The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,
_OCTOBER 29, 1850.

etee.l was wOcieg on duly Ti gi.ounds by
(;hek ..notri Tavern. J heal,. -me one cseae aletae
whietlie;„!: towards, tee ; that pera,on wa,. the la-i-,geeer,
who immediately pesaed toe. Net likieg t:h• eppaer-
ance, I went utter him, mai over ...reek hie). within lee
or lWelve yards of Priintwee hill, writer itutienly
stopped. At that time I observed somelting
h&ky under his coat, which was buttoned.
He remarked me, " It's vather a act merning,"
tai I said, - "It is, and what have you got about
you?" He unbuttoned his coat, and, drawing thence
a leathern bag, said it was his own mlney, which he
had worked for, and at the same time produced 2s.
6d. Feeling satisfied that some rubbery had been
perpetrated, I told him he must go with me, when he
said, " For (lad's *eke den't take toe, and I'll give
you halt." 1 laid told ot' him by the hack of the neck,
at led him along, and for 500 y:irds he walked es
quietly us possible ; he then said something to me, hut
1 cannot recollect the words he used, and at the same
moment he suddenly sprung up, and I was stabbed by
him in the face with a sharp instrument. I still kpt
hold of him, and we railed together down an embank-
ment. A scuffle then ensued between us, and he cut
me again on the ear and the hand. I caught hold of
his wrist and saw the knife in his hand, which was
upraised as if in the act of once more stabbing me,
the blow being about to be aimed at my head.
We continued to scuffle, and the prisoner got away
froth me. I got up as quickly as possible, while the
blood was flowing from me in a stream, and ran after
him with my drawn truncheon. When I had got
within a few yards of him, the ground being
slippery, he fell. I fell too. We both got up, and
with my truncheon I geve hint several blows which
knocked him down. I called out and my cries
brought to my assistance two railway policemen, by
whom the prisoner wss secured and conveyed to the
station-house. I managed to walk there myself in a
bleeding and fainting conditioe, and on searching the
prisoner I found in his possession three begs, -which I
now produce. They contain 191. in shillings, a crown,
14 half-crowns, 128 sixpences, 24 fouipenny-pieces,
15 threepenny-pieces, and other moneys in copper.
In one of his waistcoat pockets I found two four-
penny-pieces, and iii his fob a jet necklace.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Did he say from whom be re-
ceived the money as wages when you stopped him?
Witness—Yes, he said he had had it from Mr. Grimble,
but did not tell me who or what Mr. Grimble was.,
I asked him how touch he had received, anit he said
he believed abow 251.

James Bonnor, potman to a Mr. Seaton, said—For
three or four weeks past the prisoner has been in the
habit of coming daily an l nightly to the house. At
half-past 11 o'clock last night he was by the fire in
the tap-room, where he had been long sitting, and I
then desired him to leave, as it was our time for shut-
ting up. I fastened the door at the back of the house
and then returned into the taproom, when I looked
round and could see no one there. I consequently
imagined that the prisoner, whom I had warned, had
left the house, and after extinguishing the gas I re•.
tired to bed, leaving my master below. I was called
up at seven o'clock this morning, and then found that
the front door of the house was partly open. It h'd
been unbolted. The bar was down, and one shutter-
bolt was lying on a chair, which was placed close to
the door.

Wardell, a constable in the employ of the London
and North-Western Railway Company, was the next
witness examined. He said, hearing cries of " Oh,
oh !" proceeding from some one who was apparently
i❑ great suffering from some cause or other, I ran
along the road towards Primrose- hill, and found the
prisoner and the policeman Godwin struggling on the
ground must desperately. I asked the policeman
what was the matter, and he exclaimed, " Mind
mate, for be hEs got a knife." The constable got up
bleeding and ready to faint, and on my searching
under the prisoner, who ws lying down, I found a
krdie under his right thigh.
Mr. J 3 KOUGHTON—When the officer said, " Mate,
h- has got a knife," did the prisoner say anything ?
Witness—No, Sir.
Mr. BaouGaToN—W,is the.prisoner bleeding too ?
Witness—He was from the hand, and a portion of his
head was matted with blood.

Frances Osborne, the maid servant, was next called.
She proved the finding of the street-door open. She
was the first who came down stairs, and she imme-
diately raised an alarm.
Mason, 168 S, gave evidence as to his having exa-
mined the premises of the prosecutor, and finding the
bar parlour had been entered by some one, who had
cut away a portion of the woodwork close to the lock,
so as to afford facility for going into the parlour, with-
out the parlour door being forced. There were no
marks of violence from the outside, and the robbery
of cash which, it would be 'shown by Mr. Seaton,
bad taken place at his house, must have been perpe-
trated by some one who had concealed himself on the
premises.
Mr. George Seaton, the landlord, proved that he
fastened up his street-door on the previous night at
half • past twelve o'clock, and went to bed five mi-
nutes afterwards. In the morning, when called
up as before stated by other witnesses, he missed
from his bar parlour somewhere about the amount
previously spoken to as being found on the prisoner,
namely, 251. or 261. One of the bags he would swear
to as hieing his, but the other two he could not. He
knew nothing about the necklace produced. The
greater part of the cash was stolen from a cupboard,
and the rest from the tills, both of which had been
emptied.
The knile found under the thigh of the prisoner
was produced and identified is being the property of
the prosecutor; it was a small dinner knife, such as
are commonly used in tap-rooms, and the upper part
of the blade was bent to the extent of two or three
inches.

In answer to the magistrate, Mason, the officer, said
he believed that the prisoner had been in custody
before, and convicted of stealing a saw, but be was
not prepared to-day with evidence to show that
such was the case. Witness added, that when pri-
soner met the wounded officer, Godwin, he was no
doubt carrying his treasure to some secluded spot
where he might deposit it until a fit opportunity was
afforded him for carry ing it away.
The prisoner, after being duly cautioned as to
what he had to say, made a long and rambling state-
ment, to the effect that he was first assaulted by the
constable, of whom he a-ked the way to Glouces'er-
gate, and he accused the officer of having struck him
before he (prisoner) attacked him with the knife. He
denied having broken out of the house himself, and
accounted for his possession of the money by al-
legieg that it was given him by two men (strangers);
who told hiM that if he would carry what they gave
him they would put a trill- in his war, and that they
would meet him at Moses's, in Oxford, street.
knew not who the persons were, as he had never, to
his knowledge, seen theha before.
Mr. BIIOUGHTON remanded the prisoner till Mon-
day next, and Inspector Chambers was directed to bring
on that day a surgeon's certificate with respect to the
nature of the wounds which Godwin had ritctived.
The prisoner had received a slight wound in the
thigh, supposed to have been caused by his falling
upon the point of the knife, which was in his pocket
when he and Godwin roily(' down the embankment.

The prisoner was then locked up, and Godwin left
the court in a cab, being much too exhausted to walk
home.

CLERKENWELL.

A poor distre.o young woman, who gave her
name Elizabeth Appleyard, of No. 44, Rawstorce-
street, Cletki,nwell, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt, on
Saturday last, under very distressing circumstances.
She said her husband was a compositor, but after
nine months' illness he dkd, leaving her with five
children, and at that moment her youngest child was
lying at home in its coffin, and she had not the means
of burying it or of procuring food for herself and
starving family, and was compelled, with reluctance,
to make this appeal to the worthy magistrate. To
add to the unfortunate creature's of there was
a distress upon her trifling goods for 11. los. Mr.
Tyrwhitt caused immediate inquiries to be made by
Nesbitt, one of the officers of the court, who reported
the case as one of a peculiarly distressing nature,
when Mr. Tyrwhitt relieved her from the distress,
and benevolently afforded the poor family other as-
sistance from the poor-box, and, the case having been
communicated to Mr. Petch, the overseer of the parish,
he undertook to see the child interred, and the appli-
cant evinced her gratitude by tears and thanks to
Mr. Tyrwhitt.
THAMES.
Bridget Donovan, a little ill-favoured Irishwoman,
about thirty years of age, was brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with being unlawfully possessed of
a 501. note, suspected to have been stolen.
A clerk in the Bank of England produced a 50/.
note, the one in question, dated December 6, 1849,
No. 17,137, and said it had been paid into that estab- .
lishment, but had not been stopped. Some inquiries
however, had been made about it.
Mr. YARDLEY said the prisoner was not likely to
have become honestly possessed of a 501. note, and
that the account she had given of herself and the way
she came by the note was so very. suspicious, that he
should remand her until Thursday, and after that for
a longer period, if micessary. He directed the officer
to trace the owner of the note, and ascertain if it was
stolen, if possible.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left York for
his seat, Hickleton

DEATH OF MR. THOMAS CoßurE.-09 Saturday
the flags at the Town- hall and the public offices were raised
half-mast high in respect to the memory of Mr. Thomas
Corrie, who died in the course of that morning. Mr. Corrie
was an officer well known in Liverpool as the collector of
town-dues, and he had filled the post with credit to himself
and kofit to his employers for a number of years. He was,
we believe, in his seventy-third year, and had been suffering
from the disorders and infirmities of old age during the last
three or four months. The deceased was a man of very
charitable disposition, and he will long be remembered with
feelings of gratitude and respect. We believe the salary of
his office amounted to 7001. a year. The appointment rests
with the Corporation.—Liverpoolslllrion.