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London, England, 1858-08-27 00:00:00

be properly stoked and carefully coaled, would it be for
smoke to arise ?
..- 41r. Sandesen-,-A -150-horse boiler would t2kc about a
minute and.a4ialt, if careftillymeu to. The 81*h:inside
&large-134a square. It ought to be raised higher, about 12
feet.'
Mr. Rogers observed that if the commissioners were com-
pelled to consume a more expensive coal they would have
to shpt up the establishment. It did not pay, and was not
able to pay out of the revenue the interest of the money
borrowed.
After a long argument, in the coarse of which it was con-
tended bpMr. Rogers that Mr. Urquhart was not the proper
person to be summoned, but which the learned counsel de-
nied, it was agreed to adjourn the summons for a month, to
afford the 'commissioners an opportunity of making the
required. alterations.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A CELL BY A FEMALE.—
Catherine Gannon, a married woman, was charged with
assaulting Anne Glynn, and with also having attempted to
commit suicide.
The evidence went to show that the prisoner lodged in
the same house with complainant, who was the occupier of
it, at Ne. 7, Blackland-street, Chelsea, and that on the
previous afternoon she gave complainant a violent blow
with her fist oa her right eye, which was much blackened
and swollen. She also struck complainant on her left arm.
In these several assaults she was assisted by her husband.
She was taken to the station-house by 158 B, and placed in
a cell. The officer went there in a few minutes and found
her black in the face from the effect of a handkerchief which
she had tied tightly round her throat, and which was re-
moved by the constable.
She was fined 13, or in default six weeks' imprisonment,
and a summons was ordered to be issued against her husband.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—FORGED CHEQUES.—
Thomas Anderson Nesbitt was brought up for final exa-
mination before Mr. Binghom, charged with naming
several forged cheques.
Mrs. Jane Walker, of No. 5, Pollen-street, Hanover-
square, licensed victualler, said she knew the prisoner as a
customer. On Saturday evening, the 7th inst., the prisoner
called to pay a small bill he owed and tendered a cheque on
Messrs. Glyn and Co., purporting to be drawn by John
Eadie, for £4 48. She asked the prisoner to put his name
on the back of the cheque, and the prisoner having written
the name " Thomas Anderson" on the cheque, she gave him
the differeuce—£3 18s. She paid the cheque to a neigh-
bour, and it was returned to her unpaid on the 16th inst.
John Moore, one of the clerks of Messrs. Glyn, said no
person of the name of Eadie kept an account with that firm.
The prisoner was committed on this case.
The next case was for feloniously uttering to James Paul
two forged cheques.
James Paul, licensed victualler, 122, Oxford-street, said
on the 16th inst. the prisoner, who bad been a customer,
came to his house, and producing a cheque for £B, purport-
ing to be drawn by James Cross on Messrs. Glyn and Co.,
asked him to change it. He inquired of the prisoner if he
knew the drawer of the cheque. The prisoner replied he
did; James Cross lived in Cheapside, and was a very rich
man. The prisoner further added that Cross was a jeweller,
and he had done a great deal of business with him. Witness
believing the story, gave the prisoner £7 and 20s. in silver,
and he went away. On the 17th inst. the prisoner carne
again, and brought a second cheque for £7 155., signed in
the same way as the previous one, and asked witness to
change it. He gave the prisoner his own cheque, but took
the precaution to stop the payment of it, as he had received
information which led him to doubt the genuineness of the
cheques.
John Moore, clerk to Messrs. Glyn and Co., proved that
no one of the name of Cross kept an account at their house.
Police-sergeant Silverton, C 293, said he had made inquiry
in Cheapside, and could find no one named James Cross,
jeweller, living there. When he took the prisoner into
custody, the prisoner said, " For God's sake let me see the
people, and square it, and give them the money."
The prisoner denied the accuracy of Mr. Paul's state-
ment, but admitted that Mrs. Walker bad spoken cor-
rectly.
Fully committed.
Charles Thatcher, cabman, was charged with assaulting
Mr. John Vivian, of No. 20, King-street.
Mr. Vivian said he hired the defendant from Temple-bar
. to the Haymarket. He paid the defendant his fare, but the
defendant demanded 6d. more ; and, on being refused, he
seized him by the coat and pulled off three valuable button=.
The buttons were of foreign manufacture, and finely ea-
graved.
The cabman, in defence, said he was not paid enough,
and on asking the defendant ibr his address it was refused.
This being denied by the prosecutor, the case was
adjourned for further evidence.
George John Chapman, a county magistrate, was fined
ss. for being drunk and incapable in the Haymarket the
previous evening.

MARYLEBONE.—EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CLERK.
—Frederick Justice Latham, a respectable-looking man,
between 40 . and 50 years of age, was placed at the bar
before Mr. Long, charged with having embezzled money to
the amount of £lOO, received by him fur and on account of
hisemployer, Mr. Yates, matmaker, Abingdon.
The evidence went to show that on the previous day the
prisoner absconded, and that soon afterwards Inspector
Durdle, of the Great Western Railway police, Paddington,
received a telegraphic message, giving a correct description
of the prisoner, who, on the arrival of the 0 o'clock train
on the same evening, was taken into custody.. Mr. Rawlings,
superintendent of the Abingdon conqhbtrlary, came up by
another train shortly afterwards, mad the prisoner was by
WM- idet He was searched, and in his.possession was
fciiiind the. ant*of Ss. 3d.
Ar: Lang directed air. Rawliags to bike, the prisoner
hook, with him, to Abingdon, for extimltittion'beirore 'the

inagAtratei there.
DARING 'lSt/BEERY BY FEMALES.—Anne Lee and
!Illarkiirruie Sheehan, women of disreputable character,
viete,eharged.with having, supposed by the administi.ation
of chloroform, robbed a man named Walter Davies of his '
purse and, money.
Prosecutor deposed that on the previous night he was
accosted by the prisoners, at about 12 o'clock, as he was
walking. along the Harrow-road, who asked him to go home
with thep. He refused to do so, when one of them put
sotnethilik wet upon his face, which caused hies to feel quite
'teddy ; he felt a hand in his pocket, and directly afterwards
he mi,sei his purse.
Sergeant potter, 16 D, deposed that he was with Hobbs,
261 D, near the spot where the robbery took place, and he
heard prosecutor call aut. He (witness) with his brother
officer went up, and saw Sheehan grasping the prosecutor
tightly by the collar, and pushing him agairiq some railings,
whilst Lee bad her hand in his trousers pocket. The
prisoners were both taken into custody, and on the way to
the station-house Lee made a most determined resistance.
While the charge against her was being taken down id the
book by the inspLctor ou duty she dropped the stolen pupae
„..
on the floor. . .

Sotne o. her evidence having been gone into, the prisoners,
who pleaded guilty rather than be sent for trial, were com-
mitted to hard labour in the House of Correction for four
months.
ID;SGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT A FUNERAL. John
Gilpin, a labourer, and another man, named Robert Day,
were brought before Mr. Long, charged with the following
disgraceful conduct :
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous after-
noon, at four o'clock, the hour appointed for the interment
of a sergeant of militia, at St. John's, Hampstead, a crowd
of 1,500 persons assembled, and in order that there should
he. no breach of proper decorum upon so solemn an occasiun
some police constables were present to prevent the mob
from rushing into the burial ground. The service in the
celluorareteh, the Rev. Mr. Cbappells, the
coffin with did mourners to the
place of sepulture, when, at the entrance thereof, Gilpin,
having bceeedni
ugthe concluded,
who was very drunk and refused to obey the order that he
should not be admitted, abused the clergyman in a most
shamefulananner. Much confusion ensued, and he was taken
into custody by Gladhill, 445 S, whom he struck with great
violence on the head; he also kicked him severely on the legs.
Day attempted to rescue Gilpin, and he (Day) made his
escape. He was afterwards taken into custody by Buck,
98, and Gardiner, 189, both of the S division. Stones were
thrown, and Buck received a wound on his cheek, but he
could not say that the stones were thrown from the hands
of either of the prisoners.
.Mr. Long fined each of the prisoners 205., in default of
payment 14 days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.

CLERKENWELL.—DOUBLE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
—A miserable-looking man, who gave the name of Henry
Johnson, aged 78, a shoemaker, residing at 28, Little
Clarendon.street, Somers-town, was placed tit the bar before
Mr. Tyrwhitt charged with being drunk and twice attempt-
ing to commit suicide by hanging himself. -The prisoner
iu. the morning was much the worse for liquor, so much
so that it was found necessary to lock him up at the Somers-
town police-station. About three o'clock in the afternoon,
when Sergeant Mulvany, 8 S, the officer on duty, went
to visit him in the cell, he found that the defendant had
taken off his neckerchief and, placing it through the
small trap-door, had endeavoured to hang himself. The
'sergeant reasoned with him, and the defendant promised
quit he.woutd not repeat it; but when in tee usual course
of visiting the cells—viz., after the lapse of about 10
minufea--he found him repeating the attempt, he placed
a cofistable, with him. The prisoner said he was a mise-
rable man, that he had a wife who was abuut 40 years
younger than himself, and that sbe being in the constant
tMbit of 'getting intoxicated, had made his life miserable,
and be was' fully determined to pat an. end to it.
The, prisoner, who seemed to be suffering from delirium
tremens, was remanded to the House of Detention.
DISGUSTING CRUELTY BY A DEWIER.— Henry
Popkins, a drover, of Bethnal-green, was charged at the
iitqattee of Mr. W. Love, the chief constable of the Royal
Society for 'the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the
following brutal treatment to a bullock
The evidence of Guest and Selby, two of the society's
officers, went to show that they were, in the New
Cattle Market, when they saw a bullock struggling on the
ground in a state of exhaustion, having its head tied tightly
tip to one of the pen rails. They were about to release it
from its painful position, when the prisoner came up with a
heavy "bullock stick," baying a sharp point inserted in the
end of it, and struck the animal a violent blow over the
nose and in a moment after struck it again two terrific
blows between the bead and eyes, and forced the end of the
stick in a violent manner up the nostrils of the poor beast,
causing the blood to gush out. They (the officers) having
released the poor animal, immediately took the prisoner
iota custody.
Mr. Tyrwhitt expressed his indignation at such brutality,
and asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge ?y,
The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done.
The bullock had lain down several times before, and it
caused him to lose his temper. He hoped his worship would
not " hurt him."
Mr. Tyrwhitt said unquestionably there was great cruelty
practised by such fellows as the prisoner at the Cattle Mar-
ket, and it was quite shocking to hear of such continued
brutality. He hoped the society would continue to keep a
sharp look out after them. The prisoner would now have
to
labour.
PaY a fine of 303., or go to prison for a month, with. hard

SOUTHWARK.—CAUTION TO RAILWAY TRAVEL-
LERS.—A NOVEL SYSTEM OF FRAUD.—Henry Palmer,
a well-dressed, gentlemanly-looking man, was brought before
Mr. Combe charged with defrauding an old lady named
Elizabeth Newman of the sum of 3s. 6d., on the platform of
the South-Eastern Railway Terminus of London-bridge,
under the following novel circumstances :
The complainant stated that on the previous morning she
went to the railway station for the purpose of proceeding to
Shalford. While standing near the refreshment rooms the
prisoner came up to her, and asked her where she was
going. She told him to Shalford, and at the same time
asked him the fare. He replied that it was 3s. Gd., and said
that he would go and fetch the ticket for her if she gave
him the money. Believing him to be a gentleman she
handed him the 3s. 61, and he left her. Shortly afterwards
a constable came up to her, and, on telling him what had
happened, the prisoner was followed out of the station and
brought back.
John White, a detective officer in the employ of the
South-Eastern Railway Company, said he had received in-
formation that several persons had been defrauded of money
in a similar way by a man answering the description of the
prisoner, and perceiving him go on the platform on the pre-