The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-20 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

COMMITTAL OF ONE OF THE SWELL MOB.--Yesterday,
a fashionably-dressed young man, who gave the name of
John Henry liosonzan, but whose real name is Hicks„ a
well-known member of the swell mob, was brought up for
final examination before Mr. WHITE, charged with robbing
Mr. Thomas Munyard, confectioner, of Tothill-street, West-
minster, of a watch and appendages at the doors of the
Surrey Theatre.

It appeared from the evidence that last week the com-
plainant was going into the pit of the Surrey Theatre at the
time the doors opened. There was a great crowd and rush,
and the prisoner snatched the watch out of his fob. He
seized him and called a police-constable. with whom the pri-
sioner had a violent struggle and got away ; he was how-
ever, stopped by police-constable Miles of the L division,
No. 140, who secured him and took him to the station-house.

The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
THE POLICE WAR WITH THE APPLEWOMEN.-Mr.
Green, a surgeon in Queen-square, came before Messrs.
WHITE and GREGORIE, in consequence of the committal
of a man named Simons to prison for a month, for an
assault on the police, arising out of the following circum-
stances :

It appeared that, on Saturday last, a man named Simons,
and another man and two women, were fined 40s. each, and
in default of payment were committed for one month to the
house of correction for an assault on the police. A police-
man named Brown, of the B division, had seized a basket
of cucumbers belonging to a poor creature who gets her
livelihood by selling fruit and vegetables about the Broad-
way. The woman resisted the seizure, a violent struggle
took place, the basket-woman became incensed and attacked
the constable and tore his coat to ribbons. Simons and
the others were sworn to be the ringleaders.
Mr. Green said that he was positive there must have been
some mistake. He hid known Simons from a child. He
was a mild inoffensive lad, about twenty years of age. He
had totally lost the sight of one eye, and nearly lost the
sight of the other ; in fact he was so blind, that he did not
think him capable of taking hold of a basket correctly to
lift it.

After some further discussion Mr. Green was desired to
call at the office on the following day, when all the wit-
nesses would be in attendance.

COMMITTAL OF CoiXEßS.—John Jackson, alias Jack
the Logger, one of the most notorious coiners and smashers
about Westminster, who has been once transported, and
since his return convicted of uttering base coin, and Wil-
liam King, were brought up for final examination, charged
with having in their possession thirteen counterfeit half-
crowns. •

Mr. Banister, one of the inspectors of the B division,
from information received, went to the house N 0.4, Union-
court, Orchard-street, and in one of the garrets he found
the prisoners. On searching the room a quantity of imple-
ments for coining were found, and thirteen base half-crowns.
Mr. Powell, from the Mint, 'moved that they were all
counterfeit.

Jackson, in his defence, admitted that he had taken the
room, but how the things produced came there he could
not tell. Both prisoners were fully committed for trial.

HA TTON- GARDEN.
THE TRADES' UNlON.—Yesterday a man named Henry
Turner was brought before Mr. Sergeant SELLON for
making use of the following threatening language :
A female named Cable having been sworn, stated that
her husband was an ironfounder in extensive business in
Crawford-passage, Clerkenwell, and likewise proprietor of
the George public-house, in Saffron-hill. Within the last
few days the men employed at the foundry had left their
employ in consequence of Mr. Cable having requested them
to sign a declaration to the effect that they had ceased to
have any connection with a Trades' Union, and her hus-
band still adhering to the determination of not allowing
them to return unless they complied with his wishes, had
rendered himself obnoxious to the parties immediately con-
cerned. Between eight and nine o'clock on Monday even-
ing the prisoner entered the public-house while Mr. Cable
was absent, and threw witness and her family in great terror
by telling them that their premises would be burnt down,
and that her husband would be dead in less than a fortnight.
Mr. Cable said the prisoner worked for him twelve years
ago. When informed of the gross misconduct of the de-
fendant witness asked him if he had any animosity towards
him, and he answered " Not the least."

Mr. Sergeant SELLON—He might have come to you as a
friend to caution you against opposing your men. Was he
drunk ? Mr. Cable—He was.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON—I thought so. He is a great fool
there is no doubt, but I do not think there is reason to fear
any harm from him. At all events Ido not consider the evi-
dence sufficient to order him to find bail to keep the peace.
ROBBERY AT THE ORIENTAL BAZAAR, HOLBORN.—A
well-dressed young man, named William Easton, was placed
at the bar charged with a robbery at the Oriental Bazaar,
High Holborn, but was remanded until the return of Mr.
Tully, the proprietor of the Bazaar, from the country.
MARY LEB ONE.

Yesterday Mr. William Whale, the proprietor of the
Bayswater Tavern and Tea-gardens, situated in Elm-lane,
Bayswater, appeared before the sitting magistrate, Mr.
RAWLINSON, on an information laid by the T division of
police, charging him with suffering a number of drunken
and disorderly characters to assemble in his house.
David Farney, police constable 20 T, deposed that oe-
tween two and three o'clock on the morning of that day
se'nnight, he was on duty near the defendant's house, when
a youth, whom he believed to be the defendant's grandson,
came running to him apparently much alarmed, and re-
quested his assistance in quelling a most formidable riot
which had broken out among a number, of men assembled
in a largo room on the above premises. Witness imme-
diatelyrepaired to the room in question, and found about '

100 persons there, composed chiefly of omnibus-drivers,
conductors, cads, and others belonging to those vehicles,
who were fighting together in the most desperate manner,
amidst the most indescribable uproar and confusion. Wit-
ness,' with the assistance of another constable, endeavoured
to appease the fury of the combatants, most of whom were
intoxicated, but in ,so doing they were surrounded and
hustled, and Ms brother officer robbed of his watch, the
oi.ltside case of which was subsequently found on the floor
and restored to him, but the watch had not been heard of.
David Davies, 132 T, the constable who was robbed,
corroborated tfie above evidence, adding that in the scuffle
he felt his watch torn from his fob with much violence, but
in the confusion he could not tell who was the thief. He
was told a man, who goes by the nick-name of Dr. Lord,
had got it, and this individual, as well as several others, was
searched, but the property could not be found. The dis-
turbance was of such a desperate nature that it required
twelve constables to quell it, who with difficulty lodged the
ringleaders in the station-house.
The defendant said, in his defence, that the room in
question had been hired that night by a party, who took it
merely for the recreation of music and dancing, and he (de-
fendant) had not the least idea that such a disgraceful
breach of the peace would take place. He concluded by
stating that he was heartily sorry for what he had done, and
would take care to avoid a recurrence of the evil.
The Magistrates, under these circumstances, convicted
him in the mitigated penalty of 50s. and costs.
Yesterday six savage-looking Irishmen and one woman
were placed at the bar, charged with having created a des-
perate riot the previous evening in Lisson-grove, and with
assaulting several constables of the D division.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners quar-
relled with a man because he refused to join their Union,
and that they proceeded so far as to attack his house with
stones and brick-bats, breaking several squares of glass. At
length a number of constables arrived, and on their endea-
vouring to take the prisoners into custody, they met with
the most desperate resistance. A mob of several hundred
persons soon collected, who, led on by the prisoners, at-
tacked the constables with bricks and stones, one of which,
weighing two pounds, struck a constable on the head, and
would, in all probability, have killed him, if it had not been
for the guard to his hat. At length, with much difficulty,
the prisoners were taken to the station-house.

They were all ordered to find good bail, and to pay for
the broken glass, in default of which they were locked up.

WORSHIP- STREET.
Yesterday two boys, named Whitaker and Ward, were
brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. TWYFORD,
charged with having committed the following robbery
Mrs. Barnes, a lady living in Oxford-street, stated that
the prisoner Whitaker was employed by her as an errand-
boy ; " about a month ago," said witness; " I sent him to
Thames-street with four sovereigns to pay a bill. On the
following morning he returned, and said that he had been
robbed of the money by two girls, in Farringdon-street.
who, seeing the money in his hand, snatched it from him.
Believing at the time that his story was true, I passed it
over until an officer of the G division called upon me ;
from a statement he then made to me, 1 was induced to
give the boy into custody." •
Police constable 67 G said that, on the morning of the
27th ult., the prisoner Ward, who is five years older than
Whitaker, came running to him at the bottom of White-
cross-street, stating that the latter had been robbed by two
girls of four sovereigns, but who had ran away, he knew not
where. Witness immediately proceeded to a house in an
obscure court, occupied by the girls, and there found the
boy Whitaker. crying bitterly at the Joss of his mistress's
money. He told witness that lie met Ward the day before
in New-street, Covent-garden, and having told him of hav-
ing the four sovereigns, and also where he was going. the
former said he would walk along with him. On
arriving at the end of Farringdon-street, he said they
were accosted -by two girls, one of whom gave him some-
thing to drink out of a bottle, which in a short time so
completely stupified him, as to be unable to recollect what
occurred until he found himself the following morning with
the prisoner Ward, in bed, in a strange house, and his mis-
tress's money gone. The prisoner Ward then told witness
that after the girls had given Whitaker the dose, they
called a cab-and put him into it when they all went to their
house, where in a short time he went to bed with Whitaker,
having previously secured the sovereigns under his pillow.
On awaking the following morning the money was gone
and the girls too. Witness immediately went to the pro-
secutrix, Mrs. Barnes, and informed her of the circum-
stances, and afterwards took the girls into custody.
Mr. TWYFORD— What was done with them ?
Witness—l took them before Mr. Dyer, who committed
them for two months to prison, as disorderly characters,
and discharged the boys.
Then why bring them now before me 2—Because infor-
mation has been sent to Mrs. Barnes that the girls had
given up the four sovereigns to me, and that they were in
the Magistrate's hands, all of which is false, for on seareh-
ing them only Is. 3d. was found upon them.
Brown, an officer of this establishment, said he had no
doubt but the eldest boy Ward was at the " bottom of it
all." He bears," said witness " a very bad character,
and I have no doubt he was linked with the two girls, who
afterwards met him by appointment, and administered the
dose in Farringdon-street, the boy Whittaker having told
him on the night before where he was going the next
morning"
Mr.TWYFORD said there was not evidence to prove that
he took the money, and discharged both of them.

LAMBETH- STREET.
Robert Branch, a journeyman carpenter, was placed at
the bar upon the following singular charge of felony.
A police constable stated that at .a late hour on the night
before his attention was directed to the house No 34, Col-
linswood-street, Bethnal-green, by hearing loud and repeated
cries of " Murder ;" and on entering it he found the pri-
soner and a blind Greenwich pensioner, named Perry, who
occupied the house, together with the wife of the latter, in
the most dreadful combat. He separated the combatants,
and Perry at once charged the prisoner with carrying on an
improper intercourse with his wife, and robbing him of pro-
perty to a considerable amount He in consequence took
the prisoner into custody, and the property described by
the blind pensioner was subsequently found in his (the pri-
soner's) room.
Perry, the pensioner, on being sworn, said he had no wish
to press the charge against the prisoner, as he understood
from his wife that she had removed the goods to his room,
lest he (complainant) should take them with him to Green-
wich, where he wanted to take her.
Mr. Ebbs, a superintendent in the K division of police,
observed that Perry had told a different story at the station-
-1 house on the previous night, when he charged the prisoner
with carrying on an adulterous intercourse with his wife, and
also robbing him of a quantity of valuable property, toge-
ther with 10 sovereigns, which were found in his room.
He was also dreadfully incensed at the conduct of the.pri-
soner and his wife, but they had succeeded in wheedling
him, that he took her home, and at six o'clock on that
morning both came to the station-house with an excellent
breakfast for the prisoner, but the coffee had such a quan-
tity of rum in it that it could not be admitted.
The pensioner admitted having heard some queer stories
about his wife and the prisoner, but he was determined to
separate them, and take his wife to Greenwich.
The prisoner was then discharged.
UNION-HALL.
Two men, named Harrison and Pack, were brought up
charged with being at Camberwell Fair for the purpose of
playing at unlawful games. Harrison was taken into cus-
tody sitting at a table surrounded chiefly by a number of
young persons of both sexes. He presided at a game called
" Under seven, over seven," at which the players appeared
to be losing very fast. The game was played with dice.
He was taken into custody with his apparata,u,
of 1/., chiefly in coppers, was found in his possession, all of
which he had gathered during a short space of time, owing
to the cupidity of those who ventured on the game.
The magistrate committed the prisoner for two months
to Guildford. _

Harrison—l haVe no other way of living. I hope your
Worship will order the money to be given up to me.
Mr. TRAILL declined to comply with the request, saying
that the money should be reserved to pay the prisoner's
travelling expenses to Guildford, and the residue to go to-
wards his maintenance while in gaol.
The other prisoner presided at a game called " Hap-
hazard," and had a crowd of young persons round
his table whom he was chousing out of their mow. He
was also committed to the treadmill ; and, on turfing out
of the office, he said that he had an insuperable aversion to
that " everlasting stair-case, the mill."
- .THAMES POLICE.
EXCESS OF AUTHORITY.—Yesterday John Clark, a tall
young man, was brought before Mr. Ballantine and Mr.
Tubbs, a country Magistrate, charged with committing
several desperate assaults on the constables and gatekeepers
of St. Katharine's Dock.

It appeared from the evidence of a gatekeeper that
orders had been given to exclude the prisoner from the
dock, about which he had been seen loitering, evidently for
no good purpose. On Monday afternoon, about two
o'clock, the prisoner was observed by the witness in the
dock, and the gate-keeper immediately seized him
by the collar, and expressed his intention of walking
round the quays and showing him to each gatekeeper
and warehouse keeper, that his person might be known.
The prisoner had not gone far before he was tired of his
walk, and endeavoured to get away from the gatekeeper,
who refused to let him go until he had made the circuit of
the dock. The prisoner struggled to get away and a scuffle
ensued, and thegatekeeper was beaten and kicked in a very
severe manner. Other officers in the dock came to his
assistance, and were served in the same way ; half a dozen
of them were h:eatea suctessively by the priso.nort
but they

at length made one joint attack on him, and took him into
safe custody.

Some of the persons attacked appeared in the office, and
seemed to have met with a good deal of punishment.
Mr. BALLANTINE said he did not see any necessity,to
march the prisoner round the dock, nor had any constable
or other peace officer a right to do so. The plain duty of
the gatekeeper was to turn the man out of the dock, if he
was an improper character, and if he refused-to go to bring
him before a magistrate. He must be discharged.