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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 30.

MARYLEBONE.—JZob Salt, a sullen-looking
middle-aged man, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Long, charged with the following most atrocious con-
duct towards George Kemp, living in Haverstock-place,
Camden-to

Complair ant, around whose head was a bandare, de-
posed, that on the previous Saturday he was in the corn-
pany of the prisoner at a beer-shop, and that a quarrel
arose between them, some fighting ensued, and com-
plainant knocked prisoner down.
Mr. Long—Now come to the biting off your ear.
Where did that take place ?—Complainant : After the
quarrel I looked into a beer-house in Ferdinand-street,
on my way home, and while on the settle, partaking
quietly of a glass of ale, the prisoner entered ; ke sat
down close to me, and after remaining quiet for some
minutes, he, without saying a word; threw one arm
round my waist, and seizing me firmly by the collar, bit
off part of one of my ears. The piece fell from his
mouth, and was picked up from off the floor ; some par-
ties hearing me cry out came to my assistance, and
rescued me after much difficulty from the prisoner's hold.
Prisoner also endeavoured to fasten his teeth into my
nose, and would no doubt have succeeded in his object
had not my cries had the effect of bringing instant aid.
Other witnesses were examined touching the brutal
outrage.

The portion of the ear which had been torn away by
prisoner's teeth wits produced by Jesse, one a the war-
rant officers of the court ; it was nearly two inches in
length and about half as inch wide.
The prisoner, who had scarcely anything to say for
himself, was fined fit., the magistrate at the same time
remarking that but for the previous quarrel and ad-
mitted assault he should have sent the case to the
sessions.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Herring, the relieving officer of
the parish of St. Mary's, Newington, attended before
the Hon. G. C. Norton, in compliance with a message
from that magistrate, to answer some questions, and
give an explanation of his conduct as regarded some
poor people, who had been sent to him from the court
to be relieved. For several days past a considerable
portion of the time of the magistrates at this court has
been occupied by the exceedingly distressing complaints
of the poor of the district entitled to relief from the pa-
rish, but more particularly the parish of Newington.
The applicants frpm this parish not only complained
of not receiving relief, but of the harsh and unkind
treatment which they received at the hands of the
officers. On Friday there were not less than twenty-
seven cases from Newington parish alone, and Mr.
Norton, finding that they were cases in which the par-
ties should have been relieved by the parish officers, and
not from the poor-box, desired Dixon, one of the sum-
inoning officers, to take three of the worst cases to Mr.
Herring, and tell him they were deserving his imme-
diate attention. From these three Herring selected one
woman, and said that she had been before the board of
guardians on the Thursday, when she was offered three
leaves of bread, but that she refused them ; and believ-
ing, therefore, that she had imposed on the magistrate.
requested him to take her back to the court. Dixon did
so, when the woman at once acknowledged she had been
before the board, and refused to accept the three loaves
for this reason, that they would be of no use whatever
to herself and her family in the state they were in. Her
husband was ill, and unable to ears. anything ; her three
children in a state of nakedness, and a room without a
fire, and she would ask what use:three leaves of bread
0001,1 be to her with a family in such a state.
Dixon, the officer, corroborated the statement of the
poor woman as respected the state of her children, and said
said that a greater scene of misery and wretchedness he
never witnessed than that which the unfortunate child-
ren presented. He also said that he had learned that
the persin whose duty it was to visit the family, and
on whose report the guardians acted, had never gone
upstairs to see the state of the children.
_ _

Mr. Norton observed that this was precisely what he
thought. From what he had seen of the guardians of
Newington parish he Lelieved them to be most
humane and kind ; and he felt perfectly certai❑ that if
a proper representation had been made to them, as it
should have been, they would not have allowed the poor
family to remain in their present.wretched state, or con-
fine their order to three loaves of dry bread.
Mr. Herring (in an impudent tone—Why charge me
with all this ? I was only acting on the board's order.
Mr. Norton—l'll tell you why ; because it was your
duty to have visited this poor family yourself, and not
to have allowed somebody else to go, who merely asked
a few questions at the door, and then made a false re-
nresent•ition to the guardians as to the actual state of
the finally. I have had to do with a great many re-
lieving in my time, but I can say that I have
never had to complain of the conduct of any one of them
to the same extent that I have of yours. There are at
present no less than seventeen applications in the outer
office who have been refused relief from your parish, and
insist on your inquiring into their cases, and relieving
them, or dealing properly with them.
A decent looking female who stood in the witneAs-
box, addressing the magistrate, said that her husband
had been ill for some time, and her two children not
much better, and all three, as welt es herself, had not
tasted a morsel of food for a day and a half, and though
she had represented these facts to Mr. Herring, he re-
fused to do anything for her.
Mr. Norton—Thee, but for the half•crown I gave you
last evening, you might have been with your family with-
out a morsel until this time, so far as Mr. Herring is
concerned ?—Poor woman—Yes, sir, that we might
until this morning, when he (Mr. Herring) assisted ice
with two loaves; but what are two loaves to a sick
family ?
Mr. Norton—Now, Mr. Herring, you hear the state-
ment of this poor woman, and I request that you will
at once attend to her and the other cases, and if you do
not, I shall know then what to do.
Mr. Herring here snatched up his hat, and left the
court in a hurried manner, and certainly not accompa-
nied by the blessings of his auditory.

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inEoSnTs AclhlaNrgSi
charging
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refusing to pay a cabman
Monte a g 1 e appeared to a
his legal fare.
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thethe hired
ChdaerfelensdaSnet aorns,tthe he6ctohmnpilta„ finaronmt,
torn of the Haymarket. He drove to the
Athenaeum
Club, and then carried the defendant to his residence,
saidthe rhe
rank wrt h(bty-
7, Park•street, Westminster. The servant brought com-
plainant out sixpence as his fare, but he demandol a
shillinc, for the distance.
His lordship admitted the facts, but said that ho had
been in the habit frequently of riding the same distance
for sixpence, and he should be very glad to have the
queation settled by measurement. He should, how-
ever, be happy to pay the money to the cabman, and
remunerate him for his loss of time. He could then
have the distance measured without further troubling
him.
It was sugge
toy
by the magistrate that the better
be deposit ss. e ach, and have the
ground measured before the cabman was paid. In pur-
suance of this suggestion the distance
was measured,
and proved to be 90 yards over the mile.

THAMES.--Leteis Colgan and Pa y
h ,prNiseolaseorns:sltarne
landlady,
wife, a respectable young couple, tvernen-e Cowan,r his
stealing a silver watch, hair guard and g ldhake-ye,dinwtihthe
said her bus.d welling-house, No.t
L't•lleY, where
thezirasr.eTl:dogrAipngso.n,
band's silver watch, to which a guard and key
tached, was hanging up in the kitchen on Fridawyetnreorant. inn'. She last saw the watch in its usual place at 11
o'clock. She went out twice in the course of the morn-
ing, and on the second occasion met one of her single
young men lodgers, named Campbell, who had a fur-
nished room, and partook of his meals in the kitchen,
coming in as she went out. At 3 o'clock she missed the
wateb. She did not mention her loss to any one until
her husband came home at half-past 6in the evening,
'mod then suspicion fell on the prisoners, who were at
floras the greater part of the day, and went out before
her husband came home.
The witness was cross-examiaed by Mr. Daniel for
the prisoners, and she 'mild not assign a reason for sus-
pecting the prisoners instead of the single young man
lodger. The witness was under examination a long
time, and the time of the court was wasted, for the real
commenced her e
thief was pointed out in court before Mrs. Thompson
evidence
Mr. Crawley, assistant to Mr Woods, pawnbroker,
produced the watch, and it was
n
not pawned by either
of the prisoners, but by the single
alluded to by Mrs. Thompson, and wh out
om he pointed
in court.
Mr. Yardley—There is net a tittle of eviden
the prisoners. Discharge them insltaonutnlyg, maeanedn t thealgleoadingsetr
single young man lodger stand in their place.
Henry Campbell, 20, was then arraigned, and de-
scribed himself as a casemaker.
B-fore the case against him proceeded, Mr. Cowan
(of the firm of Cowan and Brabant), water-proofers in
the City, complained that his son had been given into
custody on a most unfounded charge, and had suffered
the de4radation of being placed in a felon's dock, where
he had stood for the last half hour. Ms son was his
traveller, in the receipt of a guinea per day, besides ex-
penses, and was an honest and respectable young man.
lie vval very indignant that his son should have been
placed in such a disgraceful position.
Mr. Yardley-4 don't wonder, sir, at your indigna-
tion ; I must say yoer son and his wife are entirely exo-
nerated, and ought not to have been given into custody.
Mr. Crawley said the watch was pawned for 11. on
Friday afternoon. lie thought the prisoner Campbell
was the man who pawned it,

Police-constable Lovell, No. 345, K, said he had just
searched the prisoner and found 17s. 6d. upon him.
Mr. Yardley—l shall remand this young man until
Thursday next.

WOOLWICH.— TN. Smith, a middle-aged man, by
trade a bricklayer, was charged with having caused the