The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-10 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY).

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell.)
Eleanor Baker, 21, a good looking young woman, was in-
dicted for uttering a forged 101. note, with intent to defraud.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bayly conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that the offence imputed to the prisoner was
committed under rather peculiar circumstances, and with a
good deal of ingenuity. On the evening of the 17th April,
the prisoner, who had at the time no bonnet on, and had
the appearance of a respectable servant, went to the
Salmon and Compasses, public-house, Penton-street, Pen-
tonville, and produced a decanter, and said that she had
been sent by her master, Mr. Dixon, a brewer, living in the
same neighbourhood, for a pint of brandy and change for a
101. note. The liquor and the change were handed to her and
she went away, but it appeared that a person was sent after
her to watch her, and she was observed to go to Mr. Dixon's
and ring the bell, and this took off all suspicion and no fur-
ther notice wastaken. The note was very soon discovered to be
a forgery, and it was then found that the prisoner had merely
made some trivial inquiry when she went to Mr. Dixon's, and that
she bad merely gone there to throw any person off the scent in
case she was followed. It was also proved that the prisoner
bad gone to the Island Queen public-house, at Islington, in
the beginning of April, and that she had succeeded in pas-
sing two forged 5/. notes to the barman, and on this
occasion she gave a false address. No clue was obtain-
ed to the prisoner until about a fortnight afterwards,
when it appeared that a German was taken into custody
for passing forged notes, and upon his examination
taking place at Marylebone police-court, the prisoner
came there to see him, and she was identified
by Mr. Rountree as the person who had defrauded
.him, and given into custody. It turned out that
the prisoner and the German lived together as man and wife
in Castle -street, Leicester-square, and when the policeman
questioned the prisoner she told him that the German was her
husband. . .
Mr. Metcalfe made a feeling address to the jury on behalf of
the prisoner, and endeavoured to show that she had been the
dupe of the German, who bad seduced her from her master's
home, and had made her his tool to carry on the nefarious
traffic in which he was, no doubt, himself engaged.
Two respectable ladies were summoned who proved that the
prisoner had been in their service, and that she was a very
good girl during the time she was so employed. The mother
was also summoned, and she said that the prisoner behaved
very well until about seven weeks ago, when she left her
house,
and she ascertained that she was living with the Ger-
man.

Mr, Justice Cresswell summed up, and the jury found the
prisoner guilty, but reccommended her strongly to mercy on
account of her previous good character.
Sentence was postponed in order that some further in-
quiries might be made, and that the case of the German
should be disposed of.

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of the let inst., states that on thate day the railway was
opened to the public as far as Ulm, so that an uninter-
•rupted line now exists between Munich and Paris,
Calais
THE PORT OF LONDON. The genera_
BUSINESS a
nd il aoVrre.
business at this port has been very active during the
past week, and the extraordinary magnitude of tle im-
portations helps to account for the drain of specie.
The
number of vessels reported inward was 355, being 126
over that of the previous week. The total quantity of
grain imported was 88,646 quarters, including 62,557
quarters of wheat, in addition to 33,812 barrels and
2,842 sacks of flour. Of sugar there were reported
8,968 hhd., 4,764 casks, 9,869 cases, 72,936 bags, and
987 loaves ; of tea, 63,270 packages ; of rice, 40,515
bags ; of paddy, 24,156 bushels ; of coffee, 17,591 bags
and 4,086 casks ; of wool, 17,854 bales • and of tallow,
2,238 casks. The number of vessels cleared outward
was 109, being ten less than in the previous week. Of,
these, 26 were in ballast, wad 11 for the Australian col°.