The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
SENTENCES AND RESULTS.
Subjoined are the principal sentences as finally fixed,
after the termination of the session :
Sentence of death recorded against—James Denny,
aged 43, for setting fire to a house, persons residing
therein.

TRANSPORTATION BEYOND THE SEAS.
For fifteen years.—Edward Billington, aged 60 (the
captain of the " Magsmen").
Fourteen years.—C. Potter, J. Scully, and J. Young.
Ten years.—J. C. Young, and J. Brown.
Seven years.—Mary Evans, Elizabeth Russell, W.
Henderson, Henry Meynard, G. 11. Jones, G. Walker,
Thomas Burgess, W. Jones, Henry Eteen, J. William-
son, Henry Jones, W. Heath, G. King, and H. Noise.

IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR.
The undernamed were ordered to be confined in the
houses of correction for the counties in which their of-
fences were committed, and there kept to hard labour
for—

Two years.—J. Smith.
Eighteen months.—Josef Toney, J. Whaite, Hugh
Roberts, Richard Marshall.
Fifteen months.—J. Brown.
For one year.—J. Phillips, alias Austin, J. Orchard,
R. S Smith, Louisa Turner, J. Catchpole, J. Slater, W.
Alford, James Anderson, H. Ford, F. Webb, Sarah
Smith.

For nine months.—Ann Sneed, Ann Richards, J.
Finlayson. C. Barrell, J. Shepherd, D. Parsons, J.
Walker.

For eight months.—Mary Ann Brooks, G.W. Andrews.
For six months.—Margaret Donohue, Jamie Curtada,
alias James Carter, G. Williamson, F. K. Beauchamp,
W. O'Brian, 4.N. Burton, J. Jackson, J. Benjamin, D.
Carlton, H. !Morgan, Thomas Sneed, N. Baker, W. Gray,
J. Judd, J. Brows, G. Smith.
For four months.--Ellen Morgan, J. H. Morgan, J.
Robertson, G. Cooper, William Harris, James Wall.
For three months—Matilda Hester, J. Fitzpatrick,
George Thompson, T. Peacock, Mary Hennesy, J. Harris,
Ellen Sweeney, Jane Smith, John Smith, Thomas Gore,
J. East, D. Carley, W. Bevis, T. Jones, E. Wilmot, J.
Upton, H. Hoar, G. Ray.
For two months.—Evelina Cheetham, Ellen Farley,
Elizabeth 'Williams, 11. Carrol, J. Murphy, J. Miller, T.
Healey, J. Smith, W. Evans, H. Rowland, W. Payne, J.
M'Cann, R. Nash, R. Lear, T. Roots.
The court adjourned to the 4th day of January next.
The grand jury ignored the bills preferred against the
undernamed persons, who were brought into court and
discharged by proclamation, viz. :—E. Baker, H. Jones,
D. Bailey, Caroline Forest.

Acquittals.—The petit jury declared the undernamed
not guilty, and they were discharged forthwith, viz. :
Sarah Freeman, Catherine Brian, Catharine Hoare,
Susan Bull, Susan Watts, Susan Austen, Ann Brown,
Mary Webb, Ellen Sweeney, T. Lally, W. Brand, C.
Cotton, R. Stokes, W. Frost, J. Frost, W. Gibbs, C. Prutt,
T. Dove, T. Johnson, M. llodgskiss, R. Stevens, D.
Buckley, M. Dunovan, T. Sculley, J. Leverett, J. Pearce,
J. Briscoe, Luke Keefe, E. Williams, A. De Preece,
Ellen Flaherty, G. Brown, J. Smith, C. Cotton (18), W.
Burgin, jun.
MINOR SENTENCES AND ADJUDICATIONS IN NEWQATE
(WITHOUT Lenoun).—lmprisoned for six weeks, 1 ; for
one month, 11 ; for three weeks, 1 ; under fourteen
days, 10 ; confessed by pleading guilty, 21 ; called on
recognisance, 4 ; convicted and judgments respited, 3 ;
remanded to next session, 3 ; traversed to ditto, 3 ;
discharged by the court, 1 ; fined, 1 ; surrendered in
court, 9.

The court adjudicated upon 162 prisoners during this
session, who were committed from the following districts:
—London, 37, Middlesex 84, Surrey 38, Kent 1, Essex
2 ; total 162.

The following statemen3 show their comparatiTe ages
—Between 10 years and 20, 62 ; between 20 and 30, 79
between 30 and 40, 19 ; between 40 and 50, 2 : total, 162.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
quILDHALL.

Richard Keyes, a deputy messenger of the Court of
Bankruptcy, was brought before Mr. Alderman John-
son, on suspicion of having broken into the premises of
3fessrs. Alappin, dealers in fancy goods and cutlery, in
Fore-street, Cripplegate, and stolen a quantity of knives,
in highly-wrought handles, some dressing-cases, &c.
Mr. Kennet, a solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; and
Mr. Hobler defended the prisoner.
Mr. Kennet stated that Mr. Mappin occupies the lower
part of the house, No. 14, Fore-street, and the upper part
was let off to the tenant of the adjoining house, who
opened a communication between the two premises, and
closed up the communication between the tipper and
lower parts of No. 14. On Saturday morning it was
found that some one had entered the house No. 15, cut
with a centre-bit a large hole through the floor and
ceiling, and dropped into Mr. Mappin's warehouse. The
robbery was effected by some one well acquainted with
the premises, because cuttheholewasof
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goods stolen were of the value of 1501. or 2001. Sus-
picion fell on the prisoner, because he was occupier of
the house from which the entry was made—Miss Wilcke,
the tenant, being a bankrupt, and the prisoner in pos-
session for the assignees. On searching the prisoner's
house some goods were found which had been stolen
from the bankrupt's stock, and some which were not yet
identified.
Charles Coleshaw deposed to locking Mr. Mappin's
warehouse safe on Friday night, and finding it locked
next morning, but he found a hole in the ceiling, and
that he missed a quantity of the stock.
Sergeant Eaves said that he was called in. He found
no marks of breaking in from without. When the pri-
soner came to the next house he and Mr. Mappin asked
leave to go into the room where the flooring had been
cut through. The door communicating on the first floor
between the two houses was the only door found locked.
The prisoner said he had not slept there the night before.
He could find no marks of breaking in.
Mr. J. Mappin said be went in with the officers. Ob-
serving the prisoner go down stairs, he followed him,
and saw him put a box of lucifer matches in his pocket,
and feel the contents of all the pockets of a coat that
was hanging up. lie then returned up stairs to the officer.
He expressed a readiness to have his premises searched,
but when they started, he hesitated, and said he must
consult his solicitor first. Then again he offered to go
with them, but refused to go home in a cab. He was,
therefore, given into custody.
Cross-examinPd by Mr. nobler—No part of the mis•
sing stock wits found on him or in his house.

Evidence was then taken as to a second charge.
Mark Bull and Robert Packman, two of the City
policemen, produced some the property found at the
prisoner's house, and which had been identified by Miss
Wileke.

Miss Wilcko stated that she left the house, No. 15,
Fore-street, before the assignees sold her stock off. The
prisoner had been resident for some time in the house,
and had access to every part. A boa produced was her
private property. As she had worn it above a month,
the assignees
apparel. It was hrtn.7ing up in her bed-room on the 4th
gave .t up to her as part of her wearing
December, and on the 7th she missed it, having removed
in the interim. She identified also a lace cap and some
goods which had form d part of her stock.
Mr. Cutting, son of the messenger of the Bankruptcy
Court,. said the prisoner was put in possession of Miss
irwilcke's promises, and it was his duty to sleep there.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON asked if he was at liberty to
have a friend or two to stay with hiin? Mr. Cutting
said he might do so. Ile asked the prisoner what he had
purchased at the sale of the bankrupt's effects? and he
said some furniture.
Mr. Nobler cross-examined him to show that it was
the practice of the men in possession to buy at the sales
lots of any sort they could sell to advantage.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON said that if he had pur-
chased the goods alleged to be stolen, he might show
that,

Air. Cutting said the sale was made by tender, and
not by the hammer, in this case.
The officers stated that they found a large quantity of
shoes, saddlery, brushes and perfumery, and some keys
to fit Bramah locks, which were suspected to have been
purloined from different bankrupts' estates.
After some consultation, so as to have but one
further examination before he was discharged or sent
to trial,

The prisoner was remanded till the 31st instant.
A large body of the emigrants discharged from the
Glenelg East Indianian, recently seized for being
equipped for a warlike expedition against some country
in amity with Great Britain, presented a memorial corn-
plaiLing that they were starving and that part of their
necessaries were detained on board. They wished to
arouse the publio sympathy, for they must perish or re.
sort to crime if they were not assisted.
Mr. Alderman JOHNSON said he had read the account
of their application at the Thames Police-court, and said
they had been engaged in an unlawful undertaking, and
that they would not avail themselves of three days' no-
tice to leave with what belonged to them. If they had
any ground 9f complaint against the way iu which they

defendant, went to show that the deceased person h ad
uniformly been in the habit of transacting business for
himself, without the slightest suspicion of his beir., ; an
insane person.
Sir F. THESIGER, in reply, acquitted the odic 0 from
the charge of any impropriety in their conduct ,try en-
tering into an agreement, with the deceased, bt 't if it
was proved that the deceased was insane at the tz 'me of
entering into the agreement the company woui'd be
bound to repay the sums, and although it might tie Lard
upon the office it would be still more so upon the r© la-
dyes of the deceased.

The LORD CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said that
the present action was one of the most important th at he
had ever been connected with, either professional :y or
judicially, and he should simply take the opinion the
jury upon two points: first, whether the deceased, Ras in
a sound state of mind at the period of his enter; .ng into
the contract, and, secondly, whether the agrees lent was
perfectly fair and proper in itself. It would ,certainly
involve an enormous amount of litigation and co,nfusion
if the every-day transactions of life were to be e ntered
into in that state of uncertainty which a kind of post
mortem investigation into the character of the c outractor
would necessarily produce. He merely threxo out this
suggestion in order that the subject might be more fully
discussed elsewhere.

The jury retired, and after a short absence, returned
the following verdict:—" We find for the plaintiff; that
Thomas Lee was of unsound mind at Ole time of the
transaction, and we find that the transaction was a bona
fide one on the part of the office at the time of its
being entered into ; that the ( ffice had no notice
of the condition of the deceased at the time ; and
that there was nothing in his manner to lead the office
to consider him of unsound mind, and that the trans-
action was an ordinary business-like affair, such as a
person in the position of the deceased would enter into."
Damages 3551 6s. 2d.
Leave was given to the defendant to move to set the
verdict aside.