The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-06-07
General Sessions.
Before Recorder Tallmadge, and Aldermen Scoles
and Martin.

JAMES r. WHITING, Esq, District Attorney.
TUESDAY, June 6th-At the opening of the Court,
rors Lewis Curtis, foreman; Daniel Boyd, J. v.
d B. Fowler, Jabez Gardner, Thomas w. Gale,
Smith Harrlott, Joseph Hewlett, Joseph b. Hart,
Robert II. Ludlow, Drake Mills, Jacob Miller,
Stone, William Woram and Harry Weed-total IS.
Alderman ScoLEs then charged the Grand Jury
relative to the important duties incumbentupon them
under the statute and in abiding to the increase of
petty theits and urgares, stated that large ma
j0rity could be traced distinctly to the nefarous prac
tees OF junk shop keepers. many OF whom were in
the daily habit of purchasing every article offered
for sale at any price, without enqulrlng as to whe
Their they were stolen or not.
CASE OF MosEs Y. BEACH-Wm j. HAsKETT,
Esq, counsel of Moses Y. Beach, indicted tor libel
on the family OF James Gordon Bennett, appeared
in court attended by his client, and entered plea
of guilty to the charge against him. and asked the
indulgence of the court to postpone sentence in The
until the next term civil suit Was pending
la the Supreme Court which would probably be
decided in the mean time
The RECORDER replied that the Court would take
the application into consideration.
EDMUND ]. PORTER, Esq offered the following
affidavit to cnunteract portion OF the editorial
acknowledgement made in the Sun" OF Tuesday
morning.
Mr.. HAsKETr objected to its being read at the
present stage Ut pIUCcedingc, and ithdra
Mr.. BEACH then left the court.
City aud County Of Xev York, IS:
Eorato s. Bartlett, ofthe city Of New York being duly
y,t
and publishing OF the libel on Henrietta Bennett, wife Of
J8mes Gordon Bennett, for which Moses Y. Beach has
lately been indicted this deponent was in the employ Of
said Beach editor of 1.-THE Sun" newspaper in which
said libel publshed and that the facts and circum.
stances relative to the composing and publishing thereof
ton Of said belious article this deponent according to
custom, went into the Office Of the Sun to his daily
avocatons as editor and that deponen there found Moses
Y. Beach and William Jay Haskell in conversation tege
her standing opposite sides Of the counters that depo
nent proceeding to his desk, when Beach stopped
md N Qko
the Hersld-one relating to Poudrette end the other
to lie Jeuns Editew's Literary Depot, and prepare
ing, and for which said Beach is now indicted.
That dcpoAen upon hearing said Beachs ideas on the
sbects remarked to him. that 1t would be very ard for
Mrs Bennett thus to be shown up in public print. To
which said Beach replied know, but its the only way
to mako the damned feel and that he said Beach
couldn't touch him (ad BennetD in his business about
himself, and that his family was the only point That
deponen then prepered said article the outline Of which
he'd been given depenen by said Beach, and had proof
taken the purpose of showing him. which deponcnt
took and read to him. and which was the same as the ar
Gle which appeared the following morning. That
said Beach then took said proof put in his pocket and
kept till about o'clock in the evening some four
FIVE hours when said Beach again deponent, and re-
mark to him. that said article not sufficiently point
ed he (sad Beach) did not think cutting enough to
which deponent replied, that it much to the pur-
pose he expressed deponent could do that said Beach
then directed deIonen il he cou INIT make the article
he expressed any better, he might publish 1t as was;
snd a tine sad
his entire satisfaction with the article stang that
first reading II he did not think it sqmc.eny pcn.G
was the article the kind that had ever been fur
nhed by deponent and that said Beach expressed wish
that he had printed thousand copies MORE he could
readily have sold them And this deponent further SAITH
that he likewise informed by the then foreman Of the
Sun printing Office that in the afternoon which said
Beach directed the article to be published he sad Beach
called upon said foreman and requested him to send him
down proof Of the article HopAT Tnsa
Sworn before me- this 9th day of June, ls4s.
EDMENp J. PORTER,
Commissioner OF Deeds sc.
NoLLE PRosEoUr-On motion of William Prall,
Esq, a noiic prosequi entered In the case OF
John Davis, aged colored man, charged with
grand larceny.
IvERs J. BARTON was tried on charge Of petit
larceny, in stealing SIS bill from Alexander Lang
in October last, and acquitted.
FORFEITED REcoGNzANCEs. The names OF the
following persons having been called and not an,
swerng, their recogniZances were declared forfeited
and ordered 10 be prosecuted +
William G. Holly and David Holly for obtaining
property under false pretences from Alexander II.
M'Calla, bailed by Jshn M. Holly and Robert
James Hyde and Lewis c. Hyde, for obtaining
goods by false pretences from Arthur Tappan 81 Co.;
bsiled by Horato Warren and Lewis Clark
David Beecher, obtaining money under false pre-
fences from David F. Butcher bailcd by Oliver p.
Beecher.
William H. Buckley, obtaining goods under false
pretences from Frederick W. Bell bailed by An
drew Peck.
Patrick Kelly, for misdemeanor in assaultng L.
r. Dupignac, public officer; bailed by Lawrence
Power.
George Mount, for mayhem, in biting of the right
side of the nose OF William Vail bailed by Wash
ington Agate and Walter Hyde.
Thomas Blacklen, assault and battery with IN
tent TO kill Edward w. Tellar-bailed by Lewis
5. Sleght and Evart Harrington.
Thomas Kanouse, grand larccny-bailcd by Ed
ward A. Jessell.
Maria Capel, for petit larceny--baed by Jacob
Disfenbaker
George Ellison, Walter Smith, and James Hyde,
petit larceny-bailed by q. w. Varan and Dyer
Hyde.
Simon Fishblaat and ]. Levy for assault and bat
terry. Thomas Bowen, for assault and battery.
Alex. Bergman, assault and battery.
Lottery Cases Isaiah Haines, baed by Ebene-
ger Pympton /; Levi Hall, balled by Henry y. Gan
ger; Lemue w. Parks, bailed by VIM. L. Clvs
John Reed, bailed by Lafayette Green, charged
with nsuring numbers in lotteries.
The urtt her ed till this morning OWED.