The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-29 00:00:00

EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1851.

knowing fellow, on observing this directly bids 401.;
forty-five, says the gentleman; fifty, says the know-
ing one ; fifty-five, says the gentleman ; down goes
the hammer, atid the gentleman becomes the fortunate
possessor of the beautiful steed. He takes it home to
'els lady, when the brute turns out not to be worth
Half the money given for him, and the gentleman has i
been done; but was the auctioneer and his Yorkshire
friend in this case to be indicted for conspiracy ?
Why, could such be done all of that diverting frater-
nity who travelled the country for the diversion of
her Majesty's lieges might be indicted for conspiracy.
A little boy goes to a show, and the exhibitor bawls
out, "Be in time I be in time Within you will see
the drowning of the Egyptians in the Red Sea, and
the escape of the Israelites therefrom. Be in time !
be in time !" The curiosity of a juvenile standing
near is aroused, and an assistant of the showiaren's
seeing this tells him that really what has been asserted
is a fact—one of the grandest sights ever witnessed is
to be seen within. Thus incited, the youth pays his
halfpenny and goes in, when being disappointed in not
really seeing the wonders announced, he ewers his
pr oast against the fraud in not really seeing the Egyp-
tians drowned ; upon this the bland showman compla-
cently says, " They were drowned, my little dear,
just before you came in."—(Laughter.) Fetal in-
stance of the evil of procrastination.—(Laughter.)
Was the exhibitor and hi, friend in such a c -Ise to he
charged with conspiracy ? He (Alr. Pollock) would
relate to them an anecdote told him by a friend re•
sidinar in Ireland. In Killarney, at a hurling match,
one Tim O'Laughlin received a fracture of one of his
legs by reason of the hurl coming in contact with it.
Tim's friends immediately procured a stretcher, and
carried their wounded companion to have his leg set.
On the way they met a carriage, containing an
English gentleman, approaching, and, on coming up,
being desirous to make something by the job, ac-
costed him, telling him that the man on the stretcher,
was poor Tim O'Laughlin, one of the finest boys in
all the countbry round, who had just bee❑ kilt by a
burl, and lead left a wile and five young children, with
not so much as would procure a candle to put at the
foot of the bed for the wake. Tim all this time lies
perfectly dead on the stretcher. The Englishman,
being touched, puts his band in his pocket, draws out
a sovereign, and says, " There, that's towards the
funeral." " Long life to your honour !" and a score
of hands are stretched out to seize the sovereign.
Tim, finding that in the scramble, he may be left
minus, raises himself up, and says, " Don't you think,
your honour, you'd better let the deceased have a
thrifts for himselt ?"—(Loud laughter.) Now here,
on the principle of the present pro,ecution, was a fine
case for a❑ indictment for a conspiracy. Lir. Pollock
went on to contend that none of the counts charged
could be maintained.

His LORDSHIP, in summing up, instructed the jury
that if they thought the prisoners conspired, by false
pretences and representations, to cheat persons who
attended the sale by giving them rubbish instead of
goods, which they sold as such, then the conspiracy
was made out; but if they thought it was possible
that the prisoners might have opened the establish-
ment to sell goods at a fair price, and had no inten-
tion to cheat, they ought to find them not guilty ; ond,
if they had any reasonable doubt on these points, they
must give them in favour of the prisoners.
The jury, after a retirement fron. court of twenty
minutes, returned a verdict uf Guilty against both
prisoners of conspiring to defraud the three per-,ons
named in the indictment, and all who frequented the
sale-room.

Mr. Pord.ocx then moved in arrest of judgment
upon the Ist, 4 h, 7th, and 11th counts of the indict-
ment upon which tue prisoners had been found guilty,
the objection being that those counts stated th,..t
the prisoners had conspired to defraud with other
evil disposed p-rsons, but did not state the names of
those persons, er allege that they were to the jurors
unknown.

t~is
LORDSUIP overruled the objection, and sen-
tenced the prisoners to six months' imprisonment, and
to pay a fine of 201., to be paid before their release
from prison.
Tnis ca,e concluded the summer aEsiza of the
Northern Circuit.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
14 S HIP-S TREET.
Daniel ArDermott, a man dressed like a sailor, but
described as a hawker, was charged with a robber)
upon a young woman named Sarah Jacobs, housemaid
in the service of Dr. Power, a physician in Finsbury-
square.
The complainant stated, that while engaged in the
kitchen of her master's house about three o'clock in
the afternoon, she was beckoned up the area steps by
the prisoner, who told her that he had just come off a
long voyage, and having purchased a handsome
shawl for his sister, whom he had not been able to
meet with, was anxious to sell it, if he could, as he
was very short of money. He then displayed before
her a shawl of a showy pattern and colours, and
agreed to sell it to her for five shillings, upon condi -
tion that she would let him have it back again if be
should be fortunate enough to discover where his
sister resided. She assented to this arrangement,
handed him the five shillings, received the shawl, and
the prisoner went away; about two days afterwards,
however, in the evening, he beckoned her up again,
and, telling her that he had had an offer of 21. 10s.
for the shawl, expressed his hope that she would let
him have it, and he would return her the five shil-
lings she had paid him. She expressed her readiness
to do so, and fetching the article from her boxes,
asked for her money. Toe prisoner requested
that she would just throw the shawl open, that he
might see it was tne same, but the instant she had done
so he snatched it out of her hand, thrust it into his
pocket, and walked of with it. She, however,
pursued him, demanding her money or the shawl, but
the prisoner told her he could not pay her, as he had
not got the 55., and with regard to her purchasing
the shawl for so small a sum, it was entirely false, as
the ss. was only an instalment of its value, and that
she had agreed to give him 16s. more. This was a
pure fabrication, and, on finding he could not get
away from her, he offered her two or three worthless
white handkerchiefs in exchange, but she refused to
receive them, and as, after following him a long dis-
tance, she could neither get the shawl nor the money,
she gave him into the custody of the first policeman
she met.
Allen, a constable of the G division, stated that,
seeing a large crowd collected in Union-street, he
went up to ascertain the cause of it, and found the
prisoner endeavouring to escape from the young
woman, who was holdieg him by the arm and charg-
ing him with robbing her. Upon taking him into
custody and searching him the shawl he bad sold to
Dr. Power's servant was found in one pocket, while
in another was a quantity of petty articles of haber-
dashery, together with a regular hawker's licence.
On the road to the station he begged the witness to
allow him to sell the shawl, which he said he could
dispose of for 255., and he would then return the pro-
secutrix's money, but the witness refused to accede to
any such course, and lodged him in the station.
Mr. Vann, who now appeared for the defence, con-
tended that the evidence was wholly insufficient to
warrant his client's committal upon such a charge,
and pointed put the apparent improbability of his
selling the shawl for such a sum as that described;
but the magistrate did not view it in the same light,
and the depositions having been in great part taken
by Mr. Vine, the chiet-clerk, the prisoner was or-
dered to be finally committed for their completion.
Henry Gregory, a printer's joiner, who stood re-
manded upon the charge of feloniously causing the
death of a young man named Dutton, potman in the
service of a publican in Hoxton-square, was then
brought up for final examination.
Tne deceased, it may be recollected, met his death
in the course of a pugilistic encounter with the pri-
soner, to whom he had offered great provocation, and
who at the end of the fifth or sixth round struck him
so violent a blow under the ear that he instantly
dropped into the arms of one of the bystanders, and
never moved again.
Mr. Sydenhana Watson, a surgeon in the New
North-road, now deposed to having made a post
mortem examinstion of the body of the deceased on
the 20th instant, and that his opinion clearly was that
the death had resulted from an effusion of blood upon
the brain, which had caused the rupture of a blood-
vessel, consequent upon the infliction of some violent
blow or blows. He also found, upon further exami-
nation, that the third rib on the left side had been
broken, and on various parts of the body he dis-
covered numerous contusions, some of which were
very severe.

The prisoner, who ;bad all through expressed ex-
trf me regret for the occurrence, now intimated his
intention to reserve his defence, and was fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

Patrick Scott, a rough looking fellow, well known
to the police, was charged by Mr. William Hodgsay,
surveyor, of Southend, with a most daring robbery
and outrage, under the following circumstances :
On Monday evening last, about 5 o'clock, the pro-
secutor was in Peutonville, when he felt a tug. at his
pocket, and on turning round he saw the prisoner and
another ruffian, the former having his lisnolcerebiel.
He immediately collared the accused, who resisted
him, striking, and kicking, and biting him severely,
whilst his companion insdzt a signal, which attracted
several other desperate characters, who also attacked
him and endeavoured to rescue Scott, of whom, how-
ever, witness retained his hold until the arrival of
some police constables, one of whom (Cooper, 61 N)
was immediately knocked down by the prisoner, and
he then made his escape, the officer remaining on the
ground for a considerable time, in an almost lifeless
state. Withers. a dt.tective t,flieer of the s!!r.i-,
having T,PL-ivrti 8 descriptii,n HlPprix ;syt
a 144 ILA furtaioatel.y talLesday
night. 1

The officer said it was dangerous for any respec-
table person to Fos by liicg's-cruse, which was cm..