The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

reins and forced them back, to the danger of their lives,
when Mr. Slack whipped the pony.
Mr. CO3IBE ~said it was a bad case, and he doubted
whether the extreme penalty of ‘'AL would be a:!equate
punishment to inflict on the clerk ndants. The complain-
put had held the situation of toll-collector 23 years, and
*hewed that he was respectable. He applied to them for
their ticket, which they did*not show hire, hut drove on,
and then Mr. Slack began to lash him with his whip.
If he sent the case to the sessions to be tried, they might
be punished with fine and imprisonment. Two more
gross assaults could not be committed. Their own wit-
ness confirmed the evidence against them. It re-
mained with Mr. Levy to carry the ease to the sessions

or not.
Mr. Levy —I will leave it to your Worship.
Mr. COMBE—I say again, I doubt whether 5/. fur each
assault is sufficient punishment.

Mr. Mallett—The Turnpike Act goes farther, it em-
powers 101. penalty.
Mr. COMBE—Then I fine them 101. each.
The money was instantly paid, and defendants left the
court.

Mr. COMBE then said the collector had behaved very
well, and he ordered him 503. out of each fine.
The clerk handed him over five sovereigns.
MARYLEBONE.
George Pilhington was placed at the bar charged by
Mr. Calling, of the Champion, Earl-street, Lisson-grove,
from whose evidence it appeared that on Saturday night
last, the prisoner came into the house with his face black-
ened and his hair powdered. He created a great dis-
turbance, as he had done upon previous occasions—and
on his being ejected, he used language of a grossly abusive
nature towards the landlord, over whose head he
flourished a stick.—Fined 10s.

During the last six or eight months the tradesmen in
the metropolis have suffered
,to a very considerable ex-
tent by the passing of counterfeit coin of various deno-
minations, and so well have the pieces been executed
that the great( st difficulty has been experienced in de-
tecting the imposition. It will be remembered that, in
the month of June last an extensive seizure of spurious
money was made by Inspector Penny and Sergeant
Brennan of the G division, at a house in Duck-lane,
Westminster, where the said coin had evidently been
manufactured, and it was ascertained beyond all doubt,
that a man, named Anderson, had been the occupant of
the room is which the discovery of his nefarious prac-
tices was made—moulds, &e., were taken from the pre-
mises, and every effort Was made to secure the delin-
quent, who, upon obtaining information of the " scent"
which the police had gained, Hastily decamped, and long
has eluded pursuit.

Yesterday, Inspector Penny and Sergeant Brennan
brought up William Anderson, the man alluded to, and
a female, who gave her name, Eliza Wright, both of
them charged with being concerned in coining.
Inspector Penny said—On Saturday night last, in
consequence of intormation which I received, I and Ser-
geant Brennan went to a house in E4d ware-road, where
we found Anderson and another man. I told Anderson
he must consider himself in custody for coining half-
crowns, shillings, and sixpences, in Westminster. I and
Brennan took him out by force, and, putting him in a
cab, conveyed him to the Paddington station-house. He
had on him genuine coin, to the amount of ls. Bd., in
silver and copper, and a latch-key. He was locked up,
and I and Brennan went to 60, Devonshire-street, Lisson-
grove, when I undid the street-door with the latch-key
in question. I spoke to the landlady, to whom I de-
scribed the man, and she told me that a person answering
his description lodged with a female, whom she under-
stood to be his w►fe, in a back room on the second floor.
I went up, and finding the door locked forced it open,
and in a box found a galvanic battery, by means of
which they gave the silvery appearance to coin. On a
table was a jar, containing spirits, and in a dish was a
quantity of plaster of paris. I and the sergeant also found
a quantity of copper wire, and a variety of other imple-
ments used in the process of coining. While the search
was going on the female prisoner suddenly entered the
room, when Brennan immediately laid hold of her. She
resisted much, and endeavoured to put her hand into
her bosom, with the view, as I imagined, of drawing
something out ; I then put my hand in the upper part
of her dress, before she had time to effect her object,
and drew therefrom two papers, containing 23 counter-
feit fourpmny-pieces. She was violent, and cried out
" murder' several times. She was ultimately conveyed
to the station, and locked up. Witness added that in a
closet in the back yard, to which the female prisoner
was in the habit of going upon almost every occa>ion
previous to her leaving the house, he found concealed
from view a bag, containing two double and two single
moulds, and two spurious half-crowns.
Numerous packages, in which were all the materials
required for carrying on the process of coining, were pro-
duced by Mr. Penny and other officers, and the pri-
soners were remanded till Friday.
WANDS WORTH.
_

George Roberts, a fashionably ii;;Q young man, who
had refused to state his address or occupation, was
brought before Mr. Clive for final examination, upon a
charge of attempting to pick' pockets on the platform of
the South-Western Railway terminus, at Nine Elms.
It appeared at the first examination, from the state-
ments of Henry Jordan and Samuel Norwood, parties
in the service of the above-mentioned railway company,
that on Saturday afternoon they observed the prisoner,
who was previously known to them, get into a second-
class carriage of the one o'clock Gosport down train,
and return by another Gosport train which reaches Nine
Elms about half-past four. Immediately upon alight,
ing from the carriage, he commenced sounding the
pockets of several gentlemen. He afterwards went up
to a holy, and placed his hand under her shawl. The
prisoner was then secured, but the lady had not lost any-
th►ng. Upon the prisoner being taken into custody, five
sovereigns were found upon him.
It was proved by police-constable Bent, 95 V, that the
prisoner frequented houses of bad repute.
The prisoner, who was defended by Mr. Roberts,
was remanded that inquiries might be made respecting
him.

To-day, upon his being placed in the dock, several
constables of the M, 13, L, and V divisions, spoke as to
the prisoner being a well-known associate of thieves,
although they could not prove that he had been convicted.
Mr. Roberts endeavoured to show that the prisoner
was
a
respectablearntnn
young man, and obtained an ex-
cellent atal painter. He called, as a
veryliv inga ,n o
witness, a man named Murphy. This witness gave the
prisoner the best of characters.
Mr. CLIVE said he should commit the prisoner for the
extreme term of imprisonment, which was three months,
with hard labour in the House of Correction.
The money fofoundupon the prisoner was given up to
the prisoner's wife.

THAMES.
Mr. Charles Gray, Albert-street, Mill-wall, Poplar,
engineer, was charged with assaulting Gi•orge and Sarah
Ward,eet who keep a glass and china warehouse, Fore-
Limehouse.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
two other men were annoying the proprietors of seve-
ral earthenware warehouses in Fore-street, where a
s tr
very busy and general market is held daily, by ask-
ing the price of certain utensils which they described.
After leaving the shop of Mr. Tabraham, where they
made a disturbance, and struck him because he
expostulated with them on their behaviour, they pro-
ceeded to the warehouse of Mr. Ward, and used very
abusive language to his wife and insulted her. Mr.
Ward told them to go on, and refused to serve them, on
which the prisoner challenged him out to fight. The
shopkeeper declined entering into a personal conflict, and
the prisoner reiterated his demand in the same terms as
he had done before. After making a considerable dis-
turbance, and interrupting the complainant's business,
which to him was a matter of importance on a Saturday
night, his companions took him away. The prisoner
returned a few minutes afterwards, and told' the com-
plainant he would serve him out. He then made an at-
tempt to kick Mr. Ward, and struck him on the fore-
head. He followed up the blow by striking the com-
plainant with great severity on the chest and face. A
policeman named Blyth, No. 303 K, was called, who
took the prisoner into custody. All the witnesses de-
scribed the prisoner's behaviour as most indec,,nt and
divmleily. The policeman had much trouble with him,
and took him off Mr. Ward, on being called to his as-
sistance.

At the request of the prosecutor, who said he wished
the ease to be disposed of summarily, and that it would
be a great loss to him if it was sent to the sessions,
Mr. BRODERJP said he would adjudicate upon the
case, but justice required him to pass the most severe
sentence the law empowered him to inflict. The defen-
dant's conduct had been most disgraceful and violent,
and he sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or be impri-
soned for two months.