The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-21 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

NEW COURT.
The Court was occupied the greater part of the morning
in trying the undermentioned persons for uttering counter-
feit coin, knowing it to be counterfeit. The whole of
them were found guilty, and were sentenced to hard labour
in the House of Correction :—George Clarke, for one
year; Elizabeth Brown, Mary Brown, alias Sarah Smith,
B. Austin, and Joseph Roberts, for six months; and Ann
Brown for five months, she'having been already for some
time in custody.
TURNING THE TABLES.—. William Martin, aged 36, was
indicted for stealing from his master John Nelson, the
well-known coach proprietor, two sacks of horse pro-
voider, value 2its.

Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
PHILLIPS for the prisoner.
The only witness called in support of the prosecution
was a young man named John Ives, who described himself
as being a gentleman's servant out of place. He was sub-
jected to a very rigid cross-examination by Mr. Phillips,
who asked him if he had ever been in gaol, which he at
first stoutly denied, but on being closely pressed admitted
that he had been confined in Chelmsford gaol for six months.
Mr. CLARKSON at once abandoned the prosecution; the
witness was immediately taken into custody for perjury, and
the prisoner acquitted.
The prisoner was then placed at the bar upon a second
indictment.

Mr. Axell, the nephew to Mr. Nelson, stated that the
prisoner had been in the service of his uncle for 16 years,
and was employed in carrying provender for horses to
different stables down the road. On Sunday, the 2ith
August, 32 sacks of mixed corn, and one of bran, were
placed in a van at the Bull Inn, Aldgate, for the purpose
of being taken to Staines by the prisoner. By directions of
his uncle, who had some time entertained suspicions of the
prisoner, witness followed and watched the van down the
road, andsaw him stop at the Coach and Horses, Turnham-
green, and undo the tarpauling covering of the van. Wit-
ness followed the prisoner to Staines, and found there
was a deficiency of two sacks.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. CLARKSON was instructed by the prosecutor to re-
commend the prisoner to mercy. He had been sixteen
years in his service.

The COMMON•SERGEANT said that, so far from that
being an excuse, it was an aggravation. No doubt the
greatest confidence had been placed in the prisoner, and it
was necessary that an example should be made of persons
who carried on such systematic plunder. He should,
therefore, order him to be transported for seven years.
COMPLIMENT TO THE FAIR ONES FROM THE EME-
RALD ISLE.--Mary Burne, an Irishwoman, was convicted
and senteoced to six months' imprisonment for stealing
18s. from a man named George Bolion.
The COMMON-SERGEANT, in passing sentence, asked the
prisoner why she could not stop in her own country instead
of coming over here and putting the country to an ex
pense. It was a remarkable fact that seven out of every
ten female prisoners placed at the bar were Irish.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON- GARDEN.
CAUTION TO COFFEE-SHOP KEEPERS.—Henry Mathews,
a respectable-looking young man, was placed within the
felon's dock, charged with s tealing one printed book, the
property of William Lunt.
The prosecutor, who kee los a coffee-shop at Clerken-
vvell-green had, it appear ed, for some time past missed
books and other articles fror 3 his rooms, and last evening he
was induced to watch the prisoner, and saw him put a volume
of Dr. Lardner's " Cabine t Cyclopmdia," in his pocket.
The prisoner shortly -after left the shop, and the prosecu-
tor followed him and gave him into custody, when the
volume in question was four. Ld on him.
The prisoner, who seeme i acutely to feel his disgraceful
situation, did not deny his guilt, but said that it was his
first step in the path of crir
At the prosecutor's requ est he was remanded, to give
time to trace other books, which he is supposed to have
taken.

Harris—lt is quite impossible that I could be mistaken
know Armitage perfectly well, and I cannot easily forgaa
:he horrible threats he used.
Armitage—No such thing, my Lord. He was no bro-
ther of mine. I know nothing of this man at all.
The LORD MAYOR—Why did you not come to serve
this charge before ?
Armitage—Because I was taken ill, my Lord ; I have
been cruelly knocked about.
The Loan MAYOR—You would not have come at all if
I had not caused your boat and net to be seized. Where
are those two witnesses who swore that they saw you at
Woolwich ? Let them be called.
Armitage—l don't suppose the poor men can afford to
stay away from their work.
The LORD MAYOR—Depend upon it, I shall, if they are
to be found, indict them for perjury. I told them when
they said they saw you at Woolwich getting a candle
lighted on board a barge, that they were telling falsehoods,
and I did not expect them to-day. Your conduct has
been very bad ; you have committed two offences. You
have obstructed the officer in the execution of his duty, nod
you have resisted the execution of the warrant. I these-
fore fine you 101.
Armitage—That's a large fine, my Lord; but I'll pay it
if you give me time.
The LORD MAYOR-... 1 shall give you no time. You are
quite incorrigible.
Armitage--I wish you would send me to sea altogether.
The LORD MAYOR.—The way is open for you. While
such wholesale destroyers of fish as you are permitted to
work, to expect a supply of fish is quite ridiculous. You
will now have an opportunity of going to sea, for your
boat and net shall be sold to pay the fine.
A case with which was connected some remarkable cir-
cumstances came on the course of the day.
A man, whose name appeared on the list as James help,
was charged by a policeman with having attempted to
break a lamp. He bad been two or three times committed
in the present Mayoralty for having broken lamps, and las
invariable answer to the charge was, that he could get no
work, and that he oansidered it better to do tbi.t mischief,
and secure a temporary support in Bridewell by it, than to
starve in the strecta tamely, or commit robbery.
The LORD MAYOR---S 0 I find that nothing can correct
you. You are still determined upon this mischief. You
.are committed for a month to Bridewell.
Prisoner--A month, your Lordship! Can't you give
me any more? It would be the greatest charity to give ,
nesa s
ay after-
do. s
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we four or five. I have tried in vain to get something to ,INGULAR ACCI DENT.--OR ea
do. Fos. God's sake lock me up for the winter, or send noon, about two o'clock, three men and a woman were pro.
me home to Montreal, where I was born, and have friends. ceeding down the river in a skiff loaded with bags of silk
This appeal led to an inquiry into the circumstances thrums (or waste), on t heir way to a steamer in Deptford
which led to the present outcast condition of the prisoner, Creek, and on arriving off the Surrey Canal Dock, Roe-
who gave the followiaig account of himself to the Lord therhithe, one of the me a), who was sitting on the top of th
Mayor :—On the 3d of November, 1829, ha was appro. bags, rolled overboard into the water, and pulled a bag
hended at Montreal, in company with a matt named Andrew with him. The bag wa s sufficiently buoyant to keep him
St. German de la Garde, and charged with having with afloat, and he held on, 1 . tis weight causing the bag to turn
him committed a highway robbery ; and, on the 6th of , over and over, the man going over with it, and taking fresh
March, 1830, they were both convicted, and sen:ence of hold every time it rose to the surface. This continued
death was recorded. Immediately after the conviction, De 1 some time, and the ma' a was nearly exhausted. Mr. Farley,
La Garde sent for a Magistrate, and voluntarily declar d an Inspector of the sr retropolitan Thames police, and his
that the person who was tried with him knew ' .
norberg boat's crew, rowed tow ards him, and put out a scull, which
of tho robbery, which was committed without the • ' e'igerly grasped, r tnd one of the crew dragged him
bag was afterwards picked up by the
pation of any other into the galley. The
person. In consequence of this cPoamill:ll..- I'l
nication, LerdAylmer wrote to England, and the informaet police, ant? it required the united exertions of four men to
was kept in prison in Montreal from the period of his c -an- I drag it into woodier ho at.
mittal until the 22d May, 1832, when, according tot ''lle 1
•
instructions received from the Government, he was trar,e 1 A LARMENG Fit
alarming fire occurrer ItEon—th? ported to Bermuda for seven years, as a commutation of IsprTemhuisressdaot: mmro.rnDinavgisa,n.
1 charcoal-dealer, s •esidi ng at No. 21, Great Earl-street, 1
the sentence of death. He and Dc la Garde worked i, a i Seven Dials. Mr. Da via had had a quantity of fresh char-
spot in Bermuda called Idand's Eve. After ;he 1 coal in sacks. places! -in the front of the first floor, over
lapse of three years the latter died, and when six years I.ld which slept a family c f five children, all of whom were dan-
passed away on order was sent by the British Governs era
gerously ill in bed n ith the scarlet fever. Some of the
to send informant and 90 English convicts to E
,„„d, charcoal being hot ig uited, and the room was quickly on
informant being the only native of Montreal, and ofncgo.asse fire. The engines w are promptly
on the spot, and a lad_
the only person to whom a voyage to England was likely
der having been prod area the children were rescued from
to be worse than transportation. which, bad as it was, rlid destruction. The flare es were soon afterwards extinguished.
not carry starvation with its Here he had been in E .g-
-land A letter from Rome of the 24th ult. says—
land since the Ist of June, 1833, having receised a free J " The interest taken by the Pope in the affairs of the East
pardon for good conduct and the sum of 61., as the allow- I arises from the tolera ace of the late Sultan, and the indul-
once for the work he had done in Bermuda. With ivory I genre he showed toy rards Christians. A few days ago a
disposition to work, he had a brand upon him which quite young Jesuit, who i sad succeeded in converting several
shut him out from all employment. He had made repeated i members of the m oat distinguished families of Con-
attempts to get back to Montreal, but nobody would notice i stantinople, was pre tented to his Holiness in the Turkish
a man who was tried for highway robbery.
costume."

HONOUR AMONG CAME s.—" Alas l there is no virtue
extant." Honour among : ;latest:nen has long been a farce.
Of late soldiers have been but too apt to follow their ex-
ample. The clergy—be; Ix witness Powerscourt, bear
witness Londonderry—rep udiate it, and it is departed even
from among cabmen, as 2 7iomas Hughes has found to his
cost. Now Thomas Hugl tea is a minute specimen of the
genus homo, species cat men, with a slightly red head
and an exceedingly red nose, a face like a withered
applejohn, and eyes Ilk .e small gooseberries of last
year's bottling. Thomas last week fell a victim to his
genius for imitation, for a lteough a perfectly sober man, 20
admirably did he counter} eit drunkenness, that the Magis-
trate at the Thames Police -office committed him to the tread-
mill for seven days, and " Sich a gettin up stairs," unaccom-
panied, however, by anytl ling like "playing on the fiddle,"
the unfortunate Thomas ‘ never did see." Before this aspir-
ing genius, however, begs ,n to mount, he sent as a memento
to his wife his badge, his license, and the sum of one shil-
ling and tenpence—ther ;e he entrusted Thomas Sears to
deliver. " I trusted to his honour," said Thomas, the
plaintiff;
and his form dilated as he uttered the words,
" but he deceived 3 re," added he, subduing his
tone to a lachrymose pi' cch, and shrinking into his original
dimensions. "He nevi rr gave the money." Thomas, the
defendant, who seemed a living illustration of a mathema.
tical line—length without breadth—did not deny keeping
the money, which he cot midered only a sufficient remunera-
tion for delivering the b edge and license.
Mr. Cozens, bowevei r, did not think so, and directed
him to return one shillir ig, as the plaintiff had no objection
to remunerate him with tenpenee, which was agreed on all
hands to be ample. Th is he at first refused to accede to,
but the threat of being locked up succeeded in extorting
from him a promise to I my the shilling to-morrow, and he
was suffered to depart; the plaintiff, notwithstanding what
had occurred, having s;
honour.
:ill some faith left in a cabman's

G UILDHALL
TAB GLiss ROBBERY.—DanieI Dearlove and John
Dearlove were this morning placed at the bar for further
examination, on the charge of having received property
which had been stolen from the premises of Messrs. Jones,
of Ludgate-hill.
Mr. Steele attended for theprosecution, and Mr. Wontner
for the prisoners.
Sergeant Waller deposed—On the 11th instant I
brought the property in box No. 8, consisting of two
decanters and stoppers, from Mr. Thomas's, Guildford-
street, Bloomsbury-square.
Mr. Thomas, pianoforte maker, deposed—About a month
ago I met John Dearlove in the street. He said be bad
been getting up a pair of decanters, from a pattern of the
late Mr. John Blades, and wished me to purchase them.
I declined to buy them ; on which Dearlove requested to
have them at my house, as some of my friends might buy
them. The decanters were left on the Wednesday follow-
ing. Dearlove said the price was 21. 12s. The officer
and Mr. Jones took them away.
Mr. Jones—l should say the decanters are ours. They
were cut in the country. They correspond with
some we have recently had from the country. They
are not the old pattern of Mr. Blades. 1 can't say
that we have missed any. They are sometimes cut in
MANSION-HOUSE. London. The value of the pair is 3/. 12s. We should
The LORD MAYOR received in the course of the last take off 5 per cent. for ready money. I never knew any
week a great number of letters from , of this pattern cut in London.
persons whose corn- Cross examined—The decanters were received from
passion for Mr. Moyes and his famil
head a sub. has been deeply
excited, proposing that his Lordship should for any other house in London. I can't swear we ever had
Dudley. I don't think the manufacturers there would cut
seription for their benefit. Several of the writers, amongst the decanters in our possession. I did carry on business
whose names were those of Sir James Shaw, the Chamber- in the Poultry. I compromised with my creditors, and
lain of London, and Alderman Pirie, requested that the property was afterwards removed to Ludgate-hill.
they should be put down on the list of contributions at once Mr. Steele objected to this line of examination, which
for very liberal sums, if upon inquiry it should be found could only be persisted in for vexatious purposes.
that the family were not in comfortable circumstances, and Mr. Wontner said that it was very material for the
that they would sanction the subscription. The humane object he had in view.
writers evidently conjectured from the nature of the evi- Cross.examination coutinued—We had a similar pattern
deuce before the Coroner's Jury, that Mr. Moyes's cir- in the old shop, but the present decanters are rather taller,
cumstances were embarrassed. His Lordship also received f and the stoppers different. The whole of the glass was
many communications from various parts of the town and transferred to Ludgate.hill.
country, impressing upon him the necessity ofaddiiiig some The next charge gone into was against John Dearlove,
railwork to the gallery of the Monument to prevent the relative to a quantity of tumblers, decanters, &c., found at
possibility of any future occurrence of so frightful a kind. the house of Mr. Samuel Rotheram, music-seller, 22, Den_
The LORD MAYOR said, for the satisfaction of all of Le: mark-street, Soho. Mr. Rotheram stated that they had
correspondents on the subject, that before he had received been in his possession more than 12 months, and that he
many of their charitable recommendations, he had sent a understood they had been left with his wife in his absence.
friend to communicate with the family, relative to a sub- lie afterwards saw John Dearlove, and asked why the
Mscripti.m MI . and the result of the interview was that
r. .grass had been left. Dearlove said, perhaps he (Mr. R.)
Moyes's circumstances were not such as to require any aid
from the public, and that the proposition he respectftely
tiLnicgalirttgiceletsaperuosdtoumeeedr
ofofr
John
DHeisarwioifvee.had bought some of
und gratefully declined. As to the project of additional Mr. Jones identified the whole of the patterns, and be_
railing round the gallery, he should give immediate atten-
lieved some of the glasses produced to be his property.
'ion to the necessity which existed for the requisite seta-
He believed the decanters and glasses to be quite new.
rity. The following memorial, which had been Present, d John Dearlove was further charged with having stolen
to him by the Coroner and Jury upon the inquest on the five decanters and other articles, which were found in the
body, should be handed into the Court of Common Cowl. possession of Mr. Barry, music engraver, of 13, Roupell-
cil on the first Court day :
. We, the undersigned, being the Coroner and Jury
street, with whom they had been left by Dearlove, to see
if he would purchase them.
met to investigate the circumstances attending the deatr, Mr. Jones believed the articles produced obe his pro.
of Margaret Moyes, who precipitated,herself from the i perty.
gallery of the Monument, do most sincerely and earnestly
Daniel Dearlove was then charged. Two boxes were
impress upon the Corporation of London the necessity of produced, marked Nus. 2 and 3, each containing seven
adopting some measures effectually to prevent the recur- tumblers and seven wine glasses. A large lamp was also
relict of'so melancholy a catastrophe." produced. This property had been sold by the prisone-
Joseph Armitage, a fisherman, who had been summoned
to Mr. Rowley, baker, of Peckham, and Mr. Davis, of ti
before the Lord Mayor, for obstructing Beresford, the Assistant Water-Bailiff Greyhound, Peckham, for 31. He stated at the time that
of the river Lea, in the executioe of his duty, and for fishing with an unlawful net ,
and i. he had got the articles from a person in London, who owed
him 121.
the day time, appeared to answer the complaint.
Mr. Jones identified part of tbe property as correspond-
Armitage had upon a former day produced two wit- ing with that which was missing. The value of the lamp
nesses, who swore that, at the time Beresford was oh- was 31 35., and the glass 3/.
strutted, he ( Armitage) was at Woolwich ; and the Lore Daniel Dearlove was again charged.
Mayor directed that other witnesses should come forward Mrs. Walker, of Peckham, in whose service the
to remove the difficulties thrown in the way of the investi- prisoner was up to the tune of his apprehension,
gation by the conflicting evidence already brought forward. deposed that the two decanters and goblet pro_
Armitage, finding that the Lord Mayor was resolved to dated were brought to her by him a few day
make as strict an inquiry as possible, refused obedience to before. He asked 28s. for tile decanters, and said he had
the first summons, and for some time evaded pursuit. 1-1;1 also some glasses. She did 'ant buy them, bat kept them,
Lordship then directed that his boat and fishing apparat.l4 in order that her son might look at them.
should be seized. Armitage got upon a small island, and Similar evidence of identity was given.
defied the officers who held the warrant, but his boat hay. Two odd decanters, in box No. 7, which had been found
ing been at length seized, be thought proper to make big
at Mr. Adam's, Rotherbithe,. were produced. They lief
ceeded with in the following manner:—
appearance at the Mansion-house, when the case was pro- been sold by Daniel Dearlov e, who asked 28s. for the two William Harris stated that on the 28th August, at half- pairs.
past ten o'clock at night, he was at Beresford's house, Mr. Jones proved the value of one pair to be 285., and
when some inform was brought, in consequence of the other 18s.
James Dearlove and Richard Hill were then brought up,
which he and Beresford went on the river Lea. They had and, the depositions having b ten read over, the whole of the
not gone far when they heard two men beating the water,
prisoners were fully commi rued for trial, it being under-
to drive the fish into a net that lay across the river, and :,
stood that application would be made to the Court to post.
boy rowing a boat in which the men were. Witness nil
pone the trials until the sex .t sessions, in order to afford
Beresford got bold of the net, and Armitage swore that 1-.9 time for getting up the case in a proper manner.
would knock out the brains of the first fellow who touched The investigation occupie d the attention of the Cour'
the net. Armitage and his companion then cut the
act upwards of two
and rowed away with it, leaving behind the lines by which hours.
it was fastened to the shore.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you bear that he producoi
evidence to show that he was at Woolwich on the night
you mention 1
Harris--I did, my Lord; and one of the witnesses wire-i
he called, and who said he was a labouring man, and qui.°
a different name, was his own brother.
The LORD MAYOR—You are sure you could not be
mistaken?