The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.) sWO ill'
A young man named Thomas Henry Thorne-
of loves,
dieted for stealing a coat, handkerchief; a
ir if 13,71.i5 All
and other articles, the property of' Mr. vvtl3',J ~,,..ro'Sut
tailor, carrying on business in Union-place, .I'e
Mftrylebone. :,. Appeared
From the statement of the prosecutor, 11. ,lonte ill
that on the 27th of January last, he returnee web be
the afternoon, and took off his great-cost' Iva to the
placed en a chair in the shop, and then retir owe
00 c
back of the premises. Mrs. Harris beard:T:7o,i: she
into the shop, and on going to ascertain
to g r.
there found the prisoner, who said be wished
his epees
Harris an order. On the prosecutor milking and said 1
ance, the prisoner pretended to know him,t: op, 013
was desirous of having some cloth tell-Tiesa If;;
furnish, ike to get a list of his prices. yked
Web
d to him, . upon which be rens' od Web
were extremely moderate, and that he vi°,- osecut°r
the cloth next day and get the r 'After be
to make him a coat and a pair of trowsere., —several
left, the prosecutor missed the coat as "'el' as
ie3n3"
articles contained in the pocket, and ansPici°ll • e to
chately fell upon the prismer, as he had emPle time
,outor 6
hand it out to a companion during the p,°l; to the
absence from the shop. Ir. Ilva 'fortnight
police respecting the robbery;
and
abnuustody, who°
afterwards the prisoner was taken into ,It further or
the identical coat waa found upoe him' different times
forznation wits .
pared that various other articles bad at.
be
'absence for
frequently called during the
the prosccutor s a 011
i on business. .
been abstracted from shop, and that the prisoner btod
purpose, as he pretended, of seeing h.° d loitering
the,e occasions another young man was observe
cutside end peeping through the window. .
__;dence
For the defence it was contended that the
the par
did not sufficiently identify .
who stole the coat.
Tt,e • RECORDER then summed up. our re"
The jury bad notgiven in their verdict when
port le t. g the prisoner as tne r

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MANSION-HOUSE.-(THIS - .5,'
IA
Agnes Gay, the young girl who 'vas broug door ,
,
-ew days ago on a charge of attempting wg. op
herself, was again brought up this morning
Lord bei°g
Mayor. I it beg
It will be remembered that the young
home seven weeks ego without any apparent notisevtioli 0
as it subsequently appeared, had been living . 9.05
young man, but had attempted to drown herself ill
of repentance. ego ehe
The LORD MAYOR now said that, since the L,,, bed •
had been last before Vim, the FeLtiale Aid Sowe'vgo- '
offered to take charge of her if she were willing rrientli
The prisoner said she wished to go home if '—
would receive her. he $llO
Ann Gay, the prisoner'd sister, said that 0—
thtoe 38.oauyngthaintanho
willing to receive her, but her husband was not• he
bed
girl e sok
A young man stepped forward, and said thAtri.l had
been living
been sent by
marry her tif,,Fr a short time. " Fer
to be
The LOUD MAYO saidme. direct her
h he should „ eat,
withp whoreattlxbeivgdiog to
taken care
of in the C W dunsuN $o
ompter until e t conr6°
when he wc'ild decide what would be the beat
be pursued with her.

THE CASE OP MR. .L.JI-
- the purpose
evening in the il etsAltOP.
meeting, consist'
live mg chiefly of representatives thet
etiovo
s.B
,printers, bookbinderandother trades in w last
mu; JAMES ..--A- be opera.
It , and the a s,
ecretaries of trade societiee, w,,...tee.latie,
school-roorn, in NovNevill's-court, Fetter- asist"
once to AI measuresfor r il in
difficult' r. James Luke Hansard and his ism Y' es'
les they are encountering. The vvorking classes, se.
of devising enderin,e . the
pecialy
those
have taken gof last night .
up the subject, I .
and the meeting . te house '
csonosreqnent upon one that had been held in a priva
__ ow
connected with printing and the bo.oh, !regain;
suk t time before, and at which it was deternsined,soily
a subscriptions for the benefit of Mr. Hansard and th:s. area-
pe vere: acbnaydu sinemaoif:ecthaliadrwi
pledging
tuinclong the working classes who desired to shori,t',,bo.ol,l
less benevolence and generosity," and his "ree lesion, P.rr
sard, ctayhredas d returng
doo i
dsne
wct
ohoner
dki re
ds p.,0., vvb
yeAr
Irj., forr r:10,4;a7t
e.tiionace 1;;
i.:
therm •
eeing to raise subscriptions ehition•
was passed unanimously; and by another re:...etically.
committee was appointed to carry out the object paling on
Several respectable operatives addressed the °on of the
those two resolutions, expressing their grateful se i.ct in the
obligations due by the working classes to Mr. galieere uteceA
time of prosperity, and their anxiety to aid him to fr'
of their power in his day of misfortune. the
There is no dungeon so dark and dismalils
mean man's mind.- Eliza Cook's Journal.
~,,, Tb°
NEW GAOL FOR THE COUNTY or Sting--• ,f sur-
new prison new in course of erection for the counti," a few'
rey is fast approaching to completion, and will told and
months be fit for the, reception of inmates. The ib shays(
most commanding aspect, resembling
extensive outline, combined with the isolated an o .„,i
site (Wandsworth-common) upon which it stands, gl' smell
town. The area enclosed within the walls ls no less_o,.
13 acres, and the building, designed by Mr. Hill, a Birm7o
ham, architect, is of an irregular pentagonal foror6oo
greatest length being 1,000 feet, and the greatest dePtestinl
feet. The style is plain and simple, executed in substr..er
brickwork, with stone dressings, quoins, cornices, the 1,,_`..„
of Crauford stone (a beautiful specimen of granite),
whole
of
quarries on the Duke of Devonshire's estate. The wlreslrs.
the building is constructed with t Wit)" hY IS` f
grea so flreproo •
Locke and Nh es am, the contractors, and is entirely each
in anpearance II
than
It is calculated for 700 prisoners including 165 females,o7o
of whom will have a separate cell, 13 feet by 7 feet
sod farce
in height, fitted with io
with Pentonville and othermodern gaols. There will b ,_111',,,
chiding those for reception and punishment, 747 of!Moh cteent
the floors of the latter laid with Orsi and ATTClani P
's
sates
metallic lava. The other arrangements for magistr
vej
room, officers' apnrtments, &c., are of the most appros„."
conetruction, and the chsrel, arranged for 391 separates° il.,s
Sings, is spacious and airy. The flooring of this and _ 0'..:
other parts of the building is laid with alternate red and Diun
Staffordshire tiles, which give to the whole a plensleg ai[r;
accoras
_,
pearance. The kitchen, cooking apparatus, laundry, o'c,.i the
quite detached from the main body of the building, e' t.
whole structure is warmed and ventilated by the refrieg,,,
ing system, as at Pentonville. The plan of the building %
without deforming the original design, admit of extension '
as to accommodate I,ooe prisoners.
f, the
THE DETkcrivE BLOODHOUND.—The fell she
0f
pnechase of the bloodhound by the Lincoln Association fife,
that whilst seventy sheep were slaughtered in the Association
bourhood of the city during the first two months of last ,ea't
not Six have been slaughtered during the first two PF
mouths of the present s ear. The dog is kept in good traig;
log; and several persons have joined the association, for the
purpose of enabling them to avail themselves of its eery
iCee /
cos of need.—kincolnehire runes.

I the articles she had purchased. This circumstance excited
the. , ,uselei.ets &Lid it would seem Let
reesett, to directly she got outside the shop
the priateaer ran up a'ainat her and snatching the
parse frera her hand took to his heels. She par
Sued him and called out " Stop thief " lustily,
but it was all to no purpose, as he managed to get far
away ahead of her, and to escape down a court, leading
out of Yoik-street, Caaiden. town, where she lost sight
of him. She, hoe-ever, gave information to the police,-
describing his person as closely as she could, and la the
course of a week he was arrested in a coffee-house, a few
lards from the emallware shop iu High-street. lie
denied all knosvlodge of the robbery, and protested that
he ha:! not been to the shop on the Tuesday previous,
bat he was first taken to the shop, where the shores°
recognised him as the man whom be served lady's
e
time Mrs. Mtlls was present, and then to the
rezidezice Georgietea-street, when she at once
and without hesitation, idaetified him as the thief-
ills
should be mentioned on cross•exerniaation Mrs. M
admitted that on the night of the robbery she mistook a
greengrocer's led for the cffeeder, and gave him i„tc°l
custody, but on investigation it turned cut to be ais
ad
and the lad was of course liberated. It was
dark when the robbery was committed, but there
was a " young moon" up at the time, and Mrs. Mills'
was thus enabled to see the features of the thief, wh°l33
sho had no doubt whatever was the prisoner at the barci
Mr. PAYNE eddrt ssed the jury for the prisoner, ant,e
contended this was a case of mistaken identity, as
evidence he should call would show.
Jane Busts &posed that the lived at N 0.7, Green
laud Ugh- street, Camden-town, a few doors from
tb
the sinallvvare shop, and on the evening of Mends'',
4th of February, she was attracted to the door by a cri
of "Stop thief" when she saw a person run by, fonovve_
by Mrs. Mille. Th,,t parson was not the prisoner a
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the bar, but a young man named Raycroft, who lived l
High-street.
Cross-examined—l know Raycroft; I saw him
Vibe
night. 1 gave no information of Raycroft to
police. I never saw the prisoner before to-day.
By the COURT—I am a married woman, and With
.
y brothiegi
my husba, d, who is a boot and shoe maker.
ran alter tha thief. The police came to us and ibquir id
about the robbers, but neither I nor my
anything of Raycroft, because my brother did not 10.1
that Raycroft was the person he had followed, though!:
avec(
h,(l told him that I thought Rayeroft was the
Still when the police asked him if he knew anYth,iiiihg,ol
the thief he only said he did not, and I stood by W "7;0
brother sa_
contradicting that, but allowed the police to go.- •
without even mentioning: Rayeroft's name.
not the
Another witness swore that the prisoner was
man. bIrS.
A boy, named John Moon, stated that he saw 111
Mills running atter the thief, and bad SU °PP° et
ntty of seeing the features of that person.
wes not he.
'
By the CounT—Who was it?—Why, John •—a)c 20?
How old is he?—Well, I &ea% know. Is he 50 a
_I,
About 0
—Well, I think he's 20. How tall is be?—O no'
-
tal as
I the prisoner. Is he like the •
prison •
he's
light, and hiss had his hair cut short since the rob-
he's
the man ?—Yes,
bery. Did you ever say to the police that lialerlfit, the
The prison
I did, and be was took up. is this
thel,° the
first time you have seen the prisoner?—what'
es, this is
gentleman there. Yes, he at the bar?—Y
first time I have seen him. And he's not tb.t:kanuown
No, its John Raycroft. How long have ears Or
him?—What, John Raycroft? Yes.-ob, fogr Ye"'
more.

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This was the defence for the prisoner. . the de'
fence
Mr. BALLANTINE replied, and contended that ,_..1
therence was a i,lannA affair from beginning
wag this dif et in the • did not oc1)1 .4
matter, it
r u*"
where the ' prisoner was at the time the robbe.,.
committed, or during the owning of the 4th of Fab:lle
whol LORD CHIEF JUSTICE carefully etrd.
e evidence. In the course of his address his vase
ship deprecated in very strong terms the Prtac„p
adopted in to ead;
iuttujo
wholly unacquainted
this case, of a non-professional !Till;
Courr,and
with the law and practice
_.,„.
nut placed under its restrictions, being 7,,
pioyed to get up the defence of a prisoner, and &gar!
rney. By
counsel to accept a brief without the intervention of in
gisttoll
a prisoner
of getting
jeopardised, but there was legs be for the
shown in
The jury returned
this practice net only was the interes! u.
resorting to perjury end falsehood,
purpose • verdict
verdict
tf
ogvautlititiatyl..
eats.
Ile was sentenced to imprisonment for two