The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAL)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,

Mr. Tyrwhitt, lately magistrate at the Clerkeuwell
Police-court, took his seat to-day in this court, in the
place of Mr. Peregrine Bingham, resigned, after upwards
of 20 years' service as a metropolitan magistrate.
MAKING AWAY WITH ARMY CLOTHING BY A WORK-
WOMAN.—BAD CASE.—Ann Walker, a tailoress, was
charged with converting to her own use the materials for
ten militia capes, of the value of £5, entrusted to her to
make up by Mr. John Raper, tailor of 14, Castle-street
Leicester -square.
The prosecutor said he was employed in making army
and police clothing, and on Thursday last he gave the pri-
soner the materials for ten militia capes to make up. She
should have brought them back on the following Saturday
night, but failed in doing so, and he could not find what
she had done with them. He found her in St. James's
Workhouse, where she told him that she had brought him
back six, but had lost four ; but she had never been near
him since he gave her the materials.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said she was
to receive 6d. each for the capes, and could make eight in
a day.
Mr. Stephen Ranby, tailor, Little Newport-street, here
stated that he had also entrusted the prisoner with the
materials for some blouses of the value of £3, and she had
never brought them back, and would give no information
about them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand her that inquiries
might be made.

ThAMES.

EMBEZZLEMENT liv A TRAVELLER COMPLICATED
AcCOUNTS.—George Frederick Aldridge, aged 26, of
29, Queen-street, Stepney, commercial traveller, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously
embezzling various sums of money he had received for and
on account of Mrs. Charlotte Armstrong, china, glass,
and earthenware dealer, of 8, Cock-hill, RateliZ.
It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Armstrong, a most
respectable woman, who is a widow, and has been estab-
lished in business in Ratcliff nearly half a century, that
the prisoner had been in her service as traveller up to the
13th of January, when he left her, having previously re-
ceived a month's notice. His salary was per week with
breakfast, supper, and lodging, and she always paid his
out-door expenses when he came home sober. Since the pri-
soner had quitted the service of the prosecutrix, she had
demanded payments of outstanding bills for goods delivered
to several customers, and ascertained that the prisoner had
already been paid. Mrs. Armstrong produced receipts to
the amount of £9 signed by the prisoner, and said he had
not accounted for the same. That was only a small por-
tion of the prisoner's defalcations. A witness whom she
had sued for the recovery of money which the prisoner led
her to believe had not been paid would not attend to give
evidence.
Mr. Yardley—Then he must be made to attend.
Stimpson, a police sergeant, No. 21 K, said that a cus-
tomer, named Lucas, of the Old Kent -road, who had paid
the prisoner money, which he had not accounted for to his
mistress, said the receipts given by the prisoner were in the
hands of his lawyer.
Mr. Yardley—They must be brought here, and, if neces-
sary, a summons must issue for the attendance of Lucas.
Mr. W. Kemp produced receipts for money paid to the
prisoner on behalf of Mrs. Armstrong, and which had not
been paid over to her.
Mr. Yardley said the receipts were not dated, which was
rather a loose mode of doing business.
Mrs. Armstrong—That was the prisoner's fault.
Mr. Yardley looked over Mrs. Armstrong's trade books,
and in answer to his questions she said the prisoner kept
the ledger while he was in her service, and her daughter
kept the other books.
The prisoner, in defence, said that Mrs. Armstrong knew
he had taken money and appropriated it to his own use
while in her service, and had overlooked it.
Mrs. Armstrong denied this. On one occasion 20s. was
not accounted for, and the prisoner said it was a mistake,
and she allowed it to be paid by instalments.
Mr. Yardley said the accounts were so complicated that
he had not time to disentangle them, and he thought an
attorney ought to be retained in this case. He remanded
the prisoner until Friday, and expected the case to be put
before him in a proper shape.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, July 16
(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
Michael Hynes was indicted for the wilful mur-
der of Ann Skein, at Gosport, on the 9th of March
last.
Mr. Poulden and Mr. Beetham were counsel for
the prosecution ; and Mr. W. M. Cooke defended
the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner was a sergeant in
the 16th Foot stationed at Aldershott, but in March
he was on furlough at Gosport, at the house of his
father-in la*, named Clarke, who lived next door to
the deceased. On Friday, March 9, he had been out
drinking ; he returned about 7 o'clock, and was then
the worse for liquor. Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to
induce the prisoner to remain in the house, but he
insisted upon going out again, and Clarke accompa-
nied him. They met a person named Brown, who in-
vited them to have some of the " best" in Gosport,
and they all three went to the Rummer public-
house. Brown ordered some beer, which they
drank. Brown went away, and after he was gone
Clarke and the prisoner had four glasses of gin, and
then the prisoner had one glass of whisky, and he
then became thoroughly intoxicated. Clarke and
the prisoner then returned to Clarke's house. The
prisoner was then in a state of great excitement.
Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to keep him quiet, and
sent her husband out of doors, as they had been
struggling together. The prisoner then took down
his sword, which was hanging up in the room.
Mrs. Clarke called for assistance, and Mrs. Skein
came in and tried to prevail upon the prisoner to sit
down and be still, but he pushed Mrs. Clarke out of
doors, and locked the door, Mrs. Skein and the
prisoner still being in the house. Mr. Clarke's
daughter, who was upstairs, came down, and saw
the prisoner standing near the deceased with his
sword sheathed. She ran upstairs, called out
loudly, and then jumped out of the window. Some
persons came and looked into the room where the
prisoner and the deceased were, and they saw the
prisoner " hacking" with his sw )rd at something
on the floor. They then preceded to break open
the door, and the prisoner rushed out with his
sword reeking with blood. Upon their going into
the room they found the deceased lying on the
floor with her head most dreadfully cut. She,
however, lingered for two months, and then died
from the wounds she had received.
These facts having been proved,
Mr. Cooke addressed the jury for the prisoner,
contending that there was no malice in the mind
of the prisoner towards the deceased, but that he
was in that state of mad excitement that the offense
amounted only to manslaughter, and not to murder.
The intention of the party must be judged of by
his state of mind at the time. The position of the
prisoner—having rims from the rank of a private
soldier to that of a sergeant in her Majesty's ser-
vice—was evidence of his good character, and men
did not at one moment jump to the commission of
the most serious offence.
The prisoner had a good character given him by
the officers of his regiment.
The learned Judge having summed up the evi-
dence,
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but most
strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy.
The learned Judge, having put on the black cap,
addressed the prisoner—Michael Hynes, you have
been convicted of the crime of murder, and it was
impossible that the jury, upon reflection, could find
any other verdict upon the evidence laid before
them. Your case is, indeed, a sad one. You might
have been fitted for better things, but unfortu-
nately, by giving way to intemperance upon this
occasion, you were incited to the commission of a
crime which forfeits your life. The liquor that
you took appears to have reduced you to the
state of a frantic being, and the sword which
was intrusted to you to use against the enemies of
your country you employed in depriving an aged,
a helpless, an unprotected woman of the few re-
maining years of her life. The jury have accom-
panied their verdict by a strong recommendation to
mercy. I have no discretion to give any effect to
such a recommendation, and let me entreat you not
to be sanguine that even that recommendation ad-
dressed to the Throne will, when the circumstances
are known, as they must be, have the effect of saving
your life. As it is, I have no discretion but to pro-
nounce upon you the sentence which the law awards
to such a crime. It is not my sentence, but -the sen-
tence of that law. The learned judge then passed
upon the prisoner the awful sentence of death.
The prisoner, who is a remarkably fine man, and
who had stood up firmly during the trial, now
seemed completely prostrated, and would have fallen
if not supported by the officers of the prison.

REVIEW BY THE QUEEN AT EDINBURGII.—We
have authority to state that her Majesty has been pleased
to intimate her intention to hold a review of volunteer corps
at Edinburgh on the 6th August. The commanding officers
of corps desiring to attend must intimate their wish to the
Secretary of State for War, through the lords-lieutenant of
their respective counties, before the Ist August, and they
will then be admitted, as far as space and numbers will per-
mit. Immediately after receiving this application each
corps will be informed whether it will be possible to accept
the offer.
DIAMONDS IN AUSTRALIA.—An interesting dis-
covery, namely, the existence of native diamonds, has been
made. The stone was discovered in the black sand of the
Ovens district by an Irish miner, named O'Neill. Rubies
and other gems of very small size had previously been
found in the same deposit,—Australian and New
Zealand
Gazette.