The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1842.

LAW INTELLIGENC E.
SECONDARIES' COURT, Jan. 4.
CRIM. CON.-TUCKER V. GOOCH,

The plaintiff, Mr. Thomas Stannyford Tucker, who
is Secretary and Librarian to the Southwark Literary
Institution, brought this action to recover from Mr.
Thomas Gooch, a timber merchant, residing at Dalston,
compensation in damages for the seduction of his (plain-
tiff's) wife. Judgment had been allowed to go by de-
fault. The damages were laid at LOON.
Mr. PEARSON appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr.
CIIARNOCK for the defendant.

Previous to the case being called on, a consultation
took place, in which the counsel for the plaintiff agreed
to accept a verdict for 501.

The SECONDARY said he was rejoiced to hear this, as
it would prevent disclosures of a painful nature.

SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 4.
STARKEY v. METCALFE.
This was an action to recorer the sum of 151. 2s. 6d.,
alleged to be due to the plaintiff by the defendant, but
on what account did not transpire. Mr. James appeared
for the plaintiff; and Mr. Humfreys for the defendant.
The plea put upon the record by the defendant was
that the money had been tendered to the plaintif& and re-
fused by him.

It appeared that the parties are highly respectable
tradesmen, residing at Cambridge, the defendant being a
cabinet-maker in extensive business, and the plaintiff
the landlord of the Hoop Hotel. The defendant being
indebted to the plaintiff in the sum named in the decla-
ration, gave instructions to his attorney to make a tender
of the amount, and accordingly Doughty, a clerk to the
defendant's attorney, was directed to execute the com-
mission. The evidence of this witness was that he, on
the 23d of October last, went to the Hoop Hotel, in
Cambridge, and took with him a 101. Bank of England
note, five sovereigns, nineteen shillings and sixpence, and
sixpence in copper. He took this sum in this way, in
order that he might pay the exact amount which might
be demanded, as he did not know the exact amount of
the bill due. He held the money in his hand, and said to
the plaintiff, " Here is the money, if you will tell me the
amount of Mr. Metcalfe's bill." The plaintiff's answer
was, that he could not and should not attend to it then.
Witness had the whole of the money in his hand, and
was standing at the bar window. The money was never
out of his hand.

To this evidence Mr. James replied, contending that
this witness had merely asked for the amount of the ac-
count, and Mr. Stanley said he had no time to attend to
it, and that the witness Doughty never produced any
money whatsoever.
H. E. Chisholm was then called, and stated that he
was clerk to Messrs. Foster and Co., solicitors, of Cam-
bridge. He was in the parlour of the Hoop Inn with
the plaintiff at the time alluded to by the witness for the
defence. The plaintiff's sister called out to the plaintiff,
and said, " John, you are wanted ; here is a person wants
Mr. Metcalfe's bill." The plaintiff then went to the door
of the parlour, which opened into the bar, and said he
was busy, and was going out, and therefore could not
attend to it. Doughty made no answer, but left the
house without producing any money. He could not have
done so, and offered it to the plaintiff, without witness
seeing him.
The plaintiff's sister, the nursery-maid, and the waiter,
all corroborated this evidence; and the Learned Under.
Sheriff having summed up the evidence, the Jury, after
an absence of two hours, returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 4.

IN RE JEPHSON.

The insolvent carried on business extensively in Shef-
field, and was opposed by Mr. Cresswell, on the ground
of breach of trust, in having received 301. from a loan
society for a person named Blake, which he appropriated
to his own use, and also that he was taken in a friendly
arrest. He was supported by Mr. Cooke.
It appeared that the insolvent was arrested at the Cider
Cellars in Maiden-lane; while he stated in his schedule
that the arrest took place at his lodgings in Salisbury-
square.

Mr. COOKE, in addressing the Court in support of the
insolvent's application to be discharged, said, in explana-
tion of the discrepancy between the statement in his
schedule and the fact of his arrest, that the humble class
of insolvents, when giving their solicitors directions for
the preparation of their schedules, were compelled to do
so in a large room which was common to all the prisoners,
and where the greatest noise and confusion prevailed, so
that it was utterly impossible to attach blame to either
the insolvents or their solicitors.

Mr. Commissioner BowEN said he should adjourn the
further hearing of the case until the officer who took the
insolvent into custody should be in attendance to give
evidence.

The Court was occupied the whole of the day in hearing
cases, in almost all of which parties attributed the ulti-
mate causes of their insolvency to transactions with
loan societies.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.— William Satchel!, aged
17, an exceedingly well-dressed young man, was placed
in the dock charged with embezzling and stealing divers
sums of money of Thomas Reed and others, his masters.
The prosecutors are floor-cleth manufacturers in the Do-
ver road, and the prisoner was in their employ as collector.
On the 21st December last ho received sums of money on
his employers' account in two different instances, and
when asked if he had received them denied that he had
done so. On the 22d the prisoner was given into cus-
tody, it having been discovered that the money had
been paid to him. The prisoner had previously main-
tained a good character.
Mr. PRICE addressed the Jury for the prisoner.
The RECORDER summwd up, and the Jury found the
prisoner Guilty, with a recommendation to mercy on ac-
count of his youth and previous good character.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment with
hard labour.
Charles White, aged 11, William Wright, aged 12, and
John Cole, aged 12, three little urchins, whose heads
scarcely reached above the bar, were charged with
stealing one copper funnel, the property of Joseph Shaw,
in a vessel on the river Thames.
The prosecutor is master of the sloop Joseph and Mary
Ann, which was lying at Bermondsey on the 21st of
December. The prosecutor's wife was sitting in
the cabin, when she heard a noise upon deck ; she
went up, and saw White, who had taken the cabin funnel,
in the act of handing it to the other two prisoners, who
were in a boat alongside. When the prisoners saw the
prosecutor's wife come on deck, they threw the funnel
overboard. Mrs. Shaw raised a cry of police. and the
prisoners were taken into custody on the river, after
having made a fruitless attempt to induce a waterman
named Messenger to take them into his wherry and put
them on shore; which he very properly refused to do,
and, instead, sent an officer of the Thames Police to the
spot, who took them into custody.
The Jury found the prisoners Guilty.
The policeman Lewis, in answer to questions from the
Recorder, said that the prisoners belonged to a regular
gang of tier-rangers, and had all been previously sum-
marily convicted. It further appeared from his state-
ment that, during the last week, upwards of fourteen
funnels had been stolen from vessels in the river.
The RECORDER, addressing the prisoners said, that it
was their youth alone which prevented his sentencing
them to transportation. The sentence of the Court was
that they be each imprisoned for twelve months in the
House of Correction, and kept to hard labour.
HOUSEBREARING.—John Clarke, aged 20, was in-
dicted for breaking into the shop of George George, aad
stealing six dozen knives and forks, and other articles,
value 301.—The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
The RECORDER advised the prisoner to consider well
before pleading guilty. The offence was one of great
magnitude, and the fact of his pleading guilty would
make no difference in the sentence which the Court would
feel bound to pass upon him.
The Prisoner—l plead guilty, because lam guilty.
The RECORDER after expatiating on the enormity of
the offence which the prisoner had committed, and on
the immense quantity of property stolen, sentenced the
prisoner to ten years' transportation.
George Rivers was indicted for stealing a pair of boots,
the property of George Castle. The prosecutor is a boot-
maker, and the prisoner entered ,his shop, and ran off
with the boots in question. -lie was stopped by a po-
liceman with the boots in his possession. The Jury
found him Guilty. A previous conviction having been
proved against him, he was sentenced to one year's im-
prisonment with hard labour.

- The prisoner in personal appearance and expression of
countenance bore a remarkable resemblance to the por-
trait of Jack Sheppard, and wore his black hair close
cropped after the favourit6 fashion of Mr. Ainsworth's hero.
.Henry Grn, aged 27, and Edwin Sharman, aged 37,
were indicted for stealing a bale of silk, and a box con-
taining a quantity of furs of the value of 1001, the pro-
perty of John Ward ; and James Steptoe, aged 24, was
indicted for feloniously receiving a portion of the pro-
perty, knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Phillips
defended the prisoners.
It appeared in evidence that the prosecutor is the pro-
prietor of a stage waggon plying to Gloucester, and on
the 30th of (fetober the property in question, in two
bales, was sent to his waggon by Messrs. Littlewood and
Messrs. Ellis and Everington, to be conveyed to some
place in Gloucestershire, and they were received at the
booking-office, and were duly placed in the waggon; but
they never reached their proper destination. The pri-
soner Steptoe had formerly been in the service of the
prosecutor, as waggoner, but he had been discharged,
and a man named Leeson was engaged in his stead. The
prisoners Griffin and Sharman were porters at different
inns in London at which the *waggon stopped, and they
had an opportunity of knowing the nature of the pro.
perty that was in the bales. The man Leeson was the
principal witness in the case, and, according to his state-
ment, the prisoner Steptoe proposed the robbery, and
that while the guard of the waggon was only from it for
a short time, in Oxford-street, Sharman and Griffin came
up with a horse and cart and took away the goods from
the back of the waggon, and it was arranged that when
the waggon arrived at Loudwater the ropes behind the
waggon should be cut, in order to make it appear that
the robbery had been committed upon the road. It
appeared that Leeson subsequently made a confession
of all the circumstances of the case, and this led to the
prisoners' apprehension, and on their lodgings being
searched some boas and fur tippets were found, which
er e stated by some of the witnesses to be of the same
description at those that had been placed with the other
property in the bales that were stolen. Some other con-
firmatory testimony in support of the story told by the
accomplice was also adduced.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the Jury, and called wit-
nesses on behalf of the prisoners, who gave them an ex-
cellent character for honesty and geod conduct.
The RECORDER summed up, and the Jury acquitted
all the prisoners.
The Learned JUDGE told the prisoners that the Jury
had come to it most charitable conclusion, They best