The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-10 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1851.

Irving, promoted, July 30; John Chancellor, Gent., to
be Cornet, vice Brown, promoted, July 28; Charles Ed-
ward Hope Vere, Gent., to be Coma, vice Baird, pro-
moted, July 31.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Anglesey.
Royal Anglesey Militia—Thomas Love Duncom'oe
Jones Parry, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Henry
Jones, resigned, Aug. 8.
CORN RETURNS.

INLAND REVENUE OFFICE, OLD BROAD
STREET, SErr. 8.

Notice is hereby given by the Commissioners of
Inland Revenue, in pursuance of the Act sth Victoria,
seas. 2, c. 14, that they have fixed and appointed the
following places fur receiving the " Corn Returns" under
the said Act.
LOCALITY OF THE INSPECTORS' OFFICES.
Mr. Fearon's, Globe Hotel, Whitehaven, Cumberland.
Mr. John Ashley 'a, High-street, Mold, Flintshire, North
Wales.

POLICE INTELLIGEN
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Cooney was brought before the Lord Mayor
for further examination upon a charge of uttering an
Irish bank note, which had been converted from 3/.
into 101.
City police-constable Jervis, said he had not been
able to procure further evidence against the prisoner
than that he had got the note cashed, receiving value
for it in exchange.
The LORD MAYOR said there was no doubt about
the prisoner having uttered the note. The question
was whether he knew at the time of uttering that it
was forged. As the parties did not appear for the
purpose of pressing the case against the prisoner, and
considering the evidence insufficient to warrant his
committal, he must be discharged.
Ann Bond, Jane Elliott, and John Elliott (the two
last being husband and wife), who were charged with
attempting to pick pockets on Friday last, were again
brought up.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall discharge Jane Elliott,
the evidence against her not appearing sufficient to
justify me in sending her to prison. The other two
delinquents I must send to prison for a month as
regues and vagabonds. The 12s. found upon Jane
Elliott must be given up to her, and the 21. 1 ls. found
upon the male prisoner will be placed in the hands of
the Governor of the Compter, who will deduct the
amount of his keep therefrom, giving him the balance
at the expiration of his term of imprisonment.
Thomas Winstanley was placed at the bar on a
charge of robbing Mr. Henry Adams Newman, clo-
thier, of 25, Jewry-street, Aidgate.
In reply to the LORD MAYOR the prosecutor
tated that he had employed the, prisoner for some
time as clerk, in consequence of his representing
that he was in great distress, and willing to accept
ten shillings a week for his services. Tbis was the
fourth clerk by whom he had been robbed ; in fact to
such an extent had he been plundered within the last
eighteen months that he had been compelled to place
his affairs within the jurisdiction of the Court of
Bankruptcy.
The prisoner was remanded till Thursday.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. George Clarke was charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
Mr. Hockley Wood, of 75, Basinghall-street,
conducted the case on behalf of Mr. Clarke ; and
Mr. Wilkinson, though not instructed, watched the
proceedings on the part of the prosecutor's employer.
Peter Descoe—l am manager to the livery yard of
' the Clarence (late Three Cups) Hotel, Aldersgatc-
street. About half-past ten this morning Mr. Clarke
entered the livery yard with eight men armed with
sticks and broke into the stables, taking therefrom
four horses, the property of Mr. Oawyn Merlin, the
proprietor of the yard. I, with the two ostlers, re-
sisted them, and they commenced beating us with the
sticks. Mr. Clarke did not strike any one that I
am aware of, but he was the most active of all and
the prime mover of the affair. One of the horses
belongs to a Mr. Carey, and another to a Mr. Gaius,
and were both standing at livery. I warned Mr.
Clarke a few days ago.
Cross-examined by Mr. H. F. Wood—There are
no horses entered in the book in the names of Len-
delle and Bralant. I never had any in their names.
There were ten horses brought into the yard on
Tuesday last and entered in tue book on the same
day. They were not brought in the names of Lon-
delle and Bralant. Six of them were afterwards sent
away by Mr. Merlin, and the remaining four were in
the yard this morning. Mr. Clarke applied for these
horses on Saturday last, and when he came this morn-
ing he again demanded them, but in the meantime his
men were removing four horses from the stable. I
refused to give them up without an order from Mr.
Merlin; and, on stopping one of the horses, was
struck several times on the haunches with sticks, and
received a blow from Mr. Clarke's fist, I believe, on
the side of the head. I saw Mr. Merlin on Friday
last. I don't know that he has absconded. He may
come back yet, hut I believe he has absconded. I was
not with him at the station on Friday ; and I hope you
are not going to class me with roguery. The horses
were in the stables, and the doors were bolted and fas-
tened with cord. I cannot swear they were fastened.
I will not swear that an application was or was not
made on Monday for the horses by Mr. Clarke. I told
him I was only Mr. Merlin's foreman, and could not
give them up without an order from him. I received
a notice from Londelle and Bralant desiring me not
to give them to any one but either of them. I be-
lieve the six horses were sent to Rubinsoa's repository.
Six were sent to Dixon's in the previous week, which
Londelle and Bralant also claimed. lam not aware
that Mr. Merlin was indebted to them to a large
amount. I always understood they were merely his
agents abroad to buy foreign horses for him for the
London markets. I hold possession of the yard for
Mr. Merlin, and not Mr. Cook, the proprietor of the
hotel. Mr. Clarke had no stick, and I cannot swear
that he struck me the blow on the head, but I believe
he did. Mr. Cook did not tell me to detain all pro-
perty of Mr. Merlin's.
William Thomas, manager of the Clarence Hotel—
My attention was called to the disturbance in the
yard, end on going to the door I saw about a dozen
men struggling, and among them six or sewn in
blouses. Mr. Clarke was very active in inciting the
men in the work of removing the horses from the
stables and keeping the gates closed. I seized him by
the collar and dragged him into the hotel, where in
the scuffle a large pane of glass was broken. He was
very quiet, apparently from exhaustion.
Cross-examined by Mr. H. F. Wood—l did not
break the glass in knocking Mr. Clarke over a chair.
William Jarvis, an ostler—l was taking one of the
horses out of bait, when Mr. Clarke came rushing
into the yard with several men armed with sticks and
ropes. I tried to close the gates, but Mr. Clarke
pushed them open. They had no difficulty in getting
the horses out of the stables, as the doors were not
fastened in any way, but merely closed. I did not see
Mr. Clarke strike any one, but received several blows
myself. I was not in the yard when the ten horses
were brought in.
William Mardell, an ostler—l saw Mr. Clarke on
entering the yard speak to Mr. Descoe. I took hold
of one of the horses, but was compelled to quit it on
receiving a blow from one of the men's sticks on the
wrist. The stable doors were not fastened.
John Barham—l am an auctioneer at Robinson's
repository. On Saturday last I was present, and
heard Mr. Clarke apply to Mr. Descoe for the resto-
ration of the four horses remaining out of the ten.
Mr. Descoe refused, and produced a written notice
which he said he had received from Mr. Cook, desiring
him not to deliver them up to any one but him. On
Thursday last Merlin's men brought six horses to the
repository, cud left them in the name of Londelle and
Bralant, who have since received 20/. on account of
the sale of two of them. The other four are still in
the repository.
Alderman SALOMONS said the only portion of this
case that he could take cognizance of is that relating
to the assault. It appeared to him that Mr. Merlin
was the agent to Londelle and Bralant, and not they
his egents.
Mr. H. F. Wood—That is precisely what I will
show if the case is adjourned, and I hold in my hand
a written authority which Messrs. Londelle and Bra-
lant gave to Mr. Clarke, undertaking to hold him
harmless in the whole transaction.
Alderman SALOMONS—Every man has a right to
pursue his own property in a legal manner ; but if he
go vi et armis, he must go peaceably, or be will render
himself liable to an action for assault. In the present
instance I think that a fine of 10s. will be sufficient to
meet the justice of the case.
Mr. Descoe here said, I now give Mr. Clarke in
custody on a charge of felony for stealing two horses,
upon which he can have no claim.
Mr. H. F. Wood—We are willing to return them
immediately, as they were taken by mistake.
Alderman SALOMONS—I am quite satisfied that
there was no felonious intention in removing them,
and independent of that, I cannot take a charge given
in such a summary way, unless brought up in the
regular way.

BOW-STREET.
Robert Marshall, aged 56, a scissor-grinder, living
at 4, Pitt's-place, Drury-lane, was charged with cri-
minally assaulting a number of little girls under 12
years old.

Caroline Baldacci, the daughter of a modeller in
Clare-market, and three or four other children, were
in attendance, and from their statements to the Court,
it appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of en •
ticin,, them to his place, and then inducing them to
fetch others. The details were extremely revolting,
and in the absence of a medical gentleman,
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner to Thursday,
refusing to admit him to bail.
CLERKEN WELL.

Patrick Quelpt; repulsive-looking Irishman, was
brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt under the following
circumstances : _

For a considerable time past numerolas gangs of
Connaught and Munster men have frequently met
near the turnpike, Islington, and desperate conflicts
have occurred between them, to the serious injury of
many policemen who have been required to interfere
to prevent fatal results. On Monday night they as-
sembled as usual to " agree to differ," and after skir-
mishing about upwards of two hours a body of con-
stables, under the guidance of Inspector Thatcher, of
the Nf division, dispersed them and apprehended
the prisoner, who had been acting as a leader or
captain, and was wanted for being concerned in an
outrage on Police-officer Cooke, 61 N, on the sth
August last.

The latter now deposed that while taking a man to
the station-house he was surrounded by a gang of
ruffians, among whom was the defendant, who in the
first instance struck him violently over the arm and
compelled him to let go his charge, and at the same
instant he received several terrific blows at the back
of his head, and eventually he dropped insensible, in
which state he reulgued several hours. From the

injuries then received he was still suffering and under
medical treatment.

Mr. TYRWHITT committed the defendut to the
House of Correction for six weeks without fine.

U T IS' AI:K..

111ary Ann Payne, a girl of 17 years of age, the
daughter of a tradesman residing in Upper Ground-
street, Blackfriars-road, was placed at the bar before
Mr. A'Beckett, charged with attempting to commit
suicide.

The complainant, a rather interestingiooking girl,
was obliged to be supported into court, owing to the
extreme exhaustion produced by the poison she had
taken and the remedies administered to neutralise its
effects.

Mary Payne, a respectable woman with an infant
in her arms, stated that the prisoner was her
daughter, and that she had been latterly in service.
On the previous day, however, sbe returned home
from her situation and complained of illness as the
cause, and said that she bad a severe pain in the chest
and was recommended to apply a mustard plaster
over the part affected. She (the mother) was about
preparing the remedy when her attention was di-
rected to her daughter, whom she observed in the act
of swallowing something from a teacup, which she
then placed on the table, and exclaimed, " I have
taken poison." Witness, on hearing the avowal of
her child, immediately left the house for medical aid,
and the assistant of Mr. Bull, a surgeon of Black-
friars-road, having been immediately called to the
case, he at once discovered that the prisoner was la-
bouring under the effects of oxalic acid, a portion of
which he found in the cup out of which she had taken
it. The quantity she had swallowed was excessive,
bat owing to the administration of antidotes, and also
the stomach-pump, the poison was neutralised in a
great degree, and the patient although much debili-
tated, was still so far recovered as to be enabled to be
brought up to this court on the present occasion.
Mr. A'BECKETT said that at present he should de-
cline putting any questions to the girl as to the cause
of her having made so determined an attempt at sui-
cide, for if medical assistance had not been speedily
procured, she would in all probability have been de-
stroyed, owing to the corrosive nature of the poison.
The magistrate then inquired as to whether it was
ascertained where the girl had procured the poison.
The mother replied that she had told her that she
sent a little girl for it, who was served at once from
a shopkeeper in that neighbourhood.
Mr. A'BECKETT said that an Act was now in
operation which made it a punishable offence for any
person to sell poison under certain restrictions ; and
that if it was purchased by any person under a cer-
tain age the seller was liable to a penalty of 201. The
magistrate added that he should remand the prisoner
for a week, with directions that she should be properly
attended to in the infirmary of the gaol ; and in the
meantime the policeman had orders to ascertain, if
possible, where the oxalic acid was bought, in order
that the person, whoever he might be, that add it
might be brought there to answer for the offence.
Ihe unfortunate girl was then carried out of the
court in the arms of a policeman.

FRAUD ON 7'HE GREAT WESTERN

RAILWAY COjiEPANY.

A man named John laroeltreau was brought up in
custody a.; the police court, Bristol, on Moodily, on a
charge ot having defrauded the Great Western Railway
Company, by riding in one ot their carriagts from
Bristel to Swindon without paying or tendering his fare
for the journey. The informations were laid under the
proviaions of the company's Act. 2d Victoria, cap. 27,
clause 29, w hien says, •• That if any person shall at
any time hereafter wilfully and knowingly ride by any
of the said company's coaches or carriages, without
having previously paid or tendered to the said company
his fare, or the charge for riding in the said carriage,
every such person shall forfeit and pay any sum not ex-
ceeding 405., together with the costs, eej." Mr. Ward,
of the firm of o..borne and Ward, one of the company's
solicitors at Bristol, attended to prosecute the complaint,
and said he was instructed to press for a conviction and
punishment. He should establish a complete case of
fraud on the part of the prisoner, and as a sort of traffic
was carried on by a great number of persons in the
tickets of excursion trains, the company had been
compelled to resort to the present prJceedings, in the
hope that it would check the system complained of.
The evidence was then gone into, by which it fully
appeared that an excursion train left Paddington
for Bristol and back, the tickets for which were not
transferable, at eight o'clock on Sunday morning. It
arrived at the Bristol terminus in Temple Meads at a
quarter past twelve o'clock. At half-past eleven o'clock
a police-constable named Spear saw the prisoner in front
of the gateway on Bath-parade, awaiting with many
other persons the arrival ot the train; therefore he could
not have come down by it, for it had not then arrived.
Just before the departure of the train in the evening on
its return trip, the prisoner was seen on the platform,
apparently about to depart by it. He was pointed out
to Superintendent Burton, of the company's police, who
having watched him into the train, and taken particular
noticeof the compartment of the carriage in which he took
his seat, got himself into the carriage, and accompanied
the train as far as Swindon, where he saw the prisoner
get out of the carriage and show a ticket properly
marked for the down voyage. He was then questioned
as to how he got possession of it, and his replies show-
ing that be had not received it in a proper manner, he
was taken into custody, and brought back to Bristol by
the superintendent, and locked up for the night. The
magistrates observed that a clear case of fraud had been
established against the prisoner, by which he bad ren-
dered himself liable to three months' imprisonment. The
case, however, was the first of the kind which had been
brought before the bench, and they should therefore mi-
tigate the penalty. The prisoner was then fined 20s. and
costs, and in default of payment was committed to the
House of Correction for 21 days.

TEE SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED 114 UR.
DER AT TOTTENHAM.

The adjourned inquest on the body of Carl Criglo
was held yesterday at the White Hart, Tottenham,
before Mr. W. Baker. The court having been duly
constituted,
Miss Brand, to whom the deceased was attached,
deposed as follows :—The deceased had been away
before the day of the accident, the 20th of August, for
about three weeks, and on the morning of his dtath I
had an interview with him. He came about eleven,
after an absence of three weeks. My mother saw
him also. When I saw him I asked him how he had
been so long, and I inquired where he had been. He
seemed very much confused. He said he had lost his
way in his rambles. He complained of pain in his
heed, and said he thought he had a concussion of the
brain. We were toge her some time, but we did not
talk much, and he complained of his head being bad,
and that he could not talk. He said nothing about
our being married at that time. This was about
eleven. He sat there until about twelve, when a
letter was sent by him to the post, which was
strangely written. The general purport of it was
that he was about coming to the maw or top point.
He said he had not been well alt the time he had been
away, and he complained of pains in his head. This
was about twelve o'clock, and at dinner time, between
half-past twelve and one, I saw him again. He sat
down to dinner, and appeared to be quite comfortable.
He then talked rationally. He did not then wander
from one subject to another; he was quite rational.
He then smoked a cigar. He was very much ad-
dicted to smoking. He then asked me if we had re-
ceived a letter from his brother, and I said we had
not. He said that his brother had stated that his
father was dead; but that was not the fact. I told
him his father was alive, and he said he had seen him
passing along the streets, and he also said that people
had seen him going along. I asked him what people,
and he said he did not know, but they told him so.
He seemed wandering. He seemed labouring under
a delusion. He sat on the sofa, and after a short time
he got up and said he must go again, and he got his
hat and did not stop to shake hands with any of us.
We thought this very strange. During the whole
of this period he did not attempt to take my life,
or anything of that kind. He did not appear to
have any feeling of jealousy. He then went away,
and returned about eight o'clock in the even-
ing, when the accident took place. I was sitting
at the window that looks on the pond, and my mo-
ther was in the garden watering the plants. I was
writing a letter, and heard some footsteps. I looked
from the window, and saw him at the gate, although
it was dusk at the time. I saw there was a wildness
in his countenance. He was quite alone. I got up
to go to the door, and he got in before I could get to
the door. He was very much agitated, and I now
wish I had prevented him from getting in. He said,
" Miss Brand, are you alone ?" and I did not answer ;
and he then repeated the question. I answered, " No,
I shall fetch my mother, who is close at hand." He
said, " Oh, no ; I don't wish that." He took hold of
my hand then—my right hand. I tried to get away
to go into the garden, as I thought he wanted to see
my mother. He seemed frightened—he trembled
greatly, and was very much excited. He then put
his right hand in his pocket, and I then screamed out.
I saw something in his hand which made me scream.
He then struck me immediately with a dagger in the
chest. (The dagger was here produced—it was about
six inches long.) He struck me at first lightly, but
the second time more violently and forcibly. It
slipped off the vital part of the side, and therefore had
no fatal effect. He still held me by the hand. I was
fainting, and fell down. He still held my band. He
tried to stab me again, but I caught the blade
with my band. He tried another time, and
I forced away that also. He made a third attempt,
and then stabbed himself twice near the abdomen very
violently. He then fell down at the lower end of the
room. My mother was crying " Murder !" He was
on his hands and knees, trying to get up ; he struck
my mother, who received the blow on her chest. My
mother is now getting better. My mother then ran
out into the street. All this occurred in the kitchen
which fronts the street, and looks towards the rail-
way bridge. I believe he was unsound in his mind
when he committed these acts. He was evidently la-
bouring under temporary derangement or delusion—
he could not have been sound ui his ;Wad. There