The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-16 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

(Before T. PucILE, Esq., and a bench of Magistrates.)
Two young men, named John Purdy and -William
Moss, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging them
with stealing a looking-glass from the shop of William
Holland, at Newington.
The prisoners were seen to steal the glass, on the 6th
of August, by William Dowie, who gave information to
the police, when they were taken into custody by Guest,
No. 62 of the L division.

The latter, in answer to the CHAIRMAN, said that the
prisoners had never been in custody before, and he be-
lieved it was their first offence.

The Cuatamsx severely censured them, and admo•
nished them as to their future conduct, and sentenced
Purdy to three months' hard labour at Brixton, and
Moss to three months at Guildford.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

James Rconey, a powerful young-Irishman, a stone-
mason by trade, was charged with committing a furious
outrage in Drury-lane on Monday. It appeared that
his first freak of drunken violence was to upset a poor
Welsh woman's can of milk, and knock down herself for
complaining. He served in the same way two men, who
attempted to protect her from further brutality. But,
upon seeing two or three policemen hastening to the
spot, the prisoner lay down on his back, and feigned to
be insensible and motionless. He was, however, at
length compelled to find the use of his legs, when he
made a desperate but unavailing effort to escape.
The magistrate, Mr. JARDINE, committed him to
prison for six weeks.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Mr. George Maurice Kurnot,
deputy postmaster of Raleigh, in Essex, was placed at
the bar, charged with stealing out of a letter a Bank of
England note for 5/., the property of the Postmaster
General. Mr. Pocock, the solicitor to the Post-office,
attended for the prosecution; and Mr. Parry, the bar-
rister, appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. Robert Nash, of Whitechapel, a linen draper,
stated that some days ago the prisoner purchased three
muslin dresses from him, as for his wife and two chil-
dren. The price was 1/. 6s. 6d., and the prisoner gave
in payment a five pound note, receiving three sovereigns
and silver in change. The note was numbered 954,497,
and dated October 13th, 1815. It was a new note, and
the prisoner endorsed it " William Browne, Raleigh."
I'eake, a constable attached to the Post-office de-
partment, upon some information which he had received
went down and searched the prisoner's house, where he
found the pieces of muslin which had been purchased
with the 5/. note, the subject of the present charge. The
officer on seeing the prisoner told him he had been sent
down to make inquiries respecting a Bank of England
note, which was alleged to have been posted from Folk-
stone, on the 22d of March, in a letter, addressed to Mrs.
Chambers, Hockley, near Raleigh, Essex. The pri-
soner replied that he remembered delivering the letter,
and that when it was opened there was no inclosure in
it—there had been many inquiries about it. The officer
having told him that the note had been traced to him
through Mr. Nash, took him into custody. The prisoner
said he had received it from a person who gave his name
as Browne, of Brentwood. He showed the constable
other notes which he had in his possessien to show that
he was not in the habit of marking his notes, and he
never could tell exactly from whom he tor,k them. He
gave every facility for the searching of his house, but no
letters or vestiges of destroyed letters were found.
Mr. Parry said that the prisoner did not dispute the
fact of having paid away the note. He had received it
in the course of his business, and that was a complete
arswer to the case.

Mrs. Faring Chambers, wife of Captain IL Osborne
Chambers, proved that she received from the prisoner,
on the 23d of March last, at the Post-office, a letter,
which stated that a 5/. note was inclosed in it. Such not
being found to be the case, she wrote to her husband,
who communicated to her the number of the note, since
traced to the prisoner. This lady stated that she had
known the prisoner about twenty years as a highly re-
spectable man in Raleigh, keeping a druggist's shop.
The further hearing of the case was adjourned to
await the attendance of
,Captain Chambers, who is at
present at Boulogne.
WORSHIP-STREET.

George Creed, alias Green, a tall, muscular young
fellow, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton,
charged with being a deserter from the 3d Light Dra-
goons, and also with being concerned, with others, in
assaulting and seriously injuring two police-constables
who had effected his capture.

The prisoner, who was sworn to by the police as a
convicted offender, although only nineteen years of age,
was taken into custody in July last by Sergeant Con-
way, of the police, for deserting from the above regi-
ment, and consigned over by the magistrate to the mili-
tary authorities. On the road to the depot of his regi-
ment, however, although under the guard of a file of
riflemen, he contrived to elude their vigilance, and re-
turned to his old haunts in the neighbourhood of White-
chapel, where he remained secreted until the preceding
evening, when he was at length traced by police-con-
stable Hope, of the H division, to a low lodging-house
in Wentworth-street, to which the officer proceeded with
another policeman, and took him into custody. The
prisoner went quietly enough for a short distance, but
suddenly turned round, expressed his determination to
go no further, struck Hope a violent blow upon the head,
which partially stunned him, and appealed to a large
mob of thieves and blackguards who had collected and
followed him upon his apprehension, to assist in his
rescue. The mob immediately assailed the officers, whose
truncheons they wrenched from them, and hurled a
shower of brickbats and other missiles at them, until they
were knocked down and rendered powerless, when the
prisoner again effected his escape. As soon as they
had recovered their feet, and extricated themselves from
their assailants, the constables made their way to the
station-house for assistance, and Sergeant Price, accom-
panied by Davis, another constable, went in pursuit of
the prisoner, whom they discovered at another lodging-
house in the same locality, armed with a heavy kitchen
poker, prepared for a furious resistance, and declaring
that he would murder the first man who approached
him. The officers' attack, however, was so sudden, that
he had no time for reflection, and he was rushed upon,
disarmed, and secured before he could carry his threat
into execution. The constable Hope exhibited marks of
very severe treatment, and produced his hat, which was
beaten into holes by the brickbats hurled at his head.
Ia answer to the charge the prisoner admitted being
a deserter, but said that although he had certainly been
a thief, he had suffered the legal punishment for his of
fence, and considered it hard that his former character
should be brought out to excite prejudice against him.
Mr. BROUGHTON said, that if the prisoner had really
abandoned his former vicious courses it would have been
obviously improper to allude to them; but the direct
contrary appeared to be the fact, and as the constable
had evidently suffered serious ill-usage, he should ad-
journ the case for a week, and in the meantime consider
whether justice would best be answered by adjudicating
upon it with his own powers, or handing it over to the
military authorities for the ordeal of a court-martial,
before whom the policeman's evidence could be adduced
in aggravation.