The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
William Bacon, a lad about 17 years of age, was
brought up before Alderman Wire for final examination
charged with stealing three spirit lamps, and a variety
of other articles, the property of Mr. Button, chemist,
Holbern-hill, and Charles Gibbons, a marine store
dealer, was charged with receiving the same, knowing
them to have been stolen.
Alderman WIRE said the evidence was so strong
against Gibbons that he felt no hesitation in at once
committing him for trial with the prisoner Bacon. With
regard to three reams of paper found on Gibbon's pre-
mises, evidence was produced to show that it was the
property of the Government Stationery-office, and that
it could not possibly have come properly into the posses-
sion of the prisoner, as it was of a peculiar make, such
as the Government only use. Witnesses appeared, who
proved the three reams to be a portion of 500 reams de-
livered into the Stationery-office in the latter part of
last year, and also the re-delivery to the Government
printers, from whose premises it must have been stolen.
Gibbons declined to account for the manner in which he
came possessed of the paper, and he was accordingly
committed for trial for having unlawfully in his posses-
sion three reams of paper, the property of her Majesty's
stationer, without being able to render a satisfactory
account of the same.
Alderman Salomons rose to make the following appli-
cation to the sitting magistrate, Alderman WIRE:-11s
said that what he was about to mention was a question of
considerable importance to the public, who expected on
every occasion that justice should be administered dis-
creetly and impartially, and that the poor should meet
with that protection that wealth gives to the rich. He
was sitting at the Old Bailey Court on Saturday with
the Recorder, and as the Court was about to break up a
poor old woman came in in a most pitiable state of mind,
having just learnt that her son, who had been tried in
the course of the morning, had been convicted and sen-
tenced to transportation, and that, too, without having
one word said in his defence. She said she bad paid a
man repesenting himself as a solicitor 35., that being all
the money she had, to procure counsel to defend her son.
He told her that was not enough, and she accordingly
went home, and after selling off everything she possessed
in the world, and by dint of borrowing from friends, she
succeeded in raising a further sum of 155., which she
handed over to the same person. No counsel appeared,
and the poor woman, having been fleeced of her all, was
now in a perfectly destitute state. Harding, 3, police-
sergeant, went to this person's address, and was there
informed that he had left early in the morning and had
not been back since. It was suggested that a warrant
should be issued for his apprehension, but after some con-
sultation, the Recorder and he (Alderman Salomons)
came to the decision that it would perhaps be better to
take the middle course, and issae a summons to require
him to appear and explain his conduct. On the after-
noon of a subsequent day the person alluded to appeared
in the court, and acknowledged having received the
money of the unfortunate creature, and promised to re-
turn it. He had not done so, and the worthy Alterman
thought he was only doing his duty as a magistrate to
the public in applying for a summons against him.
Alderman WIRE said that he could have no hesitation
in such a case in granting a summons. He thought the
public would feel indebted to his friend Alderman Salo-
mous for having brought the matter under the notice of
this court.
In the course of the afternoon the prisoner Gibbons
applied to be admitted to bail.
Alderman WIRE said he should increase the amount
from what it was before to a very heavy sum, as there
were two cases against him. •
Bail was then put in, two sureties of 2001. each,
and himself in 400 L, to appear and answer the charge at
the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey.
WOR S HIP-S TREE T.
David Pemberton, a fellow of dissipated appearance,
was charged with a brutal attack upon his wife.
The wife, whose face was strapped up with adhesive
plaister, and who appeared to have been very cruelly
treated, stated, that while doing her family's washing
on the preceding evening, the prisoner, who was eon -
stantly in the habit of wasting his means in the gratifi-
cstion of his drunken propensities, staggered into the
house in a state of intoxication, and, advancing to the
fireplace, on which was a saucepan filled with boiling
water, lifted off the lid, in the expectation of finding
something in it to eat. On seeing that there was not, he
seized the saucepan, and hurled it, and its boiling con-
tents into the tub at which she was standing, and, on
her darting back to escape being scalded, he dealt her
such a ferocious kick on the lower part of the stomach,
that she was partially lifted off her feet, and fell heavily
upon the floor. Not satisfied with this act of brutality,
the instant she had fallen he struck her a violent blow on
the side of her head with his fist; and, on her attempt-
ing to rise, dealt her such a terrible blow in the face, as
to slit her nose completely down. The blood imme-
diately gushed out over her clothes, but by a violent
effort she succeeded in getting on to her feet, and, rush-
ing out of the house, made the best of her way to the
police-station, from which one constable was dispatched
to effect the prisoner's apprehension, while a second was
sent with her to a surgeon's to get her injuries dressed.
The poor woman added that she had been most cruelly
beaten by her husband many times before, without
more provocation than she had given him upon
this occasion, and expressed her apprehension that,
if he were not properly restrained, one of his at-
tacks upon her would be attended with most serious
results.
The prisoner pleaded his intoxication as an excuse
for his conduct, but
Mr. HASIXILL considered that an aggravation rather
than the reverse, and sentenced him to pay the extreme
penalty of 51., or in default to stand committed to the
House of Correction for two months, and furthermore
ordered him at the expiration of that term to put in
two substantial sureties in 251. each for his peace-
able conduct towards his wife fur the succeeding three
months.
The poisoner was unable to pay the penalty, and was
therefore carried away in the van.
THAMES.
James Spencer. alias Black Jem, alias Jem the Logger,
a well-known thief, about 28 years of age, was brought
before Mr. Ingham, charged with stealing 561. from the
person of Eliza Fordham, the wife of a wheelwright re-
siding at Stratford, while she was on her way from the
Bank of England to her own home on Wednesday, the
26th of February.
A lad named James Green is in custody charged with
being concerned in the robbery, and the evidence
against him was that he was apprehended by Mills, 306
K, and on the officer making him acquainted with the
charge, and asking him whether ne would be taken to
the house of the prosecutrix for her to identify him, or
be conveyed to the station-house, he chose the former
alternative, and she immediately recognized him as one
of the persons near her when she lost the money. Green
then said to Mills I'll tell you all about its myself, Tim
Cassidy, and Tom Acheson, were in the Mile-end-road,
when we met Jew Spencer, and he told us to go and pick
that pocket, and pointed to a lady among the crowd
looking at a Cheap Jack (a travelling vendor) near the
Milo-end-gate, and we did pick her pocket of a lot of
gold and gave it to another. Spencer snatched it
away, and gave us 21. each. We all bought a suit of
clothes at a shop near Shoreditch Church, and we took
a cab next day, and went to Romford, and there spent
the remainder of the money:, On this statement Mills
detained the boy, one of a numerous juvenile gang that
infest the streets, and Mr. Yardley remanded him till
Monday. Police-sergeant Kelly, No. 2H, having heard
that Black Jem was wanting, sought after him in the
neighbourhood of that infamous haunt of thieves, Went-
worth-street, Whitechapel, and on Wednesday evening
met him in Brick-lane, a few yards from Wentworth-
street, with several desperate thieves. Sergeant Kelly,
who was in plain clothes, prudently followed him unte
he met with another detective, named Wigley, No. 14
H, a powerful mac, who, upon a signal from Kelly, hat
the fellow in his grasp in an instant. The gang by
whom he was surrounded attempted a rescue, but, after
a desperate conflict, they were beaten off, and Spencer
was secured and conveyed to the station-house.
Mrs. Fordham, wife of John Fordharn, of Stratford,
stated, that on the 26th ult. she went to the Bauk of
England with her husband and received some money,
which she deposited with some bank papers in a white
pocket-handkerchief, and put the parcel in her pocket.
She parted from her husband in Cheapsido and went to-
wards home with her sister. She stopped at a crockery-
ware stall in the Mile-end-road, and directly after
found if
had made a purchase and left it missed the weightt)d of
it
the gold from her pocket, and, to her dismay, e
had been abstracted. She was then next door to the
Blind Beggar public-house. She recollected some boys
oys
at
and a man were standing about her while she was
the crockery-stall. The man engaged her attention
and said
about a teapot she was about to P
u r chh a " t the man
there was something the matter. She to
was stouter than the prisoner, and not reug
e dged so well.
A police-constable was appealed to,
.andedo he
utrefuse becaused to
interfere or to arrest the man she point,
he was not on duty.
Ann Dolby, sister of the last witness, was present when
she lest her gold, and told her sister to keep an eye
upon the man whom she suspected while she went in
quest du policeman, who was standing near the place at
corner of North-street, and who would not give any
theass
assistance whatever. The witness was asked to look at
the prisoner, and after doing so said the man who was
near her sister when she was robbed looked much clearer
in the face.
Mr. Ireasem said that upon this evidence he did not
see how he could detain the prisoner.
Kelly said the prisoner was a returned transport and a
well-known thief. He believed the prisoner had been
twice transported. He knew him to be the companion
of thieves, and he was in company with two burglars
when he took biro into custody.
Mr. Nausea—That may be all very true, Sergeant
Kelly, but I cannot detain any man on suspicion without
evidence.
Mills said the prisoner had given a false address, and
that he was not known at the place where he said be
lived.
Roche, the gaoler—Every stitch which the
prisoner
has on is quite new, your Worship.
Mr. leanem said the only tittle of evidence against
the prisoner was, that he had given a false adds ess.
Kelly entreated of the magistrate to roman& the pri-
soner till Monday, when Green would be again
brought up.