The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111ANS'ION-HOUSE.
Mr. E. Gainey was charged by Mr. W. S. Hale, of
Cateaton-street, a mennher of the Court of Common
Council, under the follortring circumstances :
Mr. Hale stated that as he and some of his neighbours
were talking together in the street, on the preceding even-
ing, up walked the defendant, in a state of intoxication,
and called him a shabby fellow. Witness 'aw the unfor-
tunate condition in which the gentleman was, and took no
notice of the epithet. Defendant then began to improve
in his abuse, and called witness a scoundrel, and continued
till he reached the top of the scale of Billingsgate. At
last it was found necessary to lock him up. Witness,
however, did not wish that any heavier punishment shou:d
be inflicted upon Mr. Gafney.
The LORD MAYOR asked the drunken gentleman why
he had abused a gentleman of so much respectability that
no abuse could affect him ? Defendant said that Mr.
Hale, knowing such was the case, ought not to have
locked him up.
The Constable—My Lcrd, the gentleman asked me for
a pen and ink, and he wrote these here words on the card
for his address.
The exhibition of the card caused great Laughter. Any
one would have th“ught that the pen must have been
dipped in brandy, for it had reeled from corner to corner
transversely, and at last tumbled down in a large blot.
The constable—He was writing that ere gibberish,
please you, my Lord, full half an hour, and neither me
nor the watchman could make nothing of it.—(Laughter,
in which the defendant joined.)
The LORD MAvort—l shall fine you five shillings for
being drunk, Mr. Gainey, and I advise you to keep this
card in your pocket, in order, when you are next in the
the same condition, to produce it as evidence in your
favour.

De:endant—Perhaps Mr. Hale will pay the five shil-
lings for me.
Mr. Hale at once put down the money, and Mr.
Gafney apologised and departed.
AIR-PISTOL Suots.—On Saturday Mr. Carr, a gen-
tleman of the Stock Exchange, stated that he hrd very
narrowly escaped being shot with an air-gun. He said
that as be was standing at twenty minutes before five, on
Friday afternoon, wirh his back to the window of Mr.

Howell's shop in Gracechurch•street, waiting for a pas-
senger in one of the stage coaches, he heard a sudden
whiz, and the pane of glaes next to him inst tntly smashed.
There were two gentlemen biking in at the window, and
the pane between them was the one broken. A great deal
of alarm was excited, and a small bullet was found in the
shop, at a considerable distance from the window. the
The size of the hole was that of a pennypiece, and it was
evident that extraordinary means had been used to propel
the bullet. He could see nobody on the other aide whom
he could suspect of having fired.
A policeman heard the smashing of the glass. The
only persons opposite in the street were a Wandsworth
coachman and a porter, but he was sure neither of them
was the marksman. The Pewter Platter public-house
was exactly opposite, but nobody appeared to have fired
from that place. He had heard afterwards that some new
air-guns or pistols had been exhibited on 'Change by
gentlemen, and he thought the bullet must have been
propelled by something of the kind.
Tie Loan MAYoa would make a strict inquiry into
the matt r; aed sent for a gen.leman named Bites, a
scientific man, who lives near the Mansion-house.

Mr. Bates, upon looking at the bullet, and hearing the
statement, was of opinion that the bullet had been prn
pelted from an air-pistol, which was in nearly an expended
condi ion. If it hid been propelled from a full charged
air-machine, tiie violence must have been much greater,
as even gunpowder had not such a powerful effect. It
was probable, he thought, from the statement of the
policeman, that the air•pistol went tiff by accident, as the
owner of it passed along the street.
Alderman Scholey was of opinion that the depositions
of the witnesses ought to he taken down and transmitted
to the Secretary of State fur the Home Department, in
order that measures might be tak.,n, before Parliament
separated, to prevent the use of such dangerous instru-
-ments.

Mr. Bates said that there was security against the
common use of air-pistols or guns in the expense of the
article, the price of a good air. gun being about 25 guineas.
He was not aware that they were used for any other purpose
than that of killing rooks; hut they might be applied to
very dreadful purposes of course.
The LORD MAYOR observed that the incident was a
very alarming one, for whether the shot was intended or not,
blood was near being shed. His first impulse, upon hearing
the stateuo-nt, was to offer a reward for the apprehension
of the person who discharged an instrument so well adapted
to the purposes of an assassin, He took it for Ranted,
howev,r, that it was unintentional, and his obj.ct should be
to endeavour to get a penalty attached to the offence of
carrying such weapons.
George Knight Hands was charged with baying em-
bezzled various sums of money, amounting to between
1001. and 2001, the property of his employer, Mr.
Jenkins, the metal dealer, of Queen -str, et.—Committed.

B,IW-STREBT.

On Friday a boy about 13 years of age w's charged
bef ,re Sir F. ROE with maliciously cutting and maiming,
with intent to kill, a little girl named Mary Ann Green.
The prosecutrix, who appeared with her throat bound
up, Laving been sworn, stated that she was proceeding
along St. Martin's-lane on the previous evening, in com-
p iny with another girl, when the prisoner came up and
demanded a penny from her, which he said she owed
him. She refused to comply with his demand, and he
then struck her a violent blow on the face, which knocked
her down. She struck him in return, and the prisoner
knocked her down a second time. He then offered to
fight her, which she refused; and she walked with her
companion as far as Leicester-square, where the prisoner,
who had followed them, knocked her down twice, and
as she lay on the ground the second tune he deliberately
took a knife from his pocket, and stooping over her,
stabbed her in the neck, and, exclaiming "Now I have
done for you," ran away.
Bridget Walsh, the girl who was with the prosecutrix
at the time, corroborated her statement in every particular,
and added that she conveyed the prosecutrix to a doctor's
shop in the neighbourhood, where her wound was dressed.
She then acquainted the prosecutrix's mother with what
had occurred, and by her means the prisoner was ap-
prehended.

The prisoner attempted to make it appear that the cut
on the girl's neck was caused by her falling against a scraper
In Leicester-square, but this was distinctly contradicted by
►he evidence of Bridget Walsh, who saw the prisoner in
flier the wound with the knife, and heard the expression
which he used at the time.

Sir F. ROE ordered the pri+oner to be remanded until
Monday next, and directed the attendance of the surgeon
on that day, to give evidence as to the nature of the wound.

The prisoner, although so young, was charged at this
offict, about six weeks ago with a similar offtnce, having
stabbed a little boy with whom he had some difference.
He had also been repe.ttedly charged with thieving, and
has been committed to prison several times.