The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

IN RE lIICKFORD.

This bankrupt was described as of Gallingay, grocer, and
this was a first meeting. Messrs. Hart Brothers and
Hayles are the accountants, but as the accounts had not
been filed, an adjournment was ordered.

POL ICE INTELLIGENCE.—(no Day.),

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A GUNNER OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY CHARGED WITH
ROBBERY.—BAD CASE.—George Taylor, of Leith Fort, a
gunner of the 9th Battery of Royal Artillery, was charged
with the following robbery :
John Ormond, of 49, North-row, a letter•carrier, said the
prisoner, who was distantly related to him, had lodged with
him since Friday last, when he arrived from Leith, being
on his way to Walmer with a prisoner. On his return from
Walmer ho made the prisoner up a bed, and he had lodged
and boarded with him since. Yesterday morning, when
he went out he left the prisoner in bed, and on his return
to breakfast his wife asked him the time, and on his look-
ing at his watch stand, he found his silver watch
and chain of the value of £8 were gone, and the pri-
soner also. The prisoner, previous to going out, had told
his wife that he was going to the bombardier, in Union-
street, to get some clean things, and thinking he might be
there he went there, but he had not been seen. He them
went to Wandsworth, where the prisoner had a relation,
but he was not there. He then gave information to the
police, and at night the prisoner was brought to him by the
bombardier, when he said be had pledged the watch and
chain, and a coat also, in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-
lane, but that he had lost the ticket, and all the money he
had left was 4d. He (prosecutor) however found a sovereign
on him. The bombardier told him he had been spending
money in a reckless manner, treating every one and enjoy-
ing himself by cab-riding.
W. Burns, 68 C, said on taking the prisoner into custody
he said he had taken the things and pledged them, but he
did not know where, and that he had lost the duplicate.
Prisoner had nothing to say to his base conduct, and was
remanded for a week.
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE.—Two lads, named
Weatherall and Hopkins, were charged with loitering with
intent to commit a felony.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, in discharging them, said they were very
properly brought before him, and that the officer Gordon,
3.311336 A, was a most useful officer in preventing this class of
persons from committing depredations.

THAMES.
ASSAULT UPON A WlFE.—Samuel Tinan, a ship's
steward, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged With
assaulting his wife.
The complainant said she was coming out of the Effing-
ham Saloon Theatre last night, in company with a female
acquaintance, when her husband accosted her and said she
was laughing at him. She denied having done so, and he
then swore at her and attempted to strike her. She ran
away from him, and he pursued her and overtook her close
to the London Hospital, when he deliberately took her hat
from her head, struck her and knocked her down, and whiio
she was down kicked her on the back. Her screams
brought a police-constable to her assistance, and her husband
was taken into custody. He had frequently ill-used her
before, and she applied for a warrant against him a fort-
night ago, but, not knowing his address, the magistrate
could not grant her request.
Isabella ll.oxton, dressmaker, confirmed the statement
of her friend.
The prisoner in defence, said he received considerably
provocation from his wife when he last came home four
sea. After a nine months' absence, he found his borne
broken up, everything sold or pawned, and his wife leading
a very indifferent life. He asked her for the duplicates of
the goods she had pawned, which she refused to give hircr,
and she caused him to be turned out of the house he had
taken for him.
Mrs. Tinan retorted upon her husband that, although
they had not been married two years until the 25th of nest
March, he had only kept her for two months of that time,
and that he proposed to her before he went to sea to lead a
gay and profligate life, and support him on the wages of her
iniquitous life. She refused to do this, and he then ill-used
her. Before she was married she was in good employment,
earning fair wages, and did not want her husband's corn'
pany or his wages.
Mr Woolrych called upon the defendant to enter ix,r
his own recognisances to keep the peace towards h
and all her Majesty's subjects for the next 12 months.is Virl

THE MISSING LADY AT LEEDS.—Just before
going to press (says the Leeds Mercury of yesterday), Ive
learn that the particulars given by a London daily paper of
the manner in which Mrs. Buxton was discovered are
wholly incorrect. The lady is now in Leeds, with her hue'
band and friends. She states that she was taken on the
22d of January to Barnsbury when in a state of insensi'
bility, arising, she believes, from severe sea sickness and
the fatigue of a long journey. How the diamond ring all'
the article of baby's clothing got to the place where thei
were found she has no knowledge. At Barnsbury she
remained for many days in a state of unconsciousness iron],
a severe attack of fever, and on examining her luggage on
her recovery she missed her watch, jewellery, and other
valuables, but had no knowledge when'and how they were
abstracted from her boxes. As soon as she recovered, e
letter was sent to Leeds to inform her friends where eh
was located, but the letter, from misdirection or some other
cause, never reached its destination, and hence the LoYAteri
in which the case has been involved.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT AN EXIIIBITION.—SHIELDSer
Saturday Night.—On Saturday, Mr. Fayell, the cores
for North Durham, opened an inquest at South Shields'
on the body of George Forsyth, a boy between twelv°
and fourteen years of age who lost his life at an exhibition
given by that Mr. Duvalli, who calls himself the the 8114..
lish Blondin, in the Cr:cket Ground of that town, on Frids''
night. Duvalli had to ascend and descend on what h:
described as the electric telegraph wire, a tight rope abell
160 feet in length, extended by means of wooden sheers or
scaffolding poles 35 feet from the ground. He had 'II'
to let fireworks off, and a great mob of people were gather
who shortly after the proceedings commenced became ver
(3ri
unruly. Duvalli first commenced to let fireworks off / sne
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while doing so some blackguard appears to have cut .
Manilla rope, which secured the sheer legs and thers
rope to the ground, and the result was that the sheer 'eo.
fell over amongst the mob, killing the boy Forsyth u
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the spot, and seriously, if not fatally injuring another t
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named Richard Dobson. Of course, after this the gre't to
disco_
and arose, and the proceedings were put a stop c-o_
and as the miscreant who cut the rope has not been is
vend, gay inquest was adjourned.