police, to find out the prisoner.
Sir ft W. Carden—Did he tell you whether he was
casting iron at the Pheisnix Iron Works?
Witness—l understood him to say so; but I cannot
positively swear that he did.
Sir R. W. Carden—Did he tell you he bad a foundry
there?
Witness—l understand him so.
Cross-examined by Mr. Morgan—l knew nothing of
the prisoner before be called upon me about the iron. I
wrote a letter to him is consequence of a letter ho wrote
to me about the price of iron.
Here the letter was produced. It was addressed to
the prisoner, as the manager of the Phoenix Iron Works,
Rose-wharf, Pritchs.rd'a-road, Hackney.
Sir R. W. Carden said he considered the letter just
produced was quite enough to fill up an important chasm
in the evidence.

Mr. Lewis immediately impounded the letter.
Witness—The prisoner was not anxious that I should

take back any of is an iron foundry in

the neighbourhool of the prisoner's premises, but the
owner of it indioantly denied that he had any con-
nection with the prisoner.
Jason Jonathin Rowe—I am a charcoal burner, and
ironfoander's slack manufacturer, at Rose-wharf,
Pritchard's-row. Hackney. I knew the prisoner about
premises. They consist of
ptharreteomf
wharf,months. 1[ I
l et
a imand a room for a counting-
house. There vas no foundry at that spot. He told
me he took it with the view of building a foundry,
h shed,t h e
there. During the whole period he had the pro-
mises ho did not work any foundry ; and there
was no place foi castings or girders. I knew the pri-
soner when some pig iron was received by him, and I
was employed by him to sell it. I sold it to Birch, to
Simpson, to Wood, to Sherwin, and to Manning. I got
for some of it ,ls., and for more of it higher prices; and
I was to have five per cent. commission. I sold for
ready money, end the prisoner collected it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Morgan—About the 3rd of
September I was requested to dispose of another sixty
tone h
s ofo upgihgt the iron
irot bythe prisoner. One of the persons
who of
me said that he should be glad
to get back the money he had paid for it.
John Carpenter, sergeant of the R division of the me-
tropolitan polic3—l know the prisoner about two years
and a half. Ho has not carried on business as an iron-
founder within that period. He has been part of that
time in prison. He was in my custody on the 19th of
October two years. He was apprehended at Hurlton
fair for picking a lady's pocket of three half-crowns.
He then absconded till January the 9th of this year,
when he was taken into custody, tried, and convicted at
the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to three
months with hard labour in Maidstone gaol.
Mr. Morgan said, that whatever might have been the
previous cundlct of the prisoner, the matter which
formed the ground of the present charge was evidently
intended as a cash transaction.
Some of the officers in attendance said there were
other charges of a serious nature against the prisoner,
particularly one for having obtained 4001. under false
pretences.
Sir R. W. Carden said thero was quite evidence
enough to justify the remand of the prisoner, who was
accordingly ordered to be brought up again in a week.

GUILDHALL.—john Brown, an old man, aged 76,
a corkcutter by trade, was charged with atttempting to
hang himself.
Mr. Johnson, landlord of the Twelve Balls, Bride-
lane, stated that the prisoner, for the last fortnight, had
been at his house, where a society for the relief of cork-
cutters was held ; and on Sunday he was informed thatm
he had attempted to hang hi'elf.
James Boyce said that he was living in the same house,
and on their going to bed he bad observed some strange-
ness of conduot on the part of the prisoner, which In-
duced him to watch him, and he saw him roll up two
handkerchiefs, tie them to the roller of the jack towel,
and attempt to hang himself.
It appeared that the prisoner had served in the 92nd
Highlanders for fourteen years, but had since been
working as a corkcutter. He was now very infirm, and
it appeared that ha had been induced to attempt his life
by distress. He was remanded with a view to his being
passed to Scotland, his native country.

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any years
BOW-STREET.—Thomaa Mitchell, for m
a messenger in the private bill department of the House
of Commons, was brought before Mr. Henry upon a
warrant charged with stealing a quantity of stationery.
Sergeant Thornton, of the detective force, stated that
he received information respecting a quantity of sta-
indisposition.
tionery, used by the Government short-hand writers,
which had been exposed for sale at a shop in the Lon-
don-road. On inquiry it was ascertained that it had
been purchased of a Ms. Parkins, 2, Church-street,
Millbank, to whom it bad been originally sold, with a
quantity of waste paper, by the prisoner Mitchell. The
sergeant now produced a certificate to account for the
absence of Parkins, the most material witness in the
case, who had been prevented attending by
r. Robert Chandler, of 50, Thurlow•square, Old
Erompton, stated that be was principal committee clerk
of the House of CuEOO3Ollll until April last, and knew the
prisoner well. He was a messenger attached to the
committee, and his income was 308. per week, and 301.
at the end of each session. He bad the custody of the
ruled paper used by short-band writers, but he had no
authority to sell or dispose of it in any way whatever.
In cross I-examination by Mr. Lewis, the witness stated
that he b ad always entertained the highest opinion of
the movie' iger, who bore an excellent character, and was
a very go( husband, for he happened to know some-
thing of hi s private life also.
Mr. Lel viol believed it would transpire that the pri-
soner was actually the first person to give information of
the robber :ies which had taken place.
Mr. Henry inquired if this was the case?
Mr. Cb andler—He came to me on Friday morning
last in a h tate of great excitement. He seemed too over-
powered by his feelings to express himself. He told me
that 8010,3 ruled stationery had been taken away, by
mistake,, 'Kith some waste paper, by which it was covered
and con coaled.
Mr. fl2nry—Was it known, at that time, that the
robbery 'had taken place?
Mr. arman (who attended as clerk from 'he Trea-
sury)
sa id it had been rumoured for some time past that
robheriel had occurred.
Mr, L 3103 would ask Ur. Chandler if it Was not CUs-

tomary for the messenger to receive a quantity of waste-
paper occasionally to dispose of as he might think pro-
per?
Mr. Chandler—lt sometimes happened that when
space was inconveniently occupied by old printed bills,
which had become useless from being subsequently
altered, and newspapers, an order was given to the mes-
a anger to take them away; but it never happened that
such an order was given with respect to the stationery,
used by the shorthand writers, which could not be mis-
taken for waste paper.
Sergeant Thornton showed by the books of Mr.
Parkins, the purchaser of the property, that 235. per
cwt. had been paid to Mitchell for 1,100 of waste paper,
and 295. per cwt. for 3004 of the ruled stationery.
Mr. Henry—lt is useless to urge that the stationary
was passed in mistake for the waste paper, because it is
'here shown that the prisoner receiv©d a higher price for

it.
Owing to the absence of Parkins, his Worship remanded
the prisoner for further examination.
Mr. Lewis applied to have his client admitted to bail,
but the application was refused.

MABL.BOROUGII-STREE r.—Janics Phillips, the
man who was charged on Monday last with the wilful
murder of his aunt, Ann Mathews, alias Brown, at 11,
Shepherd-street, and the partieuhrs of whose examina-
tion appeared in this journal on Tuesday last, was yes-
terday fully committed for trial.

CLERKEN WELL. A respectable-looking man,
who said he was John Wells, carpenter, of 6, Little
Cross-street, Islington, applied for advice under the fol-
lowing circumstances.
Applicant said that about six weeks ago his wife died,
and was interred in the burial ground at the back of St.
Mary's Church, Islington. Some alterations were being
made near the robe-room, and having heard that the re-
mains of the deceased were exhumed, he, with a neigh-
bour, determined on keeping a nightly watch. They
saw men digging, and lifting the coffins from the earth.
Applicant, with Mrs. Davis, who buried her mother in
July last, made applicatio❑ to the churchwarden and the
sexton upon the subject, but they could get no satisfac-
tory answer. They then applied to Mr. Lewis. the
treasurer of the Reform Association of Islington, who
also made application to the same authorities, but the
only answer was, that when the bodies were re-interred
information would be sent to the relatives. They ought
to have given him notice as to their being exhumed.
Mr. Hicks, the relieving overseer, who was present,
said he had no knowledge of the affair.
Mr. Corrie recommended applicant to apply again to
the sexton, and to make known to him the result of his
application.

SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiani Miles, a tall powerful-
looking man, was charged with travelling in a third-
class carriage on the Croydon Railway without a ticket,
and refusing to pay the fare. He was also charged
with being drunk and acting in a disgusting manner
towards the passengers in the carriage.
Thomas Jordan, a ticket collector in the employ of
the London, Brighton, and South Cuast Railway Com-
pany, said the prisoner came up ou Sunday night from
Croydon in a third-class carriage. As he was not pro-
vided with a ticket witness demanded tenpence, the fare,
which defendant refused to pay, and conducted himself
in a very disgusting manner. On the arrival of the train
inside the terminus witness gave him into custody, and
some of the passengers also charged him with annoying
them in the carriage.
Michael Weedon, a tradesman, said that he and his
wife got into the train at Annerly, and at New-cross
the prisoner entered the same carriage. He was ♦ery
drunk, and all the way up he acted very disgustingly to
his wife and himself by falling upon them and using bad
language. He pointed out the prisoner to the ticket col-
lector, and after that ho became more furious, and threat-
ened to throw him out of the train. _ _

Another person who was in the carriage said that the
prisoner also acted disgustingly towards him, and tried
all he could to pick up a quarrel. He was not so drunk
as not to know what he was doing.

The prisoner said he took his ticket at New-cross, and
must have lost it from his pocket. As for the other
part of the charge, all he could say was that ho did not
know what he was about.

Mr. A'Beckett said the railway officer ought to have
taken care of the prisoner at the ticket-collector's sta•
tion, and not to have allowed him to insult tha passen-
gers after what Mr Weedon had told him. He should
fine prisoner 405., or 14 days' imprisonment.
Stephen Winter, an ill-looking fellow, and Mary Jones
and Ann Riordan were placed at the bar before Mr.
A'Beckett, charged with assaulting and robbing Mr.
James Mead of a watch.

The complainant stated that on Saturday night he
met with the three prisoners at a public-house in Ber-
mondsey, where there was a concert, and remained there
until 12 o'clock, at which hour they left together, and
proceeded to another house, where' at their invitation,
he drank a glass of gin. He, however, had scarcely
swallowed the liquor before he was seised with giddi-
ness, and suspecting something of a deleterious nature
was mixed in it, he became alarmed and quitted the
place. He was followed by the three prisoners, and
while he was conversing with one of the women (Jones)
in walking along, he received a severe blow from some
person behind under the ear, which knocked him down,
and while he was on the ground he felt a tug at bis
watcbguard, and the watch was dragged from his
pocket. The prisoner Winter, he had noticed a moment
or two before, was walking close behind him. Before he
had time to rise from tho ground the prisoners ran
away, but he pursued them, and they were taken into
custody soon afterwards. The complainant here identi-
fied the watch produced as the one of which he had been
robbed.
Policeman 76 M, stated that, hearing a noise, ho
hastened to the spot, and saw the prisoners running
away from the place where complainant was knocked
down. He succeeded, however, with the assistance of
another man, in taking the prisoners into custody, and
the watch was found on the ground, not far distant
from w here they were secured.
The prisoners, who asserted their innocence, were
committed.

LAMBETH. DESPERATE ASSAULT. —Yesterday
Fred. {Farman, a smart young fellow, the assistant to a
hawker, was brought up for further examination, before
Mr. Elliott, on a charge of having committed a desperate
assault on the person of Thomas Elliott, his former
master.
From the evidence of the latter, it appeared that on
Friday week the prisoner abused him very much, and
acknowledged to having robbed him three years ago of
151. He was so exasperated at his conduct, that he ran
at him, with the intention of chastising him, when the
prisoner snatched up a large tongs or pincers used by
blacksmiths, and gave him a desperate blow on the head,
He instantly fell as if shot, and still suffered most in-
tensely from the deep wound he i nflicted.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

THE ALLEGED MURDER AND SUICIDE
AT STEPNEY.

Yesterday, the inquest, adjourned from Tuesday last,
on the bodies of William Thomas Elliott and Jane Col-
lins, was resumed, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, Nelson-street, Stepney.
The following additional evidence was taken:—
Mr. Henry James Taynton, member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, residing in Commercial-road East,
said he had examined the body of the child William
Thomas Elliott, and found externally no marks, with the
exception of what he had before mentioned, viz., two
bruises on the back and a scratch on the cheek, which
were not sufficient to account for death. On opening
the chest and abdomen ho fouud all in perfect health.
On opening the head ho found a great congestion of the
scalp just behind the right ear ; and on opening the
skull, below the dura mater was a large quantity of ex-
travasated blood, which diffused itself over a consider-
able part of the brain. He had no doubt this was the
cause of death. The effect had been produced by a
blow over the ear.
A Juror—How long do you suppose the child had
been dead ?
Witness—lt was quite cold, and it might have been
dead all night, but it is impossible to say precisely.
Ann Greenlees, the mother of the girl, was at the re-
quest of a juror called, and in answer to questions put
by him, said that her daughter was very bad in her
head, and strange in her conduct, but she had no idea
that she was insane. She had heard that the person
with whom she had lived for four years could speak as
to the strangeness of her conduct whilst in her service.
Elizabeth Mary Elliott, mother of the child, recalled,
said after the girl came in on the night in question with
both the children, the deceased was asleep in her arms,
and she cautioned her (witness) against waking her.
She trusted the girl as much as if she had been her own
child. She had no other recommendation with her but
what she received from her parents, as they were very
respectable persons. She did not go up into the room
to see her child after he was put to bed, as she had the
utmost confidence in her. _

Thereieing-nO further evidence forthcoming,
The Coroner summed up the evidence.
The jury said it was their wish to return an open
verdict, and accordingly gave in to the coroner " That
on the 11th of October, the deceased, William Thomas
Elliott, was found dead in bed, the death caused, as it
appeared on the post mortem examination, by an effusion
and extravasation of blood on the brain, but how that
was produced there was no evidence before the jury to
show."
The Coroner—And I suppose in the case of the girl
you are of opinion that she destroyed herself whilst in a
state of temporary insanity.
The Foreman having consulted with the jury, said
they wished on that point also to return an open verdict,
as they had no evidence to show that she committed
the act, and it was their wish to spare the feelings of her
relatives.

The Coroner—But do you not think that if you
return such a verdict as that you will be throwing a
suspicion on some other persons ? It is due to the per-
sons in tho house not to leave her death as a matter of
doubt, for I have myself not the slightest moral doubt
that she first killed the child, and then took away her
own life.
The Foreman said that a majority of the jury appeared
to be opposed to tbo views of the Coroner ; upon which
he said that in that case it would be better that the room
should be cleared, and then they could discuss the mat-
ter amongst themselves.

After nearly an hour's consultation the reporters
were admitted, and it was stated that the jury had, in
tho case of Jane Collins, returned a verdict, "That she
had destroyed herself whilst in a state of temporary
insanity.

TholgQceodinge thou termiuged.