The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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LAW INTELITGENCE.,
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 17.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court proceeded with the special parer; none
of the cases, however, were of such a nature as to be
of any interest except to the parties itumeliately con-
cerned therein.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

John Rafter, aged 17, was charged with having
robbed Mrs. Clara Paul of a purse, containing 1 ls. in
silver and 9d. in halfpence.
The complainant, as she pissed along Hoandsditch
on Satur,'.ay evening, found by the sudden absence of
the weight of her purse, that it had been stolen, and
having seen the prisoner, who had been close to her.
run away, informed a gentleman of the fact. Deady,
a very- vigilant policeman, who officiates in that most
crow:led and turbulent neighbourhood, followed the
prisoner and apprehended him and another boy in
Cutler-street, where thieves often obtain, even unso-
licited, assistance from a set of vagabonds on the look-
out for chances of the hind in the way of participation.
The prisoner upon being seized flung a half-crown and
several shiflings, which he had in his hand, upon the
ground. The amount was exactly the amount of the
silver which the lady had been robbed of, and one of
the shillings was at once indentified by her. The
other boy escaped, and it was believed had the purse
in his possession. The two had, no doubt, been in
co-operation in the robbery.
The prisoner said he saw a
oc boy in Ho
run unds
down
ditch
whip something out of a lady's pket, and
Cutler-street. He followed the thkf, and was about
to pounce upon him when the officer apprehended
them both. At that moment the thief dropped a
quantity of silver and escaped the grip of the police-
min, who must have mistaken the pursuer fur the
pursued.
This ingenious account of the business led to some
questions from Alderman Moon to the policeman,
who stated that it was impossible he could have been
deceived. He had distinctly seen the prisoner throw
down the silver, and was more anxious to secure him
than the boy who had escaped, and who was much
smaller. The prisoner, too, upon being apprehended,
acknowledged an acquaintance with the other boy,
who he declared had r,-en th money which had been
thrown upon the grou-d to him. Deady added that
the address given by the prisoner was not correct,
and, in fact, the more questions were asked the
stronger the evidence became.
The prisoner said he was a respectable shoemaker's
apprentice, but where his master lived or carried on
business he could not tell.—Committed for trial.

Jac,:b Reinhill, a journeyman baker, was charged
with having stolen a cake, value is. 61, the property
of his employer, Mr. Purcell, confectioner.
The prisoner, who had 25 shillings a week and
his board and lodging, hakbeen suspected for some
time of dishonesty, an unpUnished instance of which
in a place in which several journeymen was employed,
was calculated to do serious mischief. He was
followed after leaving the premises on Saturday
evening, and the cake was found concealed about
him.
The prisoner said the cake had been made by him
on a new principle, and he was taking it home to
make an experiment of it with a cup of tea on Sun-
may morning. He contended too, in defence, that
the money he should have saved his employer by
taking his meals at home on the Sunday would have
exceeded he value of the cake.
Committed for trial.

Ellen Davy, the servant at a public-house in
Tower-street, was charged by Theophilus Perryman,
a private in the Royal Artillery.
The soldier had gone with a comrade into the
public-house, and, after having paid fourpence for
beer, dropped his purse, containing four shillings,
and left the house. The prisoner was seen by two
little boys to pick up the purse, with the contents,
and put them in her pocket. The soldier sown re-
turned to the house to look for his purse, and was
told by the landlady that the girl had that and his
money, but the prisoner denied that there had been
a farthing in the purse.
Remanded till Wednesday.
G U I LI) HA LL.

Mr. Allan, sen., of the firm of Allan, Son, and
Co., drapers, St. Paul's Churchyard, attended before
Mr. Alderman Gibbs, to answer the complaint of
Mrs. Eliza Durham Richardson, the wife of Mr. W.
B. Richardson, of Guildhall, solicitor, and of his
sister, Miss Richardson, at present residing with him.
As there was some doubt whether a magistrate
could take cognizance of the matter, there being no
statute that applies to the case and there being a
doubt also as to the inference to be drawn from the
expressions complained of, whether they imputed any
indictable offense, which would subject the utterer to
an action, or implied a moral offence not indictable,
and for uttering which no action would lie, a very,
special form of summons was .prepared for this occa-
sion. It charged Mr. Allan with being guilty of
certain wilful misbehaviour, by using and uttering
certain abusive, insulting, and threatening words and
gestures to the complainants (reciting the words at
length), in his open and public shop, and forcibly,
and without reasonable or sufficient ground, procuring
and compelling them to leave the shop against their
will and pleasure, under the imputation, and inducing
other persons to suppose and believe that the com-
plainants were not honest persons, and were not per-
sons of good name and reputation ; and not having
any just grounds or cause of suspicion for such mis-
behaviour. From these terms it seemed that the
question of every shop in London being a market
overt and fair, on every working day in the year,
was taken to be involved in the matter.

A greater number of persons connected with the
-Wholesale and retail drapery trade attended to hear
the proceedings than the court would hold.
Mr. Clarkson attended, with Mr. Van Sandau, for
the complainants ; and Mr. Ballantine, with Mr.
Humphreys, for the defendants.
The ladies, accompanied by a number of friends,
were in court.

Mr. Ballantine, on behalf of Mr. Allan, said that
the facts of the case were known to Mr. Alderman
Gibbs, and since Mr. Clarkson bad made the state-
ment respectirbee the manner in which the ladies had
been treated at Mr. Allan's shop, and upon which the
Alderman had issued the present summons, Mr.
Allan had inquired into the correctness of the infor-
mation upon which he had acted (for it was due to
Mr. Allan. to state that he did, not act upon anything
within his own observation or knowledge, but upon
a statement made to him by one of his shopmen), and
finding there was no foundation whatever for that in-
formation, he now felt it his duty to offer to the ladies
a public acknowledgment of his error, and of the deep
regret he felt for the manner in which he had addressed
them. What communication had been made by the
shapman to Mr. Allan, it was unnecessary to repeat,
for it was clearly an incomprehensible mistake, for if
the:e had really been any ground for his conduct,
Mr. Allan would not have shrunk from defending
it. It was not necessary to make a lengthened
statement. Mr. Allan instructed him fully to admit that
there was nothing whatever, on the part of the ladies,
to justify the course he bed pursued towards them.
He was there to state, in the strongest possible manner,
after the fullest investigation, that there was no ground
whatever for the least imputation on the general cha-
racter
of the ladies, or their conduct in the shop at
any time. Mr. Allan having been misled by a mis-
conception of which he was not the author, had in-
structed him to make the roost full and ample apology
to the ladies, whose general re4pectabilit,y and conduct
on all occasions could not he doubted. F. eeliug that
in consequence
to
unguarded conduct he had put
Mr. Richardsen
anxious to be me expense, Mr. Allan was
hel,,hitreineadis,tl)o defray those expenses to the
utmost, and
this offer spontaneously, and
without env tea-gainin
or previous understanding
with the geid( men one other side. When a man
was convinced he had committerdan error, it was his
.luty to express his contrition, and hef
was instructed
to express Mr. Allan's deep regret
curred, owing tn the momentary
er"hat had oc-
and to hope the ladies would a mistake of another,
ample apology. accept this full and
Mr. Clarkson, on behalf of the cornplain a
he had intimated on the last occasion that thenrt; said
be some incomprehensible mistake, and if M
was satisfied he was mistaken, and would make Allanan
a!nple apology, he should be disposed to accept it.
That this prompt justice was not rendered to them had
been a source of great effliction and grief to the ladies
and their friends up to this time. But he would not
now retire from that proposition, but would, on the
part of his clients, accept the apology tendered, ac-
companied as it had been by the promise to pay their
expenses to the last farthing. But he trusted Mr.
Allan would 're guarded in his conduct for the future,
for, possibl3, if such language and behaviour had been
addressed to oilier ladies of less known family, and of
less respectability, they would have been irretrievably
ruined. Mr. Allan being under a full sense of the
wrong he had done, he (Mr Clarkson) would accept
the apology and withdraw
Mr. Alderman innssaide summons.
so be it. It was a wise '
course on the part of Mr.
. Allan, and a kind course on
the part of the pro3ecutors.
Mr. Humphreys said Mr. Al'
the aiiology now offered if b .an would have made
ehad Thursday last. been present 01,1
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CLERKR iV trpL
Samuel 1:,44t4uh Hurley, alias Smith,
and Samuel Hurley, their son, well dressed and re-
spectable looking persons, wero.charged with havino-
committed several ingenious robbnies.

It appeared in
1,.,5t the, feinA
le priioner and her son went into the
Eh,-.1).,0f Mr. Gi.Orge Dixie, draper, of High-street,
r.nd purchased one handkerchief, and as
oi," was le:IA/log the premises she purloined two more,
with which :;lie made a hngy retreat. She was ip-
stantly followed and given itto the custody of Dubar,
253 N ; but it was found that she had as dexterously

parted -with them as she had stolen them. She,
however, was given into custody ; and on being
brought to this court she was remanded, in conse-
quence of two new coats having been found in her
possession for which she could not account. The
officer soon afterwards discovered that they had been
stolen from the shop of Mr. Moss, Gosweli-street.
The male prisoners subsequently called to make in-
quiries after the woman, and on Sunday morning
Sergeant Brennan, one of the detective force belonging
to the N division, with Dubar, followed them in
disguise, and eventually took them into custody at
their residence, Norfolk-street, New-cut, where
several other coats were found, together with nume-
rous duplicates referring to wearing apparel.
Joseph Loader, foreman to Mr. Moss, said that on
the afternoon of Wednesday, he was standing at his
master's door, when the younger prisoner and his
mother accosted him, the latter remarking, " Why,
you are the young man I used to buy my Eon's coats
from ;" adding, that she was then going into the City
to purchase one. Having assured her that he could
deal with her as cheap as any one else, she, with her
son, entered the shop, and after he had tried on up-
wards of sixty, he selected one, and paid a deposit of
23. Gd. on it. Two of the coats produced are his mas-
ter's property ; but he did not know they had been
stolen until the officers showed them to him.

Mr. George Dix, clothier, of Hampstead- road, iden-
tified one coat that had been taken from hii stock
under precisely similar circumstances.
The prisoners were fully committed on the two last-
named charges, the woman and her son for stealing,
and the other for receiving, and on other charges they
were remanded.

They declined making any defence.
THE Poor-nox.--The magistrates of this court
that kfully, on behalf of the poor of this district,
acknowledge the receipt of the second half of a 5/.
note from "E. P., per Messrs. Call and C 0.," one
guinea from " H. M. P.," and 121. from "J. J. H., per
Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe," which sums have been
applied according to the request of the several donors.

WESTMINSTER.
.7ohn Wood alias John White, a man having the
appearance of an omnibus conductor, was finally ex-
amined before Mr. Broderip, charged with entering
the dwelling-house of Mrs. Emily Lewis, 27, Gros-
venor-place, and stealing six 51. notes, and some
sovereigns, a dove composed of brilliants, other valu-
able articles of jewellery, and a number of coins.
The accused is well known to the police, lie was
tried and convicted of felony in 1846, at the assizes
at Kingston, and subsequently absconded, after hav-
ing been admitted to bail upon a charge of stealing
some valuable documents from Leatherhead Church.
The depositions of the several witnesses were taken
at full length, from which it appeared, that on the
the evening of Sunday week, Mrs. Lewis went to a
party in Lowndes-street, leaving her house in charge
of Johanna Kelly, her servant. In about an hour
after the lady's departure, a man, having the appear-
ance of a cabman, came to the house, and after ring-
ing the bell violently, told the servant who opened the
hall door to him, that her mistress had been suddenly
taken ill at her friend's house, and that she (the ser-
vant) was to go to her immediately. As the fellow
mentioned the number of the house at which she was
visiting, the servant entertained no doubt of the truth
of his statement, and at his suggestion hastened down
stairs to put on her bonnet and shawl. While she.
was so occupied she thought she heard a footstep in
the passage, and on her return up stairs was about to
enter the drawing-room to see that all was right,
when the man called out to her that if she did not
make haste he must go without her. She accordingly hur-
ried to the hall-door,where the man was standing stamp-
ing his feet as if to warm them, and left the house with
him, closing the door securely after her. The fellow-
after leading her up one street and down the other
until she became breathless, suddenly desired her to
stop while he ran over the way. He crossed the road
and turning a corner stooped down, in order to escape
her observation. She then, for the first time, sus-
pected that something was wrong, and followed him,
but he set off at full speed, and she soon lost sight of
him. She sat down exhausted, after a vain endea-
vour to overtake the fellow, near St. George's-place,
Knightsbridge, where she was found by a constable
of the B division, named Carmoody, to whom she
narrated what had occurred, and acting upon his ad-
vice, accompanied him to her mistress's house, in
front of which several persons were at that moment
assembled. It seems that during the servant's ab-
sence a gentleman named Collaviero, a friend of Mrs.
Lewis, who had been staying in London a few days,
and who had some valuable property deposited in the
house, endeavoured to enter with the latch key, but
finding, to his surprise, that the door was fastened,
rang the bell repeatedly, when suddenly the door was
quickly opened, and out rushed the prisoner, knocking
the gentleman down. Mr. Collaviero jumped up and
collared the fellow, when, to his surprise, he saw him
drop two valuable shirt-pins, a number of papers,
and a pocket-book containing six Si. notes and other
valuables. The prisoner struggled violently to
escape, but the opportune arrival of the policeman
and the servant precluded the possibility of his doing
so. He was taken into the house, when a very
valuable bracelet, which had been safe a short time
before on Mrs. Lewis's toilet-table, was found on
his person. A dove, composed of brilliants, and a
Si. note, some sovereigns, and valuable coins, are still
missing. Mr. Collaviero's travelling-bag had been
cut open, and the pocket-book and jewellery belong-
ing to him stolen therefrom. The most extraordinary
feature of the case is how the robbers not only be-
came acquainted with the circumstance of Mrs.
Lewis being from home, but the actual address of
the friend to whom she was upon a visit It is sur-
mised that some person prowling about the house
must have heard the orders given to her coachman,
she having left her residence in a carriage.
Proof having been given of the prisoner's former
conviction,
Mr. BRODERIP asked the accused what he had to
say ?—The prisoner replied, " It's all a mistake, I
picked the bracelet up in the street."
Mr, BRODERIP observed I commit you to take your
trial for the daring burglary at the next sessions of
the Central Criminal Court, and added to Mr. Moran,
an inspector of the B division, who conducted the
case, "Mind, he must be indicted for the breaking
out."

The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute.
In consequence of a private communication made
by the inspector the prisoner was ordered to be again
brought before the magistrate that day fortnight.
MARYLEBONE.

James Pickett, for years past well known to the
police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton
for further examination, on the charge of having
stolen a silver cream. ewer, the property of Dr. Drum-
mond, Gloucester-place, Portman-square.
The evidence given upon the first occasion relative
to this case appeared in our paper of Tuesday last.
An additional witness, Mrs. Henderson, wife of Cap-
tain Henderson, living next door to Dr. Drummond,
now came forward and gave such testimony as fully
justified the magistrate in sending the matter to be
decided upon by a jury.
A second charge was preferred against the prisoner,
and it was clearly shown that on the very day when
the robbery at Mr. Drummond's was effected, the pri-
soner went down the area at the house of Mr. Isaacs,
30, Dorset-square, when he lifted up the kitchen
window and stole a silver spoon, with which he made
off. He had once been tried at Kingston assizes for
felony, and had two or three times been summarily
convicted.

These facts were sworn to by constable 12 M.
The prisoner was sent for trial upon both charges.

WORSHIP-S7'REE7'.

Mr. John Findluter, relieving officer of the White-
chapel Union, and John Waterman, gatekeeper of the
workhouse, appeared before Mr. Hammill to answer
a charge of having violently assaulted Margaret
Layton, a middle-aged woman of colour, when ap-
plying to them for assistance
. The complainant (who, it appeared, had been a
slave at St. Helena during the period of Napoleon's
exile there, but at the passing of the Emancipation
Act came over to this country, and was married to
a copper-plate printer) stated that for a considerable
time past, in consequence of her husband's inability
to
_procure constant employment, she and her family
of four children had been reduced to extreme priva-
tion, and compelled to apply to the parish for relief,
which had been afforded them to a trifling extent
haonudiew.lao3
until within the last weeks, when it had been alto-
gether discontinued. On Tuesday se'nnight, between
nine and ten in the morning, she went to the work-
ant rind
later,
a renewed application for subsistence,
demanded her business.'
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who,
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books, that she mightrefusedgo
She told him that she wished
enough to insert her name in the
before the Board, but which
he peremptorily
send her husband instetod do, and desired her to
oreat!end,
her husband was iambi: 't
She told him that
ordered her to quit the She declined
and he then
upon his
to do so, and was again
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towards p , an and,
the door.
rg.
herebytion, when he suddenly
the arm, thrust her torcibly
He then called the other defendant, who cpauasgsha e herto
round the waist and carried her along the
the outer door, through which he was forcing her,
when her foot came in contact with the lower step,
and to save herself from injury by falling she endea-
voured to grasp the rails, but was prevented by the
defendants, and thrown forward violently upon her
hands and knees into the street, and fell heavily upon
the pavement. -Upon being assisted up by another
pauper she felt extreme pain in her side and ankle,
from which she found that the skin had been torn off,
and her band was bleeding profusely from a deep
gash across the ball of the thumb, part of the flesh of
which had been cut
out. She
where her wounds were dressed,
and .I.le still remained
anouptroceeded at once to the
London ll,Apital
bli.hment. Tatient of that esta-
,
1. . .

In answer to a question from Mr. HAMMILL, as to
whether the woman who had witnessed the assault
was in attendance,
Rowland, the warrant officer, intimated that she
had not obeyed the summons which had been
served upon her, and that he had little doubt, from
her being a pauper herself, that she had purposely
kept away from fear of giving umbrage to the parish
officers.

In answer to the charge, the defendant Findlater
said that he had repeatedly enjoined the woman, at
previous visits, to produce her husband, but she had
refused to comp'f;, and caused so much disturbance,
that he had been more than once obliged to send for
the police to remove her. On the occasion in ques-
tion, he also used his best efforts to induce her
quietly to withdraw, and was ultimately compelled
to eject her, with the assistance of the other officer,
but they had used no more violence than was abso-
lutely necessary to effect that object. He was
wholly at a loss to account for the wound she had
sustained in the hand, her husband having stated, at
his subsequent examination before the board, that the
hospital surgeon had pronounced it to have been in-
flicted with some sharp cutting instrument, and he
could positively affirm that there was no such instru-
ment about that part of the premises to which the
woman had been admitted.

Mr. HAMMILL said that it was the bounden duty
of persons in the situation of the defendants to exer-
cise the most patient forbearance towards the poor
objects who presented themselves for relief, and it
could scarcely be wondered at if the latter were occa-
sionally rather importunate, when it was recollected
that they were driven there under the pressure of
utter destitution. He considered the defendants had
not here exhibited that humanity and command of
temper which they ought to have exercised, but had
used such an unwarrantable amount of violence, that
he felt it his duty to send the case before a jury, and
should direct the depositions to be taken, and order
the defendants to find bail for their appearance at
the sessions.