The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

THURSDAY

EVENING, OCTOBER 23, lB5l.

Jackson eventually declined to give up the name of
that person.
In his cross-examination the witness said that Falk-
ner, who was in bad health, had occupied Ivy Cottage
three months before this transaction. He had gone
with a horse and chaise to bring Falkner's wife from
Kingston gaol, on the expiration of her imprisonment
for the assault upon the officers at the time when her
husband had made his escape at Ivy Cottage. Falk-
ner accompanied him on that occasion.

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John Gunn, sergeant i❑ the police, G 8, said that
after the first examination he had gone to Jackson's,
and upon entering into conversation with him that
person said, " I suppose you came about Falkner's
business." His reply to this remark was, " I un-
derstand he bought the goods of you." Jackson
thereupon added, " I suppose Falkner told you so."
The witness said " No; I don't care so much about
the selling, but what I want you to tell me is, who
the thief is on Mr. Simpson's premises." Jackson re-
plied, " I did sell it to him, but as to the other ques-
tion, I shall think about it." A day was appointed
for him to see Jackson again, but on the 21st of June
he met him by chance in Leather-lane, when he
asked him if be had considered the matter. Jackson
said, "If Falkner comes it on me it will be all the
worse for him ; but as ha has not, why should I bother
about the other poor devil ?"
Mr. PARRY, on behalf of Falkner, admitted that
his client had been guilty of egregious folly in telling
a wilful untruth, by at first denying that he had sold
the foil to Usher, and then in keeping out of the way;
but he submitted that his conduct subsequently was
an ample atonement for those acts of foolishness.
At the time that Falkner had effected his escape
from the officers he had been for some period
in very ill health, and therefcre it was by no
means improbable but that his subsequent conceal-
ment had been the result of fear and timidity. When
that feeling, however, had subsided, the prisoner had
come forward like an honest man to meet the charge,
and had not merely challenged Jackson to tell the
truth, but had brought forward evidence to corrobo-
rate his own statement upon the subject. It was im-
possible to doubt that Falkner's original denial of
having sold the foil to Usher had been the result of
Jackson's threat when applied to by him to confirm
his statement of the fact.

Mr. BALLANTINE then made an eloquetitaddress in
favour of Jackson.

The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence with
great minuteness. _

The jury consulted for twenty minutes, and then
returned a verdict of Not Guilty, as to both prisoners
upon the count charging them with the theft, but
they found Jackson Guilty of receiving the foil know-
ing it to have been stolen, and Acquitted Falkner on
that count.

The Learned JUDGE said he fully concurred in this
verdict, and he hoped it would be a warning to Falk-
ner not again to purchase goods in an unfinished
state without making the inquiry. With respect to
Jackson, he entertained not the least doubt but that
he well knew the person from whom he had received
the foil, and that he was a workman ; nor did he doubt
that he had had other transactions with the same man.
What the Learned Counsel for that prisoner had said
was perfectly true, namely, that if his client were
found guilty, such a vercict would send him out of
the country, and most certainly it would do so ; for
that Court would in all cases where receivers were
convicted, visit them with transportation, for the re-
ceivers were the great abettors of crime and produced
more than one-half of the thefts which were com-
mitted. The sentence upon the prisoner was, trans-
portation for ten years.
The trial occupied the whole of the day, and the
court was most uncomfortably crowded from the com-
mencement until its termination.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREE7.
Thomas Robert Mellish, manager, and James
Douglas, clerk, to the Patent Silvering Glass Com-
pany, in Berners-street, were brought up on a second
charge of conspiring together to defraud the com-
pany. The previous charge against the prisoners, on
which they stand committed, was for forging and
uttering certain receipts for money with intent to de-
fraud the company.
The case yesterday took the form of a charge of
conspiracy against both prisoners, it being alleged
that they had for a length of time acted in concert
in charging a higher amount of wages to the com-
pany than the actual amounts received by the work-
men. Mellish, as manager, had the hiring of the
workmen and the settling of the rate of wages they
were to receive ; Douglas, as Mellish's clerk, had the
paying of the workmen, the money being given to
him by the cashier on production of the wages-book.
Mellish had constant access to the book, and, as it
was subsequently discovered that the rate of wages
to the workmen was entered in the book at a higher
figure than the sums actually received by them, a
charge of conspiracy was made against both in con-
sequence of the largeness of the amount fraudulently
abstracted from the company, exceeding 3,0001., it
being inferred that Mellish, from his position as ma-
nager, must have been cognizant of what was going
on, notwithstanding Douglas had declared himself to
be the only guilty party.
Charles Case, silver mounter, in the employ of the
company, said he was engaged at the wages of 225. a
week. He was ill for seven weeks this year, during
which period he was away from work, receiving no
wages. In the wages-book a sum amounting to 71.
was entered, as if paid to him during the time of his
illness. He had not received any such sum.
Benjamin Dean, the cashier, proved that he paid
the prisoner Douglas the amount entered in the
wages-book as having been received by the last
witness.
Samuel Perry, another workman, had been hired
by Mellish at 203. a week. Afterwards got a rise to
225. On the 22d of August last saw the wages. book
open, and noticed that he was down as receiving 245.
a-week. Gave information to his employers, which
led to an investigation, and the subsequent apprehen-
sion of the prisoners.
Mr. Dean proved that he paid Douglas at the rate
of 245. a week for the last witness.
The prisoners reserved their defence and were fully
committed on this charge.
Eliza Cochrane was charged on suspicion of having
been concerned with her husband in stealing 300 sove-
reigns, one 201. bank-note, six 5/. notes, 800 francs
in French money, and three notes of 100 francs each,
the property of Mr. P. Duvelleray, fan maker, 167.
Regent -street.
The prosecutor said the prisoner's husband was in
his employ as porter. On Tuesday evening he ab-
sconded, and immediately afterwards the property
above enumerated was missed. The prisoner's lodg-
ings were searched, and some small articles belonging
to him were found.
Police-constable Jarman, C 34, said he went to the
prisoner's lodgings yesterday, and found her with her
boxes packed up, and herself dressed ready to go out.
She told him her husband had gone out, and would be
back in half an hour. She said her husband desired
her to pack up, as his uncle was ill, and they must go
into the country directly. 'Witness waited half an
hour, and then took the prisoner to the station-house,
as there were articles of property in the lodgings iden-
tified by the prosecutor.
The prisoner said, all she knew was that her hus-
band told her to pack up everything by the time he
came home.—Remanded.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Richard Morgan and William George Stewart, and
a middle-aged woman named Eliza Roberts, the two
former well known to the police as practised utterers
of base coin, were placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyn-
court upon numerous charges of the same description.
The female prisoner's plan of operations was appa-
rently confined to defrauding surgeons, upon one of
whom, a Mr. Sweetman, a surgeon hi St. John-street,
she called, and after purchasing a powder or pills,
tendered base money in payment. The fraudulent
coin was detected, and the prisoner transferred to
Clerkenwell Police-court, but as neither the Mint nor
the magistrates like to commit or prosecute for a
single offence, which may possibly be purely accidental,
she was discharged withont punishment, and a few
days afterwards favoured Mr. Baker, a surgeon in
Dorchester-place, New North-road, with a visit of a
similar character, and again passed counterfeit coin
upon him also. In this case she was likewise de-
tected and given into custody, and, the spurious coin
having been fortunately preserved by the officer in
the first charge, although she had been temporarily
liberated upon it, she was now committed upon both
charges.
Morgan and Stewart appeared to act upon much
the same plan, though somewhat different from the
woman's ; Morgan called at a wine-merchant's ware-
house on Oxford-terrace, Mile-end, and, ordering a
quantity of refined spirits, tendered a base five-shilling
piece in payment. The coin was pronounced to be
bad by the merchant's clerk, Mr. Joy, but the pri-
soner, with much effrontery, declared it to be good,
and demanded his full change. Finding that he was
likely, however, to be intrusted to the care of an
officer if he stopped, he suddenly sneaked out and
took rapidly to his heels, and was next heard of at the
house of a baker in Whitechapel, of whom he had or-
dered a loaf, and tendered bad money in payment.
Green and Macintosh, constables of the H
produced both the fraudulent coins, and Morgan and
Stewart, who had pursued so precisely the same
course as to excite some suspicion that they acted in
concert, and the latter with so much apparent since-
rity and ingenious indignation at such practises that
be nearly escaped detection in one instance, were
jointly committed to Newgate for trial upon four
other charges.

CLERKEN WELL.
Thomas Mansfield, a low, ruffianly looking fellow,
was charged with having assaulted and wounded Mary
Mansfield, his own mother, residing in Cromer-street,
St. Pancras.

Crebo, 41, g division, said that on Tuesday night,

at about a quarter to ten o'clock, he was on duty in
Cromer-street, when the prisoner's mother came to
witness bleeding profusely from a wound near her
throat, and her ear was nearly bit off. She informed
him that the prisoner returned home and demanded
money of her, and on refusing to let him have it, he
attacked her in a brutal manner and inflicted the in-
juries on her person with a knife. Witness instantly
went and took the prisoner into custody, and locked
him up, after a desperate resistance, in which he
fought, bit, and kicked at witness, and he was now
suffering severe pain from the violence of the prisoner.
The witness added that the prisoner was an idle,
skulking, profligate fellow, who had frequently been
in custody, and imprisoned for similar assaults upon
him, and he had only just been released from the
House of Correction, where he had been confined two
months under a conviction for having stabbed his
sister. His mother had her wounds dressed by a
surgeon, but on this, as on other occasions, she de-
clined making her appearance to prosecute.
Mr. COMBE, however, determined on hearing the
whole of the case, and deciding on the charge of as-
sault upon the constable.
Mr. COMBS—What have you to say to the charge ?
Prisoner (sullenly)—Nothing.
Mr. COMBS sentenced him to one month's im-
prisonment, with hard labour, in the House of Cor-
rection.

Clara Therling, the young woman who was charged
with attempting suicide by cutting her throat with a
penknife, and remanded, was again placed at the bar
before Mr. Tyrwhitt for final examination. It will
be recollected that the prisoner was housemaid in the
service of Mr. Smith, of Palatine-house, Stoke New-
ington. She exhibited obstinacy of temper, and im-
pertinently refused to obey the orders of Miss Smith,
her young mistress, when she received notice to quit
her situation, and she was subsequently found in her
bedroom with her throat cut, having inflicted a wound
with a penknife, and her person was covered with
blood. A doctor was called in and he dressed the
wound, and she was given into custody.
The prisoner's mother, a respectable looking woman,
attended in grief.

Mr. TYRW- HITT, in a feeling address to the pri-
soner, said it was a most lamentable and melancholy
thing to find a decent girl like the prisoner making
such a rash attempt upon her life. He did hope dur-
ing her imprisonment she had reflected upon the
wickedness of the act she had committed, and would
shun such an attempt in future and go home with her
mother.

The prisoner said she had reflected properly on
her offence; she was very sorry, and would not re-
peat it.

Mr. TYnwßlTT—Then go home with your mother,
I shall discharge you now ; and keep to your promise.
She then left with her mother.
SOUTHWARK.

Joseph Nye was charged with wilfully administer-
ing poison to Ann Godding.
Sergeant Wright, M division, stated that the
woman Godding was so seriously ill from the effects
of the poison alleged to have been administered to her
that she was rendered incapable of attending the exa-
mination, and was at present under medical treat-
ment. The sergeant then proceeded to state, that
from information he received on the previous day re-
specting the affair, he went to the prisoner's lodgings
and found that he was absent. He (the sergeant),
however, waited about the neighbourhood and suc-
ceeded in taking him into custody late on the previous
night. When he apprised the prisoner of the nature
of the charge against him, and said that it was for
administering poison to Ann Godding, his answer
was—" Oh, it was only done in a lark. There were
others in the room when it occurred, and no harm
was intended." The circumstances attending the
offence with which the prisoner is charged occurred
on Monday ; on which day, about two o'clock, the
prisoner called at the woman Godding's lodgings, in
Delf-street, Kent-street. On entering the room
where she was, he took a raspberry tart out of his
pocket, and, offering it to her, invited her to take it.
She at first refused, but upon his pressing her she
was at length induced to comply, and in his
presence partook of the greater part of it.
The prisoner remained there, and in about
half-an-hour after she had eaten the tart he
asked her how she felt. She replied that she felt
nausea or sickness at the stomach, and a nasty taste
in her mouth. His remark to that was, " You will
feel a good deal worse before you are better ;" and
then added, " I have only given you a Spanish fly
and a half." Soon afterwards she became so alarm-
ingly ill that the people in the house were compelled
to send for a medical gentleman, who pronounced that
she was labouring under the effects of cantharides,
and if immediate steps had not been take❑ to neutra-
lise the effects of the poison, there was little doubt
but it would have proved fatal. As it was, the poor
woman was much debilitated from the quantity she
had taken, but was considered much better, and would
be enabled to attend the next examination.

Mr. BINGHAM asked the prisoner whether he wished
to say anything in answer to the alleged charge,
which was one of a very serious nature ? The priso-
ner replied that at present he should decline making
any defence, and he was remanded.