The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-03 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

George Smith, a yount: man, in the dress of a sailor,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, upon the
charge of stealing a large quantity of book=, many of
them very scarce and all very valuable, the property of
his late employer, Mr. Stewart, of King William-street,
bookseller. The evidence was very voluminous, and
occupied the Court till after two o'clock. He was re-
manded for a fortnight.
MARYLEBONE.

THE ENRAGED OFFICER OF MARINES AND THE
Bo,iTMAKER—EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.—Lieutena,st
Gun Mahon, of the R-yal Marines, who res,des at No,
31, Cambridge-plaice, Edgeware-road. was charged with
having assaulted John Bu,hley Simmons, under the fol-
lowing extraordinary circumstances :
Complainant stated that he was shopman to his bro-
ther, 29, Upper York-street, and that on the previous
Monday nanrifing, agreeably to orders, he was taking home
a pair of boots for defendant to try on, when he (defendant )
rn-t him on the road, and having ascertained from him
that the boots were his, desired him to carry them to his
dwelling, at the same time telling him that upon his call-
ing fel. the money in the evening he would be paid.
Not liking to leave the boots without the sanction of his
employer, he returned with them to the shop, and at
seven in the evening again repaired with them to the
house, when the servant by whom he was admitted
told him that he must wait a little while, as defend
ant was then with another gentleman. In the course of
five m nutes he was sent for by defendant, and on
going into the apartment in which the two gentlemen
were, he (defendant) told him that, for his mester's
insolence, he should neither have money nor hoots.
The bell was rung, and on a carving-knife being
brought in by direction of defendant, he cut the leg
part of the boots into several pieces, having done
which. he threw the feet, or slippers, towards com-
plainant, whom he threatened to kick out of the place in
the event of his not leaving very speedily. Complain-
ant added, that he at length quitted the house, but not
before defendant had rushed upon him and knocked him
d-wn upon the sofa, threatening that he would give him
a d—d good licking, if it cost him 51.
Defendant's answer to the charge was, that the com-
plainant impudently walked into the room while he was
at dinner with his friend, Captain Tringham, and; seating
himself, expressed his intention of remaining in the com-
fortable position he was occupying, as he felt. Very tired,
and refused to leave on being told to call in the morning.
He (defendant) admitted having cut off the top parts of
the bo its, but denied having laid hands upon complainant
at all.

Defendant said he had no witnesses in attendance, his
friend Captain Tringharn being engaged with Sir George
Cockburn at the Admiralty.
Walter Dickenson said that he was nephew of the
landlady, and that complainant was not knocked down on
the ..ors. Defendant certainly did cut the hoots into se-
veral pieces.
Lieutenant Mahon was ordered to enter into his own
recognizance fur his appearance to answer the charge at
the sessions, in the event of anindictment being preferred
against him.

Mr. Wontner—What am I to do, your worship,
-,bout netting paid for the boots which have been de-
s royed ?

Mr. RAwmrtsox—l can't get the money for you ; I
think you have been used very badly, and you know the
course which I have left open to you.
PEACE WARRANT.—Mr. Conrad Cooper Wa3 charged
with having threatened to pat a bullet into Mr. Storey, a
leviti,t, carrying on bu.iness in Fleet-street, and who re-
sides in Nelson-square, BlackfriarA-road.
.Vlr. Wontner attended for complainant, and another
solicitor for defendant.

A great deal of evidence pro and con. was gone into,
from %Ilia it appeared that for some time part defencl,nt,
who at tine period had lived with complainant, and who
was also a dentist, had continual's. annoyed him, and
threatened complainant, whom he had vowed to" bullet,"
as sworn to in the,. arrant.
Defendant was held to bail, himself in 100/., and two
sureties in 50/. each, for his appearance at the sessions.

WORSHIP-STREET. •
CHARGES OF Fas.urt —George Keal, a rather-re-
spectable linking elderly man, with very plausible man-
ners, was placid before Mr. Broughton for examination,
upon a charge of defrauding Mr. John Spencer, a beer-
shop keeper, at Stoke Newington.
Ile prisoner, it appeared,
.had called at Messrs. Lane
and Co's., brewers, to inquire if there was any public
house in their trade to be disposed of, stating that he
was out of business himself, but wanted a house for his
son ; and Mr. Perry, the manager of Messrs. Lane's
brewery, gave him a card to the complainant, Spencer,
who wished to sell his business. The prisoner drove the
same day in a chaise to the complainant's, accompanied
by a young man whom he introduced as his sou, and
producing Mr. Perry's card, entered at once upon the
matter in question, stating that he was himselt a free
vintner who had made enough to live independently,
but wished to put his son into business. The complainant
observed that the house which he was about to dispose-
of was a very good one, and that he should require 8001.
few the lease, and 3501. for fixtures, &c., to which the
prisoner replied that, although money was no object, he
certainly would not give more than 7001. for that house.
After much convers.itien, however, over cigars and ale,
he agreed to give 7501, and proposed to leave at once
50/. as a deposit, until the agreement could be formally
completed. He then drew a cheque for the 50/. upon
Jones Loyd and Co., with whom he said he banked,
and as he was going away carelessly remarked that he
had come out without cash, and asked the complainant
to lend him half a crown until t'.e following day. The
complainant made no difficulty about that, but upbn in-
quiry at Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co's., he ascertained
that the chi que drawn upon them by the prisoner was
fictitious, and soon after he found the prisoner at another
house in his neighbourhood, bargaining for that in a
precisely similar way.
At the first exampiation, Mr. Vine, the chief clerk,
recognised the prisoner as having been in custody at
Bow-street, upon similar charges, several years back.
Mr. Bitoucfrrost, the magistrate, now made known,
that in consequ-nce of the publicity given to the first
examination, he had received a communication from
Dublin, which he now produced.
The communicati n was addressed to the magistrate
by" Mr. Thomas Stirling, of the Royal Canal-terrace,
Dublin," who wrote that he had himself been victimised
by a Mr. George K al. the same person, he believed,
whose examination at Worship-street he had just seen
in the London papers. The case was this :—An adver-
tisement appearett in, the Dublin papers which induced
agent for the purAiase of fowl.,
actually transmitted goods to the
21/., and had received Keal's bill
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andm
m oh:lea:ye -ht• aaalbod'
of 211.,
at ,desirs. Latouche and Co.,
Dublin, but which he had reason to fear was mere waste
paper, and would never be honoured.
Mr. Dent, a furniture dealer, in Crawford-street, pre-
ferred a charge against the prisoner, who, on the 13th
ult., ordered 171. worth of goods to be sent to him in
South-street, Manchester-square. He was to pay on
delivery, but managed to get possession without pay-
ment. Since his arrest part of the g rods, now in pos.
session of the police, had been found in the cellar at the
honse in South-street.
The prisOlier;vas again remanded for a weeks fiegh
charges were expected aeSinst him.
LAMBETH.

GROSS CRUELTY TO A i loßSE.—John Gartland, a wag-
goner in the service of Mr. James Atkins, of Riddles-
down, near Croydon, was charged before Mr. Elliott
with grossly torturing a horse, the property of his
master.

George Weston, an ex-police sergeant, deposed that,
about eleven o'clock that forenoon, he saw the prisoner
drive a team of three horses, with a waggon-load of
lime. The shaft-horse had its tongue secured at about
the middle, with a noose on the end of a sash line, the
other end of which was tied round the head, and part of
a hedge•stake screwed i❑ it along the jaw to tighten it.
The horse, at the time, was kicking violently, and the
prisoner struck it repeatedly with his clenched fist on the
nose. Observing the animal was in a shockire; state, its
tongue, which was hanging out of its mouth to a con-
siderable extent, being very much swollen, and bleeding
profusely from a deep wound caused by the tightness of
the noose, he (witness) proceeded to the station-house at
Brixton and procured the assistance of a constable, who
took the prisoner into custody. On returning to the
waggor, with the constable the cord was in a different
position, and in a manner which put the animal, if pose
sible, to more pain than before, for the blood was flowing
much more copiously from its mouth, and the prisoner
threw several handfuls of dust on the wound to prevent
the appearance of its bleeding so much.
A police constable corroborated the evidence of the
last witness.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said, the horse
waa-a regular kicker, and he was obliged to drive him by
the orders cif his master. He. denied,' hosvever,lhat° the
cruelty was to the extent stated by the witnesses.
Weston and the policeman huth declared they had not at
all exaggerated the facts, and said, that every person who
had seen the animal were dreadfully shocked at th
cruelty which had been exercised towards it. Weston
added, that there was a second horse in the waggon
which was in a very unfit state to be at work, as it had
a large festering sore on its near hip, from which matter
was then exuding, and attended with a quantity of flies,
so that its sufferings must have been very great.
Mr, ELLIOTT, addressing the prisoner, observed it was
quite
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law inflict
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mitted to prison for fourteen days.

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chargedqttit
a ?A'ollutllLNWEaTs
with piciiiing the poclp-t of a woman i and, when taken
into custody for that offence, and locked up in a cell,
there robbing a fi-llow -prisoner of some silver.
It appeared that on Saturday night, a p:ior woman,
Ulm- d :Marks, went to a pawnbroker's shop in the New
t.; t i'or the purposp rif reflepnaing polpe articles ti,lifb
had in pledge. S Vhile she waS-walting to be ;.eived in
one of the boxes, she felt a twitch at her side, and im-
mediately.
caught the prisoner withdrawing his hind
from her p 04,4, and vv,th the sudden jerk soma of the
money hh-e-had ' there fell- upiin the floor,..but.sufficieru:
Was found still remaining in his hand to bring ii:eine thy,
charge of felony against him. The prisoner was then
taken to the Tower-street station, and placed in a cell
With 4 mu 4 u • 4 Th peon who, on being locked u?
apie op ! ••• ,

petty chc:rge, declared he he,l no money about him,
thus privented the police Iron iwarolling him, to
take c.i.re whatsoever cash he had about bitn. In the
coin e of the niviht, the prisoner celled out from the cell
than his fellow•prisnne,r was throwing money at him in
the, dark, end he begged to be released from the soci,ty
of such a liberal companion. The uoliceinati, on en-
tering the cell, found Thompson asleep, and his pockets
turned inside out, although the prisoner had previously
declared that that person had pelted him with money.
The sleeper was awakened, and he then admitted
that he had concealed the fact of his having money,
never dreaming that he would be deprived
of it in the cell. The prisoner, on the
other hand, was loud in his declarations of inntweeti,e,
aid boldly stood f-rward to challenge the most scruti-
nizing search, throwing his, acket and waistcoat open,
and pulling inside out all his pockets. " There," said
he, " I hope I have satisfied you I have not robbed the
gentleman." The policeman, however, was not satisfied
with what was done, and on instituting a further search
he at length discovered a quantity of silver, taken from
Thompson when he was asleep by the prisoner, care-
fully tied up in the corner of the shirt of the latter.
The prisoner, in the most impudent manner, said
!hat although appearances were against him, yet he was
innocent.

The prisoner, who betrayed no feeling, was then sent
for trial.

THAMES.
ASSAULT BY AN AMERICAN WITH A. BOWIE KNIFE.—
A man of gigantic proportions, rrainea -John Webster,
alias Crowther, an American seaman, was brought before
Mr. Broderip, charged with committing a murderous
assault on Edward Connor, a lame man, and attempting
to stab him with a knife.

The American seamen in the port of London are in
the habit of wearing large knives in a sheath, and they
have, on many occasions, used them. The practice is
attended with very great danger, and in this case it will
be seen that the prosecutor had a very narrow escape of
hie life..

The complainant stated that he was at the Phoenix
public-house in Upper East Smithfield, near the St.
Katherine Dock. The prisoner was there swaggering
and bullying, and said he eighed 9st. 41b., and would
fight anybody of that weight. Witness observed that
the prisoner was the biggest man be had seen for a
long time, and he must weigh a gond deal more than
he had stated. The prisoner then struck an old man in
the tap room, and wanted to quarrel with him. Witness
remonstrated with the • risoner, who asked him to take
up the quarrel and fight. He told him he was a cripple,
and had lost the use of both legs, and could not fight.
The prisoner said he would take the shine out of any one
—that he was going to spar at one of the booths in
Stepney fair, and wanted to get his hand in. At last the
brother of witness agreed to fight the prisoner, and they
went out and had one round outside the public-house doer.
-The prisoner got the worst*of 'it, Aral came into-the tap-
room again, and called for-some beer. After the prisoner
had drunk it he threaVtied.to•clo for him. After some
further abuse from the prisoner he left the rot.m. The
prisoner was absent about an hour, and on entering the
room he advanced directly towards witness, and drew a
knife from his sheath, which was made fast to his waist,
and made a most determined and deliberate attempt to
plunge it into his body. Witness parried the blow, and
the point of the knife grazed his ;la,•ket, which was loose,
just under the armpits, on the left side, cutting the
iacket as it slid along. The prisimer was about to make
another attempt to stab him, ;Own the people in the
room pinioned his arms, and secured him until a police-
man arrived. The witness added. that if the stab made
at him bad taken effoct, he should have been a dead man.

Gray, a police-constable, No. 204 H. produced the
knife, a weapon of a formidable description, with a very
sharp point, and said the prisoner threw it away, oppo-
site Butler's-buildings. on his way to the station-house.
The prisoner said he was very drunk on Saturday
night. and his head had been affected by a wound.
Mr. BRODERIP committed the prisoner, in default of
hail, for trial.

JOSEPH ADY IN THE COLONlES.—Yesterday Mr. Bro•
derip stared that he had received a letter from Mr.
Thomas Mad locks, a g,,ntleman residin = at Liverpool
which inclosed one of Joseph Adv's ciroulam addressed
to Mr. William Adamson, Barhacfoes, from which it ap-
peared that Ady had not confined himself to Great
Britain in the selection of victims, and that the people
in the colonies had been led to expect something consi-
derably to their advantage, and with the usual result.
Ady forwarded a circular to ,‘lr. Adamson on the 14th
of December, 1843, stating that he could inform him of
something considerably to his advantage on receipt of
20s. for his trouble. Mr. Maddocks, in his communica-
tion to the magistrate, states that his relative in Bar-
bsdoes, never having heard of Adv's practices, was so
fully impressed with the truth of his information, that
he sent over a power of attorney to receive 1001., men-
tioned in Ady's note ; indeed such was the credulity of
Mr. Adamson, that he presented the money, in case it
was received, to Mrs. Maddocks, his daughter. The
worthy Magistrate's correspondent, however, was o too
sufficiently north" to send Mr. Ady the 205., or to
further trouble himself in the matter. Ady's circulars
extended to India, China, and Africa, and he annoyed a
great many of our countrymen in those distant regions
by leading them to expect something to their advantage,
and then disappointing them.