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London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

COUNTY COURT. I) EN4IIARI-HILL, CAM-
BER IV ELL, Sept. 20.
ILLEGAL ?EAST ICE.-TH E APOTHECARIES' COMPAIN T

V. MACDONALD.

This action was brought to recover a penalty of
201., to which the defendant had rendered himself
liable by practising as an apothecary without the
requisite legal qualification. The facts of the case
were perfectly, clear, and the defendant wisely sub-
mitted to a judgment for the penalty and costs,
throwing himself upon the mercy of the company,
who with the leniency which always distinguishes
their proceedings under the statute of the 55th Geo.
111. (a statute by which they have very extensive
powers), have consented to give the defendant time to
pay the costs, and to let the judgment for 201. stand
as a security against any future offence by the de-
fendant, he having stated his intention of duly quali-
fying himself and becoming a licentiate of the society.
Mr. Eyre, of Devereux- court, Temple, appeared on
behalf of the Hon. Society of Apothecaries; and the
defendant, whose only object was to make the above
terms, appeared in person. It will be remembered
that this application of the powers of the County
Courts to the recovery of penalties under this Act,
was suggested and carried into effect by the Medical
Protection Society, No. 43, Lincoln's Inn. fields ;
since the establishment of which society, and owing
to the co-operation of the Apothecaries' Company
with them, the regular practitioners have received an
amount of protection which they have never before
obtained. This case excited a great deal of interest
and the court was crowded with medical practitioners,
qualified and unqualified, who seenita som'.Nhat dis-
appointed the cause did not come fully before the
Court.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
James Wentworth was brought before the Lord
Mayor charged under the following circumstances.
Witcher, A 27, detective metropolitan police, said
that a few days ago he was sent for by the Secretary
to the Trade Protection Society, who gave him such
information as induced him to go to a house in Saville-
row, Regent-street, in the cellar of which he found
and apprehended the prisoner.
Me. Richard Beck, a member of the Society of
Friends, residing at 6, Coleman street, in the City,
said, on the sth instant the prisoner called at my
house and gave me the card of Mr. Reynolds, whom
I knew to have been a customer of my partner Mr.
Smith, and who, he said, recommended him to me.
He gave me an order for goods (surveying instru-
ments) to the amount of 1001., and from what Mr.
it eynolis said of him I was satisfied with executing
part of the order, but he objected to receive a portion
of the goods, and I delivered the rest to him. We
would not have delivered the instruments if it were
not for 11r. Reynold's statement.
Mr. H. Reynolds, of No. 15, Cambridge terrace,
Hyde Park, and 42, Moorgate street, surgeon, said
about the 7th or Bth of August the prisoner called
upon him for the purpose of taking a house of him.
No. 31A, Saville-row, Regent-street. He told me he
was an engineer, and the son of Godfrey Wentworth,
Esq , of Woolley-park, Wakefield, a banker, well
known to every one in the city of London, and if
inquiry were made in the City I should find that such
was the case ; that he was a relation of Earl Fit zwils
Liam, and cousin to Lady Augusta Wentworth, my
neighbour, of No. 11, Connaught-place, Regent's-
park ; that he was an engineer to the Indian Railway,
and had just returned from Alexandria, where he had
been for the last two years assisting in making the
survey, but it had been lost in the transmission from
Alexandria by the Post-office authorities, and he
was at that time in communication with Colonel
Maberly on the subject; that he was also an
engineer to the Northern Counties Coal Company,
which had recently been established in Agar-
street, Strand ; that the house in Agar street was
under repair, and that a Mr. George Ray, an extensive
coal proprietor in Sunderland, was managing director,
and Mr. Wormold, a banker at Wakefield, was one
of the leading men, in fact the man of money, in the
association. The prisoner also said that he had been
to Sunderland, and had made surveys of the mines of
coal belonging to Mr. Ray and the company. I
made some inquiries in the City, and the result
was that I believed his statement to be correct, in
consequence of which I let him my house in Saville-
row. I subsequently gave Mr. Beck information
upon the subject.
Mr. Beck—l heard from Mr. Reynolds that the
prisoner had not permission to use his card, but from
what Mr. Reynolds stated about the prisoner I was
satisfied to execute the order. I had not had deal-
ings with Mr. Reynolds myself, neither had .1 seen
Mr Reynolds at all.
The prisoner was remanded till Monday, when it
is expected he will have the opportunity of seeing
other persons to whom he has been a customer.
A Jew boy, named Joseph Bendon, was brought up
in the custody of Robinson Webb, upon the charge
of having been concerned with. another boy, named
Emanuel Jacobs, in a robbery,
The shop of Mr. Abrahams, of Houndsditch, bad
been robbed some da3 s ago of a large quantity of
spoons, and Emanuel Jacobs and the present prisoner,
who are known to the police as very ingenious
thieves, were seen by Webb and Noon, under sus •
picious circumstances, in the neighbourhood of Pet
ticoat-lane. Jacobs was apprehended, and a number
of the stolen spoons, which were identified by Mr.
Abrahams, having been found in his possession, he
wes committed to prison. The present prisoner, who
was represented as the regular nurse and educator of
infant thieves, contrived to get away upon the occa-
sion, but was apprehended by Webb on Wednesday
night.
Webb said the prisoner, Moses Bendon, has been
remarkable for a considerable time for carrying before
him, suspended from his neck, a basket containing
hard eggs or oranges, and he manages to engage his
hands with the pockets of gentlemen while he pretends
to be honestly employed. He is generally accom-
panied by one or two boys of very diminutive size,
and he is in the habit of going into shops under pre-
tence of selling, and if nobody happens to be in the
way his little company are sure to carry off all they
can. If there happen to be a shopman behind the
counter then Bendon's excuse is that he wants to sell,
or he wants a situation. Some time ago I saw him,
with his basket before him, pick a gentleman's pocket,
but as the gentleman would not appear against him
the sentence was but slight.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, this is a very
bad account I hear of you. The Prisoner—Yes, your
Lordship, but I did not steal the spoons. It was the
other boy, and I happened to be passing as he came
along, and they grabbed me.
The LORD AIAYOR—IIOW old are you ? The Pri-
soner—Somewhere about 18 years old, I think
Webb—The moment he is at liberty he'll 'have a
crowd of children to go to and bring up to thieving.
It is impossible to conceive what mischief he does.
There was a crowd of thieves waiting for his comrade
Jacobs, who was committed the other day; and some
time ago, when I had this boy in custody, his brother
and sister attempted to rescue him.
The LORD MAYOR said the case was a very shocking
one, and some inquiries must be made about such a
system as that descr.lbed.—Committed.
GUILDHALL.
James Bissett, a private in the Scotch Fusilier
Guards, at present stationed in the Tower, was placed
at the bar before Alderman Farebrother, on a charge
of being drunk and indecently assaulting a young
man named Burrows, in the Owen Glyndwr public-
house, Bartholomew-close.
David Jones, son of the landlord of the public-
house, and other witnesses, were examined, and fully
established the soldier's innocence of the gross charge
that had been preferred against him, and that all the
prosecutor had stated was false.
The prosecutor cross-examined them, but received
flat contradictions to every question he put, and at last
he asserted that none of them were telling the truth,
for they were not present.
Alderman FAREBROTHRIL said he should discharge
the prisoner, and give him a certificate to his com-
manding officer of the utter groundlessness of the
charge, and to explain why be was away from the
barracks. The prosecutor himself ought to be indicted
for perjury.
Two young men, the one wearing moustachioes,
and the other spectacles, who gave their names as
William Charles Hitchin, of Tavistock-row, Covent-
garden, and Benjamin Henry Mayes, of 23, King-
street, Covent-garden, were chargA with obtaining a
quantity of papier-mache trays, value 26/ 10s., under
false pretence', from Mr. Oliver Robbins, of S'afford-
street, Wolverhampton, and 20, King-street, Smith-
field, japan and tin plate worker.
George Trew, 26, deposed to taking the prisoners
into custody, and finding on Hitchin two memo-
randum-books, two knives, and 3d. There was no
entry of the present purchase. There was also several
letters. On Mayes he found an invoice for plate glass
to the amount of 171. 17s. 7d. On making inquiry
at the Savoy-wharf, Savoy •street, it appeared that the
order had been executed, but the prisoner was not to
be found since. There was another similar invoice of
Mr. Gloag's, of Blackmore street, Drury-lane, to the
amount of 71., which had not been paid. He might
also add, that on the way W the station he detec'ed
Mayes in the act of tearing some papers, from which
it appears he was starting a lean office in Wellington.
street, Strand, getting people to paint and fit up the