The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— Sept. 13.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The man who had given
the name, supposed to be fictitious, of John Fenne,
calling himself a " professional gambler," and whose
real name is said to be Murray, underwent a fur-
ther examination before the Lord Mayor, on the
charge of being in the unlawful possession of a
stolen £lO Bank of England note.
It may be recollected that on Thursday week the
prisoner entered the shop of Mr. Haas, a money
changer, in Fenchurch-street, and exchanged £75
in Bank of England notes for an equivalent sum in
French, Belgian, and German money, going imme-
diately afterwards to a dining-room in Nicholas-
lane, to which he was watched, without his know-
ing it, by an errand boy of Mr. Haas. The prisoner
had written on one of the notes, " Monsr. Fenne,
14, Peacock-terrace, Victoria Park," as his name
and address. As soon as he left the shop the £75 in
notes were taken to the Bank of England to be
changed for gold, the manner of the prisoner hav-
ing excited suspicion, and there one of them for £lO
was recognised as a stolen note. He was traced to
the dining-room referred to, and asked from whom
he received it. He said he was a professional
gambler, and had won it, though he could not say
from whom, at a gaming table at Baden-Baden,
from which place he had just come. Failing to
give a satisfactory account of himself he was taken
into custody, and on being searched at the Bow-lane
police station a very considerable sum in French,
German, and other money was found upon him, to-
gether with a gold ring, set with diamonde, a dia-
mond pin, and a gold watch and chain. The foreign
money found upon him was much larger in amount
than the sum he had received ut Mr. Haas' shop,
and a son of the latter thought the priso-
ner had called there earlier in the day and ex-
changed some English money for foreign money.
At the station he gave an address in Russell-ter-
race, Old Kent-road, though he had only an hour
before, when at the shop of Mr. Haas, written on
one of the notes, " 14, Peacock-terrace, Victoria
Park." On inquiry it was found he had only re-
sided at the house indicated in Russell•terrace since
the previous Saturday, and that there was no such
place as Peacock-terrace, Victoria Park.
The note stopped at the Bank of England was
identified as one of those for £lO each, which with
£l9 in gold, had been stolen from the pocket of a
widow lady named Blackburn, residing at Poun-
derson's-place, Bethnal-green-road, while she was
transacting business at the counter of Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Co.'s bank, on the 15th of August. On
the first examination of the prisoner Mrs. Black-
burn presented herself as a witness, and stated that
she had seen the prisoner somewhere before, but she
could not say where, nor would she swear she had
seen him at the bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and
Co., though to the best of her belief she did see him
there.

On this evidence the prisoner had been remanded,
and on Monday Charles Bowman, clerk to Mr.
Vaughan, pawnbroker and money changer, in the
Strand, said the prisoner called there on the 4th of
September, three times, and producing three £5O
notes and a £lO note, all four of the Bank of Eng-
land, asked to have them exchanged for Prussian
thaler notes and French money, which was done. He
had:called there twice before on that morning upon
the same business. On one of the £5O notes the
prisoner wrote bis name, with an address in Sloane-
street, Camberwell. On the £lO note he wrote his
name only, and Mr. Vaughan having asked him his
address, wrote below his name, at his dictation,
" 10, Peacock-terrace."
The £lO note, numbered 30,329, was produced in
court, cancelled by Mr. Baily, from the Bank of
England, and identified by the witness Bowman as
that which Mr. Vaughan had received from the
prisoner.
William Saunderson, clerk to Mr. Ravenhill,
stockbroker in Throgmorton-street, proved that on
the 15th of August he paid Mrs. Blackburn £135
15s. in two £5O notes, three £lO notes, one £5 note,
and 15s. in coin. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Black-
burn returned, and said she had missed the three
£lO notes, and at her request Mr. Ravenhill gave
her the numbers of them in order that she might
stop the payment of them at the Bank. Witness
identified the £lO note paid by the prisoner to Mr.
Vaughan as one of the three.
Sergeant Russell, one of the City detective
officers, in whose custody the prisoner was, applied
to have him again remanded, on the allegation that
he had reason to believe that the prisoner had been
in the unlawful possession of stolen notes of the
Bank of England to a much larger amount.
Mr. Sleigh, the prisoner's counsel, submitted that
there was really no more evidence against him than
on the previous examination, except the fact, which
was indisputable, but consistent with his innocence,
that another of the same series of notes happened
to have been in the prisoner's possession. Upon
the evidence as it stood he was at a loss to under-
stand how the prisoner could be longer detained in
custody. He was charged with having a £lO note,
knowing it to be stolen. The fact that immediately
after he changed the £75 in bank-notes at a bullion
merchant's office, he repaired to a dining-room
close by, was inconsistent with the idea of guilty
knowledge. Then, again, only one note out of
those composing the £75 was detained at the Bank.
Was it not more than probable that if the prisoner
had been in possession of the note in question with
a guilty knowledge, instead of changing it in Lon-
don he would have taken it abroad, whither he was
going, and where he would have had many op-
portunities of passing it ?
The Lord Mayor, interposing, said the prisoner
was found in the possession of two stolen £lO bank-
notes, and he must purge himself of the suspicion
in which his conduct had involved him before he
could be set free. Besides, Mrs. Blackburn said, to
the best of her belief, though he could not swear,
the prisoner was in the bank of Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Co., when she was robbed. When
called on to explain to the police officers how he
came by the £lO note he had paid to Mr. Haas, he
behaved in an extraordinary manner. The very
fact of his being in possession of the stolen note,
with other suspicious circumstances which had not
been explained, would justify his being again re-
manded, putting out of view, for the moment, the
statement of the officer, Russell, that he should
have to charge him with another offence.
Mr. Sleigh said if the only point pressing on the
mind of the Court was that the evidence of Mrs.
Blackburn rent to create the impression that the
prisoner was in the bank when she missed her
money, he could prove that at that very time he
was abroad.

ne Lord Mayor said if that were proved he
should be satisfied that the prisoner was not the
thief, but there would still be the question whether
he was not in possession of the notes with a guilty
knowledge. He remanded the prisoner for a week,
and peremptorily refused to entertain an applica-
tion to admit him to bail.

BOW-STREET.—TuE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYS-
TEM.—A middle-aged, careworn, sickly-looking
man, named George 111Wougall, a Scotchman, was
charged with baying revoked his licence as a ticket-
of-leave man by subsequent misconduct. He \vas
in 1858 sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, for
burglary, but at the end of May, 1860, was set at
liberty on a ticket of leave, and returned and lived
with his wife and family in Scotland. A few days
ago he got embroiled in a drunken disturbance in
the streets of Edinburgh, and being taken before
the justices, he was fined 10s. for breach of the
peace, and a communication having been sent by
them to the Home Secretary, the usual order was
issued for the apprehension of the prisoner and his
re-committal to the convict prison to fulfil the re-
mainder of his sentence in penal servitude. Al-
though in dreadfully ill-health, and in consumption,
the prisoner has been brought from Edinburgh by
a warrant officer from Bow-street.
The convict said he was so ill that he hoped the
magistrate would allow him medical aid at once_
Since he had had his liberty, in 1860, no • omplaint
was made against him till he had the misfortune to
have this bit of a family broil. Not content with
fining him 10s., he, a dying man almost, had been
dragged from his home, and was to be sent back to
a convict prison for eight years, if he lived. He
thought it a very hard case.
Mr. Cerrie said be thought so too, but he was
bound to administer the law, and the order was
then made out for the re-admission of the prisoner
to a convict gaol.

CLERKENWELL.—THE LATE ATTEMPTED
MURDER OF A CONSTABLE, AND BURGLARY.
at
.the
—Esther Coleman, aged 14,
White Swan public-house, Katc-street, Spital-
House, on
fields, was charged with having in her possession
residing
an ivory ornament, stolen from the dwelling-house
of Charles Newton, Mg., Harrieghay
the 3d September, at Hornsey..
Police- sergeant Thomas Harris,.7 H, said—From
information I received, I went this morning about
two o'clock to the White Sean public-house, kept
by the prisoner's mother. When I saw the pri-
soner I asked her where the ornament was that was
like an egg. She replied 1 have no ornament. I
said, " Yes, you have, you had better go and get
IL I was behind the bar with the prisoner, and
she then went to a drawer inside the bar, and took
out the ivory bo% produced, and gave it to me. I
said, " Who did
you receive it from ?" She said
she did not 'wow) but it Was from a man. She

afterwards said she received it from a man of the
name of Bell (the man who is committed from this
court for the attempted murder of the constable,
and the burglary, in the name of Green), who is in
custody. I then took her to the police-station. I
also apprehended a man at the same public-house
for being concerned in the same robbery, and also
for the burglary at Burnette's, the rectifiers, at
Enfield Chase. That man was taken to the Spital-
square police-station, and placed in custody in the
reserve room, but through some negligence he con-
trived to make his escape.
The prisoner said she did not tell the sergeant
that the man was under remand, for the first she
knew of it was reading the account in the news-
papers. The man in custody had been a lodger in
her mother's house for about three weeks, and he
gave her the toy on Thursday.
Police-constable Kenwood, 194 H, said—As I
was riding in the cab with the prisoner to the po-
lice-station, she said, " I will tell you the truth.
The man you took into custody, but who has made
his escape, first had the ornament and wanted to
give it to another little girl, but Bell said no, I
shall not give it to her. ; I shall give it to Esther."
I I said, " What Bell do you mean ?" She
said, " The man that is in custody and
is remanded. There are other peope who
know more about it than I do. There is a girl that
has pledged some silk."
Sarah Ann Dickson identified the property pro-
duced as her mistress's, and said it was stolen
on the night of the 2d inst.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner until Thurs-
day, next, and agreed to take bail, two sureties in
the sum of £lO each.
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT AND ROBBERY OF
PRECIOUS STONES BY A SERVANT.—CharIes Norton,
described as a clerk, was charged with embezzling
several sums of money received by him for and on
account of his employers, Messrs. S. Ochs, im -
porters of foreign stones, 83, Hatton-garden. He
was further charged with steaiing some cameos and
precious stones, also the property of his masters.
The complainant stated that the prisoner had
been in his service as clerk between six and seven
years. He decamped on Saturday the 23d August,
and he did not see him again until this•week,when
he saw him at Ryde, Isle of Wight. When he had
gone he missed some property, and found that the
prisoner had embezzled some money. From what
he heard he went to Ryde, and at No. 2, Colonade-
square, saw the prisoner in the shop. He went in
and gave the prisoner into custody. He found in
the shop some cameos and enamels which were his
property. The property the prisoner had stolen
was worth about £2OO.

Police sergeant Wooton, 401 A, said that from
information he received he went to Ryde, and found
the prisoner there. He said to the prisoner" Your
name is Norton," and he made no reply. He then
charged him with embezzling money, and also with
stealing a quantity of his masters' goods. He told
him the amount he was charged with embezzling,
and the prisoner said it was not so much. The pri-
soner afterwards told him that almost all the things
in the shop belonged to the prosecutor. He seized
and brought to London about £3OO worth of the
property. When he took the prisoner into custody
he found on him a bottle of poison which the pri-
soned tried to take but was prevented. He took the
prisoner into custody on Wednesday, and the pri-
soner, who says he wishes to die, had not taken
food since. He wishes for a remand, to enable him
to produce the necessary witnesses.
The prisoner, who appeared in a weak, dejected
state, said he did not wish to ask the witnesses any
questions or to make any defence at present.
Mr. Barker remanded the prisoner until Wed-
nesday next.
COMMITTAL OF A SHAM POLICEMAN FOR OBTAIN-
ING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—Evan
Dowell, a waiter out of employ, residing at 7, Berk-
ley.court, Berkley-street, Clerkenwell, was charged
with feloniously representing himself to be a con-
stable of the Metropolitan Police, and also with
obtaining 2s. from Mrs. Donovan, the wife of a
bricklayer of Peter's-lane, St. John-street, Smith-
field.

Mr. John Wakeling appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared from the evidence of the complainant
that about six weeks since she had a silk dress
stolen from her apartment, and gave information of
her loss at the Bagnigge-wells Police station. She
then went into a publichouse, and meeting a friend,
told her over a drop of gin what she had done. The
prisoner, who was standing near, overheard the con-
versation, and said, "I am a detective. You have
gone to the wrong police station. You should have
gone to Old-street, to which I am attached ; but
never mind, I will take a description of your dross,
and do my best to get it for you. She gave him a
description and some beer, and he went away. A
few days afterwards he came to her, and said that
he had found that her dress was pawned in the
Blackfriars-road, but that he was so ill that he must
ride there, and asked for and obtained 2s. from her
for that purpose. He told her that she must go
with him to identify the dress; but when she was
in the street he said "your husband might as well
come with us; go and fetch him." She went back
for that purpose, and then the prisoner decamped.
When the prisoner was in custody he gave the pro-
secutrix the 2s. back, and asked her not to prose-
cute.

Police-contable Fowell, 425 A, said the prisoner
had before been in custody and sentenced to six
months' hard labour for a similar offence. _

Mr. Wakeling said he hoped the magistrate
would deal with this case under the Police Act, and
not put the county to expense by sending the, pri-
soner for trial.
The magistrate said it was a serious charge, and
fully committed the prisoner to the Middlesex Sea-
sions for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A
WIFE AT PADDINGTON.—ILLNESS OF THE PRI..
SONER.—Saturday morning was fixed for the re-
examination of the man John Barkley, for the
attempted murder of his wife, Eliza Barkley, in
Stanley-street, Paddington-street, by shooting her
with a pistol. A crowd collected round the court
to see the prisoner brought up in the van, but they
were doomed to disappointment, as Mr. Freeman,
the sergeant of the van, placed in the hands of Mr.
Yardley the following certificate :
" House of Detention, Clerkenwell, E.C., Sept.
12.—1 certify that John Barkley is suffering from
a severe attack of rheumatism, and is unfit to leave
this prison at present.
" W. SMILES, M,D."

Mr. Yardley ordered another remand.
The injured woman is not yet considered out of
danger, on account of the close proximity of the
wound to the lungs.
AN AREA SNEAK.—DESPERATE ENCOUNTER,
WITH A POLICEMAN.—James Algar, a tall, power-
ful fellow, aged 30, described as a gas-fitter, but
who refused to state where he lived, was placed at
the bar, before Mr. Yardley, charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances :
Perry, 217 D, deposed that he was taking charge
of a house in Connaught-square, and that on the
same morning, at eleven o'clock, he saw the pri-
soner and another man go down several areas,
and afterwards make their egress. He watched
them down Porchester-place, when the prisoner
went down another area, his companion remaining
outside at the time. Upon seeing him (witness)
they both ran off, when he (witness) pursued them,
and after a long race the prisoner was taken into
custody, when he gave witness a tremendous blow
on the chest. A struggle hereupon ensued, and
prisoner seizing hold of witness by the throat,
threw him with great force to the ground. The
other man effected his escape. At one of the
houses where they were perceived in the area they
made the excuse that they had come to buy bottles.
At the station-house prisoner was searched, and in
his possession were found three skeleton keys.
Mr. Yardley asked if prisoner was known.
The officer said he was not prepared at present to
show that he had ever been in custody before, but
had no doubt that on another day it Would be shown
that he was a well-practised thief.
Prisoner was remanded for inquiries to be made
about him.

LAMBETH.--RAILWAY STATION ROBBERIES.
—John Wallace, a young fellow, who refused to
give any account of himself beyond saying that he
had just come from Manchester to see the Exhibi-
tion, was plaeed in the dock before Mr. Elliott on
a charge of picking the pocket of Miss Elizabeth
Anna Taylor, of Myddelton-road, Dalston, on the
platform of the down trains at the Waterloo Sta-
tion, of her purse, containing about 7s. in silver
and two return railway tickets.
From the evidence it appeared that the young
lady accompanied by her father, went to the Water-
loo Station to see a friend off by the mail train to
Southampton, and just us the train was in
motion she found the prisoner's hand in her pocket.
She at once charged him with having her purse,
upon which he walked away, and the lady having
told her father of the robbery, he followed him.
The prisoner being thus pursued, started through the
engine-shed, and jumped from a turntable 15 feet
high, but was overtaken by Franklin, one of the
railway officials, who had a struggle with him
extending twenty-seven yards, during which
Franklin oaw the purse in his :left hand. While
this struggle continued the prisoner said, " It is
not me, it is my brother, who has gone that
way," and at the same moment he flung the pur6o
into Mr. Gammon's stone-yard, where it was sub-
sequently found.
Mr. Bent, who attended from the railway to pro-
secute the case, said that on the night before the pri-
soner's excuse for being at the station Was that he
had been to see his brother off by the Exeter mail,

but, unfortutLatelY
.....
for him, the re was rto Exeter
mail started frb.m there; and in Ihis fliglif. „ from de-
tention it was aln.lost a miracle b.c was not dashed
to pieces.
The prisoner plcauled guilty to the offerce, and
was committed to six months' hard lal your.
PLUCKING FLOWERS IN ,THE PLEASt THE-GROUNDS
OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE.-
-Henry Fulford and
Charlotte Curtis, well-dressed ai; d resvectable-look-
in g persons, were charged with pluckint -.; dahlias and
other choice flowers in the Crystal F Rim ' gardens.
The charge was proved be Mr. Page, k -me of the
gardener's,
w Ilo• said he saw both of th era pluck
-
flowers, andin consequence he gave theta into CUs."
tody.
pi eaded guilty, and expressed much
The prisoners
contrition for what they said was an act of thc.ught-
lessness.
themselves and their con-
duct. Mr. Elliott told the,-a that at their time of life
they should be ashamed .lf
duct. The directors of the Crystal Palace spared no
expense in providing for the gr, ttification and amuse-
;
ment of their visitors, and shot ild be protected from:
petty acts of plucking eho;ce flowers. Hoping
however that the night's imp risounaent and the dis-
grace they had brought on thomt Oyes
would act as
a caution for the future, he shou Id discharge them.
The prisoners were accordin6"}Y discharged.

SOUTHWARK.—DARIN Hlt -lIIWAY ROBBERY.
—Eliza Gannon, a young woman t tbout 20 years of
age, was brought before Mr. Combo charged with
being concerned with others not in custody in steal-
ing a silver watch, worth £3, fron a the person of
Henry Storhmann under the following daring cir-
cumstances :

The prosecutor said he was a wis,iter at Covent-
garden Theatre, which he left about half-past 12.
Between one and two in the morning he was proceed-
ing along the Borough-road on his way home, and
when near the wall of the Queen's Prison he saw
the prisoner and two other females standing in the
road. He walked on one side with the view of avoid-
ing them, when the prisoner rushed upon him and
snatched his watch from his waistcoat pocket and
broke it off at the handle. He seized hold. of her to
get it back, when two ruffianly fellows rushed upon
him and struck him in the face so that he was com-
pelled to let her go, when they all ran away. Wit-
ness, however, pursued the prisoner, and saw her
stopped by a constable, when he gave her into cus-
tody.
Mr. Combe asked him if he was sober at the time.

He replied that he was, as he had only just left
the theatre. He had spoken to no one on his way
home, and endeavoured all he could to avoid the
prisoner and her rough companions. While he
struggled with her one of the men snatched the
watch from her and ran off.

Alfred Wood, 171 M, said he was on duty in the
Borough between one and two in the morning, when
he heard cries of " Police" near the Queen's Prison.
He proceeded in that direction, and met the prisoner
running as fast as she could, followed by the pro-
secutor, calling out " Stop thief." He seized hold of
her, when he charged her with stealing his watch.
She was searched immediately, but nothing wad
found on her. .

The prisoner pleaded guilty,begging his worship
to deal with her.
Mr. Combe asked if she was known.

The constable replied in the negative.
The magistrate observed that it was a very daring
robbery, and sentenced her to six months' hard
labour.

COUNTRY 1714RKE S.

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LEICESTER-SATURDAY.

Old white wheat, 60s to 65s ; new, 5481 to 59s per 36.
stone. Old red, 57s to 61s per 36 stone. Barley, malting,
new, 3Ss to 42s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 325; old oats,
26s to 30s; new oats, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans,
new, 40s to —s ; old, 43s to —s per 38 stone.