The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-08 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 6.
Business commenced to-day soon after twelve o'clock.
The calendar contains the names of 73 persons, of whom
two are charged with murder, five with manslaughter,
two with sacrilege, five with arson, four with robbery,
nine with burglaries, two with forgeries, two with con-
cealing the births of children, two with cutting and
wounding, two with uttering counterfeit coin, and the
rest with larcenies. There were 36 causes entered for
trial, of which three are for special juries.
Is the Crown Court no case of interest arose during
the day.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice Mimi, and a
Common Jury.)

BINGHAM 7). EVANS.
Mr. Keating and Mr. Skinner appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Godson for the defendant.
This was an action against an auctioneer at Chelten-
ham, to recover the balance of the proceeds of a sale
which he had made under the plaintiff's direction. The
defence was that he had paid the amount in question to
a person whom the plaintiff had employed as her general
agent in winding up the affairs of her brother, to whom
who described himself
she executrix. This person,
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as an accountant, stated that he had got a cheque for the
amount from Evans, and given it to the plaintiff, who
returned it to him, and that he then went to the bank
and received the amount. The plaintiff gave no receipt
for the money (about 720, and signed no document
whatever reecting it•
Some other sp
witnesses proved that the plaintiff had
employed this person as her agent.
The jury, however,. did not place implicit faith in them,
and found for the plaintiff.

WESTERN ClRCUlT—Taunton, April 6.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESBWELL.)
John Shearn, George Shearn, and James Hawkins were
indicted for assaulting and robbing John Godfrey of a
purse and two sovereigns at Midsummer Norton, on the
12th of September.

Mr. Stone was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Saunders defended the prisoners.
This was rather a singular case. Mr. Godfrey stated
that he was an articled clerk to a Mr. Govet, who had
offices at Midsummer Norton, close to which village
Godfrey vesided. About half-past eight in the evening
of the 12th of September Godfrey was going home from
the post-office. When he had got about 200 yards from
the post-office, and within 100 yards of his own house,
be saw four men ; one of them (John Shearn) came up
to him, caught hm by the collar, and bellowed in his
face ; the three others then came up, and made the same
bellowing noise. They jostled him, and went away to-
wards the village. He found his pocket torn down. He
followed them and overtook them, when they again began
making the bellowing noise. A mob of 150 or 250
people collected and made bellowing noises at him. He
pushed through them to a window in which there was a
light, and he was then enabled to recognise the other
two prisoners (George Shearn and Hawkins) as the
persons who had first attacked him. He went into a
house, and remained there for nearly two hours before
the mob had dispersed. He then went home, and then
found that his purse, containing two sovereigns and a
half, was gone.
In his cross-examination the witness said that Mr.
Govet lived in London, but the witness carried on busi-
ness for him in the country. He had had occasion to
sue a great number of people, and there was a strong
feeling against him in the minds of the poor : he had
become a very unpopular man. John Shearn had an-
noyed him before.

It was proved that John Shearn had left the village,
after this, but had come forward voluntarily to-day to
take his trial.

For the prisoners, it was urged that this was no rob-
bery, but that the parties had a strong feeling of dislike
against Godfrey, and intended to insult and annoy, but
not to rob him.

Mr. Justice CRESS WELL, in summing up, said the at-
torney was adopting a most irregular and improper
practice in allowing an articled clerk to transact his
business in the country while he himself was living in
London.

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 ail, White in his own recognizances for 801. and two
sureties in 40/. each, and. Cave himself in 401. and two
sureties in 20/. each.
Thomas George Sartin 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 wound on the left jaw, and on the back part of the
scalp; they mast 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 ClRCClT.—Chester, April G.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGEITNAN.)
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 Runcorn. About seven o'clock on the evening
of that day they went to the inn to get a glass of grog
together. On going from the public-house the prisoner
and a lad belonginc, 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 section
against Mr. Mogan, 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
farthing.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Two well-dressed persons of very respectable appear-
ance, named James Chandler, alias Johnson, and ..Ehzez
Temprell, alias Johnson, who have for some time lived
toget.her, and well, upon contributions levied upon the
were charged by Horsford, an officer of the
Mend!city Society, with having practised one of their
ingenious expedients, Mr. Knevitt, assistant-rnamig er,
attended.
Horsford stated that on Tuesday he saw the prisom"rs
together, and knowing them to be begging-letter im-
postors he followed them. They stopped in Fleot-
street, opposite to Messrs. Hoare's banking-house, a.md
the man pointed to the house and spoke to his com-
panion. They then walked towards Ludgate-hill, a,nd
went into a public-house in Shoe-lane, where they r, 3.•
mained a short time. The woman then went by hers aif
to Hoare's banking-house, and after she came out Hors -
ford made inquiries of the porter, and learned that slit
had left the following letters for the perusal and chari-
table consideration of the principals, and that she was tc.
return for an answer:—

" 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 deceasedauthorised this statement,.
to be drawn up, with a view deceased.
enabing the widow, Mrs.
Anne Palmer, to establish a s minary for the tuition of
youth, for which occupation shee 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. P lmer died on the
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17th of November last, whose death :a the severe losses he sustained by the fail re te
reeeloef Id by
Frampton, of Old Broad-street, in conjunction vgithurrsi.
successful railway speculations, and consigned the family
rescue absolute indigence. The object of this appeal -rs 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, 51.; T. Thompson,
21.; Chapman Marshall, 21.; Grissell and Pete, 21.; W.
Magnay, I/.; Anonymous, 2/.; Peter Laurie, 21. (paid);
J. 11. Polly, 21.; Capper and Co., 11; Messrs. Drum-
mond, for J. S.,' 31.; 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:—
" Aril 10.
" I hereby certify-that Mrs. Palmer is professionally
sttPrided by me, and at present incapable of leaving her
home without aggravating her serious indisposition,
arising from an attack of influenza, accompanied with
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 he 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.igety state, was also apprehended.