The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--July 1,

W ORSHIP-STREET.—Jeremiah Dempsey, a middle-
aged Irishman, described as a matmaker in Pheasant-court,
Gray's-inn-lane, was charged before Mr Ellison with the
following assaults :
Miss Joanna Joyce, whose right eye was swollen and
contused, stated that she lives in the Englefield-road, Isling-
ton, and was returning home through the New North-road
at 9 o'clock on the preceding evening, when she suddenly
received a violent blow on the face from some person who
was behind her. At the same moment she was turned half
round, and she saw the prisoner, who grasped her violently
by the hair and bonnet. He then ran away across the road.
She was asked if she would give the man into custody, and
she said she would, and he was accordingly pursued and
taken upon her charge.
The prisoner, in an impudent tone, asked the witness how
it was that she did not charge him at first if she was sure
it was he who had assaulted her?

The witness replied that she was too frightened and ill
from the suddenness of the attack to be able to stir. She
could swear positively to the prisoner, though she had never
spoken to or seen him before.
Mrs Elizabeth Harrison, of Wenlock-street, City-road,
stated that she happened to come up just after the assault
had been committed, and found the complainant leaning
forward and nearly fainting. Blood was trickling down her
cheek. She was so ill that she supported her into a che-
mist's shop,where a bandage was placed over one of her eyes.
The second charge was preferred by Mr Henry Tilley, a
gasfitter in the Kingsland-road, who stated that he was
passing through the New North-road, with his wife on his
arm, when he saw the prisoner cross the road, seize hold of
the first witness, strike her, dart back again, and run off.
His wife shortly after told him that the prisoner was the
same man who had not long before grossly insulted and
assaulted her, and he therefore, as soon as he got home,
hastened to the station-house to describe the man who had
so acted. To his great astonishment, he found there the
prisoner in custody for his assault upon Miss Joyce.
Mrs Tilley said that while she was with her husband the
prisoner came behind her and indecently assaulted her.
She was so much agitated she did not like to mention it at
the moment; but on seeing the prisoner assault the first
complainant she told her husband of the insult to which she
had been subjected herself.

Parker, 95 N, said he was on duty in the New North.
road, when several persons who were following the prisoner,
called out to him to stop him. The prisoner was not run-
ning, or at all in a hurry, and he asked what he was to take
him for; but on being told he had assaulted a lady further
down the road, he stopped him, and insisted that he should
go back with him. He refused at first, but he afterwards
went, and on getting him back to Miss Joyce, whose face
showed she had just been struck, she gave him into custody.
The prisoner had been drinking.

Bendall, the gaoler, said h. had seen the prisoner there
before, either for drunkenness or creating a disturbance, he
did not recollect which.

In defence, the prisoner said that, though there \vete two
charges against him, he could assure the magistrate he was
innocent of both.

Mr Ellison said both assaults had been too clearly esta-
blished to admit of any doubt, and they were shameful as-
saults upon women in the public streets. The prisoner
might have been intoxicated, but that was no excuse for
such an offence as this, and he should therefore give him
no chance of paying a fine, but send him at once to the
Rouse of Correction for two months, with hard labour.

LAMBETH.—Richard Kelly, who has been in custody
for 10 days on various charges of extensive fraud, was
again placed at the bar for further examination.
Mr Neale, who appeared for the prosecution, said that in
consequence of the reports of the proceedings against the
prisoner which had appeared in the newspapers, the dfficer
engaged in the case was overwhelmed with communications
from all parts of the country.
The first new case gone into was one at the instance of
Mr Aldebert, coachmaker, Long-acre, from whom the pri-
soner had obtained a brougham for £155. From the evi-
dence it appeared that on the 16th of April, 1863, prisoner
got possession of the brougham. On the 18th, two days
after, he pawned it with Mr Richardson, of Upper George-
street, Edgware-road, for £56. Soon after Mr Porter, a
liverystable keeper, advanced the prisoner £l2 in addition
on the carriage, took it out of pawn, and sold it to a Mr
Griffiths for £72 10s. Griffiths sold it to a Mr Miller for 90
guineas, and Miller ultimately disposed of it to M: Lyons,
its present owner, for £lOO.
In cross-examination by Mr Lewis, jun., for the pri •

Boner,
Mr Aldebert admitted that the prisoner, before taking
possession of the brougham, gave him references to persons
in the city, and that he accepted two bills drawn by the
prisoner on Messrs Stevens and Son, of 68, Cornhill, and
accepted by that firm in payment of the brougham. The
witness added, however, that on the first of the bills becom••
ing due it was presented for payment at the office of Messrs
Stevens and Sons, 68, Cornhill. It was found to be locked
up, and Messrs. Stevens and Sons could neither be found
cur heard of.

Mr Lewis contended that the fact of the prosecutor ac-
cepting the bills of exchange, and proceeding on them
against the prisoner in a civil court, removed the criminal
charge.
Mr Norton remarked that this depended in a great mea-
sure on the character of the person to whom reference had
been given, and who accepted the bills. The case might
ultimately resolve itself into one of a conspiracy to defraud,
and he (Mr Norton) could not say that it would not.
Mr Aldebert said he had a second charge to prefer against
the prisoner—viz., getting a set of harness from him of the
value of £7, and pawning it on the same day, and in the
same state as that in which it had been packed up, for £6.
For this property he had not made a settlement of any sort,
and it was not until the apprehension of the prisoner, and
the discovery of the duplicates in his house, that he (Mr
Aldebert) became taware how the property had been dia-
-1 posed of.
Mr Lewis, in reply, contended that the charge resolved
itself into a mere matter of credit.
A representative of Messrs King and Co., coaohmakers,
said he had a charge to prefer against the prisoner for ob-
taining a carriage by fraud from that firm, but be was not
prepared for it.
Mr Allowsy, a jobmaster, of Kensington, also complained
that on the 20th of April, 1863, the prisoner hired a horse
from him and never returned it.
Mr Lewis admittted that the horse had been taken in
execution for rent, and was at present in the possession of
a Mr Clark, who paid out the execution.
The prisoner, who throughout the examination conducted
himself in the most insulting and insolent manner towards
the witnesses, was ultimately remanded without bail.
Before leaving the court Mr Aldebert complained of the
conduct of Mr Richardson in receiving the brougham while
the prisoner's crest on it was scarcely dry, and of Mr. Smith
taking in the harness packed up as it was.
Mr Richardson said the prisoner had represented to him
that ho was on the point of marriage with a lady of rank
and fortune and wanted a little money beforehand. He
added that the prisoner was so plausible in his manner that
he would deceive any one.

STATISTICS OF IRISH EMIGRATION !—Sir Robert
Peel gave the House of Commons last week the
authentic figures relative to Irish emigration :

Emigration between 1831 and 1841 . 600,000
ff // 1841 and 1851 ..
If 1851 and 1860
„ 1860 and 1863

3,287,811
To these stupendous figures must be added the emigration
during the first five months of the present year, 63,833,
making an aggregate of 3,351,6441