The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOWER 6

manufacturers—W. Mold and C. T. Symonds, Kings-
laad-rold, Shoredite, ii,JUSO agents—J. MeLiatock, W.
Harrison, and J. Clough, Barnsley, Yorkshire, stay ma-
nufacturers (so far asyegards the said J. Clough)— W. and
J. Clare, Wisbech, common brewers—W. S. Ennever and
J. Stedman, Werrington-street, Oakley-square, St. Pan-
cras, pianoforte manufacturers—G. J. and W. Crowther,
Leeds, and Gomersal, Yorkshire, manufacturing chemists
—Mary Ann Reynolds and Elizabeth Burley, Leaming-
ton Priors, Warwickshire, milliners and dress makers
—A. Nicholson and S. Webster, Leeds, cloth dressers—
J. Miller and W. Freestone, Nottingham, pawnbrokers
and clothiers—W. P. and W. Moxon, Cotton's Wharf,
Southwark, and Crispin-street, Spitalflelds—H. Snead
and H. Drew, Penton-street, Pentonville, drapers and
haberdashers—Sir W. Foster, C. W. Unthank, R. E.
Burroughes and J. M. Robberds, Norwich, attorneys
aed solicitors (so far as regards the said C. W. Unthank)
F. and J. Watson, Rotherham, Yorkshire, plumbers
and glaziers—W. White, J. Ponsford, and B. W. Cur-
rie, Upper Thames-street, millers (so far as regards the
said B. W. Currie)—Ann Isabella Hume aad J. Hume,
Sunderland, milliners and dress makers—J. and R.
Ellis, Leicester, maltsters, corn anti flour dealers—W.
Millwood and W. F. Coles, Creek Wharf, Hammer-
smith, and Warwick-road, Kensington-basin, lime and
sand merchants, and dealers in building materials.
INSOLVEN r PETITIONERS.
Daniel Edwards, Cardiff, tailor—Thomas Isaac,
Sketty, Glamorganshire, stone mason and builder—
Daniel Mackenzie Annison, Norwich, plumber—Edward
Smith, Carlton, Yorkshire, boot and shoemaker.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
J. Murtrie and W. Murtrie, merchants, fancy silk
manufacturers, and warehousemen, to meet Oct. 11 and
Nov. 2, at one, within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 5.
Mr. Commissioner Evans was the Commissioner
of the day.

1852,

denying that he was with Ken when the ten sacks
of corn were ordered. lie achnltted lu,ving bought
the 50 sacks, as also the hay and straw, all of which
he fully meant to have paid for, but he unfortunately
got into trouble. He' had no thought or intention of
defrauding any one.
Mr. BROUGHTON, after expressing a very strong
opinion with regard to the fraudulent nature of the
dealing, and giving the police instructions so as to in-
sure the attendance of other witnesses necessary to
the completion of the case, remanded the prisoner
till Tuesday next. Ho was given to understand that
he might put in bail, himself in 1501., and two sure-
ties in 601, each, for his appearance on the day named.
The required sureties were not present, and the
prisoner was therefore conveyed away in the Go-
vernment van to the House of Detention. The pro-
ceedings did not terminate till nearly seven o'clock.
WORSHIP-STREET.
George Kite, alias Smith, a tall, portly man, but
who was recognised by several officers as a notorious
begging-letter impostor, was charged with a series of
robberies at private dwelling-houses, to which he had
obtained access under the pretence f soliciting chari-
table contributions.
c When called upon for his defence, the prisoner de-
clined offering any; and was thereupon ordered to he
committed until that day week, that an opportunity
might be afforded for tracing the owners of other pro-
perty which had been found upon him.
CLERKENWELL.

John Donovan, a powerful-looking young man,
was brought up on a warrant by Joseph Seaman, 228
N division, the warrant officer of this establishment,
charged by Mary Donovan, his aunt, an elderly
woman, residing in Chad's-row, St. Pancras, with the
following cowardly assault.
The prosecutrix, whose head was bound up in con-
eequence of severe injuries, and who was in a very
weakly state, having been sworn, said that about three
weeks ago she lent the prisoner's father a sum of
money, which he promised to return to her on a
certain day, which he failed to do. She called se-
veral times upon him, but only received abuse and
insult. About a week ago she met the prisoner
and his father in the street, and asked him for the
money which she had lent him, and followed him for
some distance, when the prisoner seized her with both
hands at each side of her loins, and lifting her up
threw her with all his force into a shop, and, her head
coming in contact with the edge of the counter, her
skull was split open. She bled profusely, and was
carried to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road,
where she received every attention and assistance.
The prisoner absented himself until Monday last,
when he was traced and apprehended by the above
officer.
Mr. TYRWRITT asked the prisoner what he had to
say for such savage and ruffianly conduct towards
such a poor, aged, and helpless woman, and his own
relative ? The prisoner—She followed me and my
father and abused us. I merely gave ber a push,
when she staggered into the shop, and her head fell
against the counter.
Mr. TYRWHITT asked the old woman what course
she wished him to adopt towards the prisoner ? Pro-
secutrix—l only wish to have my life protected. I
go in danger of my life from the prisoner.
Mr. TYRWHITT, addressing the prisoner, said it was
a most unmanly and brutal assault upon a poor,
helpless old woman. He had, as he had before said,
a fixed determination to check or put a stop to such
base assaults upon helpless and unprotected women,
by inflicting the most severe punishment upon the
offenders. Ha would give him (the prisoner) the
opportunity of speaking privately to the old lady,
whom he had so much injured, if she was willing to
do so. He would give him a caution, that if he could
not come to some satisfactory arrangement with her,
he most assuredly would have to pay the heaviest pe-
nalty for his violence.
The prisoner and the prosecutrix retired, and sub-
sequently they returned, when it was communicated
to the bench that the prisoner had made an ample
apology, and promised every reparation for the injury
he had done to his aunt, with which she expressed her
satisfaction.

Mr. TYRWHITT (to the prisoner)--It is very fortu-
nate for you that you have come to terms with her, or
you would have been severely punished.
LAMBETH.

Mr. Robert Jack Watts, described as an attorney,
of 11, Furnival's-inn, Holborn, Charles Perry, and
Samuel Dicken Nicholl Grinsell, were placed at the
bar before Mr. Elliott on a charge of obtaining money
by means of fraudulent checks.
Mr. William Corbett, landlord of the St. Paul's
public-house on Walworth-common, deposed that on
the evening of that day week the prisoner Grinsell
came to his house, and, presenting the card of Mr.
Gillies, a neighbour of his, said he had come by the
desire of Mr. Gillies to request change for a cheque for
151. 104., drawn by Robert J. Watts in favour of
Charles Perry. Believing that the change was for a
friend of Mr. Gillies, he told the prisoner that if he
had as much money in the house he would cash the
cheque, and that he should be at the shop of Mr. Gillies
in a few minutes. He then pat the money into his
pocket, and proceeded to the shop of Mr. Gillies,
where he found the prisoner; and the former having
said that he was very well acquainted with the father
of the youth Grinsell, and that he was a highly re-
spectable man, he at once handed the 151. los. to the
prisoner, merely requesting that he and Mr. Gillies
would write their names on the back of the cheque.
He subsequently paid away the cheque to his distiller,
and it was returned marked "No effects." On the
evening that the cheque was so returned the prisoner
Perry called at his house, and expressed considerable
anxiety as to whether the check had been paid, and
subsequently brought a note, signed "Robert J.
Watts," stating that the cheque would be paid on that
(yesterday) morning.
Mr. Gillies, a baker, carrying on business at No.

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1, Providence-place, Walworth-common, deposed
that on Tuesday evening, the 28th of last month, the
prisoner Grinsell called at his shop, and said his fa-
ther had sent him, and requested change for the
cheque he produced. Not having so much ready
money in his house at the time, and knowing the
father of the youth to be a highly respectable man,
he gave his card to the prisoner, and subsequently
placed his name on the cheque.
Sergeant Quinnear, 1 P, said that from informa-
tion be received he called at the London and County
Bank, 21, Lombard-street, where the cheque passed
to Mr. Corbett was made payable, and, on inquiry,
found that the prisoner Watts kept no account there,
but at the same time learned that some years ago he
kept an account at the branch bank, Cranbrook,
Lent. He (Quinnear) in consequence went to Cran-
brook, and there ascertained that for some time past
he (the prisoner Watts) had had no cash there. On
the night before he went in search of Watts, and ob-
serving him run away from an officer whom he had
sent to inquire for him at his present residence, 30,
Cranmer-place, Waterloo-road, ho (Quiunear) fol-
lowed him and secured him in Anne-street. The
prisoner, upon his being secured, expressed himself
angry at his calling out " Stop thief l" while he was
running away, and declared he was no thief.
The prisoner here said that the witness and his
companion having been in plain clothes, his impres-
sion was that they were sheriffs' officers, else he should
not have run away.

Quinnear, in continuation, said that on searching
the prisoner Watts he found on his person a number
of letters, and a cheque-book for the London and
County Bank, from which it would appear that little
had been drawn since 1849, and from which three of
the counterfoils had been torn. He also found in his
possession twenty duplicates for articles of various de-
scriptions, pledged principally since the beginning of
last month. Among the articles to which the dupli-
cates related, were two opera glasses, rings, brooches,
writing paper, and wearing apparel of different de-
scriptions. The sergeant requested to add that on
the night of Tuesday, the day on which the money
had been obtained, Watts and Perry were brought to
Walworth-station on a charge of drunkenness, and
upon being searched at the station-house a 61. bank
note and seven sovereigns were found upon the
former. They were brought to this court on the fol-
lowing :day and discharged, when the money was
returned to Watts.
Mr. Henry Cooper, law stationer, Chancery-lane,
deposed that on the 24th of last month the prisoner
Watts called at his shop and ordered stationery to
the amount of 21. 7s. 6d., and directed it to be sent
to George's Hotel, in the Strand. He gave a cheque
for 51, which he wrote on half a sheet of note paper,
on the banking-house of Messrs. Hoare and Co., in
payment, and witness gave him 21. 12s. 6d. in change.
On the following Monday morning the prisoner again
called at his shop, and requested to be allowed to in-
crease the cheque to 101. ; but at this time the cheque
had been paid in to the banking-house of Messrs.
Dixon, and was subsequently returned with "No
effects" written on it. He (Mr. Cooper) had since
called at the banking-house of Messrs. Hoare and
Co., and was told that the prisoner must have been
quite aware when writing the cheque that there were
no funds at the bank to meet it.
The prisoner Watts said he should be able to show
that none of the circumstances relating to the first
case took place as they had been related, and with
respect to the second charge, he had not done, or at-
tempted to do, anything fraudulently.
Perry said he had been formerly a clerk to Watts,
and all that he had done had been done under the
coneicticn that the cheque had been paid. He saw
Grinsell give Watts the money for the cheque, and
they all three went to a public-house, dined together
on rurnpsteaks, drank sundry bottles of wine, and
got so drunk that Mr. Watts and himself were
locked up.

Grinsell declared his perfect innocence of any im
proper intention, and said 'the only wrong he did
was that of giving the name of his father without
his authority.
The prisoners were remanded, but Perry and Grin-
sell were admitted to bail.