The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

CRIMINAL CoURT.L&HURSDAY

Joseph Deans, RichardD Cozen, John Allen, John King, and
OL COURT.
Richard Conquest, appeared to an indict•rient for cutting and
wounding James Piper and others, in flu: employment of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with intent
to do them some grievous bodily harm. Joined in theindict-
ment are Robert Hedges, George Allen, James Pearce, and
John Russell, who did not appear. Th a prisoners pleaded
Guilty.
Mr. Justice PAT rrsoN said he would look carefully into the
depositions, in order to ascertain the degl ve of violence used
by each of the prisoners so as to apportion their punishment.
POST- OFFICE PROSECCTION.--Geo.rge IV Veiling, aged 34,
was indicted for stealing, embezzling, and secreting four post
letters while in the employ of the Ge acrid Post Office. In
this case which was not concluded yesterday when we went to
press, the Jury returned a verdict fin dirig- the prisoner guilty
of secreting lettters.

NEW CO uR:r.
Mary TVearing, a respectable middle—aged woman, surren-
dered to take her trial on a charge of thwt she, being servant to
J. S. Masters, received one shilling ow h is account, which sho
afterwards embezzled, and stole the sa.mc
The Rev. John Smallman Master 3 is a Clergyman at
Greenwich, and within the year the- :prisoner was his ser-
vant. Witness was Treasurer to the Greenwich Provident
Society, and the prisoner was employed by the trustees as a
collector. The shilling alluded to was received in 1937, be-
fore the death of the late King.
The CoMsioN SERGEANT said that the 'charge was at an end
for the indictment stated the oWence to have been committed
in April, in the first year of the reign or Victoria; whereas it
was well known that she was not Queen:. :at that time.
Mr. CLARKSON would put a question to the Reverend
witness, in order to show that the indict meat was bad in an-
other respect.
Mr. Masters said that the Society TOecnne defunct in De-
cember, 1836.
The Learned JUDGE said that it ti vas impossible that the
prisoner could be a servant of a Societ y -which did not exist.
The Jury, under direction, returned 'a verdict of acquittal.
Margaret Edwards, a very well-favou.red girl, aged 17, was
indicted for stealing a watch, value dl., the property of Mary
Humphreys, a lady living at Edmonton, to whom she was a
servant. •
The prosecutris, cn the day named in the indictment, went
to church, when she left her watch on t he mandepiece, and on
her return she beheld the key and ribl. sun hanging out of her
bosom, and witness could hardly believe her own eyes. When
she questioned her the prisoner humr.ae 1 and haa'd, but said
nothing.—( Laughter.)
The CosuMoN SERGEANT left it to the Jury to say whether
the fact of the prisoner putting the watch in her bosom could
be construed hito a felonious taking?

prisoner They thoughtirer u
not, and acquitted
indicted fpmacquittedhcr
The
stealing
seven
sove-
reigns, the property of the same proses
Mrs. Humphreys, on the 2d of A (the day after that
referred to hi the last c.zse) came to Loudon, and when she
got home she Lai seven sovereigns in a little hag in the inside
of her gown. When she went to be a ti'o prisoner "undid"
her, and the sovereigns dropped out, keul the prisoner took
them and bought fine clothes.
In this state of the inquiry along discussi )n arose Owing to
the following circumstanc :—When the prisoner was put to
the Bar on the first charge, she annoußeed that her friends had
employed an attorney and Counsel. No attexney answering-,
and no Counsel having a brief, Mr. Clarkson,. -with his accus-