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London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

verhatnpton• street, Dudley, and would not come back to
tea till he promised her solemnly that he would not
again quarrel with her. She then went into the house.
They remained quiet for half-an hour or 'so. He was
then heard to beat her, and the first person who came in,
and who had been attracted by her cries, sound her lying
in a coal-hole under the stairs, with the prisoner stand-
ing over her, and trying to pour the contents of a kettle
of boiling water on her, she crying out that she was
scalded, and imploring him not to injure her more, and
trying to turn the spout of the kettle from her. He,
however, succeeded in scalding her to such an extent
that she died in a few days.
The surgeon who attended her said that she was in
very had health before, but that the scalds were so :e-
-vere tl at they would have killed her had she been in the
soundest health.
Mr. CooKE having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury having re-
turned a verdict of Manslaughter, the prisoner was sen-
tenced to be transported for 20 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 16.
THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.
It was fixed to-day that the trial of this case should
take place the first thing next Monday morning. There
were two persons committed on the charge, Michael
11/Cabe and Patrick Reid. But the bill has been found
against Reid only, M`Cabe having been admitted as
Queen's evidence against his accomplice.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIG HTMAN.)
George Bradshaw, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, was charged with having, on the 19th of April
last, near Sheffield, assaulted Emma Copley, with in-
tent to commit a rape.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Pickering were for the prose.
cution, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for the defence.
Prosecutrix is 14 years of age, and in the service 01
John Wilkinson, of Grimesthorpe. On the night in
question she was returning from Attercliffe, when she
met with the prisoner, who walked with her a short
distance, and then attempted to commit the crime im-
puted to him.
The jury were out for alak TO an hour in deliberation.
Verdict—Guilty of a common assault.
Sentence—To be imprisoned, with hard labour, for
twelve calendar months.
Emily Naylor was indicted for the manslaughter of
Henrietta Earnshaw, at Almondbury.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Pearce conducted the case for
the prosecution; Mr. Wasney was for the defence.
On the 26th of February last, the prisoner and the de-
ceased, who worked together in a factory, were leaving
their employment, when an altercation took place be-
tween them, during which the prisoner struck Earnshaw
a violent blow, which knocked her down, and whilst she
was on the ground kicked her several times on different
parts of her body. The deceased got up, proceeded
home, and complained of being ill. She, however, went
to the factory next morning, and worked till five o'clock
in the afternoon, when she became so seriously indis-
posed, that she was obliged to return home, where she
was put to bed. She lingered for two or three weeks,
when she died. A post mortem examination was made
upon her body, and then-A was found that death had been
caused by an abscess under one of her breasts, which
had been caused by a severe kick or blow.
When the case for the prosecution had concluded,
The Learned JUDGE thought there was no evidence
that a kick had been given on the breast of the deceased,
although she had been kicked on different parts of the
body.—Acquitted.
IN THE MAGISTRATES' ROOM. (Before Mr.
URPH Y.)
James Corney, Thomas Tristan, and John Robinson
were charged with having, on the 16th of May last, at
fluddersfind, together with other persons, riotously
assembled together, and assaulted George Dickinson,
Reuben Megson, and Samuel Sharpe.
Mr. Hardy and Mr. Pashley appeared for the pro-
secution ; idr. Smith defended the prisoners.
.')n the night of Sunday, the 16th of May, Dickinson
was going up the street with some friends, when he met
a large crowd of persons, by two or three of whom he
was very severely assaulted. Dickinson made his escape,
and the parties then created a disturbance amongst
themselves, and upon Megson and Sharpe, two watch-
men, attempting to take the offenders into custody, they
were also assaulted in a brutal manner, Megson having
been thrown down and severely wounded on the head.
All the defendants were identified as having taken part
in these proceedings.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
Corney, six months' imprisonment ; Tristan and
Robinson, three months'.
There was no cause of any public interest tried on the
Civil Side to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION- HOUSE.
CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young
man of fashionable appearance, named William H.
Thompson, was brou:ht before the Lord Mayor on Satur-
day, in custody of John Forrester, the officer, charged
with having embezzled considerable sums of money, the
property of Messrs. Nathaniel Johnson and Sons, of
Mark-lane, wine merchants.
Mr. Humphreys appeared for the prosecution, and a
gentleman of the bar attended for the prisoner.
Mr. Humphreys stated that the evidence he had to
bring forward comprehended a great variety of deficien-
cies in the accounts of the prisoner, who had been in the
;I:l3ployment of the prosecutors between six and seven
years. The firm having some cause to disapprove of the
manner in which the prisoner's books were regulated,
expressed their dissatisfaction to him, and on Saturday,
the 13th of June, 1846, directed him to attend on the
following Monday to give the necessary explanations.
Instead, however, of punctually observing the engage-
ment, he absconded, and on the very day he disappeared,
he received upon the account of his employer the sum of
501. Messrs. Nathaniel Johnson and Co., it was neces-
ary to state, kept an account with Messrs. H. and J.
Johnson, of Bush-lane, and it was from the latter firm
the prisoner received the amount first mentioned. It
was the duty of the prisoner upon receiving any money
for his employers to enter the amount in his books, and
in the absence of any of the principals of the firm from
town to town, to apply, if money should be required for
the transaction of business, to Messrs. H. and J. Jonson,
of Bush-lane, for the necessary sum, and advantage had
been taken of the power thus given, to cause deficiencies
of no slight magnitude.
Mr. Judd said—l reside at No. 6, Mark-lane, and
carry on business there under the name of Nathaniel
Johnson and Sons, wine merchants. On the 13th of
June the prisoner was in my service, and had been so
during the six preceding years. It was his duty to re-
ceive monies on my account and to account for all so
received in the cash-book. For the purpose of business,
I had a letter of credit upon H. and J. Johnson. of No.
15, Bush-lane, to whom, when I was out of town, it was
occasionally the duty of the prisoner to apply. It was
also his duty occasionally to write a cheque from my
house to enable Messrs. H. and J. Johnson to send a
counter cheque.—(Here a cheque for 501. and a letter
were handed to witness.) This cheque, signed W. H.
Thompson, and dated 13th June, and this letter, without
a date. are in the handwriting of the prisoner. The
cheque is upon the banking-house of Smith, Payne, and
Smiths, but it was never entered in our books. I told
the prisoner to meet me in our countiug-house at ten
o'clock on Monday, as I was not satisfied with the way
in which he made up his books. He did not meet me
according to appointment. I knew he was in the city on
the day appointed, but I have not seen him since until
now.

In his cross-examination, the witness said he could
not tell the exact time at which the prisoner became
superior clerk in the establishment, but the prisoner had
the total charge of the business of the house after the
death of Mr. Miller, who had been principally employed.
When witness was in London, the prisoner certainly was
not empowered to sign cheques.
The Learned Counsel for the prisoner then proceeded
to put questions to the witness relative to the kind of
confidence reposed in clerks in wine houses, connected
with those secrets of trade which commercial men are
not compellable to disclose, but the Lord Mayor objected
to such a course.
The witness admitted that he reposed confidence in
the prisoner. He had, he said, received 401. from John
Forrester, the officer, who apprehended the prisoner, on
the general account of the prisoner.
The counsel for the prisoner put several questions to
the witness with the view of obtaining an answer to the
effect that the 40/. handed over to him by John For-
rester was upon the account of the particular cheque for
50/. drawn by the prisoner upon the house of H. and J.
Johnson, of Bush-lane.
The witness replied that he received the 401. on ac-
count of the defalcations of the prisoner (as our reporter
understood the evidence.)
The witness, lin his re-examination, skated that the
prisoner had no authority whatever to draw the cheque
for the 501., and that the letter address to Messrs. M.
and J. Bush, representing that there was occasion for
that money to pay duties on certain wines, contained a
misrepresentation altogether.
The counsel for the prisoner submitted that it ap-
peared that the prisoner had acted upon a general order,
and that such being the case, no embezzlement had been
made out.
Mr. Humphreys was satisfied that the Lord Mayor
would see as clear a case of embezzlement in the facts
stated as could be exhibited.
The LORD MAYOR—The case distinctly amounts to
this—that the prisoner has not accounted for the 50.:
Mr. Humphreys—There is a great deal said about a
doubt as to the embezzlement of this sum of 501. There
are several other cases which I shall call upon a future
day ; in the meantime, I shall ask Mr. Judd the amount
of the prisoner's defalcations ?
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son, said he was in the service of his present employers
on the 13th of June, 1846, on which day he received
the cheque signed. W. H. Thompson, and the letter with
the same signature. By virtue of that cheque and that
letter be gave the bearer a cheque for 501. upon the
house of Messrs. Payne and Smith, to the best of his re-
collection. The cheque was returned in due course by
the bankers.
Mr. Judd, in answer to other questions, said the pri-
soner had a commission upon sates, and a certain sum
annually as clerk, and witness had heard from him that
he was in partnership with another firm.
By the consent of both sides it was then determined
that the prisoner should be remanded till the 10th oc
August.