The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

WORSHIP-STREET. —John Uewson, an athletic
middle aged man, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt
with a series of brutal and aggravated assaults.
Thomas Payne, a jobbing shoemaker, in Old Castle-
street, Bethnal-green, stated that he was married to the
sister of the prisoner, whom he had occasionally em-
ployed to assist him in his business. At a late hour
on the previous night the prisoner called at his house
in a state of intoxication, and bursting into tho
room, in which he was seated, demanded pay-
ment for the last work he had done for him. Wit-
ness replied that if he called again at a reasonable
hour on the following day, he would pay him the money
which amounted only to Bd. ; but the prisoner in-
sisted upon an immediate settlement, and after assailing
him with the foulest epithets, struck him a violent
blow in the face, which blackened his eye as it now
appeared. The prisoner followed up the attack by a
heavy blow on the side of the head, which knocked him
down and before he could recover his feet, he flung
himself upon him, and declaring that he would. do for
him at once, grasped hold of his neck, and compressed
his throat with so much violence that he was almost
strangled. On observing his perilous position, the wife
of witness, who was in an advanced state of pregnancy,
instantly ran forward, and was endeavouring to drag
the prisoner away, when he commenced a furious attack
upon her, and knocked her down five times in succes-
sion. After striking her down on the last occasion, the
prisoner made a disgusting allusion to her pregnant con-
dition, and repeatedly struck her with all his force upon
the stomach, at the same time assailing her with threats
and imprecations of a horrible description. Their cries
of "murder" and "police" at length attracted the atten-
tion of some of their neighbours, who hastened to their
assistance, and rescued them from further ill-treatment,
and after a severe contest, the prisoner was ultimately
secured and giveni into custody.
Jane Payne, the wife of the last witness, who ap-
peared in such a dreadful state of suffering that she was
scarcely able to articulate fully, confirmed the evidence
of her husband, and added that she had been ever since
in exoruciating pain from the effects of the savage vio-
lence of the prisoner, and, as she was within a short
period of her confinement, the most serious consequences
might result from the brutal treatment to which she had
been subjected.

Mr. If'Eyncourt ordered the prisoner to pay a penalty
of 514 or be committed in default for two months to the
House of Correction, for the assault upon his brother-
in-law, in addition to which he should sentence him to
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for the further
term of four months for his unnatural violence to his
sister.

CLERKENWELL.—James M'Gregor, a young man
smartly dressed, who was recognised as being a swell
mobsman, was charged with attempting to commit rob-
beries at the Great Northern Railway Station, 'King's-
cross.

On Monday afternoon last, the prisoner was observed
by Fisher, a detective, attempting to pick a lady's
pocket. On the arrival of the train from York, he took
up a portmanteau, and was about to go away with it,
but he was seized by the officer, and conveyed to the
station-house. On his road thither the prisoner said to
Fisher, "I suppose we can settle this business on the
quiet. I don't mind a dragger, I'd rather do that than
spout you in the court." Several pocket-books, and
other property were found in his possession, which had
no doubt been the produce of robberies. The term
•‘ dragger" signifies, it seems, three months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour.

The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was
sentenced to that imprisonment.

The sum of 101. 'has been forwarded to the poor-box
of this court, by a benevolent donor, under the initials
" C. D."

WESTMINSTER.—Mrs. Synnott, wife of. Dr. Syn-
nott, of 16, Eaton-terrace, was summoned by Charles
Brown, a cabman.

Complainant said he drove the defendant, two other
ladies, and a child, on Wednesday week, from near the
Albany, in Piccadilly, to Eaton-terrace, where the lady
gave him a shilling. As the distance was above a mile,
and as there were three adult persons in the cab, he
was entitled to eighteenpence.
Mrs. Synnott, who gave her statement in reply upon
oath, said that the cab was hired from opposite Miss
Burdett Coutts', and when she got home the driver de-
manded 2s. 6d., upon which she gave him ls. 6d.
Complainant said she must have made a mistake and
had some other cab.

Mrs. Synnott replied that she had bad no other cab
that day ; and she was corroborated by Emma Hum-
phreys, servant.
Mr. Arnold said if the driver bad been summoned, as
he ought to have been, for demanding more than his
fare, for insolence, and for neglecting to give his ticket.,
he should have dealt with him severely. He should
dismiss the present summons, and order the complainant
to pay ss. costs to the defendant.
The cabman paid the money, which Dr. Synnott
placed in the, poor-lion.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Win. E. Clarke was
charged with having assaulted Police-constable Martin,

C division, and with being drunk.
Mr. Bingham was about to hear the charge, when an
application was made to him by one of the officials of
the Paving Board of St. James's for the charge to be
allowed to stand over, as the case involved circum-
stances in which the Commissioners of Paving took an
interest, and it would be advisable to have them ap-
prised of the proceedings.
Mr. Bingham consented to put back the case for an
hour, by which time several of the Paving Board Com-
missioners were in court.

The constable said about half-past eleven o'clock the
previous night he raw the defendant drunk in Windmill-
street with a book and pencil in his hand. The defend-
ant came up to him, and said he should take his number,
and otherwise made much disturbance. He told the
defendant to go home, but the defendant still continued
to make a disturbance, and told him he had been sent
'by Mr. Yorke, one of the paving-board officials, to
watch the proceedings of the police. Witness again
urged the defendant to go home quietly, but the de-
fendant would not take this advice, and the defendant
having seized him by the wrist, and scratched the part,
witness took him to the station-house.
Police-constable C 190 said when the defendant was
brought to the station-house, he was very drunk, and
used very foul language.
Inspector Mahony said the defendant was as drunk as
he well could be. '

The first witness said when he first saw the defendant,
be was with five or six loose women, with his book out.
When first told to go home, he told witness he would
fetch Mr. Yorke to him.

Mr. Bidgood, one of the Paving Commissioners, said
what he had to state to the bench might possibly induce
a different view of the case. The inhabitants had ex-
pressed much dissatisfaction at the conduct of the police
in the district, and had made a complaint to the com-
missioners in Scotland-yard on the subject. The answer
had not been such as to do away with the grounds of
dissatisfaction, and accordingly the board of Paving Com-
missioners had employed the defendant, who had been
strongly recommended to them as a 'man of probity, re-
spectability, and sobriety, to collect statistics against the
police for ulterior purposes. The mission of the de-
fendant had somehow become known to the police, and
the defendant had in consequence been subjected to a
good deal of obstruction and annoyance. It was not,
therefore, unlikely that the present charge had some-
thing to do with the fact of the employment of the de-
fendant by the board. He would not go so far as to say
that the charge had been trumped up, but certainly he
thought the court might very well conceive that the evi-
dence had been exaggerated by the police.
Mr. Bingham had only to consider whether the evi-
dence was sufficient to establish the charge of drunken-
ness against this very respectable person, employed by
the Paving Board to get up evidence against the police.
The charge of drunkenness had been substantiated on the
oath of a police constable of gebd character, supported
by other constables, and by the inspector on duty. Ile
was therefore of opinion that the charge of drunkenne:s
was proved, and the defendant must therefore pay the
drunkard's fee of five shillings.
Mr. Bidgood said the board would pay the fine.

WHAT IS MAN ?--Chemically speaking, a man is
451bs. of carbon and nitrogen, diffused through 51 pail-
fuls of water.—Quarterly Review.