The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-02 00:00:00

BOIV-STREET.

An errand boy, named Robert Mitchell, in the service
of Mr. Cox, of 29, Southampton-street, Covent-garden,
was charged with stealing 171, the produce of a cheque
entrusted to him by his master.

Mr. Cox merely stated that the boy, on being sent to
his banker's with a cheque for the above amount, ob-
tained the money, appropriated it to his own purposes,
and then absconded.—He was remanded for a week.
MAI?LBOROUGH-STREET.

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George Heald, a lad in the service of Mr. Duddy,
butcher, Drummond-street, was summcned by the So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for
having wantonly and cruelly ill-treated and beaten an ox.
John Ditton, constable, in the service of the Society,
said he saw the defendant, on Monday last, beating an
ox over the head with a bludgeon about as thick as his
wrist, and with a spike at each end. The defendant
struck the animal with his full force over the nose, caus-
ing the blood to flow freely. Next he struck a blow
over the eye, which caused a swelling as big as a fist ;
and, lastly, he struck the animal on the hock, and
brought it instantly to the ground. Witness had never
seen an animal beaten with greater cruelty.
The defendant denied the charge. The ox and a
companion had been driven from the country to be
slaughtered, but when near the slaughter-house, being
very wild, they ran off different ways. Defendant fol-
lowed one of the animals through a great number of
streets, and was obliged to hit it occasionally to prevent
it doing mischief. The animal ran into a baker's shop,
and was with difficulty got out. In fact, it was so wild
that it was found necessary to have it slauhtered as soon
as possible.
The brother of the defendant said defendant was a
very hvaane character, and could get a character from
different master butchers with whom he had lived, to
that effect.

Mr. HARDWICK said, there ought to be some other
means adopted to get beasts into the slaughter-house
than the ordinary practice of driving them through the
streets to the manifest peril of the passengers. It was
intolerable that drovers should be allowed to beat and
half kill animals on the public streets to get them to en-
ter the slaughter-houses. It was evident that according
to the present system it was necessary to use some de•
gree of violence with the animals intended for slaughter,
but then the public must not be disgusted by those
scences of cruelty which too frequently took place.
Mr. Thomas, the secretary, said the behaviour of the
drovers was often the occasion of maddening the wretched
animals under their charge. In fact, they appeared in
many instances to consider it quite a pleasure to irritate
and beat an animal of more than ordinary wildness.
The defendant's brother said, even if the beating about
the head had take❑ place as described by the constable,
sill the only being aggrieved would be the defendant's
master, as the bruises would deteriorate the value of the
meat.

Mr. lIAnDwIcK thought that the sufferings of the
poor animal ought not entirely to be left out of con-
sideration.

The defendant's master said he killed the ox, and he
was certain there were no bruises on it.

Mr. HARDWICK. said he could not disregard the posi-
tive testimony of the constuble, who had been an eye-
witness of what had occurred. It was time something
was done to alter the system of driving cattle through
the streets when in an excited state.
The defendant was fined 20s. and costs,
MARY LEBONE.
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Mary Ann Judd, a young woman, living in Stephen-
street, Lisson-grove. was charged with having stolen a
bundle containing a quantity of linen, &c., from a little
boy, named Henry Woodman, only nine years of age.
The child deposed that on Monday last, as he was
going home with a bundle of things which he had
brought from Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, for his
mo:her to wash, he was accosted in the New-road by
the prisoner. who asked him if his name was Wood •
man ; he told her it was, and after she had put a few
other questions to him respecting his mother, she sud-
denly snatched the bundle from him and ran off with it ;
the robbery took place at the corner of Quebec•street.
It further appeared that the prisoner was well known to
the police, and that Grimwood, who had been constantly
upon the look out for her during the last few days, suc-
ceeded in securing her yesterday morning, in Stingo-lane.
None of the stolen property had yet been found.
The prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the rub-
bery, was remanded till Thursday next.
Margartt Guiding, a woman between 40 and 50 years
of age. was placed a- the bar before Mr. Long, charged
with having stolen several articles of plate. th property
3f Mrs. Sarah Warne, living at the Retreat, Grove-
street, Camden-town. It appeared from the evidence
that the prisoner had frequently been employed at the
house as needle-woman, and that upon many occasions
silver spoons had been missed ; the accused, who was
suspected, was at length given into the custody of a con-
stable, who upon makin‘sisquiries at pawnbrokers' shops
found out that some of the spoons alluded to had been
pledged in the name of Anne Wood ; they were pro-
duced and identified by Mrs. Warne, and the prisoner
was distinctly sworn to as the perscn to whom money
was lent upon one of them.—She was committed for trial.
Wm. Phillips, described as a watch-maker, residing in
Wilsted-street, Somers-town, was finally examined on
the charge of having stolen a quantity of bread, jam,
pastry, wine, and other property, from the house of a
gentleman named Thomas, a merchant, residing at No.
30, Porchester-terrace, Bayswater.
The prisoner was stopped on Christmas-eve by Sedg-
wick, 210 D, with the articles in question in his posses-
sion, and as it was imagined that he came by them
dishonestly, he was conveyed to the station-house; at
his lodings other things belonging to prosecutor were
found in a large trunk:
The prisoner was committed.
LAMBETH.

Benjamin Brown, the railway projector, was brought
before Mr. Henry for final examination.
Mr. George Taylor, the assistant registrar of Joint-
Stock Companies, at the office, Sergeant's Inn, Fleet-
street, produced two volumes of the register of returns
of the Joint-Stock Companies, registered under the
Joint-Stock Companies' Act, the 7th i;nd Bth Victoria.
cap. 110, which c intain all the returns relating to the
London and Windsor Railway Company. There is no
other railwaycornpany registered bearing the same name,
nor was there any railway company registered called the
Prince of Wales' Oxford and London. He, witness, had
carefully looked and found that there was no such com-
pany as that mentioned registered, nor did the name of
Benjamin Brown appear in any of the papers relating to
the London and Windsor Railway, either as promoter or
provisional committeeman.
Police-constable Edward Dixon' 85 L, deposed that
after taking the prisoner into custody and while on their
-way to the station-house, the prisoner, said " I can't
think how Mr. Jacobs could be so cruel, when I have
been so kind to him ; but never mind, let him do his
best, he can only make a debt of it."
The prisoner, by the advice given to him on the day
before by his attorney, declined saying anything, and
was fully committed to take his trial at the ensuing
session at the Central Criminal Court.
During the progress of the examination Mr. Henry
received a letter from a person in Woolwich, who stated
that a correspondence had taken place between him and
the prisoner on the subject of a situation of 3001. per
annum, which Brown had offered to procure him on cer-
tain terms. Mr. Games, the solicitor for the prosecu-
tien, has also received a note from a person in Tooley-
street to a similar effect, and the writers of both offer to
come forward, if required, to give their evidence as to
the transactions.

Whit! and Whiteside, who have been in custody for
some days on a charge of selling packages of saw-dust.
to small tradesmen for tea and tobacco, were finally exa-
mined, and fully committed for trill.
Mr. Wontner, who attended on behalf of the prisoners,
cross-examined the witnesses at some length, and made
a very ingenious defence ; but Mr. henry thought the
cases should go before a jury, and accordingly sent White
upon two charges, and Whiteside upon one.
SOUTHWARK.
Win. Gibbs was charged with being concerned with
two other men in robbing Daniel Haines, belonging to
the Great Western Railway, of a watch, under the fol-
lowing circumstances.
From the complainant's statement, it appeared that on
the night of the 13th of July last he alighted from the
Brighton train at the London-bridge terminus, and on
passing along the Borough, near St. George's Church,
he was accosted by two women. He accompanied them
to a wine-vaults in the neighbourhood, and while he was
in the act of
paying for the refreshment with which he
treated them, one of them managed to slip out of the
house with his great coat, which he had previously
placed on a bench whilst taking out his purse. When he
missed the woman and the garment he immediately went
out into the street, and as he was standing underneath
the gas-lamp three men rushed upon him, one of whom
snat,::bed a valuable watch out of
his waistcoat poeket,
the force with whieh it was pulled breaking the
chain, a portion of which was left hanging round his
neck. The three men having accomplished the robbery
ran away? pursued by a policeman named Pelaney, of
tha H division, who ''vas near the spot at the iime, and
he followed them along Birdcage-alley, but they ulti-
mately succeeded in making their escape. He, however,
from the light of the lamps, had
a full opportunity of
distinguishing two of the men, one of whom he had no
doubt was the prisoner, whom he had previously known,
and the other was a man who went by the nianaine of
"Luelg,” "who' was also Welt kiioWn to.the police; anti
the prisoner would have eeen sceurA at the time if he
hg d not slipped bill aims out of a blouse he wore, the
policeman having had hold of it upon the oecasio. •
Although the prisoner was so well known on that side of
the water, yet he could not be found at any of his usual
haunts, and from that circumstance it was supposed he
-ii;td /eft .London altogether in order to escape detection.
On Monday night, however, he was discovered lurking

about the end of Gray's Inn-lane, and immediately taken
into custody. In the course of the examination it was
stated that the prisoner belonged to a gang of thieves,
who for a length of time infested the south side of the
river, and that some time since he was tried and con-
victed at the Central Criminal Court, and had under-
gone a long imprisonment for his offence.
Mr. Roberts, on the part of the prisoner, cross-ex-
amined the witnesses, with a view to show that'they
might have been mistaken the prisoner's identity,
owing to the fact of its having been night at the time of
the robbery. The policeman, however, spoke with con-
fidence on the point, but the complainant admitted that
owing tr) the suddenness of the attack, and the gas-light
having been extinguished at the moment the three men
rushed at him, he could not on that account speak
with the same degree of certainty to the persons of his
assailants.

The MAGISTRATE said that he should commit the pri-
soner for trial, but that it would be necessary to have
himlbrought up again on Saturday, in order to have the
depositions taken.

An official communication was received from the
Home Office, appointing Mr. William Taylor, for the last
twelve bears second clerk of this Court, to the chief
clerkship of the Westminster (late Queen-square),
vacant by the death of Mr. Edwards. Mr. Alfred
Ta3lor, second clerk at Queen square, has been
appointed to the vacant situation at this Court ;
and Mr. O'Brien, third clerk at Bow-street, has
been promoted to the situation of second clerk at the
Westminster Police-court.