The Sun. — 1846-07-25 (London, England)

PLATT.) John Eldridge was indicted for having threatened to shoot Grace Rice, and thereby obtaining 2/. 7s. 6d. Mr. Edwards conducted the prosecution. It appeared that on the 2d of this month the prosecute ix, an old woman, was at home in her cottage, at Hampworth, in this county, when the prisoner came there, and asked her it. her• husband was at home. She said, " No,•' but asked the prisoner to wait. He went into the house and sat down, and then said to her, "Don't be frightened." She said, " What should Ibe frightened at?" Upon which be took a pistol horn his pocket, and said, "If you don't give me all your money, I'll blow your brains out.". The prosecutor, being very much frightened, was going to leave the room, when the prisoner said, "I'll only give thee two minutes to fetch it." Upon this the old woman gave him 2/. 7s. 6d. The prisoner then left the cottage; but as he was going away said to the prosecutrix that if she told any one before the next hour her house should be burnt down. She, however, gave information to the po • lice, and the prisoner was shortly afterwards apprehended within a mile and a half of the cottage; with the money in his pocket. O.► being asked how he came by the money, he said he had borrowed it of Mrs. Rice, and that be was sorry he had frightened her. On being further searched some bullets and gunpowder were fund in his podtets, and the next morning a loaded pistol was lound near the Fl-ice where the prisoner was apprehended, which Mrs. Rice identified as the one which he had presented at her. It was also shown that he had purchased it on the same day. Mr. Baron PLATT having summed up, the jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sentenced to be transported for ten years..  . NORTHERN ialwui I.—York, July 23. The business on the civil side was concluded last evening. This is the commission day for Durham, but there still remaining some cases to try on the Crown side, for the county of York, Mr. Justice Cresswell sat for the purpose of disposing of them. One cause on the civil side has been made a retnanet.  The following prisoners have been called up and sentenced :—George Thompson, manslaughter, seven years' transportation; Matthew Harbrun, feloniously wounding, twelve months' imprisonment; John Falshaw, same offence, nine months' imprisonment; John Langstaff, same offence, nine months; John Greenwood, manslaughter, three days' imprisonment; James Vance, pleaded guilty, burglary, nine months' imprisonment; Richard Smith, burglary, eighteen months; James Melder, housebreaking, seven years' transportation ; W. Brown, same offence, six months' imprisonment; George Caw, robbery, seven years' transportation; Jane Gregory, Sarah Stocks, and Hannah Grunwell robbery with violence, the former fifteen years' transportation, and the two latter twelve months' imprisonment ; John Gillet, 'street robbery, fifteen months' imprisonment; Martha Duck, exposing her child with intent to murder, eighteen months' imprisonment; Jane Briggs, concealing the birth of her child, six months; Jonathan Cordinglv, assault on a female child, two years' imprisonment; William Atkinson and Edwin Hammill, larceny from a shop, the former seven years' transportation, the latter twelve months' imprisonment; James Aspinall, em• bezzlement, six months' imprisonment; Charles Parker, Mary Ann Lee, Thomas Curtis, and George Hargraves, coining, each seven years' transportation.