The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-04 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

The adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey com-
menced yesterday at the Court-house, Newington,
before Thomas Puckle, Esq., Chairman, and a very full
court of justices. The calendar contains the names of
forty five prisoners, four of which are misdemeanours,
and the rest felonies.

Lydia Lyons and Clara Ellis were indicted for felo-
niously stealing from the shop of Mr. Henry Hamer a
piece of printed cotton, value twenty shillings. The pri-
soners were defended by Mr. B. Robinson.
Police-constable Brook, L 118, was in pain clothes on
the day of the robbery, in the Blackfriars-road, and
he observed the prisoner Lyons take the printed cotton
from the door, and handed it to the other prisoner ; he
then followed them and took them into custody. Lyons
said that she did not take the printed cotton, but it was
given to her by another woman.
The jury found the prisoners Guilty, and the Chair-
man sentenced them to three months' hard labour in the
House of Correction—the one at Brixton, and the other
at Guildford.

John Beagley pleaded Guilty to stealing from the
dwelling-house of Charles Lynn, at Kingston, a pair of
window curtains and other articles, and was sentenced
to four months' imprisonment and hard labour, at Brixton
House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Christiana Mervin and Mary Barrett, well-dressed
young women, were charged with robbing Mr. William
Mallard, of No. 49, Burton-street, Burton-crescent, a
clerk, of four sovereigns, one half-sovereign, and fifteen
shillings in silver, under he following circumstances :
The prosecutor stated that last night he hired a cab in
the Borough, and directed the driver to take him to Bur-
ton-street ; he was, however, set down in Seven Dials, a
neighbourhood he was perfectly unacquainted with, and
was almost immediately accosted by the prisoners, who
seemed to be well kniiwn to the cab-driver. He was
induced to accompany them to No. 4, Lloyd's-court,
where he sent the prisoner Barrett out for some liquor.
At that time he felt his money secure. The other pri-
soner suddenly left the room previously to Barrett's re-
turn, and he directly afterwards discovered that he had
been robbed. He gave an alarm, and the prisoners were
secured by the police, but on searching them the money
was not found.

The prisoners strongly declared their innocence
Mr. MALTBY asked the prosecutor it he was sober at
the time?----The prosecutor said he was perfectly so.
A police-constable of the E division, who took the pri-
soners in charge, said the prosecutor was very much in-
toxicated.

Mr. MALTBY said he thought that under all the circum-
stances, together with the fact of the prosecutor being
drunk, the evidence was not sufficient to detain the pri-
soners.—They were accordingly discharged.
CLERKENWELL.

Mr. John Au.iten, a solicitor, who gave his address u
Bishopsgate-street, City, was charged with having been
drunk and creating a disturbance.
The landlord of the Skinners Arms, Coburg-street,
Clerkenwell, gave the prisoner in charge for being
drunk and causing a crowd at his house. He refused to
go away.
Mr. Austen was fined 55., which he paid at once.
LAMBETH.

The new Court was again opened this morning for
public business, but it was in such a dreadfully damp state
that, on Mr. Henry, the sitting Magistrate, taking his
seat on the bench, he said it was impossible to renew
the sittings in the Court in its present state.
The MAGISTRATE directed the fires to be lighted in
the front house in Kennington-road, which is at present
intended for a station-house ; the Court will conse-
sequently be again closed for a fortnight or three weeks.
A gentleman of the Stamp-oftlce applied to the Ma-
gistrate for his interference to prevent a breach of the
peace, and handed a letter to the Magistrate, the con-
tents of which were evidently to provoke that gentle-
man to fight a duel.
A gentleman who accompanied the applicant said
that the writer of the letter had threatened to stab him
with a dirk, and also presented a loaded gun at him.
Mr. HENRY, after having perused the letter, said that
the gentleman might have a peace warrant, which should
be served in the course of the day.

THE LATE MURDER at BETHNAL-

GREEN.

Yesterday morning, at half-past ten, Mr. Baker re-
sumed and concluded, at the London Hospital, the in-
quest, adjourned from Thursday night last, touching
the death of Emma Whiter, aged 21. A report of the
proceedings of the previous inquiry appeared in our im-
pression of Friday last.
Henry Surridge, a licensed victualler, proved having
seen, on Saturday week, a pistol like the one produced
in Tapping's hand, at the Rising Sun, Manchester-street,
Waterloo-town, and also, that a little time after the
murder—viz., at ten minutes past one o'clock, on Tues-
day morning last, he saw the prisoner, Tapping, again at
the Rising Sun, when, in a very excited way, he called
for a glass of brandy, which he drank. Five minutes
after this, Tapping's sister came to the bar of the Rising
Sun, and threw herself into his arms and fainted. She
was removed by Tapping and others. He never heard
Tapping threaten to kill deceased.
Thomas Capes examined—l am a chair-maker, living
at 42, Air-street, Bethnal-green. I have known the
prisoner Tapping for two years, and the deceased, Emma
Whiter, for eighteen months. For a week previous to
Tuesday morning last, at half-past one o'clock, I had
not seen Tapping. I then saw him opposite to the
Rising Sun public-house, just after he had come out of it.
Tapping said to me, " Tom, it is all through you ; and
what is done cannot be undone." He said this abruptly
without having said anything before. I turned round,
and said, " Jem, what is the matter ?" He made no
answer, but appeared very much confused.
By a juror—l do not know what Tapping referred to
when he said, "It is all through you." I was not jealous
of him, and there was no reason why he should be jealous
of me.

By the CORONER—On Monday night week deceased,
Tapping, and myself, were at a dance at the Crown and
Anchor, when she quarrelled and fought with another
young woman. Tapping and myself separated them, and
afterwards, when we left the house and were in North
Conduit-street, Tapping struck deceased with his fist on
the face, and told me that I ought to have known better
than to have interfered with her quarrel. Tapping would
not accompany deceased home, and I did a part of the
way. I do not know why he struck her.
By a juror—After he struck her, " I said Jem, if
you have any pluck don't strike her, but strike me."
He did not do so, and made no answer. Deceased
pressed me to go home with her to protect her, and be-
cause she did not wish her father to see her with Tap-
ping. Nothing else occurred between deceased and me
to excite Tapping's jealousy.
Wm. Whiter, a brother of deceased, who keeps a beer-
shop in Brick-lane, said she came to his house about ten
on Monday evening last, and went into the bar parlour.
Tapping came soon after and went into the tap-room in
which he remained until midnight. A' that hour he left
together with my sister, and both of them shook hands
with witness, and wished him good night. They had no
communication with each other whilst in witness's house.
Mr. Wm. Cumming, house-surgeon, examined—
Deceased was brought dead into this hospital, shortly
after two o'clock on Tuesday morning last. The body
was still warm. I have since opened the body.
Following the course of the wound on the left
side of the neck, I traced it to the upper part of the

spine, where I saw, and from which I extracted two
bullets. One bullet had divided the carotid artery and
other minor vessels. The injuries caused death ir..ne-
diately. Examined the interior, &c., of deceased, and
not only was she not pregnant, but could not have been
so. She died a virgin.
The CORONER summed up at considerable length,
stating that the case was perfectly clear, and that the
evidence showed that James Tapping was the wilful
cause of deceased's death. There was nothing in the
testimony to show that he was of unsound mind when he
perpetrated the murderous act.
Verdict, " Wilful murder against James Tapping."