The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Donoghue and Donov an, I- risk
tailors, were brought before the- .4ord Mayor, elm rged
with having assaulted a policeman, and the fornaer with
having stolen a policeman's hat.
The defendants were, at the hour of one o'do
morning, seen by the policeman in Duke's-plade9, fighting
a couple of bull-dogs, amidst a crowd of vagabonds of
both sexes, and the whole neighbourhood was in 3,,,tate
of the greatest alarm, many having started mut of their
beds in the belief that the whole city was on, 'Bre, for the
shouting and roaring of the multitude. compls tely
drowned the growling of the combatants- The police-
man, upon endeavouring to separate the dogs, received
the unsavoury contents of a jug which was thrown at
him by Donoghue, and Donovan assisted Donoghue in
escaping from the irritated functionary, who declare 1 that
the polecat was a nosegay to what he had. rec ,rued.
There were several other tailors at the dog-fight, a ad the
policeman would have been completely overwhe) med if
another of the force had not run to his aid, and enabled
him to get his staff from his pocket, at the flourish of
which all the trade disappeared. Donoghue, when the
complainant was on the ground, picked up Ms hat, put
It on his own head, and was scampering away when a
third policeman observed him and took him into cus.,,ody.
Donoghue said there was no dog fight, and that there
would have been no row at all if the police themselves
had not struck him. As for the hat, he had lost his
own and he picked up the one that was nearest to him,
and if it was a policeman's nobody could suspect him of
wishing to steal a thing of that kind, which would be
sure to make a fool of him. (A laugh.).
It was stated that Donovan had, in assisting his friend
to escape, administered the cross buttock, a man ceuvre
in wrestling, by which, with a sudden jerk, a person is
flung over the hip of the operator and come whack upon
the ground, with his heels in the air. ~
The Lord Mayor said that at the end of his mayoralty
he would have to declare that the most, unmanageable
people with whom his experience as chief magistrate had
made him acquainted, were those who belonged -to the
trade and mystery of the thimble, notwithstanding the
quiet and unobstrusive nature of their general _employ-
ment. (Laughter.) The moment a set of, distn.bers of
the peace were brought before him he guessed that the
majority were tailors, and he was never yet-mistaken in
the opinion.
The defendants were committed to the House of Cor-
rection, Donoghue for seven days, and Doeesaa for
three days.
John Bryant, a drunken fellow in tatters, was_,. harged
with having disturbed a neighbourhood on Saturday,
and with having insisted -upon going- to bed In the street.
A policeman said the defendant had given• a great deal
of trouble to the police, and that he had on lite parti-
cular occasion alluded to not only kept up r.. roaring
noise in the street and shoved people about, hit that he
had actually torn every stitch of clothes from bis body,
and laid himself down for the purpose of goiny t eep.
The Lord Mayor—Were there any females nt
Policeman—Certainly, my lord, a great nu.
The Lord Mayor—What is this man ?
Policeman—He is a drunken tailor, please your lord-
ship. (Laughter).

The Lord Mayor—l thought it would be nnr ec-ssary
to ask the question. (Laughter.) He must I.) for 21
days to Bridewell.

GUILDHALL.--Mary Ann 41(le:•, a your girl of
modest demeanour, but destitute appeal-::rice, was
brought before Sir 'Chhpmaia Itrarshall, charg2d with
breaking a street lamp, value is. 6d.
, John Stay, a superannuated City policemap, stated
that about a quarter-past three o'clock oni Sunday
morning the prisoner was loitering in'Skinnbr-street.
He asked what she was loitering about for,l and she
replied that she was destitute and gitatving. She had
been" at the Smithfield police station on Frid4y night,
and she was sent to the West London TJtiion.• the re-
ceived an order for admission to the Cross
House of Refuge, but was refused admittane4. From
Thursday morning until Stu May Morning she Iliad had
nothing to eat Tint a halfpenny loaf. Ild!reiiiifszed her
to go, but she said she wanted to go to prison' and she
took-up a stone and broke 'a parie of glass, thelliroPerty
of the gas company. He then took' her into i cw.tody,
and brought her to the station.
Sir Chapman Marshall asked the prisoner if; she had
any Money to pay for the pane of glass ?
The prisoner replied that she had not, and in answer
to further questions stated that she was born in. Shore-
ditch ; that neither father nor mother were liming, that
she had no friends, and that she had for some tinge been
living in the country.
Sir Chapman Marshall said he must send her t) -iSon.

Mr. POntifex, on behalf of the gas compailY, said,
they did not wish-to have her punished. They, bc!ieved
she had committed the offence from sheer destif ttion.

Sir Chapman Marshall inquired of Mr: Pon s4,fex if he
was willing to take charge of the girl, becauk, being
in so destitute a condition, :she Vonld, if 43illissed,
break some more lamps.
Mi. Pontifei said he could not undertake to tnlce care
of the prisoner.
Sir Chapman Marshall said he must therefore commit
her, that she might be taken care of. , i
Mr. Wood (the clerk) said that further p;gairies
would be instituted by the prison authorities i*Specting
her. jj
The prisoner said she would rather go`to prin.
Sir Chapman Marshall then sentenced the ptaoner to
seven days' imprisonment.
Her appearance and destitute condition excited the
greatest commiseration among all'persons in the court.
Mr. Rom,anis, hosier, of Cheapside, was stimmoned
for unlawfully detaining property under. the klowing
circumstances.

Mr. Clarke, a merchant, at present residing- at the
Queen's Hotel, said be bought six pairs of stockings at
2s. per pair at defendant's shop on the 6th of September
last, with an understanding that they were to be changed
if not approved of. They did not suit, and ht. accord-
ingly returned them on a subsequent day ;, but the
young man doubted at first if the goods were 0:s chased
there. His doubts were, however, removed on refer-
ring to the book in which they had been entered un the
day of sale. Complainant then bought other griods,
and on paying for them the young man made coit, a bill,
giving him credit for the 12s. he had paid in the first
instance, receipted it, and gave it complainatt, ; who
thereupon accepted the young man's offer to allow the
goods to be sent to his hotel. Accordingly a man called
on complainant with the goods, and made a demand for
an extra 3s. but complainant told the man he had
paid for them, and had his bill and receipt for the
money, and desired him to leave the parcel
and say complainant would call on defendant in
the morning. The man went away, but did notleare the
goods, and complainant called on the following morning
to know why they were taken away again. The young
man then stated that the stockings purchased on the 6th
of Sept. were sold to him for is. 6d. per pair, and by
mistake entered in the book at 2s. ; so that complainant
had only paid 95., and the young man had given him
credit for 12s. Tere was some talk of two entries of
similar purchases on the same day, and complainant re-
quested to see the book; but the young man positively
refused to show it to him, and also declined to give up
the parcel until the 3s. was paid.
Other evidence was gone into, and some a.spersities
having been indulged in on both sides, the Alderman
dismissed the summons, and recommended the com-
plainant to take the case into the County Court.

BOW-STREET.--Henry Field, a young man out of
employ, was charged with breaking open the poor-
box of St. Clement's Church, Strand and stealiDg its
contents.

Mr. Isaacson, the vestry-clerk (accompanied by the
clergyman and churchwardens attended to prosecute.
Francis F. Rickson stated that he was the sexton of
St. Clement's Dane, and left the church in perfect
safety on Sunday afternoon, at about five o'clock, having
locked doors himself. He returned in an hour after-
wards with some elderly women and the pew-openers,
to light up the gas for the evening service, and on pro-
ceeding to the overseers' pew, opposite the church-
wardens', he observed a white mark caused by a piece
of the beading having been broken off in the coroner
where the poor-box was secured to the wall. Ho then
examined the box, and soon perceived that it had been
broken open. There were three locks to it, near one
of which there were several cuts of a saw. A large hole
had been forced in the side of the box, and two pieces
of wood, which had been put up clumsily to disguise it,,
fell out when witness touched them. One of the
locks was also damaged. Witness looked round the
church and eventually saw the prisoner concealed
in a dark corner of one of the free pews, where he
was sitting in a reclining position.. Witness asked
him what business he had to be there, to which he
replied "I must have been asleep and got locked in.
Perhaps I had better go now." He rose apparently
for.that purpose, but he was detained by witness until the
arrival of some of the parochial authorities, upon which
he was given into custody. On his way to the pelice-
station the prisoner said " he was a poor fellow oat of
work, with no place or home to go to." He was searched
at the office, where the officer on duty took from him 55.
11d.,including a shilling's worth of halfpence. Witness,
on going back to the church, found a saw and an iron
bar thrown loosely into the gas cupboard. The former,
which had not been used for two years, was stained with
oil, recently applied, and drops of oil were observed on
the floor and aisle leading towards the overseers' p.,w.
The iron bar was much bent. When the money found
upon the prisoner was being counted at the station, the
prisoner said, " Half-a-crown„of it was my own; the re-
mainder I took from the box. He also stated he
had not slept for the last two nights.
It appeared that the poor-box, which is only opened
once a year, had been emptied a few days previously.
The prisoner, who said he had been a porter at the
Fountain Hotel, Ramsgate, for the last six months pre-
vious to his coming to London, was fully committed for
trial.

SOUTHWARR.—WiIIiam Cloud, a tall old man,
described as a mariner, was brought before Mr.
A'Beckett, charged with committing a serious assault
on Rebecca Lambert, who is confined to her bed in St.
Thomas's Hospital from the effects of a wound inflicted
on her head by the prisoner with a candlestick.
Police-constable 31 M said he was on duty near Mag-
dalen-court, Bermondsey, on Saturday night, when the
`injured woman came up to him, with blood running
down her face, and informed him that a man had ;:truek
her on the head with a candlestick. He returned with
her to her house, when she pointed out the pri:,,,n,r as
the party who had injured her, and he tonic I.lm into
custody. The female was taken to St. Thomas's Tlos-
oital where she remains in a precarious state.
Sergeant Buchanan, 14 M, said he found a c:u dle-
Aick in the room bent and covered with blood. There
was blood all over the table, and the female told him

that the prisoner had struck her on the head with the
Candlestick without the least provocation.
Mr. A'Beckett asked whether any one witnessed the
assault ?
31 M replied that an elderly female saw the whole of
it, but she was not in attendance.
Mr. A'Beckett said she must be requested to attend,
therefore he should remand the prisoner until Thursday
-
next.