The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

THAMES.

A MARINE BURGLAR.—LUCKY ESCAPE.—David Do-
Lovan, an Irish Cockney, about 23 years of age, and well-
known to the police, was brought before Mr. Woolrych,
charged with stealing two Guernsey shirts, the property of
Captain R. B. Evans, the master of the ship Petrel, in the
West India Dock.

The prisoner was seen on board the Petrel a few days
since, and on being asked his business there he replied that
he came to seek employment. He was told that he was not
wanted, and ordered to leave the ship immediately. He
seemingly did so, but managed in some manner to obtain
admission to the captain's cabin, from which he was seen
to emerge shortly afterwards and hasten on shore. Ho wa■
followed and brought back, and on being searched two
" Guernseys," belonging to Captain Evans, and which
were taken out of a box in the after cabin were found
upon him. The property was identified by Captain
Evans, who said his ship was to sail this very day
(Saturday) for North America on the Gulf of Mexico, and
that he must sail with her.

Charles Mutton, a day watchman in the London Dock,
said the prisoner was a regular marine burglar, and was
suspected of committing other robberies on board ship in
the course of the last few weeks. Whenever he saw him
in the dock he turned him out.

William Gaylor, a police-constable, No. 303 K, said the
prisoner was convicted at the Westminster Sessions on the
19th December, 1860, and sentenced to 12 months' impri-
sonment and hard labour.

The prisoner—l was innocent of that—as innocent as my
cap. _ _ _

Gaylor—The prisoner has been convicted summarily
three times since then.

Mr. Woolrych said that under ordinary circumstances
he should commit the prisoner for trial, but it would be a
serious loss to the prosecutor if he compelled him to remain
here and give evidence at the sessions. He should there-
fore again convict the prisoner summarily and sentence him
to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. The pri-
soner ought to be sentenced to a long term of penal servi-
tude.

DISHONEST LIGHTERMEN.—STEALING WINE IN THAN-
SIT.—John Poole, a lighterman in the employ of Messrs.
Middlemiss and Harwood, was brought before Mr. Wool-
rych, charged with stealing a bottle of sherry wine.
Two lightermen, named John Wardell and Alfred Adams,
were convicted on Thursday for stealing a gallon of port
wine from a cask which they had broached. They were in
the employ of Messrs. Whellock and Co., lightermen and
barge owners, and had to convey 3.5 casks of wine, in a barge
called the Faith, from the London to the St. Katherine
dock. They forced a cask of port wine between the two
docks, drunk about half a gallon of the wine, and were
"gloriously intoxicated," and were bringing on shore a
bladder containing half a gallon of port wine, when they
were stopped by two Customhouse officers, named Brown
and Riddle, and the half gallon of wine seized. There was
a deficiency of four quarts of wine in the cask which had
tookbe the p
been spilled in the bilge. Mr. Woolrych " had no doubt the
prisoners had stolen the wine, and fined them 20s each for the
unlawful posession thereof." Those fines were paid by the
foreman orifsotnheersfiarmwayw.ho employed the prisoners, and he
The case of Poole was somewhat like that of Wardell and
Adams. The prisoner was entrusted with the navigation
of a boat containing 120 cases, 2 hogsheads, and a butt of
wine, to convey from the London Dock to a ship lying near
one of the wharves at Horsleydown. The barge was dis-
covered in a part of the river a mile from the place where
she ought to have been. The prisoner was on board fast
asleep, and a bottle of sherry wine close to his head. One
of the cases on board was found to have been displaced and
broken open. It ought to have contained 12 bottles of
sherry wine. There was a deficiency of one bottle of wine.
The prisoner appeared to have been drinking heavily, but
whether he had indulged in another bottle of sherry taken
from another case could not be ascertained.
The prisoner, in defence, said he laid down and fell asleep
from fatigue, and that while he was asleep some one must
have boarded the barge and broke open the case.
Mr. Woolrych—You had charge of the barge and the
wines, and I can come to no other conclusion than this,
that you stole the bottle of wine. I fine you 20s. for the
unlawful possession of the wine, and, in default, 10 days'
imprisonment,

WESTMINSTER.
PAROCHIAL TERRORS.—EXTRAORDINARY APPLICA•
TI ON.--." I shall be sent to prison ; I know I shall; it won't
be my fault. The Board sent for me, and I went. lam
sure they can't say I am to blame, and I hope your wor-
ship will help me;" was the address of a middle-aged
miserable looking man, who accosted the magistrate the
moment he took his seat upon the bench.
Mr. Arnold—l am sure I don't understand you. What
do you want of me ?

Applicant—l want you to protect me. I want you to pre-
vent my going to prison.

Mr. Arnold—How am Ito do that. I cannot prevent
your going to prison if you are liable to be sent there.
Applicant—l know lam liable to be sent there, and
that's the very reason that makes me come here, My wife
has deserted me.

Mr. Arnold—You are not afraid of going to prison through
;hat, surely.

Applicant—Yes, but I am, your worship. That's the very
,hing.

Mr. Arnold—What you say is perfectly unintelligible to
me. I cannot under stand what you want.
Applicant—Why, we left the workhouse together yester-
day morning with the child—we have got a child—and just
as we got to Westminster•bridge she takes the child from
me, makes off, and I loses her.
Mr. Arnold—Well von had better endeavour to find her.
Applicant—I don't want.
Jar. Arnold---Then What do want ?
Ttey will say I left her instead of she left me.
APPlicant--Wh
her; y the parish will take ma up for deserting
......r. Arnold—I can't believe that.
Applicant—They will ; I know they will. They took a
warrant against me once before, and Iwas very near going
to prison. What am Itodo ?
Mr. Arnold—Go to the workhouse and state the circum-
stances of her leaving you, and they will then be acquainted
with the real facts of the case, and you need not fear then
being sent to prison.
Applicant—Needn't I ? I thank you, your worship. I'll
go to the workhouse and tell 'eru at once that I didn't leave
her, but she left rue, and that it aint my fault.