The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-10 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

STEALING A COAT.—Samuel Oxford, aged 21, de-
scribed as a japanner, was indicted for stealing a coat,
value 18s., from the shop-door of Mr. Edwards a tailor,
in Newgate-street, on the 19th of March.
The coat was fitted on a " dummy," which stood at
the prosecutor's shop door, and on the day in question
it was knocked down by the prisoner, who stripped the
coat from it, and made off at the top of his speed, but
was immediately stopped and taken into custody.
The prisoner stated that he was passing by the shop-
door, and found the coat lying on the pavement; that
he picked it up and walked away with it.

The prosecutor denied that the " dummy" could have
fallen down by accident, as it was fastened to the wall
with a string, and said that the prisoner ran as fast as
his legs could carry him.
The jury found him Guilty.
The COMMON SERGEANT (to Mr. Jonas, the person
having charge of the prisoner in the dock)—Do you
know him? Mr. Jonas—He is not known in Newgate.
The CommoN SERGEANT (to the prisoner)—Do you
know me? Prisoner—No, I do not; I have never been
here before.

Mr. Jonas said he understood that the prisoner had
been convicted at the Surrey sessions during the last six
months.

A police-constable said he had been convicted of steal
ing two coats at the Surrey sessions, and had been out
of prison between four and five months.
The COMMON SERGEANT—I am certain I have seen
you here before. However, as no one appears to know
you here, I shall not act upon that. After having sen-
tenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment, he said,
Now it is all over, tell me what-I tried you for ? Pri-
soner—l really never was here before.
STEALING Two CHESTS OF TEA.—Richard Langdell
and Frederick Payne, labourers, were indicted for break-
ing and entering the warehouse of Mr. John Symonds,
proprietor of the Saracen's Head booking-office, Ald-
gate, and stealing 1901bs. of tea, value 35L, and Thomas
Etteridge, a cab-driver, was indicted for receiving the
same, well knowing it to have been stolen.
From the statement.of the Counsel for the prosecution,
Mr. DoANE, and from the evidence adduced, it appeared
that Langdell had at one time been in the service of Mr.
Symonds, as ostler, and was well acquainted with the pre-
mises. Payne had obtained permission from Mr. Odell,
the bookkeeper, to put up dogs now and then in the yard.
.")ri Thursday, the 13th of March, Langdell was observed
to go to the warehouse door, to take the key out of it
and make an impression of it in red putty, which he had
in a small tin box. During a great portion of the day
following he and Payne were observed to sit at the
window of the " tap' attached to the booking-office,
which commandeda view of the warehouse door, and where
they could observe all the goods placed there in the course of
that day. Amongst other articles placed there on Satur-
day, for the purpose of being sent off on the following
Monday, were two chests of tea. Payne and Langdell
were in the " tap" during nearly the whole of Sunday
and were last seen there between seven and eight
o'clock in the evening. About nine o'clock a rumbling,
noise was heard in the warehouse. About that hour a
cab, driven by the prisoner Etteridge, came into the yard.
Soon after Payne and Langdell were seen standing be-
tween the cab and the warehouse door, which drove
off. Payne went with it. Langdell went to his
dogs, liberated them, and ran after the cab.
The whole of the prisoners were taken into custody in
the Blue Boar-yard the same night. Etteridge said he
was engaged to drive Langdell and Payne and two sacks
(the tea was taken out of the boxes, which were briken
up and left in the warehouse) to Petticoat-lane. He
had some drink with them at the White Horse, and
left them and the sacks at the corner of the
lane. Payne had 71. on him, and it was proved that the
day before the robbery he had asked a person whom he
knew to lend him 6d.
Mr. O'BRIEN and Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed
the jury for Payne and Etteridge.
The jury found Payne and Langdell Guilty, and Ac-
quitted Etteridge.
The COMMON SERGEANT said be was blund to fulfil
the intentions of the Act of Parliament, and that it was
his duty to sentence them to transportation for ten years

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
_ _

Yesterday, a fashionably-dressed young man, who had
given the name of Geoffrey Brown, was charged wit n assault-
ing Mr. James Howell, on the stage of her Majesty's Theatre,
on Tuesday night.

The complainant, it appeared, had the charge of the pass.
room leading to the stage, and seeing the defendant and an-
other gentleman behind the scenes on the night above-men-
tioned, he went up to them and demanded -their business.
The defendant stated that he had a right to be there, but his
friend immediately walked away. Some warm expressions
were used on both sides, which led ultimately to the alleged
assault—the complainant having received a violent blow on
his face. _ _ _

The defendant said, that after taking a stall he wrote to
Mr. Lumley to get his name put on the pass-list, and re-
ceived an assurance from that gentleman that his wish had
been complied with ; in addition to which he (defendant)
had been ,suffered to pass unmolested on a previous occasion ;
provoked, therefore, by the insolence of the official, who, ha
said, had called him ad- liar, he struck the blow com-
plained of in a great passion.
The defendant denied having applied the term " liar " to
the defendant, in direct terms.

Mr. TWYFORD fined the defendant 51., or a months' im-
prisonment. The fine was paid immediately.
A cab-driver named James Aldridge, was charged with
assaulting Sir George Head, of Cockspur-street, Charing-
cross, in January last.

One evening,-about three months ago, the complainant
sent his servant for a cab, to take him to Hyde-park-gardens.
On its arrival he offered the driver Is. 4d. as his fare, but the
cabman pronounced the sum too small and refused to take it.
Sir George then offered him ls., and told him to drive to
Orchard-street, Oxford-street. The cabman again declined,
and complainant was proceeding to call another cab when
the other obstructed him, and claimed Bd. for having been
called off the rank, following up the abuse by striking Sir
George on the breast. The complainant's servant then took
the number of the driver's badge, and a summons was forth-
with obtained, but, as it eventually turned out, the wrong
party (although identified by Sir George and three witnesses,
and positively sworn to by two of the latter) appeared to the
summons. The case was heard on the 10th of January, and
again on the 15th of the same month, when the accused
proved, beyond all doubt, that at the very hour named, he
was six miles in another direction, driving an elderly lady to
chapel. The magistrate, as well as the complainant and his
witnesses, were so completely puzzled by this state of things
that the matter was suffered to drop. A period of three
months elapsed and the real offender, who had incautiously
acknowledged his own guilt, was taken jilt? custody.

The defendant, by disputing some of Sir George's state-
ments as to the nature of the dispute, further committed him-
self, and
Mr. TWYFORD having expressed himself satisfied, from his
own defence, that the accused was the real offender, ordered
him to pay a fine of 3/. In default of payment he was sent
to the House of Correction for one month. _

John and Sarah Franklin, stated to be man and wife, were
brought up on suspicion of causing the death of their female
infant child.
Susannah Burke, on being sworn, said, I am a widow, and
live at 22, Clement's-lane. This morning I was in Clare-
street, at six o'clock, when I met Mrs. Franklin (the femalea
prisoner) at a gin-shop. She was having
some
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a bundle under her arm. She beckoned to me, and
knew she had been confined a month ago. _ _
and talked with her. I asked her how hersbhaebysawidas I
,
did it die?" "At three o'clock this morning,
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house in Charles-street, Drury-lane, where she and her hus-
band were lodging. I saw the baby in bed, and, after hud-
dling it a little, I said it was dead sure enough. I told Mrs.
Franklin that I was sure she had been overlaying it, because
(continued the witness) " it was all over as black as your
Worship's coat." I said I don't believe, mind you, that you
would do such a thing intentionally, and God forbid that I
should charge her with it.
Mr. TIVYFORD—Did she say anything else? Witness—
your Worship. When she was at the public-house, I
heard her ask a man there whether she should be taken up if
she killed her child. She asked him, " What would they do
to me for it—would they hang me?"
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house in Charles-street, where they slept that night. One
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said to the other prisoner, " Of course you cannot think of
burying the body without an inquest ?' He replied, that
" he meant to have a parcel of old women out of Clare-
market to sit upon it."
Mr. C. J. Snitch, the surgeon to the police force, stated
that he had examined the body of the child, which presented
no external appearance of violent usage. He had not made
a post tnortent examination of the body, and was, therefore,
unable to speak with certainty as to the cause of death. It
was not an unusual thing for children, previously in good
health, to die in a fit of convulsions.
The female prisoner, who was still suffer* from weak-
ness, caused by her recent confinement and subsequent dis-
solute habits, stated that the child had a fit in the night and
died in convulsions, and that nobody was more hurt and
frightened about it than she had been.

The landlady of the house deposed having heard tbQ
child cry in tne night, and the mother trying to pacify it.
When all wasquiet she natui ally supposed that the child had
been quieted; but in the morning the mother told her that
it was dead.

Mr. TWYFORD said there was no evidence before him to
show that the child's death had been occasioned by violence,
and, therefore, he should discharge the prisoners, who would,
of course, attend the coroner's inquest, where the matter
would be further inquired into. He did not mean to say
they were innocent. He wished to leave it to the coroner
to settle that point.
Mr. Boxwood, from the Strand Union, then stepped for-
ward and stated that he had a charge against the prisoners
for deserting another child, which had consequently become
chargeable to the parish.
Mr. AVYFORD—But I would rather not hear that charge
at present. Let it be deferred.

kr. Boxwood said the parish had been put to a great ex-
pense and trouble by the prisoners, who were most drunkin
and worthless characters. The woman had only just kit
the -workhouse where she was confined, and soon afterwards
their daughter became chargeable to the union, having been
left by their parents at a public- house where they had been
drinking. He had been ever shwe trying to .find out their
abode, and was anxious, now that they were taken, to press
the charge at once.

Mr. T;VYFORD said he would rather not detain the pri •
soners. Let the inquest take place first.
Mr. Boswood intimated that the prisoners might again
disappear, but the worthy Magistrate, who seemed by no
means anxious to get into a squabble with Mr. Wakley, de-
clined to hear the case, and the prisoners were both dis
charged.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday Ceorge Williams, a tall young man, of very
smart appearance, described as an accountant, was placed at
the bar before. Mr. Bingham, charged with feloniously utter-
ing several pieCes of counterfeit money.
Mr. Powell,jun. attended on behalf of the Mint to conduct
the prosecution, and Mr. Atkinson as solicitor for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of Alfred Borlin, a youth
living in Brunswick-place, City-road, that while passing the
house of a confectioner in the City-road, on the preceding
evening, his attention was attracted by the circumstance of a
person in the shop cutting a base half-crown, and handing it
to the prisoner, who then presented some good money, and in
a hurried manner left the shop. In consequence of this oc-
currence the witness's suspicions were excited, and he was
induced to watch the further movements of the prisoner,
whom he subsequently saw enter several public-housea, at
one of which be obtained four half-crowns in exchange fur a
corresponding amount of smaller silver. The prisoner was
closely followed by a male companion, with whom he held a
short conference on leaving each of the shops, and at more
than one of which the witness had ascertained he had en-
deavoured to pass base coin. The prisoner ultimately en-
tered the shop of a tobacconist, where a similar transaction
took place, and sect after he had left that the witness gave
information to a police-sergeant, who followed the prisoner as
far as the Eagle, and then took him into custody.
Mr. Frederick Smith said, the prisoner called at his shop
and purchased some biscuits, in payment for which he ten-
dered a half-crown. Witness immediately Ea w that it was a
piece-of base metal, and after defacing it, returned it to the
prisoner, who then handed him the value of the biscuits in
good money, and hurried out of the shop, leaving the bis-
cuits he had bought upon the counter.

Mrs. Phyllis Almond said the prisoner called at her shop
and purchased a cheroot, tendering a half-crown in payment ;
she gave him his proper change, and he left the shop, but im-
mediately he had done so she discovered the vein to be a bad
one, and sent a messenger in pursuit of him, who found he
was already in the custody of the sergeant.
The prisoner closely questioned the witnesses with the
view of shaking their evidence as to his identity ; but they
all positively adhered to their previous testimony, and the
witness Borlin declared he could not be mistaken, as he did
not once lose sight of the prisoner from the time he left the
confectioner's shop until he was taken into custody.
The police-sergeant, who took the prisoner into custody,
said the latter had been searched at the station, and that
among other articles found upon his person was a quantity
of silver and copper money, amounting to about 245. or 255.,
which was good coin.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, earnestly protested
that the witnesses were entirely mistaken as to their identi-
fication of him ; and, though he must, of course, admit that
he was in the City-road at the time in question, he denied
that he had been near any of the shops at which it was al-
leged that the base coin had been offered. The prisoner, was
proceeding in a similar course of strong denial, when he was
checked by his solicitor, who advised him to reserve his
defence.

Mr. BINGHAM said, that after the clear and positive evi-
dence that had been given against him, lie had no alternative
but to commit the prisoner for further examination, and he
must be brought up again next week.
An application was then made by the prisoner's solicitor
to accept bail for his client, which Mr. Bingham acceded .to,
but said he should require the usual 48 hours' notice of the
parties, that their sufficiency might be inquired into.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday Mr. Williams, proprietor of the New Inn, in the
Bridge-road, Lambeth, being in attendance at the court on
other business, requested the advice of Mr. Norton as to how
he should proceed in a case in which a person. calling himself
a German Count, had obtained 20s. from Lim under false
pretences.
From the statement of Mr. Williams it appeared that the
" Count" (who sometimes wrote his name Count Julian
-," and at others " Count Albert -"), had honoured
his house with his patronage, and run up a bill of upwards of
101. This, however, was not what he complained of, as he
was aware it was but a simple debt, but on the Tuesday;
before the Count left his house, he sent him from his dressing-
room a letter addressed to Messrs. Meyrick mid Co., bankers,
at Hamburgh, with a request that he (Mr. Williams) would
seal and send it to the post•office. He did so, and the Count
immediately after applied for and obtained 205., on his posi-
tive assurance that Messrs. Meyrick were his bankers, and
that he had written for a remittance. Instead of a remit-
tance the Count's letter came to his house by return of post,
and it was quite clear that the bankers at Hamburgh had
no funds in their hands belonging to him, and that in fact
the letter was a mere manoeuvre to throw him off his guard.
Mr. NORTON inquired if Mr. Williams had been made ac-
quainted with the contents of the letter written by the
Count to the bankers

Mr. Williams replied that he had not ; and said that
though the letter had been send to him unsealed, he had not
had the curiosity to open it. It, however, came into his
hands, having been returned from Hamburgh, but as it
was written in the German language he was unable to read it..
Mr. NORTON remarked, that the guilt or innocence of the
writer of the letter would very much depesnd upon the lan-
guage or terms of the letter, and, therefore, the applicant's
first duty was to have his letter translated.
Mr. Williams said, he had no moral doubt the party was
a regular swindler, for after leaving his house, he (Mr.
Williams) discovered that he had borrowed money from the
waiters of his establishment, and, in fact, laid most of his
servants under contributions. He had also aseertained that
the Count was at present living in first-rate style at the
west-end of the town, and not content with good living
merely, had entered into engagements with a job-master for
a carriage and horses to drive him about town. He (Mr.
Williams) should, however, take his Worship's advice rela-
tive to the letter, and if he found, as he anticipated, that it
was not a request for the remittance of money in the hands
of the banker belonging to the writer, he should certainly
have the Count apprehended.
THAMES POLICE.

Two coal-whippers, named Michaelalins and Matthew
Harney, were charged with assaulting Robert Frederick
Nunn, landlord of the Ship and Green Dragon, King-
street, St. George's-in-the-East, and James Park, who was
drinking in the house, and also with assaulting three police-
constables of the IC division, named Wiggins. 73, Brook, 364,
and Jolly, 346. Another constable, named Plant, 34 K,
lies very ill in the London Hospital from injuries which
he sustained while conveying the parties to the station-house.
It appears that the prisoners, two powerful fellows, went
with another, not in custody, to the house of Mr. Nunn and
called for two pots of the best ale, which they refused
to pay for when served. They jeered at the landlord,
and taking what are called " sights" at him, told him to get
the reckoning out of that. A constable was sent for, but
they still refused to pay. He then told them to leave his
house, and took Harney gently by the shoulder, when the
latter turned round on him, and commenced a most .hrutal
attack. His wife and son were also struck by the prisoners.
More police were sent for, and the prisoners renewed the at-
tack with increased fury, assailing the police and others who
came to the landlord's assistance with the stools, the tables,
the fender, and the other furniture of the tap- room. Wig-
gins 73 R succeeded in closing the door against a large mob
who were endeavouring to force in to the rescue of the pri-
soners, and after receiving severe ill-treatment, from the pain
of which lie was still suffering, captured Collins. Just then,
however, the door was broken in, and he, with the prisoners,
were hustled out into the street by the mob. The prisoner
was rescued, and again re-captured by Wiggins, who con-
veyed him to the station-house through a mob of 200 or 300
persons, amidst a shower of stones, dirt, and brickbats.
Mr. BRODERIP said, that a case involving such a series of
gross outrages was too serious to be dealt with summarily.
He should, therefore, require the prisoners to put in bail to
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lie would take that opportunity of stating, that if any fatal
result followed from the stones and brickbats thrown, every
person in the mob would be liable to be tried for murder.
THE RATTLER AND THE /XLECTOT-111 the trials
which were instituted by the Admiralty between these ves-
sels, to test the qualities of the screw propeller ship Rattler
and the paddle-wheel ship Alecto, the superiority of the Rat-
tler has been fully shown. In one of the trials which took
place on March 30, during a perfect calm, from the Little Nore
to Yarmouth Roads, 80 miles, the latter beat the Alecto
23i minutes, although the Rattler, in consequence of a short
supply of steam, was compelled to work the second grade of
expansion oenert hmroinuugtheo. u totnheardrai day, and dautnt!ealr enginesomffo
et
again, both vessels having all sails set toir Raomnoemlary d'o
32d
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wsb2otfr4haee xrseettnze drpeot.h eThey Rattler in 34 continued
milesil nbnelantgth e Alecto by 13 minutes.
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day, affording the very opp.ortunity they were sent uowutttrahte;
seek for trying the Rattler's powers in a head sea. In getting
under way, the vessel pitching heavily, snapped her cable
and lost her anchor. This race
was one oeabout 60 miles, and
the Rattler passed the Spurm Light 40 minutes before her
competitor. On one occasion the 'tattler lost steam, Which
h
allowed the Alecto to get alongside of her: This :al at rent o'clock A.m., and it was from that time to her anchoring that
the 40 minutes were gained ; although prior to that, when
the sea was roughest, the Rattler gained more than.
half a mile on the Alecto in the first hour, the latter having
had the start of the former. The sixty miles were accom-
plished in seven hours and a half, tide principally against
them. The very lowest pressure exhibited " when the screw
was out of the water" (as the opponents of the principle
term it) was 341 b. ranging up to 601 h., on Salter's balance,
Subsequent trials took place with still greater advantages to
the powers of the screw ; but the most conclusive results
as to its superiority were proved when the vessels being fas-
tened to each other, with their heads in opposite directions,
the Rattler towed the Electo, in site of all her attempts to
run away astern, at the rate of two miles and a half an hour.
THE OREGON DECLARATION.--.-" These declarations,"
says the Liverpool Albion of yesterday, " reached Liverpool
shortly after three o'clock on Saturday, and their eff,:ct on
the cotton market was immediately perceptible, Ptlivity sud-
denly succeeding to stagnation, and a change of purposes be-
coming instantly evident on the part of both purchasers and
sellerS. Throughout the day business had been fiat, all par,-
ties appearing shy of operations. This apathy quickly dis-
appeared. and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, fully
5,000 bales changed hands, and an advance of from id. to
id. per pound was realised. To-day is expected to be a sin-
gular day in the cotton market, the speculators being gene-
rally on the qui rive; while others who are holders evince
disposition to continue so."
THE HAGUE, APRIL 7.—A letter from the Lower
Rhine of the 2d of April, says—" News was received
yesterday from Berlin, that his Majesty the King had
granted permission for the oonstruction c an iron rail-
way from Arnheim to Wesel. It is eXpeeted that a
loan will be shortly owed for two, millions and a half
of dollars, which will p@ for the wQrk.,,