The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

MANSION-HOUSE.

OBTAINING UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF GOODEL—Joseph
Cohen, who is an assistant to his father, a rag merchant in
the neighbourhood of Commercial-road East, was brought
up on remand beforo the Lord Mayor, charged with un-
lawfully obtaining possession of three bales of wool, the
property of Messrs. Gooch and Cousens, of Aldgate East.:
Mr. Vallence, solicitor, attended for the prosecutors, and
Mr. C. Sleigh, barrister, for the prisoner.
From the evidence, it appeared that about the middle of
November the prisoner came to the premises of a car pro-
prietor,
named Harris, in Bishopsgate-street, and hired a
cab, and went with the driver to Houndsditch. He desired
him to stop near Alilgato Church. He sent him away
for some time, and when he (the driver) returned he found
the bags of wool in the car. The prisoner drove away so
rapidly that he could not pack them, and when they came
to Commercial-street the prisoner took him into a public-
house and gave him Some beer, the hire of the car, and
sixpence for himself. In the insantime the wool had been
removed.

There were two other charges against the prisoner of
having had other bags of wool from the prosecutors; and
in one case he told the driver of the car to drive to Corn•
rnercial-street and wait for him there, and that if anybody
asked him what he had got, to say he did not know. The
prisoner overtook him, and told Lim to drive to Went-
worth-street, and he stepped at a house there by his
direction. Ile saw the wool removed to a ware-
house underground, and the prisoner told him
not to say anything about the matter. The
whole property obtained by the prisoner amounted
to 14 bags of wool, and at the dates when he got posses-
sion of them the prosecutor's had not received any orders
to supply them to any of their customers.

Mr. Valiance asked for a remand, in order to procure
further evidence.

Mr. Sleigh did not oppose the remand, but applied to
his lordship to admit the prisoner to bail, on responsible
security. The possession of the property by the prisoner
was not denied, but there was no evidence upon which a
jury could convict him of felony.
His Lordship refused the application, and the prisoner
was remanded till to-morrow week.

THAMES.

A TREMENDOUS row.—ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—SOme

Scotchmen, named Andrew Graham, also called Captain
Graham, John Aitkin, Archibald Shore, and Hugh Fer-
guson, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with
being drunk and disorderly this morning, at 2 o'clock, in
3road-street, Rateliff, and with violently assaulting three
police-constables, named Slingsby, Thearing, and Webster,
of the K division.

It appeared that the prisoners were intoxicated and
making a noise in Broad-street, and were desired by
Slingsby to go home. They refused to do so, and he at-
tempted to remove them. They made a violent resistance,
and Shore struck the constable on the mouth and caused

it to bleed. Graham, who was the ringleader, instigated
Aitkin and Shore to attack the policeman, and they did so.
Slingsby threw off his cape and pursued Shore, who ran
some distance and was overtaken at the bottom of Gould's-
hill, Shadwell, when ho throw the constable. Another
constable, namod Thearing, came to the aid of Slingsby,
and was knocked down by Ferguson. An up and down
fight took place between Thearing and Ferguson. The
S .otchtnau used his fists and legs pretty,, freely, and
knocked down the constable three times. Thearing re-
turned the blows with his staff, and broke Ferguson's
head. There was a large surgical piaster on Ferguson's
head ; there was no doubt he had suffered much. Webster
441 K, saw Ferguson and Thearing rolling in the snow,
the former under, and they looked very much like
ghosts when they were separated. Robert Nash,
watchman at a coal wharf in Ratcliff, went to
the assistaLce of the police, andj the prisoners
were all captured. Nash was asked by the magistrate if
the police had used any unnecessary violence, and ho
answered in the negative. The police-constables wore
severely beaten by three of the prisoners.
Mr. Partridge—What are these men ?
Inspector Griffin—They are all seamen, I believe, and
have been recently paid off.

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Mr. Partridge had no doubt about this case, and he should
make no distinction with the prisoners. Graham was a
captain, and aiding and abetting the others and instigating
them to beat the police. As to Ferguson, he believed all
ho bad received he richly deserved. He fined the pri-
soners .£5 each.
The penalties were paid.