The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(YESTERDAY.)
MARYLEB ONE.

Thomas Hunt, an elderly cabman, No. 5,131, was
charged with robbing Mr. Henry Harris, of No. 14,
Aldenham-street, Somers-town, of three sovereigns.
The complainant stated that he hired the prisoner's
cab last night, :after twelve, from the corner of Sid-
mouth-street, and ordered him to drive to Aldenham-
street. On the way, witness changed his mind, and
ordered the prisoner to drive to Muskett's Coffee-
house, in Ossuiston-street, which was done, and the
cab discharged Witness said, however, that the pri-
soner might have a cup of coffee at his expense, and
he (the prisoner) accepted the same with thanks.
After waiting about ten minutes, prisoner informed
him that he would charge for time spent there, and
demanded eightpence more than he had previously
paid him. Witness having no change, held out three
sovereigns in his hand, saying, " Take your charge
out of that ;" and the prisoner took them, walked out
of the room, and drove off. Witness was quite asto-
nished for a time, but finding that he did not come
back, he gave intelligence to the police, who took him
into custody.
Police-constable 114 S said he found the prisoner
on the stand in Holborn, and when he charged him
'lt the robbery, he replied " that the money was a
and he would give it up to no one."
free girt, . •;d he did not know which was tl.e
Mr. LONG 'onduct, that of the prosecutor
more extraordinary
taking,money,.in such a
for giving, or the cabman
emit him tor trial.
manner. As it was he would co._
Alfred Inge, eighteen, was
, a stout yeung man t).
charged with a criminal assault upon Heto A, irelia
Cranstoun, a girl of eight years of age, ana fully
.Cennnitted for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

Henry Trinkworth Stanton, alias Doctor Stanhope,
with a variety of other aliases, was brought up for
final examination.
The Court was crowded to excess. The prisoner is
about 60 years of age. He was enveloped in a brown
Taglioni, and had a lady's boa coiled round his neck.
When placed in the dock he bowed to the Court, and
then turned round and sneered at the spectators who
pressed forward to catch a glimpse of him. A con-
densed epitome 'of the leading incidents of the latter
part of the pris'ner's life may not be uninteresting.
He is a native of Ireland, and was educated for the
medical profession. In 1824 he came to London,tand
was married in the same year to Miss Whilbourne, of
Ripley, in Surrey, with whom he received a fortune
of 8001. He deserted her in 1826, leaving her with
one child in a very destitute condition. He went
back to Ireland and contrived to introduce
himself to a family named Wilkinson, of high re-
spectability, residing in the vicinity of Dublin.
To Miss Wilkinson he paid his addresses,
and having represented himself as a surgeon
of considerable business and a handsome patrimo-
nial independence besides, was favourably received.
He came to London at the close of the same year,
with a letter of introduction from Mr. Wilkinson to a
gentleman named Kenyon, residing in Islington. As
Mr. Wilkinson stated that the prisoner was about to
become his son-in-law, Mr. Kenyon made some in-
quiries about him, and found that he was a
married man and a swindler. He communicated
the discovery to the prisoner, who did not
return •to Dublin. He then took lodgings in
Ashley-street, Northampton-square, and ran away in
a month without paying anything for his board or
apartments. Mr. Kenyon chanced to meet him one
day on the Commercial-road North. The prisoner
spoke in as independent a manner as if nothing had
happened, and took Mr. Kenyon to his lodgings in a
coffee-shop then kept by a widow. About a
month after he absconded from this place,
leaving behind him a large trunk. His land-
lady at length sent for the broker, had it opened,
and found it full of stones. All trace of him
from 1826 to 1836 is lost. In the latter year he was
committed for trial by the Magistrates at Union-
hall on six different charges of flilony. He was tried
on one of them at the Old Bailey, and had sentence of
death pronounced against him. Through the inter-
cession of the Chancellor of the Exchequer his sen-
tence was commuted to two years' imprisonment.
When he came out of the Penitentiary, in 1838, he
went to live with his wife, who was earning a decent
livelihood by teaching. After plundering her of every
farthing she possessed, even to her wedding ring, he
again deserted her. In 1840, he made acquaintance
with a respectable family in Vauxhall. He attempted
to win the affections of the daughter of his host, but
his real character was discovered by a gentleman ac-
quainted with the family, and he decamped with a
quantity of the young lady's jewellery. During
his acquaintance with this family, he robbed Mr.
Menzies, a jeweller, in Clerkenwell of two gold
watches, value 35/. Soon after Llis time, he in-
troduced himself to a young lady, who resided
in Leicester-square. In Greenwich-park he robbed
her of 251. and seduced her. He then became ac-
quainted with Miss Miller, an elderly
.lady, residing
in Kennington, and promised her marriage. He in-
duced her to pawn the watches for him which he had
stolen from Mr. Menzies. At this period be was co-
habiting alternately with two young women named
Grant and Hillman, the former of whom appeared as
witness against him, and whom he had seduced. At
the close of 1840 he fraudulently obtained two pis-
tols, value 25 guineas, from Mr. Egg, gunmaker,
Pall-mall, and two telescopes from Mr. Elliott, mathe-
matical instrument-maker, Holborn. A few months
after he took lodgings at Mrs. Lattet's, Prince's-
square, Kennington ; he feigned illness on aparticular
Sunday whilst there. Mrs. Lattet requested him to
mind the hbuse for her whilst she was at church, but
on her return she found he had absconded and robbed
her of 20?. 'Whilst at Mrs. Lattet's he robbed a pawn-
broker at Walworth of a pair of pistols. In the be-
ginning of the present year he went to lodge at Mr.
Bruce's, a jeweller, residing in Wakefield-street,
Brunswick-square, and absconded with 201. worth of
his property. It should have been stated that, in
December, 1840, he went to lodge with a poor
washerwoman, in St. Giles's, whom he robbed of 101.,
all she possessed, and seduced her daughter.
This day Charles Hayward Hughes produced the
record of a former conviction against the prisoner at
the Old Bailey, on winch he was transported for life.
Witness deposed that he was present at'the trial, and
identified the prisoner, who was tried under the name
of Stanton.

Mr. ComnE asked the prisoner had he anything to
say why he should not be committed for trial ?—The
prisoner pUt to the witness some questions of an irre-
levant nature, which Mr. Combe told him he was not
obliged to answer. _

Ire was then fully committed for trial on the
charges of robbing Messrs. _Menzies and Bruce, of
jewellery amounting in value to 551.

WORSHIP-STREET.

An adjourned case, in which Charles Greenwood
a shoemaker, and Mary, his wife, were conjointly
charged with havhvg assaulted police-constables
70 and 369 of the division, and rescued a
prisoner from their custody, was disposed off. The
particulars of the case appeared in The Sun of Wed-
nesday. It was adjourned for the attendance of In-
spector Rutt, in consequence of a counter charge of
drunkenness having been made against the policemen.
The Inspector stated that on their arrival at the sta-
tion-house the constables were highly excited, but on
being visited an hour afterwards on their respective
beats, they were found to be quite sober and collected.
Mr. BINGHAM was glad the officers had been able
to exonerate themselves from the charge of drunken-
ness, but he felt bound to say that they had acted with
unnecessary violence. The assaults of which they
complained amounted to no more than a justifiable at-
tempt to repel an aggression. He should dismiss the
charge, and he trusted that what had taken place
would operate as a caution to the policemen as re-
garded their future conduct.--Thp prisoners were dis-
charged. .

A thick fog has enveloped Paris for the last three
days. It commenced on Saturday about noon, and
gradually increased toward the evening, when ob-
jects could scarcely be recognised at fifteen or
twenty paces' distance. It entered ' the theatres so
effectually as to incommode the audience, and
the omnibuses on certain lines were obliged to go at
a walking pace. On Sunday it clear&l up partially
towards the middle of the day, but returned in the
evening. Yesterday it continued all day, and in-
creased in the evening, particularly in the Champs-
Elysees, where the lamps could be barely seen across
the road.—Paris paper.
MILDNESS or THE SEASON.—We have received the
following communication from a respectable corres-
.pondent in Holywood :—" Having been informed, by
several persons, that swallows were to be seen in the
neighbourhood of Holywood, I was disposed to with-
hold credit from the report, until Friday lost, when I
observed on the wing a pair of these birds, so rarely
to be seen at this advanced season of the year, feed-
ing, as in summer, on the small insects, which are
plentiful at present. I may also mention, that I
heard a thrush singing, in Ballymenoch grounds, on
Sunday se'tinight ; and that sparrows are daily seen
carrying straws, &c., to their building places." As
another proof of the temperature of the season, we
may here observe, that on the Ist instant, there was
left at our office a bouquet of full-blown primroses,
which were gathered on the lands of Wm. Arthur,
Esq., of Whiterock, at least 300 feet above the level
of the sea.—Belfast Northern Whig.
THE CURRENCY CREEK, AUSTRALIA.--A meeting
of persons interested in this undertaking was held
yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. De Costa in
the chair, for the purpose of appointing some compe-
tent person to be agent in the town of Adelaide, Aus-
tralia, for the purpose of carrying out a proposed plan
of emigration and colonisation. After some discus-
sion the meeting was adjourned, in order to ascertain
if any house connected with the town of Adelaide
would undertake the agency.