The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

W. Battye, the accountant
to hUeD Irishl ALandL
Investment Company, attended
before Mr. Alderman Challis upon a summons, call-
ingGtL.
upon the directors to show cause why certain
penalties should not be enforced for neglecting to
register a complete list of shareholders within 14
days after the annual general meeting, according to
the requirements of the Joint-Stock Companies
It will be remembered that on the first hearing
• of this case Mr. Henry' Greaves, the late secretary
of the company, stated he was a shareholder having
two shares, upon- which nothing had been paid up,
and that his object in taking ontthis summons was
to break up the company. In answer to Mr. Graves,
Mr. Battye on that occasion said no general meet-
ing had taken place, although a meeting had been
called, but as only two shareholders attended no-
thing was done to enable the company to register.
Mr. Graves now said he wished to show what
sort of this was.
Alderman Challis said, whatever desire Mr.
Graves might have to injure this. company, he
Would not be a party to his using this court for that
purpose.
Mr. Battye said the company *as not in a posi-
tion to register their shareholders, as the only, bona
fide shareholder waS Mr. 'M%enna,' the manager,
no one else having paid up. - .....
Mr. Graves said the company • vas proceeding

against him to recover certain books and papers
which he held as secretary, and he wished to know
if he was justified in detaining them.
Alderman Challis said certainly not. He had been
discharged, and he ought therefore to give them up.
The summons was dismissed.

WORSHIP-STREET. Thomas Duggan, a
sturdy young fellow of 18, was charged before Mr.
Hammill with the following robbery.
A shoemaker named' Payne was passing through
Whitechapel about 9 on the preceding evening,
when his attention was attracted to the conduct of
the prisoner and several other fellows, who wore
acting in concert and covering each other's actions
while picking pockets. The witness followed them
some time without meeting a policeman, and during
that time saw them feel and search the pockets of
at least 40 persons, the last of whom was a poor,
wretched old creature named Ellen Regan, who
seemed too destitute to admit of being robbed of
anything. Into this woman's pocket, however, the
prisoner thrust his hand, and withdrew it, to the
surprise of witness, with something in it, though
what it was he could not see, and, transferring the
stolen goods to his own pocket, walked leisurely
away. The witness followed him and his companions
till a constable of the H division came up, to wh'nl
he mentioned what he had witnessed, and who
grasped the prisoner by the neck and asked what
he had about him. The prisoner said he had nothing
wrong, and, drawing a penny tin snuff-box from his
pocket, coolly helped himself to a pinch of snuff,
while he offered his pocket for the officer's inspec-
tion. To the prisoner's dismay, however, the old
woman Regan hobbled up, and the moment she
saw the box in the prisoner's hand she claimed
it as her property. The prisoner impudently denied
her claim to it, but the old woman persisted, as she
now did in court, and the prisoner was conveyed to
the station.

The prisoner said a boy had given him the box ;
but on Mr. Hammill reproaching him with his
heartlessness in robbing so poor and helpless a per-
son, and asking him if he would be tried by him or
sent before a jury, he at once pleaded guility, and
alleged as an excuse that he could get no work, and
had had none for the last three months.

Mr. Hammill said he could have gone for a sol-
dier, and sent him to the House of Correction for
three month' hard labour, while the poor creature
who had been robbed received a half-crown from
the poor-box.

SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiam Kelly, a notorious
" horse couper," well known to the police as con-
nected with a gang infesting: the highways sur-
rounding the metropolis, was brought before Mr.
Burcham for final examination, charged with being
concerned with others not in custody in stealing a
horse, the property of Jonathan Fisher. He was
also charged with obtaining horses from other per-
sons by false and fraudulent pretences.
Mr. Burcham committed him for trial.
Henry Welch, an ill-looking fellow, and Harriet
Smith were brought before Mr. Bircham for final
examination, charged with stealing ten silk hand-
kerchiefs from the shop of Mr. Joshua Alder,
draper and hosier, 67, Newington-causeway. They
were also charged with committing a ruffianly
assault on Mrs. Alder, the wife of the prosecutor.
It appeared that shortly after four o'clock on the
afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th inst., the pri-
soners came into the shop and asked to be shown
some stockings and handkerchiefs. Mrs. Alder
attended to them, and after selecting some things
they requested them to be packed up, when the
man said he had not sufficient to pay for them, but
he would leave a deposit of a shilling, and call
another day for the goods. While this conversa-
tion was going on Mrs. Alder saw the woman
secrete a bundle of handkerchiefs under her shawl,
and as the prisoners were about to leave she called
her husband, who detained them. The man then-
struck Mrs. Alder a severe blow on the eye, and
the woman seized her by the throat. Their con-
duct was so violent that had not a constable come
in something serious must have taken place.
They were both committed for trial.