The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-09 00:00:00

business i❑ the country while he himself was living in
Lundun.

The jury acquitted the prisoners of the felony, but
found thEm guilty of an assault, and they were sen-
tenced to 14 days' imprisonment in the gaol.
Thomas White and James Cave, the witnesses against
whom Mr. Justice Cresswell ordered bills of indictment
to be preferred for perjury, were this morning placed at
the bar, and pleaded " Not Guilty " to indictments for
perjury and conspiracy, and traversed their trials until
the next assizes.

The Learned JUDGE said the prisoners might be held
to bail, White in his own recognizances for 801. and two
sureties in 401. each, and Cave himself in 401. and two
sureties in 201. each.

Thomas George b'arlin was indicted for maliciously
cutting and wounding Thomas Clarke, with intent to
murder him.

The prisoner was deaf and dumb, but could read and
write well. Mr. Gane, the governor, acted as inter-
preter when it was requisite.
Mr. Allen was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Saunders for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 30th of December, about five
o'clock in the afternoon, the prosecutor, who was a
painter at Bath, was going home. Upon turning a
corner the prisoner rushed upon him and collared him
with the left hand, and cut him in the neck and face with
an instrument he held in the other. It was a sharp in-
strument. The prosecutor, finding himself cut, threw
the prisoner down, and then went for a policeman.
When he returned the prisoner was gone. The prose-
cutor had known the prisoner for three or four years, but
had never had any quarrel with him. Their wives were
distantly related. The prisoner was 'seen with a long
knife in his hand to rush upon the prosecutor. When
the prisoner was taken into custody he wrote on a slate,
" I did it wilfully." He then rubbed that out, and
wrote, " I threw the knife down a grating in Cornwall-
buildings." He then rubbed that out, and wrote, " I did
it because I was jealous of him, as my wife had one child
by him." The knife (a small dessert knife) was found
in the grating, as described by the prisoner. There was
a would on the left jaw, and on the back part of the
scalp; they must have been inflicted by two cuts.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm, but strongly recommended him to
mercy.
Sentence deferred.

NORTH WALES ClRCUlT.—Chester, April 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WicuTmA.N.)
Thomas Jones, 23, was indicted for feloniously stab-
bing Joseph Edge, with an intent to do him some
grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor and the prisoner were both mariners,
and their vessels on the 26th of August last were lying
in dock at Juncorn. About seven o'clock on the evening
of that day they went to the inn to get a glass of grog
together. 0n going from the public-house the prisoner
and a lad belonging to his flat quarrelled. The prisoner
was about to punish him, when the lad called for help
from the prosecutor. Edge interfered, and the prisoner
threatened to thrash him also. A scuffle then took
place, and in the course of it the prosecutor received
a stab about an inch in depth on the upper part of his
back. "
The prisoner was found Guilty of the felony. Sen-
tenced to four months' imprisonment.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
The cases tried in this court during the day were,
with one exception, actions for debt of small amounts,
and of no public interest—the exception being an action
against Mr. Hogan, auctioneer, of Birkenhead, for a
trespass in having wrongfully detained at his sale-rooms
a horse and cart, which had been seized for rent by a
bailiff. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, one
urthing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Two well-dressed persons of very respectable appear-
ance, named James Chandler, alias Johnson, and Eliza
Towel!, alias Johnson, who have for some time lied
together, and well, upon contributions levied upon the
public, were charged by lloriford, an officer of the
Mendicity. Society, with having practised one of their
ingenious expedients. Mr. Knevitt, assistant-manager,
attended.

Horsford stated that on Tuesday he saw the prison-Ts
together, and knowing them to be begging-letter im-
postors he followed them. They stopped in Fleet-
street, opposite to Messrs. Hoare's banking -hause, and
the man pointed to the house and spoke to his com-
panion. They then walked towards Ludgate-hill, and
went into a public-house in Shoe lane, where they re-
mained a short time. The woman then went by herself
to Hoare's banking-house, and after she came out Hors-
ford made inquiries of the porter, and learned that she
had left the following letters for the perusal and chari-
table consideration of the principals,
return for an answer:—. and that she was to
" St. Mildred's parish, Middlesex, March 19.
"Having an accurate knowledge of the circumstances
which have occurred to place the family of the late Mr.
James Palmer in their present embarrassed position in
society, I have, at the request of several of the most inti-
mate friends of the deceased, authorised this statement
to be drawn up, with a view of enabling the widow, Mrs.
Anne Palmer, to establish a seminary for the tuition of
youth, for which occupation she is duly qualified, by the
contributions of those whose means will enable them to
promote so praiseworthy an object.
" It will be remembered that Mr. Palmer died on the
17th of November last, whose death was accelerated by
the severe losses he sustained by the failure of Messrs.
Frampton, of Old Broad-street, in conjunction with un-
successful railway speculations, and consigned the family
to absolute indigence. The object of this appeal is to
rescue a deserving family from the last and painful re-
source of parochial aid; and I do sincerely trust that
this statement will meet with that sympathy which un-
merited poverty deservedly meets.
" (Signed) W. W. F. Jackson, 5/.; T. Thompson,
Messrs. Drum-
mond, 21.; Chapman Marshall, 21.; Grissell and Peto, 2/.; W.
Mignay, 11.; Anonymous, 21.; Peter Laurie, 21. (paid);
n2J.oHnd.,Pfoerlly,,
J. s.
2/.;,,
51.; Capper and Co., 11.;
Gosling and Sharpe, 2/.; John
Pirie, 31., &c."
The second letter purported to be the certificate of a
medical gentleman, who has been dead for some time:—
" April 10.
" I hereby certify that Mrs. Palmer is professionally
me, and at present incapable of leaving her
aggravating her serious indisposition,
attack of influenza, accompanied with
aah
rtotimse
inendge
obt
hmyo
uatn
symptoms of ' delirium tremens.'
" JOHN SCOTT, Surgeon.
" 10, New Broad-street."
" The bearer is a trustworthy domestic deputed by
Mrs. Palmer to receive any contributions, for which, if
necessary, her signature will be given,"
Witness then followed the woman, who was joined by
the man, and who returned to the banking-house in about
three-quarters of an hour, where she was taken into
custody. The male prisoner, who had been walking up
and down on the opposite side of the way in a very
fi
officer of the society recognised the prisoners
as old
who prospered exceedingly by pretending
to be
of every sort of awful calamity.
d get y
Another state, t e
o. was also apprehended.
thhean victimsds,
'I he LORD 51AYOR said the list of pretended contri-
butions contained internal and unmistakeable evidence, in
more than one instance, of rank falsehood.—(A laugh.)
Sir J. Pinsk negatived the signature of his name, and
Mr. G. Magnay stated that the name of " W. Magnay "
was not in his brother's handwriting.
The female prisoner said she certainly had been guilty
of the deception, but disavowed any knowledge of the
man. She assured his Lordship that her exertions to
support herself deserved any name but that of idleness.
On the contrary, mendicancy, as she practised it, re •
quired great labour, ingenuity, and memory, and the
least slip exposed her to deception, of the consequences
of which she was perfectly aware.
The male prisoner said that the fact of his having
spoken to the woman in the street did not prove that he
knew anything of the papers with which she had pro-
vided herself.
The LORD MAYOR said it was quite obvious that the
prisoners turned their peculiar talents to profitable ac-
count, and sentenced each of them to imprisonment in
Bridewell for two months, with the addition, in case of
the man, to hard labour.
Williant:Johnson and John Hounslow were charged
with having robbed Messrs. Chambers, of Bishopsgate-
street, ironmongers, of 16,000 mils. The latter pri-
soner, who was coachman to Messrs. Chambers, had a
few days ago, in consequence of the suspicion enter-
tained that he had been concerned in the robbery, swal-
lowed so large a quantity of poison that his stomach
vomited it at once, and the sickness saved his life.
John Spittle, 671, observed Johnson with a heavy bag
on his shoulder, and judging from his manner that he
had become improperly possessed of it, took him into
custody, and soon ascertained that he and Hounslow had
contrived to pack together a large quantity of nails in
parcels which bore the marks of the prosecutors. John-
son said Hounslow had suggested to him to take the
nails, and that they went together to the warehouse in
which the property was deposited, and were to be part-
ners in the produce of the sale.
Hounslow,
who had acknowledged to one of the police
that he knew something of the robbery, now positively
denied any knowledge at all of the matter.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
John Lawrence and Ernest Sultz, two well-dressed
young men, were charged with having picked the pocket
of Miss Julia Hammond, in an omnibus.
Miss Julia Hammond, of Elizabeth-place, New•road,
said she got into an omnibus at Hungerford-market
with her sister on Thursday, about 6 o'clock in the even-
ing. The prisoner Lawrence shortly afterwards got in
and placed himself by her side. Sultz followed, and
placed himself by the side of her sister. When near
the Quadrant,
in Regent street, her sister asked her to
lend her some money. She immediately put her hand
.
in her pocket and drew out her purse, in which she had
seen a sovereign just before she entered the omnibus.
The sovereign
sister of the loss.
was, however, missing, and she told her
Miss Martha Hammond said she was with her sister
on Thursday last. As they rode in the omnibus towards
Recent-street she felt that some one was trying to take
something out of her reticule. She watched, and she
observed that the prisoner Sultz, who sat by her side
was acting in a suspicious way. The prisoner saw that
he was noticed, and he desisted from his attempt. Wit-
ness then looked at the other prisoner, who sat by the
side of her sister,
withwas hisobserving
foot.
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sister's pocket.
his companion, touched Lawrence's toe
Lawrence drew up his hand quietly, and
put something into his waistcoat pocket. Sultz touched
Lawrence's foot a second time, and then witness, who
suspected that an attempt had been made to rob her
sister, asked her sister to lend h. r some money. As soon
as her sister produced her purse and stated that she
missed a sovereign from it, witness turned to Lawrence
and said, " Sir, you have extracted a sovereign from my
sister's purse." The prisoner Lawrence replied that the