The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

IN RE WRIODT AND CO.

An audit meeting was held under the estate of these bank-
rupts, who were bankers in Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Very little transpired in the case except that the total amount
of debts proved was 80,0001., and that there was about
20,0001. in hand ; but ;s there were several Chancery suits
pending, there was no prospect of a dividend at present,

SHERIFFS' COD UT, Aug. 5.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.
RUDDUCK V. FARMER.

The plaintiff is a Manchester warehouseman in the City, and
the defendant is a manufacturer of cotton. The claim was
for 51. lOs., for cotton yarn supplied to defendant.
To prove the plaintiff's case Mr. John Lavater, who de-
scribed himself as a merchant, at No. 4, St. Pancras-lane, de-
posed that the defendant called upon him in January, and
asked him if he had some cotton to sell, describing what he
wanted, and he told defendant that he had not, but had sold
some to Mr. Rudduck, of the quality and price. Saw him two
or three times about it, and the price was arranged. In his
cross-examination he said he did not consider the debt was due
to him, but to Rudduck. He had had dealings with defendant
before, but had since been bankrupt. Had not entered this
account as a debt due to him. Another witness, who delivered
the goods, said he was Mr. Lavater's boy, but went to Rud-
duck for the cotton, and then he took the goods to defendant,
and said that he brought it from Mr. Rudduck. Defendant
asked how that was, and witness said he replied he did not
know.

Goring, clerk to plaintiff, deposed that he called upon
defendant, who treated him very politely, and said that to tell
him candidly, he did not mean to pay him. Witness asked no
further question, as the matter was " settled" when he was not
to have the money.—(Laughter.)
The UNDER-SHERIFF said that when the invoice was pre-
sented in Rudduck'sname, defendant should have refused it.
Mr. llasterman, the defendant's attorney, said it could
hardly be expected that a poor Bethnal-green weaver knew the
law; the only case, however, was this, whether he was to pay
Lavater or Rudduck. He was willing topay either, if he could
do so safely, but the official assignee under Lavater's estate had
claimed the amount. _

The jury wished to know whether the assignee ought not to
have been called.
_ _

The UNDER. SHER IFF said no demand by the assignee could
alter the facts of the dealing, the only question was whether
they believed Lavater, if so, it was clear plaintiff was entitled to
a verdict on the goods that had actually been in his warehouse.
The jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed.

ASSIZE ENTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClßGUlT.—Ctoydon, August 4

CROWN COURT—( Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE )
Frances Mary Wilson, the young woman who was acquitted
on Saturday upon a charge of robbing her master, again sur-
rendered this morning to answer the other indictments that
had been preferred against her. . .

She was first arraigned upon a charge of stealing a cambric
handkerchief, the property of Thomas Cook, her master.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Creasy again appeared to support the
prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Hawkins (who held
Mr. Ballantine's brief) were for the prisoner.
The evidence of Mr. Cook, the prosecutor, was to the effect
that he purchased 18 cambric handkerchiefs at a Custom-house
sale, and that he put his private mark upon them, and brought
them into his stock on the 14th or 15th of May, at which time
the prisoner was in his service. On the night of the same day
he counted them, and found one was missing, and, upon his in-
quiring about it, every one employed on the establishment de-
nied any knowledge of it; and on his questioning the prisoner,
she said that she had not sold one, and she likewise said she
knew nothing about the handkerchief. He afterwards found
the handkerchief in one of the prisoner's boxes when it was
opened by the constable Collier ; and it was produced, and he
swore that it was his propeaty.
Cross-examined—He did not say at the station-house " the
will get ten years, and I will get her fourteen if I can,"
but he did say that she was a wretch. He did not say that the
prisoner dented knowing anything about the handkerchief
when he was before the magistrate, at the examination of the
prisoner. This was not because he had not forgotten it, but
because he was not asked anything about it.
The prosecutor was then asked by Mr. Clarkson whether he
had not had some conversation with Inspector Collier outside
the Court that morning, and he said he had, but he declined
to state the particulars of the conversation, as they were per-
fectly irrelevan
Mr. Justice 1. 01,xarnce told him he must answer the ques-
tion. If he cC e to talk to the witnesses, he was bound to
ate what took bo'ace.
Thespriasecutornlthen said that he was standing outside the
Court, and Collier told him that the prisoner's father had re-
ported that he. the inspector, and witness, had been in commu-
nication together respecting the property, and he replied that
it was entirely false, for he had not seen the officer since the
conclusion of the proceedings on Saturday.
Cross-examination continued—Witness suspected the pri-
soner was robbing him for a month before she was taken into
custody, and the young men were set to watch her. One of
them reported that a piece of cambric had been taken from her
" playfully," and that he could identify it from its having his
writing upon it, and on the morning before the prisoner was
taken into custody it was intimated to him it would be better
the piece of cambric should be given back to the prisoner. He
did not recollect who said it would be better, but they had a
consultation about it, and it was arranged that the piece of
cambric should be thrown about " playfully" by the young men
in the shop, so that the prisoner might have an opportunity to
take it, which she did, and put it in her pocket ; and it was ,
understood that when it was in her possession the inspector
should be sent for to take her into custody. He had consulted
Collier upon the subject, but he did not tell him anything about
the manner in which the piece of cambric in question had
come into the prisoner's possession on the morning of the
18th of June.
Mr. CLARKSON asked the prosecutor whether the object he
sought to attain was not for the inspector to find, as it were by
accident, this piece of cambric upon the person of the prisoner?
The prosecutor denied that he had such an object ; but it was
admitted in the course of further cross••examination, that when
he first applied to the inspector, on the morning of the 18th of
June, he did.not say a word to him about the piece of cambric;
and it was only after his return to the shop, where the 66 play-
ful" scene was enacted, and the prisoner got it into her pos-
session, that the inspector was immediately called upon to take
the prisoner into custody.
The prosecutor was next asked whether he did not, while
the prisoner was at the station .house, use most opprobrious
epithets to her, and he denied most positively having done so.
Inspector Collier was the next witness. He merely produced
the handkerchief, and deposed that he found it in one of the
prisoner's boxes.
Upon being cross-examined, he said that the prosecutor
came to him on the morning of the 18th of June, and told him
he suspected Miss Wilson had been robbing him, and referred
to a transaction that had taken place that day, when the pri-
soner cut off a small quantity of glazed lining for a dress, and
gave it openly :he shop to a dressmaker named Grainger.
Mr. Cook went away for about 20 minutes, and when he came
back he told him to go with him immediately and apprehend
the prisoner. He likewise said it was very probable he told
Mr. Cook that he had never in all his experience heard of a
felony being committed in the presence of so many people.
The prisoner was in convulsions nearly all the time the case
was under examination by the magistrates, and while she was
in that state he heard the prosecutor say that hell was ton good
for her.
Mr. CLA RKSON—Did you hear him also call her a
Witness—l did not hear him use that expression,
but he did use a vulgar and opprobrious epithet, and I rebuked
him for it. He also said that hell was too good for her.
Mr. CLARKSON—And this was while the prisoner was in a
fainting and almost insensible state? Witness—lt was.
The witness was then questioned as to what conversations
had taken place between him and the prosecutor, and he swore
positively that he had not made any such statement as that de-
posed to by the prosecutor as having taken place outside the
court that morning.
Some other persons, in the serviee of Mr. Cook, were then
examined, to show that they had not sold the handkerchief to
the prisoner, and that she had not made any mention to them
of its being in her possession.
Mr. CLARKSON then addressed the jury, and commented
with considerable severity upon the conduct of the prosecutor,
and urged upon the jury the impossibility of placing any re-
liance upon such testimony as had been given in support of the
prosecution.
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE having summed up, the jury re-
tired, and were in deliberation about five minutes ; when they
returned into Court,
The Learned Junex, in reference to the scene that took
place on Saturday, said, that before the verdict was delivered,
whatever that verdict might be, he requested no person would
presume to exhibit any manifestation of feeling. It was very
improper, and he should certainly commit any one who was
observed to be guilty of disturbing the Court.
The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Mr. BODKIN said, that after what had taken place, he should
not offer any evidence upon the other indictment, and verdicts
of " Not Guilty" were accordingly recorded.
The prisoner wan ordered to be immediately discharged.
• The business on the Civil Side has been entirely uninterest-
ing, and Lord Chief Justice Tindal was occupied the whole of
to-day in disposing of three petty cases of trespass. The ape.
cial jury causes will not come on before Wednesday.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—Monmouth, Aug. 2.
CROWN COURT—(Before Lord Chief Justice Dr:amass.)
Edward Price, 66, was indicted for the violation of Ann
Hall, at Abergavenny, on the 18th July and found, Guilty.—
Sentence one year's imprisonment •
George Jenkins, 23, surrendered to an indictment, charging
him with violently assaulting Maria Meyrick, on the 16th May,
at Newport.
On the night in question, a young woman named Higgins,
slept in their house, and was awoke about two o'clock by
hearing screams, which proceeded from the unfortunate wo-
man, who ran into the room, followed by the prisoner, who
called on her to go down. She refused, on which he said it
• should be worse for her, and went down stairs. In a short time
he returned into Higgins's room with a poker in his hand, with
which he struck the victim of his brutality several blows. He
then dragged her down stairs again and renewed his vio-
lence ; she cried out. Higgins went to her, and found
her lying on the bed, in her night clothes, covered
with 'blood, and the prisoner sitting on a chair opposite to
her. Higgins took the poker and hid it from him. The two
women then went in their night clothes to the station-house,
and Meyrick was taken to bed at a neighbouring house, by
direction of the police autho-ities of the borough of Newport,
who instituted the present pia secution. A brush handle,
broken in two pieces, was found on the bed. When taken, the
prisoner said, " I did it, and I kicked her several times."
Having been found Guilty,
Lord DENMAN sentenced him to he transported for fifteen
year'.
William Pritchard, 30, Henry Johnson, '22 (a man of
colour), and Richard May, 22, were indicted for burglariously
breaking open the dwelling house of Charles Ark well, at Caldi-
cot, on the night of the 21st April, add stealing a side of bacon,
three spoons, and other articles therefrom.
The prosecutor and his wife, two old people, live in a
small cottage in a solitary place. On the night in question,
the prisoners broke into the house, which consisted of two
rooms only, both on the ground floor. The old people heard
the door broken open about two o'clock, and Johnson with
Pritchard immediately came in, one standing on each
side of the bed. The old man had risen up in bed, and said,

" What do you want?" Johnson replied, " Money, and money
we'll have, or blow your brains out." He pushed the old man
down in the bed, and pressed his band over his mouth,
Pritchard standing over the old woman with a great bludgeon
in his hand. They said, " Its no use, if we can't do it we
have got a lot more outside, and we'll bring 'em in." Ark-
well, on this said, " Take all we've got, but spare our lives."
The prisoners then opened the boxes, and ransacked about for
nearly an hour. Pritchard then asked the old lady for the
key of the other room, and she gave it to him, and they both
went in, leaving the old couple locked in their bed-room.
The prosecutor heard them go away in ten or fifteen mi-
nutes after. They were obliged to get an iron bar to open
their bed-room door after the robberi were gone, and they
found that the articles named in the indictment had been
taken away by the burglars. Pritchard took the old man
by the shoulder when they first came in, and said, " Give
up yourself and money, or you shall hang." Mrs.
Arkwell looked out through the window, and by the light of
the moon, which was shining brightly, saw May standing at
the garden-gate, leaning on his left arm, to whom Johnson
went out and spoke. He came back and said to Pritchard,
" Can't thee find anything? Look again. They've got some.
and we'll have it." She was more frightened when they went
into the next room, as she thought they were going to get
something to kill her with, and begged them not.
Several witnesses were called to prove an alibi, but the
prisoners were found Guilty. Johnsen and Pritchard were
sentenced to 15 years' transportation, and May to one year's
hard labour.

John Jones, who was yesterday convicted of stabbing Henry
Morgan, was sentenced to 15 years' transportation.
John Brothers and William Jones, convicted of a burglary,
were also sentenced to 10 years transportation on the first in-
dictment, and to be fined Is. on the second.

The business of these assizes concluded about five o'clock.

POLICE IN TELLIGENC E.
QUEEN SQUARE.
Mary Ann Smith and William Edwards were charged
with robbing Mr. B. Poussin, a gentleman residing at 23,
Grosvenor-place South, of his gold watch, value 20 guineas.
At about eleven o'clock on the previous night he saw the
female prisoner standing in Loc er Grosvenor-place, and having
looked at her as he passed, she made some observation in a
very polite tone about the weather, and considering by her ap-
pearance that she was not a girl f the town, he entered into
conversation with her, in the course of which she repeatedly
expressed her fears that it must be getting very late—certainly
past eleven, when he took out. his watch to acquaint her with
the precise time. She then put her arm in his " in a very re-
spectful manner," and requested him to accompany her a short
way towards her home, and as he considered her " a very
smart little thing," he walked a few paces with her, when, on
arriving at Ranelagh.mews, she was about to turn down there.
The prosecutor informed her that there was no thoroughfare,
when the lady began to caress him, and entreated him to
accompany her down the mews, which he reluctantly
did, and she then pulled him into a dark passage,
where he had not been half-a-minute, when she gave
a cough of such a particular character, that he at once
felt assured it was a signal, and rushed out of the passage.
At that moment he felt his progress stopped by what he
supposed at that time to be the female' holding him by
the coat, and in the next the male prisoner was by his side,
and seizing him by the arms, inquired what he was ill-using
the female for. Prosecutor called " Police !" and a constable
coming up at the moment, he discovered that his gold watch
had been b'roken from the ring with great violence, and gave
the prisoner into custody. Search was subsequently made for
the watch, but it was nowhere to be found.
James Brun, 91 B, said that hearing a signal cough, and
seeing the male prisoner hastening down the mews, he fol-
lowed slowly behind him, and saw him turn towards the dark
passage spoken of. In a minute afterwards there was a cry of
" Police,' and he went to the spot, and took the prisoners.
He had no opportunity of looking for the watch then, as he
could not let go those he had in custody, and had no lamp with
him. The address given by the male prisoner at the station
he had found, on inquiries that morning, to be false.
It having been stated by a constable that the male prisoner
had been previously convicted at the Old Bailey,
BuRRELL inquired what the accused had to say?
The female declared that she never saw the watch, and did
not even know that the gentleman had one, and pretended to
be unacquainted with the man, who coolly observed, "that he
should reserve his defence for another occasion."
They were remanded until Saturday.
()GERKEN Ii
Tames Towgood was charged with knowingly aiding and
abetting in the working of a private still.
Hardy, 128 G, deposed that on Monday morning, about one
o'clock. lie was on duty near Northampton-pow, Clerkenwell,
when there was an alarm of thieves at No. 12 in that row.
Witness proceeded thither, and found some persons assembled
around the house, and knocking at the door. Witness went
to the back part of the premises for the purpose of clambering
over the' wall, in order to get into the house, when he saw the
prisoner running on a wall, and he made an alarm of " Stop
thief," and he was shortly afterwards apprehended by an excise
officer named Harris. On entering the house with the excise
officers, they found in the kitchen a private still in full work,
with a furnace. and 100 gallons of wash or molasses, all of
which were taken possession of. The prisoner said he was em-
ployed to take care of the house and still, and hearing knock-
ing at the door, he fancied that the excise officers were after
the parties, and knowing he was subject to three months' im-
prisoninent, he tried to make his escape.
Thomas Harris, of 9, Northampton-row, an excise officer,
deposed that yesterday morning, at the above hour, witness
was at his residence, when he had occasion to go to the back
part of the premises, on which he saw the prisoner running
along a wall separating Spafields Burial-ground from the houses
is Northampton-row. Witness asked him where he was
going. He said I have only been taking care of a private still,
and I am making my escape from the excise officers ; and he
begged of witness to grant him protection. Witness replied,
I am very sorry for you, but I cannot grant. your request, as I
am a custom-house officer myself, and it is my duty to detain
you. He did so, and he was ultimately given into custody of
Hardy, the officer, who with witness and another excise officer,
proceeded to the house and found the still and wash, &c.
George Whitmore, an exciseman, deposed that he was called
upon by the last witness to go to the house in Northampton-
row. He corroborated in part the above evidence.
Mr. GREENWOOD said it was rather unfortunate for the
prisoner to have claimed the protection of Mr. Harris, the
excise officer. It was completely running into the lion's
mouth. He asked the prisoner what he had to say in his defence?
The prisoner said he had been out of work some time. He
met a man on Saturday night who asked him if he wanted a
job, and replying in the affirmative he said he would give him
one, to take care of a private still at the house in Northampton-
row, alluded to. The man gave him some bread, butter, and
beer, and promised to pay him for his trouble. On hearing
the alarm he tried to make his escape, thinking the excise
officers had come.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Did you know the man, or his name ?
Prisoner—l did not know him. He said his name was Pitts.
Mr. GREENWOOD—You don't expect me to believe all
this. It is the sort of defence that thieves generally set up, that
they meet strange persons in the street, who employ them to
carry property. He convicted him in the penalty of 301., or
three months' imprisonment with hard labour, in the House of
Correction.
Mary _Dowling, a young woman, was charged by Mark
Griffiths, a labouring young man, with having stabbed him,
with intent to murder.
The prisoner positively denied the charge against her.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he would remand the prisoner, and
she was conveyed to prison.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Two men named James Thompson and Wm. Cunnington
were placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged on sus-
picion of having stolen two valuable sporting dogs, the property
of Mr. Burnell, a licensed victualler, at King's cross.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor that on the
night of Wednesday last his back premises were forcibly
entered. and two sporting dogs, a setter and pointer of the
value of twenty guineas, were stolen from their kennels.
He immediately gave information to the police and caused
handbills to be widely circulated, offering a reward of Si.
for their restoration and detention the thieves, but heard
nothing more respecting t',em until the preceding after-
noon, when the prisoner called upon him and stated that he
had seen the dogs in the possession of two men in Nelson-
street, Bethnal-green, awl would point him out the house
to which they had been taken, but
.enjoined him to be very
quiet and cautious, or the animals would be carried off
without a chance of their recovery. He accordingly re-
paired to Nelson-street with the prisoner, whom he left at the
end of the street, and proceeded to the house in which he said
the animals were secreted, and was there answered by an old
woman, who, on being questioned, declared that they had been
carried away at three o'clock that afternoon, but that he would.
find Mr. Cunnington, the landlord, at an adjoining public-
house, where he would obtain further information. After an
ineffectual search for Cunnington at every public-house in the
neighbourhood, he returned again to the house, and was an-
swered by another woman, who denied all knowledge of the
dogs, but her daughter, who was standing by during the con-
versation, gave him a private signal to follow her, and imme-
diately led him into a room down stairs, in which there was
a trap door, communicating with the cellar. On raising the
flap he saw the two dogs coupled together in the cellar,
and having descended a ladder and unfastened them, he
was making his way through a small door into the back yard,
when the woman he had last seen began screaming out
" Murder," at the same time dropping the trap, and fasten-
ing the door of the yard to prevent his egress. After
several ineffectual attempts to get out, he was at length
obliged to scale a wall into another yard, and make his way
into the street, with the dogs, through an adjoining house.
He then returned to the spot where he had left the prisoner
Thompson, with whom he made an arrangement to call at his
house and receive the 5/. reward, but in consequence of a sub-
sequent communication from the police, on his arrival at the
time appointed, he gave him into custody.
Sergeant Price stated that on the preceding night the pri-
soner Cunnington called at the station-house, and after ex-
pressing himself anxious to communicate all be knew about the
transaction, said that a quantity of household furniture belong-
ing to a person named Harrison had been left at his house with
a request that he would take care of it, and that shortly after-
wards the two dogs were brought by a wan who stated that
they were also Harrison's property. Witness felt it his duty
to detain Cunnington in custody, and the prisoner Thompson
was shortly after brought to the station, when the other pri-
soner immediately charged him with being the man who had
brought the dogs to his house under the above circumstances.
Police-constable Burcham, H 58, stated he had ascertained
the man Harrison, alluded to by the prisoner, was a notorious
dog-stealer, and that he had surreptitiously removed his furni-
ture to the house in Nelson.street to defraud his landlord. The
prisoner Cunnington was not known to the police, but the other
prisoner had only recently undergone twelve months' imprison-
ment on a conviction for felony.
In their defence, both prisoners denied all knowledge of the
robbery ; and Thompson said that he had been employed to
convey the dogs to the house by two men, who gave him some
halfpence for his trouble.
Mt. Beoue neon said that he considered the evidence against
the prisoner Thompson was altos/ether incompatible with his
innocence ; he would, therefore, remand him for further exami-
nation at a future day ; but as he had some doubt as to whether
the other prisoner had received possession of the dogs with a
guilty knowledge, he would accept bail for the latter's ap-
pearance.
GREEATVICII.
ELOPEMENT AND ROBBERY. —On Monday a showily-dressed
female. named Caroline Sandwell, and a man, named Francis
Griffiths. a cab driver, were charged before Mr. Grove with
being drunk and creating a disturbance in the public street.
Police-constable Seiler deposed that on Saturday night about
half-past ten he was on duty in the Greenwich-road, when
hearing Is disturbance he went to the spot whence the noise
proceeded, and there found the female prisoner in high alter-
cation with the male prisoner and another man, who turned
out to be her husband, who was endeavouring to persuade
her to return home, she having eloped from him on the Thurs-
day previous.
Mr. Evans, a solicitor of Lee. here entered the Court with
the husband, and, producing the marriage certificate, informed
the magistrate that he appeared oo the behalf of the hes-
lewd, who was the landlord of the White Lion public-
house, Church-hill. Woolaich, ana that the unfortunate
woman at the bar had eloped from him with a paramour on
Thursday last, taking with her bank notes to the amount of
1151., besides a quantity of gold and silver, and several
boxes of wearing adparel, &c., a large portion of which she
had pawned, not less than twenty` duplicates relating to the
property having been found upon her when taken into custody.
He felt bound to say that the male prisoner was not in any

manner connected with the elopement, or in the removal o
the property fr:an the husband's house ; but, on the ether
hand, had given such important information as would even-
tually lead to the recovery of a considerable portion of the ab-
stracted property.
Mr. Sandwell, the husband, deposed to the whole of the
above facts, adding the painful circumstance that his wife,
when she left her home on Thursday, took away with her their
only child, an infant not twalve months old.
In answer to a question by the Illagistrate, Mr. Sandwel
stated that they had not been married quite two years.
The defendant Griffiths said, -in defence, that he was not
drunk ; he was merely demanding his fare, which the female
refused to pay unless he drove her back to town, when the
officer came up.
Mr. GROVE said the police-constable had sworn otherwise ;
but as he bad rendered Mr. Sandwell an essential service, he
should deal very leniently with the case, and only fine him
55., which having paid he was discharged. With respect to
the female she had better retire with her husband to give him
all the information respecting where she had placed Isis pro-
perty, and to come to any arrangement he might think proper
to propose.
The parties then retired, and in half an hour returned, when
Mr. Evans said that they had now full information, and that
the person in whose hands 100/. of the money had been placed,
would, ins the husband going to him, with a police-constables
deliver it up.
Mr. GROVE severely lectured the woman on her disgraceful
eonduct to her husband, who said her husband had ill-treated
her. This the husband positively denied ; he had invariably
treated her with kindness and affection, but he could not con'
sent again to receive her.
The MAGISTRATE remarked that he was not bound to do so•
However, the husband could not prosecute his wife, and she
must be discharged, and the property found in her possession
when taken into custody, together with the twenty pawnbrb-
ers' duplicates must be delivered to her husband.
When she left the bar her husband presented her with
bs., telling her that was all she must ever expect from hiin.