The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-15 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Two men, named Graves aed Clarke, were charged
with felony under somewhat remarkable circumstances.
Mr. Field, the inspector of counterfeit coin, appeared
before the Bench in support of the charge.
It appeared from the evidence, that on Friday, the
prisoner Graves entered the shop of Mr. Walker, a
hosier, at 110, High Holborn, and made purchase of a
pair of stockings, for which he tendered a counterfeit
half,crown. The prosecutor, of course, refused it, and
the accused then threw down a genuine two shillings
and sixpenny piece, and demanded his change. Wit-
ness hesitated, and while deliberating within himself
what course he should take, the fellow Clarke came
into the shop and snatched up the good half-crown, and
instantly ran off. He was folloe ed by Mr. Welke-,
and after a sharp chase he was secured in Holborn by
police constable 19 F.
Mr. GREENWOOD inquired if the prisoners web e
known ? Mr. Field repted, that they were most noto-
rious utterers of bad money, and acted in concert together.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Is the bad half-crown produced ?
Mr. Field—No. The fact is that Clarke, finding his
companion in difficulty, se.zed by mistake the good half-
crown, and while the prosecutor was pursuing him,
Graves swallowed the counterfeit money, and afker-
wards walked off.
Mr. GREENWOOD—How came Graves in custody ?

Mr. Field—After the apprehension of Clarke, he
(Graves) had the audacity to return to Mr. Walker's
shop, and actually demanded the good half-crown, and
the prosecutor then very wisely handed him over to the
pace. The swallowing of the base half-crown, of
course, put an end to an indictable charge of " smash-
ing," but the taking away of tEe half-crown was c!e.lrly
an act of felony on the part of Clarke.
Mr. GREENWOOD took the same view, and com-
mitted Clarke to Newgate for trial.
UN/ON-MALL.

Richard IliPchman, alias Thompson, alias Bristol
Dick, one of the " sweil mob," convicted last May for
attempting to pick the Duke of D,vonshirc's pocket
of a gold snuff-box at the Surrey Zoological G
dens, wss brought before Mr. COTTINGIIAM, charged
with robbing a lady named Limpriani of a purse, cun-
t lining I is., on the preceding afternoon. Tne com-
plainant and her daughter acre walking along the Albany-
road, at 5 o'clock on the preceding afternoon, when they
observed three men following them (lose behind. When
they arrived at the corner leading to the Camberwell-
road, one of the m to walked on b,:fore his companions
and while he was pass;eg Mrs. Lampriani LI: a push
on that side, and on putting Ler hand into her pocket
she missed her purse, containing Ili,. Fha man whom
she suspected wai the thief went forward quickly, but
returned again in the direction of where his associates
were, but on looking round she found that they were
all gore. She immediately informed a policeman of
what had occurred, and shine time afterwards he called
tit her house, and having exhibited eleven shillings in-
quired whether she could identify any portion of it, and
she recognised one of the shillings as having taken a
short time previously from Mr. Townsend, a wine-
merchant in the Walworth-road, and which was in her
purse at the time she was robbed. The complainant
added that she did not distinctly see the faces of any of
the men, but the prisoner in height and dress resembled
one of them. She also identified the shilling produced
as bearing an exact similitude to the one that was in
her purse.
The complainant's evidence was confirmed by her
daughter, who said that she was confident the prisoner
was one of the men by whom she and her mother were
followed as already described. One of the men wore a
cloak and a foraging cap.
A policeman of the P division stated that, on being
apprised of the robbery, he took the prisoner into cus-
tody within a short distance cf the spot where it oc-
curred, and having mentioned his suspicions, he then
told him that he must accompany him to the station-
house. When they arrived there the prisoner took
eleven shillings out of his pocket, saying that it
was all the money he had, and that it was his own.
The policeman added, that when the money was after.
wards examined the complainant identified one of the
shillings as having been in her purse at the time her
pocket was picked.
Mr. Townsend, a wine-merchant of the Walworth-
road, stated he paid the shilling alluded to with others
to the complainant a short time previsusly to the rob•
bery ; that he knew the shilling from the particular
marks upon it, and he also spoke with confidence to
the identity of another shilling found on the prisoner,
and which he (witness) had given in change to the
lady who was robbed.
The prisoner stoutly denied any knowledge of the
robbery, and, in accounting for his presence in the
Albany-road at the time it occurred, said that he was
going to time doctor to have his jaw examined, which
was broke in Vero° places, when he was taken into cus-
tody. The prisoner, who has been frequently sum-
marily convicted for being found in places of public
resort with intent to contelit felony, was they fully
committed for trial.

LAMBETH-SIREE7'.
On Saturday Mr. Norton was ,'ngaged for nearly
three hours in further investigating a charge preferred
by a policeman against a man named Ric,ttard Hart, a
sawyer and prize-fighter, of having stabbed him in the
left side with a knife, and also presenting a gulf At him
and threatening to blow his brains out.
The prisoner had been remanded from a previoug day
to have the testimony of Inspector May, of the
division of police, and a surgeon who examined the in-
jured constable on Tuesday morning last. These wit-
nesses were in attendance, and the former stated that
be had examined a knife found on the prisoner on the
night he was taken, and was of opinion that the small
blade had been recently broken. He also gave it as his
opinion that the cuts in the clothes of the ecnstable,
and the punctured wound on his side, were done by the
small blade of the knife produced. The surgeon mu
of a similar opinion, and said that the instrument with
which the wound had been inflicted had come against
one of the ribs, and was prevented doing serious damage.
A witness was called on behalf of the prisoner, who
deposed that he had seen the knife broken a month
ago, but he could not swear that it was broken as It
then appeared.
A witness was also called, who stated that the p.'i-
soner had been much ill-used by the constables.
After the examination of several witnesses and a
statement from Mr. Pelham, who attended for the
prisoner,
Mr. NORTON remarked that it was his impression
and belief that the wound had been inflicted by the
broken blade of the knife produced, but ho did not

think the prisoner had used it with the intention of
doing the constable any grievous bodily harm, but
merely to injure his clothes. He (Mr. Norton) also
believed the prisoner had presented a gun at the con-
stable, and it was very fortunate for him that that gun
had not been found loaded, for had it bean so found ho
(Mr. Norton) would have felt it to be his duty to
commit him at once to trial. His conduct altogether
was most violent and improper, and for the assault on
the officer he would inflict the highest penalty of 5/.,
or, in default of payment, two months' imprisonment.
Tim penalty was at once paid, and the prisoner re-
leased.

The Earl of Delavrr (Lord High Chamber-
LiaJO had an interview with Sir E. Peel on Saturday morn-
ing &-f, the Right lion. Baronet's residence in Whitehall-
gardetti

A consisting deputationor from
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other liiecrml Associa-
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the Society, had a long interview with Sir J. Graham
Saturday, at the Home-office.
AWFUL MURDER —On Friday last, we deeply
regret to state, a murder of a most atrocious and diaboli-
cal character was committed at Courtelough, near Cas-
tle in this county. It appears that the unfortunate
victim, Joi,oph Bolton, was sitting at his own fire-side
on the evening before mentioned, surrounded by his ~ife
and family, when some assassin or assassins fired a
blunderbuss through the window, the contents of which
blew the skull literally off the unfortunate object of their
revenge or malice, and poor Bolton was stretched a life-
less corpse on the floor. Two persons were arrested the
following day on suspicion of being the murderers, but
Nvere subsequently lilKrated. A young man, named
Henry Colburne, who held a mill under deceased, has
since been filly committed 011 the Magistrates' warrant.
Wexford I'l(l2:pendent.