The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-24 00:00:00

CRIMINAL COURT—YESTERDA
NEW COURT.
(Before Mr. Common-Sergeant MutiatousE.)
George °be? houser was indicted fur feloniously ate
ing, at the parish of St. Luke, Old-street, in the emu
of Middlesex, on the 25th day of May, 1844, one ea!
of the value of 35., and 841bs. of a certain colour call
Chinese blue, of the value of 61., the goods and chatt
of Thomas De la Rue and others, to whom he v
servant.
Mr. Clarkson am! Mr. Alfred Fry conducted the pt
secution, and Mr. Ballantyne appeared for the prisoner
Mr. CLARKSON having stated the case,
Henry Turner was called and examined by Mr..Fr
and deposed as follows :—I am in the employ of Mess]
Dickinson and Co., n holesale stationers, in the 0
Bailey, in the capacity of warehouseman. I have set
the prisoner once ; it was at the end of May or in tl
beginning of June in this year. He brought a cask
colour about that time to Messrs. Dickinson's wart
house. I received art invoice with it ' • there was
ticket or kind of card on it, marked 6i, Old Bailey.
received the cask from the prisoner. I took possession I
it, and gave it to our carman to go down to the mill
to Horne-Park mill, King's Langley. That is one (
the mills belonging to Messrs. Dickinson. -I wrot
Home Park mill "Home P. mill," I think, on th
card. The card being afterwards shown to the witnes
with the writing, he said " that is my handwriting."
Cross-cxamined by Mr. BALLANTYNE—I know no
thing of the colour myself. I delivered the invoice t
Mr. Patrick.
Thomas Patrick called and examined by Mr. CLARK
SON—I am a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Dickinso
and Co. On or about the 25th of May last an invoic,
was presented to me; I cannot say whether by the poi
ter or the prisoner. The prisoner was the man who
came to the warehouse. (The invoice was here pro
duced by Sergeant Brannan, and handed to witness
who, having looked at it, said that was the bil
of parcels presented to me while the prisone:
was in the house.) I paid the prisoner till
amount, 6/. 9s. 6d. The bill underwent the ordeal o
being sent down to be examined, and having come bad
with the signature of the person. who received the goods
the amount was paid. .
Cross-examined—Messrs. Dickinson are very largi
paper manufacturers. lam not in the working depart
ment, nor do I think there is any one here in that de
partment.
James Brannan called and examined by Mr. CLARK
soN—I am the same Brannan who is here so often.

am a sergeant of the G division of police. On Friday
the sth of September last, I• went to Messrs. Dick
inson's warehouse in the Old. Bailey, and there receive(
the bill of parcelsnow put into my hands. Inconsequence
of what I then learnt I went to the mills of Messrs. Dickin
son and Company, at King's Langley, and the servant then
pointed out the cask now produced. Inspector Shackel
marked it in my presence. I then took the card now
produced from the cask, and also a sample of the blue,
and the cask was produced at the next examination on
the following day.
Joseph Shackell called, and examined by Mr.
am an inspector of police. I went with the last witness
on the sth of September, in this year, to Messrs. Dick•
inson's Mill at King's Langley. I marked the cask in
his presence, and took a sample from it, which I brought
up to town.

Mr. Warren De La Rue called, and examined by Mr.
CLARKSON—I am ono of the prosecutors—the firm con-
sists of four persons. lam a member of the Chemical
Society.
By the COURT—One of the partners is named Thomas,
and is my father.
By Mr. CLARKSON—The making of coloured papers
is one branch of our trade—it is a chief branch. I have
turned my attention to the Tanufacture of Chinese
blue. There are a great many Chinese blues, which
all the trade use. I have turned my mind to the manu-
facture of a superior colour, of a constant tint. It is a
great fault with the common blues that they are not of a
constant colour. The Chinese blue I make is manu-
factured by a process of my own. No one out of my
firm has any knowledge of the means by which I make
it. In September I received information which induced
me to send for the prisoner. He was a grinder, an ink
grinder, and confidential storekeeper of colours. The
colour is not ground, but he assisted me in making
it. In consequence of what I heard I asked him.if he
had sold any blue to any person in the trade. He said
" No." I asked him if he had sold any to Messrs.
Dickinson. He said, " No." I then asked him
whether he had made any blue. lle denied having
done so. My father was present. I then told
him we had a person in the next counting-house
who could prove he had sold some. He then admitted
he had sold some. He said he had sold some, and made
it at home. I then asked him to describe the process-by
which he had made it, if he made it all, and the quan-
tities of the materials he had used ; and ho told me the
wrong proportions. I asked him the proportions, which
he told me, and I wrote them down on this paper (pro-
ducing it). They are ?lbs. of prussiate of potass, 71bs.
of copperaS, 71bs. of sulphuric acid, one-third of 141bs.
of copperas, one-fourth of 141bs. of sulphuric acid, and
one-fourth of 111bs. of nitrous acid. I also asked him
to describe the apparatus he had made it in ; and be de-
scribed having made use of an iron pot, and a few tubs
he had by him. I then asked him, whether any one in
the house knew he had made it ? He said, " No." I
asked him if his wife knew of it ? He said, "No ;" he
made it when she was in bed. And knowing that large
portions of nitrous fume aro given off, and .it
would be impossible for any one in the house
not to know it was being made, as it
would almost suffocate them, I sent for a policeman,
and gave him into custody. I afterwards sent down the
officers to King's Langley, to see, what he had sold to
Messrs. Dickinson. I cannot Say the tub produced is
our tub, but we have such tubs. I have no doubt that
article is my manufacture. According to the account the
prisoner gave me, I am sure he could not have made. it.
By his process it would have seemed green. I have no
doubt the colour produced is mine.
Cross-examined: by Mr. BALLANTYNE—At the time I
questioned the prisoner I wrote the paper I have just
read from. I wrote that very paper. I will allow you
to look at it. My father was present at the time. I
remembered all these matters at the police-court. I told
my solicitor of this conversation and also the
magistrate, but he stopped me. This is the
memorandum I made at the time; it has not been
touched since, but kept in my pocket-book. The altera-
tion you mention of oil of vitriol for copperas was a mis-
take—copperas stands for oil of vitriol. It is not the
same article, although called copperas in the paper. It
was the oil of vitriol. There is no other mistake that I
am aware of. Sulphuric acid is mentioned again in the
other part of the process ;' it is mentioned in two
distinct parts. I can recollect the exact proportions of
the materials I use ; but I would not communicate them.
I could tell them one after another, if you were to ask
me. I have been making this colour about two years.
The prisoner knows nothing of the mixing of colours.
I have employed him merely as a labourer. He
used to assist me, and was always present when I
made the colour. There are two things it is composed
of he never saw me weigh. The least proportion of
sulphuric acid, and nitrous acid.—(The rest of the
answer was not given. The question having been ob-
jected to by' the witness's counsel.) We make a cwt: of
materials at once. We manufacture it in our own: yard
in Bunhill-row. That is where we give off these nitrous
fumes. Bunhill-row is a thick densely-populated neigh-
bourhood with many poor people round us. There is no
inconvenient result that I know of in the neighbourhood
from the making of the colour. It has never
been complained of. About llb. of each of
the materials will make *lbs. of the material.
We don't sell the blue, we use it simply for the manu-
facturing of our own paper and cards. We don't part
with it to any one. There is one material that is very
expensive. The prisoner said he had used 71hs, of it at a
time. At first hand it is now Is. 10d„ sometimes 28.-6 d.
per lb. in large quantities, We do not use a steam-en-
gine, but make it in large vats and steam -pipes.
Re-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Prisoner was in our
employ and receiving our wages on the 25th of May,
and had been fur five years. He was a weekly servant,
employed from morning till night.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. BALLANTYNE then addressed the jury for 'the
prisoner ; after valich
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up.
The jury having consulted for about twenty minutes,
returned the following verdict :—" Guilty; but we' re-
commend the prisoner to mercy ; and we are of opinion
that there is a great want of caution on the part of
Messrs. Dickinson in purchasing of a common labourer."
There was another indictment against the prisoner,
which was not pressed.
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to six months'
imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correc-
tion, observing, that had the prisoner not been a fo-
reigner the punishment would have been much severer.

STRANGE CASE.—Yesterday an inquest was held
on the body of a female child, who had on reaching home
from school, where she had appeared perfectly well, been
seized with violent vomiting, which continued for two
hours; and though medical aid was afforded she died
next day. On a post morten 'examination it was found
ncowvearseodf,
that the brain and lungs were sufficiently congested to
cause.
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d been taken. Witnesses
hdet?;othm:thielostatrtac
opinion some active poisonha length,
could
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sb:rgdelos
coefetfhopositsoomnacchout
had been in the habit of giving
deceased paints to play
were examined at considerable, including *ser-
vant at thehsclniooonle, whando shteaptacdsetehnatfoornesoomf
ethtiemsechieeltahrse
with, though
child's possession. The jury found that " the death
proceeded from congestion of the lungs and brain, and
not from violence."
We learn by letters from Athens that the feitc of
the King of Gretce was celebrated with great pomp on
the 30th ult. On this occasion M. Metaxa received the
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Saviour. On the
sth inst. the King and Queen left the capital to make a
tour of pleasure in Rumelia. Their Majesties were to
thentl le firrrsotcinemtichg,dehitatronardvteittsultiihtreneTl:hafteolhabrecteye:e, os
werefsi
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pass through
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Straits ,
froarriodi'slitterr.moopyn
the mountains of Helicon and Pernassus, touch tahotrlVutgliahe-
thi.ssolluzE,rhwi,haolned
journeyretu tlova:Attohebne
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horseback.
General Grivas came out of
the Gth, and landed at the Piraeus.
smoandetohne
CIIESTER.—TIIE CHEESE PAIR...—At this fair on
Wednesday, about 250 tons were piled for sale at the
1 Linen Hall, and a larger quantity at the Commercial
Hall than has been seen there on any previous occasion.
This year's cheese, it was generally remarked, is not so
forward in ripeness as it should be, a circumstance which
is no doubt attributable in some way or other to the dry-
nes of the late season. Common qualities met with a
ready sale, but in consequence of the lowness of the
prices offered, the best sorts hung heavily on hand:
Prices ranged from 455. to 60s, ; in one or. two instanoos
1 prime lots fetched 635., which was the highest figure et*
tamed.—Chester Courant.