The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-15 00:00:00

PnLTCE INTRETIGRNCE—Nor 14.

ANSION-HOUSE.—Ma,y Cagan an, 11a,.:-iet
Tar,•ant acre brm.glit hef- re the I,,rd Mayor charged
under the following c,rcuinstances. Mr. Peacock, the
-solicitor to thk, Post-office, attended to watch the case.
Mr. Berry, clerk in the public drawing-office of the
Bank of England, said—This morning, about half-past
nine o'clock, the prisoners came together to the public
drawing-office, and Callan presented to me the branch
bill at seven days produced for 621. 15s. 5d., which was
due this day. We had received information of the
loss of the bill, and I found that it was not en.
dorsed. I asked them if they knew the parties (Messrs.
Hall and Co.) They said no, they did not. I asked
them from whom they brought the bill, and Callan told
me she brought it from a person of the name of Bun.
yard, with whom she stated she had formerly lived as
servant. I asked his address. She said it was in the
City-road, but she could not tell me any address, or any
particulars, except that she thought it was at a carpet
warehouse. I took them to the secretary's office, and
the officer was sent for.

John Spittle (detective) said—Upon being sent for to
the secretary's office this morning, I showed Callan the
bill produced in the presence of the other prisoner, and
asked her if she presented it for payment. She said,
Yes, and that she had been sent with it by a Mr. Bun-
yard, of the City road, with whom she had formerly
lived servant. I asked her name and address, and she
said, " Mary Cross, No. 34, Foley-street, Oxford-street."
I then took thorn both into custody. The other prisoner
gave the name of Harriet Tarrant, No. 16, Great Ed-
ward-street, Regent's-park. When we got outside the
office, Callan said, "I'll tell you the truth. I was not
going to tell them inside." Pointing to Tarrant, she
said, "Her husband picked it up last night, and they
came to me this morning with the bill." Tarrant said
to me that was correct, and that she had given Callan
the note at the police-station. Callan gave me an empty
purse, and said she had it from Tarrant to put the money
in. I have ascertained that the bill was lost in its trans-
mission through the post. They both told me their hus-
bands were waiting outside the Bank, but I could not
find them.

The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoners.
Ann Ri-hton was charged with having stolen a dish.
Mr. Solomon appeared for the prisoner, who is a young
woman of respectable appearance.

Policeman 129 H said—Last evening, at a quarter be-
fore 6 o'clock, as I was going over London-bridge, I saw
the prisoner with two other women. She left the other
women and overtook a van that was passing before her,
and she reached her hand into the van and tAlbk out this
dish. I spoke to a city constable, who went and stopped
the van, and I saw the prisoner join the other two fe-
males, and heard her tell them that she had taken a dish
from the van ; upon which one of them said that she
would have a dish also, and ran on to the van. I took
the prisoner into custody, and found the dish under her
shawl. The young man who drove the van then came
and said he would not give her in cbarge, but I refused
to let her go. She said it was a practical joke.
Upon his cross-examination the witness said the wo-
men had been laughing and joking together, but he con-
sidered it to be his duty to take the prisoner, whom he
saw take the dish, into custody.
Mr Solomon submitted that his client had no feloni-
ous intention, as must have been obvious from the de-
scription of the whole proceedings.
The husband of the prisoner made his appearance, and
seemed to be much affected. He stated that it was im-
possible that his wife could have had any bad object in
playing so unaccountable a part in the public streets,
and that his circumstances, if there were no other reason
for supposing that it was a joke, placed her above sus-
picion of dishonesty.
The Lord Mayorhaving inquired whether the prisoner
appeared to be under the influence of drink at the time,
and having been informed that she seemed to be per-
fectly in her senses, told her that she had made a dan-
gerous experiment as a "practical joke," which might
have thrown her into a very disgraceful embarrass-
ment. His lordship, in discharging her, hoped that the
lesson she had received, enforced by her husband's ad-
monition, would prevent her from any further joking of
the kind.

The Lord Mayor requested that the preys would ac-
knowledge his receipt of a 51. Bank of England note
;rom " M.E.R." for the poor-bor.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Bernard Lintott, of Muscovy-
court, Tower-hill, was snmmoned before Sjr R. W. Car-
den by Major Henry Court, under the Small Tenement
Act, to show cause why he should not give up possession
of certain premises situated as above. Mr. Weston ap-
peared for Major Court and Mr. Buchanan for Mr. Lin-
tott.

Mr. Joyce said, in April last Mr. Lintott applied to
him to. let him an office at No. 4, Muscovy-court, and
he allowed him to take possession of the premises on
condition that Major Court was satisfied with his refer-
ence. The major, on being applied to, answered that if
Lintott would pay half a quarter's rent in advance, and
sign an agreement to quit at three months' notice, he
would accept him as tenant. To this the defendant ob-
jected, and having possession of the office refused to pay
in advance, or sign the agreement. He had, however,
subsequently paid the half quarter's rent, but never
agreed to go out at three months' notice. Notice bad
been served on defendant to give up the premises, as he
was only a tenant on sufferance. The defendant refused
to quit, claiming the ordinary notice.
Mr. Weston contended that that evidence was suffi-
cient to show that he had obtained possession of the office
subject to certain conditions, which conditions he had
never complied with, and was therefore no regular tenant
of Major Court's, but only a tenant on sufferance.
Mr. Buchanan submitted that there was no evi,lence
to show that his client was anything but an ordinary
tenant, and entitled to six months' notice.
Mr. Lintott said he took the premises subject to his
references being satisfactory to Major Court, and that
after he was in possession Mr. Joyce tendered him an
agreement for a lease, by which he was to go out of pos-
session at three months' notice. He refused to sign it,
and gave it back to Mr. Joyce.
Sir R. W. Carden said; from the evidence produced on
both sides, he did not think he should be justified in
making-the order asked for.

BOW-STREET.—Charles Buckwell, a boy of about
15 years of age, with a precociously fierce and deter-
mined expression of countenance, was brought up on
remand, charged with inflicting a severe wound with a
chisel on a man named Thomas Clarke.

It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Burridge, a
pianoforte maker, working by contract for Messrs. Oetz-
mann and Plumb, in Chenies-strect, Tottenham-court-
road, that the injured man was in his ,ervice, and the
prisoner in that of Mr. Plumb. On the 2d November,
they were at work in the same room, anal a dispute arose
b'tween them about the use of a stool, which Clarke
required to sit on at his work, and which the prisoner
refused to give up, though it was placed there for the
use of the men and the prisoner had no right to it, and
no occasion for it. At last Clarke, being unable to pro-
ceed with his work without the stool, took it by force,
and boxed the boy's ears. The prisoner then seized the
chisel and flung it at Clarke, striking him below the
knee. Clarke fell to the ground, and his companions,
coming to his assistance, found him quite unable to
stand. They carried him to the Middlesex Hospital,
where he still lies.

A certificate from the surgeon was now handed in to
the effect that it was impossible for Clarke to be brought
to the court at present, and that in all probability he
would never recover the use of the limb, which it was
even feared must be amputated.
Mr. Herring, who appeared for the prisoner, said that
the boy had already been severely punished by the men-
tal suffering he had endured.
Mr. Jardine had no commiseration for him ; it was
one of the worst cases he bad ever heard. He must be
again remanded until Clarke could attend.