The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Captain Lean, the agent to
the Government Emigration Commissioners, accompanied
by a number of emigrants, appeared before Alderman
Carter, to prefer charges of Niolation of the Passengers
Act against Cornelius P. Newcome and Ebenezer K.
Mackenzie Griffiths, ship-brokers and merchants, in
Gracechurch-street.

Mr. Lucas, of the bar, attended for the defendants,
and surprised the alderman by stating that a fiat of
bankruptcy had been issued that morning against his
clients, who had accordingly been declared bankrupts.
tinder these extraordinary circumstances, and alter
some consultation between Alderman Carter, Captain
Lean, Mr. Lucas, and Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk,
the alderman believing that it would be advantageous to
the emigrants, whose cause of complaint the Government
agent stated to be exceedingly heavy, and whose condi-
tion he declared to be deplorable, adjourned the various
cases to Wednesday next.
Daniel Shea and John Beames, were charged with
having picked the pocket of Mr. Carneil of Seven Oaks,
'Kent, solicitor.
Russell, a detective officer, said—l saw the prisoners
together try to pick the pockets of several gentlemen. the
one screened or covered by the other. At last I saw Shea
'point Beames' attention to the pocket of the prosecutor,
and the latter prisoner whip the- handkerchief out of the
prosecutor's pocket. When I apprehended Beames, he
said that Shea had made a thief of him, and induced him
to leave his honest work to rob. .

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last Wednesday
is boy, said,
Beames, who a mere
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he ocfa Iprison,ed upon
him, and
and I accompanied
was going upon an errand, w
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mye had
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never went home since. He took me to Blackliorse
court, in the City, and in our way he took ahandker-
chief out of a gentletuans pocket and sold it for eighteen
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pence, half of which he gave to me. This rnornirT h
came to me in my room at the house in which he lodges,
and asked me to go with him to steal handkerchiefs on
London-bridge. After trying a ood mackets he
touched the pocket of the
proaecutgor and tolny pod
me there
was a handkerchief in it, and I must go and take it, and
I did take it. I assure your lordship that he made a
thief of me, for I had no idea of thieving until he came
and took me out.
Shea said, I don't know anything at all about the
gentleman.
The prisoners were committed for trial.
Metrics Saville was charged by Mr. H. R. Foster, the
secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, with having driven a horse in a country cart,
the poor animal having an injured knee and being in
other respects wholly unfit for labour of any kind.
The defendant said that a fall that morning had lace-
rated an old sore upon the horse's knee ; hut
The Mansion-house officers, who are judges in matters
of this kind, stated that the case was a bad one, and •
The Alderman fined the defendant in the penalty of
10a. and costs.
Thomas Mounljoy, between eight and nino years of
age, was committed to prison for 21 days, upon the
charg,n of haying crept behind the counter of a shop, and
creature said he had a mother, who lived
as not her husband, and that nobody
with a As fa tiao rc,bbory, lac sai4 had ban
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