The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

CLERKENIVELL.

Anne Purehas, alias Smith, alias Roberts, alias Wil-
liam; alias Heffnon, with a variety of other aliases,
was charged with obtaining money on false pretences
from the Rev. T. H. Bullock, curate of Christ Church,
Bloomsbury, residing in Everett-street, Brunswick-
square.
It appeared from the evidence of Horsford, the
Mendicity officer, that the prisoner has been known
to the Mendicity Institution for the last thirty years
as a most artful and successful begging-letter impos-
tor. Her husband had been at one time a thriving
tradesman, but even in bis lifetime, and when there
was no occasion to exercise fraud in order to obtain at
least the necessaries of life, this woman betook herself
to this species of imposition. At one time she repre-
sented that her husband had just met with a shocking
death ; at another that her son had a leg amputated;
at another that she was afflicted with an intestinal
complaint, and produced numerous documents pur-
porting to be medical certificates, and those engrav-
ings from truss-makers showing spinal deformities,
&c. .Then she had warrants of distress filled up in
the most formal manner, and testimonials from clergy-
men in abundance. She had not carried on her system
of imposture with impunity, as will appear by the
following list (which Horsford read) :—Committed by
Mr. Shutt, at Marylebone, for two months, for a
fraud on Lady Beverly, on the 21st of August, 1835.
On this occasion she represented herself as a widow
with five children, which was untrue. 15th August,
1836, committed for one month by Mr. Dyer, for
obtaining money on false pretences from Sir J.
Ramsden. 21st Jane, 1838, ditto by Mr. Hoskins.
August 14,1838, ditto by Mr. Shutt. 16th Decem-
ber, 1840, ditto by Mr. Dyer, for a fraud on Lord
Fitzallan. January 30, 1841, ditto by Mr. Hard-
wick, one month. July 16, 1841, ditto by Mr. Hard-
wick.three September 23, 1841, ditto by Mr. Rawlinson,
for
months, for a fraud on the Rev. Mr. Baker.
December 23,,1841, ditto by. Mr. Greenwood, one
month. April-14, 1842, sentenced, to nine months'
imprisonment
the
by
prisoner's
Sergeant
c uAdams,counsel,
however,at the Middlesex
the
sentence remitted, in consequence of an informality
Sessions
in the indictment. October 11, 1842, committed for
one month, by Mr. Rawlinson. June 5, 1843, ditto
for three months, by Mr. Rawlinson. January 22,
1844, ditto by I%lr. Greenwood, three months, for a
fraud on `Mrs. Rashleigh, of Russell -square.
The Rev. Mr. Bullock deposed that, on Saturday
morning last, the prisoner came to his -house, told
him her little son, who had been at Christ Church
School, was very unwell, and that she wanted a little

pecuniary assistance, to enable her to send him to
Ramsgate.on that afternoon. Witness asked her name,
and she said her name was Anne Fielden, of 19, Little
Chapel-place, Little Coram-street. Witness gave her
four shillings. Her sick son, as she called him, was
with her, a lad of about seventeen years.
Mr. MBE sentenced her to three months' impri-
sonment in the House of Correction.

BOW-STREET.
A tall able-bodied man named Robert Holloway, and
Margaret Hall, were placed at the bar charged with
committing a violent and unprovoked assault on Mrs.
Anne Bennet.
The complainant stated that she with her husband
and cousin went into a public-house in St. Martin's-lane
last night, and while standing at the bar the prisoners
came in. They were intoxicated, and they had not been
in the house many minutes before the female fell upon
the prosecutrix and knocked her down with a large key,
which cut her eye severely. While she was down, the
male prisoner struck her with a stick on the head. The
prosecutrix had never seen them before in her life.
The prisoners did not attempt to palliate the offence,
and,
Mr. TIVYFORD committed them to the sessions for
trial.
Monday Frederick Grosgane, a ranting preacher,
was charged with creating a mob and obstructing the
carriage and footway in Covent-garden, at an early
hour on Sunday morning.
By the evidence of the constables it was proved
that about 200 persons had been collected together by
the defendant, who refused to desist when cautioned
by the policeman, and was consequently taken into
custody ; he was, however, let out again by the in-
spector, upon the understanding that he would go
away. Instead of doing so he went and resumed his
harangue, and was dwelling upon the " martyrdom"
which he was enduring when again apprehended and
conducted to the station-house amidst the laughter
and hooting of the mob.
A young man in the Court stepped fora and in be-
half of the defendant, and stated that he was present
when the pre-aching was going on ; that there were
not mot more than thirty persons assembled, of
whom only two or three were seriously listening to
the sermon ; and that no obstruction whatever was
occasioned.
The defendant, who was respectably dressed, said
he was a tailor, and that he preached in the same
place five years prior to 1838, without interruption.
On some occasions he lectured against drinking, but
generally speaking his mission was to preach the
Gospel. On the above morning, having seen a great
deal of depravity in the neighbourhood, such as boys
selling newspapers, &c., he felt it his duty to express
his abhorrence of such sinful doings. He wondered
why they who were thus desecrating the Sabbath
were not taken into custody, instead of one who was
enjoined to preach the word of God—for this was his
only offence. The defendant was showing the strict
analogy of his own:case with that of the Apostle Paul,
who was exposed to similar persecution 'when preach-
ing in-the open air, when
Mr. HALL interrupted him, remarking that he did
•not wish to prevent his preaching out of doors while
he selected a proper place, where his hearers might
assemble without annoying the public. If he was
again found • haranguing in Covent-garden (which
was generally as well-conducted a place as any in
London) he would be required to find bail.
The defendant left the bar, declaring, with some
vehemence, that so long as God gave him strength he
, would contirme to preach in the open air, in spite of
any punishment that might be inflicted.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Monday a. middle-aged man, having the, appear-
ance of a respectable mechanic, who gave the name
of Charles Stevens, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged by the parish authorities of
Shoreditch with deserting his wife, Eliza Stevens, in
a heartless manner, and leaving her chargeable to

their parish. •
The wife, a good-looking young woman in an ad-
vanced state of pregnancy, stated that about a twelve-
month ago, while in comfortable service in a highly
respectable family at Ball's Pond, she accidentally
became acTiainted with 'the prisoner, who repre-
sented himself as a widower, and, after paying her
attentions for three or four months, persuaded her
to leave her situation and marry him. She did as he
desired, and the ceremony took plice, in the name of
Stevens, at St. John's Church, Hoxton. The pri-
soner's conduct towards her had afterwards been uni-
formly very bad, but on his discovery that she was in
the family way; he lost all control over himself and com-
menced a-series of most brutal usage, beating, ne-
glecting, . and abusing her for her condition, and
finally, about'eleven weeks since, abandoned her al-
together and left her to shift 'Air' herself. After endu-
ring three weeks' privation, she was obliged to apply
to the parish for support, and they, upon ascertaining
her situation, immediately took her into the work•
house, where she had been ever since, and was now in
expectation ofbeing momentarily confined.
Mary Smith, the wife's mother, a poor washer-
woman, corroborated her daughter's statement, and
gave a detail' of the most heartless conduct on the part
of the prisoner 'toward's his wife; whose marriage to
the prisoner was also formally put in proof.
Holland, one of the. warrant officers, who assisted
Waller, the beadle, in apprehending the prisoner,
proved taking him in Macclesfild-street, Kingaland-
road, on 'Saturday evening, when the prisoner told
him he was :wholly mistaken in the man, for he had
no wife, but a friend of the prisoner shortly after came
up and addressed him, when the prisoner acknow-
ledged that he was a widower, and that more than
two years agii he had abandoned his three children,
without
_antone to look after them, in a parish in
Kent, and that they had been carried to the Maid-
stone union-house, where they they now were. Hol-
land said the authorities of the union were so exaspe-
rated at the prisoner's conduct, that they had offered
a reward for his apprehension. The prisoner had
also acknowledged, that though he had married his
wife in the name of Stevens, that was a false name:
The prisoner, in defence, attempted to take advan-
tage of this circumstance, and contended, on that
ground, that the marriage was invalid.
Mr. BROUGHTON, however, 'told him that he was
wholly Mistaken in this, for as the wife had never
known him by any other name than that of Stevens,
he could not be allowed to take advantage of his own
wrong, and he could assure him that the marriage
was perfectly valid. lie did not consider that 'he
should be doing his duty, under such aggravated cir-
cumstances, if he did not sentence the prisoner to a
month's imprisonment in the House of Correction,
with 'hard 'labour, as a rogue and vagabond; and
Holland must give the parish authorities in the coun-
try notice of his apprehension, that he might be also
prosecuted by them for abandoning his children.
LAMBETH- S 7 BEET. _

Monday Sall Fichell, a German Jew, was placed
before Mr. Norton, the sitting Magistrate, charged
.with robbing his employer, Mr. Adolphus Lipman,
outfitter, 80, Pearson 's-street, Ratcliff-highway, of
one gold and nine silver watches, value 351., under
the following heartless circumstances :
Mr. Lipman deposed that he had known the pri-
soner for two years, and as he was a foreigner and of
the same persuasion as himself (a Jew), and knowing
Mat he was in great distress, he did all he could to
assist him, and gave him occasional relief. He had
lost sight of
.the prisoner for a considerable time, and
about a fortnight ago he went in search of him, and
found him in a most pitiable plight in the Minories,
gaining a precarious subsistence by selling a few
trifling articles in the streets; the prisoner was clothed
in rags, and nearly half starved. In answer to some
questions put to him by Mr. Lipman, the prisoner
said he was dreadfully ill, and had just come out of
the Jews' Hospital, Mile-end. The prosecutor told
the prisoner that if he would promise to be a faithful,
honest, and industrious servant he would take him
into his employ, as he had just parted with his shop-
man, and would give him board and lodging and ss.
per week_; and if he served him (the prosecutor)
faithfully, he should never want a friend as long as he
lived. The prisoner was then taken home by Mr.
Lipman, clothed from head to foot; the prosecu-
tor also gave him a small gratuity in money, and
made the prisoner a present of half a dozen new
shirts, giving him, at the same time, the most nourish-
ing food. This benevolent Jew, it would seem, had
really acted the part of the good Samaritan towards
the prisoner, who, before he had been in his master's
service twelve days, robbed him of the watches in
question.
John Bray, a policeman of the H division, said
that, in consequence of information received at the
station-house, he apprehended the prisoner adjoining
the Shoreditch station, while asking for the Brighton
Railway. On searching him he found the property
now produced—viz., six silver watches and one gold
one, which the prosecutor identified ; he afterwards
ascertained that one of the watches had been sold
for 7s. 6d., in Rosemary-lane, which he also now
produced.
The prisoner owned having taken the watches, and
said he was instigated to it by a person, who was a
notorious coiner in Rosemary-lane' who told him he
had now a good opportunity to rob his master, and
said that they could both easily escape to Brighton,
where they could go by railway, and cross over to the
Continent without being discovered.
The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoner if he was will-
ing to give the name and description of this person to
the police.?—The prisoner said he was willing to do so.
Mr. NORTON said he was a most ungrateful fellow,
and remanded the prisoner to afford time to appre-
hend his accomplice.
UNION-HALL.
On Monday Thomas Hold was brought lx,fore Mr.
Traill charged with making a very determined at,-
tempt to deprive himself of life in the King's Arms
public-house, Prince's-street, Lambeth, on the pre-
ceding day.
Mr. Reed, the landlord of the house, stated, that on
the preceding day the defendant .entere4 tap,
room, and had not been there long before he (witness)
was informed that a man was in a fit. He (witness)
immediately went into the room, and found the de-

fendant lying on the floor apparently dead, and quite
black in the face. Witness, without loss of time,
proceeded to unloo3en his clothes, when he discovered
that the man's neck was tightly bound round with a
neckerchief in such a manner as to produce strangu-
lation. He therefore instantly cut the handkerchief
with a knife, and a surgeon having been sent for, the
defendant, after some considerable time, was recovered;
and he subsequently acknowledged that he committed
the act to deprive himself of life.
In reply to Mr. Traill, the defendant said that he
had been drinking to excess, and had remained away
from home all night, and that the sensations on his re-
covering from the effects of his dissipation were of
such a frightful nature as to induce him to put an end
to his life. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

The defendant was locked up in default of finding
bail.
Thomas Stephens was charged, before Mr. Traill,
under the following circumstances.
On the preceding night the prisoner was observed, by
a young man named Miller, to approach the shop of
a cheesemonger, at Walworth, and take a piece of bacon,
with which he walked away. The witness Miller went
after the prisoner, and accused him of the theft, and at
the same time attempted to secure him. The prisoner,
however, resisted the attempt, and, taking aim at the
witness's head, threw the bacon, with all his force, at
him, and struck him with such violence as to lay him
prostrate on the ground ; and he then endeavoured to
escape, but was secured by another person, after a sharp
pursuit. The witness exhibited a swollen and black
eye, from the effects of being struck with the bacon.
The prisoner was remanded.
Sarah Smith was charged with robbing children of
their clothes.
The prisoner was seen lurking about a court in which
a number of children were playing, and when a favour-
able opportunity presented itself e took up a child in
her arms and having taken it into the dark passage of
a house, took off its shoes and stockings and was pro-
ceeding to divest it of all its clothing when she was
secured. The prisoner, being suspected of robbing a
great number of other children, was remanded.

THE LATE DISTRESSING
SUICIDE.

Yesterday morning an inquest was held before Mr.
C. J. Carttar, pursuant to adjournment from Friday
last, at the Trinity Arms, Church-street, Deptford,
touching the death of Eliza Kendall, aged 18, whose
body was found in the water of the Grand Surrey
Canal.

The first witness called was police-constable Gates,
144 R, and officer of the police-court, who said that
he remembered deceased being ordered to pay Is. for
damage done to a bonnet, and 2s. costs. The Magis-
trate allowed her a fortnight to pay it in on account
of her poverty. The time had expired, when he called
and asked her why she had not paid the money. De-
ceased replied that it had not been in her power,
having had no work. Witness told her she must pay,
it by the following Wednesday, or take the conse-
quence. She was to have been committed to prison
for three days if not paid. Should not have taken her
into custody unless by an order from the -,dagistrate.
Witness held out no threat; he was ordered to call
for the money.
John Cohen, a shipwright, deposed that he saw a
woman on the bank of the canal throwing her arms
about and crying loudly, " Oh, my sister ! oh, my
sister !" several times. He was in his cottage, and
ran out, and, with a neighbour, followed on to the
canal. Witness saw her jump in, and having cleared
the ditch, he plunged in after her. Believes she
jumped in to save her sister. She was breast high out
of the water when he saw her. She sank and he
caught hold of her clothes when nearly three feet
under water, and with great difficulty got her ashore
in a state of insensibility. Did not 'see anything of
the deceased. Witness was much exhausted from the
exertion. It was at half-past six o'clock on Wednes-
day morning, and many persons were then on the
bank. A friend took him by the hand and pulled both
ashore together.
Joseph Arthur, surgeon, deposed, that he had made
a post mortem examination of the body. Deceased
was not in the family way. Observed a few scratches
on her face. Thinks they were done before death.
Christopher Kendall, aged 55, father of deceased,
saw her last on Tuesday night. He had not made
any complaint to the deceased. Ilis daughters were
in the habit, of going out on their own affairs. The
landlord called on Tuesday for the rent. Two weeks
at 2s. a-week were to be paid, and Is. off the arrear.
Witness had left ss. with his eldest daughter to pay
it. The landlord came at half-past 8, and he told
him he had no money for him, and that he feared his
daughters had made away with it. Jane had not
then told him so. On her return home, she said the
money would, be returned that day ; but they were
unable to borrow it. She had lent it to her two
sisters. He said very little to Jane, as she appeared
to be in such trouble. He went out in search of them
to, the Broadway, but could not meet with them. He
returned home and,vrent to bed soon after 9 o'clock.
He saw one of the girls leave the house about 6
o'clock on Wednesday morning. They lived by slop-
shirt-making, addded to which •he could earn ave-
raging about Bs. per week. He was sorry to say they
had no chance of making a living at slopwork ; had
suffered great distress lately ; never thought of more
than two meals a (lay, sometimes not that. They
worked for Mrs. Norman, Union-bridge, Bermond-
sey. She takes contracts to do the work for large
shops in town. The deceased had much altered
lately. The girls could not go to service for want of
clothes, they being in pledge. It was quite unusual
for them to be out at night. Witness was left with
four daughters and one son. The latter was ship-
wrecked two years ago, and had not since been
heard of. •
Jane Kendall deposed, that they worked for Mrs.
Norman, in Keating's-lane, Bermondsey, who em-
ploys upwards, of 100 hands, and contracts with
Messrs. Bousfield and Sons, of Houndsditch.
Mary Ann Kendall, the surviving sister, was then
brought into the inquest-room in a helpless state,
and after many attempts by the Coroner to take her
evidence it was found absolutely necessary to remove
her into an adjoining room, where the surgeon and
Coroner followed.. In about half an hour, having
taken something to soothe her, she was again led up
to the table and seated by the side of the Coroner,
and deposed in a low tone as follows :—She went out
with me on Tuesday, at three o'clock, as they did
not want to see their father, in consequence of not
having the rent money, which had been borrowed of
Jane. They returned about twelve that night, and
climbed over the wall and slept in the yard all night,
the door of the house being fast. They went away
about five next morning, meaning to return at seven,
when their father would be gone out. They went
through Deptford and along the canal side. Her
sister said she wished to go that way to see a young
man. She stopped on the bank to wipe her face, and,
having done so, turned, and in a moment after, giv-
ing witness the handkerchief, deceased was in the
water. Witness was alarmed and screamed, and
and thought she could catch hold of her frock, she was
so near her. Deceased had previously said she would
go and give herself up to the police, not being able to
get either the lent money or the 3s. demanded by the
police-constable. Deceased proposed to go by the
canal side. Believes it was only an excuse about
going to meet a young man. Could not say whether
it was an accident or not.
The CORONER said, that it was a question for the
jury to consider whether the act was the result of ac-
cident or that of wilfully taking her own life. With
respect to the witness Mary Ann, the evidence of
Cohen showed that she was screaming " Oh, my sis-
ter ! oh, my sister !" which indicated that affection
and desperation induced her to jump into the water
after her sister. There could be no doubt that the
sad catastrophe had been brought on by excitement,
through great distress at home and threatened impri-
sonment, with the dread of meeting her father ; the
circumstances taken altogether led him (the Coroner)
to think that it was not the result of accident.
The room was then cleared of strangers, and in
about half an hour the jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity," and the jury further begged
to state their detestation and abhorrence of the miser-
able manner in which labour was rewarded in all such
cases as the present.

MERCHANT SEAMAN'S OuTITAN ASYLUM.—On Mon-
day the general meeting and autumn election of this
charity was held at the London Tavern, for the admis-
sion of four girls and eight boys into this institution.
The chair was taken by Captain Nelson, the treasurer.
A report of the Committee was read, from which it ap-
peared that, owing to an improvement in the finances, a
double number of children were admitted at this elec-
tion. The amount realised at the last annual festival
was 669/. ss. 6d., in which were included 50/. from the
Honourable Sidney Herbert, AP.,
and twenty guineas
from Joseph Somes, Esq. Sixty boys and thirty girls
were then in this asylum. At three o'clock the poll
closed, soon after which the names of the successful
candidates were announced, when a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman, and the business of the day ter-
minated.
GERMAN MANNERS, &c.—The Germans do not
address each other with the plural you, as is our custom :
thou denotes affection and familiarity. The common
mode of speaking to friends. acquaintances, servants,
shopkeepers, to everybody, indeed, is the third person
plural, sie, they : your own dog you treat with the du,
thou; the dog of your enemy with er, or he. The Ger-
mans have a habit of staring, quite inconceivable. I
speak, of course, of the people one chances to meet tra-
velling as we do ; they will fix their eyes on you, and
never take them 'of for an hour or more. There is no-
thing rude in their gaze, nothing particularly inquiring,
thowsh you suppose it must result from curiosity ;
other country "laces, per-
hapsoalfti themett:t:a: :icsfilo:rennirsy444:4d desirable • here
it does; but their eyes follow you with pertinacity,
w;,tflt any change 'of expreEsiop. At.:;baennaaus,taarned.
A magic word to git ridoongrPgate
little wretches
" What does
thfroemhitlhlseanndeibgehsbidoeurtihnetghwe ages, follow us a601,i,
stare
ihtei'sw: anisk?' o'
neThofe- there .irns' i;rel4sirasfibulleill: etr:e"
feel the insult to the very back-bone, _ and make off at
once.—Mrs. Shelley's Rambles• in Germany and Italy.