The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1851.

mato of the hotel at the same time. It appeared that
the prisoner met M. Jourdon at the Argyll Rooms on
the night of the 27th September, and he intro-
duced himself to him as staying at the same hotel,
and ascertained from him the number of his room,
and the prisoner soon afterwards %vent away. The
prosecutor did not return to the hotel until the
following morning, and he then found, upon examin-
ing a box in his bedroom, that three 201. notes, part
of a large sum of money that he had placed there
the day before, had been stolen. The evidence clearly
established the fact of the prisoner being the guilty
party, as it was proved that he went to Anderton's
Hotel, in Fleet-street, immediately after the robbery
must have been committed, and there changed one of
the stolen notes, and made a representation that he
was going away by the South-Eastern Railway ; it
appeared that instead of doing so, he took up his
abode at Dubourg's Hotel in the Haymarket, where
he was apprehended by Weale, the officer.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The Court was informed that there was very good
ground for believing that the prisoner had been car-
rying on a regular system of plundering guests at
hotels in different parts of the country, and the Re-
corder therefore deferred passing sentence, in order
that further inquiries might be made respecting the
prisoner and his pursuits.
No trial of any interest took place in the New
Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Hogan was charged with having violently as-
saulted his wife.
The complainant, who had not very long lost en
excellent husband, described the treatment she received
from the defendant as likely, if continued a little
longer, to make her follow the former to the grave ;
and a policeman who witnessed the outrage and took
the assailant into custody, not only confirmed her
testimony, but proved an assault upon himself, in-
flicted no doubt because he interfered to save her from
still greater violence.
The LORD MAYOR sentenced the defendant to im-
prisonment for seven days ; and soon afterwards the
fellow was brought again before his Lordship, charged
with having knocked his wife down when she went
to speak to him upon his departure from the cell in
which he had been confined at the Mansion-house.
The LORD MAYOR directed that the complainant
should at the end of the imprisonment of her husband,
appear against him, and stated that the defendant
must, at that time, give bail for his good conduct for
three months.
A young man named William Collins was charged
with having attempted to destroy himself.
A policeman said—l saw the defendant sitting on
one of the seats on London-bridge for some time, and
asked him why he did not go home. He said it was
his intention to sit there until midnight, when all
would be quiet, and he would then take a turn over
the bridge into the water. I spoke to him about the
folly of such a thing, but he said there was no use in
talking to him, as he was determined to fling himself
into the water. I then took him to the station-house,
on our way he said be had robbed his master and been
deserted by his friends, and had no chance of getting
into any place in this world.
Another policeman said, the defendant had been
taken before the magistrate at Worship-street, charged
with having endeavoured to cut his throat.
The LORD MAYOR—And what story did he tell
there ? Policeman—He said just the same thing, and
the magistrate discharged him, believing he would
not attempt anything of the kind again.
The LORD MAyou—Then we have every reason to
believe that his object is to excite sympathy. A
great many persons are in the habit of visiting the re-
cesses of London-bridge for the purpose of moving
compassion, and with the view to check the practice
I shall commit the defendant if he do not produce
bail to keep the peace for three months.—Committed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Charles Palmer, a lad in the employ of Messrs.
Burgoyne, solicitors, Oxford• street, was charged with
having stolen a sovereign belonging to his masters.
Mr. Burgoyne said the prisoner had been in his
service for about 18 months. He had frequently
missed money from a drawer in the office, but for a
length of time was unable to find out the thief. The
robbery was the more mysterious from the fact of the
drawer being furnished with one of Chubb's patent
detector locks; and though it was evident the drawer
must have been opened in order to get at the money,
yet the lock presented no appearance of having been
tampered with. On missing the sovereign an in-
spection of the drawer took place, and the discovery
was made of a small crack on one side, which enabled
a person, by the application of strong pressure, to
release the bolt of the lock from the hasp, and then
to shut in the bolt again so as to leave all in proper
order.
The lad, when given into custody, at first denied
his guilt, but afterwards admitted he had made the
discovery of the way in which the drawer could
be opened, and had availed himself of it more than
Once.
The prisoner was fully committed.
CLERKEN WELL.
John La,, the driver of a fly carriage, was charged
with being drunk and furiously driving over Mary
Ann Harris, a middle-aged woman, by which her life
is in danger.
It appeared that on Sunday night, at twenty
minutes past ten o'clock, the injured woman was car-
rying her child in her arms and crossing the road in
Pratt-street, Somers-town, with her nephew, when
she was knocked down by the prisoner's vehicle, and
the wheels passed over her, by which she was seriously
injured and her life placed in danger.
The prisoner's defence was that he was driving a
spirited horse and he endeavoured to pull up,,_but
could not prevent the accident.
Sergeant Wilkes said the prisoner was very drunk.
surgeons certificate was produced, which stated
theASprecarious condition of the injured woman.
Mr. COMBS remanded the case for a week, when
the fate of the woman will be made known.
SOUTH WARK.
Susan Martin, the wife of a tradesman residing in
Broad-wall, was charged with attempting to commit
suicide.
A policeman stated that the prisoner was
found on Saturday evening on the step of a door in
the street, apparently in a dying state, and when
questioned she admitted that she had taken poison.
He therefore lost no time in conveying her to a sur-
geon in the neighbourhood, who pronounced that she
had swalloweda quantity of laudanum, and the sto-
mach-pump being brought into requisition she reco-
vered from the effects of the dose she had taken. It
appeared that she had procured the laudanum by pur-
chasing small quantities at different chemists' shops,
until she got enough, she supposed, to answer her
purpose, and then swallowed the whole.
The husband was then called, and the first thing
he did was to produce a bundle of pawnbrokers' du-
plicates, saying that she had nearly ruined him owing
to her propensity for liquor. He was compelled to
leave her some time ago, and allowed her U. a week
to live upon, besides giving her furniture to furnish
a room.
Mr. A'BECZETT said that the husband of such a
woman was to be pitied. He should remand her for a
week, and in the meantime the husband would have
an opportunity of consulting with his friends, and
making some arrangement as to her future disposal in
the event of her being discharged.
In the course of the day Mrs. Johnson, a lady who
has interested herself in a very benevolent manner on
behalf of the two poor women named Suban, relative
to whom an application was made a few days since,
attended for the purpose of explaining some circum-
stances in allusion to their case, and to a letter which
appeared in the newspapers from Lord Lansdowne on
the subject.
The applicant stated that, having seen the Marquis
of Lansdowne's letter in the newspapers, she considerd
it only an act of justice on the behalf of the two sisters
Suban to attend before Mr. A'Beckett to explain some
inaccuracie3 which appeared in the former report of
their application at that court. She then proceeded
to describe that the father of the two women did not
live as butler in Lord Lansdowne's family, but served
in that capacity to Dr. Taylor, of Kenmare, and that
after their parents' death they lived in a cabin on his
Lordship's estate in the county of Kerry ; that they
inhabited the cabin up to the time of their quitting
Ireland about two months ago, and that it was
under the advice of Mr. Townsend, Lord Lans-
downe's agent, that they left their native place, Ken-
mare, and embarked at Cork to come over to this
country under the supposition that they would be
enabled to make out a livelihood here; that Mr.
Townsend paid their passage for them; and that they
had documents to prove that, and also a letter from
the Rev. Mr. Godfrey, the rector of Kenmare, re-
commending them as decent, well-conducted women,
and entitled to the sympathy of the benevolent. She
into
the applicant) had made the most strict inquiries
the characters of both the sisters, and had ascertained
beyond doubt that they were not impostors, but were
the persons they represented themselves to be, and
for
many their parents as well as themselves bad lived
many years on the estate of the Marquis of Lans-
downe, in the county of Kerry. The applicant added,
that the two poor women had since left for Ireland,
and that her object in making the present application i
was for the purpose of acquainting his Lordship of
the real circumstances, and disabusing his mind as to
the unfortunate women being impostors, such anim-
putation upon their characters being sufficient to de-
stroy their future prospects in life if left uncon-
tradicted.
Mr. ATECHETT said that Lord Lansdowne in his
note had:contradicted the assertions as to a man named
Suban ever having been in his service as butler, or of
such a person ever living on his estatesin the county
of Cork; his Lordship disclaimed ever having pos-
sessed an estate in that county. He (the magistrate),
from the manner of the two women when before him,

was prejudiced in their favour, and believed that they
were not impostors, otherwise he would not have in-
terested himself in procuring their removal back to
Ireland as he did ; that he should write to his Lord-
ship, acquainting him of the explanations given by
the applicant, in order that the matter might be set
right, and that what previously occurred might not
operate to the disadvantage of the two sisters when
they got back to Ireland.
The applicant having thanked the magistrate, then
withdrew.

sonable orders of this court by such fines as will force
attention to their duties. Ilere we have ben half
suffocated during the last two hours this morning by
the windows being closed. There are a great num-
ber of persons here, and I shall mark my sense of the
disobedience very strongly, because I don't think it is
the business of the judge to waste his time with a
matter such as this.

(The court-keeper, John Whiteside, then appeared.)
The JUDGE—Court-keeper, why didn't you open
the door ? The keeper—l had no orders.
The JUDGE—Do you mean to say you had no
orders ? The keeper—l considered it was very cold
this morning.
The JUDGE—CoId this morning, with a crowded
court like this! I shall impose a fine of 103. for not
attending to my orders, repeatedly given on this sub-
ject. It must be very uncomfortable and unpleasant
to every one in court. I shall inflict a fine of ten
shillings for not attending to my orders on this sub-
ject, and teach you to attend to my orders in future,
which have been now neglected without any justifi-
able ground whatever. I think fresh air is essential to
life and health. I nearly lost my life by confinement
in close courts, and I don't intend to have it again.
By keeping the windows closed you are endangering
my health, and I consider that a serious matter. En-
force that fine, Mr. Statham.

The business of the court then proceeded, and in
the course of the next case the Judge corrected a mis-
taken notion which, he said, generally prevailed. He
said it was generally supposed that the law was a
system of chicanery. It was, however, the result of
the deliberations of the wisest men and the essence of
good sense. It was only very silly people who chose
to consider the rules of law as mere chicanery.
These remarks were addressed to a young man who
appeared on the plaintiff's side, but was unable to
support his case by what the Judge deemed sufficient
and reasonable evidence. It was," he continued,
" a monstrous thing to come into that court, and state
things as facts which the witness had no knowledge
of. Was he to saddle a party with a debt because
there might be great difficulty in finding him ? You
(addressing himself to the witness) choose to come
here and waste my time,,by bringing a case before me
in which there is not a scrap of evidence. You have
not stated one single fact, except that you served a
notice, and just look what a thing it would be in this
or any other court of justice. I might as well go and
serve a notice on any gentleman sitting in this
court, and bring an action against him, because I
served a notice upon him. This is part and parcel of
a system which I have put down, and will take care
not to set up again."
The witness attempted to explain.
The JUDGE—You don't know anything about it.
You are a mere collector of debts. What you are
doing is highly improper. You are playing with a
dangerous weapon, because it is necessary for you
and others in this court to know this—l have powers
—and though they be novel, though persona in this
town don't like powers which are novel, which they
have never heard of before—l intend to exercise
those powers, whether they be novel or ordinary. If
there is a new system of law, it, is a strange reason
for not exercising its rules because they are novel. I
can tell you (the witness) the Act of Parliament gives
me power, not only to order a prosecution, but to
commit parties immediately for trial—to commit them
to gaol till the next assizes for perjury ; and I tell you
that is the power that I intend to exercise. There
were some cases in the last court in which I shall exer-
cise that power. I don't intend to sit here and have the
moral responsibility of allowing these parties to state
that which is not true. It would be a very dangerous
thing to do, and one which might be attended with very
serious consequences. I don't suppose you (witness)
acted from any such motive. I don't suppose you
are conscious of impropriety in that which you are
doing; but it is highly improper in a man to come
into a court of justice and take an oath in a witness-
box, and state that which is not true. I don't think
you had any such intention—because I am inclined
to think you are a respectable person, who did not
think, in saying what you did, that you were guilty
of any offence—to come here and make a statement
such as you made, as if you could speak to facts
merely because some person told you. Therefore I
shall not order a prosecution in your case. But re-
collect, an oath imposes this, not to state what you
have heard, but what you know. It is improper to
waste the time of the Court. In concluding his re-
marks, the Judge declared his intention to require
reasonable evidence in every case. He sat there for
that purpose, and any person in town would be just as
good a judge as he was himself if he received mere
tittle-tattle. He told the witness to stand down, and
if he did not prove the case satisfactorily, the next
step he took he (the Judge) should certainly nonsuit
him. The case must be proved by reasonable
evidence.

Some private conversation then took place with the
clerk of the court, and the Judge retired.

THE FROME MURDER.

Yesterday (Monday) was appointed for the exami-
natio❑ of Robert Hurd, William Sparrow, and Wil-
liam Maggs, the three persons charged with the viola-
tion and murder of Sarah 'Watts, at Woodlands, near
this town, on the 24th September last.
Sergeant Smith (the London detective officer) stated
to the bench that he had that morning apprehended
the other person suspected of being concerned with
the prisoners in the murder, his name was Wm.
Sergeant.
The four prisoners were placed in the dock. The
first witness examined was

Sophia Cornish, whose husband keeps a beer-shop
near the scene of the murder, and who deposed that on
the morning of the tragedy she saw the four prisoners
together, near West Woodlands.
Ann Hiscocks gave similar evidence.
Mary Francis deposed—My husband keeps the
Horse and Groom public-house at West Woodlands.
I recollect the murder being committed on the 24th
of Sept. On the afternoon of the 13th Sept. the
prisoner Sparrow was in my house. He stayed there
between two and three hours. He had an old dirty
silk handkerchief with him. On the 20th he came
again. On that day I also saw the handkerchief in
his possession. He had it in his hand. I was very
close to him, and could see that it had some slits in it.
He went out and left it on the settle, and whilst he
was gone I examined it. I observed it well. I also
saw it well when it was spread out over his knee. I
believe I should know the handkerchief again. (The
handkerchief was here produced. It agreed exactly
with what witness had said, being ragged at the cor-
ners, and having two or three slits in it.)
Witness continued—l am confident this is the same
handkerchief I saw in Sparrow's hand on the 13th
and 20th of Sept. I was talking to him, and there-
fore I had a good opportunity of seeing it, and I am
sure this is the same handkerchief.
The prisoner Sparrow—You never saw me with
that handkerchief. I never had it.
James Hoddinott, constable of Frome—l produce
the handkerchief. I found it on the table at the
house where Sarah Watts was murdered. I first
went to the house about half-past six on the 24th of I
September. After I entered the house, the first
thing I saw was a spot of blood below the fireplace,
on the floor. I then looked on the table, and found
the handkerchief I now produce. I examined it, and
then put it into my pocket. I then saw two or three
spo!s of blood on the wall. I then went into the milk-
house, and saw the floor all bloody—a large pool of
blood lying all over the ground, just under a trundle,
which was half full of whey, and it appeared to be
bloody, as if some had been dipped out with something
covered with blood.
John Watts, father of the deceased, was then called.
while
eis a very old man, and appeared deeply effected
giving his evidence. He said, my daughter was
murdered on the 24th of September. I returned home
on that day, about four o'clock. I observed the whey
in the milk-house before I went out, and I also saw
it when I came back. I then tipped the tub up con-
taining it, and I saw that' the water was bloody, as
if something covered with blood had been dipped in it.
John Butcher, saddler, of Frame, proved finding a
bundle of clothes in a field, about two minutes' walk
from Butt's-square, on the Tuesdayaftersix h
o'clockte
murder,i
as he was going across the field, about
the morning. The clothes coruoladnohtuht masvoebe one musteenthrownn
where they were from the road
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Mr.
Watts as his property.
He said they were stolen on
the day his child was murdered.
Thomas Desey, residing in Bu t s-square, said he
knew all the prisoners. Sargent lived four doors
from him. On the morning of the 30th of September,
the morning on which the clothes were found, about
half-past two o'clock, be heard some one pass his
house, and come back again in half-an-hour. There
was no thoroughfare up the square, only to the houses
in it.
The magistrates then remanded the prisoners until
the Bth of November, when the depositions will be
completed, and they will be fully committed.

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A RETURNED mica CANT.--The IVaterford News
states that an industrious Wexford farmer, Mr. Samuel
Murphy, who some three or four years ago sold his farm and
went to America, has just returned home, and again pur-
chased his old homestead for the purpose of residing in it.
He advises no man to go to America who can make out a
liying in Ireland,