The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1864.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourg, 12 •
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 201
Turin and Savona,
Ditto (all), 141

FOREIGN MINES.
Cape Copper, lirn., 7 (1
Cobre Copper, 33 2 3}
Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21
Yudanatuutana of S. Austr‘iia (lim.), 211,

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day.

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Adelaide Hyde, Emma White, and Henry 111'Cormack
were indicted for highway robbery, committed on the per-
son of Harriet Pease.

The prosecutrix met the prisoners accidentally near
Cranbourne-passage, when an angry discussion arose, and
ultimately the prisoners asked the prosecutrix whether they
were thieves. She said they knew best themselves whether
they were so, which led to a quarrel, during which she was
robbed of her purse containing 3s. A constable C3lllO up,
when the three prisoners were taken into custody, but not
before she was violently assaulted, and also were the police-
constables.

The jury acquitted the prisoners of the robbery.

The; were then indicted for the assault. The former
evidence was repeated, when the jury found them guilty.
r The police-constables gave all the prisoners a bad cha-
racter.

M'Cormack said the witnesses were mistaken as far as
he was concerned, for he was at work at Hampstead-road
when the asssult took place.
The Recorder directed some inquiries to be made at the
place mentioned by the prisoner before he passed sentence.
William Smith, a potman at the Roupell Arms, Lower
Charlton, was indicted for stealing a quantity of brandy,
m, gin, two legs of pork, a leg of mutton, and half a
cheese, the property of his master.
The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and the prisoner
denied all knowledge of the robbery. He further stated
that he was in bed when the property was removed, and
instead of stealing the property of his master, he should
have done all in his power to protect it.

The jury acquitted the prisoner, and he was at once dis-

charged.
A man named Reeves was indicted, with certain other
Persons not in custody, with robbing Henry Stevenson, the
captain of a trading vessel named the John Murray, of
Whitby, of £47.
The prosecutor, it appeared, met the prisoner and some
other people in Bermondsey, and after a little conversation
they adjourned to a public house where th© captain insisted
on treating the whole of the people in front of the bar. They
then went to different other public houses in Tooley. street,
and ultimately a row took place, when the purse of the pro.
secutor was stolen. The prisoner was present, and some of
the witnesses said that he was the person suspected of the
robbery, and from certain matters that took place after.
wards, he was taken into custody and charged with the
offence.

Mr. Lilley addressed the jury for the prisoner, and con-
tended that the witnesses were in such a state of inebreity
when the captain was robbed that their testimon} was not
to be relied on. He said ,t was just as likely the man had
lost the money as that he had been robbed of it.
The jury found the prisoner guilty.

A po►ice constable said the prisoner had twice before been
summarily convicted for stealing whatever he could lay his
hands upon in dockyards during the hours the workpeople
were at meals. On one occasion he cut a supply pipe from
a ship, which would occasion the greatest inconvenience
when it was discovered, the ship having proceeded to sea
before the loss was discovered. He had also been taken
into custody with a quantity of Muntz's metal concealed
about his person.
The Recorder asked the constable if he had ever known
the prisoner do any honest work.
The constable said the prisoner had worked now and
then in different dockyards as a lumper.
The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment
with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

Brutal Assault by a Policeman at Bramley,

On Saturday evening last, Polies-officer Linfoot,
who was on duty in the Rodley district, Bramley,
called at one or two public-houses, where he asked
for whisky, &c., tendering no payment in return for
it. He then proceeded to some of the shops in the
village, and at Mr. B. Gott's went behind the counter,
helping himself to figs, nuts, &c., in a most officious
wanner. The night being 'very cold, the liquors
appear to have had a powerful and exciting effect
upon him, for he afterwards threatened to take
into custody nearly every person whom he met.
Between 10 and 11 o'clock he met Joseph Barnes, a
wool scourer, of Rodley, who was quietly proceed
ing home, and pounced upon him, and in a most
cruel manner felled him to theground with his staff,
cutting his head in several places,and breaking his
jawbone. Sumo persons residing in the neigh-
bourhood hearing a noise, went out to see what was
the matter. Barnes was crying out, "Lord have
mercy upon me, he is killing me," the officer at the
same time kicking him in the ribs with his heavy
shoes, and replying, "If I haven't killed him, I will
do so before I have done with him." The man was
bleeding most profusely, and the neighbours assisted
him into Mr. Thackray's, shopkeeper, the officer
beating his staff against several doors, making ir.-
dentations an inch in diameter. He then went
into Mr. Thackray's and insisted on taking Barnes
a prisoner to the police station at Bramley, a dis-
tance of more than a mile. The neighbours remon-
strated with the officer, but to no purpose, the
brutal policeman asserting that, ''lf he (Barnes)
died on the road he would take him." They arrived
at the police station about one o'clock, and the ser-
geant was called up. Barnes was found to be in a
very exhausted condition, and some stimulants were
provided by his friends who had followed. Mr.
Laycock, surgeon, was sent for, and on examination
he found seven cuts on the head penetrating to the
bone, the lower jaw broken, and many severe bruises
on other parts of the body. Under his direction
the injured man was removed shortly afterwards to
the Infirmary, and Liufoot was taken into custody
esterday, and conveyed to the Town Hall, at Leeds.
Our correspondent adds, considerable dissatisfaction
exists at Bramley, in consequence of the overbearing
conduct of some of the police officers stationed there.
During the pas; week, a ratepayer, holding an
official position in the town went to the police
station to complain of the conduct of one of the men,
when the sergeant, without any just cause, forcibly
took him by the neck and shoulders and pitched him
out of the office into the street. Another account
states that Barnes was perfectly sober when Lin-
foot—who, it appears, had been teased just pre-
viously by some men, one of whom had escaped from
his custody—came up to him and at once felled.him
by a blow on the head with his staff, and then re-
peated the blows in a most determined manner
whilst the man was on the ground. There are
numerous cuts on the head, all reaching to the bone,
and in one place the skull is fractured ; the lower
jaw is also broken. The man is in a very dangerous
condition, but was able yesterday (Sunday) to give
his evidence before the Mayor, who, with Mr. Barr,
attended him at the Infirmary.—Leeds Mercury.