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

The RECORDER said he thought the case could not be looked
upon as one of stealing.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
Richard Hawkins, IS, cork cutter, was indicted fur committing
a rape on Jane Palmer, a child 13 years of age.
The prisoner was employed in a cork manufactory in Maynard-
street, St, Giles. On the 18th of January last the prosecutrix was
playing in the yard at the back of the shop, mid the prisoner came
to her, and enticed her into the shop, and there committed the of-
fence of which he stood charged. A surgeon was called who had
examined the child the day after the offence was committed, and
who proved that considerable inflammation existed; and who stated
that, in his opinion, the offence had been fully committed.
_ _

The Jury, however, were not satisfied with the evidence, and
therefore acquitted the prisoner.
John Hasken, 46, plumber, who stood remanded from the last
session, was placed at the bar charged with forging certain fictitious
Bank notes, with intend to defraud the Bank of England.
The ATrORNEY.GENERAL appeared to prosecute the prisoner,
who at first pleaded Not Guilty, but afterwards retracted his plea
for that of Guilty.—Sentence deferred.

Mapp, 29, was indicted 'for stealing in a dwelling-
house, 651., the property of John Ricardby Bousfield, and others,
his masters, and one snuff-box, and other articles.
Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, Mr. Phillips defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prosecutors are large salesmen, carrying
on business at 126, Houndsditch. The prisoner was em-
ployed by them in the capacity of porter. It was part of
the duty of the prisoner in a morning to open
the iron safe which was in the office, and take out the books.
In the safe was a drawer in which money was usually kept. On
the day in question the clerk of Messrs. Bousfield went to the
office at the usual hour, and on his proceeding to the safe for
the purpose of taking out the money, he discovered the drawer
to have ben broken open, and the money, consisting of 25
sovereigns, 351. in silver, and a 51. Bank of England note, gone.
The case had proceeded thus far, when the prisoner said he
wished 'to retract his plea, and plead Guilty.
Mr. PIIILLIPS made an application to the Court to postpone
its judgment till to- morrow, in order that he might have an
opportunity of producing before their Lordships a highly re-
spectable witness, a magistrate, who would speak to the cha-
racter of the prisoner.
The kisonor here intimated that he pleaded- guilty to the
charge of larceny only.
The case was then proceeded with by Mr. Bodkin, fur the
purpose of making out a charge of burglary.
A witness was then called who proved that he found a
skeleton key upon the pi ironer, and which locked and unlocked
the drawer in the iron safe of Messrs. Bousfield. The Si. note,
which was identified, was traced to the possession of the pri-
soner, he basing changed it at a neighbouring public-house.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing only, and
not "stealing in a dwelling-house."—Sentence deferred.
George Thompson, 22, was indicted for stealing three
wafches, two pairs of sugar tongs, and twenty spoons, of the
table of 20/. and money to the value of 21.' the property of
Edward Burch, of the Bell Tavern, Woolwich.
It appeared that this robbery had been committed at the
time the King of Prussia embarked for the Continent. The
prosecutor's house was much crowded. On the day in ques-
tion, the 4th February, a policeman, who was there in plain
clothes, was at the Bell, where he saw two persons standing
at a bed-room door on the first floor. From suspicion he en-
tertained'he went to the landlord, and spoke to him on the
subject. The landlord went up stairs, and one of the per-
sons on the landing immediately ran down. The witness,
hearing a cry, secured the man as he came down stairs. A
gold watch, chain, and seal, were found upon him, but. n his
being brought before the magistrate, h s was discharged. The
prosecutor stated, that on his proceeding up stairs, he met the
prisoner coming out of the room. The spoons in question,
were deposited in that room. The prosecutor immedi-
ately seized the prisoner, and cried out " murder, thieves !"
The bed-room door was then open, and a person inside, and
unseen by the prosecutor, struck at him. The wife of the pro-
secutor with the assistance of the maid servant, secured the
prisoner. The befl-ioom was all in disorder, and he missed
the articles from the chest of drawers. Five of the tea spoons
were picked up from the stairs ; the locks of the chest of
drawers were all picked. The prosecutor's wife heard the five.
spoons fall near to the prisoner on the stairs. The spoons were
those she had deposited in the morning in the bed-room.
The Learned Judge having summed up the evidence, the jury
returned a verdict of Guilty.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

SIP CHAPMAN MARSHALL was, yesterday, for some time
occupied in hearing a case which displayed a great deal of vil-
lany upon one side, and agreat deal of credulity upon the other.
Riehard Hitchcock, a grave-looking person, about fifty
years of age, was put to the bar, charged with having defrauded
Mr. Hinton, formerly of the house of Hinton and Taylor,
of Queen-street, Cheapside, of various sums of money, amount-
ing, in the aggregate, to upwards of 1,0001.
Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, attended for the prisoner.
Mr. Hinton stated that the prisoner at the latter end
of the year 1839, called upon him, and stated to him that a
gentleman, named Joshua Wall, had been left heir to an im-
mense property, which was subject to a suit in Chancery, and
that as Mr. Wall was not able to carry it on satisfactorily, in
consequence of the want of ready money, if he (witness) would
advance the funds for that purposo, and support the family of
the claimant, pending the suit, a portion of the property should
be given to him. Believing that the prisoner represented
facts, witness began to draw cheques upon his bankers to sup-
ply the means of proceeding in equity in Mr. Wall's case ;
and between the end of 1839 and the end of 1840, he
drew, to the best of his knowledge, 1,300/. from his broker's
hands, all of which money was appropriated to the above-men-
tioned object, as he supposed, from the statement of the in-
dividual who had applied for his services upon the part of Mr.
Wall. The information given by the prisoner, from time to
time, relative to the proceedings in Chancery, wa4 such as
'completely deceived witness ; and at last the delightful intelli-
gence was communicated to Ilion in a letter from the prisoner,
that the whole was terminated in favour of Mr. Wall, and that
it was only necessary to have him in town to receive the
money, and to come to the necessary arrangements for the dis-
charge of the pecuniary obligations the heir was under to his
friends. The letter conveying this news, concluded with a re-
quest for an additional sum, to enable Mr. Wall to appear in
town in a proper condition, and a cheque was immediately given
for the amount required.
Sir C. Master-sate—What was the amount of the property
which Hitchcock said had been left to Mr. Wall ?—Mr. Hinton
replied that the prisoner assured him it exceeded 167,0001.
Sir C. Alausnaer. observed, that, of course, the com-
plainant must have some idea that, in a case of the kind, law-
yers must be employed, and that a person of ordinary prudence
would have soon learned whether there was any foundation for
the statement that such a suit was in Chancery.
Mr. Hin' on said that there had been, it was true, a case of
the kind in Chancery, in which Mr. Wall had been a suitor for
property to the amount of nearly•2oo,ooo/., but in consequence
of the circumstance that Mr. Wall had not made his claim in due
time,_ a decree had passed by which the money became the
property of persons of the name of Cox, and the whole business
was terminated at least two years before Mr. Wall came far-
ward with his claim. The prisoner well knew that the Lord
Chancellor had decided the case, and that the sol:citors employed
upon the occasion on the part of Air. Wal. (Messrs. Shaw and
Taylor, of Fenchurch-street,) had ascertained all about it, and
given
hiss family,sinexncriment. The villany of the pri-
sonerit up
t a
all through a
ghttiVeleaffair was extreme, for witness supported
who were, previously to their
acquaintance
state of abject poverty, and witness
awbds cnloowtlwa dcoh'Lvniiit.hleanthedilm'
yruined man merely through the prisoner's
instrumentality.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL-4 am eery sorry for you It
is a severe punishment for having put confidence in a person
whom you served.
Mr. Pelham—lf Mr. Wall succeeded ,in thesuit, you were
to receive a portion of the property, you say? Mr. Hinton—
Certainly I was. That was the understanding upon the sub-
ject. I was convinced that the money I advanced was applied
in the prosecution of the suit. 1 sold a valuable business to
furnish the mean; of proceeding.
Mr. Pelham—There is a material difference in the accounts.
You say you have lent money to Mr. Hitchcock ?—Mr. Hin-
ton—l consider that I have lost upwards of 1,0001. in cash, and
upwards of 600/. in other ways by him.
Several gentlemen who seemed to know something of the
transactions, here declared that they really beli,oved the losses
in various ways sustained by the unfortunate complainant,
through the base conduct of the prisoner, exceeded 3,0001.
sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL asked whether Mr. Hinton was
in business in Queen-street ?—Mr. Hinton replied in the ne-
gative. He had dissolved partnership with Mr. Taylor in con-
sequence of this disastrous affair, and Mr. Taylor had given him
1,100/. for his share.
Sir CHAPMAN Mensustee-And all that is gone?—Mr.
Hinton—Every shilling. Consider that I supported the man
at the bar and all his family. I fed, and clothed, and lodged
them all.
Mr. Pelham—Did you not pay 4001. of that money to a
clerk in the bank to whom you owed it ? Dlr. Hire on—No ; I
owed no clerk in the bank any money, and I never paid away a
shilling of the money in that way.
Mr. Pelham—Did not the prisoner sell a farm of his, and
give you some, of the proceeds? Mr. Hintone—He sold a farm
lam told, but not one farthing did he give me. He never
handed nee one farthing. The complainant here put in the
January 22, 1841, and began thus :
that our business is
"My dear Sir,—l right merely to say
f fetching up Wall,; which I
concluded, with the exception 0
last letter he had received from the prisoner, which was dated
to do so, &c. &c."d the greatest anxiety
The friends of Mr. Hinton manifested
through the meshes of the
lest the prisoner should escape
intend doing to-morrow, and must beg a little of the needful
Sir
law, but seersihechha.adncerysuit.reas on to be.
the opinion, that a
irt. againstl Mr. Hitchcock
strong case was likely to be madedeTa
aCesid
i‘ejsrt.a.
HoblerAlAa sesor an
feirtmseadi d
Taylor, should make their
as soon as Messrs. Lacy, Hare, an
square, Borough, stated
statements as to the conclusion of the
in America. The
prisoner.
ititon that the
thatD rh.eAkleeextr.
iNdierr.Lierin, otefnTharnede Crown: It was. COITIMU-
pIion by slating that
psi
to him.—(Laughter.)
goersated tow ahsi ma as p
ear
sNo. very y
of greatenor instto.hc:rsde,pv,t,s.
prisoner himself confirmed the
nok of England, but that the
he had not only 140,000/. in tho
whole si!e Philaielphia
d in America f t
Witness having a brother who reside
.os y years,
was induced to write to him for information en the subject.
having stated that he was
Previously, however, the prisoner
Bruce, •
together with the
about to receive 3,000/. from Lord
necessary means for taking possession, witness wrote to that
noblemaa for information. The answe
r to that communi-
the prisoner, or the sub-
cation denied any knowledge of
Still witness was will-
ject, connected with his name•
honks have the benefit of
ing that Ike prisoner s
whatever information might arrive from America.—( A laugh.)
In due time witness received an answer from his brother, in-
trming him that the statement was a mere fabrication, that
belonged
the prisoner was wholly unknown as a man of property in
America, and that as Philadelphia was the property of the
State, it could not be the property of any individual.--
(Laughter.) This was about the Christmas of 1840. There
being not the slightest doubt that the prisoner was an•
tor, witness endeavoured to induce Air. Hinton to indict him,
and act upon the same opinion, but without effect. Mr. 'Hun-
ton, who did not suppose it possible that a person, to whom and
to whose family he had acted with so much kindness and libe-
rality, could act with ingratitude, continued to plage confidence
in the statements made to him, and plunged himself,at length
beyond recovery.

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THE SUN, LONDON, THU ItSiJAY MOANING, MARCH 3, 1842

HOME ClRCUlT:—Hertford, March 2. Sir C. MARSHALL—Have you lost money yourself by it
Both Courts proceeded to business this morning at ten prisoner ? Dr. Lae—Certainly I have.
o'clock. There were twenty-one prisoners for trial, all of Sir C. MAKSHALL--.HRYe seen money pass from
whom were males. Of this number eight can neither read nor Mr. Hinton to the prisoner ?--I have not ; but 1 have not the
write, and of the remainder only one can read and write well. least doubt that Mr. Hinton has been ruined by the prisoner.
CROWN COURT. Mr. Joshua Wall, of Ingatitone, stated that he was formerly
Mr. Baron GURNEY took his seat on the Bench, and after a farmer. He believed that he was entitled to a fortune of great
he had addressed the Grand Jury, magnitude. He had, however, applied too late. A gentleman
The Officer of the Court stated to his Lordship that a witness of the name of Clayton had taken it.in hand for him, and em-
who was about to go before the Grand Jury refused to be sworn. ployed solicitors, and the case had gone through the courts. A
Baron GtInNEY ordered him to get into the witness-box, and family of the name of Cox had come in for the property under
he then asked him why he refused lo be sworn? a decree of the Court of •Chancery. The prisoner, however,
The witness, who wore a smock-frock, and had the appear- had assured him, calling God to witness it, that all was right,
amade no answer, and although the ques- and that he had succeeded, and that the property would be his
tinocne ofwa a countryman,srepeatedthree times, he still refused to reply to it. ...awn. The-prisoner had told him to get his clothes, and every
Baron GURNEY ordered him to be committed, and he was thing also ready, as he was to take possession immediately.
accordingly taken into custody. Sir C. MARSHALL—What do you consider the amount of
Soon afterwards, the COURT was informed that another wit • the property to be? Mr. Wall—Upwards of 168,0001.
ness, a woman named Elizabeth Kimpton, also refused to take Mr. Thomas Pullen, of Stoke, in Essex, deposed that he
the necessary oaths. heard the prisoner say he had got the property from Antigua
Baron GURNEY, addressing the prisoner, told her that she for Mr. Wall; that the cheques were all ready, and that Mr.
was required by the law to appear and give her evidence. He Wall must be in readiness. Witness certainly was an in-
wished to know, therefore, why she refused to be sworn ? Wit- terested party, but he did not know what he was to receive.—
ness—lt is said in Scripture that we are not to swear, either by ( A laugh.) The man who left the fortune was Mr. Charles
the Heaven above or by the earth beneath. Crouch, an Antigua merchant, who was own brother to wit-
Baron GURNEY—That means you are not to swear idly, but ness's mo her's father.
it does not require you to refuse to be sworn in a Cour tuf Jus- . Sir C. Ma RSIIA rr,—lt is necessary that the complainant
tice. Witness—l will not take eny oath at all. should have a solicitor to assist in this serious business, and
Baron GURNEY—Do you believe in any particular religious that the solicitors who proceeded in the Court of Chancery
sect that is exempted by law from takins, an oath? Witness should be present to give evidence. I shall therefore postpone
_I worship Goal in spirit and in truth. Ibbelong to the Church it for a week.
of England. Mr. Pelham offered no objection to the adjournment, and
Baron G onsfir —I call upon you to take the oath. Witness the case accordingly stands postponed till Wednesday next.
-- I will not.
BO IV-STREET.
Baron GURNEY—Then you stand committed. John Slater, a scavenger, in the employ of Mr. Gore, the
Jabez Rainbow, alias Kirk, aged 18, a soldier, was capitally dust-contractor, was charged with assaulting an old man named
indicted for tatting and wounding Jane Pearse with intent to Burgess, with an intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
murder her. In two other counts the prisoner's intent was The prosecutor said—Please yer Vertship, about a quarter to
laid do TREAD and disfigure the prosecutrix, or to do her some ten o'clucktin Saturday morning, as I vets astan.ling in Charles-
griev us bodily harm.
street, Covent-garden, having a conversation with a woman, this
Mr. Lydekker conducted the pro•ecution, Mr. C. Jones de- here Jack Slater come up; vich I says to him, " Ain't yer
fended the prisoner.
ashamed o' herself to a bit my finger in the way you did," vich
It appeared in evidewe that the prisoner, who is a native of the prisoner urde no more ado, but he outs with a poker, and
Coventry, had enlisted into the 34th Regiment of Foot, and lays it across my head.
had been stationed at St.' Alban's as part of a recruiting corn- By the MAGISTRATE—He bit my finger last week in my
pany, and he there formed a connexion with the prosecutrix, room. I had no quarrel with him previously, nor can 1 assign
who was a female of loose character, and they cohabited t go- any reason for his conduct.
ther for several months. On the night of Sunday, the 3:1 of The prisoner, when called on for his defence, said, "Please
Oct., the prisoner and the yr,secutrix, apparently on good ' yer vership, I'll explain to yer how I did it, but I can't tell yer
engaged a bed, and in the morning, about tell the hofficer how it was.
ten o clock, terms with each other, went to the Boot public-house at St. 'cos its so werry
%vulgar : if yer Yership will allow me, I'll jest
prisonerAlban's,
called for some ginger. beer and porter, Tie MAGISTRATE—No, no; you must tell it to me. I must
and he and the prosecutrix drank it.whtehree they
The latter soon afterwards hear it, however bad it is.
fell asleep. It a very short time the prisoner was-heard to call The prisoner, who, like another young Douglas, blushed to
out " Murder, murder, come to me, call for the police, and tell the opprobious terms that he had borne, then resumed,
give me into custody ;" and upon the landlord going into the Please-yer vership, that there man there 'as called me the
room, he found the prosecutrix lying insensible on the bed, the most orrid names, and he said as how I prostitooted
with her throat cut, and the prisoner standing in the mid.lle of my wife's body, and lived by her prostitootion, and called
the room without his clothes; and covered with blood. On his me names vich I'm ashamed to hinter. Veil being the worse
being questioned, he said, " I did it ; I cut her throat," and for liquor, I vent to see my father, wot lives in the next
then quietly resigned himself to the custody of the policeman room to Burgess. I sees Burgess, and I says to him, says I,
who had been called in. From the evidence of the girl " Burgess, how cum you to say as I lives by my wife's prosti-
Pearse, it appeared that she was awoke by feeling tootion ? I works and for my living, Ido ; I gets two bob a-day,
a sensation of suffocation, and, on putting her hand and works arder for it nor you do,'' on vich we quarrelled, and
up to her throat, according to her own statement; "it I bit his thumb. Oh, Sir, please, yer Vorship, but I hope
sank into it;" and she then saw the prisoner with a yod'll be werry liberal with me: My wife's tar gone in preg-
razor, in the act of cutting her throat. She struggled with nant, and l'il make any recompense in my power.
him until she became insensible, and this was all she could say
The MAGISTRATE—But this is not the charge. You are
upon the subject. The- surgeon proved that the wound on the not charged now for biting his finger, but for striking him
throat was six inches long, and half an inch deep • it severed with a poker. (To the prosecutor)—Did you give the pri-
the windpipe and the muscles of the neck. He also said that soner no provocation whatever yesterday morning ? Prosecutor
there were fourteen other cuts upon different parts of the per- —None whatever.
son of the prosecutrix ; and one of them, which severed the Alfred Cross was then examined.—He said he knew neither
tendons of the right hand, was not yet cured. The most ex- ofthe parties, but as he was going along Charles-street, he heard
traordinary part of the story was that there appeared an entire the old man say to the prisoner, " Arn't you ashamed of biting
absence of motive on the part of the prisoner for the desperate my finger ?" The young man pulled a poker out of his pocket,
act he had committed, -the girl herself admitting that up to and' said, "If you come near me, ['li beat your brains out
that time he had always been very kind to her ; and that on with a poker." The old man immediately took off his coat,
the day the affair took place, there had not been the slightest and flew in at the prisoner; when he struck him on the head ;
quarrel between them. a woman next came up to the assistance of the young man,
Mr. C. JONES addressed the Jury, and urged them strongly when they all three rolled in the street together.
to release the prisoner from the capital part of the charge, B- y the MAGISTRATE---I am sure the old man rushed at the
contending that the offence must have been committed by him
prisoner before he attempted to make use of the poker.
while he was labouring under a paroxysm of temporary madness. The MAGISTRATE—The old man has acted with great folly;
The Jury found the prisoner guilty upon the third count, your evidence has thrown some light upon the subject, and
and Mr. Baron Gurney ordered him to be transported for makes a great deal of difference in the case. The young man
fifteen years. was not near enough to have injured him with the poker, and
William Morgan, 59, was capitally indicted for cutting and probably his threat would have ended in nothing, if the foolish
wounding John Parks, with intent to murder him.
old man had not attempted to meddle with him.
In this case it appeared that the Pris finer was the the prose- . The Prosecutor-a:le says he'll serve me so again if he gets off.
cutor's uncle, and on the 29th of November, upon some trifling The prisoner expressed his sorrow at what he had done, and
altercation between them, the prisoner drew a carving-knife said if the Magistate would look over it this time, he'd never
from the breast ()this coat and made several stabs with it at go near the old man again; he'd remove out of the street alto-
the prosecntor, and one of the thrusts wounded him in the arm, gether, and would get his mister to give him another pat tof
but not severely. It transpired in the course of the evidence the parish to attend to.
that the prisoner, at a former period of his life, had been con- The MAGISTRATE—WeII, as the case stands, I ahall fine you
fined in a lunatic asylum; and he had recently conducted him- 905., or 14 days' imprisonment.
self in such an extraordinary manner on several occasions, that The prisoner asked if he might have a little time to get the
there was every reason to believe that he was not of sane mind. money, and being answered in the affirmative, he seemed well
The Jury, therefore, acquitted him on the ground of his pleased with his escape.
being insane at the time he committed the offence, and he was SINGULAR CAsE.-=A young man, of rather genteel ap-
ordered to be detained in safe custody until her Majesty's plea- pearance, apparently not more than twenty years of age, whose
sure respecting him should be made known. whole deportment indicated that he was labouring under some
CIVIL SIDE,
mental anxiety, and Whose- meagre and attenuated person
Baron ALDERSON sat at nisi prius. There are eleien cases plainly bespoke an acquaintance with grief, was charged under
for trial; two of which are special juries. One of them, the the following painful circumstances :—The police-constable
Queen- v. Webster, is fixed- for this morning. His Lordship stated, that about twenty minutes past two yesterday morn-
disposed of several common jury cases during the day, but none ing he heard a crash as. if of the breaking of glass, which air-
of them contained any feature of public interest. pearerl to proceed from Bow-street, where, on arriving, he
------- found the prisoner, Who advanced towards him, and told him
that he had broken a lamp. His friends, he said, had turned
him out of doors, and as he had no place to go to, he wished to
be locked up. The prisoner refused to give his name.
The Inspector :of the F division said that the prisoner had
been brought to the station-house not many days ago for taking
poison.
The MAGISTRATE—What account have you to give of th!s ?
Prisoner (in an under tone) said that he had broken the lamp
because he had been walking about for the last two nights, and
he did not know where to go.
The MAGISTRATE—But you had no occasion to break the
lamp. Why did you not speak to the policeman, and tell him
your condition, n ithout breaking the lamp? Prisoner—l did
speak to two policemen, Sir, and said I was destitute: but they
said they could not help me.
In answer to other questions from the worthy Magistrate,
the prisoner said that he had never been brought up to any
business at all. He met his brother on Sunday last, who told
him that his family had all gone to Yorkshire, and that he
(his brother) was going there on Wednesday. He could not
tell where his brother lived; lie could give the names of some
respectable persons who knew him, but he would rather not.
The worthy MAGISTRATE told the prisoner that he could send
him to jail; but if his story were true, he should certainly not
do so; in the meantime he ordered him to be remanded till he
should see if he could get the name of some person who knew
him.

A young man of respectable exterior, named Elwyn, in the em-
ploy of Mr. Brown, cheesemonger, of Grafton.street, Soho, was
charged with being drunk, and endangering the life of William
Botherway.
William Botherway, the complainant, stated that about a quar-
ter before twelve on Tuesday night he was standing with his cab on
the stand in front of the Horse Guards, when the prisoner, who was
coming along in a gig, drove his horse against him, by which he
was knocked down, and the wheels of the gig passed over his side
and right temple.
The waterman of- the stand c wroborated the testimony of the
complainant, and added that the prisoner was driving at a furious
rate, and was drunk at the time.
Police constable, A 2'2, took the prisoner into custody, and stated
that he was drunk.
The prisoner, in defence, denied that he was intoxicated, and
said that he was not driving at more than seven or eight miles an
hour, and that in fact tie horse he was driving would not go at a
better pace than that. The occurrence was purely accidental.
Mr. TWYFORD—No, there does not appear to have been any wil-
fulness, but there must have been a great deal of negligence. I
propose to adjourn this case.
Mr. Brown, the prisoner's master, then stepped into the box,
and confirmed that part of the prisoner's statement relative to the
horse; he said that he did not believe that the horse could be
made to go faster than seven or eight miles an hour; and, more-
over, that the prisoner was quite sober when he bailed him out,
which was as soon as he received intimation of his being in custody
Mr. TWYFORD announced his intention of adjourning the case
till he could see what injury the complainant had sustained, and
Mr. Brown gave a surety in 101. that the prisoner should appear
at Bow-street this day week.—The prisoner was then discharged.
MAI?LBOROUGH-STREET.

John Wright, a young man of respectable appearance, was
! placed at the bar on the following charge --Police constable,
No. 113, of the C division, stated that between seven and
eight o'clock on Saturday evening last, he was on duty in plain
clothes, in Old Compton-street, Soho, and observed the pri-
soner, whom he knew to be the associate of thieves, frequently
pass and repass the shop-window of Mr. George Pettitt,
of No: 3, there, stationer, and that he appeared to be
closely observing the various trays of cutlery, silver-
topped inkstands, pencil cases, &c., set out to public
view, and at intervals looking about him to see if any person
W3S watching him. Shortly afterwards the prisoner went close
to the. shop window, and stood there for some time, and then
walked a little further on ; he returned in a minute or two—
took up the same position at the same window he had been at
Lefore, and appeared to be doing something to the lower part of
the frame. Witness then apprehended him, on which he was
making off, butwas stopped and secured. On examining Mr.
Pettit's shop window, a square of glass, opposite to which
the prisoner had been standing, uas found to be cracked
completely across, by some instrument having been
forced into the putty, and with very little difficulty
one half of the broken pane would have been removed, which
would have left an aperture sufficiently large to extract various
trays of goods to a considerable amount. On searching the
prisoner a knife was found, one blade of which exactly fitted
the marks that had been made in the putty of the window.
The MactsTuaTi stated he was bound to believe the police
constable on his oath. He should therefore commit him under
the Police Act to hard labour for one month.
Francisco Sanquelletti, an intelligent boy, about ten years
of age, a native of Italy, with a box containing a hedge-hog
slung at his back, was placed at the bar, charged with begging.
Police constable. No. 27, of the C division, stated that between
10 and 11 o'clock on Monday night, he saw theprisoner standing
on the steps of the portico entrance of the Senior United Ser-
vice
Club-house in Pall Mall. lie was crying; and as the
members of the Club came out, he begged of them, but nothing
was given to him. Witness, therefore, in conformity with the
orders the force had received, to apprehend every person fount
begging, took him into custody, and conveyed him to the
station -house.
Mr. MALTBY asked tiie boy why he begged? .Boy (in
broken English)—l was very hungry, and had got no money
all day, and my belle made me cry, and I could not go to sleep.
Mr. MALTBY—Who sends you out to beg? Boy—My
cousin. I live with him in Leather-lane. lam too little to
! carry an organ, and so he tells me to go out and beg with my
pig, and to bring what I get home.
Mr. illamliv—Does your cousin give you nothing to eat ?
The boy shook his head.
Mr. MALTBY then inquired if his cousin beat or ill-used
him, but the hey seemed afraid to returman answer to the ques •
tjon and remained silent, although it was repeated to him two
or three times.
Mr. MALTBY said the system of importing ship-loads of
these juvenile mendicants into this country, by a set Of heart-
less rascals that were amassing money by the infamous specu-
lation, ought to be put a stop to. He, however, in this care
should not think of punishing the child. He therefore cau-
tioned him not to go cut begging any more, and ordered a
shillin•e to given to him out of the poor-hex, telling him to I
get something to eat, and not to give any hart of the money to
his cousin.

THE BELL AND KNOCKER NUISANCE.—Thomas Hill and George
Edward Hammond, very fashionably-dressed young teen, were
placed at the bar and charged as follows :-
-Police-constable No. 157, of the C division, stated that about two
o'clock yesterday mor ling, while on duty in Regent-street, he saw
the two defendants End another "gentleman" in the company of
three pro,titutes ; the whole of the party in a state of
drunken hilarity, very boisterous, and "larking" and
pushing each other about. After some time they varied
their nocturnal amusements by at intervals, knocking and
ringing at the doors of several houses, in a manner so excessively
violent, that the inmates were aroused from their beds in alarm
and consternation. Witness having procured the assistance of
another police constable, succeeded after considerable resist-
ance, in securing the two defendants, the rest of the party
making their escape.
.Before the defendants were taken into
custody, witness cautioned them to desist and go quietly on,
but instead of doing so, one of them called out, " You be d—d.
We are only doing as our friend the Marquis of Waterford does;