The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-01 00:00:00

THE oN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1847.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLEI?KENWELL.

Two respectable youths, named Rowland and Perry,
were brougnt before Mr. Combe, charged by William
Jackson, a Wtsleyan Methodist preacher, under the
following circumstauces:—
. _ _

The complainant stated that he rented, for the pur-
poses of public worship, some premises adjacent to
Old St. Pancras-road, and usually had a kind of
Sunday-school there. On Tuesday night, about half-
past seven o'clock, he was preaching in the chapel,
which was, as usual in such places, open inais-
criminately to all persons who chose to enter,
when he was much annoyed by a number of boys in the
body of the chapel, who were behaving very irreve-
rently ; and as he had been before frequently annoyed
in a similar manner, he gave the two prisoners into
cust•dy.
Mr. CoMaE—You must state more definitely what
those two lads have done, as yet I can see nothing to
criminate them.

The complainant—Why they were there, and there
was great noise and contusion, and one of them made
faces at me and said I should nut put his brother out.
Mr. COMBE—As yet, I can see no grounds for the
charge.

The complainant—Before the living Gad I have
stated the facts.

Mr. COMM: (with emphasis)—You are already sworn,
Sir. Such appeals are unbecoming.
The complainant—What I have said is a Scriptural
phrase.
Mr. ComnE—That may be, but it is unnecessary.
We are not in the habit of hearing such confirmations
of statements wher. the witness is sworn upo❑ the Tes-
tament.

Another witness, a Sunday school teacher, was sworn,
but was unable to state the slightest fact showing that
the prisoners had misconducted tnemselves.
Mr. COMBS said, before a party took the liberty of
giving another i❑ charge, as was done in this case, by
which those two poor boys were locked up all night in a
felon's cell, he should be prepared to support his charge
with evidence. Not one tittle had been shown by either of
the witnesses to establish the accusation against either of
those lads, and he should therefore order theta to be at
once discharged; but he should, at tho same time, tell
Mr. Jackson that it the boys' parents or next friends
chose to bring an action against him for false imprison-
ment, he must take the consequence, for it was too bA
that boys of respectable character like the accused should
be locked up all night in the cold cell of a station-house,
and then in the morning their accuser not have one par-
ticle of evidence to offer in support of his charge.
The boys then left the court, accompanied by their
parents, who expressed themselves fully determined to
t ike legal proceedings against Mr. Jackson fur false im-
prisonment.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Price, late a collector in the service of the Corn-
missi 'tiers of Pavement of the Whitechapel district, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, the sitting
magistrate, for re examination, charged with having
embezzled varicus sums, amounting to 701., which he
had received in the capacity of collector, apointed by
them.

Mr. Jennings, clerk to the Commissioners, stated that
the prisoner had filled the situation of collector about
six years, but, at a meeting of the board on the 19th of
February last, was discharged from his situation. It
was the duty of the prisoner, anituaDy, to send in a re-
turn of his accounts to be audited, but upon this occa-
sion he only produced his books, from an examination
of which, it appeared that there was a balance of 61 14s,
due from him to the Commissioners, for rates he had
received. As the prisoner tacitly admitted that to be
the amount of his liability, by handing over that sum a
few days afterwards. It was discovered by his sue-
c( ssor, however, upon going to the rate-payers, that
rates to the amount of 701. had been received uy him, and
he was given into custody.
The officer who had taken the prisoner into custody,
said that on the way to the police station, at the pri-
soner's request, they went to Mr. Jennings' offices,
where the prisoner sent for one of his sureties, with a
view of inducing him to enter into an additional security
for the amount of his defalcations, but the witness on
that occasion refused to be a party in any compromise
in the matter, and he took him to the station-house.

Mr. Jennings stated that there were, in addition,
several cther cases of a similar description against the
prisoner.
The prisoner's solicitor contended that the evidence
adduced was wholly insufficient to establish any really
criminal conduct on behalf of the prisoner, who had not
had sufficient time allowed him to account for the amounts
in dispute.
Mr. BROUGUTON, however, thought that he was bound
to commit the prisoner on the score of embezzlement,
but took bail for his appearance at the sessions, himself
in 4001., and two sureties in 1501. each.