The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1852.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. —John Chidley was brought
before the Lord Mayor upon the charge of having stolen
a pistol, of the value of 71. Mi., the property of Messrs.
Deane, Adams, and Deane, of King William-street.
Henry Bilson, assistant to Messrs. Barker, of Hounds-
ditch, pawnbrokers, who has been the means of detecting
and bringing to justice several dishonest persons, said—
Yesterday, between eleven and twelve o'clock, the pri-
soner came to our shop and offered a valuable pistol to
pledge for two pounds. I asked him how much he gave
for it. He replied seven guineas, and that he had
bought it at Deane and Adams's, London-bridge. He
also said he had another in his possession, but that was
unfinished. I then sent for an officer.

The officer said—When I took the prisoner into custody,
he said he would go with me wherever I liked. I went, find-
ing the names of Deane, Adams, and Deane on the barrel,
to that firm, and I saw the foreman who accompa-
nied me to the station-house, and identified the prisoner
as one of their workmen. The prisoner said to him, " I
don't know what has made me do it, but something queer
came over me." . _

The clerk and foreman identified the pistol as the
property of Messrs. Deane, Adams, and Deane, and
stated that the prisoner had been employed to work on
the premises of his employers, but not authorised to
take any work to his home.
The prisoner said—l certainly did take the pistol from
the factory, but not with the intention of stealing it. I
should have returned it to the factory on Wednesday
next. I was in drink when I took it.
The Lord Mayor said the establishment of Messrs.
Barker had been long remarkable for the caution ob-
served by those present in taking in pledges—a valuable
quality, which no doubt the tradesmen of the metro-
polis properly estimated.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

GUlLDHALL.—Catherixe Devine was oharged with
a brutal assault upon a lad 16 years of age.
George Wadsworth, the complainant, stated that he
lived in Holiday•court, and was a printer. He came
home about 11 o'clock, and found the prisoner abusing
his mother, and on his taking her part and attempting
to interfere, the prisoner rushed on him, pulled him down
on the ground by his hair, struck him on the nose with
a poker, and lacerated his face in a frightful meaner with
her nails. Not content with this, she called a dog,
which belonged to her, and set it on the complainant,
and it bit and scratched his face severely. All this
while the prisoner's son, a child about nine years old,
was striking the complainant on the back and legs with
a large hammer.
The prisoner was sentenced to pay a fine of 10s., and
her husband was bound over on her behalf that she
should keep the peace.

SOUTHWARK.—Wm. Rigby, a youth of 13 years
of age, was charged with stealing a number of medical
prescriptions, the property of his employer, Mr. Rose,
a surgeon of Blackfriars-road.
Thomas Doughty, the assistant to Mr. Rose, stated
that on the previous day he found a book on the counter
of the shop, in which were copied, in the prisoner's
handwriting,' several prescriptions taken from another
book, belonging to his employer. Witness then ex-
amined the book from which the prescriptions were
taken, and observed that a number of leaves had been
torn out, containing the recipes of several eminent medi•
cal men, and which were valuable. The prisoner was
subsequently questioned on the subject, and upon a
search being instituted at the house where he lived, a
number of the leaves torn from his employer's prescrip-
tion book were discovered, and he was given into cus-
tody. The witness added that he had grounds for
believing that the prisoner bad acted in the way de-
scribed owing to the advice of another person much
older than himself. In reply to the magistrate, the wit-
ness said that the value put upon the prescriptions
destroyed was 101.
Mr. A'Beckett said that instead of disposing of the
charge at present, he would remand the prisoner until
Friday, for the purpose of giving an opportunity for
procuring evidence against the person suspected of being
implicated in the affair.

THAMES.—Airahant White, labourer at a wharf,
was charged with assaulting his wife in a very cruel
manner.
The complainant's face was swollen and discoloured,
and her eyes blackened and partially closed. She stated
that for some time past her husband had been in the
practice of calling at the house of a woman in Rose-
mary-lane, ;whose husband was transported four yeas'
ago for receiving stolen property, and where she be
lieved an illicit still was at work. She had endeavoured
to dissuade her husband from going to this place, but
without effect, and on several occasions when she had
spoken to him on the subject, he had struck her with
his fists, knocked her down, and blackened her eyes.
On Sunday morning, having heard that her husband bad
been paying too much attention to the servant of the i
woman in Rosemary-lane, and been calling there re-
peatedly, she again spoke to him, and he then applied
the most dreadful epithets and threats to her, and struck
her about the hoed and face with his clenched fists. She
was almost blinded, and in a moment was covered with
blood. She had been in s. state of great suffering ever
since.
Mr Yardley said there could be no doubt of that.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said his wife
was jealous of him, and always taunting him with going
to the house in Rosemary-lane. He had only called
there to do some work, for which he was paid. The
woman Mho kept the house did not keep an illicit still.
He admitted that he struck his wife, who provoked him
greatly.
Mr. Yardley said, from what he had keard and knew
of the place in Rosemary lane, the wife did quite right
in entreating of her husband not to go there. He should
punish the prisoner very severely for this most savage
and unmanly assault. He fined the prisoner 5/, and in
default of payment one months' imprisonment.
The fellow was committed.

Henry Edward Bodges, a shipwright, dwelling in
Limohouse, was charged with assaulting Andrew An-
derson, a police-constablo, who stated on Monday
night, at twelve o'clock, there was a disturbance caused
by the misconduct of two prostitutes in the New-
road, Whitechapel. Ho told them to go away, and
observed to one of them that his attention had been
repeatedly called to her in the course of the night.
The prisoner, who was standing by, interfered, called
him a liar, and struck him a severe blow on the breast,
which knocked him down. Directly he rose from the
ground ho pursued the prisoner, who suddenly turned
round upon him, made a butt at him, and, patting his
head between witness's legs, threw him right over his
back. Ho fell heavily in the middle of the road, and
was half stunned by the fall. When he recovered him-
self he again pursued and seized the prisoner, who struck
him again, and had just put his hand inside his stock,
and was about to grasp him by the throat, when another
constable came up and secured him.
The prisoner, who is a powerful young man, sulkily
growled out that ho supposed be was drunk or this
would not have happened.
Mr. Yardley—This is a very serious matter. You
have assaulted, in a very savage manner, that policeman
who was doing his duty properly. You put your bead
between his legs, and threw him over your back. You
might have broken his neck or fractured his skull. I
sentence you to 14 days' imprisonment in the House of
Correction.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—A labourer named Daniel
Coghlan was charged by Cox, 138 H, with assaulting
another labourer named Holland, who at present is lying
in a precarious state at the London Hospital, owing to
a compound fracture of the thigh caused by the priso-
ner's violence.

Mary Holland, the wife of the injured man, said she
was going home on the previous night with her husband
when the latter, seeing a house open went In to have a
drink of beer. The prisoner, who was there, forced a
quarrel on him, and they went to settle it in the street.
During the fray the prisoner kicked her husband in the
thigh;.and thr'ew him heavily on an iron grating. It
occurred in Plough-alley, and there were three ruffians,
two of them fighting men, backing the prisoner. Her
husband was taken to the hospital groaning loudly, and
the prisoner was given into custody.
The constable said the doctor was of opinion the in-
juries were inflicted by kicks, and that he did not think
the prosecutor would be able to appear for a month or
five weeks.

The wife said the quarrel aroeo out of politics.
The prisoner, in his defence, said it was because ho
would not give her husband and brother drink. The two
followed him into the court, and when ho (prisoner) was
struck he of course stcod on his defence.

Mr. Yardley said tho injury was a very serious one,
and he should remand the prisoner for a week, but would
take bail if good security could be given.
The prisoner was then locked up.

WEST M INST BURGLARY.—Yester-
day James Hannan, aged 22, and Wil iam Bennett, aged
19, were charged before Mr. Arnold, with being con-
cerned with Job James and Richard Irvine, who have
been remanded, with burglariously breaking and enter-
ing the dwelling-house of Mr. John King, licensed
victualler, and landlord of the Queen's Head, Keppel-
street, Chelsea, on the morning of the 11th instant, and
stealing therefrom a variety of copper and silver coins
and other articles. The thieves forced their way into
the house at the back, by taking down a shutter, and
entered the window, which was unfastened. They then
made their way to the bar, from which they stole 255.
in copper, a large quantity of old coins which were in
a half-pint jug, a pair of boots, &c.
Policeman Mead, 150 V, and Hanson, 133 V, proved
having apprehended the prisoners near Kingston on the
previous day, in consequence of the former having ascer-
tained that some of the coin had been pawned at the
shop of Mr. Collingbourne, pawnbroker, High-street,
Wandsworth. Bennett was searched, when three copper
coins wore found in his pocket. He said they were
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The prisoners were remanded.

MARYLEBONE.—ErrENsm FRAUD,—Yesterday
Win. Jarrett was brought up for re-examination before
Mr. Broughton, and with Henry Keene, who had been
brought up from the country in custody, were placed
within the felon's bar, charged with having, by co Ispi-
racy together, defrauded Mr Picnock, a cornfac or, r 4 •
siding at No. I, St. James's-terrace. Harrow-r, ad, f
corn, &0., to the amount of nearly 1201.
Mr. Wontner attended, as upon former occasions, for
the prosecutor, and ALL Hatohmou for the prisoners.

The particulars of what formerly transpired have
already been reported.
Sergeant Quiunear, 1 P, now deposrd to his having,
after much trouble, succeeded in apprehending Keene at
No. 10, Ayliffe-street, North•street, Gloucester, where
he was living in the name of Wright.
Mr. Broughton—Had you known him formerly?

Witness—Yes, Sir; and I knew that his right name
was Keene. I asked him why he called himself Wright,
to which question he gave no answer, but wished to
know my business. I told him my name was Quinnear,
that I was a sergeant of police, and that I had come
from London to take him on the charge of being con-
cerned with Jarrett in defrauding Mr. Pinnock of 1201.
worth of property, He (Keene) then said, " Yes, that
is right. Jarrett is a great swindler, and I wish I had
never seen him."

Some additional witnesses were now brought forward
in further corroboration of the prisoners' union in the
nefarious transaction; and the accused both stand com-
mitted for trial at the Central Criminal Court.

LAMBETH.—Guoss Nursaisex.—Yesterday, Robert
Wood, a small tradesman, occupying a house in Victory-
place, Lock's• fields, appeared before Mr Elliott to a sum-
mons charging him with keeping swine, to the great an-
noyance and risk of health of his neighbours.
Waters, the inspector of nuisances, acting under the
cholera committee for the parish of St Mary's, Newing-
ton, said that, in consequence of many complaints having
reached the committee and the board of guardians from
his immediate neighbours of a serious nuisance, he had
visited the premises of the defendant, and there found a
sow and a litter of six young pigs. The sty and place
about them wore kept tolerably clean, but still the efflu-
vium arising from the animals was not very pleasant, and
he therefore felt bound to take out the present summons
against him.
Mrs Gaskell, who lived next door to the defendant,
said that herself and fsmily had suffered considerably by
the offensive smell caused by the pigs, and added that,
when the wind was in a certain quarter, it was much
worse than at other times. The sty where the pigs were
kept was not more than 30 feet from her back window,
and during the close and heavy weather she frequently
felt so ill from the effects of the unpleasant smell that
she felt no appetite for, and could not eat, her breakfast.
Joseph Beal, a lodger of the last witness, and Mrs.
Cooper, the landlady of the house on the other side of
the prisoner, fully corroborated Mrs. Gaskell's evidence.
A member of the cholera committee also said that he
had visited the defendant's premises, and he then pro-
mised to dispose of the swine and do away with the
nuisance, but he hsd forgotten his promise.
The prisoner, in reply to the complaint, said it had
been brought against him merely through feelings of
spite, but promised to do away with the cause in a fort-
night.
Mr Elliott did no see why he should allow the con-
tinuance of the nuisance for that time, but ultimately
permitted the summons to stand over for a fortnight.

'TE, Oct 18