The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-07 00:00:00

stre-t ;,,to L i(.:,-r-,cv,re. when the heard a scream

saw th,
r e`if
, ,;(1.

+; h :;r

lira hl+ d, and a six week- old-Was in ],‘ltgei. 4 b:,.
irig tossed not of ln,r arms. It was not till they resehed
St. Marin'sl:4l,7,. that i:hey eonld get the man down.
Coa, t had never seen tli.e twin befere.
Emma Summerfield, aid to Mrs. Jaeoly;on,
said the prisoner, who was an entire stranger to her,
I,',:tp,d up and pulled round her bonnet, and scratched
hyr iita till they bled.
Mr J,,e013%;1,„ who was drivina, on hearing a
scream, turni:d round and cut the prisOner down with his
whip. .Flu, prisoner made use of the most abusive anti
oLiecno language, and would not le e the Tillman:, so
that they were obliged to give him into enstcdy. The
prisoner was quite sober at the time.
The derenilsnt denied the acetniation,
Mr. LONG sentenced bins to a tio, of NV., or 14 chiy.,'
impris,mme,t.

The following gentlemen were brought up, charged,
with been found in a suspected gambling house :
Charles Ilumilton, Morris Albert, ltota.rt Johnsf•n,
Frederick Wilson, William Hemmings, Henry Smith
Hallam, John Smith, and the doorkeeper, James
Townsend.

Superintendent Bercsford said he had orders and
authority from the Commissioners of P lice to enter the
house, 2, Rupert-street, St. 'James's, and went a quarter
before two o'clock on Saturday morning, with two other
constables. He rang the front door bell, the door was
opened by the porter Townsend, whom he seised imme-
diately-, as Townsend knew him well, and would suspect
his object, and gave him over to the custody of the other
constables. The gas was immediately put out. He
then entered, and found in the centre of the passage a
door covered with green baize and lined underneath
with iron. After knocking at this to gain admission,
without success, they made use of the sledge-hammer
and crow-bars, and with much labour succeeded in fore
ing the doer off the hinges and one of the bolts which
secured it, but failed still to remove the door. Some one
opened the door from within, and the witness found it
had been seeused by an iron bar, which turned on a
centre, fastened to the door itself, and fell into sockets in
the door-posts. The witness was met by another door
at the foot of the stair, fitted in a similar manner, and
having a small hole in it as-a "look out;" this was open
also. Half way up the stairs he found such another
door, also open. He passed into the first-floor room, and
found the defendants, but no implements of gaming in the
room, or on their persons. The stairs which led to the
upper part of the house was guarded by a similar door
at the foot, and at the top was a trap door which fell
down over the stair-case and bolted on the lower side,
and over all an iron gate, so that any one coming from
above could not get down to the first floor.
iilr. Lorna said, as no implements of gaming had been
found the case failed against the defendants, and they
were discharged.
Sixteen gentlemen were brought up on a similar
charge from the house No. 64, St. James's-street, usually
known as the Cocoa-tree Club. _ _ _

Superintendent Beresford said the evidence in this
case was similar to that in the former ; he found a great
many iron doors, bolts and bars, and the defendants
within, but no implements of gaming. He said they had
ample time, while he was forcing the doors, to make
away with anything suspicious.
Mr. LONG also discharged the defendants in this case.
Mr. Budderstone appeared as counsel, and Mr. Ro-
bertson as solicitor for the defendants, in both cases.
CLERKENWELL.

Anne Nebors was charged, before Mr. Combe, with
stealing a pair of boots, the property of Thomas
Hornsby, hoot and shoe maker of No. 15, Northern-
buildings, Somers-town.
Elizabeth Hornsby, the prosecutor's wife, said the
prisoner came into the shop on Friday evening, and
asked to look at a pair of boots. Witness took down
two pair, sad laid them upon the counter, when the pri-
soner asked to be shown some other articles, which were
down at the end of the shop, and during witness's tempo-
rary absence one pair of the boots were 'moved from
the counter, but the prisoner managed to effect her
escape before the theft was discovered. The next day
she was taken into custody, close to the prosecutor's
shop, with the boots on her feet.
Mr. COMBE committed her for trial.
A little urchin named Good, was charged with robe
bing his employer, Mrs. Susannah Baker, of the Lower-
road, Islington, under the following rather peculiar cir-
cumstances :—The prosecutrix stated that she carried on
business as a dyer, and the prisoner had been in her
employment for some time as an errand-boy. Yester-
day evening she gave him a parcel to deliver at a house
in Red Lion-square, and in about an hour afterwards he
returned, and pretending to cry, said he met three men
opposite New St. Pancras Church, one of whom knocked
him down and robbed him of the bundle, when they ran
away in the direction of Paddington. Considering the
story very improbable, owing to the publicity of the
spot, and coupling his statement with the fact that on a
previous occasion she had given him money to pay a bill,
which he said he had lost, she sent for a policeman, and
gave him into custody.
A witness here came forward, and said that be met
the boy last evening crying in Maiden-lane, and that he
made the same statement to him.
Mr. COMBE put several questions to the witness as to
the motives which induced him to come forward, which
the worthy magistrate considered him to have answered
so unsatisfactorily, that he adjourned the ease, in order
to give time for further inquiries.
A CHANDLER SHOIFICEEPER FINED FOR SELLING
BEER ON SUNDAY.—John Philpoi, a chandler shopkeeper,
residing in Islington, was summoned by the police for
having sold table beer on Sunday morning before the
hour of one o'clock.
An attorney, who attended for the defendant, con-
tended that selling small beer did not come within the
meaning of the Act of Parliament, 2 and 3 Vic., cap. 47,
which prohibited the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other
fermented liquors on Sundays before one o'clock, and
that small beer was no more a fermented liquor than
ginger beer.
Mr. COMBE said the question had often been decided,
and no one could doubt that small beer was a fermented
liquor within the meaning of the Act.
The defendant was fined 20s. and costs.
LAMBETH.

CONVICTION 01 A POLICEMAN Mr. Norton inve,ti-
gated a charge against Thomas Hedone, 251 P, and
James Dobbin, 175 M, metropolitan police.
It appeared that on Thursday afternoon two men,
named Shepheard and Adams, employed by a person
named Harrington, a running dustman, were caught
by a person in the employ of Mr. Davis a dust con-
tractor, removing some dust from a house in Camber-
well parish, who called constable Hedone to take them
into custody, but the constable made light of it, and
walked away. Mr. Davis's servant, however, contrived
to stop them, when they assaulted him violently with a
thick stick. Hedone, hearing the cry of " Police !" re-
turned to the spot, when Mr. Davis's man showed him
his hand, which was bleeding, and told him that he had
been struck several blows on his head, and further
saw him struck by Harrington, the master of
the two men. He let them go, after keeping
them in custody for a short time. The complaint against
constable Dobbin was that Shepheard and Adams boasted
that he would not have interrupted them, as he was well
acquainted with Harrington, their master, with whom he
was subsequently seen to come out of a beer-shop, and
when questioned on the subject by Inspector Campbell,
he first denied it, but afterwards said he went in for a
pint of beer. After a lengthened investigation, Shep-
heard and Adams were fined 30s. each, or a month's im-
prisonment, Adams in a further sum of 51. or two
months' imprisonment for the assault on Mr. Davis's
man ; Harrington, the master, in 51., or two months' im-
prisonment, fur a like assault ; and Mr. Norton said, with
respect to the constables, he was of opinion that the com-
plaint against Dobbin amounted merely to an error in
judgment, in not having taken the parties into custody,
when desired to do so, and the accusation of having
drunk at the beer-shop with Harrington was not proved,
though he must say it was a suspicious circumstance.
The charge against the other constable, he wis si,rry
to say, was very different. His conduct in the first in-
stance in laughing at the man who wished him to take
the dustmen into custody was highly improper, and his
leaving the man struggling with the two men and walk-
ing off was equally improper, and his not keeping the
parties in custody after the man had shown the wound
upoa his hand, and told him that he had been struck
several times on the head, was conduct that could not be
tolerated. It was most distressing to him to be obliged
to convict a man who had been in the police force for
upwards of fifteen years ; but his duty demanded it. If
conduct like his was tolerated there would be no safety
for the public. The law enabled him to impose a
penalty of 101 ; but under the circumstances he would
mitigate it to one half, and the constable must therefore
pay a penalty of 5/., or one month's imprisonment.

Tu QUEEN C R HARD DUNN. —The trial of
this indictment is E
appointedi to take place at Guildhall,
I
n the 15th instant. -A
special jury will be summoned at
the instance of the prosecutrix, Miss Burdett Coutts.
CARRIER
—A paper was on Friday'after-
noon found on the near Dungeness lighthouse,
attached to a carrier pigeon's leg, which it appeared had
been shot, containing the following:—
bJ in (12) Paris, 30 Nov., 1846 Lyon 498.75
'J Orleans 1225 Vierz. 572.50 Strasb. 477.50
Sys I • •
Act. .• Rouen 865 Boul. 435 Nantes 487.50
Havre 631.2.5 Bord. 545 Dieppe
3's 0.
Int. re Avig. 51.563.75 Nord 639
Mad. 24 c. 3'. WE je 5° FJ sh (1032 PP
Change 25 47% A i 30 js 25.35 I a' 90 jS.
735 , 934 , 99.
PUNISHMENT OF DEATII.—A public meeting was
held on Friday evening, at the Music-hall, Store-street,
having for its object the adoption of measures to promote
the abolition of the punishment of death. As we have
already reported at considerable length the proceedings
of several similar meetings, a brief outline only is neces-
sary. Mr. Charles Gilpin presided, and shortly ex-
pounded the principle on which the Soeiety advocates
the abolition of capital punishment—that of the sanctity
of human life. In allusion to the recent statement of
the Premier, that the treatment of criminals was a ques
tion yet to be solved, he recommended to his Lordship's
attention the course pursued by the late Mrs. Fry. He
expressed surprise at the tone adopted by the Morning
Chronicle on this question, w hen the reputed proprietor,
Sir John Ftsthope, had voted for the abolition of capital
punishments six years ago. It might suit that paper to
go hack, but the public 'eere Lot going back on this
question.—(hear.) On the committee of this society
were men who had been accuston-,ed to go flow victory
to victory ; amongst its members were Richard Cobden,
John Bright, W. J. Fox, Charles Dickens, and Douglas
Jerrold.—(Loud cheers.) But, better than all, the
Society had right on its side.—(Cheers.) The meeting
wa,,, addressed by Mr. Charles Potter. the Rev. Henry
Richards, Mr. .J. H. Parry, Mr. F. Rowton, Mr. H.
Vincent, and other gentlemen; and the same resolutions
as have been adopted at previous meetings were sub-
mitted and agreed to, as were petitions to the Legislature
founded thereon.