The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-01 00:00:00

it .mss half cocked. The injured woman is about fifty
years of age.
The prisoner who appeard deeply to deplore the
dreadful occurrence, by the advice of his father, de-
clined to say anything at present.
Mr. TIEWHITT said the affair had all the appear-
ance of an accident, but still be must remand the
prisoner until the fate of the woman could be known.
He would accept bail, himself in 500/., and two
sureties in 2501. each, to appear on Thursday next.
The sureties were immediately entered into, and
the accused was liberated.
DERBY SWEEPS.—A licensed victualler applied for
advice, saying that he held a Derby Club at his
house, the Bull and Anchor,lHolborn, and that a lawyer
had served him with a notice of action if he did not
advance 1001.
Mr. TYRwHITT said he believed such clubs were
illegal, and he could give no advice.
MARYLEBONE.
EXTENSIVE RAILWAY DEPREDA.TION3.—On Satur-
day, Charles Abbott, a middle-aged man, who was
stated to be a butler out of place, was brought before
the magistrate, in the custody of Mr. Collard, the
superintendent of the Great Western Railway,
charged with having on the preceding evening stolen
a portmanteau from the Paddington station of that
company. On the arrival of the Exeter mail, at half-
past eight o clock on that evening, the prisoner was
seen by Lindley, one of the porters of the establish-
ment, to take up a portmanteau from the barrier, or
luggage-place, give it to the driver of an omnibus,
and drive off with it. From the coolness with which
the thing was done, Lindley very naturally concluded
that the portmanteau was the prisoner's property ; in
a few minutes after, he heard a gentleman say some
one had taken away his portmanteau. He and the
gentleman followed the omnibus.
E. Debenham, as omnibus driver, stated that the
prisoner brought a portmanteau to him ; he put it on
the top and the prisoner got inside, after desiring
him to drop him in Praed-street, or somewhere near
the Edgware-road. He had scarcely done speaking
to him when Lindley and a gentleman came up to
him, and asked him did he know anything of a port-
manteau ? The gentleman looking upon the top,
cried out, " That's mine." The prisoner, on hearing
this, got out of the omnibus and walked away
through the cloak-room. When he turned the corner
he ran away as fast as he could, but witnessed fol-
lowed and caught him. On being asked where he
got the portmanteau, he coolly denied that he ever
saw it, and positively said he never gave it to witness.
The MAGISTRATE here enquired if the portmanteau
was in court ?—Mr. Collard said it was not : that in
the hurry and confusion, the portmanteau, as well as
the owner,
that
it N,n
had disappeared
the propertyppeared o
;but hef hadthe
Rev. reason to
believe Mr.
Marsh, of Bristol, and begged that the case might
be postponed until he made further inquiry.
The case was postponed until next Thursday.
At a later period of the day Mr. Collard again pre-
sented himself in court, and informed the magistrate
that he had ascertained the prisoner's private lodging
to be at 20, Richmond-place, Lisson-grove, but that
he had a depot for stolen goods at another house in
Salisbury-place, Lisson-grove; that he had there
found an immense quantity of articles of every de-
scription, and no doubt they had been stolen. Several
railway labels were lying about the place. He had
laden no less than three cabs with a portion of them,
which he had brought to the Great Western Station,
where they then were.
DESPERATE ASSAULT.—Elizabeth Arnold, a fitting
co-mate for the Spanish giant, was charged with
having committed a very violent assault upon a man
called (nomen rarissimum !) John Smith, residing in
King-street, Covent garden. Mr. Smith, it ap-
peared, encountered the fair Amazonian somewhere in
the neighbourhood of Paddington, and after having
most generously treated her to something "short," he
followed up his gallantry by seeing her home to her
lodgings. He had not been long in the lady's cham-
ber when he found his money had been abstracted
from his pocket. On his having the temerity to ac-
cuse her of committing the act she showed symptoms
of pugnacity, and immediately struck him a most ter-
rific blow on the head with a brick.
The surgeon said the wound was of a very dange-
rous character.
The MAGISTRATE, after enlarging on the brutality
of the assault, fined the prisoner 51., or to pass the
next two months in the House of Correction.

SOUTHWARK.

ELOPEMENT AND ALLEGED

ROBBERY.—John

Currier, late of the Dover police force, was brought
up for re-examination, charged with eloping with
Mrs. Elizabeth Silk, the wife of the landlord of the
tap of the Ship hotel, at Dover, and stealing 231. in
sovereigns and half-sovereigns, together with a
watch, some silver spoons, and other articles. The
court was thronged with persons during the exami-
nation.

Mr. Solomona attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
James on behalf of the prisoner.
The case was remanded on Thursday for the at-
tendance of Mr. Silk, who reached town on Saturday,
and on being sworn he stated that he is landlord of
the tap attached to the Ship hotel at Dover, and that
he knew the prisoner, who was formerly in
the police at that place, and had been in the
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habit of frequenting his house. That he never ob-
served any improper familiarities between the pri-
soner and his wife, and had no conception that
there was anything of a criminal nature between
them until about three weeks ago, when she ab-
sconded, and he then discovered that she had run
away with the prisoner, taking with her the money
and other property already enumerated. He lost no
time in making the necessary inquiries to trace the
parties, and ascertained that they had left Dover by
the express train for London with a quantity of lug-
gage. He then came to town himself, and traced
them to the Maze, which they suddenly quitted, on
finding that he was in pursuit of them, and he then
returned to Dover, after a fruitless search, and
after having given information to the police of the
robbery, and a description of the parties concerned
in it. He added that in the course of last month he
received a letter from his wife, together with a parcel
containing two necklaces belonging to his children,
which she had taken away during her flight with the
prisoner, and which she expressed a wish to have re-
stored to them. The complainant added that his wife
and he lived on the most affectionate terms up to the
period of her elopement with the prisoner, and that
he could assign no reason for her having quitted her
home with the prisoner and abandoning her children ;
that now, however, he bad reason to ,suspect that the
prisoner and his wife had for a length of time been
on the most familiar terms, as he was so much at the
house.

Mr. S E CIL Ea inquired if the prisoner was observed
with any of the complainant's property in his pos-
session ?—Mr. Solomons replied that a female who
was present in court that morning, hut who had
since disappeared, could prove that she saw him with
the property.

'qrs. Silk, the complainant's wife, here pressed
forward through the crowd, and said she would exo-
nerate the prisoner from all blame in the transaction.
That when she left Dover she only brought away her
own things, and the watch her husband well knew
belonged to herself, and that she always wore it round
her neck.

Mr. Solomons begged the magistrate to remand the
prisoner, in order to compel the attendance of the fe-
male alluded to.

Mr.SECILER said the complainant had been vic.

timised to a great extent ; but whether the prisoner
was guilty of robbery or no at present remained a
mystery. He should feel it his duty to remand the
prisoner. He, however, had no objection to accept of
bail for his appearance.
The prisoner said it was a hard case to be sent on
a charge of felony of which he was innocent.
411 The prisoner was then remanded.