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London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

had formerly been in his service as potboy. Witness In reply to Mr. TRAM, the witness said she beard
was called up by the policeman, and upon examine- the deceased tell her father that the prisoner had ill
tion he discovered that his premises had been entered, used her, but she did not describe the manner in
and he missed a pound's worth of silver, ten half- which he did it.
crowns, ten shillings, and eleven shillings and ten- Mr. Houston stated that extreme violence must
pence in copper. have been used by the prisoner on the occasion.
The prisoners said nothing in their defence, and j Mr. Fisher, a surgeon, stated that he had instituted
they were fully committed to Newgate for trial for an external examination on being apprised of the cir-
burglary. cumstances, and discovered that her death had arisen
Two ragged little boys, without shoes or stockings, from disease of the lower part of the spine, which ap-
and whose rags did not cover their backs, named Brian peared to have been caused by violence. That if the
injury a
and Quay, were brought before Mr. Jardine, charged was owing to the circumstances attending
with stealing a pair of cotton stockings from a shop door ditlicult parturition the patient would not have been en-
in the Strand. abled to rise from her bed, but having been informed

The prisoners were seen to go up to the shop-door
and take down the stockings, and they were immediately
given into custody.
The policeman who took the prisoners into custody
said the boys had been running about the streets all the
previous night.
The little fellows, who did not appear more than
twelve years of age, said that they were almost starved,
and therefore they had taken the stockings, in order that
they might be taken into custody and conveyed to prison.
They had neither father nor mother, and no friend in
the world.
Mr. JARDINE said they had better be committed for
trial, and instructed the officer to inform the judge be-
fore whom they would be tried of their wretched and
destitute condition. They would then, no doubt, upon
conviction, be sent to some asylum where their wants
would be attended to, and provision made for their
future life.
The poor boys were then fully committed for trial, and
they seemed pleased at the prospect of having a shelter,
although that shelter was a prison.
Monday, Anne Smith, a young woman, having a
fine boy about two years old in her arms, was placed
at the bar before Mr. Hall, charged under the follow-
ing circumstances :
It appeared that the prisoner lived in the service of
a tailor named Thomas Henry Horrabin, about two
years back, at No. 21, King-street, Covent-garden,
by whom she was seduced, the fruit of which was the
child in her arms, and shortly after he turned her
away, leaving her in the most wretched condition.
Having received assistance from some humane per-
sons, she contrived to make her way to Reading,
where she lived on the bounty of her brother, in ad-
dition to what she could procure by hard work, which
she could seldom obtain, until about thirteen weeks
hack, when she returned to London for the purpose
of claiming some assistance for herself and child from
her seducer, who is a married man. After receiving
the most plausible promises respecting his intentions
towards the boy, the only sum she could induce him
to afford her was 10s. which supplied her necessities
for only a very short time, in consequence of which
she went to his house, where she found it was not the
same woman he was living with that had acted as her
mistress when she was in service, and having upbraided
him with behaving with such cruelty to her and her
infant, he applied the foulest epithets to her, and took
her to the station-house, where he charged her with
having annoyed him.
In answer to the Court, the complainant admitted
having been her seducer, but he did not desert her,
as he had offered her 2s. a-week to support her and
the child.
Mr. HALL considered such a sum was too paltry,
and he hoped the parish authorities would assist in
compelling him to secure a proper amount, instead of
allowing the mother and child to become chargeable.
The complainant said he had a housekeeper to
maintain as well as his wire, who was parted from
him, and he could not afford more than he had offered.
A lady residing in Norfolk-street, Strand, who
happened to be in court, came forward and offered to
take the prisoner immediately into her service.
Mr. Ham., having complimented her on her
humanity, entered into an arrangement with the
parish authorities to take the child at 4s. per week, of
which the complainant promised to bear a part.
MAR YLE B 01 VE.
AN INC iRRIGIBLE HORSE- STEALER.— Edward Drake
was charged with stealing a pony from a common. near
Kempsey, Worcestershire, the property of Andrew
Meridge.
The prisoner, who has been tried on more than one
occasion at the Old Bailey fur horse-stealing, was
charged at this office about
ihree weeks ago with seealing
a colt, for which offence he was committed for trial, and
he was yesterday tried and acquitted. On his leaving
Newgate he was apprehended on the above charge.
The prosecutor stated that the pony was stolen oil the
morning of the 6th of June last. Information of the
robbery was sent to the police in London, and the :pony
was traced to a person named Taylor, a greengromr, at
Bayswater, who bought it from the prisoner for 5/. The
prisoner on being taken into custody by Alfred Hughes,
174 D, said (alluding to the case in which he had been
acquitted)--" I dare say 1 can beat him as in this case."
Several of his friends came round, and some of the nx said,
" I sold it to him," " I'll say I sold it."
The prisoner said he bought the pony at Bicester on
the 7th of June, of a person named Hox, who lives at
Woodstock.
Mr. Reaviarisoli said you are a lucky man to lbuy so
many stolen horses.
He was then fully committed, and will be tries at the
present sessions, on Thursday next.
[The reporter, in reference to remarks which were
appended to a case disposed of at this court yes to rday,
states that there is a great disparity between the deci-
sions of the magistrates of this and other police- c ourts.
Prostitutes who have been seen by a policeman to speak
to a man in the street, are invariably commit: ed to
the House of Correction for a month without the o ption
of paying a fine—wretched creatures, who have in erely
solicited charity by holding a piece of paper before them
stating that they are in abject want, are as laver iably
sent for fourteen days. Drunkenness, unaccompanied
by either obscene language or riotous conduct, is !priced
at 55., whilst at Queen-square, and other 'police-
courts, the really poor are only fined ls. Such severity
and straining of the law is highly censurable.]
CLERKEIV WELL.
George Lee was charged with stealing Si. fro m his
mother, a poor milk-woman, living in King- street,
Drury-lane.
The prisoner, who did not seem more than fourteen
years of age, has been the torment of his poor m.,..ither's
life. Finding her from home a few days ago, the young
rascal broke open a drawer in which the above sun t was,
the hard-earned savings of a whole life, and w a nt off
immediately and spent the whole sum among his \iv icked
companions.—Committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Timothy Connor, Patrick Conway, and Michael' Con-
way, were placed at the bar on the following chart ;e :
William Hasler, the driver of a cab, stated the et last
evening as he was sitting on his box on the stand iat the
Haymarket, the defendants, who came reeling out. of a
cigar shop, seized his horse's head, and drove the a a imal
sharply round three times. On his remonstrating •with
them, the defendant Michael Conway struck him a. vio-
lent blow in the face, then tore off his badge and tilt rew
it down in the street ; they were both in a very i 144 )Ici-
cated state.
Police-constable, No. 80 of the C division, stated:. that
he conveyed the defendants to the station- house.. On
tting there they behaved in a very riotous and dis or-
derly manner, and commenced an attack upon the' .eon-
stable present.
The defendants were fined 3/. each, or six week S' im-
prisonment. Not having the amount required a bout
them they were locked up.
UNION-HALL.
Edward Faithful, a man of respectable appears nee,
was charged before Mr. Traill, with having violatt td the
person of Eliza Nott, the daughter of a tradesman'.
From the complainant's statement it appeared that
the prisoner lived next door to her, and that on flue pre.
ceding day he called at the house and inquired actor her
father. She told him he was out, and, knowin g the
family, he walked into the parlour, and, after a. little
time, kissed her. That she reproved him, but Lee paid
no regard to it, and proceeded to use violence tow ards On the 9th inst., 23,5101 b. of bullocks' hides, the
her, and threw her down on the floor. She resist ed , and whole taken from animals killed in this island for home
called out, and, according to her evidence, he con sulitted consumption, were taken as cargo on board the Jersey
the capital offence. Maid, for France. The weight of each hide averaging
The complainant underwent a lengthened cross -eacami- about 601 b., it follows, taking into account 44 hides ex-
nation by Mr. Humphries on behalf of the pris ent.r, in ported a few days before, that 436 oxen have been killed
the course of which she admitted that a man in her in Jersey within the last few weeks, as all the hides were
father's employ called immediately after the ill-usage she green.—Jersey Times.
experienced, but she did not claim his protection,. nor did CAUTION TO RECRUITING PARTIES.—On Saturday
she complain of the conduct of the defendant. night last, a soldier belonging to the Life Guards went
Mr. TRAILL remanded the prisoner until farther evi- to a public-house to treat some young men whom he ex-
dence is produced on Friday. pected to enlist. In the course of the evening he thought
Henry Brenton, an apothecary, in Newpont' street. he would be able to induce some of them to take the
Lambeth, was charged with causing the death of bait. The latter, however, soon showed that they had
Mary, his wife. The deceased, it appeared, e xpired somotheTrheohjescotldiein viewas lavishly thviasnmye loveeextravgant in
a to
on Saturday afternoon, and a rumour having ; been
service.
propagated in the neighbourhood that she di ed from supplying his supposredwdupes with drink, and as
the violence exercised towards her by the piisoner Sabbath morning wore on, instead of retiring
to his lodgings, he unhappily yielded to the
soon after having given birth to a child, he si as ac- intreaties of one of his supposed recruits to ac-
cordingly taken into custody the same evenL sg, Mr. company him to the house of a friend in Green-
Traill having granted a warrant for his appre pension side-street, where, he assured him, they would
on the application of Mr. Houston, a surg eon, of meet with a friendly reception, and secure lodg.
navies Inn, Holborn, the father of the deceas ef 1.
ings for the night. When he awoke next morning,
The prisoner, who had been locked up since ;Satur- he found his recruit had fled, carrying with him the
day night, on being placed at the bar declared. .his in-
whole money which he had in his possession, amounting
nocence of the alleged offence. to upwards of seven pounds. On making application at
Mr. Houston, having been sworn, stated Uri it the
the Police-office for redress, he was informed that he
could not expect anything else, as he had been seen with
prisoner was married to his daughter, and that about four of the greatest thieves in Edinburgh, and when cau-
eight weeks ago she had given birth to a child. That
limed by the watchman to take care of his company, he
on last Thursday se'nnight he was informed du st his hadt
daughter had received considerable injury At the FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN A Jo6ROTEIER AND SISTER.
bands of the prisoner, and that she died of the a in- treated the advice with contempt.—Scotsman.
—On Monday, Mr. William Baker, Deputy Coroner, re.
juries on Saturday last. The witness describe that
an examination had taken place since his dauwltiter's H touchingthe death of Thomas Lynes,
decease, r tone
sumed and concluded an inquiry at the Black Bull,
decease, and that it was pronounced that the in .itzries otherwiseaes IV' one, aged 44 years, who, it was alleged,
inflicted were on the lower part of the spine. had come by his death in consequence of maltreatment,
Mr. TRAILL asked him what evidence he had i3f the and the receiving of some violent blows from his own
alleged acts of violence ? The witness, in repl,:y, said sister. A report of the case has already been detailed
that he was present on Saturday last, wh ien his in our Worship-street police intelligence. It
jelailasettdh,ethEerleisabeth Marshall,will be
cdoelalethctioonf of our readers that it was alleged
daughter was dying, and that she mentioned to him
ac-
that the prisoner had done her the injury. Ilu wit- that
the head with her fist. Two
deceased was
himettmed by
blowsthe
ness added that he believed that no person was :in the uponwere present during the whole ofgotfh he earesrreaettyps, satedswore
awthey
o
blows struck. Mr. Pickering, surgeon, who had been
room at the time of the alleged injury, hut the nurse
attending his daughter had heard a scuffle in tht bed-
room. ordered by the coroner to make a post mortem examine-
tion tion,
insaid deceased was labouring under epileptic fits,
his opinion, death had been caused by maltreat-
and stated that while she was attending on dto de- and,
The nurse, a woman named Lee, was then: 'called,
ceased last Thursday se'nnight, on leaving t ite post mortem examination, corroborated the
room I ment and frigt. Mr. Coward. another surgeon, who as-
and going down stairs she heard a scufflinglast witness in all the material points. The blow on the
the bedroom, and heard the deceased compla 45e
rieht eye was not sufficient to cause death, but excite-
usage on the part of her husband ;that the next moteD•
merit or other causes might have produced it. The Co
ing witness found her mistress insensi;
nfitise in (listed at the
a"."`l roper summed tip the evidence, and explained the law of
although she recovered her senses in some measure
the case, and the jury, after some deliberation, returned
after that, yet she dwindled away until Saar. tai ay, and the following verdict:—" That deceased, Thomas Lynes,
,
then expired. I died from epilepsy, brought on by previous excitement."

that the deceased had been up since she gave birth to
the infant, he therefore concluded she must have re-
ceived the injury subsequent to her delivery.
The prisoner said that the injury of which his wife
died was from natural causes, and that he had done
nothing to produce it.
Mr. Titans. remanded the prisoner until a post
mortem examination of the deceased had taken place.
LAMBETH. STREET.
Monday, William Duvall, late a second nw cri
board the brig Prince Oscar, and who has been in
custody for a fortnight on a charge of gouging."
and severely injuring his captain, was again brought
before Mr. Henry.
On the last examination the prisoner was remanded
upon the understanding that if the prosecutor was not
able to proceed with his ship, which was chartered for
an outward bound voyage in a fortnight, he should
return to town and prosecute. Yesterday, being the
day to which the prisoner had been remanded, the
chief clerk received a letter from Captain Lawrence,
of which the following is a copy :
" Ogle Tavern, South Shields, Oct. 19, 1844.
" Sir,—ln accordance with the request of the ma-
gistrate, I beg. to inform you that I still remain in a
state of great indisposition, and now that I have got
home am incapable of leaving my house, owing to an
attack of fever, occasioned by my former treatment ;
but I hope by the time my ship is ready I shall be
able to go the voyage in her, and as I find it will be
impossible to appear against the prisoner Duvall, I
trust that the magistrate will punish him to the ut-
most of his power.—Remaining, dear Sir, your obe-
dient servant,
JAMES HUTCHINSON LAW SON,
" Captain Prince Oscar.
"To the Chief Clerk, Lambeth-street Police-court."
The letter enclosed the following certificate of a
medical gentleman :
" South Shields, Oct. 19, 1844.
" I certify that I am attending Mr. J. H. Lawson,
who, in consequence of sore throat and general fever,
is incapable of leaving his house.
" WM. KING EDDOWES, Surgeon."
Mr. HENRY observed that from the appearance of
Captain Lawson when before him, and his present
condition, he thought it very improbable that he
would be able to proceed with his ship, and while
there was the slightest hope of his remaining to
prosecute, he should not part with the prisoner. Cap-
tain Lawson, besides the dreadful suffering which he
must have endured by the prisoner's savage attack,
had been put to such inconvenience that he (Mr.
Henry) felt great reluctance in depriving him of
proceeding with his vessel, as such proceeding would
lead, in addition, to a serious pecuniary loss, and
therefore he was reluctant to compel him to attend
and prosecute; but while there was a hope of his
remaining, he would not dispose of the case.
Mr. IlEsatv again remanded the prisoner, and
directed the chief clerk to write to Captain Lawson
to apprise him of the fact, and request that the cap-
tain would communicate, when the time arrived,
whether he should proceed with his vessel on her
voyage or not.
Mr. Henry received from " C. 0. Hastings," a
letter, enclosing a past-office order for ten shillings
for Mr. Cormack, one of the poor men who had ap-
plied to him some days before on the subject of the
claims of the unfortunate members of the Legion on
the Spanish Government.
WORSHIP -STREET.
The Baron Rehausen, the Swedish Minister, sat on
the bench on Monday with Mr. Broughton, the pre-
siding magistrate, and appeared to take a lively in-
terest in the proceedings.
Alfred Edwards, a young man describing himself
as " a pickle manufacturer," who has been many
times examined, was placed at the bar for final exa-
mination before Mr. Broughton, upon a charge of
having poisoned Jane Gregory, a young woman of
loose character, with whom he had been for some
time past intimately connected.
There had been a little quarrel between them, but
on the occasion out of which the present charge origi-
nated the prisoner visited the deceased at her lodgings
in Spitalfields, and a reconciliation appeared to have
taken place, and in the course of that evening the
deceased drank several times from a bottle containing
what was said to be 44 brandy and bitters," given to
her at the'time by the prisoner. She was afterwards
exceedingly sick, and continued so until the following
morning, when she died with the symptoms of poison,
having repeatedly, and with her dying breath, de-
clared to every one that her illness was occasioned
solely by the liquid which "Alf," the prisoner, had
given her. Mr. Smith, who was called to her just
before her death, and afterwards made the post mortem
examination, found the stomach so inflamed in
patches, as convinced him that death bad been caused
by some acid poison. Mr. Leeson, lecturer on che-
mistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, to whom the
various substances were transmitted for the purpose
of analysis, obtained from the coats of the stomach a
precipitate which yielded a globule of pure lead
weighing four grains, and had no doubt that a con-
siderable quantity of some preparation of lead had
been swallowed and probably ejected from the stomach
during the deceased's mortal sickness. The liquid
in the bottle, however, did not contain any lead, but
was found to consist in great part of the strongest
spirit, almost pure alcohol, with an infusion of bitter
herbs, flavoured with bitter almonds or kernels. In
the stomach a slight odour of hydrocyanic (prussic)
acid was detected, arising no doubt from the flavour-
ing of bitter almonds, from which it is abundantly
obtained. At the prisoner's residence Sergeant Lam-
bert found a paper, marked "Poison," containing a
quantity of sugar of lead, and another paper contain-
ing a white powder, which Dr. Leeson said was what
is called white precipitate, used sometimes for clean-
ing plate, &c., but decidedly poisonous.
The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Wilful
murder" against the soner more than a fortnight
since, and the Coroner's warrant was of course issued
for his committal to Newgate upon that charge, but
the evidence appeared to be very unsatisfactory, and
at length it was suggested that the body, which had
been buried immediately after the inquest, should be
exhumed and further examined.. 011 Friday last it
was accordingly taken from the grave, and y such of
the viscera as were required being removed from it
in the presence of the churchwardens, the police, and
other witnesses, the remains were again committed
to the earth.
After a good deal of evidence Mr. BROUGHTON in-
formed the prisoner that he would be committed to
Newgate to take his trial, and the witnesses were
bound over to prosecute.
The prisoner, who appeared very dejected, and
looked as if he had wept a great deal, said he would
reserve his defence until the trial.