The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.— Wm. Smith was placed at the bar
before Sir Peter Laurie charged with unlawfully Inter-
marrying Mary Dennett, he having a former wife alive
at the time of such marriage.
Mr. H. F. Wood said he was instructed to appear for
the prisoner.
Mr. Garry said he was also engaged to defend the pri-
soner at an early hour in the morning, but that he was
detained in the Sheriff's Court when the business com-
menced here, and this case was put back to oblige him ;
but in the interim it appeared that his client had seen
Mr. H. F. Wood, who now attended as his solicitor.
If, however, Mr. H. F. Wood could show that he had
not received his instructions from the prisoner within
the hour he (Mr. Garry) would willingly withdraw from
the case altogether.
Mr. H. F. Wood said he held the written instruc-
tions to defend the prisoner.
Sir Peter Laurie suggested that the prisoner's legal
advisers should divide the case between them instead of
contending against each other.
Mr. Garry said he was no advocate for such half
measures ; but if Mr. H. F. Wood, as a gentleman,
would say that the instructions he held were received an
hour ago, he would retire satisfied.
Mr. H. F. Wood said he was sent for by the prisoner,
and lie considered it his duty to appear for him.
Sir Peter Laurie said it would not prej idice the case
of either of the parties if he put a single question to the
prisoner. (Turning to the prisoner)—Who did you in-
struct first ?

Prisoner said he first spoke to Mr. Garry and re-
quested him to defend him ; but as he was called away
on other business, and he (prisoner) understood the court
was sitting, he told the officer of the court he should like
a solicitor, and Mr. H. F. Wood happening to come to
the cell, he gave him written instructions and an order
for 1/. upon the officer, to be paid out of the money
taken from him at the station. He never sent for Mr.
H. F. Wood.

Sir Peter Laurie asked the prisoner which of the
solicitors he wished to conduct his case.

The prißoner said he did not care which, he would
leave it for the alderman to decide.
Sir Peter Laurie declined to interfere.

The prisoner said, then as he had given written in-
structions to Mr. H. F. Wood, and he held the order for
the money, he would rather he should go on with
the case.

Sir Peter Laurie said he would rather Mr. H. F.
Wood had been sent for than he should have gone to
the prisoner unsolicited. It was an irregularity that
frequently occurred in many courts, but not the less
discreditable nevertheless.

Mr. H. F. Wood persisted in assuring the magistrate
he had been sent for, but as the prisoner positively
asserted to the contrary, and Mr. H. F. Wood being
unable to produce the messenger (a Mr. Beal) who
fetched him, the matter was allowed to drop, and the
bigamy was then proceeded with.
Mary Deneett, said she was married to the prisoner
about thirteen years ago, and between three and four
years after that he abandoned her to live with a woman
by whom he had six children. Since which he had re-
peatedly told her that he had been previously married,
and that his first wife was alive until very lately.
Sir Peter Laurie asked what business or profession
the prisoner followed ?
The prosecutrix said he was a railway surveyor, and
that he had worked with Mr. Brassy on the Continent.
She was not prepared with evidence of the first mar-
riage beyond the prisoner's own admission.
Sarah Dennett said she overheard a conversation be.
tween the prisoner and the prosecutrix on Wednesday
last, and distinctly heard him say to her, " I was mar-
ried to another when I married you, and you knew it,
for Richardson told you."
Mr. H. Wood submitted this was not evidence.
Sir Peter Laurie said if it was not evidence it was in-
formation, and he would hear it.
Mr. H. F. Wood urged the inadmissibility of hearsay
evidence upon the alderman's consideration.
Sir Peter Laurie said if he had thought Mr. H. F.
Wood was going to interfere with him in this uncalled-
for manner, he would not have allowed him to appear in
the case. .

The prisoner here said he should like to explain the
circumstances of the complaint against him.
Sir. Peter Laurie said he would hear any statement
the prisoner wished to make.

Mr. H. F. Wood advised the prisoner not to say any-
thing at present.
Sir Peter Laurie said if the prisoner listened to the
advice of his solicitor, he must feel that he thought him
very guilty ; and he (Sir Peter) thought so too.
The prisoner said he did not want a solicitor, but he
was told he ought to have one. He confessed he had
told the prosecutrix he had been married before, but he
did not mean it, for it was not the case.

Sir Peter Laurie said, if the prisoner came before him
with a lie in his mouth, how could he believe his de-
nial of the charge of bigamy,
The prosecutrix said he had frequently sworn most
positively that he was m srried.
The prosecutor denied this ; but said be would swear
the prn,e,u'rix ~hould never life un(ler the same
roof with him again, nor within ten miles of him, if he
knew it.

Sir Peter Laurie, said he had no doubt that the al

leged former marriage had taken' rplace, and he should
therefore remand the prisoner.
Mr. H. F. Wood contended the re was no evidence
to remand the prisoner upon.
Sir Peter Laurie—lf Mr. H.- F. Wood persisted in
interfering with the magistrate( in. the discharge of his
duties, he should be under the n ecessity of ordering him
to leave the court.
The prisoner was then reman( led, and an application
to admit him to bail met with a I ieremptory refusal.

BOW-STREET.—Frederick ,Sactidge, a youth em-
ployed as page at the United Ser vice Club, was charged
with stealing six halfpenny piecos, belonging to Major-
General Sir George Bowes, the Lieutenant of the Tower.
From the statement of Mr. Bartley, the steward of
the club, it appeared that a great number of members
had complained from time to time of having money
stolen from their greatcoat pockets, while hanging in the
hall of the club. At length suspicion was directed to-
wards the prisoner, who was chiefly occupied in the hall,
and, with the view of testing his honesty, Sir George
marked some copper pieces pri Yrs.tely, and then placed
them loosely in one of his coat pockets. The boy was
watehed into the hall, and a few minutes afterwards the
halfpence were missing from the coat. Sir George then
directed the prisoner to be searched, upon which the
nrirked money was taken from him. He said nothing
to the charge against him.
Mr Hall said that Sir George had only done an act of
justice to the other servants of the establishments, in
taking means to test the prisoner's character, and to the
members of the club, who might be robbed to a very
serious extent if the thief had not been promptly de-
tected. The conduct of the boy was most scandalous.
He was receiving 101. a year, besides his clothes and
board, which he (Mr. Hall) corrsidered extremely hand-
some wages for a mere child like him.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.—Among the morning charges at
this court to-day were numerous cases of obstruction of
thoroughfares, and personal annoyance and insult to foot
pa-sengers by idle street vagabonds, generally under 16
years of age, and in many cases tree associates of thieves
and pickpockets. The police constables who gave these
charges described the accused as being the pest and
terror of the neighbourhood they freqitented, especially
Saint Luke's, Old street, and the Lower-road. They
pilfered from all shopkeepers whose goi,Nds were exposed
at all, awl contrived to screen one another from pursuit
and capture.
A. respectable female who appeared against one of
these prisoners, an Irish lad, stated that she N7as walk-
ing with her sister, a married female, near the corner of
Arthur-street, Golden-lane, after having made some pur-
chases at a grocer's, when another boy, who ran away
and has not since been taken, was observed very active
among a gang of his fellows, who were stopping up the
footpath. On complainant and her sister reaching the
spot at a point where the street was too narrow to allow
of their getting out of the crowd, the boy seized hold of
her sister, took up her clothes, and struck her. He
escaped pursuit, but on the two females coming back the
same way, complainant noticed the prisoner, and induced
her sister to give him in charge to the police as having
been in company with the fellow who had so scandalously
assaulted her. Hereupon prisoner stepped up to com-
plainant and deliberately hit her so violent a blow on
, the mouth that she had been enduring great pain ever
since. _ _ _

The evuleace was fully confirmed by the policeman
who took the prisoner. He made great resistance, and
struck at him also. _ _ _

Prisoner, in his defence, loudly protested that he him-
self had been cruelly used ; that he happened to be oa
the spot by the merest accident, hiving only looked in
at a nelgubouring pubbc•house, because he hal once be
fore worked there. That he had no acquaintance with
the boy who had committed the outrage on the lady ;
and that the lady's sister (the complainant) had provoked
him to give her the blow in her face, by first spitting in
his.
Complainant (re-called) indignantly denied that she
had done anything of the kini imputed to her.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked that the daring insolence of
such boys had become a nuisance perfectly intolerable,
and must be vigorously put down. After a severe but
suitable admonition, he sentenced the prisoner to pay a
fine of 51., or to be committed for two months to the
House of Correction, with hard labour.

SOUTHWARK.—Thomas Matthews, llenry Thomas,
and Ann Neville were brought into court by Inspector
Brennan and other officers, charged with manufacturing
counterfeit coin.
Inspector Brennan said—About two o'clock that
afternoon, from information he received, he proceeded,
with Sergeant Richards and other constables, to No.
32, York-street, London-road. They found the street
door open ; and on proceeding to the back room on
the first floor, they found all the prisoners engaged
in manufacturing and finishing counterfeit coin.
They were all seized, and the female had a plaster
of Paris mould in her hand quite warm, with metal
in it. On the table he found a jar containing a
strong solution of acid, a tea-cup with sand and water,
and fifteen counterfeit sixpences ; a file with white metal
in its teeth, paper bands used in plaster of Paris moulds,
three counterfeit shillings, a sixpence, and a fourpenny
piece. In a cupboard they found a ladle and frying-pan,
to which white metal adhered ; a bottle of acid, two
brushes, and other files; also a complete galvanic battery,
recently used to silver the coin. He asked for a remand
in this case until Saturday.
The prisoners were remanded until that day, when the
whole of the evidence will be brought forward against
them.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has again been dull
and depressed, and closed with a very gloomy and heavy
appearance. Aberdeen, 11A ; Caledonian, 26A ; Eastern
Counties, 11 11-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 61 ; Ditto
(West Riding Union) 5 d. ; London and North-Western,
96j; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 20ic. ;
Ali i-
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