The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aprzl
_l4.

Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, at the
Guildhall, Westminster.)

The Court sat to-day to take bail cases.
Joseph Gale and John Weygood were indicted for
having assaulted Henry Spice; a broker, in the exe-
cution of his duty.
Mr. Trevethan Spicer appeared for the prosecution;
Mr. Sleigh for the defendants.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned
Counsel, in opening the case, that the defendant Gale
had for the last three years occupied a house in
Newland•street, Pimlico, but during the whole of
that period he had not in any way concerned himself
about the payment of rent, and in addition to his
neglect in that respect he was a troublesome tenant,
and suffered the house to fall into a dilapidated con-
dition. The landlord naturally became anxious to
get rid of him, and, by way of inducing him to quit
the house, actually offered to forego all claim for the
rent in arrear, and to present him with 101., but Mr.
Gale was not inclined to give up possession of a tene-
ment in which he had resided on terms so very advan-
tageous to himself on those conditions, and demanded
501. as a compensation for giving up his
rent-free occupation. Easy and indulgent as
the landlord had been, his good nature was
proof against so extravagant a proposition, and
he determined at length to get rid of him;
and the prosecutor of this indictment, being a broker
and appraiser, was employed to distrain fur the rent
due, and on the 28th of February he made an entry on
the premises, under a warrant duly signed by the
landlord ; but Mr. Gale, not liking such an intrusion
on his rights, very unceremoniously put him into the
street. The prosecutor vigilantly watched for a better
opportunity to levy, and on the 2d of March, think-
ing one presented itself, he again got into the house,
but he found Mr. Gale as resolutely determined as
ever to resist him in effecting the distraint. He took
up an axe and aimed a blow at the prosecutor's head
with it, but fortunately it missed him, though he did
receive a blow on the face, which was the assault
complained of in this indictment. The other de-
fendant was concerned in the transaction.
In the course of the examination of the witnesses
allusion was made to the warrant, when
Mr. SLEIGH required the production of that docu-
ment to show that the prosecutor had a legal autho-
rity to enter the house.

It was stated that the warrant was in the possession
of the person by whom the prosecutor was employed
and he was not in attendance.

The ASSISTANT &MGR said the absence of t e
warrant was fatal to the case, and under the direc-
tion of the Court, the jury would acquit the de-
fendants.

The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
John Henry Croyden, a waiter in the refreshment-
rooms of the House of Commons, was indicted for an
assault on Mary Neale.
Mr. Birnie prosecuted ; Mr. Ballantine appeared
for the defendant.

The prosecutrix was an elderly widow, living in
Thom's-court, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, and
it appeared she was acquainted with the defendant's
wife, from the fact of her having kept company with
a son of her's before her marriage to the defendant.
They were on visiting terms, although the defendant
was very averse to the acquaintance being continued
intimately, and on the day mentioned, the Bth inst.,
she and her daughter accompanied Mrs. Croyden to
Ebury-street, Pimlico, where she resides, Mrs. Croy-
den having that afternoon called, and taken tea with
her. According to the evidence of the prosecutrix,
as she left the defendant's house, he followed her out,
and on getting to the corner of the street gave her a
blow on the left eye, and another on the lower part
of that side of her face, the result of which was that
she fell and broke one of her arms on the kerbstone.
The other was injured, and she had a dreadful black
eye. She could assign no reason for the defendant's
conduct except that she had called his wife " Mary
Ann" instead of Mrs. Croyden.
Mr. BALLANTINE, in his cross-examination of the
prosecutrix, endeavoured to show that she was ad-
dicted to gin drinking, and that she was in the habit
of inducing Mrs. Croyden to indulge in the same pro-
pensity. She did not admit the whole of this, but
said she drank gin sometimes, and on the day in ques-
tion they had a shilling's worth of gin and sixpenny-
worth of brandy and water, but that was because
Mrs. Croyden was going to be churched at St. Bar-
nabas, Pimlico, having been recently confined. She
admitted that she had once been charged with break-
ing a woman's jaw, but that was compromised. She
positively dinied having " clawed" the defendant be-
fore he struck her.

In addressing the jury, the Learned Counsel said
the defence was that the injuries the prosecutrix had
sustained were the result of accident, brought about
by her own intemperance and violent conduct. The
defendant had merely pushed her, when she fell, and
unfortunately received the injuries described. The
defendant objected to a person who was an habitual
gin drinker, and who induced his wife to join her in
the gratification of that propensity, being in his house
at all, and on this occasion he had requested her to
leave, when she used the most scandalous language,
and scratched his face ; and when in the street he
might have given her a push, but that was all. She
had no friendly feeling towards him, because he had
married the woman she had wished to be the wife of
her own son.
Witnesses were examined to prove the facts stated
by the Learned Counsel.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE, In summing up, told the
jury, that, even admitting the defendant's case, he had
no justification for even pushing the prosecutrix,
which was a common assault, and the jury would say
whether they considered he had or had not committed
a common assault.
The jury found the defendant Guilty.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE ordered him to enter into
recognizances, with one surety, to come up for judg-
ment in a fortnight, and suggested that in the mean-
time an arrangement should be come to between the
parties.
The Court then adjourned.

INT'AIiTicIDE.—On Tuesday Mr. Wakley, M.P.,
held an inquest at the Marylebone workhouse on the body
of a fine, newly-born male child which was on Sunday
morning last found in an inclose of the Regent's Park,
near Portland-town, by a lad named Phelps, wrapped in a
oPn
piece of linen, a black apron, and art of a blue cloth shawl.
Ur. Gilham, the workhouse surge, said that on examining
the deceased child ha had no douLt it had been born alive.
A. verdict was returned of Wand
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE
MANSION-HOUSE.
Ferdinand Bock, a German, was brought before
the Lord Mayor charged with having broken into and
plundered a shop in Leadenhall-street of 92 yards of
cloth, value 601., and coats and trousers, value 281.
10s., the property of Mr. Heirons. The prisoner, who
is a powerful man, was prevented from taking the
goods beyond the passage leading to the premises by
a delicate looking but resolute woman.
Mary Ann Knight said--My husband is in the
police force, and we occupy the third floor of No. 152,
Leadenhall-street, of which I am housekeeper, and
which is let out in offices. The ground floor is occu-
pied by Mr. Heirons, whose shop is separated by a
partition and a door from the passage at the foot of
the stairs. Last night, at a few minutes after nine
o'clock, 1 came down with a light to see whether all
was safe. When I got to the passage I heard a rust-
ling in the shop. I thought it was the apprentice, but
seeing the key at the foot of the stairs under the
mat, I knew that could not be the case. I then' tried
to unlock the door with the key, but in vain. After
waiting quietly about five minutes I saw the shop
door open and the prisoner come out with as much as
he could bear upon his bead and shoulders. I caught
passage, and said " Who are you?"
nyienttymhoeue aalneroe.a" I said "Let you alone in-
thief.. He then tried to
with the load upon his head and shoulders,
dpHeaHe
holdsds
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v:L11,
and he struggled for some time. I still kept hold of
him, and be then threw the largest bundle off his
shoulders. I rang the bell to make an alarm, and he
then pushed me from the street door, and pulling it
open, threw down the rest of the goods and made his
escape. I went into the street and saw him running
in the direction of the East India House, and called
after him. I did not see the features of the man, as
they were obscured by the bundles he was carrying,
but from his size and height I believe the prisoner to
be the person I encountered.
The prisoner said, in German, that he never was
in the house 7slluded to until he was taken to it in the
custody of a policeman, after a robbery was said to
have been committed in it.
Henry King, coffee-house keeper, of St. Mary Axe,
said :—As I was going home a little after nine last
night, I saw the prisoner rush from Heiron's premi-
ses, and run across the road, in the direction of the
East India House.
Directly afterwards a female ap-
peared at the door of the house, and called out" Stop
thief," and I followed and never lost sight of him
till I gave him into the custody of a policeman. The
prisoner had run all the way till he reached St. Mary
Axe, where he began to walk. lam quite sure that
he is the man.
Mr. George Terry, of No 74, Leadenhall-street,
confectioner, sail :—As I was passing I heard a fe-
male voice, and saw a man come out of the house, and
run directly across the road. Thinking that there
might be others in the house, I remained at the door.
From the opportunity I had of seeing the side face of
the prisoners, and his general appearance, I feel per-
fectly satisfied that he iis the man. Ten minutes
afterwards I saw him brought back by the officer, and
I said, "That is the man." The prisoner immediately
said in English, " Oh, no."
Chambers (523) —Mr. King pointed out the pri-
soner to me in Lime-street as a person who had just
run out of a house. I touched him on the shoulder
and told him what had been mentioned to me. He
said "No, I have just come from Cannon-street."
When I took him to the house, Mr. Terry at once
identified him. At the station-house I searched, tied
found upon him four skeleton keys, a door key, a
latch key, a knife, and some lucifer matches, which
corresponded with some I found on the premises
which had been plundered. A button was found in
the shop corresponding with the buttons on the pri-
soner's coat, from which one had been, to all appear-
ance, recently removed.
Tne prisoner was remanded for a few days, in order
that the depositions may be completed, when he will
be committed fur trial.
Thomas Cullen alias Collins, 60 years of age, was
brought up for final examination, charged with having
stolen a mantle and other articles of dress, the pro-
perty of Susan Hughes, of Leadenhall-street.
The prisoner, who is a person of venerable appear-
ance, had gone into the house, deliberately, walked up
stairs, broken open the drawers in one of the upper
rooms, tied up the best clothes he could get in bis
handkerchief, and left the premises as if they were
his own,
Evidence was brought forward to pr
had been fre-
been once transported, and that beove tha
quPntly convicted.
innocent
your up
Lordship is. I
on all the oc-
t he had
The prisoner—l am as
never committed any offence in my life. On the
contrary, I am quite a reserved and
cautious man.
casions that I was accused as
The LORD MAYOR—You have been committed
more than once from this very place, and I am
ashamed to see a man with a white head and of an
advanced age pursue a system of plunder from mere
liking, for it is quite evident that you can get good
support by another course. The sentence of the Court
upon you is that you be imprisoned in Bridewell to
hard labour for six weeks.
The prisoner was then committed.
MARLBOROUGH- STREET.
William Ward was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having uttered a forged 51. bank-note to
Charles Massey, tobacconist, Oxford-street.
From the evidence of Mr. Massey it appeared that
the prisoner came into his shop the previous night, for
the purpose of backing a horse in one of the races to
come off for 10s., and ha tendered what purported to
be a SI. Bank of England note. Witness would not
give change, but went out and asked some of his
neighbours what they thought of the note. On com-
paring it with genuine notes a difference was per-
ceptible, and witness went back, and told the prisoner
the note was a forgery. The prisoner, who could
have left the shop while witness went to inquire about
it, walked with witness to the station-house, when he
was given into custody.
The Inspector who took the charge asked the pri-
soner where he got the note from ; he replied " That
is my business, and I have plenty more of the same
notes.' He gave a false address.—Remanded for a
week.

LAMBETH.
Mary Ann Phillips, a middle-aged and rather re-
female, was placed at the bar for
sfuPerethtaebrie-
exlatiltion, before the Hon. G. C. Norton,
on a charge of attempting to pass a 51. bank-note.
Mr. George Butterfield, landlord of the Fountain
public-house, St. George's-road, Southwark, deposed
that on Thursday last, the Bth inst., at about half-
past nine o'clock at night, the prisoner came to his
house and asked for a bottle of gin, and tendered in
payment the note produced, which purported to be a
Bank of England note. Witness suspected it was
told to him, he went to Mr. Hills, the City Arms, in
bwade,st.asncid uairne,coannsdeqhuaevnic:, something that had been
g
satisfied himself that the
note was bad, he told the prisoner so, and questioned
her about it. She said that she was au unfortunate
woman, and had been under the protection of Mr.
Wilson, of the St. George's-road, for the last five
months, and that she got the note from him.
Mr. Wilson, the gentleman from whom the priso-
ner said she received the note, deposed on oath that
her assertions were grossly false,
and that she was a
perfect stranger to him.
Mr. Freeman, inspector of bank-notes at the Bank
of England, said that the note produced, No- 66,405,
dated the 14th of July, which purported to be
a Bank of England note, was a forgery.
The prisoner declined offering anything in defence,
and was fully committed on the offence, but
Mr. Freeman applied for a further remand to a
future day, when he thought it probable that ano-
ther, if not many,
further cases would be proved
against her.
The prisoner was in consequence remanded until
Thursday next.

Z Dale, a
sourHWARK.
powerful young man, was placed
Fd with causing the death of
Thomas Law, in a scuffle which they had at a public-
house.
at the bar, charged

admAitcteedrtiifinct,a,tGe was produced that the deceased was
s
expired the following day.
William Law statelidotshpaittalheonlitvheed in3tChl'asatnled-tabtaretehte,,
Kent-street, and was brother to the deceased ; that on
Tuesday the deceased was, in company with another
man, at the Castle public -house in Kent-street; and that
in a quarrel with the prisoner while there, he received
such injuries that he died in the hospital the follow-
ing day. The witness added that upon being made
acquainted with the circumstances he gave infor-
mation to the police, and had the prisoner taken into
custody.
Daniel Holland said that he was a costermonger,
and was present in the Castle public-house when the
the occurrence took place; that at a late hour on
Tuesday night, it being holiday time, a number of
persons assembled at the above house, and while
standing in front of the bar the deceased, who had
been drinking freely, offered to fight any person
there. He particularly pointed to the prisoner, andttr
challenged him to have a " turn up," when the la e
said he had no objection, and in a moment theythrew_in
off their coats and " pitched into" one another,d d
tlaestruatzle
both
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home, and
ati hand. 114 was lifted up and carrie
from thence to the hospital.
The MA, AGISTRTE remanded the prisoner
Monday.

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High-street, Notting hill, printer and news-agent,
applied to his Worship for advice under the following
extraordinary circumstances.
The applicant stated that Mr. Feargus O'Connor,
M.P., Nylio had until very recently resided et NOttin.