The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

ESEX SESSIONS.

Before the Assistant Jbid,e, Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, and a

Bench of gasistrate;.)

On Thursday, William Whitehead, a soldier in the Scotch
Fusilier Guards, stationed at Kensington, was indicted for
assaulting Ellen Horme, aged 13 years.
The soldier, when in a state of ictoxication had taken
certain liberties with the girl, who was his servant, in the
absence of his wife. He received an excellent character and
bore three stripes on his ann—a stripe for every 10 years of
good conduct,

The jury found the defendant Guilty, but recommended
him to mercy.

The Junti;ll in passing sentence, said that the Court felt
deeply the melancholy situation of the prisoner, and would
take into consideration that he would probably forfeit the
advantages that would accrue to him by the military regu-
lations for 30 years' service. A painful instance of a similar
kind was mentioned to him by his nephew, the command-
ing officer of the regiment, a short time ago, when a ser-
geant, a valued officer, who was within a few months of 40
years' active, and had made arrangements for the support
of an aged parent, and to retire with honour from the army,
had, by indulging in perhaps a couple of pints of beer more
than usual, lost the whole advantages accruing to him for
his lengthened service. Under the circumstances, the Court
would sentence him t 3 imprisonment for 21 days for the
common assault.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
John Waite, the captain of two canal boats belonging to
Mr. Keep, a coal-merchant of Reading, was brought before
' Mr. Alderman Wood, charged with embezzling 161, 15s.
Mr. Keep stated that the prisoner was in his employ in
May last, and was authorised generally to receive moneys on
his account. He was directed to call on Messrs. Harvey,
Napier, and Co., at the Grand Junction "Wharf, for the above
sum, and to return with his two boats, paying his way out cf
the money. Instead of returning, however, he absconded,
and witness saw no more of him till he returned to Reading
on Wednesday, and was taken into custody.
Henry Houlton, the superintendent of the police at Read-
ing, stated that he took the prisoner in charge, and told him
what the complaint was. The prisoner replied that he was
sorry for it, but he could not repay the money except by
working it out.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said the case was clearly made out,
and he committed the prisoner for trial.
Richard Philpotts, the driver of an omnibus, was brought
up in custody as having caused the death of a child on Lud-
gate-hill on the preceding afternoon.
- Mr. Todd, of Godliman-street, who was pasting at the
time the accident occurred, and Mr. Brunskell, of Pater-
noster-row, who was an outside passenger, were examined.
It appeared that the driver was blameless, and pulled up as
seen as an alarm was given to him. The child, named Ed-
ward Fleming, was about five years old, and was in the care
of a girl, who had an infant in her arms. The child ran
away from her playfully, and attempted to cross, when it
fell under the belly of the nearest omnibus horse. The child
fell with its head under the wheel, by which it was crushed.
The horses were walking, and were soon stopped. A Mr.
O'flennessy dragged the child out, and it was conveyed to
the hospital, where it lingered till yesterday morning. The
driver was not in a position to see the child run under the
horee.
Charlotte Jarvis, the girl who was in charge of the de-
ceased, said she told hint not to cross, but he ran off the
footwayand got his feet in the gutter, when he was knocked
down.
John Fleming, of No. 2, Suffolk-street, Clerkenwell-green,
the father of the deceased, said he did not wish to make
money by the death of his child, which appeared to be an
accident, but he had heard of compensation being made in
such cases, and his case would be a proper one, for he was so
poor, he actually could not afford to bury the child.
Mr. Alderman Wool) said thw, viewing it as a case of
accident, not controllable by human means, he could not re-
quire the defendant to make any pecuniary compensation.
He could only require him to tied sureties to appear again on
Saturday, before which time a coroner's inquest would have
pronounced its opinion; but, in consideration of the father's
distre3s, he
the poor box wou'd order a sovereign to be paid to him from
.
Mr. Johnson, the proprietor of the omnibus, immediately
father two
offered to pay the funeral expenses, and gave the
sovereigns.
- STREET. RT.
The defendant wasß 1)(4)l1eVd.

was 'placed at the bar, before Mr. Twyford,
A young man of respectable appearance, named Rd. Holle-
art
uttering a forged cheque for 12/. 128., with in-
charged e Martin,
with
tent to defraud Joseph Pamplin and others.
Mr. James Taylor, a hosier, carrying on business at N 0.13,
Cornhill, stated that on the Bth instant the prisoner called at
his shop and selected a considerable quantity of goods, which
he directed should be sent to his lodgings, in Craven-street.
Strand; and in the course of the day an assistant was sent
" would require
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his
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young man
to accept a cheque for the amount, 74,1•tch turned out to be a
forgery.
Joseph Pamplin said that :n accordance with the orders he
received from the last Witness he took home the goods, and
on the prisoner wanting him to leave them without the
money, be said he had received strict directions to bring
back the money or the goods, and the prisoner then wrote
the cheque produced upon Call's bank, which he took to his
employer.
Mr. Taylor said that he sent the cheque to be presented
two days after he received it, and the answer was that the
prisoner was not known there; and, moreover, that another
forged cheque had lately been presented at the bank in the
same name.
The prisoner requested that he might be remanded, as he
could bring witnesses at a future day who would prove
his innocence, and hoped that the Magistrate would in the
meantime accept of bail ; which, as a matter of course, was
refused.
The prisoner was then removed.