The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Eliza Urnehouse, a neatly
dr:sssed good-looking young woman, was charged
with annoying Nicolo Magge, a private hotel
keeper, at 1, Hammet-street, Tower-hill.

The prisoner had been similarly charged some
weeks before here. It appeared that she had lived
with the complainant for some years as his wife
(although he was a married man, having a wife and
family in Italy), and that he had recently sent her,
away, after she had had a child by him, for which
he had given her a certain sum of money, which she
considered to be insufficient, and besides that she
claimed various articles of furniture which he re-
tained at his house, although she alleged that she
had purchased. them with her own money. On that
occasion she was discharged, the complainant pro-
mising to return her a bed which was her property,
she at the same time promising not to annoy him
again.

Complainant now stated that she went to him
again and persisted in annoying on him Saturday,
till he was compelled to give her into custody.

She denied that she annoyed him at all on Sa-
turday night, stating that she was going past his
house when she saw him standing at the door with
a policeman. Upon seeing her he ran indoors, and
she gently rang the bell. He then came out again,
and she asked him whether he would give up her
furniture, but before she could fairly get the ques-
tion out of her mouth he took her by the shoulders,
as she stood on the step of the door, and pushed her
into the street.

Lord Mayor (to complainant)—When you were
here last you promised to give up her bed. Why
don't you do it ?
Complainant—l have not got it now, but I
offered to give her £2 instead of the bed and bed-
stead.

Lord Mayor—Well, Mrs. Urnehouse, would not
L 2 be better for you than an old bed and bedstead ?
Prisoner—They were not old ; and besides, he
had several other articles of furniture that belong
to me.

Lord Mayor—Well, why don't you go to the
county court about it ?
Prisoner—l hays been—that is, I have a sum-
mons against him, which comes off on the 29th.

Lord Mayor—Well, wait quietly till then. Of
course I can't say exactly, but this seems to be a
very hard case, but still you must not annoy him.
Prisoner—l assure you I did not annoy him on
Saturday night, and I think he ought to do some-
thing more for me than he has done, and that his
conduct has been very heartless to me. I have
thrown away my best days upon him. I was
prudent and virtuous when I first went to him, and
I am sure my child is no disgrace to him.

Lord Mayor---But you yourself, you know, are
partly to blame for your connection with him.

Prisoner (despondingly)-oh, I was very young
then, or I should not have been so easily led away,
but still he ought to do something for and to keep
me from doing what he has often told me to do—
live by prostitution.

Lord Mayor—Perhaps he may have some pecu-
liar ideas on that subject. However, I will dis-
charge you if you promise not to annoy him again,
and let me advise you to keep quiet, and trust to
the decision of ths county court about your furni-
ture.

The prisoner (who really seems to be a modest
young woman) gave the promise, thanked the Lord
Mayor and was discharged.
Henry William Clisby was charged before the
Lord Mayor with having obtained money from his
employer, Mr. Layton, a law stationer, in Birchin-
lane, under false pretences.
The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The
prisoner, who is an apprentice of mine, formerly
lived in my house, but latterly I have made an
arrangement with his mother, by which she supplies
him with food and lodging. He is not paid for his
work during the regular hours, but he is paid
for working overtime. His regular hours are
from eight a.m. till eight p.m., and he is paid
so much Rer hour for what he does after those
hours. It is my. practice- to supply clerks to
public companies and establishments that require
such assistance. On the 22d ult. I sent the pri-
soner to the British Iron Company, in Leadenhall-
street, and his duty there was to do such -writing as
was required of him, to render me an account of
the number of hours he worked each day, and to
bring me a voucher signed by some gentleman con-
nected with the company. I produce a voucher in
the prisoner's handwriting, by which it appears he
had worked 77hours during the week ending Sept.
11, which would make his overwork amount to £1
Gs. 3d., which sum was paid to him, with 16s. for
his board and lodging. (The voucher was pnt in
evidence.) I have ascertained that he was not at
work during that week. On Saturday I looked at
the voucher, and fancied that it did not bear such a
signature as would be written by a clerk in the
British ,Iron Company. I immediately proceeded
to the offices of the company, and was informed that
he had not been there for two or three weeks.
About an hour afterwards he came in with another
voucher. I then gave him into custody.
Mr. J. Herbert said that on the 11th inst. he paid
the prisoner, in the prosecutor's account, £2 2s. 3d.,
£1 6s. 3d. charged on the account as overtime, and
16s. for board and lodging. At the time he paid
him, he believed the prisoner had performed the
work mentioned in the account. _ _

The prisoner, who after the usual caution said he
was guilty of the offence charged against him, was
fully committed for trial.
Sigismund Silkerfield, a commercial traveller, in
the employment of Mr. B. Wanskur, fringe manu-
facturer, of Moreton-stieet, Manchester, was charged
with stealing 10 pieces of fringe, 22 cards of tas-
sels, and other articles belonging to his master.
The prosecutor said—Theprisoner was in my ser-
vice as traveller, and I was m the habit of sending
him about the country. I supplied him with goods
as' samples, as well as for sale. Three weeks since
I sent him to Leeds. I met him there and desired
him to go _to Hull, and then to return home to
Manchester, where he ought to have been on "Wed-
nesday week last. ,He had no business to be at
Nottingham, but on Monday last I received
a letter from him, dated Nottingham, enclosing me
£l, and telling me lie was coming home that night.
The 'arrangement was that I was to pay him 18s.
a week and 2 per cent. upon stales, besides travelling
expenses. He took goods with him of the value of
£35 11 s. 6d., and remitted me only £6 altogether.
I received information from a person in Hull that
the' prisoner was offering to sell my goods at half
their value. I then telegraphed to the police, and
received information that he had been watched to
Houndsditeh, where he was apprehended.
The prisoner put a few questions to the prosecutor,
but did not elicit anything favourable to himself.
The constable who took the prisoner into custody
produced a duplicate he found upon him for two
cards of fringe, which had been pawned for ss.
The Lord Mayor—What answer have you to
Make.to that, prisoner ?
Prisoner—There was some money due to me,
and that ss. was to make up the amount.

The Lord Mayor, upon the prosecutor's under-
taking. to pay the expenses of the officer, ordered
the prisoner to be taken to Manchester to be dealt
with by the magistrates there.

CLERKENWELL.—Patrick Sweeney, apower-
fully-built Irishman, was placed at the bar on re-
mand, before Mr. Corrie, charged with violently
assaulting police constables Sudbury, 425 S, Frith,
103 S, Boyce, 204 8, BroWn, 229 8, John Webb,
an ostler, and another person.
Mr. J. Wakeling, solicitor (of the firm of Messrs.
J. and T. Wakeling), appeared for thg defendant.
In consequence of the serious injury sustained by
police-constable Frith, the ease has been adjourned
from time to time, but the facts are simply these :
About three weeks since the prisoner and two
other Irishmen were the worse for liquor in front
of a public-house in Camden-town. Webb drove
up with two horses to. the water trough, when
a row ensued. The two men and the prisoners
picked a quarrel with Webb and another man,
kicked the horses, kicked and struck Webb
about :the body and . head, and then tried to
get away. Police-constable .Sudbury then inter-
fered, when he was hit on the-nose, which made it
bleed, and then the prisoner pulled a handful of the
constable's hair out. The prisoner then turned
round, and bit a piece of flesh out of the arm of
police-constable Frith, and kicked him dreadfully
in the groin, which rendered him incapable of fur-
ther ditty, and the surgeon said it would now be
some time before he could do any more. By this
time a mob of between 200 and 300 persons had
assembled, and the prisoner then kicked and struck
Boyce and Brown, and it was found necessary to
strap his len-s to take him to the station.
Mr. Wakeling made an energetic speech on be-
half of the prisoner, and having said that he had
hitherto borne an irreproachable character, hoped
his 'worship would be as lenient as possible.

Mr. Coriie said this was another of the cases
which arose from the indulgence in drink. For
the assault on Frith he should send the prisoner
without a fine to prison for a month; for the assault
on the two other constables he would have to pay a
fine of £2, or be imprisoned three weeks for each

case ; and for that on Webb he was fined 10s., or
one week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—John Royston,
22, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, saddlers' ironmonger,
was charged with receiving an immense quantity
of property stolen from various saddlers at the west
end of the town,

From the evidence of police-sergeant Crocker, C
division, it appeared that he went on Saturday,
accompanied by police-constable Joy, to the pri-
soner's house, and asked him if he had bought any
leather lately. The prisoner replied he had bought
some about six weeks ago, and he took the con-
stables up stairs and showed them a large basket
full of saddlers' cuttings. The constable, Crocker,
told him he belonged to the police, and cautioned
him against saying anything unless he chose to say
anything voluntarily. They went down stairs after
locking the door of the room. Crocker then looked
about and found a bundle of leather tied up in a
wrapper. He asked the prisoner if he could ac-
count for the leather. The prisoner replied,
"No more than that I bought it." The prisoner,
on being asked if he could show either invoice
or book, said he kept neither ; ho never
entered anything he bought. The constables made
further search, and found a quantity of wallet
pocket, and in a back room, a considerable number
of stirrup leathers. All these goods had been iden-
tified. There was also about three waggon loads
of saddlers' articles, of which the prisoner could
give no account.

Mr. Beadon—Have you had any robberies of
saddlers lately ?
Crocker—A great number on our ground. The
property in the prisoner's house consists of harness,
saddles, horse clothing, carriage cushions, and cut-
tings. I have heard from saddlers complaints that
they have been robbed. In fact, robberies of this
kind arc very easy ; the men working on the pre-
mises can put the articles up their coats, and no
one can see what they take away.
Thomas Myring, foreman to George Dale, sad-
dler, Rupert-street, identified a quantity of the pro-
perty produced by the police as having been stolen
from his employer's premises.
Mr. Beadon decided on remanding the prisoner
for a week.

WESTMINSTER.—Margaret Daniells, cook,
and Charlotte Bender, housemaid at the Cadogan
Hotel, Sloane-street, were charged with stealing a
quantity of wearing apparel and other articles, the
property of Mr. Charles Burgess, licensed victualler,
and proprietor of the hotel.
The prosecutor stated that about six weeks ago
lie missed a pair of trousers, and had since found
several other articles to have been taken away. He
went out of town, and arrived at the hotel a few
days ago. He then had his suspicions against the
prisoners, having ascertained that during his ab-
sence a box had been removed. He called in a
police-constable, who went with him to a house in
a street near the Mint, where they found several
articles, which were identified by him (prosecutor).
Peachey, B 60, produced a gown, two black aprons,
two dolls, a bottle of brandy, a pillowcase, and other
articles. He was not able to find a box. (The
articles produced were identified by prosecutor.)
Mr. Arnold—Where was the house in which
these things were found ?
Peachey—ln Vim-yard, Borough. He stated
that he took the prisoners into custody.
Ellen Kinnahan, scullery maid, stated that about
three months ago she saw the cook (Daniells) take
some pillow cases out of a drawer. She heard the
prosecutor ask for the trousers, when she observed
that she put them back in the place where she found
them. She further deposed to having taken a box
to the Borough,
In answer to Mr. Arnold, she replied that she
had a quarrel with the cook about a week ago, and
that she never told her master what she knew till
after the quarrel.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

SOUTHWARK.—George Harris, a smart-look-
ing young fellow, was charged with breaking into
the dwelling-house of Mr. J. Donkin, at 10, Stain-
ton-terrace, Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, and
stealing therefrom two watches, one gold and the
other silver.

Sergeant Hodson, 28 M, said that on Saturday
morning, about half-past 3 o'clock, he was on duty
in the Blue Anchor-road, when he saw the prisoner
coming from the rear of Mr. Donkin's house. Hav-
ing some suspicion respecting him he stopped him
and asked him what he was doing there, when he
said he was a baker, and going to work near Mill-
pond-bridge. Witness, however, did not believe
him, but took him into custody, and on the way to
the station-house he saw him drop the silver watch
produced over a fence. He picked it up and searched
him, when he found the gold watch and a knife on
him. After he had locked him up witness went back
to Mr. Donkin's house, and found that it had been
entered at the rear by cutting away a portion of the
window sash. He compared the knife with the
marks and found it to correspond exactly. He
rowed up Mr. Donkin, who missed the watches,
which he had left safe on the mantel-shelf on Fri-
day night when he went to bed. Witness ascer-
tained that another house close by was attempted,
but the inmates Were awake, and the thief was dis-
appointed.
Mr. Donkin identified the watches as his pro-
perty. He knew nothing whatever of the prisoner.
Mr. Burcham committed him for trial, and stated
that great credit was due to the sergeant for the
able manner in which he detected the robbery.

WANDSWORTH.—Mrs. Sophia Taylor, a lady
residing at the Limes, Lower Tooting, was sum-
moned before Mr. Ingham at the instance of Mr.
H. Anscombe, on behalf of the London and Brighton
Railway Company, for unlawfully leaving a train
at the Balham station while in motion.

The defendant did not appear but was represented
by her husband, who stated that his wife was suf-
fering from very serious--injuries she had received
by falling from the carriage, and was unable to
attend. He pleaded not guilty, and stated that he
should be able to prove that the accident was caused
by the negligence of the company's servants.
Mr. E. Hill, the station master at the Balham
station of the Crystal Palace Railway, deposed that
on the evening of the 2d inst. he was on the plat-
form when the 6.50 train from London-bridge
arrived. The defendant was in a first-class carriage,
and before the train had stopped he saw her open
the door, apparently for the purpose of alighting..
He called out twice to her not to step out of the
carriage until the train lud stopped, but before he
could reach her she stepped off and fell upon the
platform. He assisted her up, and found that she
had severely injured her face. He took her to the
wziting shed and told her that she had done very
wrong, upon which she answered that she was not
aware that the train had not stopped when she
stepped out. The witness added that the defendant's
sister also jumped out while the train was in mo-
tion, but he happened to catch her, or she would
have fallen in a similar manner.

By Mr. Ingham—Three carriages passed the
lady after she had fallen upon the platform before
the train stopped.
In answer to questions by Mr. Taylor the witness
further said there were two porters and two guards
besides himself to attend to the train, -which con-
sisted of ten carriages and a break van. Sometimes
40 passengers will alight from the train at the sta-
tion, but on this occasion very few persons got out.
Mr. Anscombe, the inspector upon the railway,
produced the bye-laws of the company, and itap-
peared that every person was liable to a penalty of
40s. for leaving the trains while in motion. He
stated that he called upon the lady at- her house,
and she admitted to him she had opened the car-
riage door.
Mr. Taylor said that when the witness called at
his house he saidhe came to inquire after the health
of the lady. He very injudiciously admitted him,
and he soon found that he had only come to cross-
question her. She was in a very nervous state and
did not know what she was saying, and he re:
quested him to leave. His (Mr. Taylor's) wife re-
ceived severe cuts upon the face, and her side and
arms wore bruised, from the effects of which she
was laid up for a week. He then called his wife's
two sisters to show that they were not riding in a
first-class carriage, but in a second. They had
come from the Crystal Palace, the sisters intending
to go on to the Pimlico station and the defendant
to stop at Balham. They declared that the train
stopped, and that one of them waved her hand out-
side the window for one of the porters to attend.
No one came, and as the defendant was anxious not
to be carried on to Pimlico, one of the sisters
opened the door, and as the defendant was getting
out there was a second motion of the train. One of
the sisters ascribed the fall to the carriages being
high and the step small, and the other to the fact
of the train moving aft7rit had stopped.Thele train had p
ladies were questioned by- the magistrate,
sto
stopped
both said they believed the and
when
the defendant attempted to alight. One of them
said the stopping was momentary.
The station-master said the carriage was of the
usual size, and the step, which was above three
inches from the platform, was 13 inches long and
nine inches wide.
Mr. Taylor then called his son to show that the
trains at the Balham station frequently moved after
having stopped. He accounted for it in this way :
When the engine stopped, the buffers of the car-
riages closed against each other, which caused them
to expand again, and there would then be a second
movement of the train. He also said that he fre-
guently assisted ladies to alight from the carriages,
in consequence of the inattention of the servants.
Mr, Hill P4id the son was in the habit of jump-

ing out of the trains while they were in motion,
and he had cautioned him several times. On the
next occasion he should summon him. _ .

Mr. Ingham said it was not tobcexpectod that
the company should provide a larger number of
porters than there were on this occasion. There wall
one person to every two carriages, and he considered
that was ample attendance for a train of that de-
scription. lie was of opinion that the accident had
arisen from the extreme carelessness of the passen-
gers, and not from any inattention on behalf of the
servants. He felt loth to punish a person who had
met with so severe an accident, and he had no doubt
the company would be satisfied with a nominal
penalty. Their object was to obtain publicity, so as
to act as a caution to the public in future, andthcre-
fore he should only fine the defendant ss. and 2s.
costs. If the company would take his advice, they
would set a person to watch the trains, and to sum-
mon all who got out before they had stopped. He
begged to say that in all future cases he should in-
flict the full penalty.
The money was immediately paid.