The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-08 00:00:00

POLICE INT ELLIGENCE.—May 7.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Edurard Towers, an uncle- ;
ployed groom ; Henry Norwood, a house decorator; and
Mary Ann Perkins, described as a dressmaker, were
placed at the bar before Mr. D'Eyncourt, chtirged with
having been conceroed, with others not in custody, in
breaking into the d welliog-house of an azed widow lady
pained Humphreys, residing at St idniordlhill, and steal-
ing therein a large quantity .of property, consisting of
plate and jewellery, and upwards of 1301. in bank notes
and gold and silver money. •
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-pace, who conducted the pro-
secution, entered into a lengthened detail of the facts
connected with the burglary, which presented features
of unusual aggravation and atrocity. The sole occu-
pants of the house were the prosecutrix, an infirm lady,
of large property, in her 15th year, and a female ser-
vant, and in consequence of her advanced age, the gene-
ral management of her affairs was confided to her legal
adviser, Mr. Rush, of Austinfriars. About two months
since a man and woman, the latter of whom was be-
lieved to be the female prisoner, presented themselvek at
the lady's house, with an intimation that they had been
sent to request the immediate attendance of her servant
at the office of her solicitor to receive an important corn
munication. The prosecutrix declined to send the girl
upon an errand which was entirely unauthenticated, and
on the following day she was visited by two men, who
handed her a note purporting to be written by Mrs.
Rush, in which it was stated that her husband was dan-
gerously ill, and the same request was so urgently re-
peated, that instead of sending her maid the prosecUtrix
proceeded herself in a carriage to Austinfriars, where
she found her solicitor in perfect health, so that the whole
story was a complete fabrication. There was every reason
to believe that the fictitious message formed part of a con-
certed plan to plunder the house on that occasion, which
was probably defeated by the precaution of the prosecu-
trix, who left her servant's father in charge of it ; and no-
thingfurther transpired in connection with the matter until
an early hour on the morning of Friday se'ennight, when
the servant was disturbed by a crashing noise in the lower
part of the house ; and on hastening down stairs, she
found four men in the hall, who instantly secured her,
and subjected her to the personal violence which she
would describe in her evidence. Two of the ruffians,
one of whom was armed with a long-pointed knife, then
made their way to the bedroom of the prosecutrix, and
after threatening to murder her if she raised the slightest
outcry, they gagged tier mouth with a kerchief which
they tore off her neck, and having bound her arms and
legs together, they proceeded to ransack the place, and
secured the above-mentioned property, with which they
ultimately effected their escape. The learned gentleman
added that the prosecutrix had been ever since confined
to her bed from the effects of the brutal treatment to
which she had been subjected, and he was net aware
whether she would be able to identify either of the pri-
soners, but he was prepared with other evidence, which
be conceived would be am,ply sufficient to justify their
detention.

Eliza Cooke, the servant, was then examined, and de-
posed as follows :—On the night of Thursday week, after
carefully fastening up the house, I went to bed in the
same room with any mistress, but was disturbed about
daybreak by a loud noise, as if something heavy bad
fallen down stairs. After listening a few minutes I went.
down, and found the parlour door ajar, although I had
locked it overnight, and was about to enter, when two
men rushed out, one of whom struck me a violent blow
on the face, which knocked me down and rendered me
insensible. When I recovered myself. I found a man
kneeling on my chest with a knife in his band, and 1
also saw a chopper lying at his feet. I screamed out
for help, and another man came down stairs, who raised
me up and carried me into the kitchen, where they
placed me in a chair, to which they fastened my legs
with a piece of rope, and tied my wrists together. One
of the men then asked me where my mistress kept her
plate and money, and holding a knife close to my neck,
threatened to cut my throat if I attempted to deceive
him. On telling them that I believed they would find
all the property upstairs, they both left me, but returned
in about twenty minutes with two other men, who said
that they bad murdered my mistress, and would. kill
me too unless I kept quiet. After a short time they all
went away, and I managed to release Myself by
loosening the cords with my teeth, and I went up to
any mistress, who was tied down in bed with two
pillows over ber eyes, and a wrapper on her mouth,
which was drawn closely round the back of her
head. At the time I entered the room she appeared to
be dead, but on removing the handkerchief from her
mouth, she slowly recovered, and I ran down stairs,
and alarmed some of the neighbours, and afterwards
went for a surgeon, who has attended her ever since.
Sergeant Langdon, of the N division, stated that on
the previous evening, in consequence of information he
had received, he apprehended the prisoner Towers, the
brother of a discharged servant of the prosecutrix, and
on acquainting him with the nature of the charge he
denied all participation in the burglary, but admitted
that he had been engaged in an attempt to rob the
house about two moetlie since, in conjunction with
llorwoud, who bad married his sister, and a wan
named Flicker, who cohabited with the female prisoner.
After some further corroborative testimony,
Mr. D'Eyncourt expressed his opinion that there was
not Sufficient evidence to warrant ti►e detention Of Elor-
wood or the female prisoner, but he should order To eets
to be remanded for a week.

Joseph Hartley and James Clarke, two poweiful men,
of notorious character, were charged before Mr.
D'Eyncourt with having been concerned in !stealing a
chest of tea from the alio'? of Mr. Willinn Payne, a
grocer iu Bethnal-green-road, and also with baring
violAntly assaulted police•constable Taylor, K 244, in
the course of his efforts to &cure one of their con-
federates. •

It appeared from the evidence that about 9 o'clock on
the evening of Tuesday se'nnight, while the prosecutor's
foreman was engaged in the back part of the shop, two
boys hastily entered, and directed his attention to a man
who was crossing the road, accainpanied by two other s
with a chest of tea, weighing 109ths., which be had de-
liberately taken from the inner part of the doorway. The
shopinan immediately hastened after the man, who
dropped the load, on finding himself pursued, and
darted down an adjoining street, at the end of which
he was intercepted by the Constable Taylor, who took:
him into custody. Ile proceeded quietly in, the first in-
stance, bat on reaching a particular spot he suddenly
raised a particular whistle, which was promptly re-
sponded to by a swarm of thieves, who sallied out of the
side courts, and commenced a desperate attack upon the
constable and shopman, both of whom were felled to the
ground. The officer speedily recovered his feet, and
grappled with the thief, but was again knocked down by
some of the gang, amongst whom were the prisoners,
who blackened both his eyes by repeated blows iu the
face, and afterwards kicked him so brutally about the
body that he became insensible. On hearing the uproar
several shopkeepers in the ❑eighbourhood ran out and
used their best efforts for the protection of the officer,
but they were successively knocked down or beaten back
by the ruffians, who succeeded in reicuing their accom-
plice and bearing him off in triumph.
Notwithstanding the exertions of the police, all the
parties concerned in the robbery and outrage succeeded
in eluding apprehension until the previous night, when
Sergeant Smith and another detective officer accidentally
encountered the prisoners in the street, and took them
into custody.
Tile prisoners, in general terms, denied the Charge)
but three witnesses, one of whom, a tradesman named
Vaughan, had been severely beaten by the mob, having
positively identified them as active participators in the
outrage, they were ordered to be remanded for a week.

LAMBETlL—Frederick Philips, alias Augular,
Win. Jacobs, alias Arnold, John Miller, and Edwin
Gardener, were charged with defrauding Mr. Mutton of
four loads and a•half of clover.
Prosecutor deposed that besides his pastrycook's shop,
at Brighton, he rented afarm at Rushborough; near
Horsham, and having a quantity of meadow nay and
-clover to dispose of, he caueed an advertisement to be
inserted in .a Sussex paper respecting it, giving a re•
ference to Mr. Green, the person living at his farm.
Shortly after a letter, signed "J. B. Arnold, 8, Arnold's-
place,. Frances-street, Newington," was received by Mr.
Green, requesting that samples of hay and clover might
be forwarded to him; and if they were such as suited him,.
he would give a fair price for it, and return a cheque for
its amount when delivered. Mr. Green went to town
with the samples as requested, and four loads and a half
of clover were subsequently forwarded Ly rail •to the
Bricklayer.' Arms, and delivered from there to Mr.
Arnold or his order
.on the production of the:letter of
Mr. Green. Orders were received for more, but, thiding
that neither money nor cheque had been received fur
that already sent, he caused inquiries to be made, and
found that he had got into the bands of swiodlerd.

Mr. W. A. Green said that he called at the house No.
8, Arnold's.place, Frances-street, Newington, with the
samples, and saw there the prisoner, who called himsel
Phillips. Witness inquired for Mr. Arnold, and phitlips
said he was then from home. He next inquired what
he was, and Phillips r,plied that lie was a contractor
for army clothing, did a great deal of business, arid kept
two horses. He further said that he resided at Bantam-
mills, Clapham-road, but was coming to live at that
house (8, Arnold's-place), on the following Tueday.
Tile hou:.e was at that time empty. He, witness, left
the samples he bad brought with Phillips, and • subse-
quently forwarded 41 loads of clover, for which no money
had been received. He also sent another load, which
arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms on the day before, and
waited in the neighbourhood of the station with a police.
constable.

—Police-Constable Hull, 164 P, deposed that from in•
formation he received he, on the day before, accompa-
nied the last witness to the neighbourhood of the Brick-
layers' Aims Station, and remained there until he saw
the prisoner Gardener come out with a van load of hay.
Witness afterwards found that he was paid by the other
prisoners, and, with assistance he took all into custody.
He found on the person of Gardener the letter pent by
Mr. Green with the last load of hay, and this he said he
bad received from Mr. Arnold (the prisoner, who called
himself Jacobs), who had directed him to go for and take
away the load of hay. The letter found ens Gardener he
saw the prisoner Phillips receive irons the postman at the
empty house, 8, Arnold's•place,, Newington, at the door
of which he was standing at the time, and on his appre-
hension the key of this house was found on his person,
though his residence was at No. 7, Alfred-Owe, St.
George's-road. On searching the house in Arnold's-
place, he, Hull, found the two samples of hay and clover,
and other articles, which led him to the belief that it was
hired for fraudulent purpoSes, and that a quantity of
ironmongery and other property, to a considerable
amount, obtained by fraud, had been received there.
In reply to the magistrate's questions the witness said.
Gardener was known as the keeper of a beer-shop, and
the horse and the va' he understood belongtd to him.
Nothing was known of the p,isonerMiller before, When
taken into custody he said he had merely gone to assist
Gardener. Gardener admitted. to Witness: that he had

received the property from the railway station, but 139
was not a,vare where the parties delivered it, as they
left him in a publie.house while they took the van wit
thorn, and delivered it. Jacobs, or Arnold, refused to
give his narn,, so that witness could not learn anything
about him, and Phillip:, he believed; had given a won;
name.

It was urg:ed on the part of the prisoners Gardener
and Miller that they were honest and respectable men.
Phillips admitted having been convicted of felony, and
Jacobs reft.ued to give an account of himself.
The prisoners were all remanded, but Miller and Gar'
dener were admitted to bail.
The prisoner Phillips, alias Augnlar, was recognised
as having been once a constable belonging to the K
divi-
sion, and while in the force was committed from Law
bath-street Police Court on a charge of obtaining
twelfth cake of the value of two guineas. For this
offence be was convicted ; and since his liberation from
prison he has been living by frauds of one sort or other.
Tho house in the possession of which he was found wag
for some considerable tune the residence of that whole'
sale and notorious swindler, Captain Routlege, who,
while under examination at this curt on various charge°
of ev.,,,isive fraud and plunder, died in Horseinonger*
lane Gaol.

MAR,YLEBONE.—CHARGE OF RAPE AGAINST
GENTLEMAN.—Mr. John (Jeorge Edgar, desctibed as 8
gmitlewan, living at 16, Melville terrace, Torrianw
avenue, Camnden-town, was brought before Mr.
Broughton, charged wi h having committed a rape 013
Maria Cotton, a servant io the house alluded to, and to
which the prisoner occupied two parlours.
A great deal of evidence was gone into, and it Wog
alleged by the prosecutrix, that between four or five in
the, morning she awoke and found the prisoner in her,
bed. He had his arms round her waist. She screamed
and jumped out of bed, and prisoner ran away into the
water closet. Prosecutrix further went into particulate
which tended to show that prisonei had violated bet'
She made known to her mother what had taken place'
and the prisoner was given into the custody of Harrison,
160 S. He and a friend who had been with hint for
many hours were much the worse for drink; they had
been together the whole of the previous day.
Two surgeons, Mr. Rawlins and Mr. Joseph, by svb°''
prosecutrix had been examined, gave evidence as to the
appearances which under the said examination they,
found. It need scarcely be stated that the surgeons
evidence, as also that given by the mother of the prose'
cutrix, was for the most part of such a nature as not tO
admit of publication.

The prisoner denied having had any improper inter•
course with the prosecutrix, but admitted that he had
gone into her bed.
After some further proceedings, Mr. Broughton Fiala
he should send the case for the consideration of a jail'
He remanded the prisoner until-Wednesday next Or
the completion of the depositions, but he was at liberq
to put in bail (with twenty-four hours' notice), histiseu
in 601„ and two sureties in 501. each for hisbeing fort
coming.