The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

Yesterday the court was crowded to excess, in
consequence of its having been the day appointed for
the re-examination of Frederick Sharman, who for
months past has held an appointment ass con-
stable in the D division, No. 254, who stood charged
with having endeavoured to induce a man named
James Walkley to assist him in the perpetration of
a robbery ofjewellery, plate, &c., at the residence of
Miss Dingley, 24, Paddington-green, to the amount
of 2,0001. .

it will be remembered that the prisoner was brought
up through the exertions of Hardwick, an active
officer of the division to which the accused belonged,
who adduced such evidence at the Mansion-house,
when a man named James Coates, a cousin of the
prisoner, was charged on suspicion of being con-
cerned in railway and other robberies, that he
(Coates) was committed for trial at the next sessions
of the Central Criminal Court.

Mr. Justins, from the office of Messrs. Maples and
Co., Old Jewry, accompanied by Mr. Collard, super-
intendent of the Great Western Railway Company's
police, now attended to prefer against the prisoner a
charge of felony arising out of Coates's case.

Mr. Justins opened the case by stating, that the
company for whom he had the honour to appear had
nothing to do directly with this charge, yet felt so
strongly that the prisoner and Coates were so impli-
cated in the numerous robberies effected on their line
that they felt it a public duty to take the matter up.
Mr. Justins then stated, that Coates, since his incar-
ceration in Newgate, sent on Friday last for Captain
Spong, one of the gentlemen for the robbery of whose
property he had been committed by the Lord Mayor,
and told him that one of his missing rings (a valuable
diamond one) was pawned at the shop of Mr. George
Bonham, High-street, Whitechapel, on the 17th of
December last, in the name of Henry Phillips, for
305., and he believed from Hardwick's description that
the prisoner was the person to whom the said sum was
advanced. Mr. Justins called

Captaing Spong, who deposed to the loss of the
property contained in a bag while on his passage by
steam from Black wall to Gravesend.

Hard wick proved the finding of the bag and other
property belonging to the captain upon Coates at the
time of his apprehension.
Mr. Bonham proved that the prisoner was the man
by whom the ring had been pawned.
Mr. LONG asked Inspector Wiggins if he thought
it worth while, considering that the ring case was so
clear, to press the former charge ?—The Inspector
said he should be satisfied with a committal upon the
present case.

The prisoner, who denied his guilt, was sent to
Newgate for trial. _ _

"X. Y. Z." transmitted U. for the poor-box of the
court, with a request that it might be acknowledged.

IVES7'MINSTER.

Joseph Clarke, a powerful looking fellow, was
charged with being concerned with a woman of the
town (not in custody) with drugging and robbing
Mr. Edward Hynd, grocer, of Praed-street, Pad-
dington.
The prosecutor, who appeared to be in a very weak
and delicate state, said, that he was returning from
the Blackfriars-road to his own residence late on the
previous night, when he was accosted by a woman,
and prevailed upon to accompany her home to Pump-
court, near Old Pye-street, Westminster, a neigh-
bourhood with which he was completely unacquainted.
After being there a short time he gave the woman,
at her solicitation, a sovereign, to procure something
to drink, and she returned with some spirits. She
handed him a glass, but he had no sooner swallowed
it than he was seized with a most extraordinary sen •
sation. Although he was cognisant of all that passed
around him, yet he was completely powerless, and
while in this state the woman plundered him of his
purse, containing six sovereigns, and his handkerchief,
and ransacked his pocket-book. He distinctly saw
her do all this, but from the influence of the drug
that had been administered to him was incapable of
resistance. He was not aware how long he remained
in this condition, but on recovering he was endeavour-
ing to follow the woman from the room when he was
stopped by the prisoner, who had a male companion
with him. Prisoner in a rough tone exclaimed,
" Who are you ?" when prosecutor, recognizing his
voice as that of a person he had heard exchange a
few words with the woman just before he had been
drugged, told him that he had been robbed, and that
he believed that he (the prisoner) had been an acces-
sory to the act. Prosecutor then left the house, and
was followed and abused by the prisoner and his
companion. Prosecutor went in quest of a constable,
and having found one, returned to the house, where
he found the prisoner and gave him into custody.
On searching the prisoner one of the letters which
had been taken by the woman from his pocket-book
was found upon his person.
' The constable who took the accused into custody
proved that he endeavoured on his way to the station-
Louse to pass a flash 61. note on the Bank of Ele-
gance to a compnnion. There were also three
medals resembling base coins found upon him.
The prisoner, in the course of a long rambling
story, said, that he was at the tap in Palace-yard, and
at another public-house in
.Tothill-street all night
with his brother, and knew nothing of the robbery.
The house to which prosecutor had been taken be-
longed to him, and as he was returning to it early in
the morning he met "Black Anne " (the woman who
took the prosecutor home), and she gave him a a shil-
ling as he entered Pump-court, for her night's lodg-
ing; and when he got to the door of the house he
found that somebody had taken off the padlock with
which he had fastened it on the previous night, and
been in the house. He went to the room which had
been occupied by the prosecutor and the woman, and
observing a letter on the floor picked it up and put it
in his pocket. He could prove an alibi, and in the
same breath that he admitted that he was the owner
of the house declared that he could produce a number
of witnesses to show that he was a most respect•

able man.
The prosecutor observed that the loss of his money
was of but trifling consideration to him. It was a
mercy that he had not lost his life, and it was only
his desire to bring the perpetrators of such atrocious
outrages to justice that had induced him to come
forward on the present occasion. Ile could dis-
tinctly swear that the prisoner exchanged a few
words with the woman in the passage at the time she
went out for the liquor, and that they again spoke as
she returned with it ; and he was confident that the
prisoner was in the passage, close to the room dour,
while he was robbed.
The prisoner began repeating his former story, but
admitted that he had no witnesses in attendance to
prove it.
111 r. BITRRELL said it was a most serious charge,
and he should remand the prisoner until Thursday.
A post-office order for 1/. was yesterday received
from "E. C. B." for the poor-box. The donor re-
quested an acknowledgment of it."

LENT ASSIZES, 1848.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.
(Before Sir JOHN PATTBSON, Knt., and Sir CRESS.
WELL CRESWELL, Knt.)
Berkshire—At Reading, Saturday, February 26.
Oxfordshire—At Oxford, Wednesday, March 1.
Worcestershire—At Worcester, Monday, March 6.
City of Worcester—Same day.
Staffordshire—At Stafford, Saturday, March 11.
Shropshire—At Shrewsbury, Saturday, March 18.
Herefordshire—At Hereford, Thursday, March 23.
Monmouthshire—At Monmouth, Saturday, March 25.
Glocestershire—At Glocester, Wednesday, March 29.
City of Glocester—Same day.

SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN FROM DlSTRESS.—Yes-
terday forenoon Mr. William Carter held an inquest at
the Fleece, Commercial-road, Lambeth, on the body of
William Sawyer, aged forty-seven, a master hairdresser,
of No. 10, Commercial-road, who committed suicide
under the following distressing circumstances:—From
the evidence of Jane Woolden, who passed as deceased's
7V ife, it appeared that for some considerable time past
his business had fallen off to such an extent, that during
the last two or three months he had been unable to earn
on an average sixpence per day. The consequence was
that deceased and his family were reduced to the greatest
destitution. To find food for his four children, the
household furniture had been parted with. Of late there
had been a great change in the conduct of the deceased,
and he appeared, according to the witness's testimony,
heart-broken. He also felt greatl) depresseePon account
of the condition in which the female was in with whom
he lived, she being in an advanced stage of pregnancy.
On the morning of Monday last he got up about seven
o'clock, and having opened his shop and lighted the
fire, he went and plunged head foremost into the water
in the butt in the aril. He was found in that condi-
tion shortly afterwards, quite dead. Verdict—" Tem-
porary insanity."
Mr. Samuel Hutton, a descendant of the historian
of Birmingham, died at his residence, Satley, on Sunday
night. was in the 63d year of his age, and had lately
bi come possessed of his family estates, worth about
8,0001 a year. He was many years engaged in the
paper trade, and was elected an alderman on the incor-
poration of the town. He has left three sons and one
daughter to inherit the property, the foundation of which
was laid by the historian.
SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 7.—The Oriental Company's
steam-ship Montrose, Captain Bowen, left the ducks at
three r.m. this day, en route for Gibraltar, with the
Peninsular and Mediterranean mails; also u full cargo
of merchandise and 18 passengers. The inward mails
from Portugal, by the Madrid, Captain Weeks, is
hourly expected. The Royal West India mail-packet
Teviot, now overdue since Saturday, is most anxiously
looked for; as also the Indus, Captain Soy, from Alex-
andria, with the bulk of the West India mails. The
Washington, from New York, will be due in two or
three days.