The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTE LLIGENCE-April 9.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Keating, an Irish
shoemaker, one half of whose features was obscured
by hair, and the other half by dirt, was charged
with assaulting Ellen Lawler by stabbing her in
the face with a knife.

The prosecutrix, the left side of whose face
exhibited a huge circular patch of sticking plaster,
said, " Plase yer honours, my name's Ellen
Lau ler."

Mr. Goodman (chief clerk).—And 'what is your
husband's name?

Prosecutrix.—Pat Bresshanan. (Laughter.)
Mr. Goodman.—'Then I suppose your name is
Bresshanan

Prosecutrix.—Lord, me, yer Honour, my name is
Ellen Lawler. (Laughter.)
Mr. Goodman.—l tow can that be, if he's your
husband? Your maiden name you mean, I suppose,
was Lawler

Prosecutrix.—Yes, my maiden name, and my
name now, for though I call Pat my husband we
ain't married; but we've lived together a long
while, and he's a good husband, too.
Mr. Goodman.—Why did you not say at first
that you were not married? Go on with your
evidence.

Prosecutrix-.—Well, on Saturday night I was
sitting at supper with Pa,t, when who should come
in but Moggy Qunk ; so, says I, " Sit. down, Mog,
and have some supper;" but, yer Honours, she was
nasty, and got to words, and at last says she, " If
you arc a woman, come down into the yard and
have it out." " Very well, Meg," says I, " I'll
come down, cos you know I ain't afraid of you ;"
and she says, "No, T knows that, I knows you are
too good a woman foe me ;" and that's right, yer
Honours, bocanw, though I'm a quint 17w:win, I can
btiJhh up fur -Inyalf, like a ;oold'an, only thank
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wasn't agoing to fight ; but there was a mob at
the door, and that there prisoner there made a
rush at me, and gave me a job in the mouth
with his fist which loosened all my teeth, and then
he jobbed at me again with something in his hand,
which I took to be a knife, and stabbed me in the
face. So I calls out, "Pat," says I, "he's made a
hole in my face with a knife, and I'm kilt intirely !"
_(laughter)—and then down I went, while Pat
clashed out and collared him. The hole ain't quite
through my eheek, but it's a whacker, and I hopes
your worship will give me purtection. (Laughter.)
with
does;you
Pat Bresslianan said—When that man stabbed
my wife
Mr. Goodman—She says she is not your wife,
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she is.
thought livesesshsesos
and an honest woman

Sir R. Carden—Why don't you make an honest
woman of her ?

Witness--I don't mean in that way; but I mean
that she's too honest to meddle with anybody'sbusiness.

Mr. Goo :limn—She cal' fight well, at all events,
according to her own confession.
-Witness—She's a regular good'un, yer Honour;
she's a rale beauty, and no mistake.
Sir R. Carden—Then, why don't you marry her ?
Witness—Well, I will, yer Honour, I will. But
about this here prisoner. When I rushed out upon
him he struck me, and I'm sure I felt a knife in his
hand.

Prisoner—My
Lord, it wasn't a knife at all, and
but for the drink that was in my head I shouldn't
have done it. That woman had been throwing
some water over me just before, and when I went
out again I took a little poker with me, and I hit
her with that. It was a very little one, yer Honour,
but sharp at the end.
Sir R. Carden—A poker would not have cut like
a knife. However, knife or poker, I shall send you
to prison for 21 days.
Prosecutrix--And, oh ! yer Honour, won't you
bind him over to keep the peace towards me ?
Sir 11. Carden—The police will protect you. I'd
rather bind you over not to live with that man
again till you are married.
Prosecutrix—And, faith, yer worship, I'd not
object to that.
Pat Bresshanan—And, yer Honour, I will marry
her. I've ofen talked about it, and now I'll do it.
They then left the court.

MARYLEIONE.—Robert Percival Spencer,
aged' 14, in the service of Mrs. Mullins, a widow,
residing at 32, Harley-street, Cavendish-square,
was charged on suspicion of having stolen a letter
containing two £5 Bank of England notes and four
sovereigns and a half, the said letter having been
delivered at the house, addressed to " Mr. Richard
W. Barrington," a lodger.
The evidence against the prisoner was of a very
slight nature, and he was remanded till Monday
next, his father being answerable in the sum of
£2O for his being forthcoming on that day.
Mary Bushell, in the employ of Mr. %Varen,
linendraper, &c., High-street, Camden-town, was
charged with having robbed her master of riband,
flannel, calico, collars, belts, and other articles,
which were found in her possession as she was
about quitting her situation on Saturday last.
The prisoner was, at the request of Inspector
Court, remanded, in order to afford time for the cap-
ture, if possible, of a younr, man who is strongly
suspected of having instigated her to commit the
robbery, and also to plunder to a more considerable
extent.

WESTMINSTER.—WaIter Philp; a respect-
ably attired young man, was charged with being
concerned in a burglary and extensive robbery at
the house of Mr. Spiers, 3, Cromwell-lane, Bromp-
ton.

Impector Firman, of the A reserve, attached to
the B division, intimated that the prosecutor in this
case was at Folkestone, but he (Mr. Firman) had
sufficient evidence to procure a remand. lie had
present the pawnbroker to whom the prisoner had
offered in pledge some of the missing property, and
a man who had seen the prisoner near the scene of
the burglary but a few minutes before it had oc-
curred.

The inspector was then sworn, and stated that
between the hours of nine and ten on the night of
Friday week the house of Mr. Spiers was entered
through an unoccupied house adjoining. The pad-
lock on an iron gate which secured the top window/
had been wrenched off, several ladies' dressing-
cases and a gentleman's dressing-case carried from
the dressing-room to the servants' room, and there
broken open and rifled of their contents and a
quantity of jewels carried away; the value of the
stolen property being estimated at at least £l5O.
On the Saturday fallowing the robbery information
reached him that a portion of the property in a
damaged state had been offered in pledge, and wit-
ness, with Set geant I,ockyer, of the detective force,
went yesterday morning, accompanied by the pawn-
broker (who had been put to considerable trouble
in the matter), to a place where it was supposed the
prisoner was, and there apprehended him on the
pawnbroker identifying him as the man who had
offered some of the property in pledge.
F. Gad wort, assistant to Mr. G. Attenborough,
pawnbroker, of Fleet-street, said that in the after-
noon of Saturday week the prisoner came into the
shop and offered him in pledge 10 diamonds wrapped
in a dirty piece of grocer's paper, having, previ-
ously' to Showing witness the diamonds, put some-
thing from the paper into his mouth. He said he
wanted £22 for the diamonds, and witness seeing
they were worth more than he asked—viz., £2B,
inquired how he became possessed of them ; he said
they were his own property, and witness then in-
quired whether he was a dealer, to which he at first
replied in the negative, but shortly afterwards in
the affirmative. Witness then asked him what they
weighed. He replied that he did not know, and
witness observed it was very strange that a dealer
should not know their weight but should set a price
upon them ; for which the prisoner endeavoured to
account by saying that he only went by what he
gave for them. Witness found the stones weighed
31 carats, and he was of opinion the stones came
from an enamelled cross, part of which he pro-
duced, as crosses of that description contained
from 10 to 12 such stones. After he had weighed
the diamonds he noticed that there were among
them two inferior stones not worth above £3 a
carat, while the others were worth about £8
a carat. Ile did not at all like the prisoner's
replies to his ,various questions, and in order to
test the truth of his statement ho took the two in-
ferior stones away and asked prisoner what he
wanted for the other eight, and he allowed as much
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