The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-27 00:00:00

LAW INT.

Busines,
done.

This Day

(LICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

THAMES.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—LUCEN ESCAPE OP A RATCLIPP-
HIGHWAY GlRL.—Eliza Lane, alias Dandy Lizzie, a girl
of the town, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, on remand,
charged with stealing a gold watch and chain, valued at
20 guineas, from the person of Lewis Lawrence, in Ratcliff-
highway, on the night of Tuesday, the 19th inst.
The prosecutor, a seaman, was passing
along Ratcliff-
highway, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock on the
night of the 19th, and the prisoner and two other women
commenced hustling and playing tricks with him. The
prisoner fastened her arm round his neck and very adroitly
managed to possess herself of his gold watch and chain.
He fortunately missed it directly, and seized hold of her,
and at the same time he called for the police. She got
away from him, and rushed to the other side of the street.
Ho pursued her, and cvertook her, and continued to call out
most lustily for the police. She then handed back the
lciucetosrergeant named Stimpson,
and begged of him not
to watch
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No. 21 K, apprehended and took the prisoner into custody.
The other woman ran away.
The prisoner said she took the watch and chain out of a
lark, and had no intent;on to steal them.
Mr. Woolrych said he feared the sailor would not have
een his watch and chain any more if he had not clung to
the prisoner, and called for the police. The prisoner had
been in custody eight days, and Scimpson said he knew no..
thing against her honesty before, although she was very
disorderly. As the sailor had recovered his property and
did not appear against the prisoner, he would allow her to
be discharged .

AN ADVENTURE IN WAPPING CHURCH.—John Young,
alias Dyer, a tall, heavy, and remarkable -looking man,
apparently about 30 years, was brought up on remand,
before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being secreted in the
parish church of St. John, Wappiig, for an unlawful
purpose.
On Friday evening last there was Divine Service in
"Wapping Church, and the congregation were not dis-
iniqiEci by the officiating clergyman until 9 o'clock. Soon
afterwards, Mr. John Stock, the sexton, extinguished the
lights, and was preparing to leave the sacred edifice when
he heard a very peculiar and unearthly noise. He listened
and it ceased. He proceeded down the middle
aisle, and could see nothing unusual. He looked
over the pews, and was advancing towards the porch
when the noise was repeated, and ho was somewhat
alarmed. Anther search and inspection of the church
proved fruitless, and he left, closed the doors, and locked
them. The noises he had heard continued to haunt the
sexton's imagination for an hour afterwards, and he then
returned to the church with a police constable named Gun-
field, 495 K, and made another search. On opening the
door of the churchwarden's pew the prisoner was found
concealed there. He was lying on the floor with a cuir mat
over him. He had turned over the hassocks and cushions
of the pew, and displaced the books and Church Services
from the shelves, and made un a bed of the whole, The
pew is a very high one, and the sexton believing that no
one would dare to invade the sanctity of the churchwar_
den's pew, had not looked into it in the first instance. The
prisoner on being taken into custody said " Don't touch me, I
have got the smallpox." He was asked to give some account
of himself, and he first said his name was Young and after-
wards said it was John Dyer.
The police- constable Greenfield said he had made in-
quiries since the prisoner was last before the magistrate
and could find out nothing about him.
,
Mr. Stock believed the prisoner was insane, although
there was method in his madness on Friday night, for he
had selected the most comfortable pew in
Wapping Church
and made up a tolerably good bed of the mats, hassock; and
cushions and a pillow of Bibles and Church services.
Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had con-
ducted himself most strangely and in a violent manner, and
was not lit to be at large.
Mr. Woolrych directed Greenfield to procure assistance
and convey the unfortunate man to the new workhouse of
the Stepney Uni ,n at Bromley, and call the attention of the
(Beers of the Union to the case. He had no doubt the
man was der tnged, and wanted looking after.

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
IN THE GOODS OF WILLIAM COULTHARD.
Dr. Slinks applied tor probate of the will of the testator,
who was the master of a trading vessel. On the sth of
January, 1862, the brigantine Excelsior, of which Coult-
hard was the commander, left Cardiff for a voyage to Por-
tugal, at which pert she arrived in due time. She after-
wards left on her voyage home, but had never since been
heard of, and he therefore made the present application to
the court. The owner of the ship had paid the claims on
the vessel, he being of opinion that she had been lost at sea,
and the insurance comp,ny, with whom a policy had been
taken out on the ship, had also paid the money for which
the vessel had been insured.
The Judge Ordinary granted the application.
MORTON V. THORP AND OTHERS.
Mr. Pritchard applied for administration in this cause.
A document had been lodged in the registry, but with the
consent of all parties he made the application irrespective
of the document.
The learned Judge said such a course was not in con-
formity with the rules of court. The will must either be
impeached or administration would be taken with it.
Th,- learned counsel said the parties had agreed to the
course he propo,ed.
The learned Judge said the consent of interested parties
amounted to nothing, and it was not because the whole of
the parties had agreed that therefore the application was to
be granted. The consent, therefore, of the parties went for
nothing, and the learned counsel could not, by any magni-
fying power, make nothing into something.

CRISPIN V. DOGLIONI.
His lordship delivered his judgment in this cause, which
occupied the court so many days in its argument. His
lordship decided in favour of the plaintiff—his judgment
in effect confirming the decision of the courts in Portugal.

MARLBOROUGH- STRE ET.
COMMITTAL POR TRIAL FOR ASSAULTING THE POLICE.
—Edward Powley, a rough-looking fellow, wearing a badge
but having no licence, was charged before Mr. Mansfield
with assaulting police constable William Moore, 187 C.
Moore said—At a quarter-past four this mnrning I saw
the prisoner drunk and making a great noise in the Hay-
market. As soon as the prisoner saw me he called out,
"I'll do for your -- carcase." I walked down Jermyn-
4reet as far as Market-street, when the prisoner came
up to me and said, "You --, I'll do for you," and then
threw me down in a violent manner, hurting my arm and
hand so much that 1 can scarcely raise my arm. The pri-
soner then tried to kick me in a delicate part. Three months
ago I charged the prisoner with a similar assault, and hav-
ing been to prison he has entertained a spite towards me
since. I found a cab-driver's badge in his possession, but
how he got it I do not know.
Mr Mansfield--By a mistake in the Police Act, lam not
able to give the prisoner more than a month, but as he is
evidently e dangerous fellow, and has assaulted the con-
stable before, I shall send him for trial.