The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

E TV COURT. .
Timgleon Vlasco, aged 24, described in the calendar
as a labourer, was indicted for stealing 266 coins,
valued at 5001., the property of the trustees of the
British Mueum. The property was also laid
as belonging to Sir Henry Ellis, Sir Robert Pee),
and others.

The prisoner, a gentlemanly-looking man, is by
birth a Greek, and of good family, and seemed but
imperfectly acquainted with the English language.
Upon the various indictments being read over, he
pleaded Guilty. There was also a further charge
against him for stealing 71 coins, valued at 1501., the
property of Charles Richard Fox, in his dwelling-
house. To this indictment the prisoner also pleaded
Guilty.

Mr: CLARKSON, who appeared on behalf of the pri-
soner, applied to the Court to defer passing sentence
until the next day, when he (the Learned Counsel)
would call witnesses to show his highly respectable
position in society, and also that he had not possessed
himself of the coins for the purpose of either
selling or raising money on them ; and, but
that he, the learned counsel, thought the Court
would ridicule the idea, he should say that the act
was that of a monomaniac, and had arisen out of the
prisoner's passion for collecting coins, there being in
his possession a great number of other valuable coins
besides those stolen, and which could be proved to be
the prisoner's own property.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared for the prosecution,
said he had no opposition to offer to the application,
and wished the Court to understand that the prose-
cution had been brought forward in strict accordance
with the proper legal forms.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said there was not any
doubt but that the prosecution had been fairly got
up. It was the Court who felt at a loss how to pro-
ceed. They lihd but one duty to perform ; and,
although the prisoner was a young man of good family
he must be dealt with by the Court as all others
were.

After some further conversation,
The COMMON-SERGEANT conferred with Sir Henry
Ellis andlMr. Fox, who were on the bench, and said
he should postpone passing sentence until a future
day of the session.

John Kibble was convicted of embezzling several
sums of money, amounting in the whole to about
1301., the property of his masters, the Phoenix Gas
Company.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the
prosecution, and Mr. Metcalfe for the prisoner.
The facts of the case were of the ordinary nature
of this class of offence. The prisoner had been a clerk,
and received the money, which be had not ac-
counted for.

The COURT sentenced him to eighteen months' im,
prisonment.

- The remainder of the cases tried during the day
were entirely devoid of public interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-,STREET.
The final examination of James Locke, sen., and
his three sons, for obtaining money from various
Noblemen and Gentlemen under false and fraudulent
pretences, took place yesterday before Mr. Hard-
wick.
Mr. Reynolds was for the prosecution; Mr. Parry
for the defendants.
Sir George Couper, private secretary to her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, was called to
prove that her Royal Highness had commanded her
name to be withdrawn from the prospectuses of the
Royal Belgrave Lying-in Institution, and that her
Royal Highness had also withdrawn her patronage
from the institution. Her Royal Highness had been
a subscriber to the institution, but had withdrawn
her subscription and patronage since 1843. Had
written a letter to the institution to that effect. A
subscription of ten guineas from her Royal Highness
was not intended as a means of constituting her
Royal Highness a life governor of the institution.
If her Royal Highness gave permission for her name
to be used as patroness, the permission would remain
for years--in fact, until withdrawn.
Mr. Reynolds produced a letter found in a drawer
in the prisoners' house, commanding the with-
drawal of her Royal Highness's name from the list
of patrons.
Mr. Francis Hastings Russell, M.P., No. 18,
Eaton-place, received a solicitation, in 1847, to be-
come a subscriber to the Royal Belgrave Lying-in
Institution, and at the same time a prospectus. Was
induced to become a subscriber from seeing her Royal
Highness's name in the prospectus, and also on the
faith that the names of the managing committee were
correct.
Cross-examined—Was influenced to subscribe to
the institution by seeing the name of her Royal
Highness as patroness, and as at the head of the
institution ; but was mainly influenced by the names
stated as the committee of management. Had wit-
ness known that a letter had been written by her
Royal Highness's command, ordering the with-
drawal of her name and patronage from the institu-
tion, he should have refused his subscription, because
he should have thought the institution was not a
bona fide one.
Mr. HARDWICK said the words on the prospectus
might be read two ways, the words were " The
Royal Belgrave Institution, founded in 1832, under
the immediate patronage of her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent." Now, if a stop were made at
1832, it would create an impression that the institu-
tion was still under the immediate patronage of her
Royal Highness.
Mr. Russell said that was the way he read the
wards.
The Hon. Arthur Thellusson said he had never
given any authority to have his name inserted on the
committee. He had formerly subscribed to the insti-
tution. Had called in Chapel-place to complain
of his name being placed without leave on the
committee.
Cross-examined—Had subscribed for several years
to the institution. Had no recollection of ever having
given any verbal permission for his name to be on
the committee. Had never received any notice to
attend the committee of management's meeting.
Sir H. Meux, No. 41, Brook-street, was induced
to become a subscriber from seeing the names of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and other dis-
tinguished personages on the circular, and from the
belief that the institution was respectably supported
according to the statement of the names of the
managing committee in the circular. Had paid his
subscription for several years, up to the present year.
Several nurses and midwives were examined to
prove that they had been employed and paid by the
Royal Belgrave Lying-in Institution to attend mar-
ried women in their confinement, for various periods,
from fifteen years up to the present time. One nurse
stated that she had attended 300 or 400 women for
the institution.
Mr. HARDWICK said that the case throughout was
one of considerable importance, and he would, there-
fore, take time to look over the whole of the evidence,
and give his judgment on Saturday next.
Mr. Ryder, chairman of the board of guardians of
Chelsea, begged permission distinctly to deny a state-
ment made by the elder prisoner at the last examina-
tion, that he had invited the nurses and midwives to
come forward in 1845 and speak against the institu-
tion, on the ground that he would get their bills
against the institution paid. There was not a word
of truth in the assertion.
LAMBETH.
John Wallace, a middle• aged man, late a confiden-
tial servant in the employment of Mr. Beagle, an
extensive upholsterer, in Bridge-road, Lambeth, was
charged with plundering his master of property to
the amount of 2001.
Mr. Beagle deposed, that having two shops in
Bridge-road, he confided the business of one to the
prisoner, and up to a very few days ago had the mcst
unbounded reliance on his perfect honesty. On Sa-
turday last, in consequence of something that had oc-
curred, he discharged the prisoner, and since that
time he (Mr. Beagle) called on Captain Norcott, a
gentleman residing in St. John's Wood, and ascer-
tained that the prisoner had for some time past been
in the habit of serving the captain with articles in
his business. He was shown an invoice for one trans-
action, for goods supplied in January last, amounting
to 291., and on requesting to see the articles supplied
he was shown them, and selected from among them
two dressing-table glasses, three blankets, and other
articles bearing his private mark. He had no
doubt that the whole of the articles included in
the bill had been taken from his stock, though the
bill to Captain Norcott was made out in the pri-
soner's name; and the prisoner had received the
money for them. This discovery caused him to
look carefully through his books, and from
the investigation he had made he was enabled to say
that none of the articles mentioned in the bill of par-
cels supplied to Captain Norcott were entered. There
was an entry of some trifling articles supplied to the
captain, but not those he had mentioned.
Police-constable 57 L deposed to having taken the
prisoner into custody on the charge of a person in Mr.
Beagle's employment. He told him he had taken him
for robbing his employer ; but the prisoner said
nothing, beyond telling a person present to request
his wife to send a solicitor to him.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that
Captain Norcott was an old acquaintance and an old
friend of his, and in order to serve him had given
him him an order for the goods, a portion of which
he would admit he had supplied from Mr. Beagle's
stock; and he should have entered them (he said) in
his master's books as soon as they were paid for.
The prisoner complained of the conduct of Mr. Beagle
in giving him into custody, as being harsh and vin-
dictive.

Mr. Beagle said he had discove'red that he had been
plundered of property amounting to over 2001. since
the prisoner had, been in his employ; and the prisoner
was remanded for the attendance of Captain Norcott.

THE SEA SERPENT AGAlN.—Captain Adams, of
the shooner Lucy and Nancy, which ar rived at Jackson-
ville, Florida, on the Ist of April, from. New York, had
sight of a monster in many respects resembling the sea-
monsters described by many others. Captain Adams
states that on the morning of Sunday,, the 18th of Fe-
bruary, about nine o'clock, when off the south point of
Cumberland Island, about twelve mil es from the St.
Johns' (Florida) bar, the attention of himself, crew, and
possengers was suddenly rivetted upon e.n immense sea-
monster, which he took to be a serptnit. It lifted its
heal, which was that of a snake, several. times out of the
water, seemingly to take a survey of the vessel, and at
such times displayed the largest portion of its body and
a pair of frightful fins or claws several: feet in length.
His tail was not seen at any time; but, judging from the
dimensions of the body, the captain sui yoses the levia-
than to be about 90 feet in length. Ir. ts neck tapered
small from the head ;to the body, and it appeared to
measure about seven feet across the brot cc lest part of the
back. The- colour was that of a dirty brown. When
first seen it was moving towards the in outh of the St.
John's. The monster moved from the side of the ves•
sel, and placed itself athwart its track, io front of her
bows; but Captain Adams, not feeling; pea tial to an en-
counter with his snakeship, ordered th.,3 vessel to be
kept off. A boy on the deck, not know 'ing his anta-
gonist, had seized a harpoon, and was in the act of
striking, when he was prevented by the •trs ssel's moving
off.—Boston Atlas.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS IN THE COUNTY Or MIDDLESEX.
—A return, moved for by Mr. Forster,, M.P., shows
that the length of the turnpike trusts in 'the county of
Middlesex, north of the Thames, is 19 8 miles. The
debt and unpaid interest due from the prusts amounts
to 266,8534