The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-26 00:00:00

B 0 W. STREET.

THE CONVICT WOOD.Yesterday the solicitor for Mr.
Clarke, who prosecuted Wood and Jepbson at the late ad
Bailey Sessions, appeared before Mr. MINSHULL relative
to some statements made on the day before by Mr. J.
Isaacs, and published in the newspapers of that morning.
The observations attributed to Mr. !saws (the solicitor
observed) went the length of imputing to Mr. Clarke that
he bad bribed a young man named Mack (who gave most
equivocal testimony on the trial) to swear to the identity
of the convict Wood ; but, so far from that being the fact,
Mr. Clarke had rejected offers of money made to himself,
in order to have the prosecution stifled, and peremptorily
refused to listen to any proposal for compromising the
felony. The imputation was therefore as unjust as it was
undeserved.

Mr. Isaacs, who happened to be in the office, at once
declared that he had never intended to convey any thing
that could in the least reflect on Mr. Clarke, who was
a highly respectable man and incapable of such conduct.

The witness Mack bad, however, been told, or else he had
spoken falsely, that it h. identified Wood he should receive
as much money as would buy three cows; but it was not
Mr. Clarke by whom he was told this.
The solicitor expressed himself satisfied with this expla
nation and withdrew.

FORGERY.—Joseph Loyd, James Gs een, Thomas
Chandler, Jcptha Loyd, and John Bale, the five young
men who have been charged, the three first with having
uttered, and the two last with having forged, a cheque for
1501 , with intent to defraud Messrs. Coutts and Co.,
the bankers of the Strand, were placed at the bar for fur-
ther examination, and remanded.
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT.—Mr. "Wm. Henry Timms,

wine-merchant, lb, Craven-street, Strand, war placed in
the dock, and charged with having ,that morning vio-
lently assaulted Mrs. Andrews, and her servant, Benjamin
Butts, market-gardener, of South Lambeth, whose head
was enveloped in bandages.
Mr. MiNsuur.r. said that unless the defeudaut paid two
lines of 5/. to the King, he should be committed for two
months on each case to the House of Correction.
The defendant was then removed.
MARLBORO U GH- S TREE T.

A BEGGING-LETTER IMPOSTOR.—Augustus Deane,
alias John Deane, an Irishman, whose exterior was pur-
posely arranged so as to present the appearance of the
most abject destitution, applied yesterday to Mr. CONANT,
the sitting Magistrate, for the restitution of those articles
taken from him when convicted and sent to prison for
three weeks, for having carried on an extensive system of
frauds on the Nobility by means of begging letters. This
fellow has, or pretends to have, a defect in one of his eyes,
which he states to have been caused by the operation of
couching, and he has, with singular artfulness, laid hold of
this circumstance to work upon the feelings of the chari-
tably disposed, and to urge it as his reason for not at-
tempting to procure employment. He was sent to this
office in custody of a police offic,r, by Lord Chatham (to
whom he had written a begging-letter), for having im-
pudently placed himself on the steps of the door of his
Lordship's residence, refusing to move unless his letter was
attended to. In his pockets, amongst other matters, were
found some coloured stones for seals, a pair of handsome
spectacles, and three letters, one of which, addressed to the
Earl of Bristol, was to the following effect :
‘‘ My Lord,—ln returning the truly grateful thanks of an
Irishman's heart for your goodness and charity towards me in
my deep distress, I must humbly beg to mention to your tender
consideration that if I could possibly procure my clothes from
the pawnbroker, and so much as would pay for an advertisement
in the newspapers, I would by that means be able to procure a
constant means of subsistence once more, as my sight is greatly
strengthened, thanks to the LORD and your Honour—and
from the utter impossibility of being admitted into any gentle-
man's service in a shabby degrading apparel. I humbly trust
your distinguished goodness will pardon me for thus intruding
on your kindness once more, as it will be of life-lasting service
to me, having a reference here to that kind man, Mr. Eldrige,
who will recommend me, and to whom your Lordship has refer-
ence heretofore. Praying to Heaven that your usual kindness
will feel for me, as one pound one would effect my full purpose
—and I will, as in duty bound, pray for you for ever.
" AUGUSTUS DEANE."
The second letter, addressed to Lord Belfast, was as fol-

lows :
" My Lord,—Pardon the liberty of a poor Irishman, who,
from sickness and want, is obliged to implore your Honourable
goodness for the smallest relief, having no means of existence ;
and, on my journey to Brighton, with a little goods to sell on
the way, which I have all disposed of, and no means of re-
placing them, and as a few shillings will relieve me for six
months, by having the power to deal again in my little mode of
trafficking, and the prayers of the destitute will be before your
soul in Heaven.'
et
"JOHN DEANE."
succeeded
two letters were sealed in readiness to be des-
patched to their respective addresses, and the third note,
of worsu,ld pay
succeededwhich was in the hand-writing of Lady Albarough, and
addressed to Mr. Bradbury, optician, Holles-street, ltd to
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meanswhial shlete him
in impressing her Ladyship with his destitute
The man accordingly called on Mr. Bradbury, situation.
glasses, which, when presented to him i and selected
in tortoiseshell;'
frame, he insisted upon having a
expensive pattern. mounted in silver, to an
Mr. CONANT asked the maa '
If be really had the impu-

dence to make such a demand ?—The fellow, in a whin.
ing tone, admitted he had, and added, his " precious
eight" waq of such ♦alue, that he thought silver mount.
ings would last longer, and suit his purpose much better
than shell.

Mr. CONANT would allow the fellow Us have the arti-
cles he applied for, but he should order his letters and me-
morandums to be burnt.
The man then walked out of the office, and was imme-
diately joined by a female known in St. Giles's as Water-
loo Poll, with whom he has for some time been cohabiting.
George Street, ostler at a livery stables in Oxford-
street, was charged with having refused to deliver up a
large quantity of harness and other horse-gear, belonging
to the late Lord De Clifford.

The property had been deposited in his keeping by the
coachman of his Lordship ; and on hearing of the death
of his Lordship at Brighton, the prisoner conceived that
a good opportunity had occurred of appropriating the pro.
perry ; and accordingly when it was demanded of him by
the coachman, who had been paid off after his Lordship's
decease, he refused to give it up.
Inquiry was then directed to be made for his Lordship's
representative or solicitors, in order that the property
might be restored to the lawful owner.
QUE EN- S UA RE.
Yesterday a young man, George Fell, was charged with
robbing the house of Mr. Charles Raper, of the King's-
road, Chelsea, of plate, wearing-apparel, and other articles,
to aconsiderable amount.

Mr. WHITE ordered the prisoner to be remanded until
the next week.
L AMBE T STREET
CHARGE OF MURDER.-Yesterday John Donovan,
who has been in custody for some days past on a charge
of having murdered a man named Daniel Kieffe, near
Kinsale, in the county of Cork, Ireland, about seven years
ago, was again brought before Mr. HAnnwtcx for further
examination.

A witness named Nicholas Spillawn, whom it was ne-
cessary to bring forward by a summons from the Magis-
trate, about nine years ago was employed in raising sand
near the harbour of Kinsale. The deceased and another
man worked in the same barge with him, and the former
having some words with a person on board another barge,
the latter struck the former a violent blow with a hand-
spike on the head, which rendered him senseless, and he
was carried home, and died in a few hours afterwards
from the effects of the blow. He would not undertake
to swear that the prisoner was the person who had struck
the deceased, but a verdict of " Wilful Alurder" was re-
turned by the Jury who sat on the body against a person
named John Donovan, who, it was stated at the time, bad
evaded apprehension by coming off to England.
John Harrington, the brother-in-law of the deceased,
was certain that this witness, as well as Driscoll, who had
given the prisoner into custody on the charge of murder,
could speak with positive certainty to the identity of the
prisoner, as being the murderer, if they chose.
Daniel Driscoll had worked for some months with the
prisoner before the murder had been committed, but after
the murder he did not recollect seeing him in Ireland.
About two years and a half ago, on his (Driscoll's)
coming to London, he went to work at the St. Katha-
rine's Dock, and there met the prisoner, when it at once
flashed on his recollection that he was the murderer of
Kieffe ; but he said nothing about it until the night of
Saturday week, when they quarrelled, and he then gave
him in charge to a policeman. The impression still on
his mind was that be was the murderer, but he did not like
to swear positively to the fact.
Pierce Driscoll, a policeman, said that when he took
the prisoner to the station. house, the last witness had
spoken in the most positive manner to his identity ; but
so great was his antipathy to be considered an informer
among his countrymen, that he (the policeman) did Doe
think he had stated the whole of what he knew of the
business.

Mr. HARDWICK observed that, taking all the circum-
stances into consideration, the charge against the prisoner
was sufficiently suspicious to warrant his detention for
another week, in order that the fullest inquiry might take
place.