The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Jan. 29.

MANSION-HOUSE. A young woman who
gave the name of Ellen Jones, said to be fictitious,
described as a tsiloress, and having no fixed resi-
dence, was brought up before the Lord Mayor,
charged with being in the unlawful possession of a
gold watch and chain worth together between £4O
and £5O, and supposed to have been stolen.
Yesterday morning the prisoner went into the
shop of Mr. Fry, a watchmaker and jeweller in
Bishopsgate-street Without, and, producing the
watch and chain in question, offered to sell them to
him for £l5. Perceiving on examination that the
watch was of the value of £3O at least, and the
chain,which was of the Albert pattern, and the gold
of the quality of 18 carats, about £lO more, his
suspicions were excited, and he asked her to call
again in the afternoon, when ho would have a gen-
tleman present whom he thought the watch and
chain would suit. She left the shop on that under-
standing, and immediately atter she had gone Mr.
Fry spoke to Police-constable Stobbhard, who fol-
lowed her into the Woolpack publichouse, in Peter-
street, close by. There he asked her to let him see
the watch. She denied at first that she had one,
but on his demanding to see the watch she produced
it. To questions he put she said it belonged to her
husband, who was a tailor. He told her he did not
believe her, upon which she said he could ask her
husband, pointing to a man in the room. The man,
on being spoken to, denied that he was her husband,
adding he had never seen her before that morning,
when on a casual meeting she had offered to treat
h im with srmething to drink, and he had accom-
panied her there. They were both taken to a
police static:a, but the man was afterwards liberated.
The watch sore the maker's name of " Broad, near
the Royal Exchange," and the number 1,198. A
gold key and a small compass were attached to the
chain. At Mr. Fry's the prisoner said she had
been offered £l5 upon the watch at a pawnbro-
ker's, which she had declined. When she first
showed it tc him the compass ornament was detached
from the chain. She added that the watch was
her husbanl's, who was a commercial traveller:. A
mathematical instrument of considerable value was
also found upon her when taken into custody.
The appearance of the prisoner contrasted strongly
with the possession of articles of such value. She
said in reply to the charge she had had the watch
in her possession for about six months, and that she
mathematical instrument in Birming-
ham.
ht the

The Lord Mayor remanded her till Saturday,
thinking that the publication of the circumstances
in the int.rim might possibly clear up the mystery
if she had not come honestly by the watch and
chain.
The condition of the bereaved wives and families
of the pa?" men who perished in the Hartley Col-
liery continues to excite the deepest sympathy in
the city of London, and indeed throughout the
metropolis generally. During the whole of yester-
day again contributions towards their relief were
poured into the Mansion-house from almost all
classes of the inhabitants, especially those engaged
in mercantile and industrial occupations, and includ-
ing, in many instances, the members and servants
of private families. The aggregate of the contribu-
tions received by the Lord Mayor in the course of
yesterday alone was nearly £1,114, which, with
those previously sent, makes the total sum
up to last evening about £3,070, or at the rate of

more than £l,OOO a day. fndettii for the present
the Long Parlour of the Mansion-house is contetted '
into a sort of bank, and some of the officers of the
justice-room have been taken from their ordinary
tlinctions to devote themselves exclusively to this
work of humanity. The donations yesterday in
number exceeded our power to give them in de-
tail, but the following are a few of the prin-
cipal :—The Right Hon. the Speaker of the
House of Commons, £2O; Mr. Tite, M.P., £lO
10s. ' • Brandram, Brothers, and Co., £2O ; Lady'
Amelia Charlotte Marsham, £2O; James Barber and
Co., £lO 10s. ; Cattleys and Carr, £2O ; Royal Ex-
change Assurance Company, £25 ; Assistants of
Copestake, Moore, Crampton, £26 4s. ; gentlemen
in the London office of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, £22 45.; Caldecott,
Sons, and Willcocks, £26 ss. •, Bishop and Sons,
£2l; Clerks in the Bank of England (a shilling
subscription) £l9 155.; the Clerks in the Ac-
countant's Bank-note office Bank of England,
£3 10s. The name of " Mrs." instead of " Mr."
Llewellyn Evans was given yesterday by mistake
as that of a contributor.

WESTMINSTER —Thomas Hewitt was charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
William Morris, an omnibus driver, said that on
the previous night, as he was about to start on his
journey from tho Cricketers, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea,
to London, he was informed that the defendant had
declared that he wquld put the omnibus into the
river. As Hewitt was intoxicated, the complainant
paid no attention to the threat, and mounted his
driving-box, but had no sooner done so than the
defendant seized the horses' heads and backed them
against a slight rail, which separates the embank-
ment from the Thames. The complainant drove the
horses forward, but the defendant backed them
with such force that, but for the carriage striking
against a tree, the rail would have been broken
down and the omnibus precipitated into the water.
There were four ladies in the carriage, whose screams
denoted the tereor they felt at the imminent dan-
ger in which they were placed. _ _

Thomas Pearl: an. 253. V, said he found the defen-
dant by the side of the omnibus using Liit;
gusting language.
The defendant said he was sorry for what had
happened, and would take care that it should not
occur again.
Mr. Arnold remarked that he could not conceive
what the motives of the prisoner were in commit-
ting this offence. If it had not been for the omni-
bus being stopped by a tree most disastrous con-
sequences might have resulted from the act, and
had the prisoner been otherwise charged he should
have pronounced a severe sentence. He should im-
pose a fine of 55., and require hint to rind one surety
in £25 to keep the peace for three months.
The prisoner was locked up in default.
Sarah Freeman, a genteel-looking young woman,
20 years of age, was finally examined, charged with
robbing Mr. William Dunfee, outfitter, 19, Victoria-
row, Pimlico, of a quantity of property.
The prisoner, who is respectably connected, had
been receiving a liberal salary from the prosecutor.
She was detected a few days ago taking out a large
parcel of goola. Other articles were found in her
box, the property stolen amounting in all to £2O in
value. _ _

It was urged by Mr. Bury Huethinson, on behalf
of the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, that sbe had
hitherto borne a high character, and had been in-
trusted by Mr. Dunfee with very large sums of
money to pay at wholesale houses.
Mr. Dunfee recommended her to the merciful
consideration of the magistrate.
Mr. Arnold said it was most distressing to find a
person of her years and respectability charged with
such an offence. There was no one circumstance in
her case which could palliate her offence. She was
therefore committed to hard labour in the House of
Correction for the full period of six months.

WORSHIP-STREET.--John Garrett, a stout
active man of 30 or 35, well known to the police,
was charged with robbery.
At half-past 2in the morning of the 4th inst. the
prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Sach, a jeweller in
High-street, Shoreditch, and asked to be shown a
good silver watch. Mr. Sach handed him one of
foreign manufacture. He objected to that and said
he should prefer an English-made lever. The pro-
secutor handed him one of those, worth £4 10s.
which he took as if about to examine it, but the in-
stant he had got it into his hand he turned round,
and, without uttering a word, ran out of the house
with it. It is a common system of robbery to send
one of a gang into a shop for the purpose of stealing
something, so as to induce the person serving to run
out in pursuit, and so leave the shop to the mercy
of others of the gang, who rush in and plunder it,
and this Mr. Sach was aware of, and insteau, thcz
fore, of following the prisoner himself, he sent the
shonbov after him, but uselessly. The prisoner was
not seen again till the evening of the 15th, when
Boobyer and Miller, two constables of the 0 divi-
sion, were on duty in the same neighbourhood, and
met him and two other well-known thieves walking
together, with the evident object of robbery. They
had only watched them a minute or two when they
I saw two of them place themselves so obstructively
before a lady as to stop her, and the prisoner lifted
up her dress and felt her pocket. He did not seem
to get anything, and the officers let him go on fur-
ther, when he again stopped another lady, lifted her
dress also, and inserted his hand into her pocket.
The lady moved away, unconscious of what had
taken place, and the prisoner and his confederates
crossed over and entered a publichouse. Here
Miller waited outside while Boobyer went in, and
told the prisoner that he was wanted for attempt-
ing to pick ladies pockets. On hearing that this
was the charge the prisoner replied, " Oh, very
well," and seemed willing to go with the officer,
but on getting to the door he ran down the Hack-
ney-road as fast as he could go, and had not Miller
been there in advance of the first officer he must,
even after a long and severe chase, have again
escaped. He was then taken to the station, and told
he was wanted for the watch robbery, which he de-
clared to be an entire mistake ; but on being brought
to the court and placed by Bendall, the gaoler, in
the waiting-room with five other men, a young lady
named Scott Ivans, who was staying with Mrs.
Sach at the time of the robbery and had a quiet
view of the thief's face when the watch was stolen,
was sent for, and on entering the room she selected
the prisoner from the others without hesitation.
Previous convictions were proved against the
prisoner, and
Mr. Leigh fully committed him for trial on both
charges.

CLERKENWELL.—Wm. Shepherd Foster, the
keeper of the Independent beershop, Upper Bing-
field-street, Islington, was summoned by Inspector
Judge, N division, for unlawfully opening his house
for the sale of beer on Sunday last before the hour
of 1 o'clock.
From the evidence of Police-sergeant Gould, 40
N, it appeared that, complaints having been made
that Sunday trading was being carried on at
.the
defendant's house, he watched, and saw several per-
sons enter in the course of the morning. He also
stopped a little girl and found she had a bottle
under her shawl, which contained about a pint of
malt liquor.
The defendant denied the charge. He said that
the girl was his nursemaid, and that he had given
her the ale to take home to her father.

A girl between 9 and 10 years of age was called
and examined as to the nature of au oath. Tier
answers being considered satisfactory she was re-
quested to take the book and be sworn, but she de-
clined to do so.

Mr. Mould (the chief clerk) told her the book
was the Testament, and that she had only to kiss
it and speak the truth. He asked if any one had
told her not to do so.

The girl replied that she would not kiss the book,
and that no one had told her to refuse to do so.
Although told that she might be sent to prison for
her refusal, she persisted in not kissing the book,
and her evidence consequently could not be taken.
Mr. Barker fined the defendant 20s. and costs.

SOUTHWARK.—James Kelly, a well-dressed
young fellow, was brought up by Scannell, 177 M,
charged with stealing a silk handkerchief and a
portmonnaie from a French gentleman, named Pierre
Lagron, on the platform of the South Eastern Rail-
way, London-bridge.
The prosecutor, through an interpreter, said that
on the previous evening he came by the tidal train
from Paris, and just before he got out of the car-
riage he had safe in one coat-pocket, loose, 3,000
francs in gold, and in the other a pocket-handker-
chief and an empty portmonnaie. As he was going
through the crowd to look after his luggage, Scan-
nell, the constable, came up to him and asked him
if he had lost anything. He found all his money
safe, and missed the empty portmonnaie and silk
handkerchief. He saw the prisoner in custody a
minute or so afterwards, with the property in his
possession.
Scannell, a detective officer, specially employed
by the South-Eastern Railway Company, said he
saw the prisoner go up to the prosecutor just as
the tidal train arrived. On seeing him leaVe in a
hurried manner he suspected him, and stopped him,
at the same time asking the prosecutor whether he
had lost anything. The prosecutor seemed rather
excited, and, feeling his pockets, said his money
was safe, but he missed his handkerchief and port-
monnaie. The witness at once searched the pri-
soner, and found the two articles on him, and the
prosecutor identified them. The prosecutor told
him that just before the train arrived, and after be
had given up his ticket, he emptied his portmonnaie

and put it in one pocket with his handkerchief, and
the money loose in the other pocket.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was smteneed
to six months' imprison went with hard labour.

LAMBETH.—Mr. James It. Wilson and Mr.
Joseph Crown, respectable tradesmen, appeared be-
fore Mr. Elliott, in discharge of their recognizances,
to meet a charge of knocking down and running
over an old gentleman named Smith, by which he
had received injuries of so serious a character that
he has since died. From the evidence in the case,
it appeared that on Christmas eve the defendants
were driving along Southampton-street, Camber-
Well, in a gig. The deceased happened to be cross-
ing the street at the time. The defendants called
out to him, but whether from fright or infirmity the
deceased was unable to get out of the way. The
consequence was that he was knocked down, and
gig' passed over He was
the wheel of the
taken up and carried to his house in Camberwell-
road. It was hoped th at he would recover, but on
the night before he died.
Inspector Dann informed the magistrate that the
inquest on the deceased had not yet been held, and
requested a further remand.
The defendants having put in the required bail,
were discharged.
Henry Richardson, a man of respectable appear-
ance, was charged with attempting self destruction
by swallowing a large dose of oxalic acid.
Police-constable 237 P deposed that about 4
o'clock on the evening of Monday week he was
called into the Hero of Switzerland publichouse in
Loughborough- road, Brixton, and there found the
prisoner in the hands of Mr. Gage, a surgeon. He
learnt that lie had just before swallowed some oxa-
lic acid. After the stomach-pump had been used the
prisoner was removed to Guy's Hospital. When
asked what he had to say to the charge the prisoner
replied that he had been drinking a good deal, and
the dread of losing his situation had been the cause
of the rash act. He had, however, suffered severely
for his folly, and should never attempt a repetition
of the act. The wife of the prisoner said, although
he had latterly given way to drink, he was a good
husband and a kind father.
muott calqerved that it was shocking to see
a man who might be happy witit hie family give
way to drink so as not only to risk his situation,
but his life. He, however, appeared to have suf-
fered by his folly, and it was to be hoped that, on
being discharged, he would keep his word to leave
off drink and never again attempt so wicked an act.

HAMMERSMITH.—James Brown, a sharp-
looking boy; Jane Brown, a girl, and Louisa Clark,
a young woman, were re-examined charged with
attempting to steal from shops.
Sergeant Boden was passing through Notting-
h ill, when he saw the prisoners. He followed them
to the High-street of Kensington. They loitered
about the shop of Mr. Wickham, draper, for some
time, and the boy made three attempts to steal a
large piece of print hanging at the door. The pri-
soners gave false addresses, but the officer identified
Clark as the associate of burglars about Drury-lane.
Clark said the officer was too clever, and would
" get something some day."
Mr, Ingham committed the prisoners for trial.