The Sun. — 1844-09-17 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE. ,es' The Central Criminal Court resumed its sittings iev terday. There are very few prisoners for trial, and ° the one or two cases possess any features of interest to, thepublic. The Commissioners present at the sitting ter Court, were the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Chapman shall, Hughes, and Hooper, the Sheriffs, &c. William Burt, the poor-rate collector of the parteja of St. John and St. Margaret, Westminster, was f° guilty of embezzlement, but sentence was deferred• • r At Guildhall two coal-porters, named James Feri4er, ton and James Johnson, were brought before Mr. • man Hughes, charged with assaulting John Corso,' to City policeman. The policeman had endeavourn, eject them from a public-house, by desire of the if0"0, lord, and they, to make use of their own express'egis had " polished off" the policeman. They we' committed to hard labour for a month. 000 Sarah Higgins, a servant, applied for a 5110 against a person whose name she believed to be ',al' and who had gone to Nottingham, as she had heotia, formed. He slept for a few nights in an adjoining o 1 and it being her custom not to lock her room, in `Ticie' fire, he found his way into her bed. She had livered of a child, which was in the care of her P;.01,0' Upon examination it appeared that she had no et?! peerative evidence, and Mr. Alderman Hughes, for tac sent, declined to summon the supposed father. ...dill Edward Reynolds, a greengrocer, was senteel;ifot Clerkenwell, to pay a fine of 121., or be impris°lloo three months, for furious driving, by which a value thirty guineas, had been killed. sheet At Queen-square yesterday, Catherine Stuta-,10. forty-five years of age, was charged with erne e'reo' three young children named Tyler. The pris°,a,boto habited with the father of the children, and tt, she was supplied with money to purchase them was in the habit of feeding them on paunehl.,fthe appeared that she would frequently take then' the hair of the head and dash them from one end of room to the other ; that she had knocked therlegoe and jumped on them ; and on one occasion hau,,,a, , boiling water over one of them. She was remau"'"Oatr A rather curious charge of felony was made 1it.,,j0,414 borough-street by Mr. Van Bever, shoemaker. volt, Burlington-arcade, who accused Miss Rebecca v ebor young woman, elegantly dressed, who keeps :0 fn' shop at No. 54, in the same arcade, and Iv" o 1011,: cently in the service of Mr. Van Bever, as sh°P:th and Adele Dupierre, his present shopwoman, itgalr bing him of a large quantity of shoes. The Plnftbe had missed some shoes, and had accused DuPier_,.reteall theft, when she stated that she had been insta% 01, Cook to steal the property, upon which both C_ °°,t Co' Dupierre were given into custody. It appears netio Loftus, late of the Guards, considers Miss Cook teiorost " pet of pets," and on hearing that she was in vile, proceeded to the station to procure her libel; t 0 uoa Not being able to succeed in this, he attended befso:l9 magistrate with his solicitor to watch proceedird ea fdif case having been gone into, and Dupierre ca .de her defence, she said she had pawned the shoes u_ the direction of Mr. Van Bever, who had told her Wea, ei cuse Miss Cook of having incited her to pawn the c in order that she might have the money. Misse,o6lt°'f however, knew nothing about the shoes beinf P rjefP, and never had any part of the money. Mr. a° )I.ltb was in amazement. Dupierre was remanded. „pOll Cook was discharged, and Colonel Loftus taking ,-04 gold-headed cane, hurried after the " pet of pets," abbe her warmly by the hand in congratulation at her set at liberty. oftl' Henry Thomas Abbott, porter in the servieo°lloool Dash. 155, ,„..a, ehargva ivitr! stolen three hats and a gold ring, the former artier property of his mistress, and the latter that abet was fully committed for trial from Marylebone• „err At Greenwich George Falkner, a linendraper4o: ing on business at 3, Royal-hill, Greenwich, was bib before Mr. Cottingham upon a warrant, charge 00 feloniously assaulting Louisa Brown, aged 16 )rtalt The prosecutrix lived in the prisoner's family as seo. and such had been the effect produced on her ;;00et; conduct, that she had attempted suicide. The P,,,,r-st ib" who denied the charge, was bound over to appear Central Criminal Court. An unnatural brute, named George Smith. far DO, mitted in default of sureties from Wandsworth,epalle• ing committed a ferocious assault upon his ag and mother. of °if; John Howes, a Customs locker, in the empleA oisaie Crown, who has been lately promoted, and lees advanced from 571. to 1101. per annum, was ros'd before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames-office, oii,,rt/4.charged with stealing a quantity of rum, the Pr" P" rto , the East and West India Doek:Company on their Plapin He was convicted and sentenced to seven' weeks sonment with hard labour. yt A seaman, named George Alexander, was 15° ;hot ~f fore Mr. Broderip, in custody of Portch, 91 Di with feloniously stabbing Mr. John Tomlinson, the d' mate of the ship Sultana, from Van Diemen' with intent to murder or do him grievous bodilf„Dd tb While off Gravesend, on Saturday, the inste,h-sta,s; prisoner had a quarrel, in the course of which yi laid hold of him by the collar and the throat. aid 01; prisoner stabbed him under the ear. It was stale,' the prisoner's friends reside in Bath or Brista remanded.