The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-14 00:00:00

which has necessarily been hitherto withheld from
public observation. The facts are within a narrow
compass :—A foreigner comes from abroad to London
with a considerable sum of money. He is introduced
to this house, No. 22, Jewry-street, very unfortu-
nately for him, and, being a man of kindly feeling,
he joins in pleasure parties, in the course of which
the idea of matrimony enters into the lady's mind.
Determined to accomplish her object, she not only
puts up the bans herself, but she actually registers
the marriage, and, as I am instructed, altogether
without the knowledge of my client, who not relish-
ing the business, is now treated with the alternative
of a charge of robbery to the amount of
301. There are some matters connected with this
affair with which your Lordship is not acquainted.
You do not know that the lady sold the furniture of
the house for 1001., and that she did not pay one
shilling of the money she owed in the neighbourhood ;
so that her landlord is not the only person who has
reason to complain. She has acknowledged too that
she has offered to drop the prosecution altogether for
101. Under all the circumstances, I trust that your
Lordship will not allow this poor foreigner's cha-
racter to be tarnished by a trial on a charge the
grounds for which are so extremely weak and im-
probable.
The Loan MAYOR—I have gven the subject a great
deal of consideration, and the result is that I am per-
suaded the prisoner has by systematic attempts suc-
ceeded in defrauding this poor woman of her 301.
He irst goes to board in the house, and he contracts
a debt with the prosecutrix and borrows her money.
Not satisfied, however, with defrauding her to
the extent of !01., he perseveres in his unprincipled
system, and, under pretence of a permanent union,
prevails upon her to dispose of her goods, and to de-
posit the proceeds in his hands for the payment of her
rent ; after which he disappears, and she is left dis-
tressed and miserable, after having made a sacrifice of
everything upon his positive assurance of the promised
event. It is true she got up the bans, but it was at
his desire ; and that she registered the marriage, but
it was by his direction, and while he waited outside
witnessing the success of his schemes. You men-
tioned at a former examination that, as he was a
Hebrew it was absurd to suppose he could think of a
marriage with the prosecutrix. I consider that such
a promise as he made is aggravated by the fact that
there existed an insurmountable impediment. Taking
all the circumstances into consideration, I am con-
vinced that the prisoner has acted upon a deliberate
systematic plan for the purpose of defrauding this
poor woman, and I therefore commit him for trial at
the Central Criminal Court.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Ann Trinham, the unfortunate creature who leaped
with her child in her arms into the Thames from the
London Pride steamer, was brought up for final ex-
amination. The certificate of the surgeon of the
Compter stated that she was in a very desponding
condition. There was no additional evidence, and
The LORD MAYOR said he had no alternative but
to send the case to a jury, who would of course dis-
pose of it to the best of their judgment.
BOW-STREET.
The examination of Emma Beaumont, Jane Fitz-
gerald, and Thomas Fry, the prisoners in the arson
case, was resumed before Mr. Jardine.
Ann Garrett—ls now a waitress at the Aldersgate
dining-rooms in the Minories, and is a married
woman. In May last she was in the service of the
prisoner Beaumont, at the European Coffee house,
Long-acre, where she remained six weeks only,
having left in June. On one occasion Beaumont told
her that she wished the house to be set on fire, as she
was insured and wanted money. She wanted witness
to go to the theatre with her one evening, as Bagster,
the young man lodging in the house, was going to
fire it in their absence. Witness declined having
anything to do with it, and left the situation in
consequence of the proposal Beaumont had made to
her. Her mistress offered to make her a present if
she would stop, but she refused to do so. She called
at the house several times in the course of the fort-
night afterwaftle, because she bore her mistress no
ill-will and *anted to see the newspaper advertise-
ments with thewiew of getting another place.
Catharine.Alathews, of 5, York-street, Borough, a
married sister,of -Beaumont, produced a number of
duplicates and a 51. note, which were found among
the prisoner's bundles; the note being one of those
given by the pawnbroker upon the articles pledged
by the prisoner before the fire. Witness recollected
hearing her sister (the prisoner) in conversation with
Mrs. Robins, of Oxford-street, the morning after the
fire, when the latter was advising her to " make a
confident of her brother." She did not know what
was referred to, but she heard her sister reply, " No,
I cannot do that." Witness had not been on friendly
terms with the prisoner for several years prior
to the fire in •Long-acre, which, she said, happened
while she was apceremorne, but she did not know how.
A Clerk in the Westminster Fire-office proved the
transfer of the insurance policy, about a year ago,
from Ann Beaumont to Emma Beaumont, the pri-
soner. It was otiginally held, in 1838, by Hannah
Beaumont, the prisoner's mother.
There were several witnesses whose evidence, being
merely corroborative of what has already appeared
at the previous examinations, it is unnecessary to
report.
Thompson and Pocock, detective officers, deposed
to the apprehension of the prisoner, and the discovery
of the duplicates which related to property of consi-
derable value collectively, but had been included in
the claim made by Beaumont upon the fire-office,
among the goods said to have been destroyed by the
fire.
The prisoner- Fitzgerald, after being cautioned in
the usual way, made a very long statement to the
Court, which differed only in a few particulars from
that :which she had volunteered to Mr. Storr, and
which appeared in The Sun of Tuesday. It included
however, several important additions. She said that
from the time when her mistress first talked to her
about setting fire to the house, she would not let her
go out to see her friends. She stated that she was
insured for 4001., and when she had got the money
she intended to go to Australia with her young
man (Fry) and take a farm. A few weeks
before the fire she made her assist in cutting up
the bedticks and making pillows and bolsters
with the feathers, all of which, together with her
dresses, linen, and quantities of other things, she
(Fitzgerald) took, from time to time, to the pawn-
broker's, wearing out a pair :of boots that cost her
4s. 6d. Then her mistress made her help to chop up
a bedstead for firewood, because she said that too
many bedsteads and no beds would look suspicious.
She wanted her to chop up another bedstead and some
other things, empty boxes, &c., but she refused to
do it. In reference to the fire, the prisoner said :
" My mistress and her young man went to the
theatre on the Thursday, expecting that I3agster
would fire the house as agreed upon. She returned
before the theatre was over, and she told sue that
she could not stop at the play because she was so
miserable from thinking that the house was on
fire, and she wanted to know how it was getting
on. When she found that Bagster had taken away
the three pounds, and did not fire the place, she went
up stairs and looked out of the window for an hour
and a half, thinking he would return. She said Bagster
did right not to fire it that night, because it was an
opera night, and there were a great many people
about. The next morning Fry came to breakfast
with her, and she said, if nobody else would set fire to
the house, she would do it herself. Fry advised her
to send out for some powder, and she said she thought
turpentine would do better. She offered Fry and me
201. to do it, but he declined. I did not say that I
would or I would not. She said that Mrs. Robins
had advised her to be very careful in doing it, so as
not to let it appear as if it had been done by the
hand ; and she said that Mrs. Robins had a brother-
in-law who did the same thing for the insurance-
money, and it was never found out. When Mrs.
Robins came, in the evening, she told me to be very
careful how I did it; and I told her not to puzzle me.
She said that she was surprised my mistress let so
many into the secret, as it would certainly be found
out, and blamed her for leaving the written pledge
of secreay which we had made upon a three-
penny stamp in one of her bundles. When Mrs.
Robins went away she took so many things—
books, dresses, linen, &c., that she said she should
he obliged tohave a cab ' - but she brought back a
tea-canister, saying it would not do to have that in
her possession, as her husband would find it out.
She said that he hated Miss Beaumont, and she and
he were going to part, because they could not agree.
When I was left in the house alone I shut-up the
coffee-house. Bagster came and spoke to me at the
door, and I told him that perhaps I should fire the
place. At about half-past ten o'clock I put the
boilers over the fire and the kettle over the gas, as I
was bid; and then I put some aprons on the horse
before the fire, near enough to catch. There were
lots of old files and papers lying close to the horse.
After this I went up to bed, and in about an hour's
time I heard the police at the door, and my room was
full of smoke. 1 got into the cockloft, and two men
lifted me over the roof to Mr. Tucker's. The pri-
soner concluded her statement by mentioning a
number of very respectable establishments where she
had been in service, and exclaiming—" an-s sorry to
say I have been led astray by my thistresa, and
to the will of 'God."
must now deliver myself up
She hoped his worship would let her out on bail for
the sake of her child."

Beaumont was anxious to make a statement to the
Court, in spite of the remonstrance of her solicitor,
whom she wished to pay for his trouble, and then
confess it all.
Mr. Binns (who appeared for Fry) offered re-
spectable bail for his client, if his worship should
think there was enough to commit him for trial. His
father (a jeweller) had been a householder in the
neighbourhood for a great many years.
Beaumont exclaimed—" For God's sake detain him,
for they are all guilty. I must tell all."

She,lle
prisoners
ssowneitrhs dwieffireculftuyily cogi
removed, from the dock.
1
thit,{,e4 for trial, b
being accepted for Fry.
THAMES. 713 lof
Thomas and Jenkin Jones, brothers, in .thceroP- •
of Mr. R. B. Byass, wine, ale, and porter merchal
of No. 1, Langbourn-chambers, Fenchurch.stree,
were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
causing the death of Susan Colledge.
The deceased was servant to Mrs. Haddon, of 1111,
High-street, Whitechapel, and was sent to the opr
site side of the way upon an errand on Wednesda,dle
evening. She was returning, and while crossing t'
road a horse and cart belonging to Mr. Blass, an
driven by the prisoner Thomas Jones, which is'3_s
coming along at a quick pace, knocked her dope;
and one of the wheels passed over her body: She
was conveyed to the surgery of Mr. Cook, In t
High-street, who said she could not exist long, bu
advised that she should be immediately removed ti
the London Hospital. She died before her arriv
there. The prisoners were detained, and information
having been conveyed to the station-house in Lernft3:
street, Police-Sergeant Oram, 18 H, repaired to tb
spot and took both prisoners into custody.
Mr. YARDLEY having ascertained that the coroner
lA
inquest would not be held until this evening, remanded
the prisoners until to morrow.
Mr. Pelham tendered bail for the prisoners. Le
Mr. YARDLEY—No, I cannot take bail for tu
present.

THE LATE FORGERY.
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MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—At the Boron's- C
-°,70
this morning William Francis M`Naughten, the 37°1103
man charged with forging a cheque on the branch 5
of England hero, purporting to be signed by Messrs. s,
and S. Henry and Co., in whose employment be ;00
for 3,4501., was brought up, He was remanded 0.
rides'
Saturday last to allow time to have sufficient
before the Court to warrant his committal.
d
Mr. Newman, from the office of Mr. Freshfiel A to
London, solicitor to the Bank of England, attend
prosecute. volt
Mr. Alexander Balfour, late teller of the branch of
of England in Manchester, stated that on the 291.-,a
March last he cashed a cheque, purporting to ba signer
by A. and S. Henry and Co., for 3,430/. The Firiey°
was not the person who presented the cheque. i-Te ;'l4
0
the person who did so six 5001. notes, four
to
notes, and 501. in gold. He hero recoghit,ert
three 500/. notes stopped at the bank of die be
Cunliffe and Brooks, as three of the notes Which
re
had paid for the cheque. He believed the sign-11
"A. and S. Henry" to that cheque was a forgery. firm
Mr. W. R. Johnston, one of the partners in the pto
of A. and S. Henry and Co., stated that the signattir" se
the cheque produced was a forgery. It purported le if
his signature on the part of the firm, and was extrerseot
like it. He drew no cheque for 3,450/. on the 2,9,00.
March. The prisoner was assistant-cashier at Te,sses
Henry's, and was frequently employed in taking c„,"e:os.
to the bank. He did not return to the office of Dies'
after the 29th of March.
efrA it 3
Mr. Kearsley, the manager of Messrs. Cull"— 004
Brooks's bank, proved that he had stopped three 50
notes, for which another person and the prisoner waere.
a letter of credit on Liverpool. He told them boo s
quired a reference, and they said they could pr°c,tl");,
reference from Messrs. Henry. They then left the il'otes
and did not return. He recognised the three jog
which Mr. Balfour stated he paid for the cheque as be
the three which he stopped.
Mr. James Finley, high-constable of Newfounu'os
stated that on the Ist of August last a warrant the
placed in his hands by Mr. Carter, a magistrate,
apprehension of two persons named William Pof
O'Kelly and Thomas Bradshaw. Witness, in ortPhos
with some police, proceeded to the lodgings c" him
persons, and found Bradshaw in his room, and in' d st
immediately conveyed to th© police-office, and stay
pe ed.
the house until Bradshaw's luggage was ree3,fogre•
p
Shortly afterwards William Philip O'Kelly weLeir,„` sO
hended, and a watch was found on his person. 7,-„oin
subsequently found a trunk in the prisoner's boa." ce;
and two trunks in the parlour which he occupied.
ings
the following day witness went again to the I°43g„ther
which the prisoners occupied, and there found sir, d
trunk, marked with O'Kelly's name, in which be '"„ten,
a purse containing three 5001. Bank of England 11:0,1;-
which are now produced. Having found the note sa tba
nes. returned to the police-office, and baying gluon
the
prisoner O'Kelly the usual caution, asked him ar,i"
did,
trunk belong to him? The prisoner admitted that 'Los
and said he bought it at New York for fire dollars- her/
purse was afterwards exhibited in a private otfint'iwthst
both prisoners were present, and Bradshaw saiu,i;ing
the purse belonged to O'Kelly ; the latter said IV'''. r,
to this. Whilst on the voyage to England the Pris°l•
in conversation with witness, called Bradshaw for 1
first time Brady.
he ter
Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of the Mann- 6 r
police, stated that upon the arrival of the prison
M`Naughten, alias William Philip O'Kelly, at Mficeir,
chester, he read a bill to him, describing his apPearsn ;at
and charging him with forgery, and he also told hiul,';og
he would be identified as forging the cheque and ta"10,
it and getting the money. Witness then cautioned `
prisoner, who said that Brady forged the cheque, Pre,
sented it, and had taken up the money at the bank.
•
Mr. Harding, solicitor, on the part of the prisoner stlyn
milted there was no evidence against him but his oerrt
admission, The evidence went to show that Brady h.iti
y
committed the forgery and obtained the money and 'f-
M•Naughten had done was to accompany him; out °-
the country.
Mr. Maude said it would have been more satisfactori:
had it been shown how the cheque had got into the 11107,
of Brady or M‘Nsughten. However, he need net
through the circumstances of the case. It was quite el°
the prisoner had left his situation on the day of the Pr;
gory without notice ; he was seen vouching for the wild
who obtained the money, and nothing more was neade .
The prisoner M`Naughten was then committed to to
his trial at the next asizes at Liverpool.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKh
BRISTOL, SEPT. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The Share Market has an uPlolthra
tendency. The sales are—Great Western, Quarter S 118!„,/,
41h dis.—Great Western, 17Z Shares. Silt dis.—Caledonian'
2O L 4 —Ditto, Preference, 1A dis. Taff Vale, Quarters, 2" .
LIVERPOOL, Sarr. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-- We have had rather a dePreseao
market for shares to-day. Stock was freely offered,lti,
prices lower. The sales are—Birmingham an-d
Oxford, r'ij,
—Caledonian, 20?ia—Lancashire and Yorkshire. III"' rs,
18s. 9d. dis.—London and North-Western,
IA, dis.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), p.—Midland S.teerd..
85 ex div.—Ditte, New Halves, 9% dis.—North Sla",bs-
shire, -,;47i, dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (Shrewsbur, er,
vestry, and Chester), dis.—South E • and Dcrf
- astern , ,
No. 4, Thirds, 6-Pi dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
14 B rwlei` N. E. Purchase),l4 dis.
MANCHESTER, Serr. 13. T,tacr
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, shire, and Cheshire Junction, 9% dis. ex int.—EsstAc-..--
cashire, 1614—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Firths, 3 „Il
Ditto, Preference, 3-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, an' —abf
Neff Quartet
colnshire (Grimsby), 50/. Shares, 29 dis.—Ditto
Dock), 14% dis.--North Staffordshire, sc. dis--Shreol
bury and Chester, Preference, 12'ji —South-Eastern
Dover, No. 4, 6 13-16.
BIRMINGHAM, Sarr. 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are— Caledonian, Pare'P,rence, 3s. 9d. dis.—Midland (Bristol and Birmingham),
cent., 1154—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 28'.4 ex u.b.
North Staffordshire, 5 dis.—Shrewsbury and Bisll3
nning
(B), 414 dis.

SEPT. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—TORTheK,
business transacted to-del:co,
as follows : Great Northern, 6/. I3s.—Great North fof
land, 230 Midland, New, 11—North British, Quarters,,,,
—York, Newcastle, and °
Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), iv
GLASGOW, Sarr. 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are--Caledonian, Prefe
rence, 49s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 104gory,Z;1 go, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 59: ,s(4—Ditto,
51. 16s.—Great Northern, 61. 16s. —North British,
c.,0tt15
3!.
ntr 165.a1, 6d.—Paisle,y, Barrhead, and Hurlet, Ce 22% .

FLURRIED IN MIND..--" Does the Court *ll-der' of
stand you to say, Mr. Jones, that you saw the editor .r.
the Augur of
_Freedom intoxicated?" " Not at 41,6.1 ea,
j
I merely said that I have seen him frequently so florri
in his mind that he would undertake to cut out copy wl
the snuffers—that's all."—New York Harbinger.

8.1411E14.
On the 6th inst., at Markham-square, Chelsea, Mrs,- ISr
Creswick, of a son.
At Elm-field, Upper Clapton, Mrs. Joseph Savo* of i
daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Salcey-lodge, near Northampton,
Wile of G. T. Stone, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 10th inst., at tvring-gale, Hyde, Isle of Wight, the
Hon. Mrs. G. H. Holland, of a son.
T. Wilkinson, Esq., of Fort'
On the 10th inst., the lady of
land-place, Lower Clapton, of a daughter.
On the 11th inst., at Upper Harley-street, the wife „,
—f J
L..llollanid,Esq.,jou., a
fata son.
On the 12th
Camden-road-villas, Mrs. G.
inst., at Clapham-rise, the Wife of the Be'-
n.
Bickers eth,
Yoouang, theo 12th
of a son.

Aid AIQE.L----"—'"-----T '
On the 11th inst., at Pinner, Mr. James Gibbs, of Pike
mall, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Alr.J. Tilbury, c''
New-road.
On the 9th inst., at Stewklev,.l3ucks, Edward Smith, ,56'
of Uxbridge, to Catherine Jana youngest daughter 0'
late John Cowze, Esq ,of Streatham Surrey. „ger
On the 12th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-C- ric
Alexander Clendinning Lambert, Esq., of Cranmore-100,
Mayo, to Emma Maria, daughter of the late Guy Len
Prendergast, Esq., of Gratton-street.
rsut,
Oa the I.:tit inst., at St. Marylebone Church, B. —a- tte,
EA , late of Madras Civil Service, to Isabella Charlottes
eldest surviving daughter of J. W. Grant, Esq., B.C.s''
of Elshies, Morayshire.

DIZD.
„„ruert
On the 10th inst., at St. George's-place,
Ilvde-per,"" the Right Hon. Charles Lord Douglas, aged
73. lo
On the Bth inst., at Brighton, Ann, relict of the 1305 be
-- Cooper, Esq ,of Sutton's-gate, Hornchurch. On the 9th inst., at Rose-hill, Iffley, Richard WOon,
Esq., bankcr, Oxford, aged 84.
At Notting-hill, on the 9th inst., Walter Bickerton, gscl:'
of Pall-mall East, aged 54.
On the 10th inst., at South-place, Finsbury, Robed
Denton, a,red 52.
On the 10th inst., at Norwood, Sarah. relict of the .2„,t-6,11.
Burton, Esq., M.D., of the 12th Royal Lancers,
and ofull
berland street, Bryanston-square.
gre O
On the 11th inst., at Howland-street, Fitzroy-ecln .
Gowing, Esq., aged 81.
On the 11th inst., at Brook-green, Hammersmith, age 81
W. Cox, Esq.. formerly of the Coldstream Guards. o'l4l
On the 11th inst., at Benham-house, Beeks, Majur-Geo
William Dickson.

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