The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-18 00:00:00

POLICE L

:'E.—Sept. 17,

MANSION-HOUSE.—Angel Hyam Cohen, of
Messrs. Cohen and Co., metal merchants, of
Windsor-street, Bishopsgate-street Without, ap-
peared before the Lord Mayor in discharge of his
recognisances, charged with having feloniously re-
ceived two casks of naval stores belonging to her
Majesty, and alleged to have been stolen from the
Royal Dockard at Portsmouth.
Mr. Swainson, from the department of the Ad-
miralty Solicitor, again appeared in support of the
prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr.
Robinson, barrister, instructed by Mr. Solomon.

The depositions taken at the former examination
of Sergeants Smith and Robinson, detectives be-
longing to the metropolitan police, having been
read over,
Mr. J. Tudhope was called, and said—l am chief
clerk to the storekeeper in her Majesty's Dockyard
at Deptford. I have examined a portion of the
contents of two casks at the police station in Scot-
land-yard, which were shown to me by the officers.
They consist of old metal sheeting, pieces of copper
sheet and copper nails, most of them old. The
greater portion of them are marked with the broad
arrow. They are naval stores, and belonging to the
Crown. I have had upwards of 20 years' experience
in the Storekeeper's Department. Stores of this de-
scription aro never sold, but are re-manufactured at
Chatham, Portsmouth, and Woolwich dockyards.
Cross-examined—The Government never sell
mixed metal or copper or brass. I speak from 20
years' experience in Deptford dockyard. This is
the general rule, and it is one of the standing orders.
I did not discover any lead in the casks. I did not
see the whole of the contents, but more than half
were marked with the broad arrow. On a portion
of it the mark is defaced, but any one accustomed
to stores of this description can easily trace it.
Mr. Swainson said he had completed the case for

the Crown.
Mr. Robinson, on behalf of the prisoner, con-
tended that there was not a tittle of evidence to
show that his client knew that he had Government
stores in his possession at the time the officers
searched his premises. It was quite clear that he
was ignorant of the fact, and the Crown had not
suggested that he was cognisant of it.
The Lord Mayor—There was a bill of lading
lying_on the desk in the counting-house stating the
nature of the articles the cask contained.
Mr. Robinson—Undoubtedly. He buys old metal
and until he sees the metal in the casks he has not
the least idea what it is. The course of business is
this—goods are consigned to them. As soon as they
have seen them they have them weighed, and send
a check to the consignors for their value. No doubt
the young man acted very indiscreetly and absurdly
in resisting the officers, but there was not the
slightest attempt at concealment from first to last.
Smith, the officer, was then further examined,
and in answer to the Lord Mayor said—l went
into the premises five or six minutes after the casks
had been delivered from the cart. I believe they
had not then been opened, and I took an iron hoop
off and lifted up the head of one of them. We
could not get possession of the premises, and our
men remained in the streets until five hours after-
wards. At the end of five hours we searched the
premises, but found nothing else.
The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully
committed for trial for having unlawful possession
of Government stores marked with the broad arrow,
and belonging to her Majesty.
Upon the application of Mr. Robinson the pH-
sonei•wasin
xadmittedloo
each.
to bail, himself in £2OO, and
two sureties

GUILDHALL: William Thos. Barns, the son,
and Lucy Barns, the wife of Mr. Barns, the well-
known auctioneer and picture dealer of St. Paul's-
churchyard, again surrendered in discharge of their
bail to answer the charge of unlawfully conspiring
to defraud Mr. Robert Herries Peter, a gentleman
of independent property, residing in Hyde Park-
square, of a bill of exchange for £1,000., and divers
other sums in money, amounting in the whole to
between £2,000 and £3,000.
Mr. Peter, the prosecutor, being too unwell to,
attend to sign his deposition, the case was adjourned
until Friday next.

WESTMINSTER.—Ferris Carr, the policeman
who took Isaac Hammond into custody upon the
charge of throwing Sarah Farrell, a woman with
whom he has been for some time cohabiting, out of
window, yesterday represented that he had. seen
the injurecl woman in Westminster Hospital, who,
after detailing the brutal treatment of Hammond to
her a few days ago, said that if the magistrate
would come there she would tell him all about the
matter. Mr. Paynter shortly afterwards went to
the hospital, accompanied by the second clerk, when
she appeared to be worse than before, her memory
apparently from time to time failing her. Sub-
joined is her deposition :
Prisoner iA my husband. I cannot say what hap-
pened to me in the room. We bad a quarrel. I
think I got out of the window. Pray don't hurt
him. I know nothing ;more from the time I
went out of the window. A week ago he told me
he would beat me. Pray don't hurt him. His
mother saw me this morning, and told me he was
nearly out of his mind.
Prisoner was remanded for a week.

THAMES.—Yesterday Robert Bowers, aged 16,
and described as a hawker, was brought on remand
before Mr. Selfe, charged with burglariously break-
ing into and entering the Earl of Glengall public-
house, Mill-svall, Poplar, and stealing therefrom
about £5 in silver and copper, five knives, and a
quarter of a pound of Cavendish tobacco.
It appeared from the evidence that on the morning
of the 10th inst., at half-past 5 o'clock, a young
man, named Joh Marsh, lodging at the Glengall
Arms, who had to rise early, found the prisoner in
the watercloset of the house, and observed a quan-
tity of pence and halfpence and five knives on the
floor. He asked the prisoner what business he had
on the premises, to which he replied that he had
been locked out of his lodgings, and was compelled
to sleep in the watercloset all night. The prisoner
then climbed over some palings in the rear of the
public-house and made his escape. The landlord
was aroused, and discovered the lower part of his
premises all " in an uproar," and all the money left
in the till and on the shelves of the bar missing.
An entry had been effected by cutting away part of
a pane of glass iii a side winilow. A hand was ad-
mitted, the bolt of the window unfastened, and the
window itself pushed back in a horizontal position.
Five knives and some tobacco were also missing. A
large clasp-knife, not belonging to the landlord, was
found upon a table in the bar, and a white jacket in
a cottage adjoining. On the same day, about 11
o'clock, a police constable named John Kelihu, No.
116 It, met the prisoner on Blackheath-hill, Kent,
and observing that his pockets were very bulky, he
detained the lad, and found upon him £3 ss. in
silver, 18s. 81d. in copper money, five knives, two
razors, a counterfeit florin, a counterfeit shilling,
and a quarter of a pound of tobacco. He questioned
the prisoner, who said he had changed a half-sove-
reign, and that wasthe reason he had so many half-
pence about him. He also said that he and anotber
man had broken into the kitchen of a publichouse
in Poplar on the preceding night, and stolen some
money, and that he was to meet the other man on
Blackheath. The money found on the prisoner cor-
responded as nearly as possible with that lost by
the prosecutor, who identified five knives, two
razors, a counterfeit florin, and a counterfeit shil-
ling among the money taken from the prisoner.
Bowers made no defence and was committed for
trial.

SOUTHWARK.—Soon after Mr. Burcham had
taken his seat on the bench Mr. Solomon attended
before him with an elderly woman to ask for an order
under the Matrimonial Causes Act to protect her
property from her husband and his creditors. They
had been separated 17 years, during which time the
husband had never contributed towards her sup-
port, and two years ago, having robbed his em-
ployers, he left the country to escape justice.
Mr. Bircham---That's not exactly deserting you.
It looks more like desertino. justice.
Mr. Solomon here pointa out a clause in the Act
of Parliament which empowered his worship to give
protection to a deserted wife in such a peculiar case.
Mr. Burcham, after perusing it, granted the order.

GREENWICH.-11r. Jos. Lumley, shipbuilder,
occupying extensive premises near, the Commercial
Docks, lotherhithe, was summoned before Mr.
Trail!, at the instance of the Government, charging
him with not complvinc, with the provisions of the
Smoke Act.

Mr. Bodkin attended in support of the summons.
From the evidence of Mr. Sanderson, an engineer
in the employ of the authorities, it appeared that
he visited the defendant's premises on the 4th Aug.
and found a dense smoke issuing froin a furnace,
connected with which were a steam-engine and
boiler, but no apparatus for the consumption of the
smoke. There were also 19 other furnaces on the
premises without flues, the smoke escaping by the
roof, and when all the furnaces were charged the
place resembled a house on fire.
Mr. Bodkin said this was a very aggravated case,
and he had to ask that the full penalty might be
enforced.

The defendant's foreman expressed a willingness
to undertake that the furnace of which complaint
had been made should not be again used until pro-
per apparatus was applied, and he hoped this would
meet the case.
Mr. Traill saia it IN oull not do to receive such