The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-15 00:00:00

MARY LEB ONE.

THE RISING GENERATION.-Patrick Doherty, a dirty
urchin, aged ten, was charged with having stolen a pair
of check-braces from off the carriage of Sir Wm. Hoare,
of Harley street, Cavendish-square. The prisoner was
observed by a policeman to go behind the carriage, which
was standing at Sir William's door, and take off the check-
braces.

The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, said—
" Yy, yer Vorship, all that I've got to say's this here, I'm
a poor horphin, and without father or mother whatsom-
dever. I vos very hungry yesterday, yer Vorship, and so
I borrow'd the things vot they've said I stole, to get me
some wittles."

Mr. HosiuNs—Then you are committed for trial.
Prisoner—Thank yer Vorship.
LAMBETH-STREET.

AN AMOROUS BUTCHER.—A pork-butcher, living in
the neighbourhood of the Mile-end-road, was charged with
an indecent assault on Mts. Ann Lucas. The defendant
called at the house of the prosecutrix, during her husband's
absence, to look at some pigs they had to sell. It began
to rain, and the defendant went into the parlour, where he
insisted on having some gin, and sent out a little boy for
some. He gave a glass to the prosecutrix, who sipped
some, and was then putting the glass on the mantel piece,
when the defendant looked at her very earnestly, and threw
his arms round her waist. He behaved very indecently,
and it was not without some difficulty that the complainant
got away from him. On her husband coming home, she
said to him—" Tom, you ought not to have asked such a
blackguard here," and then related what had occurred.
She was the mother of six children.
The defendant was fined Si.
BATT ON- GARDEN.

HORSE- SIEALING. —Two men, named Smith and Poole,
were charged with having stolen a valuable mare, the pro-
perty of Mr. Martin, cheesemonger, West-square, Surrey.
It was stated that a gang of horse-stealers go prowling
about the fields in Kent and Surrey at night, and steal
fast-speed horses, with which they hasten to a kn•icker's
in town, where, in less than an hour, the horse is slaugh-
tered, the skin is dyed, and the carcase thrown into a
furnace to boil for cats and dogs. The knackers give about
V. per carcase.—The prisoners were committed.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORDCIRCUIT-ABINGDON,JuLr 12.

The assiz,.s for the county of B-rks commenced at this
town yesterday. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL opened the
commission, and proceeded to business ahout 1 o'clock, in
the absence of Mr. Baron GURNEY, who was detained
until the evening by indisposition. The cause-list con-
tained 10 causes, but none of them possessed any public
interest, and were all tried by 3 o'clock this day. In the
calendar there were ten prisoners, whose offences, how-
ever, were very light.

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THE RING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF RICHARD BASING,

V. WILLIAM GIBLIN.

The prisoner was indicted for sending an anonymous
letter to the prosecutor, threatening to kill and murder
him. The prosecutor was a miller and farmer of respecta-
bility, living near Newbury, in this county, and the
prisoner's wife and children were living apart from him.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy,
and the Learned Judge sentenced him to two years' impri-
sonment, and to he bound in a recognizance of 5001. to
keep the peace for seven years.

WESTERN CIRCUIT..., WINCHES TER,
. JULY 12.

Daniel Britten was indicted for that be, being a
trader, and liable to the bankrupt laws, owing a debt of
100/. to one William White, and a commission of bank-
rupt having issued against him, under which he was
declared a bankrupt, did, in his last examination, conceal
certain parts of his property, consisting of plate, jewellery,
books, and a gold watch, with intent to defraud his
creditors.
The case was an extraordinary one, and excited great
interest. On the prisoner being called on to plead, his
Counsel submitted to the Court that he ought not to plead
to this indictment, because he was under recognizances to
appear at these assizes to plead to an indictment for the
same offence, which indictment was found at the last
assizes ; that there being two indictments hanging over
him for the same offence, he ought not to be compelled to
plead to the second until the first had been disposed of.
Mr. Justice PATTESUN, after consulting Mr. Justice
AtnEnsost, said that neither of them had ever met with a
similar case, but that they were both of the same opinion
as to the course to be pursued. He would try the party
upon the second indictment, upon the prosecutor under-
taking that if the prisoner was acquitted upon that indict-
ment, he would not try him upon the first ; at the same
Lime, if the prisoner could make it appear to his satisfac-
tion that his course of defence must be altered, he would
either let him out again upon bail, and put off the trial till
the next assizes, or he would try him now upon the first
indictment.
The case on the second indictment was then proceeded
with.
Mr. EARLE stated that the jury must be it it isfied of
several circumstances—first, that the prisoner was a
trader, and liable to the bankrupt laws ; that he was in-
debted to White in a sufficient sum to enable him to peti-
tion for a commission of bankrupt; this was a debt which
accrued in consequence of a payment of 1121., made by
White as one of the securities for the prisoner in a replevin

bond ; that he had committed an act of bankruptcy; that
a commission had been issued against him ; that he had
been declared a bankrupt, and that on his examination
under that commission he had wilfully omitted to make a
full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects. The
prisoner had formerly lived in considerable splendour at
Walthamstow, and subsequently at Basley-lodge, in this
county. The charge against him was that I e had con
cealed plate, jewellery, a valuable library, and a gold watch.
The question for the jury was, whether the balance-sheet
put in by the prisoner on his last examination contained a
full and true disclosure of his real and personal estate and
effects. _

After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.

SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A VVATERMAN.

On Saturday the neighbourhood of Shadwell and Wap-
ping was in a state of great excitement, owing to a report
that a waterman, named John Wood, residing in Lower
Shadwell, had been murdered by the new police. Mr.
BALLANTINE, of the Thames Police, having heard of the
occurrence, directed Evar.s, the principal surveyor, to
make the necessary inquiries, and order the attendance of
witnesses.

Mary Ford, an unfortunate female, said that on Thurs-
day she and the deceased waterman had one quartern of
gin and two pints of half-and-half together, at the White
Hart public-house, in Shatlwell High-street. About
twelve o'clock two policemen, John Douglas, No. 279 K,
and Patterson, No. 9 K, the latter a sergeant, came in for
the purpose of clearing the house, and told them to go.
Douglas seized Wood by the shoulders, and dragged him
towards the door, and as soon as it was opened pushed
him into the street, and he fell on the kirb-stone.
The police-sergeant Paterson said while he was clearing
the parlour the deceased was taken out of the White Hart.
On his return be saw the deceased lying on the pavement,
apparently insensible. He laid hold of him by the legs,
and two other policemen, Alpine and Douglas, laid hold of
him by the body. They carried him as far as West
Gardens, where he (witness) left him with Douglas, Clap-
son, and Freeman, and directed them to convey him to
the station-house es carefully as possible.
It appeared from other evidence, that one hour and
three quarters elapsed before the deceased reached the
station-house, which is only 500 yards distant from the
White Hart.

A young married woman, named Hudson, was return-
ing from Astley's Theatre, through High street, Sh id-
well, about one o'clock ; when near the Bult's Head she
heard a tremendous fall, and she saw the deceased on the
ground with three or four policemen round him. She
said, " What a shocking thing it is you let him be hurt
so !" The policeman answered, "Go on, or we will lock
you up." Some money fell out of the man's pockets,
and she said something, on which the policemen again
threatened to lock her up if she did not move on, a:d she
left tt sm. At appeared that the deceased on arriving at
the station-house was in a dying condition, but no sur-
geon was sent for till the following morning about ten.
He expired in the afternoon. It appeared that his skull
was fractured, and that he had received several severe in-
juries on the head, apparently inflicted by some kind of
instrument.

Mr. BALLANTINE, after some further evidence, ordered
five policemen of the K division, named Robert Edward•,
No. 43—Peter Costello, No. 90—John Douglas, No.
279—Alpin Freeman, and another, to be detained in cus-
tody until the result of the Coroner's inquest was known.
The men were subsequently relea*ed on Fagan, the In-
spector, becoming responsible for their appearance. The
deceased was about thirty years of age, of very respectable
connexions, and, had he survived, would shortly have
come into possession of considerable property. He for
many years plied as a waterman at King James's-stairs,
Wapping-wall, where he was well known.
On Saturday night an inquest was held before Mr.
BAKER, the Coroner, and a Jury, at the Wheat Sheaf
public-house, when a very full investigation of the cir-
cumstances attending the death of the deceased was gone
into. Mr. Millard, the surgeon, deposed, that the injuries
on the skull were the cause of his death. On examining
the bones of the skull, a circular portion of bone, an inch
is diameter, at the very top of the head was fractured and
depressed to the extent of the eighth of an inch, and a
fissure extended from the fore part of this broken piece of
bone to within an inch of the root of the nose, and another
small fissure extended towards about an inch. About an
ounce of bloody scrum escaped from the cavities of the
brain. A considerable quantity of blood was effused into
the anterior part of the substance of the brain, full an
ounce. From an ounce and a half to two ounces of coa-
gulated blood was found under the external membrane of
the brain on the right side. The arteries of the brain
were healthy. About half an once of bloody serum was
found at the base of the brain ; but there was no fracture
of the skull in that direction. There was nothing to
account for death in the cavities of the chest and body.
The viscera was sound.

CORONER-Witt you n,w inform us what was the
cause of death ? Mr. Millard—l should say the cause of
death was the severe injuries on the head. I have no
hesitation in saying the appearances in the head were the
cause of death.

The skull, with the injuries it had received, and the
blood hardened, was displayed. The sight drew forth
exclamations of horror from all present.

As the person who saw the blow struck and the pre-
sumed injuries inflicted, was not present the Coroner, at
the repeat of the Solicitor to the police, adjourned the
inquest till Tuesday evening.

The following are the names, residences, and professions
of the jury who have entered into the investigation with a de-
t-rmination to go into all the circumstances attending it:—
William Austin, pawnbroker, High-strect, Shadwell, Fore-
man; John Western, comb.manufacturer, High-street;
Morris Lee, soap.manufacturer, Wapping-wall ; James Ralph,
butcher, Wapping-wall; Thomas Rogers, paper-manufacturer
and shipchandler, Wapping-wall; Joseph Dellow, basket-maker,
Star-street, Lower Shadwell ; Edward Walker, gentleman,
Lower Shadwell ; Frederic Lewellyn, tailor and draper, High-
street ; Thomas Ames, fishmonger, High.street ; Stephen
Elliott, paper-manufacturer and stationer, High.street ; John
Hutchinson, dealer in curiosities, High-street; John Mean
Carew, mathematical instrument-maker, Wapping-wall; and
Alexander Mustart, ship-chandler, High-street.

SUICIDE IN A POLICE GUARD-HOUSE.

On Saturday an inquest was held at the Elephant and
Castle public-house, King's-road, St. Pancras, on view of
the body of Mr. Thomas King, a cheesemonger and
grocer, of Suffolk-street West, Somers Town.
Thomas Robinson, a policeman, about one o'clock on
Wednesday morning, was called upon by Mr. HumpherYt
the landlord of the Union public-house, in Essex-street, to
take the deceased into custody for being drunk, creating a
riot and disturbance in his house, and breaking a pane of
glass. Witness consequently took the deceased to the
station-house in Phoenix-street, Somers Town.
Juror—Did the deceased say anything on his way to the
station-house? Witness—Yes; he expressed a great
desire to go home to see his wife.
Juror—And pray, would it have been out of your way
to have granted that small favour ? Witness—A little.
Wall, another policeman, was on duty at the station-
house when the deceased was brought in, and visited him
five times in the cell, at intervals of an hour. At the
last visit the deceased asked for a handkerchief, as his nose
was bleeding slightly, and the request was complied with.
He irnmediltely burst into a flood of tears, and appeared in
the extreme of mental agony.
William Tefrant, a shoemaker, was confined in the
same cell as the deceased, who slept from the time he was
put into the cell until nearly six o'clock, when he con-
ducted himself like a madman, by throwing himself on his
belly upon the ground and crying most piteously, and say-
ing he could not bear to go home alive to his wife on ac-
count of his conduct. Witness remonstrated with him
upon his folly, and fell asleep. About a quarter before
seven o'clock, a police sergeant, on entering the cell, ex-
claimed—" Oh, my God, the man has hanged myself,"
which awoke witness, when he saw the deceased sus-
pended to a bar in the cel'. The deceased must have been
very determined in his object, as he could have rested his
feet upon a form if he had chosen. While the surgeon
was attempting to restore his patient, the wife of the de-
, ceased made her appearance at the station-house with her
husband's breakfast, when, to her horror, the sad tidings
were broken to her.
Several other witnesses were examined in corrobora-
tion of the foregoing evidence, among which was Evans,
an inspector, who introduced his testimony with the fol-
lowing beautiful military phrase :—" After I had been
patrolling my detachment! !"
Mr. Hartley, I, t the" conclusion of the inspector's evi-
dence, inquired of him how many men he had in his
" detichment ?" when he replied 37, but some detach-
ments had more.
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drinking."

TURN-OUT.—A general strike has taken
place amongst the journemen sawyers of Stockpoit for an
Advance of wages,.—Manchester Guardian.