The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-o'ms DAT.)

A GENTLEMAN COMMITTED WITHOUT A FINE.-Mr. W.
Davis, gentleman, of Sidmouth, Devonshire, was charged
before Mr. Knox at the Marlborough-street Police-court,
with being drunk, riotous, and assaulting Police-con-
stables Simms, 224 C, and Leggett, 223 C ; and also with
assaulting Inspector Samuel Perry, at the Marlborough-
street Police-station. James Simmons, 2,246, said that
about eight o'clock, last night, he was bringing a drunken
prisoner named M`Dermott (he had been previously
charged with being drunk and discharged) along Brook-
street, when the prisoner rushed into a cab and struck him
a blow on the head with a stick, and such was the violence
of the blow that his helmet was smashed. He turned
round and asked the prisoner what he was about, and he
then struck him two or three severe blows on the head with
his fist, and set to kicking him. He caught hold of the
prisoner, and with the assistance of the bystanders held
him till other constables came. Mr. Knox asked whether
the prisoner was drunk, and the constable said that he
had been drinking, but he was more excited than drunk,
The evidence of the constable was corroborated by a wit-
ness named Smith, who said the conduct of the defendant
was violent in the extreme. While the defendant was in
custody at the station-house he assailed a constable. The
defendant said he could not withstand rushing at the
policeman, who, he thought, was acting very cowardly
towards his prisoner. He was a gentleman, and could pay
for any damage he had done. Mr. Knox informed him
that " gentlemen " were not allowed to assault the police
at so much per head. He fined Mr. Davis the amount of
damage done, and committed him to prison for a month
with hard labour for the assault.

ROBBING MR. DARBY GRIFFIT'S CARRIAGE.—JosIyn
Willis, a respectably-dressed lad, 18 years of age, was
placed in the dock before Mr. Selfe at Westminster,
charged with robbery. Henry Smith, 12, Elizabeth-street,
Hans-place, Chelsea, a builder's foreman, stated that
yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock he was passing through
Grosvenor-oresent when he saw the prisoner follow an open
barouche, and an instant afterwards he placed his hand
over the side of the carriage and took from the back seat
the bag produced. He put it under his coat, and findinghe
was observed, ran up into Grosvenor-place. Witness fol-
lowed and caught him, but he got away and ran across
the park, the witness after him, until, dodging him round
a bus in Park-lane, he caught him, put him in a cab, and
gave him into the custody of the first policeman he met.
Mrs. Arabella Sarah Darby Griffith, wife of Mr. Darby
Griffith, late M,P. for Devizes, 28, Portland-place, identi-
fied the lady's sealskin reticule produced as hers. It con-
tained a scent bottle,i silver card case, gold pencil case,
tablet, purse containing ss. Bd., and other articles, which
she valued at, at least, £25. The prisoner was remanded.

ROBBERIES BY A DROVER.—William Pearce, a drover,
aged 21, was brought up on remand at the Thames Police-
court, charged with the commission of numerous rob-
beries. The first charge against him was that he had stolen
a pairof Parian figures, value 25., from astable in the occu-
pation of Mr. George Poole, Hawker, No. 25, Baker's-row,
Whitechapel, on the 11th of April last. The stables were
broken open, and the prisoner was seen by a man, named
George Wood, to leave the stables with the figures in his
possession. Wood gave information to the prosecutor, who
met the prisoner a fortnight ago taking soup in an eating
house, and said to him, " I think you are the party I want.
You broke open my stable and stole my property." The
prisoner asked the value of the figures, to which Poole
replied 2s. The prisoner said, '• You are putting the pot
on. You sell them in the ' lane ' (Petticoat-lane) for ls.
6d." The prisoner pleaded guilty. He took the figures,
but he did not break open the stable door. It was bolted
and shaken back. The prisoner's plea was accepted—he
was committed of larceny and sentenced to four months'
imprisonment and hard labour. The prisoner was next
charged with stealing a large horse rug, valued at £5, the;
property of Mr. George Bourne, the landlord of the Coach,
and Horses, at Ilford, in Essex. He pleaded guilty, and,
he was sentenced to another four u4OUthie ilKart§oilnaeUt.