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London, England, 1848-03-17 00:00:00

11'ORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, March 15

(Before Mr. Sergeant Muarnv.)
Lucy Wilcock, 30 years of age, who had been out on
bail, pleaded Guilty to a charge of bigamy.
It appeared from the statement of counsel that the
prisoner was married in 1840, and that in three weeks
her husband deserted her, and they lived separate some
time. They then came together again, and so continued
for nine months, when her husband again deserted her,
and enlisted in a regiment going to India. He remained
away from this country four years, and she heard nothing
of him, and married again.
The High Constable gave her an excellent character,
and under such circumstances the Learned Sergeant
sentenced her to be imprisoned, without hard labour, for
three months only.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
Chambers, an old labouring man, was indicted for
a felonious assault upon his own granddaughter, a child
only nine years old.
Evidence having been received, the jury pronounced
the verdict of Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, addressing the prisoner, said your
offence is one of the most aggravated I have ever known.
It is bad enough to commit such an offence with any one,
but to do it with your own grandchild has in it some-
thing so terrible that anything worse I scarcely can con-
ceive, and my only remaining duty is to sentence you to
be transported for life.
John Iveson, aged 22, was indicted for the manslaughter
of Arthur Iveson, his cousin, at Aysgarth, in the North
Riding, on the 4th of January.
The prisoner and the deceased met, and the prisoner
asked him to shake hands with him, having had some
words a short time before, but the deceased, who was a
still more powerful man, a " navvy," more than six feet
in height, vowed ho would fight with some one, if he
were taken home a corpse, and he teased the prisoner to
fight with him, saying he would rather fight than eat
pie. At length the deceased becoming very violent, the
prisoner consented to fight, and they had several rounds.
In the last but one the deceased fell, and his head struck
against the settle, but he got up and had another round,
when his jaw fell, his eyes became fixed, and he became
insensible. He died in a quarter of an hour.
The surgeon said he made a post modem examination.
He found a quantity of estravasated blood between the
scalp and the skull, and, on the opposite side, a large
clot of blood on the brain, which was the cause of
death .
The jury, after being out a considerable time, found
the prisoner Guilty, and
The Learned JUDGE remarking that it was but too
true that the prisoner, as well as the deceased, was
addicted to pugilistic practices, (the latter had a con
siderable reputation as a pugilists) ) yet he had
should, on that
occasion been unwilling to figh, he therr
fore, sentence him to be imprisoned two months in
addition to the two months he had already been in
prison.
Benjamin Armitage, aged 26, was indicted for assault=
ing and stealing 255. from the person of Robert West,
at Otley, in the West Riding, on the 19th of December.
West was a gamekeeper.
It appeared that the prisoner, one Richardson, and the
prosecutor, left the Green Man nearly
.together, about
midnight. After the prosecutor got a little way on his

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
James Dewey and William Brown were brought before
the Lord Mayor in the custody of John and Daniel For-
rester, charged with having been in possession of notes
purporting to be of the issue of the Reading Bank. A
gentleman from the firm of Messrs. Birch and Williams,
solicitors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection
against Felonies and Frauds,appeared for the prosecution.
The solicitor for the prosecution stated that informa-
tion having been received to the effect that a plate had
been engraved in imitation of that from which the notes
of the Bank of Reading had been struck off, John and
Daniel Forrester had been employed to take the case in
hand, and subsequently the two prisoners were observed
in a public-house near London-street, and apprehended
while attempting to burn some of the notes alleged to be
forged.
Daniel Forrester described the manner in which he
arrested the prisoners, and the discovery of the forged
notes in their possession.
The prisoners were remanded for a few days.
SWEARING IN OF SPECIAL CONSTABLES.—Amongst
the numerous gentlemen who were sworn in as special
constables before the Lord Mayor since Monday last
were Messrs. Masternsan and Co., Messrs. Roberts and
Co., Messrs. Glyn and Co., Messrs. Leaf and Co., and
all their establishment; Messrs. Caldicott and Co. &e.
Merchants, bankers, andltradesmen, and their establish-
ments continue to pour in.
George William Rowley, who was some days ago
charged with having drawn a cheque upon a-banking-
house, without any funds there, and uttering it to
William Tent, hosier, of 21, Royal Exchange, in pay-
ment of some articles, was brought up for final examina-
tion. The following additional case was brought forward
against him:—
The assistant of Mr. Watts, of Chelsea, cheesemon-
ger, stated that last year, on the day before the Derby
day, he was assistant to Mrs. Bennett, of James-street,
Covent-garden. In the evening of that day the defend-
ant came to the shop to purchase some bacon, but was
not suited. Witness knew him from having been at the
shop two or three times before. He went out of the shop
and returned in about an hour, and said he had been to
Bow-street to get a cheque changed, :but Ecould
not, as the party was out, and he asked Mrs. Bennett to
oblige him with change. Mrs. Bennett could not oblige
him, but witness took the cheque, and saying he would
try and get it, went to Mr. Laurence and gave it to his
young man, who brought back to him five sovereigns,
which he took to his mistress's shep and laid upon the
counter, and the defendant took them up and said he
would call next day for some bacon, but did not.
Mr. Illy, clerk in the Western Branch of the London
and Westminster Joint-stock Bank, in Pall-mall, proved
that the prisoner had no funds in the bank at the time in
question.
The :prisoner said he could prove that he had reason
to expect a considerable sum of money would be paid
into the bank in his name.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
A lad named John Brooker was brought before Mr.
Alderman Gibbs, charged with absconding with 671.,
upon being sent with it by his employers, Messrs.
Wathen and Phillips, solicitors, to the Union Bank.
Mr. Wathen stated that on the afternoon of the 4th
inst. the prisoner, who was one of the clerks to the firm,
was sent out to the bankers to pay in 671., and he heard
no more of him till he was apprehended at Hull on the
11th inst.
Sergeant Robinson, of the Hull police, stated that he
received a copy of the bill describing the prisoner, and
meeting with the prisoner, who answered that descrip-
tion, in the course of the day, he accosted him by name,
with a friendly how d'ye do? The prisoner replied
" That is not my name." Witness added, " But do yon
not recollect my coming to Mr. Phillips's?" The pri-
soner then thought he did recollect something of him,
and proposed that they should drink together. The
sergeant agreed, and pointed towards a house in
the direction of the station. The prisoner wished to
slip away, under pretence of fetching a friend, but
was not permitted to do that. Ile had only 211 in his
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him go.
The prisoner observed, that if the officer had agreed
to take it, he had not the 1001. to give.
Mr. Wathen said he had received a letter from the
prisoner endeavouring to account for his conduct. It
would be for the Alderman to determine whether it was
a satisfactory account, for personally he (Mr. Wathen)
had no other feeling than pity for the prisonsr.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS read the letter, and said he
could not deem it satisfactory, and he must send the pri-
soner to trial, unless the prisoner could show why he
should not.
The prisoner declined saying anything, and was com-
mitted for trial.

WORSIIIP-STREET.
Yesterday, Mr. Hammill, the sitting magistrate, re-
ceived the following sums for the relief of the widow
Sophia Barret, viz.:—From T. B. a sovereign; T. E.,
loi.; X. Y. Z., los.; C. E., 11.; A. P., Leamington, 11.;
M. L., 10s.; S. C. S., 10s.; S. D. S., B. D. S., and
F. B. L., ss. each; and H. 11. H., ss. in postage stamps.
The lady of an eminent professional gentleman also sent
her card, desiring that the poor widow would call at her
residence.
Maria Hodges, a rather good-looking young woman,
aged 28, remanded from last week, was placed at the bar
for re-examination upon a charge of feloniously cutting
and wounding a young man named Benjamin Wenman,
a painter and glazier.
The prosecutor, who has been in the London Hospital
since the occurrence, was now able to attend before the
magistrate, but with his head bandaged, and evidently
very weak from the great loss of blood ho had sustained.
The depositions had been previously taken.
The prisoner, who pleaded in her defence that the
complainant had treated her in a most heartless manner,
and after inducing her to give up her place to live with
him, threatened to abandon her, was fully committed
for trial.