The Sun. — 1844-10-03 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICII. Sir Charles Williams, in the Bankruptcy Court, granted a warrant for the apprehension of J. Hunter, an luso' vent, who, having obtained his discharge from prison, neglected to appear in Court. In the Insolvent Court a rule nisi was granted, calling upon Thomas John Husband, the landlord of the Gerard Hotel, Basing-lane, to show cause why he should not pay in full the debts from which he had been relieved by the Court in the year 1817, he being now in a condition ' to do so. A long inquiry was gone into at the Mansion-house,iralmnn: before Sir Peter Laurie as to the conduct of A . s the surgeon, in causing a Dr. Tapley to be incarcerated in a lunatic asylum, and in detaining certain as thatdocumite,an,tass, the property of the Doctor. The result admitted that Mr. Salmon was justified in acting as a s ho s had done, for. the Doctor was undoubtedly mad ; and for the documents, they had been handed over by Mr. Salmon to the Doctor's brother-in-law. At Queen-square, Charles Lowing,h Hatton,of fking near Hounslow, was charged with hay without a license, whereby he had incurred aeahapenearlfteyetloyf 10L Mr. Bond observed he should like t satisfied in his own mind before he convictedo. underp this highly penal Act, in which As this oispwowaser mitigate the pens ty.given him to thewfirst case of the sort that had ever some before hi lawm,he should adjourn for a week, in order to refer tothe hookao ntthe si u b .t ject. Defendant was liberated on entering into his own reeogniaances to appear on Wednesday Mr. John Goodwin Barnaby, residing awthoNod.e4s,crSibeeydmour-plece North, Euston-square, an ___ w.. hsste as an " author," was charged before Mr. Ka linso at Marylebone, on a warrant, with having indecently assaulted Hannah Snelgrove, a pretty looking girl, his servant. The appearance of defendant was singular in the extreme ; his hair was of extraordinary length, and from his chin a sandy-coloured beard shot forth, which reached nearly as low as the top button of kis waistcoat; he wore a white hat, and a shirt collar a /a Byron ; his wife was present during the delicate investigation. The defendant, who is a Socialist, denied the charge. , The prosecutris., however, swore positively to the assault, and as neither of the parties had any witnesses to produce, Mr. Rawlinson ordered the defendant to enter into his own recognisances in 201. to appear at • the sessions, in the event of complainant thinking fit to indict him, Alfred Edwards, the young man charged with having administered poison to a young woman named Jane Gregory, which caused her death, and against whom a verdict of " Wilful Murder" had been returned at the coroner's inquest, was 'placed at the bar at Worshi street, before Mr. Broughton for final examination pon the charge, and fully committed. William Johnson, a well-dressed man, was charged at Union-hall with stealing two silver table-spoons, the property of Mrs. Jane Hubbard, a confectioner, in . Queen's Head-row, Newington. He had been served with a bason of soup in the refreshment-room, and when he left the spoons were missed. into a pawnbroker's in the The waiter, on going The caught the Prisonerthan in the the act of pledging Ow spoons. A policeman stated prisoner had shaved off his whiskers to disguise himself; that he was tried some time since, for robberies of a similar description, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment. That since he had come out of gaol he had commenced his old practices, and that if he was now remanded, he (the policeman) had no doubt he should be enabled ,to bring forward other charges against him. He was remanded accordingly. Ann Smith, alias Watson, alias Mary Anne Stow, a 'dressmaker, carrying on business in Brand-street, Greenwich, was fully committed from the police-court of that place, on six different charges of shoplifting. A man named Thomas Wood, about forty years of age, who was formerly a foreman in the docks, and latterly a labourer in the employ of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, at Blackwell, was fully committed from the Thames-office, on a charge of highway robbery. He had knocked down an old man in Bow-lane, and robbed him of a bundle and other articles.