The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

was no such person as John Anderson, of Kirton, near
Brigg, and that moreover the signature was in the
prisoner's handwriting.
His Loßosntr, in summing up, told the jury that
to sg-n male of a non•exinting pertqn to a bill
of el:C‘st,:;‘e was 5 forg,,,ry ; rind th,a it the prLoner
uttero:..; such a bill, 'Knowing that the signature was
not that of the person whose signature it purported
to he, he committed the felony with which he was
charged.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
He was then tried on another charge of uttering a
forged bill of exchange, drawn on his father-in-law,
who lives at Selby, and also found Guilty.
His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned one
month on the first charge, and to he transported seven
years on the second.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
MAI?3' LEBOA E.
Charlotte Taylor, cook to Mr. John Churchill. a
medical publisher, ri,iding at No. 1, St, Petersburg-
pl ace,B s water, arid John Taylor, her son, a boy about
fourteen years of age, were brought before the sitting
magistrate, Mr. Long, charged under the following
circumstances :
Police- serge.int 27 D deposed that on the preceding
evening, as he was on duty near Mr. Churchill's
dwelling, he met the boy carrying on his shoulders a
heavy ;%undle, and on stopping him and asking what
it contained, he replied, "only some dirty clothes
and broken victuals." Witness examined it, and
found therein two half quertern loaves, some cooked
and uncoola d mutton, and some bacon, butter, can-
dles, and other articles. He repaired to the prose-
cutor's house, which was pointed out to him by the
boy, whom he took with him, and on ringing the
bell the female prisoner opened the door to him ; he
questioned her as to whether she had given the
property to the boy, when she replied that she had
not, but she supposed he must have got it at a house
lower down. Witness was then taking the boy to the
station, when the female ran after him and said, " The
boy is my own child, I gave him the vietuals to carry
home, and I hope you will overlook it, as he has no
father." Both the prisoners were then conveyed to
the station-house and locked up.
The female prisoner, in answer to the charge, said,
that she bought the bread herself, and that the drip-
ping was one of her perquisites.
Mr. Churchill had no doubt whatever as to the
whole of the articles produced being his. The wages
of his cook were 161. per year, and there could there-
fore be no excuse on the score of poverty for robbing
him. He, however, did not wish to press severely
against her, and he should prefer the case being dealt
with summarily to its going before a jury.
Mr. LONG told him that in such a matter he could
not comply with his request. He should discharge
the boy, but the mother must be committed for trial.
She was then locked up.
SOUTHWARK.
Thomas Chaffey and Thomas Seaman, two well-
dressed young men, were yesterday, at Southwark
Police-court, brought before Mr. Seeker, charged
with stealing 201. from the person of James Ilsley,
landlord of the Rose and Crown, Drury-lane.
The complainant stated that on the preceding night
he went into the Strand Hotel and Tavern, near
Catherine. street, and while standing at the bar the
two prisoners walked into the house, and after some
little time they entered into conversation. At length
complainant mentioned that he wanted to go over the
water, and he called a cab, and as the prisoners- said
they were going in the same direction he invited them
into the vehicle, and when they got to the Surrey
Coffee house, in Blackfi iars-road, they all alighted
and went into the house and partook of some coffee.
As he had no small change about him, he took from
his pocket a 10/. and Si. Bank of England notes, in
which were wrapped up four sovereigns and two half-
sovereigns, and opening the notes in order to get
change of one of the half-sovereigns to pay for the
refreshment, Chaffey snatched the whole of the money
out of his hands. He (complainant) immediately
started up and demanded the restitution of his notes
and gold, and was in the act of seizing Chaffey when
the latter passed the money into the hands of his
fellow-prisoner, at the same time insisting that be
(complainant) had lent it to him, and that he should
repay him on another occasion. Complainant, know-
ing the falsehood of the prisoner's assertion, again
demanded the return of his money, but was only
laughed at, and as the prisoners were about to quit
the room, he called a policeman and gave them into
custody, Chaffey for robbing him of 201., and his
associate for receiving the money, knowing it to have
been stolen. The complainant added that he was
present when the prisoners were searched, upon which
occasion Chaffey returned him the Si. note, and the
remainder of the 20/, together with other moneys,
was found in the other prisoner's possession.
In reply to Mr. Seeker, complainant said that he
was perfectly sober et the time ; that he had pre-
viously seen Chaffey on two or three occasions at his
house in Drury-lane. When he (complainant) de-
manded his money after it was snatched out of his
hands in the way described, Chaffey began to abuse
him, using the most scurrilous language. Chaffey
had no claim whatever upon him, for he was a person
that he knew very little about ; and that he would
not lend him a shilling, much less 201.
Policeman Rornayne, 3S 1., stated that about a
quarter be.'ore ten o'clock on the preceding night,
while on duty in Blackfriars-road, he was informed
that a man had been robbed of a considerable sum of
money in the Surrey Coffee- house. He immediately
proceeded there, and found the complainant and the
two prisoners in one of the boxes, when the complain-
ant charged the two latter with plundering him of
201., end described at the same time the circumstances
under which he had been deprived of his money. The
policeman insisted on searching the prisoners, and in
Seaman's pockets he-found thirteen sovereigns, a ten
pound note, together with five half-sovereigns, all of
which money he said belonged to himself. While he
(policeman) was searching Seaman, he observed
Chaffey h.,nd over a five-pound note to complainant,
saying, " Here it is back, but you know that you lent
me the money." The other made answer and said,
"You know it to be a falsehood ; you snatched all my
money, and passed most part of it to your companion.
The policeman aided that he subsequently took the
prisoners in custody to the station house.
Chaff-y, who exhibited much impatience during
the statement of the case, now begged that he might
be permitted to give his version of the affair. He
then proceeded to describe that he had met his fellow-
prisoner, fur the first time in his life, on the previous
night, at a public house near Drury-lane, and that
their acquaintance arose from the circumstance of the
young man accidentally upsetting a glass of wine on
the counter. That they left the house together, and
went to Mr. Short's in the Strand, where they met with
the comp!aieant, with whom they had something to
drink, and who afterwards invited them to take a seat
in a cab over the water. That they pulled up at the
Surrey Coffee-house, and while sitting there he bor-
rowed 10/. of the complainant, and commenced tossing
for money with his fellow-prisoner, and the complain—
ant joined in the play. Seaman, however, was the
winner of a large sum of money from his antagonists,
and complainant vexed at the circumstance, imme-
diately accused both of them with robbery, when the
stakes that were laid were taken off the table.
Complainant—l deny the truth of the assertion
that I lent you a farthing, for the fact is, I would not
trust you with a hint of porter.
Chaffey continued—lt is useless for Mr. Ilsley to
say that I am almost a stranger to him, when he
knows the fact to be otherwise, and that we have been
long and intimate acquaintances. Why, it was only
last Tuesday we were at the docks, and afterwards
went to dine together. The prisoner then asked the
policeman if he did not say, when accused of the rob-
bery in the coffee house, that the complainant bad lent
him the money.
Tile policeman replied in the affirmative, but added
that the complainant denied the assertion, and insisted
that he had been robbed of his money.
Mr. SECKER a,ked the complainant if any betting
or tossing was going for ward in the coffee-house ?
The complainant admitted that there was between
the prisoners, but that it was all " sham," and that
he diii not j tin in it, and he reiterated that he was
plundered of the money precisely in the way he
described.
Mr. SECKER observed, that he should call upon the
prisoners to enter into sureties of 201. each, to appear
at that Court on the 2d of January, and that the com-
plainant, if he wished it, night have an opportunity
of indicting them at the Sessions.
The policeman was then directed to restore the
whole of the money claimed by the complainant, and
the remainder to he given up to the prisoners.

A MtscILCULATION.-011 Tuesday a young man,
named Riehards.nt, who had been paying his address,
to the • daughter of Mrs. Brunston, of the Bow Br;dge
Inn, Leicester, shot himself. Deceased, who w. a a
house paintc.r, became acquainted with the young woman
this. autumn. A few we,ks since, whilst at ag« ntle-
house, he stole a small picture, and though, wh,
first taxed witli the theft, he treated the charge with the
air of injured innocence, he ultimately confessed and
gave it up. The charge was not pre:«sed, but he lost
his situation, and w,s sent out of the town back to his
fri,nds. A shalt time since he calm, hick to Leices-
ter and pitempt« d to renew the acquaintance with the
young v«0111«ln. Not meetihg with the encouragement
he wished, he apparently resolved to shoot himself ;
though, from the mode in which his double-breasted
waistcoat was arranged, and from a scarf being
Itund folded up as a sort of pirl, and the pistol being
very small, and loaded with shot instead of a bullet, it.
is pot:able he intended to do himself only so much harm
as initOt have induced Mrs. Branston to lake him into
her house out of compassion. Miscalculating the dis-
tance at which he should fire, the whole of the charge of
small shot entered so close together as to pioduce the
effeet of a buyer. An inquest was held on Friday after-
neon. Deceased had once been placed in a lunatic asy-
lum. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."—Lincoln.shire
Mercury.