The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A youth named John Joseph Stanley, the son of a
solicitor, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry charged
with stealing a silver fork and a silver spoon, of the
value of 30-., the property of Mr. C. Davis, the landlord
of the Kent Hotel, in Brownlow-street, Holborn.
The waiter of the hotel (Charles) proved that between
one and two o'clock On Wednesday last the prisoner
went i❑ and ordered a rump-steak, with ale, &c., for his
dinner, and paid for the same while partaking of it.
Shortly after he had left the room witness (on na )ving a
newspaper which had been thrown over a portion of the
table) missed the articles of plate in question, and com-
municated his suspicions to his employer, by whose
direction he then waited upon the pawnbrokers in the
neighbourhood. At length witness found that the spoon
and fork had been pledged, by a person answering the
prisoner's description, at the shop of Mr. Hedges, 135,
Drury-lane, for 205., where it appeared that the prisoner
had been repeatedly a visitor, having been in the habit
of pawning spoons, forks, and other property of various
kinds in the name of his father. When the prisoner next
made his appearance at the shop to pledge a coat he was
detained until the arrival of a constable, and then given
into custody.
Mr. HENRY expressed his opinion that the pawn-
broker should have exercised more caution in dealing
with a youth like the prisoner, as the encouragement thus
given to possessors of stolen property often led to the
commission of felony.
Mr. Hedges said that the representation of the youth
that he was sent by his father, and his apparent respect.
ability, disarmed suspicion.
Mr. HENRY remarked that the initials on the plate
might have induced him to suspect that all was not right.
The pawnbroker said that the prisoner gave him to
understand that the real name of his father and himself
had not been disclosed.

Sergeant Thompson said there were a great many
other charges of a similar nature against the prisoner, but
the complaining parties were not in attendance.
The prisoner (who was charged at this court, on a
former occasion, with robbing his father of some bank-
notes, but was discharged by the prosecution being with-
drawn) was then remanded for further examination.

Charles Scheinater:iGerman, was charged with a
similar robbery of plate from the dining-rooms of Mr.
Simpson, of the Strand.
In this case the detection of the thief was entirely at-
tributable to the pawnbroker, Mr. Tate, of No. 1,
Ca mbridge.str€et, Golden-square, who proved that the
prisoner brought him two silver spoons and forks, hav-
ing Mr. Simpson's name engraved upon them, and that,
consequently, he called in a policeman and gave him
into custody.
The property was identified, and it was further proved
teat the prisoner had given se yore] conflicting accounts
of the way in which he had become possessed of it.
Mr. HENRY remanded him for a week.

Michael Donoghue, the son of a porter employed in the
office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, and who used to assist his father in carrying
coals to the different apartments of the house, was
charged with stealing a 101. note and other money, be-
longing to Mr. W. C. Higgins, a gentleman employed
in the oilier?.

The boy confessed that he opened the desk in which
the prosecutor had placed a considerable sum of money,
and stole a lot note, a sovereign, and 125., expending the
greater part of it in purchasing a silver watch and chain
anti a 'et of studs, which he directed the constable to
fetch from a room in Seven-dials, where be had secreted
them.—Committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. James Cootie, a licensed-victualler in Church-
street, Shoreditch, was brought up before Mr. Hammill,
in the custody of Fitzgerald, the warrant-officer, charged
with the following violent assault upon his wife, and
subjecting her to s long-continued course of ill.
tre4twint,

It appeared from the evidence of the wife, a delicate-
looking woman, who was in such a state of agitation
and debility as to bo obliged to be seated while giving
her testimony, that she had been married about four
years to the defendant, who had almost ever since sub-
jected her to systematic harshness and cruelty. At the
time of her marriage she possessed considerable property,
the greater part of which had been expended in establish-
ing him in business, but he had, notwithsthnding, been
in the constant habit of persecuting and annoying her
for the purpose of getting the remainder of her money
into his possession. Her health had been so much im-
paired by this treatment that she was obliged on Wed-
nesday to go to bed, but bad scarcely got into the room
when she was followed by the defendant, who threatened
to murder her unless she gave up every farthing she
had in her possession, aud, without waiting for an an-
swer, struck her a terrible blow on the head, and instantly
followed it up by a furious kick in the side. Her screams
brought up the servant and a female friend to her assist-
ance, who rescued her from further violence, and after
hastily dressing herself she stealthily left the house and
hurri,.d to this court for a magistrate's protection. Her
life was in immiuent danger from the defendant's vio-
lence, and she felt sati,fied that he would have fulfilled
his repeated threats of murdering her, had he not been
prevented.
The defendant generally denied all that was alleged
against him, and declared that the chief cause of his
wife's unhappiness was her own jealous and supicious
disposition.
Mr. HAMMILL, however, said he felt it his duty to
inflict upon him the highest amount of penalty he could
impose, namely, 51, or in default he must stand com-
mitted to the House of Correction for two months, and
be should also, in addition, require him to put in his own
recognisances to the amount of 2001., and provide two
substantial sureties of 751 each, for his peaceable con-
duct towards his wife for the succeeding six months.
LAMBETH.

On Saturday evening, after the other charges had been
disposed of, Frederick William (alias Captain) Routledge,
was placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norfont for
further examination, on a charge of obtaining from Mr.
Johnson, a glass manufacturer at St. Helen's, Lanca-
shire, the sum of 2131. 165., by fraud, and also with
being concerned in carrying on a most extensive system
of swindling. On taking his place at the felons' bar, the
prisoner, addressing Mr. Norton, begged that he might
be allowed the privilege of a seat during the examina-
tion, saying that since his apprehension he had been
under medical treatment, and was then exceedingly un-
well. Mr. Norton at once acceded to his request, and
the prisoner, who seemed exceedingly ill, and appeared
but the mere shadow of what ho had been when taken
into custody, was accommodated with a seat.
A clerk from the office of Mr. Games attended to
watch the proceedings on behalf of the prisoner, and
during the examination the court was as much crowded
as on the former examinations.
Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P division,
who, with two of his officers, Sergeant Quinnear and
Constable Melville, has been engage in getting up the
evidence in the case, addressing the magistrate, said that
although the correspondence carried on by the prisoner
had been for some years of the most extensive descrip-
tion, and of considerable magnitude, they had had the
greatest possible difficulty in getting his handwriting
identified. Indeed, so great we: the difficulty experienced
in supplying this necessary evidence, that neither at the
last nor the preceding examination could he (Mr. Robin-
son) produce a witness to supply it ; but he was now in
a situation to put into the box a witness who would place
the identity of the prisoner's writing beyond a doubt.
Mr. Robinson here called John Mansell, a porter at
the North-Western Railway station, Euston-square, who,
upon being sworn deposed that on the 3d of September
last he delivered a truss of goods (either cloth or dra-
pery) at the house No. 21, Francis-street, Newington-
butts. The truss was merely addressed, " George and
William Bruce, Francis-street, Newington-butts," arid
had been forwarded from Macclesfied to the Euston-
station; and, having delivered a similar truss about
twelve months before at the house No. 30, Francis-
street, he called there, and was directed to No. 21, op •
posite. He delivered the parcel there, and took the
way bill into the parlour to the prisoner, who signed it
Geo. and W. Bruce." That way bill he now produced;
and his attention had been more particularly called to it
at the time from the fact of the prisoner being about to
sign the waybill in the wrong column, and his having to
point out the proper place for the signature, and his re-
collection as to the prisoner being the person who had
actually signed the receipt was perfectly accurate. (The
prisoner wee here shown some of: the circulars sent by
the prisoner to Mr. Johnstone, and he swore that he had
no doubt whatever that both were written by the same
person.)
Mr. William Runder, a flour-factor, deposed that the
prisoner occupied a house of his, and the one in which
he at present resided in the Albany-road, for seven or
eight years, and left about 1842. The house was No.
113, and he was not aware that any person of the name
of Taylor, Anderson, or Hill resided there at the same
time, or that any person occupied any part of it with the
exception of the prisoner, who gave the name of Rout-
ledge, and whose receipts for the rent he (witness)
always made out in that name. Witness had not re-
ceived, while he was his tenant, any notes or writing of
any sort from him, nor was he enabled to speak to his
handwriting.
Mr. Edward Culling Little deposed that in March,
1842, the prisoner, who was now but the mere shadow
of what he then appeared, took from him the house No.
3, Wilmott-place, Kent-road, and at that time handed
him the card he now produced, on which was engraven
the following:—" Lieutenant Frederick William Rout-
ledge, 113, Albany-road, Camberwell." He remained
in that house until about the Midsummer of 1849, when
he le ft without giving any notice, and leaving half a
year's rent unpaid, Witness had no written communica-
tion from the prisoner, nor had he ever seen him write.
Mr. Murray, a printer, who had printed a vast num-
ber of the circulars—as many as 10,000—found in the
prisoner's possession, was called, and deposed that to the
best of his belief he had not seen the prisoner before
that day. The orders were generally given to him
by a woman, who represented herself to be Mrs. Rou
ledge.

Mr. Robinson observed that the woman in question,
and who was not the prisoner's wife, but a person who
lived with him, had died about six weeks ago. His wife
was still living, and, though residing apart from her hus-
band, she, on the very day the prisoner was apprehended,
removed from her place ut residence. He (Mr. Rubin-
son) assured his Worship that there was thegreatest pos-
sible difficulty in getting up the case, for many of those
persons who might be important witnesses in the prose-
cution hung back and refused to come forward, as they
did not wish to be identified with or mixed up in the
prisoner's transactions. At the last examination he
(Mr. Robinson) said ho should be enabled on the present
occasion to brinw home a charge of forgery to the pri-
soner; and he had in attendance a gentleman whose
name had been put to two bills as the acceptor, and who
would prove that he had never even seen such bills. The
bills, however, had not yet arrived at maturity, and had
nut been sent, so that he could not at present enter on
that case, but should entreat another remand to a
future day, when those bills would be forthcoming,
and when he should be prepared with evidence in other
cases.

Mr. NORTON complied with the officer's request, and
again remanded the prisoner.
Mr. Robinson, again addressing the magistrate, said
that the case was one in which the assistance of a clever
attorney for the prosecution was required, and, as the
case was one which peculiai ly affected the bankers, and
more particularly country bankers who are in the habit
of discounting the manufactured bills of the priJoner, he
(Mr. Robinson) had no doubt, if his Worship permitted
him to use his name with one or two of the bankers at
whose houses the fictitious bills were made payable,
they would give him the aid of the gentlemen who are
solicitors to the Bankers' Protection Society.
Mr. NORTON replied that he had not the slightest ob-
jection to the use of his name in the matter, as he con-
sidered the present case of considerable magnitude and
importance to the mercantile interests of the country,
and one which required a thorough investigation.
SOUTH WARK.
Jane Brown, a respectable-looking young woman,
eighteen years of age, was brought before Mr. Jardine
for final examination, charged with killing her husband
by striking him on the forehead with an old sharp-
pointed poker.
Mr. JARDINE said he should commit her to Newgate
for trial for the manslaughter.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PROMOrION.

Mate—Edward L. Hoblyn (1831), of the Brixharn
coastguard station, has been promoted to the rank of
lieutenant.