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London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1842.

also had an engagement in the Six Clerks'-office. His
petition was supported by Mr. Cooke.
Mr. WOODRUFFE appeared on behalf of Mr. Tur-
ner, upon the ground of a breach of trust. It appeared
that after being several years in the employment of
the opposing creditor, the insolvent was entrusted
with the receipt of the several outstanding debts of
the office, which he was required to enter in a diary,
and afterwards transfer to the general accounts.
Several defalcations having been discovered by Mr.
Turner, the insolvent left his employment without
rendering a clear statement of the moneys received,
when Mr. Turner, for the purpose of knowing those
parties to whom he was indebted, and not wishing to
institute criminal proceedings, was compelled to sue
him in equity. To this the insolvent pleaded, and
thus additional costs had accumulated.

Mr. Thrner said he did not wish to press for any
severe judgment under the unhappy circumstances in
which the insolvent was placed—his wife being dan-
gerously ill. All he wanted %vas to discharge his
duty to the profession generally by preventing a
repetition of such conduct.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS said Mr. Turner had
acted with much kindness in not pressing even the
charge of vexatious defence, and he should, therefore,
order the discharge of the insolvent.

IN RE HENRY CAMPBELL.

The insolvent had been a very extensive wholesale
grocer and tea-dealer in Thames-street. His peti-
tion was opposed in person by a creditor named
Wells, who stated that about a month before the in-
solvent was arrested he gave him (Wells) an order for
goods to the amount of about 270/., and also bought
a horse and phaeton worth 801.
The furthei hearing was adjourned, in order to
prove that the insolvent was possessed of reversionary
interest in certain premises at Highgate.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before Lord DENMAN and Mr. Baron PARKE.)

CUARGE OF WILFUL MURDER.—Robert Williamson,
aged 63, described in the calendar as a baker was
indicted for the wilful murder of his wife. Hei was
also similarly charged at the Coroner's inquest.
Mr. Clarkson was counsel for the. prosecution, and
Mr. C. Jones defended the prisoner.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner
was a Chelsea pensioner, living in Chelsea Hospital
with his wife. On the 26th of October it appeared
that the prisoner and his wife returned home to the
Hospital intoxicated ; the wife fell down stairs, or, as
it was asserted on the part of the prosecution, the
prisoner, who had quarrelled with her, knocked her
down stairs. From the fall, after lingering for some
time at St. George's Hospital, she expired.
Mr. JONES, at considerable length, addressed the
Jury for the prisoner.
Several Chelsea pensioners and others gave the pri-
soner an excellent character for humanity.
Lord DENMAN summed up, and
The Jury, after a short consultation, found the
prisoner Guilty of manslaughter, but strongly recom-
mended him to mercy.—Sentence deferred.
William Dewey, 40, a soldier, was next charged
with the wilful murder of Ellen Derrick.

The prisoner, by the Coroner's inquisition, ap-
peared to be charged with the offence of manslaughter.
Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner.
In this case, it appeared that the deceased had
lived with the prisoner as his wife for several years,
and on the day mentioned in the indictment the pri-
soner was seen assisting the deceased, who was very
much intoxicated, along the street, and she was ob-
served to fall several times. The prisoner picked her
up, and when she fell, some of the witnesses ex-
pressed their opinion that the prisoner kicked her, but
the fact was by no means distinctly proved. When
the prisoner got the deceased home he obtained the
assistance of the neighbours, and appeared to have
done all he could for her relief.

Mr. Baron PARKE, at the close of the evidence for
the prosecution, said that there did not appear to be
any foundation for the charge of murder, but he must
confess that he was surprised, when the Coroner's
Jury had returned a verdict of manslaughter only,
that a charge of murder should be preferred against
the prisoner. _ _ _

Vord Chief Justice DENMAN said he quite con-
curred in the observations that had been made by his
Learned Brother, and he thought that they applied
equally to the ormer case. He could not help ex-
pressing his opinion that in such cases as these it was
most cruel to put an individual upon Ms trial for
his life.

Mr. CHARNOCK then addressed the Jury, and said
that the prisoner and the public were indebted to the
Learned Judges for the opinion they had expressed in
reference to this and the preceding case, and he
trusted it would have the effect of preventing, for the
future, such an -occurrence, as that an individual
should be subjected to the terror and misery of being
arraigned upon a charge affecting his life when the
evidence could not, by any means, support such an
indictment. The Learned Counsel was then about
to proceed to comment upon the facts as affecting a
charge of manslaughter, when the Jury stopped him,
and said they had made up their minds, and con-
sidered the charge was not made out against the
prisoner.
Baron PARSE--You do not think that he is even
guilty of the offence of manslaughter. The Foreman
—No, my Lord.
A verdict of " Not guilty " was then returned, and
the Court ordered the prisoner to be immediately dis-
charged.

John Bickerstaff, aged 17, was indicted for stealing
from the person of James William Worthington a
cloak, value 21., the property of the Rev. J. W.
Worthington.
As the facts of the case have been given fully in the
police reports within the last two or three days, it will
be unnecessary to repeat them on the present occa-
sion. The prisoner, it will be recollected, met the son
of the prosecutor, and under pretence of sending him
to get a trap and ball, she got possession of his cloak,
and made off with' it. There were several other in-
dictments against her of a similar character.
The Jury found her guilty, and the Court ordered
her to be transported for ten years.
The Grand Jury having returned a true bill against
Mr. Barnard Gregory for publishing an alleged libel in
the Satirist newspaper on the Duke of Brunswick,
Mr. Bodkin applied to the Court to fix the amount of
recognizances, and Lord Denman directed that the
defendant should enter into his own recognizances in
1001., and find two sureties in 501. each, to abide his
trial.

It appeared that the prosecutor keeps the Berkeley
Arms public-house, at Cranbrook, Middlesex, and
that, on the morning of Tuesday last, a coach and a
van loaded with patrons of the "ring," and a miscel-
cellaneous collection of members of the "swell mob"
and the "fancy," did him the honour of stopping at
his door for refreshment, on the way to a "mill" that
was to come off-that day on the Bath road. The gen-
tlemen alighted, and proceeded, en masse to the bar,
where the attention of tfie prosecutor was soon en-
tirely occupied in' supplying them with liquor ; while
so engaged, some of them, in the most daring manner,
fastened the unfortunate Boniface into his own bar,
while another part of the gang made prisoners of the
servants in the kitchen. They then proceeded to the
larder, and helped themselves to such viands as it con-
tained, concluding by decamping with the beef and
the hare mentioned in the indictment. As soon as
prosecutor regained his liberty, he pursued the coach,
and found the lost provisions very near the prisoner's
place ; as he had been one of the most active in the
sack of the larder, prosecutor gave him inte the cus-
tody of an officer, and charged him with robbery.
The COinfON SERGEANT, in summing up, said a
clear case of larceny had been made out, and had the
whole gang been taken up they would all have been
equally guilty.
The Jury convicted the prisoner.
It appeared that he was well known as an old
offender. He addressed the Court with great vehe •
mence, and not without plausibility; complaining bit-
terly of the hardship of his 'being picked out from
among all the others for prosecution. His previous
character, however, was too much. for any protesta-
tions to get over, and 'he was sentenced to seven years'
transportation.—The prisoner was removed from the
bar, loudly protesting that he had been hardly dealt
with.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
BOW-STREET.

A very elegantly-dressed, handsome female, named
Cohen, a Jewess, was placed before Mr. Jardine,
charged with attempting to commit suicide by throw-
ing herself from Waterloo-bridge.
It appeared that the policeman was called last night
to one of the recesses on Waterloo-bridge, where a
gentleman was holding the prisoner, who had attempted
to throw herself from the bridge. They persuaded
her to go home, and she went away, but shortly after-
wards returned without her bonnet and shawl, and
again attempted to jump from the bridge. She was
then taken into custody.
The father of the prisoner, who appeared in Court,
stated that she had been married about five years.
When she was married, he gave her a fortune, but
her husband had got through it. They subsequently
went into business in the City-road, but this also had
been disposed of. The prisoner had lately separated
from her husband, and he supposed that this had
preyed upon her mind.
The prisoner, in her defence, said that she was
tired of her life. ,

Mr. JARDINE asked if she still persisted in her de-
termination, but she would not answer the question.
ller father said he would go to her husband, and
ask him to come and take care of her.
Mr. JARDINE said this would be the best course to
adopt, and the prisoner was put back until her hus-
band should arrive.
UNION-HALL.

Thomas Hayes was charged with entering the
house of Mrs. Susan Windsor, for the purpose of com-
mitting a robbery.
The complainant was sitting in her back parlour
on the preceding night, when she heard a noise in
her front room, on going into which she saw the pri-
soner secreted behind the door. On seeing her the pri-
soner immediately ran towards the window, and
throwing it up, attempted to jump out, but he was
seized in a very courageous manner by the complain-
ant, who held him, notwithstanding his struggles, un-
til, by her screams, assistance arrived, when he was
given into custody. The prisoner, who is a well-known
thief, had provided himself with a jemmy, and other
housebreaking implements. He was committed.
An interesting-looking woman named Banks was
charged with assaulting and threatening the life of
Edward Jones, a builder.
The parties had cohabited together for three years,
when the complainant, desirous of breaking off the
connexion, being on the eve of marrying a young
lady, which circumstance came to the knowledge of
the defendant, she attacked him in the street and
scratched him in the face, declaring her determination
to " limb" him for deserting her. Her conduct while
in the Court was so violent, that it was necessary to
confine her to prevent a repetition of the assault on
the complainant —She was 'held to bail.
CLE.RKENIVELL.

George Frost, an Irish farmer, was brought up on
remand, charged with violating the person of Mary
Anne Clifft on Thursday last-
The prosecutrix, a good-looking girl, is bar-maid at
the Coach and Horses public-house in Great Ormond-
yard. The prisoner has been lodging there for the
last week. He was committed for trial on the capital
charge. He had come to London for the purpose of
seeing his landlord to obtain a reduction of the rent.

PRICES Ole CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR-
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LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 2.

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