The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-04 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

ROBBERY AT AN ARTIST'S COLOURMAN'S.— George Cox,
a carpenter, in the employ of Mr. Frederick NVillia,m
Rowney (trading as Messrs. Rowney and Co.), artist
colourman, in Rathbone-place, was charged before Mr.
Mansfield, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with
stealing a case of mathematical instruments, the property
of his employer. Mr. J. A. Als-1? appeared for the pri-
soner. From the evidence of Mr. Frederick Rowney,
foreman to his father, it appeared that the prisoner was
stopped on his leaving the warehouse by the manager, and
a case of mathematical instruments found in his posses-
sion. The prisoner said he was sorry for what he had
done; that he did not know what had induced him to do
it ; and asked to be leniently dealt with. On the prisoner's
lodgings being searched a few more small drawing instru-
ments were found. In reply to Mr. Mansfield the pro-
secutor said the prisoner had been six months in his
father's employ, and received 30s. a-week wages. bar.
Alsop addressed the magistrate on the prisoner's behalf,
asking that he might be leniently dealt with in the hope
that the present case might be a warning to him, and
urging that the loss of character would be a great punish-
ment to him. Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner for
21 days', with hard labour.
ADROITROBBEIIY.—A few days ago a robbery of a rather
serious nature was effected at Messrs. Hunt and Roskell's,
the well-known jewellers, in New Bond-street—the thief
up to the present moment having eluded detection. It
appears that a foreigner entered the shop, and asked to be
shewn some earrings. His requst was complied with,
some of a costly nature being placed before him. After
he left a pair of the value of £3OO were missed, there being
every reason to believe that he must have taken advantage
of the assistant's having momentarily turned his back to
purloin them. A reward of £5O has been offered for the
recovery of the property.
SERIOUS ASSAULT THROUGH AN ACCIDENT. —George
Lancaster, a coachman, of 82, Baker-street, Portman-
square, wrs brought up at the Westminster Police-court,
charged on a summons with assaulting William Constable
Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, defended. Com-
plainant said on Tuesday week he was in Eccleston-street
between Chester and Eaton-square, and saw the de-
fendant on a break, and a clog belonging to witness on the
box seat. He had lost the dog some day's before. He
called to the defendant to stop, and jumped up behind
the break, but his hat was knocked off by some one in
the break, and he had to get down and recover it, but
called to the dog which jumped over the back of the break
and came to him, The defendant got down off the break,
ran after him and the dog, seized him violently and
threw him against the railings, cutting his fore-
head badly, and recovering the dog, which he took
into the break, and drove away. He had been unable to
follow his occupation, and had been under the care of the
doctor since. The defence was that the assault was
accidental, and two witnesses were called to prove it.
Mr. Woolrych suggested a " compromise," or he should
fine the defendant smartly. The parties adjourned to the
gaolers' room and ultimately the complainant was com-
pensated by the payment of £3 for the expenses incurred.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A STOKER.—John Shannon,
furnaceman at Talk•o'-th'-hill Colliery, Staffordshire, was
brought up at the Kidsgrove Petty Sessions, on a serious
charge of neglect of duty. It appeared from the evidence
that Shannon had left his furnace and gone drinking ; and
that in consequence the supply of fresh air required for
the ventilation of the pit was so much reduced that had
any of the three or four hundred persons in the workings
been using a defective lamp there would in all probability
have been a repetition of the great disaster which occurred
a few years ago at the same colliery. The magistrate
appears to have taken a very lenient view of the offence,
as he only imposed a fine of forty shillings.—Manchester
Examiner.

EXTRAORDINARY HOTEL ROBBERY.-At the Manchester
City Police-court, a fashionably-dressed man, who gave
the name of Charles Collingwood, was charged with a
robbery of a somewhat unusual character. It seems that
a gentleman named Wilmot Holt, waterproof manufac-
turer, residing at Sale, had been staying at the Clarence
Hotel, Manchester, for several days last week, and on
Friday he went to bed, having £5O in notes in a case
which he placed in his coat pocket. The coat he put in
a portmanteau. He rose early on Saturday morning,
and after breakfast returned to his room, and on looking
in the case he missed his notes. He at once told the
people in the hotel of the robbery, and communication
was immediately made with the police. Dectective Gill
was sent to the hotel ; and, according to his evidence,
he for some reason suspected the prisoner. Ac-
cordingly he stationed himself at the door of the
bedroom occupied by the prisoner, and when the latter,
a little after eight o'clock, was leaving the room, the
detective accosted him, and told him that Mr. Holt had
missed £5O in bank notes. The prisoner declared that
he knew nothing about it, and demanded to know why
the detective interfered with him. He said his
name was Charles Collingwood, that he was a
traveller for a plated jewellery establishment, and resided
at 54, Athol-street, Scotland-road, Liverpool. In answer
to a question he said that he had no notes at all in his
possession. He was, however, taken to the police-station
While there lie was seen to move his hand cautiously to
his coat-pocket. The officer at once seized the hand,
which was closed. The prisoner declined to open it, but
the officer compelled him by forcing the thumb back, and
in it were found a £2O note, a £lO note, and two £lO notes
cut in two. This evidence having been given, the prisoner
was remanded till Thursday. He said that somebody
must have placed the notes in his possession.

" I give you permission to smoke on guard,"
Frederick said once to a sentinel on night duty, seeking
to tempt him. " I am the King." " The King—God
bless him !"—replied the soldier, " may go hang. What
would my Captain say ?"
AGED CLERGYMEN.—The deaths were announced
yesterday of three aged clergymen—the Rev. Henry
Augustus Holden, M.A., at the age of 86 ; the Rev.
Densley Harding, at the age of 80 ; and the Rev. William
Everest Stevens, at the age of 66. Mr. Holden has not
for a long time held any ecclesiastical preferment. Mr.
Harding was vicar of Barton, near Cambridge.

THE COLONIAL 0 FFIC E.—A. contemporary an-
nounces that the Colonial Office is reducing its staff of
clerks, notwithstanding that the affairs of the West Coast
of Africa, Cape Colony, Natal, Queensland, and Deme-
rara will all be probably debated next session. The colony
of Natal has appointed a deputation to represent its
grievances to the mother country.

REFORM IN THE ARMY.—Captain R. Oldfield,
R.A., has laid before his brother officers a scheme of
" Organisation and Retirements," on the ground that
there is a widespread feeling that before long these matters
in reference to the Royal Artillery will have to be taken
up by those in power. He proposes that the whole of the
artilleries shall be amalgamated. He has worked out his
plans in detail, and given two alternative schemes.
THE IRISH POOR.—The amount of property re-
turned to the relief of the poor in Ireland during the year
ending 29th September last was £13,183,304, being £29,805
more than in the preceding year. The number of per-
sons who received poor relief during the year ending 29th
September last was 285,530, against 285,398 in the pre-
ceding twelve months. Of these, 229,600 were relieved
indoor, being fully 6,000 less than in the preceding year.
SERIOUS FROSTS. —We bay() just seen a letter
from one of our octogenarian agriculturists, whom the
present season has put in mind of his younger days.
" After an interval of fifty-six years," he says, "we ap-
fymvss,lmliaosTicnigw fourteeni mm ter, such
kas as
alt
remember
yiy have
youthful
:11 a-
a stretch. I have seen three such winters-1796, 1801,
and 1814. In all of these winters the sufferings of the poor
were terrible. —Chamber of Agriculture Journal.
THE CONVICT CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT. A few
days since we announced that the sentence of death
passed upon this young woman at the late assize for the
murder of her illegitimate child had been respited. On
Friday a communication was received by the gaol
authorities from the Home Office commuting her sentence
to ten years' penal servitude. It will be remembered that
at the trial some extremely painful circumstances were
disclosed which, it is said, have influenced the Govern-
ment in awarding this unusually lenient punishment.
LENIENCE TO SOLDIERS.—Major-General Brown-
rigg, C. 8., commanding at Chatham, has issued an order
that, as mum experimental measure, soldiers if sober when
returning or brought to barracks after tattoo are not to be
confined in the guardroom all night, but are to be sent to
their quarters, and their offence to be reported in the
morning. After a month's trial of this plan commanding
officers are to report their opinions of its working to the
major-general. By the exhibition of a lenient disposition
towards the soldiers the gallant general has won the regard
of the military here and at other stations.

RAILWAY COILLISION.—An alarming collision oc-
curred at the Doncaster Station of the Great Northern
Railway, on Sunday morning. The tender of an engine,
employed in shunting, had not been drawn clear of the
main line, when the mail train came up, and dashed into
it. Fortunately the speed of the mail train had been
reduced, and the passengers escaped with a shaking. The
driver and stoker of the shunting engine were seriously
injured, and the two guards of the mail train were also
hurt. - Several carriages were damaged, and two hours
elapsed before the mail could leave the station.

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