The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 6.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Skinner, of Shaftes-
bury-street, Walworth, tarpaulin maker, was
brought up for final examination upon a charge of
having obtained canvas and money to the amount
of £ll4 from Mr. J. B. Chalmers, of Leadenhall-
street, by false pretences.
Mr. Salter appeared for-the prosecution, and Mr.
Humphreys for the defence.
' Previously it had been shown that the prisoner
in July last represented to the prosecutor that he
had obtained an order from Mr. Walker, store-
keeper to the London and Brighton Railway Com-
pany, for 50 tarpaulin covers, at 575. each, and that
upon his faith in that representation the latter
agreed to take the job off his hands, by finding him
the necessary canvas, and paying him 16s. each, to
make into tarpaulin sheets ; that the prisoner from
time to time drew the amount for making up 49
sheets which he said he delivered, and that subse-
quently the prosecutor discovered that no order had
been given in July, and no goods delivered.
Mr. Walker, storekeeper to the London and
Brighton Railway Company, now deposed that he
had given the prisoner three orders for tarpaulin
sheets at different times, but no order in July for
50 sheets. In April/he gave him an order for two
dozen sheets, which were completed and paid for in
the course of May, and in November he gave an
order in consequence of receiving an application
from the prisoner, to whom the goods were delivered
in on the 6th December.
Mr. Chalmers was re-examined and said—After
I had ascertained that no order had been given in
July, I went to the prisoner and told him I wanted
him to go with me to see Mr. Walker, upon which
he said he could not go then, but he would go next
morning at ten o'clock. I told him that would net
do, he must go at once, and then he began to cry.
I asked him what he had been doing, and he told
me that he had not delivered the sheets as he had
before said, and thilt he could not give me an
account of them, as he had sold most of them for a
mere nothing, but he said he hoped I would not
prosecute him, and that if I would find canvas he
would work it out by making up sheets without
charge.

Tlie prisoner was committed for trial, reserving
his defence.

Mary Heidenmeich, a decent looking, middle-
aged woman, was charged with having deserted her
four children, and left them chargeable upon the
parish of St. Katharine Cree.
Upon behalf of the parish authorities it was
shown that in July, 1837, the prisoner, who was a
widow' at the time, obtained an order for the admis-
sion, of herself and four children—two being legiti-
mate and two illegitimate—into the City of London
Union, upon which she gate the order to a neigh-
bour, and absconded, leaving her children to be
taken to the Union, where they had remained for
the last two years and a half, without her giving
any clue to her whereabouts. Recently, however,
she was accidentally discovered, and was given into
custody.
The prisoner admitted the desertion, but said she
found her children must starve unless they went
into the house, and therefore she obtained the
order for admission ; but that she could not bring
herself to go in with them, and therefore left them,
knowing they would be looked after by her neigh-
bours.
An officer said her husband was in court.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—Husband! Has she
married again, then ?
Prisoner—Yes, sir, about four months ago.
Officer—The husband is a German tailor, and
cannot speak much English.
Lord Mayor—Well, let him stand forward.
A respectably-dressed man therefore stepped into
the witness box, holding by the hand a child about
two years 013, and said—That woman is my wife ;
I marry her four months.
Mr. Goodman—Do you know you are liable for
the maintenance of all the children ?
Husband—l no know it, but some people tell me
so.
Mr. Goodman—Well, you are legally liable, and
although you may have made a bad bargain the law
will require you to keep to it. Did you know she
had four children ?

Husband—Oh, yes ; she tell me four, and I pro-
mise to get them all out of workhouse for her, but I
misfortunate and ill, and so not able to do so yet,
but now will do my best for her and for them. The
child I have here is her child also and mine.

Mr. Goodman—Then that must be illegitimate
also. However, as you are willing to take the chil-
dren out of the house, I suppose the parish officers
will withdraw from the prosecution.
The husband then gave the required undertaking,
and his wife was discharged.

BOW-STREET.--A very smartly-dressed young
man, named John Brown, enveloped in a Talma of
the most ample dimensions, and wearing a neatly
trimmed moustache and imperial, was charged with
stealing a watch from the person of Mr. Hughes
(a gentleman from the country), in the passage of
the pit entrance at Drury-lane Theatre.
Sergeant Holmes, of The F division, deposed that
he was on duty at the pit entrance when the doors
were opened on Thursday evening. There was as
usual a very great crowd. He saw the prisoner
several times go partly in with the crowd and then
gradually back his way out, and knowing from long
experience what was the meaning of that man oeuvre,
ho determined to watch the prisoner. Presently
the prisoner, while attempting to back out, was
carried away in spite of himself, by the force of the
crowd. Witness then went round to the box en-
trance, and passed through the lobby to the pit pay
place, so as to meet the crowd. He then saw the
prisoner coming along with the crowd. He was
side by aide with the prosecutor, against whom he
was pressing in such a manner as to pin his arm to
his side. Witness could not see his hands, which
were covered by the folds of his Talma, but from
the general position he had no doubt that the pri-
soner was " working" at the prosecutor's watch.
As they had nearly reached the pay place, he saw
the gentleman's chain fall loose and the prisoner
dexterously spring on one side, so that if Mr.
Hughes had turned round to seize the person who
had been pressing him, he would most probably
have caught hold of a person who had been behind
the prisoner, and who was pressed forward into his
place the moment he quitted it. But at the moment
when he executed this little feat witness, who
.was
waiting for him, seized him by the collar, and
dragged him into the side passage. His object in
doing this was to prevent the prisoner from jerking
the watch over the heads of the people behind him
into the street. The prisoner, however, dropped it
on the ground and it was picked up and identified
by Mr. Hughes. The prisoner was not known.
Mr. Hughes said he was so pressed in the crowd
that he could not get his hand to his pocket to feel
for his watch, though he tried to do so several times.
At the moment when the prisoner, so pressing him,
left his side he felt for his watch and found it was
gone. .
The prisoner cross-examined both witnesses at
length, and with much ingenuity, but failed to
shake their testimony. He said he was a watch-
maker, and had come to town from Edinburgh in
search of work.
Mr. Henry committed him for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—Robert *arshall, a big,
powerful fellow, was charged with committing the
following assaults :
Thomas Vine said he was assistant to his brother,
who kept tailors' trimming shops at 19, Tothill-
street, and 22, Dartmouth-street, Westminster.
He was in the latter place the previous afternoon,
when, he heard loud screams and cries of " murder"
upstairs. Complainant immediately went up stairs,
and learned that the defendant, a total stranger,
had forced his way into the room of one of the
lodgers, and assaulted her. Complainant requested
him to be quiet, when he put himself in a fighting
attitude, and, following the witness down stairs,
struck him a violent blow on the mouth, without
the slightest provocation having been offered him.
Complainant then procured the assistance of a po-
liceman, and gave him into custody.
Selina Ann Ellis, the wife of a tailor, a very re-
spectable-looking woman, who exhibited a severe
black-eye, said she lived at 22, Dartmouth-street
and knew the defendant, who had lodged with her
sister, and he repeatedly came to annoy her and her
sister.
Mr. Arnold—What for P

Witness—l cannot say, lam sure.
Mr. Arnold—Oh ! nonsense; there must ba some
reason.
Witness—l suppose it's to annoy us, that's all,
Mr. Arnold—What did he do yesterday ?
'Witness—He came there to see my sister, who
occupied one room, and I•another.
Mr. Arnold—Does he ever threaten yogis when
he comes ?

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went into witness's room. He tried to force his
way into her room, and she would not let him, as
she never did ; and while trying to keep him out,
he put his hand inside, and struck her violently in
the eye. He then got into the room, knocked both
her and her sister down, the latter twice, and then
held .witness round the throat by one hand while
he "punched" her repeatedly about the head and
face. He then went down stairs, and she saw him
assault Mr. Vine.

Mary Ann Butler, sister to last witness, said she
was married, and her husband was a baker. Be-