The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-21 00:00:00

LAW INTE

MIS DAY.

IVHITECHAPEL COUNTY COURT.

THE STRIKE IN TIIE BUILDING TRADE.-CON V. TAYLOR,
This was a plaint to recover an amount alleged to be due
for goods supplied to defendant's wife.
Plaintiff said that he had applied to defendant for the
sum in question, and the debt had been admitted.
Defendant said he never authorised his wife to contract
debts in his name. He was in the Crimea at the occurring
of the present claim, and during his absence he left his wife
30s. per week. When plaintiff called defendant only said
he would consider about it.
His Honour thought the admission was made out, and
found for plaintiff.
Defendant—l hope your Honour will give me time. I
am one of the men who are unfortunately locked out by the
masters.

His Honour—l don't see that that is any reason for my
giving you time. In my opinion it is the men's own fault.
You must pay 20s. per month.

SINGULAR APPLICATION FOR A NEW TRIAL.-LEVY V.

SCIIOT.

This was an application for a new trial under peculiar
circumstances. It appeared that in August last, on the
19th, the cause was on the list for hearing. Mr. Beard was
engaged for defendant, and that gentleman made arrange-
ments with the officers of the court to have the case held
over until a certain period, as he had to attend another
court. Mr. Beard, however, did not return in time, and
defendant not appearing, judgment was entered for plaintiff.
. . .

Mr. Beard now stated that the fault was entirely his own,
and the bailiff could prove that he arrived in court but a
very few minutes after such judgment was entered. The
money was paid into court.
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His Honour—ls there an rffidavit ?
Mr. Beard—lt was a personal matter, and I am willing
to be sworn.

His Honour—That is quite unnecessary.
Plaintiff was of opinion that defendant was not near the
court on the last hearing.

Mr. Beard— He was outside, waiting for me.
His Honour granted a new trial—costs to abide the
result.

CRIMINAL COURT.-( THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Byles.)
THE MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Charles Annois, aged 23, a seaman, who had been brought
up by habeas from Falmouth, the offence for which the pri-
soner was charged having been committed within the juris-
diction of the Admiralty, was indicted for the wilful murder
of Philip Barber, the master of a vessel in which the pri-
soner had been employed as cook.

The prisoner pleaded " Not guilty."
Mr. Sleigh appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Met-
calfe, instructed by Mr. Beard on the part of the Portuguese
Consul, for the prisoner.
Mr. Metcalfe said, in this case he was instructed to apply
for a postponement of the trial of the prisoner on account of
some circumstances that had, since the committal of the
prisoner, come to the kno*ledge of the consul. The
facts of this unfortunate case he admitted were pretty
clear and conclusive, but there was some reason to be-
lieve that at the time he was not of sound mind. The
prisoner had been twice confined in a lunatic asy-
lum at Lisbon, and had also suffered severely from yellow
fever, and the ground of his application for the postpone-
ment of the trial was to give an opportunity for inquiries
being made at Lisbon on the subject. He simply asked
that the cause should be postponed until the neat sessions.
He understood his learned friend would offer no objection.

Mr. Sleigh said he was instructed on the part of the pro-
secution, and offered no opposition to the application, but it
was a case which he would rather leave in the hands of the
Court.

The learned Judge said there ought to be an affidavit to
support the application.

Mr. Metcalfe said the Consul would make an affidavit
that he had been informed and believed that the prisoner
had been confined in a lunatic asylum at Lisbon.

At a subsequent period of the day such affidavit was pro-
duced, and the trial postponed.

JUVENILE DEPRAVITY,

Thomas Goodfellow, a diminutive boy, between 10
and 11 years of age, was indicted for stealing two post
letters, containing a bill of exchange and sundry papers,
the property of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. Clarke and Mr. Metcalfe appeared for the prosecu-
tion. Mr. Giffard, at the request of the Sheriffs, defended
the prisoner.

The circumstances of the case, although a great many
witnesses were examined, lie in a very narrow compass.
The prisoner was employed as an errand boy in the
service of Mr. James Willis, a grocer in the
Bow-road, who keeps the receiving-house for that
district, and was suffered, contrary to the instructions of
the Post-office authorities, to take the letters, from time to
time, out of the receiving-box, and about the 18th August,
Mr. Willis, on the ground of a belief of the prisoner's
dishonesty, gave him a letter to his mother, whose
husband is at sea, requesting her to come to him.
This letter the prisoner never delivered, and on in-
quiries being made, and the prisoner examined, the
two letters is question, were found in his pockets,
the one containing a foreign bill of exchange, for £l7
7s. 9d., and the other papers of no value. The pri-
soner gave very contradictory accounts as to the man-
ner in which they came into his possession, but it
was certain they had been stolen but two days before,
as it was proved they had been then posted in the
letter-box at Mr. 'Willis's shop. After some inquiries,
the Post-office authorities thought it was a case for
their prosecuting, with the charitable view of checking
the boy in his early career of crime.
Mr. Giffard objected that there was not sufficient evi-
dence to show that the prisoner, who was between seven
and fourteen years of age, had such knowledge as to make
him criminally responsible for the act he had committed.
The learned judge having summed up,
The jury found the prisoner guilty,
The learned judge sentenced the prisoaer to 14 days' im-
prisonment ; at the expiration of that term to be kept in a
reformatory for five years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY BY A. CHARWOMAN.—EIiza
Jess, a charwoman, was charged before Mr. Beadon with
stealing two brooches, three pins, and four rings, the pro-
perty of Mr. T. Stammers, grocer, Swallow-place, St.
George's.
From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared that, en
the 15th inst., the prisoner was charing at his house, and
from what his wife told him, he looked at a drawer in his
bedroom and missed a little box. containing two brooches,
two pins, and four rings. He then gave information to the
police, and on the previous night he went to the place where
the prisoner resided, taking with him a detective, when the
prisoner at once, upon his (prosecutor) saying he supposed
she knew what he had come for, handed him a duplicate.
The articles produced in court the prosecutor identified as
his property.
Thomas Weymouth, assistant to Mr. Aldis, pawnbroker,
Berwick-street, produced the articles pledged by the pri-
soner on the 15th inst.
Charles Brown, 304 A, said on taking the prisoner into
custody, and telling her the charge against her, she said
she was back in her rent, and pawned them at Mr. Aldis's.
Prisoner said she hoped the prosecutor would forgive her
for the sake of her child.
The prosecutor said he received the best of characters
with the woman. _

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Mr. Beadon said it was a bad case, and committed the
prisoner for trial.
STEALING WORKHOUSE CLOTHES.—George Shore, 36,
was charged with stealing a suit of workhouse clothes, the
property of the authorities of St. George's, Hanover-square.
From the evidence of the porter of the workhouse, in
Mount-street, it appeared that on the 20th of June pri-
soner, who had been in the workhouse for about 12 months
as wardsman, was sent with an order for admission to the
house at Chelsea, but instead of going there he absconded,
and nothing further was seen of him till the previous day,
when he came and demanded his own clothes which he had
left at the workhouse, having on only the workhouse

trousers.
The prisoner said he did go away, but left his own clothes
behind, and if he had taken the workhouse clothes he had
not eaten their food. All he wanted was his own clothes
that he might be able to get employment. He had been
harvesting.
The porter further stated that he had taken away some
money belonging to a pauper—an old soldier.
Mr. Beadon said he should commit him for seven days.