The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.)

CRIM. CON.-TUCKER V. GOOCH,

The plaintiff; Mr. Thomas Stannyford Tucker, who
is Secretary and Librarian to the Southwark Literary
Institution, brought this action to recover from Mr.
Thomas Gooch, a timber merchant, residing at Dalsten,
compensation in damages for the seduction of his (plain-
tiff's) wife. Judgment had been allowed to go by de-
fault. The damages were laid at 1,0001.
Mr. PEARSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
CUARNOCK for the defendant.

Previous to the case being called on, a consultation
took place, in which the counsel for the plaintiff agreed
to accept a verdict for 50/.
The SECONDARY said he was rejoiced to hear this, as
it would prevent disclosures of a painful nature.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.— William Satchel!, aged
17, an exceedingly well-dressed young man, was placed
in the dock charged with embezzling and stealing divers
sums of money of Thomas Reed and others, his masters.
The prosecutors are floor-cleth manufacturers in the Do-
ver road, and the prisoner was in their employ as collector.
On the 21st December last he received sums of money on
his employers' account in two different instances, and
when asked if he had received them denied that he had
done so. On the 22d the prisoner was given into cus-
tody, it having been .discovered that the money had
been paid to him. The prisoner had previously main-
tained a good character. .
Mr. PRICE addressed the Jury for the prisoner.
The RECORDER summed up, and .the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy on ac-
count of his youth and previous good character.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour.

Charles White, aged 11, William Wright, aged 12, and
John Cole, aged 12, three little urchins, whose heads
scarcely reached above the bar, a ere charged with
stealing one copper flinnel, the property of Joseph Shaw,
in a vessel on the river Thames.

The prosecutor is master of the sloop Joseph and Mary
Ann, which was lying at Bermondsey on the 21st of
December. The prosecutor's wife was sitting in
the cabin, when she heard a noise upon deck ; she
went up, and saw White, who had taken the cabin funnel,
in the act of handing it to the other two prisoners, who
were in a boat alongside. When the prisoners saw the
prosecutor's wife come on deck;• they threw the funnel
overboard. Mrs. Shaw raised a cry of police, and the
prisoners were taken into custody on the river, after
having made a fruitless attempt to induce a waterman
named Messenger to take them into his wherry and put
them on shore; which he very properly refused to do,
and, instead, sent an officer of the Thames Police to the
spot, who took them into custody.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
The policeman Lewis, in answer to questions from the
Recorder, said that the prisoners belonged to a regular
gang of tier-rangers, and-bad all been previously sum-
marily convicted. It fuither appeared from his state-
ment that, during the last week, upwards of fourteen
funnels had been stolen from vessels in the river.

The RECORDER, addiessing the prisoners said, that it
was their youth alone which prevented his sentencing
them to transportation. The sentence of the Court was
that they be each imprisoned for twelve months in the
House of Correction, and kept to hard labour.
HODSEBREABING.—John Clarke, aged 20, was in-
dicted for breaking into the shop of George George, and
stealing six dozen knives and forks, and other articles,
value 301.—The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
The RECORDER advised the prisoner to consider well
before pleading /guilty, The offence was one of great
magnitude, and the fact of his pleading guilty would
make no difference in the sentence which the Court would
feel bound to pass upon him.
The Prisoner—l plead guilty, because lam guilty.
The RECORDER after expatiating on the enormity of
the offence which the prisoner had committed, and on
the immense quantity of property stolen, sentenced the
prisoner to ten years' transportation.
George Rivers was indicted for stealing a pair of boots,
the property of George Castle. The prosecutor is a boot-
maker, and the prisoner entered his shop, and ran off
with the boots in questiglu He was stopped by a po-
liceman with the boo& in his possession. The Jury
found him Guilty. A previous conviction having been
proved against him, he was sentenced to one year's im-
prisonment with hard labour.

The prisoner in personal appearance and expression of
countenance bore a remarkable resemblance to the por-
trait of Jack Sheppard, and wore his black hair close
cropped after the favourite fashion of Mr. Ainsworth's hero.

NE CO U RT.
William Pearce, afecl 45, described in the calendar as
a servant, pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him:
with stealing two pair of reins, two back-bands, a pair
of stirrup leathers, and other articles, the property of his
master, Basil George Wood, and was sentenced to seven
years_ transportation, he having been before convicted of
a similar offence.-- • •

William Elhrson, a shoemaker, pleaded guilty of
stealing various articles-, the property of James Sawyer,
and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

James Collins pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
him with stealing a pair of trowsers, value 93., and was
sentenced to seven years' transportation, he having been
several times convicted previously.
EMBEZZLEMENT.—Thomas Parker, a most respectable
looking man, pleaded to an indictment charging him
with embezzling the money of his employers, Messrs.
Kent and Co., the brush-makers, of Falcon-square.
After the prisoner had pleaded guilty, he begged of
the Court to allow him to withdraw his plea, Counsel on
his behalf having been employed. The Court granted
the prisoner's request, but shortly afterwards he stated
that it was his determination to persevere in his plea
of guilty.
From the statements of Mr. Kent it appeared that the
prisoner had been employed by him as his clerk and
book-keeper for many years, and that he appeared to
have adopted a regular system for years by which, even
on scrutinising his books, his embezzlement could not be
discovered. The prosecutor considered that he had lost
upwards of 700/. through the prisoner's delinquencies.
The COMMON SEARGEANT did not consider he should
be doing his duty to the public unless he passed a severe
sentence upon the prisoner. His embezzlements were
to a large amount, and had been conducted in a manner
calculated to escape detection. The sentence of the
Court was that he should be transported for seven years.
The prisoner born his sentence with considerable firmness.
Wollianz Clements, 15, was convicted of stealing 131
cigars, value 75., the property of Thomas Mansford, and
was sentenced to one month's imprisonment.
Thomas Humber, 31, was indicted with stealing seven
dozen of hose, the property of Isaac Wilson and another,
his masters. It appeared from the evidence that the
prisoner was the warehouseman of Messrs. Wilson and
Co., who carry on a large hosiery business at 35, Milk-
street, and also at Nottingham and Derby. He had
been in their employ for two years and upwards, and
while there had committed the depredations with which
he was charged. It appeared that the prisoner after
committing the depredation offered the stockings for
sale to a person named Leman, who kept an old clothes
shop in Beer-lane, Spitalfields, and that from the infor-
mation given by Leman to Messrs. Wilson the robbery
was discovered. The prisoner also offered a pair of
the stockings to Mr. Dewey, the landlord of the Swan-
with-Two-Necks tap, for Is., and the price asked appear-
ing to him inadequate, he suspected that the prisoner
had not come honestly by the property, and caused him
to be apprehended.
Mr. Phillips conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Ba.llantyne, defended the prisoner, and called several
persons who gave gave him an excellent character.
The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and the Jury,
after a short consultation, found the prisoner Guilty, but
recommended him to mercy.
The Comm sentenced him to nine months' imprison-
ment and hard labour.
The prisoner begged that the latter part of the sen-
tence might be remitted, as lie was in an ill state of
health from rupture.
The COMMON SERGEANT observed that the visiting
Magistrates would remit that part of the sentence if it
was found necessary.,

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Sarah Williams, a woman about 46 years of age, bear-
ing all the lineaments of a gypsy, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Alderman COPELAND under the following
extraordinary circumstances :
Elizabeth Goldsmith said, the prisoner came to the
house, No. 37, Green-street, where she (witness) lived
as housemaid, and inquired if she wished to purchase
any lace or small articles of millinery. Being an-
swered in the negative, she then asked it' she
wanted her fortune told, and said she could tell, what
kind of a husband was fated for her—whether he was
rich or pcor, fair or dark, long or short, 84c. &c. Not
long able to resist a temptation so alluring to witness
(she was a pretty little girl about 17 years of age), the
prisoner was brought down to the kitchen and feasted as
fortune-tellers usually are ; after which she said she
should be unable to rule the stars "in her favour
unless she had some Of her dresses for a short time, and
that a watch would be necessary to ensure the greater
certainty in the incantations she was about to perform.
The witness then got her three dresses of her own, worth
about 31, and went up to the room of a lodger, " One Mr.
Thomas Brown," and brought down his watch, worth
51., which was ticking over the mantel-shelf, and handed
them over to the sybil, who went through a number
of mummeries, when she tied up the whole in a bundle,
saying, it should not be touched for some time, or the
charm would be unavailing. She then departed after
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Two
fellow-serrants of the prosecutrix, swore to the
prisoner's identity, and that she was at that moment
wearing her (prosecutrix's) clothes, and also Joseph Dal-
ton, the constable who arrested her. She was fully cora-
tnitted for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute.

DEATH BY DROWNING.—Last evening an
inquest was held before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner,
at the Vestry Hall, St. John's, Horsleydown, on the
body of George Wade, aged 39. It appeared by the
evidence that, on the evening of Friday last, the de-
deased was at work on a barge at Mr. Brandon's Wharf,
Horsleydown, when he suddenly fell overboard. A
great deal of exertion was made to save him, but with-
out effect. It being clear that his death was entirely ac•
cidental, the Jury returned a verdict to that effect.
THE EXCHEQUER BILL ForwEay.--Tes-
terday an order was sent to Newgate from the Home-
office for the removal of Edward Beaumont Smith to the
hulks, in pursuance of his sentence. Ile was accord-
ingly placed in a carriage, and conveyed to Woolwich
where he was put on board the usual receiving hulk.