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The Sun. — 1845-08-13 (London, England)

RECAPTURE WITHOUT  MURDER. 100 West bill It was on the 4th July, 1837, when a e.y had just dawned, or as Quamino has it, `O Re_ihoi eti e, .Mthea °," that on a tranquil Se 4 in the LlL'ilgel Nlexece, z.n horizen bouhded lay std and sit)", Eloo h ,as to ebserved but two vessels, one of wb teee eer Majestj's eacket from Tampico, bound to llavt,,,n,,big steering by the wind—the other, a clipper-like 1 oi'_'o% schooner to windward and ahead of the packet, rul3o'cit :holt two peiets tree towards her. Now, sa)4 ter, to his watch-in:l,e on the forec,.s;le, what doeswbetl -ea-sal-pant w :at ? At noon elle was within hail'h ell, eie commando r f the packet, whose broad Britleer rign had twee ballhailed the straaKs an' know why, he old nut show his colours, and lord, sacred that he was distress and had nocolours opt the then rounded to and backed his topsail, waiting weselr pack, isboat to coon. alongside. The officer, en rd one ing the deck, found four men with three white anoeig negro; the whiti,s were armed to the teeth, each /1, se", buckled round him a brace of pistols and a cat'e,r, heir tale wes brief : she was an American schoetierev Nea OrlPans, that had been detained four days nef°fer the port of eiantinoris by a French stoop-ofswarieppso breach of tduckarle; a Lieutenant and 8 seatnen on board, with orders to take her to Vera Cruz, wise deg French Admiral th, n was; that at midnight of 01100ett the three whites, who were the master of the scbe his mate, and a Mexican passenger, had, as soon ofl of the four -Frenchmen of the watch had gone belowsooo o the officer in the cabin, and the other to the'e 100 under the furecas:la, to call their relief, rushed to the': see there arms were concealed, seized them, Pll,hid hatches e,er, secured the man at the helm, thru,e below to acquaint his shipmates how much safer it for them there than it would he on deck, and thee we]; rating the French negro sailor, on condition of °S9 Ole to work the vessel, they found themselves oneo cola uncontrolled inase rs of her. The American ~g 4 t. 116 stated that the share he held in the vessel Was 70}10f# eroperty he had in the world, and to let so good 013,Zitii (unity slip of regaining it, was more than his cfe"icist° e-ew of thi7gs ever thought of; however, in the 1:13 der t their success, they were without water, 'which 19i olie° flat sun is intolerabla—the packet therefore 04); 0 them with about thirty gallons; and whilst vir:Ocle the supply, it was not a little amusing to see the dal men summoned one by one on deck, pinioned, ilerti,eo. secured below. The water being received on h°llorl to the prisoners properly secured, sail was made, 6 whetj vessel arrived at New Orleans three days afteri;oos the French officer put in his claim for the prize, bo b authorities thought the master and part owner, /gbe b it so gallantly and bloodlessly recaptured her, had t Ole, and therefore gave her up to him. Office ow [The above has been forwarded by a navy .011"' as a c,ntrast to the wretched affair which has occupied so much attention.] —Devonport Telegrar
The Sun. — 1845-12-19 (London, England)

INFANTICIDE.—EIiza Huntsman, 21, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, Emily, by casting it into the water, and thereby drowning it and suffocating it. There were two other counts in the indictment, one describing the deceased infant as being known by the name of Emily, and the other as a child whose name was unknown. Mr. Parnell prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson defended the prisoner. The following evidence was adduced : Mrs. Mary Stacey deposed that she resided at Lower Edmonton, and the prisoner was her cousin. She came to her house on the 10th of December, accompanied by her child, an infant five months old ; and the prisoner left, with her child, for the purpose of going to her lodging, about half-past seven o'clock in the evening. Witness went next morning to the prisoner's lodging, and asked her where her baby was, and she replied, " Oh, my baby—there, there," and appeared in a dreadful state of agitation, and shortly afterwards she went into a fit. Witness afterwards saw the dead body of the prisoner's child at the police-station. Cross-examined—Witness had known the prisoner since they were children. The prisoner was 21 years old, and she always appeared to be very fond of her child. She was in bad health, and frequently complained of her head, and had been taken to the doctor's in consequence. When she left with the child she treated it with great kindness and apparent affection. After the birth of her child, the prisoner went into a family as wet-nurse, but she only remained there three days, on account of her losing her milk. The prisoner was usually very abstemious, but after the birth of her child she was ordered to drink porter. When she came home from her situation she complained of her head, and appeared in a dreadful state. She had had her head shaved several times, but the hair never grew again, either on the top or the back of her head. Mr. CLARKSON observed that this circumstance might be material when the medical testimony was adduced. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL said it was a very proper course of examination. The witness continued—When she saw the prisoner at the time she referred to, she did not appear to know her, and was like a distracted woman. When she asked her  about the baby, she pointed wildly upwards, and said, " Oh, my baby—there, there." The prisoner was well taken care of by witness's mother, and neither she nor her child wanted for anything. Mrs. Sarah Willis deposed that the prisoner was her niece, and at the time this occurred she was lodging with her baby at her house. She remembered her coming home on the evening of the 10th December, and soon afterwards witness's daughter asked her if she had put the baby to bed, and witness asked her where the baby was. She made no reply, but raised her hands, and clasped  them over her head. By Mr.
The Sun. — 1845-10-07 (London, England)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.  A journeyman coppersmith, named Evans, moned before Mr. Hardwick for breach of _contractwas u sum • his employer, Mr. Styles, coppersmith, Lisle-street; Leicester-square. Mr. Styles proved thU't the defendant entered inttS' written contract to engage himself for six months, at the wa :es of 235. weekly. The defendant came to work two or three days and then left him entirely. Mr. Pontifex, the coppersmith. said the defendant had some time previously engaged himself to him for several months. The railroads made the trade so busy that it was of importance not to lose the services of even one man. He hoped the defendant would be obliged to fulfil his original engagement. Mr. Styles said he had no vindictive ft cling towards ,he man, who was otherwise a good workman, and when not drawn away by liquor a steady man. But it was' important to teach journeymen that they must not, Ator having engaged themselves to an employer for a st-ifed 'ja', leave their work and upset business with impunity. Had this been the defendant's first offence of the like sort he should perhaps have looked over it ; but as the defendant had done the same before, and had thereby ,et a bad example to others, he had determined to put the law in force against him. Mr. Hartnwlcx said, in order to teach him that. he mast not enter into engagements and break them capriciously, to the great injury of his employers, he would ,end him to prison for one month. The defendant's solicitor said Mr. Styles would, of course, pay the man his wages all the time he was in  prison. Mr. Style-3 said he would do whatever the magistrate quired. Mr. ITAnDwicK looked over the Act, and came to the determination, instead of directing Mr. Styles to pay a proportionate amount of the wages, of cancelling tile contract altogether. The der.ndarit was then committed 0 hard labour for a month.  TVORS lIIP-STR 6E7'. Yesterday a young man of the Jewish persuasion, named JoA,ph Satnuels, was placed at the bar before Mr. nroughton, charged with having attempted to murder. Ids brother, Mr. Henry Samuels, a master furrier and trimming manufacturer, in White Lion-street, Norton!' folg,ate. _ _  residence between eleven and twelve o'clock with siYme The prosecutor stated, that he returnedtoontdss' atan dsy night last, after spriding the evening frien.ls, and having admitted himself with a latch-key, the house being entirely closed, observed a candle burning in the workshop, which was occupied by his brother as a sleeping apartment, and proceeded there to procure a light. On entering the room, which was entirely quiet, ho was astounded at discoverinizdhieszwients wifef and the prisoner in bed together; they their appearance, been only just aroused from titseyi; ,Ire by the abruptness of his entrance. On recovering fr )etit the startling shock produced by ta,•ll Flistressing ,p(if‘ tecle, he ordered them both instantly to. get up and Tali the house; but his wife objected to leal.snht her erhobmii3et- a,tt, such an unseasonable hour, with an in antn at and requested permission to stay in the kitchen till the
The Sun. — 1845-02-27 (London, England)

RAWLINSON--I shall feel it my duty to remand you till Tuesday next; and if in the meantime you are required to appear before the Coroner you will have to go before him. The prisoner was then removed.  Considerable sensation was created at Hampstead on Tuesday by the arrival of a mounted messenger in the early part of the day, who inquired for Bynell, the postman, for the  purpose, it was understood, of accompanying him to town in order to identify a man, said to be in custody, answering the description of one of the three men who bad accosted him on the night of the murder of Mr. Delarue, and wished him to buy a razor hone. The circumstance which led to the above-mentioned occurrence, and which induced a general belief that the capture of at least one of the murderers had been effected, was as follows :—Shortly before twelve o'clock on Monday night Inspector Martin, of the City police, received information at the station-house in Smithfield, that there was a man in a state of intoxication at the bar of the Cross Keys, in St. John-street, who was exhibiting hones for sale, and who, in other respects, resembled the description given of one of the supposed murderers. He instantly dispatched some of his men to that place, and the man in question was taken into custody, and at once conveyed to the station, where he was detained till evidence was prccured from Hampstead. Suffice it to say, that he was not identified as one of the party alluded to, and his whereabout having been accurately ascertained, he was permitted to depart. It appears that Mr. Hilton, baker, who first heard the cries of murder whilst on Haverstock-terrace, was greatly mistaken in the statement he made before the jury, that the place where the body was found was distant half a mile from where he stood when those cries reached him. The ground has been accurately measured, and the distance of the spot where the body was found from Haverstock-tcrrace is 460 vards, whilst the exact distance of the place from the Swiss Cottage is 640 yards. Upon a minute examination of the marks of blood alluded to at the inquest, found upon the second rail of the stile near which the body was discovered, it appears that the marks are those of the fingers of a man's left hand. When Mr. Defame was found he had his glove on his left band, but no marks of blood were visible upon it. Those persons who have alreacAr been announced as coming, forward-to p'rbVirifirat—fitzt eneWittiiid three men answering` the description of the supposed murderers are not the only ones who were stopped in the vicinity of Hampstead on the night of Friday last. On Tuesday afternoon a gentleman on horseback went to the Yorkshire Grey, and informed Mr. Neal, the landlord, that he had been stopped, and had had money demanded of him by three men in the Fiuchley-road on the evening of Friday last. The name of this gentleman, who is a medical man, and who left his card with Mr. Neal, stating that he should be ready to give evidence upon the point, is Mr. Creforpe, of No. 5, Henry-street, Avenueroad.  MONEY MARKET and
The Sun. — 1845-07-24 (London, England)

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--John Johnson, alias Jack Mutton, aged 23, was indicted for assaulting Thomas Harrison on the 9th of January, and stealing three sovereigns and other money, in all amounting to 71. 155., and a silver watch, at the parish of Leek.  Mr. Greaves and Mr. Yardley cenducted the case for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Me4eyard and Mr. Huddleston.  The prosecutor, a butcher, residing at Brotherton, hed been attending at Leek market, and had left the Crown hut there at a little after twelve on the night of the robbery. As he turned t,ff the Osburne-road, on his way home, into Douseflane, he noticed three men, two of whom passed him without making any observation. Soon after, however, one of the men stopped the horse, while the other twe s-food by the cart in which the prosecutor was. Presently one of them, by whose voice the prosecutor stated he knew him to be a man named Mirfin, who, however, was acquitted of this very crime Qt the List assizes, cried out " Surrender." " What shall I surrender?" inquired the prosecutor. " Your money, or you're a dead man in a moment," said the thief ; to which the intrepid butcher replied, " I think 1 won't surrender." Exasperated by this refusal, the men threw stones at him, and hurt him ; i whereupon he armed himself with his axe, jumped out of his cart, and patting a bold front on, prepared for action. His dog Rover he appealed to in strong language, urging him to bite his assailants, but Rover, from some cause or other, positively declined interfering. The three men were too strong to b. intimidated, and, rushing on the prosecutor, took the axe from him; in the struggle he fell, and they immediately put their hands on his throat and endeavoured to close his mouth ; still he managed to cry " Ob, don't murder nits or you'll certainly be found out and hanged." The robbers used very violent language, and rifled the prosecutor's pockets, who persisted in declaring that his money and watch were taken by Mirfin and the prisoner ; but it appeared that on the very night he stated to a Mr. Underhill that it was Mirfin and a man named Plant who had robbed him. Both of the latter were tried and acquitted at the last Spring Assissa. An accomplice, one Joseph Candy, stated that he was drinking with the prisoner and Joseph Johnson at a public-house at Leek on the evening of the robbery, and that afterwards, as they went through the Bradford toll-gate, the prosecutor camp up and passed through the gate. The witness declared himself to be the man who stood at the horse's head, and detailed the circumstances of the robbery much as the prosecutor himself had done. Most of the material portions of Candy's evidence were corroborated by the testimony of other witnesses. An alibi, most satisfactorily proved as far as regarded Mirfin and Johnson, clearly showed that the prosecutor was quite mistaken as to their identity.  Mr. METEYA RD addressed the jury for the prisoner. Mr. Justice PATTESON summed up, and the jury soon found the prisoner—Not Guilty. In the Nisi Prins Court no case was tried which calls for a report.  MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Lincoen, July 22.
The Sun. — 1845-03-18 (London, England)

TEN-DAL.) ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—Reuben Reddish, aged 20, a framework knitter, was charged with stabbing and wounding, at Mansfield, on the 20th of last December, liytha Ann Haves. Mr. Dennison appeared on the part of the prosecution, and Mr. Willmore for the prisoner.  The prisoner and the prosecutrix both live at Mansfield, and the young man had been paying his addresses to the latter; but on the Sunday preceding the day in question she had informed him it was her intention not to continue the connexion. The prosecutrix was living with her mother, and on the morning of the 20th of December the prisoner called at the house to breakfast. He began to interrogate the young woman as to her having told hint she did not intend to keep company with him any longer, and she said she did not. He said, " Must we then part?" To which she replied, " Yes." He then said, there would be blood ' come of it ; and she replied, " Let it be so.'" The prisoner was not slow to fulfil his prediction, for he immediately went to the kitchen, where he armed himself with a large carvingknife, and commenced a ferocious attack upon the girl. She took up a chair to defend herself, through the bottom of which, in attempting to strike her, he made several thrusts. He succeeded in striking her in several places, inflicting wounds on her arm, hand, and right breast. Prosecutor was at last borne to the ground, and while the prisoner was in the act of rushing upon her with his knife, the mother of the girl threw herself upon him in front, and saved her from the intended blow. The force, however, with which he was making the stab, knocked the poor woman down. The prisoner also fell, and when on the floor made many attempts to wound the prosecutrix, the mother attempting to save her daughter. Eventually, the girl got away, and then the prisoner rose and went out. He did not quit the neighbourhood, but sauntered up and down before the house for some time. He WA, at length given into the custody of a policeman. The case was clearly proved against him, and the jury found a verdict of Guilty. A former conviction was proved to have taken place in IS-t3.  The Learned JUDGE, after animadverting. with severity on the prisoner's conduct, sentenced him to be transported for life. The remaining criminal cases were disposed of this morning (Saturday), but were of a trifling nature. The causes were not commenced until this day, and.were all tried by a quarter past four,: including a special jury • the dispute in that cause being between old men, as to winch was entitled to a piece of land, about live square yards in size. The civil business at Derbv, for which county the commission will be opened on Monday, is also expected to be very light. In this county, taking it as a whole, the business has been lighter than for years past.  NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Aylesbury, March 14.
The Sun. — 1845-03-18 (London, England)

THE HAMPSTEAD MURDER. —ln addition to the mass of evidence which has already been laid before the public with regard to the investigations before Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and Mr. Rawlinson, the magistrate, as to the late horrid murder o•f Mr. James Delarue, some particulars have been brought to light, having a tendency to substantiate more fully the guilt of the accused party. From the statement made by Inspector Gray, of the S division, and who, from the period of the discovery of the diabolical deed, has been indefatigable in his exertions to get up all the evidence in his power relative to the case, it appears that on Friday last he received information that a young man named Thibblewaite, whose father keeps a chandler's shop at Finchley, could give some important information about the murder, he (the inspector) instituted a most diligent inquiry, and after endeavouring, but without success, to meet with the young man alluded to, at length found out his uncle, who for some time past has kept a shop in Yorkshire Greyyard, Hampstead, adjacent to where the body of Delarue was taken, and remained until after the holding of the coroner's inquest. The uncle communicated to the inspector, without thu slightest reservation, all that he had heard from his nephew, the latterof whom has made the following statement :—" On the night of the murder I accompanied the constables towards the field with the stretcher, but I ran forward, and on arrivmg at the spot where the body was lying, I saw a man in conversation with I3a'dock, the officer. I said to the man, 'is he dead?' and he replied, 'Oyes, he is quite dead. I have felt his hand, and he has no page.' As soon as the stretcher came up the body was removed, and I, with the constables, proceeded up the field. The young man I have spoken of went with us, and he requested that I would allow him to light his cigar, which I permitted him to do from a lamp belonging to one of the constables who had asked ins to carry it for him. I returned the lamp to the officer, and leaving the party turned off to the right; the man went of in another direction towards the Swiss Cottage." Thibblewaite describes the person to whom reference has been made by, him, as being about 23 years of age, and wearing either a cloak or a cape; he is quite satisfied that he should be able to recognise him if he were to see him again, as a strong light was thrown upon his features by the lamp .when he ignited therewith his cigar. Inspector Gray attended yesterday at Marylebone I'olice•court (the young man, Thibblevraite, also being present), and the state of the facts above narrated were made '.:own to the chief clerk, Mr. Fell. Thibblewaite will, no doubt, have an opportunity afforded him of seeing the prisoner in Newgate, and in the event of the latter being iuentified by him, he (the former) will of course be subpeened as a witness at the trial. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. •