The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 5.

GUILDHALL.—THE BANK NOTE ROBBERIES
AND FORGERIES, AND THE KINGSLAND JEWEL-
LERY ROBBERY.—Benjamin &Mud. Itedburn, who
has been several times examined relative to a va-
riety of charges arising out of the great jewel rob-
bery at Kingsland, and the extensive forgery of
bank notes, was brought up for final examination
before Alderman Abbis, when the owner of the gold
was brought forward and his evidence taken.
Mr. Mullens, the solicitor for the prosecution,
said he had no further evidence to offer.

Mr. Lewis then addressed the Court for the pri-
soner, and very ingeniously argued that the offence
under the statute of unlawful possession of the por-
tions of bank-notes produced could not be sup-
ported as such, as there was no evidence to trace
the personal possession of them to the prisoner, or
that the place in which they were found was ex-
clusively occupied by him. On the contrary, it
was shown that others had access to the prisoner's
room in his absence, and there was nothing to
prove that at any time he was cbserved in any
secret occupation. It was therefore manifest that
the evidence was as strong against those who had
access to his room as it was against the prisoner
himself. He was sure the worthy alderman, if he
were on the jury, would not convict the prisoner on
such evidence, and he therefore thought he would
not commit the prisoner on that charge. With re.
gard to the charge of stealing notes, it was quite clear
that if the unlawful possession could not be proven,
the charge of stealing must fall to the ground. In
reference to the jewellery, all he had to say was
that the property had found its way into
the prisoner's possession, after a lapse of time, such
as could be a satisfactory answer to the charge, if
sent to the Old Bailey.
Alderman Abbiss said Mr. Lewis's observations
would have carried more weight with him if it had
not been for the extraordinary conversation over-
heard by Inspector Foulger. Under the circum-
stances he had made up his mind to commit the
prisoner for trial on all the charges.
Committed accordingly.

WESTMINSTER.—CABs AT THE EXHIBITION.
—IMPOBTANT QUESTION.-111r, Frederick Owen,

of 45, Queen's-road, St. John's Wood, appeared to
a summons charging him with neglecting to pay the
full amount of fare charged by a cab driver.
William Garner, the complainant, stated that he
was fetched from he Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood,
and took the defendant and a lady up and
drove them to the Exhibition, where defendant
only gave him 2s. ; as the ground driven ex-
ceeded five miles his legal fare was 2s. 6d., and he
had therefore taken out the present summons
against the gentleman for 6d. There was no time
to say anything to the defendant, as the police
would not give the complainant time to stop, but
immediately ordered him away. Such was their
practice at the Exhibition, and the poor cabman
was daily defrauded of part of his fare unless he
knew where the person be took up resided.
Mr. Arnold observed that such a proceeding on
the part of the police was very unfair. Cabmen
were summoned and convicted if they overcharged
those who rode with them, and every facility ought
to be afforded them to obtain the amount to which
they were entitled.
Mr. Owen said he had no complaint to make
against the driver's behaviour; he was exceedingly
civil. By the route he had taken outside of Hyde
Park there could be no doubt that he had exceeded
four miles, but the question in dispute was whether
he was not bound to have driven the shortest way.
Mr. Arnold said he was bound to do so.

Mr. Owen said that such being the case he was
not entitled to the amount he claimed, as by the
new road through Hyde Park the distance was less
than four miles.

Mr. Arnold observed that the commissioners of
police had declined to have the distance through
the park measured because it was a private road,
and cabs were therefore not bound to go that way.
Mr. Owen observed that hundreds of cabs went
through it daily. It had been a road made for the
public to reach the Exhibition.
Mr. Arnold repeated that if the commissioners
considered it a private road and refused or declined
to have it measured, he should hold that a cabman
was not bound to go through the park; if he did go
he could not ascertain the measurement. The vari-
ous distances throughout the metropolis had been
measured under the authority of the commissioners
of police, and the words of the statute were that
such measurement was to be conclusive evidence of
the distance ; the magistrates were left to make
their decisions upon the table of fares.
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Mr. Owen observed that he did not go by the
shortest road by which as a principle he was bound
to charge.
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Mr. Arnold said that that must be the shortest
public road, and such road the commissioners would
have had measured.

Mr. Owen expressed his opinion that the new
way through the park must be deemed a public road
for all the purposes of the Exhibition.
Mr. Arnold said that with the statute before him
declaring that the commissioners' measurement
should be conclusive evidence of the distance froth
place to place, he was decidedly of opinion that if
the cabman had driven through the park he was
entitled to the fare for the distance set down by the
commissioners, although measured by the street
routes. Supposing a dispute arose upon a distance
not in the table of fares, he did not know whether
the park-keeper would permit the court wheel to
enter the park to measure. He must order the de-
fendant to pay the 6d and 5s costs.
Mr. Owen observed that had the police given
time, when he alighted, for a moment's explanation,
all would doubtless have been settled without com-
ing there.
Mr. Arnold recommended the cabowners to send
a memorial to the commissioners upon the subject
complained of.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday Thos. Horne,
a well-dressed man of 28, was charged with felony.
The prosecutrix, a good-looking woman named
Martha Alured, stated that in 1859 the prisoner
was introduced to her. He afterwards paid his
addresses to her, and they were engaged to be mar-
ried in August last, and she some time afterwards
found that she was likely to become a mother.
In September, 1860, her sister, who resided at
Harleston, in Norfolk, died, leaving her all her
wearing apparel and other property, and the pri-
soner accompanied her down there in the following
month to receive possession of it. The property
was packed up in three trunks and a packing-ease,
and was directed by the prisoner to be forwarded to
the goods station of the Eastern Counties Railway
in town, whence, upon their coming to London, he
transferred the boxes to a coffeehouse in Church-
street, kept by her cousin, Mr. Mayell. They had
not been there long before the prisoner removed
them from Mr. Mayell's house to his own, in Lee-
street, Kingsland, and she saw the goods safe at
both places. At various times during this period
the prisoner had borrowed sums of her, amounting
in the whole to £l4, for which he told her he would
allow her interest. He gave her an 1.0. U. for the
money. This she placed in an envelope, which she
deposited in one of the boxes at the prisoner's
house, but on going to this box in March last she
found the envelope in it, but empty. The prisoner
after that treated her with great coolness, and con-
tinued to do so until the 20th of May, when she re-
ceived the startling intelligence that he had paid
for his passage on board the Matilda Wattenbach
emigrant ship, then in the East India Docks, and
about to sail for new Zealand, where a great num-
ber of persons, Nonconformists like the prisoner,
had determined to form a settlement. She and her
cousin, Mr. Mayoll, immediately called at the pri-
soner's house to demand possession of her packing-
case and trunks. They obtained them with some
difficulty, but upon opening the boxes and case a
quantity of her property was found to have dis.
appeared. Mr. Mayell therefore applied to the
police on her behalf, and on accompanying Excell,
a constable of the K division, to the docks on the
morning the Matilda Wattenbach was to start on
her voyage, they caught the prisoner on the quay,
just as he had been to see his baggage properly
stowed away, and gave him into custody.
Mr. Mayell confirmed the prcsecutrix in as many
facts as he was concerned in, and added, that on
calling at the house of the prisoner to obtain the
restoration of her property the prisoner refused to
deliver the case and boxes unless they paid him for
18 months' warehouse-room. The witness told him
to make out his demand, and the prisoner wrote
out a bill for £1 16s. The witness said he would
pay the amount at once if he would allow them
to see the contents of the trunks, but that the pri-
soner refused to do.

Excell deposed to accompanying the prosecutrix
and last witness on board the emigrant ship, by
order of the magistrate, and stated that on over-
taking her at Gravesend, which she had then
dropped down to, they found that a good portion
of the prisoner's luggage had been stowed away in
the hold and could not be got at. The officer in
command pointed out the rest of his luggage. In
one of the boxes were found a number of articles
which the prosecutrix at once identified as hers,
and as forming part of her stolen property.
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the defence, believed
he had a perfect answer to the charge, and that
the prisoner's conduct would not turn out so heart-
less as it now appeared. He trusted the magis-
trate would accept bail for his client, and not lock
him up till the sessions. -

Mr: Leigh said he could not see that the pri•
soner was deserving of any sympathy from him ;
it was altogether a bad case. He did not think
he should be doing his duty if he accepted bail
under such circumstances, and he should decline
to do so.