The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

The stewards from the different Inns of Court were
called to prove that there was no barrister named
Strathern belonging to either of them, and it was clearly
shown that the statements of the prisoner were all false,
and were merely made for the purpose of deceiving the
prosPcutor, and defrauding her of her money.
The prisoner, in his defence, made a long rambling
statement, and asserted that- the prosecutrix bad been
laid hold of by some people at Nottingham, who called
themselves spiritual illuminati, and who were in the
habit of making use of a glass, and pretended magic,
and had led the prosecutrix by these means to believe
that she was entitled to large property, and it was them
who had induced her to dispose of her annuity, and not
him. He denied having made any representation that
lie had employed a barrister, and asserted that he had
not received any money from the prosecutrix except to
pay his expenses when he was making inquiries for her
in London.
The Recorder having summed up, the jury immedi-
ately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE, on passing sentence, told the pri-
soner that be had been convicted of a very bad offence.
It had been proved that he had imposed upon a weak
and credulous woman in the belief that she was to come
into the possession of large property, and by that means
kad defrauded her of a considerable sum of money - and,
besides this, had induced her to make away with' the
little income she and her children mainly depended on for
subsistence. He considered it a very bad case, and there-
fore felt it his duty to inflict the full measure of punish-
ment fixed by the statute for offences of this description,
which was, that he be transported fir seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MA ft LBW? 0 UGH- STR E E T.
Jeremiah Harrington and Mary Harrington were
charged with having nearly killed police-constable Fitch,
F 111.
The constable said, on Tuesday last he was called on
to talc: the male prisoner into custody for an assault.
He proceeded to do his duty, when he was resisted by
the prisoner, who got into his house in Dudley-court, a
place wholly inhabited by the lower order of Irish ; and
here, a mob having collected, he was dragged into the
house by the prisoner, forced up stairs, and then thrown
down. The prisoner commenced kicking and beating
him in a ferocious manner, assisted by a number of
women, and then threw himself on him with his knees on
his chest, until he (complainant) became nearly insen-
sible. The wife ran to the fire, and brought her hus-
band a saucepan lull of scalding water, telling him to
throw it over the -. The male prisoner actually
poured the net:tiding fluid down his head and neck, and
rcalded him severely. Complainant lost his stock and
his staff during the attack. Ho was rescued by other
constables, who found him in a state of insensibility.
Mr. LONG sent the defendants fel- trial at the s( ssiens.
LAMBETH,
Jellies Galloway, a cheescmonger in the Walwc,rth-
road, who has been in custody for a week past, on a
charge of stealing a parcel of 71 pair of gloves, which
formed a portion of goods of the value of 6001. that had
been stoke from 17, Regent street West, in the year
1844, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Elliott, for fur-
ther examination.
Mr. Games, and Mr. Parnell, the barrister, appeared
for the prisoner, and Mr. Holder attended to watch the
interest of Mr. Wright, the landlord of the Black Horse
public-house, in Walworth-road, through whose instru-
mentality and information the charge was brought to
light.
Mr. Wright, being sworn, said that while he was out
of town a parcel had been I,ft at his house by the pri-
soner. The parcel was made up in brown paper,
with a note on the outside addressed to Mr. Jack-
son, and the prisoner said it would be called for. The
paper became torn, so that he saw that the parcel con-
sisted of gloves ; but he had never taken any gLives
from it, nor had he ever offered any for sale. Had no
suspicion that the gloves haft been stolen until a Ibrt•
„.
night since, when the prisoner, art,
quarrelling with
him, charged
In saying io him
Frith having stolen property in his
pss,!
this he did not mention
the parcel of gloves ; but he (Mr. Wright),
believing ho meant the parcel he had h
ft
himself, sent for Mr. Inspector Hayes, and gave
him up the parcel. The next day two persons
called at his house, and said they pal called for the
parcel that had been left there by Mr. Galloway;
but he
told them they had called too late, as he had given it up
to Mr. Haynes. He did not think it necessary to give
these persons into custody. And though he had told
them lie had given the parcel up to Mr. Inspector
Haynes, he had it in his possession at that time. He
did not know either of the persons who had called for
the parcel. Since the last examination witness had ac-
companied the officer to Brentford, to serve a summons
upon a Mr. Gunning there to appear and give evidence.
Gunning told him that Galloway had actually offered him
the gloves for sale before he took them to his (Mr.
Wright's) house.
Mr. George Gunning was next called, r.nd deposed
that he had formerly resided in the Walworth- road, with
his brother, and was at present a draper in tligh-street,
Brentford, but knew nothing whatever about the gloves in
question. When he lived in the Walworth-road he used
to frequent the house of Mr. Wright, and was also well
acquainted with the prisoner Galloway. Did not tell
Mr. Wright that the prisoner had offered him any gloves
for sale.
Mr. Hobler to Mr. Wright—Was there any person
present when this person called as a witness had the
conversation with you, and mentioned about the prisoner
offering him the gloves for sale? Mr. Wri hptriy
my servant was there, and she is now present. g es'
Lydia Goulding then got into the box and. deposed
abet on last Friday week she heard Gunning tell her
master that Galloway had offered him the parcel of
gloves for sale before taking them to his (her master's)
house. This was after her master had
quarrelled with
Mr. Gallowaysalt .
11. Wri ht • 1
g ho was at his father'sat the Black
bar
Horse, Walworth road, when the prisoner brought a
parcel there, and said it would be called for. The parcel
had a brevet;
paper covering on, vas tied with a string,
and on the outside "'
was allots addressed to Mr. Jac son.
The note
The produced was, he had no doubt, the same.
note, which was ad ' in the handwriting
of the prison here nutted to be
prisoner, was read, and was as follows:
" June 13.
" Pear sir,—The a t last night will look at
P! y returned the geois to-morrow, if you think proper to leave them.
"Yours respectf lly " J. G.
. "To Mr. Thomas - a -
Jackson." Mr. Parnell having addressed the magistrate for the
defendant,
Mr. ELLIOTT said
that he f lt it to be his duty to send
jury, and the prisoner was fully the case before a e
com-
mitted for trial.
Upon the
to application of counsel Mr. ELLIOTT offered
, take large bail f
Old Bailey. for the prisoner's appearance at the
KIL

Massachusetts,
LING SIADE _tan- mr.
------------------.--2 Dixon, of Lynn,
movement of a brake, will " ' load, and discharge
itself. We learn that a
similarre invention is shortly to
turns to its first position, to 3 be wounds up
be brought out in this city. It worked by machinery,
like clock-work. When
hat made a Cannon which, by the simple
loaded," it moves off on a rail
track to a distance of 300 yards fires fires ten shots, and re-
improvement is being 'added to the rotary gun which
was recently exhibited
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It
consists of an engine, similar to a locomotive, mounted
on four pair again. Another
of wheels. It is made to throw 500 balls in
a minute, without the use of gunpowder. It regulates
itself, and also moves on a rail track to the distance of a
quarter of a mile, fires its load of 2,500 balls in five
minutes, mowing down all before it in a quarter of a
circle, then reverses its wheels of itself, and returns to
be replenished with balls, coal, and water.—Anirrwan
Paper.

POST-OFFICE PATRONAGE.— A poor postman,
named Tuthill, residing
at Axbridge, in Somersetshire,
in his daily perambulations as a letter carrier, goes
twenty-two miles on foot, his route being through Cross,
Lower and Upper Warp, B-Cgworth, Stone, and Chapel
Allerton, Stoughton, Wedmore, Blackford, and Mark,
being compelled to return to Cross by half past five o'clock,
P.M., winter and summer, and for which laborious service
be is NW 12s, a wed.

(Before the RECORDER and Mr. Alderman Ginns.)
William Thomas Poyser, 42, bootmaker, was indicted
for a misdemeanour, in obtaining from Mary Wood-
house the sum of 201. by false pretences.
Mr. BALLANTINE, who conducted the prosecution, said
that the prosecutor during the life of her husband had
lived in a position of great respectability and comfort,
but at his death she had nothing but a small annuity to
support herself and fire children. It appeared that she
entertained an idea that she was entitled to some pro-
perty as the descendant of a gentleman named Stokes,
and the prisoner was introduced to her as a person likely
to assist her in the recovery of it, and he had, it ap-
peared, by artful representations that he was in commu-
nication with a barrister, whom he described as Mr.
Fitzgerald Strathern, and that the money and property
would all be recovered, induced the prosecutrix not
only to give all the money she could raise by other
means, but actually to sell the little annuity which was
her sole dependence, and she was in consequence reduced
almost to a state of destitution.

Mrs. Mary Woodhouse deposed that she resided at
Nottingham, and was a widow with five children. At her
husband's death she was left with an annuity of
thirty pounds a year to support herself and family.
She had reason to believe that she was entitled
to some property at Nottingham that had belonged to
a apserisnotnrod
ueintroduced named
toher a
Stokes, e ands
being
l
June,n i 1845, the prisoner
w
tely to assist her in
making out her claim. From this time she continually
gave him money, and he represented that he was in com-
munication with Mr. Fitzgerald Strathern, a barriste r in
Lincoln's Inn-fields, who, he said, was carrying her case
through the Court, and he repeatedly showed her letters
purporting to be written by that gentleman detailing the
progress of the suit. Upon one occasion he stated that the
barrister wanted 201. to take the matter into the Court of
Chancery, and she gave him that sum. He was continually
asking her for money, and on her telling him that she
had a difficulty in borrowing it from her friends, the pri-
soner told her that she had got an annuity and she ought
to sell that, and not be beholden to any one for the money
that was necessary to recover her fortune. In one of the
letters the prisoner showed her, the barrister appeared to
give a description of the property, and represented that
there were 500,000 d. in the funds, besides estates ; and
after this she consented to sell her annuity, and nearly
the whole of the proceeds Went into the hands of the
prisoner, in order to assist in the prosecution of the pre-
tended suit. At length, she said, a letter was received
from the barrister, in which it was stated that the whole
matter was settled, and she would immediately come into
possession of her property, but that 50/. were required to
expedite the proceedings, and this sum she also gave the
prisoner; and it was arranged that they were to go up
to London the next day, and have the sum of 490,000/,
which was said to be in the funds, transferred to her
name,.—(A laugh.)