The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT

NE IV COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Henry Collins, 30, servant, was indicted for steal-
ing a coffee-pot, 61 forks, 56 spoons, and other plate,
valued at 1801., the property of Edmund Rushworth
and another, his masters.
Mr. Carter prosecuted.

Mr. Edmun-d Rushwortb, of the firm of Rushworth
and Jarvis, auctioneers, Saville-row, said that about
three years ago the prisoner entered their service, and
remained with them until June, 1849, when the arti-
cles in question were sent from Mr. Thomas's, of New
Bond-street, to them for sale. They were brought on
Saturday, the 30th of June, by a porter, and delivered
to the prisoner, who took them into their wareroom
and locked them up. When witness got there on
Monday he found the prisoner gone, the place locked
up, and the plate taken.
Robert Checkley, 16 11, said he met the prisoner
on the l 6th of this month in the Whitechapel-road,
and took him into custody. On their road to the
station he asked what the plate had been valued at,
and was told 2001. He added it was a good day's
work for the man who had it.

The jury found him Guilty, and he was transported
for seven years.
Edward George Barrington, who was convicted
last session of returning from transportation, was
brought up for sentence.
The prisoner, it will be recollected, had almost
served the term for which he had been sent out, and
had received what was stated to be a free pardon,
which he had destroyed. Upon leaving the colonies,
he had served as a seaman against the Bornean pi-
rates, and had returned to this country bringing with
him an excellent character and a large amount of
prize money, with which he bad gone into a respect-
able way of business.
The COMMON-SERGEANT said that he bad no
alternative but to again order him to be transported,
and the sentence was, that he be imprisoned for six
months, and then be transported for seven years.
He would, however, be able to lay his case before
the Secretary of State, who would have the power of
mitigating it.
The prisoner, who was 'dreadfully agitated, no
sooner heard the sentence, than he struck his hand
violently on the front of the dock, and said he would
sooner be dead than again transported, and, drawing
a penknife he had secreted, made an attempt to cut his
throat. The officers in the dock, however, managed
to seize him before he could do himself any serious in-
jury, but it was not without much difficulty that the
weapon could be got from him and he forced from the
dock.

The excitement was much heightened by the fran-
tic screams of a woman in the gallery, said to be his
wife, and who could scarcely be restrained from
throwing herself over into the dock.
Edward Lovell Dwyer, who was convicted on
-Wednesday of a similar offence, was sentenced to be
imprisoned for 12 months and again transported for
seven years.

THIRD COURT.
(Before Mr. GURNEY.)
Edward Smith and Thomas Hardy, two notorious
cracksmen, were convicted of breaking and entering
the dwelling-house of Mary Higgins, and stealing a
quantity of wearing apparel.
Mr. Carteen prosecuted, and the case, excepting the
characters of the men, was of the ordinary descrip-
tion. Hardy had been transported in 1139, and
served seven years, and had since then been in Read-
ing Gaol, besides other convictions and some acquit-
tals. The other was equally well known.
Thomas Collins, 20, woodcutter, was convicted sad
sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing a
clock, value 201., the property of a lady named Rids-
-1 dale, at St. John's-wood. -

The officer said the prisoner was one of a gang who
hang about the outskirts to plan burglaries.
In the course of the day Mr. Metcalfe applied for
the usual process against Cornelius Baron Von Stentz,
against whom Wilhelm Sobiesky Kelldall had ob-
tained a true bill for perjury arising out of some law
proceedings.
The application was granted, with the usual notice
of bail.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Amelia Firzman, alias Hicks, Mary Ann Ryan,
and William Warner, were charged before Mr. Hall
with having feloniously received a quantity of mus-
lin, worth 1301., which had been stolen from an er-
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merchant, of Wood-street, Cheapside, was sent out
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by his employer with a parse containing 466 pieces
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of muslin, which he had instructions to leave at
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parcel. The loss of the disappeared with the
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perty was advertised,
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Saturday a boy, answering the description of Henry
Williams, was examined at Bow-street, charged with
stealing a coat and some other articles. Mr. Fisken's
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Mr. Fisken, the prosecutor, identified the pieces d
muslin produced, by the private mark, the quantity,
and the peculiar pattern. It formed the greater part
of 466 pieces which were stolen from his errand-boy.
The quantity recovered was worth about 117/. About
131. worth was yet missing.
William Parker said he was foreman to Mr. Dicker,
pawnbroker, of Lambeth-marsh. The prisoner
that it belonged to a lady who was going
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Firzman
statingAustralia,'ir
and intended making it up into caps and
cuffs. 'Witness did not notice the value of it, and
advanced 2/. upon it. He had known the woman for
four years, and had always considered her a very re-
spectable person. She had been in the habit of coming
to the shop during the whole of that time, but she had
gone by the name of Hicks. She lived in the Water-
loo-road. When Fitness saw the advertisement he
immediately wrote to the prosecutor, and subsequently
gave the police all the assistance in his power.
Constable Brown, of the F division, said that he
met Firzman in Drury-lane, and took her into cus-
tody on the
the muslin in a basket, and admitted having pledged
present charge. She had some pieces of
some over the water. She said that a woman
named Ryan had i brought it to her for sale, and
stated where Ryan lived. Witness then went to Ryan's
house, in Queen's-place, Lincoln's lnn-fields, and she
stated that the muslin was given to her by Warner
(the male prisoner) to carry to Firzman, as, the latter
being connected with theatricals, he thought she
might be able to get a customer fur it. She sold it to
Firzman for 155., and had 2s. 6d. for her trouble.
Witness afterwards apprehended Warner, who at first
denied all knowledge of the muslin, but eventually
admitted that he sold some, which had been picked up
at the corner of a court, to Mrs. Ryan.
An attorney who attended for Ryan, said she was
the wife of a respectable man, and had lived 26 years
in the same house.
with the lad Williams,
Mr. HALL remanded the prisoners to Saturday,
when they will be brought up
who is suspected of stealing the property, and against
whom there are no less than 20 charges of felony
awaiting investigation. ,
MARYLEBONE.
George Rouse, aged 18, was brought up in custody,
and placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on two
charges,
one of burglary at the house of Mr. George
Seaton, landlord of the Dublin Castle, Park-street,
Camden-town, and a murderous outrage upon police-
constable Godwin 58 S.
The case excited a considerable degree of interest.
Godwin
resented a most distressing appearance.
There was a quantity of coagulated blood upon his
be face,hadp a.bandage round his head, and beneath
his left eye was a quantity of strapping, from which
blood was still oozing; he was exceedingly weak, and
made his statement while sitting on the bench at the
attorneys'
table. The back part of the prisoner's head
was also strapped up. The officer, on being sworn,
said—Between three and four o'clock this morping,