The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-23 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSION'S•

(THIS DAY.)
William Butler, a negro seaman, was indicted Al
stealing three sovereigns, a coat, trousers, Aseveril.,
shirts, and other articles, the property of •Arthto
Woodling. Both the prisoner and the prosecutor be,
longed to an American vessel.
It appeared that the prisoner had access to all the
stores of the prosecutor, who was mate, and upon
missing the above articles and money, the latter gall
information to the police, who discovered that ill
prisoner had pawned some of the articles, and one ";
the shirts was found on him.
The prisoner said he was entrusted with the-clotb°
to pawn by the prosecutor, who said he wanted t°
raise money to go to Liverpool.
A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the AB,
SISTANT-JUDGE sentenced him to six months' 11-
ni
prisonment, with hard labour.
James Sawrey, a private in the Grenadier Guarydes;
was indicted for robbing Richard Jones of a I!`sbe
watch, value 51., in Holborn, on the morning 01
16th inst., at four o'clock.
The prosecutor stated that as he was passii4.oll
Holborn on the morning in question, the prionice,
made a snatch at his watchguard,
and drew the watch from ,his waistcoat pocket'
attempted to make his escape, but he seized hunatch
the belt and gave him into custody, when the iv
was found in his possession.
e forward,
A sergeant of the prisoner's company caln, charge'
and said the prisoner had borne an exceh!n-gie charge'
ter during the eighteen years he had been in
A ntedieut
ment. He had been a very regular alb'
soldier.
has Made
The prisoner said that the prosecutor
indecent proposal 3 to him. t 'l3°-
wilich he broio
The jury found the prisoner Guilty without
ment's hesitation. said
..ntebOe'
The A SSISSTANT-JUDGE, in passing 0---,,trous and
he did not believe one word of this ornti.ving
made
horrid
indecent
proposals ag
to the ainst the
pprisonerrcsecutor, ouch was t-e
If
dethe police
case, it was he who should have called fo
ull la'
instead of the prosecutor. He had siighteet
quiries, and he found there was not ~ the
foundation for anything of the kin-•
courses that could be adopted by a pr'isonleprf:4ll::baffe
of defence, there was none more truly aboutnet
than that of making such charges as those alias ht
prosecutors, and he felt great doubt whether he`out,,
not to transport him at once. His conduct was dl
_A_
graceful to him as a man and a soldier, and he hor:
when he got back to his regiment, after the explr"a
tion of his term of imprisonment, he would be t
marked man for his present disgraceful concil.
d,
The sentence of the Court was, that he be ingiri.4oo
and kept to hard labour, for 12 months.

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BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
We are requested by Mr. Henry to acknow-
ledge
the receipt of a donation of 101., forwarded to tb„
this morning for the poor-box of the office, fort 2
Goldsmiths' Company.

THAMES.—(THIS DAY.) ,
ered Stepney churchyard, broken u
t Thomas Ellwood was charged with haviog -Poi
Charles leaden
coffins, and offered the lead pfor s,ii!ery,;ff I'l
Butler, a marine store-dealer, reslu'—„l',„l•lllh.
mediately adjacent the church, was charged
-.lt
receiving_t the same, knowing it to be stolen-
I appeared that yesterdayevening Barnes, nn
• oiler
officer of the detective force observed the pro d
climb over the palings of Stepney churchyard, 00
proceed to the sho of the risie Butler. churchyard the
p (A r
short in‘
returned to the church yard, and after a s ked
terval proceeded to Butler' Barnes ti -
3 shop.lit
Butler what the prisoner Ellwood had brougia
there for sale. Ile appeared confused, and it,
" Only a piece of old iron." Barnes l'bh
sisted on searchi the 'ng premises, an a number
and
d undernest
' the counter he found 2 cwt. of lead, which had III:
dently belonged to the coffins in Stepney chunc,e,
yard, as several of the inscriptions were still legiv!fit
One, which lie produced in court, from its The pert
antiquity, excited a great deal of curiosity. The P.ft.
of the inscription legible was—" Richd. Good. 16„
Aged GO." Barnes instantly took Ellwood jot,
custody, and on his way to the station-house he CO
fessed to having broken up the coffins in the churelL
yard. The inspector subsequently ordered Butler to
be taken into custody.
affair, and before he would attempt himself to adjusli'
Mr. I3ALLANTINE considered this a most serlons
cate upon it, directed Barnes to proceed to the parir
chial authoritieb to ascertain if the intended indicting
the prisoners, and in the meanwhile ordered them t°
be locked up in the cells.

WORSHIP-STREET,(THIS DAY.)
James Shaw Foster, late a clerk in the service d
the Eastern Counties Railway Company, was charged
with obtaining money by fake pretences from trade',
men transmitting and receiving goods by that lino of
rail way.
A clerk in the grain department at the good°
station, in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, named
Ws
Fearn, deposed that the prisoner, prior to the 7th°
the present month, was also a clerk in the same d
partment of the company. It was the priscnef°
duty to make out from the invoices duplicate coPl_,el'
of tickets for grain sent by the carmen for delisr;
to houses in town, and in C000%116110 Of ito 411°g