The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 1.

MANSION HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor—Before
proceeding ,pith brsim:ss I wi.;h to call the attention of
the acting inspector (Kr. Fosberry) to the fact that f r
some time past the practice has prevailed of allowing a
double line of omnibuses in front of the Mansion-house.
No one would wish to interfere with so useful a mode of
conveyance as that by omnibuses, but really they are
becoming so numerous that it is unpossib43 to cross the
street here without very considerable inconvenience and
danger. Instead of proceeding, as they formerly did, in
one line, they swell across the road and make a second
line. That I shall not suffer ; and I hope the police will
direct their attention to the matter. The omnibuses for
the most part are now in the hands of one large com-
pany, who have, as it were, a monopoly; and while
perhaps it is desirable to do what we can to favour a
respectable company that do their work well, they can-
not he allowed to do that which we should not permit
private individuals to do. You (Mr. Fosberry) had
better therefore at once call the attention of the company
or of its representatives to the matter. I also wish par-
ticularly to call the attention of the police to the reckless
and dangerous manner in which passengers are set down
in the middle of crowded thoroughfares. This is an
offence under the Hackney Carriages Act. I do not
particularly allude to the street facing the Mansion-
house. I do not think that more sacred ground than
any other part of the metropolis. I only speak on
behalf of the public, who incur very considerable risk
and inconvenience from the existing practice. Some of
the constables will tell you that a second hne of omni-
buses is now being made, which I think is very obstruc-
tive, because it crosses the line of thoroughfare going to
King William-street and Lombard-street.

M. Fosberry—l will mention what your lordship has
stated to Mr. Hodgson, the superintendent of police.
Daniel John King was placed at the bar, charged
with having robbed a lady of her purse, on Curnhill,
during the passing of the civic procession from West.
minster to the London Tavern.

T. Hayton, constable, No. 588, said—About four
o'clock yesterday afternoon I was on Cornhill observing
the procession, when I saw the prisoner and two other
suspicious-looking me* standing by the side of some
ladies. I had previously seen them attempting to pick
pockets in St. Paul's Churchyard. As soon as the
prisoner noticed I was watching him he suddenly ran
away. I noticed a purse in his hand, and pursued him.
In attempting to overtake him the pole of one of the
sheriff's carriages ran against me, and knocked me
down.

The Lnrd Mayor—l suppose you mean that in your
anxiety to secure the prisoner you ran against the pole
of the carriage, and not the pole of the carriage against
you ? _ _ .

Constable—Exactly so, my lord. The prisoner was
seized by another constable, at whose feet he dropped a
purse, which I produce.
The Lord Mayor is the person to whom the purse be-
longs in attendance ? Constable—Yes, my lord. From
a memorandum inside of it, I found its owner, who re-
sides at Norwood.

The Lord Mayor—How long have you been in the
police force I
Constable—Six years, my lord.
The Lord Mayor—Are you only an ordinary con-
stable I

Constable—Yes, my lord.
The Lord Mayor---I think you deserve promotion.
James Knapp, a timekeeper, stationed at the top of
King William-street, said, I heard the cry of " Stop
thief," and seized the prisoner, ,who was running away
as hard as he could. I immediately found something
touch my foot, and, upon looking down I saw the purse,
which must have been dropped by the prisoner.
Prisoner (impudently)—Do you mean to swear that
I was running when you stopped me
Witness—Yes.
Prisoner—Was I not standing still ?
Witness—Yes, directly I got hold of your collar.
Prisoner—lt's all false, my lord; I assure you I never
ran at all.

Mrs. Elizabeth Frowen, a lady living at Tudor House,
Upper Norwood, identified the purse, which contained a
sovereign, some silver, and a Crystal Palace return
ticket, as her property, and stated tha t she recollected
baying seen the prisoner standing by her side in Cornhill,
whilst she was looking at the procession.
The Lurd Mayor asked the prisoner what he had to
say in answer to the charge ?
Prisoner—l will plead guilty if you will sentence me
at once.

The Lord Mayor—You must be remanded for a day
or two, and perhaps we may learn something about you
in the interim.

LIMBETH.—Mrs. Elizabta Rawlings, the wife o:
a captain of a merchant ship, was brought before Mr,

A gentleman from a solicitor's office, accompanied by
a clergyman, attended, and said that the object of these
proceedings against the defendant was to protect the
lives of her three children, and remove them from her,
as her conduct had rendered her wholly unfit to have
the care of them. Her husband had been allowing her a
sum adequate to support herself and her children ; but
it having recently come to his knowledge and that of
her friends that she indulged in drink, and that she had
been brought to this court on a charge of robbing her
furnished lodgings, they, in order to get the children
away from her, sent up from the neighbourhood of Bath
a trustworthy servant of her family, and that person
called on her, when the defendant made use of language
in reference to her children which proved it to be unsafe
to leave them longer in her charge, and also uttered
violent threats against the person who had called on her.
The three children were all under the age of ten years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Elson, a middle-aged female, said that
in consequence of a letter received from Mr. Rawlings,
and by the desire of the friends of Mrs. Rawlings, she
came up from Bath to take her children. She found
Mrs. Rawlings at a house in the Waterloo-road, and on
telling her for what purpose she had come to town, she
replied that unless she got her money, as she was in the
habit of doing, from her husband, she should poison the
children and herself. This threat she repeated, and was
in a violent passion.
Joseph Coster, one of the summoning officers, said that
a warrant had been placed in his hands to apprehend
Mrs. Rawlings, and he found her walking in Waterloo-
road. He told her he had a warrant for her apprehension,
on a charge of threatening to murder her children, She
replied that she did not consider what she said in the
nature of a threat. What she said was that if she did not
get her money .'sbe should take her children to the
top of the house and fling them out of the window, and
then jump out herself. She the'n asked him to go to the
house where her children were. He did so, and that
house was a common brothel.

Mrs. Rawlings, whose tone, manner, and language
stamped her as a person of superior education, but whose
countenance, as evidently once handsome, now showed
the bloated and sodden appearance produced by excessive
drink, said that she was not aware of the character of
the house when she took lodgings there, as it was not in
every place that a mother with three children could get
a lodging. She admitted that sne had got into a
passion on hearing a threat from the man servant of her
family to take away her children, leaving her destitute
and unprovided for, and with that feeling she had used
expressions which she did not mean. She declared she
had no intention of leaving her children.
Mr. Elliott observed that it was quite clear the pri-
soner was not a proper person to have care of her chil-
dren, but respecting their removal from her he should
give no opinion. He should merely call on her to find
bail, herself in 401. and two sureties in 201. each, to be of
good behaviour for one month. The defendant not being
able to procure bail was sant to Horsemonger-lane gaol,
and her children were removed by their friends.

THAMES..---Mrs. Hopkinson, the wife of a chemist
and druggist, in Cock-hill, Rateliff, was brought beforJ
Mr. Yardley, charged with attempting to commit self-
destruction by swallowing a large quantity of tincture of
opium, sufficient to destroy ten persons.
It appeared that the prisoner's husband was a person
addicted to drinking, that he was frequently from home,
and that he left his wife to administer drugs to his cus-
tomers, although she was not acquainted with their pro-
perties. On Monday week she obtained an ounce and
six drachms of very strong tincture of opium from Mr.
Carson, a surgeon, Cock-hill, who was in the lia,hit of
supplying her husband with drugs occasionally. On the
same day she had a quarrel with her husband, and swal-
lowed the deadly poison. Mr. Carson was immediately
called upon to attend her, and found her in a comatose
state. He threw cold water over her, obtained the as-
sistance of another surgeon, took her into the yard,
where large quantities of cold water were thrown upon
her face, the stomach pump as
of tincture of opium extracted.w Tahpepsltioemd,aachndpaunmpouwnaces
out of order, and Mr. Carson called a cab and accom-
panied her to the London Hospital, where more of the
deadly poison was dislodged front her stomach. She
had been under medical treatment, and in a state
of great suffering, ever Since • and that morn-
ing, when the magistrate took his seat on the
bench, she was arraigned on the charge of at-
tempting her life, when Mr. Carson and Mr. Burch,
house-surgeon of the London Hospital, were examined,
and detailed the above facts; Mr. Carson added that on
asking the prisoner the reason of her committing the
awful act, she first said an old man was the cause of it,
without further explanation. She afterwards declared
she swallowed the poison to frighten her husband.
The prisoner expressed her sorrow for what she had
done, and promised not to repeat the act.
Mr. Hopkinson said he was a good deal from home,
chiefly in Derbyshire, and admitted that he drank to
excess, and that he left the business in charge of his
wife, but did not allow her to sell poisons.
Mr. Yardley, in a lengthened address, denounced, in
the strongest possible terms, the conduct of the husband.
He hoped no person would have the hardihood to go to
Mr. Hopkinson's drug-shop on Cock-bill for medicine
discharged the prisoner only in cons:-
any more.
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&ration of the sufferings she had undergone.

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