The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-21 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Mr. Owen .111‘11/lanus, assistant, but no relation, to
Mr. M'Manus, surgeon, High Holborn, was charged by
Eliza Newton, a widow, with an attempt to violate her
person.
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Mrs. Newton stated that she entered the service
of Mr. M'Manus, the employer of the defendant,
on Monday last, as a servant of-all-work. On the fol-
lowing day the family went out to dinner, leaving her
at home, Mr. M'Manus, the defendant, being the only
other person in the house. In the evening a friend of
the defendant joined him at tea, and they afterwards
drank some ale belonging to Mr. M'Manus, the em-
ployer. When the friend had gone the defendant came
into the kitchen and begged the witt,ess to say nothing
about the ale to his " father and mother," meaning his
master and mistress, but she answered, that if she were
a,ked, as an honest wotnan, she must say what she
knew. The defendant then advanced towards her and
put his hand into her bosom in a very indecent manner,
elidc;avouring to make her promise not to disclose the
matter. She resented his insolence, and pushed him
away. He afterwards renewed his improper ad-
vances, but was again repulsed. On making a third
attempt complainant seized the candlestick, and threat-
ened to split his head if he did not desist. She then
took her bonnet and things and left the house.
The defendant then declared that the present was a
mere attempt to extort money ; he admitted having
gone into the kitchen and having offered some few com-
plimentary remarks upon the beauty of the complainant,
in order to induce her to say nothing about the ale, but
he denied that he had offered her the slightest insult.
The employer of the defendant believed he had spo-
ken the truth. Complainant had stated to him, when
she returned to his house on Tuesday morning, " that it
was a .5/. job," and that she had done wrong in taking
nut a warrant. She added that it was the defendant's
fault it had gone so far, for that he might have stopped it.
Mr. Sweeney, another surgeon, deposed to the same
effect, and added that he heard complainant say she
would not have minded but for fear of the probable con-
sequences.

• The MAGISTRATE said he thought the justice of the
case would_be fully answered by the defendant entering
into his own recognizances,in the sum of 201., to answer
any charge which might be preferred against him at the
Sessions.

The recognizances being entered into, the defendant
was liberated.

MARYLEBONE.

Five young women named Parker, Lennox, Harris,
Shepherd, and Simmons, were charged with causing an
obstruction in Judd-street, and with accosting gentlemen
passing in the street. The policeman, S, 114, stated
that the prisoners were continually soliciting gentlemen
as they were walking along, and the Magistrates sen-
tenced them, under the New Police Act, to seven
days' imprisonment and hard labour.

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John George Fitzgerald, a well-dressed young man,
was charged with uttering various forged checks.
Jane White deposed that the prisoner proposed to
her that she should get cash for some checks in the
neighbourhood of Dorset-square. She consented to
his proposition, upon which he made an appointment
with her for the following day, on which occasion he
gave her a check for between eight and nine pounds,
telling her to take it to a baker's shop in Cambridge-
street, and after giving an order, present it to them, and
get the change. She went into the shop, the prisoner
remaining outside, and, giving a preconcerted
gave him into the custody of the police,
The prisoner was remanded, that the prosecutors, in
a charge of forging a check for 50/., might come for-
ward.

LAMBETH.STREET.
George Curtis, a young man who had been shopman
to Mr. Tomlinson. a pawnbroker at Barking, Essex, was,
with Sarah Evering and Elizabeth Yearsley, charged
with robbing his master by means of dummies, or sham
parcels, on which he pretended to have advanced money,
and the two females were charged with assisting in the
robbery. The particulars have already appeared.
In one of the parcels were some deeds, on which three
guineas had been advanced as for a suit of clothes.
Mrs. Yearsley now claimed to have them delivered up
to her, on paying the money advanced ; she stated that
she was heiress to the property to which they referred.
The Magistrates refused the request, but discharged the
women, and remanded the prisoner until Wednesday.
Mr. Morris Myers, said to be *a man of large pro-
perty, was charged with threatening to shoot a mes-
senger of the Bankruptcy Court. The prosecutor
stated that the defendant had been connected with a
bankrupt, and was said to have had some of his pro-
perty in his possession. The complainant went to Mr.
Myers' house, and was about to take away the bank-
rupt's effects, when the defendant threatened to shoot
him. In answer to the charge, the defendant
said that he had a lien upon the property for rent.
The Magistrate said the conduct of the defendant was
indefensible,. and ordered him to find bail in 2001.

UNION- HALL.
Win. Garland was charged with stealing a Bill of Ex-
change, entrusted to him for the purpose of getting it
discounted.

Mr. George Elnor, the prosecutor, stated, that he' gave
the bill to the prisoner for the purpose of getting it dis-
counted, and he had converted it to his own use.
The prisoner said he had given it to a person named
Stuart, who got it cashed by Mr. John Felton, but he
never received the money from Stuart.
John Felton stated he had cashed the bill.
The Magistrate said that although the evidence was
not sufficient to induce him to commit the prisoner for
trial, yet he would hold him and the witness to bail to
answer any charge brought against him on Monday.

THAMES POLICE.
John MCannick was charged with returning from
transportation.

The Mate of the Swan, from Launceston, in New
South Wales, stated that three weeks after she had
sailed, the prisoner was found amongst the cargo in the
hold. He was set to work by the Captain, and on
coming into the Thames, he gave him into the custody
of the police.
The prisoner said that he had never been a convict ;
he was an emigrant four years since, and being anxious
to return home, but, having no money, he hit upon the
manner above described of returning to his country.
The MAGISTRATE remanded the prisoner until Mr.
Capper could be applied to, to ascertain if he had been
a convict.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Henry Jervis, a cabman, was charged with the unlaw-
ful possession of a gold watch, chain and seal. The
prisoner had attempted to pawn the watch, but the
pawnbroker suspecting he had not come honestly by it,
sent for a policeman, who took him into custody. The
prisoner said that he found the .watch in his cab that
morning, and intended to take it to Somerset-house.
The watch is a valuable one, has a massivo gold chain,
and a seal, on which is engraved an it Etide displayed.'
The Magistrate remanded tin prisoner until Wednesday

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