The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

ARSON.—The Henry Midcllebroohe
(continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.)
--It turned out upon the cross-examination of one of
the witnesses, that a man whom the prisoner repre-
sented to have come in from the street at the first
ALP.rm of the tire, and assisted him in breaking into
the room to put it out, was observed to leave the
house during the confusion, but no one could tell
afterwards who he was or where he had gone to.
Mr. CLARKSON shortly addressed the jury for the
defence, and
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury, to the utter astonishment of a crowded
court, returned a verdict of Guilty.
The COURT sentenced the prisoner to seven y ears'
transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE,
On Saturday Thomas Schuh, who was upon the
alst ult. charged before the Lord Mayor with having
committed forgeries upon the house of Messrs.
Rothschild; was brought up for re-examination. The
following additiosial evidence was adduced :
Mr. J. G. Kirdmer produced a genuine bill of ex-
change for 1001., drawn by J. J. Von Hirsch, of
Wurtzburg, urlon Messrs. Rothschild, dated the 12th
of November' 1847, payable one month after date to
the order of George Hugnagel, and endorsed by him
to Lorenz \Veber, who was reported to have died on
the 2d of November,lBo7, at Corvington, on the Ohio,
in America. 'Witness had been given to understand
that the bill was remitted to Mr. Weber by his father-
in-law.

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W. Bartholomew, of Short's gardens, St. Giles's,
said he had known the prisoner for four months ; he
was residing with a lodger of his, and always went by
the name of David Bernhardt. Witness had got the
bill in question discounted for the prisoner, after en-
dorsing it with his own name.
Margaret Ann Lloyd, daughter of the keeper of
the Sun coffee-house in Long-acre, said, she had
taken in letters and delivered them to the prisoner
in the name of Weber.
James Jerkins, of Broad-street, Bloomsbury, said
thet he kept an ale-house, and had known the pri-
soner for several months under the name of Bern-
hardt.
Mr. Edmund Lade, clerk to Messrs. Rothschild,
said, the prisoner had presented for payment a bill of
1001., dated Wurtzburg, the 18th of January last,
drawn by Carl Peter Prey, payable at sight to the
order of Lorenz Weber. Witness saw him write the
name of Lorenz Weber upon the second bill, and he
had no doubt the signature upon the first bill was in
the prisoner's handwriting.
After this the case was ordered to stand over for
three weeks, that evidence might be produced of the
death of the person for whom the bill was intended.
GUILDHALL.
William Edwards, of Brompton -square, a dealer in
live stock, frequenting Southall and Stnithfield mar-
kets, was brought before Mr. Alderman Gibbs,
charged with knowingly uttering a banker's bill for
251., bearing a forged endorsement.
Mr. Butt, a solicitor at Ryde, in the Isle of Wight,
said he was a witness in the case, but it would be
convenient to the magistrate that he should state some
matters not within his own knowledge, but which
would be proved on a future day by the proper wit-
nesses. On the 21st of January he obtained the bill
in question from the Hampshire Banking Company,
on Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co., and on the 23d he
transmitted it, along with a letter from his wife, by
post, addressed to Miss Mary Ann Charsley, of No.
51, Brompton-square. The arrival of the letter not
being acknowledged, he discovered that he had
addressed it to Brompton-square instead of Brompton-
crescent. Upon inquiry at Broarpton-square, the
receipt of the letter was admitted, but it was
alleged that it had been delivered to a Miss Mary
Ann Charsley, who resided there. The postman
was sent to demand the misdelivered letter,
and he was told that Miss Charsley had gone they
did not know where, but they expected her to return
to her lodging. In the mean time the bill was pre-
sented for acceptance to the London bankers, and
then discounted with Mr. Tucker, a discount agent,
at No. 37, Nicholas-lane, who re-discounted it with
Mr. Barber, a bill-broker, in Cowper's- court. The
latter paid it into Glyn's, by whom it was presented
for payment. When so presented, it was traced
back to the possession of the prisoner, who was the
son of the landlady of the house, No. 51, Brompton
square, and who was the person who obtained cash
for the bill from Mr. Tucker. When he first pre-
sented it for discount it was rejected, as not having
been accepted by Messrs. Lloyd, or endorsed by Miss
Charsley, and the prisoner brought it again amended
in these points. He proved that the endorsement was
not the handwriting of the Miss Charsley for whom
it was intended.
Mr. Barber deposed to discounting the bill for Mr.
Tucker, and Mr. Tucker, jun., proved that he cashed
it for the prisoner on the 26th of January.
Mr. Alderman Gums called on the prisoner to ex-
plain how he came by the bill, which had been left at
his mother's house by mistake.
The prisoner said he had it from Miss Charsley, a
lodger in his mother's house. lie had lived there
six months. Miss Charsley, who had lodged there
six weeks, asked him to get it cashed, and he did so.
She went away last Thursday, and he did not know
where she now was. He called his mother as a witness.
Charlotte Edwards, widow, stated that she had kept
the house No. 51, Brompton-square, five or six
months. Miss Charsley was a lodger, and when her
son brought back the money for the bill, a Mr.
Cohen, a friend of Miss Charsley's, was present. Her
servant was in the room when her son gave up the
money to Miss Charsley. She had gone away 21. in
her debt. She told witness she had received a hand-
some present from a Captain Butt.
Mary Leeson, the servant, stated that she received
the letter from the postman. She knew the lodger
by the name of Mrs. Underwood up to that time.
When the pastinan asked for the name of Miss
Charsley, she took it into the parlour to Mrs. Under-
wood, and asked if she knew the name of Miss Mary
Ann Char<ley ? She said " Yes, it was right," and
took the letter. She saw the letter opened. It con-
tained a bill. On the next day she saw the bill in the
possession of the prisoner, and on the evening of the
day following rhe was in the parlour, when the pri-
soner handed four bank notes and a little gold to Mrs.
Underwood, who desired that she should be called
Miss Charsley from the day the letter came. Mr.
Cohen was th-re when the money was brought home,
and he wen' way with Mrs. Underwood in a cab.
She came back alone three days afterwards. She had
seen hei write. The endorsement on the bill was in
her handwriting. She was first called Miss Charsley
on a Sunday. Two gentlemen visited her, and they
said she was so like Miss Charsley, of Brompton-
crescent, they should like her to he called by that
name. Mrs. !Underwood did not speak to witness
about altering her name till the Friday after the
Sunday.
Mr. Alderman Grans examined her at some length,
to test the consistency of her statements. She said
she only saw the prisoner with Mrs. Under wood
once, when he brought hack the money for the bill.
Mr. Cohen said he could have saved the trouble of
getting it discounted if he had called sooner. Wit-
ness read the letter, which came by post. Her mis-
tress and son lived in the kitchen. They lived by
letting lodgings. Gentlemen did not sleep in the
house with :Hiss Charsley. Her parlour and bedroom
communicated by folding doors. Would not swear
Mrs. Underwood used the Christian names of Mary
Ann before she changed her name to Charsley. When
the postman asked if Miss Charsley lived there, she
replied she did not know, and knocked at the parlour
door, and asked Mrs. Underwood if it was for her;
and she said it was.
A solicitor's clerk, on behalf of the prisoner, said it
was clear the prisoner hai only acted as porter. He
had not received or opened the letter.
Mr. Alderman Glans said he w
that. It was clear he knew about her notedrch satisfied
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ngheorf
name, It was a matter which r
inves-
tigation, and he should direct Rowe, the
further e
policeman in
charge of the prisoner, to seek out some other wit-
nesses.
He remanded the prisoner for a week.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A young man, named Thomas Cox, in the service
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of Mr. Blore, a butcher, in Westmoreland .place,
City-road,twas charged with administering a quantity
of laudanum to a young woman named Mary Brown,
with intent to poison her.
The prosecutrix stated that she was a housemaid in
the family of s .
Mr. Hooke, a tradesman in Frederick's-
street, Hampstead •road and was acquainted with the
his addresses to her for
nearly who had been paying
h e weeks having
ago,
nearly a twalvemonth. About three
mistress, she was
obtained a day's holiday from her .
M Daly,
tea with a firs.
on her way to Shoreditch, to take
a friend of hers living there, but called on theroad at
Westmoreland-place to visit the prisoner, who de-
tained her in conversation for some time, and having
ascertained from her where she was going, proposed
to accompany her. She accepted his offer, and they
set off together, but had not proceeded far when the
prisoner left her in the street, and, afte r being absent
for a quarter of an hour, returned with the excuse
that he had been to purchase a cigar. On reaching
Shoreditch
she found that her friend, Mrs. Daly, had
left that neighbourhood and taken a house in Marys
street, Hoxton, which they went in search of;
when, on passing a public h
ouse, the prisoner asked
her to go in with him and
have some refreshment.
She consented to do so, and, the day b • eing very wet
and cold, and a bright fire burning in
they adjourned there, when the the tap-room,
pint of ale, and having directed the
landlady
ordered a
a d
y to heat
it, poured her out a glass and drank the remainder
himself. He then ordered a second pint, which
also brought in and warmed by the landlady, 'who :aass
placed begivio her and the prisoner while it was heat-