The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-31 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Emma Russell was placed before Mr. Twyford, charged
by John Bryant under the following circumstances :
It will be in the recollection of our readers that the
prisoner, a few weeks ago, preferred a charge against
the complainant and two other men, for having removed
property from her house in Castle-court, but Mr. Jar-
dine, before whom the case was heard, dismissed it, on
the ground of its being a disputed right of property.
The complainant now charged the prisoner with having
removed several boxes of his property from his house in
Little Duke-street, during the time he remained in pri-
son awaiting the issue of the former charge, and called
a witness who had removed the boxes at the direction of
the prisoner.
Mr. TWYFOUD said he viewed the case in the same
light as Mr. Jardine had done, although he thought
there was great suspicion and dishonesty on both sides,
but as yet there was no felony made out, and he should,
therefore, discharge the prisoner.

MARYLEBONE.
On Thursday Eli:abeth Maxwell was placed at the bar
for final examination, on the charge of having attempted
to murder her husband, James Maxwell, by plunging
into his back a dessert knife.
A few particulars connected with the case have already
appeared, and it will be remembered that at the first in-
vestigation, which was gone into on the 12th inst., the
sufferer was unable to attend in consequence of his being
confined to liial3ed in Middlesex Hospital, in which In-
stitution he remained for some time in so dangerous a
condition as to render it doubtful if he would recover.
Ever since the period of the first remand the prisoner had
been in a very desponding state of mind, and on her
being brought into the court yesterday burst into a flood
of tears, at the same time covering her face with her
hands. The wounded man, who still seemed to be suf-
fering very much from weakness, got up with some dif-
ficulty into the witness-box, when his wife looking stead-
fastly at him, and, on his turning towards her he appeared
so much overpowered by his feelings as to be scarcely able
to stand.
The prosecutor, the driver of one of Hansom's patent
cabs, on being sworn, stated with considerable reluctance
the particulars of the case, and • with tears in his eyes,
informed the Magistrate that he did not wish to press
the charge.
George Hunt, Gloucester-mews, deposed, that on the
day in question, between one and two o'clock, he went
home and found the prisoner sitting in his house crying ;
he asked her what it was for, when she said, that for two
hours she had been following her husband, who was in
company of Mrs. Cooper. They were out eating and
drinking together, and her (prisoner's) feelings were
more than she could endure.
Edmund Weller, one of the party at the public-house,
said that he saw the prisoner look in at the parlour-door.
She went away, and in a quarter of an hour afterwards
she returned. She immediately quitted as before, and
at the same moment prosecutor exclaimed " See what's
the matter with my back." Witness told him he was
stabbed, and drew from his back a white handled dessert
knife ; he then led him to a surgeon's in the neighbour-
hood, and subsequently conveyed him in a cab to the
hospital.
Mrs. Cooper, the female previously alluded to, stated
that, while sitting in the parlour of the City of Here-
ford, she saw the door open ; one of the company said
to Maxwell, " that's your wife,"" when he replied, " No,
it's not, she wouldn't do such a thing as come after me."
Soon after this she (witness) heard a voice exclaim—
" Take that," and at the same instant the door, which
had been opened by some one, shut to. Maxwell fell
with his head across the table, saying to Weller, " Oh,
take that out !" Weller then took from Maxwell's back
a knife, and witness saw no more ; she was so much ter-
rified that she left the house.
The surgeon from the hospital was examined, and his
evidence went to allow that the wound' inflicted was of a
very serious and alarming description.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The LORD MAYOR stated that he felt pleasure in mew
tioning that he had received a Post-office order for two
guineas, to be applied to the purposes expressed in the
following letter :
Halifax, Yorkshire, July 27, 1841.
" My Lord,—Having seen in the newspapers of yes-
terday an account of the most cruel and detestable hoax
of sending to a literary gentleman in great necessity a
fictitious check for 201. signed ' W. Day,' and as I am, I
believe, the only one of that name at all connected with
literature, I have, from various circumstances which
have recently occurred, every reason to believe that this
hoax forms part of a disgraceful and systematic attempt
made for some time past to bring my name into disre-
pute, in consequence of a threatened exposure on my
part of some very disgraceful publishing transactions,
which will be duly brought to light, and in the hopes
that amongst literary men the inference might be that
I was an author of so heartless a piece of villainy.
" Will you therefore, my Lord, - through the medium
of Mr. Hobler, jun., do me the favour to assure this lite-
rary gentleman, whoever he may be, of my deepest sym-
pathy for his situation, and my regret that the griev-
ances of (if not the real " Simon Pure " endeavoured to
be implied) at least one of the name, will not allow him
to contribute more than the enclosed Post-office order
for two guineas towards alleviating a distressing position,
augmented by the machinations of some contemptible
individual.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, with the greatest
respect, your Lordship's most obedient servant,
" CHARLES WILLIAM DAY. •
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
The Lorin Mayor. in handing the post-office letter to
Mr. Hobler, jun., observed that the writer adopted a
very honourable and decisive mode of proving that it
was quite impossible 'to attribute to him the heartless
and scandalous trick upon the unfortunate gentleman
to whom the fictitious check had been transmitted, and
whose condition of body and mind was described as most
deplorable.
A young woman of respectable appearance, who
seemed totlabour under some affection of the head, was
placed at the bar by a policeman, who stated that she
leaped or tumbled from a boat into the Thames, and
would most assuredly have been drowned if it had not
been for the exertions of the waterman, who narrowly
risked his own life to save hers.
John Spooner stated that he was a waterman on the
City side
.of London-bridge. The young woman hired
him to row her a short distance in the river. She ap-
peared to be unwell and uneasy, and he told her to keep
steady, but she suddenly started over the side of
the boat, and immediately sunk. It was with the
greatest difficulty he saved her, on account of the tide
and the craft, and was very near going over himself in
the struggle to get hold of her, and if that had been the
case they would in all human probability have been both
. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
drowned.
One of the Inspectors, and others of tlie police who
NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Norwich, July 28.
witheased the conduct of the poor waterrnan, said that
(Before F
e. Baron ALDERSON and a Special Jury.)
they had given up the girl for lost, and that if the skill PALMER v. IRVING.
and coolness which the waterman had exhibited had
been wasiting at
the moment, the world would not have
•This was an action upon a policy for the sum of 1,5001.,
effected upon the life of one Thomas Howes, in No-
saved her. vember last.
rl said that she was of an ex-
The father of then.ni.
and had been some time sub- Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Andrews,
.Mr. Palmer,_. and Mr.
tremely timid disposition, . :
'led no doubt at all that ' Byles, were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr Law thelte-
• tto fits, and that he enterta... ~,.. w t
Jec
a fit was the cause of her fall into tie. a cr. corder of I,:ndon), Mr. Gunning, and Mr. O'Malley,
says for the defendant. .
The, LORD MAYOR—
But from what the waterman The trial pied occu the entire day, and at a late hour
I must infer that she jumped in. • ' h„:k to-morrow.
- - an,t adjourned until nine o c ..
The waterman—She certainly did, my Lord. 1 : The case excites unbound, interest 4 in the county.
.. eespectability ; he is at
tell you with what difficulty I got her up. - •• •
11.11.: plaintiff is a person of great .
The young woman said that she got into the boat, I Mayor of Great Yarmouth.. The defendant is
present Assurance Com-
thinking that a row on the water would do her good, of Affiance London . .
the chairman 9 d fraudulent
but that when she got on a little way she found her
pony. The detei,Te rests upon an allegt.. . .
head get worse, and she tried to stand up, but how she from tr.,' office of
concealment by Howes, the assured,
fell overboard she could not at all say. One of her fits 'toile
the fact of his being at the time of effecting the , . y
must have come upon her. addicted to habits of intemperance,
and of his laeOF
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, your father will take you
afflicted with that most dreadful disorder, consumption.
home. You owe your life to this poor waterman, whose
The evidence for the plaintiff was concluded to-day, and
conduct cannot be too highly commended. I am happy
Mr. LAW addressed the Jury in a most able and argu-
to see the police so anxious as they have shown the-
mentative speech on behalf of the defendant, after which
se m
selves upon this occasion to come forward and do jus-
the Court adjourned.
lice to the exertions of the man, and care shall be taken
CROWN COU(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
to inform the Humane Society of the case. John Self stood charged with the murder of Jemirnah
PREVENTION OF TUE IMPOSITION OF CAD-DRIVERS.— ,
otimpson, on Saturday,. the 17th inst.
By the direction of Alderman Wilson, Mr. Davis, of the
Mr. Evansl conducted the case for the prosecution, and
house of Davis Brothers, opticians, of New Bond-street,
called a great number of witnesses, who established the
made an experiment of the efficacy of a very extraordi-
following horrid tale, the particulars of vvhich, from the
nary instrument, in the Egyptian Hall and Saloon of the
recent occurrence, are rife throughout this extensive
Mansion House. The instrument, which was stated to
county •
be their invention, is intended to prevent the imposition .
The *prisoner is a labourer, aged 20 years, and resides
of cabriolet-drivers, a most notorious class, by indicating
in a cottage near Wymondham, with his father's family,
the distance their vehicle travels. This shown on a
small face ban index, or hand, inside the vehicle.. The about two miles from the dwelling of the deceased,. a
y means bhich the object is accomplished appeared
girl of 15, with whom, however, he did not seem to have
Mr. Davis, y w
said to be as sim ,
e and self-evident as it
had any acquaintance before the day of her death.
pl ,
This being the position of the parties, it appeared from
teas original, although almost incredible until the ar- •
the testimony of a boy named Duffield, that he and the
raneement was known. He then drew a miniature cab-
girl were at work, cutting thistles and " keeping crows"
rioret from the Egyptian Hall along the Saloon to the
in a turnip field, about a mile from the dwellings of the
front of the Mansion House. After having set the in-
deceased and of the prisoner, who was also at work
strument he subsequently measured the distance with a
the field
a drift-way called " the 'Joke," just by the turnip-
string, and requested the Alderman to compare
field. Having worked all - day, the boy Duffield left
number of yards indicated by the measurement with the
the field to get his dinner, leaving the prisoner and the
hand on the face of the instrument, when, much to the
deceased, who had struck up an acquaintance at their
surprise of those who witnessed the experiment, the I
, meal, near the embers of a fire, the deceased being seated
index and string completely agreed.
The same instrument could, the inventor stated, be on a bundle of old sticks which Duffield had picked up
applied or removed to any vehicle, being totally indepen- for her during the morning. At this time they
both
dent of the size of the wheel. used a knife. On the return of the boy they had resumed
The manner in which the thing is effected, as far as their labour, and so continued till four o'clock, when the
we could collect from the .description, is as follows : .
deceased uitted• the field with Duffield,
d q who accom-
The measurement of the ground is transferred from the pained her as far as a gate in an adjoining field, from
wheel of thecarriage to a small roller kept in the peri- !)vhich he watched her on her path till h
phery of the wheel by a spring, and by a mechanical to a gap leading into a barley field called "thes 9 came up
Close," where the prisoner had •ust hef Gaires
contrivance, known as a hook's-joint, which is attached
.the boy having seen him proceed?nn• ore
arrived,
to the sliding spindle of the roller. This mechanism ac-thither from his
own work with the spade over his shoulder.
commodates itself to the eccentricity of the wheel and After
this the prisoner and the deceased entered
to every motion of the carriage, and renders it impossi- the close, and
were hidden from further observation b •
ble to be put out of order. The measurement of the y the
intervention
of a high hedge. The prisoner was next
grohnd being thus transferred to the roller, is again proved to have been
seen in a somewhat circuitous path homewards,
transferred to some mechanism, similar to the works of
three labourers, with his spade
on
hiosmewards, by two or
a watch, inside the carriage, and thus the number Of . shoulder as before,
just at half-past four o'clock a
miles the vehicle has travelled is accurately indicated.
by the production of the prisoner's
Alderman Wiesce, at the close of the experiments, watch, in answer to a
query of a pas •er b ,
expressed very great admiration at the extraordinary s ' 3• He was next shown to have
reached his home, when he sat down finish b id•
ingenuity of the invention, which would, he conceived.ing a
I straw-bat for his brother, in which to
' 'ln;
be hailed with delight by the public, and heard of withpassed
the evening, and retired to rest oecupationeNot
dismay by the cab-drivers. at his usual hour.
Mr. Davis said that no doubt the drivers would be an- so, however, the poor deceased, habsence from home
Iv hose .
caused, as •hbe • • but
noyed by the application of this instrument, although it mig t imagined, not onl great anxiety,
would certainly increase their business, inasmuch. as vast a prompt search. This was ineffectual on the Saturday,
numbers gave up all idea of travelling in cabs in tense- but on Sunday her distressed father and uncles, accom-
ponied b other •the turnip-field
quence of the extortion, which amounted, upon the y er friends, proceeded to
fairest calculation, to about 50 per cent., and which had and so on to the ip alread mentioned, where they
led to the intolerable abuse so frequently and loudly found tracesofthe - sticks," a large spot of
and
the
blooddthe enactment of
complained of.
Alderman WiLsoN said that the invention struck him ; some horrid deed at a very recent period'
most valuable, and he felt convinced that Government '
further search led the party
this they came
as
swould in a case where the advantages were so palpable, i across the barley, and following
the
body of the
pass a law to make it compulsory upon the proprietors of , tod a pond, in which evidentthefeuecl
proofs of her having
public vehicles to carry such checks upon imposition, as 'been eceased which presented
The
body, which was with
• , ent was decidedly a metropolitan one. He
the improvement most foully murdered.
r was taken to a
also was persuaded, that the first Cab Company that .
difficulty extricated front the wate ,
and thence to the humble home
adopted the instruments would meet with infinitely more neighbouring farm,
uitted in health ani happi-
encouragement than the vehicles would receive which 1 which she had so recently q
the police proceeded to the
were determined to adhere to the old plan. . ness. In the mean, time
who was then
absent from home.
We understood Mr. Davis to state that each vehicle house of
°l° prisoner,
instituted, and in his room was
could be supplied with an instrument at a price very I A search, however,
behind his bed, while a coat,
little exceeding one pound. ' found a pair of trousers .
of
which contained the knife the deceased, waistcoat,_
• GUILDHALL. bloody cloth, wet stockings, and a spade, were discovered
The trousers and spade on being shown
An eccentric but respectable-looking man, who gave lin an outhouse., The
pronounced by him to be deeply
the name of William Loudon, Sion-place, Lo to the sus London-wall' geobilloo‘ blood, whereupon a constable set out in pur-
was placed before Mr. Alderman Kelly, charged by police spotted wills
osed offender, who was soon after met
constable Harding, 270, with causing an obstruction i suit of. the supp
usual in the neighbourhood. On
in St. Paul's Church-yard. The constable said, ~',.,.-;„'
ith walking about as
i;met by the constable and asked by him whether he
that shortly after noon this day, he- the --'' f the murder, he said " No.;" and ac-
Prisoner sitting on the footway nearlysaw knew anything o
oppositethe blood on his trousers by saying that be
to Hitchcock and Rogers, with a large piece of chalk in counted for
• e together with Jem Wright, who had
had been working:,
his hand with which he was writing various political .. cut his finger with some stubbs," a statement which
mottoes en the fl
.s. As a specimen of the • ''s '- L . de ried the truth of. In addition to these
prisones
• 1 constable Wright to-day .
style and politics, t e mentioned the following facts, the brother of the prisoner was called to prove
sentences—" Peel and Plenty—Russell and Starvation, that ' lothes found at his father how! were those
' OW the c
&c. The footway -was covered the entire 4(410v-from

Q UEEN-SQ UARE.
Thomas Haggerty, a respectable looking man, was
charged with attempting to commit suicide.
Policeman 53 B stated that on the previous evening,
about six o'clock, he saw the prisoner descend the steps
on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge, and attempt
to throw himself into the water, but he was staid by a
waterman. Winless expostulated with him on his rash
conduct, and advised him to go home, as he was drunk,
but defendant refused, and swore that neither the con-
stable or any other man should prevent him from drown-
ing himself.
The defendant said he was so drunk as not to be
aware of what he did. He had no wish to destroy him-
self, and was thankful that his life had been saved.
Mr. BURRELL ordered the defendant to find sureties.