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in service. In 1860 her sister died in the country)
leaving her all her linen and apparel. She, accom-
panied by the prisoner, went to Harlston' in Nor-
folk, to fetch the things, which he assisted in pack-
ing up, and the package was sent to London, They
returned, and she went back to her situation. The
packages were taken from the station by the pri-
soner to 190, Church-street, from there he removed
them to his own place, 6, Lee-street, Kingsland-
road. At different times she lent him money,
amounting in all to about £l4, and he gave her an
I 0 U for it, and she put it in one of her boxes then
in his possession. The prisoner, she found out, was
preparing to emigrate to New Zealand ; and when
she sent a person for the boxes he demanded £1 16s
for warehousing them, and refused to allow them to
be seen until that sum was paid him. He was given
in charge, and remanded, and among his luggage on
board the ship he was about to sail in the officer
found the article he was now charged with stealing.
The prisoner got her into the Lying-in Hospital as
a married woman, by means of a certificate he
bought of a woman who bad got it from another,
and he had the child registered Thos. Bendle Horne.
The prosecutor was examined at great length,
and some letters and papers were put in, one of
which purported to be a solemn declaration signed
by her that she had no claim whatever in any way
upon the prisoner,•and that she would never make
any under any circumstances. The signature to this
she declared to be a forgery, and it was compared
with a real one of hers. She swore most positively
that she never signed the paper resigning her claim
to the money lent on the I 0 U. " Was it likely,"
she asked. The child she had by the prisoner was
not the first she had had, but the prisoner was well
aware of that when they engaged to be married,
and his mother sanctioned the continuance of the
acquaintance.
The counsel on each side addressed the jury.
Mr. Lewis said it was a got-up thing, that the
discharge was bona fide ; and that it was only when
he found that he had been deceived by a wily, art-
ful woman that he left her, having found out that
she had had a child before. The papers were put in.
Mr. Ribton, in a very able address, condemned,
in the strongest possible terms, the conduct of the
prisoner, who he said seduced this young woman
from her situation, and to whom she had borne a
child, which he registered in a wrong name ; he
had robbed her of her money and her few things,
and then sought to sneak out of the country, aban-
doning her and her child, like a mean despicable
wretch, and then attempted to defame her character,
and imputed perjury to her.
The learned judge summed up with great care,
and at some length, and
The jury found the prisoner guilty.
Sentence was deferred,

SECOND COURT.
(Before Mr. Payne.)
George Pearman, 44, a chimney sweep, was in-
dicted for stealing a sweeping machine, the pro-
perty of the Patent Ramoneur Company, South-
amptonAtreet, Strand 4
Mr. Orridgo prosecuted.
The evidence clearly proved the charge. It was
stated that nothing could be ascertained of him,
and there was some doubt as to his sanity.
The prisoner, whose manner appeared strange,
read his defence as follows t--I purchased part of the
man's china. The rest was given to me to sell or
take care of, but the person was a stranger to me
that I received them of. I wish to inform the Court
that I
,was a soldier in the East India Company's
service, 20 years and 7 months, and never had I a
charge of theft made against my name. Thoy
offered me a pension on leaving the service, but I
refused to accept of the same, but did not state my
reasons for so doing. My proper name is G. Ber-
man, but was in the army in the name of Pearman,
therefore I must go on in that name until I get a
pension and other moneys I am entitled to. I must
also inform the Court that I am an incarnate person
in spirit. After some allusion to a part of " the
Jewish rites," he stated that he believed he was re-
generated every six years. He had to be regene-
rated once more, and then something would take
place on the earth. " I can converse with the in-
visible world at all times. I can touch, see, and
converse with the angels of the world. I could
acquaint you with a great deal, but you would not
like to have it on your mind what I might divulge.
I:am only a poor man on earth, but rich in another
place. I have only what I stand upright in, and
have often been starving for want of employment;
so, gentlemen, if I am to be punished for this charge
that has been preferred against me, I hope I shall
be sent out of the country, and the money the Go-
vernment owes me will pay the expenses. 1 was a
climbing boy and journeyman 12 years before I
went to India."

The learned Judge said he should postpone the
sentence, in order that inquiry might be made as
to the prisoner's state of mind, and who he was.
Tire matter would be attended to by Dr. Smiles,
the surgeon to the prison.
Two prisoners, named Joseph Young and Charles
Henry Claremont, were indicted for stealing a purse,
containing silver money, from the person of a lady
in Regent-street, in a mob that had collected to see
the Japanese Ambassadors.

They were detected by Sergeant Cole, of the C
division, who saw the purse taken by one and
passed to the other, in whose pocket it was found.
Thu officer had been watching them for some time.
The prisoner was found guilty.
Several officers proved that they were well-
known thieves, and had been watched for some time
passing in and out of crowds of parsons in the
public thoroughfares.
The learned Judge sentenced each of them to four
years'penal servitude, remarking that the Court had
no altErnative but to act with severity towards
those who carried on a regular system of plunder
upon the public in the streets.
One of the prisoners said he wished to observe to
his lordship that he had been denied at the House
of Detention the means of preparing his defence till
Sunday last, being refused pen, ink, and paper by
the governor.
Mr. Payne asked how that was.
The prisoner said he wanted to write his defence,
and he applied for it, and was told that he could if
he chose, if his friends brought him the paper. That
was on Friday, and his wife at his request brought
him on Saturday paper, and he then asked for ink
and a pen. The officer then told him he could not
hays that without an order from the governor. The
officer said he could not give it without it, as that
was the direction, and he did not get it on the Sa-
turday in consequence. On Sunday he spoke to the
chief officer about it, and he allowed him pen and
ink, but as they had to attend Divine service twice
on the Sabbath, he had not sufficient time to write
his defence properly.
Mr. Payne said it
_would be a matter for inquiry
whether the prisoner had been so prevented from
preparing his defence by being refused the use of
paper, pen, and ink; at present they had only to
deal with the case itself.

The Governor being sent for, the learned Judge
read the prisoner's statement to him. He said the
prisoner got paper from his wife, and was then re-
fused pen and ink, though he applied for it. These
things were not pleasant, as other instances had
occurred.

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The Governor said the prisoners were not allowed
pen and ink in the cells, and he was acting under
orders. He was not responsible for what the officers
said to a prisoner, had he applied to him he would
have been supplied. He wah not out of the prison
at all on Friday, and he could have seen him by
asking on Saturday.
The prisoner said the officer who refused him was
then in the dock, and he did apply to see the go-
vernor.

Mr. Payne—ls that so, officer ?
The officer said he told the prisoner he could not
have the pen and ink without the order of the
governor, but the prisoner did not ask to see the
governor.
Mr
, • Payne said he could not say whether the
Thuirala thatts, r.ight or not, but it appeared strange to
out hie
pen‘atrill,l county could not provide a bit of paper
and detained"
and
defence,
for the use of a prisoner to make
, when he was simply under charge
thing. It Was a miserable peddling sort of
The Governor 8 •
newverable for what the officer
that he was not said he wished to state publicly
said. No hauls
made, or he (the gover-
nor) could have been seen The supply of pen and
ink was a matter a caiii;
supplied the paper. e when the friends had
is Supplied on
Mr. Payne—But here the pa.,,,,
order.i On
11'3-t-trul pen and ink
should
the Saturday, and the man does
ocelltgets
until Sunday. The officer says he
the man he
could not give it without the governor',
Sunday he applies to the chief officer
I don't think a man presumed to be inn
be refused the means of writing.
The governor repeated that he was not respon-
sible for anything the officer might say.
The officer said he told the prisoner that he must
have the governor's order for the pen and ink, and
not that he could not see the governor.
A juryman said this was the third instance this
session. .

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Mr. Payne said he would speak to the learned
Assistant-Judge, and the matter would be inquired
into.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 10.

LAMBETH.—THE CAPTAIN AND THE ORGAN
GRINDER.—Wm. Dundas, on half-pay, residing at
8, Princess-terrace, Bing Edward-street, W?stmin-
ster-road, was charged before Mr. Elliott with vio
lently assaulting, with intent to do him grievous
bodily harm, Francisco Eschio, an organ-grinder.
The complainant said that on that morning, be-'
tween 9 and 10 o'clock, while playing his ,organ, he
received three or four severe blows on his head with
a stick, one of which had cut his hat through, and
caused a wound on the top of his head, but he could
not point out the person who struck him..
Mr. Elizabeth Hamlin, a lady residing next door
to the prisoner, Captain Dundas, said she had been
in the habit of giving the poor Italian organ-players
a few pence, but since she had discovered that the
captain, her neighbour, did not like it, she discon-
tinued doing so. On that morning, while upstairs,
she heard an.organ playing five or six houses be-
yond the prisoner's, and in a few minutes saw
Captain Dundas strike complainant on the head
several violent blows with what seemed to her to be
the thick end of a hunting-whip. The complainant
would have fallen if some persons had not come to
his assistance, and she (witness) called out to pri-
soner and said, "I'm surprised at your hitting a
poor man like that ;" but he made her no reply.
In cross-examination the witness said that her
opinion the man did not play more than five minutes,
certainly not ten minutes, and she did not see any
one go to warn him off.
Two other respectable witnesses corroborated the
greater portion of the testimony of the last witness,
and one of them added, that seeing the complainant
bleed profusely from what appeared to her to be a
deep wound on the top of his head, she took him
some hot water to wash away the blood.
These witnesses, in cross-examination, admitted
that the stick then in the hand of Captain Dundas
(a stoutish cane with an ivory hook to it) was the
one he had used. One of them also admitted that
sha had seen a young lady point towards the com-
plainant, and heard him play one or two tunes after
that.

Police-constable Henry Morton, 63 L, said he
was at Tower-street Station on that morning, when
the complainant was brought there by one or two
persons with a wound on his head from which the
blood was still flowing; and on learning the cause,
and being told the particulars of the assault, he
went to the residence of Captain Dundas and took
him into custody. The witness added that the pri-
soner was n. ot alone the terror of the organ grin-
ders. but 0# his T_Yzighbours also. He was in the
hat', of firing off a seven-barrelled revolver, and at
other times conducted himself in so eccentric a
manner 53 to quite alarm the inhabitants about him.
In defence, it was urged that Captain Dundas,
being in a weak and nervous state, sent a young
lady, his niece, to request the organ-player to
desist and go about his business; and not choosing
to do this, but on the contrary continuing his
grinding, he in a moment of irritation struck
him, and unfortunately with more force than he
had intended. He, the solicitor, should call a wit-
ness to prove the fact of the complainant having
been warned off, and his treating such warning
with indifference, and also as to defendant being in
a nervous and weak state of health : and having
done this he hoped his worship would consider the
case one that might be settled out of court.
Mr. Elliott objected to such a course, and ob-
served that it was not to be permitted to persons to
take the law into their own hands, and commit
such outrages as cutting people's heads open with
their stick, with impunity. If the complainant had
acted improperly in persisting in playing his
organ after being requested to go away, the pri-
soner had his remedy by sending for a constable,
and having him removed or giving him into cus-
tody. Such acts of violence could not be tolerated,
and for the offence the prisoner must pay a penalty
of £5, or in default be imprisoned for one month.
The penalty was at once paid, and Capt. Dundas
set at liberty.

CLERKENWELL. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF
STOLEN WATCIIES, PINS, RINGS, &c.—Robt. Han-
son, aged 41, a respectably-attired man, who de-
scribed himself as a watch-case repairer, of 66,
Wynyatt-street, Clerkenwell, was charged before
Mr. D'Eyncourt with having in his possession 22
gold watches, 10 watch-cases, seven movements of
watches, 10 silver guards, three glasses, six watch
bows, five gold trinkets, 41 gold and other rings,
225 pins, three silver table spoons, one teaspoon,
two watch dials, sundry stones, one chronometer—
maker, Widenham, London—one pair of ear drops,
one part of a watch-case, and one parasol, supposed
to be stolen, and not giving a satisfactory account
of the same.

Mr. Lewis, jun., attended for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of police Sergeant
Evans, 22 0, an active officer in plain clothes, that
from information he received, he, is company with
police-constable Short, '77 0, went to the house of
the prisoner. On entering and seeing the prisoner
Evans told him that he was a constable, and that
he had information that he (the prisoner) had re-
ceived a large number of stolen gold watches on
Saturday last. The prisoner at first said that he
knew nothing of the matter, but upon the sergeant
expressing his determination to search the house
the prisoner said he would bring down all the
watches he had got. He proceeded upstairs, and
in a chest of drawers he found the 22 gold watches
produced. They were all of them without the bows,
and were broken in the same manner as is the case
with those stolen by professional pick-pockets. One
of them was a valuable small hunting watch by
Emanuels,:llanover-square, a gold watch with open
face by Charles and Son, London ; a small gold
watch, white face, rather worn, having a crest at
back; gold watch, name on face, by F. Scherer,
London ; two other valuable gold watches had had
the plate with the name and number on it taken
off for the purpose of having them " re-christened,"
that is having a new name and number put
on them. Evans told the prisoner that he
had no doubt but that these watches, or a
portion of them, had been stolen at Epsom races
last week, but the prisoner said he knew nothing
about where they had come from, the only thing
that he had got that had come from the races was
a parasol, and that had been given him by a lady
friend to take care of. Evans asked him if he had
any more property, and the prisoner replied in the
negative, and added," They are all that was brought
to me on Saturday." On going down stairs the
officer found the chronometer, and on asking the
prisoner to account for it he said, " Well, it was
brought to me hero by a man a few days since, but
Ido not know his name, or where he resides." In
a cupboard, amongst some rubbish, the officer found
screwed up in some old newspapers, three parcels
of gold pins in number 225, some of which were
very common. A further search was instituted,
and in other parts of the workshop were found sil-
ver watch chains, rings with the stones in, and
some with the diamonds and stones knocked out,
es well as watch works and other things, of
which the prisoner could not give a satisfactory
account. The officers then took the prisoner
into custody, and conveyed him and the property
to the Old-street Police-station, where the property
can now be seen.

Mr. Lewis said he could not at present cross-
examine the officer.

Police-Sergeant Evans asked for a remand, and
hoped the magistrate would not take bail, as he had
reason to believe that part of the property, viz., the
rings and the pins, were part of the robbery at
Camden-town. He also found 40 or 50 duplicates
relating to watches, some of them pawned as lately
as this month—five gold watches were pawned last
month.

Mr. Lewis said he could not object to a remand,
and would not at present ask for bail.
Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the prisoner for a
week.

SOUTHWARK.--ALLEGED CONSPIRACY AND
FRAUD BY A BANKRUPT.-Mr. Charles Williams,
who until recently carried on business as a leather
factor in Weston-street, Bermondsey, but is now a
bankrupt, and Henry Balch, his clerk, were brought
before Mr. Burcham for final examination, charged
with conspiring to defraud Messrs. Barrow and
Sons, tanners and leather merchants, Grange and
Spa-roads, Bermondsey, of various sums of money.
Mr. Giffard, instructed by Messrs. Humphreys,
Son, and Morgan, appeared •for the prosecution ;
Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for Williams, and Mr.
Robinson for Balch.

The court was crowded with gentlewn connected
with the leather trade.

This case has been before the magistrate several
times, and on each examination has occupied his
worship's attention for several hours, but the
short facts are as follows :—The prosecutors,
Messrs. Barrow and Sons, are extensive leather
manufacturers in Bermondsey, and the de-
fendant Williams had for four years carried on busi-
aclm t for
busi-
ness as a leather factor in Weston-street, and the
other defendant (Balch) was one of his clerks.
Business wenstuoe n h
Messrs. Barrow had for some time been in the habit
of consigning goods to Mr, Williams for sale on a
commission of 21 per cent., and it was his duty to
-o
smoothly
sales
in
btehteweaemn Mr ount.sweffileiciatemds.
and his oust
a bankrupt, and rsi‘liantil March last, when he beearne
r. James Barrow was chosen one
of the trade asai
latter discovered nB.
On examining the books the
that several sales had been effected
by Williams at a much • higher price than he had
accounted for to his customers and that those en-
tries were in the handwriting -
of the prisoners only.
It was alleged that Williams had by those Means
defrauded this customers out of -
various sums of
money amounting to near £l,OOO, and as the