The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-26 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO CI SE.
E. Stannard was finally examined on a charge of
having defrauded W. Walker, of Charlotte-street, Fitz-
roy-square, of fifteen shams in the Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate Railway Company.
It appeared that the defendant, by means of an adver-
tisement for a clerk, obtained the fifteen shares as a
security for the integrity of the complainant (the value
of the shares at the time being 1001.) in that situation,
the services in which wero to be remunerated by 701. per
annum. The defendant never had any authority to dis-
pose of the shares. The complainant only remained a
month at the office of the defendant, Pancras-lane,
Bucklersbury, but never saw any business done there,
although the defendant issued printed circulars as a
wine-merchant, stating that his cellars were stocked
with choice wines. At the end of the month the com-
plainant saw at the door a van, in which a porter
was loading all the goods, consisting of hampers,
and empty bottles. In consequence of what he heard
from Mr. Exley, a creditor, he would not allow the things
to be taken away. In the evening of the same day lie
received a letter from the defendant, stating that in con
sequence of the importunities of a creditor, he was
obliged to give up business, and promising to call and
settle about the salary due and the shares. In vain he
demanded his shares, and ascertained that the defendant
had borrowed 501. upon them from Mr. Exley, and they
were not, of course, forthcoming. The defendant, how-
ever, prevailed upon the complainant to give him a me-
morandum that, in consideration of receiving an I 0 U
for 91. and 11. in cash, he would not take any proceedings
against the defendant, who was insolvent.
The LORD MAYOR said it was clear that, the shares
having been placed in the defendant's hands for a spe-
cific purpose, he had violated good faith in making use
of them for his own benefit, and committed him for trial
CITY POLICE COMMITTEE-

Mr Charles Paternoster, Nag's Head. Leather-lane,
and of the Green Dragon, Half-moon street, Bishops-
gate, was charged with opening his (the latter) house
for the sale of beer, spirits, &c., in the morning of Sun-
da, last, before the hour of one o'clock.
A City policeman stated that he went to the house at
half-past ten o'clock on the day in question, and there
he found a respectably-dressed man having a glass of
ale, and talking to the landlady at the bar.
Mr. Paternoster addressed the Bench at some length.
lie told the Magistrate that, in his absence tram home
a frond from the country, who had travelled fourteen
miles that morning, had called upon him, and Mrs. Pa-
ternoster (his mother) asked him to have a glass of ale,
when the policeman came in, ar.d said he should summon
the defendant for the offtnce. Mr. Paternoster also
brought his mother, sister, poman, and another, woo
all swore to the facts above stated. He told the Bench
that he thought it was very harsh to be summoned
for so trifling an offence, and said that, if convicted, he
should not think so much of the fine, but it would be
recorded against him on the licensing day, and for such
a trifling offence the magistrates might refuse to renew
his licence. He also complained of the difficulties and
hardships that most respectable and benevolent class of
tradesmen, the licensed victualleri, endure.
The Bench fined him 20s. and costs.
BOW-STREET.

Catherine Parker, a chambermaid at the Tavistock
Hotel, in Covent-garden, was placed at the bar before
Mr. Henry, on suspicion of stealing a 51. Batik of Eng-
land note, belonging to Mr. C. Archer, a gentleman who
was staying at the establishment.
Mr. F. B. Harrison, of the Tavistock Hotel, stated
that the prisoner had filled the situation of a chamber-
maid, and that he had recently heard of several petty
thefts committed in the establishment without being able
to get any satisfactory clue as to the thief, until the pre-
sent disclosures.

It appeared that the 51. note had been abstracted from
Mr. Archer's trunk, which must have been opened by a
false key. Both the date and number or the note were
fortunately known to the owner, and this circumstance
enabled the parties to bring the case home to the priso-
ner; for it was proved in evidence that she had given
the note to an acquaintance, named Ann Pullen, with a
request that she would purchase a few articles for her
and return the change. Mrs. Pullen accordingly got her
husband, a tailor, at Old Brompton, to change the note,
upon the back of which he wrote his namo and address,
and then Mrs. Pullen having purchased the things re-
quired, gave them to the prisoner with the balance—
namely, 41. Bs. 3d.

Mr. HENRY remanded the case till Saturday next.
During the do.), a man named Brewer was charged
with stealing a small table from the outside of a pawn •
broker's shop, in Long acre ; and another man was
charged with stealing a loaf of bread. In both cases the
prisoners stated they were driven to the act by destitu-
tion, having been refused parish relief.
Mr. HENRY ordered an inquiry to be made into
the facts.

DERBY CHEESE FAIR.—At our fair yesterday
there was a large supply of cheese, the better qualities of
which met with a ready sale at from 50s. to 555.; some
fine dairies made a few shillinErs more. Inferior quali-
ties badly sold.—Derbyshire Chronicle.
An extraordinary supplement to the London
Gazette, of Friday night, publishes the official dispatches
received at the India House, relating to the capture of
Moultan. They are from Major-General W. S. Whish,
and the other officers under whose orde:rs the siege_ was
conducted, and by whose gallantry tkiat citadel wai
taken. The details of the operations, and the list of
killed and wounded, have already appeared in our Co-
lumns.

---CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD liAmw-Ax.--Traffic for
the week ended March 18, 1849 :—Coachi ng traffic, 7361
10s. 7d. ; parcels, 421. 10s. 9d ; goods and cattle, 2581.
Is. Id.; steatn-boats, 1051. Bs. 6d. Total, 1,142/. 10s. 11d.
—exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Com-
pany, and payment for conveyance of mai Is.

This was an action to recover back the price of a
horse, sold by the defendant to the plainiff with a war-
ranty of soundness, on the ground that it was not sound
at the time of sale. The defendant, by his pleas, denied
first his liability, and secondly, that the horse was un-
sound as alleged. The plaintiff is a horse-dealer in
Liverpool, the defendant lives at Stanton Court Farm,
near Hereford. The plaintiff having seen him a: a fair,
called at the defendant's, and tatter some bargaining,
bought the horse, a young gelding, for 621., taking a
written warranty that he was " sound, free from vice,
steady in harness, no crib-biter, no wind-sucker." The
defendant sent the horse by his own man the next d,,y
to the Craven Arms, near Ludlow, who there deli-
vered him to the plaintiff, who paid for him and brought
him to Liverpool, in good health to all appearance,
except a slight cough, and in good condition. He
arrived in Liverpool on the 27th, and put the
horse in his stable. On his way home the horse
showed some signs of being affected by a cold, he
coughed several times, but not to excite suspicion
or alarm, nor more than young horses frequently d,,
when slightly affected by a cold in tray: lling. He was
not put to work, being purchased for sale, and on the
22d of September was sent to Howden fair, and there
sold to Mr. Wythers, a veterinary surge•)❑ and horse-
dealer, being then to all appearance in as good if not
better condition than when the plaintiff bought it, but
still having the slight cough. On the 30th the plaintiff
received a letter from Mr. Wythers, stating that the
horse was very ill, and on the 2d of November a second
letter, stating it was dead, and inclosing the certificate of
a veterinary surgeon, stating that he had examined the
dead horse, that it had been unsound for months from
disease of the lungs, commonly called hepatisation, with
tubercles, which must necessarily be some months in
forming, and from chronic disease and enlargement of
the liver, which was more than twice the proper size and
weight. Mr. Wythers demanded back the sum he had
paid for the horse (6a), and threatened au action if not
complied with—and on the plaintiff hesitating he actually
commenced an action, which the plaintiff was advised,
of ter in vain requiring the now defendant to defend it,
to settle by paying the sum demanded and expenses, and
then commenced the present action.
Mr Justice COLERIDGE summed up, and the jury, after
some deliberation, found a verdict, for the plaintiff—
Damages, 621.

March 24.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)
Elijah I ates, 26, an ill-looking journeyman to a
tradesman of this place, was indicted for a felonious
assault on Mary Rogers Donald, a fine girl of 16 years
of age.

It appeared that the girl, who gave her evidence with
the most becoming modesty, lived with her mother and
grandmother, who, on the 23d of December, had gone
out to make purchases, leaving the prosecutrix alone
in the house. Among others, they called at the pri-
soner's master's, and purchased ham, potatoes, &c., and
the prisoner was by his master sent home with them.
Finding the prosecutrix was alone, he took the opportu-
nity of taking indecent liberties with her, completing
the felony, during which she fainted and became in
sensible.

She was greatly distressed by the cross-examination
she had to undergo, but her evidence was unshaken by
it, and, after his Lordship had briefly, but clearly, put
the case to the jury, they at once found the prisoner
Guilty, and he was transported for fifteen years.
Ralph Henry Shulliebothani, 25, a surgeon, was in-
dicted for a felonious assault on Sarah Ann Ashcroft, at
Ashton-under-Lyne, on the Bth of January last.
It appeared that the prosecutrix, a very pretty little
married woman, only twenty •two years old, was on the
night of the above day at the house of her sister, who
was expecting to be confined, and the prisoner was in
.attendance as the accoucheur. He said after some time
that the event would not take place that night, and one
of them must go with him, and he would send a pill
or a draught, and then said the prosecutrix had
better go, and she did so. When they got to his
house he unlocked the door, and they went in. He
then clasped her round the waist and forced her into a
bedroom, and there committed the felony, preventing
her from making an alarm by getting his fingers into
her mouth, and pulling down her jaw. During the
struggle he reminded her that her husband owed him
eight shillings, and said if she would submit he would
cross it out of his books, and they should hear no more
of it, but she declared she would not suffer it for 101.,
and he then said he was determined to have his will at
all events. She on coming down stairs found he had
locked the door. She told him she would tell her hus-
band. He said, "if you do, it will be a bad job." She
did tell her mother ailii sister as soon as she got back.
Persons liv,•d on each side of the prisoner's house, se-
parated only by a single brick partition, and there was
no evidence that any one heard her cries, nor were
there any marks of violence on her person.
His LORDSHIP summed up as if he were not perfectly
satisfied with the case, and
The jury Acquitted the prisoner, at the same time
saying they imputed nothing against the prosecutrix,
only they were not satisfied the prisoner was guilty.