The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

POLICE L

'.—(Nov. 5.)

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Walter Sheppard, a con-
fectioner of Fleet-street, was summoned before Mr.
Alderman Cubitt to answer to a complaint for not
supporting his wife.
Mr. Gresham appeared for the defendant.
Mrs. Sheppard said she had been married 14
years to the defendant, and on the 14th of July last
he turned her into the street, and all he had allowed
her since was 15s. in three separate payments. The
last she received on Sept. 13, and she had since been
obliged to apply to the union for relief. Previous to
that Mr. Bayford, a proctor, had assisted her with
various small sums to the amount of £3. She re-
ceived a letter from the relieving officer of the West
London Union, which she took to the defendant,
but he only gave her into custody. On the follow-
ing day she went to the union, and Mr. Palmer
gave her relief.
Cross-examined—The defendant turned her out
of doors because he was keeping another woman,
and he had since been endeavouring to obtain a
judicial separation. She had never passed the night
with a man named Frowd at a coffee-shop in
Bishopsgatc-street-without.
Mr. Gresham said the defendant was a respect-
able tradesmen in the city of London until he un-
happily became acquainted with this unfortunate
woman. He resisted the application, on the ground
that she was not legally chargeable to the parish,
and also that she had committed adultery. He was
prepared to prove both points, but he was anxious
to avoid the exposure of family matters, if possible,
and if, therefore, the parish officer would state what
sum would be sufficient to put an end to these ap-
plications he would advise his client to accede to
anything in reason.
Mr. Bayford, the proctor for Mrs. Sheppard, said
the defendant had commenced a suit, but it was not
on the ground of adultery. He had advanced her
money from time to time as long as it was neces-
sary to see her concerning the suit, but, as soon as
it was not requisite to see her, he advised her to
apply to the union.
After some further negotiations between all par-
ties, it was arranged that the defendant would
allow his wife 6s. per week, on condition that she
did not annoy him in his busineffis.
The summons was therdire. allowed to stand
over.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Tomlinson, 454, Strand,
pawnbroker, waited on Mr. Jardine, and stated that
he had that day stopped a watch offered in pledge by
a woman who said it belonged to her husband. He
suspected it to be stolen, from the manner in which
the swivel had been broken. He was obliged to'
let the woman go, as there was no policeman in
sight,. but he detained. the watch, which he now
produced. It was a lady's gold watch, and the
name of " Swann" was engraved on it. He wished
the matter to be noticed in the papers, which would
probably lead to the discovery of the owner, to
whom he would restore the watch.

WESTMINSTER.—AIfred Lowe, alias Smith,
alias Kruse, and various other names, who stands
charged with conspiring with others to obtain pos-
session of a great number of houses, was brought up
for re-examination, when the court was, as before,
densely crowded with the prisoner's victims and
others.
Mr. Marshall, barrister, again attended to pro-
secute, and, after completing the cases which have
already been detailed, said that there were number-
' less other complaints of a like character which
might be established against the accused, but it was
useless to multiply cases of that description, and he
would proceed to one of a much more serious cha-
racter. He now charged the prisoner with felony,
under the following circumstances :—ln March last
- the accused, under the name of Kruse, applied to a
Miss M‘Lean, of 27, Bryanston-street, Portman-
square, for the lease of a furnished house belonging
to that lady. He represented himself as a surveyor
and land agent, of 7, Maddox-street, Regent-
-96 street, and said he was acting for Dr. Davies, a
gentleman of fortune and member of Parliament,
)86 who had left his own mansion in Oxfordshire and
36 wanted a furnished house in a fashionable part of
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10 the metropolis. The person represented as Dr.
Davies subsequently made his appearance, and ex-
pressed his approval of the house, but said he had
left matters of this sort entirely to his agent, Mr.
Kruse. The latter, attended by a person who
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10 passed as his clerk, went through the
house, and, having taken an inventory of the fur-
niture, it was arranged that Dr. Davies should take
possession on the 30th of March, at £230 per
16 annum, Miss M'Lean retaining possession of one
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room, in which valuable property was deposited.
IA The keys of this house, and possession of it,
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were:formally given to the prisoner by Miss M‘Lean
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on the night of the 30th March, he alone being left
- in the house. On the following day Miss M•Lean
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!36 wanted to take away some trunks from her store-
-72 room, and went to the house, but was unable to ob-
tain admittance. She paid a second visft on the
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second day, and, having on the third evening taken
- the opinion of the police, entered the dwelling with
her latch' key, and found that it was deserted. Her
store-room had been broken into, all her boxes
174 forced open, and plate, linen, and other property to
the value of £l5O carried off. She never heard of
45 nor saw anything more of Dr. Davies or the prisoner
39 until iww. In addition to the plundering of the
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25 store-room as described a valuable vase had been
purloinedEs
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examined in support.
'1 of this statement the prisoner was committed upon
the three charges before alluded to, of conspiracy,
but further remanded upon the charge of felony
till Wednesday.

CLERKENWELL.—George Lawrence, of S
Martin's Chapel, Pratt-street, Camden-town, ap-
peared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the follow-
ing summons For removing tho bodies and re-
mains of bodies from the burial ground known as
Saint Martin's Cemetery, Pratt-street, Camden-
town, in the parish of St. Pancras, without a faculty
granted by the ordinary for that purpose, and with-
out licence under the hand of one of her Majesty's
principal Secretaries of State, contrary to the
statute. '
The case excited a great deal of interest, and the
court and its avenues were crowded to excess to hear
the proceedings. • The neighbourhood of the grave-
yard was besieged by large mobs of people of every
description, and the whole of the high boarding
which bad been placed by the graveyard authori-
ties to prevent the public from seeing what was
going on was pulled down and set fire to. So vio-
lent did the mob become that it was found neces-
sary to send for additional police from the sur•
rounding stations.
Mr. Cameron, one of the churchwardens o
the parish of St. Pancras, attended to prose
cute on behalf of that parish ; and Mr. Danger
field, the vestry clerk of St. Martin's, repre-
sented the defendant. Mr. Loxton, the superin
tendent of the S division, was also in attendance,
as were several of the local clergy, Mr. H. Farrer,
late churchwarden, Mr. J. Collins, Mr. H. 0. Nodes,
and other members of the vestry ; Dr. Hillier, medi-
cal officer of health ; Dr. Jeffray, district medical
officer ; Mr. C. Greene, clerk to the burial board, &c.
Mr. Cameron said it would be in the recollection
of the Court that two summonses,taken out against
the present defendant and Mr. Latchford, the church-
warden of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, stood ad-
journed to this day. These summonses were heard
on the 28th of August, and were taken out under
the provisions of the common law ; but the present
was taken under the 25th section of the Burial Act,
which provides a penalty npt pxceeding £lO for
any offence committed against its provisions.
When the first summonses were heard it was ar-
ranged that no further excavations should be made
until those summonses were settled. _ _

Mr. Dangerfield said, at the time he would give
no promise. Great endeavours had been made in
Camdeh-town and its neighbourhood to make pre-
judice ; for what was done in August had been
done now. After the last case was heard a meet-
ing of the trustees of the parish of St. Martin was
held, and they, in deference to the excitement that
then prevailed, agreed to suspend the works until
the season was more advanced. The present sum-
mons had been taken taken out under the Burial
Act, and he was prepared to meet it.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the safe way would be to fix
a day to hear all that occurred before the 25th of
August.
Mr. Cameron—l hope all further excavations
will be stayed in the meantime.
Mr. Dangerfield said he would agroe to that if
any early day were fixed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said this day week, which was
agreed to by all parties ; excavations to be stayed
in the meantime.
Mr. Cameron said the summons that now stood
for hearing was taken out under the Burial Act.
The parish of St. Martin had obtained a local Act
of Parliament, the 17th and 18th of Victoria, chap.
154, which enables them to build on certain portions
of the Camden-town Cemetery not heretofore used
for interments. Part of the preamble set forth that
part of the land had not been in use, and abutted
on the fronts of the streets, and the first clause re-
cited that from and after the passing of the
,Act
these portions should not be buried in. In the
schedule to the Act one part of the land is set forth
as that abutting on Camiien-street, and that was
the portion where the disturbances were now
taking place. He regretted that the parish of St.
Martin had designedly defrauded the Legislature,
for instead of one or two burials having taken
place there, hundreds of coffins had been found.
When the parish first began excavating, and