The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-12 00:00:00

some elder wine, and packed up the property, and after-
wards went to London by the Wells mail. He staled
that the robbery was quite unpremeditated.
The prisoner addressed the jury in his defence, and
said that he was in great distress when he committed
the offence. In the first instance his only intention was
to obtain food, and for that reason he broke into the
pantry, but seeing the other property lying about, he was
tempted to take it.
Mr. Baron GURNEY having summed up, the jury im-
mediately returned a verdict of Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for
twelve years.
As the prisoner was leaving the bar, he inquired of
Mr. Baron Gurney whether he might be permitted to
make one observation ?
Mr. Baron GURNEY said he did not sit there to hear
the observations of prisoners.
He was then removed from the bar.
In the course of the day a true bill was returned
against several persons for keeping gambling-booths at
the la:t Gorhambury races.
Mr. Baron Parke sat on the Civil Side. Ten causes
were entered, all of which were common jury cases, and
the greater part of them undefended. Nothing of the
slightest interest took place during the day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSR
A man of respectable appearance named John Bowen,
who stated himself to be a ear ain, Was brought before
the Lord Mayor by Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged
upon a warrant with having defaced and injured part of
the leaf of the register-book of the parish of Crome Da-
belot, otherwise Abboth, otherwise Croome Osbern, in
the county of Worcester.
The warrant was signed by the Rev. Charles Dunn
and Mr. John Henry Allen, magistrates of the county
of Worcester, and backed by the Lord Mayor, and a
great deal of curiosity was rnanirested towards the pri-
soner, who had been watched for by Daniel Forrester,
and was apprehended immediately upon his arrival at
an inn at Aldgate. The particulars of the case were not
entered into in the justice-room, as the Lord Mayor
merely required the identification of the prisoner in
order to sanction his removal to the place in which the
offence was alleged to have been committed, and where
it is to undergo a strict investigation.
Thomas Petford, superintendent of a district in the.
county of Worcester, produced the warrant for the ap-
prehension of John Bowen, and deposed that the pri-
soner was the person accused and named in the warrant.
The prisoner seemed to be quite prepared to meet the
charge, and
The LORD MAYOR directed that he should be handed
over to the custody of the county officer.
351. in Bank notes were found by Forrester upon his
person, and several papers were also taken from his
pockets. These were of course plat into the possession
of the superintendent, who stated, in answer to a ques-
tion from the Lord Mayor, that he was not aware that
the money had any reference to the alleged offence.
It was mentioned that the defacing of the register
was in some way connected with the claim of a certain
party to a very large sum of money, under the will of
the late James Wood, of Gloucester. The amount was
suppose] to be between 90,000/. and 100,0001.
It was also stated incidentally that the prisoner was
a person who employed himself in the investigation of
pedigrees, and that he had been eagerly inquiring after
the particulars of the birth of the party to whom the
particular leaf which •was stated to have been torn
referred ; that the clergyman by whom the register was
kept detected him in the act of defacing or tearing the
leaf, but was too much alarmed and agitated to cause the
prisoner's immediate apprehension, and that subsequently
the police were directed to cause him to be arrested the
moment he should make his appearance.
The prisoner made no observation, but quietly accom-
panied the superintendent.
John Warringhani, a waterman, who resides near
Horselydown, was. charged, before his Lordship, with
having caused a very serious obstruction to the naviga-
tion of the river Thames, which is at the present time
crowded,- within the port of Londou, with vessels of all
descriptions.
The case was one of much interest to those whose
vessels lie in the Thames, in the vicinity of London.
Mr. James Tucker, the assistant Harbour Master,
stated that at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st
of June, the defendant's bared, called the Exercise, was
Nand moored athwart in Alderman's Ferry, within the
port of London. Witness hailed the barge several times,
and ascertained that nobody was on hoard, but he disco-
vered that the defendant, who had charge of her, was ca-
rousing in a neighbouring vessel. He then called to the
defendant to hawl up his barge, which the man most un-
civilly refused to do, accompanying the refusal with such
language as certainly aggravated the case against him.
Witness threatened to send a man to hawl the barge
into her proper station, and the defendanee conduct be-
came still more offensive. For thus interfering with the
Harbour Master's duty fur the proper regulation of the
river, and persevering in a course calculated to occasion
the greatest possible confusion, it was considered neces-
sary to make the defendant responsible.
The defendant said that he considered himself en-
titled to resist the entrance of any man into his barge,
which was quietly lying in her place, without molesting
any craft on the river, and as for the language which
had been objected to, the Harbour Master must be a
person of very little experience or observation if he did
not hear such words at least once in the course of every
sentence that was uttered on the river. In fact, they
were words which signified nothing.
The LORD MAYOR said the Harbour Master had most
properly brought the ease before him. In the present
crowded state of the port of London, an obstruction to
the navigation was attended with imminent peril to life
and property, and he trusted that the officers who had
the superintendence of so important a district would
sharply look of er those persons who might be disposed
to violate the bye-laws for the regulation of the vessels
in the port. His Lordship considered that the language
used by the defendant deserved punishment indepen-
dently of the offence immediately charged, and sentenced
him to pay the penalty of 40s.
The defendant said that he had no notion of paying
any such sum, and declared, at the same time, that he
had no goods upon which his Lordship could distrain.
The LORD MAYOR—Then you must go at once to
prison, and pay in person if you do not pay in money.
The defendant soon afterwards contrived to pay the
penalty and the costs, and was discharged, with an assts
ranee that he, and the class to which he belonged, should
have the peculiar attention of the Harbour Masters.
It was stated that, upon orie occasion recently, a
barge was lying athwart, in direct opposition to the
bye-laws, which caused, in a few minutes, a loss tg the
amount of upwards of 7001.
UNION-HALL,
James Whitfield, a carman, in the employ of Messrs.
Carpenter, millers, of Greenwich, was brought up fir final
examination, charged with stealing a sack of flour, the pro-
perty of his empleyers. James Jean and James Freer
were also charged with stealing 4 quantity of timber,
:he property of Mr. Merritt and Mr. Harris, timber
merchants in the York-road, Lambeth, by whom They
were occasionally employed as labourers, John Smith
and William Gurney, carmen in the service of Mr.
Bragley, corn merchant, Goswell-street, Were also
charged with stealing five sacks of oats, the propel-V. of
Mr. Bragley ; and James Harvey, a general dealer, of
Charlotte-street, Waterloo-road, was charged with re-
ceiving the above property knowing it to be stolen.
About three weeks ago the prisoner was seen to stop
his waggon, loaded with flour, near the Vietoria Th- a-
tre, and carry a sack of flour inee Harvey's premises.
That circumstance corning to the knowledge of the
police, he was apprehended, and part of the *Jur
found on Harvey's premises. The sack which con-
tented it was identified by Mr. Girpenter. Harvey
was then taken into custody, when his premises
were searched, and properly of a miscellaneous deserips
tion of considerable value was found therein, among
which was the timber belonging to Harris and \lr.
Merritt, besides thirty saCks of we, five of which belonged
to Mr. Bragley. Goff and Brooks, two active otfi!ers
succeeded in tracing the owners of the proper., and
taking.. the prisoners into custody.
William Bennet proved the yemes-al of the timber
from theards of Mr. Heeeis and Mr. Merrit, into Hate
y
vey's premises, by the prisoners Jean and Freer, on Sa•
turday, the 26th ultimo.

The prisoners were defended t.y Mr. Solomons and
Mr. Crisp.

They were corninitted for trial.
Harvey s a man of considerable propert, being pos-
Aess©d of' several houses in the neighbourhood. lie has
been for some time and r ;he surv2illince of the police.
On Wednesday /141c4clei Meg was charged with robbing a
voung woman, named Malern, of two sovereigns, under the
following circumstances—
it appeared the complainant had received two sovereigns
at a club, of which the was a member, on the preceding night.
Soon afterwards she met a young woman, her acquaintance,
and took her into a public house to treat her. On paylitg
fir the liquor she prodimd the two sovereigns, which were
tied up in her ilandkerehief, and the circanistance being
witnessed by the prisoner, who was standing in front of the
bar, he fbilowed.the coniplainan,t cut of the house, and when:
she arrived at rather an nuCrequented spot he rushed upon the
affrighted girl, RIO snatching the handkerchief which eon
tamed the two sovereigns ran down a turnings She, how-
cver, raised an alarm, which being heard by a policeman, who
seeing the prisoner running; stopped him, and found the hand-
kerchief containing the two sovereigns in his possession, Te
complainant added that she had since been thrq,cifiened by
some of Ole prisoner's companions.
Mr. CorreifGHAm dealt surrimarib: with the charge; and
committed the prisoner fqr three months to the Hogs of
Correction.