The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

3 UDGES' CHAMBERS.

kr. Justice ERLE directed the writ to issue forthwith,

POLICE INT LLIGENCE.
MANSION- 110 USE.

BOW-STREET.
Alfred Grogan, the young man who has been under
remand upon the charge of forging several free admis-
sions to her Majesty's Thmstre, was placed at the bar
for final examination.
The case has been already published. It appears that
the family of the prisoner had been for many years con-
nected with the Opera-house and other theatres, and
from their respectability, Mr. Lumley was anxious not
to press the present charges.
Mr. HENRY could not accede to Mr. Lumley's wishes,
as the matter was one of considerable importance to the
public, as well as to managers.
He was fully commited for trial.
CL ERKEIV WELL.
William Shields and Mary Poole were finally ex-
amined, charged by Mr. Samuel Charles Whitbread, of
the firm of Whitbread and Co., the brewers, of Chiswell-
street, St. Luke's, with having been concerned in the
following robbery:—
On Thursday last Mr. Whitbread was proceeding up
a narrow flight of stairs to one of the cash departments
when he encountered the male prisoner, for whom he
made way, and on pa,sing by he ran away. Mr. Whit-
bread's suspicions were aroused, and subsequently 2531.
in Rotes and gold was missed from the room. Informa-
tion of the robbery was given to the police, when,
through the active exertions of Harvey, 115 G, the
prisoner was traced and apprehended, and nearly the
whole of the property recovered. The female prisoner,
it appeared, was kept by a gentleman, but allowed the
visits of the male prisoner ; and on the day after the
robbery he paid her a visit, when she intimated to her
landlady that the gentleman, her protector, was about
to send her into the country, and offered her an advance
of rent, saying she had plenty of money, and was not in
want of SOL The prisoner was formerly a waiter at the
Green-gate public house, and had been in the habit of
attending at the brewhouse.
Several witnesses identified the prisoners and part of
the notes.

Mr. Robinson attended for the prisoners, by whose
advice they reserved their defence, and were fully com-
mitted for trial.

Patrick Croley, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was charged
with a mur-lerous assault, upon Mary, his wife.
The poor woman, whose head and face were shock-
ingly bruised and mutilated, and who was in so weakly
a condition that she gave her evidence with difficulty,
deposed that the prisoner was in the habit of using her
i❑ a most brutal 4nd savage manner. On the previous
night he returned home and quarrelled with her without
the least provocation, when he knocked her down by a
dreadful blow on the head from a broom. She became
inseisible, and bled profusely, and was covered with
bruises from kicks and blows given by the prisoner.
Policeman Ayliffe, of the G division took the prisoner
into custody.
The prosecutrix entreated the Bench to separate her
from the prisoner, as she telt satisfied that he would
eventually murder her. She had three children, and
she would endeavour to support them and herself as
well as she could, as she was unable to bear with the
prisoner any longer.
The prisoner, with cool indifference, denied the
charge. _

The MAGISTRATE sentenced him to ten days' impri-
sonment with hard labour in the House of Correction,
without fine.

SOUTH IVA RK.
Edwin Smith, a respectable-looking young man, was
brought before Mr. Cottingham charged with forging a
cheque for 571. 10s. on the London and Westminster
Bank, and uttering it with intent to defraud the above
banking company.
Mr. Edward Grattan, one of the cashiers of the
Southwark branch of the London and Westminster
Bank, said, that on the previous morning, a little after
ten o'clock, the prisoner entered the banking-house and
presented to him a cheque for 571. 10s. purporting to be
drawn by Mr. James Dobson, a tradesman residing near
the spot. Witness examined the cheque, and was sa-
tisfied it was not genuine. He accordingly asked the
prisoner from whom he got it, when he replied he was
sent by Mr. Matthews, in whose favour the; cheque was
drawn. Witness then took him into the manager's
room, when a police-constable was sent for. As soon as
the officer arrived, the prisoner said that he knew no-
thing of Mr. Matthews; the fact was, a gentleman at
Wallis's beer shop gave it him, and promised to pay him
a shilling to get it cashed for him. He produced a can-
vass bag, and said that the man who handed him the
cheque gave it hint to put the gold in.
John Frederick Sheriff, also a cashier in the same
bank, said that he knew the prisoner by sight. On the
23d inst. he came to the bank and produced an order fur
a cheque-book signed by Mr. James Dobson, ore of their
customers, residing at 127, Iligh-street, Southwark.
Knowing him to have been in Mr. Dobson's employ, he
delivered a cheque-book to him, and the cheque now
produced was one of them.
Mr. James Dobson said, that the cheque was not in
his handwriting, nor did he know anything about it.
He had an account open at the Southwark branch of the
London and Westminster Bank, but he never drew a
cheque to that amount on the day in question. Tho
prisoner was several months in his employment, during
which time he was sent to the banking house with
cheques and money, and had every opportunity of
examining them. The signatures to the order and
cheque were both in the prisoner's handwriting.
Michael Cregan, 145 M, said that he took the pri-
soner into custody. He said that he received the cheque
from a man at Wallis's beer-shop, who promised to
give him Is. Witness took him to the place, but no
person could be found answering the description.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM asked the cashier whether the order
for the cheque-book was similar to Mr. Dobson's hand-
writing.
Mr. Grattan replied in the negative, but customers
were in the habit of ordering their servants to write out
such orders, which were always attended to.
Mr. COTTINGIUM considered that he had not acted
with proper caution, as the possession of such cheques
was a great temptation to such a lad as the prisoner.
Ile was astonished that more forgeries were not com-
mitted, when cheque-books were so easily to be ob-
tained

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said that a man
gave him the cheque to get cashed, under a promise of
giving him a shilling.
Mr. COTTINGHAM observed that he had been several
months in Mr. Dobson's employ, and ought to have taken
the cheque to him as soon as be got it, if what lie stated
was true. But such he could not believe, and, as the
case had been clearly made out, he should commit him
to Newgate for trial.

MR. ZEPHANIAH WlLLlAMS.—Relative to the re-
port which has recently gone the round of the papers
respecting Mr. Williams,
the following has been received
by Mrs. Zephaniah Williams, in reply to a letter ad-
dressed by her to Sir G. Grey No report has been
received at this office from the Lieutenant-Governor of
Van Diemen's Land with regard to the alleged circum-
stance of Zephaniah Williams havino' been sentenced
to labour in chains at Port Arthur, for'having attempted
to make his escape."

THE CHARTIST LEADERS.
Yesterday, before Mr. Justice Erle, in chamber, hail
that was deemed satisfactory having been tendered on
behalf of the prisoner Vernon, his liberation was ordered
until the time appointed for his trial.

THE COLDBATII-FIELDS MURDER.
THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM JOHN lIEWSON.
Mr. IIAYWoi,D said, in this ease, he had to apply for
his Lordship's fiat,-directing a writ of habeas corpora to
issue, directed to th,e keepers of the Coldbath•fields
prison to bring no the bodies of Alfred Waddiluve and
Henry Young, prisoners, confined in that prison, to ap-
pear and give evidence at the next Central Criminal
Court Sessions, on the trial of William John Hewson,
who stands charged with the wilful murder of William
Woodhouse, one of the turnkeys of Coldhath fields
prison. Mr. Hayward stated that the Secretary of
State had directed Mr. Matile, on the part oc the Crown,
to prosecute.

Elizabeth Robinson was charged with having plun
tiered her employer, Mr. Nairn, sack maker, of Tower
Royal, NVatling. street.
The prisoner, who had worked for the prosecutor for
some years, was seen by a policeman on Saturday even-
ing at the corner of Wa!brook carrying 14 new sacks
upon her head. She carried them into a public house in
Budge•row. About three quarters of an hour after-
wards she came out with them on her head, and was
taken into custody as she was going towards Cannon-
street, having made a very lame excuse about them.
She subsequently gave a wrong address, but the police-
man having ascertained where she lived searched her
lodgings, and found there six more sacks and a quantity
of twine and sackcloth, all of which property was iden-
tified as having been stolen from Mr. Nairn, who stated
that he had been, within the last 12 months, plundered
of upwards of 1501. worth of goods of a similar descrip-
tion. Part of the goods had been sent to a booking-
office kept in a public-house, at the bar of which the
prisoner had been see❑ with a man drinking, when they
were brought in to be transmitted to Ealing by the
carrier, and soon afterwards were missed.
The prisoner said that she never for an instant con-
templated robbery; that she was in the public-house
after the sacks were brought in, and, seeing them on
the ground, took it into her head that they had been
stolen from her employer, and determined to carry
them off to his warehouse; that she accordingly got a
porter to lift them on her head, and took them to the
warehouse, but; that was closed, and she was soon after-
wards taken into custody. She solemnly declared that
she had been a pattern of honesty.
The LORD MAYOR said that he had no doubt that
she knew of former robberies upon her employer as
well as that of which she was accused, and committed
her for trial.
Philip Clew was committed for trial upon the charge
of having robbed his master, Mr. R. H. Bowen, wine
merchant, of 101, Fenchurch-street.
The prisoner said, all he could say was, that he used
to sell wine to a marine store dealer, who gave evidence
against him, for is. 3d. per bottle.