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London, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

the Court of Bankruptcy, by which he incurred the
crime of perjury.
Thejury without any hesitation returned a verdict of
guilty, and the defendant was sentenced to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for twelve months.
William -Henry Wheels., surrendered to take his trial
for wilful and corrupt perjury.
This was a prosecution instituted by direction of the
Judge of the Westminster County Court, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
The prosecutor was Mr. Joseph Perry, the landlord
of the One Tun public-house, Chandos-street ; and
it appeared that on the night of the 4th of June the
defendant and a man named Edwards were at his house,
and having partaken of some gin, Edwards tendered
in payment for it a sovereign, and the prosecutor
gave him change in silver money, a portion of which
consisted of two five-shilling pieces. On the follow-
ing Monday Edwards went to the prosecutor, and re-
presented that one of the five-shilling pieces given
to him by the prosecutor was a bad one. Mr. Perry
was positive at the time that he ha 1 given him good
money ; but upon his pressing the matter, and repre-
senting that he was a very poor man, he consented to
give him half-a-crown as compensation for his supposed
loss. This half-crown was afterwards returned, and it
appeared that a summons was taken out by Edwards
against the prosecutor in the Westminster County Court
to recover five shillings as the value of the counterfeit
coin, and upon the hearing the defendant was called as a
witness, and he swore that he received the counterfeit
coin from Edwards, and that it was the same that had
been paid in change for the sovereign. The prosecutor
positively denied having paid away the counterfeit piece
to Edwards, and evidence was adduced to show that on
the Saturday night on which the occurrence took place,
the defendant purchased the bad crown piece of a but.
cher named Taylor, living near the prosecutor, who had
taken it the same night, and that he gave Taylor a shil-
ling for it.
Several highly respectable witnesses gave the defendant
an excellent character for a period extendinwgi t over
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strong
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many years.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, h
recommendation to mercy on account of the previous
good character of the defendant.
Judgment deferred.

NEW COURT.-SEPT. 19.
ROBBING AN OMNIBUS PROPRIETOR.

John Berries, 60, clerk, was indicted for stealing 731.
14s. 9d., the property of Thomas Wheatly, his master.
The prosecutor is the well known omnibus pro-
prietor of Greenwich, and had, out of motives of
charity, taken prisoner, whom he had known before,
from the union, and gave him employment as a clerk.
He had been with him some time, when the money
in question coming into his hands to be paid into
the bank, he absconded with the cash portion of
it, returning by post a crossed cheque. B e was traced to
Lille, in France, by Sergeant Carpenter, who, being
unprepared with the Secretary of State's warrant, was
not allowed by the French authorities to bring either
the prisoner or the money found upon him (nearly the
whole of the amount taken) back to this country. It.
however, appeared that the authorities at Lille, who
detained prisoner for having a false passport, set him
at liberty, and a few days ago Carpenter took prisoner
in custody at Westminster.
The jury found him guilty.
It was proved that prisoner had been before convicted
at these sessions, and sentenced to l 2 months' imprison-
ment for obtaining by false pretences sums of money in
aid of the Animals' Friend Society, which had then long
been defunct.

He was now sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CLEIIKENWELL. —ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN.
Yesterday morning many unfortunate women were to
be seen about the court with features betokening the
handiwork of heartless ruffians. It was altogether a
sickening sight ; many of them, however, went away,
rather than appear as witnesses against their brutal as-
sailants, perhaps to fare more sadly on hearing the de-
cision of the following cases :
James Macklin, described as a watch-glass maker,
residing at 23, Hull's-place, St. Luke's, was charged
with an inhuman assault on his wife, whose face was
frightfully disfigured with cuts and bruises. The front
of her dress was besmeared with blood.

She stated that on Sunday evening her husband came
home drunk, and began abusing her in a savage man-
ner. She appeased him a little, and fed him with some
dinner, when on a sudden he pushed her from him,
struck her down with a blow over her right eye, caus-
ing the blood to flow, and afterwards, while she was
prostrate on the ground and altogether helpless, he beat
her on various parts of the body, blackening it with
almost every hit or kick. She called for assistance, and
her mother coming to her aid was knocked down by the
prisoner with a poker.
In answer to the worthy magistrate the poor creature
said that " she had borne her husband six children,
three of whom were principally dependent on her exer-
tions for sustenance, for she had very little help from
him.

The mother in part corroborated the complainant,
and proved the brutal attack on herself.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the prisoner his defence.
In a surly manner he answered, " that he had none
to make."

Mr. Tyrwhitt said, " these cases were truly lament-
able, and it was impossible to go on in this way. He
had hoped the law as it now stood would have dimi-
nished such outrages, but every day experience showed
an increase of them." He sentenced the defendant, for
the two assaults, to hard labour for four months.

ichael Kelly, a raw-boned Irishman, was next
charged with assaulting Catherine Holmes.

Cjinplainant said, she had cohabited with the pri-
soner, and had been his support for a considerable time
past, by pawning her clothes and other worse means.
She had no money on Saturday night, and for that rea-
son he knocked her to the ground and blackened her
eyes.

- Mr. Tyrwhitt observed that " words would be wasted
on such a vagabond," and sent him to the treadmill for
two months.

TIE ALLEGED MURDER at SHEPHERD'S-B USA.

Yesterday, at the Jolly Gardeners, Hammersmith,
Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner for the western division
of Middlesex, resumed and concluded his investigation
into the circumstances attendant upon the death of
Elizabeth Hays, which, it will be remembered, had been
attributed to the brutal ill•creatment of her husband,
who was alleged to have murdered her on the night of
Saturday, the 10th inst., in the immediate vicinity of
Shepherd's-bush market.

Although nearly all the evidence which it was pro-
bable could be adduced in the case was brought forward
on Thursday last, when these proceedings were com-
menced, the Coroner suggested at that time that an ad-
journment should take place, as it was possible that in
the interval some additional evidence might be forth-
coming ; and he was, moreover, desirous, if it could he
accomplished, that the prisoner should be present, and
that the depositions of the various witnesses should be
read over ,n his presence.

•
Mr. Marten attended to prosecute, and Mr. Pound,
from the office of Mr. Russell, appeared, as before, for
the accused, James Hays, who, it is almost unnecessary
to say, was not allowed to be present.
The Coroner said the husband of the deceased was
not present ; but, as he had promised the jury, he had
used his best exertions to secure his attendance, and up
to the previous night he had been in expectation that lie
would have been there, because in answer to an appli-
cation which he had addressed to Viscount Palmerston
upon the subject he had received the following reply :

" Whitehall, Sept. 16.
" Sir, —I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, re-
presenting that it is the opinion of the jury that it is
important to the ends of justice that James Hays, who
is now in custody on remand by a police magistrate on a
charge of murder, should be produced at the coroner's
inquest to be held before you on Monday next, and I
an► to inform you that by his lordship's directions that I
have informed the Governor of the House of Detention
that his lordship has no objection to the governor pro-
ducing James Hays at the inquest in the custody of
his own officers upon receiving the usual formal re-
quisition from you to that effect, provided that by
this course the presence of the prisoner before the
magistrate at the time fixed is not in any way interfered
with.

" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"HENRY FITZROY.

" G. S. Brent, Esq."
Upon receipt of that communication he had forwarded a
requisition in due form to the House of Detention, in
reply to which he had received the following :
" House of Detention, Sept. 18.
" Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter, requesting me to produce the body of James
gays at an adjourned inquest to be held to-morrow. I
Z,No inclose you a copy of the resolution of the Court
iu h will explain to you why I cannot comply with
your request.