The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Johnson Wood, a man about 40 years of age, de-
scribed as a commission traveller, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Alderman Moon, charged with obtaining
goods to the value of 60/. and upwards under false pre
tences. lie was also charged with illegally pawning a
piece of hat plush, value about 201, the property of Mr.
E. K. D ►vies, agent to M. Faessler Pezzi, silk manufac-
turer, of Paris and Lyons.
It may be in the remembrance of some of our readers
that, about six or eight months ago, a person of the name
of Ed ward Matthew Macklin was committed from this
court for obtaining 6001 worth of goods of the same par-
ties, representing that he required them as samples so
submit for inspection at the great houses of business in
and about London. On the examination it was shown
that Macklin had been acting in concert with the pri-
soner, who had hitherto contrived to elude the vigilance
of the authorities.
Mr. Davies, in stating his case, said—l was obliged
to bribe prisoner's servant, Thomas Ward, in order to
enable me to take Macklin. The prisoner got out of the
way at that time, and I have been on the look out fur him
ever since. From information I received that prisoner
was in Manchester, I went there on Wednesday last,
and applied to the authorities for a warrant to apprehend
him, which, however, was refused, as the offence was
not committed within their jurisdiction, and I applied to
this court, and a warrant having been granted, prisoner
was apprehended.
Prisoner said he would reserve his defence, and he
was then remanded for additional particulars.
MARYLEBONE,

CUTTING AND WOUNDING. Yesterday William
Franklin was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughto❑
for final examination, on the charge of cutting and
wounding George Smith, a private in the 17th Lancers.
A great deal of evidence was gone into upon a former
and the present occasion, and it appeared that on the
night of the 28th ult. the prosecutor, with two of his
comrades, was walking along the Hampstead-road, when
the prisoner called him a "saraddie," and knocked him
off the footpath into the carriage-way. Some altercation
and a few rounds at " iistycuffs" took place between
them, but they were speedily separated by 79 and 224 of
the S division of police. Prosecutor then found that he
had been stabbed. and he believed that the prisoner had
committed the injury upon him with a knife, as he had
seen one in his (prisoner's) hand just before the blood
streamed from his forehead. He was conveyed to the
London University Hospital, where he was attended to
by the house surgeon, Mr. White, who described the
wound to be an incised one, an inch and a quarter in
length, and cut to the bone. The said wound had evi-
dently been caused by some kind of instrument, and not
by a fall on gravel or any stones in the road
In answer to the Magistrate,the officers said that there
had not been any knife found.
The prisoner repeated what he had said before—viz.,
that he bad no knife in his possession, and that he
never carried one about him; adding, that the injury
done to the prosecutor must have been occasioned by his
falling in the course of the scufflJ and fight which they
had together.
He was fully committed for trial on the charge of cut-
ting and wounding, with intent to do some grievous bo•
dily harm.

THE LATE CHARGE AGAINST A PoLa.—Adolphe Cza-
plantri, a Pole, was brought up for re-examination,
charged with having, by false and fraudulent represen-
tations, endeavoured to obtain money from Lord Leigh,
30, Portman-square.
The particulars of what transpired upon previous ex-
aminations have already appear( d in our paper.
Some additional evidence was now brought forward
by the Mendicity Society, but as the case was not look.d
upon by the magistrate to be one upon which he should
be justified in convicting the prisoner, who was lavish
in his abuse of the Polish Association, he was discharged.