The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

OLD COURT.

Thomas Scully, indicted for breaking into the George
IV. public-house, at Brompton, was acquitted.
J. Childs, C. Piper, Edward Parker, Thomas Oliver,
James Pratten, and E. Childs, were indicted for unlaw-
fully entering upon, and taking possession of a piece of
ground at 'Woodford Wells, in the parish of Woodford,
in Essex, the property of Mr. William Wiggins.
The
.pcint in dispute was, whether or not this land
was the property of Mr. Wiggins.
Mr. PAYNE, with whom was Mr. }LORRY, contended
that it was the property of the prosecutor, and had been
so since 1836.

Mr. BALLANTItiE, on the other hand, who appeared
for the defendant?, contended that the land was origi-
nally waste land, and that the prosecutor had acquired
no right of property therein. Various witnesses were
examined to show the state of the land at different
periods.

After the proceedings had continued some time,
• His LORDSHIP interfered, expressing his opinion that
a clear legal right to excusive possession in the prose-
cutor had been established ; and he had a great objec-
tion to proceeding criminally where the civil process was
sufficient. The right, be which way it might, was not
worth contending for, and it seemed unwise to persevere
in the case.

Mr. BALLANTINE, under that advice, would withdraw
the defence, and

MS LORDSHIP then, admonishing the prisoners on the
illegality of their violence, directed them to enter into
their own recognizances of 101. each to appear for judg-
ment when called upon.
On the counsel's advice Mr. Child and the prosecutor
shook hands in Court, and thus gaVe a termination to the
trial not often seen in a Criminal Court.

Frederick Webb, a waiter at Webb's Hotel, in Pic-
cadilly, and his wife, were indicted for stealing three
51. notes from the bag of a lady, named Andrews, who
resides at Northampton, and who was stopping at the
hotel on the 3d of November.

Mr. Bill:lnane prosecuted, and Mr. Doane defended
the prisoner.

Mrs. Andrews deposed, that on Tuesday, the 21 of
November she received one 5/. note from her son, and
on the following morning three more. The 'last she put
into her bag in the morning of the 3d of Nov, tuber,
and put the bag under a great coat in her sitting-room
at Webb's Hotel. On her return in the evening, she
saw the bag lying on, instead of under the great coat,
and the money gone.
Mr. T. J. Andrews, the con of the former witness,
stated that on Tuesday, the 2d of November, he gave to
the male prisoner a cheque for 60/. upon Messrs. Deni
son's bank. The money was brought to him by the
head waiter, and consisted of eleven 5/. notes and five
sovereigns. One of the notes he gave to his mother
that day, three more the following morning; six of the
others he paid to. Messrs. Maccrakin, Custom House
agents, and one he paid to a clerk in the post-offiee at
Charing Cross.

George Bentley, a milkman, deposed that he received
a 5/. note from the wife of the prisoner for change. This
note w is shown to be one of the notes taken from Mrs.
Andrews' bag.
Policeman 119 F.,- who apprehended the prisoner on
the 27th November, stated that on telling Mrs. Webb
that he had come to take her into custody, she said that
she had received from her husband a 5/. note in a letter,
which she got Mr. Bentley to change.
Mr. BALLANTINE allowed that there was no evidence
against the woman.

Mr. DOANE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, insisting that the charge against the female pri-
soner must tall to the ground, and that the testimony
against her husband was altogether inconclusive.
Mr. Commissioner 13mt.ccx summed up, and
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the
male prisoner, but acquitted his wife.—He was sen-
tenced to twelve months imprisonment, with hard labJur.
Several minor charges were taken, which were of no
public interest, and the business of the Court was ad-
journed„ishortly before four o'clock, till the".4th of Jan-
uary next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Mr. )unable, a tailor in Wine Office-court, Fleet-
street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged
with assaulting Mr. Henneker, barrister, of 70 Chan-
cery lane.
The complainant said, that on Thursday evening, at
half-past six o'clock, he was passing through the Strand,
on his way home, when he received a severe blow on the
head from behind. Looking round, he saw the prisoner
behind him, and before he had time to say a word, the
prisoner began to abuse him with volubility, calling him
a" rascal," a " d—d thief," and (to use the com-
plainant's own phrase) " a thousand inflexions of those
expressions." He told the prisoner that if he did not let
him alone, he (complainant) would give him in charge,
but the prisoner continued to abuse him. Complainant
went on in the direction of Chancery-lane, until he saw
a policeman, to whom he was about to make his com-
plaint, when the prisoner anticipated him, by desiring
the policeman to take him (complainant) in charge for
following him in the street and annoying him. Com-
plainant then told the policeman what had occurred, but
the latter refused to take either charge, because he had
not seen either the assault or the annoyance. He then
went on, followed by the prisoner, who struck him
again, when they had got about five yards from the spot
where the policeman stood. The latter having seen the
assault committed, consented to take this charge, and
took the prisoner to the station.
Policeman F 71 corroborated the greater part of this
statement.
The prisoner admitted that he had struck the com-
plainant, but said that he was provoked to it. The com-
plainant had attempted to stop him by getting in front
of him and standing across the footway, holding the iron
railing with one hand and the lamp-post with the other.
He certainly did strike the complainant then, but it was
in self-defence.
Mr. JARDINE said he would fine the prisoner 51., the
highest penalty he had power to enforce ; but
Mr. Ilenneker said that he thought the penalty in-
sufficient, and hoped the Magistrate would send the case
to a superior court.
Mr. JARDINE accordingly consented to send the case
for trial, and the prisoner was committed, being bound
over in his own recognisances for 201. and two sureties
in 104 each, or one in 201., to appear at the sessions on
Monday.
Bail was immediately put in, and the prisoner was
liberated.
Henry Carman, the lad who on the 7th inst. charged
a boy named Wallace, of robbing him of U. Bs. in a
coffee-shop, was brought before Mr. Jardine this morn-
ing on a charge of stealing 21. from his father, William
Carman, a cab-proprietor, at Westminster.
It will be remembered, that on a former occasion the
prisoner (then the prosecutor) said that his father had
been dead for some time, and that since his death he had
been in the employment of a farmer in Hertfordshire,
that on coming to London he took a lodging at a coffee-
shop in Queen-street, and while he was taking his tea
there on Tuesday, the 6th inst., he was robbed by Wal-
lace. Wallace was committed, tried, convicted, and
sentenced by Mr. Sergeant Adams to six mouths' impri-
sonment. Meanwhile, Moore, the beadle of Covent•
garden Market, obtained a situation for the prisoner as
errand boy to Mr. Hughes, fruit salesman in the market,
and he remained there until last night, when his father,
having with some difficulty traced him, gave hi:n in
charge for robbing him of 21.
The prisoner's father stated that the prisoner had
robbed him of several sums of money from time to time,
and on Saturday week he had decamped with 21. The
whole of the story he had told when giving his evidence
was false.

The account given by Moore, of the manner in which
the prisoner had passed his time since he came under his
• care was highly amusing. Having got the " place," he
' had by his steadiness and good behaviour got
into the good graces of his master's family,
and not only used he to take his meals
with them, but he read prayers with them every evening.
Ile could read and write well, and was considered a very
clever lad. He used to talk a great deal about his de-
ceased parents, and he was very anxious that Moore
should go with him " some day when he had time to
see his father's grave in Paddington churchyard." lie
said that his father bad been a livery-stable-keeper, and
was buried by a subscription of the omnibus and cab
proprietors, drivers, &c., with whom he was acquainted.
However, on Sunday evening, after going to chapel, he
went out, by Mrs. Hughes's permission, to take a walk
in the Park, where he met his father, and very unwil-
lingly consented to go home with him, but artfully con-
triving to slip away, he returned to Mr. Hughes's, and
said nothing of what had occurred. He continued to do
his work, read prayers, as before, until last night,
r.hen his father having " found him out," gave him in
custody.
Mr. JARDINE left it to the father to decide whether he
would press the charge or not.
'1 he father said that if the prisoner would go home
with him, and promise to behave better in future, he
would forgive him ; and the prisoner having been with
great difficulty induced to consent, and give the required
promise, was set at liberty. The parties then left the