The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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instance of David Lloyd, one of the members, for unlaw-
fully excluding him, in the time of sickness, from the
said society.
The complainant stated that he had been a member of
the "Ancient Britons Benefit Society" for a period of
nearly 20 years ; that a few weeks ago, owing to serious
indisposition, he made application to the. stewatdp and
had the usual allowance granted to sick members. His
allowance, however, was suddenly stopped on the 17th
ult., although he was not convalescent, and he was ulti-
mately expelled, and the reason assigned for it was, that
he infringed a clause in 'their rules, by doing some work
in his house. He added that he disputed their autho-
rity to act as they had done, and accordingly summoned
them to show cause why they had excluded a member
who had been paying money into the society for so many
years.
Williani Lloyd was then sworn, and he stated thht he
was a member of the same society, and that on the 17th
ult. he called on the complainant, and found him in the
act of sawing some wood, intended for firewood, a qua,n-
tity of whioh he liad for sale in his shop. He (witness)
told complainant that he should report him to the trus-
tees, in order that his sick money should be stopped,
and the reply was that he had not infringed the rules.,of
the society. _ _

The complainant stated that he was wholly incapable
of doing work at the time mentioned, and that he was
only showing his wife the way to cut up some wood to
light their own fire, when the last witness entered the
house and saw him do it.

The witness said that there were several blocks of
wood by the side of the complainant, ready to be cut up,
and that a considerable quantity was in the same place,
and also in _the shop, tied up in bundles as firewood...He
added that if was absurd to suppose that the complainant
was only showing his wife how to cut the wood, for, in
fact, he was at work himself, and the rules specified that
if any sick member was 'discovered "at work, or em-
ployed in any pecuniary way," he forfeited all benefit
from the society.
Mr. Combe said, that under these circumstances he
could make no order on the society, and therefore dis-
missed the summons.

HAMMERSMITH.—A tall fellow, named John
Baker, was charged with burglariously entering the
dwelling-house of Miss Frances Maria Kelly, late of the
Soho Theatre, at No. 30, Moscow-road, Paddington.
It appeared from the evidence of Miss Kelly and
several other witnesses that on Tuesday night the pre-
mises were secured in the usual manner by a young
lady named Mary Grevill, the prosecutrix's companion,
and they retired to rest about 12 o'clock. They both
slept in one bed, and about half-past two o'clock that
morning Miss Kelly was suddenly awoke by the barking
of her dog, which was in the habit of sleeping upon the
landing outside her .bedroom door. She also heard a
scuffling noise, as if some person had dropped some
things upon the floor near her door. She immediately
awoke her companion, who got out of bed, and lighted
a candle from the night lamp upon the toilet. After
hastily dressing herself, Miss Grevill proceeded to a
small dressing-room adjoining their apartment, and was
alarmed by seeing the figure of a man, resembling the
prisoner, standing in the dressing-room. She exclaimed
" A. man, a man," and made an involuntary movement
with her arm, which caused the candle to fall out of the
stick, and the light was then extinguished. She ran
back to Miss Kelly's bedroom and fastened the door.
They each opened a window and screamed loudly for
assistance.

Pain No. 235 C, who was on duty in the Moscow-
road, heard the cries and hastened to the rear of Miss
Kelly's house. He got upon a wall and saw the pri-
soner come from the direction of the back door of Miss
Kelly's house and climb over a high wall adjoining a
field leading to Westbourne-grove. The prisoner ran
across the field, and he was next seen by police-constable
No. 271 C, who heard Pain say " Look out." The
second officer then apprehended the prisoner. The
house Was found to be in great confusion, and the pri-
soner had burned a number of papers of a documentary
character, and only valuable to the owner, for no other
reason, as it appeared, than to obtain a light during his
operations.
Remanded.