The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

IN RE JOHN PETER HOLLOWAY.

This insolvent, who was a very aged and infirm man,
appeared on his petition to be discharged.
His liabilities were very large, and he was examined
at great length by Mr. WOODROFFE, regarding certain
chattels which he had given to a person named Smart,
and the disposal of a policy of insurance effected upon
his own life for 1,500/. _ _

The Learned bommissioNEß said, in the present state
nt. the case, he should order it to stand over for a few
days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP- STREET.
James Orridge, the driver of one of Barber's Hackney
omnibuses, was charged with having driven over an aged
woman rained Louisa Gardiner, and thereby caused her
ee,th.

Several witnesses were examined, from whose evidence
it appeared that at about eight o'clock on Saturday even-
ing, the defendant was driving his omnibus along High-
street, Shoreditch, when the unfortunate woman was in
the act of crossing the road, and although the prisoner
callel out three times to apprise her of her danger, and
endeavoured ineffectually to pull up his horses, she made
no effort to get out of the way, and was knocked down
under one of the fore wheels of the omnibus, which
passed over her neck. She was picked up in an inani-
mate state, and on being taken to the shop of Mr. French,
a chemist, in the street, it was Sound that-she was dead.
All the witnesses represented the occurrence as having
been purely accidental, and said that after it took place
the prisoner cried bitterly, and rendered all the assist-
ance that the deplorable result enabled him to do.
The prisoner was discharge:l.
CROYDON POLICE.
A young man, having the appearance of a gipsy,
named Win. Davidson, was brought before Messrs.
Currie and Sutherland upon two charges of stealing a
donkey and a pony. The proceedings adopted by the pri-
soner to avoid discovery were of rather a novel character.
A young man named Popjoy proved that on the 16th
of December his mother lost a donkey off the Common
at Streatham, and that he afterwards heard the prisoner
had been seen in possession of an animal answering the
description of the one that had been stolen.
William Wilcol, a pot-boy to a public-house at
Ilrixton, said, that a day or tivi after the robbery the
prisoner, whom he had known before, Came to him, and
after they had had eseme beer together, he asked him
whether he had heard about old mother Popjoy losing
her ass. He then went to tell him that he and
another drove the donkey into the prisoner's shed, an 1
that they (1 Aped him, gave him some corn, and stained
his nose, m hich "before iv' s white, a dark colour, and
then took him up to Smithfield, and sold him. He also
said, that what they did to the " moke" so altered hi;
appearance, that if the old woman had seen it she would
not have known her ass (gill).
Inspector Collier F&d that some clue was obtained to
the stolen donkey, but having ivicertained that the don-
key sold by the prisoner was not a white-faced one, this
for a time, put a stop to the inquiry. The stolen ani-
mal was so disfigured that its own father would mt have
known it again.—(Laughter.)
The MAGISTRATE 4 :aid.thcy thought that, under the
circumstance,, time ought to be given for further in-
quiry, and they remanded the prisoner upon this charge.
Tize prisoner was then c'iarged with stealing a pony
from Ca2ham Common. •
Evidence having been given to show that the pony was
seen on the Common,
John Steadman, who described himself as helper to
his uncle, who, he said, was a horse-dealer, was ex-
aminel, and he said he had a string of horses at the
World -Upside Down, in the Kent-road, where he saw
the prisoner with a chesnut pony, and it kept getting
loose,-and seemed very hungry ; and he asked the priso-
ner what he wanted for it, and he replied that it was a
" stunning pony;" and he must have thirty bob for it.
"I axed him, 'proceeded the witness, " if it was sound ?"
"Sound !" says he, " ah, as the day yen it vos folded."
" Vy," says I, it's got a dreadful pair of broken knees."
" Yell," says he, " barrin that, and its broken-vinded
and blind, I considers it sound." The witness proceeded
to state that after some bargaining he gave the prisoner
twenty-three " bobs" for the pony, which he afterwards
took to Smithfield, and sold. •
Mr. CURRIE—(TO the witness)—What sort of a pony
was this ? Witness—A regular boiler.—(Laughter.) It
wasn't fit fir nuffin but the knacker.
The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was then
remanded upon both charges.