The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 28.

MANSION-110USE.—Lawrence Hannan, William
Hannan, and. Michael Leary, three boys about 10 years
of age, whose heads scarcely reached the top of the
dock, were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged
with stealing a sack belonging to a carrier of the name
of West, in French Ordney-alley, Crutched Friars.
Win. Donaldson, a servant of the prosecutor, stated
that he watched the prisoners on Friday afternoon, and
saw them. suddenly spring into a van of which he was in
charge and decamp with a sack. He pursued them,
and, on overtaking them, handed them over to the cus-
tody of a police-officer.
City c onstable W. Gale, No. 520, said that on taking
the prisoners to the station-howie he searched therm,
and on Lawrence Hannan he found a shilling's worth of
halfpence ; on the other he found nothing. The officer
added tt,a.t the prisoners were constantly prowling about,
for the purpose of stealing any thing that came in their
way, and they offered to pay three halfpence for the
sack, which, they said, was all it was wcrth.
The Lord Mayor ordered the two Haneans to be dis-
charged, as they had not been in custody before, and
sentenc.ad Leary to be well whipped and given up to his
mother, who vas waiting to take him home.
John Gass, a journeyman carpenter, was charged with
desertin g his wife and five children, and leaving tl em in
a state a utter destitution, whereby they had became
charges ble to the City.
Sarah Gass, the wife, having been sworn, ktated that
the prisoner left her five weeks ago, when she was ill in
bed, and. had two children lying dangerously ill in the
Fever Eospital, and without a farthing to procure a
morsel of food.

The prisoner said he -was obliged to leave his family
owing t a his laving had a run of bad luck in business.
Mr. Roberts, the relieving officer, said that the amount
due to ,the parish from the prisoner was 153. or 108.
The • wife—lle has been living with another woman.

The prisoner denied this statement.
The 'Lord Mayor, who characterised the prisoner's
conduct; as being inhuman and cruel in the extreme, re-
manded. him for the purpose of affording the officer an
opportunity of ascertaining whether, since deserting his
wife, he: really had been living with another woman.
LduiPm Hudson and William Smith were brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor under the following circumstances :
Police-constable T. M'lntosh, 581, said—Yesterday
afternoon I was on duty in Lower Thames-street, and
from information I received I stopped Hudson, who was
carrying a basket containing 331 b. of butter. I asked him
where he got it from, when he replied that he had Leen
sent by his father from Kent-street, Borough, to meet a
man in. Lower Thames street, who was working at a
butter warehouse. I took him to the station, when 'I
asked what sort of a man he was sent for. He replied
that he, was a dark man with full face and no whiskers.
This description tallied with the appearance of Smith.
I asked him if he knew his name, when he told me that
his name was Smith, and that he lived in Castle-street,
Kent-street, Borough. I then apprehended Smith upon
the statement of Iludsoni, who identified him as having
given hit a (Hudson) the butter.
Benjamin romfret, superintendent of the warehouse