The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-28 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

Henry .Noble and Caroline Smith were indicted for
stealing, on the 18th instant, a candlestick, a sheet, a
)rattle, and various other articles, the property of Mary
IfeweLoil.
From the evidence It appnred that the male prisoner
engaged lodgings in the &Me Of the prosecutor. He
brought the female along with him, itresenting that
::he was his wife. They remained only six days, and on
the landlatii entering the room she found it entirely
stripped. Bhe gate information to the police, and the
prisoners were taken into custody. The greater part of
the property was found in the lodgings they had subse-
quently gone to.
Mr. llonny addressed the Jury for the prisoners, and
very ably endeavoured to shift all the responsibility to the
shoulders of the male, prisoner, contending that if the
female had any guilty Knowledge of the transaction she
was acting under the coercion of the male, and therefore
not guilty in law,
rPha Jury, however, roturned a verdict of Guilty
against both prisoners 7 cad the Chairman sentenced
them to six months' inaprisonme.".4: and baid hbour • , the
one in the gaol at Brix i
ton •md the ()In--- In
thatat
Guildford. • •

POLICE INTELL 1 (3,ENCE,
G UIL HAL L
Joseph Parker, whose identity at the Old Bailey oti
Tuesday, was so doubtful when he appeared at the bar
on an indictment charging him with being a party in
a conspiracy to defraud Messrs Tarn and Co, of Addle,-
street, of goods to the amount of 5,000/., and who availed
himself of his right to traverse, was brought before Mr.
Alderman J. Wood.
A solicitor who appeared on behalf .of the prisoner, rail
he was not the person against whom the indictment had
been found. lie was in a condition, if the case were post-
poned, to show thzt the prisoner's name was John Parker
and not Joseph Parker.
Mr. Alderman WOOD inquired of the solicitor for the
prosecution if he were prepared to prove that the pri-
soner was the person named in the indictment.-11c an-
swered_in the affirmative.

After some conversation between the Alterman anti
the solicitor,
• The ALDERMAN said he would commit the prisoner on
the charge of conspiracy, but would accept bail, himself
in rOOl., and two sureties in 2501. each.
An intersting looking woman was charged With at-
trmpting. to commit suicide at Blackfriars-bridge, about
eleven o'clock on Tuesday night.
In reply to the Alderman, the prisoner said distress
had driven her to distraction. She had five children at
home, to whom she had not a morsel of bread to give, as
her husband had been for a long time past without em-
ployment. The agony of mind caused by seeing :five
young children crying through hunger, induced htr to
attempt the rash act.

The husband here stepped forward and said his name
was Kecip. Some Tears since he had been publisher of
the Sunday Times, and after leaving that paper acted
as canvasser for various publishers and newspaper estab-
lishments, but being unsuccessful latterly he was reduced
to thc,. lowest depths of misery and privation.
The ALDERMAN, after admonishiug her on the conse-
quences of her conduct, ordered some present relief to be
administered, and she was discharged.

BOW-STRERT.-

Pete• Brisnah, a respectable-looking man, was placed
at the bar, before Mr. JARDINE, on a charge of having
violently assaulted James Douglas, on Tuesday even-
-42:r, at the Black Lion public-house, Vinegar-yard,
Drury-lane.
The complainant, who it appeared gained his living
by selling paper in the streets, stated, that on Tues-
day evening, at about nine o'clock, he went to the
Black-Lion public-house, and called for a pint of half-
and-half.. Ho o&red some paper for the payment of
it ; upon which the prisoner, who had been; drinking
in the• room, came forward, and, without any provoca-
tion, 'struck him a violent blow in the mouth, which
knocked out two of his teeth. The complainant further
stated, that the prisoner offered him ten shillings if he
would not prosecute the charge.
sir. JARDINE would recommend the complainant to
take the ten shillings.
Complainant—Ten shillings for two teeth— it is no
payment.
The prisoner stated that before he had struck the man
lie had himself been struck, and the complainant had
pulled him by the nose. -
Samuel Evans, better known as young Dutch Sam,
the owner of the Black Lion, said after the complainant
had got the beer,. on his being asked for payment, he
offered some paper, which the witness -refused to take.
The prisoner then observed that the conduct of the com-
plainant was very unbecoming ; a dispute ensued, the
complainant pulled the prisoner twice by the nose, and
struck him three or four times. The prisoner inue-
diately struck the complainant, who pulled out two teeth
after the bigw, but no blood followed.
Other witnesses corroborated the evidence of this
witness.

Mr. JAP.DINE said, that, taking the circumstances of
the case into his consideration, he should dismiss the
charge, as he thought the prisoner was perfectly justified
in acting as he had done; and the Magistrate afterwards
gave a certificate to that effect.
HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, Charles Wilt:or, a young man of gentle-
manly appearance and manners, who described himself
.as having been a student at Trinity College, Cambridge,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Greenwood, for final
examination, charged by Mr. Antonio Panizzi, keeper
of the printed books at the British Museum, Great Rus-
sell-street, Bloomsbury• square, with having stolen seve-
ral books from the reading-room of the establishment,
under the following circumstances.
Mr. Bray, of the firm of Bray and Warren, solicitors,
of Museum-street, Bloomsbury, attended on the part of
the Trustees of the British Museum for the prosecution;
and Mr. Flower, solicitor, of Hatton-garden, for the
prisoner.
Mr. Panizzi having been sworn, stated that the pri-
soner was in the habit of attending the reading-room at
the British Museum, with a regular admission ticket ;
and having reason to suspect that he was in the habit of
purloining the books, witness set a person to watch his
proceedings; and, on Saturday afternoon last, at a little
after four o'clock, when the readers were about leaving
the room, witness was called by one of the attendants,
who informed him that- the prisoner was going away.
Witness addressed him, and said he wished to speak with
him, and requested him to accompany him into
the library, saying that he, the prisoner, had re-
ceived three Standard Novels, and he had only re-
turned two of them, and he inquired where the other vo-
lume was. The prisoner replied that he did not know,
but, perhaps, it had been left upon the table, and he
made a movement towards the door to leave, when wit-
ness stood before him, and said " No, we must find the
book first," and he, witness, sent one of the attend-
ants to look after it, and he returned, and said that
he could not find it. The prisoner seemed astonished,
and said, " I hope you do not suspect me?" Witness
said it was very awkward that several other volumes had
been missed. since .he had them. He denied all know-
ledge of them. Witness detained him, and sent for Sir
Henry Ellis, the principal librarian, and also for a po-
liceman, and the prisoner again denied all knowledge of
the books on the arrival of Sir Henry Ellis. Witness
informed him the prisoner had had three volumes of
" Carlisle'S Miscellany," and he had only returned two
volumes. The prisoner again asked if they suspected
him ? Witness replied, " Yes, it is of no use, you have
got a book in your pocket now, and the policeman
will find it there when he comes. The prisoner
than expressed a wish to speak to Sir Henry Ellis and
witness in private, which they declined, and he then put
his hand into his pocket, and produced the volume of
" Lionel Lincoln" which had been missing, and he gave
the prisoner into -the custody of an officer. He valued
the book at 3s. 6d., and said it was the property of the
Trustees of the British Museum.
Other charges of a similar • description were made
against the prisoner, and he was committed to take his
trial for the offence at the Central Criminal Court.