The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-25 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday Michael Guilday was brought before Mr. JE-
REMY, charged with being concerned with two other men
not in custody, in knocking down and robbing a gentleman
named Tennant, on the preceding night.
The complainant stated, that as he was returning borne
on the preceding night, about eleven o'clock, as he passed
the corner of White-street, on the Dover-road, he saw
three men, one of whom spoke to him, asking him
where he was going. He replied, that he was going
home, and walked on quickly, in order to avoid them ;
but had not proceeded many yards when he was struck
a violent blow on the back of the head, which felled
him to the ground. While he vas lying prostrate, a
sudden snatch vas made at his tiat, and be then saw
the prisoner and the two other men make off, he made an
alarm, and in a short time afterwards, the prisoner, whom
he immediately recognised as one of the assailants, was
taken into custody. The complainant's hat was found at
a short distance from the spot when the prisoner was se-
cured, but he asseverated his innocence, and accounted for
his having been seen running subsequently to the outrage,
by a declaration that he was hurrying off for a doctor for
his wife, who was taken in the pains of labour a moment
before he left borne.
The complainant having reiterated that he was confident
of the prisoner's identity, the latter acknowledged that on
his way for a medical man he saw the complainant struck
by a man in the road, but that he (prisoner) being in a
state of such anxiety about his wife's precarious situation,
he went on about his business, and did not interfere in the
case. He then said that he was earning an honest liveli-
hood by selling old clothes and other articles, and that the
complainant was completely mistaken in his identity.
Inspector Brown, division M, described that the prisoner
was the associate of thieves, and that he had been fre-
quently in custody on charges of robbery; that he was
constantly lurking about the spot where the complainant
was knocked down, at which place some daring robberies,
attended with violence, had been recently committed.

Several silk pocket-handkerchiefs were found in the pos-
session of the prisoner, who said that he had purchased
them to sell again.
He was fully committed on the capital charge.

John Frederick Muller, a man of military appearance,
wearing mustachios, was charged on suspicion with stealing
a phaeton, the property of Thomas Alford, a coachmaker,
of Newington Butts.

The complainant stated that the prisoner hired a phaeton
from him, for which he was to pay an annual sum as long
as it remained in his possession. Some days ago, however,
the complainant traced his phaeton to the possession of a
pawnbroker in the New Cut, and on questioning him re-
specting it, his reply was, that he had lent the sum of 121.
on the vehicle to the prisoner, who was to have paid him
at the rate of a guinea a quarter for stable-room until he
redeemed it. The pawnbroker also said that the prisoner
did not keep up his payments, and conceiving that the
phaeton was his property, he intended to have disposed of
it, bad not a claimant come forward on the occasion.
The prisoner said that although he was given into cus-
tody on a charge of felony, he had no intention of com-
mitting an act which would have placed him in such a
predicament. He admitted that he had the phaeton of
complainant, agreeing to pay him so much per annum for
its hire, and also that he had borrowed a sum of money
subsequently of the pawnbroker on it ; but that it was
always his intention to have repaid it, to have got the ve-
hicle, and to have given it up to the complainant. Adverse
circumstances, however, had prevented him from carrying
his intention into effect, although, if he had time, it should
be done.

The Magistrate said that a case of illegally pawning was
clearly made out against the prisoner, and therefore the
charge of felony, upon which he had been given into custody,
would be abandoned, the evidence not being sufficiently
strong to constitute that offence. The Magistrate then in-
flicted a fine of 20s. on the defendant, and 2.51., the value of
the phaeton ; and in default of paying these several sums,
he was to be committed three months to hard labour in the
House of Correction.