The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 9.

CLERKENIftLL.--UTTERING FORGED BANK
OF ENGLAND NOTES.—Edward Clowden, aged 45,
a man dressed as a sailor, and Edward Heath, aged
47, a tobacco pipe manufacturer, carrying on busi-
ness at 6, Mansfied-place, Kentish Town, were
charged before Mr. Curie with attempting to utter
a forged £5 Bank of England note to Miss Char-
lotte Hones, of 11, Weston-place, Somers Town.
The prisoners, in company with another man,
entered the shop of which the complainant is the
manageress, and called for three cups of tea, the
prisoner Clowden tendering a £5 note in payment.
Finding the note was not a genuine one, the police
were caled, and the prisoners given into custody.
Police-constable Croome, 134 S, sa..d he took the
prisoners into custody, and when he told them the
charge, the prisoner Clowden said he was a seaman,
and had received the note in payment for his wages.
The ship that he had been paid off from, he said,
was the Shylo, Captain Doane, and was then lying
in the Victoria Docks. He maden
• guides at the
dock, and found that the authoritiesl knew of no
ship or captain of that name. Th prisoner Clow-

den, when searched, had upwards of £1 in gold and
silver in his possession. Clowden had also given a
false address.

The prisoners, in defence, denied any guilty
knowledge that the note was a forgery.
Mr. Corry remanded the prisoners for a week,
and in the meantime the Bank authorities will be
communicated with. Bail was refused.

SOU rHWARK.—STABBING A MAN IN THE EYE,
AND BLINDING HIM-A vicious-looking female,
named Catharine Cronin, who has frequently been
in custody for committing savage assaults, was
charged with maliciously stabbing James Whitting-
ton in the left eye, thereby depriving him of sight.
The prosecutor, a labourer, whose left eye was
bandaged up, said that on Tuesday morning, the
29th of March, he was in the Sugar Loaf public-
house, Dockhead, drinking some beer, when a man
named Wybrow, who lived with the prisoner, came
up to him and abused him. They had some words
together, and went out to fight. After two or three
rounds witness left off, and as he was speaking to
Wybrow, the prisoner rushed at him like a tigress,
seized him by the hair, and stabbed him in the left
eye with something like a piece of wire. He called
out for assistance, when the prisoner absconded, but
a hair-pin, covered with blood, was picked up near
where he was laying, and he believed that was the
instrument she used. He was taken up, and con-
veyed in a short time to the South London Opthal-
mic Hospital, where he was received, and it was
discovered that he had been deprived of the sight
of the left eye.
Mr. Burcham asked him whether he had any
words with the prisoner previous to her attacking
him.

He replied that he had never spoken to her, and
the attack on him was so sudden that he had not
an opportunity of seeing what she had in her hand.
Mary Ann Pearce, the wife of a woodchopper,
said she was passing the Sugar Loaf about eleven
o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 29th of March,
when she saw the two men fighting in the street..
After two or three rounds they left off and shook
hands together, and while doing so the prisoner
rushed up and seized the prosecutor by the hair.
She then took a hair•pin from her head, and stuck
it into his left eye. He called out, ".Oh, my God,
she has stabbed me in the eye," and then the pri-
soner ran off. Witness went for assistance, and on
her return she picked up a hair-pin covered with
blood.

Mr. Burcham asked what she knew of prisoner ?
She replied that she was unacquainted with her.
She, however, knew the prosecutor, as he lived
next door to her.

Patrick Ahern, 31 M, said he apprehended the
priioner on a warrant on Saturday night last. He
knew her to be a very bad character, and living
with a man named Wibrow. Witness had been to
the hospital that morning, and received the follow-
ing certificate :--

" South London Ophthalmic Hospital, May 9, 1859.
" This is to certify- that James Whittington has lost the
sight of his left eye, in consequence of a punctured wound
which has injured the lens.—C. HOTHOUSE, Surgeon."

In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she
never touched the prosecutor at all, and all that
the witnesses had sworn to was false.
Mr. Burcham remanded her for the attendance
of the surgeon.

THAMES.—DOG-STEALING—SINGULAR CASE.
Daniel Neale, aged 30, an Irish coalwhipper, of
Fox and Goose-yard, Shadwell, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a Newfoundland
dog, value £25.
Mr. Thomas Young, coal agent, and landlord of
the Ship and Royal Oak, Wapping-wall, said he
was lately possessed of a very fine Newfoundland
dog, which he brought up from a pup. It was now
about 18 months old. He was offered £l9 for it
one day in New Gravel-lane, Shadwell, and refused
it. The prisoner, who acted in concert with an-
other Irishman, named O'Brian, decoyed the dog
away from its home and sold it to a gentleman in
Lombard-street fnr £5 55., and ls. beer money.
O'Brian absconded with the money obtained for
the dog, and Neale came to him and complained he
was cheated. The dog was stolen on Friday. On
that day he was in the City.
The prisbner made a long defence, and with very
considerable earnestness declared that what Mr.
Young said was all false, and that he and O'Brian
had permission to sell the dog. They were three
days in the City with the animal, and the largest
offer made was five guineas. On communicating
with Mr. Young he said he would not take so small
a sum for the dog, but Mrs. Young said she wanted
to get rid of the beast, which was a nuisance in her
house, and they were to take any sum for it. The
prisoner then entered into various particulars, and
said that one day he received a penny for the dog's
dinner and a half-penny for its tea, that he went
down to King James's-stairs, Wapping-wall, to
wash the dog in the river on Thursday morning,
and that Mr. Young said the dog would sell better
when it was wet.

Mr. Young denied generally that he had given
permission to the prisoner and O'Brian to sell the
dog.
The prisoner—Yes, you told O'Brian not to take
less than £8 for the dog, and Mrs. Young said,
" Never mind him, get what you can for it."
Mr. A. T. Hay, clerk to Mr. Benson, of No. 80,
Lombard-street, said he knew that his employer
bought a Newfoundland dog, and that the prisoner
and another man came to Mr. Benson's shop and
received five guineas for the animal, and a shilling
for beer. He took the dog to the Hamburg
steamer in the river on Friday as a present to a
gentleman.
Mr. Selfe—ls Mr. Benson here ?

Witness—No, Sir; he is in Sheffield.
The prisoner said that O'Brian was drinking
away the money he received for the dog with his
mates, and when he had done drinking he had no
doubt he would turn up and come forward, and
prove that permission was given to sell the dog.
Mr. Young said it was not likely he would con-
sent to his dog being sold for five guineas, when he
had previously refused £l9 for it.
Mr. Selfe was induced to think the prisoner and
O'Brian had been authorised to sell the dog, and
that O'Brian had played off a scurvy trick upon
Mr. Young by keeping the money.
Mr. Young said it was not likely he would
authorise O'Brian to sell the dog, because that per-
son had kept the money.
Mr. Safe could not see the force of that reasoning
at all. It was most likely O'Brian had sold the dog
with the permission of the owner, and had appro-
priated the money to his own use. If that was so
O'Brian could not be prosecuted criminally, but he
could be sued for the money in the County Court of
the district. He should adjourn the case until
Tuesday, the 17th inst., and he would allow the
prisoner to go at large on his entering into his own
recognisance in the sum of £lO to appear on that
day.
The prisoner—I will be here and bring O'Brian
with me.
Mr. Selfe—You had better de so.

GREENWICH.—ATTEMPTED munDEn. OF A
WIFE BY HER HUSBAND.—SamueI Newbury, 35,
described on the police-sheet as a gentleman, of 1,
Content Cottages, Shooter's. hill-road, Greenwich,
was placed in the dock before Mr. Traill, charged
with cutting and wounding his wife, Mary Charlotte
Newbury, by stabbing her in the neck with a knife.
Mr. Downey, solicitcr, appeared for the prisoner.
George Mantle said he was servant to Mr.
Williams, a gentleman residing at Charlton Villas,
Shooter's-hill-road. About ten o'clock on Saturday
night witness was fastening up his master's
premises, when he heard a female screaming. He
went in the direction whence the sounds proceeded,
aid was met by a young woman, who came running
along, and said " For God's sake go to the protection
of my mistress, for master is going to murder her."
Witness hastened to the spot, and then saw the
prisoner struggling with a female, who was holding
on to a lamp post. The prisoner had a white
handled knife in his hand, and witness asked why
they were not quiet, upon which the prisoner asked
what it was to do with him. Witness then saw
blood on the female's neck, the prisoner at the time
dragging her by the wrist. He then laid hold of
her by the fleshy part of the arm with his left hand,
and drawing her towards him remarked, at the
same time putting his right hand, in which he held
the knife, round her neck, "Now I will butcher
your head from your body." -Witness then closed
with the prisoner, and he was secured and taken
into custody.
In reply to Mr. Downey, the witness said both
the prisoner and the wife appeared to be under the
influence of drink.
Mr. Henry Tyser, surgeon, of Blackheath, said,
he heard the disturbance, and on (=cling to the spot
saw the prisoner and his wife and Going
last witness
all lying cn the ground. Witness saw the prisoner
with a knife in his hand, and observed him strike
at her with it in the direction of the face or bosom.
Witness seized hold of the prisoner, and afterwards
gave him into custody. Witness had since examined
the prisoner's wife, and found a superficial wound
on the neck, two inches in length. There was also
a slight wound under the neck, and another wound
on the nose, the latter occasioned by the falling
down.. .

. .
Mr. Traill_ inquired if the witness could say
what state the prisoner and his wife were in ?
My Tyser said, they were both under the influ-
ence of liqacir. •
Inspector Nimmo, R division, here produced a
sharp-pointed dinner-knife, with a white handle,
which had been taken from the prisoner.
Louisa Lewis, a young woman, said said she was
servant to the prisoner, During the whole of the

week, and also on Saturday, her master had been
much annoyed by her mistress, who went out to
dinner at her sister's in the evening. Her master
dined at home, and shortly before ten o'clock, hav-
ing been lying down in his bedroom, he got up,
saying " I will get up and go and see if I can see
your mistress, and just ask her one question." He
then drank two glasses of rum and went out.
Shortly afterwards her master wanted her mistress
to come into the house and have some conversation,
but she would not do so.

Police-constable 248 R produced a cheese-knife
found in the prisoner's coat pocket, and also a
razor, picked up on the ground near where the
assault was committed.

The witness Lewis was here recalled, and said
the prisoner had been using the cheese-knife to cut
asparagus with. Witness could not identify the
dinner knife produced, nor the razor, as belonging
to her master.

The wife of the prisoner, who appeared many
years his senior, was then sworn ; but she declared
she had no complaint to make.
Mr. Traill said he shout d remand the prisoner
for a week.

Mr. Downey applied that the prisoner might be
admitted to bail.

Mr. Traill refused the application, and he was
conveyed to gaol.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING.

MONDAY.

The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas, for mares; 4-yr-olds,
Bst 91b ; five, 9st 81b ; six and aged, 10st. R.C.; 3
miles, 4 furlongs, 135 yards.

Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Prioress, by Sovereign, 6 yrs, lOst
(Fordham) 1
Mr. Snewing's Polestar, aged, lOst (J. Goater) 2
Mr. Angell's Target, 4 yrs, Bst 91b (E. Sharp) 3

Betting-5 to 2on Prioress, who won by 20 lengths;
Target beaten off.

Match, 200, h ft, T.Y.C. ; 5 furlongs, 140 yards.

Duke of Bedford's Leontes, by Tadmor, Bst lib (Flatman) 1
Count Batthyany's Olympus, Bst 121 b (E Sharp) 2

Betting-6 to 4 (at first 2to1) on Leontes, who won
easily by a length.

Match, 100, h ft, ' •TYC. • 5 farlongs, 140 yards.
~...._ 2.

Duke of Bedford's Harry, by Student, Bst 51b (S. Rogers) 1
Mr. Locke's Flitch, Bst 71b
- • -

Betting-4 to 1 (at first 7t04) on Harry, who won by
six lengths.

Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 5 ft if declared, &c.;
T.Y.C.
_; 5 furlongs, 140 yards; 6 subs., 2 of whom pay

_ - -
5 sovs ft.
Mr. S. Williams's Hop Merchant, by Loup Garou, 3 yrs,
7st 51b
Baron Rothschild's Newatead, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (Musgrove 2
Lord W. Powlett's Frederick, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (S. Rogers 3
Mr. Payne's Pandora, 3 yrs, Bst 71b (Flatman) 4
Betting-6 to 1 agst Pandora, 7to 4 agst Frederick, 4to
1 against any other.
Won by 15 lengths ; bad third.
A Plate of 50 soya ; for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The win-
ner to be sold for 200 sovs if demanded, &c. ; allowances
if entered to be sold for less. D.M. ; 7 furlongs, 201 yards.
Mr. Newman's Odd Fellow, 3 yrs, (140) 6st .. (J. Daly) 1
Lord W. Powlett's Melibceus, 4 yrs (1.40) 7st 21b
(Custance) 2
Mr. Ellis's The Poacher, aged (C4O), 7st 71b (Fordham) 3
Mr. Evans's Surprise, 6 yra (X7O), Bst 11b (Creswell) 4
Betting-5 to 2 each agst Poacher and Odd Fellow, 3to
1 agst Melibceus, 4 to 1 agst Surprise.
Won by five lengths ; a head between second and third ;
bad fourth.
The winner was claimed.

Handicap Plate of 50 soya. R.M. (1 mile 17 yards.
Sir W. Booth's Artless, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (Grimshaw) 1
Sir It. W. Bulkley's Oceanus, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (A.Edwards) 2
Lord Exeter's Noisette, aged, 7st 131 b (Norman) 3
The following also ran :—Orianda, Gourd, Vulcan, Es-
perance, Hebe, Adulation, and Star of the Vale.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Artless, sto 2 agst Star of the Vale,
6 to 1 each agst Adulation and Oceanus, 8 to 1 agst Gourd
and Orianda.

Won by six lengths ; three lengths between the second
and third ; Vulcan was fourth.

Handicap Sweepstakes of N sous. R.N. 11 subs.
Mr. R. H. Jones's Ditto, by Orlando, 4 yrs (E. Sharp) 1
Mr. Shelley's Lifeboat, 4 yrs .. (L. Snowden) 2
Mr. Simpson's Fright, 5 yrs .. (Fordham 3
Handicap Sweepstakes of 50 Boys, for 3 yr-olds. R.M.