The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

GROSS ASSAULT ON A CHILD UNDER TEN YEARS OF
AGE.—Jaincsllis, a green grocer, was convicted of a
gross assault on a female child, named Maton, little more
than nine years of age, and was sentenced by the
Recorder to one year's imprisonment in the Westminster
Bridewell.

Elizabeth Baylis, remanded from last sessions, was
indicted with receiving certain property, consisting of
linen and other articles, well knowing them to have been
stolen.

The jury acquitted the prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
An itinerant foreign organ player, who refused to
give his name, was brought before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with having committed a gross assault on Eliza-
beth Edwards.
The complainant said she is a married woman, living
at 6, Park-street, Westminster. On Wednesday, about
five o'clock in the afternoon, she was on her return
home through Hyde Park, when she was accosted by
the prisoner, who muttered some jargon which she was
unable to understand. The prisoner, however, soon
made his intentions manifest, by attempting to throis
her on the ground. She resisted, and the prisoner then
knocked her down, and attempted to effect his purpose.
She screamed loudly for assistance, and a park-keeper
and a police-constable soon came to her assistance, and
took the prisoner into custody.
Police-constable Norman, A 148, said he heard the
cry of murder, and he hastened to the spot, and found
the prisoner and the complainant struggling together.
The state of the prisoner's clothes corroborated the story
of the complainant as to the intentions of the prisoner
towards her.
Henbrey, one of the park constables, said he was the
first to reach the complainant, on hearing her cries for
assistance. The prisoner's dress was down, and the
woman appeared as if she had been very much pulled
about.
The defence of the prisoner, which was made in a
kind of Italian patois, was to the effect that the woman
was of loose character, and had made the first over-
tures to him.
Mr. IlAnDwicx appeared to consider that the charge
was of too grave a character to be disposed of sum•
marily, and, therefore, ordered the prisoner to be re-
manded till Monday next, in order to give the police an
opportunity of inquiring into the character of the
complainant.
John Williams, a young man very respectably dressed,
was, fur ringing the private bells and alarming the
neighbsurhood of Jermyn-street, yesterday morning,
fined 40s.
Frederick and Sarah Webb were both charged with
stealing three Si. Bank of England notes from a room in
Webb's Hotel, Piccadilly.
James Salisbury, son of the proprietor of Webb's
Hotel, said the male prisoner had been a waiter at the
hotel, and had charge of the sitting-room occupied by
Mrs. Andrews, from Northampton, on the day when the
robbery was committed, Nov. 3. Mrs. Andrews put
three 51. notes into a case in the room that morning, and
in the evening of the same day she found that thy had
been removed from their place. She asked her son
whether he had used them, but he said he had not, and
strong suspicion was attached to the prisoner, for he had
been in the room and saw her put the notes in the case
that morning.
George Bentley, dairyman, 15, Henrietta-street, Man-
chester-square, said the female prisoner came with a
Si. note to his shop for change some ten or twelve days
ago, The note produced was the one he bad received
from Mrs. Webb.
James Lewis Ashman, 119 F, said he bad been em-
ployed on the 3d November, by Mr. Salisbury, the pro-
prietor c f the hotel, to trace the robbery, and after
several inquiries he traced the note produced from the
Bank of England to the last witness. It was one of the
lost notes, No. 1,034, and bore Webb's name and address
on the back.
Mrs. Webb said she had received the note produced
from her husband at Guildford.
The male prisoner said he gave his wife the note when
be was in Guildford, which was some six months before
he was engaged by Mrs. Salisbury; and this robbery
happened to be committed before he was to have his
situation in the hotel.
Mr. HARDWICK examined the note, and asked whe-
ther the female prisoner said it was five or six months'
ago since she received it? Mrs. Webb—Three or four
months' ago; I can't be sure.
Mr. lIARDWICK then informed the prisoners that the
note had not then been issued from!the Bank; it.bore date
the 2d of October, 1846. He remanded the prisoners
till this day week for further inquiry.
Ann Richards, servant at the Red Horse Tavern, 10,

Old Bond-street, was charged with robbing her master
to a very great extent.
John Garton, proprietor of the Red Horse, said he had
occasion to suspect his servant, the prisoner at the bar,
for some time, and on coming down that morning at
eight o'clock, he was informed by the boy, that while
taking down the shutters they watched Ann, and saw
her go to the till. The boy said to her she had
been at the till, and she offered him the coppers she
had taken if he would hold his tongue. Mr. Garton,
on hearing this, determined on searching her room.
On going up he met the prisoner coming out of the
rooms with a bottle of port wine in her hand. He went
into the room and pulled the drawer of the bureau and
found there a quantity of biscuits and sugar, the sugar
being from a quantity that he had received in on Mon-
day last, and therefore must have been stolen this week.
lie observed her bed was in a very confused state, and
asked her the reason. She said she had been making
it. He pulled the bed from off the mattress, and found
a stone bottle containing a quantity of gin, seven bottles
of port wine, nine bottles of brandy, three bottles of gin,
three bottles of rum, me bottle of whiskey, and two
pounds of cigars.
Mr. Gurton explained that the cigars were tied up in
small quantities, and had been stolen at different times ;
and that he had small racks for different wines within
the bar into which he brought quantities from the cellar
for the convenience of his wife, and out of these racks
the extensive robberies bad been committed.
The prisoner only denied havirg taken any money.
Mr. HARDWICK committed the prisoner for trial at
the Central Criminal Court.
The parish authorities of St. James's summoned Mr
Cochrane, Secretary to the London Library, Pall-mall,
before Mr. Hard wicke, to show cause why the institution
refused to pay the vestry rates.
Mr. HARDWICK, having heard the argument on both
sides, read the words of the Act, " Provided always
they are supported wholly, or in part, by annual volun-
tary subscriptions." And said it had been admitted by
the parish authorities, that the library was in part so
supported ; and as the proceeds of the :apartments let
out to other societies had been applied to the objects of
the institution, which were purely literary, he was of
was exempted by the Act from
othpienpiosnristhhatthe library
rates.