The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

cions of a fellow-servant named Wilkinson, who
accused her of being in the family way. This she
denied, and said her body was swollen in conse-
quence of a fever she had had. Oa the 27th of Oc-
tober she was taken ill and sick, and went to bed.
Another servant, named Mary Hill, in the couree of
the day carried her some medicino, and then ob-
served marks on the floor. A day or two after-
wards the same witness saw similar marks near
to a box belonging to the prisoner which was in an
adjoining room. The prisoner went down stairs to
her ordinary work two days afterwards, and her
altered and thin appearance excited the observation of
two or three of the witnesses called. About three
weeks afterwards the prisoner wished to be allowed
to go out one night, and asked the witness Hill if she
thought she should be able to go out of the front door
without being observed, She went out for a short
time. Early on the following morning, which was a
Sunday, one of the grooms of the Swan Hotel,
having been sent on an errand, on passing by a cot-
tage called S wan Cottage, in front of which is a field,
had his attention directed to something on the other
aide of the hedge in the field ; on getting over the
hedge he found the dead body of a female infint
naked. She was taken before a magistrate, and on
her way back she made a confession to the policeman
Young that the child which had been found was hers ;
that she had been delivered of it in her own room
about three weeks before it, was found; and that it
was born dead, and she concealed it -in her box, and
afterwards, the night before it was 'found, carried it
to the field.

His LORDSHIP having summed up,
• The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, hoped that her
statement was true, and that the child had been born
dead. She was sentenced to be imprisoned for four
calendar months in York Cistle.

John Spurr was charged with having, on the fith
January last, at Aston-cum-Membris, discharged a
loaded gun at John Shipstone, with intent to do him
some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Hardy appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Overend
defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the evening of the sth of Ja-
nuary last the prosecutor, who is a tailor at South
Austor, was returning home about midnight from a
public-house, when he was attracted by a noise in an
enclosure called " Burke's Field," into which he
went. Whilst walking across it he saw the prisoner
and two or three other men cr,uching under a hedge,
one of whom shouted out, " There he goes—shoot
him." The prosecutor was immediately fired at, and
received the contents of a gun on his h-fc arm and
hand. He immediately ran away, and another shot
was fired after him without hurting him. On arriving
home the prosecutor was sick and faint from loss co
blood. For the defence it was endeavoured to show,
on cross-examination, that the prosecutor was a
poacher, and that he had entered " Burke's Field" to
poach with four other men, armed with bludgeons ;
that they had thrown stones at the prisoner, who fired
his gun at them in self-defence.

Ilia LORDSHIP stopped the case on this evidence,
and directed an acquittal.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.)

ISLWBOULD V. COULTMAN AND ANOTHER.

This was an action against the defendants, Mr.
Coultman and Mr. Dent, magistrates, for a malicious
distress in having issued their warrant to seize the
plaintiff's goods for poor-rate.
Mr. Martin, Q.C., Mr. 11.111, and Mr. Addison ap-
peared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Knowles and Mr.
Pashley for the defendants.
It appeared that, before the passing of the new
Poor-law Act, the two townships of Dacre and
Bewerley had jointly supported their poor. After
that Act passed these two townships and several others
were united in the Pateley union ; and it then became
a question whether these two townships should b. 3
rated at a joint average rate, or separately. Under a
joint average rate Bewerley would have to pay less in
proportion than if' rated alone. Mr. Yorke, the
chairman of the board of guardians of the Pateley
union, who h;.d property in Bewerley, issued
an order to the overseers of Dacre-cum-Bewer-
ley to pay 5001. as a joint rate on behalf
of the two parishes to the treasurer of the union.
The plaintiff, one of those overseers, having obtained
the opinion and order of the Poor-law Commissioners
that the two townships should be separately assessed
to the poor-rate and pay their separate proportions to
the unton,refased to obey this order, and thereupon
an application was made to the two defendants as
justices, who issued their warrant to distrain the
plaintiff's goods for the joint rate, and, under that
warrant, goods of the plaintiff had been sold to the
amount of 3811.

His LORDSHIP directed a verdict for the plaintiff,
reserving leave to the defendants to move for a non-
suit on a point of law raised.

March 16.
CIVIL SIDE.
WAKE AND WIFE V. WALKER.

This W 43 an action on the case fur a libel, to which
the defendant pleaded not guilty.
Mr. BlisF, Q.C., and Mr. Lewis appeared for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for the defendant.

- The plaintiff in this case is a cabinet-maker and
glass-dealer at Bedale. The defandant is also a
cabinet-maker at Bedale, and a cou'in of the plain-
tiff's wife. It appeared that the defendant had
formerly been employed as a workman by the plain-
tiff in his trade, and that after the defendant set up on
his own account as a cabinet-maker in the town, some
ill-feeling arose between them, the defendant having
been told by some third person that the plaintiff's
wife had said something derogatory to his character.
The defendant thereupon got printed a small placard,
of which the following is a copy :-
46 PUBLIC NOTICE.

" The public are most respectfully requested to
pay no attention to tales put forth by the notorious,
deceptive, and ill•tongued woman, S Arab Wake, glass
and china dealer, &c., who, from her covetous dispo-
sition, having pecuniary interest in view, is utterly
regardless of any person's character who may in any
way oppose her.
" Bedale, Oct. 24, 1849."
A number of these having been printed, the defendant
posted several of them on the walls of Bedale on tv. o
several market-days.

Tu® Learned JuDoF, in summing up, told the jury
that.to call a woman an " ill-tongued woman,":whf,reas
she ought to be soft spoken, was no doubt libellous,
and it was for them to say what damages they would
found a verdict for the plaintiff—
give.
DaTn
aeg e jury found

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Richard Price, having the appearance of a porter,
was charged before Sir Peter Laurie with obtaining,
by means of a forged order, from Messrs. Bull and
Wilson, of St. -Martin's-lane, 29 yards of black patent
beaver cloth, of the value of 231. 45., the said order
purporting to come from Messrs. Boyd and Co., Man-
chester warehousemen, of Friday-street.
pyloy,Henry,
to
whomlt appeared, from the evidence gone into, that on
the 15th of September last the prisoner went to
Messrs. Bull and Wilson's, with the order in ques-
tion, and received the cloth. From that day the pri-
soner Wasp
in Messrs.
Bull
ir and w'as
w,
was presented, until Friday last, when he noticed him
son,oiltso sne,es n
emb
at the warehouse of Messrs. Hanson and Smith, in the
City, and gave him into custody.
Another of Messrs. Bull and Wilson's shopmen,
who cut off the cloth, also proved that the prisoner
was the man who brought the order.
Mr. Barricott, of Friday-street, a partner in the
firm of 11. Boyd and Co., proved that the order for
the cloth was not in his handwriting nor in the hand-
writing of any one belonging to the firm.
Sir PETER LAURIE remanded the prisoner till
Tuesday next, in the anticipation that other similar
cases will be brought against him.
MARY LEBONE.
James Meyers was again brought up, and placed at
the bar before Mr. Long, on the serious charge of
having been concerned, with other parties not yet
taken, in cutting and wounding and attempting to
drown James Cox, a night watchman at the canal
toll-house, Paddington, under circumstances, which
have already been published.
The prisoner was again remanded for further evi-
dence.

Mary Stangnall, a middle-aged woman, was
placed at the bar, charged with having, in the fol.
lowing very artful manner, carried on a system of
fraud.

The court was crowded by prosecutors and their
witnesses, and other parties anxious to get a sight of
the prisoner, who, it is imagined, has for some time
past pursued her nefarious practices at the west-end
of the town.

Evidence in support of three charges was gone into,
from which it appeared that on the 15th ult. the pri-
soner went to the house of Colonel Mill, 83, Glouces-
ter-terrace, Hyde-park, saying that she had just met
Mrs Mill, who had purcha,ed of her some lace, and
desired to take it home, at the same time telling her
that the servant, after measuring it, would pay her
for it. The quantity turned out to be 12 yards, for
which she received 75., and she then quitted the place.
It was proved that upon two other occasions she had
gone to the residences of Mr. French, 14, Warwick-
road Villa 3, Maida-hill, and Mr. Erlam, Marlbo-
rough. road, St. John's-wood, At these two houses she
also delivered to servants a quantity of lace, alleged
to have bcen bought by their mistresses, and in one of
the cases she was paid 83. • in the other she stated that
the price of the lace which she had handed in was
4s. 61. when a sovereign was given her to get
changed at a shop close by; she, however, "forgot"
to return, and was ultimately met with and given
into the custody of police-constable 126 D. It was
proved that the lace had not, in any one instance,
bean ordered to be sent home, and that the ladies had

no knowledge of the prisoner. The lace was not
worth more than ld. per yard.
The prisoner was sent for trial on these charges.
211ARLBOROUGII-STREET. •

BURGLARY.—J. Brooks, tailor, cf N 0.13, Lonicn-
court, Drury-lane, and Ann Caddick, bonnet-maker,
of No. 9, Parker-street, Drury-lane, were charged
before Mr. Hardwick with having been concerned in
a burglary in the house of Mr. Luther, gun-maker,
No. 8, Leicester-street, Leicester-sqUare, when pro-
perty consisting of double and single-barrelled guns
and pistols, to the value of upwards of 2001. was
carried off.

It appeared from the evidence cf Sergeant Hard-
wick, D 7, that about eleven o'clock on Friday morn-
ing he saw the prisoners near Museum-street, and in
the hands of one of them was a handkerchief, which
contained a pistol. A few minutes be'cre he had
seen a hand-bill respecting :the burglary, and he con-
sequently fill° wed the prisoners, who stopped at a
house in Parker-street. which the witness knew was
a resort of thieves. Having procured the assistance
of other constables, and placed one at the door, he
went up stairs, and on the third floor he found the
two prisoners. The woman, who is known by the
name of " Norry," he spoke to, and asked her where
White was (a well-known housebreaker). She re-
plied that he had been out half an hour. Witness
looked about the room, and saw a gun-case sticking
out from beneath the bed, on which he searched the
room, and found the property produced in court. In
a half-bushel basket, which was full of pistols, he
found two pistols in the handkerchief he saw the pri-
soners with in Museum-street. Witness asked the
man whose property the guns and pistols were ? The
male prisoner replied they had been brought to the
room by a mari named Cook, and the woman added,
"Do you think lam a flat ?" The male prisoner
s lid he lived in the house, and the woman was his
sister. Witness then took them into custody.
Mr. Luther, one of the firm of Forsyth and C
gunmakers, Leicester-street, Leicester-square, iden-
tified the property produced as having formed pare of
that stolen from his premises on Wednesday night.
The articles were marked with his name. Tile bur-
glory had been effected between eight and ten o'clock
on Wednesday night, during the temporary absence
of the porter. The burglars had broken two locks, in
one of which they had broken the key. About five
weeks ago a man was found concealed in the house,
with a heavy life-preserver, and was given into cus-
tody. Witness had no doubt that the man and the
prisoner were confederates.
The prisoners were remanded for aweek.
CLERKENWELL.

James Baker was charged by Mrs. Louisa Fisher,
wife of Mr. J. Fisher, beer-retailer, of No. si, St.
John's• lane, Clerkenwell, with stealing a glaz_s tum-
bler, several tea-spoons, and other articles.
Mr. Sidney, of Hatton-garden; attended for the
prosecution.
The prosecutrix said that on the previous day she
was sitting alone in her bar-parlour, her husband and
servants being absent from home, when her attention
was attracted by a noise, and on proceeding to the
passage she saw the prisoner walking off with the
property in his possession. She immediately siezed
him, and called out " Murder," Police," and
" Thieves." He resisted violently, but she kept
tight hold of him until they got into the street,
when several of her neighbours came to her assist-
ance. The prisoner was taken to the station-house.

Daring the time that the witness was giving her
evidence the prisoner, in a menacing tone and manner,
called her a "liar," and other names.

Several witnesses confirmed the testimony of the
prosecutrix.
Mr. TYRWHITT complimented her upon her admi-
rable intrepidity, and said he should commit the pri-
soner to take his trial at the Middlesex sessions.

Prisoner—l hope you will commit me to Newgate
at once, your Worship, and not let me be tried at the
MiddleFex sessions

Mr. TYRWITITT-Why do you prefer boing tried
at Newgate . . .

Prisoner--Because I shall have a f'ir trial there,
and I am sure I shall not a: the Middleex sessions.
Mr. TYIINTHITT said it would be absurd to impute
that justice would not be administered at either of the
places mentioned by the prisoner, and he was com-
mitted to the Middlesex sessions.

As the prisoner was leaving the bar to be locked
up, he cast a fierce look at the prosecutrix, and, with
a desperate oath, threatened that he would have his
revenge of her when he had his liberty—he would
cut her throat.

Mr. TYRWHITT ordered him to be again placed at
the bar, and laid an injunction upon her and the wit-
nesses to make known to the judge at his trial es hat
he (prisoner) had threatened to de, fur he was evi-
dently just that sort of fellow who was dangerous to
society, and ought to be got rid of.
He was conveyed to prison.
Joseph Wrangle, late a principal clerk in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Hunt and itosk,ll, the eminent silver-
smiths and jewellers, &c., of Harrison-street, Gray's
Inn-road, and Bond-street, was placed at the bar for
final examination, charged with extensive embezzle-
ments upon that firm.
Mr. Humphries attended to conduct the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Hobler defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner had been in the ser-
vice of the above firm for several years past, and in con
sequence of the respectability of his connexions,
and the references with which he was furnished, the
utmost confidence was reposed in him, and he was
trusted with considerable sums of money, and other
immense property was at his disposal. It was part of
his duty to pay the numerous workpeople employed
by the firm every Saturday evening, for which pur
pose he was provided with a cheque upon their ban-
kers, which the prisoner invariably took to be cashed.
Suspicions, however were excited that his conduct was
dishonest, when Mr. Hunt consulted with Mr. Bal-
lard, formerly of the Bow-street establishment, who,
with Mr. Day, the superintendent of the works,
entered into a searching inquiry, the result of which
was a discovery of numerous defalcations, and that
week after week and year after year the prisoner had
systematically plundered his employers, and was in
the habit of setting down in his books amounts con-
siderably larger than those he had paid to the work-
people. Serjeant Smith, of the B division, was
called in, and the prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. Humphries suggested that the prisoner might
be committed for trial on the present case, in order to
save the bankers who cashed the cheques the trouble
and inconvenience of coming forward to give evidence
on a future day.
Mr. Hobler object to this course of proceeding.
Mr. Humphries then called three journeymen
named Lane, Burt, and Bryan, to prove that they
were paid certain sums of money at the end of the
week far their labour.
Mr. William Day, the superintendent of the works,
&c., produced the books to prove that the prisoner
was in the repeated habit of setting down higher
sums, and appropriating the surplus charged to his
own use.
Mr. John Samuel Hunt, of the firm of Messrs.
Hunt and Reskell, silversmiths and jewellers, of II Ir-
rison-street, Gray's Inn-road, having been sworn, de-
posed that the prisoner was iu their service. He was
in the habit of paying the workmen every Saturday,
and witness handed him cheques for Heat purpose,
and entering them in a book (now produced). Under
the dates January, 1849, there was an entry of a
cheque for 1201., and another for 201. in the name of
" J. Wrangle," in the prisoner's handwriting ; on the
13th of January, another for 1601. ; on the 'lilt J 5•
nuary, another for 1901. ; on the 11th August, one for
2801.; on the 18th August, one for 1941.; the 13th
October, 160/. ; s n 20th October, another for 150/. ;
27th October, 160/. ; all of which were cashed by the
bankers. The prisoner's signature, " J Wrangle,"
was entered in the books. 'Witness produced six of
the cheques, the ethers he could produce on a future
day.
By Mr. Hobler—The cheques were not signed by
me, but by my son in Bend street. The amount of
the cheques hande fi to the prisoner entirely depended
on the prisoner communicating to witness the amount
he had to pay to the workpeople employed in the
manufactory.
Mr. Humphriles now suggested a remand for a
week, to procure evidence from the banker's.
Mr. TYRWIIII'T said there was sufficient to warrant
the prisoner's co m.mittal to Newgate for trial, which
would be the result, and he would now remand him
fora week.

Mr. Hobler roserved the defence, and the prisoner
was conveyed to prison. Its is a single man, and was
in the receipt of :a very liberal salary.
SOO7 HWARK.

John Burns, Eal elderly man, residing in the vicinity
of this court, ern d William Burns, his son, were
brought up for final examination, charged with break-
ing into three d p selling-houseF, and stealing time-
pieces, plate, bod ks, clothing, &c., of considerable
value. •

Hugh George.' a compositor, stated that he lived in
Union-square, liorsemonger-lanc. On the night of
the 16th of Feb:i aary last his house was entered at
the rear, and on to tie tollowing morning he discovered
that a time-piece, musical box, a pair of sugar-tongs
(silver), a numb. r of books, some wearing upparA
and other proper:ty had been stolen. Infcrmation
was given to the police, and some portion of the pro-
perty was discove red, which he now identified as his
property. _ _

George Elwl irc!s, a gentleman residing in Mon-
tague-place, Isl in gton, said that his house was broken
into on the nig by: of the 18th of February, and a
timepiece, a z lumber of books and other property
stolen therefrom. of considerable value..
John Mason, :residing at Florence-terrace, New-
cross, said that oz, the night of the 4th inst. his place
was foreibly enter ad, and a time-piece stolen from
the mantelshelf . the back parlour. The drawers
and cupboards 'e also broken into, and a number of
silver spoons an d .forks stolen therefrom. There were
footmarks at ti back, which led to the road.
Mr. 4enson, us silversmith in Newington-cause-