The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STZ'ET. James Chatterly,
William Chick, and James Margetts were brought up
for final examination yesterday, charged with having
committed several felonies.

The prisoners, in the :first instance, were apprehended
for attacking in Oxford-street, on the morning of the
sth inst., Mr. Robert Street, landlord of the Pineapple
public-house, Portman•market, with intent to rob him.
Mr. Street stated that he was going towards home,
with about fifty or sixty sovereigns in his pocket, when
the three prisoners ran against him, surrounded him,
commenced striking at him, and knocked him down by a
blow on the eye. It was Margetts who struck the blow.
About fourteen of the sovereigns were scattered on the
pavement, but the prompt appearance of the police pre-
vented any advantage being taken of that circumstance.
Complainant did not think he had lost any money, but
he felt satisfied that had the constable not come up at
the time, he should have been robbed.
The prisoners strongly protested their innocence, and
asserted the respectability of their characters. Margetts
said he was a cab proprietor, Chatterley that he was the
brother of a highly respectable tradesman, and Chick
that he was an omnibus conductor. Their explanation
was that Mr. Street pushed against them, commenced
fighting with Margetts, and that the whole affair was a
Street scuffle without any felonious purpose.
Mr. Street was reluctant to swear positively that any
cocomplainant
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asie gold.
attempt was made to rob him. He felt a hand at the
pocket in which he had his money, but it was just pos-
sible that the force of the blow which knocked him down
had th
The constable, Chambers, who was called to the fray,
said thee effectmin
of a jerking
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though the
prisoners had been drinking they perfectlyand
well knew
what they were about. In the possession of Chatterly
two watches were found.
The Magistrate appeared inclined to take a lenient
view of the charge, and remanded the prisoners for the
purpose of giving the police time to inquire into their
characters. Chatterly was admitted to bail.
The three prisoners were now placed at the bar, and
the following additional evidence produced.
Henry Taylor, apprentice to William Sewell, butcher,
High-street, Portland-town, said he knew Margetts by
sight from his coming to buy meat at the shop. He was
at the Marylebone Theatre on the evening of the 4th
November, and saw the prisoner Margetts there. After
the performance was over he went into a public-house
in Church-street, again saw Margetts, and had some
beer with him. He went into the Pine-apple public-
house (the landlord of which is the complainant in the
first case), and there saw all three prisoners before the
bra.. Ho afterwards went into the King Altred public-
house, Lisson•grove, and there again saw the three pri-
soners. A disturbance took place in the house, witnesa
was pushed on one side, and he felt his watch and chain
go from his pocket. He could not tell who took them.
One of the watches found on Chatterly was the lost
lost watch, and worth 31.
Police-constable Rsndall, S 353, took Chatterly into
custody on this second charge.
The three prisoners were fully committed on two
charges of felony.

WORSHIP-STREET.—John Ludd, a journeyman
cabinetmaker, was placed at the bar Wore Mr. D'Eyn-
court, charged with cutting and wounding a young
woman named Mary Anne Mitten, with intent to mur-
der her.

Mr. John Cousins, the landlord of the Coach and
Horses, Holywell-lane, Shoreditch, 'stated that shortly
before five o'clock on the preceding afternoon, the woman
Mitten entered his house in the company of another
woman, and ordered some refreshment, of which she was
partaking in front of the bar, when he heard a man in
the street call to her by the name of " Mary," and she
immediately went out to him. After a short interval ho
heard a loud uproar in the street, and directly afterwards
the injured woman was brought back to his house by
two men, who supported her in their arms; and observ-
ing that she was bleeding profusely from a frightful
wound in the throat, he gave directions for her imme-
diate removal to the hospital.
James Cousins, the nephew of the last witness, stated
that while standing in front of his uncle's house at the
time in question, his attention was attracted by the
screams of a woman who was struggling with the pri-
soner on the opposite side of the street, and endeavour-
ing to disengage herself from his grasp. He instantly
ran to her assistance, and after forcing the prisoner from
her, he caught her in his arms as she was in the act of
falling to the ground, and carried her into the public-
house, where he discovered that her throat was cut, and
that the sleeve of his coat was saturated with blood. On
battening out in search of the prisoner, he found that he
had effected his escape; but the table knife now produced,
the point of which was bent and stained with blood, was
handed to him by a man who had picked it up close to
the spot where the struggle had taken place.
Police-constable N 236 stated that ho succeeded in
apprehending the prisoner at his mother's house in Hoz-
ton on the preceding night, and on acquainting him with
the nature of the charge, he made no observation what-
ever, and had not uttered a word during the time he had
been in custody.
The constable handed to the magistrate a certificate
from the house-surgeon of the hospital, describing the
serious nature of the injuries the woman had sustained,
and added that, from his inquiries that morning, he had
ascertained that she was in a state of imminent danger.
. _

It was intimated to the magistrate by Alderman, the
gaoler,ithat the wounded woman was the wife of a soldier
who had been engaged for the last two years on foreign
service in Canada, with his regiment, during the latter
part of which period she had formed a connection with
the prisoner, with whom she had been living for some
months past. It appeared, however, that she still kept
up a correspondence with her husband, and having re•
cently received a letter from him, apprising her that his
regiment had been ordered home and that she might
shortly expect to see him, her feelings were so power-
fully wrought upon by the intelligence, that she made a
determined attempt at self-destruction, for which she
was brought to this court about ten days since, and
committed to prison ; but, after a week's incarceration,
she was delivered over to the care'of her mother.

The prisoner, who had listened to the evidence with
an air of sullen apathy, and maintained an obstinate
silence throughout the investigation, was ordered to be
remanded for a week to afford time for aseertaing the
result of the injuries the woman had sustained.

LAMBETII.-111r. Jonathan Mould, principal clerk
in the traffic department of the South-Western Railway
at the station on Waterloo-road, was brought up for fur-
ther examination, on a charge of embezzling 309/. 4s
2d, the amount of a cheque paid to him on account of
her Majesty the Queen.

Mr. Crombie, solicitor to the company, attended to
prosecute, and Mr. M`Millen, an attorney, appeared for
the prisoner.
Mr. Norton considered that there was quite enough
before him to justify his sending the prisoner before a
jury. There appeared to him (Mr. Norton) to have
been a loose mode of doing business hitherto ; and
much would depend in the present case whether the
irregularity generally did not lead to the present offence
and also as to whether the act had been done openly
and was well known, or had been done covertly and pri-
vately. These matters he thought worth the conside-
ration of the directors ; but at the same time, if called
on by the gentlemen for the prosecution, he must at
once committ the prisoner for trial.
Mr. Crombie remarked that the directors would luta
on the Friday following, when he should be happy to
place before them the suggestions of his worship.
The prisoner was then remanded to a future day, but
on the application of his attorney, was admitted to heavy
bail.

INSPECTOR OF RAILWAYS.—In consequence of the
election of Captain Laffan as M.P. for St. Ives, Cain"
Galton has been appointed to succeed hint as Govern-
ment Inspector of Railways.