The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-18 00:00:00

THE S UN, LONDON, SATURDA EvENING„ MAY 18, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

► DO W-S TREE T.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF THE FULHAM MAIL
BAG.—The two men Channell (alias Shannon) and Neville
were placed at the bar, on remand, charged with stealing
the Fulhain mail bag, containing over 200 letters and
newspapers, the property of her Majesty's Postmaster-
General.

Mr. King, from Coldbath Prison, proved a former con-
viction against each of the prisoners.
Mr. Flowers said that being the case, if either of the pri-
soners had anything to say that would be the proper time
for them to do so.

Channel! (or Shannon) said ho wished for a remand, in
order that ho might have a witness in attendance who
could speak to the conduct of the detectives, who, in
order to get their names up, were in the habit of employ-
ing people to induce others to commit felony, in order that
they might take them into custody. In the present case,
which required a good deal of looking into, the third party
charged with being in the robbery, and who had been
spoken of as the man who had got away--this wit-
ness, he believed, would prove that the detec-
tives lud given him half-a-crown Co make them
both drunk, in order that they might commit
the robbery, and when they had done so the third
.man who was, acting for the detective was allowed to
escape. He, therefore, wished for a remand, in order that
this person might be called upon to attend and give
evidence.

Flowers thought the witness could be in attendance
at Mr.the trial.

Channoll said he wished he might to comp3llod to at-
tend and give his evidence before he was convicted, in
order that he should stato what ho knew of the
matter.

The magistrate, therefore, remanded both prisoners for
a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A WRETCHED STORY.—Margaret Warren, a meanly-
clad woman, was charged with assaulting her daughter,
Margaret Warren, about 12 years of age.
The complainant, a meek child, said—l reside with my
father and mother at No. 28, Tower-street, and last night
my mother struck me on the hetid with a saucepan handle
and afterwards threw me down stairs.

Mr. Knox—This is the letter the father writes to me:—
"Your Worship,—l am very sorry to hear from you of
the bad conduct of my wife towards me and the children.
She has stripped my room of almost everything she can
lay her hands on. She has taken the bed- things away,
and I have nothing to cover me and the children with. I
am laid up with rheumatism in my legs, and cannot walk
across the room. She is very cruel to me now I can't help
myself. Drink is her only study. She has commenced
taking the things off the children's backs to keep them
from school. She will not let them go to school for some
reason or the other. lam nearly broken-hearted about
her. She has been going on like this for 10 years, and she
has only just come out of prison."
Prisoner—Did I strike you ?
Complainant—Yes, you did.

Mrs. Margaret Russell, a widow, and landlady of No. 28,
Tower-street, said—l was fetched thrao tina3s to the house
from my other house owing to the prisoner's violence.
The first time the prisoner was going out to sell a sauce-
pan, and I took it away amid gave it to her daughter.
Shortly after I saw her attempting to strike her daughter
with a saucepan handle, and I took it away from her. She
had dragged her husband out of bed by the hair of his
head, and ho was lying on the stairs. I bad not left the
house more than a quarter of an hour when I was fetched
again, and sho had then just thrown her daughter down
stairs. The prisoner had once been sent to prison for three
months at the instance of the Marquis Townshend for ill
treating her children.
Mr. Knox—ls the girl a good girl ?

Mrs. Russell She is.

Joseph Vinson—Last night I was callad to tho house,
and found the girl had just boon thrown down stairs. I
took the prisoner into custody, when she mado use of most
filthy language. She has been imprisoned for three
months for a similar offence.

Mr. Knox —Was she drunk or sober ?
Constable—Drunk and very violent.
The prisoner, in the course of a rambling address to
the magistrate, in which she talked of her "poor dear
children" and her "poor sick husband," promised that if
the magistrate would forgive her she would at once take
the pledge.

Mr. Knox—l think you may consider it very fortunate
you aro not standing here on a charge of murder. You
first strike your daughter with an iron saucepan handle,
and then throw her down stairs, and you pulled your sick
husband out of bed. I commit you for six months
under the Aggravated Assaults Act, and at the end of that
time you will find bail in £2O for throe months.