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London, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

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ITIES.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

THE LATE BURGLARY IN THE STRAND.—Thomas Brown
alias Scotty, remanded on this charge, was again placed
before Mr. Flower.

The prisoner was now defended by. Mr. Beard.
The former evidence having been read over,
Inspector Brennan said, from further information ho had
received, he thought it expxlient to apply for a further
remand ; in the meantime, hcwever, he would produce two
additional witnesses.

Mrs. Geddes said she kept the Lowther Hotel. On the
23d of November three gentlemen applied for beds at her
house at half-past 10. She could not recognise the prisoner
as one of them. ' The persons had the beds which
were in two rooms. no tallest of the three
paid . for the lodgings, and while ho was doing
so she observed that he carried a carpet bag. The one now
shown her is the same. At four o'clock the next morning
she was awoke by hearing three men coming down stairs.
She allowed them to pass .her door, and she then looked
over the landing, and thenime said he wondered whether
the servant was up, and ahe then told them she was
not, and afterwards she asked them if they were going
away so early. They said they had left their carpet
bags and that they were going to return. They had a light
with them. They were the same persons as she had let
the beds to over night.

Mrs. Mary Mears said she resided in the Hackney-road.
Prisoner formerly lodged in her house. He rented one
furnished room. When he first came he brought some
luggage with him, amongst which was a carpet-bag very
similar to the one produced.
• Inspector Brennan said tha was all the evidence he had
to offer to-day.
Mr. Flower remanded the prisoner for a week.

The body of the court, es on all the former examina.
Lions, was crowded by detetive officers and the genera
public.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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 from Fire. '

Mr. Edward Brown, foreman to Mr. Clarke, fire escape
manufacturer, of Crescent-mews, Burton-crescent, 'at-
_

ended to watch the case.

Police-constable Cirpenter, 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 fire 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 the
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 ho had a remedy
elsewhere.

BREAKING OPEN A TILL.---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 in 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 first 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.

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THAMES.
ROBBERY BY A DOMESTIC SEBYANT.—Louisa, Radford,
aged 15, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
stealing a diamond ring, valued at £25, a gold brooch, some
articles of millinery, and other property, belonging to her
master, Mr. J. M. Freeman, surgeon, and medical officer of
Mile-end Old-town and St. George-in-the-East.
Mr. Freeman, who is a very humane and kind-hearted
gentleman, was reluctant to proceed against the girl, and
if certain conditions were complied with, would at once
withdraw from the prosecution ; but on Mr. Paget saying
he could not make terms with the prisoner, he said he
must go on. Mr. Freeman said it was a most unpleasant
duty to prosecute his servant, and made several excuses
for the prisoner. He said he lived with his family at No.
361, Mile-end-road. The prisoner had strange peculiarities,
and among others a want of memory. A bracelet
and other things had been missing, and when
the girl had been informed they were lost,
and the articles had been named, she produced them. One
day a drawer wits accidentally opened, and one of his chil-
dren recognised some property belonging to his sou. The
prisoner was spoken to about it, and she said, " Oh, yes, I
carried them about in my pocket for some time." A few
days after that ho went to a drawer and missed a diamond
ring worth £25.

Mr. Paget—Was the drawer unlocked ?
Mr. Freeman replied iu the affirmative. The drawer
had been unlocked many years. There were diamonds
in the next compartment of the drawer. He wore the
diamond ring at intervals, and sometimes put it away for
two or three days. Inquiries had been made by the police,
and the property could not be found. A valuable brooch
was missing. At last the prisoner's box was opened, and
some sleeves and other articles of millinery, an ivory
counter, some cartes de thite, and other things were found.
They belonged to him and his family. On the discovery
being made, the prisoner said, "Oh dear, no. I never put
them there at all. Mrs. Freeman or Miss Freeman must
have put them there to ruin me." The ladies were anxious
to save her, as he was, and sent for her parents. They
wished her to be discharged and sent about her business,
and not prosecuted ; but the police, from inquiries, had no
doubt the girl had taken muchproperty, and said she ought
to be prosecuted. He did not believe the girl took the
diamond ring and gold brooch for the ordinary purposes of
theft, and that those articles had either gone into the canal
near his residence or down the water-closet. She had taken
it, admired it for its beauty, and put it away again, or lost
it. Her memory was very defective.
The prisoner made a long defence. She exhibited no
signs of mental incapacity. She said she picked up
the cartes de visite on the floor while cleaning it
and • being on her knees at the time, and with a
scrubbing brush in her hand she put thorn in her hand,
intending to restore them. She knew nothing about the
cuffs and other things owned by Mrs. Freeman. She had
never seen the diamond ring and brooch. They were never
lout in the .house, she was certain. Last Tuesday Mr.
Freeman said to her, "Have you seen a ring lying about?"
Next day he said, " I will give you a sovereign if you find
the ring." Yesterday "he went on so about his diamond
ring," and called in a policeman and sent for her parents.
The girl then went on for some time in a deprecatory
style relating to the arrangements of the house, in which
there was nothing to find fault with but a want of respect
on her part towards a kind master and mistress.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE This day.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Prince, from Guernsey.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
No arrivals.
Sailed—The Monarch (in tow), for London.

PAUPERISM IN STAFFORDSUIRE.—Returns have
been published of the state of pauperism in the
county of Stafford in the first week of the present year. ~The
general result is that there is for the whole country a slight
increase in the number .()f 'inmates in the workhouses,-and
a somewhat larger decrease in the outdoor paupers. Tam-
worth, which showed a considerable increase last year, this
year shows a decrease, the recipients of relief being less
than in the first week of 1863. There is a marked increase
in the number of paupers relieved in the Walsall union. In
the union of Newcastle-under-Lyme only ono person in 50
was in receipt of relief, whilst in the small union of Seisdon,
near Wolverhampton, one person in 13 was an actual pau-
per. Next to Newcastle, Cheadle, Stone, Burton, Leek,
Wolverhampton, and Stafford stand best for the small pro-
portion of paupers to population ; while next to Siesdon in
the general prevalence of. resort to parochial relief came
Tamworth, Lichfield, West Bromwich, and Dudley.

DETENTION OF TRAINS FROM SNOW.—The trains
running into Leicester have, in many instances, been de-
layed by the unusual quantity of. snow which has fallen.
In one cutting the snow had drifted to the depth of be-
tween six and eight feet. It is also sported that several
shocks of earthquake were felt in ..Leicester on Friday
morning.