The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Thomas Johnson, a carter in the employ of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horne, the railway carriers, was indicted
with stealing, on the 12th of last month, a bale of silk,
the property of his masters, of the value of 1261. From
the statements of counsel, and the evidence adduced,
it appeared that on the day in question the
prisoner, accompanied by a lad named Fry, fetched the
silk in question from the S,uth-Western Railway ter-
minus.. The bale was directed to a house in Bunhill-row,
and the prisoner, on his way there, as it was alleged,
purposely left his parcel book at a chemist's, where
he had to call, in order that he might get
rid of Fry, by sending him for it. This
was done, and in the interim the bale was missed
from the cart. According to the evidence of a man
named West, the cart of the prosecutors had been fol-
lowed by a can and three men from the railway station
up to the time when the boy Fry was sent for the parcel
book, and that' immediately upon his leaving, the silk
,was put into the van. and the men drove off with it.
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution.
Mi. Ilunni.usrortE was counsel for the prisoner, and
contended. that he ought to be acquitted on the ground
that. West was a witness unworthy of credit
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL. •

The two brothers Frost (not Ross, as was stated in a
former report by mistake), who stood remanded to this
day, the one for stealing, and the other for unlawfully
receiving a coat, the property of a gentleman named
Robinson, from the stables of Mr. Guy, of Earl-street,
Blackfriari, where the elder brother, James Frost, was
ozeasmnally employed as helper, were fully committed
fur trial by Alderman Moon and Alderman Gibbs. •
James Gandy, and Mary Gandy, his daughter, were
charged before Mr. Alderman Moon, the first with steal-
ing, and the other with receiving a valuable ring and
three sovereigns, the property of her master, Mr.
Taylor, of the Britannia public house, Golden lane.
It appeared that the master's suspicions, upon
missing a quantity of property, were drawn upon
the female prisoner, by hearing from a friend that her
father, who was out of employment, had been seen with
a number of sovereigns in his gessession. The girl
confessed to stealing the ring and three sovereigns, but
the whole amount of Mr. Taylor's loss, in sovereigns
only, is forty pounds.
They wire remanded to Thursday, for the purpose of
giving the officers time to procure the attendance of an
important witness.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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Richard Hawkins was charged with throwing a boy
over the gallery of the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham-
street, Tottenham Court-road.
'Wm. English said he was sitting in the f:ont seat of the
gallery on Monday night, and behind him the prisoner
and two girls. In the course of the night a quarrel
arose between him and the prisoner, because he had
been leaning back on the seat behind him, and about a
quarter. past twelve o'clock,. as complainant was rising
to leave the house, while his back was towards the pit,
the prisoner struck at him and knocked him over the
front of the gallery into the pit, a height of twenty-five
or thirty feet. _
William Webber, who was with the complainant in
the theatre, corroborated the evidence which he had
given.

The prisoner said the girls that sat on the same seat
with him, and also the complainant were all strangers to
him, but as the complainant persisted in lying back
against the girls' knees, and thereby annoying them; he
interfered, and requested him to desist, when the com-
plainant would not desist he went out and brought up
the officer, who, after cautiining him, felt it necessary to
remove the complainant and his companion into the back
seats. lie returned and swore he would wait•for trim
(the prisoner) that night. At the conclusion of the per-
formance the complainant got up, and, planting his
back against the front rails, struck him several blows.
Prisoner was aided by-his friends. Ho (the prisoner)
had not struck the other at all. The only way in
which the fall could be accounted for was, that the rails,
which were high on each side, were very low in the
centre of the gallery, and that the complainant, slipping
his back along the rails following him, had lost his
balance, when he came upon the descent of the rails,
where they were not more than six inches high. .He
had not struck the complainant at al!, and interfered
only at the request of tho girls t 3 protect them.
Myers, the officer of the theatre, said he had been
compelled by the conduct of the complainant to his cons-
pinions to remove them to different seats. He saw them
annoying the girls behind them, and also the prisoner,
who was very q det all the night, but because he had
brought up him (the officer) the complainant swore that
he would mark the prisoner before the night ended.
Mr. LONG said the evidence of the complainant was
entirely contradicted by that given on the part of the
prisoner, and the complainant was certainly proved to
have been the aggressor. On that account ho could not
believe that the prisoner had intended to throw the
complainant into the pit, or even that he had done any-
,thing to cause it ; and therefore he must dismiss
the case.

SOUTHWARK.
William Francis, an elderly. and respectable looking
man, was charged %Eh conveying spirits exceeding two
gallons, without a permit, whereby he incurred a penalty
of 1001.

Blyford, an Excise olfic:r, stated that between seven
and eight o'clock that morning he met the defendant in
Free school-street. Horselydown, carrying a bag. He
sto;.pd him, and, on examining the bag, found it con-
tained a large bladder of illicit spirits. lie took the
defendant into custody, he having no permit.
The defendant said, as he was proceeding into town
that morning, he met a person with whom he was ac-
quainted, and he asked him to carry the bag and its con-
tents to Whitecross street, and promised to reward him
for his trouble. lle added that he was not aware that
he was acting contrary to law at the time.
Mr. SECKEII said, the full penalty was 100 L, but he
should exercise the power given to him, and mitigate it