The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CLERKENWELL.—Joseph Parminter, a railway
constable, was charged with stealing a portmanteau-with
its contents, the property of his masters, the Great
Northern Railway Company.
John Radford said—l am and was constable in the
service of the Great Northern Railway Company in
March, 1854. The prisoner was my sergeant all the
time. On the morning of the 25th of March, 1854,
the prisoner came to me, when I was on duty at
the Somers•town-gate, and ordered me to go round
the potato-market on the line. It was part of my
duty to see that all was safe, and I went. The
round would have taken me half an hour, but I did it
in about 20 minutes, and when I returned I found
the prisoner in my police-box. He had a portman-
teau in his possession, which he was trying to break
open with a piece of iron bar. The portmanteau pro-
duced is the same one. He did break it open, and took
out out the contents and made a parcel of them, and
took them away. He at the same time placed the port-
manteau in a cupboard in the police-office in the station,
where it remained for several days. Then Sergeant
Parminter took it away openly at 12 o'clock in the day.
Some time after an altercation took place between Mrs.
Parminter and a Mrs. Alexander ; and then, on the
26th of May, they brought it to my house with other
things ; they lay there one night, but I said I would
not have them remain there, and they were removed.
Afterwards the portmanteau was brought to my
box at the station, where it remained until Mon-
day week, when, after the charge of the other prisoners,
Sergeant Parminter came to me, about 5 o'clock in the
evening, and said, " I have been sent by Sergeant Wil-
liams to know where the portmanteau is," I told him
that it was in the country.
Mr. Corrie—Was that true ?

Witness—No, it wa,snOt,- your worship ; but he re-
plied, " Let it remain there, and I will get another for
you to take to Mr. Clarke's office as the portmanteau
asked for, for Sergeant Williams has committed depreda-
tions' and has got others into it." I said I would, and
then he asked me to meet him and Williams in the Cale-
donian-road at 12 o'clock on the following day. At 9
o'clock in the morning of that day, however, Parminter
called at my house, at 8, College-grove, Camden-town,
and said, " I have brought this* thing to you" (a
portmanteau produced) "this is it." I replied, "But
it is not so big," when be said, " You mast make it
do ; you can take it to the lower office." I under-
stood that to be the office of Mr. Williams the inspector
of the line, he remarking again, " Sergeant Williams
has committed depredations, and got others into it." I
afterwards met him in Brewer-street, Somers-town,
when be asked me whether I had taken the portmanteau
into the office. I said to him that a metropolitan officer
had had it from me, and I supposed he had taken it
there. Mr. Clark had previously seen the portmanteau,
and marked it. He then replied, " I was dragged into
it." On the same day later, I saw Parminter andeSer-
geant Williams together in Chapel•street, Pentopvil! t
a
had some beer with them, but nothing was said bou
this matter.
i n Constableßadfnrd,s
house, Francis, 0
overhearing
eaS,ridliegp oasceodntvoebrdsaefiord .
wishbut tyooubere:
I he wianeu to cross-
Mr. Corrie asked the prisoner i
ceiving the missing portmanteau
if
examine the witnes our
this ay), when I
maPnrclesdonwerit—n Prisoner—No,
from the ins
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btoutbalil,
hope, will at once disch
tructions that I will give to Mr.
arge me.
Wakeling, that your worship
Mr. Corrie cannot admit you may
come again to-morrow to allow your solicitor to explain
your suggestion.
The prisoner was then removed. d'utf:n7auncedairede-

Tivi ur^BEAT . HAHDCO CS V. DELACOrTh CASE.—Th-e
Lord Chancellor of Ireland stated on Saturday that, in
Mr. E. R. Handcock was not bound as one
the next of kin by any decree, order, or compromise in
ohfis
either
to
opinion,
the
th
of suits, and that, therefore, he was not en-
titled o have ern reheard.
THE SCREW STE &II- SHIP SULTAN. —S OIITHAMPTON;
Monday. —The Sultan steam-ship, which has recently
been converted into a screw, took a private trial trip to•
day, and the speed a tained was highly satisfactory. The
Sultan has also been lengthened, and undergone various
mprovements snd alterations.
SOCIETY OP PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.—On Sa-
tur lay a distinguished company of the nobility and
amat-ur3 of the fine Arts visited the gallery of the above
society, in Pali-mall East, previous to iti being
ttohethDe pukubeliacntdhispdeaeyb.
Duchess
on
fm
Northumberland,n g - t h the
the
edopenednoticedoDuke
and Duchess of Argyll, the Marquis o
digan, Earl and Countess of Ellesemoefr
'Efficgharn, Lord
tess Grosvenor, Earl and Coundtes
LadyMonteagle, Lord
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesburye, ttetryaereldocf
eCeatir:
sweforLthe,nVdoisncpo=
and Lady Overstone, Lord
oarn
and Viscountess Chelsea,
Winchester, the Dean of St. Paul's,
ford, Litchfield, and
and Lady St. Leonards,
the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood,
the Provost of Eton,
Right Hon. Vernon Smith, his Excel-
Labouchere, the
his Excellency Count Lavradio, the
lency Musurus Bey,
Royal Academy, Sir Edwin Landseer,
thedßßish3vopens
the Right Hon. Sir Charles Grey, the Right Hon. Henry
President of the
many me
znbers of the Royal Academy, &c., kc.

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