The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

large square hide. He identified them as his employers'
property, being part of their stock in the warehouse prior
to the fire taking place.
Joseph John Hurst stated that he was at the fire, and he
saw the lad lake up a square hide, from the pavement near
the prosecutors' premises, and m^rry it into his mother's
house. Wi:ness gave information to the police.
Sergeant Up!ots, 18 M, said he went to the prisoners'
house, and under the staircase leading to the cellar he found
the leather produced. The female came in at the time,
when he asked her how it came into her possession. She told
him she put it there for safety, and intended to send it to

the owners.
The female prisoner here denied making such a statement.
She told the officer that she did not know the leather was
there. She was vei y frightened about the fire.
Sergeant Upton swore positively she told him she put it
there to take care of. _ _ _

The lad told his worship that he certainly did carry the
leather to the house to keep it from the thieves.
Mr. Combe observed that most likely such might be the
case; therefore he should discharge them; but he cautioned
them not to touch any more property at a fire.
Philip IV illiani Keating was next charged with stealing
a quantity of sole leather, the property of the same firm.
One of the workmen said that after the file was extin-
goished he saw the prisoner at the rear of -ate warehouse
-washing several pieces of sole leather in a ditch. It was
scorched and very dirty, and had been taken. from the stock
tl frown out of the warehouse.
Mr. Combe fined him 40s. for the unlawful possession, or
one mouth's imprisonment.
AN OLD GERMAN SWINDLER.—WiIIiam Cnnarding,
an old German, who a few years ago was connected with
sonic religious es'ablishments in this cotentry and Germany,
and who in May last was brought to this court charged on
suspicion of stealing a gold watch and swindling various
lodg: tig-house keepers, was now brought before Mr. Combe
by h ewett, an officer of the Mendicity Society, charged
-with begging alms in the public streets.
Hewett said he saw the prisoner beggi ng'that morning
in Newington-causeway. His looks were so deplorable that
several persons gave him money, but belie‘ring him to be
an impostor he took him into custody.
Mr. Combs inquired what was known of hint.
Sergeant Raymond, the acting inspector at the Stone's-
end station-house, said that he was a notorfems swindler,
an. fora long time had carried on an artful system of fraud
on lodging-house keepers. He had been comnected with a
religious establishment at Brunswick, and in 1850 he was
sexton of a church iu Liverpool. In 1852 be resided at
Cambridge-heath, and he had recommendations from the
Rev. Hugh Allen, and other clergymen and ventlemen, at
the time. Re used those to victimise the parties he visited
under pretence of hiringlapartments.
Mr. Combo thought he had been before bins on a prior
occasion.
Raymond replied that that was true. He was charged at
that court on the 25th of May on suspicion of: stealing a
watch from a house in Walworth, where he callesi under the
pretence of hiring aparture.uts. He was also charged with
swindling a lodging-house keeper out of board :and lodging
to the value of £25. He was previously. wateined by Sea-
well, 177 M, to 30 or 40 houses where led gings ; were to let,
and it was proved that he had for five or six ye tars swindled
people all over London. The charges not boin g sustained at
the time, be was discharged.
The prisoner here said he was an ill-useKl man, and at
that time there was no pretence fur giving bim in charge.
The reports which appeared then in the t newspapers had
ruined him.
Mr. Combe asked him what he had to. s: yr in answer to
the charge of begging ?
Prisoner replied that he was in very gre it distress, and
some people had compassisn on him and gat so him money.
Mr. Combe told him he had uo doubt how he got his live-
lihood; that was by. begging and imposin g on the public.
His old system of swindling lodging-house keepers was very
tikely put a stop to by the publication of his conduct in the
newspapers, and it was fortunate for him t hat the law did
not reach him, as he would have been pun, 4,lred with great
severity. For the offence of begging, w b ich was clearly
proved, he should sentence him to one mon hies bard labour
in the House of Correction. He advised :Hewett to look
after him when lie came out of prison, as th vre could be no
doubt tee was a professional beggar.
The prisoner w?s then removed by the de r iuty-e.'aoler.
JEALOUSY AND HUSBAND BEATIN‘ 6 .—MAY AND
DECEMBER.—Mrs. Lucy Rolice, the wifet of a tradesman
in Great ,Sutfolk-street, Southwark, was charged before
Mr. Combe on a warrant, with assaultin g her husband
and threatening to stab him.
The complainant, a hearty-looking old ; entleman, 75
years of age, said that unfortunately he marrit ad the prisoner,
a widow with three children, about two year'.'' ago, and he
not only treated her well, but her children. S be, however,
grossly misconducted herself, and when he rem or istrated with
her she assaulted him, and on the previous da3r took up a
knife and threatened to stab him. He had some ez ouble to get
away from her, when lie came to this court and obtained a
warrant.
The wife told him he was a jealous old brute, a:cnd that was
the cause of all the disturbance.
The complainant here said that it was enougln to make
him jealous when she left her home sometimes three nights
during a week, and when he asked her where she had been
she refused to inform him, and told him to go to tile devil.
He thought he had devil enough in her.
Mr. Combe asked how old the prisoner was?
S' e r rplied that she was 3;;r l ns for beast!;' bus-
baud he was a brute, and not fit to have a wife.
Mr. Combe told her it was very wrong en her part to
leave her home all night. There was a great disparity in
their ages, and he did not wonder at her husband being
jealous of her. What had she to say in answer to the
charge ?
She denied having threatened to stab him, but she acknow-
ledged throwing a knife at him, which did :not touch him.
As for going out of a night, she did not disl4.vace herself.
Mr. Combe told her that it looked very much like disgrac-
ing her husband by doing so, and refusing to tell him where
she went. Ti ere was no doubt she was a very violent
woman, and he should order her to find bail for her future
conduct. --
LAMBETH.--TEE LATE INCENDIAR:Y FIRE AT
BRIXTON.—James Finch, a lad of 16, who has been in
custody for nearly a fortnight on a charge of wilfully and
maliciously setting fire to a cow-shed in Robert-street,
Brixton, and thereby causing the destruction of seven valu-
able cows, the property cf Mr. William To‘vler, was again
placed at the bar before the Hen. G. C. Norton
Mr. Solomon, as before, attended for the pr:s;aner.
By the deposition which contained the testimony of the
various witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner had been in
the service of the prosecutor for some monthan and when
discharged had been heard to make threats to% eords his late
master, such as that be owed him a grudge and would serve
him out, and that he should serve him a trick before long.
Soon after this the cows of the prosecutor were on
several occasions found loose in the shed, tile it ordi-
nary fastenings having been undone by some alicious
person, and thus causing them to injure each other.
Besides this, the top of the grain bin was found to have
been forced open, and some human excrement mixed up, with
the grains. On the day of the fire, Wednesday, the '2',lst of
last month, the prosecutor and his brother-in-law were ,both
in the shed a very short time before the fire had been dfecto-
vered, the latter only ten minutes before, and at that time .all
was saf2, and there was not the slightest semblance of fire, bat
immediately after the prisoner was seen to come away from
the shed looking quite pale, as one of the witnesses described
it, and in a few moments the flames were observed to burst
forth, and were so rapid in their progress that all efforts to
save the seven valuable cows contained in the shed were
wholly unavailing, and the poor animals were destroyed.
When the fire was raging the prisoner suggested that it had
been caused by the heating of some grass, but the prosecutor
and his brother-in-law when questioned by the magistrate
denied that there had been any grass on the premises at the
time, and therefore the fire could nut be occasioned by any
such cause.
Mr. Solomon addressed the magistrate contending that
the case was one In which he felt assured that no jury would
convict. He had witnesses in attendance to show that the
prisoner had not been near the shed at the time mentioned
by two of the witnesses, but if his worship lial made up his
mind to commit his client for trial he should decline calling
his witnesses.
Mr. Norton said he certainly did intend s;.nding the case
before a jury, and he was constrained to say that he con-
sidered it a very strong one. It was not often that in cases
of arzrn the parties were seen to set fire to property, but in
this instance a motive was not only shown, but the prisoner
himself was seen to run away from the premises just before
the fire was discovered. Ile had made up his mind, there-
fore, to send the prisoner fur trial, but as it was said that a
witness who cooed give important evidence was not in at-
tendance, he should order the witnesses in attendance to be
bound over to appear at the O'd Bailey, to give evidence fur
the prosecut on, and have the prisoner brought up again on
Saturday to hear the additional evidence given against him.
Oa the application of Mr. Solomon, however, the prisoner
was admitted to bail.

THAIIES.—CasE OF BASTARDY.—Mr. Yatdlcy was
engaged for two hours in the investiention of a case of
bastardy, wherein Rosetta Hart, of No. 4, Patriot-street,
St. George in the East, was tie complainant, and Joseph
Lazarus, jeweller and watchmaker, of No. 28, Notting-
ham-place, was the defendant. Both
de p
alartie ward ere of the
Jewish persuasion. There was a good of swear-
ing in the case.
The complainant, a very pretty Jewese, wleo carried a
child in her arms with an unmistakably Jewish counte-
nance, and very much like the defendant, who is about 40
years of age, said that Mr. Lazarus had paid his addresses
to her for some time prior to December, 1856. In the
course of that month he called upon her one evening and
took her out for a walk. He gave her wine, and she was
afraid it was drugged, for she became stupified after
she drank it, and found herself by the side of a canal at a
late hour. The intercourse which resulted in the birth of
the child took place on that occasion. The witness, who is
very illiterate and never received any education, could not
tell what month the child was born in, nor the names of the
months, but she believed her child was 10 mouths old. She
was cross-examined at great length by a Jew solicitor who
attended for the defendant as to her acquaintance with other
men. She positively declared that the defendant was the
father of her child, and that she had never indulged in
familiarities with other men. Mrs. Hart,. a widow, the
mother of con4lainant, who, in the course of a long exami-
nation, applied the words vagabond, fiend, villain, and
heartless wretch, to the defendant, said he was constantly
visiting her daughter, and that one evening in December,
1856, she left home for a few hours, and on her return she
discovered marks of violence on her person, her body bent,
and her eyes inflamed. She also discovered that her daughter
had been eeduced, and questioned her on the subject, but
her daughter would not divulge the name of her seducer.
Three months afterwards, when her daughter's shame was
apparent, she sated that the defendant was the seducer,
and he bad effected her ruin under circumstances of a most
aggravated nature.
.She waited upon the defendant, and
on making him acquainted with the situation of her daughter,
and stating that he was the cause of it, he assailed her with
the most vulgar abuse. The witness, who has been the
mother of eleven children, expressed herself in terms of great
indignation, and said the prisoner had destroyed the peace
and happiness of a poor but respectable family by his vile
practices.
Miss Hart, a Jewes.t, not related to the csmplainant,
s' ated that on Thursday, the 19th of December, 1856, she
took a walk with the complainant. They met with Joseph
Lazarus, the defendant, who said he had an engagement to
go abroad with £4OO worth of property, and that he should
send for the complainant and marry her. She patted with
the complainant and the defendant at the corner of Fashion-
street, Spitalfields, and Lazarus said he was going to give
his " clear Rosey" his likeness. Oa the following day she
called upon the complainant, who said tint she ha 4 been
hocussed and seduced by Lazarus, and that when she came
to her senses she was by the side of a canal, and there was
nothing but sky and water near her.
MN. Lipman, sister of the complainant, gave similar evi-
dence.
For the defence it was urged that the complainant and
her witnesses, who gave their evidence with singular pro-
priety, were all perjured. The defendant was sworn, and
declared his acquaintanceship with Rosetta Hart termi-
nated in July, 1856, and he never spoke to her after-
wards.
Mr. Emanuel May, surgeon, stated he was in attend-