The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-20 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.—(This Day.)

;Before T. Puckle, Esq,, and a Bench of Magistrates.)

ROBBERY AT A RAILWAY STATION.

Thomas Kemmenoe, 34, a man in the employ of Messrs.
W. It Smith and Sons, newsvendors and advertisement
contractors, was indicted for stealing, at Lambeth, eight
brass brackets, the property of the London and Ssuth-
Western Rail way Company.
Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and the prisoner was de-
fended by Mr. Cbarnock,
Thomas Bent, an inspector, employed by the railway
company, stated that for a long tuns past a great num•
her of brass brackets which are used in the company's
first class carriages, to support the net-work fitted up for
hats, umbrellas, &c., had been missed, and a great dsa,l
Of mystery existed as to the loss of them• It had been
the duty of the prisoner on account of Messrs. Smith
and Son, his employers, to paste advertisements in the
second-class carriages, and at last suspicion fell upon
him, as he had beenseen to enter the firit-class carriages,
which he had no business to do. witness accordingly
set a man to watch him, and the first-class carriages were
carefully examined on the morning of the 9th, before the
prisoner went to his work. Soon after that the prisoner
came as usual and went to his work, and after he had
done eight brass brackets were missed from the first-
class carriages, and while witness was examining
them the prisoner contrived to get out of the rail-
way station, so that he had an opportunity of
dis-
posing of them. He (the inspector) went in search of
him, and found him in a barber's shop in the New-cut,
where he found upon him a screw. d •ver which he had
borrowed from the barber, and no doubt existed that he
used that to unfasten the brackets from the carriages.
On the edge of the screw-driver was some brass adher-
ing to it, as if it had just been used to unscrew some
brass work. When witness told him he was charged
with stealing the brass brackets, be denied all know-
ledge of them. No other person had been near the car-
riages that morning after witness had examined them
to the time be missed the brackets. _

Mr. Charnock made an ingenious appeal to the jury
on behalf of the prisoner, but a terdict of guilty was
returned.

The Chairman sentenced him to three months' hard
Labour in Wandsworth House of Correction.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
CAUTION TO WATERMEN'S APPRENTICES.— William
Franklin, aged 21, a waterman's apprentice, of Horsley-
down, Southwark, was brought
, before the Lord Mayor
by an officer of the Waterme? s C?mpany, who charged
the prisoner under the following circumstances.
It appeared;frona the evidence that„the prisoner had for
some time past been plying for hire on the river Thames
a skiff which was without the owner's name or number
legibly painted on the inside, which was an offence
against one of the bye-laws of the company. The pri-
soner had received notice several times from the officer
of the Waterrnen's Company to attend the ball in St.
Mary-at-Hill, Lower Thames-street, where the oourt
sat, but he had never attended, and had also told one of
the constables that he would never come unless be was
made. The
prisoner bad likewise been summoned be-
fore the Lord Mayor, but he was still obstinate. He
was accordingly apprehended last night at a public-
house in Horsleyr.lown and placed
The prisoner said he was very sorry for what be bad
done, and hoped some leniencywould be shown him.
The Lord Mayor said the, prisoner deserved no pity.
He had defied the Watermen s Company, and refused to
attend their Court, which was a very serious offence.
He (the Lora Mayor) should order the prisoner to pay
a fine of 20• and costs or twenty days' imprisonment iu
default. The Lord Mayor added that he was still
liable to Prosecution by the Watermen's Company.
The prisoner was ultimately liberated on the payment
of the money.