The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-08 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Joseph Robinson was indicted for stealing a shilling and a
handkerchief, the property of Peter Dunkley.
The prosecutor, a harness• maker, deposed that he came
from Leicester, and was at Uxbridge, looking for employment
in August last ; witness had previously exchanged handerchiefs
with prisoner's brother, and when going to his lodgings, he
was stopped by the prisoner and three others : the prisoner
said the handkerchief on witness's neck was his father's, and
that he should have it ; witness was then knocked down and
kicked, and the handkerchief which witness had taken off his
neck and put in his pocket, was taken from him, and also a
shilling, which was in the same pocket.
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did not state that important fact before the Magistrates.
The Jury, under the direction of the Learned Sergeant,
acquitted the prisoner.
Julia Hayes, a young Irish girl, was indicted for stealing
two silver spoons, the property of her master, Daniel Dunning.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoner was a servant in his
employment. On the 9th of July he missed two spoons. The
police-officer stated that tho prisoner confessed she pawned

them in Walnut-street, Clerkenwell. The spoons were found
there, and the prosecutor identified them as his property.
The prisoner received a very good character from two or
three milkmen with whom she had lived, and who would take
her into their employment again.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, with a recommenda-
tion to mercy.
The Learned Sergeant said, in consequence of the good
character she had received, and the Jury believing that it was
her first offence, he would only sentence her to three weeks'
imprisonment.
An Irishwoman in the crowd exclaimed, "the Lord spare
your Lordship long life."
Mar; _Hennessy, and her daughter, Sarah Swash, were in-
dicted for stealing a watch, the property of Ellen Sullivan.
The prosecut,ix deposed that she was a servant out of place.
On the 24th July she had been drinking in a public-house in
Whitechapel-road with the prisoners. They accompanied her
home, and witness pulled out her watch and laid it on the
chimney-piece. Mary Hennessy said that was right. She
never saw it afterwards, and the prisoners denied all knowledge
of it.

The policeman who apprehended the prisoners said they
told him they would pay for the watch if the prosecutrix would
go no further with the matter.—Not guilty.
The Learned Sergeant said they had had a very lucky
escape, and cautioned them as to their future conduct.
George Titewood was indicted for feloniously stealing 46
pair of boots, value 201., and 150 pair of shoes, value 30/., the
property of his master, James Loyd, and James Titewood was
indicted for receiving part of the property, knowing it to be
stolen.

The prosecutor deposed that the prisoner George was a
shopman in his employment ; he keeps shoe warehouses at
Nos. 25 and 30 Coventry-street ; the prisoner had been IS
months in his employment, and suspecting that he was robbing
him he set a man to watch him.

Smyth, foreman to Mr. Lloyd, saw the prisoner George
take a pair of shoes out of the shop and put them into his
pocket; on the 28th of June he saw him take another pair and
put them in his pocket ; he took them from him, and prisoner
begged witness would not tell Mr. Lloyd.
Policeman C, 179, searched the prisoner's lodgings, Wal-
nut Tree-walk, Lambeth-road, and found a pair of Blucher
boots, a pair of shoes, and a pawnbroker's duplicate of another
pair; he went round to 28 different pawnbroker's shops and
found about 46 pair of boots, and 150 pair of shoes.
William B. Pyett, shopman to Mr. Brydges, pawnbroker,
Coles-street, Westminster-road, saw the prisoners frequently in
his master's shop. They pledged boots and shoes four or five
times, but he cannot point out any particular pair pawned by
either one or the other prisoner. The four pair of shoes and
the pair of boots produced were pawned by either one brother
or the other, and they were identified by Mr. Lloyd.
Edward Wood, another pawnbroker, produced five pair of
boots, pledged with him, but he does not know by whom.
William Roberts, shopman to Mr. Archbold, pawnbroker,
20, Bridge-road, Lambeth, produced the duplicates of twenty
pair of shoes pledged by James Fleetwood. The shoes were
given up at Marlborough-street to Mr. Lloyd.
The shopman to Mr. Vaughan, pawnbroker, 39, Strand,
deposed that the prisoner James pledged four or five pair of
boots with him. He at last became suspicious, and when the
prisoner brought a pair of boots, witness said he suspected they
were not his own. Prisoner said he was a shoemaker, and
would fetch his card. He went off and left the boots with
witness, but never came back.

Two other pawnbrokers produced boots and shoes, but could
not say by whom they wore pledged.
James Oliver, apprentice to Mr. Lloyd, proved that a pair
of boots produced by Mr. Brydges' shopman, as pledged by
one of the prisoners, were marked by him.
The prosecutor was again re-examined as to his identity of
the shoes and boots, and a great deal of confusion took place
from the large quantity of boots and shoes produced.
Mr. Serjeant ARABIN said it was very unfortunate that the
prosecutor did not employ counsel to conduct what was
evidently a very intricate case.
Benjamin Bowen, attorney's clerk, Hudson, a shoemaker,
John Garth, of Red Lion-square, and John Bradley, parish
officer, gave the prisoner a very good character.
The Learned SERJEANT in summing up, said be was sure
the Jury would regret equally with himself that the prosecutor
had not procured legal assistance, by which the case would
have been much simplified, and much of the public time saved.
The Jury after deliberating for a few minutes returned a
verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners.
Susannah Titewood, wife to James, who appeared at the
bar with an infant in her arms, was then indicted for receiving
three pair of shoes, the property of Mr. Lloyd, knowing them
to be stolen.

In her defence the prisoner said she had got the shoes from
her husband. _...Not guilty.
The Learned Serjeant said he had never seen such whole-
sale plunder of a master, and the prisoners should take the con-
sequences.

The property, which amounted to more than 200 pair of
boots and shoes, was then ordered to be given up to Mr. Lloyd.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Saturday a flying piemen complained to the LORD MAYOR
that one of the police officers seized his " round-about," on
which he used to support the tin machinery with which he
kept his pies hot, lie (the pieman) had been all his life
engaged in disposing of mutton pies at Bartholomew Fair,
and there had never been any attempt made before to offer
him an insult.

The LORD MAYOR, who seemed to be perfectly awake to
the games of St. Bartholomew, asked whether the round-
about was applied to any other uses—whether it was not,
in fact, rather a machine for trying people's luck upon ?
The pieman replied that it was quite an innocent sort of
business, and his customers profited by it, for they often ob-
tained a penny pie for a halfpenny when the hand to the
right place.
The policeman said that it was as regular a gambling con-
cern as Crockford's, and the customers had no chance, for
the pieman had a bit of a spring under the handle of it, and
Just as the handle would be going to stop upon the prize
he'd give it a sort of a twist, and away went the halfpenny
into his pocket. Sometimes he'd allow a person to win to
make it appear that he was honest ; but then it was only
once out of a dozen times.

The P *Cman---cleniedThe truth of the accusation. He
didn't carei himself about trying the game. In fact, he'd
rather sell his pies at full price than run the hazard of half,
but Bartholomew Fair would be nothing without it.
The LORD MAYOR hoped that the meat in the pies was
unexceptionable, for he had heard some disagreeable stories
about the general contents ; indeed they were often com-
posed of animals of the most domestic habits.—(A laugh.)

...... . _ ,
The pieman declared that he dealt with the very highest
butchers, and he was willing to do what very few piemen
could do. He would cat any pie in his basket himself.—
(Laughter.)
The officer could not believe any thing of the kind. He
thought that the pies were all a blind, and that the round-
about turned inside out the pockets of many an adventurous
countryman.

An elderly gentleman, who was in his early days in the
butchering line, had known the flying piemen to go about
the lanes and alleys at fair-time in search of what formed
afterwards the principal ingredient in their pies. He never
knew a butcher who sold meat to one of them, and he
therefore believed that they must be in the habit of killing
their own mutton upon the tiles. For his own part, al-
though he had been a butcher for thirty years, he could not
tell the difference between a cat and a dog when cooked,
and therefore he could give no opinion as to the merits of
the Bartholomew pies.---(Laughter.)
The officer had heard of many complaints of the loss of
fat dogs. It appeared that those who stole them did not
care about the breed or kind of animal they sacrificed, so
that they were plump, there being a strong feeling in favour
of the fat in those delicacies.

Mr. Hobler remembered several years ago, that a soldier
had been placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, for at-
tempting to stab a pieman. It appeared that the soldier
had purchased a pie, and had eaten about half of it, when
he found that there was not a morsel of fat in it. He ran
after the pieman, and expostulated with him. " Oh," said
the pieman, who was a very facetious person, how can I
help that ; the poor animal was yowling and barking at my
door last night from mere starvation, and it would have cost
me ss. to put him in condition, so I hung him on the spot ?"
--(Great laughter.) The pieman, however, nearly lost his
life by the joke.
The LORD MAYOR, under the circumstances, thought he
should order the roundabout to be burned, as he did not
doubt of the general use to which it was applied. It par-
took, in his opinion, of the character of the " thimble rig"
and " prick in the loop," and those other games by which
the inexperienced were imposed upon.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.
Jeremiah Kelland, an elderly khight of the needle and
shears, brought Patrick Langhan, a genuine Dublin
jackeen, with his chin buried in huge grass-green stock,
before Messrs. CHAMBERS and DYER, for having jointly,
with his mother, Norah Langhan, committed assault and
battery on him on Thursday last.
The complainant began—Plate your honour, Paddy
Langhan's dog—that's the defindant's I mane, ran bang at
the leg of me, and whin I riz my fut to kick the ugly baste,
out bounces Paddy Langhan, my lodger, wid the poker
ready to devour me.
Mr. DYER—Which was to devour you, your lodger or
the dog ? Complainant—lt was Paddy Langhan, be vartue
of me oath. Mistress Norah, plase yer Wertchip, hearing
the shindy, came to the dure wid something wet in a quart
pot, and smothered me intirely, and that's the blessed trut.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Wen, Mrs. Norah, what have you to
say to the charge ?—" Thin, if I get liberty to spake," said
Mrs. Norah, " Mishter Kelland was bating the life out of
me boy, whin I wint to save him, and as I was just stifling
the bugs in one room wid a little hot warter,_l wint out wid
the pot in the hand of me, and true a little dhrop of durty
warther went over Misther Kelland.
Mr. CHAMBERS—How did you contrive to stifle the
bugs ? Mrs. Norah—Why I tuk a pail full of hot war-
ther, and wid the pot chucked it over the walls and the
flure, by which manes the bastes were stifled.
The MAGISTRATES, finding the assault was of a very

trivial character, and that the parties were lodgers in the
same house, recommended them to retire and try to adjust
the matter amicably, especially as they both came from the
same country.

" No, be the oath of me," said Mrs. Norah, " we're not
countrymen at all at all—for Mishter Kelland comes from
durty Connaught, and I coma from beautiful Munsther."
As the matter could not be settled in a friendly way, the
MAGISTRATES consented to discharge the warrant upon the
defendants undertaking to quit their lodgings in a week, and
to pay the costs.

Ja-nzes Collins, an elderly man, in the garb of a sailor,
was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with having
collected various sums of money from different ladies and
gentlemen under fraudulent pretences. The prisoner was
taken into custody in consequence of information given at
this office that some person was going about town collecting
contributions for distressed seamen, by making unsanctioned
use of the name of the Rev. Mr. Ellarby, the very respect-
able Minister of Percy-street Chapel, Charlotte-street,
Fitzroy-square.

The prisoner was committed for the full period of three
months.

WORSHIP-STREET
On Saturday Mr. Hancock, proprietor of the " Antop-
sey" steam-carriage, attended before the presiding Magis-
trates, Messrs. BROUGHTON and TWYFORD, to answer the
complaint of a tradesman named Samuel Mayne Powell,
residing in Globe-road, Bethnal-green.
The complainant, on Friday week last, was proceeding
along the City-road with a caravan and a pair of horses.
The caravan contained several persons who were going
on an excursion of pleasure to Hampton-Court. Com-
plainant had passed the steam-carriage station in the
City-road ; and just as he had got on the canal-
bridge he heard Mr. Knight, a gentleman in the van,
call out to him to make way, as the steam-carriage
was coming up. Complainant was on the near side,
within two feet of the curb, and he drew up as much
closer as possible. An omnibus was on the off side,
and another was coming up, but it stopped to afford an op-
portunity for the steam-carriage to pass ; there was plenty
of room for two omnibusses to pass on the offside of Com-
plainant's van. Mr. Hancock, the Defendant, who was
steering, run behind him for some little distance, and on
passing caught the side of the van, and injured the harness,
and the forewheel of the steam carriage went over the
horse's foot. On the carriage running against the van the
concussion was tremendous, and had it caught the wheel of
the van it must have overturned it. There was a laugh in
the carriage ; and some person in it said, " Go on, it's only
a vanload of rubbish." Complainant said that Dlr. Han-
cock must have steered wrong, either from accident or in-
tention, for even had he kept straight on, the wheel could
not have passed over the horse. Complainant repeated
that there was ample room for the defendant to have passed,
as four carriages might pass abreast.
The Magistrates could not hesitate in coming to a con-
clusion that the Plaintiff had been injured. On referring,
however, to the Stage-coach Act, it was discovered that
steam-carriages were especially exempt from the operation
of the Act.

Mr. Broughton asked Mr. Hancock if he was aware of
that exception ?—Mr. Hancock said that when that Act
was before the Committee, there was a clause in it specially
appertaining to steam-carriages, but by the representations
of Mr. Ray, a cabriolet proprietor, it had been struck out.
On referring to the Hackney-coach Act the penalty of
negligence attached only to drivers of carriages, which the
Magistrates could not consider applied to the present case.
Mr. BROUGHTON was extremely sorry that Mr. Hancock
had ever let the case come before a public tribunal.

The complainant had called on Mr. Hancock, and asked
him to make some compensation, but he rudely told him
to leave his place.
MT. BROUGHTON said it was extraordinary that the steam-
carriage was expressly exempted, or he would have given
the complainant .5/. damages and costs, but as it was he
had no jurisdiction, although he certainly considered there
was a degree of carelessness, and as the acts were framed
there was no provision for damages, and the public were
without protection ; the only remedy was by action.
Mr. Hancock had such frequent claims made upon him
that he could not answer all.

Mr. BROUGHTON directed Graves, one of the officers of
the establishment, to conduct the parties into the magis-
trates' private room, so that they might have another op-
portunity to effect an amicable arrangement, which they
ultimately succeeded in doing, and then withdrew.