The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-09 00:00:00

P 0 LICE iNTELLIGEN CE.-April 8.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A German namcd Fritz
Kohse was brought before the Lord Mayor charged
with stealing a bill for 200 Spanish dollars, belong-
ing to Philip Debroy, also a German.
It appeared that the prisoner and prosecutor and
a person named Sixtus Zach, came over from Ger-
many together, and the two former took lodgings
in the Minories, both occupying the same room. On
Monday morning prosecutor had the bill in ques-
tion for 200 dollars in his pocketbook in his coat
pocket, and yesterday morning he missed it, and ac-
cused the prisoner with having taken it, but he de-
nied it. Shortly after the bill was missed, however,
it appeared the prisoner met Zach and told him he
had taken a bill for 200 dols, from the prosecutor,
and had been trying to get it changed, but could
not, at the same time telling him that if he could
get it cashed he would give him half. The witness
Zach pretended to take him to a banker's, and took
him past where he was lodging, where he saw the
prosecutor and a constable, whom he told the pri-
soner was the man who had the bill.

The prisoner, in defence, said he did not steal the
bill ; he picked it up off the floor, and only kept it to
frighten prosecutor. He knew he wanted to get it
changed, and he thought to get the money for it,
and astonish him and please him at the same time.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.—Henry Geo. Lockyer, late ser-
vant to Mr. Wilkins, collector of fines for the prin-
cipality of Wales, whose offices are in Spring-gar-
dens, was charged with stealing three £lO notes,
the property of Mr. W. Wilkins, the collector of
Crown rents for the principality, whose offices are
in the same house, and who is the son of tho pri-
soner's master.

The notes were• missed by Mr. Wm. Wilkins's
clerk from a desk, which had been opened by means
of a false key. At the same time the prisoner, who
had received notice to quit Mr. Wilkins's service,
' disappeared, and subsequently he was apprehended
on a charge of obtaining a situation by means of
a false character, pretending to be signed by
Mr. Wilkins. On that charge he was committed
to prison for three months, and on the expiry
of the term he was apprehended by Sergeant
Thomas, of the detective force, upon the present
charge.
Evidence was given that he had changed one of
the notes at a tradesman's in Oxford-street, and had
paid the others into his own account at a savings
bank.
He was committed for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—AIfred Bowling,
a respectably dressed person, was charged by the
keepers of Kensington-gardens with fishing in the
ornamental water in the gardens.
The keepers said that although inconvenience
arose from persons fishing in Kensington-gardens,
the most serious evil was the mischief the fishers
did by destroying the banks in digging for worms
and bait, and in leaving holes which in wet weather
collected the rain, and were both unsightly and a
public inconvenience. The commissioners had or-
dered the keepers to prevent persons from fishing,
and in case they were found trespassing to take them
into custody, under 7 and 8 Geo. 111., c. 29, sec. 34,
which enacted, " Whosoever shall unlawfully and
wilfully take or destroy, or attempt to take or de-
stroy, any fish in any water not being such as hero-
inbefore mentioned, but which shall be private pro-
perty, or in which there shall be any private right of
fishery shall, on conviction thereof before a justice
of the peace, forfeit and pay above the value of the
fish such sum, not exceeding £5, as to the justice
shall seem meet."
Mr. Knox considered the question involved in the
case was one of importance, and before giving his
decision would look carefully into the act of Par-
liament.
Yesterday the further hearing of the case was
resumed, Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, being in attend-
ance on behalf of the defendant.
Mr. Lewis argued that defendant ought not to be
K
in custody, inasmuch as Kensington-gardens were
public property, and the defendant, as one of the
public, had a right to fish in the water for his
amusement.
Mr. Knox differed from this
view of the case.
Kensington-gardens Were not public hut crown
property. The crown could give or withhold per-
mission to the public, as
vas proved by public
vehicles, such as cabs, having been excluded from
st, j-tunces-park by the authority of the crown

up to a late period, and only permitted to PISS
through in consequence of leave having been given
to construct a road through the park. The argu-
ment that the gardens v,-;-:re public yzeperty, must
br bonsidered as overruled.
Mr. Lewis then contended that the commissionci s
had no power to authorise the garden•keepers to
take up any one. In ouch cases, admitting that
the gardens were crown property, it was the crown
that ought to prosecute.
Mr. Knox. contended that the commissioners were
acting on behalf of the crown, and therefore this
objection must also be overruled. lie was of
opinion that an infringement of the Act of Parlia-
, ment had occurred, and he should therefore inflict
the mitigated flue of 10s.

LAMBETH.—James Nunn, late porter at the
Victoria Station, and in the employment of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Com-
pany, was brought up on a charge of assaulting
Charlotte Gascott, a respectable young woman, in
one of the carriages while the train was travelling
between the Norwood Junction and the Pimlico
station.

Mr. Inspector Carpenter attended from the com-
pany to watch the case ; and Mr. Hutchinson ap-
peared on behalf of the prisoner.
The complainant, who gave her evidence with
much modesty and intelligence, said that having
received a telegraphic message that her mother was
in a dap gerous state of illness at Exmouth, she left
the residence of her master on the 10th of last
month, and took the train at the Hassock's-gate for
the Victoria Station. Having to change at the
Norwood Junction, she got out of the third-class
carriage in which she travelled, and seeing the pri-
soner' in the dress of a porter she asked him to put
her into a carriage going to Pimlico. Ho put her
into a carriage in which there was no other passen-
ger nor a light, and the train went on its journey.
At the next station the prisoner unlocked the door,
came into the carriage, and seated himself by her
side, and asked her if she expected any person to
meet her at the station ? She answered no, that
she',was a stranger in London, and was going to
Exmouth to see a dying mother, and wished to get
a lodging for the night as close as possible to the
Waterloo•station, and from whence she was going
to start. The prisoner said he could recommend her
to a very comfortable place, put his hand round her
waist, and asked if she should feel insulted if he
kissed her. She told him she should feel highly
offended, and should not permit it. The prisoner
then asked her if he recommended her to a respect-
able place to stop in for the night what she would
give him ; and after a few more words he placed
his hand indelicately outside her dress. She told
him he was very much mistaken in the character
of the person whose company he was in, and he re-
plied, " Oh, no, I consider you an unprotected
female." At this time the train had reached and
stopped at the next station, and as the witness was
getting frightened she asked the prisoner if she
might not get out or get somebody to bring her a
glass of water. He would not allow it, but seeing
a porter she called him, and asked him to put her
into another carriage, as she was very much in-
sulted by a man who was there. The man did as
she requested, and on arriving at the Victoria Sta-
tion, reported the whole matter to the guard. The
witness was submitted to a searching cross-exami-
nation, but the only thing materially elicited from
her was that the prisoner had his arm round her
waist all the time the conversation she repeated
was going on, but in her former statement to Mr.
Carpenter she declared that it was only through
fear, and being alone and in darkness with the pri-
soner, that caused her to permit this.
Henry Rhodes, the guard of the train on the
night in question, said he had seen the prisoner at
the Norwood Junction on the night in question,
hut he was not on duty there. On arriving at the
Victoria Station the last witness had complained
to him of having been insulted, but said that if the
man made a proper apology to her she should for-
give him. He looked for the prisoner, but
could not find him. Three or four days after he saw
the prisoner and spoke about the report, when he
said it was a bad job ; that all he did was to ask
her for a kiss, and telling her he should like to go
and lodge with her for the night, and wake her up
in the morning.

George Wotman, the under-guard to the train,
said that on the night in question, as the train was
about to start from the Norwood Junction, the pri-
soner got into his brake and said, " I made it all
right with a young woman ; I'm going to get into
the carriage to her at the next station." Witness
told him he had much better not, as he had taken
a glass, and should get himself into trouble. He got
out at the next station. At Wandsworth station
witness was told of what had happened, and reported
it to the guard.

In reify to a question from Mr. Carpenter, wit-
ness said it was quite contrary to the regulations
of the company that the prisoner should be allowed
to travel by the train without a pass, or that a ser-
vant of the company should travel with passengers.
Mr. Hutchinson addressed the bench at some
length in extenuation of the offence, and expressed
a hope that a small fine would meet the justice of
the case.

Mr. Norton, after commenting on the gross con-
duct of the prisoner, committed him to three months'
hard labour.

THE HENDON TRAGEDY.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. G. S. Brent, deputy-
coroner for the western division of Middlesex, re-
sumedian inquisition, adjourned from Tuesday last,
at the Adam and Eve Inn, Mill-hill, Hendon, touch-
ing the death of Anne Cox, aged 24, the unfortunate
girl who was shot by James Lawrence, a young
man whose addresses she was receiving, on the
morning of the 29th ult., and who having also at-
tempted to commit suicide by shooting himself, is
now an inmate of Middlesex Hospital, and pro-
gressing slowly, but favourably towards recovery.
The object of the adjournment to the present oc-
casion was for the purpose of having a post mortem
examination of the body performed, so as to prove
beyond question the actual instrument of death, and
to ascertain if the poor creature was pregnant, that
being the cause assigned by Lawrence, in a letter,
for enacting the tragedy.
Inspector Lindsay, of the police at Edgware, was
present, and produced several shots which police-
conAable 293 deposed that he found in the wall of
the kitchen, and which corresponded in size with
those found in the shot bag.
Mr. W. Growse, surgeon, practising at Hendon,
was re-examined to give the result of a post-mortem
examination. He said he found three shots and a
piece of an earthen cullender in the neck and throat,
which being suspended from the ceiling of the room
VMS shot down and smashed. It was evidently a
singular fact that that piece of the cullender must
havo struck against the wall arid rebounded with
such force as to be driven into deceased's neck and
throat. All the large vessels, the windpipe, and
the gullet were completely divided. On examining
the abdomen no pregnancy was found, but a very
large ovarian dropsy, which must have existed for
years, out of which witness drew at least two gal-
lons of vicid fluid, and which caused during life
great peculiarity in her appearance, and may have
given rise to the suspicion that Lawrence seemed to
entertain. Witness also added that he found the
womb healthy in every respect.
George Wells, an uncle to Lawrence, was called,
who identified to the best of his knowledge the
letter previously published and now reproduced as
being in the handwriting of his nephew. He knew
nothing of the circumstances of the case. He had
known James Lawrence all his life. Never knew
him to threaten to destroy himself or any other I
person, and never considered him to be of an insane
state of mind.

It was further proved that the gun with which
the deed was committed was not kept in the same
house, but in the next one.

The Deputy-Coroner said here was a man who
goes into another house and brings back a gun for
the express object of shooting another person, and
therefore it appeared to be a deliberate act. It was
proved by the medical testimony that it was obvi-
ous the hapless girl could not have shot herself in
the manner found, as had been publicly stated.
It was useless wasting words or time over such a
clear case. Whatever there may be of extent".
ating circumstances would be for the considera-
tion of another jury before whom he would have
to be taken, and the only verdict he could possibly
recommend now was that of wilful murder against
Lawrence.

The jury were then left alone to deliberate_,, upon
their verdict, and, after the expiration of 2 I minutes,
unanimously agreed to the following
certain kitchen,
_
" That on the 29th March Anne Co' :
verdict
bleeding, helpless, and dyinn• in a z was found
dwound
and instantly afterwards did die,
from the mortal
effects of a loss of blood frloomadain the neck,
e
made by means of a gun
with shot, by one
James Lawrence, who is guilty of the wilful mur-
derlaynadcwquhieescceemdminitttheed
vtehre.
of the said Anne Cox,
ruuTrhdke-rpaeforiu'etsya_icdowrohnilesrt hfuelwas excited by jealousy."
dict. No doubt there were some extenuating cir-
cumstanceswould be properly concidered at
auothertib whichunal .
The Deputy-Coroner Laving made out his war-
ranti for the arrestu and committal of Lawrence on a
charge of
Wilful
lf
messes to mur er, and bound over the wit-
, appear at thed
trial, was pprisccdustboydy ofln-
spcctor Liud6ay that he was alreadya in
the resid
the police, and would first have to be taken before
ent magistrate at Edgware.,
The
Proceedings then tormivated,