The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-21 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

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"TRIPPING UP," "AND' "CARRYING THE STlCK."—James
Lewis and Jane Lewis, husband and wife, were brought
up before Mr. Tyrwhitt, at the Westminster Police-court,
charged as suspected persons. Sergeant Charles C ,le, of
the C division Detectives, said : Last night, about nine
o'clock, I was standing at the corner of Chancery Lane,
Holborn, when I saw the two prisoners and knowing
them to be thieves I determined on watching them, and
followed them along Holborn and into the Strand, and
saw the female prisoner speak to eleven gentlemen, most
of them elderly, and two of them drunk, the male prisoner
all the time standing behind, near • the female prisoner. I
followed them to Craig's COurt, the female going up the court
with a gentleman, and afterwardi to the Haymarket, when
I told to male prisoner that I should take him into cus-
tody, upon which he became, very violent, but with ass,ist-
ance I took him and also the, female prisoner. After
denying all knowledge of each other they admitted
they were husband and wife, and I know that
they .have been together for years. and come from St.
George's in the East. The;system pursued by them is for
the woman to go up to a gentleman and rob him, and for
the man to come up, and under the pretence that he is a 4
detective or her husband make a bother and thus enable
the woman to escape—the practice being called " tripping
up " here, but in Scotland " carrying the stick." They
were committed for a month.

VIOLENT ASSAULT.—Pio Pilvo, a Spanish seaman be-
longing
to the ship Nova 'Pastora,l was charged before
Air. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, with assaulting
Ann Davis. It appeared the parties had been dsinking
together rather freely, and a quarrel took place
between them, in the course of which the pri-
soner kicked the woman severely on the leg and
left a severe contusion upon it. He admitted having
kicked her, and said he did not intend to injure her. The
Captain of the ship to which the prisoner belonged said
a good deal in palliation.. Mr. Paget said our laws did
not allow a woman to be ill used and wounded however
bad her moral character, and sentenced the prisoner to
one month's imprisonment, with hard labour.

ALLEGED FRAUD BY THE PROPRIETOR OF A LIVERPOOL
THEATRE.—Yesterday, at the Marylebone police court,
Mr. Phillips, formerly part proprietor of the Prince of
Wales Theatre, Liverpool, was charged on remand with
having stolen a quantity of furniture, of the value of £6OO
the property of Mr. Villars, a London dealer. It tran-
spired that the accused formerly resided at Sudbury, and
purchased the property in question on the understanding-
that it should be regarded asbeing on hire until completely
paid for. He had previously run through a large
sum of money, but was expecting a considerable
fortune on attaining his majority. The latter was, how-
ever, to a great extent lost by his Liverpool theatrical
speculation. Being deficient of pecuniary resources, he
endeavoured to obtain an advance from a London money-
lender, who had previously assisted him, and whom he
owed upwards of £4,000. The prosecutor, expecting .to
benefit by the transaction, supported the application ; but
the moneylender declined to accede to it unless hs received
bona fide belonged to the
which he consented to give by
thean assuranceanthesateurthaenpereopwehirt
a written document. The negotiations did not result suc-
cessfully, and the furniture was • then sold by auction.
The prosecutor, having no guarantee whatever for his
money, instituted criminal proceedings. Mr. Lewis
contended for the defence that the information could not
be sustained after the production of the prosecutor's
letter, and Mr. D'Eyncourt, agreeing, discharged the pri-
soner, but expressed the hope that as an honest man he
would take the first opportunity to pay for the goods.

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