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London, England, 1844-08-14 00:00:00

tith SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MOftl4lN'6, U lI'S 11 14, 1644.

which were taltenlfrom the peraOn Of the f,riaotter oilhis-being iieatcheci at the station.
Charles Kight, foreman to Mr. Gilbert, identified the
knife. He had placed it on Saturday night in a cupboard
by the folding doors.
The prisoner who, by the advice of his solicitor, re-
served his defence for a future occasion, was fully comz
mitted to Newgate for trial. . .
James Johnson *so dieted with the following assault
on nhodA Dunn, aged 17, nursemaid in the service of
Captain Beare, Porchester-place, Edgeware-road.
It appeared from the evidence, that in the afternoon
of Thursday week last, the prisoner drove Mrs. Beare
and her children to the railway station at the Brick-
layer's Arms, they went off by the train into the coun-
try, and the prisoner was desired to convey complainant,
who had accompanied them, home. She got inside of
the vehicle, when the prisoner, after going a roundabout
way, and stopping at a public-house, entered the car-
riage and took his seat beside her, while another man to
whom he had spoken led the horses along ; he pulled
down the blinds, and putting his arms round her neck
kissed her; when finding that a strong resistance was
made he at length alighted, and resumed his seat on the
box. He pulled up at another public-house, which he
went into, and she then took the opportunity of jump-
ing out, when, by inquiring of several persons as to
which was the proper road for her to take for Porchester-
place, she at length reached her master's house.
The prisoner's answer to the charge was, that he was
somewhat the worse for drink, and that he had merely
placed his hand on th© girl's knee. After she jumped out
he drove up to her, and offered to drive her home, but
she refused to let him do so.

the tlisceveir havino taken f)lace! en ,th 4 Fetur,n of, tb.9.
parties to their house. The applicant aurAeu tl:gt
appeared to have been no force used in entering
house, the thieves having got in by the aid of a skeleton
key, with which they opened the street-door. The ob-
ject of the proent application was to be made acquainted
with the best plan for the detection of the thieves.
Mr. CSC I.7INCI#A3I adviSe:d the applicdrit ,td lose no
time in giving instant inforitatiori of the td the
police, and he also recommended that notice of what
had taken place might be given at the Bank of England,
as well as at the Savings' Banks, where a portion of the
Society's money was deposited.
The applicant, having thanked the magistrate, retired.

PRICES OF SHARES
CANATIS. RAHWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND 0 la!! dO3l-PAIWIEW SPTOCIL.

LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 18.

Mr. RAWLINSON had no doubt whatever with regard to
the infamous intentions of the prisoner; and, as Captain
Beare was desirous that the case should be summarily
dealt with, convicted him (prisoner) in the full penalty
of 51., or two monttss imprisonment.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Monday a middle-aged man, of very respectable ap-
pearance and good address, who gave the somewhat
doubtful name of John Tomkins, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Broughton, charged with indecently assault-
ing a child only five years of age, named Eliza Quin, in
a second-class carriage of the Eastern Counties Railway
Company.
The mother of the child, who said that her husband
was a gas-fitter in Lincoln's Inn-fields, stated, that hav-
ing been with her child on a visit to her father at Bille-
ricay, in Essex, she was returning to town on the pre-
ceding day, and took a place in a second-class carriage
at the Brentwood station of the above railway. While
entering the vehicle the prisoner, who was also a pas-
senger, proffered his services in assisting her to dispose
of several packages she had with her, and conducted
himself in a somewhat obtrusive manner. The train
had started only a short time when she observed the
prisoner paying very particular attentions to the child,
which she had been obliged to place on the seat opposite
to her, and on which the prisoner was seated, in conse-
quence of the crowded state of that where she herself
sat. After fondling the child in a paternal manner for
some time, the prisoner lifted her off the seat of the
carriage and placed her in his lap ; the child appeared
to be very comfortable, and witness's observations being
directed to the scenery, she thought no more about it
for some considerable time after, when a lady passenger,
who had been watching the prisoner's movements, called
her attention to his conduct towards the little girl, and
on looking at him, witness saw that his hand was up the
child's clothes. The little creature was then very much
agitated and frightened, and before the witness had time
to do so, one of the other passengers indignantly snatched
the child from off the prisoner's lap. The train went on
to the next station, but when it arrived there witness ac-
quainted the guard of the treatment the little girl had
received from the prisoner, and he advised her to give
him into custody, which she accordingly did the instant
the train reached the Shoreditch terminus.

Mr. Augustus Rackham and his wife, who were
fellow-passengers with the last witness, corroborated her
evidence in every particular ; and in addition the first
witness added, that the prisoner was originally seated
on the same seat as the child's mother, but that as soon
as the child had been transferred to the opposite seat,
the prisoner crossed the carriage, and placed himself be-
side it. When the little girl was taken away from him,
the prisoner appeared to be very much confused, but
said nothing.

Mr. BnoiiGHTom asked the prisoner if he had any ob-
jection to state what profession or business he was en-
gaged in?
The prisoner replied, that he was a clerk in a mer-
cantile establishment, but he must respectfully beg leave
to decline being more specific.
Being then called upon for his defence, the prisoner
entered into a long and generally irrevelant statement,
the only pertinent portion of which was, that he felt
himself bound to pay every attention to the mother of
the child, on seeing her unprotected situation, and that
on the little girl being placed beside him, he certainly
took her upon his knee ; but he would submit to the
Magistrate whether it was at all likely that a person
holding so respectable a station in society as he did
would be so mad as to forfeit his character and position
by being guilty of such a scandalous outrage towards a
mere infant, and that, too, in the presence of such a
number of people as were in the carriage at the time
in question, the ♦ehicle being, in fact, completely
crowded ?

Mr. BROUGHTON said, that after a patient attention to
the evidence which had been offered, he was sorry to say
that he could come to no other conclusion upon it, but
that an assault of a most aggravated nature had been
committed by the prisoner upon the child ; but, consi-
dering also the public nature of it, he did not conceive
that it could be taken to amount to a criminal assault.
He, however, felt it his duty, under the circumstances,
and for the protection of the public, to call upon the
prisoner to put in bail to answer the charge at the ses-
sions, and the bail must be, the prisoner himself in 401.,
and two responsible sureties in 201. each.
The prisoner, who appeared to be much agitated, was
then removed.

CLE RKEN WE L L.
Monday,' William Wyatt, aged 22, George Walton,
aged 14, Alexander Agar, aged 17, William Lincoln, aged
14, and William Carter, aged 13 years, were charged
with destroying their clothes in the llolborn Union
workhouse.

The prisoners looked more like savages than civilized
beings, and their hair hung in filthy matted locks over
their faces, which were begrimed with dirt, and they
were, with the exception of a threadbare party-coloured
rug that each of them wore, perfectly naked.
Barlow and Mundy, the porters at the Holborn Union
workhouse, proved that when the prisoners were admit-
ted into the destitute ward of the workhouse, on Satur-
day night, between nine and ten o'clock, they had some
sort of clothes on. In the morning, at nine o'clock,
"having heard a great noise among the destitutes," as
Barlow swore, he went into the ward and saw the pri-
soners standing there perfectly naked, having torn their
clothes into small shreds, which lay strewn about the
ward

Wyatt, in answer to the Magistrate, with tears in his
eyes, declared that his clothes were so ragged that a
policeman was going to take him into custody on Satur-
day for indecently exposing his person ; they were be-
sides covered with vermin. He was a native of Corn-
wall, and had been wandering about for the last six
weeks without being able to obtain employment.
Walton said, he did not know his parish ; had been at
sea; his clothes were ragged, and covered with vermin ;
had been going about the streets for the last month,
night and day.
Of the other three lads two were natives of Ireland,
and stated that they had subsisted upon mendicancy.
Carter declared his clothes were alive with vermin. Lin-
coln, a native of Liverpool, said he had been equally
filthy and equally destitute.
Mr. COMBE sent the prisoners to the house of Correc-
tion for fourteen days each, for which they thanked the
worthy magistrate.
Two men, named Cokeley and Foley, were charged
with violently assualting Mary Began, and police-con-
stable 74 E.

The constable deposed that on the previous evening he
was alarmed by cries of murder, and on running into
Lamb's-court, Bloomsbury, saw Foley beating Mary
Regan violently. The woman was laying on the ground
bleeding profusely. Witness immediately seized Foley,
who at once knocked him down, and both struggled on
the pavement. At length witness got upon his legs, but
had no sooner done so than Cokeley ran over and felled
witness with a blow. Both prisoners then attacked him,
and he would have been injured severely had it not been
for the immediate arrival of other constables.
The woman Regan, either from illness or fear, declined
to come forward. The constable seemed to be severely
injured.
Waddington, the gaoler, said Cokeley had been con-
victed at this court 19 time; and Foley 15. Cokeley was
familiarly termed " the Jack of Clubs" by his vagabond
associates, and he was the terror of the neighbourhood
in which he lived.

Mr. ComnE sentenced the prisoners to seven days'
imprisonment in the House of Correction, without the
power of releasing themselves by the payment of fine.

UNION-HALL.

Monday Nicholas Giles, a poor emaciated-looking
man, was brought before Mr. Traill, charged with wil-
fully breaking a lamp belonging to tle South Metropo-
litan Gas Company.
A policeman of the M division stated, that while on
duty the preceding night in High-street he observed the
defendant sitting crouched up at a door, which he left,
and, walking into the road, picked up a stone. He then
returned to the pavement, and while the policeman was
looking at him, threw the stone at a gas-lamp, which he
broke, and then said that he did it fur the purpose of
obtaining the shelter afforded in a station-house, to
which place he was taken.