The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A young man named Thomas Carter, who ap-
peared at the bar with a frightful gash in his head,
was charged with assaulting a police-officer in the
station-house.

Wm. Bight, 87 F, stated that he: was on duty last
night in the Strand, when he heard a loud noise, and
on proceeding to the spot he found the prisoner lying
on the pavement, with his head cut and bleeding
profusely. He conveyed him to the station-house,
and a surgeon was sent for to dress his
head. The prisoner then became so violent
that five officers were taken from their duty to
hold him. He turned round and seized wit-
ness by the arm with his mouth, and bit his arm com-
pletely through, nearly taking a piece out. He was
ultimately conveyed to a separate cell.
The prisoner in his defence said that he recol-
lected nothing that happened. He supposed he was
drunk, and fell down, and cut his head.

Mr. JARDINE ordered him to be put back, and he
would consider in the course of the day what punish-
ment to inflict.

MARYLEBONE.

TVm. Wood, a wretched-looking man, whose rags
searcely covered his person, was placed at the bar
charged with begging at several houses in Cavendish-
square this morning.
When asked where he belonged to he said that he
had come up from Burton-upon-Trent in search of
work, and had been in London about seven weeks ; he
had a little money and a good stock of clothes when
he came, but the first was soon expended, and he had
parted with the others by piecemeal, and must now
beg, steal, or starve. He only required a little as-
sistance to get back to his own place.
Mr. LONG thought his a fit case for the attention of
the Mendicity Society, and, giving him one of their
relief tickets, said that they would examine into his
statements, and, if true, relieve him.
He then left, expressing his thanks to the Magis-
trate for his advice and assistance.

Robert Harris, a country farmer, whose "fair round
belly" was in striking contrast with the appearance of
the last prisoner, was charged with being helplessly
drunk in the shrubberies of Cambridge-square yes-
terday evening.
The worthy farmer admitted the truth of the state-
ment, saying that he had come up to see the cattlQ-
show, and, meeting there with other agriculturists,
had adjourned to a tavern, and after drinking some
time, and speaking of the prospects of the country,
he had wandered out, and somehow got into the en-
closed part of the square. He was obliged to the
police for the trouble they had taken, and would pay
them anything in moderation for the same.
He was fined 55., and seemed astonished that he
had got off so easily.

CLERKENWELL.
Henry TVinktvorth Stanton, alias Doctor Stanhope,
with a variety of other aliases, was brought up for
final examination.

The Court was crowded to excess. The prisoner is
about 60 years of age. He was enveloped in a brown
Taglioni, and had a lady's boa coiled round his neck.
When placed in the dock he bowed to the Court, and
then turned round and sneered at the spectators who
pressed forward to catch a glimpse of him. A con-
densed epitome of the leading incidents of the latter
part of the prisoner's life may not be uninteresting.
He is a native of Ireland, and was educated for the
medical profession. In 1824 he came to London,r_and
was married in the same year to Miss Whilbourne, of
Ripley, in Surrey, with whom he received a fortune
of 8001. He deserted her in 1826, leaving her with
one child in a very destitute condition. He went
back to Ireland and contrived to introduce
himself to a family named Wilkinson, of high re-
spectability, residing in the vicinity of Dublin.
To Miss Wilkinson he paid his addresses,
and having represented himself as a surgeon
of considerable business and a handsome patrimo-
nial independence besides, was favourably received.
He came to London at the close of the same year,
with a letter of introduction from Mr. Wilkinson to a
gentleman named Kenyon, residing in Islington. As
Mr. Wilkinson stated that the prisoner was about to
become his son-in-law, Mr. Kenyon made some in-
quiries about him, and found that he was a
married man and a swindler. He communicated
the discovery to the prisoner, who did not
return to Dublin. He then took lodgings in
Ashley-street, Northampton-square, and ran away in
a month without paying anything for his board or
apartments. Mr. Kenyon chanced to meet him one
day on the Commercial-road North. The prisoner
spoke in as independent a manner as if nothing had
happened, and took Mr. Kenyon to his lodgings in a
coffee-shop then kept by a widow. About a
month after he absconded from this place,
leaving behind him a large trunk. His land-
lady at length sent for the broker, had it opened,
and found it full of stones. All trace of him
from 1826 to 1836 is lost. In the latter year he was
committed for trial by the Magistrates at Union-
hall on six different charges of felony. He was tried
on one of them at the Old Bailey, and had sentence of
death pronounced against him. Through the inter-
cession of the Chancellor of the Exchequer his sen-
tence was commuted to two years' imprisonment.
When he came out of the Penitentiary, in 18:58, he
went to live with his wife, who was earning a decent
livelihood by teaching. After plundering her of every
farthing she possessed, even to her wedding ring, he
again deserted her. In 1840, he made acquaintance
with a respectable family in Vauxhall. He attempted
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troduced himself to a young lady, who resided
in Leicester-square. In Greenwich-park he robbed
her of 251. and seduced her. He then became ac-
quainted with Miss Miller, an elderly lady, residing
in Kennington, and promised her marriage. He in-
duced her to pawn the watches for him which he had
stolen from Mr. Menzies. At this period be was co-
habiting alternately with two young women named
Grant and Hillman, the former of whom appeared as
witness against him, and whom he had seduced. At
the close of 1840 he fraudulently obtained two pis-
tols, value 25 guineas, from Mr. Egg, gunmaker,
Pall-mall, and two telescopes from Mr. Elliott, mathe-
matical instrument.,maker, Holborn. A few months
after he took lodgings at Mrs. Lattet's, Prince's-
square, Kennington ; he feigned illness on a particular
Sunday whilst there. Mrs. Lattet requested him to
mind the house for her whilst she was at church, but
on her return she found he had absconded and robbed
her of 201. Whilst at Mrs. Lattet's he robbed a pawn-
broker at Walworth of a pair of pistols. In the be-
ginning of the present year he went to lodge at Mr.
Bruce's, a jeweller, residing in Wakefield-street,
Brunswick-square, and absconded with 201. worth of
his property. It should have been stated that, in
December, 1840, he went to lodge with a poor
washerwoman, in St. Giles's, whom he robbed of 101.,
all she possessed, and seduced her daughter.
This day Charles Hayward Hughes produced the
record of a former conviction against the prisoner at
the Old Bailey, on which he was transported for life.
Witness deposed that he was present at the trial, and
identified the prisoner, who was tried under the name
of Stanton.

Mr. Comm asked the prisoner had lie anything to
say why he should not be committed for trial ?—The
prisoner put to the witness some questions of an irre-
levant nature, which Mr. Combe told him he was not
obliged to answer.
He was then fully committed for trial on the