The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

POUCII INTELLIGENCE.—Dee. 30.

MANSION-HOUSE. George Harrison was
charged with having stolen a sovereign from Miss
Annie M'Carthy, of N0.,...1.10, Cheapsid-, tobac-
conist.

The prosecutrix said—Last night at about half-
past 9 o'clock the prisoner came into my shop and
asked for two twopenny cigar 4. placed them
before him, and he offered me a sovereign, which
I took and placed in a drawer in which was a little
basin for gold. There were two other sovereigns
and two half-sovereigns then in the basin. I then
closed the drawer and opened the till.to give him
the silver. He said, "Return my sovereign, I
have small change." I again opened the drawer
and returned him the sovereign, which he took up
with one hand, while with the other he reached
across and snatched a sovereign out of the bowl,
dropping at the same time a shilling into the bowl.
With both my hands I caught his hand, and found
the sovereign jammed between his thumb and the
palm of his hand. While I was struggling with him
ail elderly- gentleman came to the door, to whom I
said, "Pray, assist me, this min has ptolen a sove-
reign." The gentleman did not assist me, hut
st ead by, and the prisoner relaxe l his hold and I
took the sovereign from him. He then said it was
his, and that I had not returned the sovereign he
had given me, and I asked the gentleman ta c.ll in
an officer, which he accordingly did, and when the
prisoner stooped down and undid his shoes and
pulled off his stocking I heard s ime money drop.
He said it was a florin. I saw afi irin in his hand.
The officer then came, but the sovereign was nut
found, neither was the florin.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis for the prisoner—
He did not place a shilling on the counter, hut
dropped it into the bowl. He did not say anything
bout two half-sovereigns until after the officer
came. He came into the shop alone. The door
was closed. He had been kneeling behind the
counter full five minutes before the officer came.
The gentleman would not anew him to escape.
Noble, 441—1 was called to the shop and there
saw the prisoner, who was given into my charge for
-tealing a sovereign from the ti'l. He said he had
given the sovereign to the woman to pay for two
cigars, and that he afterwards said to her that ho
had smaller change and wished for two half-sove-
reigns for his sovereign. He wished to be searched
in the shop. Ise ached his wai tcoat pockets there,
and I afterwards searched him at the station house,
and Is. in silver, 11d. in copper, and 3ez of tobacco
upon him. I received a sovereign from prosecutrix,
which was that she believed be had taken from her
till. I asked him his address. At first he said he
came from Stafford, and then he said he came from
Manchester, and ultimately he refused to give any
address, or to give any satisfactory account of him-
self.

The Prosecutrix—lt appeared to me that he put
his own sovereign, which I returned to him, into
his pocket.

The Lord Mayor said in all probability the pri-
soner had swallowed the sovereign, and directed
that he be kept in prison under medical treatment.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.--Mary Diefke and Mary Ann
Dusseldorf'. were finally examined on the charge of
shoplifting ; and a German named Frederich Diefke
the husband of the first prisoner, was charged as
the wilful receiver of the stolen property.
It appears that the prisoners were part of a gang
of foreigners, who, locating thecnselvos in the
neighbourhood of the Dover-road, Southwark, em-
barked every morning for the West-end on thieving
excursions. Some of the party had been already
in custody for similar offences. Police constable
R. Pell, 3 M, having watched the two female pri-
soners on the 23d inst., saw them go into the shop
of Mr. C.sadmau, Strand, and come out again, when,
after pr,,c,:eding a short distance, one of them pro-
duced a silk umbrella from under her shawl. He
detained the women, and found that the umbrella
had been stolen. The same woman had previou,ly,
on the 15th inst., visited the shop of Mr. Morton,
of the Turnstile, where, while pretending to look
at a variety of goods, which were to be sent to a
false address, they contrived to stcw away a consi-
derable quantity of cutlery, some of which was
pledged in the Strand. Some f the stolen goods
and a great number of pawnbrokers' duplicates were
found at the male prisoner's lodgings, where both
the women lived also.

Mr. Henry committed them for trial.
A man named John Teban, a discharged servant.,
was also committed for stesliug coats, umbrellas,
Ste., from the halls of gen tlemeu's houses. He
usually inquired for the hous,maid, and when
asked if he meant "Elizl," or "Jane," he promptly
replied " Yes." While the housumaid was b iug
s,sught the prisoner stripped the house, and de-
camped.

M ARLBOROUG ri-S TREE P—Mary Ann Mer-
ton, a young wo wan of very ladylike appearance,
was charged on su,pic:on of sto ding a (cold watch,
value 30 guineas from the person of Mrs. Eliza
Elstob, of 7, North place, Camberwell.
Mrs. Elstob stated she was iu the German Fair,
Langham-place, the prcading afternoon between
4 and 5. Ti *re was a considerable crowd of persons
collected round the musicians listening to the music,
t which spot she likewise was attracted. She saw
the prisoner in front of her and fait her press on
her muff, under which was her watch, secured by
a detewor. Almost directly upon feeling
this pressure she missed her watch and s .w the pri-
soner's hand about her muff. She seized her by the
wrist, but she managed to get her hand into her
own muff, and, with the other hand, appeared to
pass something to a stout woman near her. She
kept her hold of the prisoner, raised an alarm, and,
a policeman coming up, gave her into custody.
Her watch, value 30 guineas, had not been traced.

Pelice-constahle 343 of the A division was on
duty at the German Fancy Fair' and took the pri-
soner into custody as above stated. A lady's, valua-
ble gold watch, horizontal movement, beautifully
enamelled back, and jewelled in eight holes, was
found on the prisoner, together with two diamond
rings, a pair of diamond earings, and a gold brooch
with the pot trait of a gentleman on it.
The prisoner reserved her defence and was re-
manded till Tuesday.

MA RYLE BONE. —Thos. Meredith wa3 charged
with having, ou the night of the 231 inst., burglni-
ously entered the house of Mr. H. Jackson, builder,
33, T ,ayer-street, M .nchester-square, and stolen
t erefrom a coat, a jacket, a pair of shoes, and
three pairs of boots.
The stolen jacket was now produced anti identi-
fied; it had been purchaied of the priioner by a
wan named Guulden, in John's-court, Wigrnore-
street.

The article was identified by the prosecutor, and
the prisoner W 43 committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.--Alfred Johnson and Jilin
M'Donald were finally examined, charged with
stealing two diamond rings froli the shop-window
of Mr. Edward Smith, of 17, Victoria-road, Pim-
lico, silversmith and pawnbroker.
The robbery was committed on Monday 'fortnight
during the heavy fog. A little girl, named Rich-
ardson, attracted by the showy articles in the win-
dow, advanced towards it, and saw Johnson and
two oth-r men at it. Johnson had an. instru-
ment of some kind against the window, and im-
mediately afterwards a piece of glass dropped
out, when Johnson thrust his baud through
the aperture, and, taking two rings out,
handed them to one of his comrades.
At that moment the thieves - caught sight of a
Mr. Makepeace and his wife, who had just come up
in time to witness the robbery, and darted off. Mr.
Mikepeace pursued Johnson until he was captured.
The other prisoner, who had been seen with him
an hour previously, trying to cut another window
in Tuthill-street, was subsequently apprehended,
and both the girl Richardsim and Mr. and Mrs.
Makepeace said th4t to the best of their belief he
W,'3 one of the two engaged in the robbery at Mr.
Smith's. The rings wee not recovered.
The prisoner wa3 fully committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—William Jessop was
charged with the following outrage :
Harriette Davis, who appeared to be, and was

described by her landlady,ai a very quiet and in-
offensive young woman, but who was in the most
deplorable conditi, n from injuries and exhaustion,
stated that the prisoner on Monday night saw her
home, where shortly afterwards he made a request
she could not comply with, and immediately she
said so he grasped her by the throat, and, flung her
over the edge of part of the furniture, declared he
would strangle her, and held her in that position
till she was nearly senseless, when he at length re-
leased her. She then tried to esck e from the room,
but the prisoner on seeing her doing so seized the
poker, and struck her such a fearful blow with it
on the side of the head as to pitch her from the top
of the stairs to the bottom. On partially recovering
from the joint effects of the blow and fall.she crep.,
with the blood s reaming down her face, into the
back kitchen, to hide herself, but the prisoner
followed Jul., flung her down, knelt upon her
stomach, thrust his hand into the pocket, of her
dress, from which be took some money, and then
att•mpted to escape from the house. She con-
trived to follow him, to give him into custody,
but on reaching the passage the prisoner suddenly
turned upon her, and struck her such a blow ce?
the head wi h half a pair of firetongs that she fell
!o the ground senseless, and remembered nothing
more that occurred to her till she found herself in

a cab, covered with blcod, and on the road to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital.
Isabella Horton, the complainant's landlady,
stated, that on hearing a heavy fall down the stairs,
followed by moans, she went out to ascertain the
cause of them, and found the prisoner kneeling ou
the young woman as r•he had described. She ran
to the street door to alarm the police, but was fol-
lowed by the prisoner, and on turning round sln
saw the prisoner strike the young woman on the
head with some iron implement, and she imme-
diately dropped senseless at his fest. The prisoner
then rushed out of the house, swearing he would
do for any one who at empt, d to stop him, but two
men who were pas ing and had heard their screams
seiz-d hin by the collar and held him till a con-
stabb, came up and secured him.
Balls, a constable of the N divi,ion, produced
the tongs and poker, and described the complain-
ant, when he saw ter, as stretched upon a sofa,
bleeding shockingly from wounds in the head, and
perfecly senseless. She was in such a dreadful
condition that he sent her at once to the hospital.
Mr. Walter Chippendale, house-surgeon to the
holiital, attended and describ d thQ n.ture of the
injuries tit-, young woman had sustained, which
were tortun tt,iy not so serious as might have been
expected from such violence, though she would
still have to return to the ho-pital, and
Mr. Ha umill, who char:lcteri e l it as a most
fearful outrage, fully committed the prisoner to
Newgate for trial.

SOUTEIWARK.—Timothy Roach, of No. 1,
Roy,l Ten -court,. Kent stre* t, a very luw locality,
was charged before Mr. Coombe with selling beer
without a licence.

The ca e was proved by a policeman, who said
that he and a bother officer w‘-rtt to the house
dr, s,a.d as roldi,v.

Mr. Solomon, fur the defendant, severely cen-
sured the system adopted by he police to entrap
persons to bleak the law. Ho was instructe t t:;
say that his client did not sell beer, but had a few
friends drinking with him when the officer first
came. He refused to admit him into his home,
but when they return-d as soldiers his daughter
admitted them, as he had a son in the army.

Mr. Combo had no doubt as to the trade carried
on by the prisoner. He must pay a fine of 5/. and
2s. costs, or be imprisoned one month.

LAMBETH.—Charles 13,)yes, a letter-carrier in
the General P. st-oilic-, was charged with steal,ng
91bs. of soap, the property of Mr. Wybrow, a soap
manufacturer in Camberwell.

Mr. Wybrow, the prosecutor, deposed that on
the day before the prisoner called to deliver a let-
ter, and while passing along the factory he (wit-
ness) observed him take up a bar of soap, and break
it in two pieces. He questioned him on the subject,
and the prisoner, who had the appearance of having
beet, drinking, seemed to treat the matter as a j.
but witness told him he must accompany him to the
counting-house, which he did, and on there exa-
minii,g a bag which he (prisoner) carried, he found
in it nine pounds of soap, his property, and of the
value of 3s. Mr. Wybrow added that for eight yeara
the prisoner had been the p,,stman on the walk in
which his house wis siivate, and, though he had
been in the habit (,f delivering letters at the factory
at aluost every post, and many of them contained
remittances ~f c )nsiderable amounts, nothing of
this kind had been detected before.

Mr, Cole, inspector of letter-carriers at the Gene-
ral Post-office, said the prisoner had been a letter-
carrier for 12 years, and during the whole of that
time had borneatt exc Tent character.
Mr. Elliot,—What was the remuneration which
he rtceived from the Post-office ?
Mr. Cole—Twenty-three shillings a week ; and
his charactt-r has been so good that I was much sur
prised when I heard of the nature of the charge
against him.
The prisoner, who seemed very much affect d at
the serious posi,ion in which he *toed, in reply to
the chatge, sa.d he had b-en uufortu"ately drink-
ing in the course of Vie day, and, having taken
rum and gin, the mixture had such an Abut upon
him that he bs:cinie perfectly it oonscious of what
he did.
Mr. Elliott remanded the prisoner.

MANUFACTUhE Ott ME 1101RS-CI;_RIOU,S

BEV gLA lONS.

A ca•o which came before the County Court in
Ipswich last week, afforded some curious revela-
tions of the manner in which the public are supplied
with fictitious biographies. Mr. J. M. Barter),
the pub:isher in Ipswich, aberit twelve months ago
receive 1 from Mr. Trenery, anther of "Leila Ada"
and other works, a manuscript entitled " The
Christian Lady, or Religion in High Life ; a
Memoir for the Upp -r Classes ;" which purperted
to be a genuine and auttientic biography of Miss
Augusta Howard, who became L idy C. by mar-
riage, 1853, and died in 1855. The MS. was ac-
companied by a letter from the auth tr. off 'ring.
the copyright for 1201., end adding " We intend
to give the profits to her ladyship's poor, and it is
to be an addition to their usual winter's store."
A subs,A;luent interview with Mr. Treuery gave
Mr. Bur. on the iinpre-sion that he was intimately
acquainted wit!' the subject of his memoir, and an
agree:bent was concluded to purchase the copyright
for 501. Shortly b :fore Christmas Mr. Trenery wrote
to his publisher, nrging,hiin t conclude 'he nego-
tiations with all convenient speed," as her lady-
ship's family " were particularly anxious thee the
proceeds be joined to their Christmas gifts," arid the
50/. was paid. Internal and other evidence had
since appeared to prove that the book was net a
genuine memoir, as originally supposed, and an
action was brought by Mr. Burtiin to recover the
501. paid. In opening the case, Mr. Eisdell, who
appeared for the plaintiff, stated that Mr. Burton
was satisfied with the terms of his contract and
would continue the publication of the work if ti
could be proved to be an authentic biography. The
doubts of the publisher were first ra,issd by an an-
swer to a query respecting the singular name "Au-
gustus," in which time defen taut stated that the
sist r of the Duke of Cambridge. was named Augus-
tus Caroline Charlotte Elizele th, a statethent which
a reference to a " Pei-rage," prove 1 to be incorrect.
But a stronger ground for doubt occurred. It had
been susgeeied by pleintitf that a portrait of Lady
C., and a vignetze of her coup: ry house, should be
prefixed to the werk. The ,let er, in reply to this
suggestion, contained the following passage in re-
ference to the memoir e---" I look for it to do much
good amongst her ladyship's own class. Many of
them will, I think, like it : because many of them
I know are earnest lovers of our Saviour, and de-
sire every help in their heavenward c 'urse. I know
that it la able to do them good, much good. It
always soothes my own heart whenever I read a
little of it. In reference to the ►icture I have seemed
idle. . . My visits to the Lady Howard have
been usually of a kind wire. such a subject could not
be iutr deced." Soon after Mr. Burton received
from Mr. Trenery two beautriutry engraved. and
coloured pole rsi 5, one of which was underwrWen
" The Countess of —," and the other a portrait
of Lady Harriet Hernilton. Tee former of these
was, he said, to be altered in several particel,rs,
as it had been badly copied from the original
pairiting, and the dress was to be made like that of
the accompanying portrait. Shoitly atter Mr. Bur-
toe recognised the pietetided portrait of. Lady C.
am- ng oth i's from the Court Album, on the-counter
of Mr. Bogue, tire publisher, it. London, but bear-
ing the name of the Countess of Durham. The de-
fendant, when asked for an explanation, refused to
reply to " questions respectilig earnes whirei he
could not iu honour divulge." The plaintiff again
wrote, asking for au explanation for his ewn satis-
faction, and called upon the defendant, if he could
not explain satisfactorily, to rafu id the tO/. and the
expenses incurred for the part printed, proposing
to place the MS. in the hands of a third party. The
defendant then wrote at great length, endeavour-
ing to establish that the portrait sent bad never
been represented to be that of the subject of the
work. It was also shown that many peas of th,
MS. which professed to be copied from her lady-
ship's diary had. be tir subs:-quebtly altered. Mr.
Burton had addressed Et circular to various branches
of the flovrard family, but could get no information
of a Miss Howard, afterwards Lady C. Mr. Tre-
nery, who conducted his defence, asst r el that the
MS. was " the genii ne biography of a real person,"
whom he knew "pretty wed." He had n it brought
his diary with him, as he did not know it would b,
wanted. He would not tell the real names. The
husband was not a peer, but ti.e 6011 of a peer, not
the eldest. He did not think he ought to be made
to go there and be laughed at. His Honour theb
asked defend nt to write is e real name on a piece rf
pai er, and no one else should se ir, but this he re-
lussd. He sta ed hat he had letters with him from
the British Society for the Conversion of the Jews,
in commendation of Leila, Ada. The br ok we,
used to ccnvert the Jews ; and he hoped te' make
rresmolrs of Lady C. equ ,lly useful to the peer-
age. The memoir in question war worth 3501., but
he would not pay 501. and take the MS. back, be
-arise he preferred to clear his character. Among
o :I. er ex riot dinary assertions, the defendant crated
ae the picture, which hid been copied badly, t'e
cause it hung in a wrong light, could net be move
her muse her lad) ship's dying hand had helped to
bang it ; anti when the artist had fiershed the
copy, he strew his brush across the face and said :
—" There is the crack of doom." Defendant per-
si.eing in refusing evidence of the genuineness of
rho work
given for the plain tiff for
SLI/. and judgment was
costs, to be paid in a fortnight.—Busy
and I! orwich Post.