The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Thos. Win. O'Keefe
and his son, Terence O'Keefe, were finally examined on
the charge of obtaining from Miss Priscilla East the
sum of 525 t. by fraud and false pretences, and corn-
niitted for trial.

MARYLEBONE.—A case of considerable importance
, both to the public and publicans arose under the New
Beer Act ; the question, in fact, being whether it is
lawful for those persons ho leave London on a Sunday,
and visit the suburbs, to obtain refreshment at an inn
or not. Mr. Robert Ware, proprietor of the Castlein
Tavern, Hampstead-heath, better known as Jack Straw's
Castle, was summoned by the police fur keeping his
house open for the sale of spirits, &c., between the
hours of half-past two and six o'clock.
The evidence went to show that there were five dif-
ferent persons who entered the hotel before half-past 2
o'clock and had their dinner. They also had wine and
ale, and they paid their bills before half-past 2 o'clock,
but they remained sitting after that hour with the wine
and ale before them. The police entered the room, and
were satisfied, from the inquiries they made of the per-
sons themselves, that these facts were true. It was also
proved that two of the persons came in a brougham,
two more in a gig, and the rest on foot ; all appeared to
have arrived from a distance, and the horses were taken
out and placed in the stably. The gentleman who came
on foot said he had left the Hampstead omnibus not far
off, and had walked to the defendant's house, where he
was sitting at dinner when the police entered. He con-
sidered that they had no right to intrude upon him, and
that their conduct was greatly to be censured. Sunday
was the only day in the week upon which he could ob-
tain fresh airf and he made a constant practice of going
to Hampstead-heath to dine.
Mr. Guy, a solicitor, who appeared for the Suburban
Innkeepers' Society, contended that the defendant had
not kept house open after half-past 2 o'clock, and that,
if an innkeeper sold spirits before that time to persons in
his house, those persons had a right to stay as long as
they pleased to drink them. He also contended that the
Persons present in defendant's house were bond fide
travellers 'within the meaning of the act.
Mr. LONG said as to the first point, he considered
that allowing the
hour drinking of spirits, &c.; after the
byp in erons who had purchased the liquor
previously,
was named,
would be making the light of a continued sale, and it
the law a dead letter if he were to de-
cide that persons ths
had stay as long as they liked to
drink what they
ii
The law did not look to purchased before half-past two.
,enatlandlord to perform impossibi-
lities, and it was sufac
that he should use his best
exertions, and, to show that h
As to the second point,e had done so, to clear his
house at the appointed
adar
left
tedefined the meaning
it was evident that the act h
ftthat to be decided
of the word " traveller," but 'had
t was brought.
by the magistrates before whom the evidence
person
and
If a person were to go from Cheapeide
dine there, he could not conceive such : to come
within the meaning of the word traveller
Rlleierh;mbountdif a per-
son left London to go to Hampstead
of the suburban villages, and dined there, he should);' any
° eon-
ider such person a bona fide traveller. In the present
case he thought there was sufficient evidence to prove
that the persons in the defendant's house were &mime
travellers,
and he should therefore dismiss the summons.

S LDIER BY HIS COMBADE.—Richard
WMilkußinsir, aoP A°
private in the 18th company of the Royal
Sappers and Miners, was delibertateinlyashboatudaecakd-r,ooonmthaet
morning of the 29th of June a
Halifax, Nova Scotia, by hiscl
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private in the same corps.
together in the regiment on the mmoss, atinndtitlnvaetree terms of
friendship for more than seven ye
convers-
ing with each other, and with other men
siinmtehewernotomto,
when, without any apparent provocation,_
shot
Wilkin-
the arm-rack, took down his firelock, and
son through the heart, the ball passing out at the right
side and breaking the right elbow. The unhappy .
victim
sank instantly, and the indignation of the men in the
barrack-room at the atrocious deed was so great, that,
but for the prompt interference of a non-commissioned
officer who was present, the murderer would have heed
seriously injured. A coroner's inquest was held on the
494 y, and a verdict of wilful murder returned against I
; , , Mae, who is committed to prison to take his trial at the
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