The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

LON►ON, MONDAY EVENING,

gave to Sale. Colles had been induced to make ar-
rangements with the prisoners from advertisements
which he had seen in the Sheffield and Rotherham
Advertiser.
Mr. John Mills,leather-dresser, of Sheffield, proved
baying forwarded a 201. note, in two halves, to the
prisoners. He had met with similar treatment to
that already described.
Mr. Government emigration agent for
the portr' I I
of Liverpool, denied that he had ever sur-
ufselLdiinveer,
sur-
veyed any vessel for which the prisoners were agents.
Mr. R. James corroborated this evidence.
The jury found a verdict of Guilty, and the pri-
soners were sentenced to be each imprisoned six
months with hard labour.
The criminal business of the assize was finished at
about four o'clock.
NISI PRIUS COURT.— (Before Mr. Justice
WIGHTMAN.)
This Court was occupied all day in trying an action
for an encroachment, and an action for a nuisance,
neither of which possessed public interest.
There yet remain two special jury causes to try,
which, if not settled, will occupy Monday.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
John Mullaney, George Collins, and Samuel
RdgY' were charged with having cheated Daniel
Barker of cash amounting to between 31. and 41. at
the game of skittles.
From the statement of the prosecutor, who was not
a bad skittle player, two of the three prisoners in-
duced him to play against the third, by offering to
bet upon him and supplying him with spirits and
water. They had, it appeared, tried in vain to be
allowed to play in some grounds, because the land-
lords happened to suspect one or two of them of
practice at the game. At last they took the
sharp
prosecutor to the Sun public-house, Bishopsgate-
were they asked to have the ground to them-
selves.eet The landlord consented to the proposal, and,
str
suspecting that there was some intention of making a
victim, immediately afterwards communicated with
Ward, one of the City detective police, who entered
the premises in plain clothes and watched the whole
of the proceedings of the prisoners. It was quite
evident to him that the prisoners were in confederacy
to plunder the foolish fellow, who at first played for
59., and was allowed to win, and afterwards playedias
high as 1/. a game, at which, as a matter of course, he
lost. As they were all retiring, at about twelve
o'clock, the prisoners were astonished to find them-
selves tapped before the bar by the officer, who had
taken care to have two other constables in readiness
to assist him.
Ward, the officer, said that in consequence of what
Mr. Towsay, the landlord of the inn, said to him, he
went into the skittle-ground and looked on at the
play. He saw at once that the three prisoners had a
" plant" upon the prosecutor. One of them in setting
up the pins took care to keep them at a distance from
each other when the prosecutor was going to knock
them down, and to put them close together when the
other player (his confederate) was to fling the ball at
them. The two fellows who were not playing were
loud in betting in favour of the prosecutor, and took
care, at the same time, that he should not be without
the other excitement to continue the game till all the
money he had in his possession was, to his belief,
irrecoverably lost. " I have known Ridgely," said
the officer, " to be a skittle sharp for a considerable
time, and I have known the other to be the compa-
nions of people of the kind. The moment they
thought they had all the young man's money sate
among them they coolly put on their coats and were
walking away, but they were immediately introduced
to the station-house.
Alderman bloom asked whether any particular
conversation took place when the prisoners were ap-
prehended ? Ward said one of them had offered to
return the money to the prosecutor, and wished to
know whether that would not satisfy him. As they
were going towards the station-house one of the pri-
soners threw away a counterfeit sovereign, which was
picked up in the street, and upon the person of an-
other of them was found another " sham " piece of
money. These counterfeits were, no doubt, the
money which the prisoners had " flashed" about in
the skittle-ground while the betting was going on, for
no other money was found in their possession with
the exception of that of which the prosecutor had
been defrauded, all of which was taken from the
pocket of Ridgely, with whom he had been playing.
Alderman MOON said the case appeared to him to
be just the sort of case that was adapted to the Old
Bailey, and was sure that the prisoners represented a
very numerous class of her Majesty's subjects. They
had taken their victim from place to place until they
had stupified and robbed him ; and, if it had not been
for the landlord, who suspected what they were about,
they would, no doubt, have completely succeeded.
Mulloney said—l; wish to know why lam brought
here. This young man bets with me and wins my
money, and now lam pulled up because another
wins his money. Do you call that fair ? I think
that skittle-sharping, and no mistake.
Collins—l had nothing to do with the game at all,
but was a mere looker-on. I have often played
with the prosecutor, and he has won money upon
my play.
don't know what he wants of me; I
Ridley—l
played a manly game with him, and then, because I
gained the victory, be gives me in charge. There
upon my Bide. All that's in it is that
player.
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
Iwaasca ntohsehbaersPting
BOW-STREET.
James Stringer, poliee.eonstable 193 C, was sum-
moned at the instance of Captain Shepherd, and
by the direction of the Commissioners of Police, to
charge of having improperly taken the
It will be remembered that the complainant was
recently
fined by the
captainanswer intoth custody.
the charge
magistrate for assaulting
without
timeprovocation in ; and
two
at the when
being drunk the assaults were com-
mitted, the constable felt it his duty to take the cap-
youths
tain to the station-house in Vine-street, where he was
detained.
Shepherd was
Captain S proceeding wish his com-
plaint against the defendant, and also with another
against
Inspector Lister, for using insulting language
to him, when
Mr. HENRY asked the captain if he had been
drinking ?
replied, •
The captain " Yes , but nothing stronger
than soda Water."
Mr. gnome- then felt it his painful duty to ask him
another unpleasant question—Had he ever been con-
fined in a lunatic asylum ?
C iptal
•u shepherd said that he was confined for six
weeks, and he could tell the Court why. He pos-
sessed a few thousand pounds, which his family wanted
the control of.
He paid Dr. c Loco k fifteen guineas
see his wife at Maidenhead,, and when ghe ot there
thee
found that she had left. He soon saw through it
all, and demanded the right of being examined by
naval men—men of
his own stamp—and the result
was his instant liberation.
HENgY said, it would be a mockery of j ustice
to allow this c
ase to proceed, and accordingly dis-
summons.
missed the

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