The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-11 00:00:00

This suggestion was agreed to by the counsel on
both sides, and eventually
The jury found for the plaintiff for 371. 16s ,
damages and expenses, with leave to the defendant
to move to enter a nonsuit on the sufficiency of the
bond.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday an unusual number of pickpockets were
brought befcre Alderman Lucas, charged with
committing, or attempting to commit, depredations
in the crowd assembled to see the Lord Mayor's show.
George illorden, Thomas Sheers, and Thomas
Cummings, were charged with stealing a silver watch
and silver watch-guard in King-street, Cheapside,
about half-past 11 in the forenoon
Mr. Hibbs, of Bere Regis, Dorsetshire, butter-
factor and draper, stated that, being in London on
business, he went to see the procession, and having
walked down King-street, nearly to the Guildhall
Coffee-house, his hat was knocked over his eyes by
the prisoner Morden, and he was jostled by some of
his comrades. He kept them off with his walking-
stick, but they renewed the attack with greater
strength, and Sheers led the attack by butting at
him with his head. The rest followed, and he was
buffetted down. He got up again, and was
driven back and pinned against the wall.
He felt his watch go immediately after
Sheers had butted at him. He was dragged into a
house to protect him from further violence. He had
purchased a new butter-tasting knife, and used it in
defending himself , by which he slightly wounded
Sheers in the face and on the back. Sheers came in
with a constable to the house where he had taken
refuge, and complainant immediately gave him in
charge. They went to the station-house in Moor-
lane, and in the crowd that followed them he noticed
another of his assailants, and gave him into custody.
This was the prisoner Cummings. On reaching the
station-house he found Morden, who had committed
the attack, already in custody for another robbery.
He identified him immediately. The watch was not
found.
Several witnesses identified the prisoners as being
the persons who were engaged in the attack. They
had previously knocked off and destroyed the hats of
many respectable persons, as if by way of diversion
only. There was a gang of about twenty young
fellows.
Mr. Bestow, an artist, residing in Vernon-place,
Pentonville, stated that he was standing near Mr.
Hibbs when the rush was made by Sheers. Witness
was knocked down as well as Mr. Hibbs, and Morden
tore witness s coat-pocket out, and carried it off with
the contents. He saw the pocket in Morden's hand,
and kept his eye on him till he had an opportunity of
giving him into custody. Witness lost his purse,
containing 4s. 6d., a knife, and handkerchief.
The prisoners all protested they had nothing to do
with robbing the two complainants.
Mr. Alderman LUCAS said the evidence to the con-
trary was so strong that he should send them all to
trial.

They were committed to Newgate.
John Stevens, the ringleader of a gang of fifty
young desperadoes, who were insulting or assaulting
every respectable person who passed near them, was
committed for three months as a rogue and vagabond.
About twenty of the gang were know to be thieves,
and they amused themselves with " bonnetting" men
and women, that is knocking off or spoiling their hats
or bonnets. Their numbers made it difficult for the
police to cope with them, but Haydon, the officer,
secured Stevens as as the ringleader.
The prisoner stated himself to be a labourer at the
docks.

Some handkerchief stealers were committed to
Newgate for trial.

MARYLEBONE.

Ann Simons, Mr. Hickman, a merchant in the City,
and occupying chambers at 18, Lincoln's Inn-fields
and Benjamin Simons, the father of the female pri.
soner, were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton;
the woman charged as being the thief, and the other
two as being receivers of the stolen property. The
particulars of what transpired upon the former exa-
minations have already appeared in this paper.
The only additional facts adduced in the course of
the inquiry were, that Elizabeth, the sister of Ann
Simons, had pawned some shawls and other valuable
articles at the shop of Mr. Smith, a pawnbroker, in
South. street, Manchester-square. These things were
produced, and two of the shawls were valued ny Mr.
Marshall at twelve and a half guineas each. Several
letters were produced which were found in the boxes
of the prisoner Ann, which, on perusal by the magi-
strate, although not put in as evidence of the case,
established beyond a shadow of a doubt the fact that
a close intimacy had subsisted between her and Mr.
Hickman.

The Learned Counsel engaged on either side ad-
dressed the worthy magistrate at some length upon
the whole bearing of the case; Mr. Ballantine con-
tending that Mr. Hickman, his client, could not be
looked upon as having a guilty knowledge of the
property alleged to be stolen from Messrs. Marshall
and Co. being in his possession ; and in proof of his
innocence he (the Learned Counsel) impressed upon
the magistrate the fact that, immediately upon his
client, who, he must admit, had formed an immoral
intimacy with Ann Simons, learning that she was in
custody for robbing her employers, he had afforded
every facility to the police while searching for the
property. He (Mr. Ballantine) therefore submitted
to the magistrate that there was no evidence what.

ever showing guilty participation with respect to the
plunder. The Learned Gentleman dwelt at some
length upon the high character of his client, and left
the case with the worthy magistrate, in full confidence
that he would consider that Mr. Rickman was not a
guilty party in the transaction.
Mr. BROUGHTON came to the conclusion that, in the
absence of some parties who were required to complete
the case, a remand must take place.
The whole of the prisoners were accordingly re-
manded until Tuesday next.
Mr. Bnotra EITON signified his willingness to ac-
cept bail, as heretofore, in the case of Mr. Hickman,

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himself in 4001. and two sureties in 2001. each, for
his being forthcoming at the next examination.
The court was crowded during the inquiry by
many of the noblity, amongst whom was the Swedish
Ambassador.

WORSHIP-STREET.
William Newton "Matti, a boy twelve years of age,
was charged with having stolen a gold watch and ap-
pendages, a gold eye-glass, and other articles of
jewellery, of the value of seventy guineas, the pro-
perty of his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Nelme, widow
of the late Mr. Nelme, of Grove-place, Hackney, re-
specting whose mysterious death, by poison, a pro-
tracted investigation is still proceeding before Mr.
Baker, the coroner, and in the different stages of
which the name of the prisoner has been more than
once mentioned under circumstances of some sus-
picion.
The Rev. Mr. Goodchild, Rector of St. John's,
Hackney, attended with the solicitor of the deceased
to watch the proceedings.
Inspector 'Waller, of the N division, stated that in
consequence of having ascertained that the valuables
before mentioned had disappeared from the residence
of the deceased gentleman shortly after or about the
time of his death, be had been engaged for several
(lays past in superintending a search of the various
cesspools about the premises for the missing property,
but could get no trace of it until the preceding after-
noon, when he received a message from Mrs. Allnutt,
the prisoner's mother, and who is also a (laughter of
the deceased, requesting his immediate attendance
at the house, as her son had just made a confes-
sion of some importance. Upon reaching the house
the prisoner, who appeared to have expected him,
at once acknowledged that he had stolen the watch
and other articles from one of the draviers in his
grandmother's bedroom, and that he had afterwards
thrown them from the parapet of an upper room
into the gutter of an adjoining house, in which they
had ever since remained. He accordingly took the
boy up to the roof of the house in question and there,
in a recess which the prisoner pointed out, found
the whole of the property wrapped up in a piece
of bedticking. He thereupon told him that he must
take him into custody, when the prisoner begged for
forgiveness, and said that he had been tempted to
commit the act, and did not expect that it would be
ever found out. The inspector added, that the pro-
perty had since been identified by the widow of the
deceased and the prisoner's mother, but that neither
of them was in attendance, as they had not suffi-
ciently recovered from the effects of the poison they
had taken (which it was stated was arsenic mixed up
with pounded loaf-sugar), and the mental distress
consequent upon the occurrence, to allow of their ap-
pearance, and he therefore wished the accused to be
remanded to afford an opportunity of completing the
evidence in the robbery.
A constable of the same division corroborated the
inspector's testimony, and the prisoner, upon being
asked if he wished to °Nr anything in answer, burst
out crying, and said, " It's all true: but I was
tempted to do it, and will never do so again."
Mr. HAsts,tira, (addressing the solicitor) inquired
whether he was instructed to offer bail for the future
appearance of the prisoner, as he thought he might
accept it, and, considering the extreme youth of the
accused, that appeared the most advisable course to
pursue

had been constituted, within the jurisdiction of which
the premises in question lie; and it was c, Wended
that the replevin suit ought to have been brought in
the Whitechapel District Court, and not in the old
County Court of Middle et.

LORDSIIIP suggested that, as the question
whether the jurisdiction as to replevin suits had
been transferred by the recent Act from the old to
the new county courts was a difficult one, and af-
fected not Middlesex alone, but every other county
in England, it had better be discussed before the full
Court.