The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Henry Snell was brought up :for final examination
on the charge of sending letters threatening to take
the lives of his wife and son, unless the former sent
him 101. or 151. immediately.
Mr. W. H.:Snell, aged 19, son of the prisoner, and
a`clerk in the firm of Messrs. Allan and Son, St.
Paul's-churchyard, said, that in the early part of last
week two letters, which he produced, addressed to his
mother, but directed in envelopes to himself, arrived
by post at his employer's shop. He showed them to
his mother, and from their contents they were
alarmed, and feared that the prisoner would carry out
his threats and murder
_them. They were in the
prisoner's handwriting.
The letters, which were of great length, were then
read, in which prisoner used most violent and inde-
cent language towards his wife and son, and threatened
to take both their lives unless money were sent to him
and that he would die with pleasure on the gallows
for them. He even went so far as to say he would
follow his wife to h-1, and that he had laid out hi-
last shilling in the purchase of a pair of pistols to walk
into Mr. Allan's shop to shoot her son on the spot.
Mrs. Jane Snell was then sworn, and identified her
husband's handwriting. She, as well as her son,
wished for protection, as they were not safe for an
hour while the prisoner was at liberty.
Mr. Wontner, for the-prisoner, said that his client
was extremely sorry for having sent the letters, which
were written when he was in a state of great excite-
ment, almost bordering on insanity. That he was not
a man to be guilty of inflicting such an injury on his
wife. The prisoner, as he was instructed, was for-
merly owner of two vessels which were wrecked, and
he was compelled to sail for some time past as a cap-
tain. In January last he proceeded to Spain, and
since his absence had forwarded upwards of 70/. for
his wife's support. On his return he could not find
his wife, who had gone away, and his son refused to
gixe her address, when certainly, as he (Mr. Wontner)
had said before, he did write the letters under great
excitement.

Mrs. Snell said that she had received money, but
that it all went, with the exception of 25/., to pay his
ship's provisions and other debts. Had her husband
kept sober and read the letters she sent him, he would
never have returned, but he let the mate and others
see them, through whose hands they came to the
owner's. Lie lost all his situations through his own
misconduct, and was now so lost that no virtuous
woman could live with him. He certainly had a small
share in two vessels many years ago.
Mr. Wontner said, it was a pity that a family
quarrel like this should have gone so far. There
was no doubt the prisoner had faults like other men,
and if Mrs. Snell had acted kindly, he perhaps would
be a different man. He had shown his kndness by
transmitting money from time to time since the 14±
of January, to the amount of nearly 751 The letters
were written in a moment of exasperation, and he
thought the justice of the case would be met if the
prisoner was held in his own recognizances to keep
the peace.
Alderman HUMPHERY said, he could not think of
such a thing, for the letters were so desperate that he
thought the prisoner would not mind fulfilling his
threats. If he felt inclined to admit him to bail, it
would be such as no person would become responsible
for after reading the letters. He should not be doing
his duty if he did not send him before another tribunal,
and therefore he stood committed for trial.

The depositions being made out and read over, the
prisoner was conveyed to Newgate.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A young man, named James Shobert, was charged
with having incited two lads, named James Fisher
and Charles Goddard, to rob their employer, Mr. John
Baptiste Fu'dy, an extensive silk dyer in the Mile-
end-road.

Mr. John Smith, managing clerk to Mr. Fuldy,
stated that the prisoner had formerly been employed
as a workman in the prosecutor's factory, but was
discharged from his service nearly six years since.
For some time past large quantities of raw silk had
been surreptitiously abstracted from the premises, on
different occasions, in consequence of which they had
discharged several of their hands, but not the slight-
est suspicion was entertained that the prisoner was
in any way connected with the depredations until a
few days since, when certain information was com-
municated to the prosecutor which induced him to
obtain the assistance of the police, and the prisoner
was taken into custody.
Charles Fisher, a lad about 15 years of age, stated
that he was in the employment of the prosecutor, and
that the prisoner had frequently met him, apparently
by accident, during the last few weeks, on leaving his
work in the evening. About three weeks since the
prisoner accosted him in Whitechapel, and after ad-
verting to axecent robbery that bad been committed
at his master's factory, inquired if he would have any
difficulty in procuring him some silk. Witness told
him that he had no means of doing so honesty, and
after some further conversation the prisoner then left
him, but met him again on Saturday night last, and
invited him into a public house, where he renewed
the subject, and promised to give him a silver
watch if he would supply him with a few pounds of
raw silk, which he told him he could easily procure
by going to the warehouse at an earlier hour in the
morning than he was in the habit of attending there.
He resisted all the importunities of the prisoner, and
on reaching home apprised his father of what had
occured, which was afterwards communicated to his
employer.
Charles Goddard, another lad employed by the
prosecutor, proved that he had also been tampered
with in a similar manner by the prisoner, who, in the
first instance, asked him whether he should like to
emigrate to America, and on his replying in the af-
firmative, if he were possessed of money to pay his
passage, the prisoner told him that he could easily
obtain it by abstracting property from his master's
premises, by which means he would be able to realise
at least 1/. per day ; but he refused to listen to
him any further, and indignantly rejected all his
overtures.

The prisoner positively denied the charge, but was
ordered to be remanded for a week, the magistrate
consenting to take bail for his future appearance.
Mr. Thomas Kimbell, a watchmaker and jeweller
in Tottenham-court-road, was charged with having
feloniously intermarried with Sarah Ann Batts,
his wife, Elizabeth Kimbell, being then and still alive.
After hearing some preliminary evidence, which
went to establish a prima facie case against the pri-
oner, the magistrate ordered him to be remanded for
the attendance of the alleged second wife.