The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-10 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before ROBERT HEDGER, Esq., Chairman.)
Elizabeth Lee, and Mary Lee, her daughter, only eight
years of age, were indicted for passing bad money at Rotherhithe'
Mr. BACON conducted the case for the Mint, but the evi-
dence was so loose that the Jury found both the prisoners .
Not Guilty.
They were then given in charge to the Jury on another in'
dictment, which charged them with unlawfully having in their
possession nine counterfeit sixpences. The police witnesses
in the former case deposed that on taking the prisoners to the
station-house they were searched, and the nine sixpences found
in the pocket of the child. The mother was seen to put her
hand into the child's dress on the road.
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The elder prisoner said she had found the money, andaa
no intention to pass it.
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, but recommended
the younger to mercy.
Mr. Powell, the Mint solicitor, then said he might new
be allowed to say that the husband of the elder prisoner _
his son were were tried at the last Lancaster Assizes for toyd
same offence and found guilty. The father was now suffering
imprisonment for it, he made use of the son, who was only ten
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years of age, in the same way as the mother had done the girl'
In order that the boy might not be left destitute so far r
he
home his expenses home to his mother were paid by the
Crown ; he arrived on the Tuesday and on the Thursday the
mother was taken upon the charge.
The Court sentenced the elder prisoner to twelve Wethte
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imprisonment in the House of Correction at Brixton, and to ;°,
kept. to hard labour. The child was sent to the same pia
for fourteen days, in order that her mother might give evitten"",
of the parish she belongs to.
James Tomkins was indicted for stealing, on the 24th of
November last, four cows, value 501., the property of Jolla
Dean Marlow.
The prosecutor, who lived at Walton, stated, that on thie
24th of November he had five cows all safe in his yard; one
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the morning of the 25th they were all gone, and he traced
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them by candle light to Wandsworth. He went to Smithfield
next week, and was there told that two answering the deseripi
Lion of his were grazing in Rotherhithe ; he went and fe„nl,l4,
them. On making further inquiries he found the skins et t"
other two in Leadenhall Market. h
James Cross, a young boy, residing in Bermondsey with ht
butcher. On the morning of the 25th November, about eig
o'clock, he saw four cows with red bodies and white flees
driven past his master's shop by the prisoner, who lodged the!,
in Mr. Butcher's yard. On the Friday after he again saw t
enof the cows driven home by the prosecutor. He had not gee
the prisoner for nine months after, when he was taken to Crlien,
Hall and put into a yard where there were five men, be were
pointed out the prisoner as the man who drove the cows. be
Mary Ann Bridges lived with Mr. Butcher in Novell' be
last. The prisoner brought four cows to the yard,
sold two of them to a man named Wade. The prisoner toe;
away two of them, and Wade took away the other twoceg.
night. The prisoner was apprehended at Egham
Witness pointed him out.
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William Brandon, keeper of some meadows in the Pep
°es
road, saw the prisoner in November. He called upon wit: he
to know his charge for grazing cows. They agreed, an sell
sent two. He saw him again in the afternoon tryinf to
the cows. The prosecutor claimed the cows on the ollenwe
Friday.
Ow'
Samuel Jefferson, an officer, took the prisoner, and
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upon him " a jemmy" and some keys for opening gates.,
the
The prisoner merely declared his innocence, and sat"
small crow-bar he used for his cart. •ed
where t,
Thomas Harding knew the prisoner, who in November ".1:b.
at Paddington. Witness was at his house keeping the Wile
day of one of prisoner's children on the 24th Novembet, left
went at one o'clock and stopped till half-past eleven. 11,05,
him there when he came away. Had known him four Y"
and always considered him honest. on,
Cross-examined—Was at Union Hall at the exiting°
but did not say a word of what he had now done. t a hie
Mrs. Johnston, sister of last witness, corroborate
testimony.
Verdict—Guilty.

Sentence—Transportation for life.

THE DREADFUL TRAGEDY IN SOUTIIOI''

TON-STREET, PENTONVILLE.

HATTON- GARDEN.—( THIS DAY).
tha
At eleven o'clock this morning Mr. Inspector Miller, 01 ;18
N division, brought before Mr. Rogers a young man, a eat.lo
of Germany, named Borghart Bruniesh, under the follow 3
be
circumstances :—lt appeared that after the discovery ofeiat
heart-rending catastrophe, Mr. Miller ascertained that Brumes,
had had worked for the deceased man Steinberg, and wesael
charged from his employ on the return of the latter from four
many, where, with his family, he had been sojourning fer„ieg
months, on Saturday last. The clothes of Brunieh
found on the premises where the dreadful deeds were Pe
trated, induced Mr. Miller to send several constables in se
of him, his residence being then unknown, and at aboulg et
o'clock last evening he was found by Sergeant Havill, 9 „,',Ol,
a lodging-house for foreigners, No. 17, Storey-street, 7001
mercial-road. When questioned as to whether he knew aid
had happened to Mr. Steinberg and his family he said he be
not, and on being made acquainted with the horrible fact° e;
with eloa
would not credit it, and observed, Don't joke
you Lu, coot° tO applehend molar lnz„mY Work ark
I wont go with you" aviir assured him that Ili' "tie,
ment was too true, and requested him to walk to the stel,st,
house at Islington, to account for his time on Monday eig d,
This, after some further hesitation, he consented to do, Øtliat
in the presence of the sergeant and Mr. Miller, stated tha:,,,
four o'clock on Monday afternoon his master called on bid,
and was in an unusual good temper, at which he was surprisero,
knowing that his master was rather embarrassed in his o°u 0(11
stances, and was unable to pay the freight of some g,
brought by him from Germany. They laughed and jokereo,
gether for nearly an hour, and when Mr. Steinberg vt,es.,eis
ing, he made him (Bruniesh) promise to do to his °lilt,
Southampton-street, Pentonville, at 8 o'clock the same P'tivt
telling him he would then pay him two sovereigns on eenii
of the money he owed him, and that he could take awaltein.
clothes. Bruniesh further stated that he went to Mr- „'" die
berg's premises at the hour appointed, and he saw one njec
burning in the kitchen and another in the drawing roosta,o
however, did not knock at the door, for on a sudden he t".iins
his master wanted to " trap him into the house and Or
in charge to a constable for having neglected his work. ~itea'
Mr. ROGERS, after hearing Bruniesh repeat the above/ ""wful
the officer if he thought he was at all implicated in the 3
affair. ? A that
Mr. Miller replied in the negative. He considered opt
had Bruniesh entered the house he would have been the tter
victim. He (Mr. Miller) had been investigating theiglieso,
during the whole of the night, and, from what he could ft
it was evident to him, that Bruniesh, who had been 'eci
charge of Mr. Steinberg's business, had rather neglectessed
which circumstance had aroused the anger of the de,ceding
man, and led him to entice him to his house, inters
to murder him before he attempted the lives of his fatoWiteir
Mr. ROGERS said he thought it most likely that Mr.
berg sought to take away the life of the young man. t rile
Mr. Miller continued.—He had also ascertained T.P;;o°',
woman laying dead in the house was not the lawfult7-0,10
Steinberg, although she had born him the children tile 0,
had murdered. His wife was at the present time o'liss
Lee-street, Burton-crescent. Other material facts l'epei
gathered, which he intended to lay before the Jo* g who°
were these : he had found out the maker of the knife, c" 008
the deceased man purchased it after he had visited tne coo
man Bruniesh on Monday night ; also that at nine o'cleeej it
night the faint cries of " murder" by a child were be
Steinberg's house.
of the
Mr. ROGERS said those cries were most likely those (pie'
boy, who it was very clear escaped out of bed into the tt'er• A
ing room, on seeing his father murder his brother and s'll,
The worthy Magistrate said the case was unparallelelier to
made him chilly with horror. He then directed Mr.
take Bruniesh before the Coroner, who it is supposed v.(l, sil;
quire touching the deaths at an early hour to inorre-ro-
every other person whom he considered would be of any "-
in unravelling the mystery. •

THE GREAT WILL CAUSE.
(From the Kendal Mercury.) cal°
Sir James &Oat left Lancaster on Monday, 'it 06
o'clock, immediately. after he had finished his citse,,2',loo
proceeded to Storrs' Hall, the seat of Colonel tv goo
where he remains for a few days ; and from thence nAeinjor
to pay a visit at Lowther Castle, where his son, is at
Scarlett, is at present staying. The greatest blewer
tached to Sir James Scarlett, by Admiral Tathadqr,
for
not watching the case to the end, as both Mr; inter
well, Mr. Starkie, and Mr. Armstrong, frequently bare
posed, whilst Baron Gurney, was delivering his c It ii
and a notice to move for a new trial has been given' 0(4
certainly a most reprehensible thing in any advocete'tbef
attending until the conclusion of the trials in whiell,"
are retained ; but in the present case of Sir Jalne6it 10;
lett, perhaps some excuse may be made for him. eitlle
agreed upon, with the consent of all parties, that ° icas°
he nor Mr. Pollock (who was also anxious t° f
town) should appear in Court, during the delivery eti
charge, so that there might not be a greater advant9entiee
the one side than on the other ; thus, in parlie°looll,,
phrase, they "paired off ;" leaving the manage
cause to those with whom they acted. Mr. P°lll
town at 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning, with bi`o
his eldest daughter, and one of his sons, who catne.,feusirioi
pose, it is said, to hear the far-famed Great Wl' to
the if
During the Assizes they have been residing at
village of Poulton, about four miles from Laneastcre;obsc
ing taken one of these delightful cottages on INI°!.. vie°
terrace, from which such a magnificent and extengSeby tbio
of the Bay of Morecambe is commanded, termilTte+icalli.
Westmoreland and Cumberland hills, rising niarsiv 1,,;:e
the distance, that it has been denominated by Laic' I:,e
tague, in her Notes of the Lakes, and not unaPtLY: of 1"5
English Bay of Naples." After the jarring so?: to 01.,
day was over, Mr. Pollock used frequently to retir
rtiolt
delightful retreat, expressing in glowing and vivid, the ho.
admiration of the grandeur of the scenery arounu "' tits
is said that the learned gentleman and his fami/yi ealflelo
to visit ibr a while the South of France ; in ,real
health somewhat impaired, in consequence a the
tigue which he has lately undergone.