The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 27.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court was occupied the greater part of the morning in
listening to arguments ilt a case in which the validity of
an annuity deed was disputed. The case was of interest only
to the parties immediately concerned.

BAIL COURT, May 27.
There was nothing of any particular interest or importance
In the business which came before the Court this day.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 27.
The Court took the special paper this day. Nothing of
importance came before the Court.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 27.
(Sittings in Banco.)
VALLANCE V. THE DUKE OF DHUNSIVICK.

In this case Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for an order,
calling on the Duke of Brunswick to pay the sum of 7081.185.
to Messrs. Valiance and Bierley, together with the costs of the
application. An order had been made by Mr. Justice Colt-
man, calling on the Duke of Brunswick to pay the money;
but on motion made to the Court, it was referred to the
Master to review the taxation generally. He did so, and
reported that the sums claimed were correct. He (Mr. Ser-
geant Talfourd) now applied, under the Attorneys' Act, to
make the order a rule of Court.—Rule granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
CLERKEN WELL.
Yesterday Margaret Kelly, a ferocious-looking woman,
was brought up for final examination, charged with
stabbing John Dymmock, a carter, residing at No. 13,
White Horse-court, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, with a
knife, whereby his life was seriously endangered. -
The occurrence took place on the 6th of May, since
which the prosecutor has been in St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital. From the position of the wound it was feared
lock-jaw would ensue. Yesterday, however, the prose-
cutor, although not yet quite recovered, and
' having his
head bound up, attended in Court and gave his evidence.
All the circumstances of the case were mentioned in
our paper of the Bth inst. Mr. Cooper, the house-sur-
geon of the hospital, deposed to the nature of the wound.
The prisoner, who has throughout exhibited the most
callous indifference, was fully committed for trial.
William Barlow, an engineer, residing in Church-
street, Limehouse, William Brady, and William Wilson,
genteelly attired persons, were charged with creating a
disturbance in St. John's-square, at two o'clock on that
morning.
Constable 66 G deposed that he saw Barlow and Ridley
pushing one another against the doors in St. John-
square, and making a noise calculated to disturb the
inhabitants. When he took them into custody, Barlow
offered him a bribe of ss. if he would set him at liberty.
The prisoners were in liquor.
P. C. Marryatt, 31 G, corroborated this statement.
When Barlow was arrested, he became abusive, and
said he paid 151. a-year taxes to support the police.
Mr. GREENWOOD. ordered Barlow to find bail ; fined
Ridley 10s. ; and ordered Wilson to put a sum in the
poor-box, which he did, and expressed his regret for the
misconduct.
James Connor was charged with assaulting police-
constable 35 G.
The prisoner quarrelled with his sister, in Bleeding-
hart-yarJ, Holborn, on the previous evening, and gave
her a blow, which rendered her insensible, and caused
her to bleed profusely from the nose awl mouth. The
constable took him into custody, whereupon the prisoner
knocked him down, and tore his uniform coat and
trowsers so as to render them useless.
Committed for twenty-one days.
William Duke was charged with the following brutal con-
duct, in company with two others not in custody :
On Saturday night, about twelve o'clock, a poor man,
named George Rogers, and his wife, were returning home
along Claremont-place ; both were under the influence of
liquor. The prisoner and two others came up and knocked
the woman down. The husband remonstrated, upon which
the prisoner knocked him down, and his forehead coming in
collision with the kerb-stone, received a severe wound, from
which he bled a great deal. The prisoner ran away, but was
stopped by police-constable 60 G, in Thanet-street, Burton-
crescent. When brought to the station-house the prisoner
confessed his guilt, and hoped the complainant would be
lenient to him.
The prisoner called two witnesses, but they contradicted
one another most grossly in their testimony, and very little
truth came from either.
The MAGISTRATE sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of
1/.2 or a commensurate term of imprisonment.
BOW-STREET.
A respectable-looking boy named Henry Caldwell, who
was dressed in a blouse, was charged before Mr. Hall
with wilfully breaking a small branch from one of the trees
in the gardens of Lincoln's Inn-fields.
The officer who has charge of the gardens said, he saw the
defendant yesterday afternoon climb over the railings and
break the branch in question, and upon the witness coming
up to the spot the defendant threw the branch from him and
ran away. He was, however, pursued, and taken into custody.
The defendant said he merely plucked a little may, in
doily, which he thought there was no harm.
Mr.' HALL said, that although the damage in this parti-
cular instance was but small, yet the practice of breaking
the trees in the square was very general, and in the course of
the year great damage was sustained. This sort of thing
never happened in France, for the people there would pass an
ornamental tree in a public thoroughfare a hundred times
and not think of touching it. In England, however, it was
different, for the people seemed to think that they had a right
to destroy anything they pleased. He knew that the inhabi-
tants of the different squares in London were put annually to
great expense, in consequence of the depredations committed
upon the trees. Persons had no more right to take a branch
from one of these trees than they had to go into one of the
houses and steal a piece of plate.
The prisoner was fined ss.
UNION-HALL.
ElizabethWhitburn, a young:woman recently in the service
of Mr. Studely, of Alfred-place, North Brixton, was charged
before Mr. Traill, with robbing her master of a gold watch,
a diamond brooch, and other articles of jewellery, to the
amount of upwards of 1001.
Mr. Studely stated that the prisoner had only been in his
service about three weeks, and that on Friday last, after he
left home, she broke open the wardrobe in his bed-room, from
which she took the articles above mentioned, together with
several more, amounting in vclue to 1001. Soon after her
departure from the house the robbery was discovered, and a
hammer with which she broke open the wardrobe was found
in the room.
A policeman stated, that having received information of
the robbery he had been in search of the prisoner, and at
length traced her to a public-house in the Tower, called the
Stone Kitchen. On searching her he found the diamond
brooch and a ring, with 13s. in silver. Amongst the property
stolen were two 51. notes, and an old guinea of the reign of
Charles 11., none of which wer found in her possession.
The prisoner, who merely said that no person was con-
cerned with her in the robbery, was remanded till Friday.

EXECUTION OF WM. CROUCH.
Yesterday morning, at eight, 'Wm. Crouch suffered the
extreme penalty of the law in front of the gaol of Newgate,
having been convicted at the last sessions of the Central Cri-
minal Court of the murder of his wife. Crouch stated that
he was impelled to commit the act through the artifices of a
female named Cousins, who persuaded him that his wife was
unfaithful to him. He expressed himself fully conscious of
the enormity of his crime, and added that he had tried to
exhibit by outward signs the sincerity of that repentance
which he felt inwardly, but that he could not do so. At six
o'clock the Rev. Mr. Davis arrived at the prison and joined
Crouch, with whom he continued in earnest prayer until
shortly after seven, when the sheriffs and under-sheriffs ar-
rived. The wretched man, about half-past seven, was led
into the press-room, where he was formally delivered
over into the custody of the sheriffs by Mr. Cope,
the governor of the prison. At a few minutes before
eight o'clock, the announcement that all was ready having
been made, Calcraft, the executioner, advanced towards the
wretched man, who subjected himself to the awful process of
pinioning without a murmur, and apparently without the
agitation of a muscle. The Rev. Ordinary then addressing
Crouch, said it would no doubt be a satisfaction to him to
confess before the numbers then assembled, that which he
had already frequently admitted to himself and the sheriffs—
viz., the justice of his sentence. The Rev. Gentleman then
asked distinctly whether he was satisfied that he had had a
fair trial—that he had been tried by a merciful jury—and
that his life was the necessary sacrifice for his awful crime?
To all which questions the unhappy man answered distinctly
and firmly, " Yes, Sir." At five minutes to eight, all being
in readiness, the procession moved from the press-room,
through the chapel-yard, towards the scaffold, the Rev. Or-
dinary reading the impressive service for the burial of
the dead.
The crowd outside the prison, which, up to seven o'clock,
had been by no means numerous, was by this time increased
to a great extent, and there could not have been less than
ten thousand persons present. Within a very few seconds of
his arrival on the scaffold, Calcraft had completed the awful
preparations, and having drawn a cap over the wretched
man's face, retired. The Rev. Mr. Davis, who had continued
reading the burial service, was in the act of repeating the
Lord's Prayer, the prisoner joining fervently with him, when
the signal was given, the drop fell, and in a few moments
Crouch had ceased to exist.

ROYAL ACADEMY FANCY DRESS BALL.—Saturday
afternoon there was a meeting of the Lady Patronessess, at
the Hanover• square Rooms, in consequence of the great de-
mand for vouchers ; and it appeared that the second issue
was disposed of. We believe that Lady Jersey alone had
issued upwards of two hundred. We understand that any
vouchers issued after this day are to be charged double. In
addition to Lady Jersey's splendid quadrille of fort:- • others
have been formed under the direction of Lady C. Egerton, &c.

SUICIDE.—John Leaman, aged 60 years, an inmate
of the workhouse in this borough, whose habits and
conduct had obtained for him the bestowal of privileges
not usually granted to the paupers, was detected on Sa-
turday last, under circumstances which gave assurance
that he had been guilty of a most atrocious violation
on the person of a child only nine years of age. This
girl it appeared had been allowed after school hours on
Saturday, to remain with her father in the man's yard
as an indulgenco to her parent. Having missed her, the
father in the pursuit of an inquiry, went to a room in
that part of the yard in which Leaman worked, but was
unable to enter it, as the door of the room was
fastened on the inside. He asked Leaman if his
child was there, when the girl cried out lam
here, father." The father then went away, and
presently the girl came after him, and in answer to
close interrogatories he elicited confirmation of his
most painful surmises. Subsequently he encoun-
tered the wicked object of the child's pollution, and
visited upon him the indignant scorn of a man dis-
honoured and wretched, and informed him that he would
cause his imprisonment. The charge was not given to
the authorities of the establishment until the next day,
when, preparatory to other proceedings, the master
stopped Leaman's leave at the gate. On his presenting
himself, as usual, on going to church, Leaman was in-
formed that his leave had been checked. He turned
away, and was not heard of for an hour-and-a-half
afterwards, when it was discovered that he had secured
the door of the room as before, and finished his career
by self-destruction. He was suspended by the neck
by a rope, and apparently had been dead some time.
An inquest was held on the body on Monday, when a
verdict of " Fele de se" was returned. His remains,
according to law, were interred on Monday night, at
Stoke Church, between nine and twedva o'clock, without
the rites of Christian burial.—Devonport Independent.