The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-20 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY. —George Webber, 30, late
under Sir Edmund St. Aubyn, of 84, Eaton Place, was
brought up at Westminster Police-court, sharged with
stealing 300 ounces of plate, value £BO, the goods of his
master, in his dwelling house. A man named Wilton
Barratt was charged at this court about three months ago
with feloniously receiving the plate, which he pledged at
Messrs. Vincent and Balls, pawnbrokers, at Brompton..
He was tried at the sessions and sentenced to 12 months
hard labour, and stated that the prisoner Webber had
given them to him to dispose of. Thomas Cheshire,
servant to Sir Edmund, said on the 27th of July he
counted the plate and found it short. The prisoner was
then in the service, and witness made certain, before
charging him, by sending to Devonport, where Sir
Edmund banks ; they were not there, and the police
being communicated with, apprehended Barratt, who
made a statement when apprehended. On prisoner were
found two shirts, one belonging to witness and one to
Sir Edmund's son. William Taylor, a detective, proved
apprehending prisoner on Saturday at Victoria station. On
him and found a portmanteau and hat case belonging to
Prince Achille Murat ; he made no answer to the charge,
but asked if witness had a warrant, and then went to the
station quietly. Mr. Dayman advised the prisoner to
say nothing sow until he heard all the evidence against
him, as the other prisoner would be brought up to give
his version of the matter on a future day. He was
accordingly remanded till Monday.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEMALE--John Lynch, a rough-
looking young man, was charged at the Marlborough-
street Police-court with assaulting Mary Rose, a young
woman living in Peter-street, St. James's. Mr. Wm.
Moore, of the Associate Institute for Enforcing the Law
for the Protection of Women, watched the case. The
complainant, who had a black eye and a cut on the
temple, said that on Saturday night, while in Windmill-
street the prisoner insulted her and then struck her several
times with a stick till she was nearly insensible. The
prisoner said the complainant was always following him
about and annoying him, and he did not want her to do
so. Mr. Knox said that under no circumstances had the
prisoner a right to strike the complainant. It was a case
of excessive violence, and the prisoner would be com-
mitted for a month with hard labour.

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transpired that both the lad and his father had disap-
peared from their home. Under the circumstances,
Sergeant Ballantine objected to any adjournment of the
case, and under the direction of the Common Sergeant
the jury acquitted the prisoner. The recognisances of the
prosecutor were ordered to be estreated,
COMMITTING TRIGAMY.—At the Central Criminal Court,
London, Norton Weston, 34, carpenter, pleaded guilty to
marrying Mary Parsons and Charlotte Roser, his wife,
Rebecca, being alive. He was married at Brighton in
1857, but did not live long with his wife, as he never pro-
vided a home for her. She went to service, and in 1860 he
married Roser, by whom he had two children.
In 1864 he returned to Brighton, and married Parsons,
by whom also he had two children. In each case he
represented himself as a single man. On the circum-
stances coming to the knowledge of the first wife she
instituted the present proceedings. He was sentenced to
twelvemonths hard labour, in spite of an appeal for
mercy on account of his youth

WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. --The
visitors of this exhibition will, no doubt, have observed a
telescope of large dimensions, made by a working man, a
baker, residing at Nottingham, named T. W. Bush.
This specimen of workmanship was closely examined by
the Premier at his late visit to the Exhibition. Since then
Mt. Gladstone has had private interview with the maker
of the telescope at Nottingham, at which the construc-
tion was fully explained to him. A few days since Mr.
Bush received a communication from the Astronomer
Royal, from which, it is hoped, much may be expected to
I promote the interest of this very intelligent workman.