The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-24 00:00:00

IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR IN THE HOUSE

OF CORRECTION.

For Two Years—William Denzer, John Johnson,
Thomas Rumbold, 13. J. Pork, John Smith.
For Eighteen Months— Sarah James.
For One Year—Mary Ann Simpson, Maria Long-
man, Isabella Kirk, Phcebe Rolt, George Smith, J.
C. Williams, John Brannan, John Bewestock, John
Harden, John Ford, John Richardson, Robert
Lowen, George Robert Diggers, Charles Brewer
(in Newgate), John Flemming, James Ghrimes,
John Williams.

For Nine Months—Caroline Holmes, Ellen Ke-
nedy, Ellen Henly, John Bott, Samuel Harvey,
John Jones, Thomas White, Solomon Walker, Tho-
mas Fenwick, George Folds, William Thompson,
Charles Joy, George Gorman, W. Frost, J. T. Beggs,
E. Shay.
For Six Months—Catherine Sullivan, Catherine
Price, Phoebe Price, Jane King, Hamilton West, J.
A. Sandlends, Samuel Relfs (Newgate), George
NVilliams, William John Green, John Pawson, James
Fisher, George Denning, Charles Aubrey, Alfred
Larkins, Thomas Thompson, William Verrall,
George Hislop, John Connell, J. Line, John Pilsher,
J. Swigg, J. Jones.
For Four Months—Alphonso Brompton, Charles
Mills, James Lovell, J. Kelly, Robert Newsom,
William Goddard, J. Brown, J. Vost, Caroline
Holmes, W. Davis, J. White, T. Brown, Timothy
Shaw, W. H. Capper, J. Sullivan.
For Three Months—Eliza Clark, Horatio Nelson
West, J. Maqurie, William Hutchinson, Thomas
Hamilton, Robert Huntingdon, William Clements,
W. Stanling, Thomas Powney, George Gwilliam, J.
Collins, W. Dobson, W. Knight, H. Lambeth, H.
Shearing, J. Layton.
Acquitted by the Petit Jury—Elizabeth Bullock,
Mary Mahony, Sarah Palmer, Margaret Lahy, Caro-
line Coffee, Charlotte Williamson, W. S. Sheridan,
M. Bowman, J. Shewing, J. Townsend, William
Turner, William Williamson, William Gulliers, T.
Doyle, William Palmer, George Smith, J. Hardiman,
Daniel Cook, J. Diaper, P. Burgess, D. Briant, John
Lane, George Gower, C. Ponton, Stephen Wright,
T. Sale, G. M'Coy, J. Renny, John Lloyd, J. Vil-
liers, William Mansell, J. Redpath, John Beazley,
William Maddox.

Discharged by Proclamation—W. Jennings Giggs,
Robert Utting, T. Draper, T. Clubb.
Cheating Gamesters Fined and Confined in New-
gate—Andrew W. Barr, fifteen months, 500/. ; C.
Brewer, one year, 500/. ; Samuel Ralfs, six months,
1001.

Minor Adjudications--Two months' imprisonment,
7 ; six weeks' ditto, 1; one month ditto, 9 ; fourteen
days and under, 5 ; remanded to next session, 13 ;
judgments respited, 2 ; privately whipped, 2 ; sur-
rendered in court, 9.

During the session the Court adjudicated upon 193
prisoners, who were committed from the following
districts, viz. :—London, 21 ; Middlesex, 131 ; Sur-
rey, 32 ; Kent, 7; Essex 2—total 193.
The Court at its rising adjourned to Monday, the
3d of January next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
James Coates, a man known to the police as one of
,he most expert of the swell mob fraternity, was
brought before the Lord Mayor by City policeman,
Thomas Hardwick, charged with having committed
the robbery detailed in the following evidence :—.
Mr. Wightman, the superintendent of the Black-
wall Railroad, attended to watch the case upon the
part of the company, and a solicitor appeared for the
prosecution.
Mr. George White, of Millbank-street, Westmin-
ster, merchant, said—On Tuesday, the 11 th of No.
vember,: I came from Gravesend to Blackwall in a
steam-boat. When we arrived at that station one of
the company's porters came to me on board, and asked
me if I had any luggage. I gave him two carpet
bags and a small basket, desiring him to put them
in a Fenchurch-street carriage on the railway. In
consequence of our not starting immediately, .1
lost sight of the porter for about six or seven
minutes, but when I was seated in one of the
carriages he came to me with the basket, and
said he had put the two carpet bags in the luggage
van, which was immediately before the carriage in
which I was riding. I did not see them there. When
we got to Fenchurch-street no bag was to be found.
I returned at once to Blackwall, and was confronted
with the porter, who insisted that he had deposited
them in the carriage. Every inquiry was made by
the railroad servants, but nothing satisfactory occurred
till Tuesday last, when I heard that some of the pro-
perty contained in the two bags had been recovered.
They contained, when in my possession, a gold chain,
a tortoiseshell workbox, some furs and shawls, a lace
veil, and several articles of ladies' and children's
dress. I identify all the articles and the bag produced
by the policeman as mine. I do not know the prisoner
at all, and am not aware that I have ever seen him
before now.
Richard Durant, porter to the London and Black-
wall Railway Company, stated that he conveyed the
two bags and the basket, according to the direction of
Mr. White, from the steam-vessel to the railway, and
place the '
which
bags in the luggage carriage,
there was a latch, bat no lock. He gave Mr White,
.White,
who had got into a first-class carriage, the small
basket. The bags could not have been taken out of
the van before the train started from Blackwall, nor
before it left Poplar, where it stopped for two or
three minutes to take in passengers and grip the rope.
Nothing was heard of them till the arrival of the train
in London, where witness afterwards came and made
inquiries, but heard that the porters had not taken
any luggage out of the carriage answering the de-
scription.
Policeman Hardwick said—On Saturday last I
heard that the prisoner, who is known to me, had gone
to Cheltenham with some luggage, and, knowing
where he lodged, I went to the house, in Antony-
street, St. George's-in-the-East, and asked the land-
lady where any of James Coates's property was. She
took me to the, back attic, and, showing me a boxy
said that was all she had belonging to him, and that