The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-03 00:00:00

ing that his father had had but one dealing, and that
with the accused, on the day when it was pretended the
debt was contracted with Mr. Halliman. The mistaken
identity of Mr. Blagden, sen., in respect to the purchase
and suit in the county court then became apparent, to
the satisfaction not only of himself, but to others who
had fallen victims to injury and misrepresentation
through the prisoner's delinquencies, and on his appre-
hension being made known to the trade, a host of per-
sons appeared to-day to prefer charges against him.
The evidence of Mr. Dawson went to show that in July
last he sent the prisoner, with another man named Clare,
for three loads of straw to be laden at the Eastern
Counties Railway, and directed them to wait there until
his arrival. He followed in about two hours, but the
men and his property had gone, and he did not see the
accused again until he was in custody. On the same
night Clare returned with the horses and empty carts,
and, in explanation, said that, after obtaining the hay,
the prisoner told him he had been authorised to sell it,
and he persuaded him (Clare) to accompany
him with the property, which was disposed of,
some in the Curtain-road, and the remaining
load and a half was purchased by Mr. Searle,
of Milton-street, for the sum of 2/. ss. After which the
prisoner gave his companion the slip. Before and after
that occurrence, the accused has been waylaying yokels
as they arrived in town with hay and straw, representing
different corn-dealers, and by such means he has com-
mitted innumerable robberies.

Mr. Searle and Clare were then examined, and having
deposed to those facts, the prisoner was fully committed
on the charge.
Several countrymen who had been plundered of their
hay and straw by the prisoner in the manner described,
substantiated their several charges, and upon them the
prisoner was likewise sent for trial.
On the removal of Titmouse from the bar, Mr. Wake-
ling again addressed the Court, stating that Mr. Blag-
den was now reluctantly induced to press that Halli-
man, jun„ should be committed to take his trial for wil-
ful and corrupt perjury. His client, who had been
grievously vexed and put to a vast expense, felt it to be
due to his character and station in society to adopt that
painful course.
The prisoner, who gave his name Urban, Halliman,
was then placed at the bar.
Mr. Jenkins, a short-hand writer and reporter, pro-
duced notes of evidence given by the accused at Clerken-
well County Court, in the cause of Halliman v. Blagden.
The prisor ~3r, on that occasion, swore that he sold to the
prosecutor oue load of hay for Si. 175., on the 24th of
March last, and delivered the same at the residence of
that gentleman, who now most positively deposed that
he had never had any dealing whatever with the accused
or his father, who were strangers to him up to the very
day when Mr. Halliman, sen.' applied for payment on
the 26th of the same month, but that he did, on the
before-mentioned day, purchase one load of cover hay
from the prisoner Titmouse for 3/. 55., the latter giving
a receipt for it in the name of "J, Stranger," in the
presence of Mr. Blagden, his son, his niece, and three
other witnesses.

Those several witnesses were now severally examined
against the prisoner, who was fully committed on the
serious charge.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Jolin Keene was
charged with having enlisted in the militia, received 10s
bounty, and absconded.
The prisoner did not deny the offence.
Mr. Hardwick committed him for the full period of
six months.

WESTMINSTER.—Upon the Rochester-row charge-
sheet, appeared the name of Arthur Groombridge, who
had been taken into custody for being drunk during his
employment as a cab-driver. When the case in its turn
was called on, the police informed Mr. Broderip that the
man had died in his cell, and entered into the
following particulars :—The deceased was driving
a cab in Westminster on the previous afternoon,
and' having come into collision with another car-
riage, was thrown off the driving box to the ground.
After being examined by a surgeon, and pronounced un-
hurt, he was found to be so intoxicated that he was con-
veyed to the police-station in Rochester-row, and placed
in one of the cells. He was visited from time to time
till half-past nine at night, when he was discovered in a
state of stupor, and Mr. G. Pearse, the police divisional
surgeon, was sent for, who administered restoratives,
and in a few minutes the man apparently so perfectly
recovered as to joke about his drunkenness. He was
then reconveyed to the cell, and a pillow having been
placed under his head, he appeared to be doing well. In
the course of another hour he was found to be sinking
into another stupor, was brought out, and two medical
men sent for, but he died in a few minutes. At the
time medical aid was first procured, his head and body
were carefully examined, but be bore no appearance of
injury, although the collision which had produced the
fall was so violent, that it was found necessary to kill
his master's horse, which he was driving, in the course
of the evening, owing to its wounds.