The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

NEW COURT

The Court commenced business this morning by tak-
ing those cases upon the calendar which were connected
with uttering base coin, and other offences against her
Majesty's Mint, of which there was an unusually large
number.

The following are the names of those who stool in-
dicted :—T. Wilson, S. Wilson, Ellen Daly, Martha
Daly, George Shea, and William Payne.
The facts elicited in each case by the evidence were
of the ordinary nature developed in cases of smashing.
In the case of T. Wilson the circumstances were more
aggravated than those of his fellow-prisoners, having at-
tempted to pass for a half-sovereign a good sixpence,
which he had gilt over in such a manner as to render a
detection of the fraud almost impossible, except to the
most experienced eye. Ile had also violently assaulted
the prosecutor and the police when endeavouring to take
him into custody.
Mr. Ellis appeared for the prosecution, and all the
prisoners were undefended.

The jury having returned a verdict of Guilty against
all the prisoners excepting Ellen Daly and Martha Daly,
The Learned COMMON :SERGEANT, in passing sentence,
said he was sorry to perceive the progress which "smash-
ing" was latterly making. The most dangerous mode
adopted by the present " smashers," who began first
with copper, then with silver, and ended with gold, was
that of passing gilt sixpences for sovereigns, and he hoped
those whose province it was to put the public on their
guard would make this system of fraud generally known.
The Cotiwr then sentenced T. Wilson to 18 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour; and each of the other
convicted prisoners to nine months' imprisonment, with
hard labour.

At the termination of these trials (twelve o'clock) the
Grand Jury entered the Court, and having informed the
Learned Judge that they had disposed of all the bills
before them, he returned them thanks for their atten-
tion and expedition, after which they were discharged.
A well-dressed and gentlemanly young man was placed
at the bar, upon an indictment charging him with steal-
ing various articles, the property of John West.
It appeared that the prisoner had taken furnished
lodgings from the prosecutor, from which he absconded
in two days after, taking with ;him several articles of
wearing apparel, the property of the prosecutor and
other lodgers.
Several other cases of a similar nature having been
established against the prisoner, the jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to 12 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour.
THE LATE EXTENSIVE SWINDLING CASES.—Samuel
Edge, who was tried yesterday in this Court upon seve-
ral indictments charging him with swindling a vast num-
ber of tradesmen, in conjunction with three persons
named Henry Miller, Sarah Denver, and Charlotte Edge,
the former of whom was sentenced to transportation, was
again placed at the bar this morning, to receive judgment.
The CoslnoN SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said he
had consulted the several Judges sitting at the Central
Criminal Court, and neither he nor they, after a careful
perusal of the evidence, could entertain a doubt but he
was one of a most daring gang of swindlers, who lived
by plundering honest tradesmen. However, as he was
not proved to have been so deeply involved as the other
prisoners, the Court would show him more mercy, and
()sly sentence him to 18 months' imprisonment in the
House of Correction, with hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
This day, in consequence of it becoming known in this
district that, nt an early hour this morning, the police
had succeded in entering a common gaming-house in St.
James's-street, and captured several of the gamblers, a
vast concourse of persons assembled in front of this
Court to witness their being brought up. The Court
was also excessively crowded by parties desirous to hear
the investigation.
Mr. Clarkson and a solicitor appeared on behalf of
the defendants.

After the night charges had been disposed of, the
defendants, fourteen in number, were placed at the bar,
in the following order, charged with having been found
in a common gambling-house, without lawful excuse,
viz., Charles Hunt, Charles Lilly, William Saunders,
John Lewis, John Nichols, Thomas Howard, James
Shaw, Alexander Vincent, George Jones, Henry Jack-
son, William Johnson, George Jones, Thomas Wood,
and George Fitzgerald.
Superintendent Hughes, of the B division, stated
that, in accordance with the orders of the Commissioners
of Police, he went this morning, between two and three
o'clock, accompanied by Superintendent Beauford of the
C division, and about twenty-five constables, to No. 64,
St. James's-street, and found the street door open ; a
second door, a glass one, was also open ; a third door
was covered with baize, and was fastened with a latch—

it was forced open, and a fourth was reached ; it was a
very strong door, covered with green baize and thick
sheet iron. It was attempted to be forced open for
about five minutes, and then one of the defendants,
believed to bo Vincent, came down stairs and said it
should be opened, if they would desist. It was
opened, and was found to have been secured
with three strong bolts on the inside, and a thick iron bar
fixed in the centre of the door into the stone flooring.