The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

Harley, the landlady of the King William Tavern, in
Ship-yard.
The prosecutrix, a widow, wishing to dispose of her
house, advertised it for sale. The prisoner applied to
her concerning it, and the preliminary arrangements
having been made on Monday week last, he called and
paid a-deposit of 30L On the following Thursday he
called again with a man, who appeared to be a workman,
and, said he wished to measure the bed-room, as he had
some..-Old-fashioned furniture to put in it. She
proceeded up stairs with the two, and when they
got into the bed-room the prisoner examined the
drawers in the room, and the prosecutrix said, " Oh,
I intend. to take those away with me." The prisoner
then said to the other man, " You will want some
money,,l suppose," and then asked the prosecutrix to
give him- change for a 5/. She opened the drawer in
which-her money was kept, and took out a bag contain-
ing 1001., and gave him the change for the note. They
immediately went down stairs, and the prisoner left the
house: -_Having occasion shortly after to go up stairs,
the prosecutrix found her room door locked, and the
key taken away. On obtaining another key and going
into the-room, she observed that the drawer in which her"
money was kept was marked as with a chisel, and on
examining she discovered that her money was gone.
Information was given to the police, and the prisoner
Was taken into custody. A lot of new furniture was
found in his house, and when he was taken he said, " Oh,
it is sure to be a remand," He had been in custody on
a charge of felony before.
Mr. JARDINE remanded the prisoner for a week.
CLERKENWELL.
Robert Nunn was charged with assaulting his fa-
ther and mother, George and Harriette Nunn, re-
spectable persons living in Torrington-street, Tor-
rington-square, and also with threatening the life of
his mother.
It appeared from the statement of the parents that
the prisoner was two years ago apprenticed to an ex-
cellent ,business, hut had not been there more than a
few Months when he came home and entreated of his
parents- to send him to sea. They accordingly fitted
,hirkont for sea at considerable expense, but he re-
turned home after the first voyage, and became so
dissolute that there was no restraining him. He
spent whole nights on the town, and when' he re-
turned•home, if either of his parents ventured to re-
monstrate with him, used the most shocking lan-
guage,.and sometimes beat them severely. A second
time at-hie request, they sent him to sea, but in a
fewweeks he came home ten times more depraved
than he-had ever been before. He was 0...-w;ot•cl
thin CourS vu a previous occasion, of a most aggra-
vated' outfit on his mother. On the previous night
they deposed that he came in abOut eleven o'clock.
She told him he should have been in sooner. He in•
stantly.ran over to the bed on which she was lying
and'struck her a violent blow, producing a severe
contusion on her left temple. He then left the house,
and when outside aimed a blow with a tile at his
fatherf • who was sitting at the parlour•window. The
missile struck him in the hand. He threw another
tile at•him, but it did not take effect.
Mr. GOYIM—What have you to say to this ? Pri-
soner-4.= don't know that I hurt them.
Mr. cOllllll sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or
two months' imprisonment.
He .wLks committed. On his way from the Court
to the .cell he whistled a merry tune.
Jeremiah O'Leary, a powerful-loking men, was
charged.. by Sergeant Buckley, 12 N, with having
violently-assaulted him. The prosecutor, on the pre-
vious night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, was
called to quell a disturbance in Lower-road; Isling-
ton, when he was followed by the prisoner, who
knocked him down, and ill-used him in so brutal a
manner that he was unable to perform his duty.
CoMas sentenced the prisoner to seven days'
imprisonment, without fine.
Charles Simmons, a cabman, employed by Moses
Isaacs, a cab proprietor, was summoned. for neglect-
ing to' pay the sum of 12s. The defendant, on being
engaged, signed an agreement to pay 12s. a day, but
had been unable to earn that sum. The prisoner said
he had pad every farthing he received, and he begged
not to bepunished, as his family would be driven to
distresi. ;. He had pledged some articles, and would
now pay 4i. He had already paid 235. out of 365.
Mr. eosin' suggested that the money should be
paid .by instalments.
Mr. Isaacs refused to accede to this, and the pri-
soner wits- committed to the House of Correction for
fourteen days for failing to pay the 14s.
In reference to the ease of Miss Johnson, of 27,
Charlotiv.street 'West, White Conduit-fields, which
has been 'noticed in the newspapers, information has
been -received by the police and the liendicity officers
that some parties have taken advantage of the pub-
licity given to her distress, &c., and art going about
imposing upon the charitable public by-falsely repre-
senting that they are authorised to collect subscrip-
tions for her. Yesterday 21. was forwarded to this
court from Sir Claude Scott and Co., bankers, by a
gentleman, Mr. Watt Ormsby, of Manchester-street,
Manchester-square, and other charitable persons have
also forwarded donations, &c.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Thursd.ay, on elderly widow woman, named Hard-
ing, living at No. 4, King-street, Soho, appeared to a
summons before Mr. Hardwick, for having on the sth
inst. "unlawfully sold certain fireworks, to wit, a
cracker.?
The selling was proved by policeman 177 C, who
ststed that'• boys were constantly supplied with squibs
exom the defendant's shop.' Thus armed, the urchins
_amused themselves with the old-faslioned games
called "-funk the cobbler," and " the devil among the
tailors," much to the annoyance of the locality. It
frequentjy happened that a flaming missile would find
its way through some parlour window, and disturb
the gravity of a family tea party. This amusement
at length became so frequent that many of the in-
habitants were alarmed, and applied to the police, who
succeeded' in finding out that the fireworks were sold
by the -defendant.
' Mrs. Harding declared that she sold no fireworks
to boys tif let off in the street. Five years ago an
explosion "took place on her premises at Chelsea, on
which occasion her son and daughter perished. Since
that time she was much reduced, and was:now a
lone widow, and for that reason the neighbours came
forward to persecute her.
Six or seven of the inhabitants of King-street com-
plained.of the danger they were subject to from the
practice. Fireworks were frequently placed under
the sills of doors, or stuffed between the crevices of
shutters,- and set fire to. It was high time to seek
the interference of the law to put a stop to the
system..
me:HAiupwlca said, that although the boys; who
were guilty of letting off fireworks, ought to 'know
better than to do so in the streets, yet the greater
blame rested with those who supplied the articles.
The defendant must adopt some other means to get a
living than selling fireworks in crowded streets. The
ease had been fully made out, and he should impose
a fine Of 20i. or seven days' imprisonment.
The defendant begged very hard to be let off the
fine, and Mr. Hardwick ultimately allowed her till ,
Saturday to.pay it.