The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSIOiV-HOUSE.

Yesterday a man named Joe Jarvis, servant to Mcssm
Cousins and Kemp, tea dealers, was brought before the Lonti
MAYOR, in consequence of the death of a seaman's widow of
the name of Griffiths. The circumstances, as detailed by po-
liceman Colwell, No. 46, bad a powerful effect upon the feel-
ings of all present.
Colwell, at about four o'clock on the preceding day, as be
was on duty in Walbrook, saw a horse and cart coming down
Walbrook loaded. The prisoner was in the cart, and was
driving with proper reins, and the horse was in a walking
pace. The chain back band, however, having got loose, the
animal began to kick violently, and immediately afterwards,
notwithstanding the • utmost exertions of the prisoner, gal-
loped at full speed down Dowgate-hill. The 'miscue'. fail.
ing in his attempt to check it, called out to the people to get
out of the war. At that moment, a female, named
Griffiths was standing at the corner of Dowgate-dock, in
Thames-street, with a child in her arms. When she saw the
horse and cart approach she did not attempt •to run, but drew
herself up close to the wall, evidently with the principal view
of saving her infant. The ofd shaft of the cart in an instant
passed through the poor creature's body, just aove the hips,
and then broke down a fourteen-inch wall, and time horse's
head and neck dashed through a counting-house window. The
child was providentially saved, and the poor sufferer, in her
most dreadful agony, pressed it more closely to her Losom.
Even when another ofEeer was pulling her off the shaft, she
held the infant firmly, as if the feelings of the mother extin-
guished all apprehension or care about herself. She was car-
ried to Guy's Hospital, where she expired a few minutes before
seven o'clock. She never for a moment was insensible to her
condition, but knew that she was dying, and bewailed her
separation from her six children in the most heart-rending
lamentations.

The LORD MAvon—Did the driver do all in his power to
prevent the horse from running do‘fn the hill ?
Colwell—Everything. Ho made every effort to turn the
horse's head, but it was going full speed, and with a weight of
upwards of 1,800 cwt.
William Griffiths, a boy nearly 15 years of age. the eldest
child of the deceased, stated that his mother was going, at
the time the accident happened, to Cotton's Wharf, in Tooley-
street, to meet a younger son, whom she expected from sea,
and had not seen for a considerable time. Witness's father
had died' about ten months ago, and the deceased had a pen-
sion from the Trinity House and another from the Seaman's
Friend Society, he believed, for the support of the children.
He could not say whether the pensions died with her. Her
residence was No. 2, Cross-street, St. George's-in-the-East,
and he believed that she had occasionally relief from the
parish.
The LORD Msloa--4t is necessary that somethin., should
be done for these poor helpless orphans, deprived as they have
been of their only protector by so dreadful a calamity and
under such afflicting- circumstances.
A gentleman named Anderdon, who is, we believe, a Go-
vernor of the Foundling Hospital, stated to the Lord Mayor
that he should exert himself to obtain admission for the poor
widow's infant to the Foundling Hospital.
The prisoner was remanded until the verdict of the Coroner's
Inquest shall have been given, and the Lord Mayor more than
once alluded to the culpable want of caution in harnessing the
horse.

An inquest was held last evening on the body of the unfor-
tunate widow, Mrs. Gr:fliths, when, after hearing evidence to
the same effect as that above detailed, the Jury returned their
verdict—" Accidental Death."

HATTON GARDEN.
Mrs. Newman, and her daughter, Miss Julia St. Claire New-
man, were yesterday brought before Mr. LAING for further ex-
amination.

Mrs. Ileathcote was the wife of the Rev. Mr. lleathuate, of
Lincolnshire. She was in lodgings with her husband, at 32,
Alsop-terrace, Regent's Park, and at the time the lirlsoners
occupied apartments in the same house, and dining tiv'ir ab-
sence they were robbed of a quantity of jewellery.
Mr. William Codd, the landlord of the house, on the morn-
ing after the robbery, was committed saw Mrs. Newman go
out with something under her cloak at an early hour.
Mr. LAING—How long was it after the articles were missing
that you saw her leaving the house? Witness—it was five
o'clock in the morning when the alarm was made. „Miss
Newman said that she could no longer live in the house, and
I followed them to the house of Dr. Baxter, No. I, ht the
New-road. I spoke to her, and she said she could not live in
the house after such a disagreeable circumstance.
Mr..LAING—Did both the prisoners give the same reason ?.
Witness—No ; only Miss Newman.
Mr. Robinson, a pawnbroker, of No. 32, Comore-street,-
Clerkenwell, produced a pair of valuable gold earrings, which
were identified by Mrs. llcatheote, and were pledged in the
mono of Julia Newman.

Lucy Hallett proved ihat she was sent by the younger pri-
soner to pledge the articles.

George Wier, 38 G, proved having found the duplicate
of the property in a desk with Miss NeWman's name written
upon it.
The prisoners, by the advice of their Solicitors, reserved
their defence, and they were. fully committed for trial on five
distinct charges of robbery.