The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Apra 14.

MANSION-HOUSE. James Cooper, 35, a
mason, living in King-street, Lambeth, who had
been liberated on bail, was brought before the Lord
Mayor on the following charge:—
The complainant was George Barry, a ticket-
collector at the Fenchurch-street station of the
Blackwall Railway. On Saturday afternoon, on
the arrival there of the North London train, the
prisoner, who had come by it, passed him where he
was taking tickets. He was asked for his ticket,
but walked on, refusing to show it. The com-
plainant was obliged to leave his post to go after
him, and in the interim several of the passengers
by the train left without giving up their tickets.
He took him by the arm, and asked for his ticket,
or the money for his fare, upon which the prisoner,
who was drunk, turned round, used very abusive
language, and struck at him. He aggravated the
matter by flourishing the ticket over his head during
the struggle in a tantalising way, and still refusing
to part with it. It required several constables to
disarm him and take him to the police-station. He
remained there overnight, and was then bailed. On
Sunday he went to the railway station, and ex-
pressed the greatest regret for his conduct, in con-
sideration of which the station-master desired the
Bench to deal leniently with him.
The Lord Mayor, taking that into account, and
that he had been locked up all night, discharged
the defendant with an admonition.

Margaret M'Nelly, a woman of 40, described as
a laundress, was accused of theft.

On Saturday afternoon she was seen by Alfred
Green, a detective officer, dogging a young woman
in the Poultry in a suspicious manner. He watehod
for a fewjnoments and saw the prisoner place her.
hand near the dress of the complainant and then
walk away in an opposite direction. He seized
her hand and found in it a hankerchief and a purse
containing ss. 6d. in silver, a half-franc piece, and
some postage-stamps. Giving her into the custody
of a police-constable, Green went after the young
woman, one Emma Thurston, living in Bird-in-
hand-court, Cheapside, who at once identified the
purse and its contents.
A detective officer who happened to be in court
recognised the prisoner as one of a gang of thieves
in the Borough, and as having been previously con-
victed at Southwark Police-court.

The prisoner, who 'did not venture to gainsay
that evidence to character, pleaded guilty, and threw
herself on the mercy of the Court.

She was committed for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—Constance Wilson,:who re-
fused her address, and described herself as of no
occupation, was placed at the bar on remand,
charged with administering oil of vitriol to Sarah
Cornell, with intent to murder.
Mr. Vaughan, solicitor, attended to prosecute;
and Mr, Webber attended on behalf of Mr.
Beacham, a chemist.

Sergeant Boden said he was not prepared with
any further evidence. There was a gentleman
present about another case in which a woman is
supposed to have been poisoned, and with whose
death the prisoner is supposed to be in some way
mixed up. The body had been after death taken
to Westmoreland. A coroner's warrant had been
issued for its exhumation, and there was likely to be
an inquest upon it. The death took place in Ken-
nington.
Mr. Yardley said that as the evidence in the
case already gone into had been taken here, and
the death of the person now mentioned took place
in London, he supposed he could take that case here
also.

Mr. Vaughan said he had also further evidence
and some papers to show the motive of the prisoner
in getting the prosecutrix out of the way.
The prisoner was again remanded.

THAMES.—EmiIy Sarah Beecher, aged 28, and
Clara Jane Knight, 20, sisters, and both married,
were charged on remand with stealing woollen
cloth to the value of £5O.

The elder prisoner is the wife of James William
Beecher, formerly a tailor at 186, Brick-lane, Spital-
fields, who was declared a bankrupt on his own pe-
tition on the 24th of January last, and who has
since absconded. The principal creditor and trade
assignee of the bankrupt is Mr. Henry Howes,
woollendraper, of 123, High-street, Whitechapel,
who sold to him a great portion of the goods which
the prisoners were charged with stealing. In the
early part of December last Mr. Howes noticed a
decrease in the stock in trade of the bankrupt not
amounted for by the business he was doing. After
the bankruptcy only £5 worth of goods were de-
livered to the creditors, although Beecher's liabili-
ties amounted to £6OO. On Friday, the 21st of
March, the prisoners called upon Mrs. Louisa Cum-
ming, housekeeper of 29, New-street, Stepney, who
had a room to let. Mrs. Beecher introduced her
sister as a young lady from the country who wanted
an apartment. They took the room. Mrs. Beecher
said the " young lady" had to go to the railway
station and fetch some goods which had come up
from Ipswich. The prisoners returned about nine
o'clock the same night, and Mrs. Cumming saw a
cart at the door. It contained 30 or 40 parcels, all
carefully packed in canvass. Mrs. Cumming was
much surprised, and said, " Surely you are not go-
ing to put all those goods into the room ?', The
prisoner said nothing, and ordered the cart to be
unladen, and the whole of the parcels were
deposited in the room. Knight said that
she was very much fatigued with her journey,
and the trouble she had taken in removing the
tgeonods from a
dedte sleep
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the
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following Monday the prisoners again visited the
room in which the goods were deposited, remained
there a short time, locked the door and left, taking
the key with them. On Friday, the 28th March,
the prisoners once more visited Mrs. Cumming, paid
her 35., the rent of the apartment, and went away.
On the same day Mrs. Cumming gave information
to the police. The next day the prisoners came
to the house for the last time, and were followed
into the room they had engaged by police-sergeant
Pullen, 10 K, who at once charged them with de-
frauding the creditors of a bankrupt, and took
them into custody. Knight exclaimed, " Oh ! good
God, I expected this." Mrs. Beecher said that her
father, Mr. Sykes, had lent money on the goods.
The whole of the property was identified by Mr.
Howes as part of the stock of the bankrupt, which
had been in his possession on the eve of the adjudi-
cation of bankruptcy. No attempt was made to
show that Sykes, the father of the prisoners, had
any lien upon the goods, but it was urged on behalf
of the sisters that they had acted under the control
of the bankrupt.
The prisoners said they would
reserve i
fence, and Mr. Woolrych committed them tfhoreitrridae-l.
amount of £2OO.
He accepted bail for them, each n sureties to the

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king girl, was
florin and three shillings.
The prosecutor, John Miller, said that about 10
o'clock on Friday night he came up by the North
Kent Railway with his wife, and while looking for
an omnibus to put her into to proceed to her situa-
tion at Sloane-street, a number of orange girls sur-
rounded him. One of them struck him a violent
blow on the right eye. At the same time he caught
the prisoner in the act of robbing him of some
money he had in his coat pocket, Which consisted of
a florin and three shillings. He instantly seized
hold of her, and, although roughly handled, con-
trived to keep her until a constable came up.
The prisoner, who denied the charge, was cora-
mit ted,for trial.

HAMMERSMITH.--William Smith, a respect-
able-looking young man,
described as a barman,
was finally examined on a charge of robbery.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
on the 7th or Bth of August last visited a bootmaker
named ; Clark, living
D -ng at N 0.13 Cirencester Toad, Har-
row-road, of whom he had borrowed money. He
said he was on his way to the Treasury to see a
nobleman, who had settled £B,OOO upon a child he
had had by his (the prisoner's) wife. As he was

to receive ti'at day
return mt l'ie would repay what the it Iterest on the £B,OOO, he
said that when he
he had borrower tic ga ye. Clark 6d. to go to a
he ret Li rued from his visit to
publichouse and h eve som et Ling to drink, and to
wait for him until
the nobleman. Clan.% went to the publichouse and
had some refreshment. lie afterwards went to the
prisoner's lodgings, No. 41, Hampden-street, in the
neighbourhood, to asce. vt% in whether a leg of
mutton which the prisoner ' stated he had provided
for dinner, and to which t 7,41 a rk had been invited,
was being cooked. He foi ind that it was not, and
went home. He soon disco ,vered that he had been
robbed of a silver watch a ad gold chain, clothes,
and other articles to the val u. eo f £6. On the morn-
ing in question the prisoner ,911.1 d to Mrs. Godwin,
his landlady, that he was g.O. lag to the Treasury.
He did not return to his lodgq rigs. On examining
the room she missed a sheet a t d found that half of
the feathers had been taken out of the bed. A
search was made for the prison, qr, but he was not
seen again until he was apprehea 'ded by Doole, of
the D division, on the 25th o. f March, at the
Clerkenwell Sessions. It was found that the
feathers had been made up ink, pillows and
pledged. The prisoner told, the office." that he had
pledged some of the articles belonging to Clark, and
worn out the rest.
He was committed for trial.

THE U2VII/±RSIT I' BOAT RACE.

--.41)..

The London correspondent of Saunders's News
Letter concludes an animated description of the
University boat 'I ice with the following just re-
marks : .
The stea. `ors,, as usual, did their best to
mar the beauty as
as the enjoyment of the
affair. Ten or a dozen —"
,black-looking hulls, \
over-
crowded with almost the
:Hale sex, don't add much
to the picturesque aspect of
'the scene, and they in-
terfere most seriously with tL
'e efforts of the coin-
peting crews, as well as corn pletely shut out the
view cf the contest from all on t, he south side of the
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river, including the towing path, a'hid' is, of course,
the only available space for strangevs. This year,
I believe, there was some sort of promi. e exacted
and accorded that they would not move frtnn their
positions until the rival boats had passed them.
None of them kept the promise; they commenced
going ahead the moment the gun was fired, causing
a swell in' front of the crews, just as prejudicial to
the occupalion they were engaged in as it would be
to make the' Derby horses run the first mile of their
course in apl oughed field. They allowed the boats
to come up to them, but then kept alongside them
as far as Hammersmith, so as completely to obscure
a view of them from any one on the Surrey shore.
I believe this repealed objectionable behaviour is to
be taken into serious consideration by the two Uni-
versity Boat Clubs in London. The remedy, or
rather remedies—for there are two—would be found
very easy. It would be merely necessary to start
the rival crews in front of the steamboats in-
stead of at the aqueduct, and to let it be distinctly
understood that there should be no start at all
until the steamers were at a reasonable distance
behind. If they atrempted to come up alongside
or pass the boats then, for the next year, and
ever after, let the race be rowed at Henley,
whore there are no steamers, and where tens of
thousands could witness the contest through all
its phases. It is true there would scarcely be such
a multitude of spectators on the shore, but then
there would net be the same extent of disappoint-
ments. 'were would be quite a sufficient num-
ber of the, true lovers of the art to animate the
crews, and citizens Y and Z would not have the
opportunity
of endangering the lives of her Ma-
jesty's subjemt,s as they did this morning, when,
from the over.-crowded state of the boats, several
persons were pushed actually into the water from
the determinatio,n of their fellow-passengers to get
a peep at the retie

co uNA RY MABEL 2S.

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COLCHECTER-APRIL 12.

A very small supply of wheat to-day, and prices the
ley for malting again scarce,
turn in sellers' favour. Bai
and rather dearer. Beans al, 'd peas were scarce, at former
rates.
Beasy, Mazagan .. 35s 36s
Wheat, white ..54s 66s
red 46s 62s middle & small.37s 40s
Barley
Oats • —s —s gray 38s 45s