The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

czyTRAL CRIMINAL CO UR S
_ATURDAY.
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At the sitting of the Court, •
Mr. TnomAs rose, and requested that their Lordships wou, i
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be pleased to appoint a day for the trial of the prisoners Myers
and Pow, against whom a true bill had been returned by the
grand jury for murder.
Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. BODKIN rose and said that they
were both engaged on the same case and on the same side
with Mr. Thomas, and they did not know by what authority
he made the application. It was a case certainly in which
many serious preliminary consultations must take place before
ttny motion could be made on their behalf, to expedite the trial
of the case.
After some conversation an the subject between Mr. Thomas
and the other Counsel,
Mr. Justice BosANQUET—Th. application is certainly
premature.
Up to the time of the rising of the court the application had
not been renewed, although it was understood that an intention
to that effect had existed during the day on the part of the
Counsel for the prosecution ; and it is now deemed probable
that the trial will come on Monday. At the same time, how-
ever, as neither of the prisoners are yet in custody, it is in their
power to postpone the further investigation of the case to any
subsequent day of the session. It is probable that the case will
be tried before Mr. Justice Bosanquet, the senior judge presid-
ing at the present sessions, as the depositions of the witnesses
have been placed in his hands, which is the course of proceed.
tog usually adopted when cases of a serious nature are to be
tried. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Doane are engaged to con-
duct the case for the prosecution, while Mr. C. Phillips, Mr.
Bodkin, and Mr. Thomas are retained for the defence.
Edward Kissac, aged 20, a young man of respectable de-
meanour, was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a
bill of exchange for 75/., with intent to defraud Messrs. Mas-

terman and Co., the bankers.
From the evidence of the witnesses called it appeared that
the prisoner was a young man of respectable family, and re-
sided at Douglas, in the Isle of Man. On the afternoon of
the 12th of July, he entered the Bell Tavern, Gracechurch-
!tree!, and ordered his dinner, which having been served, he
inquired whether the landlady could send some respectable
person to Messrs. Masterman's, to receive some money for
him. She answered that her son would go, and the prisoner
then gave him a letter directed to Messrs. Masterman, toge-
ther with a card, on which his name was written, telling him
that he would receive 751., which he was to bring to him. The
boy presented the note, and the bill directly was discovered to
be a forgery, and of course its payment was refused. The boy
returned to his mother's house, but the prisoner had in the mean
time gone away. Soon afterwards, however, he returned, and was
given into the custody of Forrester, the officer. The prisoner
subsequently wrote to a Mr. Richardson, at Douglas, enclosing
two letters, which he requested he would put into the post-
office for him there. One was addressed to Messrs. Master-
man, and purported to be from Messrs. Holmes, whose signa-
ture to the order had been forged, stating that the bill was
genuine, while the other purported to be from the same par-
ties to the prisoner, apologising to him for the inconvenience
to which he had been subjected. The letters, however, were
handed over to Messrs. Holmes, by Mr. Richardson, and they
at the same time received a letter from the prisoner himself,
confessing that he had forged the note, and imploring forgive-
ness, alleging distress as an excuse for his crime.
The jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty.
SHOTLIFTIN6.—Thomas Row and William Jegery ware
indicted for robbing the shop of John Wills, hosier, in Ox-
ford-street.
The jury found both prisoners Guilty, and the Common Ser-
geant sentenced them to three months' hard labour.
ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY. —John Edward Bertrem, a man
of colour, was indicted for stealing, on the 26th July, a casket
containing an emerald and gold bracelet of the value of 1001.
and other articles of jewellery of the value of 4001., the pro-
perty of Sigismond Leidersdorf, from out of a vessel called the
Victoria, lying in the London Docks. A full account of the
prisoner's examination at the Lambeth-street Police-office ap-
peared in this journal three weeks since.
Witnesses having been examined for the prosecution, the
prisoner in his defence, said that he was drunk, and did not
know what he was doing.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty.
In passing sentence of ten years' transportation the Court
said that the punishment would have been much greater had
not the prisoner used every means in his power to cause the re-
storation of the property after his apprehension.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEN.

A FEMALE HIGHWAY ROBBER.—On Saturday Sarah James,
a notoriously thief, was examined, charged with assaulting a
gentleman named Harris, on the highway, and stealing from
his person a purse containing two sovereigns and some silver.
The prosecutor stated that at two o'clock in the morning
he was walking along Gray's Inn-road on his way home,
when the prisoner suddenly pounced upon him, and asked if
he had any money. He told her that he had not, and after
threatening to give her in charge if she molested him, he pro-
ceeded on, but had riot gone many yards before the accused
rushed at him, and drew from his pocket a purse contain-
ing the amount before stated. He pursued her, crying,
" Stop thief," and she was captured by a policeman of the
E division.
The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was fully
committed to Newgate.
INFAMOUS CASE.—lsaac Abrahams appeared, pursuant to
his recognizances, to be examined on the charge of coining.
Duke, the officer of this establishment, said that on Mon-
day last a warrant was entrusted to himself and brother con-
stables, Edwards and Hall, by the solicitor of the Mint, au-
thorising them to search the house of the prisoner, who had
been charged on oath with coining. At eight o'clock in the
morning witness and the other officers met according to ap-
pointment. The person who had given the information of
the offence imputed to the defendant, by his conduct there,
at once convinced witness that something was wrong, as be
evinced the most deadly hatred towards the accused, and in the
most fiendish manner chuckled at the idea of having him sen-
tenced to be transported. What tended more especially to
confirm witness in the opinion he had formed was the cir-
cumstance of the informer relating minutely the number of
pieces of counterfeit coin, the sort of paper they were
wrapped in, and the spot where they would be found. Having
arrived at the prisoner's house, the door being ajar, witness
and his companions went straight to the working room of the
prisoner, who was making a pair of boots, and almost un-
awares to him, secured him. The poor fellow, on finding him-
self thus roughly handled, screamed out most tremendously,
and appeared almost frantic ; but when shown the base money
which witness had by this time taken from the place in the
exact condition mentioned by the informer, he called out in a
most heart-rending manner " I'm sold, I'm sold," and then
fainted away. Witness and the others with considerable diffi-
culty recovered him, and having allayed his fears they ques-
tioned him, when it appeared too truly that the base money
had been placed in his room some time during his absence by
either the informer or someone in league with him, with a view
of banishing him for life, they having, on various previous oc-
casions, ineffectually attempted his destruction.
Mr. Powell, the solicitor for the Mint, said he was satisfied
that it was a conspiracy to ruin the prisoner.—The prisoner
was discharged.

MARLB OROUGH- STREET.
John Harris was fully committed for trial, for stealing a
cloak from the carriage of Sir James Clarke, Bart., of George-
street.