The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Afarch 8.

WORSHIP-SThEET. —Charles Stuart, a police-
man of the N division, was charged with stealing a
pewter pot from the Nightingale public-house,
Hackney-road.
The prisoner came to the bar and called for half
a pint of porter. Directly after, while the barmaid
was serving another customer, he puffed some
smoke into her face from a pipe which he had in
his mouth, blinding her, and causing her to turn
away. When she looked round he was gone, and
a pewter pot was missing, Ho was pursued, but
not overtaken. A few days afterwards he came
again, and asked the barmaid if he had ever been at
the house before ? On her replying that he had
been there twice, and that a pewter pot had been
missed on each occasion, he became very abusive.
He was then given into custody.
Sergeant Townsend stated that the prisoner had
been many years in the force, and had always
borne a good character, but had been lately in-
valided in consequence of injuries the head received
in the course of his duty, and was subject at times
to mental aberration.

The magistrate said that the plea of insanity
must be decided on by a jury, and committed the
prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—Mrs. Hessing, the proprie-
tress of the Two G3airmeu, Dartmouth-street,
Westminster, was summoned for unlawfully suf-
fering gaming in her house.
Sergeant Beckley, 17 B, said that at half-past 12
on the night of the 24th of February he was passing
defendant's house, when he heard persons talking
within, and the rattling of money. He then heard
a man say, "I won a sovereign of you ; I will toss
you to see whether it is two or nothing." The
house was shut up, but witness stood on the ledge
of the shutters, and looking through the window
saw seven or eight men in front of the bar. One
of them shook up money in his hands, and put it
on the counter the gas had been turned off, and
this was done by the light of a candle upon the
counter. After the money was put down Mrs.
"leasing said, " There is a policeman looking at
you ;" and witness then observed, " I can see what
you are at." Witness then went into the house,
when Mra. Hessing said they were tossing for
brandy, and those present confirmed her account.
In cross-examination by Mr. Childe, the solicitor
for theLicensedVictuallers' Society, witness admitted
that all the persons in the house were respectable
neighbours, and that business was apparently over,
all the lights being out. He was in the street, and
the house door was shut when he heard about the
sovereign, and then he climbed up on the shutter
to look in. _ _

Another policeman having corr3boraLed com-
plainant's testimony,
Mr. Childe said that Mr. Kessing, who died 11
months ago, was a highly respectable man, and had
kept the house for 17 years years without any com-
plaint. Mrs. Kessing, who continued the business
with the same propriety, induced her customers as
usual to leave the parlour at 12 o'clock on the night
in questian, extinguished the gas, and lighted her
bedroom candle, when the customers who were in
front of the bar said they should like a drop of
brandy, and began tossing for it. She said sbe
could not allow tossing, but they insisted upon
doing it. She used as much influence a. 4 she rea-
sonably could to prevent it, and surely she was
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and dismissed the complaint ; desiring the polic:,
to inform the licensing justices that there was no
'aswisioth:t last
Wednesday, before
Kessing's character or con-
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