The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-July 16.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A young man who gave
a name known to be feigned, and refused his ad-
dress, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged
with robbery.
Complainant, a widow lady named Locke, was
walking on Ludgate-hill on Tuesday afternoon,
about three o'clock, when it was much thronged.
She passed the prisoner, who stood on the edge of
the kerb with a bouquet of flowers in one hand.
Without knowing it, he was then being watched
by Edward Hancock, a city detective officer, from
the opposite side of the street. The prisoner turned
round and walked on the right side of the com-
plainant after she bad passed him. He then put
his left hand into her dress-pocket, and withdraw-
ing it clinched thrust it into a pocket of his trou-
sers. On seeing this Hancock, who had crossed
the street and was following the prisoner, threw
his arms round him and carried him piniobed into
a shop. There the prisoner made a desperate but
useless effort to escape, and in the struggle he
dropped a purse, which, with the money it con-
tained, the complainant afterwards identified as be-
longing to her. A few days before the same con-
stable, who had seen a lady dogged for some
distance by two known thieves, and felt sure that
they had robbed her, asked her before attempting
to take them into custody if she had lost anything.
She replied curtly that she had not, apparently re-
garding the question as a liberty. He was obliged
reluctantly to forego apprehending the two men.
Presently the 'lady, in a state of great excitement,
returned and told him her purse had been stolen ;
but the men whom he had suspected had then dis-
appeared.
The prisoner made no defence.
Hans, a detective officer, said he had seen the
prisoner in custody for a high way robbery in Mary-
lebone-lane about two years ago.
The prisoner challenged him to prove that, say-
ing people like bim would think nothing of swear-
ing a man's life away. He added that he had been
seen that morning by several constables, not one of
whom knew him, though they had evidently come
with a view to his recognition. Finding he was
about to be sent before a jury, he pleaded " Guilty,"
saying it was his first offence, and asked to be dealt
with summarily.

The Lord Mayor committed him to Newgate for
trial.

WORSHIP-STR,E ET.—George Fortescue, aged
42, residing at No. 21, Pendegrast-villas, Stoke
Newington, was charged with cutting and wound-
ing, with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Herbert Led:mu, a quiet-spoken boy, about 12
years of age, said—Last evening I was passing
along Bridport-piece, New North-road, alone, when
this gentleman, whom I never saw before, came
behind me. I felt a sharp cut on the back of my
neck, and then I saw him put a knife into his coat
pocket. I bled a good deal.
Evidence was given that the defendant shortly
after the injury had been inflicted had been found
in a public-house intoxicated. The sharp-pointed
penknife produced was seen to drop from his coat
pocket.
A certificate from a divisional surgeon of police
stated that the wound was superficial and about
three inches in length. It had been caused by
some sharp instrument, such as a penknife.
The defendant declared that the injury was o_c-
casioned by him with a key, and not a knife. He
recollected nothing of the assault.
A friend of the defendant said that when the
latter was inebriated he was incapable of control-
ling his actions.

Mr. Cooke declared that he had not the slightest
doubt of the injury having been inflicted with a
knife. The defendant was ordered to pay a fine of
£5, half of which would be given to the lad.

CLERKENWELL.—John Burns, aged 35, who
described himself as an author end a public lec-
turer, having no home, was charged with attempt-
ing to commit suicide.
Police constable Lillierap, 409 A, said that about
eleven o'clock on Tuesday night he was on duty in
Copehagen_street, Islington
i , where he saw the pri-
soner lying on a doorstep n the act of taking a
bottle from his mouth. lie spoke to hinit, and
endeavoured to lift him up.
receiving no answer!
At this time his legs were rigid, his eyes were
protruding, and he seemed on the point of death.
With assistance the witness got bim up, and then
found under him portions of two bottles which
had contained laudanum, one of them being
labelled " poison," and the other " laudanum.
The prisoner was taken to the hospital and the

stomach-pump was used. It was found necessary
to employ the galvanic battery io keep him from
going to sleep. At the workhouse the prisoner
said he had been very well off; he was sorry he had
not been allowed to die, as he did not wish his
friends to know, through the papers, how he was
placed. He refused to give his address.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, said that
some friends had paid for him while he had been at
Malvern under the cold-water treatment. He had
no right to name them, as he had lost all claim on
their kindness. Drink was the cause of the attempt
he had made to destroy his life. The magistrate
might lock him up as long as he liked. He should
never mention the names of those who were his
friends. Ho had better lock up the public-houses,
and not the people.
Mr. Barker said the prisoner was very foolish in
not stating who his friends were.
He was remanded. _

John Willford, a cowkeeper of Highgate, was
charged with attempting to commit suicide by
cutting his throat.
Mr. Barker remanded him for a week.

SOUTHWARK.—EIIen Sweeny, an old woman,
was brought up charged with obtaining 2s. and a
cap front under false and fraudulent pretences.
The prosecutrix, Mrs. Sparrow, a married woman,
said she kept a bonnet shop at 131, Bermondsey
street. On Saturday afternoon last the prisoner
came in and asked her to purchase a stay lace.
Believing her to be a very poor woman she bought
one, but the prisoner instead of leaving lingered
about the door, and at last asked to look at her
(witness's) hand. When the prisoner had looked at
it she asked for sixpence, saying that she had good
fortune in store, and she would tell her all about it.
On getting the sixpence the prisoner told her her
husband would die by accident, and that she would
then marry another man, have several children, and
be very rich.
Mr. Combe asked her if she had any children
by her husband ?
Witness replied that she had two. After she
gave the prisoner the sixpence she wanted another,
as she could then tell what sort of a man her future
husband would be. The witness thought she should
like to hear what more the prisoner had to say and
gave her another sixpence, when the prisoner told
her he would be a dark man and a prosperous man.
After that the prisoner pulled out a pack of cards
and shuffled them, and the witness picked one out,
when she was told that she would have four chil-
dren by her next husband.
Mr. Combe here expressed his surprise that any
woman of her age, and more especially a trades..
man's wife, could be so foolish as to be imposed
upon by an ignorant hag like the prisoner. She
ought to have turned her out of the shop there and
then, or given her into the custody of a policeman.
Witness replied that the prisoner would not
leave the shop, but told her that she wanted an-
other shilling to consult the planets for her, as she
had no doubt she had a lucky star. The witness
gave her a shilling as requested, and then the pri-
soner pointed to a cap-front and said she must have
that to wind up her nativity. She gave her the
front, and then the prisoner left the shop.
Mr. Combe asked her if she had any desire then
to lose her husband ?

The witness replied that she had not. She was
so frightened that she was glad to get rid of the
prisoner, thinking that she should never see her
again. However, on Tuesday afternoon she was
surprised to see the prisoner walk into the shop,
and in the coolest manner demand 4s. more to com-
plete her horoscope. Witness told her she had no
more money, and requested her to leave the shop,
when the prisoner turned round and said she knew
she had money, and money she would have before
she left. Witness then sent for a constable and
gave her into custody.
The prisoner here said that the lady told her to
come on Tuesday. She never told fortunes. How
could a poor ignorant old woman like her do such
a thing ?
Sergeant Pearce, 7 M, said he took the prisoner
into custody, and found upon her an old greasy
pack of cards.
The prisoner accounted for this by saying she
picked them up in the street and put them in her
pocket.
Mr. Combe, after again expressing his surprise
at the foolish conduct of the prosecutrix, sentenced
the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

LAMBETH.—Yesterday Mr. Denton, from the
office of the Messrs. Freshfield, solicitors to the
Bank of England, accompanied by Mr. John Coe,
superintendent of the Bank-note Printing De-
partment, waited on the Hon. G. Norton to re-
quest advice and assistance. Mr. Denton said that
the governors of the Bank of England had deter-
mined to use every effort to prevent the circulation
of " flash" notes, and to prosecute and punish to the
utmost rigour of the law all persons assisting in
their circulation. Now that so many foreigners
are in England it is necessary that something
should be done to protect them from sharpers
making use of spurious notes. He might mention
one instance of the frauds committed which had
been brought under the notice of the governors of
the Bank of England. On the Bth of the present
month an Italian gentleman came to London to
visit the International Exhibition. He went to
the Crystal Palace, and, while looking at some
Italian casts or sculpture, was addressed by a per-
son of respectable exterior in English. A foreigner,
who said he was a Swiss, joined them, and made
himself understood by both. They talked of Spain
America, and other countries, and while comparing
them with England the Swiss said he had been
robbed of £5OO. He remarked how necessary it
was in London that foreigners should take parti-
cular care of their money, so as to protect it from
English pickpockets. The Italian gentleman spoke
of the money he possessed, and produced 20 napo-
leons. His companions then drew from their
pockets bundles of what he believed to be bank
notes. The Swiss took the 20 napoleons into his
hands, and at the same time handed to their owner
several. notes. He then went away, saying he
should bring back a bottle of wine. The gentleman
was told that he need not be alarmed, as the notes
left in his hands as security were of much greater
value than the gold intrusted to the man, but
in order to remove his suspense he (the second
sharper, for such were both) would go and bring
the gentleman with the wine. He entered the
building, and it was scarcely necessary to say he
did not return. The Italian, thus plundered, still
under the impression that he held security equiva-
lent to his loss, presented the notes at the Bank,
and, to his utter astonishment, was told they were
quite worthless. The Governors of the Bank of
England, in the event of the apprehension of these
men, would feel it to be their duty to prosecute
them for the felony. In the course of inquiries
that had been instituted it had been ascertained
that a person named J. W. Peel, a printer in the
Lower Marsh, had been in the habit of printing and
circulating these notes. This person had been dead
for three years. He was succeeded in his business
by a Mr. Knowles, who was understood to be a re-
spectable man. If he was in possession of the
plates from which these' "flash" notes were pro-
duced, he was a party to their circulation. Mr.
Denton said that Mr. Knowles, if made acquainted
with the law, might give up the plates and flash
notes; and, as he resided in the district of this
court, he considered it the proper place to make an
application on the subject.
Mr. Norton observed that he was very glad in-
deed to find the Governors of the Bank of England
coming forward to suppress the evil of " flash-
note" circulation. As Mr. Knowles was a person
of respectability, there could be no necessity for
issuing a summons against him, and he (the magi-
strate) should send an officer with the applicant to
hear what he had to say.
On his return, the officer informed the magistrate
that Mr. Knowles was out, but that his clerk had
undertaken, as soon as he returned, to forward all
the notes and plates to the Bank of England, and
not circulate a single note again.
In reply to Mr. Norton, Mr. Coe said he was
quite satisfied with this, and so the matter ended.

THE RUSSIAN PRIESTHOOD.—The clergy are the
lowest in the world out of Thibet. rho bishops are the
most slavish of courtiers before the nobles, and the most
vulgar of tyrants among their clergy. The clergy are a
suffering class,—not only ignorant and oppressed, but pain-
fully abased. In a Protestant country, where the clergy of
all sects deal with ideas as the basis of sentiments,itis
scarcely possible to conceive of the way in which the minis-
ters of a purely ritual religion are regarded, as in the Greek
in
Church or in Buddhist society. Perhaps clergy
the
Russia aro less affected by recent events
than
class. Nobody thinks of raising them :
theymake
can hardly
sink lower in fortunes and repute. It must,however, any other
some difference to them whether the landowners are keep-
ing open house, or shutting up and going away; or whether
or mutinous and
the peasants are in their ordinary mood,inune
is prosperous and
menacing ; or whether the
merry, or full of gloom and strife. The clergy, therefore,
are not much happier than other people just now.—Once
a Week.
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