The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-20 00:00:00

IN RE SHUTT.

In this ease the bankrupt carried on business as an iron-
monger in Shoreditch, and came before the. Court on his
own petition through some legal proceeding, the debts being
about £1,300 ; assets valued at £3,000. The bankrupt had by
adopting this course prevented the sacrifice of the property
at a forced sale, and now pays 20s. in the pound, and super
sedes the petition.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(71IIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON " BEN 'GAUNT."—Robert
Travers, the black pugilist, was placed at the bar, before
Mr. Beadon, charged with the following cowardly assault
on Mr. Benjamin Caunt, of the Coach and Horses, St.
Martin's -lane.

Mr. Caunt, who seemed still suffering from the effects of
the injury inflicted on him, said that, yesterday week, about
eight in the evening, the defendant was in his house, and
abused him in a very scurrilous manner, said he was a
coward, and that he could lick him, and that if he (Gaunt)
would get up (he was sitting down at the time), he would
" knock his brains out." He requested him to keep quiet,
and, as he would not, he got up and put his hand on his
shoulder to put him out, when he resisted, and struck him
several times. He (Travers) then went away, but re-
turned in half an hour and sat on the stairs. He (Mr.
Caunt) theti stood on the step of his door, with his
face towards the street, and while he was doing so he re-
ceived a tremendous blow on the top of his head, the blow
being given from behind with some hard instrument, ap-
parently a life preserver, which rendered him insensible for
three hours, and which covered him with blood, and from
which he had suffered greatly ever since.
Catherine Whiting, cook to Mr. Caunt, said she saw
Travers give her master a violent blow on the head with
something, and assisted in picking her master up, he being
insensible at the time, and covered with blood.
The defence was that he had had a scuffle with Gaunt,
and that the injury on his (Caunt's) head was caused by his
falling on the step, and he called a witness named Sanford
to confirm his account of the transaction, but he gave his
evidence in a very unsatisfactory manner.
Mr. Beadon said a man was not to be struck from behind
in such a manner when he had no chance of defending him-
self, it being clear that the blow was not one with the fist.
Fined £5 or two months.

THAMES.
STEALING A WATCH ON BOARD SHIP.—John Dris-
coll, an Irish sailor, aged 20, of No. 16, New-street, Lime-
house, was charged with stealing a silver watch, value £4,
the property of Ole Larsen, a seaman belonging to the
Norwegian barque Janger Ratf, lying in the West India
Dock.

The prisoner was seen last evening about the ship while
the crew were busily engaged, and he was missed for a few
minutes, and then observed to get through the window of
the cabin, or round house, upon deck, and leave the ship.
i,areerr,-a seaman, went into the cabin ana taissea ius watch.
It was hanging on a nail in the cabin a few minutes pre-
viously. The alarm was given, and an immediate pursuit
was made. The prisoner finding himself closely hunted by
his pursuers, went to a heap of rubbish and concealed
the watch. He was leaving the heap when a police con-
stable named Watkinson, No. 214 K, made his ap-
pearance, and said to the prisoner, " I want you, what. have
you done with the watch ?" The prisoner replied, " There
it is," and it was fcund among the rubbish.
Larsen identified his watch, and valued it at £4.
The prisoner in an audible voice said, " I am guilty/ my
lord, it is the first time I have ever been in trouble."
Sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.
ANOTHER ROBBERY IN THE WEST INDIA DOCK.—
John Coghlan, an Irish, labourer, was brought before Mr.
Self, charged with stealing an ingot of copper value 95.,
from the hold of the ship Cincinikatus, lying in the West
India Dock.
Yesterday afternoon the prisoner was leaving the dock
on the termination of the business of the day, and was
stopped and " rubbed down" by a dock constable named
West, whe found an ingot of copper under his clothes. It
was tied up in the tail of his shirt. He was asked where
he obtained it, to which he replied that he found it under
some wood. It was ascertained that the prisoner had been
at work on board the ship Cincinnatus, wand an ingot
of copper was missing from the hold♦ The stevedore em-
ployed to stow the cargo said the prisoner was in his ser-
vice, and he wished him to be punished, (as an example to
others, for similar robberies had been very frequent, and the
stevedores got into trouble by the misconduct of their men.
Mr. Selfe convicted the prisoner of unlawful possession
of the copper, and sentenced him to one month's imprison-
ment and hard labour.