The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

but the details were entirely destitute of public
interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BO W-STREET.
Charles Stanley, a tall, well-dressed man, about
forty, was placed in the felons' dock, charged with
defrauding Heber Louton of 101.
A solicitor who attended for the complainant,
stated, that his client had answered an advertisement
" For a clerk and messenger," who was required to
deposit 101. with his employer as a security. Appli-
cation was made to the defendant. The money was
paid, an agreement was signed, and the complainant
entered upon the supposed duties of his office, which
soon proved frivolous and indefinite. He was unable
to obtain any salary, and the defendant refused to re-
fund the 10/. The complainant soon discovered that
a great many young men, chiefly from the country,
had been imposed upon in a similar way.
The " agreement was then handed up to the magis-
trate. It appeared that the complainant's duties
were to commence from the Ist of April, 1850, at
the defendant's offices, in Kingsgate-street, Holborn.
It was stated that the defendant had assumed several
names.
Mr. HALL, after looking at the agreement, said
that this was one of those cases in which the injured
party was driven to a civil remedy. The agreement
was drawn up, as he expected, in a most artful man-
ner, to prevent liability to criminal proceedings; and
consequently there was no ground for retaiuing the
defendant in custody. He (Mr. Hall) was fully sen-
sible of the scandalous frauds which were prac-
tised by these men, and recently, in several cases,
redress had been obtained in the county courts.
But it was difficult to provide a law for the pro-
tection of people who would not take the slight-
est pains to protect themselves ; who made no in-
quiries, sought no references, but at once reposed
confidence in strangers, and believed every word that
was said by them.
The solicitor stated that there was a young man
present who, duped by one of these advertisements,
bad come with his wife and children 120 miles, and
had exhausted there entire means in paying the de-
posit and the travelling expenses. They were now
destitute. _ _ _

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The prisoner was discharged amid the execrations
of the people present.
MURDEROUS ATTACK. —Daniel Donovan, black-
smith and pugilist, was charged with a murderous
attack upon his wife early on Sunday morning.
The prisoner has been repeatedly charged with
drunken and disorderly conduct at this court, and was
lately bound over to keep the peace towards Blun-
dell, the summoning officer, whose life he had
threatened. The prisoner's wife has been also fre-
quently before the magistrates; both having led for
years past a life of dissipation.
Mary Burt, who lodged with Donovan and his
family in the same room, at 19, Short's-gardens, de-
posed that she found the prisoner and his wife drunk
and quarrelling on returning home shortly before one
o'clock on Sunday morning. Their children, a little
boy and girl, were both in the room ; the former sit-
ting up in the bed, which was upon the floor. Wit-
ness told the wife she had been drinking, and begged
her not to answer the prisoner, knowing what his
temper was, She made no reply, but went on
"jawing," and called him a filthy name. The pri-
soner then rushed towards her and knocked her
down with his fists, kicking her after she was
upon the floor. Mrs. Donovan called to witness
to save her, but the prisoner said if she inter-
fered he would serve her so too, at the same time
calling her by a bad name and pushing her against
the wall. Witness ran out of the room, and was
followed by Catherine Donovan. They stood at the
door about a quarter of an hour, hoping they would
" quell ." but the quarrel continued, and they heard
the wife exclaiming, " Oh, murder police ! I am a
dead woman !" After a time witness walked towards
Long-acre, looking for a policeman, and as she was
returning she saw several constables and a mob run-
ning towards Short's-gardens. She knew something
had happened, and consequently followed the police.
There was a mob outside the prisoner's door, and wit-
ness was told that the prisoner had thrown his wife
out of window. Witness afterwards saw him in cus-
tody. Witness had often seen the Donovans quarrel-
ling and fighting before. She had seen the prisoner
strike his wife with a poker repeatedly. He was
nearly always drunk. She was fond of a " little
drink," but upon the whole witness considered her a
sober woman
By the prisoner—About five weeks ago all of us
(witness and the Donovans) were "in the drink"
for two days. Witness had never heard Mrs. Dono-
van say that she once threw herself out of a window
in Bedfordbury.
Mr. Wood, the house-surgeon of King's College
Hospital, stated that Ann Donovan was received into
the institution, on Sunday morning, insensible. She
had a depressed fracture on the right side of her fore-
head, the eyes were closed up, the face much bruised
and swollen and covered with blood ; the left knee-
pan was also fractured. She became sensible in a
few hours, and remained so throughout the day, com-
plaining of pain in her side and stomach. Witness
had very slight hope of her recovery, considering that
her life was endangered by the fracture of the skull,
which was occasioned by a fall or a violent blow with
a hard instrument.
Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner for a week.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A certificate was banded to Mr. Bingham from the
medical attendant of Mr. Thomas Bolt, who was
struck on the face with a loaded stick, in Hyde-park,
last week, by Captain Conrad Montgomery, which
stated that Mr. Bolt was not yet sufficiently reco-
vered to be able to give evidence against his assailant.
Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the defendant, of
course must acquiesce in a further postponement of
the case ; but, in justice to his client, who appeared in
an unfavourable light before the public from what
had been published in the papers, he thought he was
bound to state that at the proper period he should be
prepared with evidence to prove that Captain Mont-
gomery had not struck Mr. Rolt in self-defence until
he had first received two blows from Mr. Bolt. The
stick with which he retaliated on Mr. Bolt was a light
cane with some lead under the silver knob. It was a
cane which his client usually carried with him to as-
sist him in walking, he having been an invalid, and was
by no means of the formidable character which it had
been represented to be.
The case was adjourned for a week.
THAMES.
Mr. WilliamTruddington, the master of the barque
Mary Ann, appeared for the second time before Mr.
Yardley, to show cause why he refused payment of
17!. 16s. Bd. wages, earned by Isaac Bowers, a man
of colour and a native of Antigua, for services as
steward on a voyage from Glasgow to Boston and
Charleston to the United States, and back to London,
under articles of agreement.
It will be recollected that payment of the wages
was refused by the master when he was first before
the Magistrate, on the ground that the complainant,
who is a British subject, had been taken out of the
ship at Charleston by the authorities there because
he was a coloured man, and imprisoned for two
months in the common gaol, to prevent his having
6 any communication with the slave population, and
that he had been charged 20/. by thesheeriffgaeflo.r
Mr.
maintenance of the seaman while he was i
Yardley, after expressing his surprise at such an out-
rage on the liberty of the subject, said the wages
must be paid, notwithstanding the man had been
taken to prison, and the expenses incurred, because
there was no stipulation in the articles to exempt the
ship from the liability. The master then requested
an adjournment to obtain further advice, and also to
produce the agreement and the accounts.
Mr. Pelham, who appeared for the seaman, said he
now understood the wages would be paid without any
further opposition ' • but there was some dispute as to
the value of the dollars advanced to the complainant
at Boston and Charleston. He put the value of the
American dollar at 4s. only.
Mr. YARDLEY—It is more than that—it is worth
4s. 2d. at least.
Mr. Waddington said he had to draw upon Eng-
land and pay interest for the money he had obtained
in America, and he charged the complainant 4s. 9d.
per dollar. The price of the English sovereign in
America ranged from four dollars and a few cents to
four dollars and 2.5 cents and four dollars 80 cents at
various times.
Mr- YARDLEY said that was a :great range indeed.
He always thought the exchanges between England
and America were pretty nearly equal. He would
allow the master to charge 4s. 6d., or 3/. 7s. 61 for
the 15 dollars advanced to the steward at Boston and
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dington said he would rather give the
man money than take it from him, but it certainly
wageswas ta saenrdi 0119
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stewardd
remained in prison. If he went back to the Uni.e
States he should get into serious trouble in conse-
quence of what had taken place in that court and the
exposure in the newspapers relating to slavery in
America.
Mr. YARDLEY—Oh no, you won't. You have got
immortalized by coming here and stating what you did.
Air. Waddington—They will cut the masts out of
my ship whenever I reach Charleston, or any other
port of a slave-holding State in America.
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Mr. YARDLEY-ob, no, no . you can go there
again with safety.
Mr. Waddington—lndeed I cannot, Sir.
A discussion then ensued relating to the time the
steward left the vessel in this port, the master con-
tending that he did not come on boardafterbetheerdl9titlhi
instant, while the steward said he was on
the 22d ; and this point being decided by the wages
being calculated up to the 20th,
Mr. Waddington said the steward was telling
falsehoods. The dollars were not advanced at Charles-
ton only, as the complainant stated, but at Boston
and Charleston. The steward laid he signed the arti-