The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-13 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

At the sitting of the Court, on Saturday, Edward
Amos, who was on Friday convicted of arson, was placed
in the dock, when the Learned Judge said that, in con-
sequence of some points of law having been raised by
his counsel, which would be argued elsewhere, the judg-
ment of the Court upon him would be postponed until
the next session.
He was then removed. _

Richard Gardner, a young man of very respectable
appearance, was indicted for embezzling the sum of
11. 3s. 6d., received by him on account of his employers,
and was elso charged with larceny in stealing the sum
of 141., their property, which had come into his posses-
.ion by virtue of his employment.
Mr. BALLANTINE stated the case on the part of the
prosecution, and afterwards called several witnesses,
from whose evidence it appeared that about two years
ago the prisoner was taken into the service of Messrs.
Thompson and Co., ship and insurance brokers, as a
confidential clerk, at a salary of 1501. a ) eir, and which
was afterwards increased to 200!. ; that he re-
mained in their service until the 10th of August
last, when he quitted without giving them notice,
and entered into pirtnership with a person named Blake-
hall, and they commenced business as insurance brokers,
in Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street. A few days after-
wards, one of the parties discovered an entry in one of
the books which excited his suspicion, and he thereupon
sent for the prisoner, who immediately attended and ex-
plained the entire matter to his complete satisfaction;
but suspicion of the prisoner's honesty having been once
aroused, the prosecutors were induced to institute a more
careful investigation of their accounts, and the result was
the discovery that the prisoner had received several sums
of money, for which he had not accounted, and for which
he was taken into custody and ultimately committed for
trial. _ _ _

Mr. E. JAMES, Q.C., addressed the jury at consider.
able length on the part of the prisoner, complaining of
nis not having had access to the prosecutor's books since
this charge bad been brought against him, and which
would have enabled him to have explained the whole
transaction. The Learned Counsel did not call any
witnesses even to character.
Mr. Justice TALFOURD then summed up the evidence,
and

The jury retired to consider their verdict. After an
absence of nearly an hour they came into court and re-
turned a verdict of Guilty on that count of the indictmegt
which charged the prisoner with stealing the 141.
Upon the verdict being returned,
Mr. BALLANTINE said there were five other similar
indictments against the prisoner, and that his defalca-
tions amounted altogether to 2151, but alter the verdict
which had just been returned he had no wish to trouble
the Court and jury with the trial of the other cases.
Mr. Justice 'rALFOURD, however, said it would be
were eati4factory to proceed with another case More
the Court decided upon the prisoner's punishment, and
the prisoner was tried on another indictment, and again
convicted, whereupon the Court sentenced him to be
transported for seven years.
The two trials occupied the court the whole of the day.
This case terminated the sessions, and the court was
adjourned to Monday, the 3d of February.

LONDON SESSIONS-SATURDAY.

THE CASE 07 GROSS CRUELTY TO A CHILD.

Sarah Ann Paterson, aged 27, who was found guilty
last Saturday, of gross negligence to an illegitimate
child, exposing it to the cold, and depriving it of proper
sustenance, was brought up for judgment.
The prisoner lived with her husband in Skinner-
street, Bishop gate, and had two children, the one
the subject of this indictment, which was an idiot, and
about six years old, and another by her present husband.
From reports which had reached the officers of the East
London Union that the former was starved and grossly neg-
lected, they, on the 1 lth of December, sent the re-
lieving officer to the house, and, finding the room door
locked, he broke it open, and found .the poor child was
almost naked in a cradle, in appearance a skeleton, and
a dry piece of crust by its side. There were sores over
the head and body, and one of the witnesses said the
mother was frequently in the habit of beating it naked
with a strap.
Kr. Porter, the surgeon of the union, on examining
the child, was satisfied that the appearances arose from
starvation, and not disease; and it further appeared that
in the coldest weather the poor thing was left without
firing in the room, where the stench was dreadful.
The ItECORDER, addressing the prisoner, said the
offence of which she had properly been convicted was a
very serious one. The prisoner bad already been a
week in prison; she was far advanced in pregnancy,
and a lengthened imprisonment would cause the child
to be born in prison, a thing which it WAS always de-
sirable to avoid, for some of the wise wore so unchari-
table as to throw a taint in after life on those whose
misfortune it was to have been born in a gaol. He
should, therefore, order the prisoner to enter into sure-
ties, herself in 201., and two others in 20L, one to be her
husband, to come up for judgment when called on.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

William Wakeham, a young man in the employment
of Messrs. Meyers and Co., of No. 144, Leadenhall-
strec!, factors and general merchants, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed his
employers of a telescope and several other articles.
The prisoner had, it appeared, been employed in look-
ing over goods for the orders, and of late several articles,
to which he as well as the other servants of the estab-
lishment had access, had disappeared. Two policemen,
having received information that suspicions attached to
the prisoner, followed him one evening from the pre-
mises to a coffee-shop, and thence to a pawnbroker a
shop, where they saw him through the window offer a
telescope to the shopmau. They immediately pounced
upon him, and asked him where he got the property,
and after some little hesitation he told them he had
stolen it from his masters. The officers, after lodging
him in the station-house, proceeded to search his apart-
ments, and found there a number of smelling-bottles and
other goods, a long list of which was produced, and all

of which were identified as property having been stolen
from the prosecutors' premis.-s.
;The prisoaer said he had nothing at all to say, and
was committed for trial.

James Moody, a ruffian wh has been a hanger-on at
the cab-stand in King William-street, was charged with
having kicked and threatened to murder a policeman.
The prisoner was expostulated with by one of the
police on the turbulent spirit which he was exhibiting
amongst the rough class to which he belonged, when he
turned suddenly round and threatened, in the most so-
lemn manner, to thrust a knife into the preserver -if the
peace. As the officer had ..,cne reason for believing that
the fellow would keep his word, he spoke to a brother
policeman, and determined to have the opinion of the
Lord Mayor upon the subject. The defendant said he
did not care a straw for the Lord Mayor or Alderman
Gibbs; that he was able for either or both of them, and
that he never walked to the station-house and never
would. fie then began to use his fists and his feet, and
in the most da❑gerous manner. Luckily the noise had
the effct of gathering together a number of the force,
but six of them were actually engaged in conveying the
cadger to the police-station, from whence they were also
obliged to convey him to the Mansion-house, where,
up ,n his arrival, he was placed before the very magis-
trate whom he had named us one of the objects of his
contempt.
The general character given of the defendant in every
respect corresponded with the description of his vio-
lence upon this particular occasion, and the policeman
declared that he was the terror of the whole neighbour-
hood, and had been always in the habit of snapping his
fingers when any authority was named.
Alderman GIBBS—Why have you not brought him
before the Lord Mayor upon former occasions? Police-
man—We cannot find out where he lives. We believe
that he has no lodging; that he never goes to bed, but
when he wants sleep that he takes possession of a cab,
out of which the driver dares not remove him.
Alderman GIBBS—Was be drunk? Policeman—As
sober, my Lard, as I am at this moment.
Alderman GIBBS—You ought to have stopped this sort
of game long ago.
Defendant—You ain't going to believe what that party
says about me, are you? I did nothing but what I was
bound to do, for he was wantiag to meddle with the li-
berty of the subject, and I wouldn't have it.
Alderman Grmats—l fine you 40i. for the assault, and
you must find bail for your good behaviour.
Defendant—Very well. I never walked to prison
yet, as I said before, and I'm blowed if ever I will.—
(Laughter.)
The commitment was then signed, and preparations
were made for strapping down the refractory cadger to
a stretcher, upon which he was subsequently taken to
prison.
A PERSECUTED MAN.—After the ordinary business
of the day was concluded Michael Sullivan, who said he
came from the county of Cork three months ago, ap-
peared before Alderman Gibbs, and presented to him a
lever from a City missionary, who resides at White-
chapel, requesting assistance for the bearer.
• The letter said :—" Will you be pleased to assist the
bearer M. Sullivan, to get some tools, which he has
been obliged to part with under very painful circum-
stances. He attended the Protestant worship in Ire-
land for the last few years, and he was so persecuted
by the instigation of a priest that no one would employ
him, and, having five children, he was thus ruined ; and
to be safe he left his home, for fear they would do him
some bodily harm. The priest took away his Bible, and
would hays taken away his life as possible."
Alderman GIBBS—What have you done with your
family ? Applicant—They are all in the workhouse.
Alderman GIBBS—And of what religion do you call
yourself a member? Applicant—Oh, faith, I an't a
Roman Catholic, at any rate.

Alderman GIBBS—Do you go to any church or
chapel? Applicant—Not now, your Honour. The priest
burned my Bible because my children went to church,
and he cursed me, and I'll never go to chapel again.
Alderman GIBBS—Did you apply to any Protestant
clergyman to get you employment? Applicant—Oh,
then, upon my word I did; but I couldn't get a hap'orth
of work to do; for between the heavy rents and taxes,
and poor-rates, I could get nothing in the world to do. I
have got a sister and a brother-in-law here, and he works
in the docks, but he couldn't get me in, and it's I that's
able and willing.
Alderman GIBES --But I find you belong to some
trade, for you have been obliged to get rid of your tools.
Applicant—Yes, your Honour, I am a carpenter,
but I can't get work without tool.. The only tools re-
quired in the docks is a strong pair of hands, and I've
got them.
Alderman GIBBS then gavo the applicant money to
redeem his tools, and advised him to set to work as fast
as he could and release his wife and children from the
workhouse.
The promise was made, and the applicant retired
overjoyed at the success of his mission.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY.— Thomas ilarris was charged with having
stolen a great coat from the hall cf Dr. Thomas Cham-
bers, No. 1, Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
Edward Hooker, the butler, said he bad occasion to
leave the hall the over night for a minute, while he
went across the way to order a pint of porter. He saw
the prisoner enter the hall and come out with a great
coat, which had been hanging up there, on his arm. He
immediately pursued the prisoner, and took him into
custody with the property in his possession.
Police-constable Watts, C 67, said in the prisoner's
possession a pewter pot. and other articles, suspected to
have b'en stolen, were found.
Mr. Henry Last, landlord of the Duke of Albemarle
public-house, said the pot was his property.
The prisoner was fully committed.
CL ERKE N WELL. _ _

A DESPERATE THIEF. —A rough-looking fellow with
many aliases, residing at No. 2 " over the water," was
charged with breaking into some premises now erecting
in Suffolk-street, Lower-road, Islington, belonging to
Mr. Richard Hareent, and stealing a quantity of leaden
piping and brass fittings.
The prosecutor stated that at half-past seven in the
morning he met the prisoner with the property coming
from the premises in question, and immediately recog-
nised it. The accused seemed aware of it, and asking,
" Old fellow, what's o'clock?" walked hurriedly away.
Witness, however, followed, telling him he had com-
mitted a felony, when he turned upon him, threatening
his life, and struck and threw him several times.
While being so ill-treated police-constable Luker, 147
N division, came up, and very likely saved his life.
Mr. Mould, the clerk recognised the prisoner as an
old thief, and said he had been convicted.
Prisoner, looking savagely at that gentleman, said,
" Not so much of your jaw."
Sergeant Barber, 9 N, having proved two forme': con-
victions of felony against the prisoner, he was sent to
Newgate for trial.
A question of considerable importance was decided
by Mr. Tyrwhitt in a case where Mr. George Walter,
the parish engine-keeper, of Clerkenwell, and some of
the fire brigade, applied for the usual rewards.
Mr. Dyer, the churchwarden, attended merely to be
satisfied that the rewards were legally claimed. He had
seen the owner of the premises, who admitted that some
articles in trade caught fire, and the house was in danger,
but was not injured. The engines arrived, and Mr.
Braidwood, the superintendent of the Fire Brigade,
attended, and gave shrewd directions, which saved the
house. _ _

Mr. Walter called a policeman, and ho confirmed the
above acts.
Mr. TYRWHITT remarked that in such a case the fire-
IIIC:1 were entitled to the rewards.
WORSHIP-STREET.

ATTEMPT TO ROD, AND INFAMOUS DEFENCE.—A
fellow, named George Henry Clarke, was placed before
Mr. Hatninill upon a charge of assaulting, with intent
to rob, Mr. Henry Francis Seymour, a gentleman resi
ding at Bath House, Hackney.
About midnight, the complainant was passing the end
of Church-street, Shoreditch, when the prisoner
and three or four others surrounded him, and laid
hold of his right arm, hustling him about, with the in-
tention, no doubt, of robbing him. He, however, strug-
gled, and having contrived to free himself from their
grasp, called a policeman from the opposite side of the
way, upon which the assailants all made off, except the
prisoner, who being laid hold of by the policeman, as-
serted that he had seen the complainant assaulting re-
spectable females, and had laid hold of him to assist in
bringing him to justice. This, of course, was indignantly
denied by Mr. Seymour, and the prisoner, unluckily fur
himself, being already well known to the constables, was
at once taken into custody.
Mr. Hamm', remanded the prisoner for a week, in
the expectation that other charges may be brough
against him.