The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-01 00:00:00

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A servant in the establishment of "Mr. Verschoy_____,
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proved that the note addressed to Sir J. W. Hogg
from Brighton was not in his master's handwriting.
The LORD MAYOR and Alderman FAREBROTHER con-
victed the prisoner, and sentenced him to imprisonment
and hard labour for three calendar months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
On Tuesday Honors Murphy, a young Irish woman,
complained to Mr. Hardwick that her mistress had
opened her box and had taken 71. from a sum of 17/.,
her savings acquired by honest labour in service. Her
mistress had also dismissed her, and had refused to ac-
count to her for the money thus illegally abstracted.
Mr. Hardwick desired a constable to go with the girl to
her mistress to see that she was righted, and, in case the
mistress would not restore the money, to require her
attendance to give an explanation at this Court.
Yesterday the parties were in attendance, and the
complaint was gone into.
Honors Murphy said she had been in the employ of
James Morehouse, dairyman, 25, Lisle-street, for about a
year and a half. It was her business to deliver milk to
the customers, and to pay over to her master or mistress
all moneys received by her from the customers. A few
days ago her mistress charged her with dishonesty, and
insisted on seeing the contents of her box. Her box
was opened, and out of a sum of 17/. her mistress took
61. 165., under pretence of the money having been stolen
from her.

Mr. Edwin, who attended for the defendant, said
he would at once admit that his client had taken the
money, and in so doing had acted indiscreetly. To
show the grounds on which the money had been
detained, it would be necessary to state how the
grounds of suspicion against the complainant arose.
The complainant, about a year and a half ago, was en-
gaged as servant to deliver milk, at the weekly wages
of 3s. 6d., and her board and lodging. At that period
she had just come from Ireland, and was without money
or decent clothes. Three or four months ago her mis-
tress, in the belief of the young woman's industry and
honesty, raised her wages to 4s. a week without solicita-
tion. Her mistress, however, for months past had found
her money and her takings very unaccountably de-
crease; indeed, from not being able to make the re-
ceipts cover the expenditure, although a large and a
profitable business was apparently being carried on, it
was feared that ruin would ensue. Suspicion was raised
against the complainant on Friday last, in consequence
of one of the family hearing a considerable quantity of
copper money poured by the complainant into her box
as soon as she came in from serving the customers.
Mrs. Morehouse insisted on searching the complainant's
box in the presence of a police-constable. About 171. in
money was found, and as the money was principally in
shillings and fourpenny-pieces and copper, it was at
once conjectured it had been stolen from the business.
The complainant, who had supplied herself with an ex-
cellent stock of clothes, was required to account for the
money she had expended in this way. She said she had
laid out about 41. of her wages, and that she had re-
ceived about 141. for her year and a half's wages. Her
mistress then said she would allow her to retain 101. out
of the money found in her box, and would take the ba-
lance, as a strong presumption existed that it had been
dishonestly acquired.
Mr. llAnowicK was of opinion that the money taken
from the complainant could not be legally withheld, and
therefore he must recommend the mistress to give it up.
Mr. Edwin said his client was perfectly ready to do
so, but as he was about to offer evidence to show that
the money had been embezzled from her master, he
hoped the magistrate would allow the officer to hold it
until the charges against the girl were brought forward.
The girl said all the money found in her box was her
savings from the various places in which she had lived.
The complainant was then removed from the witness
box to the bar.

Charlotte Morehouse was then called—She said, after
the discovery of the money in the prisoner's box, she
went round to the customers, and found that the prisoner
had been in the habit of supplying some ready-money
customers and not acccunting for the money.
In reply to questions from Mr. HARDWICK, this wit-
ness said, the servants who took out the milk did not re-
ceive a stated quantity. They took out as much as they
chose, and what they brought back was not measured.
This plan was adopted to prevent the customers from
being cheated by the servants lowering their milk with
water. The prisoner said, she had paid her mistress the
moneys stated to have been embezzled.—Remanded till
Saturday.

WORSHIP-STREET.
A well-dressed middle-aged man, named James
Emery Borth, was placed at the bar before Mr. Brough-
ton, charged with having unlawfully trespassed upon the
line of the Eastern Counties Railway at Shoreditch, and
placed his life in imminent danger.
Mr. Henry Grimshaw, the station-master, stated that
while on duty upon the platform at the terminus, between
8 and 9 o'clock on the preceding evening, just after the
arrival of the Ipswich train, he observed the prisoner
running along upon all-fours underneath the bodies of
the carriages, and immediately ordered one of the com-
pany's servants to remove him. On being cautioned as
to the perilous position i❑ which he had placed himself,
and demanding the cause of his so acting, the prisoner
replied that he had invented a plan for working the
trains upon a far superior system to that at present
adopted, and was waiting for the arrival of two friends,
whom he expected by the next train, to submit it to the
directors. A s this was regarded as only an excuse for
his reckless conduct, he was allowed at that time to de-
part; but in the course of a quarter of an hour after-
wards, just as the train was moving off the rails he
was again discovered opening the doors of several
first-class carriages, and but for the instant inter-
position of one of the officers, he must have been swept
beneath the train, and his life sacrificed. On this occa-
sion the prisoner said that he was in momentary ex-
pectation of receiving a communication by the electric
telegraph of a robbery lately committed at Colchester,
in which he was suspected to be implicated; and, as he
was evidently labouring under the greatest apprehension
and terror, he was given into custody.
Sergeant Coleman informed the magistrate, that after
the prisoner had been conveyed to the police-station his
manner and language were so wild and violent as to leave
little doubt of his insanity, and as it was impossible to
ascertain anything from him that could be relied upon,
his person was searched to endeavour to discover some
clue to his relatives, and a packet of letters found in his
pocket, from one of which it appeared that he had
formerly been in the service of an ironmonger named
Shave, in the High-street, Braintree, and from several
others, which were couched in terms of the warmesl
affection, that he had been for some time past paying
his addresses to a young woman in the establishment of
a gentleman residing at Whip's Cross, Walthamstow.
On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner,
who was perfectly tranquil, but still exhibited symptoms
of an absence of self-control, said.he was aware he had
been frequently suffering from attacks of mental de-
rangement, and he could only account for the extraor_
ordinary and dangerous conduct imputed to him by sup-
posing that he must have been labouring under the
influence of one of these afflictions upon this occasion,
as the reasons he had given to the first witness for his
being in the position in which he was detected were
nearly without foundation.
Mr. BROUGHTON said he considered it would be wholly
unsafe to entrust the prisoner with his liberty in the
present state of his mind, and he should therefore order
him to be committed to prison for a week, to afford the
officers an opportunity of procuring the attendance in
town of some of his relations, who would be answerable
for his future security.