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

as I was waling on duty round the rounds by
Ch FaTM TUVCra, I wits (Anne Jlong
whistlivg towm-ds ; that t)er,:on wrts the nri:ioni r,
imtuediately passed me. Not liking- his app :•a:'-
ante, I went ater him, al-A overt,,ek him within ten
or twflve yards of Priono6e- bill, when he 4uddenly
stopped. At thAt time I obscrved sotoehing•
bulky under his coat, Abich way butt.ne.d.
He i-inarkA to me, " It's rather a wet morning,"

and I said, It is, and what have you got about
you ?" He unbuttoned his coat, and, drawirg thence
a leathern bag, said it was his own money, which he
had worked for, and at the same time produced 2s.
6d. Feeling satisfied that some robbery had been
perpetrated, I told him he must go with me, when he
said, " For God's sake don't take me, and give
you half." I Lid hold of him by the hack of the neck,
and led him along, and for 500 yards he walked as

quietly as possible ; he then said something to me, but
I eannA 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 kept
hold of him, and we rolled together down an emblnk-
ment. A scuffle then ensued between us, rind he cut

me again on the ear and the hand. I caught hold of
his wrist and saw tha kr,Ve in his hand, which was

upraised as if in the act of once mere stabbing me,
the blow being about to be aim al at my head.

We continued to scuttle, and the prisoner got away
from me. I got up as quickly as possible, while the
blood was flowing troni Inc in a strum, and ran after
him with my drawn truncheon.. When I had got
within a few yards of hini, the ground being
sippery. he fell. I fell too. We both got up, and
with my truncheon I gave him several blows which
knocked him down. I called out and my cries

brought to my assistance two railway policunen, by
whom the prisoner WAS sfecured and conveyed to the
station-house. I managed to walk there olyself in a
bleeding and fainting condition, and on searching the
prisoner I found in his possession three bags, Which I
now produce. They contain 191. in shillings, a crown,
14 half-crowns, 128 sixpenges, 24 fourpenny-pieces,
15 threepenny-pieces, and other moneys in copper.
In one of his wai,tcoat pockets found two four-

penny-pieces, and in his fob a jet necklace.
Mr. BRoUGHTON—Did he say from whom he re-
ceived the money as wages when you stopped him ?
Witness—Yes, he said lie had had it from Mr. Griarble,
but did not tell me who or what Mr. Grimble was.
I asked him how much he had received, an he said
he believed ebou' 251.
‘Ltnes Bormor, potman to a Mr. Seaton, sail—For
three or four weeks past the prisoner has been in the
habit of coming daily and 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, whenl 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 had
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 Norh-Wesern Railway Company, was the next
witness examined. Ile said, hearing cries of " Oh,
oh 1" proceeding from some one who was apparently
in great sutrerißg from some cause or other, I ran
along The road towards Primrose-hill, and found the
prisoner and the policemen Godwin struggling on the
ground most desperately. I asked the policeman
what was the matter, and he exclaimed, " Mind him,
mate, for he has got a knife." The constable got up
bleeding and ready to faint, and on my searching
under the prisoner, who was lying down, I found a
Life under his right thigh.
Mr. BaouGirrox—When the officer said, " Mate,
he has got a knife," did the prisoner say anything ?
Witness—No, Sir.
Mr. BROUGHTON— Was 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,
had 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 bring found on the prisoner,
namely, '251. or 261. One of the bags he would swear
to as being 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 title, both of which had been
emptied.
The knits found under the thigh of the prisoner
was produced and identified as 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 he was
not prepared to-day with evidence to show that
ouch 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 carrying 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 asked the way to Gloucester.
gate, and he accused the officer of having struck him
before he (prisoner) attacked bim with the knife. He
denied having broken out of the house himself, and
accounted for his possession of the money by al-
leging 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 trifle in his way, and that they
would meet him at Moses's, in Oxford street. He
ftremandedt m efo
there.
A
kmew not who the persons were, as he had never, to
his
prisoner till Mon-
day next, and Inspector Chambers was directed to bring
Ir. knowledge,Bo li seen
T oN he
on that day a surgeon's certificate with respect to the
nature of-the wounds which God win had received.
The prisoner had received a alight 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 rolled down the embankment.
The prisoner was then lock,A up, and. Godwhi left
the court in a cab, being much too exhausted to walk
home.

CLERKENWELL,
A poor distressed young woman, who gave her
name Elizabeth Appleyard, of No, 44, Rawstorne-
street, Clerkenwk 11, applied to Mr. Tyrwhitt, on
Saturday last, uncl,.r very distressiog circumstances.
She said her husband was a compositor, but after
nine months' illness he died, leaving hervvith 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 I.ffEction there was
a &stress upon her trifling goods for 11. 10,;. 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 Irihwoman,
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 50l
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.m r
become
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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, it necessary. He directed the officer
to trace the owner (,f 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 CORRIE.—On Saturday
the flags at the Town• ball 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. Currie
was an officer well known in Liverpool as the collector of
town-dues, and he had filled the post with credit to himself
and profit to his employers for a number of years. He was,
we believe, in his seventy-third year, and had been suffering
from the disorders arid 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 Cerporstien.-P•kiverpool4l6ion.