The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-23 00:00:00

A MAN ABOUT TOWN.

Frederick Herbert, 41, described as a labourer, but of
stylish appearance, and wearing a moustache, pleaded
guilty to an indictment charging him with forging a
cheque for 321. 10s., and also with having been pre-
viously convicted of felony.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, obtained some
goods from Mr. Falcke, a tradesman in Oxford-street,
representing himself to be the Hon. F. Cholmondeley,
and gave a cheque in payment, signed in that name.
The prisoner is a well-known " man about town," and
in 1847 he was convicted of felony, and sentenced to be
transported for seven years.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to be transported
for fourteen years.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin.)
ATTEMPT AT EXTORTION BY A BOY.

Jo/an Youard, 14, servant, was indicted for feloniously,
accusing Joseph Kahn of an unnatural crime, with in-
tent to extort from him the sum of 1001.

Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry prosecuted ; and Mr.
Clarkson appeared for the prisoner, who is a respectable-
looking youth.

Mr.-ballantine having stated the case to the jury,
called

The prosecutor, who is proprietor of the celebrated
anatomical museum in Regent-street, and the substance
of his evidence, which is unfit for detail in full, went to
prove that he took the prisoner into his service to drive
a horse and chaise and deliver bills of the exhibition.
The prisoner came to him in a very destitute state, and
prosecutor kindly forwarded him a few pounds to buy
what he required, he (prosecutor) finding him a living.
After he had been a short time in prosecutor's employ-
ment, he complained of being unwell, and was in conse-
quence absent from his employment. When he came back
he again complained of being unwell, and Dr. Kahn
then gave orders that he should be attended to by a me-
dical gentleman, who could not find that anything was the
matter with him, and they thought that he was only pre-
tending to be unwell to avoid his work. After some time
the prisoner told the prosecutor that he was unwell in
consequence of what he (prosecutor) had done to him ;
and then, much to the surprise of the prosecutor, he
made the charge in question, which is unfit for publica-
tion. The prosecutor was much excited at hearing such
a statement, and asked the boy who had instigated him
to make such an infamous charge ; but he denied that
any one had done so, and persisted in his statement, and
ultimately said that he had heard through the papers
that a boy at Birmingham had got 3001. out of a person
to suppress a charge of a similar character. The prose-
cutor finally consented to come to some arrangement,
and having consulted the police, the result was that at the
interview, when the prosecutor, as prisoner thought, was
about to accede to his terms, some of the police were
hidden in the room, so that the whole conversation could
be overheard. A written agreement was then drawn up,
and signed by the prisoner, by which he bound himself
not to further annoy Dr. Kahn if 50/. was paid down,
and a further 50/. at some future period. As soon as the
prisoner had signed the paper, the police came from their
hiding place, and prisoner then fell upon his knees, and
begged forgiveness, at once admitting that the whole
charge was untrue, and entreated for his father's sake
that the charge would not be pressed.
The prosecutor, who was most minutely cross-exa-
mined by Mr. Clarkson, firmly and positively de-
nied each of the particular portions of the impropriety
imputed to him, and most distinctly asserted that he had
never in any way at all touched the prisoner, or had ever
to his knowledge been in the company of the prisoner
without some other person being pre-;ent.
The statements made by the prosecutor were fully
borne out by the otherwitne,ses.

Mr. Clarkson, on behalf of the prisoner, said the posi-
tion he was placed in was a very painful one, as he felt,
after hearing the evidence given by the prosecutor, that
he was in every particular speaking the truth. Still it
became his duty to put certain questions, and he thought
it better that he had done so, as it had given him the
opportunity of answering them ; and after he (Mr.
Clarkson) had heard him answer some half-dozen inter-
rogatories, he felt it was no part of his duty to further
press the defence, and therefore, consistent with his duty,
he should retire, considering he had done all that a coun-
sel was called upon to do. Still he could not account
for the motive which had led the prisoner, who was very
young, to make so heinous a charge.
Mr. Baron Martin said Mr. Clarkson had acted in a
manner perfectly consistent and honourable, and he (the
learned judge) had allowed the case to go to a greater
length than was necessary to ensure the prisoner's con-
viction, in order that a man in his prosecutor's position
should have a full opportunity of clearing his character,
and he felt bound to say that he had entirely done so,
and that there was not the slightest ground for the im-
putation which had been cast upon him.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Clarkson said that up to June the prisoner had
been kept at school, and had run away from there and
from his parents, and proposed to call his father.
Mr. Baron Martin said that, if he did, it would not
alter his view of the sentence he was about to pass.
Such cases called for the utmost severity of the law.
After some further remarks, he ordered him to be trans-
ported for the term of his natural life.

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