The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-10 00:00:00

POLICE I 2 TELLIGEIVOR.-714-1;f1.

BOW-STREET. Henry Wooten, cabdriver, No.
5,234, was summoned before Mr. Henry for exacting
more than his fare and using abusive language.
The complaint was preferred by Mrs. Mark Lemon,
who stated that she hired defendant's cab on the day in
question to convey her two daughters and herse!f from
the Polytechnic Institution to their residence in Gordon-
street, Gordon-square. She ga,vo him a half-crown, and
requested the chance, the fare being eighteenpence only.
He replied, "Oh, I thought it was a two-shilling piece,"
and tendered her 6.1. She reminded him that he had
yet to pay her another 6d., upon which he exclaimed
" I'll see you -- first." A request to be furnished
with his ticket was met by a similar response, and
her son was consequently compelled to go round and
take the number of the cab. This defendant fol-
lowed her up to the door of her house, using the
most offensive and insulting language, and at one time
she thought he was about to strike her. He gathered
a mob round the house by his insolent conduct, exclaim-
ing that " he was not going to drive three -- women
about for GI a mile," and declaring that "be did not
care if he got six months for it and never drove a cab
again:"_

Mr. Lemon's solicitor intimated that the language
really used was much more disgusting than might be
infer►ed from the complainant's statement, and Mr.
Mark Lemon consequently felt himself bound to take
out a summons ; for this was the only way of stopping
the nuisance to which ladies were exposed when travel.
ling by themselves in cabs.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge of exacting
more than his fare, but he " bad no recollection" of
using any bad language. Tae lady must be mistaken.
Mr. iHenry----You mean to say that you used no
abusive language 1
Defendant—•l don't think I did.

Mr. Henry—Are you sure you did not !
Defendant—l am sure that I cannot remember any.
Mr. Henry—But Mrs. Lemon states that you fol-
lowed her to ber door.
Defendant—l don't recollect that I did.
Mr. Henry—And caused a mob to assemble.
Defendant—l never saw no mob.
Mr. Henry—And refused to give her a ticket.
Defendant—lt was at the bottom of my pocket, and
I couldn't get at it.

The solicitor stated that Mr. Lemon, jun., could con-
firm his mother's evidence, if necessary.
Mr. Henry—lt was quite unnecessary. The defen-
dant had pleaded guilty to one offence, and could not
deny the other. He must pay the penalty of 20s. for
the extortion, and 3/. for the insulting language, with
costs, making 41. 45., or be committed for a month.
The defendant was committed in default.

MAR LBOROUGH-STREET.—Mr. John Headland,
fringe manufacturer, No. 118, Oxford-street, was sum-
moned before Mr. Bingham, under the 2d and 3d Win.
IV., chap. 34, sec. 13, for having "unlawfully broken
and defaced one piece of lawful coin called a half-sove-
reign," belonging to Mr. Frederick Cooper Farwell,
barrister, 19, Wimpole-street:
Mrs. Farwell stated that she went into the defendant's
shop on the 26th of May, accompanied by a lady named
Whitbread, to make some purchases. She handed a half-
sovereign to the defendant to pay the bill. The defendant
took the half-sovereign to another part of the shop, and
then carne back and returned it to her bent, with an inti-
mation that he could not take it. Seeing the coin in a
bent condition she said that was not the half-sovereign
she gave him. The defendant then immediately broke
the half-sovereign with his fingers into two pieces.
The defendant here declared that he did not break
the- half-sovereign—that he only bent it thinking it was
not passable, and then returned it to the lady.
Mrs. Farwell was positive that the defendant broke
the half-sovereign, and the lady who was with her also
saw him do'so. She paid the defendant with another
half-sovereign, left the shop, and went into a shop close
at hand to state the circumstances, and to ask if Mr.
Headland was a respectable tradesman. She sbo vcei
the broken half-sovereign to the shopman, who broke
one of the fragments, pronounced it to be a good half-
sovereign, and said he wondered how the coin could have
been broken in the first instance, as it must have required
the application of considerable force.

Mrs. Whitbread, wife of Mr. Gordon Whitbread, of
Wimp°le-street, said she was wiih Mrs. Farwell, and
after the half-sovereign was brought back in a bent
condition she saw the defendant break it.
Mr. Headland having repe4tedly declared that he did
not break the piece cf money was allowed to be sworn,
and he took an oath to that effect. He also said that
when he received the half•sovereign from the lady to pay
for her purchases he tried it, and it bent in an unusual
manner. He did not tell the lady the half-sovereign
was bad, but when he brought it back the lady said it
was not the coin she had givan to him. Ha replied that
the half•sovereign bad nut been out of his possession, and
added, he hoped the lady would consider what she had
said.

Mr. Bingham said the only question be had to decide
was w healer the defendant broke the half-sovereign or not.
Two ladies of the highest respectability had on their
oaths declared that they had seen him break it ; against
this there was the defendant's oath. The balance of
testimony being against the defendant, he must order
him to pay 10a. for the damage.

LAMBETH.'— Brilliant Gallents, who described
himself as a teacher of music, but refused to give
his address, and Mary Ann Clenson, who also refused
her address, but described herself as a prostitute, and
who was smartly attired, were charged with picking poc-
kets in the Crystal Palace.

Mr. Wontner's clerk appeared for the prisoners.
Seijeant Coppin, 15 P., deposed that he was on duty
at the Crystal Palace on Saturday, and at about half-
past four o'clock he saw the female prisoner press against
and feel the dresses of several ladies in the musical
court. Ultimately, she picked the pocket of one lady
and handed something to the other prisoner, who was
close behind her. He (Coppin) endeavoured to -get at
and secure them, but the crowd was so dense that he
. could not do so, and on account of the efforts he made,
he was told he was exceedingly rule. Presently, he
heard a lady now present complain to a policeman that
she had been robbed of her purse. After taking her
address he went in search of the prisoner. He caught
sight of them two or three times, but before he could
reach them they mingled with the immense crowd, and
avoided him. At length he saw the female enter a rail-
, way carriage, and supposing her companion was not far
off, he examined the different carriages in the train with-
out being able to find him. He then went to examine
a second train that was on the point of starting, and
while so engaged the train in which the female was started,
and he therefore for a time lost her. Soon after he saw
the male prisoner come down the stairs leading to the
• railway. Witness stopped him, and asked him where he
was going, and he replied, "To London," and after a
little time exhibited his ticket. Witness next asked to see
what he had in his pockets, but he refused to tell him,
upon which witness told him that it mattered little, for
if he did not wish to show him, he should take the
liberty of searching him. The prisoner then drew a
purse from his pocket, and also a sovereign and some
silver, both of which be put into the purse, and handed
it to him. Witness then asked him how much money it
c3ntained, and he replied Si. 10s.—namely, four sove-
reigns, acd 30s. in silver. On counting its contents,
however, at the station-house, witness found there was
ell. 109. While taking the prisoner to town, he on three
different occasions asked him to keep the money, and let
him go, saying that it was a pity he should take any fur-
ther trouble about him, and that the money would come
bandy to him, while he (the prisoner) could go and soon
,let more. Witness told him he did not do business in
t iat way. While walking along the Borough, the fe-
rn ale prisonerecame-up. He (Coppin) at once recognised
he r, though in a different dress as the person he had
sec in in the Crystal Palace with his prisoner, and conse-
quently had her secured.
' This witness was cross-examined at considerable
len gtb, but nothing material was elicited from him.
I efre. Stringer, a lady residing at 34, Lendenhall-street,
deposed to having been robbed of her purse, containing
two. half-crowns, in the Musical Court of the Crystal
Pa'ace, in which a fancy fair was held, and which was
iieively thronged. She could not recognise either of
the prisoners,

Oa the part of the female prisoner an alibi was at-
tempted to be proved, but the evidence was of a highly
suspicious character.

doppin, the officer, informed the magistrate that just
before coming into court the female prisoner said she
wished to speak to him, and proceeded to state that
while locked up the male prisoner called out to her from
his cell, and entreated her to hold her tongue, and say
nothing. She also said she knew the male prisoner, and
some of his associates, and when she lived on the A di-
vision had seen them taken to prison.
Both the prisoners were remanded to a future day.

THAMES.—Mr. Mos. Strange, wholesale grocer, 65,
llounduditcb, was charged with indecently assaulting
Anthony Wilson, a City police constable, in a railway
carriage at the Stratford Station of the Eastern Counties
Railway, on Sunday evening last.
Mr. Selfe, having beard the complainant's statement,
asked the prisoner whet:ler he h td any witnesses to call,
or any explanation to offer ?
Prisoner—No. Dispose of the case.
The prisoner was than sentenced to pay a fine of 51 ,
,or to undergo two months imprisonment.
The fine was paid.

FATAL ACCIDENT PROM TILE VICTORIA-PARE Fine.
wears.—Yesterday, Mr. William Baker, the coroner,
received information respecting the death of an aged fe-
male named Whitfield, who died from the effects of a
fractured wound on the right haw), caused by a falling
rocket fit.iek, discharged on the night of Thursday, the
29th ultimo, in, the enclosure of Victoria-park, for the
celebration Of peace. It appears that the deceased was
an inmate of the Drapers' Alms Houses, Whitechapel-
road, and on the night in question she proceeded to wit-
ness the pyrotechnic display ; while standing in the
second park, which is situated in the parish of Hackney,
she met with the fatal injury. She died yesterday morn-
Ang- An inquest will be held on the body to-morrow.
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