The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Thomas Johnson, a carter in the employ of Messrs.
Chaplin and Horn•, the railway carriers, was indicted
with stealing, on the 12th of last month, a bale of silk,
the property of his masters, of the value of 1261. From
the statements of counsel, and the evii.enee adduced,
it appeared that on the day in question the
prisoner, accompanied by a lad named Fry, fetched the
silk in question from the S iuth-Western Railway ter-
minus. The bale was directed to a house in Bunhill.row,
and the prisoner, on his way there, as it was alleged,
purposely left his parcel-book at a chemist's, where
he had to call, in order that he might get
rid of Fry, by sending him for it. This
was done, and in the interim the bale was missed
from the cart. According to the evidence of a man
named West, the cart of the prosecutors had been fol-
lowed by a van and three MCI' from the railway station
up to the time when the boy Fry was sent for the parcel
book, and that immediately upon his having, the silk
was put into the van and the men drove oft with it.
Mr. Ballantine appeared for the prosecution.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE was counsel for the prisoner, and
contended that he ought to be acquitted on the ground
that West was a witness unworthy of credit.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

GUILD HALL.—(T HIS DAY.)
The two brothers Frost (not Ross, as was stated in a
former report by mistake), who stood remanded to this
day, the one for stealing, and the other for unlawfully
receiving a coat, the property of a gentleman named
Robinson, from the stables of Mr. Guy, of Earl-street,
[3lackfriars, where the elder brother, James Frost, was
occasionally employed as helper, were fully committed
for trial by Alderman Moon and Alderman Gibbs.
James Gandy, and Mary Gandy, his daughter, were
charged before Mr. Alderman Moon, the first with steal•
ing, and the other with receiving a valuable ring and
three sovereigns, the property of her master, Mr.
Taylor, of the Britannia public house, Golden-lane.
It appeared that the master's suspicions, upon
missing a quantity of property, were drawn upon
the female prisoner, by hearing from a friend that her
father, who was out of employment, had been seen with
a number of sovereigns in his possession. The girl
confessed to stealing the ring and three sovereigns, but
the whole amount of Mr. Taylor's loss, in sovereigns
only, is forty pounds.
They were remanded to Thursday, for the purpose of
diving the officers time to procure the attendance of an
important witness.

4ARLBROI-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Richard Hawkins was charged with throwing a boy
over the gallery of the Queen's Theatre, Tottenham-
street, Tottenham Court-road.
William English said he was sitting in the font seat
of the gallery last night, and behind him the prisoner
and two girls. In the course of the night a quarrel
arose between him and the prisoner, because he had
been leaning back on the seat behind him, and about a
quarter past twelve o'clock, as complainant was rising
to leave the house, while his back was towards the pit,
the prisoner struck at him and knocked him over the
Front of the gallery into the pit, a height of twenty-five
,yr thirty feet.•
William Webber, who was with the complainant in
the theatre, corroborated the evidence which he had
gi von

The prisoner said the girls that sat on thet same seat
with him, and also the complainant were all -
'dm, but as the complainant persisted in slylngerbsactl:
igainst the girls' knees, and thereby annoying them,ghe
nterered, and requested him to desist, when the om-
plainant would not desist he went out and brought up
the officer, who, after cautioning him, felt it necessary to
remove the complainant and his companion into the back
seats. He returned and swore he would wait for him
(the prisoner) that night. At the conclusion of the per-
formance the complainant got up, and, planting his
back against the front rails, struck him several blows.
prisoner was aided by his friends. He (the prisoner)
had not struck the other at all. The only way in
which the fall could be accounted for was, that the rails,
which were high on each side, were very low in the
centre of the gallery, and that the complainant, slipping
his back along the rails following him, had lost his
balance, when he came upon the descent of the rails,
where they were not more than six inches high. He
had not struck the complainant at all, and interfered
only at the request of the girls to protect them.
Myers, the officer of the theatre, said he had been
compelled by the conduct of the complainant to his com
pinions to remove them to different seats. He saw them
tnuoying the girls behind them, and also the prisoner,
whor uu
(Oct all the night, but because he had
h
(the officer) the complainant swore that
brought up
v very (Oct
he would mark the prisoner before the night ended.
Mr. LONG said the evidence of the complainant was
entirely contradicted by that given on the part of the
prisoner, and the complainant was certainly e
proved
not
culdto
have been the aggressor. On
that acco
he
believe that the prisoner had intended unt h
to throw the
complainant into the pit, or even that he had done any-
thing to cause it ; and therefore he must dismiss
the case.

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
m aNn:ilwliansmcFharrli
agnecd withconveying
d
is, n elderlype
incurred a penalty
gallons, without a permit, whereby respectablerits exceedingl o o ktiwn go
of 1001.
fovein a a n
anßdaeyighrtd,o,cain Excise
~ckthn offic
er, sthatee metd th that twhbeedeieeenn seven
and n
defendant
Free -school-street, Horselydogwn, carrying a bag. Re
stopped him, and, on examining the bag, found
iuidtoioticcothne-
tattled a large bladder of illicit spirits.
defendant into custody, he having no permit.
The defendant said, as he was proceeding into town
that morning, he met a person with whom he was ac-
quainted, and he asked him to carry the bag and its con-
tents to Whitecross street, and promised to reward him
for his trouble. He added that he was not aware that
he was acting contrary to law at the time.
Mr. SECKER said, the full penalty was 100/., but he
should exercise the power given to him, and mitigate it
to 25/., and in default of payment the defendant must be
committed for three months to Kingston Gaol.

GeoigeE R
I'Kl.—(TliiSDlt severall7.)
iiElpiNott,W i , w
hroL hadL been remandedtimes on the attempt to murder Susannah Haines, at a
CL
cottage in Paradi:e-terrace, Liverpool-road, Islington
was again brought up this morning for final examina-
tion. Mrs. Haines being now fortunately out of danger,
although in such a state of debility as to be scarcely
able to leave her room.
The evidence of the injured woman's husband, and of
the police and others, was again taken at length, and
several new points elicited; the most important were,
that for the purpose of fixing the identity of the prisoner
as being on the premises, the constable produced a hat
which had been found near Mrs. Haines s cottage, and
that the prisoner had frequently exclaimed, when asked
what his motives could be for making such a murderous
attack upon a woman with whom he had been always
on the most friendly terms—" She knows the reason
herself, I did it for to have revenge and satisfaction;"
and also that he said to the husband, " I intended doing
this the night before, and would have done so most
assuredly had you not come twine so soon." The evi-
dence of the surgeon who attended her was taken at
considerable length, and it appeared from it that Mrs.
Haines had received no less than five incised wounds,
as well as several wounds on the head, and further that
for a considerable time after the injuries had been in-
flicted he entertained serious apprehensions of ber death.
The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said
lie should reserve it for the present,, and complained
that he was unable to procure professional assistance,
and that it' sent for trial at the present sessions at the
Old,Builey. he would labour under the same disadvan-
tage. He maintained the utmost apparent indifference
during; the whole of the investigation, and showed con-
siderable tact in cross-examining the witnesses.
Afftr depositions had been completed, the pri-
s, tier ,e as neaili hrought up, anti fully committed to take
liis tri,i at tit- .*XI, al Gritninal Court Sessions, en
the ct:::r;,e ~t leii;oiti„r;) assaulting Susannah Haines
iAith au li. tit t-

Au Irishman going to be hanged, begged that the
rope 1111,,,,1it Ok, tied unOt.r hi arm insteA ut round his
neck ; tor, $6:l .Pct, I bni so remarkably ticklish in
the throat, that 11 tied there, I will certaluly kill ulyseif
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