The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-12 00:00:00

CROWN SIDE.

Mr. Baron GURNEY, in charging the grand jury, took
occasion to complain of the small number of gentle-
men who had attended as grand jurors, there being only
seventeen sworn; and he said, that in his long experi-
ence, both at the bar and on the bench, he had never, in
that county, heard a similar complaint, and he trusted
this would be the only time it would be made.
Wm. Andrews, 26, John Berry, 19, and Henry Berry,
21, were indicted for stealing a wether sheep, the pro.
perty of John George Fordham, Esq.
Mr. Hawkins conducted the prosecution.
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The circumstances under which the charge was made
against the prisoners were of rather an extraordinary
character. It appeared that on the night of the 22d of
May, William Wright, an inspector of the Hertford-
shire constabulary, was on duty near the sheep-fold of
the prosecutor, when he observed three men come across
some fields and go into the fold. He laid up in the
hedge and listened, and soon afterwards he heard a
noise, as though the sheep were being driven about.
In a few minutes the three men came out of the

fold, carrying something heavy, and when they
got near him he rushed upon them and seized
the prisoners Andrews and John Berry, and
after a sharp scuffle, with the assistance of another con-
stable, succeeded in securing them, but Henry Berry got
away. The carcase of a sheep was then found in a
ditch, where it had been thrown by the prisoners upon
the inspector attacking them. The prisoner Henry
was apprehended the next day, concealed under some
hay in a barn, and he was positively sworn to as the
companion of the other prisoners.
Mr. Baron GURNEY, in summing up, observed that
offences of this description were mostly committed in
secrecy and in the dead of night, and it was very rare
indeed that the parties were, as in this instance, caught
in the fact.

The jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
In answer to questions from the Court, the inspector
said that John Berry had been tried at the assizes for
stabbing, and Andrews was well known to be a poacher.
The prisoners were always about the country at night.
Mr. Baron GURNEY then sentenced John Berry and
Andrews to be transported for twelve years, and Henry
Berry for ten years.
His LORDSHIP observed that he thought the inspector
had acted very courageously in securing three desperate
fellows like the prisoners, and the public were much
indebted to him. He should, therefore, order him a
reward of ten pounds. The Learned Judge also gave
directions that minor rewards should be given to the
constables who had come up to the inspector's assistance.
Francis Tubbs, 35, described as a horse dealer, was in-
dicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Anne
Keeling,in the parish of Broxbourne, and stealing a silver
tea-caddy, and other articles of plate, and valuables, to
a considerable amount, her property.
Mr. Rodwell conducted the prosecution.
The prosecutrix is a lady, residing at Broxbourne,
and on the night of the 12th April the whole of her
establishment went to bed shout sleven o'clock, leaving
the house properly secured. Upon the housamaid going
down stairs next morning, it was discovered that the
iron bar of the pantry window had been forced open so
as to admit of a man's body passing through the aper-
ture, and property of considerable value stolen. The
next day, Clark, one of the superintendents of the county
police, proceeded. to London, and found the prisoner in
the shop of a refiner, in Barbican, where he was bar-
gaining for the sale of the greater part of the plate that
had been stolen, and which had been found in his pos-
session. Upon his being apprehended he told the officer
:where-he had left the greater part of the remainder of
the stolen property, and it was subsequently recovered.
A statement made by the prisoner befor the com-
mitting magistrate was put in evidence. It was to the
effect that, on the night in question, he was on his way
to Cambridge, and upon his arriving at Broxbourne,
he observed the house of the prosecutrix, and the
thought suddenly came into his head that he would rob
it. He found all the doors and windows secured, and
he went into a field and got the coulter of a plough,
with which he forced open the window. He then drank
some elder wine, and packed up the property, and after-
wards went to London by the Wells mail. He stated
that the robbery was quite unpremeditated.
The prisoner addressed the jury in his defence, and
said that he was in great distress when he committed
the offence. In the first instance his only intention was
to obtain food, and for that reason he broke into the
pantry, but seeing the other property lying about, he was
tempted to take it.
Mr. Baron GURNEY having summed up, the jury im-
mediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for
twelve years.
As the prisoner was leaving the bar, he inquired of
Mr. Baron Gurney whether he might be permitted to
make one observation ?

Mr. Baron GURNEY said he did not sit there to hear
the observations of prisoners.
He was then removed from the bar.

In the course of the day a true bill was returned
against several persons for keeping gambling-booths at
the last Gorhambury races.
Mr. Baron Parke sat on the Civil Side. Ten causes
were entered, all of which were common jury cases, and
the greater part of them undefended. Nothing f the
slightest interest took place during the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

A man of respectable appearance named John Bowen,
who stated himself to be.a captain, was brougkt before
the Lord Mayor by Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged
upon a warrant with having defaced and injured part of
the leaf of the register-book of the parish of Crome Da-
belot, otherwise Abboth, otherwise Croome Osbern, in
the county of Worcester.
The warrant was signed by the Rev. Charles Dunn
and Mr. John Henry Allen, magistrates of the county
of Worcester, and backed by the Lord Mayor, and a
great deal of curiosity was manifested towards the pri-
soner, Who had been watched for by Daniel Forrester,
and was apprehended immediately upon his arrival at
an inn at Aldgate. The particulars of the ease were not
entered into in the justice-room, as the Lord Mayor
merely required the identification of the prisoner in
order to sanction his removal to the place in which the
offence was alleged to have been committed, and where
it is to undergo a strict investigation.
Thomas Petford, superintendent of a district in th 9
county of Worcester, produced the warrant for the ap-
prehension of John Bowen, and deposed that the pri-
soner was the person accused and named in the warrant.
The prisoner seemed to be quite prepared to meet the
charge, and
The LORD MAYOR directed that he should be handed
over to the custody of the county officer.
351. in Bank notes were found by Forrester upon his
person,,and several papers were also taken from his
pockets. These were of course put into the possession
of the superintendent, who stated, in answer to a ques- .
tion from the Lord Mayor, that he was not aware' that
the money bad any reference to the alleged offence.
/t was mentioned that the defacing of the register
was in some Way connected with the claim of a certain
party to a very large sum of money, under the will of
the hoe James Wood, of Gloucester. The amount was

supposed to be between 90,0001. and 100,0001.
It wiirat so stated incidentally that the prisoner was
a person who employed himself in the investigatipn of
pedigrees, and that he had been eagerly inquiring after
the particulars of the birth of the party to whom the
particular leaf which was stated to have been: torn
referred ; that the clergyman by whom the register was
kept detested him in the act of defacing or tearing the
leaf, but was too much alarmed and agitated to cause the
prisoner's immediate apprehension, and that subsequently
the police were directed to cause him to be arrested the
moment lie should make his appearance.
'The prisoner made no observation,. but quietly accom-
panied the superintendent.
John Warrangham, a waterman, who resides near
Horselydown, was charged, before his Lordship,, with
having caused a very serious obstruction to the naviga-
tion of the river Thames, which is at the present time
crowded, within the port of London, with vessels of all
descriptions.
The case was one of much interest to those whose
vesAels lie in the Thames, in the vicinity of London.
Mr. James Tucker, the assistant Harbour Master,
stated that at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st
of June, the defendant's barge, called the Exercise, was
found moored athwart in Alderman's Ferry, within the
port of London. Witness hailed the barge several times,
and ascertained that nobody was on board, but he disco
vered that the defendant, who had charge of her, was ca-
rousing in a neighbouring vessel. He then called to the
defendant to hawl up his barge, which the man most un-
civilly refused to do, accompanying the refusal with such
language as certainly aggravated the case against! him..
Witness threatened to send a man to hawl the tarp
into her proper station, and the defendant's condulet be-
came still more offensive. For thus interfering with the
Harbour Master's duty for the proper regulation 91: the
river, and persevering in a course calculated to occasion
the greatest possible confusicin, it was considered heces-
sary to make the, defendant responsible.
The defendant said that he considered himself en-
titled to resist the entrance of any man into his barge,
which was quietly lying in her place, without molesting
any craft on the river, and as for the language which
had been objected to, the Harbour Master must be a
person of very little experience or observation if he did
not hear such words -at least once in the course of every
sentence that was uttered on the river. In fact, they
were words which signified nothing.
The LORD MAYOR said the Harbour Master had most
properly brought the case before him. In the present
crowded state of the port of London, an obstruction to
the navigation was attended with imminent peril to life
and property, and he trusted that the officers who had
the superintendence of so important a district would
sharply look after those persons who might be disposed I.
to violate the bye-laws fbr the regulation of the vessels
in the port. His Lordship considered that the language
used by the defendant deserved punishment indepen-
dently of the offenceimmediately charged, and sentenced
him to pay the penalty of 40s.
The defendant said that he had no notion of paying
any such sum, and declared, at the same time, that he,
had no-gooda upon which his Lordship could distrain.
...,,VIR-Ale9P4iX47,-Th 4Y-en sou must go at once to '
prison, and pay in person if you do not pay in money.
.TllO 4411511414_ peftenyarda contrived to pay the

penalty arid the costs, and was discharged, with an assu-
rance that he, and the class to which he belonged, should
have the peculiar attention of the Harbour Masters.
It was stftteil that, upon one occasion recently, a
barge was lying athwart, in direct opposition to the
bye-laws, which caused, in a few minutes, a loss to the
amount of upwards of 7001.
UNION-HALL.

James Whitfield, a carman, in the employ of Messrs.
Carpenter, millers, of Greenwich, was brought up for final
examination, charged with stealing a sack of flour, the pro-
perty of his employers. James Jean and James Freer
were also charged with stealing a quantity of timber,
the property of Mr. Merritt and Mr. Harris, timber
merchants in the York-road, Lambeth, by whom they
were occasionally employed as labourers. John Smith
and William Gurney, carmen in the service of Mr.
Bragley, corn merchant, Goswell-street, were also
charged with stealing five sacks of oats, the property of
Mr. Bragley ; and James Harvey, a general dealer, of
Charlotte-street, Waterloo-road, was charged with re-
ceiving the above property knowing it to be stolen.
About three weeks ago the prisoner was seen to stop
his waggon, loaded with flour, near the Victoria Thea-
tre, and carry a sack of flour into Harvey's premises.
That circumstance coming to the knowledge of the
police, he was apprehended, and part of the flour
found on Harvey's premises. The sack which con-
tained it was identified by Mr. Carpenter. Harvey
was then taken into custody, when his premises
were searched, and property of a miscellaneous descrip-
tion of considerable value was found therein, among
which was the timber belonging to Mr. Harris and Mr.
Merritt, besides thirty sacks of oats, five of which belonged
to Mr. Bragley. Goff and Brooks, two active officers,
succeeded in tracing.;the owners of the property, and
taking the prisoneroo custody.
William Bennet proved the removal of the timber
from the yards of Mr. Harris and Mr. Merrit, into Har-
vey's premises, by the prisoners Jean and Freer, on Sa-
turday, the 26th ultimo.
The prisoners were defended by Mr. Solomons and
Mr. Crisp.
They were committed for trial.
Harvey is a man of considerable property, being pos-
sessed of several houses in the neighbourhood. He has
been for some time under the surveillance of the police.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals at Singapore.—Her Majesty's ;hip Alligator,
April 12, from Hong-Kong ; Cowasjee Family, Durham,
13th, from Macao, and sailed, 13th, to Calcutta ; Diana
steamer, Congalton, from a cruise, and sailed, 16th on a
cruise ; Royal Exchange, Hubertson, 14th, from Bom-
bay, and sailed, 16th, to China ; Elizabeth Ainslie, 15th,
from Madras ; Maid of Athens, Hews, 16th, from
Bombay ; Dhur, Cumberland from Calcutta ; British
Merchant, Borneo from Ampanam ; Nutcut, 17th,from
Macao ; Zemindar and Ariel from Hong-Kong ; Royal
Saxon, from Madras.

Departures from Singapore—Asia, Smith, April 10,
to China; Julia, 11th, to Sarawak ; Venus, 11th,
to Tringanee ; John Knox, 12th, to Sourabaya;
Madras and Regina, to China ; Guess, 13th, to
Malacca and Penang ; Macassar, to Manilla; Emma,
to China; LeLucile, 16th, to Batavia.
Loadink at Singapore—Mary Bulmer and Dalmar-
nock, for London; Vanguard, for China; Prima Donna,
for Cork; Vigilant, for London; Zuleika, for Calcutta;
Josephine, for Liverpool; Wanderer, for coast of China.
Arrival at Batavia—Wetherall, Feb. 23, from Singa-
pore; Duke of Wellington, 25th, from China.
Departures from Batavia—S. Brodder, Feb. 24, to
Colies; Cleveland, to Samarang; Louisa, 16th, to Ant-
werp; 'Alfred, to Amsterdam.