The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. John Olemmitt, the proprietor
of Clemmitt's Inn, in the Old Bailey, appeared yesterday
upon an information before Alderman Carter, to an-
swer a charge of keeping on his premises at one time
more than 501bs. weight of gunpowder, he not being a
dealer, contrary to the statute. There was also another
information calling upon Mr. Clemmitt to show cause
why the gunpowder, of which there was about 12 cwt.,
should not be adjudged to be forfeited.
Mr. Bodkin appeared for Messrs. Pigou and Co., of
Dartmouth, the consigners, and Mr. Doyle for the de-
fendant.

Henry John Teague, inspector of City Police, said :
In consequence of information I received, I obtained a
warrant to search for gunpowder. I proceeded to the
defendant's premises with other constables, and found in
the warehouse ten casks labelled "gunpowder." They
were 'dressed, in different quantities, to parties at
Southampton, Andover, Christchurch, Salisbury, and
other places. There were nine casks ; the gross weight
of the whole was 12 cwt. 1 qr. 171bs. I asked Clemmitt,
when he came in, if he bad any more gunpowder by
him, and he said he had nine casks in the ice-well. I
then told him we should remove it to a place of security
until the magistrate had given his decision. He made
no objection, but lent us a horse and cart to convey it
away with.
Cross-examined by Mr. Doyle.-I understood the ten
casks had only arrived that morning, but the other nine
casks had been there about two or three weeks.

John Cale said—l am an inspector of the City Police.
I accompanied Inspector Teague, and corroborate all he
has stated ; but with reference to one cask that was found
in the ice-well, addressed to Strange, of Ampthill, and
weighing lqr. 141 b., as shown by Mr. Clemmitt's books,
I would mention that from the mouldy appearance of
the wrapper round the cask, I was induced to inquire
how long it had been there, and ascertained it arrived
on the 12th of January, Mr. Clemmitt lent us a horse
and cart very willingly. The ten casks found in the
warehouse were all received on the day the seizure was
made ; but those found in the ice-well arrived in the
following order-1 cask on the 12th of January, lon
the Bth of February, 6 on the 15th of February, and 1
on the 16th of February. Having made the seizure, I
conveyed it to the Tower for safety, and brought one
cask of it away this morning to produce in court if
necessary.
Mr. Bodkin said he appeared on behalf of Messrs.
Pigou and Co., who were largely interested in this case,
as they were manufacturers of gunpowder, and it was
their custom to transmit gunpowder to Clemmitt's Inn
for the purpose of being conveyed to different parts of
the kingdom, and it was never allowed to remain on the
defendant's preriaises longer than was necessary. On the
present occasion the officers saw the cart come into the
yard with the gunpowder, and a waggon waiting to take
it away, and had the seizure been delayed only half
an hour longer, the whole of the ten casks that had
arrived that morning would have again been on the road
to their different destinations. If the short delay which
had taken place between the unloading and loading the
goods was to be held an offence, he should like to ask how
Messrs. Pigou and Co. were to transact their business ?
It was impossible to convey gunpowder away more care-
fully than in the present instance, and he was sure it
was never contemplated to make the unavoidable delay
in the transit an offence under this act of Parliament.
If in the present case it was held to be an offence, it was
extremely difficult to say how gunpowder could be legally
transferred from one place to another, and it would be
necessary to apply to the Legislature for new regulations.
Mr. Doyle having been heard on behalf of Mr.
Clemmitt,
Alderman Carter decided that the ten casks which
arrived at the defendant's premises shortly before the
seizure were in transitu, but with regard to the other
nine casks he considered the 21st section justified him
in saying that the defendant did not use due diligence ;
and he was therefore liable to all the consequences of
forfeiture and attending penalties. He saw no reason
to mitigate the penalties. He was a citizen himself, and
he felt it his duty to protect his fellow-citizens from the
danger arising from the keeping of a large quantity of
gunpowder in a populous neighbourhood like that in
which the seizure was made.

Mr. Doyle applied that the warrant might not be
issued for a fortnight, to enable him to apply to a higher
tribunal to get the penalties mitigated.
Alderman Carter said he did not think he should be
doing his duty if he did not put the law in force to the
fullest extent. The penalties are : Forfeiture of the
gunpowder, 6971b5., and 2s. fine for every lb. exceeding
501b5., amounting in all, exclusive of the value of the
gunpowder, to 641. 145., and in default of payment a
warrant of distress will issue against the defendant's
goods ; but, if there be no assets, it is then in the dis-
cretion of the magistrate to commit the defendant to
prison for any term not less than three months, and not
exceeding six months.

WORSHIP-STREET.—A. powerful man, namei
John Taylor, a hair-dresser in the Mile-eud-road, was
charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with having assaulted
and cruelly maltreated Ellen Fossey, a young woman
with whom he cohabited.

The complainant stated that she had been living for
the last ten months under the protection of the priso-
ner, who was an habitual drunkard, and had subjected
her to constant acts of brutality during nearly the
whole of that period. On the evening of Sunday
la,t he commenced an unmerciful attack upon her,
without the slightest provocation, in the course of
which he struck her repeatedly under the breast with
such force, that she had been ever since in a state of
acute internal suffering from the effects of his violence.
She was rescued on that occasion from further ill-usage
');• some of the lodgers, who strongly urged her to give
him into custody, which she only abstained from doing,
in the hope that her forbearance would induce him to
desist from his savage course of treatment ; but on the
following day he returned home in his usual state of in-
toxication, and, exclaiming, "Now for a sixer"—mean li
-
ing six months—struck her a terrible blow between the
eyes, which caused the blood to stream from her nese,
and knocked her back against the wall. The prisoner
followed up the attack by another heavy blow, which
felled her to the ground, and he was in the act of drag-
ging her about the room by the hair of the head, when
several persons, who were alarmed by her cries of "mur-
der," hastened to her assistance, and called in a police-
man, who conveyed him to the station-house.

Richard Fuller, a lodger in the house, confirmed her
evidence.

Mr. D'Eyncourt ordered him to be committed and
kept to hard labour for six months.

WESTMINSTER. William Jones, an engineer,
employed at Elliott's Pimlico brewery, was charged with
revolting cruelty to a cat by throwing the animal into a
furnace.

The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Forster, su-
perintendent of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.

It appeared from the evidence that the defendant's
daughter-in-law, a young widow, having placed the cat
playfully around the accused's neck in the engine-room,
he clutched the animal with great barbarity, and, after
throwing it violently on the ground, " jobbed " it two
or three times with his heel, and then cast it into the
furnace, where it was heard "singeing and frizzling."
---4 Mr. Arnold asked whether it was not intended to call
the defendant's daughter-in-law ?
Mr. Forster said he should greatly prefer not doing
so, as he understood the young woman was in an -ad-
vanced state of pregnancy, and in a great measure de-
pendent upon her father-in-law for support.
An opinion having been expressed from the bench
that all the parties present when the alleged cruelty
took place should be called,
Helen Jones entered the witness box. She denied
having called her father "a brute" and " a monster," as
deposed to by the previous witnesses.
Mr. Arnold inquired if the witness remembered seeing
a cat on the occasion referred to?

The witness replied that she did, and added that,
having placed the cat round the father-in-law's neck, he
seized it and "squeezed the life out of it." The witness
had no sooner uttered these words than she fell down
suddenly in the witness box ; and, on being raised, was
found to be perfectly insensible, in which state she was
carried out of court. After remaining in an unconscious
condition for more than an hour,
Mr. Gifford applied to the magistrate for an adjourn-
ment, and Mr. Forster now offering no objection, Mr.
Arnold postponed the further investigation of the case
until Friday next.

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