The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

Friday night last, where he found the prisoner's wife in
the arms of another woman, bleeding from a dreadful
wound in or near her left eye. She said her husband
had done it, upon which he apprehended him. He had
been drinking.
As the wife refused to appear, he was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
William Locock was charged with stealing three 51.
Bank of England notes, the property of Mr. Henry
Renaud, prorietor of Limmer's Hotel, Conduit-street,
and Thomas Harper and George Hawkins were charged
with being parties to the offence.
Mr. Henry Renaud said the prisoner Locoek had been
in his employ as under-porter for about sixteen months.
On the 3d of September he gave the prisoner a letter
directed to Miss Renaud, at the Belle Vue Hotel, Bangor,
and he told the prisoner to be careful of the letter, as it
contained money. In the letter were three 51 bank-
notes, the numbers of which he knew. The letter never
reached its destination, and he then communicated with
the police. The three notes were afterwards paid into
the Bank of England.
Miss Renaud, of Willington, Bedfordshire, said her
brother was to have sent her some money in September
last, while she was staying at the Belle Vue Hotel,
Bangor. The letter never reached her.
Inspector Field, of the detective force, said that he
took the prisoner into custody on the 23d of December,
telling him that he was charged with stealing a letter,
which contained three 51. Bank of England notes. The
prisoner voluntarily said, " I'll tell you all about it. I
broke open the letter and I took the notes out. The
next day I met Hawkins, who was living with a news-
vendor named Hutton, in Catherine-street. I told Haw-
kins I had stolen some notes, and I asked him if he
would get them changed for me. He said he would, and
I gave him two 51. notes, and he afterwards returned
eight sovereigns to me, keeping two for himself. I kept
the other 51. note for some time, and then I gave it to
Harper, a cabman, to get changed. I only got ss. out
of the third note." Witness, on this statement, took the
two other prisoners into custody.
William James, junior clerk in the Commercial Bank,
said two of the 51. notes were paid into the bank to Mr.
Hutton's account in September last.
The prisoner Locock repeated the statement he made
to the police officer.
The other two prisoners denied all knowledge of Lo-
cock, and declared they had never received any notes
from him to change.
Locock was ordered to stand committed. The other
prisoners were remanded, to find, if possible, some evi-
dence of their having acted in concert with Locock.
MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday Edward Smith, a well-dressed man, de-
scribed as a chemist, residing in Upper Seymour-street,
Euston-square, was brought up in the custody of Lock-
erby, 180 S, and placed at the bar before Mr. Brough-
ton, on the charge of having forged and uttered two
bills of exchange, one for 1004 and the other for 961.
16s. with intent to defraud Mr. Thomas Hicken, pro-
prietor of extensive saltworks, and who resides at
Droitwich.
Mr. Hsyter, from the firm of Davies, Son, and Camp-
bell, attended on the part of the prosecution.
Lockerby produced a warrant for the apprehension of
the prisoner. He received it on the 6th instant, and it
bore the signature of Sir Robert Price, M.P., a magis-
trate for the county of Hereford; it had been backed by
Mr. Long, one of the magistrates of this court.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Now, what evidence have you to give
in this affair? Lockerby—This morning I was in Seymour-
street, accompanied by Mason, a brother officer, and I
saw the prisoner, of whom I had an exact description, go
into a public-house. He soon afterwards came out, and
after going into No. 67 he walked on towards Oakley-
square. I and Mason followed him, and when he turned
round and saw us he began to run. He made his way
as fast as he could into Ampthill-square, and on my
calling out " Stop thief," he hailed a cab, the driver of
which pulled up; he jumped into the vehicle, being at
the time quite out of breath, and I jumped in too, after
chasing hiss for a considerable distance. I told him he
was the man I wanted, and that I believed his name was
Edward Smith, and the answer he made was, "Yes,
perhaps it might be so." By my direction the cabman
drove him to the Albany-street station-house, where I
read the warrant to him, and he said " Its all very well ;
I'm the man, but it's a conspiracy." He afterwards said
that he ran away because he thought it was a Sheriff's
officer who was following him.
The MAGISTRATE (to the prisoner)—Haee you any-
thing to say in the present stage of the proceeding ? Pri-
soner—l was well aware of this matter, and I know all
the persons connected with it. I was walking with my
wife, and I ran away, thinking that it was a Sheriff 'a
officer who was pursuing me.
The solicitor, in answer to a question from Mr.
BROUGHTON, said that he had no evidence as yet, in proof
of the forging or uttering.
Lockerby said that, by a telegraphic message, the at-
tendance of Mr. Hicken might be looked upon as cer-
tain on the next (this) day.
Upon this understanding the prisoner, who made no
denial of the charge imputed to him, but intimated that
he should be able to prove hie innocence, was remanded.
WESTMINSTER.
Just before the rising of the Court Mrs. Eliza Denman
was brought in custody of the police of the V division,
charged with knocking and ringing at the house of her
husband, Mr. John Denman, 5, Beaufort-street, Chelsea,
without lawful excuse.
Upon the lady being placed at the table before the
magistrate,
Hunt, the chief usher, handed the New Testament, as
usual, to Mr. John Denman, who had entered the wit-
ness box as complainant, but he refused to be sworn.
Mr. BRODERIP observing the delay, inqaired its
cause? The chief usher replied—This gentleman re-
fuses to be sworn, unless upon a Catholic book. I
have offered him the one with the cross upon it.
Mr. BRODERIP—Do you object to that? Mr. Den-
man—l don't object to the cross.
Mr. BRODERIP—What do you object to? Mr. Den-
man—To the contents of the book.
Mr. BRODERIP—HOW? Mr. Denman—This is the
Cambridge edition, and it is not the same as the Ca-
tholic version.
Mr. BRODERIP—You are a Catholic, I presume? Mr.
Denman—Yes, a Catholic—a Roman Catholic.
Mr. BRODERIP—What possible objection can you
have to be sworn on this book? Mr. Denman—l have
the greatest possible objection—that I cannot be bound
by it.
Mr. BRODERIP—I never heard such an objection
made before. It is the authorised edition of the New
Testament, used in all courts of justice in this country,
and I cannot see what difficulty you can have in the
matter. You call God to witness that you are speaking
he truth.

Mr. Denman—My conscience must be satisfied. This
translation is not in accordance with the Roman version.
Mr. BRODERIP Can't you be satisfied by calling God
to witness the truth on the ordinary.book?
Mrs. Denman (with apparent astonishment)—Mr.
Denman, you were educated for a Protestant clergyman.
Mr. Denman—l am a convert to Rmnanism.
Mr. BRODERIP—Do you still refuse to be sworn in the
ordinary way? Mr. Denman—l do.
Mr. BRODERIP —Then there is an end of the case. I
have no other means of swearing; you.
As the police had no charge to prefer against the lady
she was discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Mrs. Mary Verinder, the wife of a trades-
man carrying on extensive business in Crown-street,
Finsbury, was charged upon an information before Mr.
Arnold with having, under the following circumstances,
unlawfully exacted and received a certain sum of money
as an inducement and reward for compounding a felony.
Tne proceedings were of interest, as serving for a
caution to prosecutors in similar cases.
Harbidge, a distressed-looking woman, who
gave her evidence against the defendant with manifest
reluctance, stated that about a week since her daughter
was taken into custody for felony, upon a charge of
stealing some brushes belonging to the defendant's bus-
band, and that after undergoing one examination at this
court she was ordered to be remanded for the com-
pletion of the case. Her daughter was locked up
in one of the cells, and witness, who was in
great distress of mind at so serious a charge being
preferred against her child, waited upon the defendant
at her house with the object of inducing her to take a
lenient view of the matter, when some conversation en-
sued between them, and in the course of it defendant in-
timated that he had no wish to proceed harshly against
her daughter in the case, and was perfectly willing to
abandon the charge altogether, upon condition that she
received full compensation for the value of the stolen
property, which she fixed at half-a-crown.
Witness accordingly handed her that amount, and left
the shop, having been previously assured by the defen-
dant that the money should be returned to her, in the
event of the articles stolen being discovered and re-
stored. On the day appointed for the final examinatione
her daughter was again brought up, but neither the de-
fendant nor her husband appeared to prosecute the case
any further, and the prisoner, in default of their evi-
dence, was accordingly discharged from custody.
When called upon for her answer to the charge, the
defendant said that the witness had certainly given a
correct representation of the transaction as it oceurred,
but she could assure the magistrate that she had been
solely influenced in the course she had pursued by feel-
ings of commiseration fur the acute anxiety and distress
the woman had exhibited on account of her daughter's
position, and that she was not at all aware at the time
she was acting in any other than a very proper and
humane manner.
Mr. ARNOLD, however, told her thet the offence she
had committed was one of a serious description, and
would inevitably, if tolerated, altogether defeat the ends
of justice. She had rendered herself liable both to in-
dictment and severe punishment; but, as he felt satisfied
that in this case she had been solely actuated by feelings
of kindness and humanity towards the prisoner's mother,
ho trusted that the position in which she then found her-
self placed would act as a warning to her for the future
in any similar instance; and he should therefore make
no further example of her than by ordering her to pay
the costs of the present proceedings against her, and
immediately refunding
the money she had so wrongfully
received.
The money was, of course, at once paid, and the de-
fendant thereupon liberated.
A gentleman called at the court, and requested the
reporters to correct a mistake in the notice in the morn-
ing papers of a contribution forwarded for the poor box
by the Amicable Benevolent Society, Bath-street, City-
road, the amount of which should have been stated at
11. 10s., instead of lOs. only.

FATAL RESULT OE A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.In the
Courier of Saturday we recorded the particulars of a fatal
accident which happened to ➢tr. Pearson, of Preston, colliery
owner. The unfortunate gentleman died on Wednesday
morning, at the Clarence Hotel, where he was:removed after
the accident. The body was removed in a shell to Preston
the same evening, and was interred on Friday in Liverpool.
—.Manchester Courier.