The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Tms DAY.

REFRACTORY PAUPERS. Four casual paupers were
brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court,
charged with refractory conduct in the casual ward of the
Mile-end Old-town Workhouse, Bancroft-road. Two of
them, able-bodied fellows, would not break any stones,
after they had received a night's lodging and rations for
supper and breakfast. Mr. Paget asked them why they
did not work in return for the benefits they had received, to
which they replied that they were not accustomed to break
stones. Mr. Paget : You should have tried. You are not to
select the kind of work the guardians require you to per-
form. You are sentenced to one month's imprisonment
and hard !labour. Two other able-bodied paupers were
charged with destroying their own clothes, and each a pair
of trousers provided for them. The prisoners said their
own clothes were filthy, dirty, and ragged, and they
could not seek or obtain work with such things
on them. They tore up the trousers because
they were impressed with letters and rod chalk. Mr.
Paget : How is that ? The labour master said the trousers
had been worn by dock labourers and they might have
been marked and lettered by them with red ochre. The
canvas trousers were in the precise state in which they
were received by the Guardians, and must have been
marked before they came into their hands. Mr. Paget
sentenced the prisoners to 21 days' imprisonment, with
hard labour.

ACCIDENT TO MR. TYRWHITT.—We understand that
Mr. Tyrwhitt, the senior magistrate at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, met with an accident yesterday even-
ing, having been knocked down by a cab, one of the
wheels of which it is stated passed over his ankle, either
dislocating it or causing such a severe sprain that the
learned gentleman will probably be incapacitated from
taking his seat on the Bench for the next few weeks.
Mr. Knox, who had been telegraphed to, presided to-day,
taking his seat at the usual time.
ROBBERY BY A BARMAM.-401111 Barber, a bar-
man, in the employ of Mr. C. R Buer, landlord
of the Champion Tavern, Wellington Street,
Oxford Street, was charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing a florin, the money of his master.
The prosecutor said that for some time past, having
suspected the prisoner, who was his barman, of robbing
him, last night he watched him, and saw him take some-
thing from the till and then put his hand to his head, and
he then distinctly saw in his hand a florin. He told the
prisoner he had robbed him, and he said he had not, and
that he only had two shillings in his pocket, at the same
time trying to get away. He afterwards gave the prisoner
into custody. In answer to the prisoner, the prosecutor
said the reason why he did not discharge him, as he
suspected him, was because he wanted to detect him, as
he paid him well and fed him well, and had no right to be
robbed. Police-constable Marshall, 206 E, said that at
the station three shillings and a florin were found on the
prisoner, who mixed them together. The prisoner told
him he had a box with £1 in it, but he found £1 13s. in it,
and in a coat pocket 12 half-sovereigns, also a suit
of superfine clothes and a ticket for four for the dress-
circle at Drury-lane Theatre. In reply to Mr. Knox, the
witness said he had reason to believe he had been exten-
sively robbed. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for
three months', with hard labour.