The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-25 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)Horatio Nelson West was placed at the bar.
It will be recollected that the prisoner was con,
victed at the June session of feloniously uttering
forged scrip of the South-western Railway Company,
but judgment was respited upon a point raised by
Mr. Ballantine, the prisoner's counsel, whether rail-
way scrip constituted an instrument of a character
contemplated: by the statute relating to forgery.
There was another indictment, against a person
named Charles Farmery, for an offence of the same
character, and that indictment was postponed to the
present session, as it was expected that during the
interval the Learned Judges would give their deci-
sion upon
the point of law. It appears that the pro-
secutors, in the anticipation that the decision might
be in favour of the prisoner, have since preferred an
indictment for misdemeanour against both prisoners,
and West was now placed at the bar to take his trial
upon that charge.
Mr. BALLANTINE, addressing the Court, said that
he should apply for a postponement of the trial for
misdemeanour to the next session. The Judges, he
understood, had not yet decided upon the point of law
submitted to them, and it might perhaps not be neces-
sary to proceed at all with the indictment for misde-
meanour; and as the prisoner had not, of course,
taken any steps for his defence upon that charge until
the question as to the felony was disposed of, he
trusted the Court would consent to his application.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN said, he thought that, under
the circumstances, the application was a reasonable
one, and he should direct the indictment for misde-
meanour to stand over to the next session.
Mr. HUDDLESTON then made an application with
regard to the other defendant, Parmery, who had been
admitted to bail ; and
The COURT said, that his trial must also stand over,.
but the prisoner would be reqUired to surrender at the
present session, and enter inteefresh recognizances for
his future appearance.
John Walker, 25, was convicted of uttering coun-
terfeit coin, after having been convicted of a similar
offence, and he was sentenced to be transported/ for
seven years.
William Jones, alias Cole, pleaded Guilty to a
similar charge, and he was also sentenced to be trans-
ported for seven years.
John Chittenden, 42, hop-factor, was indicted for
feloniously forging and uttering an order for the
delivery of a quantity of hops, with intent to de-
fraud Messrs. Nash and Co., the owners of Pickle
Herring Wharf.
Mr. Huddleston prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine
defended the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Collins, a
hop-factor in the Borough, had, in the month of
October, a quantity of hops at the above wharf, and
theset heprisoner, who was known to him as a broker and
dealer in such property, having received a sample of
hops, called upon him on the Bth of that month,
and told him that he could sell the hops to Messrs.
Haines and Son, of Paddington, if he would take 70s.
per cwt. for them. Mr. Collins agreed to sell them
at that price, and the prisoner was to have all he
could get over that amount as commission. Mr.
Collins then gave him an order for the delivery of the
hops to Messrs, Haines and Son, and the next day
the order in question, purporting to be endorsed by
Messrs. Haines at the back of the delivery order of
Mr. Collins, was presented at the wharf, and the
goods were obtained. According to the evidence of
Mr. Haines, he did purchase one of the pockets of
hops of the prisoner, but he said he knew nothing
more of the transaction; and it appeared that the pri-
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

William Henry Cupper, collector of rents to
Thomas Flight, of Bond-court-house, Walbrook, was
brought before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of
having embezzled money.
The LORD MAYOR said be should adjourn the case
until next Wednesday.
The prisoner was then remanded.
James Loup, one of the persons charged with Gar-
dener and Holliday with having defrauded Mr. Gray
of cordage to a very considerable amount, and who
absconded on Tuesday from his bail, was brought up
in the custody of Kibblewhite, 645, who apprehended
the whole gang.

The trial of Loup was, it was stated, to have taken
place on the preceding day, at nine o'clock, but Loup
and Cassell (the latter of whom was also indluded in
the indictment), did not appear when called in the
Central Criminal Court. Kibblewhite apprehended
Loup about four or five hours afterwards.
Upon being put to the bar, Loup admitted that he
was the man referred to in the warrant.
lie was at once sent to the Central Criminal Court.
BOW-STREET.
Mrs. Williams, the matron of the Mendicity So-
ciety, was charged with cruelly beating and kicking
a boy, named Maurice Welsh, aged 13, and thereby
endangering his life.
Mr. Ferguson, chief clerk to the society, attended
to hear the case, and stated that the defendant had
held the situation of matron for fifteen years without
any previous complaint against her.

The boy's sister, an Irish girl, stated that she and
her brother were employed by the society to pick
oakum, in a room set apart for that purpose. The boy
gave some offence to the woman who distributed the
food, upon which she complained to the defendant,
who rushed upon him in a violent manner, knocked
him down, and kicked and beat him with a cane
while lying on the ground. The boy screamed for
help, and on being taken up fainted away. He was
afterwards removed to the King's College Hospital.
A certificate from the house surgeon of the hospital
proved that the boy was suffering from a concussion
of the brain and other injuries, and that bis life was
in danger therefrom.

Several other Irish women, all dependent on the
Mendicity Society, and present at the time of the
occurrence, admitted the ill-treatment of the boy, but
gave their evidence with a reluctance which clearly
showed their anxiety to avoid displeasing " the
Missus," as they termed the defendant.
Mary Ann Shuter, who distributed the food, said
that the boy knocked some bread and cheese out of
her hand and spat in her face, upon which she com-
plained:of his conduct to Mrs. Williams, who did no
more than just push him down and stamp her foot
upon him, as any one else might do, without
hurting bim. She only stamped upon his legs.
The boy cried very loudly and made a great noise,
but witness did not believe he was much hurt. Some
women went and fetched the cane, and the defendant
certainly did strike him with it once or twice while
he was on the ground, but not to hurt him much.
When the boy got up he walked to his sister, and
might have partially fainted; but if he did, witness
believed it was through passion more than anything
else. She saw his face washed in water. Witness
had heard that the boy was much hurt, but it must
have been with the fall, as the defendant could not
have caused it. She believed that Mrs. Williams sent
for the doctor herself. _ _

Bridget Daly did not think Mrs. Williams hurt the
boy much. She had a " mighty way" of "pushing
you" by the shoulders, and this was how the boy
came to fall ; but she believed he only pretended
,fainting. The boy cried " Murder," and made a
peat noise, and "Missus" threatened to thrash him
with the cane, which she did. She also kicked him
with the top of her toe when he was down, but not to
hurt him.

Mary Brian corroborated most of the evidence of
the boy's sister, and said she believed the boy had been
" sarcy" to the woman who gave out the food.
The defendant denied that she had used any unne-
cessary violence, although greatly provoked by the
boy's refractory conduct. The Court little knew
what these boys were. She reminded his Worship
that she was the first to send fora doctor when she
found how the boy was hurt.
Mr. HENRY said, there had been much violence
used in correcting the boy, as was admitted on all
; and, as he was lying in a dangerous state, no
should remand the case for a week. His Worship
consented to admit the defendant to bail.