The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 26.

L A.MBETH.—OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE 1
PRETENCES—Thomas Lane, a labourer, who gave
bis address 36 or 38, Clement's-lane, Strand, was
p!ced at the bar before the Hon. G. C. Norton on
a charge of obtaining two sovereigns from Mrs.
Sophia Stacy.
Mrs. Stacy deposed that her husband was sub-
contractor for building some warehouses in the
Belgrave-road, Lambeth, and on Monday afternoon
last the prisoner came to her house, and said he
had been sent by Mr. Stacy, her husband, for two
sovereigns to pay to some bricklayers She ob-
served that it was strange her husband should
want money as he had taken some out with him
that morning. The prisoner replied that he had
bought a horse and this might account for his pay-
ing away all the money he had about him. Wit-
ness next said she wondered Mr. Stacy had not
sent their boy for the money, and the prisoner re-
plied that he would have done so, but neither Mr.
Stacy nor himself could find Freddy though they
had both looked for him for some time, and that
was the reason for sending him. The prisoner then
looked at his watch, and said he hoped she would
soon make up her mind, as Mr. Stacy and the men
were waiting, and she gave him two sovereigns.
The prisoner gave her a parcel, saying it was some
colouring stuff, and Mr. Stacy desired she should
keep it dry; but on subsequently opening it she
found it to consist of cinders and mere rubbish.

Mr. Stacy said the prisoner had been in his em-
ploy, but had been discharged on the 13th inst.
Witness had not sent him to his wife for any money,
nor did he want any ; and having met him by ac-
cident that morning near the Horse Guards, he gave
him into custody.
Police-constable 192 A said the prisoner at first
denied the charge, but on their way to the station-
house he asked witness's opinion as to how the
magistrate would dispose of the case, as one of
_em-
bezzlement or of felony. The witness produced a'
watch which he took from the prisoner, and which
was a perfect curiosity, as that part which should
contain the works was occupied only by some bat-
tered brass works, which could not have been in
use for half a century.l
The prisoner, who said his necessities had driven
him to the act, was remanded to a future day.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF CAUSING DEATH.—Fred.
Woomton, a cab-driver, was charged with causing
the death of Harry Polly, by driving over him.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner,
on Monday evening last, while intoxicated, drove
along the Kennington-road, at a rapid pace, and
on turning the corner, at the Horns Tavern, he
knocked down the deceased, and drove over him.
He was going on as if nothing had happened until
stopped by a constable, and then made use of his
cab to remove the unfortunate man to the hospital.
His conduct was also so bad as to excite the dis-
gust of the crowd that had assembled. The poor
man was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he
lingered until Wednesday, when he died of the
injuries he had received.

The prisoner was remanded to a future day, the
magistrate refusing to admit him to bail.

SOUTHWARK.--EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF
IRON.—Robert Green and John Hewlett, carmen,
in the employ of Mr. Wise, contractor,were brought
before Mr. Combe, for finaj examination, charged
with stealing three iron cantlings, weighing up-
wards of 2 cwt. each, the property of Messrs.Coch-
rane and Co., of the Woodside Iron Works, Dudley,
and the contractors for erecting the iron bridges on
the Charing-cross and Chatham and Dover Rail-
ways, and James Willoughby, a marine-store dealer,
of Gravel-lane, Borough, was charged with receiv-
ing the same, well knowing them to be stolen.
Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the latter prisoner,
instructed by the Marine-store Dealers' Mutual
Improvement and Protection Society.
George Holmes, 252 M, said that on Wednesday
afternoon, the 24th ult., about 1 o'clock, he was on
duty in Gravel-lane, with Bricblear, another detec-
tive officer, when he saw Green and Hewlett toge-
ther near their respective carts ; Green left the other
and went into Willoughby's shop, and in a minute
or two came out and rejoined the other, when he
took a heavy piece of iron called a cantling into
Willoughby's shop. He came out again, and then
Hewlett took another piece of iron into Willoughby's
shop. He came out again, and then went to the
cart and took a third piece of iron to Green, who
entered Willoughby's shop with it, when witness
followed him in, and saw Willoughby weighing one
of the pieces in the scales. The latter said that he
had not purchased any of it, and the only thing he
had to do with the iron was to weigh it for the
other prisoners.

Mr. Jos. Phillips, agent to Messrs. Cochrane and
Co., of the Woodside iron Works,Dndley,identified
the three large pieces of iron as their property.
They were called " cantlings," and were extremely
valuable, being used in the erection of the iron rail-
way bridges. As old iron most likely the marine-
store dealer did not give more than 3s, or 4s. each
for them.

Green and Hewlett did not deny taking the cant-
lings, and Willoughby declared that he never pur-
chused either of them.

Mr. Combe committed them all for trial.
At the request of Mr. Lewis,his worship accepted
bail for the prisoner Willoughby.

TH AME S.—A FEVERDEN.--I.Williams,a native
ofCbili,and seamen's boarding-house keeper,who has
been frequently convicted by the magistrates of this
court for assaults and detaining sailors' effects, ap-
peared before Mr. Selfe upon an adjourned sum-
mons taken out by Mr. Joseph Price, one of the
inspectors appointed to carry out the provisions of
the Common Lodging-house Act, and which sum-
mons charged the defendant with keeping a non-
registered lodging-house.
It appeared that the prisoner had lately taken
possession of a large and commodious boarding-
house for foreign seamen kept for many years by
John Seymour, a respectable man, a Greek. In
Seymour's time the house was properly registered
and licensed to receive 29 persons only. On the
Bth instant Seymour gave up possession of the
house to the defendant, abandoned the registration,
and removed all his furniture. On the night
of the 10th inst., Inspector Price, accompanied by
Sergeant Cutbash, 48 A, visited the house, which
had undergone a ccmplete transformation since Sey-
mour left it. Instead of 29 lodgers, the number for
which it was formerly licensed, there were 49 Peru-
vian soldiers in the building, in seven rooms. A
majority of them were lying on the floor without
bed and bedding. The house was in a filthy condi-
tion, and the whole of the Peruvians were suffering
from cold, fever, rheumatism, and other diseases.
Seymour was in the first instance summoned, and
he shifted the responsibility to the defendant. Wil- '
liams now wanted to make out that the commander
of the Peruvian man-of-war Arica, now lying in the
West India Dock, under whose orders he was act-
ing, ought to have been proceeded against. It was
proved that a man named Davis, who was directly
hired by Williams, cooked for the Peruvians.
Mr. Selfe said he had nothing to do with Sey-
mour or the commander of the Peruvian vessel, and
he would not be hoodwinked and allow the law to
be evaded with impunity. There was no doubt the
defendant was really and substantially the landlord
of the house, and had the control of it. The Peru-
vian soldiers were lodged in filthy rooms, and two-
thirds of them had no beds or bedding, or anything
to cover them. It was no wonder the men were ill,
and that so many of them were stricken with fever
and colds,

Williams could assure the magistrate he made no
profit out of the soldiers, and that the commander
of the Peruvian man-of-war would have attended
and explained everything if he had not been very ill.
Mr. Selfe—No doubt he is ill if he has been in
that filthy house of yours. The house is adapted
for 29 lodgers only; you have 49 in it, and it is not
in a fit state to receive any. As to the profits, I
think they must be considerable, when you have
entered into an agreement to pay Seymour £l5 per
month for the use of the house—an agreement of
two months certain, from the Bth December.
The defendant said he had received no notice to
register his house, and make the necessary altera-
tions.

Mr. Selfe—You have had plenty of notice. You
have long kept a registered house elsewhere, and
know what the law is well. The Peruvian soldiers
ought to be removed from your house without delay,
and I regret there is no summary mode of turning
them out. We shall have a pestilence in Wellclose-
square.
Inspector Price—All the soldiers are in a wretched
condition, and many are very ill,
Mr. Selfe fined the defendant £3 and costs.
Williams—l will pay the penalty, and appe
al to
the House of Lords against the decision. (Laughter.)
SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY AND BIGAMY.---
Thomas Cooper, a tall, well-dressed man, about 33
years of age, was brought befor:3 Mr. Selfe, charged
with stealing 22 cwt. of potatoes.
Mr. C. Smith, a farmer _
t ato growerr
of Dagenham, in Essex,
carrying
team and a load of and hadp o
potatoes to Mr. Robert Davis, been so for
a and o
said that in August, io 1854, he was on
the business of a potato salesrua
at,24, Union-street, SRitalfields-market. The pri-
soner was then in hisemploy,
a short time only. He sent the prisoner on the
4th of August, 1854, with
a greengrocer, of 36,
Charles-street, St. George-in the-East. E e- ast. The pri-
soner delivered the potatoesto I N
r. Davis and re-
ceived £6 12s. or £7 for then, 7
M, with which he ab-
sconded. Ho had never
wait tbqt 4", , r I IL . seen the prisoner since
char, P "0 hose And van were fotlnd

near the Eastern Counties Railway St ation , on the
night of the 4th August, 1854.
The Prisoner—There is no case aga;,nst me at all.
I want to see the man who paid me the money.
Mr. Selfe—And so do I want to see the man, and
he must be here. I will adjourn the case for two
hours.

n the prisoner being again arrail ;ned,
Mr. Davis, who is now carrying on business, said
he received a load of potatoes from
'e prisoner in
August, 1854, and paid him for them. There were
more than a ton. _ _

The Prisoner—Can you swear that
) -ou paid me
the money P
Mr. Davis—No, I cannot. Eight years and five
months makes a vast difference in a man.
Mr. Selfe—Do you believe the prisoner is the
man to whom you paid the money for the lo.ad of
potatoes ?
Mr. Davis—l think he is. I have very
little
.loubt about it. I obtained a receipt when I paid
the money, and I have since destroyed it.
William Yardley, a police-constable, 259 11, eaika
that he apprehended the prisoner at the -ViroolwielL
Police-court, on Tuesday last, after he had charged
his wife with bigamy in feloniously intermarrying
with Charles Drysdale, a sergeant of the Royal Marines. The charge of bigamy was admitted to
be true, and the prisoner's wife said that she
thought her first husband had been dead two yeah
when she contracted the second marriage.
Yardley then handed to the magistrate a writtea
statement Which was read. It was to the follovr-
ing effect :
" Statement of Jessie Ann Drysdale—l was
married to Thomas Cooper on the 25th of Sep'
tember, 1842, being then 16 years of age.
was then employed by Mr. Charles Evans as carman;
Previous to my being confined with my first child
I was obliged to return to my parents' home, he
having pawned and made away with almost ever,y'
thing, including my clothes, and even my wedding
ring. Daring this period, and up to the birth of
my third child, I saw him only occasionally, and
scarcely ever received from him more than 2s. 6a.
per week, being principally supported by my grand-
mother who was in middling circumstances. After
the birth of the third child, in 1847, he commune'
cated to me a loathsome disease, and I was at-
tended by Dr, Llewelyn, of the Mile-end-roaa•
After the birth of my fourth child he embezzled
£2O from Mr. William Wybrow, soap manufav
turer, and received 12 months' imprisonment at the
Old Bailey_ After his release from that term 0f
imprisonment, in consequence of his promise of
amendment I gave him £lOO, a portion of the
money left me by my grandmother, to set him uP
in business. After being in -business about siif
weeks he went away with all the ready eael
available, and left me to carry on the business as
best could, and remained away seven weeks, whieh
caused me to sell everything at a sacrifice, and
close the establishment. The same day be earn"
back he sold his horse and cart at the shop door,
at about half the value. After selling the horse be
went to the purchaser, and having borrowed VII
horse, again sold it and got another twelve months
imprisonment and hard labour. After his relail
he obtained £2O from my mother, £lO as a present
and LIO loan, upon a promise of repaying the Writ
at 2s. 6d. per week, but which was never lop
good. He then obtained a situation at Mr. Charles
_
Smith's, potato salesman, in Spitalfields-market'
as a carman, from whose employment he absconded
on the 4th of August, 1854,
having embezzled ;
considerable sum of money, leaving myself all
three children chargeable to the parish. Serge
set
Jackson, of the detective police, had charge
the case. Twelve months after his absconding
r
I heard he was dead, and that he died of feTef
in the Crimea during the war, and which report
have every reason to believe was circulated by hire;
self to avoid the punishment which he might
been likely to receive upon his return to Engla
Having remained single two years and two niont,e
after his desertion, with a sincere conviction that
was dead, I married Sergeant Drysdale in October;
1856, and I now humbly place myself at 37
mercy, as you can see by the statement the raane°4r
in which I have been treated by Thomas Coop
during the period of my being married. He 11° I
goes by the name of Hubbard, for what reason
cannot tell."
Police-constable Yardley said the prisoner's Wiled
who wrote the statement produced, was cornrajttthee
for trial by Mr. Maude, but in consideration el
accepted
mitigatory circumstances of the ease, he aeeeP
bail to the amount of £lO only for her appearance
at the sessions.
Mr. Selfe decided on sending the prisoner for
trial for stealing £6 125., the property of his eras
s,
ter, on the 4th of August, 1854. It would be nee„e,,,
nary to produce formal proof of the prisoner's 101'
mer convictions on the trial. •

COUNTRY MABICL 2S.

WAKEFIELD—DEC. 26.
Wheat sold at is per qr above late rates, with a rather
small supply- Fine barley firm - inferior dull. OidOs
beans, and shelling unaltered.

Averages for the week:
Wheat 1,728 qrs., at 46s 4.1c1
Barley.... 914 .. 32s 20
Peas.. .... --5 Od
Oats
Rye .-- ..... -3 Od
Beans 166

STAMFORD—DEc. 26.
New wheat, 46s to 48s—red, 4s to 46s per
stone,
Barley, 32s to 40s per qr. Oats, ,21s to 268 per 24 .
Beans, 38s to 42s per qr. 36 stone;

EXETER—DEC. 26.
otool4
We have had a small supply of all descriptions of
to-day. Business dull.
to Wheat, white.. 6s 6d to 6s 9d Barley.
Ditto red. 6s 3d to 6s 6d Oats
** .42ss 39 a d
43°8 '991
Flour, fine, 36s to 37s ; seconds, 34s to 355. per sack'

Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to llsOd CATTLE
Ewes, per lb .
Pork carcases, 8s 6d to 9s 6d Wethers, d 0...... .51d to 61
6id to 7d
Lamb, p 1b.......—d to —d Fat calves, do, ..614 t°7`l'
1
Rough fat, 31d per lb. c 1

BRISTOL SUGAR—DEC. 2G. • tile
Our sugar market was doing a steady business In fao
early part of this week both in raws and refined, and
lop
prices have been paid for the parcels sold, the market c
ing firm.