The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EV 'ENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1859.

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-( TBIS DAY. j

COURT OF DIVORCE.

(Beforo Sir C. Cresswell, Baron Watson Mr. Jugtico Hill,
and a Special Jury.)
13.kGGOT V. BAGGOT A.ND TWOMSON.

This part-heard case was resume d this morning. After
witnesses had been heard on beha.lf of the petitioner, Mr.
Sergeant Pigott addressed the Jury on behalf of the defen-
dant.

The Jury found that the responder tt, Mrs. Baggot, was
not guilty of adultery; anti that the petitioner, Samuel,
Baggot, was guilty of cruelty to his wif
The petition was dismissed, with costs:.

CLERKEN WELL COUNTY COURT.
(Before Sergeant Jones..,)
LEMON V. CLIFTON-THE PLASTERERS' LOCK-OUT.
This was a summons to recover an account for medicine
and attendance.

Mr. Jay appeared for the plaintiff.
Defendant admitted the debt, but pleaded poverty,
Mr. Jay—What are you ?
_ _

Defendant—A plasterer. I have had no work for more
than two months.

His Honour—But that was your own fault, I suppose.
Defendant—No, it wasn't. I was locked out.
His Honour—You brought it on yourselves.

Mr. Jay— I believe the subject has been worn threadbare,
and is now nearly at an end. You could have got work at
Messrs. Trollopes'.

Defendant—l didn't go there. I have suffered great
privations, and am reduced in consequence of having no
employmont.

His Honour—You see what you have been brought to by
adopting an obstinate and headstrong course of action.
You see now, I hope, the folly of these quarrels between
masters and men, and it will be, I trust, a lesson for the
future. You have had to undergo very many evils and to
exirciso great self-denial. Every well-thinking man must
have deplored the strike and lock-out, and it is to be hoped
that it is, as Mr. Jay says, nearly at an end. Your creditors
must not suffer for your folly, and, of course, expect to be
paid.

Mr. Jay—Defendant is a society man.

Defendant—lndeed, I am not, nor was I during the

lock-out.

Plaintiff—You said you were when you were attended.
I think the defendant has suffered a great deal—l will take
the d'ibt by small instalments.
Order accordingly.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.-SINGULAR SET OFF:CLARKE

♦. SAFE.

This was an action to recover £4 4s. 7d. rent of premises
held by defendant, of which plaintiff waa landlord.

Defendant had pleaded a set off of £1 for a gun sold to
the plaintiff.
Mr. Jay, for defendant, called that person who said he
had purchased the gun in question from the plaintiff for
£4 10s. A short time ago Mr. Penfold, one of plaintiff's
clerks, asked: defendant if he had a gun to sell, as Mr.
Clarke wanted to buy ono. Defendant said it was in pawn
and received from Penfold £1 to redeem it. He told Pen-
fold it must go against the rent.

Mr. Hubert Wood cross-examined the defendant as to
whether the gun was not handed over to Fenfold, and if
Penfold had not said he had a lien upon it for the £l, but
the defendant said the gun was sold to Clarke, and the
price agreed was XI to come off the cent.

Mr. Wood then called Feld°ld, who said the gun was at
his house. He borrowed the £1 of Mr. Clark and had not
repaid him. He (witness) considered he had a lien on the
gun till defendant paid the £l.

In cross-examination as to his going to the Insolvent
Debtors' Court for relief from his creditors, the witness,
after a great deal of questioning, admitted that he had not
scheduled either Clarke for the £l, or defendant for Li for
the gun.

Mr. Wood made a ',cry ingenious speech for plaintiff, but
the Judge had previously threatened to commit Mr Penfold
summarily if he did not answer straightforwardly, and said
—lf the case had rested upon the speech of the advocate,

it might have been different; as it was, defendant would
have a verdict for his set-off. Plaintiff would have a ver-
dict for Is. 7d.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS D. 4 E)

(before tho Recorder.)

A trial on an indictment for embezzlement, which did not
possess the slightest interest, occupied the court the whole
of the early part of to-day.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
PASSING COUNTERFEIT COIN.

John Brown, 28, compositor, and Ilenry Scanes, engi-
neer, wore indicted for unlawfully uttering a counterfeit
coin, well knowing it to be so.

From the evidence of the witnesses for the prosecution it
appeared that the two prisoners entered the shop of a to-
bacconist in Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square, and asked
for a small quantity of tobacco, and tendered the counter-
feit coin (a half sovereign) in payment for the article.
Brown presented the coin, and the only evidence against
Scenes was that he had been seen in company with Brown
before the shop was entered.

The Jury found Brown guilty, and acquitted Scanes.
Tho Common Sergeant sentenced him to 12 months' im-
prisonment.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr_ Kerr.)
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

William Brown, butcher, 25, was indicted with violently
assaulting Margaret Duggan, and stealing from her a scarf
shawl, of the value of £3, the property of Thomas Duggan.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
A number of police-constables were called, and each
described the prisoner as the constant associate of thieves
of the lowest description; one constable informed the court
that within the last 18 months ho had been twice pre-
viously convicted.

The prisoner said ho was as innocent as a "baby nn-
born" of the charge.

The learned judge, in passing sentence, said it was per-
fectly ridiculous for the prisoner to deny that he was the
person who committed the robbery, as that fact had been
proved beyond a doubt. For some time ho had been the
constant associate of thieves, and as summary punishment
appeared to have no effect the court would at all events for
some time remove him from his bad associates. The sen-
tence of the court was that ho be kept in penal servitude
for six years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( TR'S DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR TO A PUBLICAN.—A DAN-
GEROUS AFRICAN.—An African, who calls himself Sambo,
and has several times been at this court on different charges,
was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with breaking
a pane of plate glass, of the value of £3, es follows :
From the evidence of Mr. Rowland Mould, of Morland's
Hotel, Dean-street, it appeared that the prisoner went into
the house selling song books, on the previous evening,
when ho was ordered out, but instead of leaving made his
way into the parlour, and refused to leave. Upon this Mr.
Mould put him out, and as soon as he succeeded in doing
so the prisoner smashed a pane of plate glass in the most
wilful manner, behaving with great violence.

Mr. Bingham asked the prisoner if he wished to say any-
thing, and the only reply he made was—" He push me ; ho
push rne. Mo push him."
Ordered to pay £3 or two moiths.

AN 0 wNnit WANTED.—Michael Gang, a tall rough
fellow in tho garb of a labourer, was charged with being
found in possession of a Carrara marble mortar, under the
following suspicious circumstances :

Charles Cole, an active detective officer, said, seeing the
prisoner in company of another man with something under
his arm done up in a pocket-handerchief, arid having a
suspicion that it was the produce of a robbery, ho followed
him to the back of 13, Marlborough-court, lie then asked

him if he had got lead in the bundle, and on examining it
found that it was a Carrara marble mortar. On asking
whore he got it from he made the usual defence, " that a
man gave it him to carry," but afterwards said he picked it
up.
The prisoner, in answer to Mr. Bingham, said he picked

it up.
Mr. Bingham said thero was very little doubt about that,
and remanded the prisoner, who has been at this court be-
fore, for inquiries to be made as to the owner.

who was accompanied by a woman, deliberately cut the
fastenings of a pair of boots exposed for sale out-
side the shop, take them down, and put them
under his coat. Mr. Thomas went after him,
and stopped him, and the prisoner dropped the boots at his
feet.

The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.

Frederick Watkins, aged 16, was charged with stealing a
pair of boots exposed for sale outside the shop of Mr.
William Bousden, No. 38, Langley-place, Commercial-road
East.

This robbery was committed under circumstances similar
to the last, and the prisoner having pleaded guilty, was also
sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour.