The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A woman named Charlotte Smith, and Jasues Smith,
her husband, were charged with robbing Mr. Thomas
Smyth, a barrister-at-law, residing at 49, Chancery-
lane, of books, china, &c.
It appeared that the woman had been employed as
laundress at the chambers for two years, and some
short time back Mr.' Smyth was induced, on her
representations of poverty, to take a lodging for her
husband and herself in the same house. He had
been out of town for some time, and on his return
received an anonymous letter telling him to look over
his property, as some of it had been stolen. He did
so, and discovered that a pair of blankets had disap-
peared ; and on questioning the female prisoner, she
acknowledged having pawned them ; this caused him
to make further search, and his then found out that a

number of valuable china plates, books, shirts, and
other wearing :apparel, had disappeared during his
absence. HQ gave information to the police, and the
prisoners were both takan into custody, and dupli-
cates for nearly all the property were found upon
them.

The female prisoner said, if it had not been for
distress she would not have done it.

The prisoners were committed for trial ; and
Mr. HIEN/ay remarked that he could not help re-
peating an opinion he had expressed en various occa-
sions, that a great many persons in the prisoners'
situation were induced to commit robberies from the
facility with which they were enabled to dispose cf
the property at the pawnbrokers, who did not ques-
tion them properly as to how they obtained it.
WORSHIP-STREE7'.

James Hampton, a well-dressed person, who was
stated to be the son of an extensive carrier at
Hackney, was charged with having falsely assumed
the character of a policeman, with a view to extort
money from two young gentlemen named Cockrell,
residing at Dalston.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
went up to the commplainants, after they had dis-
charged a fowling-piece on Hackney-downs, and de-
-1 manded their license. They said they were not
1 shooting game. The prisoner told them they had
nevertheless committed a crime for which they were
liable to he punished, and he should take them int,
custody unless they gave him some money to let
them off. This raised a suspicion in their minds,
and having promised to go for the money, they went
instead to a police-station and got the prisoner taken
into custody. His excuse was that he had only done
it for a lark, and did not conceive that he had com-
mitted any legal offence.
The MAGISTRATE said, the prisoner had rendered
himself liable to a penalty of 201. for falsely assuming
the character of a policeman ; but, taking into ac-
count that he had already suffered a week's imprison-
ment, he should reduce the fine to 31., and in default
commit him for one month to the House of Correc-
tion,

WANDSWORTH.
Frederick Smith, a respectably dressed man, wh
stated that he assisted his mother, who was a cattl
dealer, residing in Acre lane, Clapham, surrendered
to his bail to answer a charge of stealing a terrier
dog, the property of Mr. Samuel Sidney. The case
was clearly proved against the prisoner, who had
been seen by a girl nine years of age to entice the
dog towards him with something white, and then to
snatch it up and run off with it at full speed.
The prisoner cross-examined the girl, who had
given her evidence in a very clear and intelligible
manner, but was unable to elicit a single fact favour-
able to himself, but on the contrary, brought out some
facts that strengthened the case against him.
The prisoner said that the evidence was altogether
false, and that he was innocent of stealing tha dog.
The policeman who took the prisoner into custody
said, he found in his pocket two cords with slip-
knots, such as dog.stealers used.
Mr. PAYNTER said, that he had considered the
case proved at the last examination, but as the pri-
soner asserted his respectability he gave him time to
prepare his defence, and, to facilitate him, he accepted
bail. But what had been the result ? He had neither
disproved the case nor brought witnesses to character.
It was not, certainly, made clear that he was a dog-
stealer by profession ; and, therefore, treating this as a
first offence, he should order the prisoner to pay 51.,
the value of the dog, and a further sum of 101., which
was half the extreme penalty, and in default of pay-
ment he would be committed for three months.
The prisoner was committed.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
ALLEGED CASES OF ASIATIC CHOLERA
IN THE POOL OF LONDON.
On Saturday afternoon a long inquiry was insti-
tuted before Mr. Baker, at the Duke of York, Sal-
mon's-lane, Ratcliffe, on view of the body of Robert
Scott, aged 50, a seaman on board the Magnet collier,
of Seaham, near South Shields, who died from an
attack of Asiatic cholera.

Mr. Waters, mate of the MAgnet, said that the
vessel left Seaham with a crew of eleven seamen, on
the morning of Monday week, and arrived at Graves-
end on Wednesday last, after a fatiguing voyage. On
the follcwing day she reached the Pool. The same
day the deceased went ashore to see his wife and
family, who live near Bow Creek. He returned to
the vessel about eight o'clock on the Friday morning.
He was quite sober, and apparently in good health.
He made no complaint, and went to his work till
about nine o'clock, when he was seized with a com-
plaint in his bowels, which was accompanied with
cramps.

CORONER—What had he been eating that morn-
ing? Witness—He took some coffee, but had no-
thing to eat. Witness in continuation said that he
did not know what deceased had when ashore. About
ten o'clock the deceased got worse, upon which he
sent for a medical gentleman, and Mr. Cleland, sur-
geon, of Ratcliffe, attended.

CORONER—Were the cramps violent Witness
—They were at first, but they were not so violent
shortly before he died. He had every attention paid
to him, and was perfectly sensible during the whole
time of the attack.
CORONER—Were his sufferings very great ?
Witness—They were at first. There was a blueness
about the skin after he was attacked.
By a juror—He was not an habitual drunkard.
Occasionally he would overstep the bounds.
Mr. Allen Cleland stated that he saw the deceased
between ten and eleven o'clock on Friday morning,
and found him lying on the deck.
The CORONER bserved that it was highly improper
that he should have been placed in such a position, as
warmth was so necessary.
The mate said deceased was brought on deck for
the sake of the air.
Mr. Cleland remarked that he ordered him to be
placed in his hammock, when he was wrapped in a
blanket, and applied frictions to the bowels. Witness
also administered brandy, with calomel and opium.
CORONER—Just describe to the jury how the case
was. Witness--Deceased was in a state of great de-
presion. He was passing rice-water sort of stools
every minute, and retched a kind of bilious matter.
He was in 'very great pain, and the cramps were
awful. He rolled himself about the deck. There
was also a blueness on the skin.
The CORONER—Did you administer the laudanum
in the proportions as recommended by the Medical
Board of Health ? Witness—l gave deceased forty
drops of laudanum for the first two half-hours, and
repeated the dose afterwards every hour.
The CORONER here referred to the circular issued
by the Board of Health, and observed that it was
very desirable a copy should be sent to every medical
man, as it was most important that a treatment which
was recommended by men of the highest medical
science should be known by every practitioner.
By the CORONER—I have no hesitation in stating
the case to be Asiatic cholera. I have received a com-
munication
from the police on the subject.
The CoitoNrit remarked that he ought to send a
report to the Board of Health.
Mr. Cleland replied that he would not fail to for-
ward a communication there.
The CORONER directed the attention of the mate to
the necessity of having a spirit-lamp on board, in
order that upon any future case of emergency it
might be applied to promote heat. When the Asiatic,
cholera last visited this country in 1832, they were
highly recommended, and found to be most beneficial.
Mr. Cleland here informed the Coroner that the
deceased, during the two days he was from the ship,
had been drinking hard.
A juror—Would drinking ardent spirits tend to
cause the cholera ? Witness—Undoubtedly it would
tend to promote it.
The mate, in answer to the Coroner, said that all
the rest of the crew were in good health.
The CORONER remarked that it was a most extra-
ordinary disease, as it was remarkable that one only
should be attacked out of a crew ; and he observed
that he held the inquest as the death occurred on
board ship, in order that captains of vessels might
take precautions to arrest its progress.
Verdict—" Visitation of God from Asiatic cholera."
A similar inquest was held by Mr. Baker on the
body of John Abbot, aged 38, seaman on board the
Ark, of South Shields. Deceased was attacked about
half-past one o'clock on Saturrday morning with
diarrhoea, which was soon followed with cramps in the
stomach and all over the body. He was soon in a
state of collapse, and although Mr. Cleland, the sur-
geon in the previous case, was promptly in attendance,
and administered the usual remedies, the disease ra-
pidly extended, and he died in six hours after the first
attack. In this case also the rest of the crew are in
good health, and no communication took place be-
tween the vessels. A similar verdict was returned
as in the former case.

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OUNDLE.—A dreadful incendiary fire broke out at
Bythorse, at five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, on
the premises of John George, Esq., who is reputed to
be the largest farmer in Northamptonshire. It is said
that wheat to the amount of 4,000 quarters was de-
stroyed, besides beans, oats. &c.—Lincoln Mercury,

131 THA. -
On the 10th inst., at Londonderry, the wife of Captain
Leach, Royal Engineers, of a son.
On the Mh inst., at Brunswick-parade, Barnsbury-road,
Islington, Mrs. Henry Walker, of a son.
On the 12th inst., at Great Queen-street, Lincoln's lon'
Mrs. R. W. Tamplin, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Southrop, the wife of C. R. Smith,
Esq., of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Wharnclifre-terrace, St. Joi-I's-w°od,
the wife of Burton Archer-Burton, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 13th inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. R. Kinder, of daughter.

On the 12th inst., at Croydon Church, Frederic Robert
Kite, Esq., 8.A., of St. Petor'a College, Cambridge, to Julia
Alice, eldest daughter of the late R. Brown, Esq., of the
Elms, Streatham, Surrey.
On the 12th inst., at the church of St. Andrew the Great,
Cambridge, the Rev. J. P. Pope, Christ's College, Cambridge,
to Eliza. daughter of the late Colonel D'Aguilar, of the Bon.
East India Company's Service.
On the 12th inst., at Hull, Mr. C. M. Broad, of Highgate'
Middlesex, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of G. Locking,
Esq., of the former place.
On the 12th inst., at Clapham New Church, W. Weston,
Esq., of Clapham-park, to Sarah, second daughter of the ILO
'l'. Barton, Esq., of Aldersgate-street.
On the 12th inst., at Bluntisham, near St. Ives, Hunts!
the Rev. Henry Allon, to Eliza, daughter of the late AWL'
Goodman, Esq., of Wilton, in the same county.

DIED.
On the 17th ult., aged 26, James Dave, jun., Esq , of Brier-
lodge, Hammersmith.
On the 26th ult., at Thistle-grove, Brompton, Jose-
Baylis, Esq., aged 85.
On the 7th inst., at Millichopelsark, the Rev. Robert S'
Pemberton, rector of Church Strotton, Seh p, aged i 7. On the Oth inst., at Tenbridge, aged 19, Jetnima Gordon'
last surviving clang-liter of the late W. Brackenbury,
of Uselby-house, Lincolnshire.
On the 10th inst., at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, the re..
51.
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deuce of her son, Lieutenant Woodruff, R.N., Mary Lasle
On the 12th inst., at West-square, Lambeth, Mr. George
Lewis Hunt, aged 30.
On the 12th inst, at Alfred-place, West, Thurloe-square,
Brompton, Eleanore Margarette, second daughter of Fa"'
Macdonald Schnell, Eeq.
On the 12th inst., at Charlowood-street, BelgraYe-road'
Pimlico, Mrs. Collins, aged 85.

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