The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-18 00:00:00

Mr. Mathias March said—l am employed in the
Russian Consulate. The notes produced are forgeries
upon the Russian Bank. These notes have not been
sanctioned by the Russian Government.
To-day the following prisoners, who are suspected
to have been connected with the transaction, were
brought up in the custody of John and Daniel For-
rester :—Solomon Iktuscovitz, Yankie Tobias, Yetti
Solomon, the wife of Solomon Muscovitz, and Moses
Hackle.

Daniel Forrester said—l went with my brother,
in consequence of information which I received, to
No. 139, in the Minories. I had seen Friedeberg and
Aaronson, whom I brought up yesterday, in that
house. The last time I saw them go into that house
was Wednesday last, the 13th inst., at about half-
past eight o'clock. I heard two distinct knocks at the
door, which I inferred meant the second floor. I waited
some time, but did nct see them come out. About
four o'clock yesterday afternoon I went to the
Minories, and found the four prisoners in the room
on the second floor. The woman was coming out,
and I took her back. We searched them in the room,
and I saw Solomon Mtvicovitz fumbling in his waist-
coat pocket, and I caught hold of his hand and found
in it the three notes I produce, and some time after-
wards I asked him how he accounted for the pos-
session of the notes. He said that a man named
Friedeberg had given him them for 95., and that
they were worth 3s. each. He said nothing about
any more notes being in his possession. Upon
searching him I found two more notes in a pocket-
book in his pocket, and part of a note. I asked him
how he accounted for the possession of them, and he
said they were not worth so much in this country,
and Friedeberg had given to him the whole. After-
wards the landlord of the house where Friedeberg
lives gave in the card of Moses Hackle.
Mr. M. March, of the Russian Consulate, said he
believed one of the notes produced was a genuine
note of the Russian Government. The other two
were not, in his opinion, genuine.
The prisoners were remanded till Friday.
GUILDHALL.

James Styles, the marine-store dealer, in Milton-
street, who was charged last week by the Excise
with having in his possession a quantity of spurious
tea, som• fabricated from leaves of various herbs and
shrubs, and some from tea which had been used, dyed
gummed, dried, and manipulated, so as to resemble
young hyson, attended to receive the judgment of
the Court.

Mr. Alderman MusaltovE stated, that considering
the grossness of the imposition, in selling, or en-
abling grocers to sell, such trash at a high price, he
was not disposed to show any further favour to the
defendant than had been already shown, by taking
the quantity at 81b. instead of 131 b., he should inflict
the fine of 401. upon him, and in default he would
stand committed to gaol for six months. He asked
the defendant if he was prepared to pay the money.
The defendant said he could not do it then. If
time were allowed him, he would see what he
could do.

Mr. Alderman MusGaovE replied the law was im-
perative. The money must be paid, or he must go
to gaol at once.

The solicitor of the Excise begged to be allowed
to restrict the quantity on which the penalty should
be taken to 21b. He had made a good deal of in.
quiry about the defendant, and he believed that he
had not carried on this illicit trade to any consider.
able extent, that he was seriously determined now to
abandon it, and that he was not in good circum-
stances.

Mr. Alderman MUSGROYE said these were, no
doubt, grounds for some mitigation, and if the Com-
missioners of Excise would be satisfied with a smaller
penalty he would venture to reduce it to 101., but in
default of paying that sum he must go to gaol for the
period of six months.

The prisoner said he could not pay even 101., and
was committed.

John Butter, a stableman, was charged with utter-
ing a forged request for the payment of money,
whereby he had defrauded Mr. Robinson, of the Horse
Repository in Little Britain, of 111. 4s. 6d.
Mr. Norton, the solicitor for the prosecution, stated
the cas?, which was that the prisoner had gone with a
Mr. Palmer to the Horse Repository, to sell a pony
and chaise, the property of Mr. Palmer. On the
Monday after the sale the prisoner presented a
request, purporting to be signed by Mr. Palmer,
desiring the amount, 111. 4s. 6d., to be paid to the
bearer. The cheque for the money was given him,
signed by Mr. Robinson, which was paid by the
bankers. It turned out that Mr. Palmer had not given
the prisoner any authority to receive the money ; he
had given him ss. for his trouble, and he was not to
receive any further compensation. Evidence was pro-
duced to prove these facts.
The prisoner, who offered no explanation, was
committed.

WORSHIP-STREET.

George John Hewson, an elderly man, described as
a silversmith, and Matilda He:mon, his daughter,
were placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, for final
examination, charged with concealing the birth of a
newly-born male infant, their alleged offspring, but
the case, it will be seen by the evidence now adduced,
resolved itself into a charge of much more serious
character.
The first examination took place about a month
since, at which time the male prisoner alone was
charged, his daughter being placed under nominal
custody in the infirmary of the Whitechapel union
until her recovery, and when the facts shortly deposed
to were, that on the preceding Saturday, about eight
o'clock in the morning, on a labouring man named
Patrick Curtin going to the water-closet of his house,
in Rosetta-place, Sandys-row, Bishopsgate, he was
astonished at finding the body of an infant partly im-
inersed in the soil, head downwards, and the limbs
that were exposed to view distinctly quivering with a
convulsive action of the muscles. He instantly raised
an alarm, and the body having been removed was placed
by some of the neighbours in a pan of water for the
purpose of cleansing it, but life was then found to be en-
tirely extinct. Sergeant Price, of the H division,
shortly after received information of the discovery,
and happening to recollect that he had seen the
female prisoner in an advanced stage of pregnancy
about a fortnight before, concluded from that and
other circumstances that had come to his knowledge,
that she was one of the parties implicated in the
transaction, and having found out the house in which
she resided, and the back of which overlooked the
yard of that in which the body was found, though in
another street, walked directly up stairs, and after
some preliminary conversation, taxed her with it.
She at first denied the accusation, but on a surgeon
being sent for, and expressing a decided conviction
of its truth, she tacitly assented to it, and having been
removed to the workhouse, the male prisoner, who de-
nied all knowledge of the matter, and was stoutly
secondiod in this denial by the daughter, was conveyed
to the station-house.
Police-constable Davis, 36 11, now stated that he
had known the two prisoners for the last three or four
years, and that while conveying the woman to the
workhouse she anxiously appealed to him to ascer-
tain wharf had been done with her father. Witness
told her that he was in custody for concealing the
birth of the child, and she immediately exclaimed,
" That's totally false, for he was out at the time the
child was born, and also when I dropped it down the
water-closet." The prisoner was very much agitated
when she made this acknowledgment, and witness
having mentioned the suspicions that were entertained
that the child was alive when placed where it was
found, she declared that that was false likewise, that
the infant had been born three days, and that it was
dead when she had so placed it there.
In opposition to this Curtin and his wife, Bridget
Curtin, were called, and both positively swore to the
fact of the limbs of the child moving at the time they
saw it in the soil, and before the removal and dis-
covery of its death by the neighbours.
A married woman, named Mary Macdonald, also
deposed, that on the body being recovered from the
water-closet it was quite obvious to her, from an in-
spection of the parts that had not been immersed, that
the child must have been washed before it was thrown
into the soil.

Mrs. Elizabeth Nathan, the landlady of the house
where the prisoner lived, stated that they had lodged
there for nearly two years, and that during the whole
of that time they had only occupied one apartmeet
on the first floor. The witness then repeated the
statement she made at the former hearing, that for
nearly two hours before the discovery had been made
she had been disturbed by a confused noise and hur-
rying about overhead, succeeded by the repeated
ascents and descents of the male prisoner up and
down stairs, on one occasion with a pail filled with
something, which he carried into the yard through
the length of which and all up the stairs she after-
wards traced stains of blood ; and added, that on
another occasion she distinctly heard him leave the
house by the front entrance, which he would be com-
pelled to do to go to the rear of the house in Rosetta-
place, and that he remained absent about the time
necessary to reach there.
Amelia Levy, living opposite the house in which
the prisoners resided, deposed, that while standing at
her door on the morning in question, she saw the
male prisoner stealthily open hi 3 street door with
something in his hand he was endeavouring to con-
ceal, and that upon observing he was noticed he has-
tily withdrew and closed the door.
Mr. Meares, the divisional surgeon, deposed to ex-
amining the female prisoner, who he found had been
recently delivered ; and that on performing a post
mortern examination of the infant's body, he found
that it was a full grown male child, and apparently
healthy. There were no external marks of violence
to account for its death, but much extravasation be-
neath the scalp, and from this circumstance, combined
with the facts that a considerable quantity of muco-
niurn had been voided, and that the whole of the
lungs floated, though minutely divided and carefully
expressed, which he was convinced could not have _