The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. ♦INCENT HOWARD.

The defendant in this case was willing to give up
the keys of the house, and to do all he could to abate
the nuisance. lie was discharged with a nominal
fine of lc.

THE QUEEN V. WOOLRIDGB, HARRIS, BRA HAM, AND

GALB.

In these cases the learned counsel said the parties
could not be found, but they had abated the nuisances,
and he was willing that the recognizances should be
discharged.—Discharged accordingly.

THE QUEEN V. RACHEL STURGEON AND ELIZABETH

FRANKLIN.

The defendants were convicted on the same day of
a like offence, and were out on bail, but had not
made their appearance when their names were called
over. Their recogniunces were, therefore, ordered to
be estreated.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

John Thompson, a person advanced in years, of very
respectable appearance, was brought before Mr.
Maltby for final examination, charged with having
committed several small thefts at the stands in the
Pantheon Bazaar.
Miss Joice said she attended a stand in the bazaar.
On Monday afternoon her attention having been at-
tracted by a slight noise at her stand, she was induced
to look into a rosewood tea- caddy, and she then missed
the cut glass sugar-bason. As she was quite certain
the prisoner must have taken it, she followed him
until he turned into a room belonging to the porters,
the door of which she locked, and then went in search
of one of the constables who are in attendance at the
bazaar. The sugar-bason was afterwards found in
the room in which the prisoner had been detained.
Brown, one of the porters, said he examined the
prisoner, but found nothing on his person. On look-
ing about the room he found the sugar-bason con-
cealed in a pail of water which stood behind the pri-
soner.

L In defence, the prisoner said he had been
' wounded in the head some years back, and this ren-
' dered him at times wholly unconscious of his acts.
He was fully committed.
There were two small silver-tipped bottles found in
the cell in which the prisoner had been placed, both
of which had been stolen from another stand in the
same bazaar. These being identified, they were
ordered to be delivered to the owners.
Inspector Aggs said he had been misled with re-
spect to the prisoner, as far as his former statement,
that he would turn out to be a well-known thief, was
concerned. He had, however ascertained that the
prisoner was known to the police as having been con-
cerned in swindling practices.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Four well-dresssed persons, named Henry Miller,
Sarah Dewar, and Thomas and William Smith, alias
Apsells, with a host of other aliases, father and son,
were brought up for re-examination before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having feloniously
obtained possession of a quantity of :miscella-
neous articles, the property of different trades-
people in all parts of the metropolis. The prisoners
were said to form part of an extensive and organised
gang of swindlers, who for some time past had pur-
sued their depredations with remarkable tact and in-
genuity, and the court was crowded with tradesmen
to prefer charges against them.
It appeared that about three weeks ago the two
first-named persons hired a house, situate No. 1,
Peter's Cottages, Hammersmith, and immediately on
establishing themselves sent round orders to the
tradesmen in the neighbourhood for goods of every
description, which were executed with all the alacrity
and promptitude usually manifestedon such occasions.
At the expiration of a fortnight theprisoners suddenly
broke up their establishment and clandestinely re- '
moved the whole of the property, but the police, after
incessant exertions, succeeded in tracing them to a
house in Harvey-street, Hoxton, where they also
found the other two prisoners, and conveyed them all
to the station-house. A vast quantity of miscella-
neous property was found at the house and taken pos-
session of by the police. It was proved in evidence
that the elder prisoner Smith had personally super-
intended the removal of the goods to the house in Har-
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smith a few days after the flight of the other pri-
soners. The prisoners were remanded upon a charge
of fraudulently obtaining a quantity of bonnets, the
property of Afr. Peat, a straw-bonnet manufacturer
at Hammersmith, and thefollowingadditional charges
were yesterday proceeded with.
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stated that about a fortnightterterm
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sent in, but on calling, according to
appointment, for his money on the 25th ult., he found
the house shut up, and that the prisoner had ab-
sconded.

Mr. Barnes, an ironmonger at Hammersmith, and
several other tradesmen, identified the prisoner
Miller as Flaying victimised them under similar cir-
cumstances.

Sergeant Dubois stated that havingrkeived pi*itive

information. that the elder Smith had lately taken a
house at Upper Mitcham, in the name of Richard Ap-
sell, he proceeded thither on Friday, and searched the
place, where he found a large quantity of new dresses
and other ;trizicles, corresp Hiding with similar articles
which had been fraudulently obtained from different
tradesmen. He also found a large. mass of written
documents, some of which were agreements for
houses take ain different names, for various terms of
years, in all parts of London. Some of these docu-
ments relat, 0 to one Joseph Price, who had been en-
gaged in extensive swindling transactions, at a house
in Cambridge Heath-road, and he was prepared with
evidence to prove that the said Joseph Price and
the elder Smith were one and the same person.
Mr. James t Kipling, clerk to Messrs. Truman and
Co., tea-deals Ts, in Coleman. street, identified the elder
Smith as having obtained goods to the amount of 501.,
from the 11 rm, in the name of Joseph Price, of
Cambridge-heath-road, on which occasion he gave a
reference to :a Mr. Dewar, of Ashford-street, Hoxton,
whom the witness identified as the prisoner Miller.
Sergeant IJ+ubois said that the prisoner Smith had
opened no leras than seven different shops, in as many
different names, within the last twelvemonths, and if
allowed further time he would bring forward nume-
rous other charges against them.
Mr. Dunce mbe, who attended on behalf of the pri-
soners, subiratted that no case whatever had been
made out ag afinst them; but
Mr. BROVVIITON said he was clearly of opinion that
a case of constructive felony had been established, and
he should remand all the prisoners for another week.