The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-07 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

George Worthington, aged 46, and Mary Bird, a married
wcmari aged 40, were indicted for feloniously receiving 150
vaids of horsehair seating and 133 lbs. of curled horsehair,
value 6/. 195., the property of Susannah Purkis, well knowing
the same to have been stolen.

Mr. Burton conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr.
Phillips. and Mr. Charnock al.peared for the prisoners.
Mrs. Purkis, the prosecutrix, was the first witness examined.
She stated that she was a horse-hair manufacturer, in Crown-.
street, Shoreditch. On the 14th of February last. witness
suspecting that a woman in her service, named Mary Williams,
was fraudulently removing property from her premises, had
the woman searched; and bibs. of horse-hair were found on her
person. The woman then admitted that she was taking it for
sale to the house of the pristiners, to whom the had previously
disposed of various quantities of the same description of pro-
perty, which she had stolen from time to time.
Mary Williams admitted the theft. She was in the habit of
stealing tl.c property in small quantities and telling it to the
prisoners, who kept a marine store shop, at 57, London-street,
Finsbury. The prisoners paid her 4d. a pound fur the horse..
hair.

Mrs. Purkis was re-called, and stated that the value of the
stolen goods was Is. per pound. • •
James Brammen, a police constable, iiated that he had gone
to the house of the prisoners, and asked them if they had any
horse-hair in their possession. They at' first denied that they
had any ; and when he afterwards found a quantity on the pre-
mises, the female prisoner said to the other, " 1 knew that it
would come to this at last."
The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilt)" against the pri-
soners, and they were each sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment in the House of Correction, with hard labour.

PO LICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--(THiS DAY.).

Two genteely dressed men, who gave the, names cf Wells
and Garland, were charged with assaulting a person named
Bush under the following circumstances. As the complainant
was unable to attend in consequenCe of the injuries he had re-
ceived,

Mrs. Bush stated the case. She said that last evening she
was walking along Wl.itchall, in company with another lady,
on the way to her residence in 'Regent-street, Westminster.
Her husband and her friend's husband were also proceeding
along Whitehall, a few yards in advance of the
ladies. The prisoners at the. bar went up to the witness and
her friend, put their hands on their shoulders, and otherwise
behaved in a manner not at all becoming the respect which is
due to a virtuous woman. Witness and her friend felt highly
insultcd at this treatment, and told the prisoners to go away,
mentioning as a further inducement to make them quit,
that their husbands were just before them, and would
soon make them go. The prisoners, however, in their excess
of valour and gallantry, refused to comply with the fair dame's
request, and added, " Oh, d—n the husbands, we don't care
for them." Witness's husband then came up, but the pri-
soners, instead of sheering off at his approach, only became the
more attentive to the ladies, and when remonstrated with by
the husband, the prisoner Garland laid hold of him, whilst his
companion Wills struck him over the face, so hard that his jaw
was dislocated. Mr. Bush was now under the hands of 11r.'
M'Cann, the surgeon, of Parliament-street, who said that he
would be laid up probably for a month or two.
Mr. HALL remarked that the evidence was quite strong
enough to warrant him to remand the prisoners until the hus-
band should be able to attend. He would, however, take bail
—themselves in 401., and two sureties in 20/. each for their
appearance this day week.

UNION-HALL-(THIS DAY.)
Anthony Gorman was charged with assaulting and wounding
James Millist, a policeman of the M division, in the execution
of his duty. The policeman stated that being on duty at
Bermondsey-wall, at seven o'clock on the preceding night, he
stopped a boy with a bundle, suspecting it contained stolen
property. The prisoner came up at the moment, interfered,
and said that he hs.d better look after the " swell mob," than
stopping honest people. The policeman desired the prisoner to
go on, but he refuses, and struck at him several times, and a
scuffle having taken place, the prisoner got posession of the