The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Henry Burton, a clerk in the office of Messrs. Worthy
and Horne, railway carriers, Regent-circus, Piccadilly,
was charged before Mr. Barker with stealing two bottles
of wine from a hamper, the property of his employers.
Mr. Alexander Harley a gentleman, residing at Becken-
ham, Kent, said—Yesterday evening, about a quarter to
six o'clock, I was walking down the Regent-circus, when
my attention was attracted to a person in the railway
office with his hand under the lid of a hamper on the floor.
I saw the prisoner, who was the person, abstract two or
three bottles from the hamper and place them behind a
board in the office. lat once went to the corner of the
Circus and called the attention of a constable to the matter,
and on returning to the place we witnessed the prisoner
tying up the hamper with a piece of string. The constable
requested me to go into the office with him, and I did so,
and stated to the officials what I had seen, and requested
him to let me look behind the board, and there I found
two bottles of wine, which I handed to the constable. The
prisoner was about to speak, but I told him I thought he
had better reserve what he had to say.

Police-constable Georgo Wood, 80 o—On being spoken
to by Mr. Harley, I went and looked through the window,
and saw the prisoner doing something to a hamper and
another man hand him a piece of string, and the prisoner
then tied up the hamper again, tying it in two places, the
man who handed him the string being on the other side of
the counter. I then went inside, asking Mr. Harley to
accompany me. Mr. Harley then stepped behind the
counter, and took the two bottles from behind a board and
handed them to me. The manager then came down into
the office, and said the prisoner had no business to open
the hamper, and I then took the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Harley—l wish to add that the principal said, "Oh,
you are caught at last," on his coming down into the
office, and being told what had occurred.
Mr. Walter Barwell, manager of the office of Messrs.
Worthy and Horne, Regent-circus, said, the prisoner was
employed in the office as assistant bookkeeper. I was
upstairs, and on coming down I found Mr. Harley and a
police constable in the office with two bottles before them.
I asked what was the matte; and Mr. Harley said he had
seen the prisoner open the hamper and take out two bottles
of wine. The bottles of wine were produced, and I then
said to the prisoner, " You are caught at last ;" my reason
for making the remark being that once before the prisoner
was caught taking a bottle out of a hamper, and on my
speaking seriously to him he said that the neck of the
bottle protruding he had taken it in to recork it.
Mr. Harley—l understand that the manlwho handed the
prisoner the piece of string is in the employ of the Great
Eastern Railway.
The prisoner said that six hampers came into the office,
and hearing one of the bottles rattle ho opened the door
to speak, but was interrupted by other business. He was
was just about to finish the job when the gentleman and
the constable walked in and charged him with stealing
the wine. The gentleman told him not to say anything,
and he did not, and was afterwards locked up.
Mr. Barker—l shall remand the prisoner, and my own
opinion is that the other man ought to be here.

Hr. Harley—l have come forward solely on public
grounds, feeling it my duty to do so being connected with
several railways.

Mr. Barker refused bail,

CRUELTY—A QUEER DEFENCE.—WiIIiam Pike, of Ed-
wins-road, Park-road, Old Kent-road, was charged by Mr.
William Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a horse, by working it
while in a totally unfit state.

Rutherford, officer of the society, proved seeing the de-
fendant driving a horse, attached to a cart, in Regent-
street. The defendant was jerking the reins and flogging
the horse to get it along. On examining the horse he
found it was dead lame in one of the forelegs through a
diseased fetlock joint, and that it was only able to use three
legs. It was trembling from pain, and the sweat was
dropping off it. On asking the defendant why he worked
the horse, he said, Oh, he can do it. It won't hurt him.
He's been lame some time, but it's a case of necessity, and
I was obliged to bring him out." The horse was totally
unfit for work.

The defendant said he worked for a laundress, and the
linen had to go home.
The magistrate said the horse was not to be ill-treated
because persons wanted their linen.
The defendant was fined Ios., or seven days.