The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-29 00:00:00

POLICE 13778 L LIGEN CR—March 28.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Two miserably clad,
ruffian iy-looking fellows, who gate tl=2ir JIL-in,:.s as
Richard Simpson aud William Smith, were brought
up on a charge of breaking a square of plats glass,
value £B, in the shop front of Mr. Birch, 173,
renchuroh-street, watchmaker and jeweller, and
stealing from the window a gold watch, value £3O,
and a gold Albert chain, value £B.
John Fowles, shopwan to Mr. Birch, staled that
he was at work in the shop, yesterday morning, at
about half-past 11, when he heard a violent blow at
the window. On going to see what it was, he saw
the prisoner, Simpson, step back, and then strike
the window two or three times and break it. A
quantity of goods that were in the window fell on
the pavement.

Mr. Gabriel, a watchmaker in the employ of Mr.
Birch, said he Flaw the prisoner Simpson strike the
window with his fist, and then step back and strike
it again, which smashed it. (A piece of glass was
produced, and it was more than a quarter ofan inch
in thickness.) The prisoners were taken into the
shop, and he took from Smith a gold chain worth £B.
Police-constable Stock, 589, said he took the pri-
soners into custody at Mr. Birch's shop, and on
searching Simpson at the station he found a gold
hunting watch in his possession. Smith stated that
he had come from Essex, and Simpson said he came
from Manchester.

The watch was identified by Mr. Gabriel as Mr.
Birch's property, and he stated that the value of it
was £3O.

The prisoners, who said they were hard up, and
had nothing to eat, were committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.—John Cooke, a letter carrier
and sorter, employed in the East Central District,
was charged with stealing a money letter.
On Monday, the 12th March, the prisoner was
seen by the officer Smee to separate a letter from a
parcel of four or five which he held in his hand,
crumple it up, and put it in 'his pocket. He was
taken to the controller's room, and Mr. Delany, in-
spector of letter carriers, taxed him with the ab-
straction of the letter, which he denied. He was
searched, and the letter was found on him. It con-
tained a half-sovereign and nine penny postage
stamps. It was addressed to Messrs. Carver and Co.,
of Skinner-street, and had come into his hands for
sorting in the usual course of his duties. The pri-
soner said, " I know nothing about it, some one must
have put it there ; it is a piece of villany of some-
body ; I swear I never saw the letter." Smee said,
" It is no use denying it, Cooke ; it is not the first
you have put in your pocket to my knowledge." He
replied, " You are mistaken, Sir." Subsequently the
officer searched the prisoner's house at Hoxton, and
found in his cash box £236 in gold, £75 in notes,
and several promissory notes for money which he
had lent to various persons. The prisoner said it
was all his own hard earnings which he had made
at the gold diggings in Australia, and the reason he
had it in the house was that he was getting all his
money in to buy a house at Paddington.
He was committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—A very respectably dressed
young man named Edward James Nicholson, de-
scribed as an engineer, was placed at the bar
charged as under wi h defrauding the London and
North Western Railway.
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Richard Banks, station master at Newton-bridge,
Lancashire, deposed that yesterday afternoon, as
was usual, he was making up the cash accounts,
and missed a return ticket from Newton-bridge to
London, valued at <E2 12s. 6d. Suspicion fell
upon the prisoner, who had only just been in and
left a rug and taken a ticket to Liverpool. Witness
went to Liverpool, and as the night train was about
to start to London, he (prisoner) entered a first-
class carriage, and he (Banks) entered another, and
came on to London by the train. On arriving at
the ticket platform witness got out of the carriage,
and saw the prisoner deliver up the missing ticket,
upon which he handed him over to the police. The
ticket was stamped, and marked PSI arch 27. He said
at first that he got it stamped at Liverpool, and a
clerk of the railway told him it was quite correct.
In reply to a question from his worship, witness
said the fare from Newton-bridge to London and
back by return ticket was £2 12s. 6d. The fare by
single ticket from Liverpool to London was £1 15s.
Mr. Mansfield said he considered that prisoner
had defrauded the company of 355.
His Worship looked at the bye-laws of the com-
pany produced by Mr, Beresford, the superintendent
of the company's police, when, after perusal, he fined
the prisoner in the penalty of 405., and 255. costs, to
be paid to the stationmaster for his loss of time.
Prisoner said he could get the money.
Mr. Mansfield said that from the prompt and
energetic manner in which the station-master bad
acted in order to effect the capture of the offender,
ho was entitled to much praise.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Perrin, a silversmith and
jeweller, in High-street, Newington, attended before
the Hon. G. C. Norton to answer the complaint of
Wm. Thomas, a pensioner, and formerly belonging
to the 9th Light Infantry.
Thomas said that some months ago he had been
robbed of his Crimean medal, and on passing the
shop of Mr. Perrin a day or two ago he saw it
hanging in the window and exhibited for sale. He
applied for it, and stated that it had been stolen
from his breast; but Mr. Perrin refused to deliver
it up to him.
Mr. Perrin, in reply, said that the medal had
been purchased by his shopman from a man who
had represented it belonged to his brother, recently
dead, and from the description given of the man he
(Mr. Perrin) had very little doubt indeed the com-
plainant was the person.
Thomas, finding his character thus assailed,
handed to the magistrate two certificates of good
conduct, the one purporting to be written and
signed by Richard Wright, Bailiff of Dulwich
College, and the other Richard White, sergeant
in the City Police, and Mr. Noiton, on looking
over them, found that they were not only in the
same handwriting, but both on the same sheet of
paper, or rather on two half-sheets, which origi-
nally formed one whole. This, however, Thomas
stoutly denied, upon which Mr. Norton directed
that the documents be impounded, and Sergeant
White and Mr. Wright written to before next
Wednesday, to which day he postponed the inquiry.