The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Win. Atkins, 23, labourer, and IVlargaret Watts,
50, were indicted--Atkins for stealing a quantity of
plate, valued at 2001., the property of Edzabeth
Buck, and also upon another indictment for stealing
property of 201. value, belonging to Maria Rich ;
4ncl. Watts was indicted for feloniously receiving
the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
The male prisoner pleaded guilty.
. Mr. Langford prosecuted.
It appeared from the evidence given against the
ftivale prisoner, that Mrs. Buck is a dressmaker,
residing in Poland-street, and Mrs. Rich iu King-
&Teat, Golden-square ; and that in both instances
the apartments occupied by them had been broken
open and the property taken during their absence.
From information given to the police they took the
mile prisoner into custody, and upon searching an
apartment occupied by him and the woman, in
Queen-street, Lambeth, traced a portion of the
property, and also found above 100 duplicates,
stains of them relating to the property stolen, and
=which had been pawned by Watts.
The jury found them guilty, and they were sen-
tenced to six years' penal servitude.

• THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. Prandergast, Q.C.)
Mary Chalk, 20, spinster, a good-looking young
h woman, was indicted for cutting and wound-
ing Patrick ig, with intent to do him grievous
harm. -
Mr. Giffard prosecuted, and Mr. Rib ton defended.
The prosecutor, whose head was enveloped in
bandages and adhesive plaister, stated that, having
known the prisoner for some time, she about five
Veeki ago came to live With him as his wife, al-
though he had not pressed her to drYso. About
ttiree weeks of er that she left him and, went to the.
• -house of her mother in Stevens street, Marylebone.
Upon the evening of that day, as be was coming
frrmi the heuse of his brother in the same street, she
tame up to him and begged he would let her come
home again with him, but he refused. She fol-
b4ed him for about 100 yards into Great James-
street, when, finding that he would not accede to
her request, she drew from her pocket a small
tableknife; and, saying that she would have his
life, Stabbed. him several times about the bead, and
in all probability have killed him had not
aorne of his friends secured her.
;• The witness, in cross-examination, positively
• '-find that he had seduced her un ler a promise of
",,Y4alrieize. She had teen in service up
with
to the time
ittg to live with him, and while she was
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.ktioller mother and herself wished him to have the
bpaTauotbut. he said he would not, and ii
The other " w"
without his cousen.
deposed to comingevidenceu was that of the police, who
vPeat the time and finding the
Prosecutor bleeding
t w profusely. They took the
knife from the prisoner. It as covered with blood,
and had been so forcibly used that the blade
very much bent and broken off near the
handle.
Upon her way to the station she laughed
atie had done it, and would have hislife. a4d
said
The statement which t•he made before the magis_
trate was then put in, and it stated that the prose-
cutor had taken her from service under a promise to
marry her, and had put up the banns, and that
at ter ',lying with her three weeks he turned her out,
and told her that lie bad another young woman,
an-d she might go. She went the next day to him to
P-41( him to let her come back, but be refused to
t • "ave anything to do with her, and struck her.
Mr. Ribton, in a moat eloquent appeal to the
are y' °aid. that the charge, if anything, was only
pecuoifi unlawful wounding. The case was one of
tr' ar cruelty. Thedpoor girl had been shamefully
ated—seduced. er_a solemn promise oftmaere-
i ge. She bad. beelin
Irceks, cast off
with , after a short space of hr
insult and brutality. He should

show that the prosecutor had perjured himself when
denying that the banns had been put up. The girl's
mother had done so with prosecutor's consent. The
girl had up to this time borne a most respectabld
character. The learned counsel then caited the
mother, a respeatable-looking woman, who was
about to give her evidence relative to the publica-
tion of the banns, but

The Commissioner objected to receiving it, as
being irrelevant to the charge.
The jury returned a verdict of unlawful wound-
ing under circumstances of great aggravation.
She was sentenced to four months' imprisonment.