The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

(Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK, Sir CHAPMAN
MARSHALL, and Mr. Sheriff HILL.)

- William Roe and John Wilson were indicted for
stealing a large an3ount of property.
Mr. Henry Wilde appeared for the prosecution,
and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Hawkins for the defence.

It appeared from the evidence adduced in support
of the prosecution, that a person named Gardener
was the assignee of a lease of a house in Wellclose-
square, the lessors being the prosecutors, Messrs.
Whitmore. Of the term of that lease seven years
were unexpired in August last, and Gardener, who
had not held it long, was anxious to dispose of it,
and to accomplish that he had a correspondence with
a conveyancer, named Adams, the result of which
was, that the prisoner Roe (an extensive builder at
Kennington) and Gardener were introduced to each
other. Ultimately Roe became the purchaser of. the
lease, agreeing to pay 1001. for the remainder of the
term. Five pounds were paid as a deposit, by an
order given upon the prisoner Wilson by Roe. That
was on the 17th August, and an agreement was drawn
up, by which Gardener ceded to Roe all claim .and
right to the house, " the materials it contained," and
Gardener further guaranteed to pay any expense that
Roe might be put to in shoring up the house, or any
proceeding instituted by the district surveyor.
Gardener visited the house on the 25th of August,
when he found the roof removed, the doors, pasts,
rafters, joists, and all the inside fixtures, lead, Scc.,
were gone. They were then charged with the xob-
bery by Gardener, and Messrs. Whitmore, as the
owners of the premises, prosecuted.
Gardener admitted that he had told Roe that the
house was free of ground rent, and that he h: d. re-
commended a carman to Roe, as a person who ,would
be glad of the job to remove the materials.
Mr. HAWKINS, for the prisoners, contended that
they had acted upon a right given to theta by
Gardener.

Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK having summmi up,
the jury at once pronounced the prisoners Not
Guilty.

SURREY SESSIONS.

;Before THOMAS PUcKLE, Esq., and a full Bencl

Magistrates.)

The adjourned Michaelmas sessions took place. yes,
terday morning at the Court-house, Newin.g ton-
causeway. The calendar was rather light, owing to
the general quarter sessions having terminated! only
on Saturday last. There were thirty-three fg.onies
for trial, and about fourteen misdemeanours, s eireral
of which were traversed from last sessions.

Joseph Barretto, an Italian, Frederick T olfrct, and
James Clark, were brought before the Court; on
habeas from the Queen's Prison, to answer ii aclict-
ments, charging them with committing a vio lent
assault on Mr. Hart Davis, late an inmate of the! pri-
son, and formerly proprietor of the Adelaide C as ino,
secretary of the London and York Railway s b are-
holders, and other schemes.

Henry Hart Davis said that he was a comm iss ion
agent, and resided at 91, Newman •street, o,x:fo rd-
street. On the 14th of July last he was confined, in
the Queen's Prison for debt4'and in the eveni ;of
that day, about eleven o'clocl was standing it the
bottom of No. 4, staircase, talking with a pei •son
named Wyatt, when he saw Mr. Barretto and. Mr.
Clark come up to them. Tolfra joined tb em,
when Barretto struck him. He fell down, and
while on the ground Clark came up and s ba. uck
him on the head. He was also kicked se v eral
times until he became insensible. He was, however,
dragged into the lobby by the watchman and a 4 pri-
soner, when Dr. Ryan, an inmate, was sent for, as • well
as the priscn doctor, who recommended his is n: me-
diate removal to the infirmary, ‘where his head was
bathed, and he received every attention his case- re-
quired. His head was covered with contusions„ and
the left side of his face was severely cut. Wi tz less
had been for a length of time suffering from a cc )m-
-plaint in his head, and the assault he rec ei ved
rendered him incapable of leaving his room for at mae
time.

Cross-examined—He had several times bee n in
debt, and had been a bankrupt for 11,0001. whe I) the
assets were not more than 3001. Was once prop; etor
of the Casino—brought out the "Dance of ' all
Nations "—kept an establishment at Paris—wa: ; se-
cretary to the shareholders of the London and ork
Railway—manager of Crockford's Assembly-row as—
author of works on railways—and during the w enole
time dealt in horses.

By the Court—l never said a word about : Mr.
Barretto, or the other defendants, or gave them, any
provocation. In fact the former used to smoke cigars
with me, and was on familiar terms.

Mr. CLIARNOCK addressed the jury for the del ar ice,
contending that the defendants acted under excite, ni ant
from the provocation they had received from the
complainant. Mr. Tolfra was a major in the al y,
and Mr. Clark a captain, both gentlemen.
The jury found Barretto and Clark guilty, va id
acquitted Tolfra ; and
The COURT sentenced the two former, Barrett to
six months', and Clark four months' imprisonment in
the common gaol.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterddy Cohail Augustus Heil, a German, tv; ls
brought before the Lord Mayor, in the custod 7 of
Daniel Forrester, charged with having robbed Thoi ti, is
Ross, of Perth, in Scotland, of 1001. in Bank of
England notes. The prisoner leaned against the bug k
of the bar during the examination, and seemed tot )e
quite indifferent as to the result.
The complainant, who stated that he was a conf3l -
tioner, was on his way from London to New Yori ,
and he got as far as Liverpool, where he had taken hi 3
place in a packet steamer which was to sail for Nei I
Ysboiodrzek.pooTnek.hteehte, 28th inst. The hotel at which he set U
was the Trafalgar, where the prisoner resided, an I
where they 31ept in a double-bedded room. He ha I
in London received 100/. in Bank-notes, from ti a
savings bank, and he deposited it in his portmante al I.
At Liverpool be applied, accompanied by the priso, ac r,
at the bank for gold, but as he was not known, it v as
requiredd i
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notes and
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carrying
inreturn,onoy isnuagngeesxtue imetdo
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atveirseedhim to keep it locked it t his
stated to the prosecutor then, transferredtotfatth he
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,onteor
New York, and that he was waiting for his lug-

gage and other essentials for the voyage ; and on
the nfn-rnoct, of Thursday he tint out
upon his return, he said that he had got ids Ail gag
and money, and box, and all was right and safe.
At six o'clock in the evening the complainant asked
him to go out to assist in making purchases, but he
excused himself, stating, at the same time, that he
would wait supper. At eight o'clock the prisoner
disappeared, and did not return, and at half-past ten
next morning the prosecutor found that the portman-
teau had been broken open, and that his pocket-book,
containing the notes, was gone. He immediately
went to the station of the railway, and inf.irmed the
inspector of police, who telegraphed the notes to
Rugby, and directed that payment should be
stopped. The prisoner was apprehended in conse-
quence of the application of the telegraph to the pur-
poses of detection. The numbers of the notes were
7,671, for 50/.; 67,888, 20/. ; 01,086, 101.; 24,720,
10/. ; and 24,721, 101.

Daniel Forrester, upon apprehending the prisoner,
found upon his person 181. in gold and 1/. 15s. in
silver, the difference between that amount and 1001.
having beml expended in the purchase of clothes.
Mr. W. Higman, of the issue department, of the
Bank of England, stated that about half-past ten
o'clock nn Saturday he saw the prisoner standing at
the counter with some notes in his hand, and asked
him what he wanted. He said gold, and that his
name was Van Mertins, of No. 57, High-street,
Islington. The cashier, upon looking at the notes,
found that there were orders to stop them. Upon
being questioned by the secretary, the prisoner said
he got the no'es from Mr. Schmidt, of Antwerp.
The clerk of the Secretary's-office stated that the
prisoner said he got the notes five weeks ago, in a
letter from an hotel-keeper at Antwerp. The pri-
soner was detained, and upon inquiry, the address
was found to be false, and it was ascertained that the
notes, which the prisoner said he had received five
weeks ago, had been paid out of the Bank only on
the 9th instant.
The prisoner here rendered any more evidence un-
necessary, by saying, in the German language, " It
is true, I stole the notes out of the portmanteau. I
changed the other notes at the railway, and I sup-
plied myself with clothes with the balance. Poverty
drove me to it, though I know that's no excuse."

The prisoner was committed for trial.
He had scarcely left the bar when a bread and
biscuit baker, named Knegbaun, of High-street,
Kingsland, appeared, and stated that the prisoner had
called one day at his house, with a person who was
known to the family, and sat in the parlour, over the
chimney-piece of which hung a silver watch, value
51. On Wednesday fortnight, which was a day or
two afterwards, the prisoner called again, and asked
permission to wait for the same gentleman, and after
remaining a little while in the parlour, said he could
wait no longer, and disappeared with the watch,
which was afterwards traced to a pawnbroker's
shop.

The LORD MAYOR said he continued to receive
from several parts of the country letters from parties
who seemed to be as much annoyed by the attempts
of foreign lottery-office agents to induce them to buy
shares, as by the attempts of Joseph Ady ti practise
upon them, for his Lordship has often found in the
same envelope the two invitations to accept of some-
thing to the advantage of the person addressed, and
both under the same head of strong condemnation.
The following, dated Paulton Vicarage, Bristol,
Oct. 23, was received by his Lordship while he was
making some observations on the subject yes-
terday:—

"My Lord,—l forward you the enclosed papers
received by me from their various authors, written
within a few days of each other. I send them to
your Lordship to show that notwithstanding the
public notice that has been taken of them, such ap-
plications continue to be made.
"I am faithfully yours,
"HENRY MELWARD CLERK.
" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor,
Mansion-House, London."
His Lordship could not see why the objections
made by some of those who were interested in the
speculations of the foreign lotteries, to his interference
withjhe success of their experiments upon English
pockets, should prevent him from repeating admoni-
tions which he was convinced had already proved ad-
vantageous to the public. He sincerely hoped that
people would take particular care of their money as
regarded the making of fortunes in foreign lotteries,
and he had had the honour of receiving a communi-
cation from a nobleman, which added considerably to
his own long-existing impressions upon the subject.
" Mariam°, Dublin, Oct. 22, 1847.
"My Lord Mayor,—l observe by the police re-
ports that your Lordship is desirous to save your
fellow-citizens from the robberies so often committed
by the advertising agents of foreign lotteries. I take
the liberty to state a case in point, as an additional
warning to the unguarded.
" After receiving a number of letters from a person
named -, of -, who states himself to be a
lottery agent to the Government of that free city, I
requested my London bankers (the respectable house
of Puget, Bainbridge, and Co.) to buy the two tickets,
which they did, paying 201. for them, in May, 1845.
I thought no snore on the subject, as the lottery was
not to be drawn until October same year. I left
town for some time, and on my return in July, I
found a letter from Mr. —, enclosing five tickets,
which he said would be more advantageous than two.
I immediately sent back three tickets, which he must
have received in the beginning of August, two months
before the drawing.

"I put by the two remaining tickets, and thought
no more about them, not even knowing their numbers.
Some time in November, same year, I was surprised
by a visit from Mr. -, who told me he was come
from -, with good news for me, and asked to see
my two tickets. I showed them to him, when he
sai
beendonew
asaprize of 125,000 florins, but that
having inconvenienced by my delay in sending
back the three tickets, he expected I would give him
a liberal douceur. I asked him why he sent the
tickets, and what he demanded? He said he would
pay me five-eighths of the prize!!
"This vile imposition I would not submit to, so
Mr. - went off, leaving me to seek redress where
I might. I have now been two years at law. The
----'s defence is the
back his three tickets,
tchhae illegalityoucus
calls
hl
sh hao senobdfmeobeenun,
tyt heardidnpegrnoylvo
et at
receivingte tickets in England, and
sending
them, which of course
I could not do. I find however, that the tickets sent
to me were not those issued by the Government, but
a fabrication of --'s own, so that my lawyer advises
me to compromise the matter as best I can.
I have the honour to be, my Lord Mayor,
" Your very faithful humble servant,
" CLONCURRY."
The LORD MAYOR thought it was unneces-
sary for him to say a word more upon the subject,
the letter of Lord Cloncurry proving not only that
the persons who represented themselves as Govern-
ment agents for foreign lotteries were determined,
in the event of an English purchased share being
drawn a prize, to plead the illegality of the pur-
chase against the payment, but that the tickets sold
in England, at any rate, in some instances, were
fabricated.

GUILDHALL.
A young man, named Robert Smith, was brought
before Mr. Alderman Sidney, charged upon his own
confession with stealing three umbrellas, on Saturday,
from the doorway of the shop of Mr. Williams, an
umbrella manufacturer, of Ludgate-hill.
The officer stated that such an offence had been
committed, and the prisoner came to the station
afterwards and gave himself up as the party who
did it.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, finding the prisoner was
not known to the officers, asked him if he wished to
state anything now ? The prisoner replied, that
what the officer said was true. He had nothing to
say.

The ALDERMA.N thought it would be desirable to
know something about him before he proceeded with
the charge, and remanded him till Wednesday.
.Kardish Cronson, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, was then charged with stealing the um-
brellas.
Robert Neill, a smith, residing in Sadler's-place,
London-wall, stated that he was walking up Ludgate-
hill, about seven in the evening, the prisoner, coming
from the direction of Mr. Williams s door, with an
umbrella in
nearly shoved him down. He was about one shop
his hands, pushed against him, and
below Mr. Williams's, and the prisoner walked on
towards Parringdon-street ; immediately after he saw
Mr. Williams's shopman rush out, and he pointed
out the thief to him.
Mr. Lewis,
the prisoner was the man who came from the door ?
for the prisoner, asked if he was sure
'Witness replied he was. He was only a yard off.
Mr. Lewis asked, what then became of the um-
brella ? Witness said he could not tell.
Thomas Crawford, shopman to Mr. Williams, said
he heard the umbrellas snatched away, and ran out
of the shop. He did not see who took them, but
acted on the information of the prisoner. There were
four umbrellas at the door, but one was left behind.
There were not many persons in the street at the
time. _ _

The ALDERMAN ordered Smith, the first prisoner,
to be put to the bar, and asked .Neill if that was not
the man he met ?
Neill persisted that he was right at first, and could
not be mistaken. Smith was removed again.
Crawford was further exatnined by Mr. Alderman
Sidney. Cronson denied from the beginning that he
knew anything about it. He was not running, but
walking fast, when witness overtook him near Far-
ringdon-street.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY asked if he seemed flurried
or did anything that indicated guilt ? The witness
said that he was not flurried.
that thou
Mr. Williams begged to explain,
gave charge, he was so doubtful h he
of the prisoner's g