The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

CLERKEN WELL.

William Goodman, an elderly man, was placed at
the bar, charged by Mary Goodman, his wife, with a
brutal assault, by which she was most seriously in-
jured.
The complainant, whose jaw was broken, and whose
flee exhibited a frightful appearance, with considera-
ble pain and difficulty, deposed that in consequence of
the prisoner's violent conduct towards her she was
obliged to live apart from him. On the previous day
she went with her daughter to the prisoner's residence
to ask him for some pecuniary assistance, when he
commenced a violent attack upon her, seized her with
brutal violence, and having dragged her into the
street, struck her a desperate blow on the face, which
broke her jaw-bone, knocked her down, and kicked
her until she lay insensible on the ground, and he
would have killed her had it not been for the inter-
ference and assistance of her daughter and some pas-
sengers.
't he daughter, a married woman, gavi confirmatory
evidence.

The prisoner denied the assault, saying the corn-
plainsnt fell down and injured herself, and it served
her right, as she was drunk at the time.
He was fined 51, or two months' imprisonment.

George Smith, a pauper, was charged with stealing
a suit of the workhouse clothes, the property of th•
directors of the poor of St. Pancras parish.
It appeared that the prisoner was admitted into the
' workhouse, and supplied with a new suit of work-
house clothes, with which he absconded, and, after
selling them, he returned, and again applied fur re-
lief, when he was given into custody. He had before
committed a similar offence.

Mr. TYRWHITT said it was very extraordinary
that paupers were being constantly brought to this
court by the authorities of St. Pancras parish, charged
with this sort of offence, and from no other parish in
the district of the court. How could it be accounted
for

Chadburn, the store-keeper, said that whilst the
gate of the stone-yard was open to receive and take
away stones, one of the prisoner's own class was
placed to watch, and the parties slipped out of the
yard. Besides, they were making alterations, and
the clothes being quite new, was an inducement to
take them away.
Mr. TTRWIIITT thought if such inducement existed,
it was essential that the authorities should not place
one of the prisoner's class at the gate to watch, but
somebody else who would show no favour.
The prisoner did not deny the charge, and he was
committed to the House of Correction with hard
labour for six weeks.

WESTMINSTER.
John Wood was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broderip, charged with burglariously entering the
dwelling-house of Mrs. Emily Lewis, 27, Grosvenor-
place, and stealing six 51. notes, a quantity of valuable
jewellery, and other articles.
The circumstances are briefly these. On Sunday
evening Mrs. Lewis went out to visit a friend, leaving
the house in charge of Johannah Kelly, her servant.
Shortly after the lady had left, the street-door bell
was rung violently, and on the girl's answering it,
she found a man on the steps, having the appearance
of a cabman, who hastily inquired whether she was
Mrs. Lewis's servant. On the girl replying in the
affirmative, he said that he had been sent from
Lowndes-square to tell her that her mistress had
been suddenly taken ill, and was in fits, and that she
(the servant) was to go to her immediately. The girl
hesitated and replied that she could not go, when the
man said that she must, that her mistress would
never forgive her if she did not, and told her to hurry
down and put her bonnet and shawl on, whilst he
waited for her. The girl went down stairs to put her
things on as desired, and during the time she was so
engaged, the man made a great noise, by stamp-
mg his feet on the door steps, and she thought she

heard the sound of footsteps in the passage. She re-
turned to the street door in two or three minutes, and '
left the house with the man, taking care to close the
street door after her. The man walked at a great
pace for some time, during which he said that Mrs.
Lewis was very ill; he then suddenly slackened his
pace, and at last walked so slowly that she implored
him to go faster, as her mistress might be worse, and
she was anxious to see her as soon as possible. The
man who had, without her having previously observed
it, taken her out of the direction of Lowndes-square,
pretended that he was out of breath, and in a minute
or two afterwards desired her to stop, and he crossed
the road. She followed, but he started off at such
speed, that, after following for a short distance, she
became so exhausted that she was obliged to stop, and
the man was soon out of sight. Suspecting that
something was wrong, she communicated what had
occurred to Thomas Carmoody, 148 B, who came up
before she had recovered her breath, and he immedi-
ately accompanied her to her mistress's house. As
they got within sight of it, a gentleman named
Delsare, who had been staying there for a short
time upon a visit, and who had for some
minutes been ineffectually endeavouring to admit
himself to the house with the latch key, rang the
bell, presuming that the servant had fastened the
door. After ringing several times the door was sud-
denly quietly opened, and the prisoner rushed out of
the house, knocking the gentleman down. The latter
immediately jumped up and seized the fellow, but
he had no idea that he was a thief, until he was soon,
however, convinced of his character by seeing him
drop a very valuable breast-pin, which satisfied the
gentleman that the fellow had been ransacking his
carpet bag and pocket-book, which had been two or
three hours previously in the house safe. The pri-
soner, in his struggle to get away, drooped some
papers, and threw the gentleman's pocket-book,
which contained five 51. notes, some jewellery, and
various coins, down in the street. A very handsome
bracelet, which had been safe on the lady's toilette-
table just before the servant was induced to leave the
house, was found in his possession, but the gentle-
man's travelling-bag was found in the house, cut
open, and a dove, composed of brilliants, some sove,.
reigns,•coins and other articles were missing. Mrs.
Lewis had left her house in a carriage, and it is
supposed that her orders to the coachman had been
overheard by some thieves who bad been prowling
about the place and watched her departure.
The prisoner made no defence, and was remanded
for a week. _ . _ _

BENEVOLENCE.—The annual donation of 101. for
the poor-box was received from the Mercers' Com-
pany.

MARY LEBONE.

A number of pawnbrokers and other witnesses
were from an early hour in attendance at this Court,
in consequence of its having been the day appointed
for the further examination of a. very respectably
attired female, named Isabella Davidson, who was
first brought before Mr Broughton, on the sth inst.,
upon eharges of robbery.
The evidence gone into upon the former occasion
was to the effect, that in the early part of last No-
vember the prisoner, upon the representation that she
was a married woman, and that her husband was at
Bath upon some importantbusiness relative to railway
matters, took a ready furnished room, at the rent of
10s. 6d. per week, at Mr. King's Coffee.house,
Seymour-street, Euston-square. She remained there
until the 10th ult., when she went out early and did
not return. Shortly after her departure a gold
watch, a gold chain, and a large quantity of silk and
other articles were discovered to have been stolen,
and information of the robbery was immediately
communicated to the police. The prisoner was at
length traced, and given into the custody of Sergeant
Lennard, 25 S, who produced a number of pawn-
brokers' duplicates found by him at a house in Lam-
beth, and it was clearly shown that they had been left
there by the prisoner.
The ifftwnbrokers now brought forward many arti-
cles to which the said duplicates referred, and they
were identified by Mrs. King as forming a portion of
her loss. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Another charge was preferred by Mrs. Edward',
Queen-square, Holborn, from whose evidence it ap
peared that she was robbed of a table-cloth by the
prisoner, who on the 9th of November absconded
from an apartment which she had occupied at her
residence. Upon her engaging the room she repre-
sented herself to be the wife of a solicitor, and a gen-
tleman whom she (Mrs. Edwards) imagined to be the
husband, slept in the said apartment every night
during the three weeks which the room was occupied.
When the prisoner quitted there were two weeks'
rent due.

Mr. Kendrick 244, Tottenham-court-road, said
that the prisoner had worked at his establishment in
the millinery department for four months, and that
she had obtained from Mrs. Kendrich several pairs of
stays, her object being, as alleged by her, that of
showing them to some friends, who would most
likely be purchasers. She made excuses fr an time
to time with respect to her not returning them, and
after she had left, without any intimation of her in-
tention to do so, it was ascertained that she had
pawned them.
'The stays were produced and identified, and after
some further particulars had been gone into, the case
was disposed of by the articles being returned to Mr.
Kendrick, upon his paying to the pawnbroker a moiety
of the sum for which they were pledged.
Upon the first two charges the prisoner, who had
nothing to say, was fully committed for trial.
James Pickett was charged with the following
daring mid-day robbery at the residence of Dr.
Drummond, 103, Gloster-place, Portman-square.
On the same day (yesterday), at one o clock, the
prisoner was observed by the servant of Captain Hen-
derson, next door, in the area of the house first al-
luded to. He (prisoner) was questioned as to his
business, when he took from his pocket something
having the appearance of silver, and hastily placed the
same inside of the pantry window, which was partly
open, ran up the steps, making his egress in the same
way he must have entered, viz., by climbing over the
railings. He made off as fast as he could, and, on a
cry of " Stop thief" being raised, he was at length
captured by Bulham, 180 B. A silver cream ewer
was, beyond all doubt, the article which the prisoner
had possessed himself of, as before stated.
The prisoner, who denied having been in the area
at all, was, in order to afford time for further inquiry
to be instituted, remanded till next Monday, an opi-
nion having been expressed that it would probably
turn out that he is known to the police on the Surrey
side of the water.

Win Smith alias King, and George Jones alias
Busnell, both of them notorious young thieves, were
placed at the bar charged with having been found at
an early hour in the morning by 53 S, with pigeons
in their possession, supposed to have been stolen.
Evidence was given to show that the prisoners
were stopped on Haverstock-hill by the fficer
alluded to, and that as they gave a very unsatisfactory
account of themselves, they were conveyed to the
station. house. From their pockets were taken four
live pigeons of a curious kind, and upon inquiry being
instituted, it was ascertained that they had been
stolen from the back part of the premises of Mr.
Priest, landlord of the George public house, Hamp-
stead. They were identified by him (Mr. Priest),
who said that he had been robbed of many others.

The defence set up by the prisoners was, that
seeing the pigeons flying about the road they caught
them.

In default of paying 155., the value of the birds,
and 40s. each for the unlawful possession of them,
Smith was committed for two months, and Jones for
six weeks to the I-louse of Correction.
WORSHIP-STREET.

William Hurst, an interesting-looking boy, only
ten years of age, and a stylishly-dressed man named
Isaac Simmons, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Hammill, charged with having been concerned, with
others, in hustling with intent to rob a lady in the
Whitechapel road.
Police constable Jenkinson, 53 G, stated that while
passing through the above road, at eleven o'clock in
the morning, he saw the prisoner Simmons, r ld three
other well-dressed men, following a lady, whom they
at length so surrounded as to impede her progress,
and at the same moment the boy Hurst crept steal-
thily to her side and dexterously inserted his hand
into her pocket. The lady immediately raised a cry
of alarm and exclaimed that she had been robbed,
when the whole party made off in different directions;
but witness succeeded in securing the two prisoners,
and brought them back to the lady, who examined
her pocket, and discovered that though her money bad
been disturbed, she had lost nothing. Notwithstand-
ing the extreme youth of the younger prisoner, he
was well known as one of the most useful instruments
in the hands of the male and female members of the
swell mob who infested the Whitechapel district, and
had only been a few days released from the House of
Correction, to which he was committed for three
months, by Mr. Arnold, for a similar offence.
When called upon for his defence, the boy Hurst,
with ass air of well dissembled distress and contrition,
attributed his situation to the cruel conduct of his
mother, who had turned him out of doors, and forced
him to get a living in the best way he could.
This statement, however, was positively contra-
dicted by one of the officers, who proved that he had
been connected for a long time past with a notorious
gang of thieves, and, in addition to the sentence above
specified, he had been convicted of attempted felonies
upon two previous occasions. The other prisoner
was also known to the police as an accomplished mem-
ber of the swell mob.
Mr. Iligmicr, said that, under these circumstances,
however painful it might be to his feelings to consign
a child of such tender years to prison, he felt it his
duty to commit both the prisoners to the House of
Correction for the full term of three months.
en ARITY.—The second half of a 51. note, the first half
of which had been previously transmitted, was received
by the magistrate, through the medium of Sir W.

Call and Co., for the poor-box, from " E. P.," with a
request that its receipt might be acknowledged in the
newspapers.

SOUTHWARK.

A man named Arthur Pasco, formerly a police-
constable of the M. division, was brought before Mr.
Cottingham on a double charge, the desertion of his
wife and three children, and committing a rape on a
young girl naned Gains, the daughter of a respectable
butcher, residing near the police-court.
Mr. Caslake, one of the relieving officers of St.
George's parish, Southwark, said that about a month
ago the wife of the prisoner came to the workhouse
and demanded admission for herself and family. She
was at the time far advanced in pregnancy, and had
three children in a famishing state. She was taken
before the board of guardians, and in answer to
questions put by the guardians, she said that her
husband was gone into the country in search of em-
ployment. He (Mr. Caslake) found her statement to
be false, as he saw him a few days after lounging
about the doers of the police-court, and he ascertained
that he had been dismissed from the police. He,
therefore, applied for the warrant to apprehend him
for deserting his family.
The prisoner urged that he could not support his
family, being out of employ, but he would as soon as
he could obtain employment.
Mr. COVTINGHAM—Can you give security to the
parish that your family shall not be chargeable to
the parish, and can you take them from the work-
house ? Prisoner—l have friends at Birmingham
who will assist me, and I will take my family there
if your Worship will discharge me.
Mr. COTTINGHANI was about to make some obser-
vationto him, when

Caslake, the relieving officer, remarked that there
was a charge of a more serious nature against the
prisoner—that of violating the person of a respect-
able tradesman's daughter, a young girl sixteen years
of age.
. .

Air. Gains, a butcher, formerly carrying on an
extensive btuiness near the Police-court, here as-
cended the witness-box, and said that the prisoner,
when in the police force, his usual beat was near his
shop. He used to supply him with steaks, give him
food and money, and actually treat him as one of his
own family One evening he came when all his
family were out except his daughter and himself.
After some conversation in the shop, the prisoner
asked him to go to an adjoining public- house and
partake of a glass of grog. He consented, and after
they had been in the house a few minutes, the pri-
soner made an excuse to leave for a short time, but,
instead of returning, he went into complainant's house
and violated his daughter.
Prisoner—Oh, nonsense about that ; it's all false.
Mr. Gains said it was quite true his daughter was
now in confinement with a child, the result of that
man's conduct.

Mr. COTTINGHIM said it was a pity he did not
make the charge against
_him at the time. So long
had elapsed, that he thought the charge of violation
could not be sustained. He inquired when it was
likely his daughter would be able to appear and give
her evidence.

Mi. Gaines replied, that in about a fortnight's time
she would be able to attend. The reason he did not
bring the charge against him was, that he did not like
the exposure. He also thought that the prisoner was
a single man.
Mr. COTTINGHAM, after commenting on the con-
duct of the prisoner, said that for deserting his wife
and family, and leaving them chargeable to the parish,
he should commit him to the House of Correction for
14 days, and at the expiration of that term of impri-
sonment the other more serious charge would be
investigated.
The Magistrate begs to acknowledge the receipt of
a 51. Bank of England note from "E. P.," for the
poor-box of the Police-court.
LAMBETH.

Wm Harding, a stiff•built young fellow, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Norton for final exami •
nation, on a charge of stealing a quantity of lead, the
property of his master, Mr. Spink, a plumber in South
Lambeth.

From the evidence of Mr. Collard, the superinten-
dent of police on the Great Western Railway, it ap-
pears that the prisioner had been tried at the
Clerkenwell Sessions, and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment, on a charge of stealing a portmanteau
from the Paddington terminus. He was subsequently
tried for stealing a seaman's chest from the same
terminus, and sentenced to four months' incarceration.
Since his release he had been in custody for a robbery
at the house of Mr. Thorn, the brewer of South
Lambeth, and after his discharge Mr. Thorn kindly
interested himself on his behalf on account of his
sister, who is a servant, and well-conducted young
woman in
.his family. He ultimately procured him
a very good situation with Mr. Spinks, a highly
respectable tradesman, but he was not long in his
situation when he commenced a system of plunder,
and was taken with a quantity of lead belonging to
his master in his possession.—He was fully com-
mitted for trial.

Henry Newton and George Mathews, the former a
servant to Mr. Pashler, and the latter a butcher out
of business, were brought up for final examination on
a charge of stealing a.sack of fat, the property of Mr.
Pashler. _ _

From the evidence in this case it was evident that
the prisoner Newton had plundered his master to a
very considerable extent, and that the other prisoner
received the plunder.
It was stated that Newton, whose honesty had been
first doubted, from his declaring that he had nine
young women in tow, had been transported for seven
years, and that Mathews had also been in custody.
Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.
WANDSWOR7 H.

Mary Ann Damson and Elizabeth Roberts, two
women of masculine proportion, who for some years
have infested Clapham Common, and been in custody
several times for robbing gentlemen, were placed in
the dock before Mr. Paynter upon a charge of robbing
William Newman, groom to Mr. Pulley, a proctor,
living in Nightingale-lane, Clapham.
The prosecutor stated that on Sunday night, about
half-past eight o'clock, he was crossing Clapham
Common, when he met the prisoners. Dawson threw
her arms round his neck, and Roberts placed her hand
near his right-hand breeches pocket. lie asked them
what they wanted; they said nothing, and walked
away. lie afterwards missed from his breeches
pocket a sovereign and a half in gold, and 3s. 6d. in
silver, and some halfpence. He called "Police,"
when► five or six men, who appeared to be in league
with the women, came up, and one of them struck
him a blow on the side which knocked him down.
lie was afraid of remaining any longer, and went
home.

Police-constable Tomkins, 119 V, said, in conse-
quence of some information he received, he appre-
hended the prisoner between nine and ten o'clock.
They denied committing any robbery, but upon
searching Roberts he found a sovereign and a half
sovereign.
Mr. PA/PIER said, after the clear and straightfor-
ward evidence given by the constable in support of
the prosecutor's statement, he must commit the pri-
soners for trial.