The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, March 29.
IN THE MATTER OF W. RICHARDS.
The bankrupt was the proprietor of the Fox Tavern in
Oxford street, and appeared in Court on his final exami-
nation, when several proofs were admitted.
The lease and good will of the house being valued at
1,250 Z, and it was calculated the property in stock and
furniture would realise by private sale nearly 500 L, both
/of which sums would be shortly available to the creditors.
Sir CHARLES WILLIAMS, having examined the bank-
rupt at great length, said he considered him to have
rendered- so clear a statement of his affairs as to be en-
titled to pass his final examination. However, he re-
gretted to perceive that, by some oversight, the balance-
sheet had not been ten clear days in the hands of the
official assignee ; yet, and under the circumstances,
could he think of allowing a bankrupt to pass his final
examination, without affording every facility to the cre-
ditors in seeing the accounts rendered of the bankrupt's
affairs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL. _

• A female of dissiteted appearance, with a child in
her arms, and a respatable working man named Wm.
Walsh, was charged before Mr. Alderman Hooper under
tke following circumstances :
Police-constable 146 said, last night he met the pri-
soners, both of whom were intoxicated, but the man very
much so, and watched them for some time, when he saw
her snap the chain attached to Walsh's watch and.place
it in her pocket. Upon taking her into custody she said
he was her cousin, and that she took the watch for fear
he should loose it. The male prisoner was locked up on
the charge of intoxication.

Walsh-, who seemed very unwilling to prosecute, said
he knew her husband, who often did jobbing work for
him, and he thought perhaps she did not intend to rob him.
The female prisoner was sentenced to fourteen days'
imprisonment, and Walsh fined five shillings for being
drunk.

BOW-STREET.
Ellen Foley, an oldish lady, who bore in her counte-
nance the strongly marked lineaments which indicate
the character of a shrewish termagant, was charged with
creating a disturbance at the Strand Theatre last night
under the following circumstances.
The complainant stated that last night being the first
night of opening of this theatre for the season, as he was
lighting the lamps, he heard a noise at the stage-door,
where his wife acts as porteress. He went there and he
found the prisoner at the door abusing his wife and chil-
dren, calling them thieves, liars, and other very objec-
tionable names. He knew nothing of the prisoner other
than that she used at one time to live in his house.
The officer of the theatre here stepped forward, and said
he thought he could explain the matter. About 18 months
since the prisoner was employed in the theatre, in the
capacity which the complainant's wife at present held,
but from her character for drunkenness she was dis-
charged by the then proprietors, and since that time she
had been in the habit of frequently going to the stage-
door, and creating a disturbance.
The prisoner, who had several times during the re-
cital of the evidence, endeavoured to east a slur upon it,
by the ejaculation of such little expressions as " Oh,
my !" " Well, I never !" " Did you ever 1" and the like,
commenced her defence by addressing the following trite
little admonition to the last witness—" Oh I do you ex-
pect there is a God at all, you false-faced man ?* She
then went on to say— " Yes, your "Worship, I did go to
the theatre, I went there. That man who has just left.
the bar, has taken the .situation of every one in the
theatre—almost. He and his family has filled every
place in the theatre, and he works for nothing—almost.
I'm not in the habit of going to the theatre neither.
This man's wife has reported that I have taken so and
so, and so and so, and he said that when he met me he
would put me under the wheels of a coach ; but as for
me Sir, I am neither an abusive woman nor a drunkard.
Oh, your Worship, I wish you knew the facts of the
case ; send for a friend or two of mine, and they'll let
you know how thingi stands."
Mr. JARDINE—Now, you have not said one word to
justify your conduct in creating a disturbance at the door
of the theatre. Prisoner—Decidedly I have, sir, what
right have they to take away my character, when I have
a living to earn ?
Mr. JAnnlNE—Your husband must be surety to the
amount of 10/. that you will keep the peace for two
months.
Minim AND IxcePABLES.—The number of persons in-
cluded in this charge this morning was only nine, and of
these, shame be it to the women of England, six were
females, and three men, they were all discharged on their
solemn promises " that it should not occur again."
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CharLs Biggs and William Fearless, two flashily
dressed young men, were placed at the bar on the follow-
ing charge :—Mrs. Eliza Howard, a respectable young
married female, residing at No. 14, Little Windmill-
street, Haymarket, stated that about half-past seven
o'clock last evening, as she %Nits crossing from Regent-
street into Glasshouse-street. the prisoners, in company
with another young man, came running up behind her,
and Fearless struck her such a violent blow on the
back that she fell prostrate on her face on the footway
pavement, and was for a few s' conds completely stunned.
On recovering herself she discovered that her reticule,
which contained two half-crowns in a purse made out
of her brother's hair, had been stolen from her—the
string having been cut from off her wrist. The prisoners
were pursued, and ultimately taken into custody.—They
were remanded.
James Johnson, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, was charged with the fi 'lowing most audacious
street robbery.
Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Fleming, a lady residing at Brook-
hill, Clerkenwell, stated that about half-past six o'clock
last! evening she was proceeding along Coventry-
street, llaymarket, when the prisoner came up in front
of her with an open pocket-knife in_his hand, and seizing
hold of her reticule, which was hanging on her arm,
cut the ribband which suspended it, and was making
off with it when he was taken into custody by police
Serjeant, No. 14 of the C division, with the stolen
property in his possession ; the reticule contained a
bead purse and some silver coin.
The prisoner was recognized.-sea- a well known thief.
He was fully committed.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday John Browney, the driver of a cabriolet,
No. 5,896, and a woman, known by the name of
Poll Ryan, and who has been repeatedly in custody,
charged with being concerned in robberies of a des-
perate character, perpetrated in the purlieus of Or-.
chard-street and the Almonry, Westminster, were
charged with committing the following robbery :
William Smith, a toll-collector, residing at Slough,
stated that on Monday evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, having reached as far as Knightsbridge,
on his way to town, he went into a public-house, near
to the horse-barracks, to procure some refreshment ;
and hearing some music and dancing going on in an
apartment up stairs, he was induced to introduce
himself to the company, which he found- to consist
principally of soldiers and girls of the town. Having
got into conversation with a man who was a perfect
stranger he was prevailed upon to drink, and in
the course of the evening they had three pints of
porter between them. About ten o'clock witness had
occasion to withdraw from the room for a few mi-
nutes ; he was at that time perfectly sober, and did not
in any. way feel affected, but in the course of a very
short perio.i, and before he rejoined his company, he
was suddenly seized with gid'liness, and immediately
afterwards became totally unconscious of what was
passing around him, and continued in that state until
. yesterday morning, when he found himself in the
station-house. He felt quite confident that something
deleterious had been put into his drink. When he
went into the public-house at Knightsbridge, he had
between 3/. and 4/. in gold and silver in his pockets,
and amongst the money witness remembered he had
a half-sovereiiim of the date of the year 1842. Yes-
terday Morning he had only six or seven shillings left.
Police constable, No. 49 of the B division, stated
that about two o'clock yesterday morning he saw the
prosecutor, being supported by some men, at the door
of the King's Read public-house, in Orchard-street,
which is kept open all night, and is the resort of the
most desperate thieves and prostitutes in London. He
had, it appears, been brought there with the female
prisoner by the male prisoner, in his cab. Know-
ing Ryan, he asked what was the matter, and-
she replied that " the man had been picked
• up," and that just previously to witness coming
up, " there were about fifty at him." Witness,
concluding that the prosecutor had been robbed,
took both the prisoners into custody, and in convey-
ing them to the station-house, Ryan was observed to
pass some money to Browney, and on searching him
at the station-house, 18s. 6d. in silver, and a half-
sovereign of the date mentioned by the prosecutor,
were found about him, he having but just previously
de dared that all the money he had about him was
about 18s. or 20s. all in silver.
The prisoners were fully committed.
CLERKENWELL
Mr. Chitty, a gentleman residing in Gower-street,
brought the following charge against his servant, Wil-
liam Denny and Sarah Evans, a girl of the town
It appeared that between twelve and one o'clock this
morning, Mr. Chitty was alarmed by:a:noise in the lower
part of b.is house. He called the man servant who first
pretended to be asleep, but afterwards said he did not
hear him Calling. There was a quantity -of spirits
• s.,illed in his bed room, which the prisoner said was
water. lie denied having made any noise, and said
there had been nobody with him. In a few minutes a
policeman came .to the door with the female
• prisoner,- —*lit) was apprehended with a portion
,of- Mr. Chitty's voporty on her person. She stated
that 'she was one of a party whom the prisoner had
invited to spend a few hours with him after his. mas-
. ter's family had gone to rest, and that she was then
returning from the festivity. T' priSoner on being
interrogated by the Ma,,istrate, wnoteildgive n'o satisfac-
. tory explanation of the' " High life belowg stairs "—be
wept bitterly, and implored his master's forgiveness.
lioth prisoners were remanded.
UNION-HALL.
Enna Jones was charged with committing a violent
assault.oll Charlotte Webber, whose face bore ample evi-
dence of the fact. The complainant said, that her father
held a situation in the House of Lords, and that as she
and her sister were returning home the night before,
• defendant came up and took her round the waist „
he should like to kiss her. She told him that he made
use of unparliamentary language—(Laughter)--and at .
the same time slapped Ms face, upon which he knocked
her down ; and the side of her taco coming in contact
with the stones, marked it in the manner it then appeared.
The defendant said ho was in liquor at the time, or he
should not have acted as he had done. He was fined 40s.

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