The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A fashionably dressed young man, who gave his
name Honeywood Newman, was on Wednesday placed
at the bar, charged with obtaining by fraudulent repre-
sentations the sum of 1301. and upwards from Mr.
Lloyd, a banker, of Birmingham.
The prisoner, who represented himself as the son of
Sir -- Honeywood, late M. P. for Kent, deposited
a check at Mr. Lloyd's for several hundred francs,
made payable at a foreign house. On the instrument
being deposited he did not desire cash, but afterwards
by his plausible manner and representations succeeded
in obtaining the money above mentioned. It had been
ascertained that he was no relative of the member of
Parliament for Kent, and that the obtaining was a
dishonest one.

Mr. DYER Was of opinion that the case was incom-
plete, and the prosecutor then assured the magistrate
that there were other cases against him at Birmingham.
Immediately afterwards a female who was present
charged the prisoner with bigamy, he having inter-
married with her daughter while his former wife
was living.
On the latter case the prisoner was remanded.

On Saturday, some time before the prisoner was
placed at the bar, several persons were observed in the
neighbourhood of the office in close consultation, and
apparently having some sort or object in view. All
the witnesses on the bigamy case, except two, were,
for at least an hour, sitting at an ()lien window of a
public house exactly in view, and within a few yardg
of the office. When the prisoner was put to the bar
no person appeared to charge him on either case
(although Mr. Lloyd was known to be in the street
within a short distance of the office) • consequently
Mr. Dyer directed the prisoner to be discharged, and
the prisoner accordingly left the bar and came into
the body of the office. Some observations were made
respecting the money, 701., found on the then prisoner,
and taken charge of by the policeman ; and upon an
application being made to Mr. Dyer the money was
directed to be given up to the prisoner. A person in
spectacles immediately stepped forward and claimed
a sum of 601. on the prisoner's order. The policeman
handed this amount over to him by desire of 'the pri-
soner. It having been intimated that the parties re-
specting the bigamy case were not in attendance, a
most singular desire, after the 601. was paid, appeared
to actuate several persons who had got admission into
the office to get the discharged person out of the pre-
cincts of the office in the most private manner.
Accordingly, in place of going out at the usual door,
he was conducted through the private room and
let out, surrounded by his friends, who appeared to be
the same parties who had been seen consulting to-
gether in the street. The prisoner had hardly got into
the passage when a loud hubbub was heard, and fe-
male voices were heard to exclaim, " The villain will
escape—stop him." The noise reached the ears of
all in the office, but no inquiry was made into it until
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, went out ; and upon
learning that all the witnesses in the bigamy case were
outside, and were forcibly kept out of the office, he
gave prompt instructions, and ultimately Clements,
one of the officers, pursued the person and collared
him, with the intention of bringing him again into the
office. In this design he was opposed by a person
named Levy, who said he was a sheriff's officer, and
that the prisoner was in his custody on a writ for a sum
which, singularly enough, was stated to be for, the
same, or about the same, as Mr. Lloyd previously
charged the person with having defrauded him of.
The accused was ultimately brought into the office, and
placed at the bar, on a charge of bigamy, by the name
of Charles I-loneywood Newman, or Charles Newman
Honeywood.

- The evidence respecting the charge was then gone
into. The certificate of the prisoner's marriage with
Mary Ann, his first wife, was exhibited. He was mar-
ried at St. Mary's church, Bryanston-square, on the
24th May, 1828. The other certificate, of the second
marriage, was shown, from which it appeared he was
again married at St. Mary's, Lambeth, on the 17th
December, 1831, to Francis Elizabeth Carrington,
widow. The first wife, a genteel young female,
dressed in deep mourning, was in the office during the
proof of these marriages. The person of the prisoner
was sufficiently identified by individuals who were pre-
sent at the different ceremonies. The prisoner was
married on the first occasion in the name of Newman,
and in the second by the name of Honeywood.
When the Prosecutor was asked why he did not
come forward before, he replied that he was prevented
from entering the office by some friends, he supposed,
of the prisoner. Some of the witnesses declared that
they had been forcibly held back when they attempted
,to get into the passage; and, if it. had not been for
their outcries when they perceived the manner in
which the prisoner was being conveyed out of the
office. they were convinced he would have got away.
The prisoner was fully committed.
It was stated that the prisoner was at present pass-
ing by the name of Neville, and cohabiting with another
female. The representation respecting his being the
natural son of Sir William Honeywood is totally dis-
believed.
Mr. Gibbons mentioned in the course of his evidence
that his deceased daughter, when she was married to
the prisoner, was married in the name of Carrington,
and as a widow. Her real name, however, was Gib-
bons, and she had never before been married.
Mr. DYER said this made no difference in the matter
before him, provided the identification of the parties
was sufficiently clear.

After the prisoner was removed the police concerned

, in the
_custody of the prisoner came forward, and re-
probated in plain language the " dirty work" which
had apparently been transacted.

THAMES POLICE.
THE STEAMERS AND THE WATERMEN.—Wednesday
James Philpot, the master of the Queen Adelaide, a
small steam-vessel, which formerly ran between Rich-
mond and London, but has lately carried passengers
between Hungerford market and Greenwich, appeared
to answer a summons laid under the thirty-third by-
law of the Watermen's Company, which charged him
with acting as master of the steam-boat, he not having
been approved of, or licensed to do so, by the Water-
men's Company, by which he had incurred a penalty
not exceeding 5/. and costs.
The cage excited a good deal of interest among the
watermen, who crowded the office, and who have been
great sufferers by the steam-vessel conveying passen-
gers to and from Greenwich, which has deprived them
of numerous fares, and reduced many of them to a
state of great distress.
Cadwell, a waterrnan, plying at Hungerford-stairs,
on Sunday, the Bth inst., saw the defendant acting as
master of the Queen Adelaide steamer. He was on
the paddle-box waving his hand and giving directions.
He heard the defendant plying the people in Hunger-
ford-market to go by his steamer to Greenwich.
Mr. White, a member of the Watermen's Com-
pany, saw the defendant acting as master of the
steamer on the evening of the day in question on the
river off Waterloo-bridge.
Mr. Andrew Dawson, a barge builder, gave similar
evidence.

Mr. Banyon, clerk of the Watermen's Company-,
proved that the defendant had not been approved of or
licensed to act as master of the Queen Adelaide, nor
was the vessel licensed to ply between London and
Greenwich at all.

Mr. Hobler, jun., for the defendant, contended
that the case had failed, inasmuch as it had not been
proved that defendant was a freeman, and the Act of
Parliament and the by-laws only extended to freemen.
Mr. Cutler, the beadle of the Watermen's Com-
pany, was called to prove the defendant was a free
waterman.

Mr. Banyon said that Philpot had been registered
ever since the 17th of May, 1810.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the question was whether the
defendant was licensed to manage the steamer, and it
was proved he wasp not. The Watermen's Company
had not approved of him, and he thought they could
not exercise a better discretion than in selecting
proper men for the management of such vessels. He
then convicted the defendant in the full penalty of 51.
and costs.

The decision will have the effect of preventing any
steamers plying between Greenwich and London, as
the Watermen's Company are determined not to li-
cense any steam-vessels or men for that purpose.