The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Sergeant White, No. 5, who has the superintendence
nf Smithfield Market, attended at this court before Sir
Chapman Marshall and Alderman Wilson, to ask their
advice under the following circumstances :—He said that
on the ,norning of the sth of June a drove of 56 sheep
were sold in the market by a salesman to a Mr. Preston,
of Seward's Stone, in Essex, which were taken to that
place and turned into the fields. In three days after they
began to show symptons of disease ; and on receiving
information on the subject he went, in company with
Mr. Nice, the veterinary surgeon of Smithfield, for the
purpose of ascertaining its truth. On their arrival there,
they found that 27 of the flock had already been buried,
two were lying dead in the field, two more dying, 24
diseased, and only one healthy.
Mr. Nice said that he had examined the sheep, and
found that they were afflicted with the disease c tiled the
small-pox, which had broken out all over their bodies,
hut more particularly on the inside of their thighs.
These were the first symptons as yet.
Sir CIIIAI'MAN MARSHALL asked if any other diseased
sheep had been sold in the market ?
White said that he had been informed that several
sales had taken place on previous occasions.
Alderman WILSON wished to know whether they were
foreign sheep or not ?

White replied that they were English sheep ?
Sir CIAPAIAN MARSHALL supposed that diseased
sheep were often disposed of in the market, taken and
killed by the butchers, and afterwards sold to the
public, by whom it was unconsciously consumed.
White said that such was frequently the• case, and the
object of his present application was, by giving pub-
licity to the facts, to put buyers on their guard, as the
small-pox was very prevalent.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said that neither he nor
Alderman Wilson saw how they could interfere, it being
for the purchaser to seek his remedy, it diseased sheep
had been palmed upon him. Had the fact of their
being diseased at the time of the sale been ascertained?
White informed the Alderman that the fact of its
breaking out three days after they were bought, went to
show that they must have been so, as they would be
affected with it at least ten days before any sj mptoms
appeared.
Sir CHIPMAN MARSHALL said that be had little
doubt that the statement of Sergeant White would be
made public and have the desired effect.
Mr. Nice and Sergeant White then thanked the Al-
dermen for their attention and retired.
BOW-STREET.

Thomas John Turner, a letter-carrier in the General
Post-office, was brought before Mr. Henry for final ex-
amination, charged with stealing a letter containing
401. 25., the property of the Postmaster-General.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
IIIARLBOI?OUGH-STREET.
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Mrs. Isabella Fleming, pawnbroker, of No. 1, Lower
John-street, Golden•square, was summoned before Mr.
Hardwick, by Mr. Henry Cox Hippisley Justins, solici-
tor, Cloudesley-street, Islington, for unlawfully detain-
ing a telescope, a coat, and other articles, the property
of the Great Western Railway Company.
It appeared that in the month of May last a gentle-
man by the name of Davies, residing at Banbury,
Oxon, arrived at the Paddington-station by a first-class
train. On looking for his luggage it could not be found,
but on instituting an inquiry it was discovered that a
portmanteau, answering the description of the one lost
by Mr. Davies, had been taken away in a cab, by a man
who claimed it of the porter as his own. Information
was then given to Superintendent Collard, who caused
inquiries to be made, the result of which was, that
a man by the name of Barnard was apprehended
at, a tavern in' Piccadilly, with the portmanteau and a
part of the stolen property in his possession. He was
subsequently brought before the magistrate at this court,
and committed for trial. Since his conviction a portion
of the property, consisting of a telescope, coat, and other
articles, had,been traced into the possession of the de-
fendant, On Saturday last Mr. Justins and Collard ap-
plied to defendant for the restitution of the property,
at the same time telling her that it had been stolen
from the Great Western Railway. The defendant re-
fused to give up the property, which led to the present
summons being taken out.

Yesterday Mr. Justins was in attendance fully pre-
prepared to enter into the case, when a person in the em-
ploy of defendant stepped forward, and said he was
quite ready to produce the articles providing there was
any person present to identify them.
Mr. Davis, who was in the court, on being shown the
property, declared it to be the same he had in his port-
man4au on his arrival at Paddington.
Mr. HARDWICK then directed defendant to give the
property up to Collard, and ordered her (defendant) to
pay the costs of the summons.

The proptrty was at once given up, and the parties
left the court.

WORSHIP-STREET.

George Hart was brought up for -fe examination be,
fore Mr. Arno:d, charged upon his own confession with
having been accessory to the murder of the child Henry
Lazarus.

On being placed at the bar, the prisoner looked
ghastly pale, and exhibited such a complete prostration
of mental and physical energies that he was allowed to
be seated during the proceedings.
The notes of the evidence adduced before Mr. Ham-
mill, as to the surrender and partial confession made by
the prisoner, were now read over, and Alderman, the
gaoler, stated that upon conducting him to his cell on
the former day, the prisoner displayed the greatest an-
guish and remorse, and exclaimed in an agonized man-
ner," I wish I was dead and out of this world I"

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Inspector Pascoe said that he considered it Leces,ary
to lay before the magistrate an anonymous letter he
had received sow time before the surrender of the
prisoner, bearing initials corresponding with
those of the man whom the prisoner had de-
clared to be the murderer, and which in the
CLl'Yst po-itive manner retorted the charge upon the
prisoner himself in the following words:—” I have just
parted company with the man who strangled the little
Jew boy. I have promised to meet him at ten o'clock
to night, at Shoreditch Church. I give you this infor-
mation hecause he has lately told several persons in the
neighbourhood that he intends to give himself up and
split against me. You hail better go in plain clothes if
you go at all, and take him. His name is Tom Hart,
and he lives in Fashion street, Brick-lane. He is dressed
in a tweed coat, drab trousers, hat, and green handker-
chief. We sold the clothes in Rosemary-lane. Whenihe
is once in custody I will appear against him, and tell all
about it, if I am promised a pardon, and part of the re-
ward which is offered. He is a short man, about five
feet four inches, and I know he will be at the
church, as I promised to lend him some money
to go on the tramp. We met the little boy in
Whiteehapel, and took him to the arches in Com-
mercial-street, and there we tied a handkerchief round
his neck and done hip], and I took the body where it
was found." The inspector added, that all their efforts
to obtain a clue to the writer of the letter in question had
been hitherto unsuccessful, and he considered it most
probable that ho was not yet aware of the prisoner's
apprehension, or that the Governmens had promised a
pardon to any accomplice not being the actual murderer,
as the printed handbills to that effect had only been cir-
culated a few days.
Mr. ARNOLD then asked the prisoner if be wished to
add anything further to his statement, at the same time
cautioning him that he was not bound to say anything
unless he thought proper, and whatever he did say would
be taken down as evidence.

The prisoner, sullenly—l know nothing at all about it.
The prisoner was then remanded ; and upon being
removed to the cell, he requested to be furnished at first
with writing materials, and upon Surgtaut Saunders
taking temporary charge of him, in the absence of the
officer who had previously dune so, he entered into a
minute and lengthened detail of the circumstances at-
tending the transaction and it was understood made cer-
tain other disclosures, which it would not be prudent to
divulge in the present stage of the investigation.
LAMBETH.
CRIM. CON.— W. M•Donnell, a police-constable, was,
by order of Mr. Robinson, his superintendent, charged
with gross misconduct.

T. King, shoemaker, of Lock's-fields, deposed that on
the night before he saw his wile, who had lived apart
iri.m him for some weeks, conduct herself in a very im-
proper manner in Waterloo-road. He watched her for
some time, and saw her stop several gentlemen. She
also went into a beer-shop, where.she drank with several
men, and remained there a considerable time. She
next proceeded towards the Walworth-road, where she
spoke to M'Donnell, and walked round his beat with
him, drank at public-house doer, and ultimately accom-
panied him into a field near Brandon-street. Witness
and a friend of his looked over the palings; they dis-
tinctly saw his wifo and the defendant conducting
themselves with gross impropriety. On speaking to them
his wife left the field, but her companion remained in-
side. He, witness, told his wife he had been watching
her for two hours, and caught her at last, upon which
she exclaimed, " Oh ! then, I'm undone," and instantly
fell to the ground is a fainting fit. In reply to a ques-
tion of the magistrate, the witness said that about two
months ago his wife gave him into custody, and he was
charged at this court for violently assaulting her, and
he then consented to allow her half-a-crown a week to
live apart from him. He added that the defendant,
M`Donnell, was the very constable who was called in to
take him into custody on that occasion. The latter part
of the last witness's statement was fully corroborated by
a witness, who also swore to having seen the parties iu
the act of criminality.
The defendant denied having had any connexion with
Mrs. King as alleged, but acknowledged having drunk a
pint of beer with her.
Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that there could be no doubt,
from the evidence adduced, that the defendant was
guilty of gross misconduct and violation of duty, andfor
this he must pay a penalty of 40s. or stand committed to
prison for twenty days.—'The penalty was at once paid,
and the defendant discharged.

T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ., M.P.—We understand
that this Hon. Gentleman, who has been prevented from
attending Parliament for some time, in consequence of
severe and protracted indisposition, came to town on
Monday, for the express purpose of being present at the
debate on Mr. Hume's motion. We are sorry to learn,
however, that he experienced a severs relapse after his
arrival in town, and has been interdicted by the highest
medical authorities from attending the House of Com-
mons at present.
FRENCH FRUIT.—The steam-ship Jarne3 watt,
from Havre, has brought upwards of 2,000 packaes of
ripe fruit, the production of France, being the largest
importation of the kind which has taken place during
the season.
SPECIE.—The ship Mary Ann arrived in the
Cape et Good Hope, has brought
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specie, consigned ,
consigned to a firm in the metro-
polis; and the James Watt steam-ship, from Havre, has
brought one package of gold coin,
commercial eminence. addressed to a firm of