The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday a well dressed person, about 40 year.
old, who gave the name of Henry James, of 4.
Albany-road- Camberwell, but was understood to be
a person carrying on business as a jeweller at Ox'
ford, was brought before Mr. Alderman Moon, charged
with indecently exposing his person to three• girls
bout seven years old, at the north door of St. Paul's
Cathedral, between five and six o'clock on the pre-
ce ling evening.
Arthur Kilby, a City policeman, stated that his
attention was directed to the prisoner, who was stand-
ing at the top of the steps with his hack against a
pillar, and the three children standing before him.
lie immediately went up the steps, and found the
prisoner exposing his person to their view.
Mr. Smith, of 66, St. Paul's Churchyard, saw the
prisoner first reconnoitre the place he had chosen,
and then go away and fetch the three children.
Witness directed the policeman's attention to the fact.
He confirmed the officer's account.
Mr. Alderman MooN sentenced him to be impri-
soned and kept to hard labour for three months as a
rogue and vagabond.
The prisoner had some diamonds and gold rings,
about 601. in cash, and some bills of exchange in his
possession.
Ralph Harrison, of the firm of R. Harrison and
Co., shipping merchants, 3, Finsbury Chambers,
Blonafield-street, and John Edmonds, their clerk,
were charged with obtaining goods fraudulently from
Mr. Jenkings, a trunk-maker, in Liverpool-street,
and Mr. Greening, a glass manufacturer, in Coleman-
street.
The evidence was of a voluminous description, and
Mr. Alderman Moox remanded the prisoners til
Saturday.

MARYLEBONE.
Yesterday, a man who gave his name John Mahony,
was brought up in custody for the following ruffianly
and unprovoked assaults upon Mary Ann Tapscott :
On the same morning, at an early hour, as com-
plainant was proceeding along Marylebone-lane,
in
which she resides, the prisoner made to her an im-
proper poposal, and, on her desiring him to go about
his business aA she wished to have nothing to say to
him, he knocked her down three times io the road.
in adciition to which he kicked her with great force
on the lower part of the stomach. He was at length
given in charge to a constable, who was attracted to
the spot by hearing her scream out for assistance.
The prisoner denied having acted in the brutal way
sworn to, and ai•cused complainant of having intended
to rob him. He did nothing more than push her
from him with his foot. •
Mr. LONG irflictetl the full oenalty of 51. upon the
prioner; in default of paying which he was sen •
tenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correction

fur two months.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a young man named Thomas Milner
was charged with having committed a most violent
and unprovoked assqult upon Mrs. Susan Forde, a
married woman, residing in Ratcliffe-square, St.

George's-in the• East.
It appeared•trotn the evidence of the complainant,
whose right eye was nearly closed up and her face a
mass of bruises, that while seatcd, on the preceding
evening, in the pit of the Pavilion Theatre, in the
company of her sister, she was abruptly accosted by
the prisoner and two or three others in his company,
who perempt-,rily ordered her to give up her seat to
them.. Having occupied the same place the whole
evening, she refused to comply with their demand,
upon which the prisoner instantly struck her a tre-
mendeus blow under the eye, and followed it up w ith
several others in rapid succession, until her face and
dress were covered with blood, and she was reduced
to a state of insensibility. The prisoner, who was
seconded in his attack upon her by a young woman
he had come in with, and who tore her veil to pieces,
was immediately detained by a gentleman who wit-
nessed the occurrence from the commencement, and
given into custody.
Mr. Philip Nathan, the gentleman referred to,
stated, that hearing the altercation about the seat, he
turned round and saw the prisoner strike the com-
plainant two such tremendous blows in the face that
if a man had been before him instead of a woman he
could not have struck him more brutally. It was the
witness who caused him to be taken into custody, and
the witness promised the complainant, seeing the poor
woman so much injured and bruised, and it being
such a wanton and brutal act, to attend and give evi-
dence in her behalf. _ _

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When called upon for his answer to the charge, the
prisoner strenuously denied having in any way
molested the complainant, who, he said, had been ill-
used by a shorter man wearing a cap, and called an
elderly gunsmith named Peat, who emphatically con-
firmed his statement, declared the prisoner was sitting
three seats off during the attack quietly discussing a
biscuit, and after incidentally mentioning, in con-
firmation of his evidence, that the complainant was
in the company of a gentleman. concluded by stating
that the man wno had actually perpetrated the
outrage was at that moment in the waiting room, and
that he should be able to point him out to one of the
officers.

- The witness was directed to withdraw with an
officer for that purpose, and directly afterwards re-
turned with a young man named James Bartlett,
whose evidence, however, only tended to complicate
and confuse the case even more than it was, as he po-
sitively declared that it was neither the prisoner nor
himself who had ill-used Mrs. Forde, but a third man
who had availed himself of the confusion consequent
upon his conduct, to disappear and effect his es-
cape. He saw the complainant struck two terrible
blows on the face, but not by the prisoner, who was
out of the house when the attack commenced, and did
not return till it was all over.

The old nun Peat was then confronted with the
last witness, and persisted in his stiternent that the
latter had acknowledged to him on the previous
right, that he was the complainant's assailant, and
not only so, but even promised to come forward and
nuke such an acknowledgment of the fact as should
entirely exculpate the prisoner; while Bartlett, with
equal earnestness' denied this assertion, and declared
thst this assumed confession was a most unaccountable
hallucination.
In answer to this conflicting testimony, the com-
plainant positively swore to the prisoner's identity,
and said that she had not spoken to any gentleman,
and had no one with her but her sister; and Mr.
Nathan declared he could not be mistaken in the
prisoner's person, as he had actually remonstrated
with him at the time on his brutal conduct, and been

answered by him before lie gave him into cu.tody ;
and that the witness Peat, moreover, whose evidence
was so conclusive, was one of the prisoner's party o#
six or eight, who left the house at the conclusion of
the tragedy and returned and made the disturbance.
All this was again as flatly negatived on the other
side; but the prosecutrix having stated that she could
readily produce further testimony to the prisoner's
identification, and Mr. Nathan having guaranteed to
produce his daughter, who had witnessed the attack,
but was not then in attendance, to depose to the
same effect,
Mr. ARNOLD said, it was impossible to arrive at

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a satisfactory conclusion from such a complication of
conflicting evidence, and he must, therefore, adjourn
the case for the attendance of the indispensable wit-
nesses referred to, but would, in the mean time,
accept substantial bail for the prisoner's future ap-
pearance.
The earnestness and apparent sincerity of all the
witnesses:were remarkable.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday William Abbot, Sarah Abbot (his wife),
Rebecca Abbot (his sister), John Green, Phoebe Green,
and Mary Pledge, were brought before Mr. Elliott
on the following charge :
Police sergeant John Hamlin, 18 P, who bore
marks of the most savage ill-usage, deposed that on
the afternoon of the preceding day, while standing
at the corner of Acre-lane, near Brixton church, he
saw a light cart, in which were all the prisoners,
driving at a quick pace towards town. A person on
an omnibus made a remark to them, upon which
Green, who was the driver, jumped out and would
have struck the conductor if he (witness) had not
interfered and prevented him. After much persuasion
Green got into his cart again, and on the approach
of an omnibus drew his home on the wrong side, so
that the whole party had narrowly escaped from being
thrown out and killed upon the instant. Finding
that they were not capable of taking care of the horse
and cart, or of themselves, from their apparent intoxi-
cation, he laid hold of the horse's head, when Green
jumped out and struck him with his fist and also tore
his coat. The other prisoners also got out and made
a furious attack upon him, scratched his face, knoeked
him about, and would have killed him had not some
pf.rs•ins fortunately come to his assistance. Besides
being severely knocked and bruised about his legs
and b.,dy, he had the little finger of h's lett hand
broken in two places, and his sufferings were most
acute.

Robert Flanders, an omnibus time-keeper, deposed
that on the preceding afternoon he saw all the de-
fendants get int.) a cart, anal at that time they were
in a beastly t,tate.of intoxication. lie oh,erved that
Green, who was driving, crossed an omnibus that
was going at a good pace, and had it not been f,r
the skill of the, driver they must have all been
smasheft to piecz.s. The sergeant of police had very
properly interfered, and caught hold of the head of
the horse to prevent further mischief, when they ail
got out of the veh7cle and made a most furious attack
upon him. He distinctly saw both Green, an I the
Abbots strike and kick the sergeant, and the conduct
of all the parties was most outrageous.
Mr. William Greenwood, of 20, Sussex-road, Cold-
harbour lane, Brixton, corroborated the statement of
the last witness.
When a.ked what they haa to say to the charge,
the prisoner Abbot, who is a costermonger, and only
18 ran of are, that on the morning Wine,