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London, England, 1852-01-22 00:00:00

JANUARY 22, 1852,

admittance. He called with it at her house, and said
he was connected with the theatre.
The prisoner declined saying anything in his de-
fence, and he was ordered to be remanded, in order
to give time for further inquiries.
LAMBETH.
A HUNGRY POLICEMA.N.—George Reamington, a
constable belonging to the P, or Walworth division
of police, attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton, by
by order of the Commissioners, to answer to the fol-
lowing complaint :
Mr. Thomas John Seabrook, of No. 7, Lacy-
terrace, Penton-place, Walworth, deposed, that on
Sunday, the 4th inst., his family had a loin of roast
pork for dinner, and after supper, the joint was placed
in a safe in the front area. On the following morn-
ing the safe was found open, and a considerable por-
tion of the pork gone. On the Tuesday following, a
boiled rabbit which was left was placed in the same
safe, and on the Wednesday morning the safe was
again found open, and the rabbit partly devoured.
Mr. NORTON—Was it your opinion that the cats
got to the safe on both eccosions ? Witness—lt was,
your worship ; though I was somewhat puzzled
how they could get at the safe, particu-
after the first time, as I had tightened the
button or fastening. On the morning of that
day week, himself and his wife had been awoke at
about a quarter to three o'clock, and they both ex-
claimed, almost at the same moment, "There are
those troublesome cats again at the safe ;"
and he got out of bed for the purpose of surprising
them. lie went forth armed with a good stick, and
on reaching the kitchen and pulling aside the window
curtain to catch a sight of the safe, he was not a
little surprised to see a policeman standing in front
with his bull's eye turned on, and he had evidently
been helping himself from the eatables. It was also
quite clear to him (witness) that the constable must
have caught instant sight of him, for he instantly
hurried up the area-steps and ran towards the Ken-
nington-road.

Sir. NORTON —From the view you had of the man
are you quite sure he was a police constable ? Wit-
ness—l am quite certain of that, your Worship,
though I-had no opportunity of seeing his number.
Mr. NORTON—Then are you enabled to say the
defendant is the man ? Witness—l should nut like
to go the length of swearing positively to his being
the person, as I had not an opportunity in the hurry
of the moment to observe his number nor his features,
but I have no moral doubt he is the man.

Mr. NORTON—Had the area-gate been locked ?
Witness—lt has not been latterly, as the key had
been lost.

In his cross-examination by Mr. PaTry, the barris-
ter, who attended on be.half of the defendant, the
witness admitted that on going to the station, as re-
commended by Mr. Elliott, the ni:igistrate, he, on a
number of constables being drawn up before him, in
the first instance, fixed on 307 P as the person whose
figure closely resembled that of the man he had seen
in his area, but he afterwards pointed out the defen-
dant, and believed him to be the person.
Mrs. Susannah Collins, landlady of the Giraffe

public-house, in Penton-';:lace, said that on Twellth
Night, on going up stairs to her kd room, she looked
from her window, and saw a policeman go down the
area steps of Mr. Seabrcok's house, and return in about
five or six minutes. She did not take any particular
notice of the circumstance beyond mentioning it to
her husband, as she thought he might have found the
gate open, end gone down to see that all was right.

Mr. Nowro:s—Or perhaps to look after the cats.
Mr. Parry, in reply to the charge, said that on a
representation of the circumstance being made to the
Commissioners, an offer had been made to the defen-
dant to resign, and had he been guilty of the offence
imputed to him, he (Mr. Parry) had no doubt he
would have availed himself of this favourable offer.
Oa the contrary, he at (maw refused it, and declaring
his perfect innocence of the mean offence, and rely lug
on 12 years' excellent character in the force, which
Mr. Lund, his superintendent, was present to vouch
for, he preferred the present inquiry. He (Mr.
Parry) would be enabled to prove, beyond all doubt,
that the defendant had not, been on duty at all on the
first night that anything bad been missed from Mr.
Seabrook's safe. On the contrary—and this was a
singular fact—the very man which Mr. Seabrook had,
in the first instance, selected, 307 P, was the person
who was on duty on the beat in which Mr. Sea-
brook's house is situated, on that night, and this
he considered an important and favourable circum-
stance to his client. The defendant had been, as he
before stated, twelve years in the force, and bore a
very good character, and he submitted that nothing
that had been stated had affected that character in the
slightest degree. His guilt was not to be inferred
from the fact of his being a constable on the beat, as
the officers on the adjoining beats had ample oppor-
tunities of visiting the complainant's larder while the

defendant was on another part of his rounds.
Mr. NORTON remarked that one thing was quite
clear, and that was, that it was a police-constable who
bad been guilty of this mean and contemptible con-
duct ; but, at the same time, he thought it would he
very wrong to attach the guilt to the defendant or the
other man. He regretted very much that the guilt
had not been brought home to the proper party that
they might be properly punished, and the innocent
not be compelled to suffer the odium of their offence.
Mr. Seabrook said he had brought forward the com-
plaint alone on public grounds.
Mr. NORTON felt satisfied with the fact, and dis-
missed the charge.
Yesterday Richard Jones, a little fellow only 1.5
years of age, was charged before the Hon. Cr. C.
Norton, with being concerned with several other
boys, not in custody, with assaulting and covering
with mud two young women named Eslopp and Wall.
From the statements:of the complainants it appeared
that on the night before they had been assailed by
the prisoner and several other boys, who, in the first
instance, demanded some money of them as " fresh
faces" on the Westminster-road, and said they had
always been in the habit of demanding and getting
money from all the new corners who walked the West-
minater-road. They (the witnesses) refused to give
them anything, upon which they were attacked,
thrown down, and covered with mud, so that their
clothes were completely spoiled.
The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said that
he and the other boys had received 3d. from a person
named Dickson, who keeps or lives at a brothel in
Webber-row, in the neighbourhood, to pelt the two
young women with mud and send them off the road.
The complainant Wall informed the magistrate
that on Monday night the person Dickson, after
abusing her in the most scandalous manner, had
knocked her down twice, and loosened her teeth so
with the blows that she could scarcely eat anything.
When asked the cause for the fellow so ill-using her,
the unfortunate creature replied she knew of none
beyond the presence of herself and her companions in
the Westminster-road at night interfering with the
wretched calling of the females at the brothel, with
one of whom Dickson lived.
On hearing this, Mr. NORTON at once directed that
a warrant be made out for the apprehension of Dick-
son, and soon after a young fellow, of Jew-like ap-
pearance, and long curly locks, was brought up in
custody of Saunders, one of the summoning officers,
and placed alongside " the boy Jones."
The complainant Wall was then re-sworn, and re-
peated her former evidence as to the prisoner Dick-
son's brutality, and her statement was fully corrobo-
rated by two other witnesses.
A boy named Somes also swore that he was present
on the night before when a woman, in the presence of
Dickson, gave one of the women at a house in Web-
ber-atreet threepence to give to some boys to pelt the
two young women with mud, so as to get them off the
road, and Dickson at the time said he should give them
sixpence on the next night to do the same thing.
The prisoner Jones confirmed this fact; and Dick-
son, when asked what he had to say to the charge,
acknowledged that he had knocked down Wall, but
said she had first bit his hand. In reply to the ques-
tions of the magistrate, the fellow acknowledged that
he lived with one of the females in the braoltkhienlg,
the
Webber-street; she was in the habit of w
Westminster-road for her living ; but denied living on
the wages of her prostitution. He earned own
his
living, he said, by playing an accordion at musical
parties ; and added that the complainants were in the
habit of annoying his young woman and other females
in the Westminster-road.

Mr. NORTON had very little doubt, though he denied
the fact, that he was one of those fellows who lived on
the wages of prostitution, and convicted him
in the
full penalty of 5/., or in default to two months'
im-
prisonment, for the assault on the young woman Wall*
The boy Jones was discharged on his father under-
taking to give him a sound flogging.

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