The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

Several indictments for uttering base coin were tried on
Friday, but the details are of no interest. The following are
the convicts and their sentences ; some of them were found
guilty on their own confession :—Mary Anne Allen, to be im-
prisoned and kept at hard labour two years ; John Jones, alias
Stone, alias Mahon; James Regent and William Jones. to be
imprisoned and kept at hard labour one year. William
Thompson, to be imprisoned and kept at hard labour nine
months. Only one member of the hatch, George Leir, was
acquitted.
Edward Moore, aged 18, was indicted for stealing a
blouse and a hat value 158., the property of Edward
Burgess, from the per Son of George A. Burgess. There
were five other indictments of a similar nature, charging
him with stealing coats, hats, shoes, and other articles
from young lads, whom he inveigled or waylaid in the
streets. The prisoner pleaded guilty to all the charges,
and the Learned Judge, observing that he was an incor-
rigible fellow, sentenced him to banishment beyond the
seas for ten years.
Peter Moller (a Dane) was indicted for stealing a coat
of the value of 305., the property of G. Rennington
Tetley, Esq. The prisoner claimed his privilege, and
demanded to be tried by half foreigners, and also the
benefit of an interpreter, although it was stated, and
apparent, that he was acquainted with the English lan-
guage. The evidence was very conclusive, and the Jury
found him Guilty. Sentence seven years' transportation.
Win. Andrews, aged 20, a printer, was indicted for
stealing one hundred of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal,
and twenty-five reams of paper, of the value of 251. 12s. 6d.,
the property of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, his em-
ployers, and Charles Carter, a pamphlet vender, was
charged with receiving the property, knowing it to be
stolen.

Mr. F. M. Evans stated that he is a printer, in partner-
ship with Mr. Bradbury, in Whitefriars, and the pri-
soner Andrews (who pleaded guilty) had been his ap-
prentice two years. Witness is the only printer of
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal in London. They are
sold to the trade at 13-id. a dozen. The prisoner worked
in the machine-room where they were printed.
Thomas Selby and Robert Macaulay proved that on
the night in question they saw Andrews in Fig-tree-
court, Temple, with a quantity of printed sheets under
his arm, wrapped in a wrapper.
Mrs. a newsvender in Holywell-street, stated
that early in March the prisoner asked her if she could
dispose of any of Chambers's Journal, as he could ren-
der them at 10d. a dozen. He said he had dealings with
a bookseller, and was obliged to take 100 dozen of the
publication weekly. She said she would inquire, and he
afterwards brought her 100 copies, half folded in folio
instead of quarto. They were quite wet, as if just from
the press. She gave information, and delivered up the
copies produced to the officer.
Witnesses were . called to prove the deficiency in the
stock of No. 528 of the publication—it was very -consi-
derable. The warehousemen to Messrs'. Orr, of Amen-
corner, the publishers of the journal, and the folders,
were also called to prove that they never delivered
copies only " once folded." They were published in quarto.
The Jury pronounced them both guilty.
The C031310N SERGEANT told Andrews that it was ne-
cessary, in an establishment containine. 200 persons, for
them to know that flagrant acts of dishonesty could not
go unpunished. The Court was bound to pass the fol-
lowing sentence:—That he be transported for seven
years, and Carter for fourteen years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

Samuel Lewis was placed at the bar, charged with cut-
ting and maiming Jane Hemmings, with intent to do her
some grievous bodily harm.
Jane Hemmings, the prosecutrix, being sworn, stated
that she lived at No. 15, Providence-place, Lisson-grove.
Mr. LONG—What are you ? Witness—Why, some-
times I do one thing, and sometimes another—some-
times I work, and sometimes I don't work, and sometimes
I do nothing at all.
Mr. LoNd—l suppose you live with the prisoner ?
Witness—Yes, worse luck. On Friday I had been out,
and on returning home found Lewis lying on the • bed
drunk. I said, "Lewis, you seem all right ;" and he got
up and struck me.

Mr. Loxes—What do you mean by all right ? Wit-
ness—l meant that he was drunk. He then got up and
struck me on the side of the head, and knocked me down
on the. ground quite stumy d with the violence of the
blow, which brought the blood to my mouth.
It appeared, in continuaticin, that while she was on the
ground, he went to the cupboard and got a knife 3 in the
mean time she got up, and endeavoured to get cut of the
room, but the prisoner pursuing struck her again on the
head, so that it was, as she expressed it, like a " pummy ;"
while she lay once- moreAllost sensele3s he made an ef-
fort with the knife to cut her throat, but she (Hem-
mings) putting up her hand to defend herself, he merely
inflicted a deep gash upon her left wrist. Frightened
o.it of her life at the profusion of blood Which flowed
fcom the wound, she cried murder several times. and then
by dint of struggling got away from the prisoner, tam-
bled head long down stairs, rasied herself again, and
ran out into the open air. In ilarcourt,street she met
a policeman, who took her first to a surgeon,. and then
to the station-house. The
doctor had told her cut was very deep; and the
she was a lucky 'woman not to have
lost her hand.

The surgeon of the infirmary having depoied as to the
serious nature of.:the ,wound, and the prisoner, haying
ascribed the Caz7C to drunkenness, was doliffr,itii?ct tor, trial.
UNION HALL.
William Goodred, a clerk in Doctors' Commons, was