The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

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defendant into custody at Manchester, on .a warrant,
and received at Manchester, fro:n the superintendent
of police, coats, waistcoats, and trousers, which have
been identified b., the prosecutor.
Mr. M.:110r admitted that there was a prima facie
case for prosecution but it was quite evident that his
client had entertained no thought, of fraud—that
he
never concealed from the prosecutor the place in which
he was—and that his character had been always un-
impeachable.
Mr. Buchanan said the case was perfect, and sub-
mitted that nothing more was necessary to sustain
the prosecution.
The prisoner, who appeared to be in a very bad state
of health, was then committed for trial.
GUILDHALL.
Elizabeth White, a sharp-looking little woman,
about 40 years old, was brought before Sir John
Pirie fur further hearing, having been charged on a
previous day by Mr. Alderman Sidney with assaulting
him in the street, for the purpose of being taken care
of in prison rather than become an inmate of the
union to which she belongs.
Mr. Alderman Sidney had no desire to press the

case.
Sir JOHN Plan observed to the prisoner, that he
supposed she would do the same thing again, if he
were kind to her and discharged her now.
She replied, you are just right, hurling one of her
shoes at him with tolerable precision.
The ALDERMAN remanded her for a week, that the
gaol surgeon may report on the state of her mind.
John Goodenough, a letter-carrier in the post-
office, was re-examined, charged with being concerned
with two other parties, not in custody, in stealing six
sovereigns, the property of John Jordan, the landlord
of a beer-house in Fenchurch-street.

The prisoner introduced two of his friends to sup
at the house. After they were gone the landlord
missed from his bag of money, which he had left on
the table, while he was absent from the room, six
sovereigns. As the prisoner was one of the last to
leave the room, the landlord inferred he was cogni-
sant of the theft, and the prisoner undertook to get
the money back from his companions, though he pro-
tested he knew nothing of the stealing of the money.
Mr. Humphreys, for the prisoner, now cross-exa-
mined the complainant at great length.
Sir Joni PRUE said it was a case of great suspi-
cion. He regretted to part with the prisoner, but as
he did not think a jury would convict him he should
not send him to trial.
An inspector of letter-carriers attended from the
Post-office to watch the case, and he promised to
report the circumstances to the proper quarter.
The prisoner was discharged.
Lucy Wright and Ann Williams, two genteelly
dressed young women, were charged with stealing a
purse, containing eight sovereigns and a foreign coin,
from a gentleman, whose address is not known.
Michael Haydon, a constable of the City Reserve
Police, stated that seeing the prisoners in King Wil-
liam-street on Tuesday evening, and having some
previous knowledge of their character, he followed
them through Princes.street, Bartholomew-lane,
Threadneedle-street, Bishopsgate, Gracechurch-street,
King William-street, again to Moorgate. Here they
accosted a gentleman. Williams went up to him
first, but he shook her off. Then Wright overtook
him, stood before him, caught hold of him, and
resisted effectually his efforts to get rid of her. The
gentleman turned into Ropemaker-street, and broke
away, but Wright fastened on him again, Williams
keeping close by, and passing and repassing them.
Presently he saw Wright's. hand in the pocket of the
gentleman's trousers, and then she dropped off and
joined her companion. Witness was watching at a
distance, and having ascertained that the gentleman
had lost his purse, and desired him to wait at a
particular spot, he overtook the prisoners. He desired
a young man to seize W imams while he seized
Wright. They both made a desperate resistance ;
and when he took the purse from her hand, Wright
said, " Now you have got it, there is no occasion to
pull a body about." He took them back to the
place where the gentleman was to wait, but he was

gone.
This statement was corroborated by Alfred Sells
bury, who secured Williams.
Wright said, the gentleman gave her the purse ;
and Williams said, she was walking with Wright,
because she promised to give her something to drink.
Sir JOHN PIRIE said, the prisoners were known to
be dangerous characters, and he should direct the
City Solicitor to prosecute, that there might be no
failure of justice from the absence of the owner of the
property. He committed them for trial.
Joseph John Warwick, the foreman of the book-
binders at the establishment of Mr. Orr, the book-
seller, in Amen-corner, was charged with obtaining
money by false pretences from his employer.
Mr. Wontner conducted the prosecution, and ex-
plained that it was the prisoner's duty to take an
account of the work done by the male and female
bookbinders employed on the premises, make up a list
of the wages, receive the amount (from 301. to 401. a
week) from the cashier, and pay the workpeople. In
making up this list he had charged the full week's
work to men who had lost time, and actually received
a smaller amount by ss. or 75., and sometimes lie had
charged wages for men who were absent altogether,
either having been discharged, or being ill, in these
cases putting 28s. in his poeket at once. This had
been going on since July, but as he had destroyed
instead of filing the weekly bills made out by the
workpeople themselves, the amount he had embezzled
could not be traced. About 201. only had been
traced.
The evidence was rather bulky, but conclusive, and
the prisoner offered no defence. When he was ap-
prehended he accounted for the discrepancies by say-
ing he was muddled when he made out the account.
Sir John Pirie committed him for trial.
BOW-S7'REET.
With the view of removing as far as possible the
nuisance which has resulted from the enormous and
increasing traffic to and from Hungerford-market,
the great source of the twopenny omnibuses, Mr.
Henry sent for the superintendent of the divi-
sion, Mr. Pearce, to direct that a large number of
police-constables should be placed on duty in: the
arket in future, to preserve order and decorum
among the rival conductors and, drivers, and to pre-
vent the obstructions repeatedly arrising in the tho-
roughfare leading to the Strand, complaints respecting
both of which have been of continued recurrence at
Bow-street.
Mr. Pearce intimated that, inasmuch as the market
had hitherto been regarded as private property, and
the omnibus proprietors paid for the privilege of
making it their starting point, the police had felt
themselves unable to interfere.
Mr. LlErmy could not listen to such a plea as this.
The market was, to all intents and purposes, a public
thoroughfare, and as long as the public were admitted
thereto without restraint of any kind, they had a right
to expect, and shouldihave, the protection of the police.
His Worship was determined to put a stop to the
brawls and scenes of confusion occurring there every
day. The police should attend with instructions to
summons the offenders to that court, and he would
take care that, by suspending or wholly revoking their
licenses, the nuisance shoulu be put an end to.
The superintendent sail that an additional force
should be accordingly sent there, and he doubted not
that this course would be effectual.
Our reporter was requested by Mr. Henry to ac-
knowledge a donation of 21. received through
Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe, for the poor-box, from
"J.I-1 II."

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Richard Turrel, a tailor, was charged with having
stolen a purse, the property of Miss Emma Hinde, of
Uhester-place, Regent's-park, under these circum-
stances :
Miss Hinde said she had occasion to go into a shop
near Grafton-street, Tottenham. court-road, when she
dropped her purse, containing a 51. note, half-a-
sovereign, and some silver. When she came out of
the shop, she was told by some boys who were near
the place that a man had run away with it, and had
claimed it as his own property.
Alexander Maclean, a boy living in Mitford-place,
Tottenham-court-road, said he found a steal bead
purse on the pavement, and just as he picked it up,
the prisoner ran up to him, and claiming the purse
snatched it out of his hand and made off. Witness
ran after him, and the prisoner finding that he was
followed, gave him a shilling out of the purse, and
again asserting that the purse belonged to him, and
that he had dropped it, ran off.
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SUN, LONDON,

Henry Morton, police-constable 63 L, said that
about nine o'clock last evening _he heard cries of
murder proceed from White Horse-street, Cornwall-
road, and on pr,-)ceeding to the spot he perceived the
pi-osecutrix lying on the pavement and the prisoner
kicking her in a violent manner. She was screaming
tireadtully, and the prisoner was standing over her,
exclaiming that he would murder her. As soon as
witness came up he seized hold of the prisoner and
pulled him away, but he made away from him, and
kicked the female in the face and eyes so violently as
to render her insensible. Assistance came up at the
time, and after great resistance the prisoner was se-
cured and taken to the station-house. Witness took
the complainant to a surgeon's, where she soon re-
covered, but her face and eyes were so swollen that
she could not see. The prisoner told him that the
woman had robbed him and refused to give him his
money back.
Mr. COTTINGII AM said that such offences were very
much on the increase. Parties considered that they
might treat unfortunate females in any manner they
thought proper. Had the complainant received any
cuts he should have committed him for trial at the
Old Bailey ; as it was he should send him to prison
for two months. _