The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-29 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

Charles Reynolds, a well-dressed man, with a profusion of
black hair and mustachios, was charged with robbing Mr.
Softimos Miles, a watchmaker, residing at No. 8, Carter-lane,
Doctors' Commons, of two silver watches.

Mr. Miles stated that yesterday the prisoner came into his
shop and asked to look at some watches. Witness shewed
him several, and the prisoner chose one, but they could
not agree about the price, and the prisoner then left the
shop. On the same day he came again and agreed
to pay 31. 7s. 6d. Witness offered to take the amount, and
the prisoner produced the money in his hand, but before he
gave it to witness he asked to see another watch in the
window, which witness immediately put into his hand. The
prisoner then threw down the money, jumbling the two
watches together, and ran out of the shop. The prisoner,
after running some distance, was captured in Bell-court,
Doctors' Commons; and one of the watches, which he threw
over a wall 14 feet high, was found, and the other he gave to
the policeman.

A duplicate was found in the prisoner's "possession of va-
rious articles, amounting to 51., which were supposed to have
been stolen.

Alderman HUGHES remanded the prisoner till Saturday next.

BOW-STREE7.

A cabman named Robert Steadman, was charged before Mr.
Hall, with driving his cab over a young woman named Ca-
roline Nolan, and thereby endangering her life in Chancery-
lane.
It appeared that the complainant was standing in the
middle of the street in Chancery-lane, last night, talking to a
man. The prisoner was driving his cab down the street, and
before the complainant could get out of the way the cab-
wheel struck her and knocked her down. She was not, how-
ever, severely injured, but she was bruised by the fall. As
soon as she got up she gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner in his defence said, he was driving at the
ordinary pace :along the street, and he thought the young
woman was out of the way. It was entirely her own fault
that the cab struck her, inasmuch as she had ample time
to get out of the way of the cab.
M. HALL questioned the policeman, and he said the pri-
soner was going steadily along the street. He thought the
complainant herself was to blame, for if she had exercised
ordinary caution, the accident would not have happened.
The complainant said she had not time to get out of the
way.
Mr. HALL said he did not think there was much blame to
be attached to the cabman, and therefore he should discharge
him. The complainant, however, if she thought fit to go on
with the case, m►ght have a summons against the prisoner.
The complainant said she would consult her master upon
the subject.
The prisoner was then discharged.
CLERKENWE L L.

John Hill, a chee,emonger, residing at No. 16, Stock-
well-street, Greenwich, was charged with causing the
death of Ellen Cash, a child of seven years old, by driving
a cart over her.

From the evidence of police-constable Churchyard,
174 G, and that of other witnesses, it appeared that the
prisoner was driving a spring-cart along Portpool•lane.
That at the junction of this lane and Leather-lane a
number of children had gathered round a heap of the
sweepings of a grocer's shop, and were busily engaged
in picking raisins out of it, when the prisoner drove up.
They all ran in different directions, but the unfortunate
deceased, running against the step of the cart, was
knocked down, and the wheel passed over her chest. A
young man, who witnessed the occurence, which took
place at eight o'clock on that morning, immediately took
up the child, and carried it into a surgery hard by, but
when he reached the surgery life was extinct. All the
witnesses concurred in the belief that the prisoner was
driving at a moderate pace, and that he could not have
" pulled up " in sufficient time to enable the child to
escape.
The father of the deceased who seemed greatly dis-
tressed, said the constable had told a different story out
of Court, imputing the blame of neglect to the carter,
but this the constable positively denied.
The prisoner, who seemed to treat the matter with un-
feeling indifference, was then discharged.
Joseph Wright was charged with deserting his wife
and child, whereby they became chargeable to Islington
parish.

The prisoner deserted his wife about-three years ago,
and she became chargeable to Islington, in December,
1842, at which time, being largely pregnant, she Was
admitted into the workhouse. The wife, however, ad-
mitted to the magistrate, that the child who was
fourteen months old, was not her husband's, but the
result of an adulterous intercourse with a man named
Briggs.
Mr. GREENWOOD decided, that in accordance with the
opinion of the Judges of the Queen's Bench, in the
case of the King v. Flintan, that where an adulterous
of a mechanic, was
charged
intercourse was proved to have taken place, the husband
was no longer liable for the maintenance of his wife.
James The prisonerPvitikhe Pike,
Rhodes. h
wilfullyawv iansgadnti
and maliciously appearance
aalrigeeiously destroying a portion of
a fence in the Britannia-fields, Islington, the property of Mr.

Police-constable 237 N depoud that, at a quarter to one
o'clock that morning, he was on duty in the Britannia-
fields, when he saw the prisoner go up to the fence, and break
three pales in three different places. Witness went up to him,
and asked him why he did so. The prisoner denied the
eharge, and witness, thereupon was accompanying him to the
spot to show the damage, when the prisoner ran away, and,
after a long race, was stopped by two other constables.
The fence TM ereCttd, to enclose some private property

belonging to Mr. Rhodes, which had been long trespassed
upon by the public, and through which a footway ran.
Mr. Ilernard Murphy, in the employment of Mr. Rhodes,
swore that the amount of damage done by the prisoner
was 2s. 6d.

The prisoner said he was in liquor on the previous night,
and did not know what he was doing. He had a wife and
family.
_ _

The constable said, so far from being drunk, the prisoner
was perfectly sober.
The prisoner then said he regretted the commission of the
offence.

Mr. GREENWOOD said the law was in a very imperfect state
regarding cases like the present, where, though it was satis-
factorily proved that wilful and malicious damage had been
done, the offender could only be fined in the amount of the
damage ; so that a person might do ever so much damage
maliciously, and escape with impunity, provided he paid a
certain sum of money. He must pay the amount of damage
done, 2s. 6d.

Murphy added that there was a disposition in the neigh-
bourhood among the lower classes to injure this fence, and it
required the constant attendance of policemen on the spot
to prevent its destruction.
Martha Cunningham, a woman of notoriously bad charac-
ter, was charged with creating a disturbance at the Clerken-
well workhouse, and with being drunk. The prisoner went
there drunk, and her conduct. was most outrageous. She
applied the filthiest language towards the master, said she
was starving, and when Mr. Hamlet offered her lodging and
food, she became more violent and abusive than before.—She
was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Win. Brown, who lately kept a beer-shop at Hackney,
was brought before Mr. Bingham, for final•examination,
charged with having been concerned in the perpetration
of numerous burglaries in Essex and Cambridgeshire, in
conjunction with two notorious " cracksmen," named
Cuttress and Bennett, who have since been sentenced to
transportation for life.

It inay be recollected that a vast quantity of multi-
farioos property was discovered by the police at the pri.
soner's residence, the greater part of which was proved
to be the produce of different burglaries that had been
committed in the above counties within the last few
months. Four distinct cases were established against
the prisoner at he former examination, and he was re-
manded, to give time for the identification of numerous
valuable articles that remained unclaimed in the hands
of the police.
Emma Dean, a domestic in the service of the Hon.
Mr. Herbert, f Ickledon, in Cambridgeshire, now iden-
tified various articles consisting of two silver candlesticks,
a pair of antique bronze chimney ornaments, a writing-
desk. &c., as the property of her master, whose mansion
was broken into and plundered during the absence of
the family on the 19th January last.
Sergeant Brannan deposed to his having found the
several articles recognised by the last witness, at the
house occupied by the prisoner in Nelson-street, Hack-
ney-road.

The depositions in all the cases having been com-
pleted, the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to
await his trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central
Criminal Court.

BIGAMY.—Anne Connor, otherwise Layton, a person
of very respectable and prepossessing appearance, was
fully examined on the charge of having intermarried
with Thomas Hayward during the lifetime of Edmund
Connor, her former husband.

The case excited a good deal of interest in conse-
quence of the prisoner having been given into custody
through the instrumentality of her sister, who volun-
tarily presented herself as a material witness in support
of the charge against her.
Benjamin Turner, the parish-clerk of St. Sepulchre's,
produced a register-book, containing the entry of a mar-
riage solemnised between Edmund Connor and Anne
Layton, on the 2d of May, 1837.
Mary Overand proved that the signature " Anne
Layton," in the book produced, was in the handwriting
of the prisoner, who was her sister.
Joseph Rouse, the parish-clerk of St. Mary's Hag-
gerstone, produced the registry of the prisoner's second
marriage with Thomas Haywood, which took place on
May 28, 1839.

The prisoner's sister stated that she acted as bride's-
maid at the latter marriage, and she knew that the pri-
soner's former husband was living, having seen him in
Court that morning.
A solicitor who attended for the prisoner addressed
the magistrate, and said that the unfortunate woman
was greatly to be pitied, as she contracted the second
marriage in the positive conviction that her first husband,
from whom she was separated a few days after their
union, had been long dead ; and she received no assur-
ance to the contrary until she was given into custody by
her sister, who was well aware that the prisoner was on
the eve of acquiring considerable property, of which she
would necessarily be dispossessed in the event of her
conviction as u felon.

Mr. BINGHAM said that it was his duty to send the
case before a jury, but, under the circumstances, he
should take very moderate bail for her appearance.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
UNION-HALL.
William Carr, William Haines, and John Buchham, were
charged before Mr. Cottingham with being engaged in the
manufactory of illicit glass.
Richard Pope, an Excise officer, stated that, having re-
ceived information that a considerable trade in illicit glass
was being carried on at a house in Union-court, Maze-pond,
he went there, accompanied by other officers, between eight
and nine o'clock on the preceding night. They effected an
entrance at the rear of the premises, and on rushing up stairs
discovered a room on the first-floor fitted up with all the ap-
paratus for making glass. The furnace was fully heated, working
with three crucibles, and there was found an immense
number of glass articles. The three prisoners were taken in
the room, after an ineffectual attempt to escape ; and when
brought before the magistrate two of them were recognised
as having been previously charged with the offence.—They
were fined 301. each, and in default of payment committed
for three months.