The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION- HOUSE.— Louis Quassa—such was the
name given by a well-dressed gentlemanly-looking man,
with a foreign air, and apparently about 28 or 30 years old,
with a light moustache of extensive culture—was charged
with being in a bedroom in the house of Mr. Arnold, 29,
Poultry, supposed with intent to commit a felony.
Mr. Arnold's housekeeper deposed that on Friday after-
noon she observed standing open a gate which had been
fixed upon the stairs for the purpose of keeping strangers
from going to the top of the house, whic'.l led her to go bp
stairs at once, and upon reaching Mr. Arnold's bedroom,
she found the prisoner- upon his knees before a chest
of drawers in which she had a short time before left
the key, which was now, however, lying upon the sill of
the window, and broken, as if by being violently pulled out.
Tue. prislner told her not to be frightened, as he was doing
no harm ; but she told him he was a thief, and ran down
stairs crying, "Thieves, thieves." The prisoner, who was
following close at her heels, was stopped by some of the
gentlemen in the house and given into custody. She had
missed nothing from the drawers, as she had no doubt sur-
prised him before he had completed his operations. When
he got down stairs he at first said he wanted Mr. Jackson,
who had an office there, and afterwards that be wanted Mr.
Hy ams.

Prisoner—l went there without any dishonest intention
I awed to see Mr. Jaeksou.

Lord Mayor—Well,_ what made you go on your knees in
another room then? Did you expect to Lind Mr. Jackson
in the drawers?

Prisoner—No; I heard that Mr. Jark,on wanted a clerk,
and I knocked at his door several time; without getting an
answer. Then the temptation came over me to go into the
other room, and I went in.

Nlr.Jaclison, who was in court, stated that he did no
want a eerk, and that he had never seen the prisoner be•
fore.

Police-constable 48.5 produced ti gold watch and chain,
£3 10s. in money, and eight keys, which he had found on
the prisoner at the sta ion-house, deposing further that the
ptisuner refused to give his address.
Lord Mayor—We must know more about you, prisoner.
There is something more than we know yet connected with
a man ,who goes about with La los. in his pocket, a gold
watch and chain, and eight keys.
Prisoner—One of them is my own,•being the key of my
own house—that is, of my father's house I mean.
_Lord Mayor—Well, then, to prove your honesty, give us
your father's name and address.

Prisoner (vehemently)—Never, never!
Lord Mayor—Then we'll find him for you.
Prisoner—l will never give it, for it will bring disgrace
on my father, and he will lose his situation.
Lord Mayor—No he will not. In England we never
visit the sins of the parent upon the children, nor the sins
of the children upon the parent. He would not be dismissed.
Prisoner—Yes, he would, for be has been only three
months come from America.
Lord Mayor—Are you an American?
Prisoner—l am a Canadian. Oh, I beg you will let me
go, and I will never do wrong again. I am not a dishonest
man, I assure you. I did go there to see Mr. Jackson,
and if be had been at home I should have seen him, and so
should not have been tempted.
Lord Mayor—No, no ; I can't let you go for some time to
come. I shall remand you for a week, and then perhaps
your father will come here, and others may come who have
charges against you, and whom you maY not like to see.
Remanded accordingly.
Nary Sullivan was charged with being in possession of
a silver spoon; supposed to have been stolen.
611 C had been taken into cotudy upon offering the spcon

Mr. Smythe-Did you make any noise?
Complainant—Yes, sir; I screamed out, when he re,
taarked it was of no use, as there was no one in the house.
She further stated that a Mrs. Cane went with her, bu
remained outside the house. She was about an hour and a
half in the house. Complainant on leaving was accom-
panied by the defendant, who treated her and Mrs. Cane
with a glass of wine each. Defendant had a glass of brandy
and water. As she was going along the street she was cry-
inie, when defendant remarked to her, " Do not fret, I will
behave honourable to you." She did not know what book
it was she took, as it was in a wrapper.
By Mr. Paynter—l never knew defendant before April 22.
In answer to Mr. Smith, complainant stated that she
received three letters from defendant, but had destroyed
them, not being aware she would be in the familyway.
The first letter was dated April 9.
Mr. Paynter—Then there is an end of the case.
Complainant upon hearing this remark of the worthy
magistrate, observed that it was the 29th.
Mr. Wontner cross-examined the witness at some length.
At the conclusion of it, she having f_ equently prevaricated,
Mr. Paynter remarked that he thought it was useless
to proceed any further, as her story was most improbable.
Some time ago complainant applied to him for a summons,
when she stated that she had no witness. Now she brings
one forwari.
Complainant—l understood, sir, that you asked me if I
had a witness in the house.
Mr. Paynter—You said you had no witness.
Mr. Smyth asked to be allowed to examine the witness.
Mr. Paynter—You can do so if you please.
Mary Cane gave evidence, and in many points it was
centradictory to the complainant's statement. When ques-
tioned by Mr. Wontner about the book, she said it was in a
wrapper.
Mr. Paynter said that he had been 18 years a magistrate,
and that he never heard a case which was less supported.
He should dismiss the summons. It was most improbable
that defendant should go into a public-house with two
females who were strangers to him.
Mr. Wontner observed that it was a gross attempt to
obtain money from the defendant, who was a most highly
respectable gentleman. He had beets repeatedly annoyed
by these persons. He (Mr. Wontner) could produce a gen-
tleman who would state that ha always closed the office at
six o'clock, and took the key away with him, so that it was
utterly impossible that defendant could have been there at
the time mentioned by complainant.
Mr. Paynter observed that if he (Mr. Wontner) intended
to prefer a case of perjury against the complainant and her
witness he would hear further evidence.
Mr. Wontner said he would take time to consider what
course he would take.
The summons was dismissed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—SEQUEL OF THE EXTRAOR-
DINARY CASE OF CHILD DESERTlON.—Elizabeth Bar-
t ram, a young married woman, resident at Birmingham,
was brought finally before the magistrate upon the ad-
journed charge of having deserted her illegitimate child,
an interesting little girl about six years of age, whom she
had left at the house of Mr. Masters, Queen's-road, Dal-
,ton, who, declining all knowledge of the parties, consigned
the child to the Shoreditch workhouse. The publicity given
to this led to the accidental discovery and apprehension of
the prisoner by Evans, a Birmingham police officer, to
whom she protested that Mr. Masters, at whose house she
had left it, was the father of the child, and had contributed
to its support for some years, but had ceased to do so since
prisoner's marriage, which took place about a year since.
The court was crowded by parishioners of Shoreditch, who
manifested extraordinary excitement as the matter pro-
gressed. Mr. Masters and his servant, with whom the child
had been left, had been summoned, and were now present,
attended by Mr. Beard, solicitor, but the former was not
called before the magistrate.
Mary Ann Belstead, a very smart and good-looking
young woman, being sworn, said that she was servant in
the family of Mr. Masters, and 'that on Wednesday fort-
night the prisoner called, and inquired for that gentleman,
and being told told that he was not at home—the family
being, in fact, at Ramsgate—she said that Mr. Masters was
the father of the child, and she should leave her. Wit-
ness told her she did not believe it; but the child being left,
she took her in. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Prisoner (weeping) now said she had some trouble in
finding the residence of Mr. Masters, but she left the child
with a note to say that it was his child.
The servant, being questioned, said the prisoner, who
might have been in the house about a quarter of an hour,
did leave a slip of paper with her, on which was written
" As you have thought fit not to pay for the child, I have
brought it to leave it with you."
Mr. Ross, the relieving officer, seemed greatly surprised
at this, as rot a word bad been previously said about the
note either by the witness or her master.
The latter, indeed, appeared indignant at the probability
of his being supposed to bc the father.
Mr. Beard, the solicitlr, said his client was in attendance
if it was desired to question him.
The magistrate, however, said the only question before
him was the charge of desertion ; and, taking the fact of the
written note into consideration, he fully believed the pri-
soner had no intention to leave the child chargeable to the
parish, but, on the contrary, left the child where, in her
opinion, it had most right to find a protector.
Prisoner (sobbing)—l say she is the child of Mr. Masters,
and his mother was aware of it; but I should not have
brought her to town had not my husband desired me.
Mr. Roes here handed to the magistrate a book in which
the prisoner's examination had been written. In it she
stated that when 15 years of age she entered the service of
Mr. Richard Masters, near Coventry, and was seduced by
his son, Walter Masters, and in September, 1852, gave birth
to this child ; that the father contributed to its maintenance
until after prisoner's marriage; and that he had himself got
married when the child was four months old.

The prisoner, who had an infant in her arms, WAS dis,
charged.

MARYLEBONE. DESERTION OF CHILDREN BY
THEIR MOTHER.—Harriet Gilmour, a respectably-
dressed woman, about 35 years of age, was brought hefure
Mr. Long, at the instance of Mr. Birchmore, relieving
officer of St. Pancras, charged with having deserted her
two children, who had thereby become chargeable to the
parish alluded to.
Garwell Palmer, a lodger at 11, Great Edward-street,
where prisoner also rented a room, deposed that on the 12th
instant the prisoner quitted the dwelling, leaving the
children behind. She had previously been heard to say that
she would poison them. Witness took the poor little
creatures—one of them nine aad the other five years of age—
to the workhouse on the same night; but the gatekeeper
refused to admit them. Witness having spoken to police-
constable 90 S upon the subject, went a second time to the
workhouse, and the children were ultimately taken in.
Mr. Long asked Mr. Birchmore why they were not in
the first instance admitted? _

16.lircbmoresaid---tiai the gatekeeper probably con-
sidered, when the children were brought to him, that there
had been a collusion between the witness and the mother
(the prisoner) to saddle them upon the parish.
The prisoner's answer to the charge was that she had
applied to the parish for relief, her husband being dead, and
that she obtained nothing more than a 41b. loaf. Whatever
she might have said, she net er had any intention of destroy-
ing either of the children.
Mr. Long considered that much blame attached to the
gatekeeper in not receiving the children when first taken to
the house.
For the desertion, which had been clearly proved, the
prisoner was sent to the House of Correction for a month.
DESPERATE ASSAULTS.—WiIIiam Vesey, a ticket-of-
leave wan, and a most desperate character, was charged
with serious and violent assaults on police-constable Duble,
147, and house, 63, both a the D division.
The assaults took place on Tuesday last, upon which day
the prisoner eves charged with being concerned in stealing
some shawls, 114 was remanded, and when being removed to
the lock-up room in tise yard at the rear of the court, he
inflicted a severe wowed on the head of D'oble. He also
struck and kicked house.
He was committed for two months to the House of Cor-
rretioa.
PLATE ROBBERY.—William White, alias Monteagle,
alias Milky White, was placed at the bar, charged with
having stolen a quantity of silver plate, to the value of
rthmt £4O, the property of Mrs. Arabella Barrett, residing
at 7, Delarnere-terrace, Paddington.
The evidence went to show that on the morning of last
Monday week the plate was missed from the premises; in-
formation of the robbery was inmediateelhYra)gtaifteovlfeotnnteoe.t
and on Saturday last the prisoner was taken into custody by
ebe(Vottt
Sergeant Potter, 16 D, for being found in Cambridge-eteeet
felony.H edepa
wrk,tiletnis supposed ptphoaseettla objecttih
fled that the prisoner was the man " wanted" for the plate,'
anti sent fer Mrs. Barrett's servant, who
him as being the man whom she saw make his egress throne h
the garden-gate just before she missed the property. None
of the articles have yet been found.
It was stated that the prisoner was well known
police, and that he had more than to the
once been convicted of
felony.
'ASSAULT.—Two men, named Britoit
Mr. Long reseanded him till Saturday
aliffet?fßtrhite
were charged under the following circumstances :
it appeared that on the same day
levyM e. Ph opgo lne rt,
hseu bg-bailiff Jews Hands went with
Bloomsbury County Court, to
Regent's-park, when het"'3l, Little Albany-street,
being planed in the van, (Britton), while the things were
stv:re they should net be taken
away; and, in a struggle which ensued, he seized Hands
anti struck him several
Other to his times,
and he (Britton) called the
assistance,eaanhd he was also very violent.
The prisoners were fined 20e., or, in default of pay-
ment, 14 days in the Howec
of Correction. next.
and
Arh e
identifieda almost
a committing
,I'. police,
et Magness,
ssa-,

THANIES.—A MORMON RIOT.—TV. Edwards, 21, and
de,eribed as a labourer, or 21, Sidney-street, was brought
before Mr. Selfe, charged with creating a disturbance in the
WhitechaNl road and vicinity.
-It appeared from the evidence of Police-constable Cop-
ping, No. 379 K, that the Latter-day Saints, or Joe Smith
Mormons, held a meeting at their chapel in North-
street, Jubilee-street, Stqoney, on Friday evening. There
was an eccentric iudividual named Hepburn preaching
against the Mormons, and their " bestiality and
horrible fornications and impostures" in the greet out-
side the chapel; a vast mob collected there, and there was
a good deal of noise and confuslont 44 attopt was made to

Our market this morning was well attended, end a fair amount
of business was transacted iu wheat for consumption, and to hold
over, at an advance of .utly is to 2s over the currencies of last
market day. Fine old white brought 50s, red 475, and superior new
made 53s and red 58s per SC stone.