The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

TUESDAY

EVENING, AUGT.JS'T 26

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STR PT.

Ge",/gd ..;uittB MO# vft t- C )asp,t.,:t witu
L,-;akin.; into the dwellioggiouse of alessrs. Haber-
shaw, 38, Bloomsbury-square, architects, and stealing
a vast quantity of property, and also with attempting
to set fire to the premises. The elder prisoner is only
17 years of age, and both have been for some time
known to the police.
Mr. Habershaw said—On Sunday morning, about
four o'clock, I was disturbed by a noise which I fan-
cied was in my bedroom, and having attempted also
to make' a noise with the bed, but to no purpose, I
threw the pillow across the room, which caused the
prisoner Jones to start from the floor, and I instantly
jumped out of bed for the purpose of preventing his
egress by securing the door, when I discovered an-
other person outside on the landing-place, upon which
I aroused my brother, who was in bed on the next
floor, and, after a desperate struggle with them, suc-
ceeded in securing Morris, but the other contrived to
effect his escape. He was, however, brought back by
a policeman in a few minutes. On examining the
different parts of the house with the servants, we dis-
covered that the prisoners must have jumped down the
area in the rear of the premises where Morris's shoes
were found. The cupboards were all forced open, the
contents being taken out and ready to be removed. In
one of the dressing-rooms a handkerchief was spread,
on which were placed some wearing apparel and other
articles, and a wax taper, which, having been left
lighted in a drawer among some clothes, would in a
few minutes have set the house in a blaze had not the
discovery been made in time. A gold pencil case, a
purse containing some silver, a gold seal, and a small
case of instruments, which were stolen from my room,
were found upon Jones.
After some corroborative evidence had been given,
the prisoners were committed for trial.
WORSHIP-STREET.

A young man named John Hart was placed at the
bar, before Mr. D'Eyncourt, upon a eherge of grossly
asseul Ling Mary Anne Moorbouse, a neatly. dressed
lied exceedingly modest and good-looking young
person.
From the complainant's evidence it appeared that
on Saturday evening she quitted a service in Blooms-
bury-square, and being in want of some one to carry
her boxes to ber mother's at Walworth-comtnon, she
asked a crossing-sweeper in the square if he knew a
man with a truck or barrow. The prisoner, who wss
sten ling near with a covered van, heard her make the
inquiry, and offered to carry her and her boxes for a
shtiling, as he was going over that way, having, how-
ever, first to go to Old-street-road, and deliver a
quantity of potatoes. This being agreed to, her boxes
and a bed which she had were placed in the vehicle,
and she herself got into the van, which was open at
both ends. The prisoner also remained inside, an-
other man, who was with him, sitting upon a seat in
front to drive. After having been to Old-street, she
supposed they were proceeding with her towards
Walworth, but from her situation in the van she
could not see what direction they were taking. The
men stopped more than once on the road to drink,
and it had become dark, when the prisoner
began to take liberties with her, kissing her,
and throwing his arms around her, endeavouring
to throw her down, and committing indecencies which
she described. This continued for a considerable dis-
tance along the road, during which she struggled
against the prisoner, and called out for assistance.
The man who was driving, being appealed to to pre-
vent his companion using her, replied that he
could not do so, having quite enough to do to attend
to his two horses. She however got to the front and
on to the driver's sear, with a faint hope of protection
from him, and the prisoner endeavouring to pull her
hack into the van, she, as a last desperate resource,
threw herself off the seat towards the road, but her
clothes being caught by a rope attached to the van,
she was partly suspended, and would have, been
crushed by the wheels but for the assistance of a
young man who then cause up and released her. The
men with the van then drove off, leaving her at a
place which she was informed was called Temple
Mills, near the borders of Essex.
A mounted policeman of the N division said that
when he came up he found several persons about the
young woman, and being told of her having been ill-
used in the van, which had then got same distance
away, he rode after and stopped it ; and afterwards
took charge of the prisoner and of the complainant's
things which were in the van.
The prisoner in his defence said he had agreed to
carry the complainant and her boxes, but after he had
been to Old-street he had to go to Stratford for a load
of potatoes, to deliver afterwards over the water; and
when passing near Shoreditch Church he advised her
to go by omnibus to Walworth ; but she replied that
an omnibus would not take her box, and that she
would rather go round with him. They therefore
drove on, and on the road stopped at more than one
public-house and had twer, of which the complainant
partook ; and he also, out of mere kindness, treated
her with a cup of tea, as he thought she was poor. He
admitted that he bed put his arm round her and kiss-d
her, but he strongly denied having attempted any
other liberties with her.
The complainant being again questioned, said that
on the road the prisoner told her that if she paid for a
pot of beer he would not charge her for the use of
the van, and they accordingly stopped at a public-
house and had the beer, which she paid for and just
tasted. After that they stepped at another
public-house, where the man who was driving had a
pint of ale, and urged her to drink part of that, but
she refused. She did, however, have a cup of tea. It
was between five and six in the evening when they
left Bloomsbury-square, and after nine when she was
left near Temple Mills, and she now exhibited her
gown and under-clothing, torn nearly to pieces in her
struggles with the prisoner.
Mr. D'Evis COURT remanded the prisoner.
THAMES.

DISGRACEFUL SCENE IN STEPNEY CHURCH-YARD.
—Michael Driscoll 37, a labourer, of Ashley-place,
Ratcliffe, and Michael Hanrahan, 29, also a labourer,
residing in Old Gravel-lane, were charged with being
drunk and disorderly, assaulting Jones, the grave-
digger of St. Duos. Stepney, and obstructing
the Rev. Harry Martin in the execution of his duty.
This is not the first time that scenes of this dis-
graceful character have taken place at the same spot.
some years since an attempt was made to bury a
curate alive, and he was not rescued till after the
mould had been heaped up above his hips. A similar
attempt was subsequently made upon Mr. Price, the
parish clerk, one of the most inoffensive and obliging
men in the vicinity. It was difficult to get any clear
account of the facts which led to the outrage with
which the prisoners were charged, but the circum-
stances seemed to be 28 follow :—A man named Han-
rahan, a Roman Catholic, who died in the London
Hospital from the effects of accident, was about to be
buried at half-past three o'clock on Sunday, in the old
churchr yard of Stepney. All the parties being Irish
took a drop to drown their grief, and several contro-
versies arose between them. Formerly Irish Protes-
tants and Irish Roman Catholics had distinctive por-
tions of ground appointed for each, but these places
being filled up to an extent which would not admit the
digging of a grave to. the depth required by the late
Burial Act, it was difficult to continue the distinc-
tion. The deceased's wife was a Protestant, but
whether the body was to be buried in the Protestant
or Catholic ground did not transpire. At all events,
she wished to have the funeral obsequies decently
performed over her husband's grave, and the Rev.
Mr. Martin, who appeared as a witness, attended
for that purpose, but had scarcely pronounced the
first opening sentence of this most solemn ritual
when a scene of indescribable turbulence ensued, some
callicg on him to desist with vociferous threats and
menacing gestures, whilst others cried out, "Go on,
sir; go on with your sermon." The Rev. Gentleman
cauti,ned them that if they disturbed the service it
would be at their peril ; but the caution was of no
avail, and he was compelled to desist. In addition to
the religious feeling, it appeared that the parties en-
gaged in the row were actuated by a sumptuary mo-
tive also; considering that the widow, who bad re-
ceived 101. from a burial society, had not been suffi-
ciently liberal in her outlay for the funeral. The
prlioners, after throwing Jones, the gravedigger, into
the adj.icent ground, and threatening to "cut out the
guts" of the curate, proceeded to fill in the grave, but
desisted and tried to escape, N hen the police, who had
been sent for, made their appearance. The prisoner
Hanrahan, who was a nephew of the deceased, took a
most prominent part in the proceedings, and the oaths
and im
precai loos used on the occasion were in the last
degree revolting.
Mr. YARDLEY said that all wbo took part in so
scandalous an affair had acted most disgracefully, and
he had scarcely the means of inflicting an adequate
punishment for such an outrageous brawl in the sa-
cred precincts of a church. Properly it
should come under the cognisance of the
ecclesiastical law. The charge proved before him,
however, was one of assault on the gravedigger in
the execution of his duty, and he should,
as far as in his power lay, put a stop to such dis-
graceful proceedings. The assault in itself was not a
very serious one, but the circumstances surrounding
it rendered it a very grave offence. Driscoll, who
had no connexion with the deceased, had no right to
interfere, and such scandalous and savage scenes over
dead bodies were not to be tolerated. The only person
who had a right to see to the obsequies was the widow,
and it was clear that the others were actuated only by
that savage Propensity which prompted them to join
in a row wherever they found it. He would ih. re-
fore sentence Driscoll to pay a fine of 31., or be im-
prisoned for one month. Hanrahan being a nephew
of the deceased might have a mistaken notion that he
had a right to interfere, but still the supreinecy of the
law must be asset ted,
and he must pay a fine of 405.,
or be imprisoned for 21 days.
In connexion with the above case, James Sullivan,
a labourer, 26 years of age, who was taken up for
being drunk and disorderly in High-street, Stepney,