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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mos. Wn. O'Keefe
and his son, Terence O'Keefe, were finally examined on
the charge of obtaining from Miss Priscilla East the
sum of 5251. by fraud and false pretences, and com-
mitted for trial.

IMARYLEBONE.—Acase 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 who leave London on a Sunday,
and visit the suburbs, to obtain refreshment at an inn
or not. Mr. Robert Ware, proprietor of the Castle
Tavern, Hampstead-heath, better known as Jack Straw's
Castle, was summoned by the police for 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 stable. 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. a solicitor, who appeared for the Suburban
Guy,
Innkeepers' Society, contended that the defendant had
notan
ot kept
if innkeeper sold spirits before that time to, persons in
his house, those persons had 3ae i
also to stay as long as
they pleased to drink them.
suoaceonwteenrdeed that the
persons present in defendant's house travellers within the meaning of the act. bond fide
Mr. LONG said, as to the first point, he considered
that allowing the drinking
of spirits, &c., after the
hour named, by persons who had
previously, was in the light of a
continued
the liquor
linfued sale, and it
would be making the law a dead letter he were to de-
cide that persons might stay as long
drink what they had purchased beforeas they liked to
rfohalf-past two.
The law did not look to a landlord to 131 e
iities, and it was sufficient that he should
sorldn:
mP
u to ie his
clear° sbestsbi
his .
exertions, and, to show that he had do
house at the appointed hour. As to the second
it was evident that the act had not defined the mepaoniiut;
of the word " traveller," but had left that to be decidedn'
by the magistrates before whom the evidence was brought.
If a person were to go from
Cheapside to Piccadilly and
dine there, he could not conceive such a person to collie
within the meaning of the ' word traveller • but if a per-
son left London to go to
Hampstead, Richmond, or any
of the suburban villages, and
dined there, he should con-
sider such person a bona fide traveller. In the present
case he thought there was sufficient evidence to prove
that the persons in the defendants house were bona fide
travellers, and he should therefore dismiss the summons.

Mc—BDER OF A SOLDIt
company of the Royal
BY yreSoinCoMßADE.—Richard
Wilkinson, a private in the 18th
Sappers and Miners,
in a barrack-room .
shot dead , on thea t
morning of the 29th of J
was
ane deliberately
last,
.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, by his comrade,
The two me
private in the same corps. InViiilal idarlaissSoiri Ida
together in the regiment on the most intimateere
conyterm s-se,rof
friendship for more than seven years, and w
ing with each other, and with other men in the room,
when, without any apparent
provocation, Sime went to
Wilkin-
son arm-rack, took down his firelock, and shot .
7. ,
son through the heart, the bail 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 1
officer who was prvent, the murderer would have been
seriously injured. A coroner's inquest was held on the
body, and a.verdict of wilful -murder returned against
. .
i .rnini .
Sime, who a.eotted to prison. to-take his trial at the
ensuing court sessions, which will come on in November
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