The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
PARISH PROSECUTION OF NOTORIOUS BROTHEL-
KEEFERS.—Ainie Jones, a foreigner, and Emily Jones,
alias Mason, were charged before Mr. Mansfield with keep-
ing a brothel at No. 24, Queen-street, Golden•square.
Mr. Allen, of Carlisle-street, prosecuted on behalf of the
parish authorities of St. James's.
Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, having identified the prisoners
as the keepers of the place, and as the persons named in the
warrant upon which he apprehended them,
Mr. Mansfield committed them to the sessions on bail.
The prisoners, it appears, kept the lower part of the
house, which they converted into a brothel, the visitors to
it being principally very young girls, many of them mere
children, and those so much complained of as frequenting
Leicester•square. The male prisoner has been frequently
cautioned both by the police and the inhabitants, but bid
delance to them. In consequence of the exertions of the
parish authorities Queen-street, new named Denman-street,
has almost entirely been swept of the brothel l►eepers, who
formerly occupied most of the houses in the street.
AN INGENIOUS MODE OF DOG STEALING.—COMMIT-
TAL.—Edward Wilmot, a lad from the neighbourhood of
Cowcross, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing
a dog of the value of £6, the property of a gentleman named
Wilson, residing at 18, Sloane-street, Chelsea.
From the evidence of Mr. George Scott, of Devonshire
Cottage, Chelsea, it appeared th, t on the previous afternoon
he was in Hyde-park and saw the prisoner crave his pocket
handkerchief to a dog, and then roll up the handkerchief
into a ball and roll it along the ground. The dog ran after '
the ball, and the prisoner then snatched it up, put it under
his arm, and walked off with it; and on being followed by I
witness and a constable to Knightsbridge, he threw the dog
behind a cart.

dog was his property,
Mr. James Wilson, 18, Sloane-street, Chelk ea, said the
and of the value of 46. He missed
the dog, and, being spoken to b 3 the last witness, he went
with him and gave the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner for six months
with hard labour.

THAMES.
THE SAILOR AND THE CRIMP.—AN EXPENSIVE PIPE
LlQHT.—Francisco Pignatilli, who has been settled in this
country for many years, and has frequently acted as inter-
preter at this court, appeared before Mr. Partridge, to
answer a summons taken out under 236th clause of the
" Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and which charged him
with unlawfully detaining £ll 10s., the monies of an Aus-
trian seaman, named John SaLditch, who had been car-
penter on board a British registered ship.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and
said that Sabditch was paid off at the Sailors' Home, in
Well-street, on the 17th of April, and then received £3B, of
which he gave £35 in Bank of England notes to Pignatilli,
in whose house he was lodging in Strathmore-terrace,
Shadwell. The odd £3 was spent the same day by the
sailor on a cruise among the grog-shops and loose women
in Ratcliff-highway and Shadwell. The sum of £lB ss.
was paid back by the defendant, and there was a charge
made by him of Ss. for board and lodging. The out-
fitter had the largest share of the sailor's money There
was still a balance due to the sailor of £ll 10s., which the
defendant promised to pay in 15 days, There was also a
£5 note unaccounted for,

Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, in reply to the charge,
admitted that Pignatilli owed the sailor £ll 10s., but the
case was out of the magistrate's jurisdiction, because the
Aust-ian had treated the matter as a debt and accepted an
1.0 U. for the amount. An attorney had also sent the
usual " lawyer's letter" demanding payment of the money.
With lespect to the £5 note spoken of, the sailor had
ignited it at a gas burner for the purpose of lighting his
pipe, and did not discover his mietake till the note was
half consumed. Pignatelli had accompanied the sailor to
the Bank of England for the purpose of obtaining a new
note for the old one, but was unsuccessful, because the
numbers of the old note were burnt out.
Mr. Stoddart—Making pipe lights of bank notes is quite
as extravagant as the practice of man-of-war's men in the
prise-money days making bank-note sandwiches, and eating
them between bread and butter.

Mr. Smith said Bank of England notes were not so
tphleenntrifeualdatmheonig.os.uea.maeanfeallsawthasY used to be. Mr. Smith

" Aprill7, 1863.-1.0. t. Giovanni Sabditch the sum of
eleven pounds ten shillings, to be paid within a fortnight.
" FRANCESCO PIGNATILLI.
"J. WATERS, 47,Wellin;ton-street, Strand, Witness."
Mr. Partridge asked whl the money was not paid to the
sailor.

Mr. Smith said Pignatilli would pay the amount as soon
as possible, and put in a letter from an attorney demanding
payment of the debt.

Sabdit h admitted obtaining a light for his pipe with a £5
note. He wanted his money.
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Mr. Stoddart said the 1.0 U. was a shall iw artifice to
defraud the sailor of his hard-earnt d wages. This was a
moat crud proceeding. In three weeks she sailor had got
rid of £3B wth the aid of Fignatelli and others.
Mr. Partridge said whatever opinion he might have of this
transaction, the acceptance of the 1.0. U. dew ived him of a
jurisdiction. Ho could not act under the 236th clause of
the Merchant Shipping Act. The sailor would sue the de-
fendant in the county court. He must dismiss the sum-