The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
John Henry Priddle, the money-taker of the City and
Iron Steam-boat Company at Blackfriars- bridge pier,
was summoned before Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall,
" for that he did, on the 21st day of July inst., at Black-
friars pier, in Loudon, unlawfully and unjustly detain
the sum of 2d., the moneys of the complainant."
A gentleman from the office of Mr. Cattarns, the se-
cretary and solicitor to the cbmpany, defended.
Mr. Henry Ramsey Foster, of 5, Tillotson's-place,
Waterloo-bridge, said that on Monday last in the after-
noon, he went on the pier in question for the purpose of
proceeding to Waterloo-bridge. He paid 2d. for a tic-
ket, and after waiting about twenty minutes, during
which time he noticed three boats pass down the river
and none up, at length the boat came, and touched at the
pier to put some passengers down, but without stopping
to take on board a single passenger; although there
were about sixty people waiting on the pier, it proceeded
on its journey. Complainant then went to the money-
taker and demanded his money back, as he could not
wait any longer, and the ticket was only available for
the day issued and from that particular pier. Defendant
said there was another boat coming through Southwark-
bridge at the time, and refused to return the money.
Complainant told him he could not wait for it, and de-
fendant said, " Oh! you're the only person left behind."
Complainant pointed to the crowded state of the pier,
and told him that there at least sixty others who were
also disappointed.
The defence set up was that the boat in questio❑ was
an extra boat dispatched to clear all the piers, because
the traffic on the river that day was greater than usual.
On its arrival at Blackfriars•bridge it was too crowded
to admit any more passengers, and it accordingly passed
on, as there was another boat immediately behind which
would have accommodated every one on the pier. The
company did not believe complainant could have waited
the time he had stated without having the opportunity
of going by one of their boats, as they ran every seven
minutes.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL was surprised that the com-
pany should have defended such a case; if their regula-
tions would not allow them to run their boats more fre-
quently they should not inconvenience the public by
misleading them. The complainant had acted with great
propriety, and it was only reasonable that, after waiting
twenty minutes without being allowed to proceed by the
boat when it arrived, he should expect his money. back.
He thought it would be a better arrangement if they
were to have a kind of telegraph to work from pier to
pier, in order that parties might not be kept waiting,
when they might, by such means, be informed that tee
boat was full and would not be able to take them.
Under the circumstances he would order defendant to
return the money and pay the costs.
2s. costs were then paid, and the 2d. fare returned.
LAMBETH.
Two well-dressed women, one remarkably fine grown
and good looking, and the other rather slight, and not
very prepossessing in her appearance, presented them-
selves before the Hon. G. C. Norton, and the former,
addressing the magistrate, said her name was Ann
Bailey, arid that she was the person described in the
newspapers of Tuesday last, whose disappearance was
so mysterious, and who was believed by her friends
to be the individual that had been murdered in the
neighbourhood of Norwich. She further stated that
the person who accompanied her was Mrs. Gooch,
another of the alleged missing parties, and that the
object of their attendance before his worship was to con-
tradict the statement that appeared in the newspapers,
and remove from the minds of her friends the impres-
sion that she had met with any violent or improper
treatment.
Mr. NORTON asked Ann Bailey if she had communi
cated with her sister, Mrs. Faucett, who had made the
application on her behalf ; and she replied that she bad
not ; that the feeling between her sister and herself was
not of the most friendly description, and, therefore, she
had no particular wish to see her.
Mr. NORTON thought it desirable that the parties should
be seen and spoken to by Mrs. Faucett, and directed
Sergeant Grant to take them to her residence for that
purpose.
In about two hours after Ann Bailey, Mrs. Gooch,
and Mr. and Mrs. Faucett, accompanied by Sergeant
Quiunear, P 1, entered the court, when Sergeant Quin-
near addressing Mr. Norton said, that in consequence of
the statement which appeared in the newspapers on
Tuesday, on the evening of that day a person named
Neeves, who was foreman over Gooch and other work-
men when employed at the mansion of Baron de Gold-
amid, at Tunbridge, called at the station in Lock's-fields,
and informed Mr. Robinson, the superintendent, that
Gooch and Ann Bailey had been seen in the vicinity of
the Edgeware-road by a painter in the employ of Mr.
Piper, of 42, Eastcheap, and who, he had no doubt,
could give some information as to where they could be
found. Mr. Rubinson, upon this information, dispatched
him (Quinnear) in search of the man in question, whose
name is M'Kennelee, who informed him that he had
drank with Gooch and Ann Bailey, on Friday last, at a
public-house in the Edge ware-road, and that they were
living in that neighbourhood, but he could not say
exactly where. On that (yesterday) forenoon the young
woman, Ann Bailey, came to the station-house and said
that she and Mrs. Gooch had called at this court to con-
tradict the report that had gone abroad about them, and
that the magistrate had sent them to Mrs. Faucett, her
sister, and that Mrs. Gooch, not wishing to see her sister,
had gone home. By direction of Mr. Robinson, his su-
perintendent, he (Quinnear) accompanied the young
woman to the Edgeware-rcad, and took both her and
Mrs. Gooch back to the residence of Mrs. Faucett, and
requested the attendance of all the parties before his
worship.

Mrs. Faucett, in reply to a question from the ma-
gistrate, admitted that her sister, Ann Bailey, and
Mrs. Gooch, now present, were the persons she alluded
to in her statement to his worship on Monday last.
The young woman acknowledged that she had left her
place with Gooch, the painter, to be married, as he had
represented himself to her to be a single man, but the
ceremony bad not taken place, and she dis-
covered that she had been deceived by him. The rea-
son, she said, why she had not informed her sister of
where she lived and what she was doing, was
that her sister and herself had never been ou the
most kindly terms. She admitted that she still lived
with her seducer and his wife, but was solely under the
protection of the latter, and appealed to Mrs. Gooch for
a confirmation of her statement, that nothing improper
took place between her and the husband of that per-

son aitor discovering that ho was a married man.
Mrs. Gooch ackuowledged the fact, but said that the
sooner she took herself off the better.

Mr. Faucett, the brother-in-law of the young merest],
offered to take her home and keep her till she was pro-
vided with another situation—an offer which she ac.

cptcd, and thus the matter terminated.
Mrs. Faucett expressed her thanks to the magistrate
for his kind suggestion, and relieving many menabc-rs
of her family from the most serious end unpleasant
conjectures; and

Slr. NORTON, in reply, said he was very glad the af-
fair had not turned cut to be of so serious a enaracter
as was at first apprehended.

HINTS TO HATTERS.
Hats are a great nuisance ; no man out of Bedlam
disputes that. They are an absurd roofing for the
capital of the human column—the noblest member of
the human body. In the past history of English
costume, we can find no cover for men's heads sq egre-
giously ridiculous as that which posterity will see to
have been worn by the heroes of '5l. In a crowd they
are in the way of those behind us if we keep them on
and they probably get smashed if we take them off : we
have to hold them gingerly, manoeuvre them, have two
thoughts for the hat and one thought for ourselves.
They are a source of headaches, and in windy weather
they call our attention from all other thoughts, because
our minds must then be concentrated on the hat. We
must press it over our brows tightly enough to cause a
deep red nng upon the forehead, and that done, we must
be on the alert for any puff of wind which may require
us to carry up our hands for its preservation ; because
the great surface of a column slenderly supported at
its base, renders it very liable to be blown
over. . . . The abandonment of hats, with-
out injury to hatters, is a change row gradually
taking place. You shake your head. IVell, we
will put by that suggestion for a few minutes, and
consider what sort of substitute for chimney-pot hats
we, in this country, may be expected reasonably to
desire. The Greek cap:is often pointed to as something
picturesque. In as far as its shape accords with the
wearer's head, and does not caricature the outline
of the wearer's body, it is very well. It suits the
costume and climate of the Greeks, but I diffi-
dently submit, not the English dress and drizzle. A
cap of many colours would not match our sober
broad-cloth dress, and a sober skull-cap, without
any brim, would pour the rain that fell on it over our
faces in wet weather. In England, certainly, the
brim is an essential portion of a hat : we want eaves
to the roofing of our heads ;—not monstrous,
.um-
brella brims, like those of the hats seen in the rums
department of our Exhibition, but a moderate
projection. The Greek,' would have put brims
to their caps if they had lived under an English
sky. Up the 'White Nile, the ICeks are a race
of people wearing skull-caps. They coat their hair
with the Nile mud, letting it dry in the sun, so that
they seem to go about entirely bald, with earthen
skull-caps. If they lived in a rainy country, it
would not need many showers to inform them
that a mud-pie was unpleasant wearing. Every man
to his taste ; but neither mud caps, nor Greek caps,
would suit London weather. A simple head-cover-
ing, a skull-cap with a brim, would answer
.
the exigencies of our case the simplest manner.
Such a head-covering was introduced, not many
years ago, under the name of " wide-awake," by hat-
ters. It was made of felt, and was meant fer garden
wear. Such hats have been long worn by our rustic
population. Who would have supposed that hatters
themselves, introducing " wide-awakes," began
unconsciously to work the hat reform?
Our English ladies, without calling meetings or
creating aoy stir, have done what English gentlemen
have talked. about, have for their own parts done
away with hat.s. fir their own Equestrian wear.
Ladies who nue with cylinders upon their heeds
are now no longer to be seen. They wear the
wide-awake;" they are emancipated; they ap-
pear
.
pear reasonable hats, and never will be
seen in cylinders again. Omitting feathers, and such
decorations as become the English woman, but do
not become the man, hats of this form can b. adapted
to our male costume, and by this change of fasii?n,
there accrues no injury to hatters. The change will 1

not be made by public meetings, or by the Anti-Hat
Association. It is a change in progress, slowly but
surely, following the current of opinion. The time has
arrived when any hatter may perceive the point to
which the public taste is tending. The rest of the
hat reform is in the hands of hatters ; if they will
leave off making cylinders, and offer to the public hats
resembling those now worn by ladies—modifications
of the wide-awake—they will be well backed by the
public.—Dickens's " Household Words."