The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-25 00:00:00

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS•

On Saturday a well-dressed woman, who gave the
name of Elizabeth Dolby, was indicted for robbing a
lady named Kent of a purse containing 2/. 175., in a
carriage on the Eastern Counties Railway. The
prisoner came from London.
Maria Kent, the wife of a tradesman residing at
Upper Holloway, stated, that on the 7th of September
last she got into a carriage at the Shoreditch station
of the Eastern Counties Railway, and, having just
paid for her ticket, she still had a purse in her hand
with 2/. 18s. 6d. in it ; the prisoner followed her into
the carriage, took her seat close to her, and got into
conversation with her. Witness attempted to put
her purse and money into her bosom, but being un-
able to do so, she stood up and placed it in her
pocket, observing to the prisoner, that though rob-
beries were often committed on railways, she had
never lost anything yet. To this the prisoner re-
marked that neither had she. They went on till
they got to Ingatestone, about twenty miles from
London, when the prisoner got out. Before reach•
ing Chelmsford witness discovered that her purse and
money had been stolen. On reaching that station
she gave information of the robbery, and, as every
other passenger in the carriage volunteered to be
searched, suspicion attached to the prisoner. On this
witness promptly returned to Ingatestone, and gave
information to the police.
Cross-examined—ln the course of conversation,
the prisoner told her that she resided at the west end
of town, and was going on a visit into the country.
William Conyers, a policeman, said, he received in-
formation of the robbery, and traced the prisoner to
the neighbourhood of Ongar, where, he asked her if .

she was aware she had been passing bad money ? She
said she had not, and produced her money, when it
was seen she had something in her hand, which on
being taken from her, proved to be the purse belong-
ing to Mrs. Kent.
The jury found her Guilty.
The CHAIRMAN remarked upon the nature of the
offence, by which railway travellers had of late so
severely suffered, and then sentenced her to three
months' hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The good effects of the operation of the Seamen's
Registration Act are already sensibly felt in the
powerful check given by it to the ingenious frauds
oammitted by multitudes of our seamen, who have
been long in the habit, upon arriving at distant ports
of deserting to other vessels for increased wages, and,
of course, subjecting their own ships to all the incon-
venience and hazard of deficiency of hands. Since
our last account 98 summonses have been granted
from the Mansion- house against seamen for not
giving a reasonable account of the loss of their
former tickets of registration, and every one of them
have been fined.
George Venner George was charged by Mr. Cole-
man, clerk at the Registrar General's-office, with
having deserted the Nereid, at Quebec.
Captain Escott, master of the ship, having proved
the offence, to which the prisoner offered no defence,
The LORD MAYOR said that the complaints of the
desertion of seamen were daily made by the owners,
and to the commercial world it was of the utmost
importance that every means should be adopted to
check an evil of such magnitude, calculated as it was
to inflict great pecuniary loss upon the owners, and to
debase the ancient character of the British seaman.
He hoped that the owners themselves would more
frequently avail themselves of the opportunities af-
forded them of prosecuting offenders against so useful
en enactment as that upon which Mr. Coleman called
upon him so often to adjudicate.
Mr. Phillips, of the firm of Phillips and Tiplady,
stepped forward and thanked his Lordship for the
suggestions given, and stated his intention to prose-
cute in all such cases from their vessels.
Mr. Coleman complained of having great difficulty
in prevailing on owners to attend and give evidence in
such cases, or to give information to the Registration-
office on the subject, with the exception of Messrs.
Phillips and Tiplady, and two other owners whom
he named.
The defendant was committed for thirty days.
William King, second mate of the Arcadia, was
charged with a like offence, which was proved by Mr.
Walton, of Newman's court, Cornhill, the owner.
The defendant was committed for asimilar period.
WORSHIP-STREET.
On Saturday George Battley, described as an actor
at the Britannia Saloon, Hoxton, was charged with
violating the person of a modest-looking young
woman, about 17 years of age, named Eliza Clarke,
the daughter of a widow at Kingsland; and Henry
Pitt, a performer at the same establishment, was
charged on the preceding day as an accessory to the
offence, and remanded till next week on 2001. bail.
From the statement of the complainant, who was so
distressed and agitated that her evidence was scarcely
audible, it appeared that she had been acquainted for
about two or three months with the prisoner Battley,
who had paid h s addresses to her, but that in the
early part of August a misunderstanding arose be-
between them, and she resolved to break off the
acquaintance. From that time she saw nothing more
of him until the middle of that month, when she was
requested by a female friend, named Mary Plater, to
accompany her for a walk, and while passing down
Maria-street, Kingsland-road, they saw the man Pitt,
with whom her friend was intimate, standing at the
door of a house, into which he invited them to enter.
The girl Plater immediately complied, but witness
hesitated outside, when Pitt caught hold of her, threw
his arm round her waist, and dragged her into an
apartment on the ground floor, in which the prisoner
Battley was seated. A conversation ensued between
ilater and the two men, and after remaining there a
short time the light was suddenly extinguished by Pitt,
who hastily left the room with Plater, and on her en-
deavouring to escape after them, the door was
slammed in her face, and locked on the outside. The
prisoner Battley caught her at the same moment by
the back of her dress, which he tore down, and,
throwing her violently upon the floor, placed his hand
o:-er her mouth, and threatened, if she made the least
outcry, to dash her head through the boards. He
then proceeded to acts of the grossest indecency, and,
in spite of the most strenuous resistance in her power,
forcibly perpetrated the capital offence alleged against
him. She was so exhausted by her struggles with
her assailant, that she remained some time in a state
of total insensibility, and finding upon recovering her
senses that the door had been just opened by Pitt and
Plater, she rushed past them into the street, leaving
behind her her bonnet and shawl, which were imme-
diately brought to her by the girl Plater, who, when
she upbraided her with her infamous conduct, laughed
at her, and told her not to mind what had happened,
as the prisoner would, no doubt, act honourably to-
wards her. She was deterred by shame and terror from
communicating to her mother the treatment she had
sustained until some time after, but accidentally met
the prisoner the next day, and abused him for his con-
duct towards her, when he told her she was very
foolish, and that he had only acted as he had done to
secure her wholly to himself.
The mother of the complainant, a respectable-
looking woman, stated that for the last two months
she had remarked her daughter to be labouring under
extreme mental depression ; but all her efforts to
elicit the cause of her melancholy were unsuccessful
until Sunday last, when her brother, who was aware
of her former acquaintance with the prisoner, ad-
dressed her seriously upon the subject, and advised
her to think no more about him, as he knew that he
had spoken disparagingly of her. The prisoner's
name was no sooner mentioned than the girl became
greatly agitated, and, snatching up a knife from the
table, made a plunge with it at her breast, in which
she inflicted a slight wound, but her arm was in-
stantly seized by her brother, who wrested the
weapon from her and prevented her doing herself
more serious injury. The girl then burst into tears,
and promised to tell her mother all if her brother
left the room ; and upon his doing so, threw herself
upon her knees, made her mother promise not to
murder her for what she was about to relate, and
then told her the whole particulars of the outrage to
which she had been subjected. The witness pro-
ceeded next day to the theatre, where she saw the
prisoner, and indignantly asked him how he dare to
place such dishonour upon her child; upon which he
carelessly inquired what she expected of him, and whe-
ther she thought he was going to keep her, but
ultimately promised to call upon her the next day
and enter into some honourable arrangement. He,
however, did not keep his appointment, and having,
when she again called upon him, told her insultingly
that he should not marry her daughter, and never
intended to do so, she gave directions to the police for
his apprehension.
The girl's brother, Joseph Clark, confirmed his
mother's statement, and described his sister's conduct
as having been always hitherto irreproachable; and
Smith, a constable of the N division, proved that after
taking the prisoner into custody at the theatre on the
night before, and acquainting him with the nature of
the charge, he expressed his readiness to meet it, and
said that he should then have witnesses in attendance
to prove that the young woman was of loose charac-
ter, and had favoured several persons in the theatre in
a similar manner to that which he insinuated with
regard to himself.
Upon being called upon for his defence, however,
the prisoner did not repeat this declaration, called no
witnesses, and having merely declared that the young
woman's statement was much exaggerated, expressed
his intention of receiving anything ,Asft hc. 'night have
to say for the present.
Mr. HAMMILL therefore ordered him to be brought
up, for the depositions to be taken, on the day ap-
pointed for the re-examination of the other defendant,
Pitt, and declined receiving bail for his future ap
pearance.

LAMBETH.
On Saturday John .Marson, who is described as a
master-builder, was again placed at the bar before
Mr. Norton, and further examined on a charge of
swindling.
In addition to the evidence before adduced, and
which appeared in The Sun,
Sergeant Goff stated, since the last examination he
had, in consequence of the publicity which the case
had obtained, received a number of letters, disclosing
many circumstances concerning the doings of an in-
dustrious gang of regular swindlers. His Worship
would recollect that, when apprehended, some cards
of the firm of -' Thorton, Outtrarn, and Co. Essex
Essex
Wharf, Fore-street, Limehouse, and 1, Great Win-
chester-street, London," and also a letter with a
copperplate heading, " 1, Great "Winchester-street,"
were found upon his person. On that morning he
had received a letter in reference to these people
which furnished additional evidence. Goff further
stated that Day, upon whose cheques large sums of
money had been obtained by the prisoner and others,
and who was represented to be a man of large pro-
perty, lodged in the house of a person named Hennell,
a shoemaker at Eltham, Kent. Since the last exami-
nation he (Goff) found that this Hennell was not long
since discharged from prison, where he had been for
nine months for obtaining goods under false pretences,
and since his discharge had managed to swindle one
person out of boots and shoes to the amount of 401.
In reply to a question from the Magistrate, Goff
said that Hennell had absconded from his residence
since the apprehension of the prisoner, and, as well as
Day, had up to the present eluded the vigilance of
the police.
The prisoner was committed on two clear charges,
but will be again brought up preparatory to hia final
committal.

FRIGHTFUL MURDER OF FOUR

CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER.

One of the most dreadful murders which has ever
taken place in this country was committed in Cheap
side, Birmingham, on Saturday, under the following
circumstances :—lt appears that about six months
ago a widow, named Ann Wilkes, opened a small
shop in Cheapside, for the sale of cigars and small
wares. She was a person of very agreeable manners,
about forty years of age, and had evidently, in the
early part of her life, moved in a respectable sphere.
When her husband died she was left with four chit'
dren, three boys and a girl. On Saturday it wee
remarked by the neighbours that the shutters were
not taken down, as usual, in the morning. A Mr.
Edwards, living close by, feeling uneasy at this cir-
cumstance, determined, about eleven o'clock, to ascer-
tain the cause. Having procured a ladder, he placed it
against the window of the first floor, which was unfits'
tened, and entered the room. He found no person there,
but being urged by the crowd outside to proceed
further into the house, he did so, and advanced a fell
steps up a narrow staircase, at the top of which be
beheld a horrifying sight. Mrs. Wilkes was lying in
a pool of blood, and at her side lay her eldest child,
both of their throats cut from ear to ear. On looking
further into the room he discovered by a glimmering
light (for the room was darkened) the bodies of the
three other children weltering in their blood. Ter-
rified at the sight, he ran to the window, and cried
out, "My God I they are all murdered I" A police
constable, who was passing at the time, mounted the
ladder, and got into the room to the assistance of Mr'
Edwards. Both proceeded to the spot where Mrs.
Wilkes lay, and discovered that she was breathing'
They immediately turned their attention to her,
raised her up, and with the assistance of Mr. Archer,
surgeon, of Digbeth, bandaged the wound. After
recovering a little she made many attempts to take off
the bandage, but was prevented from doing so, and in
a short time was removed in a cart to the Queen
Hospital. Dr. Sands Cox, Dean of the Faculty, was
immediately sent for, and within ten minutes' time we;
in attendance upon the unfortunate woman, and bowl,:
up the wound with all possible speed. It was found
that the injuries which she had sustained were of 5
very serious character, and although none of the rill'
cipal arteries had been cut, yet the windpipe Os
divided in such a manner as to leave it exceedingli
doubtful whether the unfortunate woman will re.
cover. After she had been in the hospital a fel
hours, she appeared to be quite conscious, and evi:
dently in much agony. During the time the wound
t
was being dressed she seemed inclined to speak, bill
all attempts to do so were unavailing. Unhappily
was found that the life of the four children was t.„`r
tally extinct. Their names are—John 1117
Wilkes, aged 12 ; Mary Jane Wilkes, aged 8 Yr".
Liam Charles Wilkes, aged 6 ; and Frederick George
Wilkes, aged 4. Information was immediately ,fo,r:
warded to the police, and Mr Superintendent Dvf:
yens proceeded to the spot, and placed constables I
possession of the house, at the same time taking the
precaution to place a padlock upon the door leading
to the apartment in which the awful crime was rir:
petrated. In the room where the murdered fen3lJ,
were found two razors were discovered, apparent,4
new. No reason can be assigned at present fort tii,
commission of the deed. At half-past seven o'olecl
on Saturday night the unfortunate woman was eti/
alive.
The inquest will be held to-day.

RAILWAY SHARE IVIARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, OCTOBER 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been better to-d 5.22
and we have to note an improvement in prices, with 3 ftreo
.
general demand for stock. The sales are— Birkenhead,l
cashire, and Cheshire Junction, 31t. Shares, 164)—E8,1:
Counties (Perpetual 5 per cent.), No. 2, 15y8—Great
ern, 171. Shares, 1/5 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fido
1/2 c. dis.—Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and Bury),
dis.— Leeds and Thirsk, New, 14% dis.—London and Zor*
Western, Quarters (G. J.), 36► —Ditto, Quarters, New, 5.,;r4t,
p.—Midland Stock, 105% c.—Ditto, 401. Shares, 4014--„,'"
(Birmingham and Derby), 78—North Staffordshire, 74, 6,
dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. N.), New, %I;
dis.— Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester), 54
—Ditto, 101. Preference (guar. 8 per cent.), 31s. 3d.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Shares (131,19 A. c.
dis.— Seuth-Eastern, No. 4, Thirds (at 6% dis.), 515. '4O),
dis.—York and North Midland (guar. 6 per cent. till 1.
37/8 P.

MANCHESTER, Ocronaa 23. Lauer
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, —Frr
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 614 dia.—East Anglian Ado.
Terence, % dis.—East Lancashire, New, 6%
field and Manchester Railway and Canal (22/. paid), `k„4 die.
—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 514,
--Ditto, Fifths, % dis.—London and North- W estern, Ditto,
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (B), 3 Pl 6
Quarters (C), p.—North Staffordshire, 1 1-16
_Ter,
Shropshire Union, 545. 6d. dis.—South-Eastern and Du
No. 4, dis. _ _

LEEDS, OCTOBER 23.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The failure of provincial ban" #AIC
Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, &c., has added much 7
the alarm and excitement of former weeks, and rumours .
prevalent of other banks being severely pressed. The saw
are—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union),
dia—Leeds and Thirsk, 19 dis.—Ditto, New, 14 d ire'
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, &c., 403. dis.—Midland, Yt
ference, 3 dis.—North British, Thirds, 12s. dis.—Northjl;.
fordshire, 20s. dia.—North-Western, dis.—York,
castle, and Berwick, No. 2, par.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, OCTOBER 23. u;re,
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East LincolnSP'
1 dis.—North British, Quarters, 255. dis.

HULL, OCTOBER 23.
„,,clon
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The improvement in the .."-siaa
market has had the effect of causing almost a total susPe" uit,
of business here, holders of stock feeling le, s disposed tnsces.
and buyers unwilling to submit to even the slight adv%y ;
All remain firm, and no rumours of failures in the vic it is
still the knowing ones shake their heads ominously,
feared the worst is not yet over. The sales are-Nor' 6d.
tish, Extension, ss. 9d. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, ''s'era,
dis.-North British, Thirds 13s. 6d. dis. -Great Nord'
5/. 15s. dis.-North Staffordshire, IVB dis.
EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 22. 504
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen,oi
-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 75. 6d.-Arbroath and Tai
261.-Ditto, Halves, 131.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. nor
Caledonian, 341.-Ditto, New, 145.-Caledonian- and 34,
bartonshire,l/. 10s.-Clydesdale Junction, 514-Den▪
-on
Bs.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, 11. 65.-Dundee
Arbroath, 341.-Ditto, New, No. 1, 261.-Ditto, New' kitia.c'
341.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31.55.-Dundee and Northern "-ion',
tion, 11. 38.-Dundee and Perth, 291. 10s.-Ditto, 50.
13/. Ms.-Ditto, Quarters, 2/. 2s. 6d.-East of Fife, 4 44
-East Lothian Central, 11.-Edinburgh and Bathilyelt
45.--Edinburgh and Glasgow, 951. ex div.-Ditto,
13/. ex div.-Ditto, New Halves, 5/. ex div.-Edin",iittet
Leith, and Granton, 154-Ditto, Preference. 201.50 d
New, 31. 145.-Ditto, Quarters, 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh
Northern, 151. 10s.-Ditto, New, 10s. 6d.-Ditto, .N?iPetlt
5/. 135.-Ditto, ditto; New, 6s. 6d.-Edinburgh and
(New Co.), 18s. -Ditto, Halves, 55.-Glasgow and •
11,0
shire, 941. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 374 lbs.-Ditto, 11',0,f,
No. 1,4/. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 7/.-Gla n 55.
Dumfries, and Carlisle, 71.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 381' „ad
-Glasgow General Terminus, 10/. 10s.-Glasgow
iTue,
Greenock, 161. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, 81.-Ditto, Prefel,...•
71. 193.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 31. I iota
Great North of Scotland, 17s. 6d.-Great Northern Sorg),
Direct Northern), 21. 3s. Gd.-Ditto (late London and Vol
21.-North British, 221.-Ditto, Halves, 101. 103.--'34..
Quarters, 3/. Ils. 6d.-Ditto, Quarters New (scrip), 76'044
Ditto, Thirds, 35.-Ditto, Fifths, 5/. 55.-Scottish Ceti, 151.
23/.- Scottish Grand Junction, 55.-Scottish Midlan wes•
10s.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 10s.-ShrewsburY,,?..S.,stir
try, and Chester, 181.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 3' yori‘'
ling and Midland, 71.-Wishaw and Coltness, 44/.--,„0, 1,
Newcastle, and Berwick, 1234-Ditto, Extensions, 11
111.-Ditto, ditto, No. 2,9/. 10s.-Direct Bombay
of
Madras, Is. 91-East Indian, 11. Os. 3d.-Great 11(".1,31'
India, ls. 3d.-Great Southern of Madras,lB.-Madra4
lore, and Arcot, Is. 6d.

GLASGOW, Ocromut 22. 42'°
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ballochne.,-,terot
Cale& nian, 33%—Dundee and Perth, 29—Ditto, (2,ll—Glar
41s.—East Indian Railway, 17s. 6d.—Edinburgh 2114uperth'
gow, Half Shares, 11% ex div.—Edinburgh Ditto'
Halves, 58.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 9"1"44010.1,
401. Shares, 373/4 —Ditto, Halves, No. 1, s—Ditto 7„sgovf
No. 2, 7'4—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 676--:tro 3s.
and Greenock, 16',2—Glasgow Harbour Grand Juocti°,:toop
6d.—Great Northern, 47s.—Manchester and SohallinLc•
78. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 258.—Scottish yori4
tion, 6s.—Stirlingshire and Midland Junction, utibsie
Newcastle, and Berwick (Great North of England
or Preference), 71. i.

Mr. James Wetenhall, the compiler and publisPe's
of the official list of prises of the Stock Exchanges 1/1,0
known undwr his name, and which has been condoCoof
by Himself and ms tauter betore him tor so in „f
years, died on Wednesday afternoon., after an illnesobe
about a fortnight. He was much respected in Soo
Stock Exchange, with which his family has been
long identified.

BIRTH

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On the 3d ult., at Bagatelle, Colombo, in the DJ'Ol °'
Ceylon, the lady of Arthur W. Heale, Esq., of a son- ..„,itgo-
On the 18th inst., at Paris, the wife of Captain Ai"
mery, R.N., of a son. 'Esq.', a
On the 20th inst., the wife of Arthur Griffith,
Lichfield, of a daughter, still-born. ' i, I'. V'
On the 20th inst., in Dublin', thk "wife of CLIP"'
Knox, 85th Light Infar, of twin sons. f Albr
On the 21st inst., the lady tif John Dawson, Esq., w
marle-street, of a daughter. Ws. •
On the 21st inst., at Northampton-park, Islington'
Edward Dewick, of a son. J. 1/.
On the 22d inst., at Hove-place, Brighton, l'ill.
Reeves, of a son. 11111. Ilevil
On the 22d inst., in John-street, Bedford-row,
Nicol, of a daughter.

MARRIED. Robert
On the 19th inst., at Pirbright Church, the
use'' pcl4
Wedgwood, to Mary, second daughter of Henry 11l
of Henley-park, Surrey. Ger,
On the 20th inst., at St. George's, Hanover .squae7.obiliips
Edward, second son of the late Lieutenant George itieget6
Cowley, R.N., to Phobe, only daughter of James
Esq., of Gloucester-terrace, Old Brompten

DIED. .no Of
On the 21st ult., William John Creswick, eldest "'ore,
'illiam and Elizabeth Creswick, of Markham-
Chelsea. Chelsea. t do.
On the 17th inst., Lieutenant-Colonel Purchas, late
Madras Establihnt. _ orcol•
On the 19th ie nsmt., Mr. John Smith, of Streatham-cow
Surrey, aged 68.
On the 21st inst., in Guildford-place, R. G. Blick, i;zecli,etbo
On the 21st inst., in Wt alqc.o,t.alleace, L. ambett :f
or. $
.
widow of the late W.Tidd Es d 87
On the 21st inst., at Walworth, Louisa, the wile
H. Cole, agedst i 22. ; 1, CDs
the 21nst., at Gordon Cottage, Hammersin=t-f
Matilda, the wife of W. A. Nunes, aged 28.
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