The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A young man named William,
Clarke was brought before the Lord Mayor under the
following remarkable circumstances :
Mr. Ashley defended the prisoner.
Mr. Frederick Riddall, clerk to Mr. Adams, Pick-
ford, and Co., of No. 35, Leadenhall-street, merchants,
said the prisoner was a porter in the same establishment.
On various occasions I have missed money from my desk,
and in consequence of that I marked a halfcrown yester-
day morning, and placed it in my desk, which I then
left unlocked. I quitted my desk for about an hour,
and outny return I missed my half-crown. There were
four persons in the same employment as the prisoner. I
said I missed money from my desk, and I knew there
must be a thief in the place. The prisoner protested
his innocence. I previously sent him for change, and I
then told him on his return of my loss. I said I had
narked a half-crown and placed it in my desk, and it
was gone, and the prisoner lifted up his cap and a
half-crown fell out of it, and I picked it up, and it
proved to be my marked half-crown. He then said,
" Oh, my God ?" and that he was quite innocent, and
some one must have placed the half crown in his cap.
There were no persons near him at the time, but his
arm was on his cap, so that it was impossible for any
one but himself to put it in. Some days ago I gave
him one shilling and sixpence to pay for the carriage of
a parcel which was to be taken to the Eastern Counties
Railway, and I have received information that he took
the parcel to the Spread Eagle, and did not pay for it.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ashley—l saw the half-crown
safe at about half-past 10 o'clock, and I did not see it
again till it was dropped by the prisoner. I had put it
into one of the pigeon-holes, and I missed it between 12
and 1. The prisoner went out that morning on the
business of the house. I can't say at what time. I
did not send him out, and I had not told him before he
went out that I had missed the half-crown. When I
told him to go for the change he took his cap off and
put it on the desk, and then went out. I was there all
the time his cap was on the desk. My desk was left
open in the morning, and four persons were left in the
counting-house. I saw him pick up the cap when he
came back with the change.
Re-examined—l said that no one should leave the
counting-house until the police had been sent for,
that they might be searched, I said that when the pri-
Ironer was absent, and when he brought the change, I
told him the same. I had first asked each in the office
for change of a sovereign, thinking that I might find out
the marked half-crown in that way, and then I sent him
out for the change in the expectation that the half-
crown might be amongst the change. Before the half-
crown was picked up he made the exclamation.
Cross-examined—There were Some of the others near
to the desk. I don't think it was possible for any one to
put the half-crown in the cap without my seeing it. I did
not see the prisoner put it into the cap.
Mr. G. H, Wilson, clerk to Messrs Adams, Pickford,
and Co., said I was present when Mr. Riddall said he
had put a marked half-crown into the desk, and that it
was not there. I did not put the half-crown into the cap
.nor did either of the other clerks do so to the best of my
belief.
Cross-examined—Rnew that the prisoner went in and
out several times during the morning. He turned the
cap up and the half-crown dropped from it.
Mr. A. Reed and Mr. H. H. Fox, also clerks in the
house, deposed that they saw the half-crown drop from
the cap, and that they had not put it into the cap.
Mr. Ashley, after having very closely cross-examined
the several witnesses for the prosecution, said the for-
mer master of the prisoner, a tradesman of high respec-
tability, was in attendance to state the great opinion he
entertained of the young man's integrity and trustwor-
thiness.

The Lord Mayor—Yon had better keep witnesses to
the character of the prisoner for his trial, for I am deter-
mined upon such evidence as I have heard to commit
him to Newgate.

The prisoner upon being asked whether he wished to
say anything in his defence replied, "I shall leave it
to my solicitor."
rte was then committed.
'Caroline Goring, a young-married woman, was charged
V,Tith having deserted hor child aged three months.
Finnis, of the City police, said—l took the prisoner
into custody last night, and told her I apprehended her
for having deserted her child. She denied that she had
done so, but when I took her to the station house, she
admitted that she had left her baby in St. Mary-axe.
A. little boy who resides with his mother in St. Mary-
axe, said that on Friday evening, as he was coming
down stairs in the house, he heard the cries of a child
on the stairs, and observed a bundle, which he imme-
diately picked up. Finding that the bundle contained
a child, he ran with it to his mother, who took care of
it, and gave the needful information to the police. The
Union was, he said, a few doors from the house in which
the baby had been deposited.
A nurse named Thomas, said—l know the prisoner.
i She s a married woman, and the child is her's. She
gave it to me to nurse at ss. a week, but was not regu-
lar in her payments, and I offered to keen the child for
4's. a week, but I could not get that frOm her, and I
'went to her lodging and gave her back the baby, saying
that I could not keep it for nothing. She would not
come to any arrangement at all. -
The Lord Mayor—Did you see her husband ?
Witness—No, my lord. I understand. she does not
live with her husband. When I vent to look for her to
return the child, she tried to hide from me.
The prisoner said—My lord, "I am unemployed and
I had nothing to give my baby, so I thought it best to
do with it as I have done."
The Lord Mayor—I consider your conduct most cruel.
The poor child might have died, and if that had been the
case you would certainly have had to undergo a trial for
murder. The little boy and his mother, and the nurse
acted with humanity, but you showed that you have not
"the natural touch," and I shall send you to the House

of Correction for three months for this heartless
offence.
A respectable-looking man, although shabbily attired,
about 45 years of age, who refused to give his name and
address, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayo;
charged with stealing a cheese weighing 841b5., out of a
cart in Lime-street, the property of Messrs. Brooke,
salesmen, Leadethall-street.
The prisoner was seen to go up to the cart, which was
standing at the warehouse door of Messrs. Brooke, and
deliberately take the cheese up in his arms and walk off
into Philpot-lane, where, from its great weight, he was
compelled to drop it, the act having been witnessed by
the shopinan of a neighbour, who informed Mr. Millar,
Messrs. Brook's clerk. The prisoner was followed and
stopped, and on being Charged with stealing the cheese,
he stated that he had received 2d. to carry the cheese to
where he put it down by a man whom he did not know.
The prisoner was then given into custody and taken to
station-house, but refused to give his name and address.
The Lord Mayor said the evidence was clear against
the prisoner, and, although he refused to give his name,
he could be transported in the name of John Black as
well as any other. After giving him the usual caution,
the prisoner—who declined to say anything in his de-
fence—was fully committed for trial.
A lad named Lyons, who stood remanded on a charge
of stealing from the pocket of Mr. Abdallah, a foreign
merchant, in the Poultry, a platina cup, valued at 61.,
was again placed at the bar for further examination.
Mr. Wood, jun., appeared for the prisoner.
The officer stated that there was no additional evi-
dence against the prisoner to that taken on the former
examination, and the only evidence throwing suspicion
on the prisoner was that of the porter at the Exchange-
buildings, of the name of Saxon, who stated that he saw
the prisoner in company with another lad, and saw
his hand leaving the coat tail of Mr. Abdallah, and at
the same time touch the other boy, who made off. Sus-
pecting that Mr. Abdallah's pocket had been picked, he
went up to him, and it was then found the cup, which
had been previously safe, was gone, upon which he
pointed out the prisoner as the probable thief. Just pre-
vious he had seen him in company with another lad then
in court. _ _

This lad was immediately taken into custody, and
placed at the bar, and gave his name as George Apple-
yard.
Mr. Wood said the boy Appleyard was a respectable
boy, and employed at the Bow-lane station.
The gaoler said he had frequently seen him in the
company of thieves.
The Lord Mayor directed that inquiry should be made
concerning him.
Both prisoners were then discharged.

GUILDHALL.—A short portly gentleman, who de-
scribed himself as Dr. Woolf, of Holland, a natural
philosopher, was brought up before Sir Chapman Mar-
shall, charged with having obtained 301. from Mr. Henry
Divetts, of 32, Moorgate-street, a patent agent, under
fraudulent pretences.
Mr. Divetts stated that the prisoner, on the 26th of
August, 1850, came to him and offered for sale a patent
for making soda from common salt. After several in-
terviews the doctor was told that the invention had been
discovered by Dr. Humphrey Davy, and that it was an
expensive process, and not likely to answer. The pro-
secutor inquired if the process was to be effected by che-
mical process or by galvanism. The prisoner answered by
galvanism. In consequence of his representations, 301.
was advanced to the prisoner, and experiments were to be
tried. From the experiments it was ascertained that
the invention was worthless. An agreement was then
entered into, by which the prosecutor and his partner, a
Mr. Harvey, of Manchester, and the prisoner was to
have a third each of the profits.
The defendant said the 301. had been given to him for
travelling expenses, and had nothing to do with the suc-
cess of the invention.

The magistrate decided that if there was anything at
all in the case, a partnership had been contemplated, if
not completed, and the defendant must be discharged.
The prisoner was discharged accordingly.

WORSHIP-STREET.—James Evans, a deaf and
dumb boy, of morose aspect, about 18 years of age, was
charged with attempting to murder his master, Francis
Claxton, a shoemaker, in Wellington-street, Kingsland-
road, and with violently assaulting his mistress.
The prisoner had been apprenticed to Mr. Claxton
from the Deat and Dumb Institution, Old Kent-road, in
April last, and during the last fortnight his conduct had
exhibited traces of violence and eccentricity. On the
previous afternoon his master complained of the faulty
manner in which he was doing his work, whereupon he
snatched up a knife and attempted to cut Mr. Claxton's
throat. His master grappled with him, and in the
struggle his apron was cut in various places by the pri-
soner's attempts to stab him. At length the prisoner
took up a heavy wooden implement used in the trade,
and aimed a tremendous blow at him ; but Mrs. Claxton
coming in, received it on her arm. The prisoner then
struck her on the temple, and inflicted a fearful wound,
which rendered her insensible. He was at length se-
scured without doing any further mischief. Mrs. Clax-
ton, who is still suffering severely, corroborated the
evidence of her husband.

A gentleman from the Deaf and Dumb Asylum made
repeated efforts to explain the evidence to the prisoner,
but he averted his head with an air of gloomy abstrac-
tion, which produced a general impression that he was
labouring under mental aberration.
Mr. Hammiil expressed his conviction that the pri-
soner would not in a sane state of mind, but he would
send the case before a jury.

S OUTH WA RK.—Richard _lrons, a butcher's carrier,
was brought before Mr. A'Beckett, charged by an
officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly working a horse in an
unfit state.

David Watson, an active officer of the Royal Society,
stated that about nine o'clock that morning lie was pro-
ceeding along Duke-street, Tooley-street, when he saw
the defendant driving a horse and cart heavily laden
with leather. The animal seemed very weak, and mat-
ter was running from under the saddle. He imme-
diately went up to the prisoner and stopped him, when,
on removal of the saddle, he discovered a large wound
in a frightful state, extending along the back. He
asked the defendant how he could be so brutal as to
work such an animal, when he replied, that he had had
it about a month, and was not aware that it was so bad.
Mr. A'Beckett asked the defendant what he had to
say in answer to the charge. _ . _

The defendant replied that the man who shod it a few
days ago told him it would recover. _ _

Mr.—A'Beckett—How can it recover from such a
wound, if you work it ?

Defendant—The man said it would not hurt it.

Mr. A'Beckett—Your conduct is very brutal, and you
ought to be ashamed of yourself in working an animal
in such a bad state. You are fined 205., and in default
of payment I shall commit you for 14 days.

Defendant—l am willing to have the horse killed.
Mr. A'Beckett—You are fined 205., and if you work
the horse again in such a state you will be liable to
severe punishment.

HAMMERSMITH.—Mr. Thomas Green, of Cannon-
street, City, :was summoned before Mr. Paynter, for
refusing to pay Charles Brown, the driver of a Hansom
cab, badge 5,195, the sum of 35., being the remainder
of his fare for the hire of his vehicle on the 21st ult.

The complainant said he was passing the Mansion-
house, when he was hailed by the defendant, who got
into his cab and directed him to drive to Henrietta-
street, Covent-garden, where he remained seven minutes.
He next drove him to No. 128, Long-acre, where he
stopped ten minutes. He also drove the defendant to
several other places, and was finally discharged in Thur-
low-square, Brompton. He stopped at all the places
various times, which upon beingtogether added made
two hours and a quarter that he had waited.
The defendant said he had paid the cabman 65., being
at the rate of 2s. per hour, which he had always been in
the habit of paying, both before and after the passing of
the new act.

The complainant replied that there was nothing men-
tioned about his being engaged by the hour when he
was hired.

Mr. Paynter said if that was so, the defendant could
not claim to pay the cabman by the hour, unless it was
mentioned in the first instance. According to his calcu-
lation, if the statement of the complainant was true, the
fare would be 9s. He allowed 4s. 6d. for waiting, and
he made the distance at a rough guess over nine miles,
which would be certainly 4s. 6d. more.
The defendant knew the distance exceeded seven miles ;
and if his worship was of opinion that the different times
that the cabman had waited for him could be added to-
gether so as to come within the meaning of the new act,
then he was clearly wrong, and he was only sorry he
had given the complainant the trouble of coming to the
court.

Mr. Paynter said that that was the most equitable
construction of the act, and ordered the defendant to pay
the 2s. and 7s. costs.

The money was immediately handed to the usher.

THE LATE GALES.

The equinoctial gales have been productive of great
havoc among the shipping off the coast. On Monday
and Tuesday nights the wind blew terrifically from the
S.W., with heavy falls of rain. The shipping in the
vicinity of the Downs appear to have suffered severely,
and a large fleet of outward-bound ships, which had
made a start a few days ago, after a lengthened deten-
tion, wind-bound, were obliged to put back for shelter.
During the fearful weather of Tuesday night three fine
ships, two bound to Australia and one to Hobart Town,
with passengers, had a narrow escape from destruction.
The Santipore, Captain Jewell commander, bound to
Hobart Town, from London, in making her way down
Channel, got upon the rocks at Folkestone. The landing
of the passengers being accomplished, towards mid-day,
as the tide flowed, she providentially came off, but not
without ions of rudder and sustaining other damage.
The escape of this ship is most surprising. The other
unfortunate passenger-ship was a Dutch vessel, which
left the Thames a short time since for Port Philip.
Another outward-bound, the Corsair's Bride, Symons
master, from London to Ceylon, went ashore at
Dungeness during the gale of Tuesday. After being
exposed to considerable peril, she was at length got off
and taken into Dover harbour yesterday. On the other
side of the Ness, near Hastings, a fine schooner, called
the John Weavell, was wrecked, but the crew fortu-
nately succeeded in preserving themselves. The eastern
coast continues to be the scene of many distressing
casualties. The recent heavy winds have told with ter-
rible effect upon the small craft. Two sloops belonging
to Wells, in Norfolk, called the Two Sisters, laden with
grain for the Humber, and the Blakeney and Hull
packet trader, are supposed to have perished in the
gales, Ofd Barrow, some distance out, a Newfound.