The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

JULY 5, 1847.

pica). The complainant had found herself so much better
as to be enabled to quit the hospital; but it appeared
that she had overrated her convalescence, and that she
had been again obliged to have recourse to the hospital.
Louisa Harding, another servant, said she saw the
complainant fall down stairs, but she did not know who
had thrown her down. The complainant appeared to
hare been thrown down with great force, and seemed
much injured.
Madame Ronzi de Begnis said the complainant was
her servant. The complainant was rude and disobedient
on the morning of the accident. The defendant remon-
strated with the complainant, and gave her a slight push,
but he used no violence towards her.

The defence was that the complainant fell down stairs
accidentally.
The defendant was ordered to find bail, himself in
100/., and two sureties in 801. each.

Prince Napoleon Louis Buonaparte, of Ne. 3 A, King-
street, St. James's square, yesterday attended at this
court to prefer a charge against Charles Pollard, of No.
10,Essex-street, Strand, for having obtained from him,
under fraudulent pretences, two bills of exchange for
1,0001. each.

his Highness wished to defer the charge until he had
an opportunity of obtaining the professional advice of
his solicitor.

Mr. HARDWICK said, before he could remand the
prisoner he must have some statement on which to act.

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His Highness then said, on the 14th of June the pri-
soner called on him at his apartments in King-street,
and stated he was a money lender. After some con-
versation the prisoner induced him to give 2,000/. in two
bills of 1,0001. each into his hands for the purpose of
getting them discounted. The prisoner, at the same
time, said that if he (Prince Napoleon) would sign the
bills, he would bring him the money on the following
day. Believing the prisoner to be an honest man, he
signed the bills, and the prisoner went away. The pri-
soner called the next day to say he could not bring the
money that day, but he would the day after. Since that
period he had neither seen the bills nor the prisoner.
The bills in question were drawn by the prisoner, who,
at the first interview, was provided with stamps.
A gentleman from the office of Messrs. Bush and
Mullens entered the court, and stated that be appeared
professionally for Prince Napoleon.
The Prince stated that Messrs. Bush and Co. were
in possession of the letters which would throw a com-
plete light on the transaction, and therefore he would
wish to defer the imperfect explanation he could give
until a future day. _

Mr. HARDWICK appointed Saturday to go into the
charge.

BOW-STREET.

James Duncomle, a costermonger, was charged with
stealing a seive or basket of potatoes, from Mr. Pullen,
a salesman in Covent-garden market.

Mr. Pullen said that the prisoner entered his shop this
morning, and asked the price of some new potatoes. lie
paid the price, ss. 6d., and lifted the sieve on the shoul-
ders of a man who was with him, who took it away.
The prisoner lingered for some time, and at last took
up another sieve, and walked off with it. He (prosecu-
tor) did not interfere with him, but followed and watched
him to James's-street, where he overtook his companion,
who had the sieve they had bought upon his head. As
the prisoner came up to this man, he pointed to a bar-
row at the opposite side of the street, and they crossed
over towards it. They were just placing the basket on
the barrow when witness overtook theta, and told the
prisoner he must bring the other sieve back. The pri-
soner said he did not know when he took it that the
other man had taken it away. Witness then gave him
in charge.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he was not aware
that his man had taken one sieve away at the time he
himself took the second.

Mr. HENRY said that was impossible, as the prisoner
himself helped his companion to lift the basket up, and
he could not have forgotten that so soon. He would
commit him if Mr. Pullen would prosecute.
Mr. Pullen expressed his wish to prosecute.
Mr. HENRY then committed the prisoner for trial.
CLERKEN WELL.

Margaret Connor and Mary Jenkins, her daughter,
who were formerly the proprietors of the noted " old
house in West-street," the reminiscences of which
afforded the basis of a plot at many of the " minors"
some three years ago, were charged with a brutal assault
upon " Jack White," a crossing sweeper.
It appeared that the prisoners kept an infamous den
in Field-lane, and one of their lodgers having offended,
they required Jack, who was noted as a bruiser, to " do
battle" on their behalf. To this, however, Jack de-
murred, when the younger prisoner came behind him
and, with a three-legged stool, stretched him at full
length, and both the prisoners attacked him, and would,
according to his own statement, have killed him only for
tho police.
They were,fined 205., and, in default, sentenced to
three weeks' imprisonment, with hard labour.
LAMBETH. •

James Arter was placed„arthe.bar before Mr. N4rton,,
on a charge .of stealing sevetatverticleg of plate from thS
residence of Mr. Richard Pittman, No. 6, Kennington-
terrace, Upper Kennington-lane.
Harriet Barwick, a servant to' Mr. Pittman, deposed
that on the evening before, about six o'clock, the pri-
soner came to her master's house, and said he was sent
from Mr. Pritchard's to put in a pane of glass. She
(witness) had not heard of any such order, and told him
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back room of the first floor, found a pane of glass with
a small piece broken. It then occurred to her that
Mr. Pittman had told Mr. Pritchard to send a person to
mend it, and that the prisoner was the person. On
examining the square at' glass, the prisoner said, that
to prevent his breaking the upper part of it, he must
have a knife heated ; and he took a knife out of his
basket. He then asked where he could heat it ; and
the witness told him to take it down to the kitchen,
which he did. As soon as he had left the room she (wit-
ness) examined his ibasket, and finding no glass there
she at once suspected him, and determined to watch him
closely. She consequently followed the prisoner into
the kitchen, where the plate used for dinner was lying
about, and, in the prisoner's presence, collected the dif-
ferent articles, and put them into a drawer, which she
locked. The prisoner subsequently went down stairs
twice for the purpose, as he alleged, of heating the
knife. The last time he went, she followed him half
way down the stairs, when she heard him take some of
the plate which she had left in the closet, and this in-
duced her to go down the whole way into the kitchen,
but in such a way that the prisoner must have heard
her. Before reaching the kitchen she plainly heard the
prisoner close the plate-closet door, and saw him walk
from it towards the fire-place. Immediately after he
went up stairs, and on his doing so, she (witness) exa-
mined the closet, and missed a silver cream jug, six tea-
spoons, two eggspoons, a mustardspoon, and a teapot-
stand, all silver, and which she hai placed there when
she took the other plate away, and locked it up. She
then hurried up stairs, and opened the hall door to look
for a policeman, and just as she had done so the pri-
soner was coming down stairs. He said, " Well, lam
tired of my job ; I think I shall leave it now, and come
in the morning." She said," You can please yourself,"
and he went out, taking his basket with him. She fol-
lowed him, and he saw her, and she went into a shop for
a moment. When she came out again he was just turn-
ing the end of Devonshire. street, and when she got
there she saw him running with all his might. She
pursued him, calling out " Stop him, stop him !" and
on turning out of Devonshire-street, he was stopped by
a policeman, and brought back. The cream jug and
other articles produced were the same she had missed,
and were Mr. Pittman's property.
Mr. NORTON, after complimenting the witness on her
excellent conduct, and the manner in which she had
acted, asked her how it was that she allowed the prisoner
to leave the house with the property ?—She replied that,
although perfectly aware that he had taken the property,
she was afraid, from being alone, to stop him in the
house. She, however, had made up her mind not to let
him escape, but follow him until she could obtain the
assistance of the police, to have him secured.
William King, a glassblower, said he saw the prisoner
during his flight throw a basket over a wall, and, sus-
pecting from this he had been doing something wrong, he
followed and secured him. On his doing so the prisoner
drew from his pocket some of the articles produced, and
exclaimed, " Take these, and let me go, or else you'll
get me transported!" At this moment a policeman came
up, and he gave the prisoner into his charge.
Mr. Pritchard, No. 4, East-place, Kennington-road,
plumber and glazier, stated that he had been occa-
sionally employed by Mr. Pittman, but had not sent
the prisoner to that gentleman's residence on the day
before, nor did he know anything whatever about the
prisoner.

The prisoner, who declined offering anything in his
defence, was fully committed to take his trial on the
charge, but as it was represented by several of the
officers of police that a number of robberies had recently
been committed under similar circumstances, he will be
again brought up on Monday next, when it is thought
that other charges will be established against him.
WORSHIP-STREET.

This being the day appointed f r the completion of the
evidence against George Dean, alias Clarke, alias ill'Gree,
the soi-disant ship's carpenter, who has been repeatedly
remanded on Le charge of obtaining money and goods
to an immense extent under false pretences, the Court
was literally besieged with individuals of almost all
grades who had preferred charges against him, many of
which had resolved themselves into char cases of felony.
The depositions were read over by Mr. Vine, thechiet
clerk, and the following arc among the prisoner's numer-
ous delinquencies:—
Ruth Arnold, the widow of a seaman in her Majesty's
service, residing at Gravesend, stated that the pri-
soner resided in her house a few weeks since,
representing himself as a ship's carpenter, and
stating that he had upwards of four hundred pounds,
place ounds,
the produce of his savings, in the bank of that
After remaining some time with her, and living suDi ptll:
ously at her expense, the prisoner induced her to lend
him a few shillings. She had then wholly lost sight of
him ; and on examining her drawers soon after his
departure she discovered that a certificate for a large
amount of prize-money, duo to her late husband, had
disappeared.
S. Knowles, City police-constable 2 6 3, produced the

PRICE SD.

I certificate, which was identified by Mrs. Arnold, and
also a number of school-books and children's samplers,
which were found upon the prisoner at the time of his
apprehension. the latter articles were identified by
Charles Holmes, a journeyman carpenter in Fashion-
street, Spits,'fields, who proved that after lodging some
time at his house the prisoner suddenly absconded, and,
besides the property in question, carried off the whole
of his tools.

Mr. Thomas Goddard, landlord of the King's Arms
Tavern, at Gravesend ; Mrs. Brocknall, the wife of a
shoemaker, in Shoreditch, from whom the prisoner oh-
tainel the money on the pretence that he was about to
receive 2501. at the Jamaica Coffee-house, the amount of
his wages as a carpenter on board the Sarah, American
liner; Mr. Moss, of Tottenham-court-road, who supplied
him with a suit of clothes that he might appear in decent
trim at the Admiralty, to obtain a large accumulation of
prize-money; Mr. Pink, of Kilburn, and a host of other
persons, who had alike suffered from the prisoner's im-
positions, were in attendance.
The prisoner, who exhibited the greatest sangfroid
throughout, and of whom it was said that he had been
convicted of felony at Guildford, in Surrey, was fully
committed for trial.