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

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday, Eliza Davis, late inmate of the Female
Penitentiary at Pentonville, was brought up on re-
mand, charged with robbing William Wyatt, in the
employ of a mercantile firm in the City.
When the case was called on, Mr. Payne, the bar-
rister, said that since the previous examination, Mrs.
Lane, the matron of the Penitentiary, had been com-
municated with, and she distinctly denied ever having
had such a conversation with the prisoner as she al-
leged, with respect to a meeting in Bond-street to
arrange matters. That Mrs. Lane was now in at-
tendance to disprove the assertion alluded to, if it
was deemed necessary to ask her ; but that, under all
the circumstances, Mr. Wyatt, the complainant, hail
avowed he erred himself on the occasion in suffering
himself to be entrapped by the prisoner into an um-
fortunate liason with her. Although it would be
proved she had robbed him of the property, yet that
he had no desire of proceeding with the charge, his
main object being throughout to openly avow that
he had not authorised her to take the various articles.
As, however, the complainant admitted he had erred
himself on he occasion, he (the Learned Counsel)
fully agreed that it was his best plan not to press the
charge, unless the magistrate or the prisoner herself
were desirous he should proceed with the prosecution.
Mr. Payne then complained, on the part of his
client, of an inaccuracy in the report of the previous
examination in an evening paper, and copied into
some morning journals, describing that the com-
plainant did not deny he had authorised the prisoner
to take his property. So far from that being the case,
the complainant throughout the whole proceedings de-
nied that he had ever given her such authority.
Mr. 'num. having questioned the prisoner as to
whether she wished the case to proceed or to have it
withdrawn, and her answer being in accordance with
the latter, she was therefore discharged.
George Henry Brenton, an apothecary in Newport-
street, Lambeth-walk, was placed at the bar for exa-
mination, charged with assaulting and causing the
death of Mary, his wife.
The deceased's brother attended, and stated that the
inquest was held on her body the preceding day, and
that it was postponed with a view to have the attend-
ance of two gentlemen whose evidence would be likely
to turn out of the utmost importance.
Mr. TRAILL inquired if a post mortem examination
had taken place, and the witness replied in the affirma-
tive, and at the same time handed in a certificate of
two medical gentlemen, which declared that her death
was attributable to disease of the lower portion of the
spinal column, which appeared to have been produced
by violence.

Mr. TRAILL—Was there any testimony adduced of
the lady having received any violence at the hands of
the accused ?

The witness, in reply, said there was none but that
of the nurse, who heard the scuffling in the bedroom
on the night of the alleged violence.
The accused inquired if Mr. Fisher was present at
the post mortem examination of his wife, that gentle-
man having attended her accouchement, and there-
fore qualified to describe her particular condition
during that period, and the dangerous symptoms un-
der which she laboured, and which would account
for her dissolution ?—The witness, in answer, said
that the coroner had ordered the attendance of the
gentleman alluded to; upon which the prisoner re-
quested that Mr. Jones might be summoned to attend,
as he could also give some important testimony in
the case.

The prisoner was then remanded until Friday.
WORSHIP -STREET.

Yesterday Thomas Smith, alias Richard Sheldrich,
who has been many times examined with Henry Mil-
h.r, Sarah Dewar, alias Miller, and the rest of a gang
who have carried on a most extensive system of
whiffling, was placed at the bar before \lr. Brough-
ton, upon a distinct charge of forgery.
Mr. Michael Levy Green, and Ephraim Levy
Green, his brother, clothiers, in Houndsditch, proved
that early in September two persons, who called
themselves George and James Truman, of Acton, or-
dered goods to the amount of 501., giving a reference
to Mr. Dewar, 22, Ashford-street, •Hoxton, and Mr.
Ephraim Green proceeding to that place to make in-
quiry, saw a girl, who said she was Mr. Dewar's

(Lii,c.ihter, and that her father was out, but she went
for him, and in a few minutes returned with the pri-

.oner now at the bar, ‘vho, on being asked, said that
his name was Henry Dewar, and spoke so highly of
the two prisoners calling themselves Truman, that
the 501. worth of goods were supplied, 201. being paid
in cash, and the prisoner's acceptance taken for the
remainder. On the 9th of September, a bill for
291. 18s. was accordingly drawn up in the presence
of the prisoner, who accepted it in his assumed name
of Dewar. It was not due till the 12th of November,

but in the mean time the parties had disappeared, and
the house was shut up, and the complainants being, a
few days since, applied to by Sergeant Dubois, found
the prisoner in custody at this Court in the name of
Thomas Smith.

The bill was produced, and the acceptance identified
as having been written by the prisoner.
Mr. Healey, of Newington-green, stated that he is
owner of the house referred to at Hoxton, and in the
month of July let it upon a written agreement for
three years certain, to a person who then called him-
self Henry Dewar. That person, however, was not
the prisoner now at the bar, but the other prisoner in
custody, of the name of Henry Miller. The witness
had never received any rent, and had lately regained
possession of his house.
The prisoner now said he did not deny what had
been stated, but he handed in a letter and another
paper, purporting to be a written authority to accept
the bill in that name.

Police-constable Wood, 277 N, proved that when
he and the other officers were in possession of the
house in llarvey-street, Hoxton, to which Miller and
Sarah Dewar, who passed as his wife, were traced
after they had decamped from Hammersmith, the
prisoner now at the bar knocked at the door, and,
seeing the witness there, became agitated, and said
he wanted to see Mrs. Dewar. When told that he
must be detained, he declared that he was a respect-
able tradesman at Mitcham, and his name Richard
Apsell. An officer being dispatched to Mitcham
without loss of time, found that the prisoner had re-
cently taken a house of business there, and obtained
possession of a heap of letters and papers relating to
the proceedings of the swindling gang in various
other places.
Mr. BROUGUTON said that, in his opinion, the charge
now before him was a clear case of forgery, and he
should remand the prisoner, to be ultimately com-
mitted upon that as well as the other cases.
The prisoner was identified as having, in the year
1832, been committed from Worship-street to Now-
gate, with a person named Frost, for stealing a quan-
tity of wine andbrandy, which they had ordered from
a house in the City. On that occasion he gave his
name Richard Sheldrick, and he and Frost were trans-
ported for seven years,
William Thompson, alias Johnson, with his wife and
daughter, another party of the numerous gang of
swindlers, were brought up for re-examination, and
committed upon several charges, but remanded upon
others.

The male prisoner in this case was stated to have
been before committed, and his son, Charles Jones,
alias Fetch, alias Thompson, who is in custody at this
Court upon a separate charge, has also been convicted
and transported.
Alfred Edwards, the young man who has been a
considerable time in custody, and repeatedlyexamined
upon a charge of having murdered Jane Gregory, by
infusing poison in soma brandy and bitters that he
had given her, was brought up yesterday for some
additional evidence.

The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Mur-
der" against the prisoner several weeks since, but the
evidence was very defective, and last week the body
was exhumed, and some of the viscera extracted fur
further chemical analysis.
Mr. Leeson, lecturer on chemistry at St. Thomas's
Hospital, who had, in the first instance, extracted some
metallic lead from the coats of the stomach, stated on
Mondayithat in the kidneys he had, by the application
of chemical tests, discovered what appeared to be
minute traces of some combination of mercury and
lead, but unless he could produce the metals them-
selves he would not positively affirm their presence.
He stated yesterday, however, that he had since Mon-
day completed an analysis of a portion of the kidney,
from which he obtained a distinct globule of mercury,
and was now enabled to say positively that some pre-
paration of mercury and of lead had been taken by
the deceased. These metals combined would cause
death, and he had no doubt, under all the circum-
stances, that the deceased had died of poison.
Mr. BROUQIITON said that, upon the Coroner's jury,
the prisoner must be tried for murder, but it was such
an important case, requiring such minute investiga-
tion, that it could not be properly prepared for trial
at the present session, and he should therefore remand
the prisoner until the next. The witnesses were
bound over by the Coroner for the present session, but
the Court would be moved for a postponement of the
trial, and it was intimated that the law officers of the
Crown would act for the prosecution.
The prisoner, who seemed exceedingly dejected,
vas then removed from the bar.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the
19th of October, 1E44." Tho Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar;General:— _ _

Weakly
Total. Average of
Five Years
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 226 178
Diseases of variable or uncertain seat B5 111
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 133 157
Liseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 35 21
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, /cc
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, kc.
L'iseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 4 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c . . 3 1
Old Age, or Natural Decay 63 71
By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance
Causes specified
Deaths from all Causes ... . . 895 946
Is VATILI FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER