The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-18 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGECE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—YOBK, THVBSDAty.
DEWES V. STAPLETON AND ANOTHER.
This was an action to recover damages for an alleged
illegal arrest, and false imprisonment.
It arose out of the late riots at Dewsbury, which took
place on the 20th August, and on Sunday, the 26th August,
the plaintiff was arrested by the two defendants on a charge
of having thrown the first stone, was carried to the lock-up,
and taken on the following day ( Monday) to the Court-
house at Wakefield, when it turned out, upon investigation,
that the arrest of the plaintiff was a wrongful one, and be
was accordingly discharged. For the injury received by
him at the hands of the two defendants, one of whom was
a special constable, and the other one of the metropolitan
police, the present action was brought. Witnesses were
called on both sides to prove the fact of the riot, the read-
ing of the Riot Act, and the arrest and imprisonment, and
the discharge also of the plaintiff by the Magistrates.
The Jury returned a verdict for both defendants.
SEDUCTION.—MATPLEBECK V. CARTLEDGE.

This was an action to recover damages for the seduction
of the plaintiff's daughter.
Mr. CRES3WELL stated the case.
Miss Mapplebeck was then called. She was dressed in
deep mourning, and of very interesting appearance. Sho
said" lam not 19. Since I left school, four or five years
ago, I assisted in keeping my father's house. I first be-
came acquainted with the defendant when I was about 14
years of age. The defendant is near 30 years of age. I
first met him at my uncle's. He afterwards came to visit
me at my father's. He continued his visits and paid his
addresses to me about a month after we became acquainted.
Ho continued to visit me with my parent's consent and ap-
probation. It was about the end of July, 1837, that some-
thing particular first happened. His father was a farmer, and
he said they could live independent. We used to walk out
together. In consequence of what happened in July 1837, I
was delivered of a child in A Tril 1838. After I discovered
the consequences I told him, and he said we had better be
married. I saw him again in about a fortnight, and he
said his father would not allow him to marry; but that his
father was very infirm, and could not live long, and that
after his death he should marry me. I saw him a third
time, and he said the child was not his ; that it was a me-
dical gentleman's, named Moray, who attended our family.
He attended me in my confinement. It is not true that
Mr. Moray is the father of my child. When the defendant
told me the child was the doctor's, I was so overcome I
could not reply to him. The child died ten weeks ago.
She was subjected to a cross.examination, but nothing
material was elicited.'

Mr. Moray, a surgeon, proved the painful delivery o
plaintiff's daughter.

The Lcarn.e'd JUDGE summed up, and the Jury returned
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 3501.

HOME CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, SATU)?DAF.
TILE CHATHAM RIOTS AND MERDER.—John Connell,
Maurice Lyons, and John Callaghan, were indicted for
the murder of Robert Ross, ataChatham, on the 27th of
October; and Timothy _Lawler, Bartholomew Brassman,
Dennis Doyle, Joshua Sykes, J. Baynen, Michael
Farrell, and Robert Johnson (all of them soldiers), wire
charged with aiding and abetting. The particulars of this
transaction were given at great length in the papers at the
time the inquest was held. The affair arose out of a dispute be-
tween the soldiers and the marines stationed at Chatham.
The trial commenced on Friday morning, and yesterday
morning, at nine o'clock, the Learne Judge went
through his recapitulation of the evidence. The
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Con.
nell, Lyons, and Callaghan, and acquitted all the other
prisoners.
Joshua Sykes was again indicted, for the murder of
Charles Jeffcott, and the Jury found him guilty of man-
slaughter.
Connell was sentenced to be transported for the term of
his natural life, and Lyons, Callaghan, and Sykes, for seven
years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

An ugly. flat-nosed, ill-looking Irishman, who said that
his name was Thompson, was brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with having obtained money under false
pretences.
Mary, the wife of Paddy Byrne, a labouring man, stated
that the prisoner called upon her and told her he was her
first cousin, and that he had brought over about 500 lbs.
weight of goods, to make him comfortable. Witness told
him that she did not know him, and asked him whether he
was quite sure he was Paddy's first cousin ? " Devil a
doubt of it at all, agra," said he," " and the goods is at
the Custom-house, where they lie for the duty, which is
jist half-a-crown." He said this in such a way that she
believed him, especially as she saw he was a countrymen
of her own ; so she with great pains contrived to get to-
gether the half-crown, and gave it to him, and then pre-
pared a place in their little room, in which to put the
goods from Ireland. (Here the prisoner lauEhed )
The Loan MAYOR, —You seem to enjoy the distress you
put this poor woman to, prisoner? Prisoner—l have no-
thing at all to say, please your Lordship.
The Loan MAYOR.-Can you give any account of your-
self? Prisoner.—No, your Lordship. I'm an Irishman,
that's all, and I'm only four days from the country, and
what can I know ?—(A laugh.)
. _ _

The LORD MATOR(tO the prosecutrix)_Of course he
never returned? Prisoner—No, my Lord, I never did !
I took the half-crown, but I could not come back.

Another poor Irishwoman said, " Oh, my Lord, he tried
to rob me with the same story; he came to me, when my
husband was out, and he runs up and takes me by the
hand, and says, Arrah then, how are you, jewel,' says he:
Why,' says I, ' I don't know you, any how, I never saw
you afor ;" You don't know me,' says he, why I'm your
husband's first cousin, and I've brought you a load of goods
from Ireland.' Where are they ?' says I: ' They are
come to the Custom-house,' says ho."—( Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR —And did you give him money to
pay the duty? Witness—No, my Lord; I tould him it's
impossible, says I, that you can be my husband's cousin,
you arn't a bit like him. " Oh," says be, " I'll prove it ;
for I've got a letter," and be pretended to run for the let-
ter, but he never came back.
The LORD MAYOR—YOU Area moat heartless fellow,
and I shall see whether we cannot pay 3ou off. You are
remanded till Friday, and I dare say we shall see several
of your first cousins on that day. Prisoner—Wby, my
Lord, all of us Irish is related to one another more or
less.—( A laugh.)—Remanded.

UNION lIALL.
John Bell, shopman to Messrs. Atkinson, linen-drapers,
Westminster-road, was, with two young girls, his daugh-
ters, charged with robbing his employers of articles of mer-
ccry, &e., to a very great amount. The prosecutors, hay.
ing for some time suspected the prisoner of dishonesty, had
him watched closely ; as he was going away in the even-
ing he was seen to put some articles in Isis pocket. Infor-
mation was given to the prosecutors, who called the pri-
soner into the parlour, and on charging him with the theft
he acknowledged his guilt, and also acknowledged having
other property belonging to his masters at home. The Ma-
gistrate committed the three prisoners for trial.

MARYLEBONE.
Martha Phillips was charged with ccncealing the birth
of two children. As some men were cleaning out the
cesspool at No. 16, York-street, East-street, Manchester-
square, they raked up the body of a child. The prisoner
having been seen to carry a box upstairs in a very suspi-
cious and cautious manner, was taken into custody. The
woman said that her daughter, who lived in Lisson Grove,
had been confined with dead born twins, which she put into
a box and asked the sexton at the Park-road Chapel to
bury ; but not having as much money as he demanded, she
took them home and disposed of the bodies by throwing
them into the cesspool. The Bench admitted her to bail
until the inquest on the bodies.