The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-29 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Marialent Willoughby Osborn, a person of very supe-
rior address and deportment, but who was wretchedly
clad, was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged
with having obtained, by fraudulent representations, a
gold watch and appendages, of the value of 251., from
Ur. Henry Eisenberg, a jeweller in White's-row, Spi-
talfields, and also with stealing four duplicates, the pro
perty of a person named Cheeseman, in whose house
she had occupied apartments.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Heritage, who
attended for the proiecution, and the evidence of ths.
.complainant, that about the latter part of February the
pHs, ner was introduced to Mr. Eisenberg by a Mr.
Li.vett, with whom he had had some previous dealings.
vho represented her us the sister of Lard Spencer and
the daughter of another distinguished nobleman,
and intimated, that although she was then involveci
in some pecuniary embarrassment arising out of pe-
culiar causes, which he was not at liberty to evplain,
he had ascertained from personal inquiries, and the
examination of her private documents, that she avio
entitled to a fortune amounting to no less than 120,000/..
ehich was to come into her possession in the course
,f a few days. The person in question then went on to
explain the object of their application, which he stated
to be, that as the lady was totally without jewellery.
And as it was necessary for her to assume an appearance
somewhat suitable to her rank and expectations. she Was
anxious to be famished with a gold watch and append- -
ages, and was ready to give him a note of hand for the
amount, at 15 days' date, NA hich he (Levett) was also pre-
pared to endorse, as a further Fecurity. After some
urther eonversation, in the course of which the prisoner
ftully. confirmed the above statement, as to her lofty pre-
a: niiwsiaci othenhssh,
aetnhdper
eepEaoisne prosecutor t o.
the was. before-mentioned induced
value, her with
for
stated,nattedmhrim
John
the bill,
,ms,adceropwayna.oboleuratt,
the time
Bench-walk, .T
opine, but upon presenting it at
that place, he
King's
prisoner,
dnetrheamt nothing whatever was known
d wheret.' andaddress
he
fe w
a s accordinglyinorm e d
bayt
mo nrcse
.
there of the
land street, Dalstonad,
hastened to the
had given, in Wood-
Cheeseman, the landlady
though she had resided there forhe house, that al-
had left in her debt, to a large amount, some months, she
lodging, and that she had since made every for board and
dis-
cover her retreat, without success, as svhereyaffort to
charge of robbery to prefer against her. Id herself a
were thereupon given to the police for her apprehension,asn
and after considerable difficulty she waa ultimately
to a miserable lodging in Chatham-gardens, traced
ells, lioxton,
and taken into custody.
Holland, the warrant officer, stated that upon going to
the house in Chatham-gardens he found the prisoner in
such a deplorable state of wretchedness and destitution,
that he was obliged to procure a supply of clothing
from the workhouse, to enable her to appear at this
court; and upon searching the place h© discovered
•4
of persons
packet of letters, bearing the signatures.
large
D t high respectability, all cotighed in very
mysterious term of ap'arens, but clearly indicating that her cor-
respondents impressed with a full conviction
had been
representations. The officer pro-
ducedof the truth of her
which had been identified as the
a morning dress,a
lady,
who stated that the du.
property of her former I nd
with three others, had been
plicate relating to it, together
to which the prisoner
stolen from a box in her parlour,
access while she
had every opportunity of obtaining
presented by her
lodged in her house. and subsequently. .
in service in the Mmones, where the
to a young woman
officer found it. The duplicate for the watch and append-
•
ages, which had been pledged for 71. the day after it had.
been so obtained from Mr. Eisenberg, was also produced,
it having been delivered up by another lodging-house
keeper, who had received it from the prisoner as security
tom
When
a debt of 41., since the previous transactions:
called upon for her defence, the prisoner de-
clared that the '
mined the which she had ob-
watcreumstances under
with .re3pect :to had. been erroneously stated_ ; and that
had been, given the other charge, the dress in question
herompensef, by the prosecutrix as. a partial
therefore, fel or kindnesses t lietselifeaes she had shown-her, and she,
manner she thought T, at liberty to dispose of it in any
Mrs. Cheeseman, g roper,
Isserti..n. wwever, positively contradicted this
The MAGISTRATi
ordered th •• '. •• - ' .' -
For a week.e prisoner toleremauded
LAM BETIL
John Ward, Michael lifuph_
and Con Murphy, were
placed at the bar before y Mr. Norton for finalei s

SUN

LONDON,

tion, on a charge of having committed a murderous as-
sault upon the person of Benjamin Hodges and four other
coal-porters.
The brief facts of the case were these :—On Monday
last the prisoners were in the tap-room of the Adam
public-house in the Old Kent-road, and the complainants
being there also, a quarrel ensued, and a desperate con-
flict -followed. The prisoners armed themselves with
quart pots, and dealt out such violence to those opposed
to them, that it was almost a miracle they did not kill
one or the other of them.
Mr. Howett, the medical gentleman who had been
called in to dress the wzsinds of the injurwd men, _de-
scribed the injuries inflicted to be of the most extensive
and dangerous de,cription.
The prisoners were fully committed to take thei,
trials at their ensuing sessions at the Central Urinaina!
Court.
Andrew Bascoville, Francis Fardell, and Thomas
Bennett, were placed at the bar on the following chargk
It appeared that on the preceding evening the pri
soners were observed to be engaged at a blacksmith's
shop, in Unioa-street, London-road, by a police,con
stable, and were subsequently watched away from there.
They proceeded together along the Waterloo-road, and
were ultimately stopped by Romaine, Alley,,and a third
constable, who had first seen them in the smith's shop.
On being searched at the station-house, a new crow
bar, or " jemmy," .seven skeleton keys, a wax-taper,
and a box of house-breaker's Lucifers, were found in the
possession of Bascoville, and the other two having been
in custody before for felony, all were locked up.
The prisoners were spoken to as being the compa-
nions of the members of the swell mob, and Romaine
said that various skeleton-key robberies had been re-
cently committed in the district, adding, he had no
doubt whatever that the prisoners intended to have
committed one on that night, had they not been pre-
vented.

Mr. Games, who defended the prisoners, in reply to
Romaine's observation, remarked that the Bank of
England might have been broken into on Monday fort-
night.
Mr. NORTON remarked, that he did not think that all.
the mobs in England, could have succeded in robbing
the: Bank on the day mentioned, from the preparations
which had been made to defend it. He then committed
the three prisoners to the House of Correction for three
months, as suspected characters.

•PERTH CIRCUIT COURT OF
JUSTICIABY, APRIL 22.
CHARGE OF. MIIRDEL—Jamey Robertson was placed'
at the bar, accused of having, on the 24th December,
1847. in a house on the farm of Unthank, near Brechin,
occupied by William Norrie, got possession of a female
illegitimate child, of which he was the father ; sod that,
_
on the farm of Cookston, and near the public road lead-
ing to Brechin, di4 thereafter wickedly and feloniously
putthheer e clotheshead and
iscuhffwo
suffocated
d h
uponerthe person of the child
over and in that way mur-
dered her.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty.
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Witnesses were examined in support of the prosecution,
whose evidence it appeared that the prisoner, who
was a farm servant, was father of several other illegitimate
children. Jean Guguid, the mother of the child, deposed
to having carried the infant to the prisoner, at his request,
three weeks after its birth, and to having left it in his
charge,'at his sister's house, who was married, on the
understanding that he was to find a nurse for it: The
prisbner's sister corroborated the witness's testittionyroind
stated that her brother desired her to say that the' child
was to be with her all night. The prisoner, however,
after the mother of it left took away the child, which
was wrapped up in three shawls to protect it from the
cold. Before doing se, his sister requested him to leave
the child with her to keep it ; but he objected, and said
that his mother would hear of it. He said he was going
to take it to a place about a mile and a half west frow
the place he lived at, where a woman was to keep it.
William Jack, an officer in the Forfarshire rural
police, deponed that on the 6th March the mother of the
child and her brother came to him, and stated that the
prisoner had confessed to the former that he had made
away with the child on the night she gave it to him, and
buried it in a field of land. In consequence of this. in-
formation, he apprehended the panel on the following
morning. Panel confessed to having made away with
the child by gathering the clothes over its head and
smothering it.
The prisoner's declarations were then read, which.de-
tailed with great minuteness a full confession'of the Whole
affair. He stated that he was 25• y ears of age ; hid three
other illegitimate children beside those that JeanDughid
had to him ; that their maintenance pressed hard upon
him ; and it was from that circumstanee that he had been
induced to-do the deed.

• The jury retired for about 15 minutes, and on return.
ing- into court delivered a unanimous verdict of Guilty
as libelled; but, from the candid way in which he hao
confessed the deed, strongly recommended the prisoner
to mercy.
Lord AIONCREIFF then addressed the prisoner upon
the awful situation in which his crime had placed
him, and advised him earnestly to reflect on his
condition, and turn to God in prayer and repentance
that his sins might be washed out in the blood of
the Redeemer. In reference to the recommendation
of the jury, it would certainly be attended
to in the proper quarter ; but the Court could bold out
to him no strong hopes of mercy. He was then sen-
tenced to be executed at Forfar on the 19th of May.
The prisoner heard his sentence unmoved, and ap-
peared throughout the whole trial to be little impressed
with his situation.