The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-12 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.)
PERJURY AT THE LATE ELECTION FOR BRIDGEMARTER.
Thomas Bradstock, aged 22, a very respectably dressed
young man, was placed at the Bar, charged pith having
committed wi,ful and corrupt perjury at the late Election
for Bridgemalter, in the City of London, OR the 20th Ja-
nuary last.

Mr. Adolphus, Mr. Ryland, Mr. Brooke, and Mr.
Gurney appeared for the Frosecution, which was insti-
tuted by the City authorities, and Mr. Ballantine for the
defence.

It appeared that during the month of January last an
election took place in the City of London for the office of
Bridgemaster, on which occasion Mr. Gibbs and Mr.
Ledger were candidates. The defendant on the morn-
ing of the 20th of January went up to poll for Mr.
Gibbs, and on that occasion swore that he was a
liveryman of the City of London of the Drapers'
Company, and had been so far more than twelve months,
and that he resided at No. 4, Newport-terrace, Sidney-
street, Mile-end. It appeared that when he first went up
to poll, his name was entered Blacklock, but a person pre-
.sent recognised him, and then be polled as Thomas Brad-
stock. The officers of the Drapers' Company proved
that the defendant was not a Liveryman of that Company,
and that no Thomas Bradstock had been so for the last
forty years. The clerks in the Chamberlain's Office
proved that the defendant was not a freeman of the City
of London ; and a person having the care of the house
No. 4, Newport-terrace, Sidney-street, Mile-,nd, proved
that the defendant did not reside there, and bad not re-
sided there in January last.
Mr. BALLANTINE took several objections to the suf-
ficiency of that proof, which were, however, overruled.
Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and the Jury found
the defendant Guilty.
Mr. BALLANTINE then moved in arrest of judgment, on
the ground that the indictment stated the oath to have
been taken before William Jacks, the poll clerk, and that
be, not being the presiding officer, had no competent juris-
diction to administer such oath, and that, therefore, judg-
ment must be arrested.
Mr. Baron GURNEY overruled the objection, and the
prisoner was removed in custody. He was subsequently
brought up and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve
calendar months, and kept to hard labour, and to be fined
one shilling.

NEW COURT.
William Jones, alias James Jackson, was indicted for
feloniously stealing two sovereigns, the property of Mr.
James Adams, publican, of High Holborn.
It appeared that the prisoner went into the bar of the
prosecutor with a companion, and called for some beer,
and commenced a conversation with the son of the prose-
cutor concerning the leaking of the tap, and succeeded in
diverting his attention to it ; and while he was in the act
of inspecting it he heard a jingling of money behind him,
and on turning round inquired of the prisoner what he was
about, and the prisoner immediately ran away; the young
man followed, gave him into custody, and brought him
back to the house, where be was searched, and one sove-
reign was found on his person, upon which was a sticky sub-
stance, and on the person of the prisoner was found a stick,
on the end of which was the same sort of substance as that
on the sovereign. There was also a very ingenious con-
trivance found on the prisoner, which consisted of a kind of
shovel, lined with cloth, made to fit into the above stick.
The Jury at once found the prisoner Guilty, and
The Learned RECORDER sentenced him to seven years'
transportation.