The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Dec. 8.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Lamand was
brought before Sir R. W, Carden, upon the charge
of having caused the death of a little boy, aged six
years.
The death was accidental. It was proved that
the defendant was driving his horse and cart on
Tuesday afternoon at a slow trot, in Bishopsgate-
street, and that the child ran from behind a cab
right under the cart, the wheel of which passed
over his loins ; that upon being snatched from the
ground the poor boy kicked twice, bled at the eyes,
nose, and mouth, and that upon being carried to
the hospital he died.
Sir R. W. Carden said it was quite evident that
no blame attached to the man, who was therefore
discharged on his own recognisances to appear on
Saturday if required.
Two young German. girls, who are in the habit
of walking at night in the Minories, or what is
called by arrangement the foreign side of the street,
and Mary Ann King, a rival in the wretched
trade, who parades on the opposite or English side,
were charged with having fought to the great
annoyance of the respectable inhabitants.
Sir R. W. Carden, upon examination of wit-
nesses who stated that the foreigners were the
aggrieved parties, sentenced Mary Ann King to
pay the penalty of £l, or go to Holloway Prison
for a month, and discharged the Germans upon re-
ceiving their promise in rather equivocal English
to set off for Hamburg with all convenient speed.
It appeared quite plain that the poor foreigners
neither had the inclination to attack nor the power
to resist their tiger-like assailant, who was with
difficulty restrained by the police as they passed
along to the station-house.
John Smith was chargedbefore Sir R. W. Carden
with robbery.
Mrs. Luxton, wife of a licensed victualler in the
Minories, said—The prisoner and another man came
into the house and had some gin and peppermint,
for which they paid, and then they went away.
Soon afterwards this man returned to the bar and
asked for a glass of ale, for which he raid with a
shilling. I gave him change out of the till, in which
there was a considerable quantity of silver. I then
turned to stir the fire, and looking round I saw him
stretched across the counter with his hand in the
till. He immediately ran off with a handful of
silver amounting no doubt to four or five andtwenty
shillings. I screamed out, but did not succeed in
apprehending him. This was on Friday last. I
knew the man who had accompanied him when he
first came into the house, and that man brought
the prisoner to the house this morning, when I at
once identified him as the thief, and gave him into
custody.
Several policemen said the prisoner had been in
custody a short time ago for committing the same
kind of robbery, at which he had become expert by
considerable practice.
The prisoner—l was in the house, certainly ; but
I never took a farthing. There was another man
at the bar, who was reading a newspaper, and pro-
bably he robbed the till.
Mrs. Luston—There was nobody there but your-
self, and I saw you take your hand, full of silver,
out of the till.

Sir It. W. Carden--I shall send you for trial. I
believe that you live entirely by this sort of plun-
der.

Committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—WiIIiam Soaper was charged
as follows :

Jas. Bentley, 99; Chancery-lane, and 11, Queen-
street, Oxford-street, a sheriff's officer for Middle-
sex, said—At 4 o'clock ygterday afternoon, by virtue
of a writ of possession, Me entered the house, 64,
Charlwood-street West, Pimlico. He had ejected
the persons who were in the house, and was in
possession an hour waiting to give up the key to
the proper person. Prisoner forcibly broke the
glass and panels out of the area window with his
foot and ran upstairs, witness following him into
the parlour. Witness's assistant ordered him to go
out, but he would not, and said he had authority
to be there, but did not produce it ; he added he
was the landlord of the house. Witness's assistant
laid hold of him, when he immediately struck wit-
ness twice in the chest and head. Witness had not
touched him then. Previous to that he had broken
open the back part of the house, to allow others to
come in. He grew desperate, upon which he was
released. He then rushed upstairs, where three
persons had by this time come behind him. Pri-
soner said, "I am armed : if you come up I will.
smash you." I threatened him and his assistants—
one of them was armed with a pair of tongs. He
called a constable, and gave prisoner into custody.
Henry Temple, the assistant, corroborated the
statement.

A solicitor here stated that in pursuance of Mr.
Bentley's writ he had fastened the house from top
to bottom, when it was broken open, as described,
literally against the sheriff.
Defendant said he was landlord under a stamped
agreement, and his tenancy did not expire till 1861;
he then declared that he had been very much as-
saulted by both parties and had never touched them
in return. Previously he had been expelled several
times. Mr. Bentley never produced the writ.
Mr. Bentley declared that he produced the writ.
Frances Soaper, defendant'S mother, was the person
against wham the writ was issued. He never saw
prisoner till an hour after the other parties were
ejected.
The solicitor then made a statement respecting
the anterior circumstances, when
Mr. Arnold said it was a very serious charge.
He should require defendant to find two sureties in
£2O each for his appearance to-morrow. He would
grant a warrant against the other three men.

LAMBETH.—Mr. Alex. E. Braden, a grocer, 9,
Staverton-row,lworth-road, was placed at the
bar on the following charge :
Mrs. H. Frewen, a decent-looking woman, de-
posed that about a quarter past 11 o'clock her little
boy, 9 years of ago, in company with a neighbour's
child, named Cordling, 6 years of age, left her resi-
dence, 88, Long-lane, Bermondsey, and returned
home about two, excessively ill, and retching, as if
he had taken something injurious, and the other boy
was affected in a similar way. On questioning her
son as to what he had been taking, he said that a
grocer in the Wal worth-road had thrown a fig into
the street, and the other boy and himself had picked it
up and eat it, and it made both very ill. She took her
son to the shop of theprisoner, and on seeing him the
boy at once said that he it was that threw the fig
they had picked up into the street, and he did not
deny it. but said he had thrown it into the mud,
and had no idea that any person would have picked
it up. The prisoner then called a cab, and drove

witness and both the boys to the hospital.• and had
done everything in his power for them since.
Mr. Elliott—Are the boys still in the hosrital?

Witness—Yes, your worship.
Police-constable James Sloman, 28 M, said that
having heard of the circumstances, he went to St.
Thomas's Hospital that morning to see the children
and having obtained a certificate from the medical
attendant there, he felt it to be his duty, on the
prisoner coming to the hospital to see the young
patients, to take him into custody. The witness
here handed to the magistrate the certificate to
which he alluded :

"This is to certify that the two boys Ii ewers
and Corling, brought into this hospital yesterdaY
evening, suffering from arsenical poisoning, are
c' goino• on very favourably.—St. Thomas's Hospital,
Dec. 8,1858.— WILLIAM CLOPTON."

Mr. Braden said that upwards of 12 months ago
two figs saturated with arsenic were placed inside a
partition for the purpose of destroying rats, and on
the day before one of them bad been taken from
that place by his young man. It was tied round
with a piece of twine, and not having the slightest
idea that it would have been picked up by any
one, but on the contrary believing that it would
have been crushed to powder, he therefore threw it
into the street. The moment he had been made
acquainted with the fact of the boys having picked
it up and eaten it he sent for a cab, drove Frewen
and his mother to the house in Bermondsey where
the other boy was ill, got him in the cab also, and
took both to St. Thomas's Hospital, and requested
that the utmost attention should be paid to them.
Mr. Elliott remarked that there appeared to be
some discrepancy between the prisoner's statement
and that of the boys ; for the latter said, according
to the statement of one of the witnesses, they saw
him, the prisoner, throw it out, and identified him
as the person who did so. No doubt it was a most
improper act to throw such an article—one which
he was aware at the time had contained arsenic:—
into the highway, where there was a possibility
of persons picking it up, though it might not be
done with any improper intention.
Mr. Braden said his first intention was to throw
it into the dust bin, but as he had some misgivings
lest some person might pick it up from there, he
had determined to throw it into the kennel, where
he thought it would be trampled to dust.
Mr. Elliott considered it ought to be destroyed
by throwing it into the fire, or in some effectual
manner, but as he could not conceive that the act
was intentional, and as the boys were in a fair way
of recovery, he would take tha accused's own re-
cognisances of £5O to:appear there on that day week.

COUNTRY MA.RKETS.

NEWCASTLE-UFON-TYNE—DEc. 7.

The weather at the beginning of the week was rough,
but it is now fine. To-day there was only a moderate shoif
of wheat from the grower, which sold slowly at a decline of
is per qr. Flour in limited request and is lower. Oats 01
fair demand. Beans and peas as before.