The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-08 00:00:00

!NOVEMBER °IB, 1862.

POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SUSPECTED CHARACTERS IN PALL MALL.—John
Smith, of 3, North-court, North-street, Lambeth, and John
Andrews, address refused, a glass blower, were charged
before Mr. Knox by Sergeant Joy, 9 C; with loitering in
Pall Mall, supposed for the purpose of committing a felony.
Sergeant Joy said—About nine o'clock last night I saw
the two prisoners in Leicester. square talking together, and
walking along. I followed them to Coventry-street, the
Haymarket, and other places. Sometimes they were to-
gether, and sometimes apart. They then went into Pall
Mall, where they separated. Smith then got in a doorway,
and the other kept walking up and down. A gentleman
went by and both prisoners joined and followed him, it being
very foggy at the time. The prisoners followed the gentle-
man to the Army and Navy Club, when Smith got in front
of him and the other behind. Smith appeared to speak to
the gentleman. The prisoner then left the gentleman and
joined and walked down Pall Mall and back to the Army
and Navy Club, when they separated again, and Smith
again got in a doorway, and Andrews walked up and down.
They then waited till an elderly gentleman went by, and
they then followed him into St. James's-square; and when
opposite Charles-street, Smith spoke to the gentleman, who
appeared to be answering him, as ho pointed towards
Piccadilly. The prisoners, however, did not go in the
direction pointed out, but kept walking about the square
apparently asking questions of persons. The prisoners then
walked into Jermyn-street, where they spoke to a lady,
and I distinctly heard them ask her the way to Tottenham-
court-road. The prisoners, however, instead of going in
that direction, went back to Leicester-square, where he
had first seen them, and I then took them into custody,
having been following them about for one hour and a quar-
ter. Smith gave a correct address, but Andrews refused,
stating that he did not wish his friends to know where ho
was. The prisoners had been seen together on a previous
evening by Sergeant Brown, 5 C.
Smith said it was not true what the sergeant had stated,
but he admitted that he had sauntered about._

Sergeant Joy said he noticed that some of the persons
the prisoners stopped seemed to be frightened.
Mr. Knox—Well they might be. The streets are as un-
safe now as going into a tiger's den. I shall remand the
prisoners that inquiries may be made, but I 'will take a
£2O bail for each, as the prisoners are not known.
OVERCROWDING or OMNlBUSES.—Benjamin'
conductor of omnibus 6,504, badge 2,063, was charged on a
summons before Mr. Knox, by Mr. Wm. Love, the
prosecuting officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, with conveying upon the omnibus a
greater number of passengers than the omnibus was con•.
strutted to carry.

Mr. Love said this was one of the cases which the society,
with a view to prevent unnecessary suffering to horses,:were
desirous to suppress. On the 30th ult. one of the closing
days of the Exhibition, two of the Society's officers,
Temperley and Young, at half-past nine in the morning,
saw the defendant's omnibus in Piccadilly full inside, and
the horses labouring hard to draw the load. The officers
stopped the vehicle and found four more passengers
outside thaw the number the omnibus was constructed to
carry.

Defendant admitted that ho was guilty.

Mr. Knox said that half-past nine in the morning was a
busy time with omnibuses when persons were going in and
out of town to business. That answer did not justify de-
fendant in infringing the law. Defendant appeared to
have been convicted before of a similar offence by the
endorsement on his license.

The defendant was fined 10s. and costs, or seven days.
The fine was paid.

WESTMINSTER.

DARING GARROTTE ROBBERY.—James Butler and
John Ford, two notorious thieves, were placed in the
felon's dock, charged.with having, in company with two
others, garrotted Mr. Murray, residing at Chelsea, and bru-
tally ill-used him,
Prosecutor said he was going to his house at 1 o'clock
yesterday morning, after attending a teetotal meeting, when
he was suddenly seized by the throat from behind by a
powerful fellow named Marks, and his head forced back,
while three others ransacked his pockets, and carried off
his watch and money, after which he was knocked down
with some hard instrument and brutally treated. When
he recovered his senses ho gave information to the police,
and on Thursday night two men named Marks and Lane,
were apprehended, both of whom he positively identified,
and they were yesterday remanded for eight days. The
police had since taken the two prisoners as the remainder
of the four who had attacked him.
Mr. Paynter —Do you recognize these men ?
Prosecutor-1 cannot positively. They resemble the men
in dress and appearance.

Mr. Paynter—Do you believe these to be the men ?
Prosecutor—l certainly do.

Inspector Butler—l can produce evidence to connect
these men with the other two.

Richard Burt, of 13, College-place, Chelsea, said—l am
a cabman. I was at Sloane-squire last Monday night
After I had put my cab up in White Lion-street I went to
a coffee-house in the King's-road, where I saw the pri•
soners and two others together. They left, and I after-
wards saw all four of the men near the Star and Garter, in
Sloan-square.

Mr. Paynter—Did you see the men. Francis Marks and
Lane yesterday at this Court ?
Witness—l did.

Mr. Paynter—And are these the other men who were
with prisoners?
Witness—They are.

Inspector—l shall have other evidence against them.
Mr. Paynter—The prisoners are remanded for a week.

THAMES.

AN.INCORRIGIBLE THIEF.—John Brown, a rough look-
ing youth who has been frequently in custody, and who
came out of prison yesterday morning, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing about 3lbs. of lead pipe
and a brass tap, the property of Mr. Henry Little, house

owner.

John Wagner, a labourer, of No. 38, Waggoner's build-
ings, Gowers-walk, Whitechapel, said, that shortly before
five o'clock this morning he was awoke by a noise in the
yard behind his dwelling. He jumped or rather leaped out
of his bed, opened the window and saw the prisoner getting
down from the cistern, and watched him. The witness sent
his wife for a policeman, and whileshe wasgone the prisoner
came out of an out-house. He hastened into the yard.
seized the prisoner and gave him in charge to a police-con•
stable. He afterwards found the lead pipe and brass tap
(now prAuccd) on the kitchen tiles. The tap was the one
attached to the cistern, and supplied it with water. He
found that 18 inches of lead pipe had been cut away. The
lead pipe had been fixed to the wall by hold-fasts. The
value of the tap and pipe amounted to 7s. 6d.
George Wood, a police-constable, No. 128 H, said the
prisoner admitted having broken the pipe, and upon asking
him what he intended to do with it, ho made no answer.
Mr. Selfe said the prisoner had been repeatedly convicted
and punished for petty thefts, and as summary convictions
appeared to have no effect, he should now commit him for
trial.

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