The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-09 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

George Thomas Hart, a very respectable•looking
youth, between 16 and 17 years of age, clerk at the
West Cornwall Railway Company's offices, 17k,
Great George•street, Westminster, was charged with
stealing a sovereign, the money of his employers.
Mr. BRODERIP said it was his duty to commit the
prisoner for trial at the present sitting of the Central
Criminal Court.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Henry Newell, the conductor of a Paddington
omnibus, appeared to a summons before Mr_ Hawaii'
to answer a charge preferred by Mr. Thomas, the
secretary to the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, for having unlawfully refused to
admit him as a pass-nger in his vehicle.
The complainant stated that on the morning of
Sunday se'nnight he hai!ei the defendant's omnibus
in the City-road, for the purpose of proceeding to the
terminus of the South-Eastern Railway, in tine for
the ten o'clock train to Dover, where he had impor-
tant business to transact. The defendant immediately
turned round and stared him in the face in an insolent
manner, but continued his course ; and upon repeating
the signal, which the defendant evidently observed,
as he made an impatient gesture with his hand, it was
still disregarded, and the omnibus went on until it
reached the corner of a street at a short distance,
where he suddenly stopped
.and took in three other
passengers. Witness then entered another omnibus,
which conveyed him to the station, where he saw the
defendant, and on demanding his reason for rejecting
him as a passenger, he replied in a careless tone that
he had no time to stop. Witness thereupon took his
number, and having reason to suspect that he had
purposely refused to convey him to his destination
from a knowledge of his official position, as he had
previously been subjected to similar treatment from
other members of the fraternity, he felt it his duty to
adopt the present proceedings against him.
On being called upon for an explanation of his
conduct, the defendant declared that his omnibus was
full at the time he was first hailed by the complainant,
but that three of the passengers got out before the
stoppage for the admission of the others referred to
by that gentleman.
Mr. Thomas, however, positively contradicted the
latter part of his statement, as he kept the omnibus in
sight from the time he hailed it until it stopped to
receive the other passengers, and he felt quite satisfied
that no one got out during that interval.
Mr. HAMMILL said that he considered the case had
been clearly proved, and as the defendant's conduct
might have been productive of serious inconvenience
to the complainant, who had functions to perform
which, although they might not be altogether palata-
ble to persons in that particular class, were of great
public importance ; and, as a warning to others in a
similar situation, he should impose upon him the ful'
penalty of 20s. and the costs.
LAMB ETH.

John Walhins and Charles Wright, two well-
dressed men of respectable appearance, the former of
whom represented himself to be a butcher, residing
at Appleby, and the latter a gardener residing at
Derby, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, for
final examination, on a charge of conspiring to defraud
Mr. John Maddle, a gentleman residing in the
Wandsworth-road, of 51.
Mr. Games appeared for Walkins, and Mr. Salomons
for Wright.
From the evidence it: appeared that about midday
on Saturday last, the prisoners, in company with three
others, walked up to Mr. Maddle, a good-natured-
looking old gentleman, in the Clapham-road, and
Wright, addressing him, said that he had purchased a
greyhound, led by one of the other men, from the
father of Walkins, for 151., but his servant, who he
bad sent for the animal, having deducted 154. for
himself, the " old gentleman" not only refused the
money but solemnly declared that he should not,
under any circumstances, let his master have the dog.
He (Wright) then entreated Mr. Maddle would be-
come his agent in the matter, and took that gentleman
into a beer-house close by and placed before him
fifteen sovereigns, requesting him at the sama time to
hand them to Walkins for the dog. Watkins,
was present, said he could not think of taking t!ip:
money, for if he did so he should have to t,,11 the
old gentleman a lie. The sovereigns, he said, be-
longed to Wright, and he could not think of taking
them. Wright h..re requested Mr. Marbfle to accom-
pany him into a private room, hut Walkins stopped
them, Saying he bhould have nutting private, and
that it was quite clear to him that the object of
Wright was to hand over the money unseen to his
friend (Ur. lasddle) so its to enable him to pay for .