The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

MANSION-HOUSE.—A young woman of prepos-
sessing appeara,nce s brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with a " wareally intended" mpt at self-
destruction on Monday night, at London-bridge.
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GUILDHALL —.Tax Evans, a porter, in the em-
ploy of Messrs. Stone and Co., warehousemen, of 51,
St. Paul's Churchyard, was placed at the bar before
Alderman Humphery, charged with stealing three sable
boas and other articles, the property of his masters.
Mr. W. Stone said the prisoner had been in their em-
ploy about four months, and in consequence of his
having made a present of a sable boa to a female ser-
vant in the same establishment, their suspicions were
aroused, and they searched the prisoner's boxes. The
first thing the prosecutor saw was a black cloth mantle,
said he then called in a policeman, and proceeded making
thorough search of the room in which the prisoner
slept, when three sable boas and three pairs of sable cuffs
were ci'jscovered. Two of the boas and one pair of the
cuffs were found in a fellow-servant's box, where the
prisoner had p:l4ced them to divert suspicion from him-
self. There were
also four lengths of broadcloth, and a
short length of flan-nel, found in prisoner's boxes, all
of which the prosector .
cntified, and valued at 141.
Corroborative evidence 11,1`ving been heard,
Alderman Humphery said it was a very bad ease, and
committed the prisoner for trial.

BOW-STREET.—William Young, the driver of cab
3,101, attended before Mr. Jardine to answer I.`2lree sum-
monses taken out against him by Mr. T. Styan, of Tor-
rington-square—one for not delivering his ticket at 1:1413
proper time, one for demanding more than his fare, and
the third for misconduct.
Mr. Styan stated that on Christmas-eve, after spend-
ing the evening at his father's, in Tavistock-square, he
sent out a servant, at about a quarter past twelve
o'clock, to look for a cab. She found one in Tavistock-
place, and sent it to her master's residence, whore the
defendant took up witness and his wife and conveyed
them home to 11, Torrington-square, although, being
' evidently drunk at the time, he made several blunders
in doing so. Witness handed him 6d., the distance be-
ing considerably under a mile, but he was very dissatis-
fied with the fare, demanded more, and made a great
disturbance outside, by hammering at thd.door, and ring-
ing the bell, until nearly one o'clock. He did not give
up his ticket until witness insisted upon it, for the pur-
pose of summoning him for his misconduct. He (Mr.
Styan) had no doubt whatever of the defendant's identity.
The cabman denied that he was hired by complainant
on the night in question, and called Clarles Clements,
the cook at Evans's Hotel, Covent-garden, who swore
that he engaged the defendant at a few minutes past 12
on Christmas-eve, and kept him waiting in front of the
hotel until nearly one o'clock, when the man drove him
to his residence, in Gloucester-place, Camden-town. He
was confident that defendant was the same man, as he
knew him by sight from his frequenting the Bedford-
street, Strand.
The cabman's statement was further corroborated by
police constable F 82, who said that he saw the de-
fendant's cab standing opposite the hotel at a quarter
past 12 on Christmas-eve, and asked him what he was
staying there for. Defendant replied that he was en-
gaged, but as this was a very common excuse with cab-
men, he (the constable) took the number of defendant's
badge, intending to summons him if he found that the
driver's statement was untrue. Witness could swear to
the man, having known him as a cabman for years.
This evidence, however, did not appear to shake the
complainant's conviction that he had summoned the
right man.
Mr. Jardine said he could not disbelieve the evidence
of defendant's witnesses ; so Mr. Styan must have mis-
taken the man. It appeared, according to the com-
plainant's own admission, that the ticket was not de-
livered to him until after the disturbance bad occurred,
and the cabman had been threatened with these pro-
ceedings. There was every reason, therefore, to be-
lieve that the driver had given him a false ticket, which
he (Mr.. Jardine) regretted to say was a very common
practice, under similar circumstances, and proved the
necessity of getting possession of the ticket before start-
ing on the journey. The summonses must be dismissed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas Bartlett, an excava-
tor, was charged with beating his wife.
The complainant had a family of three children by
defendant, and was again pregnant. A few nights ago
she offended him by pressing him to return home from a
drinking bout, when he felled her to the ground, and
locked her and her children out in the frost. Some time
afterwards, as she ventured to return, he beat her about
the face, knocked her down, dashed her infant from her
arms, threatened to murder mother and child, kicked
her in the side, planted his feet on her abdomen, and
trampled on her with all his weight till she became un-
conscious.

Mr. Hammill said that it was a moat flagrant outrage,
and sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisonment
with hard labour in the House of Correction.

CLERKENWELL.—Frederick Harris, aged 20, de-
scribed in the police-sheet as a shoemaker, having no
residence, was charged by Mrs. Virginia Lewis, widow,
of No. 15, York-place, Pentonville, under the following
circumstances :

On Tuesday evening at six o'clock the prosecutrix
was in the kitchen when she heard a noise, and on pro-
ceeding up stairs to the parlour she saw the prisoner
concealed behind the door. He rushed at her with a
life preserver in his hand. She ran away in great alarm,
calling out " Thief, thief," when two gentlemen came
to her assistance. One of them knocked the prisoner
down by a blow on the head, and then they held him
down until the arrival of a policeman, who took the
prisoner to the station-house. He had rifled the place
of silk dresses and other property to a considerable
amount, which was all packed up ready to be carried
away. _ _

Mr. Alexander Neemes, student of divinity, proved
having heard the lady call out for assistance. On en-
tering the house, he found the prisoner, armed with a
life preserver, in a menacing posture, when he felled
him to the ground by a blow on the temple. A box of
Incijer matches, a wax candle, and knife, were found in
his possession.

James Edwards, 61 G, apprehended the prisoner, who
said it was a lucky job for the prosecutrix that he did
not knock her brains out ; and as for him (the constable)
he should have his brains blown out.

The officers recognised him as a burglar who had been
formerly convicted of felonies.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
SOUTHWARK.—George Darnton and Amelia Hollo-
way were brought up for further examination, charged
with cruelty to their illegitimate infant.
The particulars relative to the prisoners' apprehension,
and the then state of the infant, appeared in yesterday's
paper, when Mr. A'Beckett remanded them until to-day,
so that the officers of the parish of St. Mary, Newing-
ton, might be enabled to attend and prosecute.
Mrs. Harvey,!the landlady of the house in which the
prisoners lodged, was present with the infant, which
she had kindly aid carefully taken carp off since Mon-
day, when the prisoners were taken into custody. She
was called by the magistrate, and in answer to his ques-
tions stated that after the examination yesterday she took
the infant to an eminent medical man in the district of
the police-court, who examined it, and ascertained that
not only were the arms broken, but the collar bone was
broken also, and that the body was covered over with
bruises, some of which were of long standing, and must
have been caused by violence.
Mr. Combe—Did the medical man give you any opi-
nion as to the state of the infant—that is, whether there
was any likelihood of its recovery ?
Witness—He told me, sir, that the child would not
trouble any one much longer. In fact, that it would
soon die.

Mr. Combe—You are a mother, and are acquainted
with children. Now is it possible that an infant could
be in such a bad state without the mother being aware
of it ?

Witness—l am positive that it could not ; for, when
softly moved, its cries were piercing from the agony it
suffered.

Mr. Combe—l understand from Mr. Edwin, the chief
clerk, that you asked her what was the matter with the
infant when she called you to look at it. What did she
say ?
Witness—l thought the limbs were broken, which
induced the to ask her that question. She replied that
there was nothing the matter with it. I know she
afterwards went to the hospital and received some lotion,
but she never applied it, as it now remains in my house.
The female declared that she had used lotion and
bandages, and last witness knew it. She was not aware
that her child was so injured, or how the injuries were
caused.

The male prisoner said the child had been home only
two days from nursing, and when the nurse brought it
home she was in a beastly state of drunkenness, and no
doubt caused the injuries. He was not guilty of the
effence he was charged with.
Mr. Combe said the case was very bad in his opinion,
and he had made up his mind to remand them again ;
but he. should not accept bail for either.
Mr. Bennet, one of the relieving officers of the parish
of St. Mary, Newington, who was in attendance daring
the short inquiry to-day, informed his worship that he
was instructed by the authorities to prosecute the case
to the utmost.
Just before the magistrate quitted the bench the con-
stable entered the court, and said that he had taken the
infant to Guy's Hospital, where it was received. The
house surgeon certified that it was in a bad state, and
not likely to live.

HAMMERSMITH.--John Parish., aged i 6 years,
who was formerly attached to the Royal Sappers and
Miners, but who now enjoys a pension of 14d. per day
from the Ordnance department, was charged with hav-
ing committed a series of savage assaults upon his wife,
Catharine Parish, a man named George Small, and two
police constables of the T division, while in the execu-
tion of their duty.
The wife, a little, clean, and respectably attired
middle aged woman, deposed that she lived at No. 6,
Ebenezer-place, North-end-road, Fulham. On Monday,
her husband left home for the purpose of getting his pen-
sion, and she never saw him afterwards until he returned
on Tuesday evening, when he was in a state of intoxica-
tion. He proceeded upstairs, and commenced breaking