The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—CHARGE OF UTTERING A FORGED
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Laurie, charged with uttering a forged cheque for 101.,
with a guilty knowledge.
Mr. H. F. Wood appeared for the prisoner.
Frances Millard, assistant to Messrs. S. S. and J. W,
Benson, jewellers, Ludgate-hill, said that the prisoner
entered his employer's shop on Saturday evening, shortly
after seven o'clock, and selected a gold watch and gold
chain, of the value of 61. 16s. The prisoner asked wit-
ness if he minded taking a cheque. Witness said it was
not
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ba—mary- to do so after banking hours, but if the
prisoner would call again in half an hour, he would
send out in the interim for change, and if he obtained
it he would let the prisoner have the watch and chain.
Thehe
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a:e,itness a cheque for 101., drawn in
Stoate and Co., on the Lambeth
branch of the " Royal British Bank," and made payable

•to a " Mr. Robinson." Witness then sent the shop boy
in a cab to Mr. Stoate (who is a respectable upholsterer,
carrying on business in premises adjoining the bank in
the Westminster-road), and ascertained that the cheque
was not the same used by Mr. Stoate, neither was the
signature in that gentleman's handwriting. The prisoner
did not return, but about an hour after the witness hap-
pening to go to the door, saw the prisoner standing in
front of the house, next door, and beckoned him in, hav-
ng previously instructed the boy to fetch a policeman.
The prisoner said that he received the cheque from Mr.
Stoate on Saturday, after banking hours, but on being
told it was a forgery, he said, if it was a forged cheque,
he knew nothing about it, as he received it in a betting
transaction, but he did not say from whom.
Mr. Wood said the prisoner was a highly respectable
farmer, and being engaged in extensive betting trans-
actions and other gambling matters of a similar nature,
he had received the cheque in payment of a bet, and
uttered it without being aware of its not being a genuine
document. The uncle of the prisoner was in Court, who
would state what he thought would be a complete an-
swer to the case.

Sir Peter Laurie inquired if the uncle had any account
at the Royal British Bank ?
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The uncle said he had not, but his son had, and the
cheque-book used by him was accessible to none but
himself. The prisoner had been staying with him since
the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington, and could
not have been in want of money, as he had property of
his own, upon which he was living.
Sir Peter Laurie said the number on the cheque was
504, and it would not, therefore, be difficult to ascertain
from the Royal British Bank who had the book from
which the cheque had been abstracted. It was a great
temptation to young men of the present generation to
lend themselves to crimes of this description, who flat-
tered themselves with the idea that if detected they
could escape by one of the numerous vessels always lying
in the port of Liverpool to Australia, and make their
fortunes at the diggings. Ho .. k, in the present case,
respectability was no justification of forgery.
The prisoner was then remanded, an application to
bail him being peremptorily refused.

The following note was ilaiß:ed to our reporter by the
sitting magistrate, to cm it was adcires,ed :—" Two
pounds from a lady for the poor woman whose husband
took advantage of Lord Lyndhurst's Act to desert her,
because she was the sister of his first wife."

SOUTHWARK.—John Stokes, the proprietor of a
hardware shop in Kent-street, was placed at the bar be-
fore Mr. A'Beckett, charged with violently assaulting
and threatening to murder Harriet, his wife.
The complainant, who had a sickly-looking infant in
her arms, on ascending the witness-box exhibited ample
proof of the violence exercised towards her, both her
eyes being blackened and swollen, and her arms, from the
wrists upwards, being in a similar condition. She stated
that on Monday morning, at an early hour, while in bed,
the defendant beat her about the head, face, and arms.
She got out of bed in order to escape, but he again
attacked her, and kicked her brutality on the body. She
added that he was in the frequent habit of beating her
in a very unmerciful manner, and that she was not aware
of having given any cause for his acting with such bru-
tality towards her. She handed in a medical certificate,
which described the serious effects on her health, pro-
duced by the blows and kicks inflicted on her person.
Mr. Samuel Gawner, landlord of the Royal Oak, next
door to the defendant's house, stated that on the
morning in question he was alarmed by hearing cries
proceed from the defendant's house. He knew the
voice to be that of the complainant, who ex-
claimed, " Help, help, for God's sake." He im-
mediately ran into the house, and saw the defendant j
knock down his wife, and while she was lying at his
feet he threatened to kill her, using at the same time
language of the most gross and indecent description.
The witness added that he heard the defendant say,
in the presence of a Mr. Denham, that he had thrown
his wife down stairs on three different occasions. Wit-
ness on hearing such an Admission said it was a very
serious thing to treat any woman in such a brutal
manner, upon which the defendant, who seemed to
have relented, said, in allusion to his wife, that she
was one of the best of wives ; and that in future he
should not ill-use her.

In answer to the charge, the defendant said that his
wife aggravated him by her bad temper, and in the heat
of passion he might have used threats towards her, but
that he had no intention of seriously injuring her.
Mr. Salomon said, that the defendant on a former
occasion had been held to bail to keep the peace to-
wards his wife for three months, but that the time
not having yet expired, he had therefore forfeited his
recognisances.

A'Beckett, having in strong terms denounced
the conduct of the defendant towards his wife, inflicted
the full penalty of 51. upon him, besides adjudging him
to enter into his own recognisance in the sum of 401.,
and find two sureties of 201. each, to keep the peace
and be of good behaviour towards all her Majesty's
subjects, but more particularly to his wife.

WESTMINSTER.—CharIes Parr, a man 40 years of
age, was charged with the following heartless robbery:—
The prisoner, in January last, was ostler to William
Adams, a poor man, striving to obtain a subsistence for
himself and large family by driving his own cab. About
that time he was thrown off his cab by accident, and
conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, owing to which
he was unable to pay the Stamp-office duty for the cab ;
and while he was lying ill, his wife, being apprehensive
that the horses and cab would be seized by the authori-
ties, parted with many articles from their scantily-fur-
nished home to raise the required amount, her young
children at the time having scarcely bread to eat. The
prisoner was intrusted with the money, amounting to up-
wards of 31., to take to Nlr. Stowell, a receiver of inland
revenue, and although he was acquainted with the diffi-
culties under which his master and family were labour-
ing, he absconded with it.

The prisoner, who admitted that he had spent the
money, was remanded, in order that the necessary evi-
dence might be procured.

GREENWICH. —Ai arY Ann Oldham, late a nurse in
the union workhouse, was brought before Mr. Seeker for
final examination, charged with the following case of
refined cruelty towards a child aged six years, named
John Hayward, an inmate of the union, by deliberately
burning his hand with a red-hot cinder. •

It appears that the act had been committed more than
three weeks, and had been studiously kept secret by Miss
Southern, the infant-school governess, until a mere acci-
dent brought the affair to the ears of the chairmen of the
board of guardians (Mr. Bracknell Carter), who deemed
it his duty to investigate the circumstances. The burn
occasioned by the cinder had contracted the sinews of
the child's hand in such a manner that its use can never
be fully restored.
Mr. John Wade, one of the guardians, attended to
watch the inquiry ; the master, Mr. Ellis, and Mr.
Saw, the clerk to the board of guardians, being also
present. The case created much interest.
Elizabeth Ellis, one of the nurses, deposed that the
prisoner was head nurse. The little boy was amongst
the children by the fireplace. It was three weeks or a
month ago last Saturday. The child Hayward was at
the fire-guard, and nurse Oldham was poking the fire.
She took a red-hot coal from the grate, put it into the
child's hand and squeezed the hand close. The child
did not scream at the time, but did afterwards. Witness
did not learn that evening the consequence of the act.
The cinder was taken away, and the sufferer placed by
the fireside. The child cried much, but did not say any-
thing. The next morning the child's hand formed a
white blister.

Miss Southern deposed that she is the infant school-
mistress. The children were all under her care. The
child is six years old. It was witness's duty to be pre-
sent at meals. She sat at tea on the following morning,
when the prisoner confessed that " she had committed a
very cruel act." She said the cinder was on the floor,
and she had placed it in the hand of the child, and ad-
mitted that it was a hot cinder. The hand was red
then, but the skin was not broken. Witness would not
have let the matter rest if the hand had not healed.
Dr. Sturton, surgeon to the union house, said his at-
tention was not called to the case until Monday last,
when there was a slight discharge from the wound. The
child was placed in the infirmary, and had been under
his care ever since. The hand of the child was con-
tracted. He (the child) could not close it, nor extend
the fingers. Witness thought the child would never
have the use of its hand wholly again.
Mr. Saw, clerk to the board of guardians, said he was
instructed to ask the magistrate for a summary con-
viction.

Mr. Seeker said he could not deal with the case in
such a way. He should certainly send it to a jury for
trial.

The depositions having been read over by the chief
clerk, and signed by the witnesses, the piisofaer was
fully committed to Newgate for trial.

WORSHIP STREET.—A well-dressed middle-aged
man, named George Mears, was charged before Mr.
IT•tramill with an unprovoked and violent assault upon
Mary Anne Wade, a delicate-looking married woman, in
an advanced state of pregnancy.
The complainant, who appeared greatly agitated,
and exhibited acute personal suffering, stated that
her husband was a person in comfortable circum-
stances, but for a considerable period they had
lived upon very unhappy terms, and he had
recently abandoned her altogether, leaving her with four
children of tender age, without the slightest means of
subsistence. After enduring the severest privation and
distress, she at length received information that her
husband had formed a connection with another woman,
with whom he had taken up his residence at a house
occupied by the prisoner, in Evans-buildings, Shore-
ditch, where she sought an interview with him on
Saturday evening. Not wishing to subject him to need-
less exposure, she tapped gently on the shutters of the
tpin. SheaorlourN window,
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door was hastily opened, and the prisoner rushed out,
and, without uttering a word, seized her by the throat,
and forced her back to the end of the street with
such violence that she could scarcely preserve her foot-
ing. On appealing to some of the bystanders for pro-
tection, the prisoner commenced kicking her in an un-
merciful manner in the lower part of her person, and
ultimately dealt her such a savage kick in the stomach
that she fell back in a state of partial insensibility, and
was supported in the arms of some person in the crowd
until a cab was procured, in which she was conveyed to
her residence. She had been over since confined to her
bd, and still remain in excruciating pain from the effects
of the ill-treatment she had sustained, and which was
calculated to lead to results of a more serious nature, as
she was on the eve of her confinement.
Mr. Hammill ordered the prisoner to pay the full
penalty of 51., or to be committed, in default for two
months to the House of Correction.

'TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1853,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

TATTERSALL'S—MoNDAY.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
20 to 1 agst Galvanism
20 to 1 Richmond
25 to 1 Hirsuta
28 to 1 Grapeshot
25 to 1 The Hatchet
30 to 1 Wedlock filly.
30 to 1 Contentment

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
16 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray
16 to 1 Knight of Gwynne
16 to 1 Sir Peter Laurie
16 to 1 Bourton
25 to 1 Lord George
40 to 1 Widow Machree
DERBY.
14 to 1 agst West Australian
16 to 1 Cineas
16 to 1 Pharos
17 to 1 Umbriel
18 to 1 Orestes
18 to 1 The Reiver
20 to 1 Sittingbourne
40 to 1 Rataplan
50 to 1 Barbatus
50 to 1 Orinoco
50 to 1 Lord Fauconberg
1000 to 15 Honeywood

CHESTER CUP.
50 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn.
50 to 1 Indian Warrior.
50 to 1 Muscovite.
50 to 1 Scarecrow.
100 to 1 Little Jack.

CHESTER CUP.—ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONI3.
Contentment, Friar's Hall, Common Sense (not In-
cense), Brother to Grey Tommy, Aaron Smith, Hirsuta,
Trickstress, Braxey, Madeline, Bit of Blue, Doubt,
Auchinleck, Ploughboy, Montague, Bold Davy, Da,cony,
Coral, Malice, Ida, by lon (and not Ida, by Don John).
(216 subs.)

SEPT]

RES FOR 1853.

Lanark 22
Manchester
Newmarket F. 0 27
Northallerton