The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

said, "He never knew him for anything else." On Carter's return to

the pubiic•house, he said to Wood, "he wanted Oddy." Before
Oddy went to the door, a man of the namo of Spenser, held up a pot
of beer, and said to Carter, " Come, Jae, come and drink, and be a
man."

Cross-examined by Mr. CLARESON—Witness believed Oddy was
in liquor, what he called " fresh," Witness, who appeared in Court
with his arm in a sling, said he had got it broken in a row at the
same public-house on the Sunday fortnight after the murder.
Thomas Spenser stated that Carter, as he was leasing the public-
house, at first was accompanied to the pavetn'nt by the witness,
Oddy, and another ; and, ns they laughed, Carter said, " D— your
eyes, I'll fetch something that'll do fot you," and left them. Carter
came back with something in his hand, under the tail of his coat.
Spens r, on seeing this, took up a pot of beer, and said, " Come, shop
mate, drink and be sociable." "No, I shan't," said Carter. Carter then
beckoned with his head to Oddy, who walked towards him. Witness
said to Oddy, " Don't go near him—l think he has got a knife in his
hand." Immediately after the prisoner made a thrust at Oddy with
his right hand. Witness tripped up the prisoner on his back, and
saw a knife fall from his hand.

James Shaw corroborated the other witnesses in their evidence
He believed the house of Carter to be about 150 yards from the
public-house, and his absence might have continued for a quarter of
au hour.

Thomas Rigby stated that he and the prisoner slept in the same
room. On the night in question Carter came into the room
after witness had gone to bed. Witness asked him if he
wasn't coming to bed. Carter said " No," and walked
as if he were drunk across the room to his seat and picked up a
knife. Witness asked him what he was going to do with that, but
Carter said that was none of his business and went out. Witness
believed him to have been drunk.

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City police-constaWe 159 met the prisoner on his way home from
the public-house, and heard him muttering to himself like a drunken
person, " your eyes, I'll do for you ;" but he thought it was
nothing more than ordinary excitement in liquor.
Thomas Loyd, surgeon, in Basinghall-street—Saw the body of the
deceased. There were two wounds on the left side of the belly, the
one of which he had no doubt was the cause of the death.

Mr. Clarksen, with whom was Mr. ilallantyne, defended the
prisoner.
Chief Justice TINDAL then summed up the evidence.
The jury, after consulting a short time, returned a verdict of
Manslaughter against the prisoner.

The C6uax then sentenced the prisoner to transportation beyond
;he seas for the term of his natural life.

NE TV COURT.

SENTENCE ON THE SELF-CONFESSED ROBBER AND MURDERER.—
SINGuLArt Cam—William Henry Sorman, aged 26, described in the
calendar as a labourer, was indicted for stealing gold and silver
moneys to the value of 501., the property of Wm. Hoof, his master.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution.
The prisoner on being arraigned pleaded guilty, and handed in a
paper to the bench, which was read by the Common Sergeant to the
Court. It ran as follows:—" That your humble petitioner, in plead-
ing guilty to the offence with which he stands indicted, wishes the
Court to take into consideration, that he was not a responsible agent
at the time of committing the act, and that in committing that
and other crimes, he dace but follow the path of destiny marked
out for him. As, however, such crimes should not go un-
punished, he begged to make three propositions to the bench.
The first was, that he (the prisoner) should play the Learned
Judge a game at billiards, a hundred up the board. Secondly,
that he should play him a game of draughts, best two out of
three. Thirdly, he should play him either at chess or cricket; that
if prisoner was the winner he was to be set free, and if on the con-
trary, he was content to be hanged by the neck on the following
Morning till he was dead." Whilst this extraordinary petition was
being read, the prisoner kept grinning and staring about the court in
an apparently demented state. The Common Sergeant inquired of
several of the officers, and also of Mr. Cope ,the governor of Newgate,
under whose surveillance the prisoner has been, whether there was
any ground for thinking him insane? They all said decidedly not.
Mr. Clarkson then went on to state to the Court the facts connected
with the case, which, as they have been so fully and recently before
the public, we give in as brief a form as possible. The prosecutor was
a builder at Kensington, and the prisoner a clerk in his employ. In
the early part of the present year he was sent with the sum named
in the indictment to make a payment on behalf of his master,
with which he absconded. Ito then addressed him a letter,
stating that he was an illegitimate outcast in society, going
into a detail of robberies he bad committed, and that he had taken
part in several murders ; and that on one occasion he had robbed the
Custom-house in Calcutta, where he had a situation as clerk. Seve.
ral of the robberies he confessed to as having been committed in Eng-
land were found to be true. Some time subsequent to the robbery
on Mr. Hoof, he was met in Liverpool by a gentleman who knew
him in the Custom-house in Calcutta, and he gave him in custody
for the robbery committed there, and he was taken before the police
authorities at Liverpool, who, having heard of the robbery committed
on Mr. Hoof, at once sent him up to London, and the charge of rob-
bing the Custom-house at Calcutta was abandoned, in consequence
of the difficulties of gaining a conviction.
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to seven years' transporta-
tion, observing that if there was any ground for supposing him in-
sane, there would be ample time to discover it before he left New-
gate; and then the sentence Gould be reversed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A lad, apparently about 16 or 17 years of age, who
stated his name to be Richard Barton, presented a letter
to Alderman Gibbs, requesting that the magistrates
would be so good as to send bim, without charge, to
Melton, in Yorkshire, as he was without money.
There was something peculiar in the mode of applica-
tion, as well as in the appearance and address of the lad,
and Alderman Gibbs asked him a few questions, the
answers to which corresponded with the impression made
by the applicant upon his introduction.
Barton said that ho had been brought up in the stable;
of Mr. John Scott, who was so well known on thde ;.,ueern,
and to whom he was bound apprentice, but he ha
manner,
deprived of both parents in a most melancholy
and he most particularly felt the loss at theth present mo-
e head inn at
mo-
ment. His father some
y Club, and was
years ago kept
Mahon, was a subscriber to thue
going on most prosperously,.unt
he ijno
was
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killed his wife, for which crime
aeshildeehdoywittho
life. For a considerable apptimethe
his grandfather. He subsequently. hecl iacmanet tart
Mr. John Scott, but haythine unfortunately consented to
litth of July last, at Liver-
pool,.him, and_ broke his thigh. He
ride a private match on.
the horse fell with
and as soon
lay for a considerable time in the hospital,
as he was able to move about, ho managed to go to
Goodwood, where he saw Lord George Bentinck, who
kindly paid his expenses to London, in the expectation
that be should meet Mr. John Scott in the metropolis,
but upon inquiry at the White Horse, in Piccadilly, ho
heard that Mr. Scott had returned home to Yorkshire.
AldeCulfill GUM *'lllo PIiKV lit which boy und
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OLD COURT.
(Before Chief Justice TINDAL and Mr. Justice PATTECON.)
Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to have the case of Dr. Ellis, who is
indicted for manslaughter in a case of hydropathic treatment, post-
poned till Saturday, which the Court allowed.
Louisa Baptiste, a decently-dressed young woman, 23 years of age,
was indicted for feloniously coining a halt-crown.
William Binney, inspector of the G division of pol'ce, said, he went to
a house in New-court, Duck-lane, Westminster, on May 23, between
four and five o'clock in the afternoon. Oe going up stairs to the
front room second floor, he found the door fastened outside and in.
The door • was fastened inside by an upright plank, and a bar
barricading that from the floor, mid similar obstructions
were use i on the outside, giving the house the appearance of he ing
unoccupied. When the police went in they saw the prisoner stand
Mg by a large clear fire, having a plaster of Paris mould in her right
hand, and a large iron spoon, containing white metal in a fluid elate,
in her left. When she saw them she laid down the spoon on the
hearth, took half-a-crown from a "get" on the chimney-piece, and
threw it into the spoon, and then dashed the mould in her
right hand into pieces. stamping on it with her feet.
When they had secured her they found three Britannia
metal spoons on the chimney piece, one of which had been partly
melted, and a file, the teeth of which were filled with white metal.
On being secured, she said, " You b—, you thought to have me to
rights, but you have not ; if you had come half an hour before, you
might have had me. You ought to have been searched before coming
into the room dropping things as you enter."
Constable 20 G produced in Court some pieces of copper wire,
which he found wet with some fluid, and a piece of silver leaf
attached, lying on the table, in the neighbourhood of two galvanic
batteries,which had fluid in them at the time. He found also powder
of plaster of Paris in the cupboad. The mould which she had in her
hand was hot. The batteries were produced in Court, together with
a pot of silver sand, two plate brushes which had been used on
piaster of Paris, and several other articles.
Mr. Field, inspector of the Mint, examined the pieces of metal pro-
duced, and the half-crown, and said they were Britannia metal. The
batteries used were Ssnee's batteries ; the liquid contained in one
bottle was a solution of salt of silver, and another bottle produced
was full of a weak dilution of sulphuric acid taken from the
batteries. He said the silver sand was used to give a polish to the
coin after being taken from the mould, and the " get " spoken of by
the officers was the superfluous metal, which must be detached from
the edge of it.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ellis conducted the prosecution, and Mr. T.
Payne defended the prisoner.
Chief Justice TINDAL summed the evidence, and the jury after
consultation returned a verdict against the prisoner of aiding and
abetting, and being personally present.
The Court sentenced her to seven years' transportation.
Mr. CLARKSON applied to have the Post-office cases fixed to come
en on Friday, as that day would best suit the convenience of the
Attorney-General.
The Court agreed to the application.
Joseph Carter was placed at the bar, indicted for the wilful murder
of John Oddy, by stabbing him in the belly, on the 19th of May, in
the parish of St. Giles'e, Cripplegate.
Mr. lIL7DDLESTONE introduced the case to the jury, and called
Henry Mathews, a copper-plate printer, who stated that he was at
the Crown public-house at the corner of 15nm-street, about nine
o'clock on the evening of the 19th of May. There were several others
present; and Carter, after the witness had been there some
time, came in. Oddy was there when witness entered.
Carter, on **ming in. wished to drink of a pot of
beer standing on the counter which belonged to Oddy and his
companion. Oticly said to him, he was a spungy beggar, and he
should have no beer from him, and Carter thereupon appealed to a
shoemaker with a wooden leg standing by, as to whether
he was a spungy beggar. This man replied that he did
not know, he never saw him spend any money. This
produced a laugh. Four or five of them after that stood chaff-
ing and wrangling together, but Carter in a few minutes attempted
to get up the pot again, and Oddy removed the pot with his one
hand, keeping Carter off with the other, without, however,
striking any blow. Carter stood for about a minute,
muttered something to himself, gave a stamp with his
foot, and went out. He returned in about a quarter of an hour,
pushed the door open and looked in, upon which the wooden-leg
man went towards the door and said, "Do you want me, Joe ?"
Carter said something which witness did not hear, and
nodded hie head to Oddy. Oddy rose to go towards the door,
and as he was making thither, another said to him, " he has got a
stick or a poker behind him." Oddy said, in reply to this, as he
passed, " I'll stick him." The people, and witness among them,
followed Oddy out to the door, and saw Carter back
away from the door till he got within a foot or two
from the corner of the street, which might be five or six
yards from the door. Oddy put his left hand on Carter's
shoulder, and lowered his right hand towards his skirt, as if with a
view of disarming Carter of whatever hd had in his hand, and said,
" Give it us, Joe, like a man," or something to ihat effect. Oddy
was calm. Carter on this punched Oddy, as witness thought, two
or three times, and Oddy bent double, saying he had gotten a severe
blow, and was stabbed. Carter was tripped up by some other person,
and the knife fell out of his hands through the grating.
Henry Mathews cross-examined —lie believed that Oddy held up
the pot, and said, " Now then shopmaie, drink with us.
but when Carter went up, the pot was withdrawn, and Carter ap-
peared very much excited. Oddy, on his way to the door, said, "Let
us see what the rascal has got."
Samuel Bound, a boot-closer, was also at the Crow public-house.
He said, Carter, on being called " a spungy beggar," appealed to the
man with the wooden-leg, as to whether that was so, and the man

your circumstances, should apply is, one would think,
at Tattersall's.
Barton said he was not known at Tattersall's. He
had never been a jockey, although he had ridden horses
upon trial. On the occasion on which he had broken
his thigh, the gentleman for whom he rode the horse
called Champagne, had promised to give him 5/., but all
he ever received was 355., the owner having thought
proper to deny that any such bargain had been made,
Upon getting better of the injury, he applied to Lord
George Bentinck, to whom he had the honour to be
known, and who most humanely undertook to bring for-
ward his case in October next ; and, as he had said be-
fore, paid his expenses to London. All he wanted at
present was a little money to defray his expenses to
Mahon, where he had friends who would receive him,
and supply him with the means of repayieg the amount
most readily.
Alderman GIBBS—HOW long have you been in
London ? Barlow—l came on Monday into town, and
have spent all I had got from the generosity of Lord
George Bentinck, and I did not like to intrude upon his
Lordship's kindness again, especially as he undertook to
get justice done to me in October. I thought, there-
fore, of applying to Lord Mayor Johnson, for we hear a
great deal in the country of his kindness to those who
suddenly fall into micf.rtune.
Alderman GIBBS directed that the lad should be kept
in the infirmary in the Compter, under the care of the
surgeon, until an opportunity of sending him home
should occur.
The account given by Barlow was by no means made
for the sake of effect, but necessarily arose from the
course of examination pursued by the Alderman, with
the view of ascertaining whether the applicant was an
object worthy of attention.
The pre r fellow spoke of Lord George Bentinck as
likely to obtain for him 5001., to which he believed he
was entitled, by an arrargement made by his unfortu•
nate father, previously to conviction on the dreadful
crime of the premature and violent death of his mother.
The Lord Mayor, almost immediately after this an-
plicstleo to Alderman Gibbs, reec ived a bank note for
5/., in a note enbscribed "T. W," requesting that his
Lordship would appropriate the donat'on to the objects
ha might in his judgment consider most deserving of
assistance.
A chimney-sweeper w'ts summoned for having emptied
a quantity of soot, which had been deposited in his
cellar, into some hoesheads which were ranged in a
court before his door, v ry much to the annoyance and
disgust of the immediate neighbourhood.
The beadle of the ward, it appeared, bad, as he passed
along the street, observed the court in a " desperate
mess," and, upon approaching the spot where the hogs-
heads were ranged, sow, as well as he could see through
a very thick mist, a man shooting soot from a sack into
one of them. It appeared to the officer, that when he
approached the person so employed, the soot seemed to
descend with aggravated force, so that, if he had not at
once retired, he would have closely resembled one of the
fraternity. He could not, at the same time, positively
say that the soot shooting had been increased in order
to annoy him, or anybody else.
Alderman GIBBS—Was the defendant the person who ,
raised the disagreeable dust ? Witness—l cannot say
that he was.

Tt e defendant said that he always employed a man of
very clean habits to decart his soot, and the only way of
doing the thing respectfully towards the neighbourhood
was to drop it quietly into a hogshead, His wife always
superintended the work. He had ten hogsheads nicely
paced to take it all, and it might as well be said that a
baker, in removing the principal article of his trade,
committed a nuisance in the neighbourhood.—(A laugh.)
The beadle declared that the nuisance was really
dreadful. Whether by accident or intention, just as he
went up to expostulate, the man who was depositing the
,00t shook a sack which he had just emptied, and the
effect was quite smothering.
Alderman GIBBS— Should you know that person
again? The beadle said there were generally difficulties
thrspvn in the way of recognising chimney-sweepers,
when their presence was required under peculiar cir-
cumstances He feared that identification would be
rather doubtful.
The chimney-sweeper here stated that the only man
he employed was in Court.
A man in a white smock frock and with a remark-
ably clean face here appeared, amidst the laughter of
the spectators.

Alderman GIBBs (to the beadle)—ls that the man?
—(Great laughter.) The beadle—lt is quite impossible
to tell. We can never know them through the soap and
water disguise.

The journeyman sweep —Please your Lordship I'm
never of a worse complexion nor lam now. We never
goes up chimnies now. It was then as used to black
people.—(Laughter.)
Alderman Gnus—Well, I do not suppose that you
committed this. with the intention to annoy the neigh-
bourhood, and I shall not inflict any penalty, especially
as I have heard a very gond character of the defendant.
If, however, you offend in this way again, it is in my
power to inflict a penalty of 5L for every violation of
the Act.
The defendant then paid the expenses, and declared
that he should take care to have the soot removed into
the hogsheads under the roof of his own house in future.