The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST l9, 1641

Mr. HARDWICIC said the public might possibly
'suffer some inconvenience in not having the means of
procuring refreshment after the performances of the
theatre ; but the Act was peremptory, and he was
bound to put it in force. If an indulgence was ex-
tended to well-conducted houses, other houses not so
well-conducted would claim the same privilege, and
thus the very evil which the Legislature sought to
remedy would be-created to a great extent.
The fine of 20s. was then inflicted.
The next case was against'M. Duhourg, the well-
known restaurateur, in the Haymarket.
The evidence was similar to the previous case, and
the penalty was the same.
Mr. Baker, the late superintendent of the C division,
accompanid by Mr. Beresford, the new superinten-
dent, came into Court, and, addressing Mr. Hard-
wick, begged to be allowed, on his retirement from
the police, to express his grateful thanks for 'the
kindness and assistance he had invariably met with
from every Magistrate who had sat on the bench, and
to beg for a continuance of the same advantages to
his successor.
Mr. HARDWICK said he was pleased at the oppor-
tunity of expressing his satisfaction at the respect
and attention which the officers of the police had in-
variably paid to the suggestions of the bench. Such
a good understanding was calculated to render the
administration of the law by Magistrates more secure
and more respected, and at the same time to add to
the efficiency and the respectability of the police force.
The parties then retired.
THAMES POLICE.
Joseph Morris, the proprietor of several tenements
in Stepney, was charged with assaulting a poor wo-
man named Mary Pearson, who resided in one of his
houses. It appeared that the prisoner had sent a
broker into complainant's house a few days since,
under a distress warrant for rent, and sold all she
had. He came the next day, and finding that some
charitable persons had given her a chair and some
blankets, he attacked her and beat her, and endea-
voured to force her out of the house.
One of the complainant's neighbours proved the
assault, and said the prisoner had also flourished a
chair over her head in a menacing manner.
The prisoner, who seemed as subservient to power
as he had been tyrannous to poverty, interlarded his ad-
dress to the Magistrate with your Reverence, your
Lordship, and even your Majesty, said the com-
plainant owed him three-quarter' rent, and after the
furniture had been taken from the house the key
was given to him. On the next day, however, the
woman, he found, had taken possession again, and he
`certainly did try to force her out.
Complainant said she was out at the time her goods
were taken, and when she returned horde she found
everything gone.
Mr. BALLANTINE fined the prisoner 405., or in de-
fault he was to be imprisoned three weeks.
The prisoner for some time refused to pay the fine,
until he saw the cell door open, when he thought it
better to produce the money.
UNION-HALL.

On Friday Sarah Bagley, who it will be recollected
assumed the dress of a sailor to accompany a young
midshipman to sea, and who was charged with having
absconded from home, taking a quantity of clothes
and also some money belonging to her father, a letter-
sorter in the Post-office, was again brought before
Mr. Cottingham, having been remanded from Wed-
nesday, in order to have inquiries made with a view
of discovering her paramour.
The girl's father said that she still maintained the
same silence with respect to giving any information
as to the person who inveigled her from home, as she
did on the former occasion ; the only circumstance
she divulged being that he was a midshipman in the
navy, but as to what ship he belonged she refused to
tell. He added that he was willing to overlook all
that had occurre.l, if she promised never again to
assume the disguise of the other sex ; that he had a
comfortable home for her, and that he and her mother
would receive her<with open arms.
Mr. COTTINGILAM in vain endeavoured to extract
from the girl the reason of her having quitted home
under such extraordinary circumstances, and he pro-
ceeded to put several questions as to her acquaintance
with the man whom she said, on the last occasion
when she was brought up, had promised her a berth
on board his ship to go up the Mediterranean.
She said in reply, that she went toDover with him,
and that he took her on board his ship, which was
lying in the docks there, and that she walked on board,
and that he was called " Ned" by his shipmates ; that
when she returned on shore, he took her into a pub-
lic-house, desiring her to wait for him, but he never
returned, and she was obliged to make the best of her
way back to London ; that she afterwards met him in
town, when he promised to take her to Italy, and
marry her, and she prepared to go with him in the
garb of a sailor, to work her passage, and to make
him fulfil his vows when they got to the end of their
voyage.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that he now believed the
accused had been telling a great many falsehoods, for
it was absurd to suppose that there were men-of-war
lying in the dock at Dover; that she had prevaricated
a good deal in her story, and that he supposed she
was anxious to make a noi,e and excite the astonish-
ment of people by acting in the manner she had done.
She must get rid of the romantic nonsense which was
floating in her brain of her inclination to act the part
of a heroine in followingher lover in disguise to Italy,
and instead of reading such balderdash as she was in
the habit of doing, attend to her domestic affairs —to
stop at home at the house of her father, who was a
respectable man, and held a responsible situation, in-
stead of playing the fool, which would assuredly end
in her destruction. The Magistrate, having cautioned
her as to her future conduct, consented to liberate her
on her promise to accompany her parents home, to
which she agreed : and she was accordingly given up
to them, and they left the Court, she having pre-
viously doffed the sailor's togs and dressed herself in
her own clothes.
Richard Mullett was brought up on remand for
stealing a horse, chaise, and harness, belonging to
Mr. Davis, livery-stable keeper, Blackfriars-road.
Henry Jordan, carrier, said that the. prisoner had
for some days been driving about Woodford with a
dashing female whom he called his wife, and had put
up the horse and gig at his stables. He said he had
come down to enjoy the scenery of the forest, but
offered him, on a subsequent day, the gig for 51.,
saying he was short of money, and that the gig was
worth .16/. Mr. Brood, a coach-maker of Woodford,
to whom he introduced him, asked him if 3/. would
do, which he agreed to accept, and gave him a receipt
for the amount, signed "R. Mullens." The prisoner
then accompanied Mr. Jordan's servant to Stratford,
who pawned the harness for him for 21. The horse
was, subsequently, offered by him to Mr. Jordan,
who suspecting the circumstances, gave information
to the police. The sergeant found him and his pre-
sumed wife in bed at Woodford, and on being told 'of
the charge against him, he replied, " What's to pay ?"
He was then taken into custody.
A second charge of felony was brought against him
by Mr. Kerslake, stationer, of Vauxhall, whose lodg-
ings he had plundered of fifteen volumes of novels

and other property, having rented the rooms only
four weeks. He had disposed of the articles to pawn-
brokers in the vicinity, and all the cases were sub-
stantiated.

A plea of monomania was set up by counsel on his
behalf.

The MAGISTRATE said this was a very fashionable
custom at the present day to aid every criminal of re-
spectability, but the jury would judge of the case.
He was then fully committed to the Central Cri-
minal Court on both charges.
George Walters, cabman, and Thomas Taylor, la-
bourer, were brought up on remand for driving
furiously over Mrs. Mary Ann Rees, the wife of a
compositor, in Webber-row, by which her life was
endangered.
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Mr;'Rees stated that the surgeon had now pro-
nounced his wife out of danger, but that she would
remain a cripple for life. He had been at the expense
of a nurse, and two medical men, and it would yet be
a long while before she could venture down stairs.

Walters, in a ruffianly manner, said, that Mrs. Rees
after the accident was in the office on Thursday, and
the complainant only sought to make property of
them.

Mr. Rees denied that statement; his wife had not
been even out of bed since the accident, except a few
minutes, when she fainted away.
The MAGISTRATE said they were evidently great
ruffians, and as they viewed the case in that light,
and supported it by a falsehood, he should order Wal-
ters to pay 3/. for the damage, and a fine of 2/. 103.,
with expenses, and Taylor to pay 21. 10s., or to be
imprisoned for one month with hard labour.

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'They were then both locked up.
Samuel Herit, one of the messengers of the Queen's
prison, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, the sitting
magistrate, charged with conveying two bladders of gin
into the interior of the prison.
Mr. Colville, the principal turnkey of the prison,
stated that the prisoner was one of the messengers, and
well acquainted with the rules and regulations of the
prison. Last night, as the prisoner was passing through
the lobby, he let two skins or bladders fall on the floor,
which, on being taken up. was found to contain spirits.
The prisoner was detained, and given into custody.
Mr. COTTINGLIAM ordered the prisoner to pay a miti-
gated fine of 5/, or one month's imprisonment.
In default of payment, the prisoner was locked up.
CLERKENIVELL.
Martha Cunningham was charged with the following
outrageous conduct at the Clerkenwell Workhouse :
It appeared from the evidence, that at eight o'clock
on the previous night the prisoner went to the work-
house and asked to see the overseer. He came ; upon
which she abused him in the grossest manner. After
much difficulty she was removed. She came again at
ten o'clock, and shouted and screamed so that all the
paupers were aroused out of their beds. She cried
Murder I Fire !" and collected a mob of five hun-
dred people in front of the workhouse, to whom she
made the most hideous representations of her trer.tment
in the workhouse, every word of which was untrue ; but
the story roused the people at the time to a condition