The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
IV 0 R Sil/P- 87 REF, T.
-UTTERING FO'iiG4 D ()TES.— William Harris, a
young man of respectable appearance, described as a
solicitor's clerk, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Arnold, charged with having uttered a 5/. Bank of
England note to Mrs. Martha Wilton, living in Essex--
street, Kingsland road.
A young woman, named Mary Bird, stated that
e. she lodged at the house of Mrs. Wilton, and had
- been intimately acquainted with the prisoner for
upwards of a twelvemonth. On the evening of the
• 21st ult., while passing down the Kingsland road she
met the prisoner, who invited her into a public-
house to the sums refreshment, but she objected to
• do so, and proposed that he should accompany her
home for that purpose. The prit oiler accorstingly
repaired with her to her lodgings, where he sent out
for half-a-pint of brandy, in payment of which he
handed a 5/. note to her landlady, and requested her
• to bring him the change. The latter procured the
liquor, and returned 41 18s. 6d. to the prisoner, who
• left the house almost immediately, and they were
subsequently apprised by the barman of the public-
• house, who had given change for the note, that he had
ascertained it to be a forgery. She saw nothing more
of the prisoner until last Saturday evenirg, when she
met him in the neighbourhood, and at once charged
him with having passed a forged note to her landlady ;
•e• to which he made no direct reply, but seemed anxious
to elude her, and turned hastily down an adjoining
street. She followed him closely, however, and kept
him in conversation till a policeman made his appear-
. ante, and she was about to give him into custody
- when her intentions were anticipated by the prisoner,
who gave her in charge for annoying him in the
) streets. On reaching the station house, however, she
communicated all the circumstances to the inspector
on duty, wiTo ordered her immediate liberation, and
5 detained the prisoner upon the present charge.
Adelaide Doudney, a fellow lodger of the last wit •
- ness, deposed positively to the prisoner being the
g /
'6 person who uttered the note, villich was produced in
6 court, and identified by the landlady as the same she
5 had received from him.
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William Williams, barman at the Carpenters'
4% Arms, Kingsland.road, end three other witnesses,
6% through whose hands the note had subsequently
9 passed, were examined as to its identification ; the
2% last of whom, a corn factor, named Johnson, proved
- having present dit with other monks at the Bank of
Os- England, where he kept an account, on the 28th ult.
Mr. James Barton, a clerk at the Bank otEngland,
- proved that the note in question was a forgery ; and
6 two other et notes, produced by persons in court,
200/2 and which formed the subject of further charges
20344 against the prisoner having been also handed to the
witness for inspection, he pronounced them both to be
forgeries.

Sergeant Teakle, of the H division, produced six
other forged U. notes, which he stated had been ut-
-00. tered to different tradesmen by a person whose de
[
scription exactly answered that of the prisoner, and
he fully expected that he should be able on a future
day to establish numerous other cases against him.
Mr. Van; who appeared for the prisoner, ex-
pressed his intention to reserve the defence, but
)3.,i trusted the Magistrate would admit his client to bail,
as he had been for many years in the service of an
. eminent professional firm in Throgmorton• street, the
principals of which had always entertained the highest
opinion of his integrity and general character.
ce. Mr. ARNOLD said that he must dceline to accept
bail after the statement he had just heard from the
officer, and he shoul.l order the prisoner to be re-
manded for the production of other charged against
him.
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COROINERS' INQUESTS.
DEATH OF MR. THOMAS :JOHNSON, LATE AL..
DELMAN OF .ALDG ATE WARD.—Yesterday an inquest
was held before Mr. Baker, at the Brunswick Anna,
Homerten, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas
Johnson, aged 86, late alderman of Aldgate Word,
who died of an attack of diarrhoea. Mr. T. E wens,
City visiting missionary, No. 4, Queen's-road, Homer
ton, said that the deceased, whose residence was at
the Charter-house, on Thursday last came en a visit
to his family. He used to suffer from an affection of
the chest, and on Friday, as he felt pain there he took
a pill. In the evening he was seized with diarrhoea,
for which, about twelve o'clock, he took some brandy
and water. But he got no better. About six o'clock
on Saturday morning he was seen by Mr. Howell,
surgeon, who was unable to check the progress of the
disease, and he died about three o'clock on the after-
noon of Saturday. At this time of the year the de-
ceased was in the habit of passing a month with his
son and niece at Homerton. Verdict—" Natural
death." Deceased twice attempted to be elected Lord
Mayor.
ADJOURNED INQUEST ON WILLIAMS, THE CHARTIST
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CONVlCT.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Longhorn, the
deputy-coroner for Westminster, resumed and con-
cluded the inquiry which was commenced on Satur-
day, into the circumstances attendant upon the death
3.i of Joseph 'Williams, who died on Wednesday last, in
- the Westminster prison.
Mr. F. Atkinson, the barrister, and Mr. Fitch, a
solicitor, attended to watch the proceeding for the
friends of the deceased; and Captain Williams, one
of the inspectors of prisons, was also in attendance.
'William Bates, a warder of the prison, stated
that he received the deceased into his charge on the
14th of July; on the 28th of August he complained
• of illness—of constipation of the bowels. The prison
surgeon saw him, and ordered him some gruel for
dinner and supper, in addition to the bread-and-water
diet on which he was then kept. Williams was, at
that time, under solitary confinement, inflicted, as
witness believed, for a breach of the prison rules, in
refusing to work. Witness had him in charge up to
the Ist of Slaptember. His solitary confinement was
to extend over six days, and special directions were
given by the magistrates that he should have bread
and water for his diet. He did not fulfil the whols
term of his sentence, his punishment being remitted
as soon as he complained of illness, on the 28th. On
the 29th he said he was better, and he was then re-
placed in solitary confinement, on a bread-and-water
diet.

On his cross-examination by Mr. Atkinson, witness
stated that the surgeon had ordered Williams extra
diet long before he was placed in solitary confinement.
Williams used to be permitted to occupy his own
8' cell, and was exempt from labour, as his friends paid
A ss. a week for his exemption. That payment was at
37s length discontinued, and the prison rules were con-
sidered to be broken. The exemption from work on
11,4 payment of ss. weekly was a privilege granted to
;4 political offenders.
Mr. Thomas Crea, the deputy governor of the
prison, stated that Williams refused to pick oakum
when ordered to do so by the magistrates.
On being questioned by Mr. Atkinson,
Mr. Crea stated that on Monday, August 20, he
ca was directed to give the prisoner a pound of oakum to
pick, which he would not undertake to do. When
Williams came to the prison he was very much at-
-3% tenuated, but afterwards he increased in weight.
.od. The surgeon of the prison (Mr. Larres) expressed
his opinion that solitary confinement would not have
6a the effect of producing looseness of the bowels ; it
6j. would rather tend to constipation. Williams died in
Gd a state of syncope, induced by an attack of Asiatic
cholera.
William Williams, the father of the deceased, said
he saw his son on Wednesday, the sth inst. He tip-
' peered in a very low state, and said he wasevery ill
through starvation. His exclamation was, "lam a
lead man; it is no cholera, but cold and starvation."
The CORONER having directed the attention of the
' jury to the facts detailed in evidence, a delib:ration
of about half an hour took place.
The jury returned as their verdict—" That the pri-
soner died whilst in a faint produced by cholera ; and
they recommend that the inflictien of a bread-and-
water diet for so long a period be for the present
discontinued."
Williams, it will be recollected, was convicted for a
seditious speech on Clerkenwell-green, in conjunction
with Fussell, Looney, Vernon, and other Chartists,
about fourteen months since.
THE ALLEGED BURYING ALIVE IN CAMDEN-TOWN.
---At an inquest held by Mr. H. M. Wakley, in
Camden Town, the worthy Coroner expressed a strong
desire that a statement relative to a servant in the
employ of Mr. Brown, cow-keeper, Canaden•town,
havirg been buried alive, which appeared in a report
of an inquest held by him on a soldier in Regent's-park
Barracks, and which was published in the daily
journals, should be contradicted, as it created the
greatest alarm and excitement amongst deceased's
relatives and the inhabitants of Camden-town. At
that inquest a person, who he imagined was a juror,
but who it subsequently appeared was a spectator,
said that the man had been buried alive, that his
widow had the grave and coffin opened, and that she
found her husband on his face, his knuckles fright-
fully lacerated, and the coffin full of blood. Messrs.
Bird and George, the medical attendants, and his
widow, assured him that there was not the slightest
foundation for the statement, and that as no doubt
was entertained of deceased's death his grave was not
opened. The man had eaten a quantity of oysters,
which gave him cholera, of which he had died, and
he was speedily buried. lie had no control over
newspapers, and therefore was not accountable for
their reports. The Coroner again expressed a hope
that, in order to allay the excitement and pain created
by the report, the daily journals would contradict it.
The jury repeated a similar hope, and the conver-
sation dropped.
A KEEPER MURDERED EY A MANIAC.—Last
evening Mr. H. M. Wakley held an adjourned in-
quest, in the Kensington Workhouse, on Maurice
Pickett, a keeper aver the lunatics in the workhouse,
aged G 2.

On the 27th ult. William Wheeler, a dangerous
lunatic, was admitted to the workhouse, Ile 'vas so
desperate that the strongest jack:.-t and leg- bolts had
to be put on. The following Friday morning John