The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. Catharine Leary, aged 89,
was brought up under remarkable circumstances,
An officer said—l have been constantly cautioning
this woman against begging ; but she insists upon soli-
citing everybody that passes her, and I was obliged to
take her into custody, and lodge her in Bow-lane station.
The searcher found twelve pence in copper upon her per-
son ; but she gets more money,than any five beggars in
the whole city, and a boy follows her for the purpose of
easing her of her load, so. that she never has much money
about her at one time. She is called "The Queen," and
while locked up in the cell at the station-house with an-
other woman, she robbed her fellow-prisoner, who had
fallen asleep, of 125., which were found in her posses-
sion by the searcher, who upon the first search found no
more than 12 pence about her.
The Lord Mayor—Why, what a wicked old woman
you are ! I have known you these many years about
the town, but I never thought you were a thief before.
The Prisoner—Oh, then, faith I never thought of rob-
bing anybody. Sure did'nt she drop it on the floor ; and
what could Ido but pick it up again ? You can't call
that robbery. lam a poor old woman, God help me ;
but yez never no feeling for the poor.
The Lord Mayor----If you were a young woman you
should for this villanous robbery be sent to Newgate,
and the probability is that you would, be transported.
You are a rank old imposter, and you shall go to Bride"
well for a month.
The prisoner was then committed.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John Casey and
Morris Fleet were brought before Mr. Bingham, charged
with having violently. assaulted Mrs. Susan Grimston
at the door of the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly.
John Grimston, of No. 1, 'High-street, Bloomsbury,
said his mother and himself were at Mr. Albert Smith's
exhibition the previous evening. As they were leaving
the hall his mother called out, "Some one is picking
my pocket." Witness turned round, and saw Casey
close to his mother, but when he was about to lay hold
of him, five or six persons, seemingly his confederates,
said, " Let him alone ; he is a respectable man," and
began to hustle witness, who, however, held Casey, and
called out to his brother to come to his assistance. Wit-
ness's brother came to his assistance, and took charge of
Casey. Witness received several blows in the attempt
to secure Casey ; and witness's mother was violently
beaten in the face by the prisoner Fleet. Witness's
mother was too unwell, from the injury she had sus-
tained, to appear that day.
Police-constable Chilman stated that Mrs. Grimston
gave the prisoner Fleet into custody, and charged him
with assaulting her.
The prisoner Fleet denied the charge.
The police having stated that they did not know the
prisoners to be regular thieves,
Mr. Bingham ordered that they should be remanded
for the inspection of the detective police.

CLERKENWELL.—Cheron and Erneste d'Albert,
Frenchmen, brothers, who described themselves as teach-
ers of languages, of 19, Denmark-street, Soho ; Pierre
Berville, a carpenter, of Upper Rupert-street, Haymar-
ket ; and Leon, also Frenchriaen, were placed at the bar
before Mr. Corrie, charged by Joseph Rouselle, of No.
1, Yardley-street, Clerkenwell, with having teen con-
cerned in stealing a trunk, containing 52 sovereigns, a
quantity of wearing apparel, and other property.
It appeared that the prosecutor is a hairdresser, and
for some time was employed in a first-rate house at the
west end of the town, and had realised the above pro-
perty. He was acquainted with the prisoners. He
was about to leave England on a visit to France, prior
to which he took temporary lodgings at No. 1, Yardley-
street, Clerkenwell, when he deposited the trunk, &c.,
in a room in that house. On Wednesday week last he
was visited by the prisoner Leon, who invited him out to
have something to drink, to which he consented, and on
his return he discovered that a young man had called at the i
house and had asked to go into his room, and that the whole
of the property was afterwards missed from the room. Sus-
picion immediately fell on Leon and the d'Alberts, and on
the prosecutor meeting Cheron, he asked how he felt upon
the matter, when he replied that he felt frightened ; that
lie intended, if not taken, to send the box and its con-
tents back, and that he had taken the box away in a
cab, and had intended to throw it into the Thames. The
other things, he said, would be found at Leon's, and if
he (prosecutor) would compromise the matter, he would
pay him some money in a few days. The man Leon,
with whom he had been drinking, had given a descrip-
tion of the room, by which means the robbery had taken
place, and that " Cree Cree," a nickname by which
the prisoner Berville was known, had got the gold. In.
formation was immediately given of the robbery to the
police, when Serjeant Gunn traced the property to No.
38, Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, where it was sub-
sequently found.
The prisoners denied the charge, saying that it was
got up through spite, as they had been challenged with
getting up an " infernal machine."
M.
Corrie questioned the officers upon the subject.
Serjeant John Saunders, 29 A, of the detective
b force,raud a said that th
conse prisoners d'Albert and Leon had,
y fraud
French Ambassador, pi
bracy, obtained 3/. from the
y pretending that the risoner
Leon was privately manufacturing an " infernp al ma-
chine," of an improved description, in order to take
away the life of the Emperor Louis Napoleon. The
prisoners d'Albert were the informants. They communi-
cated with the French Ambassador, stating that Leon
had taken a cellar in a house in Theobald's-road, Red
Lion-square, in which he occupied himself by making an
"infernal machine" to assassinate Louis Napoleon.
They had an interview with the Ambassador, who made
the affair known to Sir Richard Mayne, the police com-
missioner, and for a length of time numerous officers in
plain clothes had been privately watching the house and
the manceuvres of the prisoners both by day and night.
Pursuant to instructions he made inquiries, and on
visiting the " cellar" he merely found a few rusty old
gun barrels. It was evidently a trick of conspiracy to
extort money. The d'Alberts persisted in demanding
101. and then 30/. before they would give further in-
formation. The French Ambassador upon that occasion
declined 'prosecuting them for obtaining money under
false pretences. He added that there were two other
persons connected with the prisoners whom the police
were in pursuit of, and he requested a remand.
Mr. Corrie thought there was sufficient evidence to
commit the d'Alberts and Leon upon, and he would
remand them for a week, but he should discharge Ber-
ville for the want of sufficient evidence to det3in him.

THAMES.—Dennis Rczgan a coal-whipper, was
brought before Mr. Yardley, Charged with committing
an indecent assault on Miss Frances Scudder, a young
lady, residing at No. 17, Upper Martha-street, St.
George's-in-the-East.

The complainant, a respectable, modest female, said
she was living with her mother, a widow lady, who was
possessed of a good income. On Tuesday night her brother
was on a visit to some friends in Ratcliff, and his stay
being protracted to a later hour than usual, her mother
directed her to fetch him home. She was proceeding
along Broad-street, Rateliff, for that purpose, when the
prisoner accosted her, and pushed up against her. She
attempted to avoid him, and stepped into the road, on
which be seized her, pushed her against the house oppo-
site, and raised her clothes. She called aloud for help,
and said he was a beast, and he acted in a grossly inde-
cent manner towards her. She slapped his face, and
struggled to get away from him, on which he struck her
a violent blow with his clenched fist on the face, and
knocked her down. He then fell upon her, and was pro-
ceeding to commit another assault upon her, when some
men belonging to a brewery opposite dragged him away,
and gave him into custody.
Mr. Yardley sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of
51., the heaviest penalty he could inflict, and in default
of payment to two months' imprisonment. The prisoner,
who could not pay the fine, was sent away in the van to
prison.

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Courier.