The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-18 00:00:00

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EVENING EDITION

BAIL COURT.7(THIS DAY.)

THE QUEEN V. THE LONDON CEMETERY COMPANY.

Mr. IfIGGIN9 moved for a rule to show cause why a quo
warran'o should not issue against the Directors of the
Company, who, it was alleged, had obtained the manage-
ment in a manner contrary to the provisions of the Act
under which the Company was incorporated.
His LORDSIIIP declined granting the rule, and referred
Mr. Higgins to the full Court.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

The trial of Parker and Neal, indicted for a conspiracy
to defraud, by obtaining goods under false pretences, came
on this morning; it was expected to last for two days, but
the case breaking down early the prisoners were acquitted,
with the consent of the Counsel for the proiecution.
Nicholls, who has been twice acquitted on the charge of
the commission of an unnatural offonce, but convicted of
the misdemeanour, was yesterday sentenced to two years'
imprisonment, with hard labour.

Ann Ilearu was indicted for feloniously an maliciously
cutting and wounding Thomas Hearn, her husband, with
intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
,The parties live at Deptford. On the evening of the
24th of March both of them were intoxicated. An alter-
cation ensued ; the prosecutor struck his wife. The light
went out, and he found himself stabbed, how he did not
know, no person being in the room except himself and his wife.
The prosecutor throughout gave his evidence in a very hesi-
tating manner with an evident intention of making the case
bear as lightly against the prisoner as possible ; he was
severely examined by the Learned Recorder. The pri-
soner had admitted her guilt to the policeman, who took
her into custody. The surgeon who was called in to at-
tend described the nature of the wound inflicted. The
prisoner said in her defence that it was the result of acci.
dent in the scuffle, and that she had no intention of injuring
the prosecutor. The Recorder summed up and found the
prisoner Guilty.
After the verdict was returned, the RECORDER reed aloud
the evidence given by the prosecutor before the Magis-
trates, which differed materially from the account ht bad
thin• day given. _ _

A paper was also put in and read, in which the prisorwe
stated that her husband forced her to prostitute, herself,
and that when she did not give him the wages of her in.
famy he ill.used her, and that was the occasion of the
quarrel on the night in question.
The police sergeant said, in answer to a question from
the Recorder, that he believed this to be the case.
The RECORDER, at the conclusion of a most impressive
address, in which he alluded to the increase which
had taken place in the crime of stabbing, and more
particularly to a case which had recently been tried in that
Court, sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour in the House of Correction for two years.
The prisoner having been removed the prosecutor was
ordered to stand up and %es adnresed by the Recorder as
follows;--." Although I ve thought it my duty to pass
this sentence on the prisoner, you, Thomas Hearn, are not
blameless in the transaction. You stand before the Court
a degraded ; the Court will not allow you your ex-
penses."
Hearn was about to make some observation, when
The RECORDER said " Stand down Sir ; your conduct
has been infamous."

This being the la,st case in the Calendar, the Jury was
diEchargcd, after being thanked by the Recorder for their
attention.

BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.)

A well-known thief, named John Taylor, was charged
with attempting to commit a burglary under the following
circumstances:—

William Bass, a youth in the service of Mr. James

Leonard, a surgeon, at No. 18, Craven-street, Strand,
stated that a little after seven o'clock last night he was in
the parlour, attending to his business, when he heard a
noise at the key-hole of the hall-door, and thinking that he
had forgot to take out the latch key, he went and saw the
prisoner leave the door in a hurried manner to join another
per_on, who was standing hard by. He immediately de—
manded the key, still supposing it was the latch-key, but
the prisoner refused to give it up, and was going away.
Witness said he should not leave him, and unless be sur-
rendered the key he should give him in charge. On
getting into the Strand the prisoner threw the skeleton
key produced into the caariage-way and darted off, but was
taken into custody by 50 F division, near to the Post-office.
Witness, on his return home, found the latch-11.4y safe
where he had laid it in the course of the evening. The
second person made his escape.
The prisoner denied the charge, and
Mr. TrusELTorr, a county Magistrate, ordered him to bd
sent to hard labour in the House of Correction for three
months.