The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-05 00:00:00

CRIMIN,

'his Day.

The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and the Re-
corder sJntence.l him to 16 ►nonths' iinpr.sounieut
with hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Michael Prendergast, 23, was indicted for utter-
ing counterfeit coin. The jury found the prisoner
Guilty ; and on Agar, the warder of the City Pri-
son, being called, he said the prisoner was a well-
known City thief, and had frequently been in pri-
son. On being asked how often, no less than 14
previous convictions were proved.
The Common Sergeant ,said the prisoner was a
dangerous person to be at large, and he therefore
sentenced Lim to 10 years' penal servitude.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY

MARLBOROUGU-STREET.

AN ABSCONDING POTIIAN. - Charles Watson
Beale, a young man, formerly in the employ of Mr.
Henry Salisbury, licensed victualler, of 9, King-
street, Soho, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
stealing the sum of £lO 18s., the moneys of his
master.

Mr. Ed ward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
appeared for the prosecution.

Mrs. Emma Salisbury, wife of the prosecutor,
said that on the 15th April last she gave the pri-
soner, who had been her husband's potman for
about 10 weeks, the sum of 110 18s. to :pay the
poor rates, and he left the house and never returned,
and she subsequently paid the rates herself. She
saw no more of the prisoner till last night, when
hearing that he had obtained a situation as potman at
another house by means of a false character she
went and gave him into custody.

Police-constable John Scarsbrook, 46 F, said
that he was sent last night from the Bow-street
Police-station to take the prisoner into custody at
the Horse and Groom, Maiden-lane, and on telling
him that he was charged with stealing the sum of
£lO 18s. from Mr. Salisbury, he said he was very
sorry for what he had done, and he would do 'his
best to repay the money.

With the view of having the poor-rate collector
in attendance, Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.

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THA nEs.

charged
with violently assault-
ALLEGED AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. —A well-dressed
young man, named Edward Duet, was brought
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The complainant, a pale-faced young woman,
with a London Hospital bandage round her head,
and of rather slender frame, said she was an un-
fortunate and very deaf. She was_ standing at the
corner of Watney-street, in the Commercial-road,
last night, when the prisoner and another man came
replied
said, " How are you Scotty ?"
pieliedVery well, and how are
ttyoulop Warhn, !dcohon nseheo f
which the prisoner struck her on the
head with aLeavy stick and knocked her down.
She screamed aloud and the two men ran away.
Some other girls Came to her aid. The prisoner
was apprehended immediately afterwards.
The prisoner,
in defence, said that the complainant
stopped him and his friend, and wanted them to
treat her. They told her to go about her bu,iness,
and his friend said, 4, Go along, you old -." Sae
followed them up to Watuey-sti eet, and abused
them, and, while doing so, she fell down and in-
jured
her head.

London Hospital,
Mr. Jeremiah Macarthy, house-surgeon in the
Was of opiniou that the blow was
inflicted with a stick.
The prisoner called James Mathews, a scrivener,
in support of his statement. His evidence was
very unsatisfactory.
Mr. Benson said
the prisoner's whole conduct
after the outrage Was that of a guilty man, and he
never met with a case so well proved as this was.
inflicted the blow,
The prisoner made an attempt to escape after he
and gave his stick to
his friend. If Mathews had not been
ashamed of his friend, he would have gone
to the station-house along with him, instead
of going home and leaving the prisoner to his fate.
He had no doubt the prisoner had struck the un-
fortunate girl in the way she stated. If the girl
had fallen on her face she would have been marked
in a different manner.
The prison here said he was a clerk to Alderman
Canston, and could obtain a good character.
Mr. Benson said he should dispose of the case at
once, and fined the prisoner £5,
which he paid.

A Mr. Jacob Pinniger, editor of a periodi cal
known as the Wiltshire Protestant Beacon, written in the
" Murphy " style a..d interest, publishes what he is
pleased to call, says the Pall Mall Gazette, "the following
gratifying testimonial to the usefulness " of his magazine,
received by him from a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land St. Katherine's, Savernake Forest, Hungerford,
April 16, 1868. Sir,—As th 3 master of a household, and
the father of a family, I desire you to send to my house
no more of such blasphemous and filthy publications as
that called the Wiltshire Protestant Beacon, which has
come in my post-bag this morning. There are advertising
quack doctors; who are a pest in our land, who are in the
habit of sending their indecent publications by post to
private hous s. But that any. one should, under the mask
of religion, send such papers as those which I received
this morning, and which might, in my absence, have been
opened by any member of my-family, is simply atrocious.
BeCause you are a Protestant, do you think yourself at
liberty thus to insult and defile the mind of any pure-
gentleman into whose
blasphemy may happen
to which you and your
fall
hands
d?y Chung
et
ribaldhsoulrice that
dni gn revoltingt lhaed y o
course
fellow Protestants are taking you are doing all that lies
in your power to destroy the Holy. Church of England,
and to strengthen the hands of the Church of Rome.—l
am, &c., E. Slater Browne, Incumbent of St. Katherine's,
Savernake Forest."

I The Rev. Dr. Hanna recently described, at a
meeting of the Edinburgh Association for the Improve-
ment of the Condition of the Poor, the following "scene
of horror," which, for the honour of humanity, it is to be
hoped, may turn out to have been highly coloured. The
grown-up
sons.
became By
ytitled membership in two
friendly to receive £lo,ls
ecaevin eu
gi s
threeoE ei "Edinburgh,"
societies
us r gthl the date "1868 :"—A father dies,
,which was spent in drink before the burial. The sons
then took their father's clothes, pawned them, and spent
what they got for them in drink. The mother having re-
monstrated, she was told that if she did not hold her
tongue they would do with her as they had done with the
dead; and they did it. They took off her clothes and
pawned them, and sent her to bed. Next came the pawn-
ing of the furniture, which they disputed about ; and in
ordar to settle the dispute, what did these men do? They
dragged the dead body from tha coffin, set it up against
the wall, having preieloisly agreed tliat, when it was
shaken, if the head fell in this way the one was to gain,
and if it fell tliat way the other would be the gainer.
A letter from Jerusalem, dated April 2, says :
" Tho cupola of the church of the Holy Sepulchre is very
nearly finished. Three months hence it will be com-
pletely done ; nothing is wanting but the sheets of lead
which will cover it. The Princess do la Tour d'Auvergno
has made a donation to France of the spot on the Mount
of Olives where, according to a Latin tradition, our Lord
taught the "Paternoster " to His disciples. An iratN of
the Sultan has confirined this gift,- and signified the same
to the French Government. The Princess intends to
make a cloister round the spot, like the Campo Santo at
Pisa, and to cover the cloister walls with port; lain, tiles,.
on which th 6 Lord's Prayer•wilt ba in all the lan-
guages Of the world."

OLD COUR P.
(Before the Recorder.)
Barnard Tymon was indicted with stealing a
valuable security, viz., a cheque for the payment of
£1.75, the property of henry Coleman.
From the evidence it appeared that the pursuer
and the prosecutor were fellow passengers on board
the ship Soniersetshire from Australia. The prose-
cutor had been very kind to the prisoner, and had
advanced him money to pay his passage to
England. The property stolen consisted of an
authority from the bank of Australia to the bank
of Victoria to pay the stun, and was seen safe in
the pocket of the Prosecutor four days before the
ship arrived at Blackwall. The prosecutor was blind
and being au invalid was attended to very closely
by the prisoner, and it was alleged that during tilt,
;atter part of the voyage he stole the draft froai the
pocket of Coleman, and on his trying to negotiate
it he was taken into custody and charged with the
offence. The prisoner denied the offence, and con-
tended that the document had been lust during the
voyage.