The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

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MANSION-HOUSE.—Hochley F. Wood, solicitor,
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Francis A tterbu, labourer, were charged with unla vv -
fully assaulting W. Turner, police constable 64.
It appeared from the evidence that for some six rrionthes
past complainant had been residing in an empty house ins
Church-row, Aldgate, and that about a- fortnight ago tu,
woman name Price hired the house, paying £l5 for rho
fixtures, upon which the agent told Turner to get oat ass
soon as he could; but before this was done the agent die- ,
covered that false references had been given by the party
hiring the house, and he therefore instructed the complain-
ant to retain possession. Wood was therefore employed toi
get possession fur the hirer, for which purpose he vent to
the house, accompanied by four men, when a regular attack
was made upon Turner, with the view of turning him out;
but although his shirt was torn from his back, he succeeded
in keeping possession, and gave the defendants into custody.
For the defendants it was contetVed that they acted
legally in attempting to get p-,sAessbn, even forcibly, for
Mr. Wood's client; but the Lord Mayor took a different
view of the case, and committed both prisoners for trial to
the sessions, taking their own recognisances fur their due
appearance.
Two cases of indecent assault on children came before the

Court.
In the first case en intelligent little girl, nine years old,
had been sent to a German tailor, named Moses Blum-
berg, to learn the business, a circumstance of which he
had taken advantage so far as t) assault her indecently,
and endeavoured to corrupt her mind, pacifying her
with a " penny for gooseberries," and warning her not to
tell her mother or sister, as they would laugh at her ; but
upon going home the little one told her mother at once,
"because she couldn't rest," and the prisoner was given.
into custody.
With the most disgusting effrontery he now said—The
little girl was saucy to me, she kissed me for a halfpenny,
and that made inc feel sick, and I didn't know what I
was doing.
In the second case, Ricbard Colley, living in the same
!loose with Mary Jane Strahan, 14 years old, caught her
indeccistly as she was going indoors, and forced her into the
water-closet, where he attempted to effect his purpose by
violence, pressing his hand to her mouth to keep her from
crying out. She was, however, heard to say, " Leave go,
you'll strangle me," and upon her mother calling out to
know what was the matter, the ruffian let her go.
The Lord Mayor expressed himself in strong terms of
indignation on both cases, and sentenced the vagabonds to
four months' imprisonment each, with hard labour, under
the Aggravated Assaults Act.
" B. 0." sent 10s. for the poor-box, being the produce
of 2d. per day, abstracted from his salary of £fl per year
by a clerk, who recommended the adoption of a similar plan
of charitable action to his fellow clerks, with an assurance
that they would find it easy to persevere if they once com-
menced it, even with a small salary.

WESTMINSTER.—CIIARGY. OF PERJURY AGAINST
A RESPECTABLE TRADESMAN AND A POLICE-CON-
ETABLE.—A very lengthened and tedious charge of perjury,
which has occupied bath magistrates at this court some
days, was 3esterday brought to a close before Mr. Paynter.
Mr. Sleigh, barrister, conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. Haines, solicitor, the defence. The accused were
William Neville, a butcher, carrying on his business
at Richmond, Surrey, and John IVenham, police-con-
stable, 77 T. The charge proceeded from an action
brought in the Brompton County Court by Mr. Neville
against Mr. Tisdell, of Holland-park Farm, dairyman, for
' damage done to his pony cart on the 20th of January, at
Kensington, on which occasion he himself was much injured
by Mr. Tisdell's man driving carelessly against him,
whereby the damage occurred, and he was thrown
out of the cart. A verdict was given for Mr. Neville
for £25 and a sew trial subsequently moved for,
whichwas emphatically refused with costs, and the
assignment of perjury was that Neville had sworn on
the trial that he was within five feet of the curb on his own
side at the time of the collision, and that lie alone was in
the cart, which was alleged to be false, and that the police-
man Wenham, who had sworn that he saw the accident,
and confirmed' Mr. Neville's account, did not come up until
some minutes afterwards, and knew nothing about it.
Ten witnesses were examined by Mr. Sleigh in support
of the assignment of perjury, showing that Neville was on
the wrong side, and drove into Mr. Tisdell's van, that he
had a man in the cart with him, and that, so far from Wen-
liatn being on the spot and witnessing the collision, he came
up after it was over and inquired what was the matter.
In the course of a very lengthened and severe cross-exa-
mination, Mr. Haines elicited from some of the witnesses
that there had been a compromise offered on the other side
after the accident, and that Mr. Tisdell's man had been to
Richmond on the subject of the amount of damage shone to
Mr. Neville's cart.
Mr. Haines, after a very energetic address in favour of his
clients, produced a letter from Mr. Tisdell complaining of
the amount of the charge made at the time an arrangement
was contemplated between the parties. He then called the
defendant Wenham as a witness for Neville, who again
swore most positively that lie saw the accident, which
was caused by Mr. Tisdell's man (Mr. Tisdell being
absent), and that Neville was alone in the cart. Mr.
Ilaines then sought to clear tip a misunderstanding which
he conceived existed in the minds of the witnesses, from a
combination of circumstances, respecting Wenham not beim:,
present, and a man named Mowdon beirg in the ca. t. lie
called 76 T to show that it was he who came up after the
accident was over, mistaken by the witnesses for 77 T
(Wenham), who had at that time run after the cart to stop
it, and put Mowdon into the witness-box to prove that he
was not in the cart, but coming up at the moment of the colli-
sion was by its side assisting Mr. Neville, and then flung his
(Mowdon'e) coat into the cart, the better to pursue the van,
which had been driven off.
Mr. Paynter said that having looked over the evi-
dence for the prosecution, he was clearly. of opinion,
without going into the defence, that r.o jury in the
world would ever be persuaded to convict the defen-
dants of perjury. The learned judge, Mr. Adolphus,
before whom the motion had been made for a new
trial, had said that the evidence for Tisdell proved Neville's
case. Apart from discrepancies in the testimony in support
of the present charge, how could the fact be got over that
an attempt had been made on the part of Tisdell to settle it ?
No jury would -be induced to believe that is man made an
offer to pay money to another if not in the wrong, and,
added to 11131', shortly before the suit was commenced in the
county court, Tisdell, writing on the Bth of May, when oh-
jectiag to the amount of charges, used the expression, "The
blame, if any, was as much on one side as on the other."
Could it be alleged in the face of that that Tisdell's man was
in no respect to blame; that all the blame was on
the other side ; arid that, if sworn, it was not the
parties so swearing who were guilty of perjury ? He (the
worthy magistrate) would like to see the spot where the
accident occurred, and, notwithstanding his strong opinion
in favour of the defendants, would adjourn the case if Mr.
Sleigh pressed it.
The legal gentlemen consulted, when, after a payment of
£lO from the other side, to Mr. Neville for costs, with a
understanding that no further proceedings should be taken
on either side,
Mr. Sleigh said that after weighing the testimony, and
after hearing the able statement and explanation of Mr.
Haines, he had taken upon himself, in the exercise of his
discretion as counsel, to withdraw this prosecution; because
he felt that a man was unworthy in his profession who per-
severed one moment longer with a case wnen there was not
sound reason to believe he could obtain a conviction. He
felt that there had been a lamentable misunderstanding in this
case. Both Mr. Neville and Mr.Tisdell were men moving in a
very respectable position of life, and, according
tter to
bad the re
re pre-
sentation of those in his ernplyment, the la lly
thought the former had been guilty of perjury. It was much to
be regretted that two such men had had a difference. The
n hole case arose from an honest misconception and misun-
derstanding, and he was bound to say that both defendants
I left that court without the slightest stain on their character
for respectability or veracity.
Mr. Poynter fully cencut red in what had fallen from Mr.
Sleigh, and complimented bins upen the course he bad
pursued.

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ti` ORSII I P-STREET.—SUPPOSED riOBBEItY.—ChaB.
Davis and Atorgai-et Rogers tho former a comown
lodgino•-huse keeper Tin-awl-street, Spitalfichls, were
brought betiire Mr. liammill, charged with having in their
ive
property which had no doubt been stolen.
that, from certain information, he and Dubb, anothert dicer,
went to the lodging-house kept by Davis, No. 17, Thrawl-
pos,saevlg oen ,
detective constable of the IT division, stated
street. The female prisoner was standing at the door, appA-
reut!y on the look-out, and the moment she caught sight of
witness she hurried into a back room, and he following her
before she had time to shut the door, found her there with
the male prisoner, and saw a writing-desk lying upon the
bed, another box mapped is a tablecloth, and a number of
letters strewn about. He asked Davis whether he was the
man who had brought the things in a cab ; to which the
prisoner replied that a man named Jones had brought the
things, and had invited him into a cab.
Dal), the officer, said that in the tablecloth with the
workbox he found the prisoner Davis's cap, and under the
bed a pair of candlesticks, and other things, which he
now produced. The letters almost all bore the address
of a clergyman, and there was information as to the rob-
bery, evidence of which would be produced.
The prisoner Davis assured the magistrate that he was
quite innocent of stealing the property.
The prisoners were remanded, to aff9rd time for the pro-
duction of evidence.

CLERKENWELL.—A SURGEON CHARGED WITH
ASSAULTING THE POLlCE.—Rorcland Jackson, a Sur-
geon, residing at 8, De Beauvoir-terrace, Kingslaud, was
charged before Mr. Corrie with assaulting police-constable
N 507 in the execution of his duty.
The constable stated that that morning, about one o'clock,
he heard a loud knocking at a door, and saw the defendant
leave one of the houses in Dc Beauveir-terrace and go to a
cab and tell the man to drive off. He spoke to the defen-
dant about his knocking at the door, when Ile said he resided
ti,ere, and then went up the garden and again knocked.
He almost immediately afterwards returned and struck him
(the constable) a blow on the face, tte pain from which he
felt for some time. Ile then took the defendant into custody
fur the assault.
The defendant said he was very much excited at the con-
duct of the constable when he was knocking at his own door,
and, although be was struck, the blow was intended for his
hat.
Mr. Corrie asked the constable how it was that he took
the defendant into custody when he learnt that he resided at
the house at which he knocked ?
The constable replied that he had then been assaulted.
Mr. Corrie did not .think there was any necessity for
locking the defendant up, as lie could be found at any time,
and at once dismissed the charge.
NOVEL POINT UNDER THE BASTARDY LAws.—James
Hunt, of 20, Newport-market, was summoned by Mary Ann
Crouch, of 5, Rheidol-terrace, Islington, for the support of
an illegitimate child.
Mr.-John Wakeling, solicitor, said the party summoned
had left this country ibr Australia before the summons was
taken out, and es he could not be served be thought the
case should not go on. He then produced two letters, dated
from Liverpool and on board a ship.
The complainant said she bad seen the defendant a short
time before, but believed that he had gone to Australia.
Mr. Corrie said
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SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERIES AT THE EXTENSIVE
FIRE IN BERMONDSEY.—SaraIt Cook
Ber , a female livand
ing
with her hu%band in Widow-walk, mondey,
William Cook, her son, were brought before Mr. Combo,
charged with stealing a large quantity of leather, the pro-
perty of Messrs. W. and G. Almonds, leatherdressers of
dse
Bermony.
James Harvey, foreman in the prosecutors' employ, said
that about two o'clock in the morning a fire raged fear-
fully in theirs and the adjoining warehouse, in Willow-
walk, near the railway arches, end a large quantity of hides
and bundles of sole leather were thrown into the street and
grsunds adjacent. About three o'clock witness received in-
formation that some of the leather had been takeryinto the
prisoners' house, when, obtaining the assistance of an officer,
they went
_there and
_found a bundle of half-hides and a