The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

John Jones, a young fellow, whose friends were said
to be highly respectable, his father being barrack-mas-
ter at Cork, and Elizabet 4 Pearce, who had deserted her
lawful husband and home to beguile her hours with her
fellow-prisoner, were placed at the bar for final exami-
nation on a charge of robbing their ready• furnished apart-
ments.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoners oc-
cupied a furnished apartment in the house of Mrs. Pesti-
ley, in the Waterloo-road, where they passed as man and
wife, and the landlady having some misgivings from their
manner, that all was not right, took occasion in their
absence to examine their room, and found it stripped of
nearly all the bedclothes and other movables. The pri-
sones, by some means or other, got a hint of the dis-
covery made in their absence, and did not return home ;
but information having been given to the police, they
were o
apprehended
s missing
i propertyn
the
were
friends have managed to take out a number of the ar-
ticles pawned from the pawnbrokers', the latter having
given them out without either duplicate or declaration,
rather than have to appear as witnessess in the case.
There were one or two other charges against the pri-
soners, but they failed in sufficient proof.
Two respectable persons, in whose houses the male
prisoner had previously- lodged asspoke to his proper con-
duct while with them, as well the respect 1"1' of his
a n ity
friends.
Mr. ELLIOTT convicted the prisoners in the penalty
of 51. for the unlawfully pawning, together with the
value of the articles pawned, or in default of payment to
stand committed to the House of Correction for two
months each.

CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A POLICE-
m AN.—HERTFoRD, FRIDAY. lhe death of a prisoner,
had adthe erexe 6th
-
orset.
cised
named John Serle, in the county goal near this town,
who in being captured received a serious cut from a eut-
fcierdryeceased and
lass used by Thomas Bygrave, one
,of. the county police
ifne,wards the deceased.
Early oTnh waset
hee thev
midsoeurnbndieencsgth
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eatdh e th2a2td coronert
uhsmuch unnecessary violence to
iet
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theofficer
lu
his two sons were seen walking into the churchyard at
Bishop's Stortford. They were carrying a sack, appa-
rently half filled with lair, and Bygrave and another
constable followed them. On seeing the officers, they
ran away, but on the policeman coming up to them, they
attempted to resist being captured. 13yg
rave received a
serious blow on the arm from a bludgeon, and the three
again made off. The deceased, being a bulky man, could
not make so hasty a retreat as his sons, and finding the
police were upon him, he proceeded to make a more de-
termined resistance. B rave
drew a cutlass, and, ac-
cording to his statement, intended to have struck him on
the arm with it ; it however fell On his head, and in-
flicted a serious wound. Ho was removed to the county
or oner
gaol, and died on the 3d inst. Mr. Davis described death
to have been caused by erysipelas, which might have oc-
curred without the!vvound. Capt.lielly, the superintendent
of the police, informed the c
that the officers were
not allowed to wear cutlasses ; they
were called in about
twelve months ago.
After seine considerable discussion
on the conduct of Bygrave, in the course of which the
jury very much deprecated the way he had used the
sword to the deceased, they worded their verdict to the
effect that the deceased had died front erysipelas, and
although it might be possible that it was induced by the
blow inflicted, the medical testimony was not sufficiently
strong to lead to the suspicion that the disease entirely
arose from the blow. If it had been such, it would have
been their duty to send the constable for trial On a charge
of manslaughter. The jury added that they were of
opinion that he had displayed excessive zeal rather than
want of duty.
EX PERIMENT wall SULPHURIC ET lIER.—MT. R.
Lucas, veterinary surgeon of this town, yesterday suc-
cessfully performed an operation upon a large New-
foundland bitch whilst under the influence of sulphuric
ether. Mr. Lucas had to remove a tumour from the
im as an experiment, he placed a quantity of
athneeath and,
er at the bottom of a jar which had been previ-
ously heated. The head of the bitch was then intro-
duced into the mouth of the jar, and the animal in, a
moment became insensible. During the period of in-
sensibility the operation was performed, and the poor
thing evinced not the slightest evidence of pain. In a
short time the bitch recovered from the effects of the
stupefaction, and is n9w doinF, well,—Liverpool Altrcury.