The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-20 00:00:00

CRIIIJNAL CO URT-WEDN ESDA Y .

OLD 60
Joseph Groves, twenty-three }ears of dgti, Wiis indicted for
feloniously wounding Thomas Allen, with intent to du him
some grievous bodily harm.
From the statement of the prosecutor, who is the landlord
of the Bridge Tavern, Vauxhall, it appeared that the pri-
soner is a waterman, and he threatened to " mark" the prose-
cutor in consequence of the latter expelling him his house.
Accordingly, on the night of the 26th of August, the prisoner
drove up in a cab to the house of the prosecutor, and endea-
voured to enter it, and bring in along with him two femal, s.
The prosecutor refused to allow them to enter, when the pri-
soner strUcii him with a short piece of wood, shod with iron,
On the head, and wounded him dangerously. The police was
called, kind the pris-ner was taken into custody. The prisoner
was found Guiltt, and sentnced to six months' imprisonment
an .I hard labour in the Stifroy gaol.
Eliza Burr, aged se,ei:teen, wts found Guilty of break-
ing and entering the liquse of her late master, James Alex-
ander Mathews, and stealing tlicreout several articles of
wearing apparel.

NEW COURT.
Ann Hodgson was indicted for stealing a pair of shoes from
Edward Erasmus Ilinde, a child under three years of age.
Sarah Ann Hindc, seven years of age, on the day in question
was walking along the Curtain-road with her infant brother,
when the prisoner accosted her by asking his name, and then,
after carrying the babe, she asked witness to fetch her some
flour, and she (prisoner) would take care of the child the
while, and reward her on her return. When witness returned
she found her little brother bad been abandoned by the pri-
soner, who had decamped with his shoes. The witness was
confirmed by the mother of the children. The Jury returned
a verdict of Guilty.
The COMMON SERJEANT said it appeared (referng to his
" black book") that the prisoner had been imprisoned for
something before, and, as there were two other charges simi-
lar to the last, he would put her upon her trial on one of them.
The circumstances of the case were that the prisoner had
stripped a child of the name of Hunt, almost to a state of
nudity, and, as in the last, case, while the little girl who had
the charge of it was sent by her on some trifling errand.—
Verdict, Guilty.
The CownoN SERJEANT should not try the prisoner on the
third indictment. The judgment of the Court was that she.
be transported beyond the seas for ten years,
THE THIMBLE RlO.—Charles Williams, an itinerant horse
dealer, was indicted for stealing four half-crowns and five shil-
lings, the property of Ludwig Dombrowski, a native of Poland.
At the late Uxbridge Fair, the prisoner was at the General
Elliott public-house, at Denham, a village hard by, in the
county of Bucks. The prisoner and several of his " pals"
were there, and thimbles were handed about, yet it did not
appeal that any game was actually commenced. The party,
however, contrived to cajole the prosecutor out of 15s. The
defence was that the money was only " borrowed."
The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to one year's hard labour in the Home of Correction.