The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

MARYLE.BONE.

Elias Collis, one of the leading members of the
swell mob, was charged with robbing from the per-
son of complainant a 101. Bank of England note, four
sovereigns, and six half-sovereigns, in all 171.
Jane Pounce, d respectable tradesman's wife, re-
siding at No. 33, •Edward-street, Portman-square,
said that she left home yesterday afternoon, to pay a
visit to her sister in Edmund-street, Dorset-square,
having, just before leaving the house, ascertained that

the money stated was in her purse, which was in her
pocket. When in Park-street, ors.t-square, she
thought she felt something at her pocket, and putting
her hand in, found that her purse and its con-
tents were gone. She turned round immediately,
and saw three respectably dressed men walking arm-
in-arm from her. Knowing that they had not passed
her, she run after them when he in the middle (the
prisoner) looked back and saw her. The three ran
off as hard as they could round the corner, and she
followed after. Saw the prisoner and another in
New-street, the third at a distance turning into Dor-
set.square. She informed a policeman in the street
that the man had robbed her, and he gave chase, and
caught the prisoner, the other had in the meantime
escaped. He was taken into a baker's shop and
searched, but no money found upon him.
John Duff, 137 D, said he followed the prisoner
and took him into custody. When informed that he
was charged with robbing the complainant, he said,
" You are mistaken in me, I am a respectable trades-
man the person you want has run round the

corner."
Mr. Black, inspector of the D division, said that he
was prepared be prove that the prisoner was an asso-
ciate, in fact a leader of the swell mob.
' The case was remanded till Thursday next, when,
even if no further evidence be brought forward, the
prisoner will be committed for trial.
CLERKENWELL.
John Leonard, a boy aged about 15, was charged
with begging.
Police-constable 73 G deposed, that he saw theTri-
soner going into a baker's shop on the previous even-
ing in Red Lion-street, at five o'clock. He was
begging—ask:ng for a bit of bread.
The prisoner, a very sickly, miserable-looking lad,
acknowledged the offence, and said he was unable to
earn his bread as he was subject to fits of epilepsy
which made him very infirm.
Mr. GREENWOOD said from his appearance he did
not wish to send him to the House of Correction, but
having sent four famished looking young men to
St. Giles's workhouse a few days ago, requeating
they should be admitted and relieved, the
authorities there refused to admit them, and the
overseers of the parish came down and requested he
would send them to the House of Correction for
vagrancy, which he was obliged to do. Under these
circumstances he must send the prisoner to the House
of Correction for seven days.
On Saturday, as soon as Mr. Greenwood had taken
his seat on the Bench, Mr. Maisey, the superintendent
of the G division, addressed him, stating that one of
his inspectors had lodged an information against Mr.
Coleman, the landlord of the Empress of Russia, in
St. John-street, which was to be heard on that day.
The same party was convicted for an offence under
the Police Act within the last month, and his object
in now appearing before the Bench was to request an
immediate return of that conviction to the Session-
house, that he (the superintendent) might be enabled,
on the hearing of the summons on that day, to give
in evidence a record from the Clerk of the Peace of
such former conviction, in order to swell the amount
of the offence..
Mr. GREENWOOD remarked that it was rather
quick work to accomplish all this within about two
hours, as about the end of that time the charge of
that day would be heard against Mr. Coleman. He
asked whether it would not be advisable to withdraw
the present information, and prefer another for the
beginning of the week ? Maisey said Yes, and in the
meantime he would procure the proper record.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he would rather the case
stood as it was. Should the defendant be con-
victed on its merits, he (Mr. Greenwood) would re-
port it to the sessions, and on another occasion it
would answer all purposes ; but he hoped there would
be no occasion for it.
Mr. Maisey—l shall be most happy to act in the
way your Worship thinks fit.
Mr. GREENWOOD—Then let it remain as it is. If
you were to do otherwise, it would look so much like
making up a case.
In the course of the day Mr. Coleman was called
on his summons, charging him with suffering drunk-
enness and other disorderly conduct in his house.
Mr. Childe, of the firm of Wire and Childe, attended
for the defence, and pleaded not guilty.•
William Gray, 12 G, stated that as he was passing
defendant's house at 25 minutes to three o'clock, on
the morning of Wednesday last, he heard a noise, such
as talking loudly, inside. He knocked at the door,
which was instantly opened, and on entering he saw
in front of the bar eleven men, ten of whom were
drivers of cabs. Several of them appeared the worse
for liquor, and two, he could positively swear, were.
drunk. Defendant was present, and said the cabmen
had just done their work, and had, as was usnal, come
there to take their supper. He denied that either of
them were inebriated. They (the cabmen) left the
house immediately, and hooted after witness and his
brother officer as they went along.
Police-constable Moss, 195 G, corroborated this
evidence.
Mr. Childe then addressed the Bench. He observed
that he would not even attempt to deny a single word
the policeman said, but he was anxious particularly to
impress upon the mind of the Magistrate that, if a
conviction took place. upon the testimony, his client
would stand in a most perilous situation----in fact,
would be a ruined man ; and he was not the only
person that must suffer, for every one interested in
the building must share in so serious a loss. If, as
he said before, a conviction took place, the pollee, as
was their arbitrary conduct on a licensing day, would
appear again against him, stating that his house was
badly conducted, and that two convictions having
taken place, he was unfit to hold a license, an opinion
in which the Magistrates generally coincided. Hence
a sacrifice, too frequently of the most heart-rending
description, reducing many happy homes to scenes of
poverty: The house of the defendant was not one of the
ordinary description. It is opposite Sadler's Wells
theatre, and at the close of each evening's
,perform-
ance a number of cabs are upon the spot to take up fares.
The cabmen usually return to their yard, which is close
to his client's premises about two o'clock, and invariably
they repair to Mr. Coleman's to partake of their
supper. He would grant that they were a rough and
noisy lot, but would that justify a licensed victualler
in refusing to serve them? They were a useful class
in their station, and must, at all hours, find accom-
modation somewhere or another, and as they took up
so many persons in front of defendant's house as they
left the theatre, they were entitled to some little
consideration at the hands of his client. Had all the
cabmen been drunk together disturbing the quietude
of the neighbourhood, and had it been proved that
they had become in that beastly state in the de-
fendant's house, the case would be widely different,
and his client could find no fault. Nothing of the
sort, however, could be alleged against him, and he
prayed the merciful consideration of the Bench.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he had nothing to do with
the use the police might hereafter make of a con-
viction. lie had to judge of the evidence before
him ; and believing that the cabmen were " drunk
and disorderly," he should fine the defendant.
Mr. Childe—Will you allow me to ask the police-
men another question ?
Mr. GREENWOOD said, Certainly.
Mr. Childe then asked the witnesses whether they
saw the cabmen drinking ? They said they did not.
They heard one of them ask for a quartern of gin,
'which the landlord refused them.
Mr. GREENWOOD said that did not alter his view of
the case, and fined defendant 51.
UNION-HALL.
Frederick Charles B. Blackwell, a respectable look-
ing man, and Phoebe Blackwell, his sister, were charged
with forging an instrument purporting to be the will
of the late Mr. Joseph Constable, of Mount Pleasant
House, Lewisham.
Mr. Clarkson said that the charge against the pri-
soners was of a most serious nature, and that he would
give an outline of the circumstances. He then pro-
ceeded to say that the complainant's name was Miss
Elizabeth Hollis Constable, the surviving daughter of
a gentleman of that name, who died on the 31st of
December, 1840, leaving her the whole of his real
and personal property. That, subsequently to Mr.
Constable's death another will was produced in favour
of a Mr. Stanley (since dead), purporting to be the
last will and testament of Mr. Constable, devising his
property to the party named, and after his (Mr.
Stanley's) decease, the prisoners claimed as executors
under the will, and in conformity with it turned
Miss Constable out of her father's house, and took
possession of the whole of the furniture, &c. He
would' show that the signature to the deed, purport-
ing to be in the handwriting of Mr. Constable, was a
forgery, that individual being at the time incapable of
signing his name, as he was in a state approaching to
helpless insanity, and that the document throughout
was a forgery. The Learned. Counsel then called Mr.
Stephen Olding, one of the firm of Messrs. Rogers,
Oldiug, and Co., the bankers, who produced the in
strument in question, it having been deposited in the
hands of the firm by a person named Lever. On
examination of the document the complainant stated
that the signature did not resemble her deceased
father's handwriting. She added that her father made
his will on the 30th of October, 1816, leaving her his
property. The will now produced was a forgery.
Stanley was not related to her father.
Mr. Richard Birch, a solicitor, stated that he pre-
pared the will in question ; and that late in the day
on the 31st of December, 1840, Stanley came to his
office for it. On that occasion the deed was not
signed, nor dated, and Stanley, on taking it away,
sad that he was then going to get it executed.
Mr. Bonson, a solicitor, produced the probate of the
deceased's will, bearing date 1816, assigning his pro-
perty over to the complainant.
On the part of the prisoners, it was contended that
no proof was adduced of their being the parties by
whom the alleged forgery was committed.
After some further evidence was gone into, the pri-
soners were remanded, bail being accepted for the
appearance of the female.