The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days

MANSION HOUSE.

CHARGE OF SCIII'TLING A SHlP.—Hendrich Knhn, sea-
man, was placed before Alderman Carden, on remand,
charged with wilfully destroying the ship Alma, with in-
tent to defraud her underwriters of £lOO.

Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prosecution, said he did
not propose to proceed further with the case at the present
moment, as since the prisoner had been in custody he had
made a full confession of the share he took in the trans-.
action, The statement, of course, involved other parties
in the charge, and therefore it would be for the ends of
justice that the necessary steps should to taken before he
stated the facts as related by th 3 prisoner. Under these
circumstances he should ask for a remand until next
Saturday.

Alderman Carden at once remanded the prisoner for a
week.

John Walter Sheppard, a young man about 25 years of
age, was charged with feloniously endeavouring to obtain
some valuably shawls with intent to defraud.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had been
in the service of a linendraper, and by that means became
acquainted with the mode adopted by the warehousemen in
supplying goods. In the present instance the prisoner went
into the warehouse of Messrs. Lock, Edwards, and Co., and
asked for four shawls, valued at £3O for the Messrs. Harvey,
but immediately he got into the street he ran away, but
was overtaken and locked up.
He was fully commuted for trial.

Another charge was preferred against the prisoner—viz .
obtaining by false representations four valuable shawls,
from Messrs. Sellingcourt and Co.

He represented that the goods were required by a cus.
tomer, and as it was imagined he was one of the firm deal-
ing with the house, the property was given to him without
the least suspicion of there being anything wrong. The
police fortunately in this instance succeeded in recovering
the stolen property.

Alderman Carden committed the prisoner for trial on
this charge.

The prisoner was again charged with obtaining by false
pretences some woollen goods from the Messrs. Forster,
Porter, and Co.

Mr. Tomlinson, an assistant in the fancy hosiery de-
partment, said in October last the prisoner came to the
warehouse, and asked for a small man's Cardigan jaCket—
one of the best in stock—for Mr. Thomas, of Poplar. The
goods were given to him; and he afterwards sail he was
also to take a fancy Nest. On this being given to him, he
signed the book in the name of Williamson, as having re-
ceived the goods for Mr. Thomas.
Mr. Thomas, draper, of Poplar, said the prisoner was
formerly in his service, but ho left it in 1863. He never
sent him in October last to Messrs. Porter for the articles
mentioned by the last witness.

A police-constable produced the stolen articles, which
he found at the prisoner's lodgings, in New North-street,
Theobald's-road.

The rrisoner was also fully committed for trial upon this
third charge.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OFFERING OBSCENE SONGS FOR ►SALE.—William
Young, a hawker, living in Union-court, Holborn, was
charged before Mr Knox with offering obscene songs for
sale.

Inspector James Thomson, of the Detective Department,
Scotland.yard, deposed that on the previous night the pri-
soner accosted him in Argyll-street with the expression,
"Look here, captain, here's something that will suit you,"
at the same time showing him a parcel of songs. Having
noticed the nature of them, he told the prisoner that he had
better tear them up or he sFould get into trouble. He then
left the prisoner and walked into a public-house in Argyll-
street, and the prisoner shortly after followed him and
offered some of the songs for sale to the persons standing
in front of the bar. On leaving the house the prisoner
again offered him some of the songs for 6d., and on his
(Inspector Thomson) asking him where he got them from,
he said, "It don't matter, I want to be off to sell some
more." He then took the prisoner into custody, and at the
station found in the parcel about 150 songs and prints of
the very worst description. The prisoner told him that he
had bought them of a man just come from Birmingham.
The prisoner said that he purchased them of a man who
had come to London lately.
Mr Knox committed the prisoner for trial.