The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-11 00:00:00

(and it was shown, afterwards, her misfortune) told
by a cunning and plotting female member of the
worthy and honest Lee family. That information so
:,t-Forded to the willing ears of the giddy girl was, that
she would meet " a very dark young man," who
would offer her marriage! Such, certainly, was the
cage, for she almost immediately (and, of course,
quite accidentally on his part!) met with Lee him-
self: He proved the dark young man who was to
pop the question to her, for he went through that in-
teresting ceremony instanter, and found a prepared
hearer for his petition. The question thus promptly
popped was satisfactorily answered by a consent from
the young lady, who (to prove herself a worthy
partner in the affair) took from her parents a con-
&derable sum of money, and they then both left
Margate for Canterbury, where they were soon dis-
covered, living as man and wife. The police were
called in by the friends of the truant damsel, who had
thus been entrapped, and had thus yielded to a
scheme so barefaced, and she was rescued by them
from the companion of her irregular flight. She
was then forthwith taken home by her friends, and
Gipsy Lee, not being disposed to yield his prize so
easily, secured a seat on the coach within which his
chere amie was being carried from the scene of their
discovery. Ile resolutely mounted the same stage,
declaring he would throw himself off the cliff when
he reached Margate, and be thus dashed upon the
rocks or drowned by the " whelming tide." The
threats were regarded by the listeners with indiffe-
rence, and so the result proved, as no intelligence
has been gleaned of the " lover's leap" taking place.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Oct. 10.
IN RE JAMES GOMAIES.

The insolvent had carried on an extensive business
in Castle-street, Oxford-street, and the amount of
debts which appeared in his schedule were 3,3721.,
and one of the items which appeared in explanation
on the debit side was 3601. for loss by discount and
bill stamps. Another item also which appeared on
the debit side of the schedule was 400/. by loss sus-
tained in fitting up the royal yacht. The system
which he pursued was to get one of his journeymen
to wept a bill, and then, representing him to be a per-
son of the first respectability, induce the friends of
his (insolvent's) family to discount them. Of course
the bills were never paid. He had succeeded in bor-
rowing money from his father and grandfather to the
amount of 1,5001., not one penny of which had been
ever repaid to them. A host of persons to whom
those bills had been passed opposed.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said he had seldom
witnessed a grosser or more unfeeling case of fraud
' inhumanity. his treatment of his aged
anu '-heen creel in the extreme, and nothing
parents has '-.tent than getting his journey-
could be more frauo,...
‘t
naen the men were earn-
men to accept bills for him ce of the Court
in g only 253. a week. The sent,i
date of his vesting order.
was, that he be imprisoned for six Montiiil from the

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(Y ESTERD AY.)
CLE.RICEIV WELL.
Catherine Sheehan was charged with violently
assaulting police-constable Young, 62 E.
The constable's face was much torn. The magis•
trate desired him to expose his right arm, and every
one present was horrified at the appearance the upper
part of it presented. The flesh had been literally
gnawed to the bone ; it was of a livid colour, and
the marks of human teeth were painfully visible in
several places. He seemed to be suffering great pain,
and the limb was much swollen.
The constable deposed, that on the previous night
the prisoner was creating a violent disturbance in
Marchaiont-place, Brunswick-square, and had, by her
shouts and cries, attracted a mob of 200 persons. The
constable remonstrated with her, and she then went
away, but in a few minutes after attacked a house in
Comm-place, where the woman with whom she had
been contending took shelter, and actually smashed in
the door. The constable was again called upon, and,
on his arrival, took her into costody. The complainant
had no sooner laid his hand upon her than she threw
herself on the ground, and used her arms and legs with
such effect, that she inflicted several cuts and contu-
sions upon his face and limbs. The constable took
hold of her for the purpose of raising her from the
ground, when she seized him by the arm, and, forcing
it into her mouth, sunk her teeth into it until they
almost met in the flesh. All the force of the constable,
who writhed with pain, could not dislodge her; she
fastened on him like a tigress; and when at length
assistance arrived, the flesh had been gnawed into a
mummy.
Mary Anne Murphy corroborated the constable's
statement in every respect. She bore testimony to
his extreme forbearance and to her ferocity.
Mr. GREENWOOD said her conduct more resembled
that of an enraged wild beast than of a human being.
tie would sentence her to one month's imprisonment,
ithout the power of releasing herself by the payment
of a fine.
Mr. Richard James Chapman, who described him-
self as an actor at Drury-lane Theatre, residing at
Wellington-square, appeared upon remand to answer
a charge preferred against him by his wife Emma.
The preceding part of the case appeared in The Sun
of Tuesday, and it will be recollected that it was
postponed at the defendant's request, in order to
enable him to rebut the complainant's testimony,
which, he alleged, he could do by the production of
witnesses. He, however, failed to convince the ma-
gistrate, who ordered him to pay a fine of 21.
Defendant—l won't pay a farthing.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Then you must go to the House
of Correction for a month.
Defendant—Then I will go.
He was committed accordingly.
WORSHIP-STREET. _ _

Yesterday a middle-aged man, of respectable appear-
anc, who gave the name of William Johnson Thompson,
arid described himself as a general agent, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having, in
conjunction with his wife and daughter, Anne and Emma
Thompson, who were likewise placed at the bar, by false
and fraudulent pretences, obtained a large quantity of
miscellaneous property from various tradesmea at Pen-
tonville.
The prisoners were said to be connected with a nume-
rous body of swindling depredators, who have for a long
time past carried on a most successful system of fraud
and felony, the ramifications of which are proved to hare
extended over the widely opposite localities of Camden-
town, Hackney, Newington, and Hammersmith, and
comprised nearly every parish in the metropolis. Four
ether persons, named Henry Miller, Sarah Dower, and
Thomas and William Smith, the latter father and son,
and who are identified as prominent members of the
body, already stand remanded from this Court on a vast
number of charges of a similar description preferred by
tradesmen from Hackney and Hammersmith alone.
Sergeant Dubois now stated, that while pursuing his
' inquiries for the elucidation of the facts in the charges
against the prisoners already in custody, he on Wed-
nesday received information that a family who passed
by -the name of Thompson, and ware of apparent
respectability, had resided for a very short time at
the house No. 14, Hermes-street, Pentonville, and
after defrauding all the tradesmen in that neighbour-
hood to a great extent had anddenly absconded, with-
out the least clue being left as to where they had gone.
Directly he had received this information he received
more, which indentified this family with the other pri-
son:." % tu'AL ascertaining that they had located them-
selves a Q. haus* in Northampton-place, near Bowling-
green-lane, 1-‘riceriwelJ, he went there, accompanied by
Ch" 'vete dales, at a late hour on the
other officers, in
Ph • --1 the hagse to be a very large
preceding night. He foul., ,erina, sown
and respectable one, with the e
" by it: :all
ethoer
windows. Finding that they here were,
Johnson, he knocked and asked fur Mrs. Jut— - vi; at's.
male prisoner made his appearance, and said she
out ; but hearing a suspicious bustling noise in the
kitchen, he called in several tradesmen who were with
him, and in spite of the male prisoner's clamour and re-
sistance, which drew a large mob around the house, forced
him down stairs into the kitchen, in which were several
women, but not the elder female prisoner. The place
was searched for her, and she was at last pulled out of
the coal-cellar in the front area, at the back of which
she had secreted herself. She then sat down in a chair,
and immediatly after put her hand into her pocket, and,
drawing something out, was trying to pass it to the
younger female prisoner. He ran across the room
and seized her by both her arms, but she struggled so
violently that the table was thrown over, the light ex-
tinguished, and all left in confusion in the dark. He
fastened all the parties into the room, and, a light hav-
ing been procured by one of the officers, he proceeded to
search the place. The back kitchen, the two parlours,
and what ought to have been the drawing-rooms, were
entirely destitute of furniture, as was, in fact, every
other part of the house, with the exception of one of the
back bed-rooms, in which there was only one bed, and
that lying upon the floor, In a closet in this room he
found four new bonnets wrapped up in paper, belonging
to a tradesman whom he should call ; fifty or sixty du-
plicates, for articles of all descriptions ; and washing-
tubs, and other articles, of which other tradesmen had
been defrauded. On finding the bonnets he asked the
women in the house if they claimed them, but, although
he thrice repeated the question, all remained silent but
Emma Thompson, and she merely demanded the riband
on one of the bonnets. All the prisoners were then
taken into custody. He had ascertained they had only
been in this house, which they had taken for three years,
since the 23d ult., the very day they had absconded from
Hermes-street, the keys of which they had sent back by
the Parcels Delivery Company, and that they had ac-
tually had three houses in their possession at the same
time, at all of which similar practices had been carried on.
Five tradespeople in Pentonville, named Davey, Shaw,
Shalcroft, Heeks, and Ash, proved that the prisoners had
ordered goods of them to a considerable extent at a late
hour on Saturday, the 21st ult., while residing in Hermes-
street, where they hal been but a very short time,
although this house was also taken for a term of three
years, and that on taking the goods to the house of the
prisoners, they either received fresh orders or shuffling
excuses for the payment of the articles on the following
Monday ; but that on calling at the house on the Mon-
day morning, they found it entirely stripped of every-
thing, and that the prisoners had absconded, no one knew
where. Nearly all the articles produced by the ser-
geant and officers were identified by the witnesses as