The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING-, SEPTEMBER 12, 1849.

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Sept.

(Before THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a Bench of Ma
gistrates.)

THE FRAIL FAIR ONE AND THE BENEDICT.—
Ann Scott, 25, a fashionably-dressed young woman,
was indicted for stealing a silver watch and chain
from the person of William Truscott.
Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor, a dapper little man of rather
consequential appearance, said that he lived at No.
4, Dean-street, 'Cooley-street, Southwark, and that
about two o'clock on the morning of the 14th
of August, he was proceeding along the Bo-
rough towards home, a little the worse
for liquor, and as he was St.
passing
George's Church, the prisoner accosted h'm and
asked him to treat her. lie refused to do so,andtohlids
her he was going home, when she took hold of
arm and walked with him some distance. When near
Mermaid-court she suddenly snatched his watch from
him and ran away. He immediately pursued her,
and called out " Stop thief," and as she was running
away a policeman caught hold of her and found the
watch in her right hand.
In cross-examination, witness said he had a wife
and six children, and he told the former he had been
robbed, but did not say by a female.
Alfred West, police-constable 60 M, said that he
saw the prisoner and the prosecutor walking together
for some time. He was drunk, and suspecting that
something was intended, he watched them into Mer-
maid.court. The prisoner suddenly ran out, and
bearing " Stop thief," he stopped her, and Sergeant
Brandf'ord came up and took the watch from her
right hand. She said that the watch was her pro.
perty.
In defence, Mr. CHARNOCK addressed the bench.

The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the jury found
her Guilty.
The COURT said that such robberies had become so
frequent that some example must be made; he should
therefore sentence her to twelve months' hard labour
at Brixton.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George Stanley Mann, the keeper of one of the
numerous eating-houses in Bucklersbury, was sum-
moned before the Lord Mayor, by Mr. Price, clerk
to a stockbroker, under the following circum-
stances :
Mr. Charles Price, who is a young man of gentle-
manlike appearance and address, made a statement,
of which the following is the substance :
The complainant, on the sth of September, dined
at the defendant's house, and received amongst change
for a half-sovereign a bad sixpence from him. The
complainant pointed out the spurious money to the
defendant, who, however, thought proper merely to
it, and walk away. The complainant then
bent the sixpence, and again called the attention of
the landlord to it, whereupon the latter threw down
another sixpence, and began to curse and abuse his
customer without measure. The complainant walked
out of the house, spoke to a policeman, who accom-
panied him back and asked the defendant to make an
apology for such gross language in the presence of
the officer. So reasonable a demand, instead of being
complied with, had the effect of provoking the land-
lord not only to the use of worse language, but to the
exercise of personal violence. To the astonishment
of gentlemen who were in the other parts of the
room the defendant struck Mr. Price with his double
fist on the back of the neck, and pushed him out of
the house.

Mr Joseph Hare, a merchant, who was at a distant
part of the dining room when this remarkable scene
took place, described the surprise and confusion caused
by the brutal violence of the person charged ; and the
policeman who accompanied the complainant into the
house, when the latter sought the satisfaction of an
apology, stated that the gentleman did not retaliate a
word of the insolent abuse which had been heaped
upon him.
The defendant, who employed a solicitor upon the
occasion, denied that he had struck the defendant, and
stated that he had been exasperated by what he con-
sidered to be an imputation upon his character by the
complainant, as if he were capable of the offence of
uttering bad money.
The LORD MAYOR—I certainly consider the case a
very gross one, which it is impossible not to take
serious notice of.
The defendant here begged leave to apologise to
the complainant, and implored that allowance might
be made for such a departure from his usual course of
conduct.
The Loan MAYOR—My decided impression is that
I ought to send the case to the sessions.
The defendant moat earnestly entreated that his
Lordship would adjudicate upon the question, and said
he was ready to pay any penalty which the Bench
might be disposed to inflict.
The LORD MAYOR (the complainant having made
no objection to the proposal for a prompt adjudication)
said—Well, as I perceive that you are really sorry for
your conduct, and as you make an apology, which the
gentleman seems willing to accept, I fine you the sum
of 2/. and costs.
The defendant paid the penalty and departed, appa-
rently well satisfied with the result.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday, a carman, named Mark Grover, of No.
4, Valentine place, Blackfriars-road, was charged
before Mr. Alderman Lawrence with having violently
assaulted two men under the following circum- I

stances :

Lewis Hammond, of No, 4, William-street, Ken-
nington, said that about two o'clock the previous
afternoon he was driving his omnibus in Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, and was about passing the
defendant, who was driving a horse and cart between
him and the rank of cabs, but in consequence of one
of them being rather out of the line, he saw there
was not room, and therefore called to the driver of the
cart to pull his horse nearer to the pavement. Instead
of doing so, he caught hold of the horse's head, and
pushed him against the omnibus, evidently with the
intention of causing a collision, but he did not succeed.
On passing he gave the cart-horse a slight touch with
the whip, to make it move on one side, when the pri-
soner commenced giving him a severe horsewhipping.
He leaped off the omnibus, and was savagely attacked
by the prisoner, who, using the butt-end of his whip,
gave him a tremendous blow over the head, which
felled him to the ground, and he was conveyed in an
insensible state to the nearest surgeon's, where he had
his wounds dressed.
Alderman LAWRENCE —How far was the prisoner
from the edge of the pavement ? Hammond—From
two to three feet.
Alderman LAWRENCE asked for the medical cer-
tificate.
Samuel Kelt, the officer, here handed it up. It was
as follows :
" I hereby certify that Lewis Hammond is seriously
injured, the scalp bruised and cut, and the temporal
artery divided.

" CHARLES HoLDENs, Surgeon.
" 13, New Bridge-street, Sept. 11, 1849."
Nicholas Curasa, the conductor, corroborated the
above evidence, and added that on kis attempting to
interfere, the prisoner gave him a very heavy blow,
cutting through his hat and inflicting a severe wound
on the crown of his head.

A letter was handed to the Alderman from the pri-
soner's master, Mr. P. Wood, of the Surrey saw-mills,
wh ) gave him an excellent character.
Alderman LAWRENCE—WeII, prisoner, what have
you to so.y in defence ?
Grover—Why I was not more than half a foot from
the kerbstone. When the complainant called out I
pulled the horse on the pavement, anti as soon as he
had got a little way passed he whipped my horse and
I whipped him.
Alderman LAWRENCE—But what do you say to
using the butt-end of the whip ?
Grover—Why he was coming to strike me, and I
used the whip as I did to prevent him.
Alderman LAWRENCE said that whatever the omni-
bus driver did to the prisoner's horse, nothing could
justify him in using the butt-end of his whip, and
breaking the heads of two men. He should, there-

fore, fine him 40s. for the assaults, or one month's
imprisonment, and he hoped it would be a caution to
him in future.

The money not being forthcoming, he was con.
veyed to prison ; but at a later period of the day his
wife appeared with it, and she was directed to take it
to the Giltspur-street Compter, where her husband
was.

THE BITER BIT. A well-known young thief,
named John Wheeler, was charged with attempting
to steal a pocket-handkerchief.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. George
Spooner, of 28, King-street, Smithfield, that he had
lost several pocket-handkerchiefs lately, and he there-
fore made up his mind to see if he could not detect
the depredator on his pocket. He accordingly took
the precaution of pinning his handkerchief to his
pocket, and on coming out of the Red Lion public-
house he waited for an instant at the door, when he
suddenly felt a tug at his pocket, and on turning
sharply round he saw the prisoner with the handker-
chief in his hand, although it was still pinned to the
pocket. He then gave the prisoner into custody.
Wheeler, in defence, said he knew nothing of the
handkerchief. , He merely pushed against the gen-
tleman, and was given into custody.
Alderman LAWRENCE, not believing him, sentenced
him to three months' hard labour in the House of
Correction.