The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-14 00:00:00

THAMES.

GREASE AND BUTTER.—John Nilewold, a Dutchman,
aged 41, of No. 4, Elphick-terrace, Devon's-road, Bromley,
a commission agent, was brought before Mr. Paget on a
warrant, charged with obtaining money by false pretences.
Mr. Robert Harris, a grocer and cheesemonger, of No. 52,
Sussex-street, Poplar, said that on the 29th of September
last the prisoner and another man came into his shop with
a tub of butter, which they offered to sell. The prisoner,
who carried the keg, said the butter was first class. He
tried it with a taster about six inches down. The butter
was very nice on the top, and he agreed to purchase it for
£1 17s. 3d. He was indebted to the other man, Mr. Cooper,
3s. 9d., and he paid the prisoner £2 ls. He afterwards
found the keg of butter with the exception of six or seven
inches at the top to be nothing but cart grease.
Mr. Paget asked the witness if ho was brought up to
the trade of a cheesemongor and buttorman.
Mr. Harris said ho was not, he was by trade a shipwright.
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The prisoner, in broken English, said that the butter
was adulterated in Holland, and that when the fraud was
discovered, "Mr. Harris makos up von row about the
grease and the butter, which he offered to change for
Mynheor."

The prosecutor said the stuff had been made up here;
more than two-thirds of the cask was stinking grease—it
was veneered butter, a little good butter at the top, and
grease under it.

A sample of the grease was produced. The odour was
very offensive, and Mr. Paget wisely motioned with his
hand to keep it away from the bench.
The prosecutor was recalled, and said the prisoner agreed
to take back the butter and grease and give him other
butter, but, as ho had not kept his word, he obtained a
warrant against him.

Mr. Paget said the prosecutor treated the matter as a
civil contract, nothing more, until he found he could not
obtain payment for the rubbish, and then asked for a war-
rant. He could not treat this as a criminal offence. He
discharged the prisoner.
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CHARGE OF 31ANSLAtiGHTER.—Thomas Ford, jun., pipe -
maker, White Horse-street, Stepney, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with killing a boy named Noah Wye,
aged 13 years, in Ferry-road, Isle of Dogs, Poplar.
George Pullen, a police sergeant, 10 K, stated that yes-
terday afternoon the prisoner came to him and said he had
unfortunately run down a boy with his horse and cut in
the Westferry-road, Millwall, and that he wished to sur-
render himself and have a proper inquiry made. He asked
the prisoner how the affair happened, and he said he was
driving his horse and cart along the Westferry-road at a
moderate pace, and the boy came into the road, walking
backwards with his hands extended like a man rowing a
boat, and he fell under the cart-wheel on his back. He
believed the occurrence was purely accidental, and that the
prisoner was driving carefully and at a moderate pace.
Mr. Paget asked if information had bean forwarded to
the coroner of the district ?
Pullen said that had been done.

Mr. Paget said ho would tako bail for the prisoner's
appearance a week hence.

Bail was immediately tendered for the prisoner, whose
family are highly respectable. Tho bail was accepted and
he was liberated.

WESTMINSTER.

UNSUPPORTED CHARGE OF FELONY.—Charlotte Breeze,
a decently dressed woman, was charged with stealing £l5
in gold and silver, and a box, from Keppel-street, Chelsea.

Joseph Butt, proprietor of the beer-house, 17, Keppel-
street, Chelsea, said that the prisoner and her husband
lodged in his house for eight months. On Monday after-
noon his brewer came with some beer at two o'clock. At
half-past one o'clock the money in question was safe in a
box in his bedroom, and the door of the room was locked.
At a little before two the prisoner left the house, and in
half an hour prosecutor went up stairs to look for his
brewer's book, and found the door broken open ;
the box and all the money was gone. From in-
formation he received from his son, who saw
prisoner leave the house with a large box under her arm,