The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 2, 1848.

GUILDHALL.
A black man, who described nimself as Prince Henry
Christophe of Hayti, was charged before Alderman
Musgrove with having bilked the landlord of the Whit-
tington Dining-rooms, Newgate-street, of refreshments,
&c., to the amount of 19s. 6d.
The prisoner was a powerful-looking black, of a rather
dignified deportment.
Alderman MUSGROVE asked him if he could under-
stand English ?
He replied in French that he could not.
The Chief Clerk (Mr. Wood) observed, that a few
days back he heard him talk tolerable good English,
when he came to complain of some matters between him
and his consul.
The ALDERMAN asked the waitress, who stood up
to give evidence, whether he spoke to her in English ?
The witness said, yes, as well as he could. She had
understood him very well.
The prisoner began to speak of his right to some pro-
perty as being of more moment than the trumpery
charge, but
Alderman MUSGROVE said he was informed he had
described himself at the station-house as Prince Henry
of Hayti; but no respect to ranks could be paid in that
Court, for he must deal with a prince the same as he
would with a peasant. He must first hear the charge
against him, and then listen to his explanation.
Ann Pash, a waitress at the Whittington dining-
rooms, said the prisoner entered between the hours of
three and four o'clock, and ordered an expensive dinner
for himself and friend, at the same time representing
that he was Prince Henry Christopher of Hayti, and
that he should want beds for himself and friend that
night, and that it was his intention to bring his wife
and family to -lermanently occupy the rooms while he
remained in this country. Believing his statement to
be true, he and his friend were supplied with whatever
they wished for, and in a few hours they ran up a bill
of 19s. 6d.
Alderman MUSGROVE asked what they had?
Pash replied, that in the first instance they had two
basins of mock turtle-soup, then a roast fowl and ham,
with vegetables, afterwards a green-gage tart, and fi-
nished with bread and cheese. They next enjoyed
themselves with two shillingsworth of cigars and seven
pints of fine old ale, after which they ordered tea and
writing paper. Having finished this meal and:smoked
two more cigars, the friend left for the purpose of going
with a letter to the post-office about eleven o'clock at
night, but did not return. The prisoner slept at her
master's house, and had breakfast, but when the bill
was produced shortly after, and no money forthcoming,
he was given into custody.
Henry Medham, of the Saracen's Head, Snow-hill,
said the prisoner had victimised him in the same way
almost. He represented himself as Alexander Chris-
tophe, brother to the King of Hayti. He brought his
wife and child, and since Saturday ran up a bill to the
amount of 51. 3s. 10d. Witness gave him a bill for
31. 2s. 10d. on Monday, when he promised to pay,saying
that he had money to receive, but not a farthing was re-
ceived.

Alderman MUSGROVE asked the prisoner what defence
he bad to make for such conduct?—The prisoner replied
that his brother was dead, and that he came to England
about three months ago.
Alderman MUSGROVE asked him if ho had done any
work?—The prisoner, with a most indignant air, said
that he had not. Ile came to this country to recover
money.
Alderman MUSGROVE said he should like to know
what money was found by the officer when he was
searched.
Richard Humphreys, 289 of the City Police, said he
found sundry papers, a pocket-book, an empty card-case,
and an old knife, but no coins of the realm.
Ann Pash here stepped forward, and said that, inde-
pendent of the bill, he had borrowed 2s. from her.
Alderman MUSGROVE asked her in what way?
Pash replied that he and his friend wanted some whis-
key, and as their house was not licensed to sell spirits,
she expended the money by the prisoner's direction, he
promising to pay her again.
The prisoner leant forward over the bar and vehe-
mently deniedahis assertion. It was not witness's case,
but her master's.
Alderman MUSGROVE—I shall treat you as a rogue
and a vagabond.
Prisoner, taking up some papers, exclaimed this is the
vagabond, not me.
Alderman MUSGROVE sentenced the prisoner to one
mouth's confinement.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A gaunt, emaciated youth, named Edward Long, was
charged before Mr. Arnold with having attempted to
commit suicide by suspending himself from the top of a
lamp-post.
I Police-constable Branningham, N 145, stated that
while on duty in White Bear-gardens, Kingsland, shortly
before twelve o'clock on the previous night, his attention
was attracted by a terrified exclamation from a woman,
who was looking down from an upper window of one of
the 'houses, and on reaching the place he observed the
prisoner hanging in strong convulsions from the iron-
work at the top of a lamp-post, to which he had attached
a handkerchief, the opposite end of which was securely
twisted round his neck. With the assistance of a person
who came up at the moment the prisoner was cut down
and conveyed in a senseless condition to the station-
house, where medical aid was promptly obtained, but a
considerable time elapsed before-their efforts to restore
animation was attended with success.
On being questioned by the Magistrate as to his mo-
tive for attempting such an. act, the prisoner said that
having no friends who were able to assist him, he bad
lately endeavoured to obtain a scanty support by hawk-
ing small articles about the streets, but that he became
gradually reduced to a state of utter destitution, and not
having tasted food for twenty-four hours, he applied at
the door of the workhouse for a night's shelter. His
request, however, was met with a harsh refusal, and he
was therefore impelled in a moment of desperation to
adopt the mode described to put an end to his misery.
Mr. ARNOLD said he should direct inquiries to be
made into the truth of the prisoner's allegations against
the attendant at the workhouse, and as he evidently re-
mained in such a state of mind as to render it unsafe to
intrust him with his liberty, he should remand him until
Friday next.
Sarah Ladd, a distressed-looking sempstress, was
charged with unlawfully disposing of six calico shirts
which had been intrusted to her to make.
Sarah Lyons, who presented as wretched an appear-
ance as the prisoner herself, stated, that having received
the materials for making np a number of calico shirts
from a person in the employment of Messrs. Moses, on
Tower-bill, she was induced from motives of charity to
engage the prisoner to assist her in her work, and the
latter undertook to return six of the shirts on Monday
last; but having failed to do so, she sought after her,
and found that she had pledged them. The witness
added, that she herself had a large family dependent
upon her, and as she would be required to make good
the loss of the shirts by the person who employed her,
she was compelled to give tho prisoner into custody.
In answer to a question from " the magistrate, the
witness stated that the warehouse price for making up
the shirts was Is. 6d. per dozen, but that she herself
was only paid at the rate of ls. 3d. by the woman who
obtained the order, and out of that had to provide the
needles and cotton, but allowed the prisoner the same as
she received.
Police-constable 95 H said that upon proceeding to
the prisoner's lodging, in a wretched attic, which was
entirely destitute of food and furniture, he found her
lying upon a heap of rags in a corner of the room, and
she handed him a duplicate relating to the articles,
which she said she had pledged under the -pressure of
severe distress.
The prisoner, in an agitated manner, 'Assured the ma-
gistrate that such was the fact; it was impossible to live
upon the produce of such labour,
for let her work as
arduously as oho could, she was 'amble to make more
than three shirts per day, at five farthings each
would only produce qd. for ker subsistence.
Mr. ARNOLD said it was certainly a very melancholy
case, but as the charge was pressed against her, he had
no other alternative than to remand her upon it, and
shordd order her to lee brought up on Wednesday
next.

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LAMB.ETH.
a vvell-dressed German, who had
0 time tgo a teacher of the German language
rest),,etable school in Kennington-lane, was further
exarnir
red before Mr. Elliott on charges of receiving
g°o`:7.s under false pretences.
iar. George Simpson, a chemist in the Kennington-
roaC ',. stated that on Monday week the prisoner called at
his b C use and said he had a letter from a correspondent
of his who wanted a galvanic battery and an electrifying
machine, and which articles he wished him to ship for
the C ;ape. Ho mentioned the name of Mr. Nesbit, of
Kent) ington-lane, with whom ho lived as usher, as a
filen Ai of his, and talked about wanting change for an
ord(ir payable at Hamburgh. The articles were selected
and, ;rent to a house in London-street, Fenohurch-street,

into the next coffin, the contents of which had become,
as was supposed, mere dust. It was true, too, that that
functionary had, in making graves, removed several
bones, but they had been restored to the earth, and the
grave was in a state of preparation. It was, however,
necessary to state that the grave was evidently too shal-
low, and that if the body about to be buried was allowed
to be laid in it the coffin would be very close indeed to
the surface of the turf.
Alderman GIBBS—What is the depth at which it is
usual to bury the last body in a grave? The beadle—
I believe five feet to be the depth.
Bradley—The last coffin now in the grave is within
three feet and a half of the surface, so that if they bury
the body now in the churchyard there, the last coffin will
be within two feet and a half of the surface.
Alderman GIBBS asked how it happened that in a
churchyard in which there was a great deal of room the
grave-digger thought proper to disturb the ground of a
grave already crowded ?
The grave •digger said it was the wish of the family of
the deceased to deposit the body in the same grave with
that of his child, and it was in accordance with that de-
sire that he had thrown up the earth in that particular
spot. He certainly had dug up some bones as he pro-
ceeded in his work, but they were all returned to the
grave. He bad also sunk one coffin into another, but
the decomposition of the bodies having been complete,
there was no offensive smell at all. If there had been
any he could not have proceeded with the business,
which he certainly did accomplish without incurring the
least inconvenience of any kind.
Alderman Glans—There is no doubt at all as to the
improper shallowness of the grave, and the body can-
not be permitted to be deposited there. Every caution,
too, must be used in digging graves to avoid Lts much
as possible the exposure of the remains of mortality. I
am sorry that there has been occasion for complaint,
but I have no doubt the parochial authorities will issue
directions, the strict observance of which will render any
further observations unnecessary.'
The churchwarden said the gravedigger should dig a
grave of proper depth, as near as possible to the grave in
which the remains of the child of the deceased were de-
posited.

Mr. Simpson here said he had no doubt whatever that
there would be several charges established against the
prisoner, but for some reason or other the policeman
who had the case in hand had not made the slightest
move in the matter, not even to call at the house where
the prisoner used to lodge, and where he was likely to
obtain information about a pianoforte and other articles
being received on the prisoner's order.
The constable admitted the fact, that all he had done
was merely to call at the station-house, and that not re-
ceiving any information then, he did not give himself any
further trouble.
Mr. ELLIOTT remanded the prisoner until Thursday
next, and directed Attley, an active plain-clothes officer
belonging to the L division, to take up the case, and
to exert himself in proving the evidence in the other
cases by the next examination.
THAMES.
Miss Mary Ann Ray, a-woman of fashionable appear •
ance and ladylike address, appeared to answer two peace
warrants, issued at the instance of Thomas Kingsley, of
the firm of Kingsley and Adnam, spirit merchants,- 9,
Old Fish-street, and Harriett Hartnell, a ladyaesiding
at Escott-place, Poplar. As Miss Hartnell wasmaid to
be confined from illness, only the one case waslirtareeded
with.
Mr. Kingsley, who was accompanied by Mr. Robinson,
a solicitor, appeared much confused on entering the wit-
ness-box, and at first stated generally that he went in
danger of his life from the violence of the prisoner. In
answer to the magistrate, who found much difficulty in
obtaining a direct reply, he said he had been acquainted
with Miss Ray two or three years, and the reason of her
present hostility was, that he was paying his addresses to
another young lady.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Has the defendant ever threatened
you?—She has.
Mr. BALLANTINE—What was • the threat? Tell me
your story. Plaintiff—She told me, if I hung my hat up
at the lady's house to whom I am engaged, my head
would not last long. She said the same should happ, n
to the lady, and that two out of three of us should not
live.

Mr. BALLANTINE, to the defendant—Well, madam,
what have you to say to the charge ? Defendant—l
have known him, to my sorrow, for many years ; and he
bas behaved most cruelly to me. His sister married at
Poplar ; and after he visited there some time, he came
to me ; after having lived upon my means, ruined my
character, destroyed my peace of mind, and blasted all
my prospects, he told me, tauntingly, that his brother-
in-law introduced him to a lady, whose house he said
would be a good one to hang his hat up at.
Mr. BaLLANTINE—But you must not knock his head
off for that. Defendant—Many a better man—many a
gentleman, a title to which he has no claim—has had
his head off for less than that man has done to a poor
creature who is fatherless, motherless, friendless. I lie
at your mercy, sir ; I lie at your feet, for I have no one
to protect me.
Mr. BALLANTIN E —Will you promise not to attempt
to knock his head off? Defendant—l don't know. He
richly deserves it. He lived at my expense ; had money
of me when he pleased ; my purse was his, and I was at
considerable expense to make him decent. Though he
said he had a place to hang up his hat at, when I wrote
to state that my sister was dead, and that he knew I
should have an accession of property, he promised sae
that he would not go again to Poplar, but desired that
I should bring my dear sister's carriage, and go off to
the country, where we should get married.
Mr. BALLAN TINE —Then you wish him to marry you?
The defendant, who is in the family-way, shudder-
ingly exclaimed—Not now, not now! If every hair of
his head was hung with diamonds, I would not marry
him now, seeing what a base wretch he is. He has in-
jured my health, besides ruining my peace; and very
little more provocation would drive me to do what I
ought not to do.
Mr. BALLANTINE —Why I think the worst thing you
could do would be to marry him. Defendant—l am
sure of it, sir. (Here the lady dashed a purse of exqui-
site workmanship on the table; and, turning to the com-
plainant, said, do you know that purse?)
Complainant—l do not.
Defendant—You do not? I wrought it for you; I
tilled it for you, and you had it for months. It contained
the money I gave you to defray the expenses of your
landlady's father's funeral; and you had the baseness
to show me another purse you had from Miss Hartnell.
Mr. BALLANTINE —lf he has promised you marriage,
you can have legal redress by action.
Mr. Robinson—There was no such promise, I assure
you, sir.
Defendant--Yes, over• and over he promised, and
was most anxious when he thought my sister's death in-
creased my property.
Mr. James Terry, who has offices near the com-
plainant's place of business, stated that about three
months since the defendant came to his counting-house
and said, that if the complainant married any person she
would do for him. She accused witness of harbouring
Mr. Kingsley, and threatened that she would do a deed
of darkness before the night was over. Witness said he
did not mean to palliate Mr. Kingsley's conduct, who had
not acted a manly or straightforward part, but he was a
nervous little man, and ought not to be kept in fear of
his life by a lady who carried pistols.
Defendant—They are not bought yet, but Ido not
know what I may be tempted to do. I have had five
children by him, and am likely shortly to have another.
Only one of them lives, a beautiful boy, the son of that
villain,

Mr. BALLANTINE—YOU can bring your action against
him, but the.law says you must not murder him; and
you must procure two sureties of 401. each.
Miss Ray—Will you put it off until to•morrow, sir?
Mr. BALLANTINE—No; for you may shoot him to-
night.

Miss Ray—Ho is not worth shooting, though he
richly deserves it.
The lady was then locked into the gaoler's room, but
was ultimately admitted to bail, and allowed to go to
her child.

STATE OF TRADE,
MANCHESTER, AUGUST 29.—The improved appear-
ance of the weather yesterday and to-day caused a more
cheerful feeling on our Exchange to
-day ; and, though
there was no change in prices, nor any marked increase
in the amount of business done, all parties ap
peered in better spirits, and the market was exceedingly firm. There has been a fair demand
for yarn suitable for the Levant markets ; and it
is understood that there are orders to some extent in
the hands of the German merchants, but the uncer-
tainty arising out of the Schleswig-Holstein dispute
interferes with their execution. We stated in our
last report that two steamers, with cargoes for Ham-
burgh, had left Hull ; and we have since learned
that they were allowed to pass by the Commander of
the Danish blockading squadron, who merely required
the masters to declare that they carried no con-
traband of war. These steamers, however, carried re-
gular mail bags; and it is yet uncertain how others,
not acting under the authority of the Post-office, may
be treated. The experiment, however, is being made;
for the Victoria, a steamer without a mail bag, sailed
for Hamburgh on Monday morning; and the result
of her voyage is looked for with considerable
anxiety. Some interest has been created here by
a statement which appeared in second editions of
some of the London morning papers of yesterday, to
the effect that a Danish Messenger had arrived in Paris,
with the important intelligence that an armistice between
Germany and Denmark had been signed at Kiel. We
have accounts from Hamburgh, down to Friday evening,
at which time nothing was known of any such event;
and as the distance to Kiel is very short, it
is difficult to conceive that news, which is
alleged to have reached Paris on Sunday morn-
ing,
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should have been unknown at Hamburgh
Friday evening.
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vernment to preserve order ; and business is
ealmost at a stand in many localities. In Paris very few
people pay rent ; and professional incomes of all kinds
are nearly annihilated
. We understand that the weavers
of Messrs. Woolley and Son, who turned out for an ad-
vance some days ago, have resumed their employment
to-day at the former rate of wages. The official return,
prepared under the direction of Captain Willis, shows
the state of employment of the whole of the operative
classes within the borough of Manchester. A comparison
of this return with that for the previons week gives the
following results:—Four cotton mills previously work' 'tift
full time with a part only of the hands are now worlii9gb
with a full complement. There are 1,161 more of the
hands employed in the cotton mills on full time, and 94
more on short time. Of the total works included in the
table (of which there are two fewer than for several pre-
vious weeks), there appear to be five more working full
time with a full completion of hands than last week, four
of which were previously working full time with a part
only of the hands, and one was working short time.
Of the total hands included in the table, 1,272 more are
working full time, and 55 more short time.—Afanchcster
Guardian.

RocriailadAuci, 25.--There has bowl an improved

, by the prisoner's directions, with a bill and receipt, but
they were not paid for. The prisoner made some excuse
to the messenger, and said he would call on him (Mr.
Simpson). From what he had subsequently learned, he
(Mr. Simpson) went to the house in London-
street, where he found the galvanic•battery, but the'elec-
trical machine was gone. He gave the prisoner in charge,
and on his way to the station-house he acknowledged to
having pawned the missing machine, and gave up the
duplicate. In conclusion, Mr. Simpson said it was his
intention to have relinquished the prosecution, provided
the prisoner was found to have been driven by distress
to commit the offence, and also that it was his only act
of dishonesty; but finding that he was guilty of other
offences, and gross misrepresentation, he had made up
his mind to prosecute.
Worthington Strange Lodge, foreman to Mr. Macken,
a tailor in Ryder-street, St. James's, deposed that about
five weeks ago the prisoner, who assumed the name of the
Rev. William Liebrick, wrote a note to his principal, re-
questing that some patterns might be sent to him.
Witness, in consequence, waited on him with patterns,
when he selected those for three pairs of trousers,
and some for waistcoating. He also ordered a
court dress, stating that he was going to Osborne
House to be presented to the Queen and Prince Albert.
—(Laughter.) The prisoner also stated that he had
run awayfrom St. Petersburgh because the cholera was so
bad there.—(Renewed laughter.) Finding that the pri-
soner had not called, as he 'promised, inquiries were
made at Osborne House, when it was found that no such
personage as the Rev. Mr. Liebrick was known there;
and the next place that witness saw the prisoner after
delivering the court dress was at Horsemonger-lane
gaol.
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