The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-14 00:00:00

man with four sheets.of zinc and a handle, apparently
intended to form part of the apparatus for making the
naptha with. The bearer producsd a short note, re-
questing me to pay the party presenting the fon° w-
ing order :—" Received of Mr. Wm. Anderson Rose
the sum of 9!. 17s. 61. for goods received of Charles
Wilson ;" signed "George Johnson for John Jones."
The note was signed " Charles Wilson." I can swear
that it is in the handwriting of the prisoner. I paid
the money to the party representing himself es
George Johnson, who signed a stamped receipt and
gave. me. A day or two previous to this I
suggested to the prisoner that he could get what-
ever he wished from parties whom I would recom-
mend, but he declined, and gave as his reason that
if he went to any respectable house, and had the
whole apparatus made under one superintendence,
they would discover the whole process. I paid the
money on the 17th of May, 1850. I had previously
gone to the expense of about 61. for portions of this
apparatus, which prisoner informed me were abso-
lutely necessary before he could proceed any further
with his operations. I have, however, seen nothing
of the prisoner until Thurday last, when he was taken
into custody.
J. S. Edwards, who carries on business with his
brother as a miller and corn-merchant, stated that
the prisoner had obtained a considerable sum of money
from him, upon the pretence of constructing machinery
to extract gum from mangold wurtzel.
A charge of a similar nature was made by Mr. W.
Flockton, oil-merchant, of Horseleydown, whom the
prisoner induced to advance him 151. to procure ap-
paratus for the purpose of extracting oil of turpentine
from sawdust.
The prisoner was remanded.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
The person who gave the name of John. Elmore, of
Markham-square, and who stood remanded for steal-
ing two books from the shop of Mr. Murray, Albe-
marle- street, was brought up for final examination.
The evidence has already been published. The
additional evidence was that of Mr. George Spencer,
from Mr. Murray's shop. The witness said the pri-
soner came into the shop and asked for a book which
was not kept. He went out, and came in again and
asked for a catalogue. He was supplied with one,
and witness, on lifting up his head from some writing
with which ho was engaged, saw the prisoner take
up two hooks, worth 245., place them under his coat,
and walk out of the shop.
Mr. Fisher, for the prisoner, said he would admit
that his client had given a feigned name. His name
was John White, and he resided with his mother, a
highly respectable lady.
A statement was made that the prisoner had been
committed some time:ago from this court fora similar
offence.
The prisoner offered no contradiction to this state-
ment, and, having intimated his intention to reserve
his defence, he was fully committed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
.
Wlllzam Mason,. a. young man, assistant to Mr.
Robert James, linendraper, High-street, Stoke New-
ington, was charged before Mr. Combe with embez-
zling the sum of 1171. 193., in notes, gold, and silver,
the property of ?,is employer, under the following
circumstances :
It appeared from the evidence that, on the morning
of Friday week, prosecutor put into a bag 771.193.
in gold and silver, one 1001. and six 51. notes, which
he intended to take out with him for the purpose of
paying for goods which had been delivered to him from
various houses in the City. He went out but forgot
the bag, which was observed by Mrs. James. She
called to the prisoner, and directed him to go after his
master and take the bag to him, in which she said there
was money. The prisoner went out with the bag, but
did not return. Mr. James endeavoured to trace the
prisoner, but without success ; and he heard nothing
of him till Thursday last, on which day he, in con-
quence of a letter which had been written by the pri-
soner to his (prisoner's) brother, went down to South-
ampton, where he communicated with the superin-
tendent of the Southampton police. He made inqui-
ries, with the assistance of Police-constable Leigh. In
the course of theiollowing day (Friday) they found the
prisoner in the tap-room of a beer-shop. Mr. James
asked him why he had robbed him. Ths prisoner stated
that, after he was sent out by Mrs. James, he pro-
ceeded as far as Kingsland-gate, when not overtaking
him, he turned aside there. He was conveyed to the
police-station, where he was searched, when 1141. ss.
10id. was found upon him. Of this sum 70 sovereigns,
two half-sovereigns, and the notes, were sewn up in
the waistband of his trousers. The prisoner observed
at the station-house, " I am very sorry ; I wish my
master had had his money ; and I am glad there is no
more spent."
The depositions were taken against the prisoner
who was committed for trial.
THAMES.
Mr. Richard Copland, a linendraper, now residing
at No. 59, New-street, Stepney, appeared before Mr.
Yardley, to show cause why he refused to maintain
his illegitimate child.
Mary West, a young woman, who carried a fine
female child, nine weeks old, in her arms, said the
defendant was the father of it, and that she was for-
merly in his service, when he carried on business as a
linendraper in Union-street, Whitechapel, and that
soon after she became an inmate of his house he at-
tempted to seduce her. She resisted his importu-
nities for some time, until one day he came into the
kitchen, treated her with great harshness, and
forced her against her will to submit. She remon-
strated with him, and he only laughed at her.
After that she always locked her bedroom-door.
One night after she had retired to rest, the defendant
knocked at the door of her apartment and demanded
admittance. She refused to open the door, and he
procured some instrument, broke in a panel, and
forced it open, and again compelled her to submit to
his embraces. The witness, after detailing some other
circumstances, from which it appeared that she was
treated with great roughness, said, that when she made
him acquainted with the fact that she was in the fa-
mily way by him, he said that unless she took some-
thing to procure abortion, and made away with it, he
would not give her a farthing, and accompanied the
threat with an oath. She remained in the defendant's
house until he brought home his wife from Scotland,
when she was compelled to leave.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Vessey, a
solicitor for the defence, and she denied that she had
allowed familiarities to be taken with her by Mr.
Donald and Mr. M‘Kid, two young men in the em-
ploy of the defendant ; but she communicated to them
that Mr. Copland had seduced her, and broke open her
bedroom-door.
Mr. Andrew Donald, who was in the house in
Union-street when the young woman lived there as
servant to the defendant, deposed to hearing a dis-
turbance one night, caused by Mr. Copland breaking
into his servant's bedroom, and that in the morning
the young woman called his attention to the door,
which was broken, and the hinges torn away; great
violence must have been used.
Mr. Vessey was instructed by the defendant to
deny that he was the father of the child, and insinu-
ated that M'Kid, the defendant's countryman, who
was now in Scotland, was the father.
The complainant denied that she ever had any in-
timacy with M'Kid, and wished to put in a letter
which she had received from him.
Mr. YARDLEY said he would not hear it, and asked
the complainant if she had paid the expenses of her
accouchement ? towhich she replied that she paid the
midwife 103,, and pledged her clothes to raise the
money.
Mr. YARDLEY was satisfied the defendant was the
father of the child, and there were no grounds for
the insinuation against M'Kid. He did not at all
wonder that the defendant was ashamed to acknow=
ledge his child, after the atrocious overtures he had
made to the young woman to destroy the child, which,
if she had attempted, would doubtless have involved
her own destruction. He ordered the defendant to
pay Ss. per week for the first six weeks of the exist-
ence of the child, 12s. expenses, and 2s. 6d. per week
for its future maintenance.
The defendant—l am a bankrupt, and my assignees
have got all my property.
Mr. YARDLEY-4 don't care a fig for your bank-
ruptcy. If you don't comply with my order, I'll
send you to prison.
Police-sergeant No. 24 K, waited upon Mr. Yard-
ley, the sitting magistrate, and said he had been re-
quested by a gentleman named Frost, residing in the
vicinity of the court, to pay the amount advanced by
pawnbrokers on seven blue cotton shirts pawned by a
poor sempstrass, named Rosina Herbert, who was
urged by distress and the cries of her children for food
to raise money upon the shirts, for the making of
which she was only paid seven farthings each. It
was proved that the unfortunate creature could only
earn sevenpence per day in making up theshirts, and
that her husband was out of employ. Mr. Ingham
therefore adjourned the case for a week, and liberated
the woman on her own recognizance, to enable her
husband, if possible, to obtain the money lent upon
the shirts in pawn.
Mr. YARDLEY said he knew nothing of the case,
which was before his colleague on Friday.
The police sergeant said the case was reported in
the newspapers, and Mr. Frost had directed him, if
the report was a correct one, to leave the money with
the magistrate.
Mr. YARDLEY having been assured by persons in
the court that the report was an accurate one, said he
had no objection to receive the money, and apply it as
directed by Mr. Frost.
Soon after the police-sergeant had retired, a gen-
tleman handed to the magistrate 2/. from J. E. P., of
the Stock Exchange, for the use of Rosina Herbert,
with a request that its receipt should be made known
in the journals.
The following additional sums were also received
in the course of the day, for the benefit of the poor
woman, with a request from each of the benevolent