The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-08 00:00:00

OLD COURT.

George Smith, aged 27, a private soldier in the Ist
Rifle Brigade, at present quartered in the Tower, was in-
dicted for stealing on the sth January, in the parish of
Deptford, a coat, value 20s. the property of Samuel Murray.
The prosecutor, who keeps a public house in New-street,
Deptford, stated, that the prisoner came to his house on
the 2d January, saying he was on furlough and wanted
a lodging, where he remained until the Friday following,
and on leaving the house he took the coat produced, leav-
ing his reckoning unsettled. He was apprehended on the
Wednesday, and the coat was found in a pawn shop in the
neighbourhood.
The prisoner declined making any defence, and was un-
able to call any witness to speak to his character.
The prosecutor applied to the Court to deal leniently
with the prisoner, as he was born in the parish of Deptford,
and had a wife and two young children.
Mr. Sergea:it Attnetsr said he supposed the regiment
would not take him again into the service.
Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, said he was au-
thorised to detain him as a deserter from the service.
The Jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sen-
tenced to one months' imprisonment.
James Kelly, aged 25, was indicted for breaking into
and entering a warehouse of the East and West India
Dock Company, and stealing therefrom eight pieces of
printed cotton, six yards of calico, and a bundle of tape,
the property of the Company.
The prisoner, in his defence, sail lie was an American,
and had only lately arrived in England, and being in a
state of destitution, he was tempted to commit the offence
of which he stood charged, as he failed to obtain work in
the Docks, agreeably to his expectation.
A person employed in the Decks confirmed the pri-
soner's statement, and said that he had often been at the
gates for work.
The Jury found a verdict of guilty, but strongly recom-
mend the prisoner to mercy.
The Learned JUDGE sentenced him to six months' hard
labour.

John Edsell, 37, was indicted for feloniously and ma-
liciously cutting and wounding John Richard Carter, the
common informer, with intent to do him some grievous
bodily harm.--Acquitted.
John Keefe, aged twenty-three, was indicted for felo-
niously and falsely making and counterfeiting one of her
Majesty's current coins, called a shilling.
It appeared that three Hatton-garden officers proceeded
to the lodgings of the prisoner, where they found him with
his wife ; and the moment he saw them he dropped a mould
in which a counterfeit shilling had only just been coined.
They also found two other moulds in the room for coining
sixpenny pieces, together with one for coining half-crowns.
An iron spoon was also found on the fire, containing metal
in a fused condition. On being taken into custody, the
prisoner showed great resistance, breaking the mould which
was first taken upon him. The prisoner's wife also behaved
very violently, and on being secured, a number of
Britannia mt.tal spoons were discovered upon her. The
prisoner told the officers that he could not see his family
starving, and that was the reason why he became a coiner.
The Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty, and he was
sentenced to be transported for life.

NEW COURT.
( Before the RECORDER.)

Eliza Low, 44, was indicted for stealing eight silver
spoons, a vast quantity of linen, carpets, and other acti-
c.es, tne property of John Ward, her master.
Ihe prosecutor is a chocolate-maker in Kin,-street,
Smithfield, and the prisoner was his servant. Ar' carpet,
worth six pounds, was missing in December last, and on the
prisoner being questioned about it she denied all know-
ledge of it, but immediately left her service without giving
any warning, and a short time before her apprehension she
sent back a number of duplicates relating to the property
in question.
The greater part of the property was produced by the
pawnbrokers, with whom the prisoner had at various times
pledged it.
The prisoner declined saying anything, and the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT concurred in the verdict, as the offence was
one of a very heinous nature, and ordered the prisoner to
be transported for ten years.
A respectable-looking young man, named Alfrdd Long-
ley, was indicted for stealing and embezzling the sum of
1/. ss. 6d., the property of Mr. Edger, his employer.
There was another indictment, which charged the pri-
soner with larceny.
Mr. BODKIN, for the prisoner, prayed that be might re-
tract his plea and confess judgment, as he had heretofore
maintained an excellent character, and the prosecutor was
anxious to recommend him to mercy.
Mr. DoANR, on the part of the prosecution, said there
was no objection to the application.
The Couwr ordered the prisoner to be kept to hard la-
bour for two months.
Charles Calton, was indicted for stealing two silver
spoons and fork, on board a vessel in a port of entry and
disebnrge, the property of Thomas L. Woolley, Esq.
The prosecutor stated that hp had some trunks, Contain-
ing considerable property on board the Betty, which came
into the port of London, only a few weeks back, and the
property produced formed part of that on board.
The .jury after hearing further evidence, returned a
verdict of Guilty, but not of stealing in the !girt of eritry,
and the prisoner was sentenced to hard labour for six
months.
Thomas Callagher, 26, was indicted for feloniously in-
termarrying w4h Mary Johnston, his wife Maria being then
and still alive.
John Thornton proved that his sister Maria was married
to the prisoner near the town of Galway, at which he was
presont. They were married by the Rev. Mr. Haley, a
Catholic priest, Fend they did not live together more than
two or three months, when the ptisoner'carme to London,
and his wife had a child, now three years old. In 1836,
witness came to town, and having found out the prisoner,
accused him of marrying another woman, but he said he
only liked with liar and had a child. He then took his wife
to live with hint.
The prisoner qcclaiined tir4t he was not married by a
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priest, but by a friar.--( Langhter..)
The witness said the Catholic Curate of the parish was
the person who solemnized the marriage.
Prisoner—No, it was not ; but they mhdo me tipsy, and
when they brought in the Friar, as he refused to marry us