The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 2.

MANSIO N-HOUSE.—George Frederick Lillicrap,
why had been remanded but admitted to bail on a for-
mer oeca,iion, upon the charge of having removed, con-
cealed, and embezzled part of his estate and eff•lcts after
he had been adjudged a bankrupt, in the month of April
lust, with the intention of defrauding his creditors, was
further examined.•

Mr. Parry appeared on the part of the assignees to
conduct the prosecution ; Mr. Hunsphreys attended on
behalf of the prisoner.
Mr. J. Wright, a clerk in Mr. Commissioner Goal-
burn's office, Court of Bankruptcy, produced the whole
of the proceedings against the prisoner in bankruptcy.
Edward Pimm, a grocer's assistant, of No. 5, Clifton-
street, Finsbury, said— I was in the service of the pri-
soner, who formerly carried on the business of a grocer
at No. 20, Bishopsgate-street-without. I was in his ser•
vice till he was a bankrupt.. A meeting of his creditera
was called about a fortnight before he was a bankrupt.
There was a second meeting of creditors, perhaps a week
afterwards, and between the two meetings I assisted in
removing some furniture and six bags of coffee to the
house of a friend of mine in Princess street, Soitalfiells.
The value of the coffee was between 101. and 2Q1., and
that of the other article, between Si. and 101. I remember
the messenger from the• Court of Bankruptcy coming to
take possession, and I recollect assisting in pulling a
bag of pepper and other articles through the trapdoor.
I also assisted in putting a box of raisins in the coal
cellar, where it was covered over with coals. By the
prisoner's directions I went round to eome of the cos-
tomees after the bankruptcy and received between 101.
and 201. from them, which I handed to him. The pri-
soner gave me 71. finetaking.care of the furniture, put•
Ling away some spices and covering the raisins.
F. Long, a private in the 4th Dragoons, who was for.
merly assistant to the prisoner, corroborated the testi-
mony of the last witness, and added that the prisoner
had promised him 51. when the affair was settled if he
would not eay anything about it. The witness after-
wards received 2/. from the prisoner.
W. T. Stallibraes, cellarman, of 25, Brunswick:, street,
Hackney-fowl, proved that lie also assisted in removing
some of the stock in trade from theprisoner's horse after
the bankruptcy.
The pris nee was again remanded, but admitted to bail
himself in 2001., and two sureties of 1001. each.
Miss Jane Field, a young lady of prepossessing ap-
pearance, and who is highly respectably connected, was
brought before the Lord Mayor under the following die-
treesing circumstances :
James Dell, a Thames police-officer, having been
sworn, said—About 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, the
27th of January, I was in a galley near London-bridge,
when I heard something fall, apparently from the para-
pet. I almost immediately heard a call for a boat from
:he bridge. I went to the 'second abutment from the
Surrey side, and saw the prisoner lying on the abut-
merit, apparently lifekess. I immediately procured as-
sietancee.and placed a rope round her body and lowered
her into my boat. I the❑ took her to St. Thomas's Hoe-
rital, of which she has been an inmate till this morning.
She had thrown herself off the kridge, and was most
seriously hurt.
The prisoner, who appeared to be suffering very great
mental as well as bodily pain, and who supported her-
self by the aid of crutches, expressed much contrition
for the offence she bad committed, which she promised
not to repeat. She was then given in charge of her
friends, who seemed overwhelmed with grief.
The cause of the rash act did not transpire.
Patrick, Gillilh,an was charged, on his own confession,
with being a deserter, eight years ago, from the 77th
Regiment of Foot, then stationel at St. John's, Canada.
The prisoner was remanded, in order that the autho-
rities at the Horse Guards might be communicated with.

BOW-STREET.—.Lieut. Charles Ackerley, R.N., a
gentleman whose eccentricities have on several occasions
brought his name before the public, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Jardine, on a charge of creating ► dis-
turbance at the United Service Institution in Whitehal,
and assaulting the secretary, Mr. Tonna ; and an Ame-
rican Indian, named Peter Beequet, who appears to be
an attendant on the Lieutenant, was charged with at-
tempting to rescue him from custody.
Mr. Tonna informed the magistrate that a meeting of
the members of the institution had been held that morn-
ing for the purpose of considering a resolution for the
expulsion of Lieut. Ackerley. Of the 83 votes which
were received 82 were for the resolution, and the gentle-
man who gave the solitary vote in his favour afterwards
explained that he did so by mistake. After the result
was declared, Mr. Ackerley, who was standing at the
back of the lecture chair, rushed down the hall to the
place where he (Mr. Tonna) had been sitting, and seized
upon some of his papers. Several memberd who were
near him attempted to prevent him from doing so, and
witness seized one of the papers and took it from him.
Upon this defendant struck witness violently in the side
with his elbow. Witness, assisted by some of the went
hers, then seized the defendant., lifted him up, and car-
ried him out of the hall. Tbey set him down in the lobby,
hoping he would then go away, but he insisted on re-
turning to the theatre, and became so violent that it was
f .rand necessary to have him removed by the police and
tie porters. Having been thus expelled at the side door,
Mr. Ackerley went round to the front entrance and was
mounting the steps when witness went to the door and
closed it. As he was doing so, however, he received,
through the door, a blow from the Lieutenant's walking
stick. The stick, which was a light bamnoo cat); he
believed, was, caught by the cl'sing door, and broken to
pieces.

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Policeman Mine, 513 A, who was on duty at the en-
trance, corroborated the latter: part of Mr. Tonca's evi-
dence. " The captain" used very bad language, and
threatened " knock Mr.- Tonna's head off." After
the door was closed, as described by Mr. Tonna, defend-
, Ant still wanted to force his way back, and witness was
I obliged to take him in charge. " The captain" then
called to his man to assist him, asserting that he was a
constable, .and directing. him 'to take witness in charge.
Besquet, who appeared fully to believe that he was a
constable, and that be was justified in doing. whatever
Mr. Akckerley told bim, seized witness by throat and
tried to pull him away. He ,then caught hold of de-
fendant, and after a struggle succeeded in releasing him
from witness's band, He (witness), however, immedi-
ately seized Mr. Ackerley again, and, with the aid of
the porters, removed him aid, his man. to the station,
home.
Several otberl witnesses corroborated the evidence..
4Mr. AckerfeY, who had cross-examined each of. the wits.
fleas... 6 at great:length, but to very little purposevcom-
meneed his defence by handing in a-docuinent, which he -
asserted would pr ne that be was himself a magistrate.

He then entered into an exceedingly prolix and unin-
telligible statement of the relation between himself and
the other defendant, who he said was formerly a c-m-
-stable in Canada, and had since succeeded him (Mr.
Ackerley) in some-office in that country. Pie had been
maintaining this man for some five years and a half, in
order to enable him to establish some claim against the
Government; and he earnestly-hoped that, if his worship
should be of opinion that any wrong had been done, he
would not visit with any punishment this poor Indian,
who could neither read nor write—could hardly speak
English,—but would let the whole responsibility rest on
him, who had called the poor fellow to his assistance.
He then proceeded to give a very detailed account of
the transaction, explaining that in attempting to seize
the papers he only wanted to get ,a copy of the charge
on which ho had been expelled. ' He did not wilfully
strike Mr. Tonna, either in 'the theatre or at the door.
In fact, he did not see him. He was very shortsighted,
and when he thrust his stick in at the door to keep it
open he did not perceive that there was any one there.
He contended that being a life member he could not be
expelled, and on that ground justified all he had done
within the building as being done in defence of his rights,
but admitted that he had clone wrong outside, especially
"in .using expressions which no prudent man would
permit himself to employ." •
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- The other defendant declared in broken English that
he was a constable, and . his master a judge, for which
reason they must hang together. What his master did
he would do, and if his mast* went to prison for it he
was content to go to prison too.

Mr. Jardi.:e ;aid the notion, that the members could
not expel Lieutenant Ackerley because he was a life
member, was ao absurd that he wondered a gentleman
who had lived so long in the world should entertain it.
Hid conduct was wholly unjustifiable. He must pay a
fine of 51., and find two sureties of 1001. each to keep
the peace ; Bosquet milt pay 1/.
Lieutenant Ackerley paid both fines, and was liberated
on his promise to bring forward two friends as bail on
the following (this) day.