The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

JACKSON.

This was an action to recover damages alleged to have
been sustained by plaintiff, who describes himself as Pro-
fessor Fairfield, in consequence of his box of medicines
being upset on Holborn-hill by defendant's cab.
Plaintiff stated that he was an herb doctor, and a few
days ago his boy was on Holbon-hill with a box of medi-
cines on a truck. The driver of defendant's cab came
along and negligently knocking against the truck, turned
the box into the road, the result being that all the drugs
were spoilt.

His Honour asked if plaintiff had a list of the items, and
plaintiff produced some papers which caused considerable
merriment in Court. The list of pills and bottles was of
itself sufficient to provoke laughter, and more so that
the plaintiff said it was very wet on the day
of the accident, and the pills were all spoilt. One of the
items was a bottle containing worms ; and plaintiff said no
doubt it appeared very funny, but both bottle and worms
cost time and money. The bottle was broken and the
worms lost.

Defendant's driver denied that he had caused the da-
mage, but, after the evidence of a police sergeant, his
Honour found a verdict for the plaintiff for a less sum than
was originally claimed.
Verdict for the plaintiff.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET„

ROBBERIES AT
,COFFEE-HOUSES.—Johnm Wieland, a re-
spectably-dressed an, was charged with stealing some
jewellery and wearing apparel, of the value of £2O,
the property of Mr. Robert Wren, coffee-house keeper, of
No. 30, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital.

From the evidence, it appeared that on the night of the
4th inst. the prisoner took lodgings at Mr. Wren's, and
left the following morning. Shortly after he left Mr.
Wren missed from a room on the second floor, neat that in
which the prisoner slept, a quantity of jewellery and wear-
ing apparel, of the value of £2O. Nothing was heard of
the prisoner till several mornings after, when Morrow, 135
E, met him in the Euston-road with a black leather bag in
his hand. Ile asked tho prisoner where he got the bag
from, and, not being satisfied with his answers, took him
to the station, when a number of duplicates, some of them
relating to property belonging to Mr. Wren, were found in
his possession.

Inspector Garforth, E division, asked for a remand,
stating that there were several other cases against the pri-
soner for robbing coffee-house keepers in different parts of
London under exactly similar circumstances.

The prisoner, who is said to be respectably connected.
was remanded till Wednesday.

THAMES.

STEALING COFFEE IN THE ST. KATHERINE DOCK.—Thos
Hunt, a labourer, who appeared to be in very good condi-
tion, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing
191 b. of raw coffee, the property of the London and St.
Katherine Dock Company.
Thomas Foreland, a dock constable, stated that the pri-

soner was leaving the St. Katherine-dock at the Nightin•
gale-lane gateway this morning, and he thought he was
more bulky than he ought to be. lie stopped the prisoner
and searched him, and found coffee secreted about his legs,
arms, and body—in fact, the prisoner was coffee all over,
and the concealment was very artfully arranged. The
witness then produced a bag containing 191 b. of clean
coffee, and, in answer to questions by the magistrate, said
that the prisoner told him he found the coffee on the deck
of a ship. He believed that the coffee came out of one of
the warehouses in the dock.

Mr. J. P. Mumford, superintendent of the Dock Company's
own police, said that 161bs. of coffee were found concealed
on another man as he was leaving the Dock on Monday,
and he was convicted of the offence.

The prisoner said he was starving, and had a wife and
family to maintain. He was in want of bread, and his
children were in a sad condition.

Mr. Paget believed the prisoner was a regular thief.
Ho convicted him of tho unlawful possession of the coffee,
and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment and hard
labour.

SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER.- -Thomas Aldridge, about
27 years of age, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged
with unlawfully aiding and abetting in the concealment of
the birth of a male child, suspected to have been murdered
by its mother, Mary Palmer, alias Gillings, late servant at
the house of Mr. Watts, the White Swan Tavern, at the,
corner of the Commercial-road and White Horse-street,
near the Stepney railway station.
It appeared from the statement of Chandler, a police
constable, 117 11, that the body of a male child was found
in the house, 19, White Bear-court, Leman-street, White-
chapel. It was left there in the form of a parcel, and wrapt
in paper. Chandler discovered that a woman—Mary Palmer,
alias Gillings, who had been for a long time servant at the
White Swan—had given birth to the child. She is a single
woman. A medical gentleman named Budgett was of
opinion the,child was suffocated. Palmer was arrested on
Tuesday night,and is under police surveillance of the work-
house in Ratcliff. Tho prisoner was manager at the White
Swan. He called upon a woman named Elizabeth Chap-
man yesterday morning, and requested her to fetch some
dirty linen from the White Swan. He pointed out the
linen to her. The things were in water and in a pail and
a foot pan. The water was discoloured with blood. He
said Mary had given birth to a baby, and he was very much
upset. Mrs. Chapman took the clothes away.
In answer to Mr. Charles Young, the witness said the
prisoner observed to her "A very shocking affair has hap-
pened since Mary was speaking to you last night."
The prisoner was remanded for a week.