The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-08 00:00:00

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TATTERSALLHIS EVENING.
Six O'CLOCK.

NEWMARKET HANDICAP.

4 to 1 agst Maria
8 to 1 az,st Mountain Flower
9 to 1 agst Bardoiph
io to 1 apt Officiolls

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Homenrewed
4 to 1 agst Lapidist
5 to 1 agst Daniel O'Rourke
10 to 1 agst Hobbie Ncble

CHESTER CIIP.
12 to 1 agst Stilton
20 to I agst High Sheriff
2 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg
30 to 1. agst Hothorp—taken
30 to 1 agst Nancy—taken

FLYING DUTCHMAN HANDICAP.
5 to 1 abet Voltigour

DERBY.
11 to 2 agst Hobbie Noble
12 to 1 agst Angur
15 to 1 art Claverbouse
15 to 1 agst Lapidist
20 to 1 agst Little Harry
25 to 1 art Home-brewed—taken
35 to 1 agst Phantom
1,000 to 15 agst Alcomn—taken

CRIMINAL. COURTS-(THIS DAY
)1;1) COUR7'.
(Before Mr. Baru MARTIN and Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)
'OIIGEIIY.-11,1ary Ann Munsat!, aged 29, described as
a spinstee, was indicted for feloniously forging and ut-
t(ring a receipt for the sum of 101, with intent to de-
fraud the governors of Christ's Hospital. The prisoner
pleaded not guilsy.
Mr. Cfsekson and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the pro-
secutien, and Mr. Lilley defended the prisoner.
i.e'M.,CLA.P.I:3ON upened t%e case to the jury. There
we various annuities payable by Christ's Hospital,
founded varioue charitable persons deceased, and
ate cnget them was n fund cut of svhieh a certain number
of poo: Idled persons were paid 10/. a year. In Feb.,
1851. a person named Lusby became entitled to the an-
natty, and as neither he nor Lis wife, who was in the
same service as the prisoner, could write, ha sccured
the asiqsrquee of cho proirtring the necessary
cor:itrutte to be signed by the clergyman and church-
wasdets of the perish in which he lived, upon which
be was to ~htain the annuity. He Was paid the first an-
reaqy of 101. in January, 1851, but in the month of
Marehfoilten ing Lusby died, and the widow requested
the prisoner to tail and communiewe the fact to the hui-
pital authoritie9. She, however, never did so, and when
last January arrived she forged a second certificate, and
cntained another 101. in . the name of tho deceased
Lusby.
Some formal evidence hisieg been put in as to the
isseing of the bleek form of the certificate, and the
pqmenl of the first and second annuities, the two certi-
ticanes,were piodueed. The receipts for the money en
Loth occasions were tignod Mary Ann Loaby, an the
Ern ',ants were paid in two 101. Beak of Enalard notes.
Ei•7.306f11 Louisa Lusby examined by Mr. BODKIN—I
am a widow. My husband was named Robert Lusby.
He died the 15th March, 1851. Once before his death
he received an annuity from Christ's Hospi'al. We
were living at the time at No. I.North-place, Walworth.
I 1,.n-vg the prisoner then. ts.;he lived at Miss Sea-
weres, in Grosvenor-perk, Walworth, where I
used to go to wash. I remember being at
Miss ,'Seaward's when seseething was said about
goie receive the money. My hatband called
with one cf the papers produced, end the prisoner
told me to go with my hushaed to Mr. Garlaed, the
churchwarden of Newington, and get it signed. The
prisoner efterwarde met me at the hospital, and while I
and my husband waited outside she went in and got the
10/. in a note, which she gave to my husband. After
my husband died, in Mach, I asked the prisoner to
write to Christ's Hospital and tell the authorities of his
decease. She said she would do so, and when I saw her
again she said she had written. Just before last Christ-
mas I saw her again, when she repeated that she had
properly reported the death; but on the sth of January
of the present year she asked me if she should get the
money this year for me, and I refused to let her clo any-
thing of the sort. I afterwards went to the Hospital
and found that my husband's death was not known
there, and that a aecoad 101. had been paid on his ac-
count. The prisoner then ,throatened to throw herself
in the river ;t I said anything about it. I knew the
prisoner in Miss Seaward's service for nine years or
more.
The Rev. Mr. Onslow, the rector of the parish of
Newington, stated that he signed the first certificate.
This year he received a second blank certificate. which
he returned to Mrs. Lusby unsigned.
It was then proved that the names to the last certifi.
nate were not in the handwriting of those parties whose
signatures they purported to be.
Mr. Reid, who resided in the same house with Mr.
Lusby, where the prisoner formerly lodged, stated that,
after Mr. Lusby received the blank certificate from the
clergyman he went to the hospital and ascertained that
a second ananity had been paid. He was shown a book
which was signed Miry Ann Lusby, and he believed the
writing was that of the prisoner. The witness also
identified the hand-writing on the back. of the second
101. note as being that of the prisoner.
George Kinnair, police-constable K 1, stated that the
woman at the bar was given into his custody on a charge
of obtaining a 10/, note from Christ's Hospital under
false pretence'. She said she had never received a far-
thidg from Christ's Hospital in her life, and asked if
there Was any gentleman at the hospital that 'could
identify her. He told her he ceitlil not say there was,
and she then asked who was to he brought against her.
He told her, and she then said she did receive 10/., and
sign papers for Mrs. Lusby, which she knew was wrong.
She had two 51 notes, two sovereigns, 7s. 63. in silver,
anda savings bank book in her pessesaien-when she was
searched.
This was the case for the prosecution.
hir. LILLEY then proceeded to addeess the jur}i for
the defence and contended that the evidence which had
been produced was not - sufficient to substantiate the
cha'rge- At all events he was convinced that the forgery
andkuttering in this case had not been proved to the
satisfaction of spe • g men, and he therefore
called for • a verslic'ecottiameTuittitnal.
The Learned
retired havite. summed up,
g
Th?, jury
returned into court to
cAibitier thel. verdict, but bad not
when our repeet-left.

Ilium GO f,.
(llsfere the Colter
SINGULAR C,AsE, it CMIg .-XECEANT.)
Hudson, pleady geav to Ib'lr'ina2; man, named George
spireey. a charge pc; and cot,
M,. 011TARt. said, he v.as,iestructed by the Commis•
sioners of Baeleruteey who ,roostitcated, to mention the
nature of the charge, and
with the prisoner as it theuel.t eave the Court to dee'
was called as a witness-a Let e BParerr* The prisoner
case of a bankrupt
bunrovealVi.riloll,:!raPt:yeee,n'tnuratr,
and
e
he ssvore that hi
the. 29th of jenua.74 1854;
f.nr3/4
e_eave_ie,raenee2,l)stl',4o,ns
receipt for the money -on that day.- The receipt antraine
produced and identified by the prisone*, but
examin-
ing it it was discovered that the stew "
frem Somerset-house until the 12th of February,
about three weeks after it was said to have beeng
the bankrupt. Seeing the truth could no loneer-biveu to
sealed, he at length admitted that his previous store con.
a concocted fiction, and that he never received the money.
On On being searched, a peer was found on him containing
written instructions by the bankrupt as to what he was to
say to the Commissioner respecting the loan. Under these
circumstances, the Commissioner thought it his duty to
send the case to this court, but he wished it to be men-
tioned that he believed the prisoner had been used as a
tool by the bankrupt for his own purposes.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared for the prisoner,
said he was a poor and illiterate, though an honest man,
and had been led into signing the receipt by the bank-
rupt, whoe'e wife came to him in great distress
and begged him to attach his signature to the paper.
lle could neither read nor write, and was entirely igno-
relit the consequences of his act. He now expressed
taisag}reat contrition for the offence, and hoped the Court
yeottld deal mercifully with him in consequence of his
ylife and family, who would have no means of sub-
sistence if he were imprisoned for any long period.
Several persons gave the prisoner a good character
for honesty and veracity.
The COMMON SERGEANT said he would postpone pass-
jog sentence upcn the prisoner.
ROBBING CHILDREN.—Sophia Butler, 16, spinster,
was indicted for stealing eleven half crowns, the moneys
of Sarah Johnson, from the person oF Maria Johnson.
It appeared that the prisoner accosted Maria Johnson,
,jeeli whottle girl, as she was leaving a shop on Ludgate-
till, where she had just received some money for her
„other; and pretended to know her family, and induced
her to walk with her along some retired lanes in the
City- Titling advantage of the opportunity thus afforded
her she succeeded in abstracting the money from the
girl's pocket.
fllie jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Thci,e were several indictments against the prisoner
for robberies upon childrenc
.
mme Costemet SERGEANT centered her to imprison.
meet for twelve months.

LIGHT AT 'TaE MOUTH
OF NELSON
BOUR. Aug. 2,1851.
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liarbour•ct•fice, Nelson,
The Nelson Harbour Light will be knOwnitoimanir-
fi,
mari-
ners as a fixed red light. 'The light will be visiblein e
south direction from N.N.W. round to N.N.E.i'---
The
lantern is elevated 160 feet above the level of the sea ;
but the light being red will not ho seen at a greater dis-
tanca than about eighteen miles, and at a lesser distance,
according to the state of the atmosphere. Vessels run-
- down the bay z.hould brite th light to bear
ning
nottl they got within
with the lead going e
SSE ' wiwhen they h
cathoma, s. milit anchor and wait for
seven ,
pho fight is in south lat. 41 "
15 .
30
a Pilot. ' 173 deg. 1(1 min.., se
and east 10ng..!,. min.
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Printed
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DuTY ON sors•—A return hos Custlsee
by pzder of the House of Lords, sh,,wing that i,tl
endirT,,:f-rhe sth of January last there ware 27gaeYear
of hap, .paying duty amounting to 235,623/. L,9,lb •
LiiSt . , year there .tv.ete 45.:)3/26g91b. paying a, ,-ucl.
42 1,7021, '33. .•. duty