The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-26 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCP.

SOUTH WALES CIRCUIT. —SWANSEA, Feb. 25.
The commission for this county was opened yes-
texlay by Mr. Baron Watson.. The business e-m-
-meneed at 10 o'clock this morning, and in the
course of his charge to the grand jury his lordship
remarked that the appearance of the calendar was
truly appalling, for out of the names of 25 prisoners
no less than :13 were charged with homicide, and
some with offences equally bad. The worst cases
appeared to be those in which a man named Regan
was charged with an attempt to murder his wife,
and that iu which a man named Lewis was charged
with the murder of his wife. Alluding to the case
in which a man named Hancow, superintendent of
railway police, was charged with manslaughter, his
lordship said he did not think there would be any
negligence proved, because it appeared to be the
fault of the driver of the engine himself. And re-
ferring to the unfortunate explosion of the Cymmer
Colliery (fully reported in our paper at the time),
he said that there were five persons charged with
the offence—namely, Jabez Thomas, the general
manager of the mine, Rowland Rowland, overman,
and three firemen. The case had been fully in-
quired into by the coroner at the time, for 13 or 14
days, in the midst of great excitement, and it re-
sulted in a verdict of manslaughter against the pri-
soners. He remarked upon time difference between
criminal and coroners' juries, and said that he had
gone through all the evidence, and had never
found greater difficulty in his life, EO much so that
he could not rise from the reading of those depos'-
tions and conscientiously say that there was any
evidence against the prisoners. What the jury
would have to do would be three things :—Firstly,
they would have to find out the duty of the indi-
viduals ; secondly, whether they had been guilty
of a want of duty ; and, thirdly, whether that want
of duty had been the direct and immediate cause
of death. He then explained to the jury the law in
such cases, and, afteradvising them to consider the
bill in this case after they had finished the rest,
concluded with some general remarks.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Feb. 25.

GUILDHALL.-Mr. Elias William Watson ap-
peared on a summons before Alderman Rose, to
answer a charge of embezzling the moneys of an
unenrolled benefit society cared " A Gift Fund for
relieving Sick Members belonging to Lodgesl7 and
18 of the Loyal United Friend," of which he had
been the secretary.
After hearing some evidence of an indecisive
character,
Alderman Rose adjourned the case for a week,
taking the defendant's recognisances to appear.

BOW-STREET.--Francis Rose, a young man of
about 21. years of age, was charged with breaking
ing the shop of Mr. Heard, furniture skater, Tot-
tenham-court, New-road, and stealing a roll of car-
pet and a rug, valued at 4/. 4s.
Policeman F 88 said that between 10 and 11
o'clock on Tuesday night he was on duty in Totten-
ham-place, when a young man came to him and
informed him that two men were trying to get
into Mr. Heard's shop. Witness approached the
spot cautiously, and found that there were more
than two mea standing at the door, but they per-
ceived him approaching and went away. He crossed
to the opposite side and kept a watch, and after a
while the nien returned, but again perceiving him
passed by alittll went away. He then went to the
door of the shop and found it open. He went in
and found the prisoner just inside. He had the
roll of carpet and rug produced gathered together,
and was in the act of folding them up for removal.
Henry Attfield, shopman to Mr. Heard, proved
that he fastened the door securely when he left at
nine o'clock. The carpet and rug were at quite
another part of the shop from that where the officer
found the prisoner with them.
Mr. Heard said that the shop communicated
with the lower part of the house, which was used
in the business, and where no one slept. It was
entirely cut off from the rest of the house, which
was let in lodgings. The carpet and rug were worth
four guineas.

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Mr. Henry committed the prisoner for trial

joined any *regiment, but were "clerks in Lord
Raglan's department," and were sent thither from
India. She handed in a paper, which she said she
got from the War-office list November. In this
paper, thO magi3trate remarked, .the name of the
regiment to which her sons had belonged was in-
serted in a different handwriting from the oiler
writing in it. Mrs. AlJsop accounted for this by
saying it was written by Lady Thesiger. She said
that her sons were not in ).;.ny action in the Crimea
to her knowledge. General Brook, whom she had
said she knew, had written to the magistrate, say-
ing that there was a man of the name of Allsop
paymaster in the 44th Regiment, hut that her
stoi y was a very improbable one ; of her sons no-
thing was known. The woman, however, pers'sted
in stating that she was at the battle of Waterloo,
where she "got of her horse to bind up Lord
Raglan's wounds," and that she went through
tie Peninular war. said she was willing
to be examined by a surgeon to prpve that she had
a tumour which afflicted her. Mr. Broughton
said t) her—l have received a still more ex-
tr,orclinary account of you—that you are not a
woman at all, but a man in disguise. To this Mrs.
Allsop only replied, " There's a- God above who
knows all.' She said two of her sons had been ad-
mitte I into the Blue Coat School, but by whose
recommendation she did not know.

Af. er some further conversation with her, which
was not very sa+isfactory, Mr. Broughton dismissed
her, saying that he would apply to the private se-
ci etaty of Lord Raglan, and to Lady Thesiger, to
ascertain if her statements were true.

THAMES.—William Darby, a boy about .13
years old, was charged with stealing a 501. Bank of
England note, No. 37,947, and Morris Lipman, a
Jew, aged 29, was charged with receiving the same,
knowing it to have been stolen.

Ann Darby, the mother of the younger prisoner
and wife of a seaman, stated that her husband was
at sea, that she had lately come into possession of a
legacy, and had been in the habit of keeping a 501.
note under her pillow for safety. On Monday
week she mused the note. Her son, who knew
where the note was kept, was absent at the time.
On the next day he told her that he had sold the
n eto a Jew on the Clothes Exchange, in Hounds-
ditch, fcr 2/. She went with her son to the Clothes
Exchange, and he pointed out the prisonerLipman,
who was given into custody.
Wm. Sharp, a boy about 14 years of age, stated
that he went with the boy Darby to Houndsditch,
to sell the note, where they met three men, of
whom Lipman was one, and all went to a beer-
shop, on coining out of which Darby showed Lim
30s. in gold, and some silver, and stated that the
Jew had given him 2/. for the note.
_ _

In cr oss-exa min a t ion, the witness, who showed a
great familiarity with thieves' slang, admitted that
he had received Is. from Darby out of the proceeds
of the note, and that he had understood that the
note was a stol-n one.

The prisoners were remanded for a week.

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