The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-31 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. ANNE CRAFT.-COMMUTATION Or SENTENCE.

This prisoner, who was convicted on Tuesday last, in the Old
Court, on a chare of stealing several articles of wearing apparel,
the property of the Rev. Mr. Reeve, was this day Lrought up in
this Court.

The RECORDER informed her, that, instead of allowing her to
fulfil the entire period of her imprisonment (fourteen days), the
Court had come to the determination of commuting the sentence to
seven days' imprisonment, to be dated from Monday last.
The prisoner, who appeared very ill, was then removed from
the bar.

It was rumoured in Court that the trial and sentence had had
such an effect upon the poor creature that it was not deemed
prudent to allow her to fulfil the entire period of her punishment.
Jahn Thomas Beale, aged 28, was convicted on a charge of
embezzling and stealing 3/. 2s. and other sums, the property of
Messrs. Hewes and Co., and sentenced to be transported for seven
years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
A young woman, named Hannah Sullivan, in the service of Mr.
Edwards, a general dealer in Dorset-stteet, Salisbury.square,
was brought before the Lord Mayor Elect charged with robbing
her employer.
The complainant said, he had for some time past missed cask,
and at last he suspected the prisoner was the thief. He placed
some money in a tobacco-jar in the shop on Tuesday night, and on
the following morning he missed 35. from it. On Wednesday
night he left 16s. in the same place, and yesterday morning he
again missed 3s. He then asked the prisoner if she knew any-
thing about that jar ? She made no reply, till he said, " Now,
you know you have got the money; nobody else could have taken
it ;" and she then produced 3s, from her pocket and said, " This
is what I took this morning." He asked where the money was
she took the previous morning ? She gave him ls. and a second
shilling fell from her dress, and she said she had spent the third in
sweetmeats and ginger.beer in the course of a coupleof hours; he
sent to acquaint her friends of the circumstances, and gave her
into custody after two or three hours had elapsed; be did not
wish to prosecute her at the Old Bailey, but he wished some
punishment to be inflicted on her.
The LORD MAYOR elect asked if he was in the habit of leaving
money about in different parts of his shop ? Mr. Edwards said he
was not.
The LORD MAYOR elect observed that it seemed strange that a
servant should look into jars upon a shelf for money if it were
usually kept in a till.
The complainant said, he could not account for her finding it
there ; he had missed money from the till.
The Loan Mivos elect asked if he had obtained the admission
from the prisoner by any promise of forgiveness ? The complainant
replied he made none.
The prisonor said she took the money because she wanted to Luy
something.
The prisoner was remanded, that tier friends may attend.
M A BY LEBONE.
Mark Glazier was brought up from Clerkenwell prison, and
placed ht the bar, before Mr. Long, for further examination, on
the charge of having been concerned in stealing a ciressit g case,
containing valuable property of different descriptions, belonging to
a gentleman named Husband, who, in July, 1843, came up from
Beambridge to London by the Great Western Railway.
The investigation excited a vast degree of interest, and long
before the period appointed for the hearing of the case, the Court
was much crowded.
Mr. Ballantine, barrister, attended on the part of the prisoner ;
Mr. Robinson to watch the proceeding for his client Morse, who
was in the first instance charged with the robbery himself, but was
subsequently admitted as a witness; and Mr. Nash, from the firm
of Maples, Pearce, Stevens, and Co., for the Railway Company.
It will be remembered that in consequence of information which
Mr. Collard, superintendent of the railway comparty's police, re-
ceived, lie took into custody the man Morse, who two years ago
was a porter on the goods' side of the railway, at Paddington, and
that:it was proved that the stolen case had been pawned at the
shop of Mr. Gideon, Stafford.street, Lisson-grove. Certain cir-
cumstances afterwards transpired which led to the apprehension
of Glazier in reference to the robbery, and yesterday the following
new facts were gone into.
Mr. Fell, the chief clerk, at the outset of the proceedings, read
over the whole of the depositions taken upon the two former ex.
aminations, and
Mr. Ballantine then cross-examined Morse, who in answer to
his questions said— I was charged here with stealing the dressing.
case. I sell butter and fowls, and am in the habit of going to
the railway to receive parcels addressed to me. About a fort.
night before I was taken I had a parcel. I receive parcels some-
where about twice a week. I met a man named Williams, from
whom I received a gold chain, which I sold for 31. 7s. 6d. I made
use of the money, but should have made it up to Williams if he had
called upon me for it. The chain was given to me to deliver to Glazier.
I know I did wrong in selling it and pocketing what it produced.
I never told the prisoner that 1 had sold it. The prisoner was a
porter on the line, and I thought the chain was honestly come by.
The prisoner Glazier was employed as a porter at the Bath station
up to the period of his being taken into custody. I was not dis.
missed for any misconduct, but I left my situation because I did
not like it.
Mr. Lotter—After you sold the chain did ycu see the prisoner ?
Morse—Yes.
Mr. LONG—Did you mention to him the name of the person to
whom you had sold it,or say anything about it whatever ? Morse—
No.
Mr. Collard said, accompanied by Hooker (one of the warrant-
officers of this Court), I apprehended the prisoner, and on our pro.
gress towards town I said to him " Glazier, I am sorry to see you
in such a predicament, but I was in hopes there was nothing against
you." He replied, "Oh ! Mr. Collard, I have been drawn into
it." I told him that the less he said to me about it the better, as
I should have to repeat all before the magistrate.
Mr. BALLANTINE (to Collard)—How long has Glazier been in
the Company's employ ?
Mr. Collard—Ever since June, 1842.
Mr. Nash—What is your opinion of Morse's character—would
you believe him upon his oath ? Mr. Collard—l do not think I
should.
Williams, who had given his name before, was cross-examined
by Mr. Ballantine at some length, and the answers to questions put
to him were—" When the dressing-case was put into my hands at
the public-house, in Red Liotestreet, Whitechapel, it was under.
stood that I might dispose of it if I could for 91. 15s. I found that
the case had been broken open, and I gave it and the gold chain
back to Morse. I have never gone to the railway to assist Morse
in carrying his parcels of butter and cheese. I once met him at
the Railway Tavern by the bridge, but that was by accident, and
just after I had seen my wife off by the train. It was in Fleet-
street that I first met Morse. There was a vinaigrette in the dress-
ing-case."
Other evidence was gone into, and
Mr. Losa, after making many remarks upon the testimony
adduced, said that the Case was one for the consideration of a jury,
and accordingly committed the prisoner for trial.
WORSHIP-ST BEET.
Mr. Michael Scales, the extensive carcass butcher at White-
chapel, whose contest for the aldermanic gown has been so re-
peatedly under the notice of the public, was brought before Mr.
Broughton, charged with committing the following assault upon
the Rev. William Symcs, and also with wilfully breaking several
panes of glass in that gentleman's window.
The complainant stated that about five o'clock on the preceding
evening he heard a great uproar at the back of his residence, at
Old Ford, near Bow, which he found proceeded from the de-
fendant, who was endeavouring to force his way into the stable.
Finding his efforts at obtaining an entrance in that direction in.
effectual, the rear of the house being bolted, the defendant then
made his way round to the front of it, and, scaling some iron
palisades, ran across the court-yard to the street door, against
which he thrust himself, but being foiled there also, he next pro-
ceeded to the parlour windows, inside which witness was standing.
and which reached nearly to the ground, and imperiously de-
manded admittance. Witness refused compliance with his request,
on which the defendant expressed his intention to force an en-
trance, and without further parley raised his foot, and plunging
it through the lower half of the window, dashed in the centre of
the sash of it, and smashed out five or six large squares of glass.
Witness instantly lifted up the window, to prevent further
damage, and, stepping out into the court-yard, demanded
hat right he had to make such a riot and disturbance at his