The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

Mr. Broughton—Looking at him now, do you be•
Piece he is the man ?

Witness—l am sure of it.

By Mr. Herring—After master time home, I
and the servant both talked to him and mistress
about the robbery. I thitk the prisoner is the
man.

Mr. Broughton—Let Sarah Aygott stall. 1 up
again.

Magistrate (to witness)—Do you still adhere to
it that the prisoner is the person ?
Witness—Yes, Sir, I believe he is.
By Mr. Herring—The man who dropped the
penny, and to w'hom I.gave it, seemed greatly con-
fused.

Some other witnesses were called, and they were
very ably cross-examined at much length by Mr.
Hers ing. The learned gentleman, after a protracted
inquiry, in the course of which he pointed out
many discrepancies in s3rae of the statQments made,
set forth that the pri, oiler was a person of consider-
abl,) wealth and of unblemished reputation ; he
should further be in a condition to prove, by clergy-
men and other highly
respectable parties who had
he tAegraPlied for, that prisoner had not been
away from his homeim
until the period of his getting
into this trouble, since March last. It would clearly
be shown t) be a case of mistaken identity.
Mr. Broughton considered that the identity had
be 'n so sworn to, as to justify li's remanding the
accused, but should order that he be brought up
again te-morrow (this day.)
l‘lr. Herring asked for the prisoner to be liberated
on bail, but the Inagistrats., as the remand was for
so short a time, would not comply with the request.
He (Mr. Herring) Was
1.)( full and clear quite sure that there would
proof adduce I as t.) his respectable
client's perfect innocence.

SOU' HWARK.
A...UTTDTG AND WOUNDING..
Mr. William Tate, the master of the Cupid, a vesel
lying at Cotton's wharf, was Lrought before Mr.
Burchatu for final examination, charged with cut-
ting and wounding James Willett on the head with
a hatchet.
Mr. OniPPerfield prosecuted, and Mr. Solomon
defended the prisoner.
The complainant, whose head was bandaged up,
stated that he was a lighterman, and on Monday night, the 12th instant, he went on board the de-
fendant's velsel to speak about some work. While
he was speaking lo him, the prisoner struck Lim
a violent blow on the head with a hatchet, which
caused him to fall on the deck. He was picked
up and conveyed to a doctor, where his wound
was (hose], but he was still euffering from the
wound.

It? cross-exami3atfon by Mr. Solomon, witness
admitted that 111 and the defendant bad a few
words, and he dii strike hi n first, but it was a
very slight touch.
Mr. Solomon vas instructed fo sty, in defence,
that the complaisant ctme on board his vessel on
Monday night, tits 12th instant, at an unseemly
hour, and conamtuced abusing lutn in a very loud
manner. He t );d. him to leave, which ho refused
to do, but struck him a violent blow on the head.
In the heat of passion, his client foolishly seized the
hatchet and struck the complainant with it. Ho
called

1 John Flanders, the mate, who said that the com-
plainant abused the master respecting a barge, and
while they were having words, the former struck
the latter on the head, when the master seized a
hatchet and struck Willett with it.
Cover, ono of the sailors, corroborated the last
witness's testimony, when
Mr. Chipperfield contended that his client had
been most cruelly treated, and was still suffering
from the wound on the head.
Mr. Solomon said his client was extremely sorry,
but he re ,eived very gre it provocation.
Mr. Burcham said there could be no justification
in- using such
1144ent as that, whatever pro-
-oaHad the comp!ainant
died from the
Nc he
would have been guilty bf manslaughter, and no
doubt would have been sAverely punished. How-
ever,of the evidence, it was
c
tit first struck him a vio
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cot
m the
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a wholeina
Amid deal with the case
defendant must pay 51.,
011 turnibatebsculo„aimwm:atitrthyteerwdelffoy.
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mouths.
The fine was immediately paid.

LAMBETH. —THE LATiROBBERY A.T PECKHAM.
o—wfhCohseamiddle-aged female,
undergoing a sentence
Eld at the bar on a charge
transportation,rl
husbandotte Richardson,
aawtradpisropenlsa,e
ef being concerned with Jelin Brookes and Harriet
Porch, at present in Neweate awaiting their trial
for the offence of breaking into the dwelling-house
of Mr. John Coleman, the King's Areas, in Meet-
ing-house-lane, Peckham, and stealing therefrom
23e/. in bank notes and gold.
On the night of the 11th of September last the
bed-room of Mr. Coleman was mitered from the
b ick premises, the drawers broken open, and a bag,
c.mtaining bank notes and. gold to the above
amount, carried away. Some day after Brookes
and Perch were apprehended, and the evidence
against them of being concerned in the robbery
being conclusive, they were fully committed for-
trial, and the officers engaged in the case have been
since endeavouring to apprehend the third party
connected with the offence.
Sergeant Bond of the P division of police, said,
that, from information he received, he on Satur-
day evening went to a shop kept by the prisoner
near Lant street., Borough, and on seeing her he
told her that he =et tike her into custody on a
charge of b.ing concerned with a man named
Brookes, aril a woman named Perch, in robbing a
public-house at Peckham, of 2301. in gold and
notes. She rqliel that she knew nothing about
the robbery, thongh she hail heard something of P.
Know a man Lamed Brookes. He then asked her if
she had any money in the hOuse, or books relating to
money or property, and she replied she had not.
On searching her house, however, various artic es
of new wearing apparel and a savings bank hook fur
301., deposited in the SaVings-bank in Blomfielel-
street, Bishopagate, were found in her dr ewers, and
at the stet.on-house seven duplicates, relating to
other property,. were found on her person. Tire
goo is she said she had got' from a tally-slop, and
referred him to bills which she had with them, but
on examining them he found thet their dates were
as far back as 1855, and the money, which had been
deposited in the swings-bank on the 7th Sept.,
just seven days after the robbery, she said was the
preluce of the furniture she had sold.
Thomas Evsns, a constable belonging to the D
liivisiou of police, corroborated the testimony of
the last witue s respecting the finding of the arti-
cles produced at the house of the prisoner.
Mr. Coleman identiLd the prisoner es having
been frequeirly ae. his house, and drinking at his
bar, with the man Brookes and the female Perch,
who stood committed for trial, about the time of
the robbery ; acid Mr. Gostin, a nest-door neigh-
bour, s gore positively to having seen her come out
of a passaeo by the side of the house of Mr. Cole-
man, on the ei;lat and about the time of the rob-
bei v

ftr. Siutrt, a but. her in the Bagoigge
wells-road,
said that some weeks ago the prisoner deposited in
' bit hinds the savino-barik book produced, and 1.01.
in the Bethnd-green road. She
subsequently
in gold, and said she waAab
-,u4,; to take a coffee-shop
the took and money from him. took
Mrs. Susan Brooke,,
the wife of Brookes who
stalds c.nrinnif ted for trial, was call. d as a witness,
but her to timony WAS objected to by a solicitor
.who
appeared on
.betralf of the prisoner. Mr. Ellett,
however, deur!cl her testimony t r be taken, , and
bile was sworn. She deed that months ago
her husbino. left her and vr nt to live© with th fe-
male Perch. She
also said that the.prisoner lived
in the same room with her for twelve months up to
about six weeks ago, and hid no furniture there to
dispose of, whatever she might have elsewhere.
Sergeant Bond requested a remand, and a mum
alone VI? at a witness who he thought would be

various points in her evidence, and elicited from
her that brie thought at one time he was not the
man.

Thomas Augustus Oram, apprentice to Mr.
Stradth, said that at half-past eight on the morn-
ing of the 3d instant, the prisoner—he believed he
was the person, and in fact had scarcely any doubt
about it—called him outside the shop, and point-
ing to a gold chain in the window, asked him the
price of it. He told him he would go and inquire,
and at the same moment Mrs Stradth, who was in
the kitchen, called out to him, " Tom." Witness
immediately afterwards returned to the shop, and
there saw another man, who inquired of him if Mr.
Taylor was there. He was told that he was not ;
and after he had lost sight of both the parties, it
was ascertained that 14 gold chains and a gold and
silver watch had been stolen.
Mr. Broughton—Did the prisoner go into the
shop at all ?

Witness—lie did not, your worship.
By Mr. Herring—l was in the shop at twenty
minutes to eight. The other apprentice, whose
duty it was to "set out" the window, was not there.
Two chains had been left hanging up it the window
on the overnight. I brought the box containing
the watches, &c., from the parlour into the shop.
After I had been asked by the prisoner outside the
shop the price of the chain' I went in, and there
found another man. I did not see him go in, as
my attention was directed to wards the chain tho
price of which I was asked. I have told somebody
that I thought I might be mistaken as to the
prisoner being the man who spoko to me outside
by the window. I hive said so to the servant
girl.