The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 22.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Charlotte Moore, aged
23, was charged before the Lord Mayor with steal-
ing four silk handkerchiefs, of the value of 18s. 6d.
from the shop of Messrs. Kerry and Co., hosiers, of
Bishopsgate-street.
H. Smith, the prosecutors' assistant, said—On
Saturday afternoon the prisoner entered our shop
to look at some ribbon. I thought she was a suspi-
cious character and watched her. I had occasion
to leave the counter, and on returning found her
in the act of concealing something under her cloak.
I communicated what I had observed to one of the
partners, who detained her while I fetched a police-
man, who afterwards showed me the four handker-
chiefs produced, which belong to the prosecutors.
Police-constable No. 653, said that upon being
called to the prosecutors' premises he found the
four handkerchiefs produced lying at the feet of
the prisoner. He went to the house of her parents,
who informed him that she had left home a fort-
night ago for the purpese of getting married.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said there
were between 30 and 40 dresses and silk handker-
chiefs lying on the counter, and she supposed that
in looking at some articles she must have acciden-
tally pulled the handkerchiefs under her cloak,
upon which she was requested by one of the part-
ners to walk to another part of the shop and await
the arrival of an officer.

Mrs. Bowyer, the female searcher at the station-
house, produced a piece of ribbon which she found
upon the prisoner, and added that while engaged
searching her the ticket produced dropped from the
clothes of the prisoner, who immediately picked it
up and put it into her mouth. Witness succeeded
in getting it out before the prisoner had an oppor-
tunity of chewing and swallowing it.
The:witness Smith identified the piece of ribbon
as having been stolen from the counter, and said
that the ticket produced by the searcher had been
torn from the handkerchiefs.

A metropolitan constable said that the pri-
soner had been in his custody about two years ago
for theft, when she was summarily convicted at
Guildhall. He thought that since that time a
City officer had had her in custody for stealing some
rings in Aldersgate-street.

The prisoner denied having been in custody on
more than one previous occasion.
The Lord Mayor—Your parents say that you left
home to get married.
Prisoner—l was going to get married to a young
man, but when the day arrived he told me that I
must wait another fortnight.
The Lord Mayor—Where did you get your head
shaved ?

Prisoner—l fell asleep one night and burnt my
hair, my lord, so that I was obliged to have it
shaved. (Laughter.)
The Lord Mayor remanded the prisoner, who
pleaded guilty to the charge, till Friday next, when
she will be dealt with iii petty sessions.

John Hicks, Thomas Ridley, and Ellen Johnson,
were brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with
stealing 86 knives and 86 forks, under the follow-
ing circumstances :
Mr. J. Davis—l am a ship chandler and marine
store dealer, at 5, St. Mary-at-Hill. On Wednesday
evening last, between the hours of six and seven,
the window of my shop was broken from the out-
side, and several packages of knives and forks ab-
stracted from the window. The six knives andforks
produced formed part of those I lost. I had previ-
ously seen the male prisoners with their backs to
the window, and apparently looking at some boys
who were playing at marbles. I asked Hicks •to
get out of my way whilst I was attending to a
covering over head. I closed my door after me,
leaving the premises in the care of my niece. About
half-past eight I returned and was informed of my
loss, and found two windows starred and one
broken.

C. T. Lewis, constable 348—From the description
of the stolen property given :by the prosecutor, I
accompanied Foulger to 8, Ewer-street, Gravel-lane,
Southwark. I found Hicks in bed, and. told him
I wanted him for some knives he had stolen at
St. Mary-at-Hill. He replied, " Oh, very well ;
I know nothing about it." I examined the place,
and in an ornament on the mantlepiece I found
three duplicates relating to the knives, which
have since been identified by the prosecutor ; I
found on a shelf in the room the six knives and
seven forks produced. I then proceeded to a house
in Redeross-street, where I found Ridley and John-
son. If a remand be granted I believe I shall be
able to prove that Johnson pawned the things and
that she has been connected with another robbery.
The prisoners were remanded till Wednesday.
Five costermongers were charged with obstruct-
ing the public streets.
Constable 651 said that each of the prisoners had
been previously warned, and that warning was of
no use. Shopkeepers were in the repeated habit of
complaining of the nuisance arising from the ob-
struction by fruit barrows in the streets.
Lord Mayor—The next time a shopkeeper makes
a complaint, let him attend here. I cannot allow
the public thoroughfares to be blocked up, and it
appears that the defendants have been here before.
If you are brought here again, it will be my duty
to fine you. The policeman has done perfectly
right in bringing you here. I shall discharge you
on the present occasion with this caution.

WORSHIP-STREET.—John Gallory, 56, a
jobbingeporter, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt
with stealing a pony and chaise, value £lO, from
the door of this police court.
Samuel Snooks, landlord of the Old House at
Home, in the Cambridge-road, Mile-end, stated that
on Friday last he attended to answer a summons,
and on leaving, after a brief hearing, to his great
astonishment missed his trap, which he had left in
the care of a lad, a perfect stranger to him. He
had since received it from the purchaser.
George Bocking, a barman in Winchester-street,
Mile-end, said that on Friday evening a green-
grocer named Hill, a near neighbour of his, in-
formed him that a man had got a pony and chaise
to sell, and only wanted £3 3s. for them. He
therefore purchased them ; but yesterday evenin,,
having heard that they belonged to Mr. Snooks ho
went to him and acquainted him with the fact,
which appeared greatly to surprise him, for he ob-
served, " Why Hill was with me at Worship-street
police-court when I lost it."
In reply to this, Hill explained that, although he
certainly was at the court on the day in question
and saw prosecutor, he was quite unaware of his
loss, and actually advanced the purchase money to
Bocking. The prisoner had applied to him to
"house" the trap, and mentioned that he had tra-
velled 40 miles to sell it, not having further use
for it. _ _

Mr. D'Eyncourt observed that it was very de-
sirable the lad left in charge of the pony and chaise
should be found, but even if he was not the prisoner
would be sent for trial.

Hill observed that a boy was in the chaise when
the prisoner offered it for sale.
No defence was offered, and the prisoner was re-
manded for the completion of the depositions.

WESTMINSTER.—Wm. Door, Wm. Hosier,
and Georg© Rogers, respectively 13, 14, and 15
years of age, were charged with the following rob-
bery :—Rogers and Door were in the employment
of Messrs. Parton and Statham, carmen, carrying
on an extensive business in Crutched-friars, and
were entrusted with goods to deliver at various
parts of the metropolis. Hosier, formerly in their
service, had been discharged. Owing to some tea
having been recently missed from a chest, Mr. Par-
ton resolved to watch Door and Rogers ontheocea-
sion of their having on Saturday to convey a simi-
lar commodity. Shortly after the cart left Messrs.
Parton and gtatham's premises Door and Rogers
were met by Hosier, whom they took into the cart,
and after some conversation he was seen forcing an
opening in a chest, with a wooden wedge, suffi-
ciently large to enable him to shake out 511bs. of
tea into a sack with which he was provided, after
which Mr. Parton gave the whole of the accused
persons into custody. When at the station-
house Rogers said he had been urged to the com-
mission of the robbery by a man.
The police intimated that Rogers had been before
convicted.
Mr. Parton said that he was aware that he had
been in custody, but as he was averyshaaripsolaidn,
he was i nduced, at the request of his brother,
who was an honest respectable person,
his employment, coupled with the circumstance,
of his family
.being poor, to give him an oppor-
tunity
Mr. of nit was very kind of Mr.
pa3nter earning
remarked a l
Parton, although it appeared the accused had made
a very bad return for it.

Rogers and Hosier declared that they had been
inveigled into the commission of the offence by a
man in the street. Hosier said he came to them
in Cannon-street, City, and told them he would
give them 3s. for as much tea as they could get out
of the chests, at the same time throwing the
wedges spoken of into the cart. They were to
meet the man at an appointed place at night to
give him the tea.

The prisoner Door said he knew nothing about
the robbery.
Mr. Paynter committed the prisoners for trial
at the same time suggesting to Rogers that if he
pleased to state all he knew with respect to any-
thing that had occurred previously in connection
with goods entrusted to him, it might ultimately
weigh in his favour.
Upon the application of Mr. Parton, the prisoner

Door's mother's recognisance was taken for his
appearance at the sessions.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Solomon applied to the Hon.
G. C. Norton for an order for protection under the
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act for Mrs.
Anne Jane Couzens, of 3, Trinity-place, Larkhall•
lane, in the parish of Lambeth. Mr. Solomon
said that his client had been married in October,
1852, to Thomas James Couzens, a tailor, by whom
she had issue by such marriage two children. Her
husband and herself lived together up to about
March 1856, when on or about the middle of that
month he deserted her without any apparent or
justifiable cause, and his client now gets her living
by her own industry. Having been promised £2OO
by her mother, she was desirous of protecting it
from her husband or his creditors, and therefore
he (Mr. Solomon) had to request the usual order
under the act for that purpose.
Mr. Norton—What has become of the children ?
Mr. Solomon—One, I understand, is dead, and
the other is under the care of my client.
Mr. Norton—Well, I think it a very proper case
for protection, and shall give it as requ:red.

THE LATE POACHING AFFRAY NEAR

HULL.

On Saturday last six men were charged before a
bench J magistrates at the East Riding Sessions
House, Beverley, with being concerned in the
murder of the gamekeeper Jet, who was killed
during an affray with poachers near Hull, the par-
ticulars of which have already been given in The
Sun. The following are the names of the prisoners:
—Joseph Playforth, 20, labourer, Market Weigh-
ton ; Michael M'Grath, 21, labourer, Market
Weighton ; Charles Franklin, 30, labourer, Brigg;
Thomas Johnson, 27, labourer, Hull ; George Pell,
23, labourer, Swaffham ; and George Smith, 27,
labourer, Beverley.
The prisoners maintained a most resolute de-
meanour during the whole of the examination,
which lasted nearly three hours. Smith, in parti-
cular, who was convicted for poaching two years
ago, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment,
conducted himself with great coolness and un-
concern.

Mr. Earnshaw, of the firm of Lightfoot, Earn-ef
shaw, and Frankish, Hull, conducted the case for
the prosecution. The prisoners were undefended.
After similar evidence to that given at the in-
quest had been adduced,
Superintendent Gibson, of Beverley, was called.
In the course of his examination he said that the
two white pearl buttons which he had picked up
on the scene of the encounter, and which he sup-
posed belonged to some of the poachers, he now
found belonged to the clothes which Jex wore on
the evening he was murdered. He then stated that
on leaving Bishop Burton he proceeded to Market
Weighton, and apprehended Playfair at his
mother's house. When charged with the murder;
Playfair said, " I can prove that I was not there.
Witness then saarched the house, and found &
loaded gun (produced). Mr. Shepherd, the gover-
nor of Beverley House of Correction, had " drawn''
it in the witness's presence, and it was found to
contain shot and slugs corresponding with those
which had been extracted from the body of the
under-keeper, Geddes. Superintendent Hartley
apprehended M'Grath at Market Weighton the
same morning. Both the prisoners were imme'
diately conveyed to Bishop Burton, and on being
taken into the presence of Geddes, he identified
them, saying that, to the best of his knowledge,
Playfair was the man who shot him. Witness said
further that about ten o'clock the same night (Wed"
nesday) he apprehended Smith at his lodgings in
Beverley, and before he had charged him with any'
thing, Smith said, " I know what you are coming
for, Mr. Gibson, but I am out of this mess, 'for
was at Hull that night, and I was drunk. I left
Hull about eleven o'clock, and returned about flour
in the morning, having slept in a straw stack dui'
ing the night."
Mr. Brcreton, surgeon, of Beverley, deposed to
the nature of the wounds the murdered man had
received. He said that Robinson was a little better,
having spoken a few words the previous night
(Friday), and there were now hopes of his ultimate
recovery, though he was by no means out of dan-
ger. Geddes was improving rapidly.
Superintendent Young said he apprehended Pell
at a beerhouse in Driffield, on themorning of Wee'
nesday. He had a bundle with him, and on witne°
opening it he found it contained amongst things,
a shirt, which appeared as if it had been lately
washed at a roadside pond. On hearing the charge:
he said, " I am out of that mess; I slept at Garton
all night, and came here about half-past eight this
morning."
There was no other evidence of importance ter
dered, and after a short consultation the magistrates,
decided to set Pell at liberty, being of opinion that
the evidence was not sufficiently strong against
him, and remanded the other prisoners until Sato-
day next.

Another poacher was apprehended on Friday
night at Brigg, and examinedprivately at Beverley
on Saturday, but we believe we are correct in
ing that he was one of the gang at Bishop B
urton'
though, it is said, he has had important intelligence
to communicate. stat-
ing
is also pretty well understood that the real
murderer, and the most violent members of the
gang, are yet at large. Their names and appear"
ante are, however, well known to the Hull detec-
tives, and there can be little doubt that in a day or
two they will be in safe hands.