The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-05 00:00:00

f ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.— CIIELMSPOIO).
The commission for thC county of Es ex was opened here
on Monday, and on Tuesday business was proceeded tlith in
both Courts, Lord Abinger presiding in the Crown Court,
and Mr. Justice Littledale at Nisi Pr:us. The cause list
was very short and contained no case of itrerest. The
number of prisoners for trial was 32, and some of the of-
fences are of an aggravated character.

( Before Lord ABINGER.)
Augustus Tusher was indPcted for horse stealing. The
prosecutor, a farmer name:: Tabr, em, deposed that he left
his mare s6fely locked up in his stable on the night of the
25th January, and the next morning he found that his stable
had been broken open, and the mare stolen. 'I he mare
ryai afterwards traced to London in the possession of the
prisoner.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and Lord
AntsoEtt sentenced him to b.: transported fur li years.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

• William Henry Cole. aged 30, dvse;ibed as a clerk, was
capita), indicted for an offence against Agnes Anne Carter.
Messrs aidkin and Doane were for the prosecution,
and Messrs. Phillips and Clark.ion defended tha prisoner.
When Mr. Baron ALDEMON Wall about to sum up, he
was stopped by the Jury, who returned a verdict of Not
Guilty
RoGert Lemon. aged 23, was indicted for burglariouily
breaking into the (Lenin-house of James Good, with in-
tent to steal.

The prisoner retracted his plea of Not Guilty, and
pleaded Guilty to the charge.
Baron ALDERSON said that, upon looking over the depo-
sitions, he observed that the prisoner had endeavoured to
entice another lad to assist him in robbing his muter, and
he had very properly immediately given information of
the fact. Phis was a vary aggravated circumstance ag.insT
the prisoner.

Mr. CLARKSON, who appeared for the pri,oner, caUcd
several witnesses who gave him a good character.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner had been in his
service eleven years, and had conducted himsel very well
up to thy• time in question.
The plea was then amended, but judgment t;as post.
pored.
Baron ALDERSON called up the lad above referred to,
and tol him he had behaved ♦ery well, and he should
offer him a reward of forty shillings.
Susannah Jane Ckeesnian, aged 19, was indicted fr.r
stealing a watch, a chain, and a seal, value 61., the pro.
perty of John Collins.

Air. Phillips defended the prisoner.
Elizabeth Collins deposed that she resided at Deptford.
She knew the prisoner, and had employed her to do work
for her about the month of November. The prisoner did
needle work, and went home every night end came back
the next morning. On the 29th November the prisoner
complained of being sick and went away. On the Gib
December she mis,ed her watch, which she had seen safe
on the 25th November, and also the chain and seal. The
watch was afterwards shown to her at the Greenwich police
court.

Cross-examined —Had known the prisoner for three
ears. The prisoner did needle-work for her. She had
not been in her house as a lodger." She slept there a
few nights a week. She knew that the prisoner was a
" gay girl" when she came to her house. Would not say
that she did not let lodgings, and was not ashamed of it.
She did not make money by women coming to her house,
but they certainly paid for their lodgings. She was paid
by a gentleman for the prisoner's lodgings. Upon one
occasion she sold the prisoner an amethyst brooch. Her
husband was a commercial traveller, and left London last
Saturday on his journey. She did not let lodgings while
her husband was in town, but she had a large family. She
had eleven children living in the house, but she did not
consider they had any bad example set them in her house.
A pawnbroker produced a watch pawned by the pri-
soner on the evening of the 29J1 November, for 51., in
the name of Anne Collins. She said that this was her
own name.

Another pawnbroker produced a chain and seals, pawned
by the prisoner for 41., in the name of Mrs. West.

. .
A police constable proved that he traced the duplicates
to the prisoner's posse,sion, and she admitted that she
pawned the watch and the other articles, and said that they
had been given to her by a gentleman in Mrs. Collins's
house, and that she knew it.

The prosecutrix identified the articles produced as her
property.

PuiLurs addressed the Jury, and observed that the
poor young woman at the bar was mush to be pitied. On
the night of the Coronation she had been trepanned into
the house of the prosecutrix, and there ruined. He sub-
mitted that it was very probable her account was true, and
that the prosecutrix was unworthy of belief.
Mr. Baron AtraasoN having summed up, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the foreman said they
did not believe a word of what the prosecutrix had stated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

An old Irishwoman, named Hannah Collins, who has
been long known about Billingsgate-market, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having picked up a
half sovereign, the property of Robert Wall, an itinerant
dealer in fish, and applied it to her own use.
The complainant said that he went to Billingsgate-
market for the purpose of buying fish for a customer, aed
he happened to drop a half sovereign in that very dangerous
place. The prisoner immediately picked it up, and sud.
denly disappeared amongst several other basket women ;
but an officer having been informed of the circumstance,
succeeded 'n taking her into custody. The old woman wag
found drunk on the ground, and surrounded by several other
women, who had been drinking with her in the neigh-
bouring public-house, but the money was 1111 spent.
The Loan Mt cot asked the prisoner why she took the
MAWS half sovereign ? Prisoner—Why then, if I didn't
take it up, somebody else would, and it would' be all just
the same.

The LORD Ithvoß—But why did you not give it to the
poor man to whom it belonged ? Prisoner—Why then, if
I gave it to all the poor met, that said it was their's, G, d
k, owa it would aot pay the tenth part of 'em, so I thought
i best to keep it.
The Loan MAYOR—And you were not satisfied with
stealing it, but you must get drunk with it?
Prisoner—By my sowl, I couldn't help it. The women
all got round me, and cried " Halves," and I couldn't
get away without giving them a drop a-piece, and I was
left without a blessed farthing.
The Complsinant—Her daughter, upon hearing what
had iripp ,ned, said that her mother would Tend an, ther
half-sovercign (if she fiiund it), exactly in the same way.
The Loan MATOR—These people must be taught that
such finding is theft, and she shall go back to prison, if
she and her friends do not contrive to raise your half-
sovereign amongst them.
Prisoner—Why, my Lord, the money is not in my
hands. It's the publican's; and I had as much right to
pick it up in the street as be had to take it from me. I'm
sure I ought not to be made to pay it, after being obliged
to lie down in the gutter on account of it.

The LORD MAYOR—Let her be locked up till Saturday.
Slrne Irish fishwomen then eloquently entreated his
Lordship to trust to their honour for liquidating the debt
at the rate of half-a-crown a-week, and pat down one in-
stalment to show the goodness of their intention.
The complainant gladly consented to the conditions, and
was desired by the LORD (MAYOR to take the 4 finder" into
custody again, if regular payments were not made to him.
Prisoner—Ah, then, the Lord help us 1 If they punish
a poor woman for finding a bit of money, what would they
do with her if she got it dishonestly ?—( A laugh.)
James Wilson, who was brought up at Guildhall on
Tuesday on suspicion of having forged a name on a bill of
exchange for 2001., was examined heforc his Lordship.
Alexander Wilson, a gas-fitter, 7, Dean-street, Soho,
brother to the prisoner, swore that " A. Wilson" in the
bill was not written by him.
Archibald 'Wilson, a gas. fitter, also brother to tho pri-
soner, swore that " A. Wilson" was written by him.
The LORD MAYOR told the clerk of the prosecutor (Mr,
Ilannen), that the case was at an end as regarded the
forgery.
The prisoner was then discharged.