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London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

and left next morning about half past nine. He found
mrnediately afterwards that a diamond brooch had been
tAken from his bed-room, which he left safe there in a
shirt of his at half-past eight the same morning. The
bed-room was on the same floor with that occupied by

the prisoner.
John Gilbert Cox, assistant to Mr. West, pawnbroker,
207, High Holborn, said the prisoner came into his em-
ployer's shop between nine and ten o'clock on the
morning of the 25th September, and offered the diamond
brooch now produced. In answer to a question from
witness, the prisoner said he had found it, and the wit-
ness told him he must retain it, and give information to

he police, and in case no owner was found it would be

returned to him.

Policeman 128 C said he took the defendant into cus-
tody at the Round Table, and, when charged with the
theft, he denied all knowledge of it.
The defendant, who declined saying anything, was
committed for trial.

CLERKENWE LL.
Joseph Clayton was charged with using threats of a
very violent nature towards Mr. H. Benjamin, and as-
saulting his wife.
From the evidence of Mr. Benjamin it appeared, that
be was the foreman of a jury before which the prisoner
was convicted at the Old Bailey, when he was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment; and since his release he
has been in the habit of using the most ferocious threats
towards Mr. Benjamin ; and a like system of annoyance
has been followed by a number of the prisoner's com-
panions, from the neighbourhood of Field-lane, West-
court, and Saffron-hill. That morning he entered Mr.
. .

Benjamin's shop, when he said to him " You are the
- who gave me three months, but I will have it cut
of you," The prosecutor then attempted to call a con-
stable, but the prisoner swore he should aot leave the
shop until he gave bim 4d. for a pot of beer ; and Mrs.
Benjamin entering the shop at the moment he ran at her
and struck her two or three violent blows on the breast.

A constable arriving, he was then given into custody.
The evidence of four constables, whose united efforts
were required to tie the prisoner on a stretcher before
they could convey him to the station house, showed that
be had used the most excessive and brutal violence to-
wards them, kicking and biting like a maniac.
Mr. COMBE said there were few offences that he

should feel more inclined to punish with severity than
that of attempting to threaten or intimidate a juror. He
should sentence the prisoner to pay a fine of 54, or in
default be imprisoned with bard labour for two months;
for the assault on the police he should commit him, with-
out fine, for one month with hard labour; and at the
expiration of those two terms of imprisonment he must
find bail to be of good behaviour for three months.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. Charles Bindley, who was formerly in extensive
business as a silk manufacturer, in Chapel-street, Spital-
fields, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, for
final examination, charged with having feloniously in-
termarried with Ann Dewyss, he having, as alleged, two
other wives then and still living.
Mr. Stammer, the barrister, appeared as counsel for
the defence, and a solicitor attended to watch the case
on behalf of a creditor who had obtained judgment upon
a debt incurred by the last wife, to the amount of 1401.
It appeared tllat as police-constable Jones, G 159, was
on duty in High-street, Shoreditch, on that day se'nnight,
he was accosted by a young man, named Dewyss, who
informed him that the prisoner, about six weeks since,
had contracted marriage with his aunt, a widow, carry-
ing on business in the silk trade, in Church-street,
Shoreditch, and, that it was well known that he had

already two other wives, who were both living, he
wished to give him into custody on a charge of
bigamy. While they were in conversation, he observed
the prisoner approaching with a carpet bag in his
hand, and accompanied by a young woman, also
equipped for travelling; and his informant intimated
that the latter was the second wife, with whom the pri-
soner was about to leave the country. The prisoner was
thereupon taken into custody, and on learning the charge
against him, he stated that the object of the prosecution
was to procure his arrest, on account of debts incurred
by the young man's aunt, and that he would at once
admit the criminal charge, rather than satisfy the de-
mands of her creditor. After he had been locked up in
the cell, the prisoner further acknowledged that he had
a wife living at Nuneaton, in Warwickshire ; that he
had also been subsequently married to another woman
at Shoreditch Church, and finally to Mrs. Dewyss, at
Stepney Church, in the preceding month. On learning
these facts, the constable proceeded in quest of the
second wife, but in making inquiries at the house of her
aunt, he was informed that she had purposely absented
herself to avoid the alternative of appearing as a witness
against the prisoner.
On being asked if he wished to offer any answer to
the charge, the prisoner merely replied that he was
bound to admit its correctness.
The MAGISTRATE, therefore, ordered him to be re-
manded for a week, to enable the police to produce the
necessary evidence to substantiate the case.
The constable Jones now stated that he had used his
best efforts to discover and procure the attendance of
the requisite witnesses, but had been wholly unsuc-
cessful, and was consequently unable to carry the case
any further.
Mr. BINGHAM said that the prisoner had been detained
in custody solely in consequence of his own voluntary
avowal of his alleged criminality, but as no direct testi-
mony had been brought forward to support the accusa-
tion, he must order him to be at once discharged.
Mr. Stammers then addressed the magistrate, and be-
sought his intervention to prevent the arrest of the Re-
alised at the suit of his wife's creditors, in the purlieus
of the court, as he understood that several sheriffs'
officers were waiting to effect his caption the instant he
left the bar.
Mr. BINGHAM said, he presumed the sheriffs' officers
must be aware that persons in custody were entitled to
protection on their discharge from a court of justice
until they reached their own homes; but it was a matter
in which he had no power to interfere, and must leave
the officers to act upon their own discretion and re-
sponsibility.
On his liberation' the prisoner was surrounded by a
large crowd of his friends, who escorted him along the
passages to the street, where a body of his partisans to
the number of nearly one hundred, had also assembled
to accelerate his escape, but the instant he made his
appearance, he was pounced upon by two bailiffs, and
hurried unceremoniously into a cab, in which he was
driven rapidly off to a place of durance.
Owen Murrell, a respectable looking man, was finally
examined upon a charge of embezzling 251. belonging to
the Skein Silk Dyers' Society, Spitalfields, he being the
secretary.
Mr. Turner appeared for the society, and Mr. Heri-
tage for the prisoner.
The facts proved were, that in June last the commit-
tee of trustees decided on investing 251. in the Three per
Cents., and the prisoner was by vote intrusted to effect
the investment, for which purpose Mr. Ansell, the trea-
surer, paid 251. into his hands. He afterwards intimated
that he had done as required, and was to go to the bank
at a future time for the Stock receipt ; but, suspicion
arising, he was questioned, and, instead of attending the
next meeting of the society, he sent a letter, in which
he stated that he went to the bank bona fide to invest
the money in June, but found the bank books closed for
that particular stock until the 19th of July, and being at
the time in pressing difficulties himself, he was tempted
to make use of the money, in the hope of being able to
replace it before the required time.
Mr. Heritage attempted to set up a case of partnership
on the part of the prisoner, but the magistrate overruled
the objection, and committed the prisoner for trial. He,
however, consented to admit him to bail.
MARYLERONE.
A MILITARY THIEF.--Henry Riley, a drummer be-
longing to the Ist Regiment of Grenadier Guards, was
placed at the bar, charged with having stolen a horse
and light cart, value 301., the property of Samuel At-
kinson, 12, Manchester-street, Gray's Inn-road, and
also, with stealing two military great coats.
It appeared from the evidence that, about 8 o'clock on
the evening of the 2nd instant, the prosecutor brought
a set of skittles and bowls for the detachment of
Grenadier Guards at present occupying the above-
named barracks, when the sergeant-major and Mr.
Atkinson went to the canteen, the sergeant-major to
get change, and Mr. Atkinson to receive the money.
The prisoner taking advantage of Mr. Atkinson's ab-
sence, jumped into the cart, put on Mr. Atkinson's
great coat, which was in the cart, and drove out of the
barracks at a great rate, without being noticed. At a
little after ten o'clock he was taken into custody by
police-sergeaut 17, H. division, in Rosemary-lane, while
offering to sell a regimental great-cost, when, on the
sergeant searching him, ho found he had three military
great coats, which be had stolen before he left the
barracks. The sergeant sent for an escort from the
Mint guard, where the prisoner was confined, and the
sergeant of police afterwards found he had been offer-
ing the horse and cart for sale. He was immediately
taken from the Mint-guard, and conveyed to the Den-
mark-street station-house, and a report was sent on the
following morning (Saturday) to his commanding
officer, Sir John Burgoyne, who ordered the whole case
to be brought before the civil authorities. The de-
fendant is a most notorious character,
In the absence of some important evidence, the pri-
soner was remanded until Thursday.
BRUTAL ASSAULT.—On SOUTHWARK
Saturday the Rev. William
Langley, and Mr. John Lockhart, of Walham-green, were
charged before Mr. Seeker with coMmitting violent as-
saults on David Davis, a porter in the employ of Messrs.
Betts, distillers, of Smithfield-bars' in one of the third-
The complainant,
class carriages of the Greenwich Railway.
who exhibited marks of severe
punishment about the head and face, stated that he got
into a third-class carriage at Greenwich, to come to
London, on the preceding
night. The defendants were
in the same carriage, and perceiving one of them (Lock-
hart) smoking, he said that probably he was not aware
of the rules against smoking cigars. The defendant
called him an impudent scoundrel, and he in return said
that if there was any
impudence attached to it, he was
as impudent as a Frenchman. The moment he said the
words, Mr. Lockhart rushed at him seized his collar,
and struck him in the face, and he fell down. On rising
to defend himself from further violence, he was attacked
by Mr. Langley, who struck him over the head with a
stick, and cut him severely. He added that he called
out " Police," and the train just got to the Deptford-
station when the assaults were committed on him.
Thomas-Rockliffe, awitness, living at Whitechapel,
corroborated the complainant's evidence, and said he did
nut hear him use the language attributed to him by Mr.
Lockhart.
Inspector Maddock,
of the railway police, stated he
heard the cries of the complainant for assistance on the
arrival of the train at Deptford, and saw the complainant
lying on the floor of the carriage, with the blood flowing
from his head. He complained that he had been as-
saulted by both the defendants, who were taken into cus-
tody on the arrival of the train at the terminus.
Baker, a policeman, stated that on taking the de-
fendaaknetrs, to the station-house, one of them (Langley)
expressed a deka) to grudge the Whir with the VAIL*