The Sun. — 1844-10-04 (London, England)

MAW AND POLICE. grime. Sir Charles Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, el a warrant for the apprehension of J. Hunter, an iss vent, who, having obtained his discharge from prigs neglected to appear in Court. In the Insolvent Court a rule nisi was granted, cab upon Thomas John Husband, the landlord of the GeHotel, Basing-lane, to show cause why he should not 11% in full the debts from which he had been relieved by' !'O,l Court in the year 1817, lie being now in a condip to do so. A long inquiry was gone into at the Mansion-bons: before Sir Peter Laurie as to the conduct of Mr. So°9o' the surgeon, in causing a Dr. Tapley to be incarcers in a lunatic asylum, and in detaining certain documeno the property of the Doctor. The result was that it am admitted that Mr. Salmon was justified in acting as 0 had done, for the Doctor was undoubtedly mad ; Ando. for the documents, they had been handed over by Salmon to the Doctor's brother-in-law. At Queen-square, Charles Lowing, of iistri' ta near Hounslow, was charged with hawking mt;l' without a license, whereby he had incurred a penalty 4E, 10/. Mr. Bond observed he should like to be perfe°4 satisfied in his own mind before he convicted under 00' highly penal Act, in which no power was given him e, mitigate the penalty. As this was the first case of sort that had ever come before him, he should adjournar for a week, in order to refer to the law books on the soil ject. Defendant was liberated on entering into Ma ° recognizances to appear on Wednesday next. • sof. Mr. John Goodwin Barnaby, residing at No. 4e see mour place North, Euston-square, and who dese„,ll hisuself as an " author," was charged before Mr. onae, linson, at Marylebone, on a warrant, with having itn:-„e cently assaulted Hannah Suelgrove, a pretty locw; girl, his servant. The appearance of defendant 'v singular in the extreme •, his hair was of extraordiss length, and from his chin a sandy-coloured beard su , forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button `l,, his waistcoat; he wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a; Byron ; his wife was present during the delicate inve tigation. The defendant, who is a Socialist, denied tom; charge. The prosecutrix, however, swore positivelY.t, the assault, and as neither of the parties had any Irg I nesses to produce, Mr. Rawlinson ordered the defendant • to enter into his own recognisances in 201. to appear gin the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking &S.. indict him, Alfred Edwards, the young man charged with Wilt administered poison to a young woman named Jsno Gregory, which caused her death, and against whet% , verdict of Wilful Murder" had been returned at Lb. coroner's inquest, was ,placed at the bar at Worship' street, before Mr. Broughton for final examination oD the charge, and fully committed. William Johnson, a well-dressed man, was charged sge ' Union-hall with stealing two silver table-spoons, he property of Mrs. Jane Hubbard, a confectioner, LA Queen's Head-row, Newington. He had been serf with a bason of soup in the refreshment-room, and vv l.° he left the spoons were missed. The waiter, on VI into a pawnbroker's in the neighbourhood, caught wo • prisoner in the act of pledging tke spoons. A policeret,ti stated that the prisoner had shaved off his whiskers disguise himself; that he was tried some time since, Oh robberies of a similar description, convicted, and On; 1' tented to imprisonment. That since he had come ol!, of gaol he had commenced his old practices, and that he was now remanded, he (the policeman) had no doubt he should be enabled to bring forward other charge° against him. He was remanded accordingly. Ann Smith, alias Watson, alias Mary Anne Stow, , dressmaker, carrying on business in Brand-street Greenwich, was fully committed from the poliee-cour", of that place, on six different charges of shoplifting. A man named Thomas Wood, about forty years ni age, who was formerly a foreman in the docks, an: latterly a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Ditchbur" and Mare, at Blackwell, was fully committed from Oa Thames-office, on a charge of highway robbery. gie had knocked down an old man in Bow-lane, and robbed him of a bundle and other articles.