The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-14 00:00:00

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

George Elmer, a policeman, belonging to the Brighton
Railway, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with stealing
a gold seal and ring, the property of a gentleman named
Fisher.

It appeared that on the preceding evening, the com-
plainant drove up to the terminus of the above railway in a
cab, and in his hurry to get out he left a gold seal and a
ring on the seat. The prisoner, whose duty it was to attend
to the regulation of the different vehicles, was observed to
take the articles out of the cab and afterwards conceal
them. He, however, denied the accusation, but when the
place where he had been previously seen to go after leaving
the cab was searched, the seal andring were found hidden
under some earth.

Inspector Baker, of the above railway, gave the prisoner
an unexceptionable character up to the present offence.
Mr. COTTINGTIAM said that the offence was a most serious
one, and that the prisoner, instead: of protecting the property
of passengers, had in this instance plundered one. He (the
Magistrate) certainly should send the case for trial, but would
remand the accused until the complainant came up from
Brighton.
Win. Hardham was charged with wounding George Sey-
mour, who was very ill from loss of blood.
The complainant went into the Crown public-house, West-
minster-road, on Thursday night, and having had some al-
tercation with the prisoner, the latter struck him under the
chin with some weapon, and inflicted a serious wound The
complainant had been in the hospital since, and the Magis-
trate, seeing the case was of such a serious character, sent for
the surgeon, with a view of having his evidence reduced to
writing.

CENTRAL CRI VIINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and Mr. Justice
COLERIDGE.)

Upon the Learned Judges taking their seats yesterday,
Mr. Francis, one of the jurors, who sat in this Court on
Saturday, in a case of a felonious assault against an
Italian, named Maribello, in conjunction with six foreign
jurors, when a verdict of guilty was returned, begged
permission to make a few observations to the Court, in
reference to a remark made by Mr. Wilkins, the counsel
for the prisoner on that occasion.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE having intimated that the
Court would hear what he had to say.
Mr.' Francis went on to state, that upon the trial in
question, the jury, after a very careful consideration of
all the facts of the case, felt themselves compelled to re •
turn a verdict of guilty ; and upon their doing so, and
while the foreign jurors were in the act of leaving the
box, Mr. Wilkins said to a person near him, loud enough
for all the jury to hear, "For God's sake let them go,
they are a set of hard-hearted wretches." Since then
Mr. Wilkins had objected to him as a jurorin another case
in which he was concerned, and he felt it to be his duty
to state to the Court what had taken place, because he
considered a most unjust and improper attack had been
made upon the jury, who were only desirous to perform
their duty ; but if they were to be subjected to such
attacks as this from counsel, he considered the inde
pendence of juries would, to a great extent, be destroyed,
or, at all events, materially endangered.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that the observation al-