The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-19 00:00:00

EVENING, AUGUST

It appeared that the prisoner lived at Barking, in
Essex, and, upon the day in question, a dead horse
having to be fetched some few miles from the town,
he went for it, taking with him a little boy and a
girl for a ride. When he got to the place where the
horse was, although then somewhat " fresh," he had
more beer, and was, when he started to return, very
nearly drunk, and flogged the horse into a furious
gallop, and, upon turning a place called Bull-corner
at Barking, the cart upset, and threw him, the two
children, and dead horse out. The little boy fell
under the cart, and received such a fearful fracture of
the skull that his brains came out, and he died in a
few minutes, the prisoner himself receiving such seri-
ous injuries that for some time he was an inmate of
the London Hospital.
The several witnesses who were examined all gave
the prisoner a good character for humanity and stea-
diness of conduct.

The jury found him Guilty.
The RECORDER asked how long the prisoner had
been in prison ?
The prisoner said he had been ten days in the hos-
pital, and one month in gaol.
The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that
where persons having the command cf horses urged
them to a furious speed, and any accident resulted
from it, he should, if the case came before him,
punish them most severely, as he did not know any
class of offence that evinced more recklessness as to
results, and most especially in the case of omnibus
and other public drivers. There was some difference
in this instance, and, considering what the prisoner
had already suffered, and the character he bad borne,
he should order him to be further imprisoned for one
month in Newgate.
Upon this case being called in the turn it stood
upon the paper, it had to be postponed until later
in the day, one of the Learned Counsel retained in
it being then engaged in one at the Middlesex
Sessions.

His LORDSHIP said that the inconvenience caused
by the Middlesex magistrates fixing the same days
for trials as this Court was very great, and there
ought to be some alteration in the system. It was
most improper, quite unnecessary, and very unjust
to the bar.

Several gentlemen of the bar said they felt the in-
convenience very much, and hoped that there would
soon be some alteration.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY, Q.C.)
Charles Collins, 62, publisher, a respectable look-
ing old man, was indicted for stealing a case of four
portraits, valued at 101, the property of Antonio
Claudet.
Mr. W. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson
defended. .

The prisoner in this case had gone to the'prosecu-
tor, who is the well-known daguerreotype artist of
. Regent-street, and, under pretence that he was pub-
lishing a portrait gallery of the aristocracy and
others, borrowed the case of likenesses, which were
never returned, and subsequently found to have been
pawned.
The evidence failing to prove that the pictures had
been given to the prisoner in the first instance, his
Lordship directed an acquittal.
He was then indicted for stealing a daguerreotype
portrait, the property of Robert Hogg.
The prosecutor, who was the American daguerreo-
type artist, and proprietor of the miniature gallery,
432, West Strand, proved that the prisoner came to
him with a similar tale, and after having some busi-
ness transactions, one of which was getting him to
take the likeness of Mr. Charles Salisbury Butler,
he obtained the portrait in question, which was
also pawned.
In cross-examination this witness said he did not
know whether he gave the portrait to the prisoner or
his son.
The prisoner was Acquitted.
A third indictment was then gone into for stealing
a portrait valued at 51., the property of Lord Sandys.
This case was also enveloped in the same mystery.
An application for the same purpose as above stated
was made, the prisoner introducing himself by letter;
this was last year; and when the prisoner was taken
into custody, among the duplicates found on him was
one relating to the portrait (an oil painting) in ques-
tion ; but how it had found its way from his Lord-
ship's mansion in Curxon-street, May-fair, to the
pawnbroksr's could not be unravelled, no one recol-
lecting its being given to the prisoner.
An Acquittal was taken in this case.
Inspector A Cumming said there were about fifty
more cases against him if the parties would have pro.
secuted. The prisoner had carried on the game for
some yeas in all parts of the country, and had de-
frauded hundreds, the value of the portraits being
some thousands, and persons so defrauded had sent up
money to redeem their portraits.
William Worley, 39, tinplateworker, was indicted
for feloniously wounding Nathan Defries, with in-
tent, &c.
Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Charnock de-
fended.
The prosecutor, a gas engineer and dry meter
maker, stated that in June last prisoner worked for
two days in his shop, for which he demanded pay-
ment. Prosecutor referred him to his cashier, telling
him that his payday was Friday. On Tuesday, the
6th of July, prisoner went to the counting-house of
the factory in Diana-place, and said he had come for
his money. Witness said that he knew nothing of it,
and rang the bell for his foreman, whom he asked if
anything was due. The foreman said there was not,
but by their rules the prisoner owed them money for
spoiling some work. The foreman then went away,
leaving prisoner, who said, " You don't mean to pay
me? Then, I'll pay you," and immediately took a
wallet from his side pocket, and, brandishing it to
take a sure aim, struck him with all his force on the
head and ran away. Witness called " Murder, and
tried to follow, but the blood spirted like a fountain
from the wound, a fearful one just above the left ear,
and prosecutor fainted. When he recovered he was
at the doctor's, and the prisoner was in the hands of
the police.
It further appeared that the same morning the pri-
soner had threatened to do for the prosecutor if he
did not pay him. The foreman had heard his mas-
ter's cries, and ran after the prisoner, who was running
away as fast as he could. When in the hands of the
police he said he was sorry for what he had done.
m, and
On behalf of the prisoner it was statedan that he
had hada
always been a quiet, well-behaved
wife and family.
The jury found him Guilty, recommending him to
mercy.
He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment and
hard labour.
In the course of the day true bills were found
against Lord Frankfort and Mary Taylor for. misde-
meanour, and, upon the application of Mr. Giffard,a
warrant was issued for the woman, who it was said
had absconded.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Mr. H. Sewell, of the Mansion-house, who on
Sunday last, in consequence of instructions which he
hed received from the Lord Mayor and Alderman
Finnis, accompanied to Liverpool the emigrants who
complained of the delay in the sailing of the City of
Lincoln, bound for Port Philip, for the purpose of
making satisfactory arrangements for their departure,
reported to his Lordship upon the subject. He had,
be said, the satisfaction to state that the vessel had,
since the reported insolvency of the former holder,
fallen into the hands of Mr. Bates, a man of respect-
ability, who not only released her from her embar-
rassments, but paid the greatest attention to the com-
forts of the poor passengers; and that Lieutenant
Pryor, of the Government Emigration Office of Li-
verpool, had testified to the excellent condition of the
articles of food which came under his supervision
officially in the ship. He had promised to convey to
his Lordship the emigrants warm expression of gra-
titude for the prompt and effective measures adopted
by the Lord Mayor and Alderman Finnis to obtain
for them reparation for the delay, and security as to
their proper accommodation during their voyage.
They had given three cheers for the City magistrates
when he was leaving the vessel, which was to sail at
twelve o'clock on Wednesday (yesterday). Mr.
Sewell also said he was gratified in stating that the
Prince Alfred emigrant vessel, concerning the delay
of which complaint had been also made at the Man-
sion-house, had gone through the Downs, and that all
the passengers on board had been amply accommo-
dated and provided for.
The LORD MAYOR said that he and his brother
alderman felt the most sincere gratification in car-
rying out the object of the Emigration Commission-
ers to the fullest extent. The claims upon the ener-
getic exertions of the magistracy had increased in
proportion to the numerous departures to foreign
countries, and the public might rely upon the strictly
impartial performance of the duties of the alderman
at a time when more than usual vigilance was ne-
cessary.
Edward Wilson, a well-dressed fellow, was
charged with stealing three tumblers, a salt cellar,
and a spoon, in an eating-house in Bow-lane.
The prisoner dined in the house, and after having
remained there between two and three hours, was
walking out, when the waitress, who had recollected
him from a former visit which proved unprofitable to
her, stopped him, and asked him to lighten his burden,
which he did in a moment, at the same time begging
pardon for the mistake. The prisoner had in his pocket
a couple of shoe-brushes, which he had in the morn-
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19, 1852.

son had been sent to the extreme tribunal. In his
Lordship's opinion the chaplain's humanity had fixed
upon a case possessing strong claims upon those who
had power as well as will to do good. Ir.was as fol-
lows :—The mother of a reformed criminal was
anxious to get out to America to join her son., The
boy was trained to crime by his own father, wno Nvas
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convicted in the same case. At the close of his m-
prisonment the unfortunate boy was sent to a refuge,
and after some months probation sent out to America
by Lord Shaftesbury, assisted by the Sheriff's fund.
That took place in April, 1850. Since that time he
has gone well, and is now, to use the chaplain's lan-
guage, " I believe an upright and conscientious man.
He has written to say that, if his mother can be sent
out, and also a brother who is imbecile and unable to
earn a living, he will provide for them both. His
mother has herself always been a respectable woman,
but now is reduced to earn a precarious subsistence
by waistcoat making, and is a widow in her 58th
year, her husband having died in prison." To the
correctness of the statement the chaplain expressed his
great willingness to bear testimony, upon application
at the Giltspur-street Compeer or the Mansion-house.