The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

the prosecutor said he had missed some bottles
of varnish, but denied that he had ever said,
either to Mr. Pratt or to Mr. Kirtland, that he did
not care for the pears, that it was varnish he wanted.
He also admitted that occasionally he had given his
servants permission to take apples and pears, but de-
nied that he had ever given the prisoner permission to
take the wasp-eaten or wind-fallen pears as his per-
quisite.

The policeman who took the prisoner into custody,
said, that he had searched a cupboard in the prisoner's
house for varnish, but he could not recollect who
had told him about the varnish. No varnish had been
found on the prisoner's premises.
Mr. WALLINGER having addressed the Jury for the
defence, calleri

Mr. Thomas Pratt, a draper, residing at Mitcham,
who had carried on business there for 40 years, and to
whom Mr. Harland, when asked if he did not think
that Browne had undergone punishment sufficient by
being in the cage all night, replied, " It is not for the
pears."

Mr. Russell, in whose service the prisoner had been
for ten years, gave him an excellent character. He
had frequently employed the prisoner to gather pears,
and it had always been usual to allow the person ga-
thering pears-the windfalls and the inferior fruit as his
perquisite. He would have no objection to take the
prisoner into his service to-morrow.

Mr. Kirtland, of Mitcham,- who went with Mr.
Pratt to the prosecutor, corroborated the evidence of
Prat as to the expressions made'use of by Harland.
The CHAIRMAN having summed up, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty, but strongly recommended
him to mercy, and expressed a hope that the verdict
would operate on others, for that many persons in the
situation ,of the prisoner were in the habit of taking
fruit and other articles of small value, without think-
ing that they were •doing wrong,' much less that they
were committing a felony, and were consequently
unaware of the serious consequences with which such
conduct might be followed.

The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to seven
days' solitary confinement in the House of Correction
at Brixton.

Marti Stephenson, aged 64, was indicted for steal-
ing, at Chobham, a hurdle, the property of S. Turner.
The prosecutor, who farms some land at Chobham,
had frequently been robbed of hurdles, and in conse-
quence determined to set a watch. His servant, John
Stevens, who was watching on the night between the
3d and 4th of September, saw the prisoner on his
master's premises with a hurdle under his arm.
Stevens stopped him, and the prisoner said he would
pay Mr. Turner for the hurdle.
The prisoner admitted taking the hurdle, but said
he only intended to borrow it.
The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended him
to mercy on account of his age.
The Ch AIRMAN was not surprised at their recom-
mendation, but would not accede to it, inasmuch as
the prisoner had been twice previously convicted, and
had been transported for seven years.
Under these circumstances, the Jury withdrew their
recommendation. The prisoner was then removed,
the Court taking time to consider it 3 judgment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL--(THIS DAY.)
James John Reveley was placed before Mr. Alder-
man Hooper, having been remanded upon a charge of
obtaining money under false pretences from Mr. Pol-
ston, a barrister in the Temple, and a great number
of other persons.

Mr. Volston stated that the prisoner called at his
chathbers on the 9th of August, and said he was in
great distress, and was a native Of Durham. He said
he would refer witness to Mr. Cassidy, the incum-
bent of St. Giles, Durham. Witness gave him
2s. 6d., and a feW days afterwards he called again,
and he gave him. 2s. 6d. more. He came .the next
day and said he was going to return to Durham if he
could get ss. Witness gave him 55., and he was
surprised to meet him in town a few days after-
wards, and he then said that he had obtained
a situation at 18s, a week, but upon inquiry he found
that this was untrue, and the prisoner was given into
custody.
Other witnesses gave similar testimony.
Mr. Alderman HOOPER said he had received a
letter describing the prisoner, stating that he had been
several times charged with a similar offence, and he
should therefore commit him for three months.
The prisoner, who had been up to this time very
quiet and well-behaved in the dock, when he heard
the decision of the Magistrate, attempted to make a
resistance, but was overpowered, and taken back.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
John Gray, Augustus llPCarthy, Sarah M'Carthy,
and Sarah APCarthy's baby, who has not yet undergone
the ceremony of christening, were placed at the bar,
charged with assaulting William White and Su-
sannah, his wife, in the following manner :
The complainant, who is a peculiarly sedate, prosy-
looking individual, commenced, in &hollow sepulchral
tone—" In the dead of the night there came a noise at
our door, in No. 1, Denzill-street, Long Acre. Mv
wife Susannah and me turned ourselves round,
as we lay on our straw, and a voice came
to the door, and ses, Now you —, I'll have your
heart--I'm sober and I'll have your heart.' Then
there came the pressure of the hand against our door,
the foot and the body followed, and at length the
frail timber yielded to the profane pressure of.those
publicans and sinners, and Mr. Al'earthy and that
fine gentleman made their way in amongst us, and
they beat me and they beat my wife as long as they
could stand over us. Amen !"

Mr. TWYFORD—WeII, now. you've told me a very
long tale, but you havn't told me the reason for this.
It appears at present to be a very outrageous pro-
ceeding.
Complainant—They live in the same house as I
do, and the only reason is, that I, being destitute for
want of employment, could not pay ray relit. My-
goods were seized, and the rule being, " one down,
another a-top of him," they want to get, rid of me.
Amen !

Susannah White complained of the female prisoner
and the baby, that they urged the other prisoners to
violence.

Mrs. M'Carthy, who acted as spokeswoman to the
party, said, that ever since the complainant had been
in the house, there had been nothing but onecontinued
turmoil in the neighbourhood. rl heir house, which
was once a little paradise, was now a complete hell.
Their once happy home had been rendered desolate.
The front kitchen had become an invalid from the
complainant's violent conduct ; the first-floor back
was far advanced in pregnancy, and a miscar-
riage was likely to ensue ; and the second
floor front had been in fits ever. since Friday
last. The complainants had taken the trouble
to fetch in a number of great large paving
stones which they kept cop inually rolling about the
floor to annoy their fellow-lodgers.
Several witnesses gave the ccimplainants a bad
character, and, under these circumstances,

Mr. TWYFORD fined the prisoners only ss. each, or
five days' imprisonment, with a special exemption in
favour of the baby, who was discharged.

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.)
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Margaret CGreney, a well-dressed girl, about 12
years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with
having stolen a gold seal and other articles, the pro-
perty of her master, Mr. Wm. Crouch, 34, Church-
row, St. Pancras.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner had
been in the service of the prosecutor a few daA,s, and
had been discharged on Sunday evening. It was soon
afterwards ascertained by Mr. Crouch that two seals,
one of them gold, with a brooch, a gauze handker-
chief, and other articles, had been stolen from the pre-
mises. Information was given to the police, and a
portion of the property was found in her possession.
The property was produced and identified by Mrs.
Crouch, and the prisoner, who had nothing to say,
was committed for trial.

Elizabeth George was fined 40s. for using abusive
anguage towards Sarah Dolby.

UNION HALL.— (T. HIS
DAY.)
Jane Jane Evans was charged on suspicion
a gold watch and seven sovereigns, the property of
Mrs. Mary Jones, carrying on the, linen drap drapery
business in the Waterloo. road..
The complainant stated that the prisoner, who is
15 years of age, was in her service, and had access
to all the rooms in the house. That she (com-
plainant) had a gold Watch, seven sovereigns, and
various articles of plate locked up in a drawer
in her bed-room, and that she missed the
watch and money on the preceding morning.
The, prisoner, being suspected, was questioned, but
she denied having been concerned in the robbery ; and
when asked who the boy was who had been observed
lurking about the house, and with whom she had been
previously seen, she also denied that she knew anything
about him. She was then threatened with being given
into custody if she did not tell the boy's name, upon
which she exclaimed, " then I shall take the poison
you bought for ,the rats.". She then ran down into
the kitchen, and before complainant had time to pre-
vent it, she swallOwed a quantity of arsenic, which was
subsequently extracted by • means of the stomach-
pump.—The prisoner adhered to the assertion of her
innocence, and was remanded.

Yesterday morning the body of a well-dressed
moman, With several rings on her -fingers, was taken out
of the riv.r off Cuckold's-point, nothohithe, and con-
veyed to the dead-house. From the description of the
deceased, as reported to the Thames-police, there is no
doubt it is the body of the unfortunate woman who com-
mitted suicide by throwing herself from Waterloo-
tridge a t'ew nights ago, and was carried away by the
current, and drowned before any assistance could be ob-
tained,