The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

DAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1844.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice ERSKINE.)
George Jail alias Jeremiah Regan, aged 21, smith, was
paced at the bar, charged with feloniously uttering counterfeit
coin, well kn .iwing it to have been counterfeit.
Mr. Ellis, Counsel to the Mint, and Mr. Bodkin, conducted
th? prosecution.
It aNNeered from the evidence that the defendant, on the
21at of December, went to Covent-garden Market and pur-
chased some holly from a person Lamed James Moore,fer which
he gave a shilling. The prisoner said he would come to Moore
next day to buy mare, and went away. Moore, in the mean-
time, found the *billing to be bad, and when the prisoner called
next day, he gave him a crown-piece, which he found was bad,
and which he marked with his teeth. The defendant was then
taken to the station-house and was committed for trial.

Mr. Field, to officer from the Alia, proved that the crown
awl shilling were counterfeit. It appeared that the defendant
was eonvicted on a former occasion for a similar offence coin.
m itted in April, 1842.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty, who Wa3 sentenced to
ten years' transportation.

NEW COURT.
( Before the COMNION SERGEANT.)
The Court was occupied during the greater part of the morn-
ing, in disposing of charges of uttering counterfeit coin, of a
trivial nature. Stephen Soper, Emma Stone, J. Straughan,
and G. Holder, were convicted of the offence. The first three
were sentenced to six, and the last to nine months' im-
prisonment.
If. Ctarhe was indicted for stealing from the person of
Sarah Ellingliam, on the 19th of December, a cloak, the pro-
perty of William Allen.
The robbery was alleged to have taken place near Rickmans-
worth, in Hertfordshire. The prisoner, whilst driving a cart
in open day, asked the prosecutrix to ride. She did so, and the
prisoner first attempted to take improper liberties with her, and
upon her resisting took from her the bundle.

• This being the for the prosecution witnesses were
called for tke prisoner, who gave him an excellent character,
and Counsel in his defence, contended that he must have been
drunk at the time of committing the offence, otherwise he
could never have done what was charged against him.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Thomas Cunningham was found guilty of stealing a number
of fowls, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Cor-
rection for tiaree months.

Rtchard Stairy was charged with stealing one handkerchief,
value 25., the property of George Franklin Collins, from his
person. The prisoner was found guilty. There had been a
previous eonvistion, and an attempt was made to rescue him
when taken into custody for the last offence, by a gang of no-
torious thieves. He was sentenced to be transported for ten
years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Two youpg women, the daughters of labouring men, were
charged with robbing their parents. Both charges were of a
very aggravated description.
It appeared that the first girl took an opportunity of break-
ing open her father's box, and taking therefrom two sovereigns.
Ihe moment she took the money she absconded, and joining
some loose characters went to one of the " penny theatres,"
as they are denominated, and staying out all night spent the
whole of the money. She was found in the morning in one
of those dens of infamy in Vine-yard. The other prisoner had
robbed her parents on several occasions, and having spent
the monoy in the lowest company, was in the habit of return-
ing home with scarcely sufficient clothes to cover her.
The latter prisoner endeavoured to exculpate herself by say-
ing that she was cruelly treated by her step-mother, and that
she could rot remain in the house with her.

Mr. COTTINGHAM remanded the prisoners with a view of
saving them from utter destruction, and endeavouring to
obtain their admission into an asylum for the reformation of
female offenders.