The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

THAMES.

BURGLARY.—CharIes Evans, a well known thief, aged
20, w,s brought up on remand before Mr Partridge charged
with feloniously breaking and entering the dwelling-house
of Mrs Catherine Glennie, a widow of No. 10, St. George-
place, St. George-in-the-East, and Eliza Desmond, 24, and
Elizl Allen alias Crawley, 27, were charged with feloniously
receiving a portion of the property stolen from the helm,
they well knowing it to be stolen.
It appeared from the evidence that on the night of the
2d of the present month the dwelling of Mrs Glennio was
broken into, and two silver watches, three gold chains, a
gold pin, two gold studs, five gold rings, three silver bottle
labels, a brooch, and otherproperty valued in all at.£2o, stolen
An entrance was effected by removing an iron bar in front of
the kitchen window, by which admission was obtained into
the house, The parlour was entered, and a box in one of
the chests of drawers removed. All the property stolen was
in the box. The female prisoners, who are women of the

town, and are well known to the police, were afterwards
found dealing with some of the stolen property, and they
pawned two gold rings the day after the burglary at the
shops of two pawnbrokers, both named Wood, in Ratcltff-
highway. One of the rings was peculiarly constructed, and
formed, when opened, two hands and two hearts. The
rings were produced and identified by Mrs Glennie. An
intelligeta police-sergeant named Gamble, 49 K, who has
been engaged in the investigation of the case, took the women
into custody a fortnight ago. Allan, on being asked where she
obtained one of the stolen rings she had pa wnei, said it
was given to her by a sailor. After she was remanded she
told Sergeant Gamble that Eliza Desmond ought to be
locked up as well as her, for it was Desmond's companion,
Charley Evans, that gave her the ring to pawn. Gamble
then obtained information that Desmond had pawned a gold
ring at the shop of Mr George Wood, a pawnbroker.
Gamble then took Desmond into custody, and she denied
pawning anything or being in the pawnbroker's shop. She
was recognised as being present when the two rings identi-
fied by Mrs Glennie were offered in pawn. The only evi-
dence against Evans, who has been under remand for a
week, was that he was in company with the prisoners
Desmond and Allan in a public-house after the burglary.
When he was arrested by Sergeant Gamble he denied
having been in the company of two women. Joseph Chas.
Sleischer, barman at the Sun and Sword public-house, in
Csble- street, Whitechapel, proved that the prisoners were
drinking there, and appeared to know each other well the
day after the burglary,

Hugh Andrews, aPolice .constable, No. 62 H, said he
knew all the prisoners to be thieves. Desmond had been
convicted.

Mr Partridge there was no doubt a burglary and robbery
had been committed, but there was no evidence to convict
either of the prisoners with having been concerned in it.
He had his suspicions. Evans must be discharged, as
there was no evidence against him. He convicted the
women, Allan and Desmond, for being in the unlawful pos •
session of the stolen rings, and sentenced them to six
we,eks' imprisonment and hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
DARING ROBBERY ET A GANG. _Emma Adams, a
lishly dressed female, was charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing the watch of Mr. Martin Luther Moss, hosier,
of 131, New Bond street.

Mr Pater appeared for the prisoner.
Mr Moss said that the prisoner rccosted him opposite
Lang's Hotel, New Bond. street, and asked him to treat her
with a glass of wine. Ho refused to do so, and walked
through several streets to get away from the prisoner,
When he got into Clifford-street the prisoner got in front
of him, and at the same moment three men stepped up
behind him, and two of them pinioned his arms while the
third pulled him back. He observed his watch chain fly-
ing, and after throwing out his arms the men and the pri-
soner ran away, his watch having been taken from him.
He pursued the prisoner and stopped her when a constable
came up. The prisoner then exclaimed, " For God's sake
do not send me to prison. I have four children," at the
same time passing the watch to him.
In answer to Mr, Pater, the prosecutor said he was quite
sober at the time.
Sergeant Stevens, 24 C, proved seeing the prisoner pass
the prosecutor's watch tr 3 him. He took him to the station,
but had great difficulty in doing so.
Mr Knox remanded the prisoner.

WESTMIAISTER.
HEARTLESS ROBBERY.—Charles Devine, a middle aged
man, was charged with the following heartless robbery :
George Walker, a footman, living at 15, Thurloe-place
Mews, said that the prisoner had been as helper in the
stable, and he was usually left in charge of the place. On
Monday night at half•past 10 witness was ordered to drivo
his mistress to a ball and left prisoner in his lodgings to take
care of them. Witness came home at two o'clock and found
the prisoner gone, the place in a state of the greatest con-
fusion, and all his property, consisting of a greatcoat, waist-
coat, and trousers, sundry small articles, £1 10s in gc;,(l,
and a valuable meerschaum pipe—value in all ab £9.
Information was given at the station, and witne:4 went to
prisoner's lodgings yesterday evening, where,-ae found him
drunk, with witness's clothes on. He wes then given into
custody.
Sergeant Smith, in reply to the magistrate, stated that
the clothes were found on the prisoner, and a ticket for the
meerschaum pipe, but they hoc! /IA had time to warn the
pawnbroker. Not one halfpenny of the whole money had
been found.

James GraighePA, police constable, proved taking the
prisoner into 'custody. He was on the top of the stairs at
his lodgir:,gs, drunk. He gave the ticket up at the station.
Ftsoner being asked if he had anything to say, replied,
in the coolest manner possible, that it was quite correct
what the prosecutor had said.
Mr Arnold remanded him for a week.

Collision on the North British Railway,

Yesterday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock,
a collision occurred at the Edinburgh terminus cf
the North British Railway of a somewhat alarming
nature, though fortunately unattended by loss of
life or dangerous injuries to the passengers. The
accident occurred to the train which leaves Dunbar
at five minutes before three o'clock and is due in
Edinburgh at twenty minutes past four. It is
well known that between four and half-past four
o'clock local trains leave the Edinburgh station in
rapid succession at interves of about five minutes,
and a number of trains also arrive close upon each
other about that time, so that the extremely
limited accommodation at the station renders the
utmost caution necessary on the part of all the
officials in carrying out the arrangements for the
safe arrival and departure of the numerous trains.
A passenger train from Musselburgh arrives daily
at 3 53 p.m., one from Dalkeith is due at 4 11, and
a third reaches the station from Dunbar at 4 20.
In addition to these passenger trains, in order to
accommodate the traffic from Leith to Glasgow, a
special goods train was yesterday despatched at
4 11 p.m. from Leith to Edinburgh by Portobello,
intended to arrive at Edinburgh between the passen-
ger train from Dalkeith and the one from Dunbar.
The goods train, according to the arrangement,
actually did follow the Dalkeith train from Porto-
bello to Edinburgh, reaching the station about
seven minutes before the Dunbar train was due.
Owing, however, to the numerous trains leaving
Edinburgh about that time, and the limited accom-
modation at the station, some delay occurred in
getting the goods train taken to a siding. While
the train was thus detained at the east end of the
station, nearly opposite Drybrough's brewery, the
passenger train from Dunbar entered the station
and came into collision with the goods train. For-
tunately, the speed of the train was greatly
checked; but a considerable number of the
passengers were severely cut and bruised by
the collision. Two of the passengers, Mr and Mrs
Smeaton, were cut and bruised in the forehead, and
drove off in a cab ; but, so far as we could learn,
their injuries were not of a very serious nature.
The other passengers who were hurt, to the
number of ten or twelve, were all able to walk
from the station. One of the waggons of the goods
train was pushed off the rails by the collision, and
a number of sacks of wheat end flour with
which the waggons were loaded were thrown off,
and their contents scattered on the ground. The
waggon was soon replaced on the rails, and the
traffic was in a very short time resumed, the damage
to the engines, carriages and trucks being compara-
tively trifling. There will, of course, be a strict in-
vestigation into the cause of the accident, with the
view of ascertaining whether blame attaches to the
pointsman or the driver of the passenger train. It
is said that the signal to stop was made in due
time; and if so, the engine-driver must either
have failed to observe it or have miscalculated the
distance. But whoever may be found blameable for
this accident, there is no doubt that it is partly
attributable to the limited station accommodation,
which interferes with the expeditious removal of
the trains ; and as the extreme danger of the pre-
sent state of matters to the public is thus noP.,,de
evident, it is to be hoped that the municirdal and
railway authorities may be induced to come with-
out further delay to a settlement of their differences
in order that due pzeviaioo may be made for such
station aeaamodation as will ensurethe safety of the
public.—Scotsman.