The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-07 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

These Sessions commenced yesterday at ten o'clock,
when the Recorder, the Common Sergeant, the Lord
Mayor, Sir Chapman Marshall, the Sheriffs, &c., took their
seats upon the Bench.
The usual proclamations having been read, and the
Grand Jury sworn, the Learned Recorder charged the Jury.

CALENDAR OF TEL
• SUMMARY STATEMENT, DESCRIPTIV

SIXTH SESSION.

WHICH THE PRISONERS SE'
Cutting and maiming 4
11pe 1
10-argery
Highway robbery 4
Burglary 4
Housebreaking l4
Breaking into a building 1
Horse-stealing 5
Stealing a Letter in the Post

E OF THE VARIOUS OFFENCES WITH
ERALLY STAND CHARGED.
Embezzlement 7
Stealing from the person l5
Larcenies
Uttering Counterfeit Coin 9
Having Counterfeit Coin in pos
session 2
'Assault with intent to commit

a felony
Misdemeanour 1
,Committed as a witness, in de-

Office 1
Stealing in a dwelling house
above the value of 51 9
Receiving stolen goods ..

fault of bail
Conspiracy to defraud 9

London prisoners
Middlesex ditto
Essex ditto
Kent ditto
Surrey ditto

Total 274
40
162
3
22
20-247

STATE OF HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEWGATE,
MADE UP TO YESTERDAY EVENING. Males. Females.
Prisoners under sentence of death
Prisoners under sentence of transportation for life ll 8
14 years .... 1 4
7 years ...: 15 i 3
Ditto, sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, having
been convicted of felony, &c. $ 0
Ditto, for trial at the present Sessions
Ditto, remanded from former Sessions 3 0
Ditto, acquitted on the ground of insanity, but remain dur-
ing Royal pleasure 7 1
Ditto, whose judgments are respitecl _ . 5 1

Ditto, committecrby the Courts-of King's Bench 2 0
Ditto, committed by Commissioners of Taxes 2 0
Ditto, acquitted and detained

Total _ _ 345

It will be seen by the above statement, that when com-
pared with the last calendar, the present contains a con-
siderable increase of offences, particularly those of stealing
from the person, or which are commonly termed street rob-
bery, and house-breaking. There are a greater number of
prisoners committed by the County Magistrates within the
jurisdiction of the Court than at any previous session.

Margaret Brown, alias Smith, was indicted for stealing
two coats and other articles from the person of Stephen
Walton on the 4th of February last in Essex-street, White-
chapel.—Verdict, Guilty.
Henry Thompson, alias Joseph Preston, aged fourteen,
was found guilty of stealing a waistcoat at the shop of a
pawnbroker near the New-cut, Lambeth, in February last.
It appeared that he had been twice tried, convicted, and
sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment and repeated
floggings ; and the Court now sentenced, him to transporta-
tion for fourteen years.
The prisoner begged hard that it should only extend to
seven years ; but the Court said le was an incorrigible
rogue, and should leave the country.
John Priddle, aged sixty-eight, was indicted for feloni-
ously assaulting Sarah Morley, a child under ten years of
age.—Verdict, Guilty.
A second indictment of a similar nature was preferred
against the prisoner for attempting an assault on Susannah
Lambert, a child of seven years o age.
Verdict—Guilty.

Mr. Sergeant ARABIN said that the prisoner was a most
abandoned character, and that the full penalty of the law
should be inflicted on him.

The Court rose shortly after five o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTON-GARDEIV:

Yesterday John Willis, George Wright, and Monza:
Edgeall, young men, were brought before Mr. Laing, in
the custody of Crawford, 181 G division, charged under
the following circumstances :
Crawford', at about eight o'clock on Saturday night, was
in Bleeding-heart-yard, Holborn, when he saw the pri-
soners in a state of intoxication, and Willis was perfectly
insensible. He took the whole of them to the station-
house, and on searching Willis five 100/. Bank post bills,
eight 201. and two 10/. Bank post bills, and four 1/. notes,
and silver, a silver watch, &c., were found. On the pri-
soner Wright was found one Bank post bill for 20/., and a
1/. note upon the Romsay Bank ; and on Edgeall Is. lid.
were found. Suspecting that the prisoners were concerned
in some extensive robbery, or the late forgeries in the City,
they were detained until inquiry could be made.
Mr. Dixon, superintendant, stated that one of the pri-
soners first told him that the property had been willed to
him twelve months ago, by a Mr. Collins.
Prisoner—l was so much questioned, that I said any-
thing. I don't know Collins. I found the property. He
had no particular lodging, since he had been in London ;
but he had slept in various purlieus of Fleet-street.

Mr. LAlNG—Have you made any inquiry relative to
the bank post bills and the notes ? Mr. Dixon—lnspector
Busain has been to the Bank of England, and has traced
them to belong to Mr. Hartley, a wealthy gentleman of
Southampton, and the notes could not be payable without
his signature. He had no doubt, if time were allowed,
that an extensive robbery could be traced.
Inspector Busain produced the property, and confirmed
this statement.

Wright, on being questioned, came to London with
Willis, to look after work, and they had been drinking since
they had been in London. He contradicted himself.
Crawford here stated, that when he laid the bank post
bills on the desk at the station-house, the prisoner Knight
snatched them up and put them into his pocket.
Mr. LAING—How came you in possession of the Rom-
say note and the bank post bill ? Wright—The prisoner
Willis passed them to me when we were drunk, and I knew
nothing of them until they were found upon me.
Edegeall knew Willis, who came to visit him at his lodg-
ings in Air-court, Aldersgate-street. He did not know
Wright. He gave a satisfactory account of himself, and
said he could get a good character.
He was discharged, but Mr. Laing remanded the other
prisoners, and gave directions to Busain and other officers
to make the strictest inquiries at Southampton, &c., by the
next examination.

Prisoner Willis—You may soon find out my character.
Mr. LAING-1 will take care to find out your character,
depend upon it, before I part with you.
The prisoners were then remanded, with orders that they
should be taken to separate prisons to prevent any com-
munication between them.

MARY LER ONE.
ROBBERY OF JEWELS TO THE AMOUNT OF 2,0001.—
THE EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF PLUNDER DEYELOPED.—Yes-
terday William Hall and 'Martha Handcox, the former
butler, and the latter housemaid, late in the service of Mrs.
Charlotte Collins, a widow lady, residing at No. 26, Man-
chester-square, were placed at the bar before the sitting
Magistrates, Messsrs. RAWLINSON and SiIUTT, charged
with stealing an immense quantity of various kinds of jewel-
lery of the most costly description, to the value of 2,0001.,
the property of their mistress.

The prisoner Handcox was yesterday week charged on
suspicion of the offence, but there being no direct evidence
against her she was liberated.

The prosecutrix deposed that the prisoner Hall had been
in her service two years, and Handcox, in whom she placed
the greatest confidence, seveenteen years. She kept her
jewel-box in a drawer in her dressing-room, and whenever
she had occasion for anything out of it she gave Handcox
the key of the drawer, who fetched her what she wanted.
On Sunday morning, the 29th ultimo, about four o'clock,
she was awoke by the prisoner Handcox, who said, " Don't
be frightened ; there's some person in the house, for I'm
sure I heard scuffling in your dressing-room." She then
got up and proceeded with the prisoner to the bedroom of
her son, who having partly dressed himself, accompanied
her into her dressing-room, where they found the drawer in
which she kept her jewels open, and the jewel-box and con-
tents missing. In the course of the day she asked Handcox
if she knew anything of the robbery ? when she took
up a bible from off the table, and, kissing it, swore she
did not.

Mr. William Collins was son to the prosecutrix, with
whom he is at present staying on a visit. Early on the
morning of Sunday week, he was awoke by his mother and
the prisoner Handcox entering his room, the latter of whom
said, " Oh, Sir, there's robbers in the house." He imme-
diately ran down stairs and alarmed the house, and saw
the prisoner Hall come out of his bed-room, followed by
the footman ; he then went up stairs again, and on the
first floor landing found the window leading to a leaden flat
open, and a shawl belonging to his mother hanging partly
out. On examining the dressing-room door, which was
open, he saw that the outside framework had been notched
with a knife or chisel, so as to lead to an opinion that the
door had been forced open, which a locksmith who had sub-
sequently seen it said could not have been the case. The
prisoners were in the course of the day discharged, but in
consequence of a confession made to him by the housemaid,
who had also been concerned in the robbery, he caused
them to be apprehended.

Police constable Cooper, D 81, between three and four
o'clock on the morning of Sunday week was on duty in
Manchester-square, when he heard a cry of " Police" issue
from the house of the prosecutrix. He went up, and was
told by a female at one of the up-stairs windows to stand
by the street door. He went there, but had not waited
there above a minute before he heard the bolts drawn back
and the door was opened by the prisoner Hall, who was ac-
companied by the footman, both armed, the former with a
poker, and the latter with t salamander. The prisoner
Handcox then came into the 'passage, and said, " Oh, po-
liceman, there's such destruction in the house ; there's been
thieves ; follow me, and ru show you what they've done."
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