The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced Williamson to b°
transported for seven years.
DEFRAITDING THE ST. MARTIN'S SAVINGS' BANLI
Esther Raggett, a married woman, aged 39, and Jolter
Ragged, 14, her Lon, were indicted for felonious'
uttering a forged order for the payment of 204 -WI
intent to defraud Nicholas Lord Bexley, and others,
trustees of the St. INlartin's Savings' Bank.
Mr. DOANE appeared for the prosecution. It appeared
that the female prisoner had managed, by false represew
tations at the bank with respect to her husband, whom she
stated to be in a dying state, to obtain the payment i
the 201 which he had been enabled to save from .his
earnings as a labourer, which she squandered in exttir
vagance. He did not, however, intend to offer any et
deuce against the prisoners, as the husband of the fenial,.d
did net wish the case carried further. He trusted OP
lenity would be a warning to the female prisoner and g°
othc rs.
The prisoners were then found Not Guilty, and dig"
charged.

(Before the RECORDER.)
The trial of Alexander Wilbeam, and another, who ark
ehargt d with feloniously uttering a forged bill of e.",
ehoige for 5004 with intent to defraud Mr. Richard
Fuller, was postponed until next Monday.

NE IV COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner But.r.ocx.)
Tne earlier portion of the morning was passed Itr.
hearing awl determining Mint cases, which contain 110
features to interest the general reader.
Some trifling cases of larceny having also been die'
posed of,
Francis William Schultze, a respectably.attired young
mail, who was tried some sessions ago for having em;
ht zzled a sum of money (about 7001.) from the Universal-
Lite Assurance Company, Pall-mall East, but whose
sentence was respited, was brought up this morning.
Mr. BODKIN, for the prosecution, expressed the wish
of the directors of the Universal Life Assurance Cuo;
pany that the extreme penalty which the law awarded
should not be exacted. The greater amount of the
money taken had been recovered, the relations of the
prisoner were, highly respectable and connected with ;he:
company, and he had himselt expressed the utmost coo.'
trition for this his first crime.
Mr. CLARKSON, for the prisoner, trusted that in C.... 011.
sequence of the observations of his Learned Friend (Mr
Bodkin) this case would be held one which eminently
called for the merciful prerogative of the Crown.
The Learned JUDGE, after enforcing upon the prisoner
the culpability of the crime of which he had been guilty,
sentenced him to seven years' transportation, at t
same time adding that the case, with the recommenda-
tion
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to mercy, would be forwarded to the Ministers of
the Crown.
EMBEZZLING PARISH FUNDS.—John George, a grocer,
aged 68, was °barged with stealing 801. Os. Id., the
monies of the guardians of the poor in the parish of St.
James's, Clerkenwell.
Mr. Bodkin attended for the prosecution; Mr. Parnell
for the defence.
The Learned COUNSEL, in stating the case, said ail
the prisoner had been an inmate of the workhouse, an
being rather an able-bodied man, had been made useful.,
and one of his duties was to take sums of money to the,
Bank of England. Up to the day of this transaction+
his conduct had been found honest and praise'
worthy, but having been on this occasion sent with
with a cheque to get cashed. He was instructed to VI
notes, but instead he received gold, and never returned.
Some time on the day following he was discovered, but
with very little of the money left, and was therefore
taken to the Clerkenwell station house, and subsequently
committed for trial. These were the facts of the case,
which ho m ould prove by his witnesses. The Learned
Counsel then called
Mr. John Harnett, master of the workhouse, said
that the prisoner had been an inmate for about three
years, and was employed as messenger, for which lie
received extra rations. He was occasionally told to go
to the bank and receive money for cheques. On the
morning of the 24th February he was told to go to the
bank and to receive 801. Os. id. He never returned ;
and when discovered, on the next day, in a public-house
at Acton, he had only a sovereign and some shillings
upon Jahn. He was given into custody.
Richard Moss, 195 G, was present when the prisoner
was taken into custody. The prisoner said, "It's gone;
they'll never find it ; its all down the leg of my trove.
sera. I'm an old man, and will soon be dead, and it will
do good to those who have it : let them subscribe 11
farthing a piece and that will make it up."
Samuel Lennis, of the Bank of Englaud, proved having
cashed the cheque.
Mr. PARNELL contended that the prisoner was not the
servant of the guardians, or of Mr. Harnett, the master,
or or bir. Bayliss, and other guardians (as laid in the
indictment) within t+le meaning of the act. The Learned
Counsel cited cases in support of his.position. •
Mr. BODKIN replied.
The Learned JUDGE decided that the objection was
untenable.
Mr. PARNELL then addressed the jury, and suggested
the great probability that the prisoner, finding that ha
had lost the proceeds of the checque, was afraid to return,
and had therefore fled from London. They were en-
titled to believe this in the absence of any proof as
to what had been done with this considerable sum of
money.
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury returned
a verdict of Guilty, but recommended him to the merci-
ful consideration of the Court.
Sentence deferred.

MI

DDLESEX
SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The Court sat by adjournment this morning at ten
o'clock, at the Guildhall, Westminster, for the disposal
Of cases of felony and misdemeanour within the jurisdic-
ion of that district. Mr. Witham presided as chair.

man,

John Leach, a lad about fifteen years of age, was in-
dicted for stealing a loaf of bread.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and said he committed
the offence under the influence of pressing hunger. He
bad been deserted by his father.
The CHAIRMAN said this was one of those painful
cases where want too often induced crime. The disposal
of poor children like the prisoner was, he was glad to
Say, now occupying the attention of the Legislature, and
he hoped they would nut overlook iu their deliberations
the adoption of some means for punishing parents who, •
like those of the prisoner, turned their offsprings out on
the world with no resource to stave off starvation but
thieving. lie should only sentence the prisoner to
fourteen days' confinement.
Mary Webb was indicted for an assault upon an old
Chelsea pensioner, named Joseph Atkinson, upwards of
ninety 3 ears of age.
It ippeared that she prisoner lived with the prose-
cutor a son, and upon the old man entering the room
where they all resided, the prisoner rushed upon him,
and struck him several blows with a candlestick on dm side of the head. The landlord found him on the floor
in a pool of blood.
The prisoner was found Guilty ; and sentenced to
three months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
This case terminated the business of the session.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
James Liehard Smythe, a person bearing the appear-
ance of a getalernan, was brought up today, charged
With ann.) :et; the persons riding out in Hyde-park.
Inspector 13.-ckerson, of the A division, said a cora-
. phtint had been lotigrti at Scotland-yard yesterday morn-
lug that a gentlemen had been annoying, for near a
I month past, the ladies and gentlemen riding out in the
Pr k, iti etitsi quenee o: which he went there about five
ye,ieril,sy Wiernoon to cbiervo what passed. The de-
ft,n tent e.r pointed out to him as the person complained
of; lie lt,ant on the rail by the side of the Serpentine,
ei..sa- to the carriage-w,y, vild as the carriages passed he
thrust at the carriage windows with his cane. In one of
the uzariag,s witness saw a lady fall back, as if wincing
frozu the c,me, but the defendant on that spat at the car-
riage and swore "Go on you b-." He continued
this conduct from a quarter past five till six o'clock,
leaking a rude noise, when witness took him into
mit, ,dy.

Mr. HARDWICK—Who is the defendant ; is there any-
thing known of him ?
The defendant—l deny making any thrust at stnY

Jenkinzi gave his cart!, &tilting that he was mamas
carrying on business at 5, Church•itreet,
Chelsea,
adding that he was a respectable man. The address wils
found to be correct.

Mr. Jackson, a clerk in Messrs. Kinsom's, proved Mr'
Prow's shopma.n presenting the cllc-que and refusing
payment. Mr. Kinnear kept en ace ‘unt at the bank,
bat his signature w;is tnrged.
Mr.'incur. suited th:A he kept an account at the
bank, and that his signature to the cheque was raged'
The signature was not sit all like his. Ile cheque pro-
duced and seven others had been absirac'ed front his
cheque-book. He did not know either of the prisoners'
Mr. BALLANTIN declined to offer any ebscrvations to
the jury crt behslf of his client.
Mr. CHARNOCK stdd Jenkins was a respectable ning'
and that he had carried on business in Church-street'
Chcel,ea, for several years. The prisoner Williams°
owed him some moray, and he accompanied him to the
shop and bought the trous,rs in the hope of receiving
them, and some money in discharge of the debt. Several witnesses gave Jenkins a good character, bpd
described him as a respectable tradesman.
The jury found Williamson Guilty, and Acquitted
Jenkins.
Williamson and a man named Benjamin French, aged
40, and described as a carpenter, were then indicted fel
feloniously forging an order for the payment of 171. 604
with intent to defraud Mr. Christopher Marsh, *
carpenter.

ft appeared that the prisoners went to the shop of the
prosecutor, and after purchasing some deals, tendered I
cheque in payment. The prosecutor, however, prefer
to have one in the name of the person actually dealing
with him. Williamson said he had no form
him, but at the request of the prosecutor he wrote
cheque for 17/. Gs. on a blank sheet of paper, and signed
the name of "James E. Green " to it. The cheque Wee
of course refused payment, as no person of that name
kept an aceount at the bank. A person named Greg
kept an account, but he spelt his name different*
Williamson, it appeared, had gone by the name of John
Arthur Caton. Fre'ich was taken into custody at the
shop of Mr. Kinnear, N 0.16, Gerard street, Soho, wh°s9
name was f,rged in the last case. French was presen',
when Williamson signed thy cheque.
Wi.liarnson was found Guilty, and French Acquitted'
Both pris.iners were then indicted for feloniously 11S"
tering a forged order on Messrs. Ransom, for the per
went of 121. 178., with intent to defraud Mr. Hen
Dearlove, a timber dealer, in the Commercial-road,
we
knowing the same to be forged.
The case was almost similar to the last. The evidence
‘A ss slso similar.

Williamson said he had been the victim of some deer
laid scheme, which he had been, as yet, unable to 1.111.
ravel.