The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-05 00:00:00

REV. ARTHUR LOFTUS.

This case has been frequently before the Court and the
material facts stated. It is a proceeding by articles against
the Rev. Mr. Loftus, the rector of the parish of Fincham,
Norfolk, for certain irregularities, by cohabiting with various
of his servants and others. The party proceeded against is
a married man, but living apart from his wife. The argu-
ments occupied the Court nearly all day. The Queen's Ad-
vocate and Dr. Addams appeared to support the charges made
against the reverend defendant ; and Drs. :Termer and Philli-
more, jun., contra. The case is of such a nature, that it is
fair the arguments should not be reported till judgment is
given.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

(Before the RECORDER.)
John Lee, alias Robert Dalton, on the opening of the Court.
was placed at the bar, charged with stealing 25 sovereigns,
4 half sovereigns, 3 bank notes of the value of 5!. each, and
other moneys, the property of Sarah Walton.
Mr. Payne appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Robinson
for the defence.
From the evidence adduced, it appeared the prisoner had
lodged with the prosecutrix. On Sunday, August 17, she
went to church, leaving the money in question safe in her
desk. On her return the desk was found broken open, and
the money taken away. The desk appeared to have been
broken open by a chisel. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner,
and he was taken into custody. About half-past eleven
o'clock, shortly after church time, the prisoner left the house,
and on going asked for change of a sovereign in a very flur-
ried manner. He had a carpet bag with him, and said he
was going to Richmond, and would be back on the Wednes-
day. Instead of going to Richmond he went to Greenwich,
where he was noticed to be in possession of 18 or 20 sove-
reigns. When he was taken into custody a chisel was
found upon him, which corresponded with the marks on the
desk.

The jury immediately found him Guilty.
The prisoner, who was represented by several police-
constables in Court to be suspected of being connected with
several other burglaries, protested that he was entirely
innocent.
The RECORDER said the jury, and he entirely agreed with
them, had come to a different conclusion. There was
no circumstance that could operate in mitigation of punish-
ment, the sentence of the Court therefore was, that he bs
transported for ten years.
John Alfred Cotton, who was indicted on the charge of forging
a bill of exchange for 351., was discharged, the counsel for
the prosecution not being able to produce the bill in evidence
against him, it having been destroyed.
Daniel M'Carthy was indicted for stealing the sum of
3/. 17s. Gd. from the counter of Mr. Flour, a shopkeeper,
residing in Whitechapel-road, last Sunday morning, be-
tween the hours of twelve and one o'clock.
From the evidence of Mrs. Flour and a little girl, the pri-
soner came into the shop, and, after making faces at them,
for the purpose of disconcerting them, he put forth his hand
and seized the money in question, which was lying on the
counter, made up in paper packages. On the other hand, it Was
averred that there was a person in Whitechapel, a well-
known thief, named Daniel Hearn, exactly like the prisoner,
who was in the habit of wearing a dress exactly like the one
said to have been worn by the prisoner on the occasion re-
ferred to. The dress the prisoner wore when taken was dif-
ferent from that the prisoner had. on the evening the felony
was committed.

The jury, after some hesitation, acquitted the prisoner.
Robert Adlington was arraigned upon an indictment,
charging that one Thomas Adlington, who had been adjudged
and declared to be a bankrupt, did afterwards feloniously
embezzle, secrete, and remove a certain portion of his pro-
perty, with intent to defraud his creditors, and that the pre-
sent defendant feloniously aided and assisted the last men-
tioned defendant Thomas in such removal and embezzlement
of the property.
Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Ballantine, and Mr. Prentice conducted
the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Parry were
for the prisoner.
The case occupied the Court for several hours, a consider-
able time being occupied in the discussion of technical points
that were raised by the counsel for the defendant, the *hole
of which were eventually overruled. The actual facts out
of which the prosecution arose lies in a small compass. It
appeared that Thomas Adlington had carried on the busi-
ness of a seed-merchant in the Kingsland-road, and the
prisoner acted as his traveller and commission-agent.
In March of the present year he became embarrassed,
and was eventually made a bankrupt in the beginning of
April. It was alleged against the prisoner that,. before
the bankruptcy took place, a cart, a quantity of
corn, and groats. and other articles, were given by
the bankrupt to the prisoner, who took them away, and
concealed them until after the last examination of the bank-
rupt, when all the property in question was brought back
to the premises, and the prisoner himself carried on the
business. On the part of the defendant it was urged that
there was no fraud whatever in the transaction so far as he
was concerned; that he was entitled to half the profits of the
business ; and that his brother being in difficulties, and unable
to pay him in money, had given him the articles in question
as a set-off; and it appeared that after the bankruptcy the
prisoner had purchased his brother s business of the assig-
nees, and lie therefore took the property, which he considered
himself entitled to, back to the premises, in order to carry on
his trade.
A number of highly respectable witnesses were examined
on behalf of the prisoner, all of whom gave him a very high
character for honesty and honourable conduct.
The RECORDER having summed up, the jury almost im-
mediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
There was an attempt at applause in the Court, but it was
checked by the officers.
There were some other indictments against the prisoner
arising out of the same transaction, but it was arranged that
they should stand over until the next session, and in the
meantime the prisoner was admitted to bail.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
RAILWAY RI:SINEW-Mr. Simon Kendall, 11, Clement's
Inn, solicitor, and Mr. Lenox Horne, 78, Wimpole-street,
Cavendish-square, the registered projectors of the Important
Economic Railway Traction by the Leviathan Air-engine.
intended to be adopted by the Shrewsbury, Chester, and
Crewe Junction Railway Company, for completing a direct
communication between Bristol and Liverpool, appeared upon
a summons before Mr. Hall, to answer a complaint preferred
against them by Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., for that
they, on the 27th October, did make a certain false pretence,
knowing the same to be false, in an advertisement printed
and published in a circular, purporting to be a prospectus of
the project in question, which said pretence was, that the said
Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., M.P., by the name and descrip-
tion of C. B. Baldwin, Esq., M.P., of Parliament-street, was
one of the Provisional Committee of the said Company; to
which they pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Bevin, a solicitor, appeared for the complainant, and
Mr. Clarkson on the part of the defendants.
Mr. Bevin observed, that as the charge was, in substance,
the same against each of the defendants, he would commence
the inquiry by examining the complainant.
Mr. Clarkson said that as the question went to affect the
character of each of the gentlemen he represented, he would
offer no technical objections to anything that was about to be
offered.
The printed prospectus of the Company was put in and
admitted.
Mr. Baldwin being sworn, said that on the 23 October the
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