The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING., NOVEMBER 5, 1863,

great bulk of the accidents to trains in which passengers
are killed or injured arise from collisions, and those colli•
sions are mostly between fast passenger trains and slower
goods trains which are unable to get out of their way. Mr.
Stephenson attributes even the accidents which happen to
axles, wheels, or the machinery of engines, to the excessive
strain which is put upon them at "high speeds;" and he
would seem to have reason for this conclusion, for whilst
such accidents occurred last year to seven passenger trains,
it is remarkable that there was not one such accident to any
goods or mineral train, although the latter carry much
heavier weights than the former. The causes of accidents
to passenger and goods trains respectively may thus be
classified :

Causes of To Passenger To Goods
Accidents, Trains. Trains.
From collisions
From wrong points
From getting off rails
From breakage of axles,
wheels. &c.
From boilers bursting

in regard io "persons injured" upon railways, the official
returns do not enable us to distinguish between those who
suffer in limb and those who merely suffer from contusion.
Experience induces the belief that the great proportion of
injuries are of the latter class, and that in many instances
such injuries are greatly exaggerated, with a view to obtain
compensation from the companies. It is right to observe,
however, that there are cases in which companies expose
themselves very much to this sort of accident, by reason of
the character of the carriages in which they convey their
passengers. In cases of ordinary collision between trains, it is
generally found that by far the greatest proportion of injuries
are sustained by second and third class passengers. This
arises, very materially, from the nature of the carriages.
The first class traveller is protected by stuffing and
cushions ; whilst other passengers are ordinarily exposed
to buffet with bare boards. In the case in which the
largest number of injuries were sustained—that upon the
Midland Railway at the Harborough station—the two ex-
cursion trains which came into collision were carrying
passengers in a very inferior description of " open car-
riage." No doubt the character of rolling stock has very
much to do with the character of accidents in cases of colli •
sion ; and this consideration should lead railway companies
to consider whether there is not a real economy in provid-
ing rolling stock of a superior description for every class of
passenger.

The subject of compensation for railway accidents opens
up so many important topics as to require separate conside-
ration. As at present levied it is eminently unjust; but,
in consequence of the small proportion of accidents, its
total amount is so trifling a per centage upon railway re-
ceipts as to make it scarcely felt.

Total Loss by Fire of the London and New

York Packet Ship Amazon.

A fearful disaster has befallen the splendid packet ship
Amazon, nearly 2,000 tons register, which left Gravesend
on Saturday last for New York, with passengers and a
general cargo. When oil the North Foreland on Tuesday
night she was discovered to be on fire, and, although every
human effort was made by the officers, crew, and passengers
to extinguish the flames, it was found to be impossible, and
the master (Captain Hovey), seeing that the destruction of
his ship was inevitable, announced his intention to abandon
her, and the boats were at once lowered. A heavy sea was
running, and the wind blowing a gale from the NW, which
rendered the task rather difficult, but ultimately all the
passengers and crew were safely got into the boats. The
captain, however, did not leave the ship, until the flames
actually compelled him to do so. By midnight the ship
was completely in flames. Immediately on the fire being
observed from Margate, Kingsdown, and Broadstairs, the
life boats were launched and made for the burning ship to
render assistance. At eight yesterday morning the ship
was still burning fiercely, and was driven towards Broad-
stairs. A number of boats were round her, but it was
impossible to get near the ship owing to the great heat.
The fore and mainmasts fell by the board about one o'clock.
Nothing appears to have been saved from the ship, the
passengers and crew losing everything they possessed, ex-
cept the clothes they had on. They were landed at Margate
about nine o'clock yesterday morning.
An eye-witness of the whole conflagration and catas-
trophe, W. Hughes, a most intelligent man of colour,
steward on board the vessel, who arrived in town last night,
states that he and all the passengers and crew were in bed
at twelve o'clock, with the exception of the pilot and the
first and second watch, when one of the passengers having
discovered smoke and flame issuing from underneath the
second cabin floor, rushed into the neighbouring compart-
ments shouting "Fire l" This immediately alarmed the
whole ship, and the captain gave instant directions to the
crew to get the pumps under weigh and apply the hose to
extinguish the fire. In order to do this it was necessary to
lift up the hatches, when unfortunately the wind, which
was blowing hard at time, rushed in and fanned the flames
on all sides of the hold into a sheet of fire. Seeing the ter-
rible peril the ship and passengers ware now exposed to
Capt Hovey, regardless of his own personal risk, gave orders
to the crew to lower the two lifeboats, into which the pas-
sengers were let down by ropes. These, however, were in-
sufficient to contain passengers and crew, and, unfortunately
two other boats by some accident drifted away. Rockets
were then fired as signals of distress for help from shore,
and providentially a steam tug came to the rescue; but un-
fortunately, from some cause or other. could not get well
up alongside, and had to stand off, while the boats of the
Amazon, having embarked the passengers on board of her,
returned to the burning ship, and took off the remaining
passengers and the ship's company safe. The captain and
chief officers, who remained on deck last, then got into the
lugger, and the steam tug towed all to Margate, which was
reached about half-past 3 yesterday morning.
In the course of the day the ship burnt to the water's
edge, and the windlass and anchor having also parted, sho
drifted down towards Broadstairs, and eventually it is stated
went down from the weight of water and iron contained in
her.
The Amazon was the property of Mr. J. B. White and
others, of Lower East Smithfield, near St. Katharine's
Docks, and, with her cargo, was valued at £24,000. She
was a six year old A 1 clipper, but not insured at Lloyd's,
and only half insured at New York. The cause of
the conflagration is altogether a mystery, but the oc-
currence will be inquired into by the surveyor of wrecks
on behalf of the Board of Trade. All the passengers and
crew arrived last evening at the London-bridge terminus of
the South-Eastern Railway, and were conveyed to the model
lodging-house in Upper East Smithfield, where they will
remain until arrangements are made by the American con••
sul for their transmission by another vessel to New York.

The Loss of the Pactolus Steamer.—Official
Report,

To THE LORDS or THE COMMITTEE Or PRIVY COUNCIL

FOR TRADE.

My Lords,—ln pursuance of your instructions, I have
held an official inquiry, assisted by Captains Harris and
Baker, the Nautical Assessor of your board, into the circum-
stances attending the loss of the steamer Pactolus, which
was wrecked on the Bth September last, on a lodge of rocks
between Little Hope Island and the mainland of Nova
Scotia. The Pactolus was an iron screw steamer, built at
Glasgow in the year 1851, and owned by Messrs. Larrport
and Holt, and others, of Liverpool, at which port she waa
registered of the burthen of 1,156 gross and 653 net tonnage.
She was commanded by Mr. Edward Johnson, who holds a
certificate of competency as master, dated March 29, 1859,
and had a crew of 35 persons, all told. Only three passen-
gers were on board at the time of her loss. The Pactolus
left Halifax on the morning of the Bth September last,
bound for St. John, N. 8., in all respects properly equipped.
She cleared the harbour at 8.30 a.m., and took her depar-
ture from the Sambro Lighthouse, bearing N by E, distant
three to four miles. A course was shaped WSW for Cape
Sable, and the vessel proceeded at full speed. At noon a
thick fog came on, so dense as to obscure objects on the
horizon, but not so dense as to prevent them occasionally
seeing distant high land above the lower stratum of fog,
as frequently happens in those latitudes. From this time the
speed of the vessel was reduced one-half. At 5 minutes past
3 p.m. the engines were stopped for about 5 minutes, to
allow a fishing. smack to cross their bows, standing in to-
wards the land. No communication was held with her, nor
did her appearance warn them of their near approach to
danger. Shortly afterwards land was discovered right ahead.
The engines were reversed full speed for the space of 13, or
at the most 15 minutes with her helm hard a-starboard,and
soundings were taken in 12 fathoms. This manoeuvre had
the effect of bringing the ship's head up from WSW to
NW. The engines were then turned ahead at half speed,
with the helm still hard a-starboard, The vessel went
round to port, that is, towards the land, till her head came
to SSW, at which point she was steadied on her course. In
about 5 minutes land was seen again, at the distance of
only one cable's length on the port bow. Instant orders
were given to stop and reverse, but before the eng:nes had
made three revolutions astern the ship struck. The engines
were continued reversed at full speed till 6 40 p.m., when,
the tide having fallen, no further efforts were made till the
following day,whrn further attempts to get her off by turn-
ing astern, throwing overboard coals, and discharging cargo
were still unsuccessful. No lives were lost, and ultimately
all the cargo was discharged, and much of the ship's gear
was saved. The wreck wes finally abandoned on the 23d of
September. The crew appear to have behaved well. In
commenting upon the loss of this ship it is my duty to point
at once :veer:lle revealed out that the course, WSW, along the land from Halifax
to-
wards Cape Sable, however safe in clear weather, is certainly
un-
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proved fatal. The course thus adopted seems to me to in-
dicate a want of judgment on the part of the master which
compels me to pronounce him in default on this account, as
well as for his negkct to make a duo use of the lead when.
he had no other mode of ascertaining in a thick fog whether
ho was making his course good, or whether the current was
setting him in-shore. There is no reason to believe that the
compasses had anything to do with the disaster, as they had
all three been compared by bearing of the land on leaving
tho harbour of Halifax, only seven hours previously. In
the judgment which the Court pronounces in this case, due
consideration is given to the excellent character received by
the master from his owners; and it is also borne in mind,
that by his strenuous exertions after the vessel grounded,
most of the cargo was saved undamaged. But this Court
has so often to lament the fatal consequences which ensue
from the reckless neglect of the lead in foggy weather, that
it would be injurious alike to the interests of shipowners
and of tha public not to mark its sense of such omission on
the part of commanders to provide for the safe navigation of
their ships. I have, therefore, felt it to bo my duty, with
the full concurrence of my assessors, to suspend the certi-
ficate of Mr. Edward Johnson for nine calendar months from
the date of this report.—l have, &c.,
Nov. 2, 1863. T. S. RATTLES, Police Magistrate.
We concur in this report.

Hy. HARRIS, } Nautical Assessors.
R. It, BAKER,

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov, 4,

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)
Josiah Rixon, 28, servant, John Morgan, 48, coffee-shop
keeper, and John Stowell, 44, bootmaker, were severally in-
dicted—the said Josiah Rixon for stealing seven silver tea-
spoons and other articles, the property of Frances Major,
and John Morgan and John Stowell, for receiving the same,
well knowing them to have been stolen.
Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; Mr. Metcalfe, instructed by Mr.
Charles Young, of Arbour-square, Stepney, appeared for
Morgan ; and Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Lewis and Lewis,
defended Stowell. Rixon pleaded guilty,
Mr. Cooper having briefly opened the case, called
Mrs. Frances Major, the prosecutrix, who said—l am a
widow, living at 5, Coburn-terrace, Bow-road, and about the
sth of October my man servant was ill, and Rixon came to
do his duty. He remained there a fortnight, and he slept
in the house in a back room in the first floor, and in a chest
of drawers in his room were the seven teaspoons, two salt
spoons, a pair of sugar tongs, now in the hands of the police.
They are my property, and were in those drawers, with a
quantity of other plate at the time Rixon came to sleep in
the room. In the same drawer there was a quantity of
other table spOons, a gold pillar chain, a gold bracelet, and
gold locket. On Tuesday morning, the 20th ult., I was
called by my servant, and found Rixon's door locked. I
called the police, and the officer Squire came and broke open
the door, and there I found the drawers open and the things
missing. There was a bundle of keys left in the room. I
missed two tablespoons, and each spoon had the initials W.
M. C. on it. I also missed four other tablespoons, a ring,
pair of sugar tongs,a silver dessert spoon, and two eardrops,
The property I have missed would be worth about £6O al-
together.

John Squire, police-constable 447 K, said—On the after-
noon of the 23d October I took Morgan into custody at No.
8, Charles-street, Hatton-garden, and I told him he was
charged with another man in disposing of a quantity of plate
and other articles which had been taken by a man named
Rixon from No. 5, Coborn-terrace, Bow-road. He wanted
me to stop in the house while he fetched a gentleman, bat I
told him wherever he went I should go with him. After he
found I was determined to take him he said he would show
me the place where it was sold. He said he had seen Rixon,
who had brought a bundle of plate with him, and that he
had taken it to Stowell, who bought it. He said he would
go and fetch Mr. Maddison. I went out of the house with
him to Mr, Maddison's office, but ho was not in then. I
returned with the prisoner Morgan to Charles-street, and
there saw a man in the street. Morgan said to Maddison,
"I have got into a fine mess about this plate." Mr. Maddi-
son said, " Come to my office and we will see what is the
matter." We then went to No. 85, Hatton-garden,which is
Mr. Maddison's office. When we were in the office I told
Maddison that I should take him into custody as well. He
told me he had bought the plate, and that he could show
the receipt for it. I sent another constable for a cab and
took them both to the Bow police.station. I left them at
the station and then went back to Charles-street. I met a
Mr. Williams in the street, who lives at No. 18, Charles.
street, Hatton-garden, and received from him seven tea-
spoons, two saltapoons, and a pair of sugar-tongs.
Lewis Lambert, police constable 311 K, said—On the night
of the 23d of October, at about half-past nine I was on duty
in plain clothes in Liverpool-road, Islington. I met Stowell
there, and having tapped him on the shoulder, said, " Mr.
Stowell,'' and he said " Yes." I said, " I shall take you
into custody for receiving some silver spoons, sugar, tongs,
a gold chain, bracelet, and several brooches." He said,
" That is quite right." He said ho received them from
Morgan, and sold the spoons for ss. an ounce to Mr. Mad-
dison. He wanted me to go to a public-house and have
something to drink, but I refused. I took him to the Angel
public house and put him in an omnibus, and on the way to
the Bank he said, " It is a bad job, I would not have had it
happen for :£lOO ;" and he offered me a sovereign to let him
go home. He made the offer a second time, close to the
Bow-road station. I told him that I could not take it.
When we reached the station, Morgan was there. I asked
Morgan if he knew Stowell, and he said he knew him very
well for many years.
Cross-examined by Mr.Metcalfe—Stowell said he received
it from Morgan and sold it to Maddison, I stated that be-
fore the magistrate on the first examination.
Henry Maddison said—l live at No. 85, Hatton-garden,
and am a gold and silver chain manufacturer and diamond
merchant. On Tuesday, the 20th of October, Stowell came
to my shop between four and five o'clock, and said, " I have
some silver spoons, a bracelet, and neck chain for sale."
He then produced a gold bracelet and chain." I asked him
if they were his, and he said they are not mine. They are a
person's who owes you money, and he dares not come him-
self. I said, "Tell me who he is, so that I may be on my
guard to get my money." lie said—" They are from
Morgan, at the coffde-shop." I had known him for twelve
or fifteen months, and he owed me money. I had known
Stowell for seven or eight years as a very respectable man
in the neighbourhood, and have dealt with him for boots.
He employs eight or ten hands. Stowell asked me £lO for
the bracelet and chain. It was a pillar and link chain,
large and showy. I offered him £9 10a. for it, and gave
hires a cheque for the meant. Stowell then produced seven
tea-spoons, two table-spaons, two salt-spoons, and sugar-
tongs, I gave him £3 10s. for them, although they came
to £3 12s. 6d by weight. I only gave him that as I had
given him too much for the chain. I left the plate for
some time in the scale. After paying him the £3 10s. he
went away. Mr. Williams soon afterwards came in, and I
sold him the spoons and tongs for £3 Gs. I kept the table-
spoons in my possession, but the gold chain and bracelet
I sold to Mr. Jeffries of Hatton-garden for £9 15s 4d, with
a profit of 11 4d to myself. The table spoons sold to Mr.
Jeffries had three letters upon them, but I do not remember
what these letters were.

John Robert Williams said—l live at 108, Batton•garden,
and am a diamond merchant. On tho 20th Oct. I bought
seven teaspoons, two saltspoons, and one pair of sugar-tongs
from the last witness for ss. 6d. per ounce. They were all
odd spoons, and when I went to Mr. Maddison's place they
were all in the scale.

Walter Kerrisoe, inspector of the K division, said—l am
an inspector of the Ii division of police. At half• past 10 on
the night of the 23d October the prisoners Morgan and Sto-
well were brought to the station at Bow. I said, addressing
both of them, "You are charged with knowingly receiving
and disposing of a gold chain, silver spoons, brooches, and
other articles of jewellery from Josiah Rixon, knowing the
same to have been stolen." Stowell said, " I'll tell you all
about it," I said, "You had better be cautious." He
said he would sooner tell me. I said, "If you aro going to
make any statement it is my duty to caution you first. It
will be taken down in writing, and may be used in evidence
against you." Stowell then made the following statement,
which I took down in writing. Ho said, "Mr. Morgan
called at my house on Tuesday night, and said he wanted
to see me. I went to his house and his wife told me he was
lying down, and asked me to go up to him on the first floor.
I went up and awoke him. He said, "Do you know where
to sell these ?" There was a paper parcel on the table. I
took the paper parcels and opened them. There wore silver
spoons and a gold chain. I said, " I don't know any per-
son but Mr. Maddison." I took the chain over first, and
Mr. Maddison said he would give £9 10s for it by weight.
He would give 55 an ounce for the spoons if they were good.
They came to £3 12s 63, and he only gave me £3 10s. He
said he gave me too much for the chain. Ho said, " Why
did not Morgan bring them himself." Ho said, " I know
I have got a bill of sale on his things," Morgan then said
that Rixon, when ho brought the things into my house,
asked me whether I knew any one who would buy them, and
asked 13 for them. Mr. Stowell gave £8 for the chain and
brooches, and for some other things £3los, which I did no
see. I keep a coffee shop in Hatton-garden. When the man
called, and asked tee whether I knew any one who would buy
those things, I went to Mr. Stowell. He was out. The
man left the thing-, and said he would call again in an
hour's time. Stowall then said to Morgan, " You must
have known the things were stolen, or else you would not
have come to me. I gave the money to your wife." Morgan
then said to Stowell, "You got £0 10s. for them, and you
only gave the man Rixon £3, and you got £3 10s. for the
second lot." Stowell then said he did not (meaning him-
self). Morgan then said, "What did you do with it?
Then my wife did not receive any money." Stowell then
said, But I gave it to her, and you know it."

John Jeffreys, of 30, Hatton-garden, said—l am a gold
and silver refiner. I purchased two table spoons, brought
to my counting-house by Mr. Maddison, an opposite neigh-
bour, and also a lady's guard chain. I weighed the chain,
and paid 525. Gd. per ounce for it. I have not the chain
with me, and I think it was melted down. We molt every
day to what we require the next day. We only buy al titles
that are fit for melting. The chain was only fit for melting,
and I should say it was made 50 years ago. I am certain
it was melted and sold.

Thomas Currie, a carpenter, of 6, Grafton-terrace,
Kentish Town, said Mr. Morgan asked him ii he was a
judge of gold. Witness said ho should be able to give an
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bracelet, and other articles, and asked him what he thought
of them. Witness asked him if they belonged to him, and
he said they did. He said he had been at the docks all day,
and he had bought them of some sailors. On that day he
saw Rixon near to Morgan's shop.
Edward Boger, carpenter, of Hatton-garden, said he knew
Rixon by his standing at his door for the purpose of going
on errands. Some days ago the prisoner Rixon came to his
house, and said he was going to America. Ha said witness
had been very kind to him, and gave his wife and daughter
a thimble and a brooch, which hael been since given up to
the police.
Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Sleigh made very able addresses on
behalf of their clients.

The Assistant .3 udge, in summing up the evidence, said
that great credit was due to Inspector Kerressey for the
manner in which he had cautioned the prisoners at the sta-
tion-house when Morgan was about to make a statement.
He had most properly told him that whatever statement he
made would be taken down in writing, and, if necessary,
would be used as evidence against him. He also thought
great credit was due to him for the way in which he had
got up the case.
The jury consulted for some time, and the foreman said.
as they had a doubt in the case, they gave the prisoners the
benefit of it, and returned a verdict of not guilty.

The Assistant-Judge sentenced Rixon to be kept in penal
servitude for three years.
The prisoner Rixon said that he had been for five years
leading a respectable life, but the eyes of the police were
always upon him. Three years and a half ago he got a si-
tuation with a surveyor, where he had conducted himself
well, and when he went to the house of Mrs. Major, the
prosecutrix, she showed him her jewels, and he could not
resist the temptation as he was about to leave, and he knew
that he should be thrown upon the world penniless. He
said he intended to go to America with the proceeds, but
the night previously he was robbed of every farthing of
what he had obtained by the robbery.
The Assistant-Judge said it was all very well to say that
the eyes of the police were upon them, and that they were
hunted about, but such charges almost invariably turned
out on investigation to be false.
Frederick James, 26, and Henry Mailers, 21, were in-
dicted for stealing a watch, the property of William Lyon.
The prosecutor is a watchmaker, in Bunhill-row, and the
prisoners went into the shop under pretence of having a ring
repaired, and while there they contrived to steal a watch
which was lying on a bench. The ring was to be done on a
certain day, and when they came for it they were given into
custody for stealing the watch.
The jury found both the prisoners guilty.
Charles Wotton, retired sergeant in the G division of
police, said that both prisoners were tried the last time at
Aylesbury for stealing a watch. James was sentenced to be
imprisoned for a month, and then to be kept in a reforma-
tory for three years. He escaped from there three times.
Mailers was a ticket- of-leave man, and his time was not yet
up.

The Assistant-Judge sentenced both prisoners to be kept
in penal servitude for four years.
In the bail list there were four cases in which parties
were charged with keeping houses of ill-fame in the neigh-
bourhood of Belgravia. Mr. Yates appeared for the prosecu-
tion, and Mr. Poland for three of the defendants, and
another learned gentleman for the other defendant.
A somewhat lengthened discussion took place, and Mr.
Poland, in his address to the Court, said that they were not
prepared to proceed to trial, as they did not know who were
the witnesses to be called, nor the evidence they were to give.
There were no depositions in the cases, and he therefore ap-
lied that the cases might be postponed until the next session,
in order that they might have the opportunity to prepare
for the defence. The persons accused certainly lived in
Belgravia, and they must live somewhere, and this matter
had been taken up at the instance of some of the inhabitants,
in consequence of which the parish officers had been called
upon to prosecute.
Mr. Yates said, as there was a great amount of business
before the Court, and as it was suggested that these persons
were not prepared to enter on their defence, he could not
object to the proposition of his learned friend, but they could
learn the names of the witnesses from the back of the bill.
After some further discussion,

The Assistant-Judge ordered that these eases should stand
over until the bail day of the next session, and then be at the
head of the list.

The cases were then postponed until the next session.
Martin Cooper, 18, tailor, and George Simpson, alias
William Dobson, 19, smith, were indicted for breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of James Everson, with intent
to steal goods and chattels therein.
Eliza Stroggin said that she was barmaid at the Dog and
Duck Tavern, Queen-street, Soho •square. On the Ist of
October, about five o'clock, the two prisoners came in and
said they wanted to play at bagatelle, and asked for the
balls. They were given them, and they went upstairs.
Soon after she heard her mistress's alarum-bell ring. It is
a bell fixed to her bedroom door, so that if any one entered
the boll would ring. She ran upstairs and found that her
mistress's bedroom door had been broken open. At this
moment she heard somebody coming downstairs, and the
prisoners went into the bagatelle-room. They then ran
downstairs, leaving their drink. They walked to the door,
and then ran off.

Police-sergeant Cole, 23 C, said that on the 20th of October
he met the prisoner Simpson in Seven-dials. Prisoner said,
" Good morning, Mr. Cole." He answered, "Good morning.
You are just the man I want for breaking into the room at
th© public-house in Soho-square." He took him to the
public-house, and the barmaid recognised him at once. He
apprehended the other prisoner at a house in Drury-lane.
The barmaid also recognised him as the companion of the
other prisoner.
The Assistant -Judge summed up, and the Jury found
the prisoners guilty.
Sergeant Cole proved a previous conviction against both
the prisoners.
The Assistant-Judge sentenced them both to be kept in
penal servitude for three years.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
John Smith, 24, farrier, was indicted for unlawfully
assaulting George Barber, a constable of the metropolitan
police force, in the execution of his duty.
Mr. Collins prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton defended. •

Geo. Barber, police-constable 164 E, said—ln the middle
of the day on the 28th of October, ho was on duty in Eagle-
street; he saw the prisoner and some other thieves there
and ordered them away. About nine o'clock the same night
he was near the place again, when the defendant went up to
him, and using a filthy expression, asked him what business
he had to order him away. Witness told him to go away,
and that he did not wish to have anything to say to him,
when he struck witness a violent blow on the mouth. He
then seized witness by the collar and threw him to the
ground, falling heavily upon him. They struggled together
on the ground, and the prisoner got away and ran off.
Witness got up and ran after him and again seized him. He
threw him again, and once more fellupon him. They strug-
gled together for some time on the ground until another
constable came up, when the prisoner went quietly to the
station-house. He was very much bruised on the shoulder,
his hand was sprained, and his side was very painful. He
was still unfit for duty.
William Bass, police-constable 154 E, corroborated this
evidence.

The Jury found the prisoner guilty.
John Chaon, police-sergeant 5 E, proved the following
convictions against the prisoner ;—Six weeks at Lambeth
police court, July, 1860, for picking pockets at the Crystal
Palace; three months at the Mansion House, April, 1862,
for picking pockets ; and three months at Marlborough-
street police court, 2d February, 1863, for picking pockets.
Mr. Payne sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to
hard labour for two years.
Sarah Clarke, 30, and Bridget Reardon, 21, were indicted
for stealing a soup tureen end other articles, value £2O, the
property of David John Barry, in his dwelling-house.
From the evidence it appeared that a clerk to Messrs.
Ayres and Ellis, house agents, of John-street, Berkeley-
square, placed the prisoner Clarke in charge of No. 35,
Thurloe-square, a furnished house, to take care of and show
it to persons who desired to rent it, The house belonged to
Mr. Barry. On the clerk going to the house on the 18th of
October he missed some quilts and blankets from one of the
beds. He asked Clarke where they were, and she said in a
bottom drawer in the back second floor room. He looked
in the drawer, but could not find them, and ho missed
several other things. He went out for a policeman, but
when he came back Clarke was gone. He subsequently
found that many of the missing articles had been pawned
by Reardon, she being directed to do so by the other pri-
soner. They were both taken into custody, and on the
house being searched a number of pawnbrokers' duplicates
were found relating to the missing articles.
James Charlton, assistant to Mr. Samos, pawnbroker,
Fulham-road, produced a number of articles pawned by the
prisoner Reardon, who said she pawned them for Sarah
Clarke, who kept a lodging-house at No. 45, Alfred-place,
She said she was pawning them more for safety, as they
were removing to No. 9, Pond-place, and they were taken
in in consequence of that representation.

The Jury found the prisoners guilty.
Mr. Payne sentenced Clarke to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for two years, and Reardon for 12 months.

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