The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-29 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

TURNING THE TABLES IN A SINGULAR MANNER.—Ann
Elizabeth Chittell, a respectable-looking young woman,
was charged with stealing 9d., the property of Mary
Mahoney.
Mary Mahoney said—l am a widow, and live at No. 6,
Yeoman's-row, Brompton. I went into a fried-fish shop
last night, and had 11d. I was not sober. I put 9d. in my
pocket-handkerchief, and put it in my pocket, sitting down
by the prisoner—no one else was near me—and I soon
missed my money. I did not leave the shop at all, but
sent the man out of the shop, and he got a policeman, and
she was locked up. I never knew her before. There were
other people in the shop besides us, but we were not near
them.

Thomas Topping, 18, Arthur-street, Chelsea—l keep an
eating-house. The prisoner and prosecutrix came in last
night and waited for hot potatoes. The prosecutrix sud-
denly jumped up and declared she had been robbed. The
prisoner just before had received 9kd. change from me.
She was sitting quietly with the baby. Prosecutrix made
such a noise that I got a policeman to take her, but he
locked tip the other woman.

Mr. Selfe said the charge should never have been taken
from a person as drunk as the prosecutrix ; it was very
hard that the prisoner should have been locked up all night
He immediately discharged her.

Mary Mahoney was then charged with being drunk and
incapable.

Orlando Kursey, 287 A, said at one o'clock this morn-
ing I was in Cremorne-lane. Prisoner was in the middle
of the road lying down, screaming " murder" and "police."
She would not desist or go away, and she was locked up.
Prisoner denied the charge, and said she was sober.
She was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
Chiitell's husband requested that she should be indicted
for perjury.

Mr. Selfe said she had not committed perjury. She
would not have had the seven days if he had not made the
charge of felony.

THAMES.

NOVEL SYSTEM OF FRAUD.—William Batterham, aged
38, who was described as an engineer, and late of No. 3,
St. Nicholas-street, Deptford, was brought up on remand;
charged with defrauding several persons of £5, 155., 55.,
and other sums.

The prisoner had managed to obtain some printed forms
of the Oriental Banking Corporation, and these he had
filled up to represent that large sums of money had been
paid into the Bank to the credit of Joseph Austin, Esq.,
and others. In the month of November he waited on Mr.
William John Cox, a cheesemonger, of No. 1, Ellesmere-
street, Poplar, and asked him for the loan of 255., at the
same time offering to deposit as security a " paying in
slip" of the Oriental Bank, representing that £365 had
been paid into the Bank to the credit of Joseph Austin,
Esq. The prisoner said he had got the money paid to him
as a reward for picking up a large quantity of Bank of
England notes at Stinkhouso-bridge, over the Lea, and re-
storing them tc the owner. Mr. Cox lent the prisoner 155.,
only on the credit of the paper. The prisoner ordered Mr.
Cox to send a rabbit and a cheese to No. 7, Suffolk-street,
Poplar, on the following Sunday morning, when the loan
would be repaid. Mr. Cox never saw or heard of the pri-
soner again until he was taken into custody a few days
ago, when ho was taken into custody by Henry Wallace,
a police-constable, No. 298 R. Wallace put in a list con-
taining the names and addresses of persons who had been
cheated by the prisoner of the respective sums of £5, Is.,
10s., 155., and other amounts by similar representations.
Among his dupes were Mr. Hawkins, of Wingford-terrace,
Lower-road, Rotherhithe, and a lady named Wilkinson, of
No. 4, Clarence-street, Greenwich, who were examined.
The first lent the prisoner ls. only on a form filled up for
£5OO in the name of John James Costin, which the pri- I
soner said he had found, and intended to restore. The
other purported to be a " paid in slip "of Subrina Batter-
ham for £l,OOO by John Jackson, Esq., and entered John
Stephenson.

Wallace said the prisoner was a regular impostor, and
had been preying on the public for some time.
Mr. William Davison, cashier of the Oriental Bank, said
the printed forms were for the use of customers, and had
been abstracted from the banking house. He looked at the
one left with Mr. Cox. It.was only a portion of a paying
in slip. The form was genuine, the filling in fictitious.
No person named Joseph Austin kept an account at this
bank. All the papers in their present state were perfectly
worthless, and ought not to have deceived any one.
The prisoner made no defence. He appeared in a very
desponding mood, and on the completion of the depositions
was committed for trial.

THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND.—A parliamentary
paper issued yesterday morning shows that the re-
latives of the following officers, killed in Now Zealand,
have received compensation, viz.:—£7ll to the Rev. F. R.
A. Glover, father of Captain R. C. Glover; £457 to the
same gentleman, on account of his son, Captain F. G. E.
Glover; £254 to the father of Lieutenant W. L. Murphy ;
and £1,144 to the father of Captain J. S. Phelps.
WEDGWOOD'S PATRONS.--But quite apart from
royal favour and patronage there was an under-
current of kindness and appreciation in the local aristocracy
—the Gowers, the Egertons, the Chetwynds, the De Grey;
and others—which ought not to pass unnoticed, and
which, at this early day, must have been very acceptable
to Mr. Wedgwood's feelings. It is now a real honour to
these English families of the good old stock, that they
bought and ate from his exquisite cream-coloured ware,
and spoke of it, and recommended it warmly to their guests
and friends, whilst as yet its manufacturer was but little
known. Writing to his brother in the summer of this year,
Mr. Wedgwood tells him that " Dr. Swan dined with Ld.
Gower this week ; after dinner your Bror. Joss. Pot works
were the subject of conversation for riome time, the Cream
colour services in particular. I believe it was his Ld ship
said that nothing of the sort could exceed them for a fine
glaze &c." In a letter of a few days later, the subject is
again referred to. " I just hinted to you that cream colour
ware was a subject of conversation at Ld. Gower's table.
Among other things his Ld.ship said that the late Lord
Bolingbroke collected all the various modeled earthenware
he could in France which were brat. over to England &
that it wod. be worth my while to go to London on pur-
pose to see it—As his Ld.ship was so kind to mention a
thing of that sort at his table I dare say he would give me
a proper introduction for that purpose & this will be one
inducement for my coming to London—l am to wait upon
his Ld.ship at Trentham this week, and hope the Duke of
Bridgewater will be there, when you shall hear further
from me." At the distance of little more than a week, we
hear of a visit to the Brick-House Works :—" I have just
had the honour of the D. of Marlbro., Ld. Gower, Ld.
Spencer, & others at my works—They have bot. some
things & seem'd much entertain'd and pleas'd—The
Gentn. abovementd. wonder I have not a wareho. in
Londn. where pattns. of all sorts I make may be seen."
—2lfeteyard's Life of Wedgwood.