The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.— Matthew Deioine, a young
man of respectable appearance, was brought before the
Lord Mayor under the following remarkable circum-
stances:—

A cabman--I was called at about 10 minutes past 12
on Saturday night to take a young woman who was
in a state of insensibility on the pavement in Cheapside,
to Camomile-street, Bishopsgate. She was, after some
delay, put into the cab by the prisoner and another per-
son, and the prisoner got in after she was placed there.
Mine is a Hansom cab, and in consequence of what was
said to me by somebody in the crowd around her, I raised
the trap, by which I could see what was going on inside,
and I observed the prisoner acting in such a manner as
induced me to ask him what he was about with the
young woman. He then appeared to desist, and ,when
we got on some way further, I again raised the trap,
and I saw him repeat the conduct to which I had ob-
jected, and again I called to him. He then said—" All
right, Cabby." I said it was not all right, and having
heard that the young woman who accompanied him was
a virtuous person, I jumped down, pulled open the
doors of the cab, and found the female quite uncon-
scious, and the prisoner in such a state as convinced
me that his intentions towards her were by no means
delicate or honourable. I was informed by somebody
that the prisoner was her brother-in•law, and I said, "If
that's the case, he is a perfect scoundrel," and I called a
policeman ; and the owner of the house in Camomile-
street, to which I took her, who really is her brother-in-
law, upon hearing my account of the matter, charged
him at the station-house with the assault.
The Lord Mayor—ln what state WAS the prisoner
when you took him into custody ?
Witness—He was intoxicated.
The prisoner—I was so drunk that I know nothing at
all about it. I have no recollection at all about what
took place. lam sure I could have done no harm to
anybody.
Sarah Williams said—l am 21 years of age and single,
and I live with my sister and brother-in-law, a respect-
able tradesman. Ido not know the prisoner. I was in
Cheapside on Saturday night, perhaps between 9 and 10
o'clock— (the witness had no accurate recollection of the
time any more than of the occurrence which had taken
place)—with a female cousin of mine, who came from
Sheerness. We walked on through streets the names of
which I am not acquainted with, and my cousin went into
a shop to inquire about shirt-making. I was waiting for
her outside, and the prisoner came up and said to me,
" What are you waiting for ?" I said I was waiting for
my friend. He then said, " I wish you would come and
take a glass of wine with me." I said, "No, I am not in
the habit of doing so." I refused him at first, but with
great persuasion I consented. My friend, whom I left in
the shop missed me. I don't know where I went with
the prisoner, but it was to some public-house. I drank a
glass of wine, port I think it was, and when I came out
I fell immediately senseless.
The prisoner—When I met her she was intoxicated.
The Lord Mayor (to the witness)—Had you been
drinking ?

Witness—Not at all ; I had taken nothing but what
I took with him.

The Lord Mayor—Do you recollect getting into the
cab?

Witness—l recollect nothing more ; I did not come
to my senses till about eight o'clock on Sunday morning.
The Lord Mayor—Have you been visited since this
occurrence by a medical man ?
Witness—No ; there is no occasion whatever ; I have
sustained no personal injury.
The Lord Mayor—Did you take more than one glass
of wino with him ?

Witness—l cannot say that I had more to drink than
one glass. I was at no other public-house, and I was
at no other house of any kind.
The Lord Mayor—Did he give you any money ?
Witness—No.
The Lord Mayor—And you were not at all intoxi-
cated

Witness—No more than I am now.
The Lord Mayor—Could you find out the house at
which you had the glass of wine, or the shop in which
you lett your friend ?
Witness—l cDuld not.

The brother-in-law of the prosecutrix said that, upon
hearing of the conduct of the prisoner, he at once gave
the brutal fellow in charge. It was, he added, most
satisfactory to know that the injury which might have
been intended had not at all been inflicted.
A respectable person here stopped forward, and said
the prisoner must have been in such a condition as no-
body had ever seen him placed in before, when such a
charge was brought against him, and begged to be al-
lowed to bail him.

The prisoner—l know nothing at all about it, I ca❑
swear, any more than the young woman, and I am sure
I never meant her any harm.
The Lord Mayor—The charge is a very serious one,
and I hope you will take a lesson from your present
sufferings. I shall consent to take two good securities
in 501. each, and the prisoner's own surety in 1001. to
meet the charge.

WESTMINSTER.—ALLEGED NEGLECT AT THE An-
MIRALTY.-A female named Hannah Archer, residing at
No. 28, Vincent-street, Vincent-square, applied for the
assistance of the magistrate under the following circum-
stances :—She stated that her husband was a seaman on
board her Majesty's shipthe Hawke, which was attached
to the fleet in the Baltic under Admiral Baynes—
that she had received letters from him, authorising her
to receive his half-pay—and that she had repeatedly ap-
plied to the Admiralty for the money, but was unable
to get any.
Mr. Arnold inquired how much was due to her ?
Applicant—About six months, your worship. The
ship left Sheerness on the 6th f June, when my hus-
band says that my half-pay ticket was left for me by him.
Mr. Arnold—Have you heard from your husband
lately ?.

Applicant—Yes, your worship, on the 27th of July.
An officer of the court said that the half-pay ticket
ought to have been sent by the clerk of the ship to the
Admiralty.
Applicant—My husband states that it has been sent
to the Admiralty ; and when I apply there they say they
have not received it. I have been a dozen times to the
Admiralty.
Mr. Arnold—There must be great mismanagement
somewhere. How many children have you ?
Applicant—Two, sir. The one in my arms and an-
other young child. lam in want of necessaries.
Mr. Arnold—lt is a very hard case, indeed. I ha've
no power with the Admiralty that can be of the least use
to you, but if you will produce me the letters you have
received from your husband to satisfy me that yourstory
his true, I will give you some temporary relief from the
poor-box.
The applicant said she would do so. subsequently she
stated that she was not the only female whose husband
was in the Baltic fleet who was in the situation she was.

MARYLEBONE. ATTEMPTED MURDER, OF A
POLICEMAN WITH A BUTCHER'S KNIFE.—ATROCIOUS
CASE.—Dennis Daly, a young man of very determined
appearance, was brought before Mr. Broughton on the
e:targe of having attempted, with a large knife belong.
on„ 4, a pork butcher, to etab rolice:conatAble Leveret;

68 S, by whom he had in the first instance been taken
into custody for another offence ; and it will be seen
from the subjoined evidence that, but for the resolute
conduct of a female, the officer's life would probably
have been sacrificed.

Leverett, on being sworn, said—Between 9 and 10
o'clock on Saturday night, as I was on duty in the
Hampstead-road, Isaw the prisoner with his band at the
pocket of a woman who was looking in at a window. She
almost immediately exclaimed, " You good-for nothing
blackguard, you have been robbing me." She then gave
him in charge, but on ascertaining that she bad not lost
anything, she refused to go to the station-house to make
a complaint. I saw that her handkerchief bad been
partly drawn out of her pocket. While conveying him
along Henry-street, he resisted, and struck me a violent
blow ; and a large mob, amounting to no fewer than 200
persons, speedily collected at the spot, and many of the
mob endeavoured to effect a rescue. The prisoner struck
me and we fell, and while we were buth struggling to-
gether upon the ground, he kicked me several times with
all his might upon the legs; he also knocked do an a
butcher, who, upon my calling to him in the Queen's
name, came to my assistance. I got him into the butcher's
shop which was close by, there to await further aid, when
the mob, consisting no doubt of a great many of the
prisoner's companions, tore down the window-board,
upon which a large quantity of pork was placed, and
threw nearly the whole of the joints into the road.
Most of them were picked up and stolen by some of the
lawless parties. The mob swore that they would pull
the shop to pieces if I.did not let the prisoner go, upon
which he (prisoner) seized from the counter a large knife,
and tried therewith to extricate himself by cutting his
necktie. I laid hold of the handle to prevent him from
effecting his object, when he said, "You —, if I can't
get my tie off, I'll stab you," when he contrived to draw
the blade through my hand, thereby inflicting cuts, al-
though not serious ones, upon some of my fingers. The
butcher's wife, Mrs. Somers, darted forward and wrested
the weapon from his grasp. He then, in a great rage,
laid hold of another knife, again swearing that be would
stab me and be made an attempt to plunge it into my
chest. In this sanguinary endeavour he would perhaps
have succeeded, had not Mrs. Somers arrested in some
measure the fearful force with which he was about to use
the said formidable implement, and managing by a dex-
terous effort to disarm him as before. In proof of the
narrow escape which I have had, it will be perceived
that there is a cut in the breast part of my coat, where
the knife entered. (The. cut was here shown to the ma-
gistrate.) Other officers came to my assistance, and the
prisoner was ultimately conveyed to the station, and
locked up.

Mrs. Somers, and William Somers, her husband, gave
evidence for the most part corroborative of that of the
officer. Somers said that he was repeatedly struck and
kicked by some of the mob while upon the ground, and
that he could ill afford the loss which he had sustained
through the outrageous conduct of the multitude.
Mr. Broughton said he should make a remark on the
charge.sheet as to the firm and good conduct of the con-
stable under the trying circumstances in which he was
placed. Much credit was also due to Mrs. Somers, and
he thought it only right that the commissioners should
be advised to make some compensation to Somers for
the loss of meat.

The prisoner, who said that he was merely trying to
cut his neck tie, and denied having attempted to injure
the constable, was committed for trial for "actempting
to stab."

He was then locked up.

SOUTHWARK.—SINGULAR CHARGE OF ROBBERY
AGAINST THE WIFE OF A TRADESMAN.—Mrs. Ann
Downes, the wife of a bedstead-maker in the Borough,
was fully committed for trial for the following robbery :
Mary Neale, the wife of a timber merchant in Bear-
lane, said that on the 31st of July she bought a bedstead
at the shop of the prisoner's husband and directed it to
be sent home. A short time afterwards a man, accom-
panied by Mrs. Downes, brought it to her house, when
witness asked her to remain until her husband came
home to pay for it. While she was there witness, the
prisoner, and a lodger had three sixpenny-worths of gin
"to wet the bedstead," during which time Mrs. Downes
took a fancy to some fowls and offered to buy them.
Witness believing her to be a re'pectable female, took
her into the parlour and showed her some articles of fur-
tore she had recently purchased, and, pointing to a box
standing on one of the tables as containing all her saving,,
said if she lost it it would be her ruin. After remaining
there for a short time the prisoner left very quickly, say-
ing she would return in a moment or so. Witness locked
the door of the parlour, and a little afterwards her husband
came in, when he said he would go and get the money
from the box. She gave him the key of the door, but,
much to her surprise, she found that the box was gone.
No one else could have stolen the box ; therefore, when
Mrs. Downes came to the house again, she gave her into
custody. Witness remembered that when she left the
house she had something under her thaw), but she had
no idea that it was her box. The latter contained 4/.
15s. in crown pieces, several old coins (one of which was
an American shilling, with a hole in it), and some jewel-
lery. When Mrs. Downes was searched at the police
station, witness saw the American shilling and a cap
taken from her, both of which had been locked up in the
box, the key of which her husband always kept.
It was contended by Mr. Solomon, on behalf of the
accused, that the cap was given her by Mrs. Neale after
they had drank the gin, and that the American coin had
been in her possession some years. As for the box, she
knew nothing of that, and her reason far 1.-..ving tho
kouse was to go home and fetch the money to pay for
the fowls she had purchased. As soon as she came back
with that she was given into custody.
The whole of the depositions having been taken, at
the request of Mr. Solomon the magistrate accepted
bail for her attendance at the next Surrey Sessions.