The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

Olt 44, Art,t. ol*P'
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock

uNIZilr."-TAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Th. trial OLD COURT.
of Ann Croft, charged with having robbed her master, the
Rev
• -Ir. Reeve (continued from our Afternoon Edition)
The reverend witness admitted that some three or four servants
"ds M.been discharged in the course of the twelvemonth.
rs. Sviiia Reeves (wife of the prosecutor) corroborated the
tirnter evidence. She admitted, on cross.examination, that not
7eor lour, but at least a dozen servants had been discharged.
t_ot:Eairizoaliuneeth Ticaeeylvoer,.
; kitchen.maid, proved having taken a box
and, on cross examination by Mr. Clarkson,
7ro that in the nine months in which she was engaged in the
P'erend prosecutor's family no less than nine servants had been
aiselizrzel.
Ur. CLAIMSON then, in an eloquent and telling speech, pro.
Q'lt'd to
address the jury for the prisoner. In the course of his
:tausrks, the unfortunate girl, who was probably exhausted from
sl„noding fin' three hours at the bar, sobbed very violently, and,
in LUgh supported by the humane gaoler, the hysterical paroxysms
oreased till she fell back in the srms of the officials behind her. A
of a very mixed character pervaded the Court. The
:rioed Counsel concluded by praying the jury to mark their
tt „ed or persecution—a persecution which ought to be foreign
4:le reverend gentleman's profession as a ministertof the Gospel—
t 'quit ig the unfortunate girl at the bar of the crime imputed
0 her charge.
vh:"• id respectable persons were called as witnesses to character,
earl' and all bore testimony to the honesty and sobriety of
gift
14,er he RtcortnEn then summed up. He said that the princi:ial
,
„ for the jury qto in uire into would he, whether the articles
taken with a felonious intention, or whether they were not
ileither abstracted because they were deemed of no further use to
the ,4,41i1Y. If they thought the former, they must—however paltry
pleas—ert. or however they might think this prosecution had been
the °o with snore vigour than charity or necessity clemanded—
tr4i mUst still perform a duty, painful though it might be, by
tti_g against the prisoner ; but if, on the other hand, they camlde
I„„Uit 7 conclusion that there was no felony intended, they wou
her,
ttn„bejorY requested leave to retire, and, after being absent a short
til`io returned a verdict of Guilty, but recommended her to the
th, consideration of the Court, on account of her previous good
„ratter.
is extraordinary verdict—extraordinary, after the summing
its:„rr , the judge, and the whole tenor of the evidence—was re.
with the utmost astonishment toy all who had attended to the
CiAd t h only persons m
in Court who seemed unmoved were the
Prosecutor and his wife.
to e Learned RFCORDER proceeded to pass sentence. but was In.
liithullo,tt by the -reverend gentleman, who, in obedience to some
*itn,s; Reeves, expressed in " dumb show," rushed to the
tiret,,,-",!''z, but was in the same " dumb show" requested to re-
te Reccrder and the Alderman sitting beside him.
totti,iri ,i4carned Julior again proceeded. He said that, in acs.
441 the' 'pith the recommendation to mercy given both by the jury
her 144ecutor—
"Pri;,(,PftlisoN suggested that the prosecutor had not shown or
ITmerciful disposition.
I,letie,,-.,,c°ltur.a—Then in consequence of the recommendation of
wourl,' "0 would not remove the prisoner from the present gaol;
of ielon;' as it was her first offence, not order her into the society
'n the f,' and the sentence of the Court should be that she be kept
Th:a°l of Newgate for fourteen days.
•, aith
"4 .00gh, considering the verdict, a very lenient sentence,
ft," effect upon the prisoner, that she fainted, and was car.
The
"• the bar to
ntlehy te gaolers.
reverend gentleman and his wife then retired.

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\:4l-.(;i:RAT/ON OF 11ER MAJESTA'S STATUE (Tills DAY),
kel,l:4;agraph, headed as above, has gone the round of the
~,e4tlhig the public to suppose that to-day, being the
44t11‘ .31-3 r of the opening of the Royal Exchange, the
11Ne of her Majesty, which we described fully on a former
Ivitt,i °II, Would be erected in Merchant's area, accompanied
141 t form of ceremony. We attended in consequence,
4totld,,Y°lld the "simple fact of removing the cover which
the statue, nothing whatever requiring notice took
City' There was no ceremony, nor were any of the
took officials present. The circumstance we have stated
tkettike at three o'clock, before a considerable assembly of
tli'tors, and amidst loud cheers. The statue when thus
fetlN's'l to view had a very striking effect, and excited the
gusadmiration of all present. Up to the closing of the area
thet; tennination of business on 'Change, great numbers of
tetsellt°lB visited the spot to have a view of the marble re-
tative of the queen of the isles.
TIDE LONDON GAZETTE-