The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor upon taking
his seat said, I wish to state in order that public notice
may be taken of the fact that I have received several
communications relative to making Monday, the 26th
instant, a general holiday, on the ground of Christmas-
day falling upon a Sunday. I believe that the day
will be generally observed as a holiday by commercial
firms in the City, and by other persons engaged in trade ;
but I fear the Bank of England and the other monetary
establishments of the City may find it impossible to cease
entirely from business operations. I therefore as chief
magistrate feel a difficulty in interfering further iu the
matter, beyond the expression of my opinion that the
Monday will be generally observed as a holiday in the
City, and from information which I have received from
the principal provincial towns, I feel persuaded that the
day will be kept from general business throughout the
country.
Frederick Hammond, Sarah .F7aney, and Bridget
Taney, were brought before the Lord Mayor for final
examination upon the charge of having.feloniously and
knowingly in their possession in the City of London,
two moulds, adapted and intended for the counterfeiting
of shillings and sixpences. Mr. Powell attended for the
prosecution. The evidence was in substance as follows :
Inspector Brannan, of the G divison of the metropo-
litan police, said—From instructions I received I pro-
ceeded, in company with Evans, Nevelle, and Neale,
constables of the G division, to No. 10, Reeves'-rents,
Angel-alley, Bishopsgate, between two and three
o'clock in the afternoon. The street door was open.
We went up to the first floor, the door of which was
locked, and I burst it in with a sledge hammer. On
entering I saw the three prisoners at a table near the
fire, on which was a galvanic battery charged and appa-
rently at work. The male prisoner kicked the table and
the battery was kicked on to the floor, and the contents
of the jar were spilt on to the floor. At that time I
saw a number of counterfeit sixpences on the table, and
with the assistance of the other officers we picked up
seventeen as soon as we could. On .my entering the
room a dog sprang at me which I kept away with the
hammer, and he immediately fastened on Neville and
tore his trowsers, and also seized Evans and tore the
leg of his trowsers. We secured the prisoners and began
to make a search. My hand was slightly burned with
the acid from the battery jar. On searching on the table
and the floor we found seventeen counterfeit sixpences.
I picked up the battery and the battery jar, and
in the corner of the room I found the two moulds I pro-
duce wrapped up in a rag, one for casting sixpences
and the other for casting shillings. There was a file
on the table. We took possession of the articles, and
took the prisoners into custody.
Cross-examined by Hammond—You knocked the
table and the battery sprang out of the jar and fell on
to the floor, the jar remaining on the table. A broker
came in after we were there searching, and I left him
there.

In answer to Sarah Flaney, the witness said it was
not the force with which I forced open the door that
knocked over the table.

Neville (metropolitan 152 G)—l went with Brannan
and the other officers to the house. I took Hammond
into custody, and threw him on the bed and held him
there some time, and whilst I had him on the bed I
saw four counterfeit sixpences on the bed, which I
picked up. I found some white metal at the further
corner of the room, very near to the foot of the bed. I
produce the sixpences and the metal. The prisoners
were all three standing round the table when we entered
the room. I saw Hammond kick the table, and the
battery 'fell on the floor, and part of the solution flew on
to my coat and hand.
Neale (metropolitan 204 G)—l accompanied the other
witnesses. I saw Sarah Flaney going towards the win-
dow, and I took charge of her, and I found on the floor
six counterfeit sixpences, and in the cupboard near the
fireplace I found some Plaster of Paris in powder in a
piece of rag.
Thomas EvAns (metropolitan police 145 G)—l took
Bridget Flaney into custody. I found three counterfeit
sixpences and one good one, some on the table and some
on the floor. The table the younger female prisoner
was standing at was before the fire.
Hammond, upon being asked whether he wished to
say anything, replied, "Nothing more, my lord."
Sarah Flaney said exactly the same words, and
Bridget Flaney, who is a mere child, apparently not
more than 12 years old, said, " No, my lord."
The prisoners were then committed for trial.

THAMES.—Benry Wiggins, sailor's boarding-house
keeper, of No. 3, Johnson-street, Back-road, Shadwell,
was charged with having unlawfully detained four 51.
Bank of England notes, the property of John Hall.
Hall said he was paid off at Green's Sailors' Home in
Poplar, and received a balance of 271. 16,. Sd. for his
services, which included five notes for Si. each. Mrs.
Wiggine was erf, the Home. and after he was paid off
took him to her house in Johnson-street, and said that
sailors were taken in and done for there in a proper
manner. He delivered to her care the whole of his notes.

Mr. Yardley—Did you count them over to her ?
Hall—l did, sir. I was reluctant to deliver my money
to her at first, but she told me I bad better let her have
them, and that she would put them in a drawer and
lock it up, and let me have the key. She went up into
her bed-room with the money, and gave me a key from
a bunch, and said that was the key of the drawer where
my money was. She would not let me see the place
where she had deposited the money. It was in her bed-
room. The same afternoon she took me out, and I told
her to bring one of my 51. notes, as I wanted to make
some purchases. She gave it to me and took me to a
jeweller's shop and selected a brooch, which she asked
me to pay for ; I refused to buy it, and she was very
angry with me. I never received the other notes. On
Thursday morning I told Mrs. Wiggins I wanted the
rest of my money, and she looked at me, and said,
" What money ? I have none belonging to you." I
said you know very well you have ; I have not lost my
senses. I showed her the key, and said that was the
key of the drawer in which the money was, and she
laughed at me, and said she never had such a key. He
demanded his money of the defendant and his wife when
they were both together, and they told him he was
dreaming, and said they had none of his money. The
complainant then produced the key given to him, and
handed it to the magistrate.
The defendant cross•examined Hall, alleging that he
asked Mrs. Wiggins for is. on Friday morning, and
another on Saturday morning, but the sailor said he re-
ceived a shilling on Thursday morning, when he had
two sovereigns in his pocket, which he did not wish to
change, and another shilling on Friday.
Wiggins in his defence, said his wife never had the
money. The 25/. never came into her possession at all.
Mr. Yardley—Then how came you to advance money
to him in the course of the week ?

Wiggins—l gave him that as an advance on his note
—his advance note for the next ship.
Mr. Yardley shook his head, and said that won't do.
Do you think you can impose such a story as that upon
me ? What, advance him money upon an advance note
before he obtains one or is shipped in another vessel ?
It does seem to me very extraordinary that you know-
ing that he had 251. should advance him a few shillings
in expectation of obtaining an advance note. I don't
want to anticipate, and you have no right to answer my
questions unless you please, but you know I punish
hoarding-house keepers for frauds on seamen with great
severity,
Wiggins—l never had the money, and my wife never
had any money at all. _

Hall was recalled by the magistrate and strictly ques-
tioned. He said that all he had said was true.
Mr. Yardley looked at the clause of the Merchant
Seamen's Protection Act, and said he had no doubt
whatever Mrs. Wiggins received the five 51. notes, and
unlawfully and fraudulently withheld four of them, and
they had been under the defendant's control. He asked
the defendant if he would refund the 20/. or take the con-
sequences ; but on his still declaring his wife never had
the money, the magistrate made a formal order upon
him to return it, to pay a fine of 10/. in addition, &nd
in default to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for
six calendar months.

The wife of Wiggins, from the back of the court, here
called out—l never had the money, ibis a shame to rob
us.
Mr. Yardley—Oh, you are the wife. You had better
not be talking there, but go home and get the 201.. If
it is not here by five o'clock I will commit your husband
to hard labour for six months.

The wife took the hint, and in the course of an hour
returned with 201., which was banded to the sailor, and
the prisoner was liberated, but not before the magistrate
had read him and his wife a severe lecture, and advised
them to be very cautious.
The woman, who impudently laughed at the magis-
trate while he was talking to her, demanded 125., which
she said was owing to her by the sailor.
Mr. Yardley—Go about your business. You intended
to plunder the sailor of 201. Leave the court instantly.

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night
; last a child was killed in Manchester, by having fallen
I from the bed into which it was placed, and between
set of drawers, by which the little creature hung on it:
Company's steamer
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' Madrid is undergoing repair in the Southampton graving
dock. Mr. Colebrook, the second engineer of }lor, fell,
on Monday last, from a stage outside the ship into the
dock, a hoight of 16 feet, and was so injured that he died
in a few hours afterwards.
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