The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1849.

German minded inhabitants are of daily occurrence.
A petition to the King of Prussia has been signed by
670 citizens and forwarded to Berlin. A similar
number of signatures was affixed to a protest against
the annulling of the fundamental law.
It appears that negotiations at Berlin are still going
on to bring about an early agreement between the
Statdholderthip and the Administration.
Mr. Henry Von Gagern is expected at Hamburgh
from Bremen, and a dinner will be given to him on
Wednesday by a large number of his admirers.
COPENHAGEN, OCT. 18.—Prince Frederick of
Hesse has proceeded from Cassel to Vienna, on an
important mission.
Colonel Hodges is said to have been ordered by
his Government to take his permanent stay at
Flensburg.
Count Moltke has arrived at St. Petersbnrgh, and
had an audience of the Emperor on the 11th inst.
General Klapka, the late commander of Comorn,
and a great number of other Hungarians, are staying
at Hamburgh, and receiving great public attention.

The CORONER—Did you hear the evidence of Dr.
tire? Witness—l have read it.
The CORONER—And you do not agree with it ?
Witness—No.
Mr. flopgood—Might not some of the gas lime
have dropped into the sewer since it has been opened?

Witnessl:Possibly.
The CORONER—And might not the sewer being
opened and exposed to the atmosphere have dissipated
the particles you would expect to find ? Witness—l
think not.
Mr. William Orde, a former witness, was recalled,
and stated that on Saturday morning, between two
and three o'clock, some shavings and straw were burnt
over the aperture of the sewer in Kenilworth street,
and the fire attracted sulphuretted hydrogen gas
towards it. It had the appearance of a furnace
throwing up the gas from the sewer. The gas
burnt green, and had a very offensive smell. This
experiment proved, beyond all doubt, that sulphu-
rotted hydrogen gas still existed in the sewer to a

large extent.
The jury at this point of the proceeding retired
for half an hour, to partake of refreshment. On their

re-assembling,
Dr. Lyon Playfair, of Barnes, chemist to her Ma-
jesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and
Doctor of Philosophy, was called in and examined. He
stated that having been requested by the Commissioners
of Sewers to examine this sewer, he had been several
times down into it. He had obtained specimens of
the fluid and matter in the sewer, of the gas lime
refuse with which the sewer was covered, and of the
brickwork which composed it, taking care that the
brickwork was selected from a part of the sewer which
had not been exposed to the atmosphere. He had
examined the sewer itself, and found it covered,
first, with a clay containing iron substances,
then with the gas lime already spoken of, then with
clay and sand, and then with a second layer of gas
lime. In the last layer he found a solution of sul-
phuret, along with other: substances, but the other
did not contain sulphuret, or anything injurious to
life, but the layer nearest the surface of the street,
besides the sulphuret, contained some cyanic com-
pounds, from which prussic acid was produced. He
had made experiments with the specimens which had
been handed to him, and he had found that water had
penetrated through the gas lime, but that the four
substances on the clay bad absorbed the sulphuret,
while by applying some water which had been
filtered through the gas lime and the clay to
the brick and mortar extracted from the sewer, he
found that it turned the water green. Now the
water extracted was white, and he was,
therefore, led to believe that percolation
had not taken place, nor had the gas-lime
anything to do with the hydro-sulphuret
of ammonia existing in the sewer. It was a misnomer
to call this piece of work a sewer ; it
was rather an elongated cesspool, and
the three houses in Kenilworth-street must
have passed 11,380 pounds of excrement into it
during the two years that it had been in use. That
amount of liquid matter in a closed sewer like this
would produce a gas in which no animal life
whatever could exist for a single moment,
and directly the unfortunate men, whose deaths
furnished the subject of this inquiry, entered the sewer
they were struck dead.
The CORONER—We have heard, doctor, that
there are many sewers in London like this.
What do you think would be the best mode of
destroying the noxious influence of these gases ?
Witness—Only by ventilation, and having a rapid
current of air continually passing through the sewer.
The CORONER—The gases existing in this sewer
would have destroyed almost any number of human
beings.
Witness—Oh, no doubt. If all the Commissioners
of Sewers and all their officers had been within its
influence, as the poor men were, it would have killed
them at once.
A Juror—Will you permit me, Doctor, to ask you
if the stratum of clay you have mentioned would not
cause the sulphuret to run on one side rather than
percolate the sewer ? Witness—l think it would.
A Juror—And am I to understand you that
the iron present in the clay absorbed the sulphuret
impregnating the rain water that may have passed
through the lime gas ? Witness—My experiments
lead me to that conclusion.
The CORONER and jury both expressed themselves
much indebted to the Doctor for the clearness with
which he had given his evidence.
The Doctor observed, that being much interested
in all matters connected with the public health, he
had gone into this matter more with the view of ob-
taining private information than of assisting the
Commissioners of Sewers in the inquiry. He had,
therefore, made some experiments to ascertain if the
existence of the sewer in its recent state had proved
injurious to the health of the neighbourhood, and he
was happy to say he had been able to satisfy himself
that the noxious gases it contained could not possibly
ascend.
Some other evidence of a formal nature having
been put in,
The CORONER addressed the jury, observing that
the inquiry they had been so long engaged in had
been laborious, important, and painful ; indeed he
had never been called upon to perform a more painful
duty than that of presiding over this inquiry. Three
unfortunate men had been stricken down in the prime
of life, while fulfilling their daily avocation, but the
fact of of them having been previously cautioned
not to enter this sewer, sufficiently established that
they were aware of the danger they had to encounter,
and that they were not trapped into the place where
they died. Two others had nobly gone to their
rescue—one of them being a surgeon, must be sup-
posed to have been aware of the risk he was running
in entering the sewer ; but the poor fellow Walsh,
who in his lifetime was the support of an aged mother,
could not have possessed the same knowledge. All
the parties had been identified either by their imme-
diate relations or some friends, and the manner in
which they had entered the sewer had been fully
described. The sewer, it would seem, had been pro-
perly built, at least the regulations of the Commis-
sioners of Sewers, to whom the public looked for the
proper construction of such works, had been fully
complied with, but it was admitted that it had not
been properly cleaned. Two causes, however, were
assigned for the deaths of these poor fellows—one
that the gas which killed them was generated by
percolation, the other that it resulted from the foul
deposit contained in the sewer ; but the chemical
witnesses who traced these causes all agreed that
had the sewer been properly ventilated the gas,
no matter how produced, would have been
comparatively innocuous, and he must be allowed to
express some regret that more precaution was not
taken to ventilate the sewers before they were entered
by labourers. The jury, therefore, had to decide—
first, whether or not the deaths of those unfortunate
men were caused by a noxious gas in the sewer in
question ; secondly, if they could do so, to say what
that noxious gas was ; and lastly, whether that gas
was increased by the gas-lime above the sewer.
A Juror said, some of the jury were not quite satis-
fied that Mr. Wells and Walsh were properly treated
when they were taken from the sewer.
Tho CORONER suggested, then, that one of the
medical witnesses had better be recalled.
Mr. Orde was accordingly recalled, and stated that
everything was done for the unfortunate men, but
when they were brought into the public-house they
were quite dead.
Police-constable B 4, stated that Mr. Wells ap-
peared quite dead when he was brought from the
sewer. He was covered with black slimey mud.
Mr. George Bishop, the landlord of the C!arendon
Tavern, stated that nothing was done to Dr. Wells,
although some warm water was being got ready, but
he was ordered to be taken off to St. George's Hos-
pital directly.
A. Juror—Was his face not washed ? Witness—No.
A Juror—Nothing whatever was done to him then?
Witness—No, nothing.
A Juror—Did he appear dead ? Witnes.;—Yes, he

The jury then retired to consider their verdict with
closed doors. They returned at 25 minutes to
seven, when they delivered the following verdict :
" We find the deceased men, Daniel Peart, John
Aoftwood, and Thomas Gee, died from the inhalation
assigtueanteeraitnedKi tolo
I vnoergtlielc.
stterdeatn;cl
aunndvelnve-
that the deceased Henry Wells and John
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findlant
likewise soeuwa e rg,
Walsh met their deaths from the same cause in their
laudable endeavours to save the lives of the three first
sufferers. The jury unanimously consider the Com-
missioners and officers of the metropolitan sewers are
much to blame for having neglected to avail them•
selves of the unusual advantages offered from the
local situation of the Grosvenor Canal, for the purpose
of flushing the sewers of the district."
The CORONER—The latter part of the verdict can-
not be received.
A juror said he hoped it would.
The CORONER—You first find the deaths of the
men, and then you impute blame to certain parties. I
cannot record that, unless you find them generally
guilty of manslaughter, and then it would come
legally before me.
No further remark was made, and the Coroner
having thanked the jury for their patient attention
during the painful inquiry, the proceedings termi-
nated, and the Court broke up.

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been obtained from head-quarters, viz., Mr. Twelvetrees.
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by. a
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. required. Thia receipt can be as well manufactured
chemist.--
Liverpool Standard.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 22.
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)

IN TUE BANKRUPTCY OF JAMES KILLICK.
This was a meeting for the last examination of
:he bankrupt, who was a builder at Dorking.
The balance sheet, prepared by Mr. Butler, shows
the debts and liabilities to be about 2,2001, and the
valuable assets 2001. The assets consist of hook debts,
the whole of elle stock and furniture, value 1,5001,
having been seizped and sold under an execution a few
days befofe thf issue of the fiat. Killick became a
bankrupt on his own petition.
Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees ; Mr.
Lawrance for the bankrupt.
Mr. LINKLATER stated that he offered no opposition
to the accounts filed, but wished to examine the bank-
rupt respecting the executions under which his pro-
perty had been swept away, and also with reference
to some preferences which the assignees considered
bad been fraudulently made. But previously he
wished to know what was the opinion of the Com-
missioner as to the penal clauses of the new Act, and
whether he still continued to think that those clauses
had a prospective operation only.
The COMMISSIONER said the more convenient course
would be to establish an offence against the bankrupt
before deciding upon the construction of the Act.
The bankrupt was then examined, and it appeared
from his evidence that he had dishonoured trade bills
as early as September, 1848, and had been much
pressed by his creditors previous to April, 1849; in
that month a writ was issued against him by a credi•
tor, which the bankrupt gave to Mr. Marsh, of
Dorking, and at the same time informed him that he
was unable to meet his engagements ; that an execu-
tion was issued by this person for upwards of 1,0001.,
for money lent some years before; and that, imme-
diately upon the sheriff's taking possession, the
bankrupt wrote to his creditors, telling them that he
had let a creditor have possession to protect them all.
It further appeared that at the time the bankrupt
was sued and pressed by his creditors he paid his
father 1001. to mret a bill, not due, which the former
had accepted for .his accommodation ; and the bank-
rupt admitted that this payment was made voluntarily.
Mr. LINKLATER then called the attention of the
Court to the 256th clause of the new Act, by which
it is provided, that "if at the sitting for the last ex-
amination of any bankrupt it shall appear to the
Court that the bankrupt had committed the offences
enumerated the Court shall refuse to grant the bank-
rupt any further protection from arrest." The offences
referred to embrace " the contracting of debts
by fraud," and "the obtaining by false pretences the
forbearance of any of his debts from any of his
creditors," and also "undue preference." He con-
tended that, according to the evidence of the bankrupt
himself, he had committed both the offences before
mentioned—more particularly that of undue prefer-
ence ; and the Court would therefore be bound
to withhold further protection to the bankrupt, unless
the Act of Parliament was considered not to relate to
offences committed before its passing. It was im-
portant that the Court should as soon as possible decide
upon the construction which this, the most important
provision in the Act, was in future to bear.
Mr. LAWEANCE said that great inconvenience to
the Court and great injustice to the bankrupt would
result from making the last examination meeting an
occasion for inquiring into conduct. The real
question which the Court had now to decide was, no
whether the bankrupt had behaved properly or im-
properly as a trader, but whether the accounts he pre-
sented contained a full and faithful disclosure of his
affairs—whether the balance-sheet was a fair picture
of the books, and whether the books themselves were
accurate and reliable. The question of conduct was
for the certificate meeting.
The bankrupt passed and obtained protection.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT. _ _

Thomas .AshtonCockayne surrendered to take his
trial upon a charge of misdemeanour.
Mr. W. Cooper prosecuted, and Mr. Bodkin and
Mr. Ballantine were for the defence.
The nature of the misdemeanour imputed to the
defendant, who it appeared was a person very re-
spectably connected, and who holds the office of
deputy-master of the Western Grammar School at
Brompton, was that of having committed an indecent
assault upon a police-constable of the S division
named Charles Angel. The offence was alleged to
have been committed on the night of the 7th of Sep-
tember. The details are of course not fit for publica-
tion, but the story told by the constable was of a
very improbable and unsatisfactory character, and he
was contradicted in some material portions of his tes-
timony by the other witnesses in the case. Upon
cross-examination the prosecutor, who it appeared was
a native of Melksham in Wiltshire, admitted that he
had been charged with manslaughter, and, although
he refused to answer many of the questions that were
put to him with regard to his former habits and asso-
ciates, it was pretty clear that his character was very
indifferent. Notwithstanding this, however, it would
seem that upon his arrival in London he very speedily
obtained the appointment of police-constable.
Mr. BODKIN made a most eloquent and forcible
appeal to the jury on behalf of the defendant, who, he
stated, was a person who had all his life maintained
the very highest character for morality and honour-
able conduct, and who was utterly incapable of acting
in the manner described. lie commented upon the
evidence given by the prosecutor, pointing out the
contradictory statements he had made, and said that
the charge had evidently been trumped up for the
purpose of extorting. money. The Learned Counsel
concluded by expressing his surprise that such a man
as the prosecutor evidently was by his own showing
should ever have been appointed to a situation where
the property and persona of the public were entrusted

to his charge.
Several highly respectable witnesses were then
examined, all of whom confirmed the statement of the
Learned Counsel.with regard to morality and honour-
able conduct enjoyed by the defendant; and three
persons residing at Melksham, one of whom was the
superintendent of police, were also examined, and they
stated that, from their knowledge of the prosecutor
and his associates, and his general conduct, they
would not believe him on his oath.
The jury, without hearing any more evidence,
interposed at this stage of the proceedings, and said
they were satisfied that no case bad been made out
against the defendant.
The REcoanna asked if he was to understand that
the jury considered the case too doubtful to justify
them in convicting the defendant, or whether they
did not place any reliance upon the evidence of the
prosecutor ?
The jury said they did not believe the story told
by the policeman.
The RECORDER said that this expression of opinion
byti e jury
was highly satisfactory in a case where a
gentleman, whose character appeared to be unim-
peachable,a person of bad character.
was no case to warrant a
conviction,
e had o
andlong
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the attacked
tillaatdthoenbrlyey
let the matter proceed so
far in order that this might not only be made appa-
rent, but that it should also he shown that the prose-
cutor was unworthy of credit.
Mr. BODKIN said that after what had been stated
by his Lordship he trusted the defendant would leave
the court without the least imputation upon his
character.
The RECORDER said, in his opinion he would do so ;
but at the same time he considered it very satisfactory

that in such a case as this counsel had been engaged
on both sides, and he could not help also expressing

his satisfaction at the very candid and fair manner in
which the case had been opened by the Learned Counsel
for the prosecution. lie had stated the facts most
fairly, and had made the defendant aware of every
point upon which the prosecutor relied, and thus gave
him an opportunity of fairly meeting the accusation.
A verdict of Not Guilty was then recorded.
Tho ItEconnun gave directions to the inspector of
police on duty at this session to report to the proper
authorities the fact of the jury having expressed an
opinion that the prosecutor was unworthy of belief.
At present he was in the position of a protector of
the public, and it was therefore very necessary that
the opinion entertained of him by the jury should be
reported in the proper quarter. He had no doubt
that it would be so, but he felt it right to state pub-
licly what his opinion was on the subject.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. BuLLocx.)
James Somers, a respectable looking young man,
surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging
him with having stolen the sum of 1601. in sovereigns
and half-sovereigns in the dwelling-house of Richard
James.

Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Nagle appeared fur the
prosecution, and Mr. Ballantine and Mr. O'Brien fur
the defence.

Although the case occupied the Court from tho
middle of the day until a late hour at night the facia
were not at all of an intricate nature.

prosecutorlt
and was
asaweheese
pinpelarriecdtotrhiaa-t throaed,
Pimlico,living acquainted
with the prisoner, who is the son of a butcher in the
neighbourhood, ho having about three years ago been
in prosecutor's employment. They were on terms of
friendship with each other, and prosecutor having lent
prisoner some money, which the latter could not pay,
he agreed, in part liquidation of the debt, to white-
wash his kitchen, which he began some period long
before the day of the robbery, but had not completed.
On the 16:h of last August the prisoner called on
prosecutor to see him, and at that time prosecutor
was in the parlour counting out some gold, in the
whole 3631. Prisoner asked him what he was about
to do with his money ? and the reply was " Invest it
in Consols." Prisoner then asked him to come out and
have a glass of ale, to which the prosecutor assented,
and, having returned his money to the cashbox, placed
it on the top shelf of the parlour cupboard. Whilst at
the public-house, prisoner looked over the paper, and

observed that as the Consols were then very high pro- '
secutor had better defer the intended investment
until there was a fall, which prosecutor agreed to do
and returned home, and, having tied his money up in
bags, put it where he usually kept it—in a cupboard
in his bedroom. Shortly after this prisoner came and I
expressed his intention of finishing the whitewashing '
j ; for which purpose he went down stairs, but left
again without doing anything. On the next day he
was in the house for the same purpose, and left with-
out being observed; and it was then found that he
had not at all forwarded the job, neither was any sub-
sequent attempt made to do so. The prosecutor, not
requiring to go to the cupboard where the money was,
did not miss any until the
.27th of the same month,
and he then discovered that one of the bags, contain-
ing the sum named in the isdictment, had been ab-
stracted, the cupboard having been forced ands closed
again. Having made the fact of his loss known to
those in the house, he learnt that the servant of a
lady living in the upper part of the house had seen
the prisoner, on the day of the 17th, come down on
tiptoe from the upper part of the house, and that he
left by a door that was not used by the prosecutor or
any of his family. lie then appeared to have some-
thing heavy in his pocket, which he tried to conceal.
Prosecutor subsequently told him of his loss, and he
said it would be better if he kept it a secret, as
the knowledge of the loss would cause his neighbours
and tradesmen to suspect he was not able to keep up
his credit, and that it would not do him any good, as
he could not identify the gold. Prosecutor said he
did not care for his tradespeople, as he was quite
independent of them. Prisoner then said he must
take care his lodger did not know of it, or she might
leave. This raised prosecutor's suspicions, and he
communicated them to the police, who advised him to
keep an eye on the prisoner, which he did; and sub-
sequently going out with the prisoner, and seeing him
inadvertently pull some gold from his pocket, and
knowing him to have been in bad circumstances,
spoke to him of it, and asked him to let him have a
portion of what was due. The prisoner said he would
try and let him have a half-sovereign the next day,
which he did, and prosecutor at once identified it as
one of those he had packed up, from the fact of its
being marked with his teeth, prosecutor having
broken one of his teeth in trying whether it was a
good one. Prisoner having also been seen with much
money in his possession by other people, the police
apprehended him, and having denied that he had any
money about him was searched, and 17 half-sove-
reigns and some sovereigns were found on him, which
he said were his mother's.

For the defence it was contended that the identity
of the half-sovereign was insufficient, and that as the
prisoner was managing his mother's business he had
ample opportunity of being possessed of the money
spoken of.
A number of witnesses were called to prove the
payment of small sums to the prisoner, but not one
accounted for the number of half sovereigns found
on him.

In answer to the COURT, prosecutor said there was
a great number of half•sovereigns in the bag, and that
prisoner well knew where he kept his money.
A witness, named Cowderoy, was called, who swore
that he, the prisoner, and the prosecutor were all out
together on the 17th.
This was disproved by prosecutor and other
witnesses.
A number of highly respectable witnesses were then
called to character, when
Mr. PRENDERGAST having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up.
The jury having consulted some time in the box,
asked to retire, and having been locked up for a great
length of time, returned and Acquitted the prisoner.
The announcement was received with a loud
" hurrah " by the numerous friends of the prisoner
who were waiting outside.

SURREY ADJOURNED SESSIONS, Oct. 22'
These sessions commenced this day at the Sessions
House, Kennington-causeway, before Thomas Puckle,
Esq., and a full bench of magistrates.
The calendar contained the names of 46 prisoners
for trial, among whom were a number of females for
street robberies.
On the grand jury being sworn, the CHAIRMAN
remarked that, on looking at the calendar, the first
four cases were of such a trifling nature that they
might suppose they ought to have been disposed of in
a summary manner by the committing magistrates.
The first was for stealing a faggot ; the second was
four females, each for stealing a small loaf of bread,
altogether of no more value than one shilling. But
he must inform them that as the law then stood the
magistrates had no alternative but to send the parties
to the sessions, as felonies in each case had been com-
mitted. It was hard upon the county as regards the
expenses thus incurred, but there was no help for it.
After making a few observations to the grand jury
respecting their duties, the Learned Chairman dis-
inisqed them to their room.
Ann Brown, 29, was indicted for stealing four
half-crowns from the person of James Harrison, at
Lambeth.
Mr. CITARNOCK defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor deposed that he was a married
man, and lived at Kennington, and on the evening
of the 14th instant he had been enjoying the com-
pany of a few friends. While returning home he
was accosted by the prisoner, who wanted him to
treat her to a glass of rum. He refused to do so,
and walked on, when she suddenly put her arms
round his waist and coughed. At that signal a man
came running up and struck him, when the prisoner
put her hands into his waistcoat pocket, and stole
his money. He seized hold of her hand, and in
the struggle she dropped the money on the pave-
ment. A police-constable then came up and secured
her, when his four half-crowns were found on the
pavement.
In cross-examination by Mr. Charnock, witness
said he had been drinking a little, but ho was
quite capable of taking care of himself. The money
was safe in his waistcoat pocket before the prisoner
accosted him, and he denied letting it fall on the
pavement.
The constable was then called, and on being sworn
stated that he saw the prosecutor struggling with the
prisoner. On his approach the former charged her
with robbing him of four half-crowns, and that she had
dropped them on the pavement. He searched and
found them.
Mr. CIIARNOCK—Now, was not the prosecutor very
drunk at the time ? Constable—lle was visibly
drunk, but not incapable.—(Laughter.)
Mr. CHARNOCK—What do you mean by visibly
drunk ? I never heard such a word made use of in
this court before. Constable—l mean that he appeared
to have been drinking a good deal, but he could walk
well.—(Laughter.)
CHAIRMAN—You mean to say he was drunk ?
Constable—Yes, sir ; but I thought he was capable
of taking care of himself.
Mr. CHARNOCK contended that there was no foun-
dation for the charge. The prosecutor was admitted
to be drunk, and most likely dropped the money
himself, after making an immoral proposition to the
prisoner. He really hoped the jury would not take
the evidence of a drunken man.
The CHAIRMAN summed up the case, and, after
consulting for about twenty minutes,
The foreman of the jury said that one of their
number could not agree; therefore, he considered they
had better retire.
After an absence of nearly an hour, the obdurate
juryman came into court, and asked the chairman
whether it was proved the prosecutor was drunk ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative, but he
was capable of taking care of himself.
The Juryman retired more satisfied to his com-
panions, and after being locked up twenty minutes
more they entered the court, and returned a verdict
of Acquittal.
In discharging the prisoner from custody, the
CHAIRMAN told her that she bad had a very fortunate
escape. Had the jury known her character as well
as the court, he thought they would not have acquitted
her. She had been in custody a number of times and
tried in that court as a desperate thief, and had she
been found guilty, he should certainly have tranported
her. He hoped this escape would be a caution to her,
and be the means of her reforming her conduct.
The prisoner was then discharged from custody,
and as soon as she arrived in the court-yard she was
joined by a number of her old associates, who con-
gratulated her ors her escape from a "‘sellowser,"
and carried her to a neighbouring gin-shop, where
they regaled themselves by drinking the healths of
the jury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

William Jamieson, whose real name is said to be
Jones, was brought up fur final examination charged
with having attempted to pass a forged cheque at the
Union Bank of London, Argyll-place, Regent street,
and also with having obtained goods from various
tradespeople by means of forged orders.
Mr. Reynolds, one of the cashiers at the bank,
proved that the prisoner, on the 17th inst., presented
at the counter what appeared to be a cheque for
45/. 4i., drawn by Mr. W. 11. Acret, surgeon, of
Torrington square. Witness examined the document
and immediately discovered it was not in the hand-
writing of Mr. Acret, who kept an account with the
bank. Witness took the cheque into Mr. Clack, the
manager's room, and told him what he suspected.
The prisoner was sent for and questioned. He pre-
tended that he had come from Mr. Dakin, of St. Paul's
Churchyard.
Police constable Godfrey, C 147, said he took the
prisoner into custody at the bank. The prisoner
voluntarily admitted that he had not stated the truth
when he said he had come from Mr. Dakin. The
prisoner said he had got the cheque from a man in
Golden-square, whom he had occasionally met, but
whose name and address he was ignorant of, and
when he presented it for payment he believed it was
a forgery.

Mr. Acret, surgeon, Torrington-square, said the
cheque now produced was a forgery. He knew the
prisoner by sight from his having lived with Mr.
Dlaitlancl, a chemist, in Torrington. place.
Mr. Maitland, chemist, Torrington-place, said the
prisoner had formerly lived in his service as assistant.
The cheque now produced witness believed was in
the handwriting of the prisoner.
The prisoner declined making any defence, and was
fully committed on this charge.
The police. constable, Godfrey, stated that he had
made inquiries since the apprehension of the prisoner,
and had succeeded in ascertaining that the prisoner
had contrived to obtain goods by means of forged
orders in the name of his former employer, Mr. Mait-
land, from many tradesmen. He had traced out cases
of fraud on Mr. Skidmore, of the Haymarket ; Mr.
Emslie. St. Martin's• lane ; Mr. Weiss, Strand ; Mr.
Brown, of Farringdon-street ; and there were several
others who had not yet been seen.
The prisoner was ordered to be brought up again
on Thursday, in, case any of the parties who had
been defrauded might choose to come forward and
prosecute.

MARYLEBONE.
Walter Graham, a youth 16 years of age, residing
with his parents in Gloucester place, Camden-town,
was placed at the bar on the charge of having as-
saulted Julia Felicia Oughton, a child under ten years
old, with intent to violate her person. The com-
plainant lives in Hartland-road, Hampstead-road. The
parents on either side are highly respectable.
Mr. Sidney applied for defendant to be ad interim
liberated upon bail.
Mr. LONG told him that such a course could not be
as yet adopted. Upon Thursday defendant would be
entitled to give security for his attendance at the
sessions to take his trial, but it must be to a large
amount.

The complainant's father here stepped forward, and
said he should be glad if the Magistrate would exer-
cise a summary jurisdiction, but he was told dis-
tinctly that his wish could not in such a case be
complied with.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Charles Savage, a dray man in the employ of Messrs
Truman, Hanbury, and Co., the brewers, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with felo-
niously cutting and wounding his wife, Grace Savage,
with intent to murder her.
The injured woman, who appeared very much debili-
tated, and whose face was nearly covered with adhesive
plaister, deposed as follows :—I have been married for
some years to the prisoner, but we have been lately
separated, and I am now living with my friends in
New York-street, Bethnal-green. About nine
o'clock on Saturday night, while passing through the
Bethnal-green-road, in company with my sister, the
prisoner came up to us and asked me how I was, and
where I had left the baby. I told him that the child
was at home which I considered was the best place
for it, at which he appeared rather vexed, and said
that I ought to have brought it out with me. The
prisoner held his hands behind him all the time we
were conversing together, and, observing something
very wild and ghastly in his looks, I asked him what
was the matter with him, but, without returning any
answer, he instantly threw his left arm round my
neck, and raising his right hand, in which he held
some sharp instrument, drew it rapidly across my face.
Feeling the blood pouring down from my nose and
right cheek, .1 screamed out " Murder.' Having
managed by a violent effort to disengage myself from
him, I rushed into the shop of a greengrocer close by,
where I remained until the arrival of a surgeon, who
dressed my weststds.
A young woman named Ellen Lockey said—The
prisoner's wife is my sister, and on the prisoner
coming up to us on Saturday night, he asked his wife
where she was going ? She answered that she was
going to buy a little pair ,of socks for the baby, and
he then inquired if she would be at home_in two
hours, to which she replied that she should be so in a
few minutes. When he first came up he had his
hands in his pockets, but shortly withdrew them and
held them behind his back. This seemed to give his
wife uneasiness, and she demanded why he placed
them there ? Ile replied equivocally, " That's my
preference," and noticing that he had a peculiar
whiteness in the face, she mentioned it to him, but
without making any remark upon it, he suddenly
threw his left hand over her right shoulder and drew
his right hand ,over her face. She screamed in a
terrified manner, and I then saw that he had some
instrument in his grasp, though what it was I could
not snake out, but should judge .it must have been a
clasp knife or razor, as 1 saw him shut it up as he
walked away, leaving his wife, who had just rushed
from his grasp bleeding profusely from the face.
John Stephens, a turner in Orange-street, Bethnal-
green, said—Whilst standing outside the shop of Mr.
Cox, a butcher, at half-past nine o'clock on Saturday
night, I suddenly saw the prosecutrix and prisoner
struggling and wrestling together, as though they
were fighting, and then all at once saw her release
herself from his hold and rush into a green-grocer's
shop. The prisoner was about to run away, with
some implement I could not distinguish in his hand,
but he was pursued 'and brought back, when a con-
stable entered and secured him.
Alexander Hall, the constable, deposed—While on
duty in the Bethnal. green-road at the time in ques-
tion I heard piercing screams is a woman's voice, and
on hastening up to ascertain the cause of them, found
the proseoutrix sitting in the green-grocer's shop,
bleeding very much from several wounds in her
face. I ran out to catch the person who had in-
flicted them, and at the same moment the prisoner
was brought back by a butcher, who handed him
over to me, and I asked him if it was he who had
injured his wife. He replied in the negative, and
on asking him if he had a knife or razor about him,
he said he had not. I wanted to feel his clothes,
and he would not allow me, ;but I insisted upon
so doing, and on thursting my hand into his trou-
sers pocket drew out a razor and razor-case, the
razor being loose in his pocket. On seeing that
I had the razor he said it was his, and on my ex-
amining the blade of the weapon by the nearest
light I discovered marks of blood upon it in several
places quite wet, and on inspecting his hands I found
that one of them was also stained with blood, still
fresh and wet.
On being asked if he wished to say anything, the
prisoner carelessly replied, "I hardly know whether
I did it or not, as I was the worse for liquor at the
time. Not having been at the brewhouse, I went out
at half-past five to take a walk round Shoreditch, and
went into the Marlborough Head public-house, where
I sat drinking with some Irish labourers, but what
time I left there I don't recollect, and don't know any-
thing else that occurred.
The depositions of the above witnesses were then
taken by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, but it having been
intimated that Mr. Vandenburg; the surgeon who
had had the care of the injured woman, was incapable
at present of attending and giving his evidence,
which was considered indispensable, the prisoner was
ordered to be brought up again for the formal com-
pletion of the depositions, when he will be fully com-
mitted fir trial.