The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This DAT.

SHAMEFUL ROBBERY OF A SEAMAN.—Patrick Kelly and
Miohael Macarthy, two well-known and desperate thieves,
were charged, at the Thames Police Court, with stealing
£lB from the person of John Brooks, a seaman, on the
16th of August, 1869. It appeared from the evidence that
Brooks was paid off at Green's Sailors' Home, Poplar, on
the day named. He received notes and gold. He com-
menced drinking very freely when he received his money,
and went into the Wades Arms public-house, at the back
of the Home. The prisoners followed him into the house.
The landlord refused to serve either of the prisoners, and
turned them out, and particularly cautioned the sailor
against the prisoners. The prosecutor had not proceeded
many yards from the public-house before the prisoner
accosted him and hustled him into a back street. Kelly
pinioned him from behind, while Macarthy rifled his
pockets, and took his purse and money from his trousers
pocket. They knocked down their victim and made their
escape. The sailor has since made another voyage to
Sidney, and on his return sought for the villains who robbed
him of the hard earnings of a former voyage. The pri-
soners were apprehended by R. Lamb andJ. Owen, police-
men of the K division, near Green's Sailors' Home, where
they had been in the habit of infesting since the robbery.
They knew their victim had gone to sea, and were safe,
and did not expect their victim would return. When
Lamb captured Kelly he was put beside 20 others, and
picked out by the sailor immediately. The prisoners were
committed for trial.
SERIOUS CASE OF CARELESS DRIVING.—William Walker,
cab driver No. 10,704 was charged at Westminster
Police-court with being drunk in his employment as
hackney carriage driver, doing wilful damage, and
furiously driving. The driver of a van belonging to Mr.
Morgan, of Grosvenor-row, Pimlico, who had a rut on
his face and seemed hardly able to walk, said at half-past
eleven last night he was driving towards home on his
right side of the road, when the defendant came along
on his wrong side and ran into him ; he was
knocked off the van and hurt very much. Mr.
Morgan said the damage could not yet be calculated, as
there were a qaantity of eggs in the van ; the cab had the
shaft broken, and had not his horse been struck on the
collar he must have been killed ; the man was extricated
with difficulty from beneath the horse, and the horse kicked
him in the eye. The prisoner's master said he had been a cab-
man 20 years, and was well conducted ; he had drii, en for him
seven months, and he never knew him misconduct him-
self. He had undertaken to pay Mr. Morgan the extent
of the damage. Mr. Elliot fined the defendant 405., or in
default of payment a month's hard labour.
LARKING BY A LADY.—A stylishly dressed female, who
gave the name and address of Alice Hamilton, Austin
House, Portland-placo, Regent's-park, was charged before
Mr. Benson, at the Marlborough-street Police Court,
with wilfully breaking a carriage window, the property of
Mr. Henry Calls, a jobmaster. From the evidence of Mr.
M. Wilson, coachman to Mr. Cates, it appeared that he
Wad waiting in Regent-street, with a landau for some persons
he had taken to a ball at Willis's Rooms, when the pri-
soner came up and said, ". I am in here," and pulled the
door violently open, breaking the glass and also injuring
the sash. The prisoner said she was merely having a
lark. She caught hold of the door, gave a pull, and down
it came. Mr. Benson fined the lady ss.
A MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A POLICEMAN.—A rough-
looking fellow, named Thomas Softly, aged 24, residing
at 34A, Middlesex-street, Somers-town, horsekeeper, was
charged, at the Marylebone Police-court, with violently
assaulting Thomas Sargeant, 325 S, in the execution of
his duty. The officer when he got into the witness-box ap-
peared very weak and faint, and his face was much
bruised and his eyes blackened. He said that at an
early hour in the morning he saw the prisoner in
Adelaide-road, Hampstead. The prisoner struck him
a violent blow on the right eye. Another man who
was with the prisoner also struck him a severe blow.
The prisoner then knocked him down, and while on
' the ground, kicked him several times on his head, causing
blood to flow from his nose and mouth. Prisoner now
admitted striking the officer. Mr. Mansfield said it was
9, ruffianly assault,and he would use the power vested in him
-tinder the Habitual Criminal Act. He would order him
to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months,