The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-02 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-SRTEET.

THE DOUBLE CHARGE OF STABBING BY AN ITALIAN.—
Pietro Stignani, an Italian, charged with stabbing, with a
stiletto, two Italians, named Joseph and Sebastian Bor-
giovanni, was brought before Mr. D'Eyncourt on remand.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the prosecution; Mr. Louis Lewis appeared for
the prisoner; and Mr. Guerini, professor of the Italian
language, attended to interpret.
Mr. Edward Lewis said he attended to prosecute the
prisoner on the charge of stabbing two Italians, named
Borgiovanni, and one of them was still extremely ill,
and he held in his hand a certificate signed by the house
surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, stating that he could
not be at present removed. The other had been removed
from the hospital to his lodgings, but was still unable to
appear.

Mr. L. Lewis said he had several witnesses in attend-
ance, who would give a different account of the matter to
what had been stated. He did not object to a remand, but
he had to apply that tho prisoner might be admitted to'
bail.

Mr. E. Lewis said he mast oppose the application for
bail. The police would state that they had made inquiries
at the hospital, and that the men were not out of danger.
A constable stated that he had inquired at the hospital,
and the surgeon stated that the man was going on well,
but was not able to attend.

Mr. D'Eyucourt said his feeling always was, that where
a kuile was used, and the person was in the hospital, bail
sbould not be taken.

Mr. L. L.«•is said that his witnesses would show that
the prisoner had been ill-used by several persons.

Mr. E. Lewis said that was not the ease.
I.Y.lltuc.ourt remanded the prisoner, and said the
application for bail could be renewed.. .

THAMES.

A MARINE SWINDLES.—CharIes Doran, a well-dressed
and portly seaman, aged 22, who appeared to have lived
well, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with obtain-
ing money and food from Mr. John Cooke, a licensed
victualler, by means of false and fraudulent pretences.
The prosecutor was formerly au engineer in the Mer-
cantile Marine, and is now, and has been for some time,
the landlord of the Three Mariners' public-house, in Wap-
ping Wall. At the latter end of January last the prisoner,
whom he had known for seven years previously, waited
upon him, and said he had Just come home in the Rover's
Bride, in which he had served as second mate on a voyage
from London to China and back, and that he wanted
board and lodging for himself and four men. The pri-
soner also assured his friend that he had a large amount of
wages to receive, that he would make it worth his while
to board and lodge him and his shipmates, and that every-
thing would be paid for liberally. Mr. Cooke said he had
no objection to receive the party if they would behave
respectably. The prisoner said, " You know what London
is. I shall pay a little extra because I want to live well,
and be treated as one of the family." The prosecutor, at the
request of the prisoner, then advanced him 55., and on the
following day another sum of similar amount, and various
other small sums, amounting altogether to XI. On the first
day the prisoner had tea at the Three Mariners ; on the
next day he fared sumptuously there, and indulged in
plenty of grog, and Mr. Cooke introduced him to Mr.
Elkan Teller, a respectable outfitter of No. 63, Upper East
Smithfield, who fitted him out with a new suit
of clothes and other things to the amount of £5, and for
payment of which Mr. Cooke made himself responsible.
Saturday arrived, and the prisoner said the crew of the
Rover's Bride were to be paid off that day at Green's
Sailors' Home. The prisoner disappeared that day after
contracting a heavy bill at the Three Mariners, and he was
no wore seen until last night, when he was given into
custody in the City for a robbery he had committed there.
A person
gave the prisoner a half sovereign, a gold ring,
and other things to give to a lady. The prisoner spent the
money, and appropriated the gold ring and other property
to his own use. The City police could not 'detain the
prisoner, because he received the money and property
from a man who was not his master on a promise to
carry them to a lady, and then appropriated them to
his own use. Mr. Cooke said he had made inquiries
about the Rover's Bride in the East India Duck, where the
pt isoner said she was lying, and that no Rover's Bride was
paid off at Green's Sailors' Home in January or February.
The prisoner was a regular swindler, and had defrauded
persons at Hull by obtaining money on fictitious advance
notes.

Mr. Paget asked Mr. Cooke if the prisoner told him
who the owners of the Bride were, and where he lived.

Mr. Cooke—No, be did not.
Mr. Paget asked a metropolitan police-constable, who
had charge of the case, if there was any person in attend-
ance from Green's Sailors' Home and from the East India
Dock to prove the falsehoods of the prisoner's assertions
that the Rover's Bride was paid off at the first-named
place, and was moored in the other, and the officer
answered both questions in the negative.
Mr. Paget said that, owing to the want of the necessary
evidence, he should not be justified in detaining the prisoner.
In another investigation, Mr. Paget censured a London
dock constable for allowing a prisoner to be rescued from
him; but the prisoner was subsequently recaptured. Mr.
Paget said it was the third time he had occasion to censure
dock constables in the course of a fortnight. sit is to be
regretted that the learned magistrate does not reserve some
of his censures for the metropolitan police, whose conduct
as in the case of Duran often leads to a failure of justice.

ADDRESS TO MR. GLADSTONE.—The COUrse
adopted by Mr. James Brown, M.P., and the lion. C. W.
Fitzwilliaiu, M.P., with reference to the reforth question,
has met with the grave disapproval of the liberal party in
Malton. This is particularly the case as regards Mr. Fitz-
william, who, as an Adullamite and a supporter of Lord
Derby, has given great umbrage to his constituents. The
result has been that an address of confidence, very nume-
rously sigued, was forwarded to Mr. Gladstone by Tues-
day's post —Leeds Mercury.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—No attacks of cattle
plague were reported to the Privy Council Office from any
part of Great Britain during the week ending April 27.
The total nuniber of cattle reported to have been attacked
in Great Britain since the commencement is 253,902, and
52,703 animals have, iu the aggregate, been slaughtered
healthy to prevent the spread of the disease.

TILE BRIGHT AND BEALES JUNCTION.—A political
line, supposed to have been abandoned by its promoters
last summer, has been suggested as eligible for affording
the shortest cut to Reform, by Mr. Bright at Birmingham.
This line, of which the honourable gentleman appears to
be .one of the principal directors, is the Hyde Tark Rail-
way.—Punch.