The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
111ARYLEBONP.
Yesterday a young man, named John York, was
brought up before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with
having robbed his late master, Captain Fuller, R N 9
of No. 27, Montagu-square, of property to a consi-
derable amount.
Captain Fuller stated that on the 20:h ult. he dis-
charged the prisoner, who had been his footman for
twelve months, and in a few days he missed a great
many articles from his house. He communicated the
particulars of his loss to the police, and the prisoner
was at length apprehended on a warrant which he
(Ciptain Fuller) had obtained.
Ross, the constable, deposed that he had been many
days upon the look-out for the prisoner, and met with
him that morning at a fruiterer's shop in D rset-
street. On the road to the station-house he ran
away, but was followed and speedily recaptured by
witness. He was searched, and on his person were found
a valuable gold watch and chain, and a diamond ring, and
at his lodgings,2o, Augusta-street,Cumberland- market,
witness subsequently discovered and brought away a
musical snuff-box, a silver inkstand, a silver teaspoon,
a work-box, and a number of waistcoats and handker-
chiefs. together with a quantity of sealing- wax, pen-
cils, soap, &c.
Captain Fuller examined the property alluded to,
and identified a great portion thereof as his.
The prisoner. who had nothing to say, was fully
committed to Newgate for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Amongst the remanded cases appointed for reexa-
mination before Mr. Bingham, was one relating to a
person named Lewis Henry Jacobs, a dealer in china,
recently residing in Tyssen-place, Kingsland, who
stood charged with having feloniously uttered a forged
acceptance for • 151., with intent to defraud Mr. 'Wil-
liam Harvey, a master builder, living in the same
neighbourhood.
It will be recollected that the prosecutor had been
employed by the prisoner to repair certain premises
belonging to him at Lambeth, and received in pay-
ment the bill in question, which purported to be ac-
cepted by Mr. William Simmons, a tobacconist,
in High-street, Newington•causeway. The bill, on
its becoming due, was presented to the ostensible ac-
ceptor, and that person, having declared it to be a
forgery, the prisoner was given into custody, and was
examined before Mr. Bingham on Thursday last, but
Mr. Simmons not being in attendance, the prisoner
was liberated on bail, and his brother, Moses Jacobs,
a dealer in china, living in Berwick-street, Oxford-
street, gave his recognizances in 50/. for the appear
ante of the prisoner on Thursday last. On that day
Mr. Simmons attended in Court, and proved that the
acceptance was not in his handwriting; but the pri-
soner himself was not forthcoming, and his bail having
assured the magistrate that lie was unavoidably absent
from serious illness, Mr. Bingham agreed to extend
the recognizances until Thursday.
Yesterday the prosecutor and witnesses were again
in attendance, but the prisoner failed to appear ; and
Cole, the officer who had charge of the case, inti-
mated to the magistrate that he had been to the pri-
soner's house, and found that he had absconded with
all his goods, and that every effort to discover his
retreat had been made without effect.
The MAGISTRATE said that, under these circum-
stance, the recognizances of the prisoner's bail mu-t be
entreated, and he should order it to be done forthwith.
The prisoner's brother here stepped forward, and
begged hard that the magistrate would allow him a
little time to endeavour to trace the fugitive, which
he expected to be able to effect within a few days.
The MAGISTRATE, however, refused to accede to
the application, and said that the utmost he could do
in the event of the accused being re- appreheiided
within a reasonable time, would be to consent to a
representation being made to the Barons of the Ex-
quer to set aside the estreatment.
Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, was then directed to make
out distress-warrants to recover the amount of the
recognizances.
Wednesday James Lewis, a shoemaker, and Sarah
Lewis, his wife, a good-looking woman, were placed
at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with de-
serting their child, an infant six weeks old, whereby
it had become chargeable to the parish of Wapping.
A woman named Mary Gray, living in Henry-
street, Commercial-road, stated, that while going for
her husband's supper beer, on the night of the 31st
of May last, when about five or six houses from her
own door her attention was drawn to the cries of a
child close against her feet, and on looking down she
saw a bundle lying upon the pavement, which turned
out to be a male infant six weeks old, rolled up in a
bundle of dirty rags. She called a stranger who was
passing at the time to witness the circumstance, and
that person went with her and the child to the sta-
tion-house, where, at the intercession of the constable
on duty, she agreed to take the infant home with her
and keep it till the next morning, when the authori-
ties of the Wapping Union were informed of the drop-
ping of the child, and they took it into their work-
house, where it had remained ever since.
Another woman named Hannah Atthill, the wife of
a weaver in Seabright-street, Commercial-road, said
that the two prisoners came to lodge at her house
last February twelvemonth, and remained till the
31st of May last, when they left. On the Sister
Monday preceding their quitting her house the
female prisoner was confined of a boy, and was acco •
modated with a box of linnen by a benevolent society
of ladies in the neighbourhood. When the prisoners
left their apartments they took away with them the
infant in question, and another child, three years of
age. In consequence of having heard something
with regard to the baby, she determined to question
the female prisoner the first time she saw her, and on
accidentally meeting her in the streets three weeks
ago asked her as to the health of the child, when the
prisoner replied that it was quite well, and was being
taken care of by her sister.
The child was produced in Court by one of the
workhouse nurses, and on being shown to the witness.
Atthill, she immediately identified it, from a mark on
its person, as being the infant the prisoner was con-
fined with at her house; and also swore to having
seen the rags in which the little creature was found
wrapped up in the street in the apartments of the pri-
soners while living with her.
Two other witnesses, fellow-shopmen of the male
prisoner, deposed to conversations they had had with
him subsequently to the desertion of the child, when
he told them it was at the house of his brother, in
Catherine-street, Commercial-road, to whom he was
paying 38. 6d. per week for its support. They had
suspicions as to the truth of this statement, and made
inquiries in Catherine-street, when they were informed
by the neighbours that the brother had left there a
long time before, and that no one knew where he had
gone to.
Policeman 74 K, from information he received from
one of the last witnesses, went on the preceding even-
ing to the house of the prisoners and took them into
custody. On apprising them of the nature pf the
charge against them, the male prisoner said.that the
infant was at the house of his brother in Henry-
street, Commercial-road, but afterward admitted that
the brother had gone to Bristol, and that they had
neither since heard from him, nor knew where he
was to be found. On the road to the station, the
male prisoner told his wife to keep close and not say
anything, as there was no evidence whatever against
them.

- The prisoner, who stood trembling at the bar, fre-
quently asserted her innocence of the alleged offence,
and declared that she never touched her husband's
teapot on the evening in question, and had. no oppor-
tunity of putting poison in it, even if she were in-
clined, for he was not a moment absent from the room.
Mr. COTTINGRAM observed that the prisoner's pre-
vious conduct to her husband strengthened 'the belief
that hers was the hand that administered the poison
—that previously to it she had uttered threats against
his life—had also threatened to burn the house ; and
when she saw him retching violently from the effee's
of the poison he had swallowed in her presence, and
when he complained of'a sudden sickness and a burn-
ing sensation in his mouth and throat, instead of ren-
dering him any assistance, her expressions and un-
feeling conduct on the occasion were such as to war-
rant the conclusion that she was the offender. The
Magistrate then directed the depositions to be taken,
and said that he should commit the prisoner, but that
she should be brought up again on Tuesday next, to
give the policeman an opportunity of making further
inquiries as to where the poison was bought.
Charles Wilson, a well-dressed young man, was
charged before Mr. Cottingham with stealing a gold
watch, value 351., the property of Mr. Morton, of
Southampton-street, Strand.
The complainant stated, that on th• preceding evening
he went to the Surrey Theatre, and while waiting at the
pit entrance, there being a crowd of persons there at the
time, he noticed the prisoner standing by his side. After
a little time the prisoner asked him what o'clock it was,
and he (complainant) pulled his watch out of his waist-
coat pocket and told him. When he returned the
watch to his pocket he felt a snap, and immediately
missed the watch, which was attached to a gold
chain round his neck, and he missed the prisoner from
his side, and went after him, and found him walking de-
liberately away. The complainant added that he ob-
served the prisoner talking in a low tone of voice to
some other persons near him at the time of the robbery,
and he gave him into custody.
When the prisoner was questioned, be said that he
was a tailor at Woolwich, and came up to go to the
Surrey Theatre ; that he stood near Mr. Morton at the
pit entrance, and finding the place was so crowd,- d he
(the prisoner) walked out, with the intention of going to
the Victoria Theatre, and that he did not leave as
alleged to escape detection, for he had done nothing that
he was afraid of.
Mr. CorrtNorram said that a serious robbery had been
committed, and that it was his duty to remand the pri-
soner
until further inquiries were made on the subject.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Mr. David Gallico, an interpreter of foreign lan-
guages, made application to Mr. Hardwick, the presid-
ing Magistrate, stating that a most determined attempt
had been made to assasinate a Mr. Charles Victor, a
French artist, residing at No. 46, King-street, Soho-
square, who had been stabbed in six places in the public
street, and was now at home in a state of great suffering,
and his life in danger. Mr. Gallico then went on to state
that between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday night
last a slight quarrel ensued in the coffee-room of the
Prince Albert Tavern, in Lisle-street, Leicester-square,
between Mr. Victor and a Pole, a professor
of languages. Mr. Victor shortly aftetwards left the
tavern with his antagonist, and on getting into the street
the altercation between them was renewed, and me-
nacing gestures with the fist were made use of by both
parties. The Pole was then observed to draw a knife
out of his coat pocket and stab Vr. Victor on the left
side of the head, the point of the blade striking against
the skull bone with great force. Mr. Victor defended
himself as well as he was able, but in the :cuffle that en-
sued he received a cut transversely across the right eye,
and two stabs of considerable depth on the left cheek. His
assailant then broke away from him and made his escape,
Police-constable Thomas Middleton, No. 189 of the C
division, came up at the instant and rendered Mr. Vic-
tor, whose clothing was completely saturated with his
blood, every assistance in his power. On unloosening
his vest, he was found to have received two more stabs
(the most dangerous of his wounds) in the chest. Sur-
gical aid was instantly procured, and eventually Mr.
Victor was removed to his residence.
Mr. HARDWICK directed Gibbett, one of the police-
constables attached to the Court, to immediately inves-
tigate the matter.

In defence the male prisoner denied having deserted
his child in the manner that had been described, and
persisted in his statement that he had placed it in the
care of his brother, who had left London more than
a month ago, and he had always since then entertained
the firm conviction that the infant had been carried
by his brother with him to Bristol.
The female prisoner's statment was precisely to the
same effect.
Air. BROUGHTON said that the case was one of very
deep suspicion, and there could be no doubt whatever
that the child produced in Court was that of which
the female prisoner had been delivered at the house of
the woman Atthill. He should commit them both to
prison for child-dropping, but let the case stand over
for a week, to give them an opportunity of bringing
forward any exculpatory evidence they might be able
to adduce.—The prisoners were then removed.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Wednesday the first order of affiliation under Ole
recent Act of Parliament was made at this office.
The putative father of the child was Joseph Edgely,
a young linendraper's assistant, who was summonA
to show cause why an order of 2s. 6d. per week should
not be made upon him for its maintenance.
The mother swore to the intimacy, and to her bay-
ing been delivered of the child she then held in her
arms on the 12th of February. Defendant visited
the annual
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pupil of MM. Martinet and Delaroche ;and the
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Alfred Easton proved that the complainant lodged
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at his house, and had been delivered on the day stated. Alulard. The academy next selected the can iidates
husband.
Defendant had visited her there, and
passed as her from whom a successor to the late M. Tardieu is to be
chosen. This having been done the meeting separated.
In answer to a question from fie- readant's solicitor, I election is to take place at the next Bitting.

tween them, it was alleged that the traversers attacked r witness said he was positive that the child had been
and violently assaulted the prosecutor, Maynard, who born on the 12th of February.
was in the service of Mr. Francis, the proprietor of , The solicitor said he did not consider there was the
the pier known as the Old Temple-pier, near the description of confirmatory testimony required pro-
bottom of Water-lane. duced in this case.
A most voluminous and contradictory mass of evi- Mr. BURRELL observed, that it was not necessary
dence was adduced before the Court, which occupied to go back so long a period as nine months before the
it from ten o'clock in the forenoon until halt-past birth. It was enough that she should he confirmed
seven, at which hour the jury returned to consider in some material part of her testimony. He thought
their verdict, and after remaining closeted until past the case clearly made out, and should adjudge the
nine o'clock, they returned into Court, and stated that defendant to make an allowance towards the main-
their verdict was one of Acquittal in favour of all the tenance of the eld!d.
prisoners with respect to the Court charging them Mr. Edward 3, the chief clerk, inquire the amount
with riot. Mr. 13URRELL said it must he 2s. 6d. per week.
All those prisoners whose names were not included The object of the Legislature in mentioning this sum
in the second indictment were then ordered to be dis • had clear b n with a view to put pan of the onus
charged, and the trial of the five individuals charged on the m the child.
with assault was postponed to the 6rh of October. ( ant further adjudged to pay the sum of
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3/. 17s. trave . expenses of the officer to Nantwich,
- - - and other costs.

ION• 111 LL.
ROBBERY BY ASSUMED P •LICEMENT.—APPREHEN-
SION OF THE " TALL MAN."—At a late hour on Wed-
nesday afternoon George Westrrn. alia White, a tall
man, dressed in a !:1 ck coat, with an apr. it round his
waist, was brought before Mr. Cottin,z,h4in, charged
with stealing twelve and a half sovereigns, two gold
Wedding rings, a gold brooch, six silver spoons, aed
other property, fro the house of Edward Brundell, a
carpenter, at 24, Agnes-street. Waterloo-road, under the
follon ing circumstances :
On the afternoon of the 27th ult., the prisoner, with
another man named Cooper (who has been in custody
some days), went to the above house during the absence
of Mr. Brundell, and told his wife that her husband was
locked up at the station-house, charged with felony,
The prisoner said he was a police-officer acd had come
to search the house. lie produced a forged search war-
rant. Mrs. Brundell, who had jut got over her confine-
tnert, at hearing that the prisoner was an officer, al-
lowed him to take every valuable tar icle from the house.
His companion, Cooper, was taken into custody on
Monday, the 2d inst., near Westminster-bridge, just
after they had committed a robbery at a coffee-house in
Grafton-street, Soho.
Mr. James attended far the prosecution.
Goff, 83 L, an active officer, stated that he was pro-
ceeding with Brooks, 118 L. along Newington-causeway,
about two o'clock, when they met the prisoner, who
(although he had considerabl) altered his dress and ap-
pearance) they instantly recognised as the " tall man."
Goff told him what he wanted him for, when the pri-
soner denied all knowledge of the transaction.
The prisoner was identified by Mrs. Courtney, a
lodger in Mr. Brundell's house, as the man who pocketed
the money and other property.
Two of the prisoner's companions were in custody, and
were remanded by Mr. Traill until Tuesday next.
Goff stated that the prisoner was wanted for an ex-
tensive forgery and several robberies.
Mr. Cottingham remanded the prisoner until Tues-
day next.
Wednesday Sarah Drew was brought before Mr.
Cottingham, on remand from last Thusday, charged
with administering poison to Richard Drew, her
husband.
Mr. James, the solicitor who attended for the pro-
secution, said, that he was requested by the com-
plainant to state, that he was overwhelmed with grief
at the awful situation of his wife, to whom he had
been married forty years ; that they had sixteen chil-
dren, four of whom, their suns, young men of most
exemplary conduct, had jo'ned in the prayer of their
father for the liberation of their mother. The com-
plainant was most anxious she should be discharged
upon bail, as he was convinced that she would not
make any further attempt upon his life, and that,
under these circumstances, he (the complainant)
wished that she should return home to her dwelling,
if the Magistrate sanctioned it.
Mr. COTTINGHAM said, that the alleged offence was
of such a nature that he could not possibly grant the
application; that the intercession of the old man now
made on her behalf evinced the kindness of his feel-
ings towards her, notwithstanding the desperate
means by which she sought his life, and that the
charge was one which must go before a jury. It
was given in evidence that the quantity of arsenic put
into the complainant's tea was enough to kill four
persons; that there were also two other lumps of the
same mineral found on the floor where the prisoner
had been previously standing, a quantity that was said
to be sufficient to poison twenty persons. It was
only a matter of astonishment how the prisoner or any
other person could have procured such a quantity of
the deadly drug without proper inquiries being made
by the person who sold it. The person, whoever he
was, was guilty of the most culpable negligence, to
say the least of it, and he (the Magistrate) was ap-
prehensive now that the discovery would not take
place.