The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGII-S TREET,

DAMAGING A FIRE ESCAPE.—Edward Whitford, cab-
driver, bage 3145, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
being drunk and incapable of driving his horse and cab,
and also with damaging a fire escape, the property of the'
Royal Society for the Protection of Life front Fire.

kr. Edward Brown, foreman to Mr. Clarke, fire escap3
manufacturer, of Crescent-mews, Burton-crescent, at-
tended to watch the case.

Police-constable Carpenter, 219 C, said that about two
o'clock that morning, while in Oxford-street, he saw the
defendant driving his horse, attached to a cab, at the rate
of eight miles an hour. The defendant drove against the
fire escape and then commenced driving faster than before,
but was stopped by the firo escape conductor, and on being
taken off his cab it was found that he could not stand, and
he was then taken to the station.

—Fire-escape conductor Burnett said that while standing
by his box the defendant, who was going at a rapid rate,
drove against his escape, and did serious damage to it.
Mr. Brown said he had inspected the escape, and th•
damage amounted to about £lB.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 20s or a month for being
drunk, telling Mr Brown that the amount of damage was
too high for him to deal with, but that he had a remedy
elsewhere.

BREAKING OPEN A TlLL.—David Parker, porter, in the
employ of Messrs. Bickers, booksellers, Leicester-square,
was brought up charged with breaking open a till and
stealing £8 10s., the moneys of his employers.
Mr. John Harwood, manager of the business, said that
on the previous evening, while the assistants had gone to
tea, he saw the prisoner with a pair of pinchers in his hand
at the desk where the postage stamps were kept. His at-
tention was called off for a moment by a customer, but,
hearing the sound of money, he turned round and saw the
prisoner close the money till. He then sent for Mr. Bickers,
and on examining the till found that it had been broken
open, the pincers having been used as a lever. On the pri-
soner being searched, above £8 were found upon him.
Mr. Bickers said the prisoner had been iu his father's
employ for about 19 years, and he believed had always been
honest till lately, when he had given way to habits of in-
temperance. At fir .t the prisoner denied the charge, but
afterwards admitted it, and £8 10s. were found in his coat
pocket—that being about the amount missed from the till
—and at his lodgings a purse and some books, their pro-
perty, were found.

Sergeant Shillingford, 4 C, proved finding four volumes
of Macaulay's History of England and a purse at the pri-
soner's lodgings, No. 17, Stacey-street.

Mr. Bickers said the books had never been sold. He
wished to state that he would not have prosecuted the pri-
soner, believing he was half mad from drink, but they had
so many porters and packers in their employ that he was
obliged to do it for the sake of example. He wished the
prisoner, however, to be leniently dealt with.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.
We have been requested by Mr. Frederick Pickton,
printer, of No. 89, Great Portland-street, Oxford-street, to
state that no person of the name of George Alfred German
—the name of the person who was yesterday fined for
snowballing—ever resided in his house, or was ever em-
ployed in his printing office.