The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-29 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

The business of the present session at the Central
Criminal Court concluded on Tuesday. The Judges in
the Old Court were occupied the greater part of the day
in trying cases of felonious assault, the details of which
aro unfit for publication. In the New Court judgment
was respited upon Henry Burton, convicted of man-
slaughter, and also upon W. A. Postlethwaite, who
pleaded to a charge of felonious assault.
Henry Stephenson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of
throwing a stone on the South-Western Railway, was
discharged on entering into recognizances ; but the
Common Sergeant remarked that the offence was a most
serious one. inasmuch as the lives of thousands of the
subjects of the Crown were put in jeopardy by it, and
it must be distinctly understood that the utmost penalty
of the law would be enforced against all persons found so
offending in future.
J. Lovell, J. Bull, G. Williams, and G. Phillips, four
labouring men, indicted for stealing three sacks, four
bushels of oats, and three ditto of beans, value 305., the
property of J. Stanly, were convicted, and sentenced by
Mr. Commissioner Bullock to six months' hard labour.

Frederick Thomas Scott, a respectable tradesman,
was indicted for feloniously running against Samuel
John Read, on the 15th of July last, and causing divers
mortal ruptures and fractures, whereof he lingered till
the following day, when he died. This is the case
of the man who was run over in the Blackfriars-road,
and killed—it was said through the culpable negligence
of the prisoner. The evidence, however, was contra-
dictory, many persons who witnessed the occurrence
declaring it originated entirely in the stupidity of the
deceased, and exonerating the prisoner from all blame.
The jury acquitted him. Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner's
counsel, stated that the prisoner had been very kind to
deceased's widow, and would continue to be so.

John Bridgen, convicted of feloniously killing and
slaying Ann Jones, at Stepney, on the 9th of July last,
by forcibly and furiously knocking down and driving
over her in a cart, thereby inflicting divers mortal
bruises and contusions whereby she then and there died,
was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.
A letter from Mr. Sheriff, owner of the ship John
Campbell, was read at the Mansion-house, denying the
statements made by Laidlow, on Saturday, as to the
conduct of the captain of that ship, and accusing Laid-
low of mutiny. The ship has not yet arrived.
At Guildhall, on Tuesday, William Francis Johnson,
a jobbing master butcher, was brought before Mr. Alder-
man Brown, charged with obtaining, by false pretences,
from Mr. Hill, a salesman in Newgate-market, a cheque
for 521. He was remanded.
Francis Hallett was held to bail at Bow-street, on a
charge of insulting Mrs. Elizabeth Buller in the street,
and assaulting her husband and his friend, who endea-
voured to protect her. The prisoner called evidence to
rebut the charge.
A begging-letter impostor, named Ann Purchas, was
committed from Clerken well for three months.
At Queen-square, on Tuesday, James Roche, Thomas
M`Cabe, and Thomas Burn, three powerful ruffianly-
looking fellows, were placed at the bar charged wish
attemptiag to defraud and rob a number of respectable
tradesmen at Chelsea and Pimlico. Their plan was to
go into a shop and atk for change, to dispute the amount
received, create a disturbance, and rob the premises.
They were remanded until Friday.
John Sprole, the butler of Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., was
committed from Marleybone for robbing his master.
At Worship-street, Maria Clifford was charged with
endeavouring to induce two young girls to embrace a life
of prostitution. The prisoner and the girls were all
inmates of th© Institution for the Reform of Unhappy
Females, and she had endeavoured to induce her com-
panions to leave the Institution, and had given them
letters to a procures at the West-end. As there was
no evidence of agency, the prisoner was discharged.
Mr. Jeremy committed Martha Appleton, late house-
maid to James Brain, Esq., No. 7, Egerton -row, Black-
heath-road, for trial, on a charge of concealing the birth
of her infant child, by dropping it in her master's water-
closet.