The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-23 00:00:00

CRIMINAL. COURT.-(THIS D.A►Y'

OLD COURT;
(Before Mr. Juatice MAULE and Mr. Baron PLATT.)
THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL'
WAY.—The trial of Clare, the engine-driver of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company, for manslaughter,
WPS appointed for Friday next.
FORGERY OP RAILWAY SCRIP. John Bannister
Faulkner, who stands indicted, together with a person
named Bentham Fabian, with issuing forged scrip of the
Buckinghamshire or Bletchley and Oxford Junction
Railway, surrendered to take his trial this morning.
Bentham Fabian, who is charged with forging the scrip,
has absconded from his bail.
Faulkner pleaded not guilty to the indictment charg-
ing him with issuing the forged scrip with the Intent W
defraud Leon Solomons, he well knowing it to be K'rged'
and having incited Fabian to forge it.
Mr. CLARKSON having stated the case for the pm'.
secution,
Mr. BALLANTYNE submitted, on behalf of the prid
soner, that there was no case against him to go to the
jury, inasmuch as the instrument was not intended as e
receipt or acquittance for money, and therefore it did
not come wit'oin the meaning of the Act of Parliament'
Mr. Justice M..‘ULE said he would take a note of the
objection, but he thought the case should proceed. e
The following witnesses were then called on behalf el
the prosecution.
Edward Richards resiaed in Cavendish-square. as
in the habit of transactin:_t* business with the firm
Fabian and Faulkner, share agents. The prisoner wes
one of the firm. Witneos had raised money 00
Buckinghamshire Railway scrip for Mr. Fabian, t°
whom he usually paid the money, Had left money el
the counting-house of Messrs. Fabian and Faulkner, so;
sometimes saw the prisoner there. a: ways transactets,
business with Fabian. Had previously i
May last got money from Mr. Solomon Nitoo uckieg:
o the 6th of
hamshire Railway shares for Mr. Fabian. Could e 9;
positively say whether he went to Fabian and:Fau-licncLa
office on the 6th of May; Recollected seeing th,"913 for
that day, and Fabian saying there was necessity' to
their raising money. Witness went up with Fabian • r
.
Mr. Solomons to ask him if the scrip was left whethe
he would advance more money on the scrip that dal'
Solomons agreed to let them have the money on Pro-
c.
during the scrip, and Fabian then went and fetched sour
The money was procured, and witness dined with til: •
prisoner on that day. Did not see the prisoner before
the transaction with Solomons.
.tneSs
Mt. CLARKSON said that they expected this
would have given very different evidence, and 6001
shown that the prisoner was an accessory before fact,
shown the ci
They had not evidence to carry the case further, and
therefore the prisoner must be acquitted.
The prisoner, under the Learned Judge's direction.
n,
was acquitted on all the indictments charged against
Mr. CLARKSON said, that when the prisoner was taken
into custody a considerable sum of money was 0111 •
upon him ; he did not know whether the Court w°tl
make any order tvith-respect to it. yet
Mr. BALLATITYNE :Jac], on behalf of the prisoner,
-
he had no desire to keep ,;_ny money that could be W"
to belong to Mr. Solomons.
Mr. Justice MAULE said he would make no order °II
the subject. to utter r
Postans was found guilty of attempting
a bad half-sovereign, and having been previously CO.llO
victed of a similar offence, was sentenced by Mr. Pao
PLATT to seven years' transportation.

GUILD HALL.—(TOIS DAY.)
A shoemaker, named Poyser, who eeems also to curl,
on the business of an accountant and land-agent,
brought up in custody from Nottinglimn (his Plael 5
residence), and was charged with daring .9ald heart eof
frauds upon Mrs. Rachel Woodhouse, a widow lady'
the same town.
It appeared from the evidence which Mr. Clark's ay,,
solicitor for the prosecution, was able to produce to-so,
that the family of Stokes, in Nottingham, of vvb°93oolol
Woodhouse is the principal surviving member, 111 „be
to be descended from the Rev. Jonathan Stekees'
very
died in the year 1700, and is supposed to have lett could
large fortune. The prisoner represented that bfortune
put the prosecutrix in the way of recovering the hit h
to which she was intitled, and which he assured
had ascertained to be at least equal to halfa Ott on
Upon this pretence he obtained on one occasion 200 t, of
another 501., and at various times sums to the elle of a
more than 1001., which the lady raised by the .6 „ 100'
small property. The prisoner from time to tilleoliira
duced to her letters, purporting to be addressed the
by a Mr. Fitzgerald Strachan, a barrister, reportill'iciog
favourable progress of the suit, and at length ann.:4la her
that it was decided in favour of the prosecutrix nt.',bar
relations, who were accordingly invited to /ee.; avt
barrister and trusty agent at the London TaverrlL (3'64 of
28th of July last, there to receive the first paY'',f the
100,000/., and to arrange for taking possesstobusi pow,
immense landed property to which their ciniwaded tia°
happily, been established. This last letter 0-- would
the be "
the barrister's cash was exhausted, and
ilift der to pre
require 50/. to he advanced forthwith, in Oro or four
vent the otherwise unavoidable delay Ofolli out of the
weeks in drawing the large sum of 100,°';
Funds, where they were to the credit
of
hi
don, but after
501. was paid, the happy family came to
ij°°Tavern, they
three weeks costly delay in the Lando"
,eon or beard
returned to Nottingham without having the money
anything of the barrister, the prisoner/ °
h d afterwards
Client. The
Mr. l'oyser however, on being repretui-e deceive!
by Mrs. Woodhouse's brother with having
them said that he would make it all right etu,:f.
could raise another lel. He continued to bold o aevKia
for some time longer that he would obtain the exp.:ned
fortune for the claimants, until his dupes were
to give him into custody-, and prefer a charge of o. b
m' money under false pretences in this court, us it v. al;pi
Basinghall-street the first sum of 20/, was paid to
upon the faith of the forged letters. be
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said that there could
no doubt whatever that the letters written in the
of the barrister were in the handwriting of the rod
Boner, and that he had committed a scandalous fri:ao
on the poor lady, whose health of mind and bOdi
suffered much from his conduct.
He was remanded for a week.

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY') f 1.4
Cutl.erinc Connel, a showily-dressed woman' of
before Mr. Seeker with robbing Edmond ,00-•
ters, a corporal in the Royal Artillery, of a•purse;lo,
taming 51. 12s. Bd. It appeared that the e011:1WAY
met the prisoner near London-bridge, OR "1",,•030f
to the terminus, and was induced to aeee—:
her down an obscure court. A policeman, howeve:oto-
duty near the spot, knowing the prisoner to be a were
rious thief, and seeing that she and the corporal 001
closely followed by a man, her associate, be wtioiag
them. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was seer' lA.,"opped
away, and being stopped by the policeman, she
"s found,
a purse at her feet, which, being picked uP, trouser
to belong to the complainant, out of whose to boo
pocket she had taken it. She had not tittle bo fel'
given the purse and its contents to the Pail
lowed her.stated an!
In the course of the examination it was cijice
the prisoner had been in custody a short time "sbe Ws"
robbing
a man in the City, and on that occatiou '-
convicted.
The prisoner, who cried aloud during the exauli°
was committed for trial.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR JOHN WILLIAIgSIIO,
—At twelve o'clock this day the remains of, this 3
of
mented judge were interred in the Bendier isglite
the Middle Temple, of which Hon. Society tile rer
learned judge was a member. The beautifullY i°3rd
ad
sive service of our Church for the burial of
was read by the Rev. Mr. Rowlatt, the officiatinA
file clic/
man in the absence of the Rev. Dr. Robinson, 1"1•14tc„ tb
the Temple. In addition to th© chief mourners, vv''
served present Lord Chief Justice Denll32llc sir
Lord Chief Baron, Sir F. Pollock ; Justieire'.ott'
J. Patteson, Sir J. T. Coleridge, Sir Air• !15r0.
man, Sir T. Coltman, Sir C. Cresswell ; and eiber
Cole, Williams, Egan, Humphreys, Bayley, ao" 0,1110
members of the equity and common-law bar', f the
coffin of the Learned Knight was deposited in ono ip
lower compartments of the vault, underneath th°,c„°reh
of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. The aisle of the c';'-ti
was nearly filled, the public having been freely ad
by
but some surprisc.appeared to have been create° Pia
non-performance of the usual solemn musical servic-'0
INDIAN CORN.—There are at present gre'vvivg
Admiral Dud's, Braemorriston, two rows of Indisil corm6-alt
which have arrived at truch perfection. Having wero
the other day this sample of Eastern crop, I'o ;flee
much gratified with its rich and luxuriant aprilf"-;ng!
the stalks, which are fully ten feet in height, corr.,
abundant and closely-grown grain. The aced vveo
,510
in March in the open air, has largely partaken
.iis
fruitfulness of the season, and the produce sho.
vs
our climate is fast approximating to a more
general temperature. We also saw several fig-wees .t.
the same garden, bearing a rich crop of very firafrlll
Courant.