The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Henry Jameson, a hawker, and a reF,pectablc-looking
youth named William White, were brought up on a
warrant from Birmingham by Ins's( etor Glossop, and
placed at the bar before Alderman Humphery, charged,
the former on suspicion of being concerned with the
latter in stealing 11 diamond rings, value about 4001., the
property of Mr. Walton, the goldsmith and jeweller of
Ludgate-hill.
Mr. Hockley F. ,Wood, of 73, Basinghall-street, ap-
peared for the prisoners.
Christopher Walton said, that on the 17th of October
last, about half-past five in the afternoon, he was in his
counting-house, his assistant having left the shop, when
prisoner White entered the shop. Prosecutor seeing him
standing there, beckoned him into the counting-house,
when prisoner asked him it he kept plated studs at 2s. 6d.
per set; and receiving a reply in the negative, he walked
towards the shop door, and the prosecutor thinking he
was gone resumed his writing. In about three or tour
minutes afterwards he heard a noise of something fal-
ling, and on going nto the shop found prisoner standing
at the nifi.er of the counter, near the window. He col-
lared prisoner, an I asked him what ho was doing there,
when prisoner replied by begging his pardon, and saying
he thought prosecutor was coming to serve him. Prose-
cutor d,cl not believe him, but looked about, and not
missing a ything allowed him to go. As soon as he had
gee prosecutor, happening to look on the ground, saw
a diamond ring near the spot where the prisoner had
been standing, which induced him to examine the dia-
mond ring tray in the window, which he found open
end eleven of the rings gone. The trade value of the
eleven rings was 322/. at least. He had seen them safe
within h .lf an hour previous, as he had had occasion to
fill up several vacancies occasioned by sales. No person
had entered the shop besides the prisoner, himself, and
his assistant. Prosecutor gave immediate information
at the Fleet-street police station, and issued handbills
offering a reward for the property. He noticed that
White wore a peculiar set of studs, a description of
which he forwarded to the police of London and the
six principal counties, and in about ten days after he
seemed a communication from the Birmingham police
that White was in custody for a similar offence there,
and enclosing one of his shirt studs, which prosecutor
recognised as one of the set worn by the youth who en-
tered his shop on the 17th of October, shortly before he
missed the rings. Prosecutor then went to Birmingham,
and identified the prisoner White.
Inspector Glossop, of the Birmingham police, said
White had been sentenced to three months' imprison-
ment at Birmingham, for being found in a jeweller's
shop in that town for an unlawful purpose. At the ex-
piration of that term, witness lodged a warrant at the
prison lodge, and apprehended prisoner on his discharge,
and also took into custody Jameson, who was waiting
outside the gaol door to receive White. Witness told
White the charge against him, and he said he never was
in London; but, on being reminded that he had told the
gaoler he was at the Exhibition, he admitted he had
been to London once for that purpose. Witness found
on Jameson a gold cameo ring and 4/. 10s. in money,
and was present when White signed the property book
at the prison, claiming a gold watch and chain, and a
gold mourning ring with the following inscription inside;
—" Henry John Richman, at. 69, and Elizabeth, his
wife, mt. 73, ob. 23 Nov., 1824."
Alderman HUMPHERY asked Jameson where he lived,
who replied that he resided with his father and mother at
4, Belmont-row, Hackney-road.
A similar question was put to White, which he, by
the advice of his solicitor, declined answering.
William Fisk, shopman to Mr. Walton, corroborated
his master's statement as regarded his absence from the
shop in the afternoon in question; and further added,
that on going out he left the glass door of the window
closed, White came into the shop about one o'clock on
the same day, and asked him then if they sold plated
studs; and recognising him as having called several
times within the previous three months, and each time
inquiring for pearl buttons or plated studs, without pur-
chasing anything, he answered him rather sharply to the
effect that they did not. He was having his dinner at
the time, and on seeing prisoner go towards the door he
returned to his dinner; but not hearing the door shut he
looked back, and saw prisoner three parts of the way up
the counter. Prisoner, who immediately stopped short
on his toes, said, " Can you tell me where I can get
them, sir?" Witness referred him to " Lower down,"
and prisoner then went away.
Cross-examined—The goods on the counter were kept
in glass cakes, and the window was closed in with glass
doors, but they were not always locked. Witness never
opened them in the prisoner's presence,
Mr. H. F. Wood submitted there was no case against
Jameson, and therefore no ground for his detention.
Alderman HUaIPIIERY said it was rather a suspicious
circumstance that Jameson, a resident of London, should
be at Birmingham, and at the prison door, at the identi-
cal time that White was to receive his discharge. At all
evente, he should remand him with White tor a few days,
for further inquiries to be made respecting
both parties,
to discover some clue to the missing property.
An application for the money found upon Jameson
to be given up met with a refusal, and the prisoners
wero then remanded; but in the course of the afternoon
Green, the detective, who had been dispatched to the
Hackney-road, returned with the information that Jame-
son had given a false address, as Belmont-place was not
to be found.

Alderman nIIMPLIERY announced that he had re-
ceived for Jane Wilbred a penny subscription of 41. 15s,
11d., collected by members of Lodge No. 1,880 of the
Ancient Order of Foresters, held at the Steel Yard Arms,
Thames-street. Also a donation to the poor-box of 51.,
from James Carder, Eq., of Burton, Westmoreland,
through Alderman Sir Robert Walter Cardea. The do-
nation for Jane Wilbred, the Alderman said afforded him
the opportunity of increasing the sum invested for her
benefit in the Three per Cents., from 66/. 13s. 4d to 72/.,
of which she will receive the interest half-yearly until
she becomes of age, when it will be at her own disposal.
SOUTH WAR K.
Yesterday John Pill; a journeyman coppersmith, re-
siding at Single Cottage, Brunswick-street, Horse-
monger-lane, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett for re-
examination, charged with attempting to murder Eliza-
beth Iliff, an aged woman, his mother, by cutting her
throat with a razor.
The circumstances attending the prisoner's apprehen-
sion were detailed on the former examination, but the
charge was not fully entered into on the occasion, as
the complainant was not then expected to survive the
injuries inflicted on her throat. Yesterday, however, it
was announced that the unfortunate woman was out of
danger, and she was conveyed from Guy's Hospital and
supported into court, and was accommodated with a
seat while giving her evidence. She still appeared to
be in a very weakly state, owing to loss of blood, and
on being sworn stated as follows:—" I live with my son,
the prisoner, in Brunswick-street. On Sunday morn-
ing, Jan. 25, I was sitting in an arm chair by the
parlour fire, between ten and eleven o'clock, when
the prisoner entered the room, came up to me, and
drew something across my 'throat, and I felt
wet trickling down my neck. I exclaimed,
' John, what have you done?' and I saw him hastily
run out of the apartment and heard him calling out
' murder.' I then saw that blood was flowing from a
wound in my throat, and became weak and exhausted,
but recollect that some persons came into the room,
amongst whom was Mr. greedy, the surgeon, who ex-
amined and dressed the wound in my throat, and I was
afterwards taken on a stretcher to the hospital, where I
have remained ever since."

In reply to Mr. A'BEcKETT,:the complainant said
that she had had no quarrel or misunderstanding on the
morning in question with her son ; that for some time
past she observed that he was labouring under great
depression of spirits, and was occasionally flighty in his
conduct; that when he entered her room on the morn-
ing in question she had her back to the door, and there-
fore did not see him until she felt something at her
throat, and did not see the weapon with which the
wound was inflicted. The prisoner never offered her
violence before, and he was never confined until the
present occasion.
Mr. A'BECKETT (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to
put any questions to your mother ? The prisoner
merely shook his head, and said ho had nothing to
tilt her.
I was attending on the complainant, an
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between the street door and the garden gate, and I
heard him say " I have killed her." I thenw returned n
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stated that she
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believed tor some time that the prisoner was not in his
right mind; and when the witness was asked the reason
down the parlour window-
she thought so, her reply was, that upon a recent occa-
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him draw his arm over the —that she had also seen
table and sweep off all the
things that were on it.
Henry Reed deposed that he was in the kitchen at the
time, and heard a scream of " Murder!" and imme-
diately
room, afterwardssawbrandish prisoner
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claiming, "I have donnegiat JazTorhoever his
prisoner then ran out
and dropped the razir, which witness picked up, and
afterwards went to the assistance of the complainant,
whose throat was cut, and helped her on the bed and
attended to her until the surgeon arrived. The witness
also gave it as his opinion that the prisoner was of un.,
sound mind, and had noticed it for some time, in conse-
quence of living in the same house with him.
Mr. Richard Naggs, doctor at Guy's Hospital, stated
that on the day in question the complainant was brought
there, and on examination he discovered two distinct
wounds on her throat, evidently inflicted with a razor,
such as that produced. One of the wounds, the most
dangerous, was 3} inches in length, and half an inch in
depth; the other was a mere superficial wound. He
added that the complainant was now out of danger.
Sergeant Bradford gave evidence of the apprehension
of the prisoner at some distance from the house where
the offence was perpetrated.
Tho prisoner, who exhibited great despondency of
mind during the examination, and shed tears at its con-
clusion, was committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.

IMPORTS OF TIMBER INTO LIVERPOOL.---A docu-
ment prepared by the Liverpool Dock Committee shows that
the imports of timber during the last year were 250,068 tons,
being an increase over the preceding year of 37,460 tons.
The largest timber laden vessel which entered the port was
one of 1,600 tow, while the overage tonnage of the ships
*All 800.