The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-24 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.
THE CONSTABLE AND THE COACHMAN.—Henry Chaplin,
coachman to Sir Sydney Dacres, of New-street, Spring-
Gardens, appeared before Mr. Knox to a summons charging
him with using offensive language to Police-constable
Robert French, 130 Reserve. The constable stated that
on the Ist instant the defendant pulled up at the Civil
Service Co-operative Stores in the Haymarket, and re-
ceived a box with a name on it. He then requested the
defendant to move, as he was causing an obstruction, but
he refused to do so, and on asking him a second time,
there being several vehicles on the rank, he refused and
said, "Go away. you - swine, do you think I'll be
ordered by a-- like you." He found the defendant had
only called for the box, and on asking him his name, he
refused it, saying that he would find him at Scotland-yard.
He afterwards went to Scotland-yard and found the
defendant lived there, and having got hisname a summons
was applied for. The defendant said the constable gave his
name and address, and he did not make use of the ex-
pression mentioned by the constable, but he did call
him a" - fool." There were no other carriages on,
the rank. A. witness, a fellow servant of the defendants,
said the defendant gave the constable his name and
address, " Mr. Chaplin, Scotland-yard, servant to Sir
Sydney Dacres." The constable said the defendant never
did so. The defendant said he should like some of the
persons from the stores to attend. Mr. Knox said they
should'be sent for. On their attending, Daniel Harrison,
commissionaire on duty at the stores, and John Warren,
a porter at the stores were sworn. The former deposed
to hearing the constable tell the defendant to leave as
he was causing an obstruction, and the defendant became
very abusive and stopped some time, there being car-
riages on the engaged rank ; while the latter
deposed to taking out a box to the defendant, and hearing
that he had been abusing the constable. Mr. Knox said
the defendant's own witnesses had proved that he had
used very insulting-language to the constable, and he had
no doubt that the offence charged had been made out. He
was sorry to see a person like the defendant in such a
position, after the character (handed to the magistrate)
he had received from Lady Sidney Dacres. He had no
doubt the defendant had allowed his temper to get the
better of him, and he had no doubt, if the defendant's
master was sitting by his (Mr. Knox's) side, he would
very properly call the defendant to account for it. The
defendant would have to pay 205., or fourteen days.
ROBBERY OF LINEN.—Eliza Williams, a woman of the
town, was brought up at the Thames Police-court,
charged with stealing a quantity of wet linen, from a
yard in the occupation of Mr. Tutte,:of Cold Harbour,
Blaekwall. A police-constable named John Currin, No.
230 K, met prisoner at half-past one o'clock this morning,
in the Burdett-road, Limehouse, with a bundle consisting
of shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, and other things,
which she said a man she had never seen before
had given her to carry. Mrs. Davis Tutte, the
wife of the owner of the property, said the things
had been stolen from her yard between the hours of eight
and ten in the evening. The iirisoner was committed for

trial.
A CONVICT NEGLECTING TO COMPLY WITH HER LICENSE.
—Catherine Galvati, a ticket-of-leave convict, and known
to the police as a thief for many years, was charged with
not reporting her change of residence to the police in the
terms of her license. The police, who exercise a very
rigid and proper surveillance over ticket-of-leave convicts
(called licence-holders), could prove that the prisoner had
changed her abode. She was discharged, with a caution
to be careful and to report herself monthly at the nearest
police station to which she resided.
THE WILL OF LORD CREWE.—Lord Romilly has given
judgment in a suit in which the question was raised
whether, under the will of the late Lord Crewe, Lincoln
College, Oxford, the University of Oxford, and the City
of Durham, were entitled to share in the surplus annual
income of certain property in Northumberland and
Durham. Counsel for the claimants contended that
although they had been excluded by distinct words from
participation in the surplus income, they ought to be
allowed to share in, on the ground that Lord Crewe never
anticipated that the surplus would become so large
(10,000 a year). The Master of the Rolls decided against
the claimants.
(JOINERS IN LONDON.—A gang of coiners was placed at
the bar at Marlborough-street Police-court. On Wed-
nesday evening Mr. Brannan, agent to the Mint, accom-
panied by some policemen, proceeded to the house of a
man named Weller, in Saville-street, near the Middlesex
Hospital. There, while the. prisoners, who sat round a.
table, watched their operations, the police seized two
moulds for counterfeiting crown pieces, a double mould
for half-crowns, a galvanic battery, three counterfeit
crowns, 25 florins, and a number of implements used for
the pm poseg, of- leoining. Mr. Knox remanded all the
prisoners.