The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-27 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A middle aged Irishwoman, named Callaghan, and
h9r five young children, were brought to the court by
the relieving officers of St. Giles's, to be examined in
the usual form previous to their removal to Ireland.
On being required to place her made or signature to
tee declaration raiting to her settlement, the woman
stowly refused to comp y, stating that she would prefer
remaining in the w, rkhouse two or three mouths longer;
and then would only consent to go beck to her parish
on condition that her children were supplied with suit-
able clothing.
As the woman persisted in her refusal to sign the
paper, and mr:iLtained an air of impudent defiance, the
order for her removal could not be signed, and she
was therefore liberated.
Almost immediately afterwards a strong healthy
labourer, named Bradley, also Irish, was brought before
the magistrate for a similar purpose, the parish autho-
rities wishing to be spared the expense of maintainirg
fern and his family in their wurlihou9e.
The Testament was handed to him as usual by the
usher, tut he refused to be sworn,

Mr. JA DINE—YO u reuse to be sworn?
Bradley—lndeed, I do.
Mr. JARDINE—Then go about your busines7.
The fellow then put on his hat pith a self-satinficd
ely.selde, 'u stalked out of court.

Mr. Riley, the assistant-overseer, in reply to some
qucetions from his Nor-hip, staLed that this man was in
tne h,bit of working in the i.ewers or on railways during
he summer, and throwing himself on the parish of St.
Giles for the winter. lie had pursued this course for
years, and he (Mr. Riley) looked forward to his arrival
on the approach of the ainter season with the same cer-
tainty that he anticipated his salary.
Mr. JARDINE said it could not be tolerated that these
people should have their own way in this manner, and
he believed that the evidence of any one who might
have heard them acknowledge their place of settlement
would be sufficient to justify him in signing an order for
their compulsory removal.
The assistant overseer stated that ho would convey
his Worship's suggestion to the Loard of guardians ft.r
their consideration.
M A RY LEBONE.

Robert Frost, a guard in the employ of the Great
Western Railway Compny, was brought up at the in-
stance of Mr. Collard, sup,:intcnclent of the said corn-
pany's.police, upon t'-:o ehari4e of robbery, and it will
be seen frJrn the subjJinill evichnce that the prisoner
hod made up his mind to wreak vengeance upon the
person by whom hi guilt was discovered, but who for-
tunately escaped injury. The accused, owing to the hut t
which he had sust:.7n,d by jumping from a truck in

which he was ri:litly„ nas eolanie and weak as to be un-
able to stand dur•i• g the inquiry, and he was therefore
allowed to Fit clown. •

John Murcia the chief guard in charge of the goods
train from Bristol to Paddington on the previous morn-
ing, deposed, that while proceeding from Bath to Chip-
penhara he suspt cted that there was something wrong,
and accordingly looked into the basket of the prisoner,
but saw nothing therein but his (prisoner's) own pro•
perty; the prisoner had shifted his position several times,
and taken his place in a part of the train it was not usual
for guards to occupy, but he rode with witness from
Reading to Slough. Witness again searched his basket,
and found therein some habit-shirts, a child's robe, and
a quantity of satin neck ties.' After the train had started
from Slough, witness asked prisoner what he had which
did not belong to him; when he begged that he might
be allowed to destroy the things alluded to, and which
he admitted he had taken from a box. He told witness
that he might keep the articles. When near Bull's-
bridge, about ten miles from town, he fellupon his knees
and begged that nothing might be mentioned respecting
the matter as it would be his ruin, and when within a
mile or two of the station, and while the train was going
at the rate of fifteen miles an hour, he threw himself out
into the road.
Mr. Collard said, that the prisoner was dreadfully
bruised, and it was a great mercy that he was not
killed.
A great deal of other evidence was gone into, from
which it appeared that no doubt could exist with regard
to the prisoner having abstracted the articles found in
his basket from a package which, amongst others, was
deliveied at the station at Reading; the prisoner was
ultimately taken into custody at his lodgings, in Prin-
cess street, Portman-market, by Brooker and Acason,
two of the railway company's officers, when he raid it
was lucky for Murch that there waa another person
riding in the truck; had not such been the case he woull
have been pitched out of it on the line; he bolted from
the premises, but was rocaptut el, and after being con-
veyed to Mr. Collard's office was locked up in the station-
house. In his room was a pistol, which he said was in-
tended for the guard Burch, Mr. Collard added, that the
prisoner told him that there would have been mur-
der but for the presence of a third person, who had, un-
der circumstances of a peculiar and pressing nature,
beet, allowed to travel by the luggage train from Slough
to Paddington. The capture of the prisoner was not
effected until the evening of Thursday, malty hours after
he had made the leap from the truck, and no doubt could
exist as to tbe intention of the prisoner to attempt the
life of the witness Mureb.

The articles of haberdashery, &c., as also a egsel
found in the prisoner's basket, were produced: the im-
plement alluded to had in all probability been used in
the opening of the box. - •
Mr. Collard was asked by the magistrate if he had
any further witnesses to produce, and he replied in the
negative; he had not time to make the necessary in•
quiries to complete the me.
The prisoner was remanded till Wednesday next. His
application to be allowed to put in bail for his ap-
pearance on that day was refused, and he was then
locked up.