The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-27 00:00:00

INTERESTING OCCURRENCE.

The Aeenir National contains the following inte-
resting recital :—" Some months back, a pris)ner,
escorted by two gendarmes, was brought to Tulle,
sentenced to undergo there five years' imprisonment.
His wife, a young woman in black, covered with a
thick veil, accompanied him to the door of the prison.
The prisoner is a person named Vinsot, a receiver of
taxes in the arrondissement of Tulle, who had been
condemned by the Court of Assizes of the Correze,
under the following circumstances :—At the hotel
where M. Vinsot lod;ed before his marriage was a
pretty girl, to whom he was said not to be indifferent.
He got married, however, to a most amiable young
woman, of excellent education, and tenderly attached
to him. The girl at the inn lay in some months after,
and her child disappeared. She was taken up under
a charge of infanticide, and, from the information
which she gave, M. Vinsot, to whom she said
she had given the child, was also arrested. This
affair plunged both his family and that of his wife
into the greatest grief, and caused much surprise in
the country. The young wife, as may be supposed,
received a dreadful shock, but refused to believe that
her husband was guilty. She attended him during
his trial and the preliminary proceedings with great
devotedness. He was found guilty by the Court as
a party to the concealment of the birth of the child;
and the girl, who declared him to be her accomplice,
was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. They
were in due course removed to their places of confine-
ment, Vinsot being accompanied by his wife to
Tulle, as already stated. Her conduct soon became
known, and the people, who seldom fail to admire
in others what is really noble, treated her with
the utmost veneration. Months passed over in this
way, the young wife remaining firm in her convic-
tion of her husband's innocence, when the girl whose
child had disappeared fell ill. She, at last, became
in se dangerous a state, that a priest was sent for.
Alarmed on his representations at the thought of ap-
pearing before her Divine Judge without atoning for
her sins, she confessed before witnesses that she had
wrongfully accused Vinsot, having herself killed the
child with a view to ruin her former lover, whom she
detested for leaving her. She died shortly after this
avowal. The circumstances were immediately im-
parted to the Procureur-General, who at once applied
for a royal pardon for Vinsot, which, we doubt not,
will be at once granted, to the heartfelt delight of his
attached wife."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
A man named Clark was brought before the Lord
Mayor, having on Tuesday evening surrendered him-
self upon self-accusation.
A policeman stated that the prisoner addressed him
on Tuesday, at about five o'clock, and said he VMS
anxious to surrender himself, as he had been guilty of
engaging himself to go out to Bombay as steward in
one of the ships of Sir John Pirie and Co., receiving
N. from the firm on account, and breaking the con-
tract. This person also told the witness that he had
paid his landlady 9./. of the money thus advanced, and
that he unfortunately sat down with a set of friends,
and caroused until the remainder disappeared ; that
he was unable to bear the sight of those he had
wronged upon recovering from his debauch, and that
he was soon reduced to the necessity of hawking Luci-
fers and playing the flute, which, however, he was at
last obliged to pawn to save him from dying by star-
vation. The witness produced the duplicate of the
flute.

The Loan MAYOR—You are aware that Sir John
Pirie is present ? Prisoner—Yes, my Lord ; I see
him. I was ashamed to go near him when I found I
had lost the money, and I thought the only repara-
tion I could make was by resigning myself into the
hands of justice.
The Loan MAYOR—Were you aware that the offi-
cers ofjustice were looking after you ? The prisoner
—No, my Lord. I hope your Lordship does not
think I would wantonly leave so good a situation. I
have been sixteen voyages as steward, and I have
borne all along an irreproachable character.
Sir J. PIRIE—The man received the 9/. in advance
in November, and never appeared. Ido not care
about the 91., but nobody will take him into employ-
ment. As far as lam concerned, I do not wish him
to be detained.
The LORD MAYOR—Then I discharge you, prisoner.
The prisoner then left the room, evidently disap-
pointed at not being rewarded by another engage-
ment, as well as forgiven.
A labouring man named Henry Clack was charged
with having stolen a cart-load of bricks, the property
of Mr. Brown, builder, of College-hill.
The prisoner had been employed to convey bricks
to Stanning-lane from a barge, and he contrived to
take elsewhere one load, which he was not able to
account for.
The LORD MAYOR, at the request of Mr. Brown,
the prosecutor, who complained that he was dread-
fully plundered, remanded the prisoner for a few days.
A man named William Ling wood was charged
with having stolen two turkeys and a goose, the pro-
perty of Mrs. Howard, poulterer,at Leadenhall-market.
The prisoner had been seen by one of Mrs. Howard's
men deliberately take one of the turkeys and the
goose from the place in the shop where they were de-
posited, place them across his shoulder, walk into the
street, thrust them into a bag which he carried, and re
turn to the stall and pick up the other turkey in like
manner. The witness had followed the prisoner and
collared him the moment he was walking off with his
last prize.
The prisoner declared that he knew nothing at all
of the lost turkey, but merely that it lay at his feet
when he was taken into custody. As for the first
turkey and the goose, he had most honestly bought
them of two country people who called upon all
passers by to " buy the last turkey and goose," and
if the Lord Mayor thought of letting Mrs. Howard
have his property, it would be a great encouragement
to butchers to charge respectable people who had
made purchases with robbery, in order to get posses-
sion of all they had.—(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR (to Mrs. Howard's shopman)—
You swear that you saw the prisoner take all these ?
Witness—l do.
The LORD MAYOR—And that they are Mrs.
Howard's properiy ? Witness—Certainly they are.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
Two pickpockets, charged with having stolen pocket
handkerchiefs, were committed for trial.
THE CITY POLICE.—It is a remarkable fact, and
must be highly gratifying to the lovers of temperance
and order, that not one charge was entered at any of
the police-stations in the City throughout the twenty-
four hours of Christmas-eve and Christmas-day ; that
only one robbery, under thirty shillings in value, was
committed ; and that only one destitute case occurred,
and that was the case of a man who, when taken to
Aldersgate workhouse, was found to have in his pos-
session the comfortable sum of 41. 3s. 10d. A great
deal of credit is due to the City police for the activity
and skill evinced during that usually turbulent and
noisy period.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday Edward Downes Boucher, a clerk at the
Castle and Falcon Inn, Aldersgate-street, was charged
before Mr. Alderman Hooper with obtaining money by
false pretences from Mrs. Lee, a saleswomnn in New-
gate-market.
Mr. Alexander, one of the proprietors of the inn,
stated that a grazier having complained to the agent at
Derby of the charges made for conveying some goods
to Newgate-market, the waybill was referred to, and the
charge therein was found to be correct, but less in
amount than was said to have been received in London,
Upon referring to the books in London, it was found
that the sum paid by salesmen was no greater than
that charged in the invoice, but upon application to the
salesmen it appeared the prisoner, whose duty it was to
collect the money, had made a practice of increasing the
charge for his own benefit, while he returned the proper
amount as all he had received. A delivery-book was
made np from the way-bills with the addresses and
amounts to be charged. It was then given to the pri-
soner, that he might make out a bill for each salesman,
collect the money, and take his receipt for the safe ar-
rival of the goods. When so signed it was the duty of
the prisoner to return the book, with the money col-
lected, to the cashier. Mr. Alexander then produced
four bills made out to Mrs. Lee, of Newgate-market, in
which he had varied the charges to the extent of 11. 6s.
4d. in the course of a month. The prisoner had manu-
factured a spurious delivery-book, that the
.proper price
to be charged might not be seen when the signature was
affixed ; and in the genuine delivery-book the prisoner
used to forge the signatures of the salesmen.
George Lee, in the service of Mrs. Lee, proved the
payment to the prisoner of 2L 18s. on the 16th of No-
vember, 31. 6s. lod. on the 23d, 61. 17s. 6d. on the 7th of
December, and 51. 19s. on the 14th of December. The
signatures in the delivery book produced were forged,
They were signed in black ink, whereas he had used
blue ink for six years past.
Charles Ford, elerk to Mr. Alexander, deposed, that
on the 16th of November the prisoner accounted for
2h 14s. 6d.i on the 23d, for 31, is. 4d.; on the 7th of

December, for 61. 9s. 6d.; and on the 14th of December,
for 5L 9s. These were the correct charges and all the pri-
soner was authorised to demand. The fuur bills pro-
duced for higher amounts were in the prisoner's hand-
writing.
The prisoner wept, but offered no defence.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER said, that the prisoner having
pursued such a fraudulent course must be committed
for trial ; but he remanded him, that the depositions
might be prepared.