The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-OW. 15.)

GUILDHALL.—Mary Blake was charged with
being-concerned with three others not in custody
with the following highway robbery.
Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, appeared for the
prisoner.
Mr. Chamberlain, anrasiciaii, stated that late on
Saturday evening he was returning through Bridge-
water-square, when tlfe prisoner and another wo-
man accosted himand:asked for something to drink.
He took them into -Spurgeon's public louse and
treated them to some gin, after which they escorted
him across the square laild held him firmly by both
arms while a couple of ruffians pounced upon him.
He struggled to get away, but the women held him
until the men had unbuttoned his coat and ab-
stracted his watch from his waistcoat pocket, when
the two men and the other woman decamped. He
tried to secure the prisoner, but she knocked him
down and made good her escape. He, however,
gave a description of her to the police, and she was
apprehended the same night.
Cross-examined by Mr. Beard—He was very
drunk, but he knew what he was about.
Police-constable Elves, 113, said he apprehended
the prisoner at the Maidenhead publichouse in Gos-.
well-street. She at first denied all knowledge of
the prosecutor, or that she had been in Bridge-
water-gardens that night ; but at the station she
said she left the prosecutor with a woman in Bar-
bican. Ho understood the prisoner kept a bad
house.

Mr. Beard submitted that the identification was
very doubtful, and certainly not to be depended on,
as:the prosecutor Admitted he was very drunk at
the time, and consequently not capable of knowing
exactly what he was about. _ _ _ _

Alderman Lawrence said he should remand the
prisoner till Saturday, as there were 'other wit-
nesses, he understood, to be examined.

WESTMINSTER.—Ann Barnet and Ann Hor-
ner, women well known to the police, were charged
with stealing stealing several large bales of gam-
broon and alpaca from the shop of Mr. Adams, 28,
Marsham-street, Westminster.
The goods were exposed to view at the door
of the shop on Saturday evening, and" were sud-
denly missed. The prisoners, who had been
seen to hasten but a minute before from the
direction of the shop, were followed, when they
placed the bales upon the pavement and endea-
voured to conceal them with a shawl.
The accused were remanded.

THAMES.—Thomas Brown,. an. American sea-
man, aged 23, and Margaret Harrington, 21, a
woman of the town, and one of the most disorderly
and desperate persons of her class, were brought up,
the sailor charged with breaking and destroying a
quantity of furniture, crockery, and other property
belonging to an old woman named Elizabeth Hor-
sey, and also with feloniously cutting and wound-
ing William Roebuck, a police-constahle, No. 446

K ; and the woman with aiding and abetting the
other prisoner, and also assaulting the policeman.
It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday
night the prisoners engaged a room in a house, No.
25, Angel-gardens, Shadwell, in the occupation of
the prosecutrix, Horsey, and they had not been
there long before a quarrel took place, and Brown
commenced destroying everything within his reach.
The old woman Horsey, who had previously left the
house, was sent for, and asked Brown why he was
breaking her things. He gave utterance to the
most horrible oaths and imprecations, and said he
came there to have a clearande of the place. Roe-
buck, a policeman, was called, and entered the room
in which the prisoners were for the purpose of quel-
ling the
,disturbance and taking the prisoners into
custody.. He was immediately assailed by both pri-
soners, and a fierce conflict ensued, which was soon
followed by cries of " Murder ! he has stabbed me,"
from Roebuck, who sprang his rattle. The noise
brought another police-constable named Pearce, 382
K, to the spot, and he entered the room, where he
found Roebuck lyingun the floor weltering in his
blood, which proceeded from two wounds inflicted
upon him by Brown with a sheath-knife. Roebuck
said, " I hav'e been stabbed; the man who has done
it is on the top of the house." Brown, who had
removed the window of the attic and got upon the
top of the house, was pursued by Pearce over the
roofs of several houses and eventually secured. In-
spector Allison, Qf the K division, on hearing of the
affray, ordered the woman. Harrington to be taken
into custody, and she was found in the room where
the occurrence took place. The apartment was in
a state of great confusion, covered with blood, and
all the furniture broken to pieces. The knife be-
longing to the prisoner Brown was found on the
top of a house. The blade .was stained with blood.
Mr. John Brown Ross, surgeon, of High-street,
Shadwell, stated, that he was called upon to attend
the wounded constable Roebuck on Saturday night
in the station-house, and discovered that he had
received two severe incised wounds. The first was
a triangular wound on the left leg, an inch and a-
half in depth, and about an inch in width each way.
The second wound was on the inside of the right
thigh, about 21 inches in depth and half an inch in
length. The Wounded man lost a good deal of
blood, 'iintl.cannet be removed at present.

Mr. Selfe—Where is he?
Mr. P.pss—Jle is confined to his bed in his own
room. _ _ _ _

Mr. £46lfes;L.:-I am sorry to hear this. I know
Roebuck is a very good officer.
Inspector Allison—One of the best.constables in
our division.

Brown, who treated the matter with great in-
difference, said,—l was drunk when this happened.
I know nothing about it.
Mr. Selfe remanded both prisoners until Tuesday
next.

SOUTHWARK.—Henry James Dell, a cab pro-
prietor of Hoxton, was charged with stealing a
large quantity of.boots, valued at £l5O, the property
of Joseph Stanton, under very singular circum-
stances.

Mr. Neale appeared for the prosecution; and Mr.
Solomon defended the prisoner.
The prosecutor said that he was a wholesale boot-
maker, but he kept the Crystal Palace boershop,
No. 88, Lower-marsh, Lambeth. About the latter
end of September the prisoner kept a shop at No.
57, New-cut, and witness was then about to remove
to the beershop. Having no room to stow away
his stock of boots, he made arrangements with the
prisoner to warehouse them at 2s. 6d. a-week.
They were placed in seven hampers, and worth
£l5O. Soon after tho goods were in the prisoner's
custody he lent him at three different times £l5,
which was to be taken off the rent. Requiring the
stock a short time ago he went to the prisoner at
57, New-cut, for them, but, after giving him the
trouble to call several times, he told witness that
the goods had been removed to his sister's (Mrs.
Scott's), in High-street, Hoxton. He consented to
allow them to remain there for a short time ; but,
hearing that the prisoner• had suddenly left •his
shop in the New-cut, he went after him and told
him he must have his goods. He said he must
give Mrs. Scott notice first. He left the prisoner
then, but several times- asked him for the goods,
when at last he acknowledged that he had made
away with a portion of the goods, and said if the
witness would hand him £2O he would redeem
them. Witness went to Hoxton on the Monday
following and saw the prisoner's sister, who told
him that the goods had been removed from her
house three weeks after they were brought there.
He then found Dell again and told him about it,
when he said that it would require £5O to get pos-
session. Witness agreed to give £3O, when they
with two witnesses proceeded to Wandsworth to
get the goods. That was after he handed the pri-
soner the £3O. Instead of giving up to him seven
hampers of boots he only restored to him three
hampers and a half, which were placed in a cart
and taken to his beershop. The prisoner on being
asked for *he remainder, said there was some differ-
ence between them about a horse, but he denied
that, and, finding that he could not get his pro-
perty restored, he communicated with the police,
and on Saturday night gave him into custody. He
identified six pairs of ladies' boots found in the pri-
soner's house at Hoxton.

In cross-examination by Mr. Solomon the pro-
secutor said he never was in partnership with a
man named Roberts. He had been his foreman at
Prior-place, Walworth, and at 10, Essex-street,
Strand. Part of the missing goods were of his own
manufacture, and part came from Northampton.
Mr. Burcham—When you were foreman to
Roberts were you selling goods for yourself?
Witness—Yes ; I carried on my own manufactory
at Walworth, but I never was in partnership with
Roberts.

_
Mr. Burcham—Whom did you deal with in
Northampton ?
Witness—Messrs. Hallam and Co.; no one else.
Mr. Burcham—Where did yOu carry on your
business ?

Witness—At No. 10, Hampton-street, Walworth.
road—a private house.

Mr. Bnrcham—You say you were carrying on
business on your own account when foreman to
Roberts. Did he know that ?

IVitness--:Oh, yes ; we had an understanding
together about that.

Mr. Burcham—How many men did you have in
your employ ?
Witness—Four? sir.
Mr. Solomon—What was the value of the goods
you had from Northampton ?
Witness—l had .£l5O worth from Messrs. Hal-
lam, wholesale dealers, Bull-head-lane, Northamp-
ton, and I have paid for them in cash. I did not
give them a bill, and I never gave a bill in my life.
Mr. Burcham—How did you pay for them ?
Witness—l paid a portion when I received the
goods, and the remainder in a month. _

Mr. Solomon—When did you have those goods ?
Witness—About four or five months ago. I then
lived in Hamptonlstreet, but I gave up that house
at Michaelmas. -When I removed to the beershop
I had no room to stow them away, consequently, I
asked the prisoner to warehousethem.

Mr. Burcham—How much did Roberts pay you
for your services as foreman ?

Witness—Tw-o guineas a-week.
Mr. Burcham—What is the value of the goods
you miss ?
Witness—About £7O, sir.
Mr. Bureham—When did you leave Roberts's
service ?

Witness—About three weeks ago. I don' now
know where to find him. I left him at 10, Essex-
stre et.

Mr. Solomon here said that he believed that he
should be able to show that the proseCutor was not
only concerned in an extensive swindling transac-
tion, but in a gigantic conspiracy. He was in-
structedlo say that Stanton and the, man Roberts
were connected, and that the latter obtained £3OO
worth of goods from Messrs. Payne, wholesale
bootmakers, of Northampton and London, and
that soon after he got them into his possession he
decamped with them. Most likely the missing
goods were a portion of them.
Mr. Burcham said he had a strong suspicion
about their connection.
Mr. Payne, one of the firm of Payne and Co., of
Northampton and London, here stepped forward
and said that Roberts was introduced to them as a
customer by Mr. Hallam, and he had £3OO o f
goods of them, which he never paid for. When the
goods were ordered he saw the prosecutor at 10,
Essex-street, and he represented himself as buyer to
Roberts. 'Witness thought it was a conspiracy
between Stanton, Roberts, and Hallam, to get pos-
session of their goods. _ _

The prosecutOr here appealed to his worship
to contradict such a vile assertion. Re stood there
,as a respectable. man, and would defy any person
to prove otherwise.
Mr. Burchant observed that, in whatever way
the goods might have been obtained, he must say
that he could not see what business the prisoner
had to make away with them.
Mr. Solomon said that his worship would see on
another examination,'. as he intended to have the
whole of this fraudulent transaction thoroughly
investigated. •
Sergeant Coppin, 15 P, was then called. He said
he took the prisoner into custody on Saturday night
at Holton, and in his bed-room he - found the
six pairs of ladies' boots which Mr. Stanton identi-
fied as a portion of his property. --When he told
the prisoner what, he: was charged with, he ex-
claimed, " I shall make a burst of this." Witness
produced pawnbrokers' duplicates relative to £4O
worth of the property pledged by the prisoner at
Kingsland in one day. When witness asked hiin

about the £3O Stanton had given him he refused to
tell, but said it was all right.
Mr. Burcham him if he knew anything of
Stanton ?

. Coppin replied that he recollected his living
in Hampton-street, Walworth, and that his name
was there on a wire blind as a "wholesale boot
manufacturer." Witr.tess had never been in his house
to see if such a trade was being carried on there.
Mr. Burcham said, that under all the circum-
stances connected with the case he should remand
the prisoner for a week.
Mr. Solomon—You'll allow my client to be libe-
rated on his own recognisances.
Mr. Neale—l hope not, sir, He has robbed my
client to a considerable extent.
Mr. Burcham—He will be liberated until Mon-
day next, by entering into his own recognisances in
the sum of £25, and finding one surety in the same
amount.

LAMBETH.—Edward Attwood and John Regan,
well-dressed young men, were charged with break-
ing into the house, 1, Prince's-terrace, King Ed-
ward's-road, Lambeth, with intent to commit a
robbery.

Mr. W. F. Cook, a gentleman residing at 2,
Prince's-terrace, said that on Saturday last he let
the house next door, which belonged to him, to a
gentleman, who moved a quantity of property in
there ; and there was also a quantity of goods be-
longing to him. On the evening before, aboiit 7
o'clock; he beard a noise in the house No. 1. and on
going there by the back way he found there were
thieves upstairs.. He called to them to come down,
and in a short
,time Regan made his appearance,
flung something at his head, and after a desperate
struggle succeeded in locking him in one of the
rooms and made his escape. He called out Murder !
and " Thieves !" as loud as he could, and the pri-
soners were apprehended. On examiningthe house
he found that all the locks had been picked, the
drawers forced open, all the property in the place
either strewn about or tied up ready to be carried
away. The eigar-caSe and other property pro-
duced belonged to him, and had "been safe in the
house No. 1 at six o'clock, when he was there..i •

Police-constable 172 deposed:to • having seen= the
prisoner Attwood coming away_ from the 4:lase
where the robbery had been committed, and..en
his a preaching him he called out "There he goes !
rg
th' he goes !" and still kept miming as fast as he
cOI a WitneSs then called out .. Stop altar
and the prioner was secured, while the priSOUer
himself kept calling out " Stoik thief!" though =no
person was before him.
_

A scarf found on the prisoner Attwood, and
various articles of plate and other property found on
Regan, were identified as part of the property
stolen from the house, and the prisoners, at the re-
quest of the police, were remanded.

COUXTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER—Nov. 13.

At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat,
and a firm trade, at fully last week's prices. Fine malting
barley in good demand, and not much of the middling qua-
lity on offer • farmers are grazing with them instead of other
feeding stuff. Beans and peas not plentiful, but demand
limited principally for seed purposes for the latter article.
Wheat, white 468 to 50s Beans, Mazagan.. 35s to 38s
red 38s to 44s I Middle & small
.40s to 44s
Barley 3os to 46s I White peas 44s to 40s
Oats 24s to 30s Grey.. 42s to 453