The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-21 00:00:00

IN RE GEORGE 'YOUNG.

Tkis was an examination meeting. The bankrupt was
formerly bankrupt as a publican of Old-street-road, and was
now described as of the Crown, Great St. Audrew's-street,
Seven-dials.

The accounts show unsecured debts, £1,845; ditto secured,
_£1,921; proper►y, £876; ditto in the hands of creditors,
£1,750. _ _ _

—An adjournment was ordered, with enlarged protection
from arrest to the bankrupt.

CRAY TEAL CRIMINAL CO URT.-Aug. 20.

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Willes.)

Michael Murphy, 26, a man with a wooden lee, who
was described in the calendar as a musician, was charged
with the manslanehter of Eliza Simpson.
Mr. Sleigh aid Mr. O'Connell conducted the prosecution ;
Mr. Cooper was counsel for the defence.
It appeared that tke prisoner lived in Kate-court,
Spitalfields, and got his lining by going abut to dif-
ferent public-houses playing a fiddle. The deceased
lived in the same court, and cohabited with a man
named Fitzgerald, anti it appeared that she was
acquainted with the prisoner, and on the night of the
6Lti of July they were at a public-house together and seemed
to be upon ♦ery friendly terms. They left about three
o'clock in the morning, and in a short time the lodgers iu
the house of the deceased were awoke by her shrieking
" Murder," and upon their going to see what was the
matter the prisoner and the deceased were found upon
the landing of the second floor, and the prisoner, who
was in a very excited state, made use of very bad lan-
guage towards the deceased and knocked her down, and
while she was upon the ground he kicked her with his
wooden leg about the head and face, and the exclaimed that
he had kicked her eye out. One of the witnesses, a black
roan, who lodged in the house, begged the prisoner to desist
from his violence, hut, instead of doing es, he said to him,
" You Mack --, I'll serve you the same if you are net
quiet." When the prisoner appeared to have exercised his
brutality to the fullest extent he went to his own house,
and the unfortunate woman was taken to the London
Hospital, where some assistance was rendered to her, add she
was removed to her own house, where she died on the 12th of
July, her death having no doubt been occasioned by the
injuries she had received.
Mr. Cooper addressee) the jury for the prisoner, and he
commented upon the entire absence of evidence to show the
first commencement of the quarrel. Ile also called the pri-
soner's brother as a witness, and he stated that on the night
in question the deceased was drunk at a neighbouring pub-
lic-house, and tint she had a quarrel with another woman,
who seized her by the hair and knocked her head
several times against the wainscoat. He also said
that the deceased was constantly drunk, and he never
saw her free from a black eye. He added that he
was with her on the morning in question until nearly one
o'clock; and efter he had been to bed he was disturbed by
bearing a noise in the court, and upon looking out he saw
the deceased holding his brother by the hair and the shirt,
and he said be would strike her if she did not loose him
but be said be saw no blow actually struck.

The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the prisoner
was sentenced to 12 months' bard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)

Charle3 Davison, 29, conductor, was indicted for em-
bezzling 25. 4d., the moneys of the Metropolitan Saloon
Omnibus Company, his masters.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Salter prosccuted, and Mr. Metcalfe
defended.

The case proved against the prisoner was this :—lie was
one of the company's conductors to an omnibus plying
between Putney and London; and it was his duty at the
etAl of each day to give in to the clerk a statement of the
business he had done during the day. Upon the evening
of the 30th of July, some ladles, acquaintances of a gentle-
man contacted with the company, were riding in the omni-
bus conducted by the prisoner, which being unusually full,
the circumstance was spoken of, and it coming to the know-
ledge of the directors, the statement furnished by the
prisoner upon that day was examined, and for the particular
journey he had set down only a few passengers.
In cross-examination, it was elicited that the company
emsionally carried passmgers part of their journey from
Putney to meet some other omnibuses going to Islington.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.
Robert Brigenshaw, 19, butcher, was indicted for cut-
ting and wounding Geerge Barry, with intent to maim
him.

Mr. Robinson prosecuted and Mr. Sleigh defended.
It appeared from the brief statement made by Mr. Robin-
son that upon the 18th of July some drunken sailor was at
the Blackvrall statko of that line, and the prisoner was
also there, arid was seen to take a handkerchief from the
seaman which he claimed as his own. Upon this, Barry,
who is an officer to the railway company. was called to take
him into custody, when be resisted violently, and, with a
knife, wounded him severely upon the right wrist.
Mr. Sleigh, upon hearing the above statement of facts,
said that he could not resist a conviction for unlawfully
wounding, to which be should advise the prisoner to plead
guilty.
Mr. Robinson said he should leave the case in the hands
of the Court.
The prisoner, who up to this time had borne an excellent
character, having pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment.
M. Daniel Sullivan, 18, labourer, was indicted for stealin
to
a purse and money from the person of Elizabeth Lawrence.
Mr. Carteen prosecuted, and Mr. Ribton defended.
The .rosecutrix was in Fleet-street upon the 18th of July,
when the' prisoner in the most impudent manner stole her
purse. She seized him by the collar, when he slipped out cf
his coat, and, leaving it in her hands, made off. He, however;
being known to the police, was taken a few days afterwards,
and the coat also being known to them, no difficulty arose
in identifying him as the person who had committed the
robbery.
The jury found him guilty, and it was proved that be bad
been several times convicted of street robberies, and had only
come out of prison the day before the commission of this
robbery.
He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
Brown, 30, plasterer, Fanny Riggory, 242

spinster, and Susan Howden, married, were indicted
for a robbery with violence upon Edward Richard Bonham,
and stealing Elm him a handkerchief and £1 17s. in
money. _ _

Mr. Tilley prosecuted, and Mr. Austen defended the
women; Brown pleaded guilty.
The facts have been very recently given at some length.
The prosecutor, who is a bricklayer and beer-shop keeper,
upon the 13th July was at the Admiral Keppel, Brompton,
where he saw all the prisoners and also two other men, net
in custody. Having a previous knowledge of Riggory, he
paid for sJme.hing for them all to drink, but not liking
the company lie proposed to take Riggory for a drive. She
agreed to go, and requested that he would allow Bowden
and one of the men not in custody to go with them. He
did so, and they drove in a cab to Battersea New Park,
where, to his surprise, he saw that Brown and the other
man hadi also arrived, and they would not leave him. In
order to get lid of them, he paid for more drink at several
houses, and finally, at about half-past four, they all got into
the pa: k, where the men threw him down, knelt upon him,
and alter a severe struggle, during which much injury was
done to prosecutor, they robbed him of his porte-monnnie
and handkerchief. By this time the pick-keeper came
up and took the two women, who were on the watch, into
custody, and a police -constable two of the men, the
third escaping by a boat on the way to the station ; another
of the men got away and had not slue:: been captured.
Mr. Austen, in a very ingenious and able address, con-
tended that the men alone were the parties criminally liable.
The jury found the women both guilty, and they were
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, and the man to
eight.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.)

Rebecca Wells, 22, spinster, was indicted for endeavour-
ing to conceal the birth of her female child.
Mr. O:ridge prosecuted and Mr. Sleigh defended.
The prisoner had, previously to ihe 21st of June, been in
the service of a lady in Beauvoir-terrace, Stoke Newington,
and upon that day, the lady's suspicions being aroused, she
taxed the prisoner with what she thought had occurred,
and prissner did not deny it. The police were then called in
and they found the body of the infant in the pipe of the
water-closet.

Mr. J. James, of Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington, sur-
geon, stated that in his opinion the prisoner had been pre-
maturely and unexpectedly delivered where the child was
found.

The learned Commissioner said if that was so there was
no ease to go to the jury, however wrong the prisoner's
conduct had been. As she had done nothing to dispose of the
body, she could not be found guilty of concealing the birth
of the child. We might talk about India; but he was sorry
to say infanticide was carried an to a great extent in this
country, and strong measures should be taken to repress it.
Incontinence was one thing, and child murder another.
The prisoner was then ordered to be discharged.
The other cases disposed of in this court were chiefly
robberies with violence from the person, which, judging
from the calendar of the present session, seems to be a class
of offence upon the increase.