The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD CIRCUIT—Gloucester, April 6.
Business commenced to-day soon atter twelve o'clock.
The calendar contains the names of 73 persons, of whom
two a-e charged with murder, five with manslaughter,
two with sacrilege, tive wi.h anon, four with robbery,
mine with burglaries, two with forgeries, two with con
ecaling the births of children, two with cutting and
wounding, two with uttering counterfeit coin, and the
rest with larcenies. There were 36 causes entered for
trial, of which three are fcr special juries.
In the Crown CoUrt no case of interest arose during
tb• day.
CIVIL SlDE:—(Before Mr. Justice MAULE, and a
Common Jury.)
BINGHAM V. EVANS.

sting and Mr. Skinner appeared for the plaintiff,
andSW.Uodaon for the defendant.
This was an action against an auctioneer at Chelten-
ham, to recover the balance of the proceeds of a sale
witioh he had made under the plaintiff's direction. The
defame wit that he had paid the amount in question to
a person, whom the plaintiff had employed as her general
agent in windi up the affairs of her brother, to whom
the was executrix. This person, who described himself
as at accountant, stated that he had got a cheque fur
) whor the
tinount from Evans, and given it to the plaint
returned it to him, and that he then went to toe bank
antreceivea the amount. The plaintiff gave no receipt
for the moll" (about 721), and signed no document
whatever respecting it.
Some other witnesses proved
t.
that the plaintiff had
employed this person as her anent.
The however, did not en
place implicit faith in them,
gad found for the
CI RC UlT.—Taunton, April 6.
WESTEILN,,
CROWN TG
—kßefore Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
John Shearn, George Shearn, and James Hawkins were
Indicted for assaulting and robbing John Godfrey of a
purr and two sovereigns at Midsummer Norton, on the
M
12th of September.
r. Stone was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Banniibrs defended the prisoners.
This was rather a singular case. Mr. Godfrey stated
that be was an aNcled clerk to a Mr. Govet, who had
offices at Midsummer Norton, close to which village
Godfrey resided. About half-past eight in the evening
of the 12th of September Godfrey was going home from
the post-office. When he had got about 200 yards from
the post-office, and within 100 yards of his own house,
hp saw four men ; one of them (John Shearn) came up
to him, caught him by the collar, and bellowed in his
face ; the three others then came up, and made the same
bellowing noise. They jostled him, and went away to-
wards the village. He found his pocket torn down. He
followed them and overtook them, when they again began
making the bellowing noise. A mob of 150 or 250
people collected and made bellowing noises at him. He
pushed through them to a window in which there was a
light, and he was then enabled to recognise the other
two prisoners (George Shearn and Hawkins) as the
persons who had first attacked him. lie went into a
house, and remained there for nearly two hours before
the mob had dispersed. He then went home, and then
found that his purse, containing two sovereigns and a
half, was gone.
In his cross-examination the witness said that Mr.
Govet lived in London, but the witness carried on busi-
ness for him in the country. He had had occasion to
sue a great number of people, and there was a strong
feeling against him in the minds of the poor : he had
become a very unpopular man. John Shearn had an-
noy,e.d him before.
It was proved that John Shearn had, left the village,
After this, but had come forward voluntarily to-Jay to
take his trial.
For Qie prisoners, it was urged that this was no rob-
bery, btit ttat the parties had a strewg feeling of dislike
against Godfrey, and intended to insult and annoy, but
not to rob him.

Mr. Justice CFIESSWELL, in summing up, said the at-
• torney was adopting a most irregular and improper
practice in allowing an articled clerk to transact his
business in the country while he himself was living in
London.

The jury acquitted the prisoners of the felony, but
found them guilty of an assault, and they were sen-
tenced to 14 days' imprisonment in the gaol.
Thomas White and James Cave, the witnesses against
whom Mr. Justice Cresswell ordered bills of indictment
to be pi ferred for perjury, were this morning placed at
the bar, andpleaded " Nut Guilty " to indictments for
perjury and conspiracy, and traversed their trials until
the neat assizes.
The Learned JUDGE said the prisoners might be held
to bail, W. lute in his own reeo,..nizancee far 80/. and two
Burettes in 401. each, and Cave himself in 40/. and two
sureties in 201. each.
Thomas George Sartin was indicts d for maliciously
cutting and wounding Thomas Clarke, with intent to
murder him.
The prisoner was deaf and dumb, but could read and
write well. Mr. Gant, the governor, anted as inter-
preter when it was requisite.
Mr. Allen was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Saunders for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 30th of December, about five
o'clock in the afternoon, the prosecutor, who was a
painter at Bath, was going ht,me. Upon turning. a
corner the prisoner rushed upon him and collared hint
with the left hand, and cut him in the neck and face with
an instrument he held in the other. It was a sharp in-
strument. The prosecutor, finding himself cut, threw
the prisoner down, and then went for a policeman.
When he returned the prisoner was gone. The prose-
cutor bad known the prisoner for three or four years, but
bad never had any quarrel with him. Their wives were
distantly related. The prisoner was aaen with a long
knife in his hand to rush upon the prosecutor. When
the prisoner was taken into custody he wrote on a slate,
" I did it wilfully." He then rubbed that out, and
wrote, " I threw the knife down a grating in Cornwall-
buildings." He then rubbed that out, and wrote, " I did
it because I was jealous of him, as my wife had one child
by him." The knife (a smsll dessert knife) was found
is the grating, as described by the prisoner. There was
a wound on the left jaw, and on the back part of the
scalp; they must have bean inflicted by two cuts.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, but strongly recommended him to
mercy.
Sentence deferred.

NORTH WALES CIRCUI l'.—Chest.!r, April 6.
CROWN COURT.—(B:dore Mr. Justice WicriTmcg.)
Zhomas Jones, 23, was indicted for feloniously stab-
-131- Joseph Edge, with an intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.'
The prosecutor and the prisoner were both mariners,
and their vessels on the 26th of August last were lying
in dock at Runcorn. About seven o'clock on the evening
of that day they went to the inn to get a glass of grog
together. On goingt rom the public-house the prisoner
and a lad belonging to his flat quarrelled. The prisoner
was about to punish him, when the lad called for help
frpm the inrosecutor. Edge interfered, and the prisoner
threatened to thrash him also. A sctiffie then took
place, and in the coal se of it the prosecutor received
asst4le ablaut an inch iu depth on the upper part of his
h.e prisoner was found Guilty of the felony. Sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Ju,tice COLTMAN.)
he c tses tried in this court during the day were,
wiTh one exception, actions for debt of small amounts,
and of no public interest—the exception being an action
against Mr. Hogan, auctioneer, of Birkenhead, for a
tregipass in having wrongfully detained at his sate-rooms
a horse and cart,- which had been seized for rent by a
bailiff. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, one
.arthingt

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two well-dressed persons of very respectable appear
ante, named James Chandler, alias Johnson, and Eliza
Temprell, alias Johnson, who have for some time lived
together, and well, upon contributions levied upon the
Mblic, were charged by Horaford, an officer of the
endacity Society, with having practised one of their
ingenious expedients. Mr. Knevitt, assistant-manager,
attended.
Horsford stated that on Tuesday he saw the prisoners
together, and knowing them to be begging-letter im-
postors he followed them. They stopped in Fleet-
street, opposite to Messrs. Hoare's banking dionse and
the man pointed to the house and spoke to his 'corn-
panite. They then walked towards Ludgate-hill, and
went into a public-house in Shoe lane, where they re-
mained a short time. The woman then went by herself
to Hoare's banking-house, and after she came out Hors-
ford nJe inquiries of the porter, and learned that she
backleft the following letters for the perusal and chari-
table consideration of the principals, and that she was to
return for an answer:—
" St. Mildred's parik, Middlesex, March 19.
"Having an accurate kno edge of the circumstances
which have occurred to place the family of the late Mr.
rimes Palmer in their present embarrassed position in
•.°4443', I have, at the request of several of the most inti-
ame crime% of the deceased, authorised this statement
Anne Varnell.Pto, with aview of enabling the widow,
youth, for
wlAcii establish a seminary for the tuition of
eoutributiuns of th'eocuPation she is duly qualified, by
the
promote so prztisewr_whose means will enable them to
It will be ren4emrlula "°llect-
-17th of November last, eilvitithat Mr. Palmer died on the
the severe losses he sustained desth was accelerated by
Frampton, of Old Broad street
alnudaenjunetion with til? the failure of Messrs.
successful railway speculations
o absolute iadig_enee. The objet CX4llPle'd.rstile family
rescue a deeirrvings family from the lastt" 15 1"
source of parochial aid; and I do sine" ra'n'ul re-
this statement will meet with that sympeareth'Yytwruhsitelitht
merited poverty deservedly meets.
" u°-
(Signed) W. W. F. Jackson, 51.; T. The
2L; Chapman Marshall, 2L; Grissell and Peff,'
)l nay, IL; Anonymous, 2.1.; Peter Laurie, 2/. (paid);
J. H. Pelly, 21.; Capper and Co., IL; Messrs. Drum.
mond, for J. S.,' .5./.; Gosling and Sharpe, 21.; John
Pirre, 31., &c."
The second letter purported to be the certificate of a
medical gentleman, who has been dead for some time:—
"April 10.
" I hereby certify that Mrs. Palmer is professionally
attended by me, and at present incapable of leaving her
borne without as her serious indisposition,
arising from an attack of influenza, accompanied with
symptoms of • delirium tremens.'
" JOHN SCOTT, Surgeon.
" 10, New Broad-street."
" The keirer is a trustworthy domestic deputed by
Mrs. Palmer to
her sig na receive
any
will he given bons, for which, if
ture
necessary,
Witness then followed the woman, who was joined by
the man, and who,returned to the banking-house in about
three-quarters of an hour, where she was taken into
dustody. Tire male prisoner, who had been walking up
and down- on the opposin Selo of the way in a very
fidgety stite, Was also appreb euded.