The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

TIM POLICE COURT&

MANSION-HOUSE.
EMIIIiZZLBSIENT BY • MIAC&NTILI CLIME. —S. M.
Phillip was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the onstody
of Michael Haydon, the officer, upon the charge of having
embezzled several sums of money, the property of his em.
crioyen Messrs. Allnett, of Mark-lane, wane and spirit
merchants.

It wee the prisoner's ditty to receive money and enter it in
the books; end it was proved that he had given receipts
for three several sums, without having entered them in the
books, and appropriated the money to his own use.
Upset the Het examination of the prisoner, a few days
ago' a man of very respectable appearance proposed to bail
the prisoner, after having op .ken in the highest terms of his
character ;
The Lord Mayer, by the 'dice of Mr. (ioodmaa, the chief
clerk, refused to take bail, very much to the chagrin of the
applicant.

Mr. Humphreys, for the prosecution, said he was sorry to
be ebliged to call evidence to show that his lordebip t•d
acted most judiciously in declining to accept sureties, as the
prisoner had been previously convicted.
Mrs. Emma Phillips, the wile of Mr. T. Phillips, en-
graver, stated that she knew the prise nor, and that in the
year 1848, at the Summer Assist's at Warwick, she h,,,1
attended as a witness for his prosecution, when he plesded
guilty to a charge of embezzlement.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
WORSHIP-S VREET.
Ourneoz trent • Simile's's OPPICEIL—Mr. Samuel
[Alabaster, a beershop keeper or is Tabernacle-
! walk, Finsbury, w-s brought up on a warrant charged with
the following outrageous attack upon Joseph Howlings,
resistant to Stomata, the sheriff's otficer.
The complainant, whose head was enveloped in bandages,
stated that an execution having been levied upon the
defendant's goods under a wilt of fieri facial on Tuesday
last, he was belt in possession to take care of the furs.iture,
and ever since he had been so he had been subjected to the
most opprobrious treatment from the defendant nimselt, who
had not on: constantly assailed him with the grossest abuse,
but also violently assaulted him on different emersion', with
the veld at object of inducing him from fear to relinquish
poestaaion. He, however, maintained his position until 12
o'clock en Saturday night, when the defendant, after closing
the house, and directing a friend of Lis named Thackeray to
bolt and chain up the uoors, in a state apparently of great
excitement entered the bar parlour, where witness was seated,
and accused him of !writ g scandalously insulted
his daughter on the preceding afternoon. The ac-
cusetion was wholly without foundation ; and, having
told him that he had not interfered with the
young woman any further than was absolutely necessary to
prevent the forcible removal of part of the goods, which was
being' carried on ander her direction", and which thsy bad
succeed-el in effecting notwithstanding, end carrying away
from the premises, the defendant e :claimed that all the
sheriffs' officer' might go to and that he was determined
to take away whatever he thought proper, and would do so
in spite of them. He then asked him whether he intended
to be " civil" or the reverse, and on witness repi, ing that
he could not allow the things to be taken away, the defea.
dant called his friend Thackesay into the room, and ordered
him at once to take down • full length portrait which
was hanging over the mantel piece. Thackeray pro-
ceeded to do so, and was about to remove it from
the room, when witness endeavoured to stop him.
but was immediately attacked by the defendant, who
seized him by the collar, and, forcing him back Into
a corner, commenced beating him about the face and
head till the blood streamed from • deep gash under one
of his eyes and poured on to his clothes. He called
out loudly for assistance, and begged for mercy, but the de-
fendant told him it was perfectly melees for him to attempt
ressistaece, and at the same time renewed the attack, and
forced him down upon a sofa, where he held him down by
his hair for about 20 minutes, during which several artic:es
were removed from the premises, including the picture
before mentioned, which was taken out at the back and
carried away. He then entreated the defendant to allow
him to sit up, which he at length did, but placed himself in
a chair in front of him, to prevent him from rising and op-
posing the removal of the property, and he was detained in
the house till the following morning, when he succeeded in
privately oespatching a message to the officer of the sheriff,Slo-
man, who sent down two other men to relieve him, and wit-
ness immediately made his way to the station-house, his face
still bleeding, as it had continued to do all night, but he
was there advised to apply at this court for redrew, and
having bad his injuries dressed by a surgeon, he came here
and obtained a warrant for the defendant's apprehension.
Slomao, who was in attendance, said that the conduct the
defendant had pursued throughout there proceedings had
been characterised by such lawless violence and determina-
tion to set the law at defiance, that he felt himself compelled,
for the protection of his servants in cases of a similar de-
scription, to press the case against him with as much severity
as he could. ... _ _ _ _

liammill said that the charge was of far too serious a
nature to admit of his dealing with it in a summary manner,
and he should, therefore, direct the depostions to be taken,
and send it for the consideration of a jury at the sessions.
In the meantime he would accept substantial bail for the de-
fendant's Suture appearance to meet the charge, which be
should fix at, the defendant himself in 501., and two sureties
in 25!. each.
The bad was shortly after procured, and the defendant
thereupon released from custody.