The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTRLLICENCE.—May 10.

BOW-STREET.—George Carey, a respectably-dressed
man, who had been seven years a clerk in the Board of
Works, was charged before Mr. Henry with stealing a
pork-pie, valued at Bd., from -a coffee-house.
The prosecutrix, Mary Holt, stated that she kept a
coffee-house in Bridge-court, Cannon-streat, Westmin-
ster. The prisoner had been in the habit of breakfast.
ing there occa.ionally, and, although she had constantly
missed pieces of bacon, pork-pies, and other articles of
provision, she had never thought of suspecting a young
man of the prisoner's respectable appearance. On Satur-
day morning, however, after supplying him with a cup
of coffee, an egg, and some bread and butter, she dis-
tinctly saw him take a pork-pie out of the window and
put it into his pocket. She pretended not to know it,
but allowed him to pay for his breakfast as usual. He
tendered 6d., and received lid. change. Having already
sent for a police.constable, she now gave him in charge.
He denied that he had taken anything, but the pie was
found in his pocket, and he then offered to pay any sum
of money rather than be sent to the police-station.
Police-constable A 598 corroborated this statement,
and added that, besides the pie, he found 2/. in gold and
silver, and a bundle of religious tracts in the prisoner's
possession.
The prisoner protested very earnestly that he never
meant to steal the pie. He took it openly, and intended
to pay for it. On being reminded by his worship that
this story, was inconsistent with the evidenne, he de-
clared that the evidence was false.
Mr. Henry said the case must go to a jury, but he
would remand the prisoner for inquiry.
Subsequently, upon the entreaty of a gentleman who
said be had known the prisoner for years as a man of
unblemished character, although sometimes eccentric,
his worship consented to take bail—two sureties in 89/.
each, with 43 hours' notice.

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WORSHIP-STREET.—James Cooke, a young lean
of respectable appearance, was charged before Mr. Ham-
mil with the following unprovoked assault :
The defendant had been paying his addresses to a
pretty young woman named Rogers, the daughter of re-
spectable parents at Hackney, and entitled to some in-
dependent property. The suit was not altogether fa-
voured by the young wornan's friends, and her mother
happening to overhear the defendant expressly state that
he only cared for the property, and not at all for the
young lady herself, the mother warned her daughter of
the consequences, and the affair was consequently en-
tirely broken off, and the defendant prohibited from
coming there any more. This appeared to produce a
very bad feeling in the defendant, for the young lady
shortly after heard that her moral character was being
seriously maligned by her former suitor, and while la-
bouring under feelings of natural exasperation at such
unworthy treatment, she unadvisedly went to the defen-
dant's house in Westmoreland-place, City•road, to de-
mand an explanation and withdrawal of the aspersions.
Instead of apologizing, the defendant repeated the in-
sinuation and left the house, followed by the young
woman, whom he directly after suddenly seized by the
wrists, and, punching her own fits against her face till
her nose bled profusely, repeatedly and violently dashed
her head and person against a wall till she became nearly
senseless and very much injured. While so ill-treating
her a conetable happened to mako his appearance, and
the defondant's laudiorq, thinking it unsafe for hie Maim