The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-05 00:00:00

UROWNE W. SMITA.

In this running down case, which did not terminate
till after 11 o'clock last night, the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff.—Damages 150 L

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

A person, who gave his name as Taylor, made an ap-
plication to Mr. Henry for advice, as to the mode of re-
covering the sum of 15i., the value of a parcel lost by
the Parcel Mail Company. The parcel had been posted
at the chief office, but had never been heard of by the
person to whom it was directed. The chief clerk had
admitted the receipt of the parcel, and had given him a
letter to Mr. Slay, the cashier, desiring him to pay the
155., and giving him the authority of a member of the
company, a Mr. F. (the initial only was given), for the
payment. Applicant had presented this letter to Mr.
Slay, but he. refused to pay it, saying that Mr. F. was
not now a member of the company, though he had been.
Applicant wished to know whether the magistrate could
not grant a summons.
The Usher said, that before bringing the applicant
into Court he had told him it was useless, but he thought
if the magistrate saw it he would grant a summons.
Mr. HENRY said he was very sorry that he must give
the applicant the same answer that he had given to hun-
dreds of applicants who had lost property by sending it
by the same, conveyance. He had no power to grant a
summons ; and the only remedy was by an action against
the Parcel Mail Company.
Tho applicant discontentedly left the Court, saying
that he would enter an action immediately.

MARLB.,II,OI-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
William Crisp was charged with leaping up behind
the carriage of Mrs. Jacobson yesterday, and annoying
the nurse-miid.
Mrs. Jacobson said she and her son, and the nurse-
maid wish the child, were in the phtmon yesterday, about
half-past two o'clock, passing round the corner of Green-
street into Leicester-square, when she heard a scream
from the nurse-maid, she looked round and saw the pri-
soner hanging on the phaeton behind, pulling back the
nurse-maid's head and scratching her mouth till the
lips bled, and a child six weeks old was in danger of be-
ing tossed out of her arms. It was not till they reached
St. Martin's-lane that they could get the man down.
Complainant had never seen the man before.
Emma Summerfield, nurse-maid to Mrs. Jacobson,
said the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her,
leaped up and pulled round her bonnet, and scratched
her lips till they bled.
Mr. Jacobson, who was driving, on hearing a
scream, turned round and cut the prisoner down with his
whip. The prisoner made use of the most abusive and
obscene language, and would not leave the phaeton, so
that they were obliged to give him into custody. The
prisoner was quite sober at the time.
'The defendant denied the accusation.
Mr. LONG sentenced him to a fine of 20i., or 14 days'
imprisonment.
The following gentlemen were brought up, charged
with been found in a suspected gambling house
Charles Hamilton, Morris Albert, Robert Johnson,
Frederick Wilson, William Hemmings, Henry Smith
Hallam, John Smith, and the doorkeeper, James
Townsend.
Superintendent Beresford said he had orders and
authority from the Commissioners of Police to enter the
house No. 2, Rupert-street, St. James's, and went a
quarter before two o'clock this morning, with two other
constables. He rang the front door bell, the door was
opened by the poiter Townsend, whom he seized imme-
diately, as Townsend knew him.well, and would suspect
his object, and gave him over to the custody of the other
constables. The gas was immediately put out. He
then entered, and found in the centre of the passage a
door covered with green - baize and lined underneath
with iron. After knocking at this to gain admission,
without success, they made use of the sledge-hammer
and crow-bars, and with much labour succeeded in fore .
ing the doer 'off the hinges and one of the bolts which
secured it, but failed still to remove the door. Some one
opened the door from within, and the witness found it
had been secured by an iron bar, which turned on a
centre, fastened to the door itself, and fell into sockets in
the door-posts. The witness was met by another door
at the foot of' the stair, fitted in a similar manner, and
having a small hole in it as a "look out;" this was open
also. Half Way up" the stairs he found such another
door, also optn. He passed into the first-floor room, and
found the defendants, but no implements of gaming in the
room, or on their persons. The stairs which led to the
upper part of the house was guarded by a similar door
at the foot, and at the top was a trap door which fell
down over the stair• case and bolted on the lower side,
and over all an iron gate, so that any one coming from
above could not get down to the first floor.
Mr. LONG said, as no implements of gaming had been
found the case failed against the defendants, and they
were discharged.
Sixteen gentlemen were brought up on a similar
charge from the house No. 64, St. James's-street, usually
known as the Cocoa-tree Club.
Superintendent Beresford said the evidence in this
case was similar to that in the former ; he found a great
many iron doors, bolts and bars, and the defendants
within, but no implements of gaming. He said they had
ample time, while he was forcing the doors, to maks
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CLERKEN WELL.---(THIS DAY.)
Anne Nebors was charged, before Mr. Combe,_ with
stealing a pair of boots, the property of Thomas
Hornsby, boot and shoe maker of No. 15, Northern-
buildings, Somers-town.
Elizabeth Hornsby, the prosecutor's wife, said the
prisoner came into the shop yesterday evening, and
asked to look at a pair of boots. Witness took down
two pair, sad laid them upon the counter, when the pri-
soner asked to be shown some other articles, which were
down at the end of the shop, and during witness's tempo-
rary absence one pair of the boots were removed from
the counter, but the prisoner managed to effect her
escape before the theft was discovered. The next day
she was taken into custody, close to the prosecutor's
shop, with the boots on her feet.
Mr. COMBE committed her for trial.
A little urchin named Good, was charged with rob-
bing his employer, Mrs. Susannah Baker, of the Lower-
road, Islington, under the following rather peculiar cir-
cumstances :—The prosecutrix stated that she carried on
business as a .dyer, and the prisoner had been in her
employment for some time as an errand-boy. Yester-
day evening she gave him a parcel to deliver at a house
in Red Lion-square, ai,d in about an hour afterwards he
returned, and pretending to cry, said he met three men
opposite New St. Pancras Church, one of whom knocked
him down and robbed him of the bundle, when they ran
away in the d,irection of Paddington. Considering
the
story very improbable, owing to the publicity thefspot, and coupling his statement with the fact that on a
previous occasion she bad given him money
to pay a bill,
which he said. he had lost, she sent for a poiceman, and
gave him into custody.
A witness here came forward, and said that he met
the boy last evening crying in Maiden-lane, and that he
made the same statement to him.
Mr. COMER put several questions to the witness as to
the motives which induced him to come forward, which
the worthy magistrate considered him to have answered
so upsatistactorily, that he adjourned the case, in order
to give time for further inquiries.

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—