The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-11 00:00:00

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Henry Gi!lard, messenger to the Life Assurance
Company, said the secretary's bell rang on Christmas-
day, about one o'clock, and the prisoner gave him the
key of the safe below stairs, and in Mr. Williek's name
ordered him to bring up the large tin box, as Mr. Wil-
lick wanted something out of it He said i.e did so lin-
rnediately, and left. it in Air. \V flick's room. The bell
rung again two or three time-, but he did not attend to
it, as it was Christmas. day, and he was at his dinner.
This clo,ed the casa for the prosecution.
Mr. Clarkson, who appeared for the prisoner, said he
did not think it necessary ihen to snake any defence, or
to offer any r. mark on the case
Mr. Loam finally committed the prisoner to take his
trial at the Central Criminal Court.,
CLEIiKENWEn.
Henry Allen, who had La en charged last Saturday,
with so violently assaulting a lad named Bloom, as to
place his life in'imnainent danger, and remanded to this
day, on account of the inability of the prosecutor to
leave the hospital, was again placed at the bar, before
Mr. Greenwood, for final examination.
Mr. Fenton, the treasurer, and Mr. Williams, one of
the most active of the managing committee of the pa-
rochial schools of St. Sepulchre, to which the prosecutor
was attached, were in attendance to watch the case ;' the
latter gentleman saying he had a charge to prefer against
the constable in whose bands the ease was, of having
been guilty of a gross breach of duty.
Mr; Greenwood having suggested the propriety of
disposing of the case at present before the Court, the
lad Bloom, who was so far recovered from the injuries he
had received as to be able to leave the hospital last
night, was sworn, and detailed the facts of the assault,.
the main points of which have been already given.
Police-constable G 243, stated that he was called
about nine o'clock to take the prisoner into icustody a
few minutes after the commission of the assault, but as
he knew him well, and observed that at that time Bloom
seemed not to have received any serious injury, he (the
constable) suggested to Mr. Bloom, sen., that it would be
wrong to lock the prisoner up upon such a trifling
charge, and allowed him to go away.. When, however,
he heard that :he lad was so unwell as to render it ne-
cessary that he should be conveyed to the hospital, he
went in search of the prisoner and arrested him about
one o'clock on the following morning. He considered
that he was doing his duty when he refused to take
charge of Allen by the direction of Mr. Bloom, because
he knew where he cquld be found at any moment.
\ Mr. Williams said the constable had, in the above
statement, given all the facts upon which he (Mr. Wil-
liams) purposed founding his charge. He thought it a
very gross dereliction of duty on
-the part of the consta •
ble to allow a person who had committed so serious an
assault upon a mere child like the prosecutor as to en-
danger his life, to be at liberty for a period sufficiently
long to enable him to make his escape.
Mr. GREENWOOD said the policeman had been only
put into the box that moment as a witness, and it would
be most unfair to him now to call upon him to meet a
charge like the present at a moment's notice. The
course he (Mr. Greenwood) would suggest would be for
the boy's lather, or some other party taking an interest
in the case, either to apply to the Commissioners of
Police, who would grant, an order for investigating the
charge against the constable before the magistrate, or
for those parties to apply for a warrant or summons
against him, which he (Mr. Greenwood) would have no
hesitation in granting.
Mr. Williams said he should decidedly adopt either
one or the otter of the courses suggested by the magis-
trate. .
The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at
the sessions.

CAUTION TO 13ILLIARD-ROO3l KEEPERS. Henry
Ilamson, a beer-shop keeper, in Little Warner-street,
Clerkervivell, was charged with keeping his house open
for the sale of beer after twelve o'clock at night.
. An inspector and sergeant of the G division, proved
finding, between twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday
morning, a number of individuals in the defendant's
house smoking, drinking, and playing billiards.
The defendant, in his defence, handed in both his
beer license and his billiard license, the former of which
allowed him to keep open only until twelve o'clock, while
the latter gave him until one o'clock, and he Stated that
none of the company had been supplied with beer after
twelve o'clock.
Mr. GREENWOOD (the magistrate) said he was sur-
prised to see such a contradiction in the licenses, but
the law regulating beer, shops was elear enough. The
license deprived them of an authority to suffer malt
liquor to be drank or consumed on their premises after
twelve o'clock, and for the defendant to allow beer or
ale in the billiard-room after that hour would be an in-
fringement of the law, and, if not stopped, would open
a wide field for much abuse. As, however, he believed
the defendant had offended through ignorance, he would
only inflict a penalty of ss. and costs.
WORSHIP-STREE7'.
It may be still fresh in the recollection of our readers
that a few days since, a silk manufacturer, named,
Sharp, of White Lion-street, Spitalfields appeared on a
summons, at the instance of Walter Forrest, an indi
vidual in Mr. Sharp's employ, he (Mr. Sharp) having
refused to pay Forrest 65., alleged to be due to the latter
on certain work done, as also other work completed.
After having entered into the particulars of the case,
the Magistrate directed Fitzgerald, a warrant and intel-
ligent officer of the court, to call on Mr. Grove, now of
the-Spread Eagle Tavern, Kingsland-road, but who had
formerly been in the silk trade, and subsequentl) an
officer of Worship-street Police-court, and who, in con-
sequence thereof, had been. repeatedly applied to for his
judgment in the settlement of disputes touching silk cases.
Mr. Grove at once accompanied the officer, and on the
former carefully examining the work in dispute, he said
that he could scarcely believe that it bad bet- n completed
by one men, the commencement of the work having been
so admirably well done, and the last sixteen yards so
badly that, had he been Mr. Sharp, he would have
stopped 9d. for each of the sixteen yards so &imaged.
Forrest, on hearing the decision of Mr. Grove, at once
accepted the proposals held out to him, and all appeared
satisfied with the result.
Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his approbation of the
manner in which the affair had been arranged, and said
that the trade generally owed Mr. Grove a great debt of
gratitude for his willingness at all times to act as a me-
diator in adjusting the disputes so frequently arising, as
they did in the silk and velvet trade in Spitalfields.
HAMMERSMITH.
ALLEGED INEFFICIENCY OF THE POLICE.—On Satur-
day two men of the names of John Peisley and William
Southend, both known to the police as suspicious cha-
racters, were brought before Mr. G. Clive, the sitting
magistrate, charged with stealing a sovereign under the
following circumstances :
The case was first gone into on Thursday last, when it
appeared that on the previous night a lad of the name of
Stephen Parker was sent by his master, Mr. Goodwin,
confectioner, in King-street, Hammersmith, to the Jolly
Gardeners' public•house, close by, to obtain change for
a sovereign for a customer who was waiting. The lad
put the sovereign on the ledge of the bar window, and in
drawing his hand from it pulled the coin-with it, which
fell down and rolled into the passage, where the two
prisoners and another man were standing. Before
Parker could ohertake it, the prisoner Peisley picked it
up and handed it to Southend, and he pa see it to the
third man, who was at the door. The sovereign was
never afterwards seen.
Mr. Goodwin, the master of the lad, then asked Mr.
Clive to allow him.to state what he knew about the affair,
and having received tee magistrate's permission, he
stated as follows I came up and found police-con-
stable 195 T there. I said I wish to give the prisoner
Peisley in charge, but he replied, Wait a bit, some' one
else will be here presently.' In about five er six minutes
police-consteble T 66 came up. I did not speak to him ;
but during the time he was speaking to T 195, Sergeant
Mount. T 29, came up and said, What is the matter ?'
I said, We have lost a sovereign, and we cannot find it.
Three men were standing there at the time it was
dropped, and one.of them has got it, and will not give it
up.' Mount said, I don't know what t) do in it.' I
said I wished to give them in eharge. He said, have
they got the money in their possession ? I told him I
could not answer for that. Mount then said it was not
like a theft, becatise the boy dropped it. If it had been
taken out of his hand, or knocked out, we could take
them up for robbery. Before 66 T and Mount came up,
the two prisoners offered to be searched. T 195 said to
them, we are not in a hurry ; stop until some one else
comes up. When, however, 66 T came up and Sergeant
Mount, they did not enter the house, and the prisoners
were mot searched."
Mr. CLIVE upon hearing that statement ordered the
three officers above-named to be sent for, and remanded
the prisoners. At a later period of the sitting, Mount
T 29, Graves T 195, and the third constable attended,
and had Mr. Goodwin's statement read over to them,
when they denied that any wish had been expressed
that they should take any of the men into custody.
Saturday, on the prisoners being again put to the
bar, policeman Lowe,
information ,whheo
had
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deposed that, from
be able if the prisoners were again remanded, to pro-
duce a witness who saw the sovereign passed to the
third man by the prisoner Southend.
Mr. CLIVE, in remanding the prisoners again to Wed-
nesday next, said the police, if not prepared to under-
take a little responsibility in such a case, were not at al
fit for the duty they had to perferm. Their conduct in
the matter was, however, a question for the considera-
tion of their superiors, and he, therefore, did not think
it necessary to make any remark on the charge sheet.
He would, however, on Wednesday, consider what he
should do in that respect.

THE 211SII MAGISTRACY.—A communication from
John 0' rien, Esq , M.P., states that the Lord-Lieu-
tenant has appoint(d William Geary, M.D.; E. F. G.
Ryan, and Martin Honan, Esqrs., to be magistrates of
the city of Limerick.
A 11013 BER
.SHOT.—Linden House, near Welling.
ton, the residence of Major Thomas, has been repeatedly
attacked by midnight robbers within the last three
months, and on Friday night, about half-past twelve
o'clock, the servant was aroused by distinctly hearing
the noisl occasioned by an attempt to break into the
back part of the premises. Having alarmed her master,
he proce4d,d with his gun to the front door, witli the
view of intercepting the villains, but on opening. the hall
door was surprised to find two fellows under the portico.
The Major instantly struck down one of them with his
fist, and the rascal, on attempting to recover, received
another blow, which a second time prostrated him. The
other scoundrel ran off, but before pr'tceeding beyond
the range of the gun, the Major fired and lodged a
charge of small shot in the lower part of the villain's
back. The robbers are brothers, of bad repute, and live
at Row-green, a place long notorious as the rendezvous
of the most protlizate and dangerous characters. War-
rants are out against the two, and also against some
others, who, it is ascertained, were associated on the
spot for this midnight outrage, so intrepidly defeated by
the worthy Major.— Taunton Courier.