The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-03 00:00:00

DENBIGHSHIRE.

Mr. Baron ALDERSON arrived in Ruthin on Saturday
last, from Beaumaris, where he had had a maiden assizes,
there not being a single prisoner for trial for the county of
Anglesey. And here the business was lighter than for
many years past.

The Court was opened on Monday morning, and the
cause list was disposed of in three minutes, there being only
two causes entered, one an ejectment cause in which the
plaintiff did not proceed, and the other an undefended ac-
tion for the recovery of $77/. 14s. on two bills of exchange.
All the proof necessary to enable the plaintiff to recover
was the handwriting of tha acceptor, which was at once
admitted, and a verdict was immediately given for the
amount claimed.

RAPE.—Charles Crewe, an old man, who was stated in
the calendar to be 66 years of age, was indicted capitally
for a rape committed on the person of Hannah Dod, a
girl under ten years of age, at the Dunks, in the parish
of Wrexham. The Attorney-General and Mr. Welsby
appeared for the prosecution. From the testimony of
the child herself it appeared that she resided next door
to the prisoner, and was accustomed to clean his house,
and unlace his boots, and on several occasions when
she visited his house for these purposes he committed
the offence with which he stood charged. Ile threatened
to kill her if she told what had happened, and a disclosure
was not made until another girl made some statement of
something she had heard, and then the prosecutrix re-
vealed the whole truth to her friends. There was no sur-
geon called nor any other corroborative evidence adduced,
and as the girl without such testimony did not give evi-
dence which, in a case so seriously affecting the prisoner,
could with safety be relied on, the Court dijected the Jury
to acquit him ; and another bill was then preferred and
found for the misdemeanor, on which ho was convicted and
sentenced to two years' imprisonment and bard labour.
STABBING.—Edward 111ynn, 20, was capitally indicted
for stabbing John Jones, at Bangor, in May last, on which
he was acquitted. He was afterwards indicted for a
common assault. It appears that on the 16th of May
last, the prisoner and John Glutton, another country-
man, met at the anniversary of a club, and while there
the prisoner challenged Clutton to fight, and they went
to an adjoining meadow, called the Groweth, for that
purpose. During the contest, the prisoner drew a knife,
and cut and wounded Clutton in the left side, and he
fainted from the loss of blood which the wounds occasioned.
An alarm was given that a man had been stabbed,
and a parish constable came to the spot to apprehend the
prisoner, but on his appearance, Wynn escaped and ran
into an adjoining river. The constable then charged John
Jones to assist in the capture of the prisoner, and Jones
went into the river after him, when the prisoner stabbed
him in the hand to avoid being apprehended. A bill was
preferred on the capital charge on the prosecution of Clut-
ton, but it was ignored by the Grand Jury, and they after-
wards found a bill for the misdemeanor. For the assault
on Clutton be was convicted, and sentenced to eighteen
months' imprisonment. No evidence was offered in the
other case.

The business terminated at one o'clock on Monday after-
noon. The business in the other counties on this circuit
has been equally light. For Montgomeryshire there were
two prisoners ; for Merionethshire 1, Carnarvon 2, Angle-
sey none, and Denbigh 2.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A cab driver, named Ephraim Yarley, was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged by Mr. Langridge, a pro-
prietor of cabs, under the' following circumstances :—Mr.
Langridge employed the prisoner to drive one of his cabs.
Instead of coming home at night with the cab and earnings
for the day, the prisoner drove into the yard at three
o'clock in the morning, left the cab and horse there without
the traces, and ran away as fast he could. The horse was
desperately cut up, having been slashed and thiven till the
poor animal had scarcely a leg to stand upon. The pro-
prietor had been treated before in like manner by some of
his servants, and the excuse always was drunkenness. The
offence of producing none of the receipts of the night, and
of disposing of the traces in some improper manner, was
quite provoking enough, but Mr. Langridge thought no-
thing of the loss—it was the cruel treatment of the horse he
complained of.
The Cabman—l didn't whip him extraordinary. He's
an old good for nothing beast, and would'nt go without being
poked a bit. I didn't act more cruel than I ought.
The LORD MAYOR—What have you done with the
traces and with your master's money? Cabman—The
traces were in the cab when I drived into the yard, and I
left 'em there. As for the money, all I got in the course of
the day was 45., and that's quite little enough to live upon.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! Four shillings a day for
a man without a family ? Cabman—Yes, for the driver
of a cab. Your Lordship, we must live well, or we can't
do the thing as it ought to be done. Our masters ex-
pect us to bring home 15s. a-day, and the driving about
makes us eat and drink wonderfully. I can't live upon less.
The LORD MAYOR had had numerous complaints
against cab drivers of late, and expressed Ills surprise that
the owners did not endeavour to get decent people to do
their business.

The complainant said the owners had no controul ever
them, and were subject to the greatest annoyance in
consequence.
Cabman—lt's a cruel thing to keep the poor horses out
so long.
The LORD MAYOR—And, therefore, you go beyond the
usual hour, and flog your horse almost to death?
Mr. NOBLER said it was incumbent upon the proprietors
to get a clause introduced into the Bill about to be brought
into Parliament for the regulation of vehicles, giving thorn
a certain power over fellows who might rob them and ill•
use their cattle.

Cabman—Really I was drunk, my Lord, and I hope
you won't mind it this time.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall remand you till Friday, and
you must then satisfy your master.
An old Irishman, named Vero, who said that his age was
86 years, applied to the LORD MAYOR for permission to
go to BiEhopsgate workhouse, where he had formerly been
assisted. He had, he said, been a navy agent, and had
been sent by the Government many years ago to Portsea,
where he purchased a house for 3001., and laid out in fur-
nishing it 1001. more, but having had reverses he was
obliged to apply for parochial relief. The house was in
the same place still, and his claim was as good as ever, but
having no money to buy justice he was neglected by every-
body, and, upon consulting an attorney, was told that he
must go into Chancery with his claims, and that perhaps
when he should be there about twenty years, at the end of
which he should be 106 years old, he might come in for the
enjoyment of the house and furniture. Under these dismal
circumstances he was sent to the Union poor-house at Port-
sea, but the system there was the starvation system, and
he'got away while there was breath in his body.
The LORD MAYOR-1 see one of the parish officers of
Bishopsgate here ; now what does he say ?-111r. Booker
said that the poor old man had been formerly in the Bi-
shopsgate workhouse, and that application had been made
to the parish officers of Portsea about the house in ques-
tion, to which it appeared there was some claim. The legal
proceedings necessary to be adopted, however, it would
seem, prevented the inquiry from going much further.
The old man said that he could prove that the house
was his, but all the good he got was being thrust into the
Union, and he would submit to be shut before be would
go back, for, old as he was, he did not get half a meal Any
day there.

The Overseer said that the parish officers would, if his
Lordship expressed it to be. his wish, receive the applicant,
aged and destitute as he evidently was, and write to the au-
thorities at Portsea.

His Lordship expressed himself accordingly, and the old
man was received into the workhouse.
The Loan MAYOR in the course of the day received
a young sturgeon, the first caught in the Thames in the
present reign, and immediately sent it as a present to her
Majesty.

HATTON-GARDEN.
William Williams, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, but very dejected, was examined, charged by Mr.
Henry Hall, silversmith and jeweller, of No. 284, High
Holborn, with having stolen a valuable silver watch.
The prosecutor stated that on Saturday night last the
prisoner entered his shop and requested to see a watch, and
on being shown two he chose one, which he put into his
pocket, saying, " This will do," and then ran out of the
shop. He was pursued and taken into custody with the
property in his possession. Witness had been robbed twice
before under similar circumstances.

Police Constable 42 E proved finding the watch in the
prisoner's possession.

The prisoner, who hung down his head, shed tears ; but
evidently made an effort to repress them ; and on being ques-
tioned as to who and what he was, he declined answering.
Mr. LAING said, if his object was to be transported he
would be disappointed, as he should receive a different pu-
nishment, and he was fully committed for trial.
He said nothing in his defence, but left the bar much
depressed, and crying silently.
Mr. William Bryant, a gentleman of fortune, residing in
Pleasant row, Holloway, was brought up on a warrant by
Nesbitt the officer, charged by William Cave, ttle informer,
who exhibited articles of the peace against him.
The defendant, who was attired in a shooting dress,
seemed much excited.

Complainant stated that he resided next door to the de-
fendant, who was in the habit of firing off his gun by day
and night, to the annoyance of the neighbourhood, and he
had more than once threatened to have witness's life. On
Saturday morning last whilst he was dressing himself and
looking out of the window, he saw the defendant in the
garden behind his house firing and looking at witness. Ho
said, " Come out, and I will do for you."
Mr. ROGERS—Do you mean to swear that you go in dan-
ger of your life ? Witness—l do, your Worship.
Mr. ROGERS (to the defendant)—What have you to
say ? Defendant (in a Yorkshire dialect)—Why, Sir, I
reckon myself as gude a shot as any mon in the coontry,
and betther than zum here and there ; and I am in the
habit of shooting a feu sparrows now and then ; but I
never meant to shoot him, not 1.

Mr. ROGERS—Are you in the habit of shooting spar-
rows by night ? Defendant—No ; but I amuse myself a
little by firing off my gun.
Mr. ROGERS should order him to find bail.
Bail immediately offered themselves, were received, and
Mr. Bryant was liberated.

It may be recollected that, about two months ago, Mr.
Bryant, who is very eccentric, called in a Jew, to dispose
of some left-off clothes, which he parted with for a mere
trifle, when he subsequently discovered that he had sold
a pair of trousers, the pockets of which contained betwen
2001. and 300/. ; and, although every inquiry has been
made, no tidings have yet been traced of the property or
the lucky Israelite.

MARY LEBONE.
CURIOUS CASE OF AFFILIATION.—Yesterday Mr.
George Chester, a grocer, of Long-acre, appeared before
the magistrates, to show cause why he refused to support.
an illegitimate child, to which a young woman, named
Mary Handley, had given birth, and which had become
chargeable to the parish of St. Marylebone. The child,
a little boy, five years of age, was born in April, 1832,
which was antecedent to the passing of the new Poor-law
Bill, so that the defendant was liable for its support. He
had done so voluntarily for some time, but, having at last
neglected to do so, had been thrown on the parish.
A solicitor, on behalf of the defendant, observed that it
was a very peculiar and hard case for his client. The fact.
was that his client, when an apprentice, only 17 years of
age, bad been seduced by the mother of the child, who was
upwards of thirty. She had been at that time cook in
the same house in Henrietta-street. His client did not
mean to deny the improper intimacy, but contended that
the cook had other lovers who were more likely to be the
father of the child than a youth of seventeen.
The magistrates having made the order for four shilling's.
a week upon Mr. Chester, the solicitor considered it very'
exorbitant, as it was a well-known fact that since the
passing of the new Poor-law Bill adults were maintained its
workhouses at the expense of Is. 3.-1-d. only a head per week.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Mary Delaney, Ellen Million, her daughter,
and Joseph and George Delaney, her sons, were brought
up for re-examination before Mr. GROVE, on a charge of
haring wilfully murdered George Million, the huaband of
Ellen Million.

The evidence of Mr. Rance, a surgeon, and of thr©e
other witnesses, was taken ; after which
Mr. GROVE stated to Mr. Robinson, th• solicitor for
the prosecution, that, as no charge could be sustained
against any particular person, he should not press the case
further.

Mr. GROVE then observed to the prisoners that they
had all been repeatedly at the bar on charges of assault
and intoxication, and they had been warned on the course
of life they were leading, being told that one day or another
they would be charged with murder. That day had come ;
but, though it was not in his power, from the evidence be-
fore him, to fix the crime of murder on any one individual.
there was not the least doubt that a foul murder had been.
committed. They had run through the property that they
had left them ; and he had no doubt but that the same fete
would attend the property which came to them on the
death of George Million. Let them beware : their offences
had already caused some of them to have been imprisoned ;
but a greater punishment might yet await them ; and it
again brought before him he should closely investigate their
conduct.

The daughter shed tears while at the bar, but the others
were not in the least moved.

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