The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-25 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

THE WORKS FOR TILE SEWERS IN OXFORD-STREET..

Mr. Ladd, bootmaker, of Oxford-street, accompanied by
another tradesman residing in the same street, attended
before Mr. Yardley yesterday.
Mr. Ladd said the contractor (Mr. Brassey) for the
sewers, under the Metropolitan Board of Works, had for
the purposes of the works erected a scaffolding in front of
his house, and he had to complain that he had on the erec-
tion placed large boards which had been let to a bill-sticker
for the purpose of posting bills. The boards prevented
persons on the opposite side of the street seeing his shop,
obstructed his light, and were detrimental to his business.
He had spoken to the bill-sticker, who said he had as much
right to the place as he (Mr. Ladd) had to his house, as it
was let to him.

The second tradesman residing nearly opposite the end
of Marylebone-lane, said he had also to complain of a
similar nuisance, the boards erected for advertising pur-
poses obstructing his light, so that he was compelled to
bunt gas in his kitchen all day, and his shop was hidden
from view.

Both applicants said they did not, of course, object to
the erections necessary for the works, although they were
sources of great annoyance, because, being mostly poles,
the light was not obstructed, but the boards were a different
matter.

Mr. Yardley said he did not see how he could interfere,
but if the light in either case was obstructed the remedy
was by action:- lie thought, however, an appeal to Mr.
Brassey's feelings might be attended with a good result.
The applicants then withdrew.

SWALLOWING A PINT POT I—John Forty and Eliza-
beth Forty, husband and wife, were charged with stealing
a pint pot at the Angel, High-street.
The barmaid at the Angel, High-street, St. Giles's, said
the man and woman were is the house for some time, and
directly after they left she missed a pint pot. The female
prisoner was brought back, and on her asking where the
pot was, she replied " I swallowed it," and though a strict
search had been made it could not be found.
John Rogers, 87 E, said he took the prisoners into cus-
tody, and the female prisoner told him that she had
" swallowed the pot."

Mr. Tynvhitt remanded the woman, and said he would
:ake the man's recognisance to appear on Monday next.

THAMES.

ROGUES IN TIIE BAKEHOUSE:JR. ITRAORDINARY CASE.
—William Jolliffe, aged 25; George John Nash, 24; and
William Townsend, 30, journeymen bakers, were brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing four sacks of flour,
the property of Mr. James Tozer, master baker, carrying on
business at No. 1, St. Anne's-road, Bow 'common, Stepney.
Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and
said that Mr. Tozer's business was a most extensive one,
and his losses by dishonest servants had been very great.
It appeared that about 10 or 11 days ago Mr. Tozer
missed a quantity of flour, and on Saturday, the 18th inst.,
Jolliffe left the premises and Nash took his place. On
Thursday night last the prosecutor was in his loft over the
bakehouse and heard a conversation between Nash and
a foreman recently employed by the prosecutor. Nash
said, "We have had a b---y game here; we have
taken four sacks of flour in a fortnight. It's a wonder the
b—y barrow did not break down." He then made pro-
posals to the new foreman to continue the depredations,
whioh the foreman, an honest and respectable man, refused
to comply with, and communicated all he had heard to his
master. The prisoners were subsequently apprehended.
Nash was taken into custody on his master's premises by
police-sergeant Poole, No. 23 K. On his way to the station-
house Nash said, " I will not split on my mate, if I get
three months for it." Poole afterwards arrested Joliffe in his
own house, No. 10, China-place, Back-road, and there
found a flour sack. It was one of those taken away from
Mr. Tozer's! promisor.
William Cadling, foreman, to the prosecutor, said that
Nash told him he and Jolliffe had taken flour away from
the loft over the bakehouse. a basket and a sack at a time,
and sold it to a German baker in Stepney.
The evidence against Townsend was that he was in the
employ of Mr. Tozer until a fortnight ago, and that on his
being apprehended by a constable, a promise was held out
to him by his master under the very stupid policeman's
advice, and he then made a confession.
_ _

Mr. Selfe said he could not even hear the confession
made under a promise, and the police-constable had no
right to question a person or extort confessions from him
by threats or promises.

After some further evidence affecting Nash and Jolliffe,
they were remanded for a week, and Townsend was dis •
charged. _ . _

Mr. Stoddart, by the advice of the magistrate, said he
should have made a witness of Townsend.

A BLIND MAN'S PERSETERANCE REWARDED.—
About four years ago Thome? Scholefield undertook the
arduous task, though stone-blind, of Walking from Man-
chester to London, and accomplished the journey. The
poor fellow's object was to seek to get into the Blind School,
and acquire a knowledge of some industrial trade by which
toghaoinpeas werelivel ihood. On reachingithe metropolis, however,
hisfrustrated,
for his age and other circum-
stances rendered him totally ineligible for the benefits of an
admission into the London Blind School. Mr. Elliott, the
magistrate at Lambeth Police-court, ordered him a sove-
reign from the poor-box en the case being brought before
him, but the particulars of his application and his remark-
able journey having obtained publicity, no less than £l3B
, was subscribed by different benevolent individuals for his
benefit. With this he returned to his native place, learned
skipmaking, and commenced business. He subsequentlj
invented a gauge with which he could make skips more
perfect, as he said, than "seeing men.,, In the beginning
of 1859 he was called upon by two of the Governors of Hen-
shaw's Blind Asylum, Manchester, and became a teacher
of skipmaking in that institution. When, some years ago,
he was an inmate of the asylum, he with others agitated for
the establishment of an outdoor system of employment. This
resulted in their being treated as malcontents and dismissed
from the asylum. Scholefield returned to Atherton, and was
in the workhouse there for six months, and then undertook
his remarkable walk to London. About Midsummer last,
the Governors of Henshaw's Asylum, having inaugurated
a system of outdoor employment, installed Scholefield as
first superintendent of the department, at a salary of £65 a
year, rooms,attendance, &e, He has now £157 in, the
savings-bank.;