The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(Nov. 4.)

GUILDHALL.—Wm. Miller, a lad in the em-
ploy of Mr. J. M. Walter, paWnbroker, of Alders-
gate-street, was brought up on remand before
Alderman Cubitt, charged with robbing his master
of property to the amount of nearly £200; and
Henry Hopkins, a preparer of cane for ladies' crino-
line, was placed at the bar,' charged with receiving
the property, knowing it to have been stolen.
Mr. Albert Neate,: the solicitor to the Pawn-
broker's Association appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. nobler defended the boy Miller; and Mr.
Drew, an aceoitntaht,' defended Hopkins.
Mr. Neate—l appear in this case on behalf of the
Pawnbrokers' Association, and they are anxious to
punish the receiver rather than the boy, whom
they would like to give another chance of retriev-
ing his character. I therefore propose to put the
boy into the witness-box and. take his evidence
against Ilopkiiis for receiving this property, as we
think the lad has given us every possible information.
Mr. Alderman Cubitt objected to this course at
the present stage.
Mr. Neate—Then I will call . before you several
witnesses to show the connection between the two
prisoners, and in what manner it commenced.
Mr. Walter was then cross-examined for Hop-
kins.— The watch that the prisoner admitted taking
I know was pledged at my shop, because the ticket
was written out. I never saw the watch. -
James Robt. Gunnis said—l was in Mr. Walter's
employ. The prisoner Miller was 'there also, and
Hopkins used to teach him the concertina. This
was about six or eight months ago. I pointed Hop-
kins out as the man from a number of prisoners in
Newgate on Tuesday last.
Charles Weir, a lad employed at the Black Horse,
Kingsland-road, said—l went to Newgate on Tiles-.
day, and in one yard I pointed out Hopkins, and
in
.another yard Miller. I had seen them both at
the Black Horse, but I am not certain that I ever
saw them together.
Mr. Jas. Gill, the landlord of the Black Horse, in
the Kingsland-road, said--I have seen both Fir
soners at my house, and they have been in front of
the bar-as close as they are now in the dock, but I
cannot remember ever seeing them in conversation.
I went to Newgate, but did not recognise Hopkins
among the prisoners, as he then had his hat on and
walked very quick past me, so that I could not see
his face, but when I saw him in the dock this morn-
ing without his hat I recognised him in an instant.
I know him because he is a neighbour of mine. Had
I seen his face in the first instance, I should have
known him in a moment. .
The prisoners were then remanded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Jean Sarcias,
Otherwise Victor, a professional singer, was brought
before Mr. Bingham, in tustody* of the Liverpool
police, charged with having conspired with others
to cheat M. Paul Giiisdun, a French gentleman of
fortune, of £2OO at cards. . .
One of the confederates is in custody and under
remand. The evidence, it will be recollected, was to
the effect that a foreigner named Croquier intro-
duced the complainant to the prisoner and another
foreigner named CazadoS, that they played at
bacoasa" together, and that, after winning £2ot
at various times from M. Guisdon, Croquier informed
him that he had been cheated out of the money by
means of marked eardS. - -

Mr. Forester, from the office. of Mr. Beard, at-
tended to prosecute`; Mr. E.• Lewis for the prisoner.
Mr. Forester said the prigoilerhad only just been
brought from liveraool. He should do no more at
iiraent than ask for a remand,
Mr. Lewis submitted there was no ground. for a
remand, inasmuch as the evidence only touched the
other prisoner, and did not reach this one.
M. P. Guisdon was called, At the_ examination
of Cazados the prisoner at the bar was called Victor
as he wen by that name. The prisoner was one of,
the parties who played at " baccasa."
Police-constable - Dodson, —595 Liverpool -police,
said, on Saturday night he went with the prosecu-
-ter to the London Hotel, in Liverpool, and took the
prisoner into custody 'for robbing the prosecutor of
£2OO at cards. The prisoner denied being at the
gaming-room in Oxendon-street with the prosecu-
tor at all. He was only a poor artist, he said.
Mr. Lewis contended there was not enough be•
fore the Court to warrant a reinand.

Mr. Bingham, after reading over the previous
evidence, said the evidence against the prisoner de-
pended very much on the evidence of Croquier,
who stated that cards were marked in his presence
by Victor, and that marked cardswere used when
a. particular sum of £55 was won from the prose-
cutor. Under all the circumstances he should re-
mand the prisoner, but admit him to bail.

WESTMINSTER.—Esther Beresford, servant
to Mrs. Wilson, 73, Denbigh-street, Pimlico, was
re-examined, charged with robbing her mistress.
A few days ago Mrs. Wilson and her son left the
prisoner, who had only been in their service about
f.month, in' charge of the house, and upon their
return home they found that she had absconded,
and that all the _plate was 'missing. Information
was given to the police, and William Birch; .286:B,
found the prisoner two or three days afterwards
regaling herself iirtlieJaproom of a public-house
at Lisson-grove 'She denied than her name was
Beresford, or that she had everl:liied in Mrs. Wil-
son's service but upon the officer stating that he
should take her in charge on sUspicion, she began
and 04164 640u1d have -; done it but for
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bad counsel. The officer took a pawnbroker's
ticket from her hand relating to four silver table-
spoons, pawned at Mr. Reeves's, Chapel-street,
E dg ware -road.
Prisoner now pleaded guilty, and asked the ma-
gistrate to dispose of the case, instead of sending
it before a jury.
Mr. Arnold said that before passing sentence
upon her he would ask her whether she was willing,
to make the only reparation in her power by in-
forming her mistress what she had done with the
remainder of the plate.
Prisoner, after considerable hesitation, replied
that she lost it.
Mr. Arnold observed that he did not believe her.
Instead of disposing of the case now, he would re-
mand her to give her time to think the matter over.
If she concealed the fact of what had become of
the remainder of the plate, she might depend upon
receiving the severest sentence.
She was then remanded for a week.

WORSHIP-STREET.—PhiIip Hunt, a grocer
in a small way of business in Davenport-street,
Commercial-road, was charged before Mr. Hammill
with cruelty to a horse.
Jabez Heifer, one of the officers of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said—l
was in Spitalficlds-market this morning, when I saw
a small bay horse in a cart laden with vegetables,
continually lifting up one of its hind legs, and evi-
dently in very great pain. I was consequently in-
duced to examine the leg, and I must say that I
never saw such a foot in my life, for full half of it
was as nearly off as possible, and in addition there
was a very large wound in the fetlock, from which
purulent master was exuding. This induced a fur-
ther examination, and that resulted in the discovery
of two more wounds, one on the shoulder and the
third on the back as large as a half-crown. The
poor animal was altogether in a most pitiable state.
The defendant had driven the horse from the Com-
mercial-road, and excused himself by saying that
he was a poor man with a large family.
Mr. Hammill—l saw the horse as I entered the
court this morning, and I must say that the sight
was quite distressing.
Defendant—l am really very sorry, sir. I have
not a farthing to bless myself with, and, having a
wife and four children to support, I thought that if
I had a horse I might be able to earn something by
its work. I only bought it six weeks ago, gave £7
for it, and it seemed so sound and well that I think
it must have trodden upon one foot with the other.
Mr. Hammill—You knew it was in this shocking
state, and yet, so long as you could contrive to get
any labour out of the poor brute, you kept on work-
ing it, wholly regardless at what sacrifice of pain,
and whether diseased or not. Cases of this kind are
too frequently before me. Such gross inhumanity is
deserving severe punishment, and, as I am deter-
mined to put a stop tg it, if possible, I shall send
you to the House of Correction for a fortnight
without a penalty and with hard labour, and the
horse must be at once destroyed.

CLERKENIVELL.--Jane Cosser, aged 21, a
respectably-attired woman, residing at 31, Rheidol-
terrace Islington, was placed here on remand,
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with intermarrying
with Maurice Lewis Gerrard, her first husband,
James Cosser, being then and still alive.
Mr. Parker attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Lewis for the defence.

The prisoner was married to her first husband at
Corfe-Mullen, Dorsetshire, on the 3d Sept., 1856,
when she described herself as a widow, and gave
the name of Jane. Arding Page. She did not appear
to have lived long with her husband—she stated
only three days—for on the 3d Oct. in the follow-
ing year she was married to the prosecutor, Mau-
rice Lewis Gerrard, a clerk in -one of the city firms,
and whose friends are very respectably connected,
at Teddington church, in the name of Rose Eliza-
beth Jane Arding, when she described herself as a
spinster. After spending some time with the prose-
cutor in Paris it was ascertained that the prisoner
was guilty of bigamy, and the case being placed in
the hands of Packman, one of the city detectives, he
succeeded in apprehending her at the above ad-
dress, and when he told her the nature of the charge
she told him it was all correct, and that if he had
waited a few weeks longer she would have saved
him the trouble, as she would have been on the con-
tinent with her second husband.
Mr. Lewis said the first husband was in court,
but did not complain. These proceedings were in-
stituted by the parents of the second husband, and
he therefore hoped his worship would take bail.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the !prisoner to New-
gate for trial.

SOUTHWARK.—David Jones, a rough-looking
fellow, was brought up in custody charged with
intermarrying with Christiana Hart, his former
wife being then and now living.
Police-constable 293 M said that he was on duty
on the previous night when the prisoner was
pointed out to him as having committed bigamy.
He went up to him and took him into custody, when
he admitted having been married previous to
Dec., 1856, and that he knew at the time his first
wife was then living.
The Magistrate asked if the second wife was in
the court.

The officer replied that she was.
Christiana Hart, a buxom-looking woman, here
stood forward, and on being sworn said that she
was married to the prisoner at Trinity Church, in
the parish of St. Mary, Newington. Surrey, on Dec.
8, 1856. She then believed him to be a single man,
but she had since ascertained that he had a wife
living.
The magistrate asked the prisoner whether he
wished to say anything in answer to the charge.
He replied that he had nothing to say.
The magistrate then told him he should remand
him till Saturday next, to enable tit:: officers to
examine the parish register and obtain copies of
the certificates.
The prisoner was then removed.