The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

WES7'MINSTER.

John Watson Cusworth, a mechanic, was charged with
sealing 51.

The'accused, who was formerly assistant-secretary to
an Odd Fellows' Lodge, held at Mr. Hessen's, the Tvso
Chairmen, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, was en-
trusted with 51. on the 17th of last June, to send to the
Loyal Bush Lodge, near Manchester. It was subse-
quently ascertained that he negleet(ci to remit the money;
and it having been ascertained that he had gone to
Liverpool, a warrant was obtained against him at this
Court, and he was apprehended on Saturday by Collar,
one of the warrant officers.
Tn tlefryloo, ts•- ne had inclosed
the ril. note in a letter addressed to the " N. G.," and sent
it by post, at the Lodge at Manchester.

A solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, asked
for a remand, in order that witnesses might be brought
from Manchester to prove that the money had not been
remitted.

A solicitor, who appeared for the prosecution, asked
for a remand, in order that witnesses might be brought
from Manchester, to prove that the money bad not been
remitted.

Mr. BOND inquired whether the accused was a member
of the society at the time the money was entrusted to
him, and having been answered in the affirmative, said
that, in his opinion, a great difficulty presented itself in
the matter as part of the money, it might be alleged,
was prisoner's own, he being one of those who con-
tributed to the fund.
The solicitor thought that that was rather a question
for another tribunal than for the magistrate's considera-

Mr. BOND disagreed with the professional gentleman.
It was, he considered, his (the Magistrate's) duty to take
care that there was a legal charge against a man before
he sent him for trial.

Z he p► isontr having, in antwer to Mr. Bond's inquiry,
said that he could find sureties,

Mr. BOND consented to take bail, provided notice was
given, for his appearance in a week.
We are requested to acknowledge the receipt of 104
from the Goldsmiths' Company, for the poor-box.
MAR LB ORO G 11-STREE T.

Robes t Wood Ashdown, John Hart, alias Bullock, John
7 hign B'aPson,
F. Aasll'efeienke George Smp s,' -Laware nroani, John Mason,
alias
Lawrence,
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Jo
Frederick Ralph, and Lewis Gerhard, were brought be-
fore Mr. Maltby, charged by the police with being g!tin-
blerE, and with haying been found in a common gaming-
house in Castle street, Leicester-square. The visit, on
Saturday night, by the police, is the second visit of the
sort within a short period.
Superintendent Beresford, C division, proved that the
police had received information, and that the proper
legal steps had been taken to warrant their entry into
the house. About 12 o'clock on Saturday night, he
took a number of constables to the house, and, after a
short delay, obtained an entrance to an upper room,
where the defendants were assembled. There were no

Police-sergeants Whall and Gray, proved the appre
hension of the prisoners, and stated that they were all
known as gamblers.
The defendant Lawrenoe denied this. He said he had
only just returned from America.

Witall produced a china dice-box which he found in
the room. Police-constable Thompson, 47 F, found two
dice in the fire-place and a bank box. Inspector Par-
ker found two dice in the yard, one false, and the su-
perintendent found a pack of cards on the roof of the
beer-shop.
Police-constable C 178 said he was told by his super-
intendent to go to the gambling-house in Castle-street,
at twelve o'clock, and to see and hear all he could. Wit-
ness went on the roof of the house and opened a trap-
door, which gave him a view of the garning.room and us
inmates. Had been there a very few moments when one
of the persons in the room called out " Here's the police
coming ; they will be here in a moment, put everything
on one side." Witness then saw some one throw a park
of cards on the fire. Another person in the room said,
"Let us go out this way," meaning by the window ; but
some one answered, " No ; let us burn all the lot, aid
stand our ground, and then they can't hurt us." The
police then entered the room, and took all present into
custody.
Ashdown, who was supposed to be the proprietor,
said he opened the door as soon as summoned to do so
by the police. He doubted the possibility of the con-
stable seeing anything that passed in the room from his
place at the trapdoor.

- The defence ;f Lawrence, Ralph, Neine, Hart, Samp-
son, Williamson, Gerhard, Ashdown, and Thompson,
was that they merely went to the place for a cup of
coffee ; Belasco said he went to collect a debt.
Three others, who had a lawful excuse for, being in
the house, were discharged ; one released on bail did nut
appear.
Mr. MALTBY inflicted it fine on the ten defendants of
40s. each.

MARYLEBONE.
Mr. John Douglass, lessee of the Marylebone Theatre,
attended before Mr. Rawlinson, with the view of being
allowed to make a declaration, under the circumstances
below stated:—

It appeared that Mr. Douglass had purchased car-
riages of different descriptions, and amongst them was
the vehicle well known to most about town as being the
property of " Romeo Coates ;" the motto thereon was
in Latin, signifying " While I live I'll crow." Romeo's
"drag" was, with a number of others, placed for security
and convenience at Mr. Goldspring's, Copland-street,
with an understanding that he was to keep them in re-
pair, and on Wednesday last a distraint for rent was
made upon him (Mr. Goldspring). Mr. Douglass, who
had in his possession a receipt for all claim that could
have legally been made upon him up to the period of the
distraint alluded to, obtained the Magistrate's signature
to the declaration which had been drawn up, and Mr.
Douglass will no doubt, through the manner in which
he has proceeded, obtain the property which he claims.
W OR SHIP- S TREE T.
Georgiana Dempsey, in an advanced state of preg-
nancy, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton,
charged with cutting and wounding a young man named
John Pitt with a table-knife.
It appeared from the statement of the complainant
(whose lower jaw and one of his hands were covered
with adhesive plaster) that while seated in the tap-room
of the Queen's Head, Pitfieldstreet, Hoxton, on Satur-
day evening, the prisoner abruptly entered the apart-
ment, and without uttering a word or receiving the
slightest provocation, suddenly snatched up a knife
from the table, and stabbed at him three times in rapid
succession. The first of the blows inflicted a severe gash
in his lower lip, and the prisoner then made a thrust at
his left breast, the knife completely penetrating through
his coat and under garment ; but he succeeded in ward-
ing off the intended mischief by raising his arm, and
received a cut extending across all the fingers of his
right hand. The prisoner was then secured by some
persons in the room and given into custody, and witness
was conducted to the house of Mr. Packer, a neighbour-
ing st.rgeon, who dressed his wounds, neither of which
was, fortunately, of a dangerous character.
The prisoner, who was greatly agitated and wept
incessantly, said that she had lived for a considerable
period with the prosecutor as his wife, but that he sud-
denly discarded her about three months ago, and, to
escape from her importunities, shortly afterwards gave
her into custody.
Mr. BaoucirroN said that, however much he might
feel disposed to compassionate the prisoner's situation,
it could not be taken as a justification of the desperate
conduct of which she had been guilty, and he must
therefore commit her to prison until the additional evi-
dence necessary to complete the case could be brought
forward.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Kerby, the superintendent, of the Northampton
police force, attended before Mr. Henry, to give some
facts relative to the prisoner Smith, alias Eales, who had
been committed from !this Court on Friday last, on a
charge of going to the house of Mr. Hamblin, and by
threats, presenting a pistol and dagger, extorting a 101
note.

Mr. Kerby stated that Smith, alias Eales, had, in the
year 1842, been tried and convicted of a burglary and
robbery, near Towcester, and sentenced to ten years'
transportation, but had managed to effect his escape from
on board one of the hulks off Portsmouth. Besides this,
he (Mr. Kerby) held in his hands a warrant for his ap-
prehension on a charge of a daring highway robbery,
but he supposed there would be no use or opportunity of
serving it upon him, as the charge upon which he had
been committed appeared so conclusive, as to leave very
little doubt of his conviction.
Mr. HENRY thought it would be desirable, as the pri-
soner was so notorious a character, that Mr. Kerby, or
some other person conversant with the fact, should
attend at the trial, and give evidence of his former con-
viction.

Mr. derby replied that this should be done.
SOUTHWARK.
Charles Perryman and Wm. Harvey were charged with
attempting to steal a gold watch from the person of
Captain Randall, Holles-street, Cavendish-square, at the
execution of Quennell, that morning, at Horsemonger-
lane gaol, a brief account of which appeared in The
Sun of yesterday.
Captain Randall stated that he went to witness the
execution of Quennell that morning on the top of Horse-
monger-lane gaol, and that while he was standing in a
position commanding a view of the scaffold, he was soon
surrounded by a great number of persons. He had not
long taken up the position, which was sear the corner of
Swan-street, when his attention was excited by observing
the prisoners, who were in company of two other men,
all of whom stood immediately in front of him. They
began what is termed " larking" with each other, during
which the two prisoners were designedly pushed by their
companions against him, and at the moment he felt Fer-
ryman's hand at his fob pocket, attempting to pull his
watch out. The latter made three different attempts to
obtain possession of the watch, and would unquestion-
ably have succeeded in his object, had not the chain been
twisted tightly round complainant's braces. The com-
plainant finding that the object of the fellows was to
rob him, called out for the police, upon which Harvey
ejaculated, " Let's be off, Charley ;" and they were in
the act of making their way through the crowd when he
(complainant) pointed them out to policeman 272 M,
who, with another policeman, managed to take them into
custody after a stout resistance, during which Harvey
struck 272 M a severe blow on the side of the head.
Policeman 272 M stated that he attended the execu-
tion in plain clothes, and had been for some time watch-

ing the prisoners, and two other men in their company.
That he was standing at a short distance from them at
th• moment they attempted to rob Captain Randall, and
that he observed two of the men (not in custody) inten-
tionally push the prisoners against the complainant,
when Perryman tried to pull the watch out of his
pocket. He (the policeman) immediately went up, and
on securing Perryman, he was struck on the head by
the other prisoner, and they were both so violent, and
made such resistance, that they would have escaped
had not some other policemen come up and assisted in
taking them into custody.
In reply to Mr. COTTINCISAM, Perryman said he ob-
tained his livelihood by hard work, but he was unable to
say for whom or where he was last employed in trade.
The other prisoner also asserted that he was obtaining
an honest living, but admitted that he had been fia some
time out of employ, and was latterly assisted by his
family Tt. j pow aeciarc a weir innocence Os flaying
any intention to rob the complainant, adding, that on
the pressure of the crowd before the prison, they were
jostled against the gentleman, but that was all.
The MAGISTRATE then proceeded to make some in-
quiries into the characters of the prisoners, and was in-
formed by Rent, one of the policemen attached to the
Court, that Harvey was tried and convicted some time
since at the Central Criminal Court and sentenced to be
transported, which, however, was afterwards committed
to a lengthened imprisonment. The other prisoner was
also known as the associate of thieves.
A Mr. Austen stepped forward and stated that he was
present at the execution, and stood near the spot where
the above attempted robbery took place ; that while
his attention was directed towards the scaffold, in a
moment his watch was drawn from his pocket, but the
act was performed so instantaneously, that he had no
opportunity of perceiving by whom the robbery was
committed.

Mr. COTTINGHADI said that it was fortunate for the
prisoners they had not succeeded in robbing the com-
plainant, for if they had, be would assuredly have scat
them to the Central Criminal Court, and the sessions
being then on, it was probable they would have been
tried, convicted, and sentenced to transportation within
48 hours. That men of their character, present at such
a scene as was exhibited that morning—that of the
execution of a fellow-creature for an offence against the
laws of his country—should have been found under the
very gallows, attempting to commit robbery, showed
that they were devoid of all feeling, and only intent
upon the object for which they visited the place, namely,
plunder, and that such men deserved the severest
punishment. That if they persisted in such courses, it
was sure to lead to their destruction, and that either
transportation or a worse fate would befal them. The
magistrate then sentenced the prisoners to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour; and previously to Captain
Randall' leaving the Court, Mr., Cottingham expressed
his disapproval that a gentleman in his situation of life,
bearing her Majesty's commission, should have attended
such a spectacle as the public-execution of an unfor-
tunate malefactor, and have exposed himself to the con-
sequences of being robbed, by the .rabble which usually
congregate on such, occasions.
GREENWICH.
John Wilson, cook on board the ship Masden, of
Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, was charged with stealing'

gambling implemenis visible, but some dice, cards, and
bogey were afterwards found in various parts of the pre-
mises. The upper room was very difficult of access.
The only way of admission was through a sort of trap
door, which was secured inside by two strong bolts.
Persons wishing to enter the room rang a bell, and if
they were known the trap door was lifted up, and they
were admitted.