The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTHWARK.—Thomas Holland, a carpenter and
box maker, residing in Meetinghouse-court, Gainsford-
street,
appeared before Mr. a'Beckett, on a warrant,
charging him with committing a violent and brutal
assault upon Amy Holland, his wife, a middle-aged
female, far advanced in pregnancy.
The complainant, a very decent and hardworking-
looking-female, on being sworn, gave the following
evidence with great reluctance. She stated that she had
been married to the defendant about five years, and had
three children living, which she assisted to maintain ;
and there was every prospect of. her being delivered of
another in the course of 24 hours.. Within the last
twelve months he had been much in the habit of drinking
which caused her to remonstrate with him on account
of the children, but he not only abused her, but some-
times struck her with great violence. On Monday
week, the 21st inst., he came home and abused her,
when she tried to get out of his way, but he caught
hold of her by the throat and pulled her down. He then
kicked her on the abdomen, which rendered her insen-
sensible for some time ; in fact, it was expected that
premature labour would have come on. His threats
afterwards were so violent that she was compelled to
come to this court at last for protection, but now she
bad no wish to be hard with him, if he promised to treat
her better for the future.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said his wife's
tongue was always going, and she aggravated him to
strike her. He, however, had no recollection of kicking
her. She quarrelled with him on family affairs, and he
told her to hold her tongue.
The complainant said she never quarrelled with him
all she requested of him was to keep sober and attend to
his family.
Mr. A'Beckett told him be was a cruel, brutal fellow.
He was not contented with beating her, but he must kick
her when in a delicate state, and likely, to sustain a seri-
ous injury. He should not be doing his duty to the pub-
lic unless he committed him to the House of Correction
for three months, with hard labour.
William Warren, aged 50, a porter, of 4, gancheater-
street, Bethnal-green, was charged with indecently ex-
posing his person to Caroline Moore, a little girl about
13 years of age, residing at Ben Jonson•square, Stepney.
According to the evidence of the chill, who exhibited
considerable intelligence, she met the prisoner in White-
Horse-lane on the previous day. He asked her if ever
she took any beer, to which she replied in the negative.
He proposed to take her to the Victoria-park. When
they got into the Mile-end-road, at a secluded place, he
exposed himself.
Police-constable 160 K stated that about half-past 3on
the previous day he saw the prisoner, who was drunk,
dragging the child along, in the direction of theVictoria-
park. The zhild was crying,. and when he (witness) in-
terfered, the prisoner said she was his own little girl.
On questioning her, however, she denied it. She said
she lived at Ben Jonson-square, and that the prisoner
promised her a shilling to go along with him to the Vic-
toria-park, but she refused, and he dragged her along.
Mr. Parker, one of the ushers of the court, stated that
he saw the prisoner about twelve o'clock on the morning
of the same day dodging two pretty little Jew girls out
of the Mile-end-road into Fieldgate•street. Their ages
appeared to be from nine to twelve years. He was par-
ticularly struck by the manner of the prisoner, and would
have continued to watch his movements, but that his
attendanc was required at the court.
The ruffian was sentened to three months' hard labour.

LAMBETH.—Byorder of the Commissioners of Police,
Mr. George .Rhodes, proprietor of the Mechanics' Arms
beer-house, in the Waterloo-road, was summoned for un-
lawfully opening his house for the sale of beer before the
hour of 1 o'clock on Sunday, the 20th inst., the same not
being for the refreshment a ,travgllers.A second sum-
mons was for unlawfully opening his house on the same
day, and for the same purpose, between the hours, of
half past two and six o'clock in the evening. The de-
fendant sent his wife to answer to the summonses.

Sergeant Harmsworth, of the L division of police, de-
posed that on Sunday, the 20th inst.. at half-past 11
o'clock, he, accompanied by a constable, went to the
Mechanics' Arms beer-house, in the Waterloo-road, and
upon obtaining admittance, he found no less than 75
customers. Of these numbers, 29 were in front of the
bar, 31 in the yard, and 15 in a room up-stairs. Some
said they were lodgers, though there was not accommo-
dation in the house for a tithe of those who said so, and
the others asserted that they were travellers. They ap-
peared to be mostly stonemasons. Had no doubt they
had been served with beer. The counter was filled with
frothy beer, and the measures had all the appearance of
having had fresh beer in them. Indeed, Mrs. Rhodes
did not deny the fact herself of having served the party
with beer. At half-past three o'clock on the same af-
ternoon he again visited the house of the defendant, and
on being admitted found three persons at the bar, seven
in the yard, and tour in the tap-room, all of whom said
they were lodgers. All. these people had evidently been
served with beer, from the appearance of the place.
Police constable Reville, 125 L, corroborated the
statements of the last witness.
Mrs. Rhodes, in reply, said that in the forenoon a
knock was given at the door, and upon its having been
opened a large crowd of persons rushed in and closed
the door after them. They then demanded beer, say-
ing they were travellers, and as such were entitled to
refreshments, and if not served they should help them-
selves. Her husband was absent at the time. She, in
terror of them as much as anything else, drew beer for
them. In the afternoon the partie4 repre'ented them-
selves as traveller,, and as such she thought she was
bound to serve them.

Reville, the constable, here said the parties had not
entered the house in a body as had-been represented,
but in batches of four, five, and six at a time, and this
was done with much caution,

Mr. Norton—For my own part I should have thought
that if the former act required any amendment it would
have been accomplished by closing all licensed houses at
11 o'clock on the Sunday night, which would be early
enough. The present act cannot, in my opinion, last,
for the time of opening, from one until half past two, is
not long enough for a publican to serve his customers
and clear his house, and therefore I feel confident it
must be repealed ; and, indeed, I feel much surprised
the public did not oppose the passing of such an act.
With respect to the much canvassed question as to who
are travellers and who are not, it is my opinion that a
person going from the east end of the town to the west
is as much a traveller, and as such as much entitled to
refreshments as the person going to Hampstead or
Richmond—indeed, they are more entitled, for in one
case the people go on business, and the other (the latter)
for pleasure.
A. publican, who has a house in the vicinity of the
Waterloo-station, said it was perfectly distressing to hear
the lamentations and entreaties of those arriving by the
excursion and other trains after 10 o'clock on the Sunday
night, to be served with a glass of ale or a pint of beer,
an f nearly as distressing to be obliged to refuse them.
On last Sunday night he sat outside the door, when a
lady and gentleman came up to him, and the former
almost implored him to give her a glass of ale. He was
obliged to refuse her, but it went to his heart to do so,
particularly in the state she was in—far advanced in
pregnancy—but he knew if he did so an information
would be laid against him, as a policeman was in sight.
Mr. Norton did not think that if an information was
laid, a magistrate would, under the circumstances,
convict.

The publican, in continuation, said that much difficulty
existed with respect to serving travellers. The onus
rested on the publican to prove that the person served
was a traveller, yet it was not one case in a hundred
that they could produce them.
Mr.. Norton admitted that there was some force in
this, and that the terms of the act were by uo means
satisfactory.
The defendant was convicted In a penalty of 40s. and
costs.

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BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS.—On Sabbath last two per-
sons resident in Cupar had occasion to travel to the.
country for a distance of about 14 ued and
hungry, they called at a village inn and aaata for dinner.
The hostess replied that there was no admittance on Sab-
bath. The travellers represented their plight to her, and
explained in vain, that it was perfectly legal to provide
persons in their circumstances with refresment on that
day. She maintained her ground, however, and remarked
to them, "Ye can carry butter and bread in yere
pouches." They still peristed, and she served them at
the window with a couple of biscuits, refusing payment
for them because, as she said, " We're no allowed to sell
onything on Sabbath."—North British Mail.
THE CENSOR IN Russia.—A, copy of the Indepen-
'lance Beige of June
the careful 27, which had been subjected to
inspection of the Russian police authorities,
was recently exhibited in the Exchange News-room at
Liverpool, where it excited considerable interest. greater portion of the " Revue Politique " and the The En-
glish and French news was carefully blotted out ; the
censor commencing and ending his erasures without the '
slightest reference to Hansa —sometimes in the middle of
an article, and in other places only obliterating an odd
word or line.—Liverpool Chronicle.
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MURDER OF AN INFANT.

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court, in consequence of its having become g,nerally
known that a female was .in custody for the heinous
offence of having brutally murdered an infant entrusted
to her care.
After the disposal of several minor cases, the prisoner
was brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Long.
Her name was entered upon the police sheet, " Sophia
Knight."
Julia Barnes said--I am a married woman, and reside
at No. 10, Praed-street, Paddington. The prisoner
lives in the same house, and occupies the back kitchen.
Last night, at a quarter to eleven, I was in the yard,
and heard the prisoner make use of abusive and shameful
language, but I knew not then towards whom it was
directed. I looked through her window and saw her
ill-using the baby.
Mr. Long—You mean the baby whom she is charged
with having killed ?
Witness—Yes, sir ; it is a nurse child —a boy.
Mary Anne Cook—l lodge at No. 10, Praed-street.
Mrs. Barnes came to me, and I went with her to the
back window looking into the kitchen. I saw the pri-
soner strike the baby twice, very-hard indeed.
Prisoner—Can you swear that you ever knew me to
be unkind to the baby ?
Witness—l have heard you use bad language towards
it, and you have many times said that you wished it was
dead.

Mr. Lawrence Ormerod, surgeon at the St. Mary's
Hospital, Paddington, said he found that the child was
bleeding from the mouth and nose. It was in a miser-
ably emaciated state. It had a bruise on the left side
of the mouth. It was dead when I saw it.

Mr. Long told the prisoner, who had nothing to say,
that she would be committed for the murder of the
child, but as another witness was necessary, and as a
coroner's inquest would be held, and a post mortem ex-
amination of the body made, she would be sent to the
House of Detention, and brought up again on Tuesday
next.