The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-08 00:00:00

IN RE J. CLARKE,

This bankrupt was described as of King's Lynn, Norfolk,
victualler, and came up and passed his examination on
'accounts prepared by Messrs. Hart Brothers. The debts
are stated at £3,734. To creditors holding security, £2,680;
profits, being about four quarters, £4,960. Creditor—By
good debts, £159 ; property, £480; ditto, held by creditors,
£2,566 ; trade expenses, £4,801; house ditto, £1,804,; losses,
£979 ; deficiency, October, 1854, £977.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBO ROUGH-STREET.

THE liNtrt.—A DANGEROUS FELLOW.—Joseph Giar-
deli, an Italian figure-maker, residing at 12, Mortimer-
market, was charged before Mr. Beadon with assaulting
and attempting to stab Peter Slack, a working man, of 4,
Market-street, Fitzroy-square.

Peter Slack, the complainant, said that on Saturday he
was at the Lamb public-house, Hertford-street, and sepa-
rated prisoner and another man, who were fighting in the
street, and then returned to the house. The prisoner fol-
lowed him in with this knife (produced) in his hands, and
he rushed at him, slightly scratching him on the arm. He
(complainant) seized him and held him down, and the
knife was taken from him.

William Goff, another working man, said he saw the
priioner rush at Slack with the knife in his hand. A man
stopped him, and the knife went through his hand. He
(witness) took the knife from him.
Mr. Beadon cautioned the prisoner not to let his Italian
blood get the better of him, as in this country when a knife
was used in such a skirmish the person so doing would be
invariably punished.

Ordered to find two sureties of £lO each to keep the
peace.

THAMES.
AN INCORRIGIBLE TRIM—THREE CONVICTIONS.—
Rachael Catlin, aged 38, and described as a gas glass fitter,
of No. 4, French-alley, Aldersgate-street, was brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing one quart pot, and
four pint pots, the property of a licensed victualler and two
beer-shop keepers.

George Palmer, a police constable, No. 208, K, stated
that he met the prisoner in Church row, Stepney, carrying
the basket which he now produced. It was a largo market
basket. He was induced to stop the prisoner and to ask
her what she had got there, when she replied, " What I
have got there is my own." He opened the basket in
which he found a quart pot, and asked the prisoner how she
accounted for it, the prisoner said, " I don't know how it came
there; some one must have put it there, I know nothing
about it." He searched the basket a second time, and found
in it four pint pots. The prisoner said she knew nothing
at all about them. He locked her up, and went to her
lodgings, at No. 4, French-alley, Aldersgate-street, where
he discovered the lid of a tin saucepan. It had been used
for melting down publican's measures and pots. There
wore particles of pot metal adhering to the lid.
Several officers said that the prisoner had been some time
in the practice of waiting upon licensed victuallers and
beershop-keepers and soliciting orders for gas-light glasses,
and her visits in numberless instances had been followed by
the loss of pots and measures. She had been in custody
once before.

Mr. G. Matthews, landlord of the White Swan public-
house, High-street, Shadwell, recollected seeing the pri-
soner in his house. One of the pint pots now produced was
his property, and worth Is. He had been a great sufferer,
and had lost a great many pots.
Mr. Richard Lowe, of the Champion beershop, in Bell-
lane, Stepney, identified the quart pot taken from the pri-
soner's basket; and Francis Lawrence, of the Fountain,
Mile-end-road, owned two of the pint pots. Both wit-
nesses had seen the prisoner in their houses, and had
frequently lost similar property.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and begged for mercy. She
said she was " a poor lone woman."
Mr. Selfe said he had no doubt whatever that the pri-
soner was a professional pot stealer, and had been so for
some time, and he would put a stop to her depredations
and, relieve licensed victuallers and others of her visits for
some time. He convicted her of larceny and sentenced
her to nine months' imprisonment and hard labour, or
three months for stealing each pot that had been identified.
If she was brought before him again, he would commit her
to the Sessions for trial.

THE HULL MURDER. - EXECUTION
AT YORK.

The execution of John Riley, for the murder of
his wife at Hull, by cutting her throat, took place
at noon, on Saturday last, on the scaffold in front
of York Castle.
Since his condemnation the criminal received un-
remitting attention from the chaplain of the Castle,
under whose Christian ministrations he was brought
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At 12 o'clock at noon, the hour fixed for the
execution, the solemn procession appeared upon the
scaffold, to which place the culprit walked with a
firm step. As soon as he arrived at the front of the
drop he turned round to the chaplain, and falling
upon his knees, listened with great attention to the
burial service, at the conclusion of which he offered
up a prayer. The fatal knot was then adjusted, the
bolt drawn, and the unfortunate man launched
into eternity. His struggles were not severe, and
he appeared to die in about two minutes.
After hanging the usualy time the body was cut
down and interred within the precincts of the castle
in accordance with the terms of the sentence passed
upon him by Mr. Justice Hill.
No formal confession was made, though the com-
mittal of the act which the culprit has expiated was
never denied; but, on the contrary, the justness of
the sentence was frequently acknowledged.

HUDDERSFIELD.—The committee have decided
that Mr. Leatham was duly elected.