The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Tats DAY.)

A CHECKTAXER CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING A GIRL.—
George Chadwick, a checktaker at the (xford Music
Hall, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Marl-
borough. street Police-court, with indecently assaulting a
girl named Elizabeth Sadler, general servant to Mr. Norman,
a jeweller, of No. 10, Wells-street, Oxford-street. After
hearing the evidence given by the girl's mother, and
Dr. George Ross, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square,
Mr Alsop addressed the magistrate at considerable length on
the prisoner's behalf, stating that, while admitting that the
prisoner had kissed the girl, he was instructed, on his part,
to indignantly deny that any assault had been committed on
her. Mr Tyrwhitt said it was a case he should certainly
send for trial. On the application of Mr Alsop, the magis-
trate said he would take two bails in £lOO eaoh for the

prisoner.
AN IMPUDENT T }IMF. —John Mahony, aged 19 years, a
bold and desperate thief, was brought up at the Thames
Police Court, charged with stealing a silk handkerchief
valued at is. 9d., from the person of George Merroit, a Greek
seaman belonging to the Drotornidt, lately under repair in
New Crane Dock, Shadwell. The prisoner met the foreigner
in Shadwell, and after asking him if he had auy money, and
impudently demanding liquor, he took a handkerchief out of
his pocket, and was about to decamp with it, when the
Greek seized him, took off his cap, and began to call for the
police in broken English as loud as he was able. James
Locker, a 'once constable, was soon on the spot, and the
Greek made signs that he had been robbed, The hand-
kerchief was found on the prisoner, who impudently declared
he had never stolen it, and gave a false address. George
Foster, a etective of the H division, said he knew the
prisoner to be a confirmed thief, and among other convic
!ions was one on the 4th of March, 1867, when he was sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment and hard labour ; a sum-
mary conviction, when he was sentenced to three months'
hard labour ; and another summary conviction, when the
Prisoner was sentenced to six months' hard labour. The
prisoner pleaded guilty, and was again sentenced to six
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
ROBBERY PRO A CARRIAGE.—MichaeI Holland, a lad
about 16, was charged at the Westminster Police-court with
stealing a sealskin bag containing a gold spirit flask, a gold
and turquoise double-headed scent bottle, a card case, and
other valuables, the goods of John A rkwright, from a car-
ringe. The prisoner went coolly up to the carriage as it was
standing in Lowndes-street, and observing the coachman
turn his bead for a moment, he opened the door, seized the
bag and ran off with it, but was fortunately stopped and the
property recovered. Mr Arnold said it was a daring rob-
bery, and be could not secede to the request of the mother
to deal leniently with him. He would not be doing his duty
to the public, and what had been said of his character made
the case worse? It was not a case of necessity or want, or
sudden temptation that 4istrees might drive a man to. He
was sentenced to six months' hard labour.

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