The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-01 00:00:00

Feb. 29.

The court opened this morning at nine o'clock, when
John Witney, Joseph Briant, 18, and Frederick Barnett,
18, were indicted for assaulting Samuel Brewerton, at
Reading, on the 28th of December, and stealing from his
person two half-sovereigns and a watch, his property.
Mr. Skinner conducted the prosecution, and Messrs.
Carrington and Williams defended the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor
went with a young woman, about midnight, to the house
of a person named English, in Bird-court, having at the
time two half-sovereigns, Bs. in silver, and a watch, in
his possession. While in the house, Brewerton heard a
knocking at the door, which was not then opened;
but shortly after, the shutter of the window was
pulled down, and a man looked in at the window.
The door was then opened, and prosecutor left with
the intention of proceeding homewards, but almost im-
mediately he got into the street he was knocked down
by a violent blow between the eyes, which was re-
peated, his lip cut, and insensibility caused by the
violence. When he recovered, he found his watch was
gone. Two of the prisoners were near him. They said,
" Let us leel," and thrusting their hands into his waist-
coat pocket, extracted the moneys named in the indict-
ment. The other prisoner, Barnett, took him to the
house of a woman named Lovejoy to wash himself, and
then sh. wed him a pin which had been taken from his
stock, saying, " You see I have not robbed you."
Atter a protracted trial, the jury retired from the
court, and in an hour returned with a verdict of Guilty
of assault against all the prisoners, but acquitted them
of the robbery.
his Lordship having severely commented on their
conduct, sentenced them to three mouths' imprisonment
and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Charles Barnhar d and Fanny Marks were brought
before Alderman Hunter, charged under the following
remarkable circumstances:—

John Barnet, of No. 4, Primrose-street, Bishopsgate,
attorney's clerk, said—l went with a person now de-
ceased, named Rachel Folkes, on the 14th of October
last, to Messrs. Curries, the bankers, in Cornhill, where
she changed a cheque for 1231. and received for it a 501.
note, and seven 101. notes. At her request I marked
those notes in the corner of each note, and I produce
the numbers. I saw the deceased about a week or nine
days before her death, which took place on the 12th of
this month. I had some conversation with her, and
asked her if she had her property safe, and she said she
had, and would take care of it. On the morning of Wed-
nesday, the 9th of February, the female prisoner
called upon me, and said Folkes was dying,
and could not live above a few hours. I immediately
went to the house of Marks, where the deceased was
lying in bed completely insensible. Marks said she
had been insensible from the middle of the night,
and 1 asked her if the deceased had had any medical
attendant, to which she replied in the negative. I then
sent my son to Mr. Brown, a surgeon of St. Mary Axe,
and we both went into the room, and Mr. Brown as well
as myself searched about, but no money was found. I
then sent to a woman who is accustomed to attend
dying persons belonging to the Jewish faith, and that
woman also searched about bat found nothing. Mr.
Brown then went away, and I went into the parlour,
accompanied by the prisoner Marks, and I expressed to
her my surprise that no money belonging to the dying
woman should be found. She said she never knew any
thing about any money belonging to the old woman,
excepting the rent when it was paid to her, and if the
old woman had any money she must have left it in
charge of some friend in the Commercial-road. She
also said the deceased might have been robbed, for
she came home one night covered with mud, having
fallen down in the dirty street. I said it was strange
they should have robbed her of her pocket and all, and
she repeated that she knew nothing about it. She
wished she had it, and she said she did not care what
anybody said about her; she was going to be married,
and should soon be out of that. I called next day,
and found the o'd lady still insensible, and I called
On the Friday (the 11th), and saw a Mrs. Jones,
who was nursing, and wished to be paid for the time
she had been in attendance, her demand being 17s. or
17s. 6J., and the prisoner Marks gave me three rings,
which I pledged for 125., which I gave to Mrs. Jones.
The deceased, I believe, died that day or night. On
Saturday last I went to the house of Marks, and saw the
two prisoners together in the parlour, and I said, Mr.
Barnhard, this is a ♦ery unpleasant business about the
old lady's money. He said he knew 'lathing. about it:
he wished he could catch any one who was worth
powder and shot, saying that he had never anything to
do wiih the old lady's money, and he would at once
bring an action.
In answer to the solicitor for Bernhard the witness
said he had seen the notes in the possession of the de-
ceased about three weeks before she was taken ill.

The female prisoner—Do you know that the deceased
was addicted to drink? Witness—No.

The female prisoner—And you never led her home
intoxicated? Witness—Never.

Here a bank note, numbered 43,650, was produced,
and witness stated that it was one of the notes which he
had seen in the possession of the deceased.
Policeman Webb (658) said, on the morning of the
9th inst., from information which I received from the
last witness, I went to No. 16, Carter-street, Hounds-
ditch, in his company. We went up stairs to a back
room en the first floor, where I saw a person lying on a
bed, who, I was told, was Mrs. Folkes. The female
prisoner was on the stairs, and the male pri-
,oner said, " This is a singular affair about the
money. The nurse looked into a table drawer and
several boxes, and said there's nothing here." Barn-
hard and I went down stairs, and he said to Marks,
and Barnhard said to her, " It's a strange thing about
the old woman's money, and more particular her pocket."
She took hold of Barnhard's coat, and said, " Believe
me, I know nothing at all about it." I turned hack and
asked her whether she thought the nurse knew any-
thing about it, a►d she said, " I don't know, but she
has been out two or three times this morning to a
public-house." I went away, and o❑ the 16th of this
month I received information from the Bank of Eng-
land that No. 18,431 bank note, one of those which
had been in the possession of the deceased, was paid
in by P. P. H. Roberts. I receives informatioa that
Roberts had received it from Mr. Luxmore. I took the
male prisoner into custody in Mark's house, and found
upon him the Bank note No. 43,650, also one of
the notes spoken of as having ,been in the possession of
the deceased.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.
Thompson Page was brought up for final examination,
charged with having committed a forgery upon Currie
and Co.'s banking house.
A sailor named Nicholson, who had been sent to the
banking-house by Page with a cheque for 501., purport-
ing to bear the signature of Mr. Ingle, Stonehouse, in
Plymouth, who kept an account there, was admitted as
an evidence for the prosecution, Mr. F. Andrewes, the
solicitor for the sailor, having shown that his client was
unconscious of intended fraud.

Mr. Ingle said Page had bean his footman for some
months, and had been discharged in August, 1846, from
the belief that he had taken the cheque-book. Witness
was then using pink cheques, and in consequence of the
loss of the cheque-book the colour was changed, and the
prisoner was detected in his attempt.
The prisoner, who said he was wrongfully accused,
was committed for trial.

THE ROYAL ARCHITECTURAL MEDAL.—At a recent
meeting of the Council of the Royal Institute of Archi-
tects, when sixteen names (eight Englishmen and eight
foreigners) were given in and considered as candidates;
a ballot being taken, the majority of votes was found to
be in favour of Mr. Cockerell; and it was accordingly—
", Resolved, That the Royal medal of the Institute be
awarded to Charles Robert Cockerell, Esq., It. A.,
Professer of Architecture in the Royal Academy of Arts,
London, Member of the Royal Institute of France, &c.,
in testimony of his distinguished merits as an architect.'
The President, Earl de Grey, intimated that the coun-
cil, On corning to their determination, had signified to
him their desire that the decision should be first men-
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fully himself, said Mr. Cockerell should consider
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fortunate in having the suffrages of the council, and that
the names from abroad showed how much the medal was
an object of interest. The Prince then mentioned it to
the Queen, and the president was able to state that the
award had her Majesty's approval.—Builder.
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before it laves Ameriky."
We understand that Prince Albert has been gra-
ciously pleased to contribute, through the hands of
Major-General Wemyss, clerk marshal to his royal
highness, the sum of 101. towards the subscription now
raising in behalf of Jem Morgan, the veteran huntsman,
whose name and merits are widely known, amongst the
lovers of the allase,—Essex Herald,