The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-BOUSE.
Just as the Lord Mayor was leaving the be 'cls, John Kin-
chin, master of Waterman steam-boat No. 5, and Edward
Mackey, one of the crew, were placed at the bar charged
with a riot.
It apneared from the evidence cf the psl•ceman making
the charge, that from instructions he receive that morning
at the City Solicitor's office, he had just tz ken the defend-
ants into custody on account of the dispute which arose on
Wednesday last respecting the pier at Paul's-wharf.
The case having been partly heard, a solicitor appeared ohn
behalf- of the defendants, when the Lord Mayor, before e
had time to make a remark, asked who he was?
The gentleman stated that he attended from the office of
Messrs. Newbon and Evans, the solicitors to the Waterman
's
Steam Packet Company.
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the gentleman was then standing being the usual one for
solicitors when attending there, his Lordship said
you do
not go out from the railing you shall be turned out.
The solicitor then went outside the bar, and thetstatement
defendants to find bail in 1001. each, and two sureties o
of the police having been taken, the Lord Mayor ordered
theol
each, to answer the charge at the sessions.
The solicitor, during the hearing of the case, stated that
he took the order to go beyond the barrier as a personal
insult. •
The LORD MAYOR said, in reply, "I meant you to take
it as such," and the solicitor then left the Court.
GUILDHALL
Phoebe Richards, a young woman of respectable appear-
ance, and Edward Barlow, a clerk at, Messrs. Wreford and
Co.'s, 2, Aldermanbury, were re-examined, charged with
stealing a writing'case and other articles from the Commer-
cial Hotel (the Barley-mow), Salisbury-square.
Mr. Clarkson, with Mr. Philp, the solicitor, attended for
the prosecutor, and Mr. Ballantine with Mr. Hudson, soli-
citor, for the accused. The room was crowded with the
friends of the parties.
Mr. Clarkson said there had been a short examination on
a former day, but it would now be necessary to go into the
matter minutely. He called—
Mr. Pare, the landlord of the hotel, who deposed that the
feMale prisoner, Richards, came to lodge at his house on the
15th of December, representing that she had come from
South Petherton, near Bristol. Her luggage was brought in
a cab. having a sitting-room for gentlemen staying at his
house, but no such accommodation for ladies, she was in-
vited to sit in the bar parlour, and while she was lodging in
the house property to the extent of 301. was lost. She left
on the evening of the 20th of January, without any inti-
mation that Ae had taken a lodging elsewhere. She
went away pretending she was going to the Great Western
Railway to meet her sister, who would arrive at half-past
nine; but, in fact, she went directly to Hoxton, where
she had taken a lodging a week before. There was a raffle
at prosecutor's house for some silver watches, which were
kept in the bar parlour. The raffie was to have taken place
about New Year's-day, but on looking for them they
could not be found. They had been last seen in the bar
parlour on the 23d of December. The chamber-maid miss-
ing-something on the 19th, the servants had notice to quit.
Barlow was a frequent visitor to Miss Richards, and was her
acknowledged suitor. As she did not return on Tuesday
night with her sister from Bristol, although she had ordered
an extra bed, and that the fire should be kept up, he went
to Barlow on Wednesday morning. Barlow said he had not
done anything with the young lady, and he asked if she
owed anything ? Witness said she owed 11. 4s. Barlow
said he would call and pay it in the evening. Witness re-
quested him to bring Miss Richards with him, as she
had, no doubt, by • mistake, taken away sense ar-
ticles which belonged to Mrs. Pare, or to Mrs.
Clarkson, a lady on a visit to her. Barlow pro-
mised he would do so ; but, in consequence of some infor-
mation, both the prisoners were taken into custody in
Aldermanbury about 6 o'clock in the afternoon. On 'Wed-
nesday morning a note was received by post, bearing a
Cripplegate postmark, setting forth that she did not return
last night because her sister arrived so late, and that they
slept together in Aldermanbury. He went with the officers
to search-the lodging at Eliza-terrace, Hoxton, and saw cer-
tain articles found there. None of the missing property was
found on Barlow, or amongst his effects at his employers.
Mr. Alderman CHALLIS asked how the female prisoner
accounted for removing her luggage, if she gave no intima-
tion that she was going to leave? Mr. Pare said he was not
aware that she had removed her luggage, but he returned
from the country in the course of that day.
Mr. Willoughby, a lodger at the hotel, stated that he
missed his writing-case from the commercial-room on the
first floor. It was safe about five o'clock in the afternoon on
the 20th, and he missed it next morning. The outside was
of russia leather, brit there was a black leather portfolio in-
side. He identified the clasp of the portfolio by a scratch.
The case contained bills and papers of importance to him.
The policeman produced the clasp which he found at the
lodging at Hoxtons . There were ashes of paper under the
grate, and he also found in the ashes some small nails, screws,
and a hinge, which he supposed to be the remains of the
writing case.
Mrs. Bircham, of 1, Eliza-terrace, Hoxton, said the female
prisoner slept there on the night of the 20th, and she heard
her busy with the fire till a late hour. Witness had two
furnished parlours to let. Barlow first looked at them, and
said he would send " his good lady." She took them to be
man and wife, and the lady came afterwards and approved
of the place. She did not take possession till the morning of
the 20th, when she brought her luggage in a cab, but went
away immediately. She returned with Barlow about eight
in the evening, but he went away about half-past ten the
same night. On the following day witness entered the room
while Miss Richards was absent, and saw under the sofa-pil-
low a strip of Russia leather with a torn edge. She also
saw a gold chain with long burnished links, and short inter-
vening links.
The officer said both these had been removed when he
searched the place at night, but he found another chain.
Such a chain as was described had been stolen from Mr.
Pare, but the chain produced was identified from the work-
box of the bar-maid. She saw it safe in her bed-room two
days before Miss Richards left. The bar-maid also iden-
tified two pocket handkerchiefs found at the lodging at
Hoxton. One belonged to herself, and the other to her
mistress.
Mrs. Clarkson, of the Walworth-road, who was staying at
the hotel on'a visit to Mrs. Pare, identified a brooch which
she had broken, and which was found at the prisoner's
lodging.
Elizabeth Fisher, the chambermaid, identified Barlow as
having been in the commercial-room on the afternoon of
the day on which Mr. Willoughby's writing-case was stolen
from it.
Mr. Clarkson then proposed an adjournment of the hear-
ing till Saturday, and he was willing that the young man,
Barlow, should continue to remain at large on his recog-
Mzances.
Mr. Ballantine said he was willing to assent to this, for
the fuller the inquiry was he was sure the clearer would the
innocence of Barlow appear. He had been paying his ad .
dresses to the young woman, intending to marry her. He
had hitherto appeared as counsel for both the prisoners; but
from this time he should represent only Barlow, who be-
lieved the young woman to be innocent till proofs of her
guilt not to be resisted were produced, but now he could
no longer endeavour to protect her.
The female prisoner, who seems indifferent to the result,
was then remanded till Saturday, and Barlaw was bailed to
appear at the same time.
WORSHIP-STREET.
A middle-aged man of respectable appearance, named
George Samuel Abrahams, described as an auctioneer and
house-agent, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, for
final examination, on numerous charges of embezzlement and
felony, and obtaining money under false pretences.
Two charges of fraud, after an elaborate investigation, the
Magistrate considered it unlikely would be followed by a
conviction, and they were therefore abandoned, but the pri-
soner was committed upon one charge of felony ; and
A lady named Lane now stated, that wishing in the latter
part of December last to dispose of- some property at her
villa, at Ealing, the prisoner, who was recommended to her
by a friend as an auctioneer, waited upon her to draw up the
particulars of sale. Amongst other, articles in the list were
an agate snuff-box, gold-mounted, and with a beautifully
executed representation of the Coliseum at Rome upon the
lid ; and a silver cruet-stand, both of which having sustained
trilling fractures likely to depreciate their value, the prisoner
took them away with him on the excuse of getting them
repaired. She had repeatedly applied for their restoration,
but unsuccessfully, and now found, upon their production by
the officer, that they had been pledged by the prisoner, and
of course without her sanction. She had also seen a set of
mounted cruet-; found by the officer at the house of the pri-
soner, which were likewise her property, and must have been
abstracted by the accused from her house on the occasion of
his visit, and without her authorisation, as they were entire
and needed no repairs.
The snuff-box and cruet-stand were produced in `court,
the latter by Mr. Russell, a pawnbroker in Shoreditch,
at whose-shop it had 'been pledged by the prisoner, at the
latter end of December, for 4/.
The prisoner offered no defence to this charge, and Hol-
land, the warrant officer, next produced a cigar-case, which
he had discovered upon searching the prisoner's house, and
which was identified as his property by a Mr. Rubens, a
vanilla merchant, who had left it in an apartment to which
the prisoner had access, serving as the temporary bar of a
publican named Collins, residing in Wellclose=square,
Whitechapel, whose house so suddenly fell .down that his
family had scarcely time to escape with their lives, and fur
whose benefit a subscription was set on foot and collected
by the prisoner, to the amount of more than 80/., and applied
by him to his own purposes, with the exception of sbout 61.
only, which had been obtained from him by stratagem.
In this case the prisoner, who betrayed the coolest self-
possession throughout the proceedings, expressed his inten-
tion to reserve his defence for another occasion, and he was
then fully committed for trial upon all the charges.
LAMBETH.
Mr• Fre • d erze m oiton, a respectable master tailor, residing
at 3, Harleyford-terrace, Penton-place, Newington, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, and charged, on sus-
picion, of wilfully cutting the throat of Joanna, his wife,
with intent to murder her.
Mr. Games attended on behalf of the prisoner, and the
Court was much crowded during the examination.
The first witness called was an aged woman, the mother-
in-law of the prisoner,. who deposed that her daughter had
been married to the prisoner about three years, and for nearly,
the whole of that time they had led an uncomfortable life,
and the prisoner had frequently used her very, ill. On the
Friday morning the prisoner had quarrelled with his wife,
knocked her dosin, and gave her a black eve, and witness
then heard him say, he "would do for her." A little after
eight, on the Sunday morning, witness heard a loud scream
of " Murder," or some such word, and, on hastening from her
own room, she found the prisoner standing at the bottom of
the stairs perfeCtly naked, nith his bands covered with blood,
and also saw her daughter lying near the fire-place in the
front parlour with a wound on her throat, from which the
blood was flowing freely. She, witness, asked " Who did it?"
and her daughter, pointing to the prisoner, said in a faint
voice,
" lie did it," and this was all she was able to say.
—Are you enabled to say which it was
Mr. HENRYwho
first' called out—the prisoner or your daughter ? Witness—
Pm sure it was the prisoner.
Mr. HENRY—Did the prisoner
said, "He did it ?' Witness—Not a word, rseply or observa-
tionl, when his wife pointed to as you have stated, and
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rr, but whipped
into the back parlour, in which he and his wife slept.
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quested of him, as he was quite naked, to I
shirt on. My daughter at
saw a razor covered with blood, lying
open
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her.—
(The witness was cross-examined at great length
by Mr.
Games, but nothing material was elicited.)
Richard Vesey, the son of the last witness, and brother-
in-law to the prisoner, said that he with his mother had
occupied the first floor in the prisoner's house for the
last three weeks. This witness, after speaking to several
t
acts of ill-treatment of the prisoner to ward; his wife, said,
that on Sundaymorning, on heanng the cries of , mother,"
desired his mother to go her,"
or "murder" dawn stairs, he
quietly, and if he should be wanted to call out to him.
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His mother did call out, and upon is
naked,
with hinsn handsfound the prisoner perfectly
pletely smeared in blood, and his face and the front of his
out
upon
person spotted over with blood, as if it had spirted
him. On seeing his sister he charged the prisoner with
cutting her throat. He endeavoured to get out by the
flout 400 r to give-stit alarm, and procure the assistance or a