The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-06 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Samuel Paton, police-constable 142, E division, was charged
with having assaulted and used insulting language to Mr.
S. Irons, a law-stationer, of Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane.
The complainant went into 'Holborn between twelve and
one o'clock on Sunday night last, to witness the ruins of the
two houses which had fallen. He there saw the defendant
behaving roughly towards two lads in the mob, and was con-
sequently induced to advise the latter to go home and not
mind the police, as they (the boys) would be sure to get the
worst of it. The defendant turning towards the complain-
ant then exclaimed, " What the devil are you interfering
for ? We know you ; you are one of the swell mob. We
know you by your round hat," using other insulting lan-
guage of a similar kind. The mob, on hearing this, collected
round the complainant, and called upon the police "to take
him up;" until, fearing ill-treatment at their hands, he was
compelled to run into a confectioner's shop. The defendant,
however, followed him in, and, addressing himself to a young
woman behind the counter, said, " You have got a thief in
your house," at the sense time seizing the complainant by
the collar, to thrust him into the street again. At this
moment the complainant was recognised by a friend, a Mr.
Sergeant, also a law-stationer, who assured the defendant
that he was mistaken ; upon which the constable told him
"that he was one of the same sort." Mr. Irons then took the
number of the constable, and lodged his complaint at the
police-station.
Mr. Wontner argued that the constable applied the insult.
ing language to somebody else. To prove this he examined
a woman named Pounsbury, who said she was present—wit-
nessed the whole occurrence—heard the defendant call a
drunken man a thief, and also heard him say, when the com-
plainant asked if he applied the offensive expression to him,
" that he meant another party."
Policeman E 117 declared he was with him all the time,
but never heard bins call anybody anything.
The confectioner above alluded to thought the constable
had acted rightly in forcing people out of his shop, and hoped
he would be protected for protecting the public. He didn't
know anything about the defendant's calling the complainant
a thief, but he believed the former to be a first-rate constable
and was very useful in the neighbourhood.
Sergeant Sigston, of the E division, believe the defendant
to be one of the best men in the force. He only wished every
policeman was like him.
Other policemen were examined, and their general leanirg
towards the defendent was noticed by his Worship in terms of
condemnation.

The superintendent and his clerk, who received the charge
at the station-house, having been sent for by his Worship,
proved that the defendant, when apprised of the charge,
actually admitted that he had applied the insulting ex-
pressions to the complainant in mistake, and " was sorry
for it."

Mr. JARDINE then sentenced the defendant to one month's
imprisonment with hard labour.
THAMES.

The young man Joseph Davis, late clerk to Mr. David
Gadsden, Great St. Helen's, who stands charged with steal-
ing 8501., the moneys of his employer, was brought before
Mr. Broderip for final examination.
The prisoner was intrusted by Mr. David Gadsden, on the
22d of last June, with 9331. 103. 2d., to pay into Williams,
Deacon, and Co.'s bank, to the account of James Gadsden
and Sons, who also occasionally employed him. Of this
amount 8501. was in Bank of England notes, a cheque for
82/. 17s. drawn by Wainwright and Gadsden, jun., and
13s. 2d. in cash. On the same day the prisoner received
from the firm of Wainwright and Gadsden, jun., two cheques
with directions to fill one of them up for the exact amount
of sugars purchased of Trueman and Cook, less the discount
if he could obtain the invoice, bnt if he could not he was at
liberty to fill it up for 5001., and pay it over to the firm. Ile
received similar directions respecting the other cheque,
drawn in favour of Simpson, Scott, and Co., colonial brokers,
except that he was to fill it up for 3501. only, if he could not
obtain the invoice. He did not wait upon either firm for
the invoices, but filled up the cheques for 500/. and 350/. re-
spectively, and paid them over to Williams and Deacon to
the account of James Gadsden and Sons, and retained 8501.
in bank-notes, which he received of 111 r. David Gadsden,
and appropriated that large sum to his own use. When
the deficiency was discovered, some weeks afterwards, the
prisoner was induced, by a promise made to him
by Mr. David Gadsden, to give up to that gentlemen 575/. in
notes, 10 sovereigns, and a half-sovereign. Among the
moneys so given up were three of the 100/. notes delivered
to the prisoner on the 22d of June. He was searched at the
station-house, and 20/. more were found upon him. Although
only one charge has been preferred against the prisoner,
there is no doubt his defalcations have been very great. In-
spector Scott, of the 1.1 division, has already recovered pro-
perty to the amount of 1,000/., purchased by Davis, and he
expects to find more. The prisoner's salary was only 50/.
a year.
Yesterday Mr. Humphreys called Mr. William Fickus,
clerk in the banking house of Williams, D,lacon, and Co.,
who stated that James Gads6len and Son kept an account
there, and that on the 22d of June he received from the pri-
soner 9331. 10s. 2d. on their account. It was his belief that
the amount was paid in the three cheques produced, to-
gether with I3s 2d. in cash. One of the cheques was for 500/,
in favour of Trueman and Cook ; another in favour of Simp-
son. and Scott, for 350/. ; and the third was in favour of
James Gadsden and Son, for 821. 17s. All the cheques were
drawn by Wainwright and Gadsden, and dated 22d June,
1846.

Mr. Pelham would not advise his client to make any de-
fence at present.
➢lr. Humphreys said he would give timely notice to
Mr. Pelham if he preferred other charges against his client.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
CLERKENWELL.

John Tylor, a general dealer, in Turnmill-street, Clerken-
well, was charged with receiving, with a guilty knowledge,
an immense quantity of silver and electro-plated knives,
forks, spoons, &c., the property of Mr. Burton, of the late
firm of Rippon and Burton, Oxford-street. On Monday last,
a man named Heath, who had been in the employ of Messrs.
Rippon and Burton, was committed for trial on a charge of
robbing his employers of a large quantity of miscellaneous
property. It was then stated that the prisoner Heath had
disposed of the articles to Tylor, and the police have since
then been on the look-out for the latter, who quitted his
home and was no where to be seen in the neighbourhood.
Last night, however, two of the detective force succeeded in
apprehending him on board a vessel in Woolwich, on which
he had engaged himself as stoker.
The officer proved that he found some of the articles pro-
duced in the prisoner's dwelling, together with a large bunch
of picklock keys.
John Smart, foreman to Mr. Burton, proved that all the
articles exhibited were his master's property.
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Elizabeth Tylor deposed that site 'had often seen the
prisoner and Heath in conversation in the shop in Tummill-
street.

The prisoner admitted having bought goods from a man
named Heath, who represented himself as an agent from
Birmingham. Bought some of the goods produced from him.
The prisoner denied any guilty knowledge, but did not in-
form the Bench why he absconded.—Remanded.