The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-29 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
Freiherr von Forster, the Bavarim who was con-
victed on Monday of robbing a gentleman staying at
the York Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, was
brought up for judgment.
The RECORDER told the prisoner that he had been
convicted upon very clear evidence, and there was
too much ground for believing that this was not the
only offend of the same character that he had com-
mitted. At present, however, he was only convicted
upon one charge, and the sentence for that offence
would be imprisonment with hard labour for 12
months ; but he must recollect that if he had really
committed any other offences he would be liable to be
charged upon them at the expiration of his imprison-
ment, and he advised him when he was released to
make the best of his way to his own country.
The address of the Learned Judge was explained to
the prisoner by an interpreter who had been employed
in the case. _ _ _

Edward Evans, 44, pleaded Guilty to an indict-
ment charging him with stealing a Bank of England
note for 1,0001., and two other notes for 2001. each,
the property of Messrs. Hoare and Co., the bankers.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared as counsel for the pri•
goner, addressed the Court, and in mitigation of
punishment stated that he had been for many years
in the service of the prosecutors and enjoyed their
confidence. He had made ail the reparation an his
power by acknowledging his guilt, and he had since
rendered all the assistance he could to enable the firm
to put their books to rights and place them in posses-
sion of the actual amount and nature of the transactions
in which he was implicated.
Mr. CLARKSON, who was counsel for the prosecu-

tion, also addrested the Court, a❑d said that it was
quite true that the prisoner had been looked upon by
the firm as a person of great respectability and in
when they placed the utmost confidence, and it was
only in the performance of a most painful duty that
they felt themselves compelled to appear as the prose-
cutors of the present indictment. He felt it right at
the same time to inform the Court that it was correctly
stated by his learned friend that since the apprehen-
sion of the prisoner he had given the prosecutors
every information in his power upon the subject of
the charges ;:hat were made against him.
The RECORDER said he should like to put one or

two questions to Mr. Ho, re.
Mr. Hoare was accordingly sworn upon the noire
dire ; and in answer to questions; that were put by the
Court, said that the sum of 1,4001., referred to in the
present indictment, he had reason to believe was not
the wliot extent to which this firm had been plun-
dered by the prisoner. He was engaged as ledger
k-eper, and hid been for twenty years in the service
of the firm, and the utmost confidence was reposed in
him.
The -11Econnua inquired if the prisoner had really
rendered assistance to correct the errors in the books.

Mr. Hoare said that he had done all in his power

to enable them to put the books to rights. A great
many false entries were made in them, and but for
the assistance of the prisoner it would have been a
work of very great difficulty to have traced the dif-
ferent items.

The RECORDER postponed passing sentence.
Edward Pittard, 29, agent, pleaded guilty to four
indictments charging him with uttering forged
cheques for small amounts to different tradesmen.
It appeared that the prisoner had been in the habit
of going to tradesmen's shops offering goods for sale,
and having succeeded in throwing the parties off
their guard by his apparent position of respectability,
he would purchase some trifling article, giving in
payment a false cheque for a small amount, and re-
ceiving the difference.
The RECORDER, having ascertained that the pri-
soner had borne a good character at a former period
of his life, and that he had never before been con-
victed of any offence, inflicted upon him the lenient
sentence of six months' imprisonment and hard
labour.
Caroline Gertrude Rogers, 19, a good-looking
young woman, was placed at the bar to receive
judgment.
The RECORDER, addressing her, said that she had
pleaded guilty at the last session of this court to a
charge of forgery, and the offence appeared to have
been committed with great art and ingenuity. The
sentence was respited in the hope that the benevolent
ladies who made it their duty to inquire into the cases
of the prisoners confined in the gaol of Newgate would
have made such a report respecting her as would
have justified the Court in passing upon her a lenient
sentence. He was sorry, however, to find that the
inquiries which had been made respecting her placed
her in a still more unfavourable position, for it ap-

peared that this was not the only criminal offence she
had committed, and the ladies who had had the op-
portunity of seeing her and becoming acquainted with
her conduct had unanimously reported that she was
a person baying an utter disregard for truth, and that
her word could not in any respect be relied on. He
was afraid that this disregard of truth had been to a
great extent the means of placing her in her present
painful position, and it was clear that she would not
be likely to do any good in this country. The sen-
tence, therefore, he telt bound to pass upon her was
one of transportation for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

William Dubois was charged with having stolen a
watch from Henry Bell.
The complainant, who was evidently inexperienced
in the ways of the town, was addressed in the street
by a fellow who asked him to buy some tobacco, and
then induced him to go into a public-house, into
which the prisoner soon after walked, and some talk
having taken place about the purchase of a watch,
contusion was caused, and the prisoner took up the
complainant's watch and ran off with it
The prisoner expressed the greatest astonishment at
the charge. and said he had never seen the com-
plainant before his apprehension by an officer.—Com-
mired for trial._

Williams, a lighterman, was charged with having
used language calculated to lead to a breach of the
peace to one of the watermen who are in the habit of
rowing the Lord Mayor's barge.
The defendant, it appeared, had been very much
in the habit of casting ridicule upon the rowers of
the Lord Mayor's barge for a great length of time,
and was occasionally assisted in that sort of amuse-
ment by other young fellows upon the water. The
particular mode of annoyance resorted upon the
present occasion was excessively offensive. The City
bargemen wear upon state occasions a peculiar dress
of a very showy description, and the de-
fendant in reference to a particular part of
that dress which is more prominently exhi-
bited when they are occupied in rowing the barge, de-
signated the complainant as " My Lord Bum." The
epithet wai not confined, as the plaintiff stated, to the
water service, but whenever be or any other of the
bargemen were met by the defendant " there goes
my Lord Bum " was shouted out, and immediate!
re-echoed by the little blackguard boys who were
always ready to join in wounding the feelings of those
who waited upon the City dignitaries. Not satisfied
with casting the indignity of the name upon the com-
plainant, the defendant upon every occasion added to
the provocation by putting his thumb to his nose, and
with the most obnoxious noises " playing Mr.
Snooks" upon every member of the fraternity.
The defendant said the complainant quite misre-
presented the matter, for he was himself remarkable
for giving the offence of which he complained, and
anything that was said or done to offend him was
merely done in retaliation.
The LORD MAYOR saw quite enough in the con-
duct of both parties before him to induce him to inflict
the penalty of 103. upon the defendant, to make him
find bail for his good behaviour for six months, and
to assure him that any future conviction would be
visited with heavy punishment.