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London, England, 1845-12-02 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec.l.

(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and a
Common Jury.)
NORTH V. KEMPSHEAD.

This was an action for breach of contract, the defendant
being alleged to have neglected to supply to the plaintiff's
wool-carding manufactory, in the Borough road, Southwark,
a sufficient quantity of steam power, according to his contract.
Mr. Sergeant Channel!, with whom was Mr. Lush, corn-
ducted the plaintiff's case; and Mr. Sergeant Byles ap-
peared for the defendant.
After hearing several witnesses on both sides, the jury
deliberated a short time, found a verdict for the plain-
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CENTILti, CRILVIINAI. COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Comp4seioner BULLOCK.)*
a woman of repulsive appearance, was
indictedfFwit
o°rtliilt3st e on the 26th of November did make an
assault on Hannah Connor, and with a chopper inflicted a
wound on her forehead with intent to do her some grievous
bodily harm.
Mr. Platt conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Huddlestone
appeared for the defence,
Hannah Connor stated that she is the Wife of a shoe-
maker, residing at 19, Half-meon-street, Bisliopsgate-street•
She resides in the same room with her father, mother,
sister, and husband. The prisoner lived in the room
under them. On the evening of Wednesday, the 26th, her
fatter sent her down stairs to fetch some water. Just as she
had got the water she heard a noise in the yard, and ran UD
stales without shutting the door: Her father asked hpr if
she had shut it, end when she told him that she had not he
went down stairs for the purpose of shutting it. The prisoner
met him in the passage, and became abusive, saying the door
Wt open for the purpose of annoying her. Her
mother then came down, and some words passed
between her and the prisoner, but they were separated.
The prisoner was then slaWing at her own room-door, and
she, said to witness, ‘`iiCoate here," Witness went up to her,
and when she came within reach the priscrier drew a email
chopper from behind her, and struck her on the forehead. The
bloW was so violent that it knocked her down and rendered
heti insensible, When she came to herself she found that
shat had
wretl blood.eeiivd
4riD!l49wound on the forehead, and was
Witness had not spoken to her in any
way which could annoy her.
annoyance
fa
father
t
lly Mr. HUDDLESTONE—There had been a great many
coMplaints made by the landlord that the back door of the
loinoetsheeh6radoubnedenfileofotr. wopen,iticiicsthep
that
her of
h all
rand
lodgers
it
a stone against it to keep
it. open. She laughed loudly when ;she got. op 4tairs hut it
waf in consequence of somethingt
which did not refer to her leaving the door open. When her
mother went down and spoke to the prisoner there were
Very angry words used, but 114 blows passed before the pri-
soner struck her. Does not reMember anything arty that,
as she was quite insensible.
John Goodchild, the father of the last witness, stated that
on the evening of Wednesday last, lie sent his daughter down
to fetch some water, Shp came running up stairs immediately
after, as if frightened. He asked hpr if she had shut the
door, and she said that she had not. He tinie went dgwn
himself to shut the door, and the prisoner came out of her
room and beeame very abusive. After some words had
passed she took a chopper freM behind her dress and struck
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ehd t
e blewo an a
irctir erigCi her insen-
sliiits;ied.aattttehreolnvotulinedfoirneflhiecatedd.
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extent.
By Mr. HuIDDLICSTONE—There had been no lighting or
scratching before the blow was inflicted.
Benjamin Catmouth, a police,.conetablo, proved that he
took tiro prisoner into custody. There were from 60 to 70
people round the door, and there WAS a great disturbance.
This closed the case for the prosePtltion.
Mr. Iftmnr,EgroNF. then addressed the jury #t some length
in defence, and called
Timothy Ryan, the landlord of the house in which the
parties lodged. He stated that the family of the Connors
and Goodchild were very noisy, and that they beat the pri-
soner, who, in defending herself, accidentally struck the pro-
secutrix with a chopper which she had in her hand,
The jury returned a verdict of " Guilty of a common
assault."
Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK, in passing sentence, said that
lie hoped that the prisoner would indulge in no further had
feeling against the prosecutor, as she had recommended her
to mercy. Her crime assumed a very bad appearance, as the
instrument with which the injury was inflicted might have
caused her death. The Court, however, taking all the cir-
cumstances into consideration, would pass a lenient sentence,
which was that she be imprisoned and kept to hard labour
for three calendar months.

OFFICIAL LIST OP THE fiIENTENCE
S AT TUE CENTRAL
CRIMINAL COURT FOR TI-fE NOVENT4V4 SESsUmp.
Sentence of Death was recorded against Charles
Carter, for a nameless offence.
To be transported for Life—William Carney,
Beard, James Dixon.
For Fifteen Years—William Lewis, Benjamin Bartlett.
For Fourteen Years—Adolphus William Bodill and
btu Wilfiapv.
For twelve Years—William Anderson, Charles Gibbs.
For Ten Years—George Gamble, James Lane, Charles
Mitchell, John Grogan, James Burke, William Rowe,
John Murphy; Paul Cooper, 4.04 GoTd, Francis Cope,
Elizabeth Langley," Isaac. ileicip,.4nFte Bffrns,
BeifßoW. 4 William•,
For Seven Ycars,--RobeTt Williams, Frances Payne,
Jane Kiseot, Daniel itiresoo, John PUs? OliC"Ii4P Bay,
Mary CO:01401, POrp,id gusannah.cw? Weld'
Tielzner, ,John Eyans,
176 e fOllClving weve ordered to be kept to 1,,.. 2, a
for the periods specified
•

-.kru labour

Tor zigtiteen Months—Henry Timpson, Thomas
Joyce, John Leaden, Stephen Prescott, Eliza Herbert,
Catherine Jeffery s, Mary Anne Browne.

For Tyre!.vt: Months—John Coleman, John Pearce,
John Prest on, George Collins, Charles Bunn, George
Bracton, alias Baxter, William Jones, Thomas Wright,
William C caper, Thomas 'ricer, Robert Baxter, James
Filer, Cs therine Hackett, George White, alias Black-
man, Str:-..111 Saunders, Charles Pliillit).s.
FOY: Nine Months—John Jones, Charles Thomas
Knight, Charles Barrow, John Hammond, James
Pantry, Mary Anne Sullivan, Thomas Coltman, Wil-
li:3,M Prior, Mary Baker, Caroline- Williams.
For Six Mouths—Thomas Owen, Richard Aldridge,
Thomas Darrell Wrench, Frederick Dean, Thomas
1 Kebble, James Woodward, Joseph biers, Frederick
Pearson, Joseph Brown, Richard Martin, Martha Lynd-
ham, Robert White, Charles Urey, Allan Williamson,
J. Dobbins, T. Callendar, Francis Nicholls, Anne
Gardner, Jane Cribb, Daniel Dodson, John Brown, Ro-
bert Waywood.
For Four Months—John Cronin, Richard Green,
Margaret Macdonald, Charles King,stone; James Catlin,
William Hemmings, Barnett Worrow, William Hyde,
Elizabeth Blackenbury, Richard Mills.
For Three Months—William Jones, James Collins,

William Agrar, Lewis Benjamin, Robert Lead, James
Salt, John Williams, George Houghton, Mary Fowler,
Anne Hamosworth, Mary -Drake, Henry Smith, Min
Marshall, Andrew Dark, John Whitehead, Joseph
Burton, William Winn, Thomas Barefield, Thomas
Dodd, William Johnson, John Gomm, William Alex-
ander, George Booty, Rachael Venton, Thomas Watson,
George Reed, James , Mann, Frederick Davis, Eliza
Russell, Mary Anne Johnson, Mrs. Hamilton, James

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Harp: r.
Some other persons were sentenced to shorter periods
of imprisonment, varying from one week to two days
in Newgate.
The following prisoners were acquitted by the petty
jury :—John Roberts, Robert Adlington, William Pike,
Edward Powell, Thomas Gould, Edward Smith, Charles
Elam, Thomas Jones, Mary Smith, Samuel Wyndham
Joue., William Beckett, alias Michael Dering, Richard
Turley, James Jefferys, Michael Crawley, John Brown,
Jane Scott, George Jevers, Joseph Marrs, Ellen
Quinne, Edwin Andrews, alias Edward Bragg, Mary
Crawley, George Messenger, Thomas Howard, James
Jones, Henry James, John Bushell, Henry Smith, Fre-
derick Morrison, James Lockington, John Brett, Moses
Hakal, Hannah Davis, Nicholas Popert, William Hall,
Robert Davis, David Cleary, Henry Clark, Mark Gla-
zier, John Rasberry, Reuben Wiles, William King,
, Edward Jones, Thomas Gomptt, Emanuel Todd, Charles
I Lee, Jeremiah Sheen, John Matthews, Patrick Bryan,
Robert Doo!an, Margaret Kelly, Eliza White, Mary
Anne Curtis, John Horrobin. _ .

There were only eight bills ignored by the grand jury.
The Court, at its rising, adjoured to Monday, the
sth December.

SURREY SESSIONS.

Yesterday ,the adjourned sessions was held, at the Court-
house, Newington, before Mr. Puckle, Chairman, and a
full bench of magistrates. The calendar contains the
names of forty-five prisoners fur trial for felonies, besides
twelve for misdemeanour.

Previously to the trial of prisoners the Court pro-
ceeded to Pne transaction of county business, during
which the reports of the visiting justices of the different
gsols of the county, as well as those of the officers at-
tached to them, were read. The surgeon's report of the
House of Correction at Brixton gave some curious de-
tails with respect to the operation of the work on the
treadmill on prisoners. It stated that of fourty- four male
prisoners, working on the treadwheel, who had been
more than three month's in prison,: twenty-four
had lost in weight, varying from lib. to 221bs ; fifteen
had gained, varying from 11b. to 251b5., and five re..
imined the same as on their admission. That of those
who had lost in weight; one man only had suffered in
health, and he had been a butcher by trade, and accus-
tomed to very generous diet before coming into prison.
The surgeon further reported that the cells on the
ground tier, being. all paved, were very damp during
wet weather, to which, and the use of so much gruel iu
the dietary, he attributed in a great measure the preva-
lence of diarrhoea and dysentery. Owing to the
above suggestion, the visiting justices had caused one
cell to be bearded as an experiment, and therefore re •
commend the Court to authorise them to have the rest
of the cells boarded in a similar manner. During the
past year the number of prisoners admitted into Brixton
gaol amounted to 2,315, viz.—children under twelve
years of age, 50; above twelve and under fourteen, 125 ;
above fourteen and under seventeen, 586. Two-thirds
of the prisoners had not attained the age of manhood—
a proportion, as the report mentioned, fearful, and attri-
butable to imperfect education in the general acceptation
of the term. _ _

The reports having been confirmed, the Court then
proceeded to the trial of prisoners.
A person of gentleman-like appearance, who refused
to give his name, and was entered in the calendar as
thirty-one years f age, was indicted for stealing a horse
and chaise, value 40 guineas, the property of William
Botwright, a livery-stable-keeper, at Yarmouth.
From the evidence, which was entered into at consi-
derable length, it appeared that on the Bth ult. the pri-
soner called at the prosecutor's livery stables in Yar-
mouth, and describing himself as a woollen merchant,
hired a horse and gig to take him to Lowestoft, saying that
he should be back the same afternoon. Prosecutor, be-
lieving the statement, entrusted the horse andcbaise to the
prisoner, of whom he heard nothing afterwards until the
13th. On that day prosecutor received an intimation
that the prisoner was in custody at Farnham, in Surrey,
and on repairing there it was found the prisoner had
called upon a man named Newell in that town, who,
amongst other avocations followed that of constable, and
offered to dispose of the gig and harness to him. Newell
having previously seen the Hue and Cry, in which was
inserted an account of the robbery and a description of
the offender, on narrowly observing the prisoner sus-
pected he was the man, and accordingly took him into
custody, and, as previously described, acquainted the
' prosecutor, who proceeded to Farnham and identified
the prisoner, as well as his horse and chaise.
Mr. CHARNOCK,' who defended the prisoner, accounted
for the circumstance of the young man not giving his
name was not with a view as to concealment of his
name, for he had not been in custody before ; but was
done solely for the purpose of sparing the feelings of
his family, which was highly respectable, the disgrace
such an occurrence was calculated to inflict on them.
That he (the Learned Counsel) was instructed the pri-
soner had no intention of stealing the horse and gig, and
that the conversion of the property had not been proved,
He was, therefore, entitled to an acquittal. He then
cited cases to prove the accuracy of his position.
The CHAIRMAN, on summing up the evidence, re-
marked upon the facts of the prisoner having offered the
gig and harness for sale to Newell, which was pretty
confirmatory, of what his intentima was when he hired
them of proSecutor,
The jury having consulted for a short time, returned
a verdict of ggilty.--Sentence deferryti,
I No other cases tried in the course of the day were pos.,
sessed of interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
N4NVON-1-10US4
Mr. Chapplo, a newspaper Agent In the City, applied
to the Lord Mayor for a summons, calling upon the
directors, or secretary, or provisional committee of
one of the railroad apeculations, to answer the charge of
having refused to pay back some money which he (the
applicant) had deposited in the hands of the London
Joint-Stock Bank to the account of- the specidatigh,
The LORI-4 M4yoit said be had healq is great deal
about the refusal of directors to pay back de-
posits after they found it was impossible. for them to
go to Parliament in the ensuing session, and Ile 41101114
be happy to 04ercise whatever power ;he might have to
serve parties who were inconvenienced by the dishonest
detention of their money, Ilis 1 ordo4p desired to
know whether the company was broken. np.
Mr. Chapple said he had paid 841. at the London
Joint-Stock Bank upon a letter of allotment for forty
shares. soon after lie had paid that money, he received
a letter stating that the directors would be satisfied with
ten shillings a share instead of two guineas, and subse-
quently he had learned that the company had suspended
theiu Operations, but on applying foil his money, be was
not only refused that, but even the scrip had not been
forthcoming. The directors seemed to him to be disposed
to gain some advantage from the project at all events,
for Without any rational pretext they perseyervl in hold-
ing his property:
The 1.01.:D MAYOR.—I shall certainly do all I can
to assist you. I shall grant a summons, and-try what
can be done to prevent the consequences of such an evil
to ply
GUILDHALL.

Philip Marley, a cab-driver, was charged with gross
misbehaviour.

Mrs. Brown, of Upper Thames•street, stated that she
hired 4 cab In Aldersgate-street, to drive }ter home, as
it was raining fast. On reaching Newgate-street, he
turned into it and said she must get out. She perceived
he was tipsy, and wheu she was in the position of one
leg in the cab and one out, he started off and threw her
down. Her umbrella and market basket remained
in the cab. She gave an alarm, and he was pursued,
He galloped on till he overturned the cab, and smashed
it to pieces, at the bottom of Skinner street. She re-
covered her basket, but lost her umbrella. _

James Hull, a City policeman, who secured the pri-
soner, deposed to the furious pace at which he ,dashed
along Newgate-street.
The master of the cal) estimated his damage at 01.
The prisoner, who was at first supposed to be seriously
hurt, was removed to the hospital, and from thence to
the gaol.
Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE said he could not impose
any adequate fine, and he therefore adjudged him to be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one month.