The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-05 00:00:00

/THE SUN, LON uON. SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ITALIAN MENDICANTS.—Bastiano Benedetto and
Gitano Benedetto, two Italians, were brought be-
fore Mr. Knox by Hewitt and Horsford, officers of
the Mendicity Society, charged with begging.
Hewitt stated that he saw the prisoners in Lei-
cester-square, and the female prisoner was playing
an organ which was drawn by a donkey, and on the
organ was a placard to the following effect :
" Bastiano Benedetto, by fever constrained to shift
about ou hands and feet, must ring the music for
to call attention to his disability and want." The
man was crawling about on all fours more like a
dog or a monkey, being paralysed in his legs. He
attracted great attention, and several persons gave
him money, and on being searched at the police
station £2 10s. ti :1. was found in his possession.
In answer to the charge the man stated, in
Italian, that he was compelled to do so for his
support.

Earth said the prisoners had gained their living
by begging, to his knowledge, for the last six
months.

Mr, Knox remarked that he was loth to convict
the prisoners, as the man was a cripple, and should
therefore discharge them on their promising not to
beg again.

The required promise having been given, the
prisoners were then discharged, Mr. Knox ordering
the placards to be destroyed.

MARYLEBONE.

ANOTHER BRUTAL OUTRAGE ON A CONSTABLE.
—Dennis Dinnehan, a tall Irishman, was brought
up on remand, charged with a brutal assault upon a
police-constable whilst in the execution of his duty.
Police-constable Smith, 302 S, who appeared very
weak, and had bis head bandaged up, said—About
one o'clock he was on duty in the Leybourne-road,
Kentish-town. I had occasion to speak to a prosti-
tute, who was behaving in a disorderly manner with
a man under a railway arch. I sent the man away
in one direction and the woman in the other. I had
scarcely done so when the prisoner, in company of
two other men, came up and asked me what
the --- did I interfere with women for.
I told him to go away and mind his own
business, when he gave me a violent blow,
and knocked me down. He ran off, and I went
after him. He went into a house and brought out
a pair of tongs, and gave me a tremendous blow on
the back of my head, which stupefied me. Another
of the men then struck me on my arms, and the
third took away my staff. I fell, and the two men
who have escaped kicked me on my neck, and I
became senseless. If the mob had not come to his
rescue he must have been killed. He was now not
fit for duty.

The above evidence was corroborated by wit-
nesses.

Mr. Pain cross-examined them at some length, but
faiieJ to shake their evidence.
Mr. D:r4yncourt committed the prisoner for trial.

WaTriSTAIINSTER.

—Joseph Hurst, a man
FORTUNATE DISCOVEIin
having the appearance of 13, stable helper, was
charged with being found concealeJ in a house for
an unlawful purpose. There was a further com-
plaint against him for unlawfully possessing some
property which had been recently stolen.
Mr. E. J. Dimes, proprietor of the Duke of York
tavern, Stockbridge-terrace, Pimlico, said that hav-
ing closed his house at a quarter to one that morn-
ing he went ronal the premises as usual with a
lighted candle, and on looking up near the ceiling
discovered a man's feet protruding from a hole. lie
called one of the young men to keep watch while he
went up to the floor to dislodge the person whose
feet he had seen, but when he got there he found
the prisoner had crawled through the opening into
the kitchen. He then pretended that he had gone
there to sleep, but that must have been perfectly
untrue, as it was a most uncomfortable position in
which he was found, the hole being so small that
it must have been with the greatest difficulty the
prisoner could squeeze himself into it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt —Do you know anything of him ?
Mr. Dimes—lle and two or three more have been
about my house for a fortnight, and I have been
keeping a sharp look-out upon them, as I strongly
suspected their intentions.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Would he have access to the house
from the hole where he was found ?
Mr. Dimes—Yes, sir ; he had only to break a
pane of glass to get into the house.
Police-constable William WlCenzie, G 6 B
When I took the prisoner he took off his coat and
tried to get away. On searching him I found this
belt and buckle.

The keeper of the fire escape at St. Peter's, Fina-
le°, owned the belt. lie had locked up his box,
near the church, on Thursday morning, and when
he returned to duty at night found it broken into,
and his clothing and belt carried off.
Prisoner—l bought it of a,‘ navvie.”
Prisoner was remanded for a week.