The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-04 00:00:00

POLIC E INTELLIGENCE,

MANSION-HOUSE.— 7 'wows
Rug, 17, was charged
with the following itnnudent robbery:—
Mr. Neck, •.t the firm of Moore, Peede, and Co., ware-
heuse men, Fr day-street, deposed that about 10 o'clock he
.
t.hserved the prisoner loitering outside their warehouse,
and upon ;pg to-another part of the
place at a little dis-
tance fr.-m the doer, he saw him suddenly rush into the
shop, se :7.c I.p twa pieces of silk bandaerehiefs.,, ar.d then
rush out ar sin, Witness pursued as fast as he could, and
soon came op with him, upon which he threw the handker-
chiefs aw; y. Witness held him till a policeman came up,
and then gave him into custody. The value of the hand-
rchiefs was £2l2s.
The plisoner said it was all a mistake; he had 'never
touched the handkerchiefs. He was an innocent lad, and
had never been in custody before.
Lord Mayor—We shall see about that. Does any one
know anything about him here?
Popp!n, 13 P, metropolitan police—l know him. I had
him in charge en the 25t1, August last for picking pockets
at the Crystal Police Railway Station, and in searching him
I found no fewer than eight handkerchiefs upon him. He
teas taken before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police-court, and
sentenced to three months. _ _ _

i'cllcf-COnstAble 438,Iaty)—Equot tbilthO has boon pO4:

ING AUGUST

tenced to two re ooths fi om Southwark, for pocket picking,
and I believe be only came out of prison on Monday.
Lord Mayor—Well, you are an " innocent lad," indeed.
I thought what sort of innocence yours was.
The prosecutor requested the Lord Mayor to deal with the
case summarily, but as the prisoner continued to assert in
the most impudent manner that he had not touched the
handkerchiefs, be was committed for trial.
Charles Davison, conductor of a Fulham omnibus, be-
longing to the Metropolitan St.loou Omnibus Company,
was charged with embezzling 2s. 4d., belonging to his em-
ployers.
The solicitor who conducted the case said that it was
trivial so far as the amount of money was conc:rrel, Jett it
was of some importance generally to ell omnibus companies
and omnibus proprietors • and from his statements, and the
evidence of witnesses called by him, it appeared that en
Saturday morning last, accordieg to custom, the prisoner
handed in his way-bill and money for the previous day, in
both ( f which he accounted for five inside fares at 4d., seven
outside fares at 4fi. sad tvs o outsidesat 3d. ter the last
journey from Fulham to London upon Friday night,
while upon that journey the omnibus was more than
full, in a legal sense, inasmuch as a female deposed
that when she got in at Walham-green, accom-
panied by two children, a gentleman bad to change
to the outside in order to make room for her ; and a little
girl further deposed that during the journey she counted
altogether 20 insides, two of whom, however, were babies,
and so would not pay ; while one little girl sat upon her
mother's knee, and another sat upon the umbrella seat.
On the other hand, there was some difficulty in proving
the identity of the prisoner, as the witnesses had not parti-
cularly noticed him ; and Mr. Woutner, for the defence,
raised some technical objections in addition, contending,
moreover, that there was no evidence to show, and no pos-
sibility of showing, !hat the prisoner, although be might not
have made a correct entry with regard to the last journey,
had not, by overstating on his way the result of the other
journeys of the day, actually accounted for all the money
received by him during the day ; and, to give a colour to
this hypothesis, he proved that although the legal number of
inside passengers eras only twelve, the prisoner bad fre-
quently accounted to the cashier of the company for an
excess over that number.
The Lord Mayor admitted that there were difficulties in
the ease, but at the same time said it was one of so much
importance, although the amount in question was small, as
to induce him to leave all doubts to be solved by a jury,
rather than to dismiss the charge without being fully satis-
fied of the person's innocence. The competition between
the rital companies, which led them to carry passengers
all the way from Fulham or Putney to the Ctty for 4d., must
be sufficiently ruinous in itself without the aid of robbery,
and the proprietors must be protected against the peculation
of their servants; but to give an epportunity of producing
the other conductors of the company so as to complete the
proof of identity, he would remand the prisoner for a few
days., _ _ _ _ _ _

ReManded accordingly, but admitted to bail.
Francis Worrell Stevens, share-dealer, who was last
week committed from this court to take his trial at the next
session of the Central Criminal Court, now applied to be
admitted to bail, according to the terms of his commitment
—viz.: himself in £2,000, and two others in £l,OOO each ;
the parties proposed being Miss Worth, 10, St. Mary's-
road, Peckham; and Mrs. Fitzgerald, 42, Marchmont-
street, Russell-square._ _

No opposition was offered on the ,part of the prosecutors,
who had riceived due notice, and the required recognisances
having been entered into, the prisoner was discharged.

GUILDHALL.—George Jams Buchanan was placed
at the bar before Alderman Mcchi, charged with obtain-
ing goods older false pretences with intent to defraud
Messrs. Cooke, Sons, and Co., of St. Maul's-churchyard.

William White, a warehouseman, in the employ of the
prosecutors, said—On the 21st June last the prisoner called
at the warehouse and presented an order for two silk dresses,
which be represented were for Messrs. Collins, of Sloane-
street, Chelsea, who were customers. The goods were
selected and sent into the entering-room, and the order was
returned to him with directions to go to the entering-room
and he would have the goods. The order was written on
one of Messrs. Collins's billheads, and on Friday last be pre-
sented another order for two more silk dresses, value £8 ss.
I gave the order back as before, and sent him to the entering-
room where I also sent the goods. I asked him if he was
the same person who brought a similar order a few days
previous, and he said he was.
Thomas George Jones, one of the entering men in the
same employ, said—l saw the prisoner on the 21st of June
in the entering-room. He brought an ordex from Collins,
of Chelsea, fur whom, he said, he required the silks. I asked
his name, and he said it was Wbately ; and after entering
the goods, I gave them to him with an invoice, and he went
away. I have not been able to find the order, but lam
quite sure the prisoner is the person I delivered the goods
to. I let him have the goods, believing he came from
Collins, of Chelsea.
Mr. Charles Collins said—l am a draper in Lower Sloane-
street, Chelsea. The prisoner was in my employ about three
or four months as clerk, and left me on the 21st of June last
without any notice. I gave him no authority to obtain the
goods in question, neither have I received them.
Mr. White recalled, said—On the 30 h July the prisoner
called again with an order from Messrs. Collins for two silk
dresses and 30 yards of silk glace, the value of which was
about £l5. I selected the goods and sent them to the en-
tering-room. I afterwards met the prisoner in St. Paul's-
churchyard, and he complained that be had not been per-
mitted to take the goods, saying he should look very foolish
(la going back without them. I took him back with me,
and spoke to Mr. Werth, who asked the prisoner if he came
from Messrs. Collins. He said he did ; and I then asked
him if he was the same young man who obtained two silk
dresses about six weeks previous, and hie said he was.
Wm. Pearce Johnson, an entering man in Messrs.Cooke'i
employ, said—The prisoner came into the entering-room, on
the 30th July, with the order produced, accompanied by
the last witness and the goods. I asked him to write his
name on the order, and he wrote " Walcl3." On comparing
the writing with the order, I refused to let him have the
goods, but sent them to Mr. Collins by omnibus.
Mr. Collins recalled, said—The prisoner wrote our orders
generally upon our billheads, an I I believe the order pro-
duced is in his handwriting, but I gave him no authority to
write it. I received the goods mentioncd in the order pro-
duced.

This completed the whole of the evidence for the prosecu-
tion, and tile prisoner having said he would reserve his
defence, r,as fully committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—SYSTEMATIC AND EXTENSIVE
PLUNDER OF A TIMBER MERCHANT.—REPREHEN-
SIBLE PRACTICES IN THE TRADE.-Edward Thomp-
son, William Cook, and Eliza Cook, his wife, underwent
a lengthened examination, charged with stealing a quantity
of mahogany frcm the timber-ybrd of Mr. Hudson, Great
Peter-street, Westminster; and George English, Fryer's-
mount, Bethnal-green, timber dealer, charged with re-
ceiving it.

The case was discovered through the vigilance of the
police. It appears that George Mattocks, 162 G, and George
Legear, City detective, having seen a truck go to and from
English's at a very early hour with timber, watched it to the
prosecutor's, and privately inquired of him whether he had
sustained any losses. Mr. Hudson, who bad from time to
time missed mahogany, immediately made arrangements
with the officers in order to detect the offenders, and watched
them en the mornings of the 16:h and 17th ult., the result of
which was be found that the prisoners Cook and his wife,
with a young man named Carroll, aided by Thompson,
a man who had beer: five years in pros.ccutor's employ,
brought out timber from his • yard in Peter-street and
Smith-square, Westminster, cn the latter morning, to the
value. of £4 10s., and conveyed it to the prisoner Eng-
house, where he 'ock it in. The prisoners with Car-
rail were captured, when the latter was put into the
witness-box as an approver against the rest, and from his
testimony it was c4ear that he had at least conveyed timber
from Mr. Hudson's five times. It was stated by English
that he had bought timber of the other prisoners at 44d.
per foot, which was allceed by the prasecutor to be con-
siderably lat neath its value.

Mr. Moittnn, cf the firm of Humphreys, Morgan, and
Son, urged that it was the common practice of persons who
attcutled sales of limber at the east end of the town to hawk
it about for sale, or rend their servants with it to sell, and
that there was nothing in this case to induce any suspicion
in the mind of his client (English) that the wood had been
dishonestly obtained. Ile produced four or five witnesses
in support of his statement, who proved that they had re-
peatedly taken and tent lots to English similar to Mr. Hud-
son's mahogany, for which they thought a fair price as odd
lots had been given.
Mr. Brown, on the dart of the prosecution, opposed this
view of the case, and said such timber as this was not
hawked about.
The male prisoners, Thompson and Cook, pleaded guilty,
and entreated the mercy of the court.

Mr. Arnold observed that the witnesses for English,
against whom there was no imputation, had clearly proved
that it was a practice in the trade at the east end of the
town to hawk timber about, and in the face of such evi-
dence no jury would convict English of buying this limber
with a guilty knowledge, which it was necessary to show to
constitute the offence, arid be therefore felt it his duty to
discharge English, but he could not too strongly deprecate
the practice of purchasing timber in this way, as the facility
of disposing of it gave great encouragement to crime. He
thought that for the protection of timber merchants and
others employing men, more caution ought to be exercised
by persons making such purchase*. The female prisoner
was entitled to Vie benefit of the rule of law, that she was
acting under the coercion of her husband, and was therefore
discharged, her husband and Thompson were committed
for six months each to hard labour in the House of Correc-
tion.

A QUESTIONABLE APFAIR.-111artha Eades and Ca-
therine Mayer, two young women, were placed at the bar
charged with stealing a silk handkerchief from the shop of
Mr. Gilbert, Queen's-road, Chelsea.
Prosecutor's shopman, Thos. Blythe, proved that the
accused came there on the previous afternoon, and desired
to be shcwn some expentive silk handkerchiefs; from which
Mayer purchased one, and paid ss. Immediately afterwards
another handkerchief was missed, and upen the loss being
spoken of, Eades was seen to drop it from under her mantle,
andehey were then given into cuetody.
The police produced a ring, some new boots, and other
articles found upon the prisoners, and said that upon in-
quiry they found they bad all been honestly purchased and
paid for. One of the constables said he knew the accused as
rearctable servant girls.
A very respectable-looking married woman said that the
prisoner Eades was her sister, and was in service, but at
house with her until the 18th inst., by leave of her master,
owing to sickness. Mayer was her fellow servant, and they
hail both just returned from France with the family.
The shopinan was recalled, and again swore that he saw
the prisoner Eades drop the handkerchief from her mantle.
lie, however, had no desire to press the charge against the
accused, as they bore so good a character.
Mr. Arnold did not think it proper to let the matter go
off in that way.
The policeman who took the prisoners said that elthouali
Eades offered any moray to he let go, she at the some time
niest positively asserted her innocence. Upwards of L 2 was
found upon the accused.
Eades, saint an air of trnthfulnese in her manner strongly
calculated to create a favourable impression, said that they
were requested to move from the counter as a handkerchief
was lost ; and v. hen they did move it was found on ihe
floor. She knew nothing whatever about the handkerchief.
She did not think it had been taken off the counter by her
mantle- or dress by accident. She could most positively
assert that she never touched the handkerchief.
The prisoner Mayer said she had left her master's house
at Richmond on the previous morning, when he hail given
her £3 to make some purchases with, and she was t.) return
home at five o'clock, instead of which she was locked up.
She could assure the magistrate that her fellow-servant did
not touch the hankerchief.
Mr. Arnold said that there must be some mistake in the
mater. Lookirg at all the circumstances, he felt that a
jsuy would agree with him that the handkerchief had by
some accident been swept off the counter, or the ravelling
at its edge (which bail been pointed out to him by Mr. Hunt, the chief usher) had caught El dre
ss
till mantle or
till she moved, and then fell. He dieehatesed the prisoners,
Ad, Ir 4 Da tidy in-
and thought it a pity that tilt PrOteut°F

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quiry into their character before he preferred the charge at
the station upon which they were detained.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--BETTING ON HORSE
RACESCAPTURE OF BATTERS.—John .Scott, landlord
of the White Bear Hotel, Piccadilly ; Charles Thorpe,
Barnes Lodge, King's Langley, Herticrdshire ; Henry
Reeves, 8, Wilton-place; John _Reed, No. 18, Bear-street;
Nicholas Butler, 12, St. James's-place; Joseph Rose, 31,
King-street; Charles Esse, 20, Carbon-hill ; Thomas
Edmonds, 38, Moscow-road; James Saunders, 25, Has-
ker-street ; John iswin, 49, Great Qupon-street 17:Via on
A sharst, 18, Sianit7, -;:tret ; Ch istopher Brown, 20,
Pantou-6;reet ; William Coleman, 58, Millbank-street;
William Chapman, 36, Old Compton-street; William
Mawson, 3, Walltm-green.; and John Flood, High-
street, Fulham, were brought before Mr. Beadon, charged
with having been found in a house used for betting pur-
poses.
The defendants, who had evidently just been taken into
custody by Inspector Webb, Sergeant Silverton, and other
constables; were all placed at the bar.
Mr. Superintendent Hannant said—l produce my autho-
rity from Sir Richard Mayne for entering the house, No.
221, Piccadilly, known as the White Bear Hotel. At two
o'clock I found all the defendants in the house. SPott and
Thorpe, I believe, came from the bar; the others were in the
coike room. I told them I had a, warrant to enter the house
and to take them into custody. Some said they only came
there for a glvs of ale. I found several betting books and
racing memoranda in the house and on the defendants.
After the defendants were removed to the station-house,
except Thorpe and another, I searched a desk in the pas-
sage. I found betting books, and a telegraphic despatch
relating to horse races. The books produced—one of them
a club book, another a ledger—contained the names of
some of the defendants.

Mr. Beadon asked the defendants if they wished to ask the
superintendent any questions?
The defendants replied in the negative.
Inspector Webb, C division, examined—l corroborate Mr.
Hanuant's statement. The defendants were searched, and
the betting books spoken of found on their persons. After
defendants were removed to the station-house I searched the
coffee-room, where there was a desk, and I found several
handicap books, racing cards, and betting books. Some of
the betting books appeared to have been thrown under the
sofa by the defendants when the police entered. I saw in
Thorpe's hand a card; I told him to put it down; be threw
it on the floor. I picked it up, and found that it was a card
with the odds marked against several horses. Before I saw
Thorpe with the card 1 had searched him, and I cannot
tell how be became possessed of the card. In the
bar, on a shelf, I found a memorandurn-book with entries
of money signed by Reeves, and one entry sinned by Scott.
I fount( also several handicap-books on a shelf, behind some
pint pots in the bar. In a drawer I found a notice paper, on
which was printed, ", No betting or lists are allowed at this
establishment, by orderof the proprietor." I fonnd a regis-
ter in the bar. Some of the dzfendants' names are there.
Some who call themselves labourers are there entered as
esquires and gentlemen. I know that the license of the
house was refused to Thorpe ate the annual licensing day,
last October, and in July last it was granted to Thorpe.
Since that time •I have seen Thorpe and Scott there, and
Scott in my presence said to-day that he was the landlord
of the house.

The defendant Thorpe asked if this witness saw him in
the coffee-room at the time ?

Mr. Beidon—The evidence is that you were not in the
room.

Thorpe I had been searched, and nothing fouud
upp? me.

Sergeant White, 13 D, and S:rgeant Warren, 27, of the
same division, stated that they had examined the premises
and they could find no rearks of any forcible entry. None
of the missing properV had been found.
Mr. Herring, for his clients, sa!d that a more unfounded
charge was never brought forward. Mr. Barnes was a
highly respectable tradesman, who had carried on business
as a carpenter and builder for many years, and he had re-
moved Mr. Dobson's goods to the hcuee of Mr. Ashley. He
had since been there to do many jobs. There was not the
slightest ground for the allegation of the charge of robbery
which had been made; and as to the female prisoner she hall
lived 18 months in the service of Mr. Dobson, who had
with her a most excellent character from a former situa-
tion, and be (prosecutor) must have known she was a
most honest and trustworthy person. The learned gentleman
added that a more gross violation of the liberty of the subject
had never been perpetrated, and that, if necessary, he could
prtduce a number of most respectable witnesses, some of
whom were present, who would testify to the high character
of Mr. Barnes for honesty and integrity.
Mr. Broughton, without callin, pel Mr. Iletting to
product. :my vincs3es, discharged tne accused, being quite
satisfied that there was no evidence which would justify him
in detaining them.
Mr. Herring gave the prosecutor most distinctly to under-
stand that an action for false imprisonment would be com-
menced against him. _

CRUELTY TOWARDS DONKEYS AT HAMPSTEAD.—Two
boys named William .Bedworth and Charles Antrobus,
the forms 15 and the latter 12 years of age, were charged
by Mr. Wan. Love, chief constable of the Royal 2ociety for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with the following
shameful Conduct :
George Seaman, an active officer of the society, deposed
that on the previous evening, between six and seven o'clock,
he was at Hampstead-heath, near Jack Straw's Castle, when
he saw the prisoners driving four donkeys, upon each of
which ahere was a female. They ((he preoners) were beat-
ing the poor animals in a merciless manner with the handles
of their whips upon the back, legs, and hind quarters. They
west on in the direction of Highgate at a very hard trot.
Upon the prisoners returning he took them into custody,
when they alleged as an excuse that f‘ the ladies" told them
that if they whacked the donkeys as hardts they Could, and
made them gallop, they should have twopence extra.
In answer to the magistrate, the witness stated that in
the course of his experience as an officer be had never seen
a mere cruel beating. The donkeys were quite exhausted
when they got back to the heath. The riders were notchildren,
but full-grown women. The payment they (the prisoners)
were to receive to Highgate and back wr ts ninepence for
each "lady," in addition to twopence pocket-money fir
making the donkeys " go in good stale."
Mr. Love said that complaints were continually being
made to the society of the cruelties practised on Hemp-item'.
heath on donkeys, and that the prisoners had been cautioned
more than once by the officers of the society.. Upon one oc-
casion the younger prisoner knocked out the eye efa donkey,
but in consequence of the inability of the gentleman who
witnessed the occurrence to attend and give evidence, he
was discharged. Little boys like the prisoners were sent
out with donkeys on the supposition that, on account of
their yt utt', their conduct would ha passed over. litany of
theAtivers of mature years had frequently made a boast of
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Mr. Broughton said it was necessary to make an example
gthienmto ap of the prisoners, who had been very_properly brought before
consideration
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CLERKENWELL.—DAMAGING THE WIRES OF THE
TELEGRAPII COMPANY.--William Gutridyc, a dirty.
looking boy, 11 years of age, residing at 2, Brand-street,
Holloway, of no occupation, was placed at the bar, belme
Mr. Corry, charged with wilfully eftmagiog the telegraph
wiles en the Great Northern Railway, at Holloway.
Police-constable Batcherdore, 430 A, said about six
o'clock lAot (Alopdatr) hip was OA duty in tho

Beadon—The evidence is that the card was seen in
your hands.
Thorpe—The card was on the floor. I picked it up
and kept it until told to put it down by the inspector.
Mr. Beadon—The time has now come to weed the de-
fendants. As there is no evidence against several beyond
their being found in the house, they may be discharged.
Mr. Hannant—We propose to proceed against four only;
Scott, Thorpe, Beeves, and Bird.
The other defendants were then discharged, and the four
named defendants were retained at the bar.
Mr. Beadon—We now come to the serious part of the case,
-and, if it be the wish of the defendants, I am quite willing
to remand this case until to-morrow, in order that they may
have the benefit of counsels' advice.

The defendant Scott said it was decidedly his wish that
the case should be adjourned.
Mr. Beadon consented to adjourn the case until the next
day.
Bail was required for Bird and Reevot and Scott and
Thorpe were allowed to go on their own bail.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Martha Abrahams, a known
thief, was charged with stealing a watch from the person
of Mr. Newell, a cooper, residing at Bethnal-green, who
was passing in the afternoon, when the prisoner suddenly
confronted him, and before he was well aware of what she
was about, snatched the watch from his pocket and adroitly
broke it away from the guard chain. Finding, however, that
she could not get away with it, she slipped it into a truck
that was standing near, where it was found. She was then
handed over to the police.
_ _

The prisoner now pleaded guilty, saying that she did take
the watch, and would rather have the matter at once disposed
of by the magistrate than be sent to trial.
She was therefore comicted under the Criminal Justice
Act, and sentenced to six months' imnrisonment,
SERIOUS VIOLENCE.—Thomas Brown, a middle-aged
person of respectable appearance, was charged with assault-
ing and injuring a little girl named Deborah Hodgson.
Elizabeth Hodgson, the mother, a very poor woman,
stated that the night before she was standing in Pitfield-
street, offering seine small articles fur sale, when the
defendant, who was intoxicated, came up and began to abuse
her, calling her an impostor and other names. He then laid
hold of her child, Deborah, and digging his knee into the
small of her back, injured her so severely that she was
obliged to be taken to the London Hospital, where she
remained.
The defendant, who said he was a warehouseman, assured
the magistrate that he had ne intention to do any injury,
and was exceedingly sorry for what had occurred.
The magistrate held him to bail for his reappearance a
week hence.

MARYLEBONE.—UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF BUR-
GLARY AND ROBBERY.—John Barnes, a master builder,
residing at No. 3, Archer-street, Westbcurne-grove,
Paddington, and Charlotte Jenkins, servant to Mr.
Dobson, who eccupies apartments at the house of Mr. Ash-

ley, a tailor, carrying en business in Bridge-terrace, in the
same neighbourhood, were placed at the bar before Mr.
Broughton, charged with having been concerned in a bur-
glary and robbery to a considerable amount—the articles
stolen being the property of the said Mr. Ashley.
Mr. Herring attended for the prisoners.
Prosecutor deposed that on Saturday night last he went
to bed at half-past 10 o'clock, at which time the shop and
hack parlour doors were closed,' and he believed that the
house was completely closed at 11. About six in the morn-
ing he was awoke and informed that the house had been
broken into. He soon after found that he had been robbed
of a quantity of cloth and doeskin, of the value of L 25, and
of silver plate consisting of spoons, sugar-tongs, and other
articles worth about £l4.
Mr. Broughton—Why do you accuse the prisoners ?
Prosecutor—Because the female was the first person to
give MC information of the robbery, and also that she bad
got up much earlier in the morning than usual. I have
seen the male prisoner at the house.
By Mr. Herring—My regular servant left me last Wed-
nesday to go into Devonshire. I don't know that she had
any followers. Jane Jenkins, the prisoner's (Charlotte
Jenkins) sister has since supplied her place.
Jane Jenkins stated that she got up at six in the morning,
and that she found the parlour and kitchen in great dis-
order. Barnes was at Mr. Dobson's apartments about nine
o'clock on Saturday night. He remained there about a
quarter of an hour, and something was said about a lock.
By Mr. Herring—l did not sleep with my sister that
night. I was the first person who got up. When I ascer-
tained what had taken place, I went up stairs and awoke
my sister, who, after dressing herself, went below with me,
and began. to cry, exclaiming, " Oh, what will my mistress
say." I lost no time with regard to informing Mr. Ashley.
All the doors of the apartruer.ts I have to do with were
fastened, and there was no appearance of breaking in er out
of the premises. The kitchen window had not been
fastened.

Hornsey-road; near the line of the Great Northern Railway,
when he saw the prisoner and six other boys throwing
stones at the telegraph wires. He went up the embankment
near the Hornsey-bridge, and saw several stones thrown and
strike the wires. He distinctly saw the prisoner take up
three stones nearly as large as half-bricks and throw at the
wires and strike them. He ran after the prisoner, and,
after a mat t chase, succeeed in capturing him • and when
on his way to the police.station he said be had broken ono
of the wires in half. He bad been to the spot thi ;mo niug,
but could not discover that any damage had been done,
although the place was strewn with large stones.
A gentleman who attended on behalf of the prosecution
said it was the intention of the Electric and International
Telegraph Company to prosecute in every case, because
they had suffered very much from such injuries.
tir. Collie said, as far as the Telegraph Company was
concerned, they did not seem to have sustained anydamage
in the present instance.

The gentleman replied that the company's wires bad not
been damaged ; but the defendant was in the middle of the
Great Northern Railway line, which was a trespass.
In answer to the charge, the defendant said he was sorry
for what he had done. He was not throwing the stones at
the telegraph wires, but at the birds. He would not do so
again if be was let off.

-Mr. Corrie said as tlze company had not sustained any
damage he did not think it worth while to punish him for
the lesser offence of trespass. Addressing the defendant, he
told him that he might be sent to the House of Corrtction
with hard labour for two years, so that he bad better be
careful, and tell his companions what he had then beard.
He would new be discharged.
The prisoner was then discharged.

SOUTHWARK.—ROBBERY OF A GOLD WATCH AND
CHAIN FROM BARCLAY'S BREWERY.—John Edwards,
a respectable-looking young man, in the employ of Messrs.
Bishop and Newsteed, clothiers and jewellers, of 90, High
Holborn and Shoreditch, was brought before Mr. Combe,
charged with being concerned with another in stealing a
gold watch and chain, the property of Robert William
Walker, at Barclay's Brewery.
Mr. Solomon app€ared for the prisoner.

The prostcu'oi stated that ia bctobEr last his watch was
stolen from a drawer in the brewery, and shortly afterwards
a man named Webb was charged at this court and sen-
tenced to six months for the offence. The watch and chain
could not be found until a few days ago, when he saw it at
Mr. Fleming's, a pawnbroker, in the Strand, and from in-
formation he received the prisoner was given into custody.
He 'knew nothing further of the, prisoner or the circum-
stances.

Charles Wise, police-sergeant, 459 A, said he received
information where the watch was pledged, and that the
prisoner was the party who pawned it. He accordingly
took him into custody, and when he was locked up is the
cell in the station-house he called witness to him aod told
him he had something to communicate to him. Witness
enutioned him, when he asked him how he thought he
should get on, and if Mr. Walker would appear against
him. Witness told him that the latter would appear, and
be could not say how the case would terminate. He then
voluntarily told witness that on the day the watch had
been stolen he met Webb in the Borough-market, and
at his request he pledged it for him in St. Martin's-lane.
Witness ascertained that such was a fact, :Ind he now re-
quested a remand to enable him to produce the pawnbroker
and the watch and chain.

Mr. Splomon contended that his client merely pledged
them. He did not know they were stolen.
Mr. Combe remanded the prisoner until Monday next,
accepting bail fur his appearance.

LAMBETIL—MILITARY OUTRAGE AT -.THE CRYSTAL
PALACE.—AIex. M'Grogan and Joseph nrankin, pri-
vates in the. Royal .Antrim Rifles, at preset tt stationed at
Woolwich, were placed at the bar before thug Hon. G. C.
Norton, charged with the. commission of the fallowing dis-
graceful outrage :--
Mr. Wm. Cousins, a harness maker, carryil nee on business
in Westminster, said that on the day before :he went to the
Ciystal Palace with some friends for a day's pleasure, and
while walking in the gardens he heard the prisoners and
several of their companions making some rein elks about the
badges or orders of the members of the Odd Fe llews' Society,
a number of whom were in the gardens at the time. He
(witness), however, did not interfere in ancy way, nor did
he offer the slightest insult to the prisoners or their com-
panions, though immediately after be rceeiv ed a most vio-,
lent blew from behind from the prisoner M."Grogan. The
instrument used • for striking hint -v vas the belt
which the prisoners wore round thei r body, and
the buckle part having struck him o: n the bridge
of the nose, caused the most ietense pain ant! injury. Tne
instant the blow was struck the prisoner get ve the . Irish
cry," and instantly le was surrounded by six or seven of
the party all striking at him with all their Light with their
belts and had it not been that he had a strong hat on at
the time the injury to his head must have be en of the most
serious description. As it was, as his worn :yip might per-
ceive, he received several wounds on his bete d which he had
been obliged to have dressed by a doctor. k 'hiding that be
had nothing for it but to fight his way thro ugh those who
surrounded him, he set to with his fists and., half a dozen of
his assailants sosn lay about him.
Mr. Norton—Did the prisoner Brankin ike you at all?
Witness—He did, sir; he gave me a d et perate blow on
the head with the buckle of his belt, and •was one of the
most violent of the lot, but a more cowardly tset of scoundrels
I never witnessed; in fact, they are a perfect disgrace to
the British army.
Several witnesses were called to corrobornt the testimony
of the last witness, and they all spoke of Mit 3 fiendish con-
duct and violence of the prisoners.
Mr. Superintendent Lund also described the conduct of
the prisoners and their companions as being- ,of the most out-
rap;eous description, and it required some con siderable efforts
to quell the disturbance they bad created. From what be
(Mr. Lund) had learned, it appeared that the y had managed,
to get intp the village and drank a quantity of ram, which
made theta apparently mad.
Mr. Norton--I wonder how they could brave got into the
Crystal Palace in such a state as that of den nkenness?
Mr. Lund—They would not have been admitted had it
been discovered they were at all the worse: for drink. The
moment I spoke to Messrs. Sawyer and S t 7 .ange of the state
the soldiers of the Antrim Rifles were in. those gentlemen
at once directed that they should not have a drop of anything
to drink, and, in fact, they are always excf:e dingly particular
in preventing visitors from having any me e than that which
was sufficient for refreshment, and certainly not so much as
to cause intoxication.

Mr. Notton.believe,d frau) all he had heard and seen that
such was the fact, and that the management of Messrs.
Sawyer and Strange in their particular department was
such as to give great satisfaction.
The prisoners, in reply to the charge, 38 id that the people
in the gardens had made some reflections; on their cauntry,
Ireland, and one of them, Itl'Grog,:an, ar Id ed that the blows
from his belt would not do much harm. _ .

Mr. Norton animadverted with just severity on. their
scandalous conduct, and sentenced each lo pay a penalty of
f.,5, or in default to two months' impris, inment.
The prisoner Brankin was again chrtrged with throwing
two table knives at two ladies, and viol:a:fly assaulting Set-
gcant Smith while in the execution of ids duty, and for them"
joint offences he was sentenced to two months' hard labour
in Wandsworth house of Correction.

THAMES.—CIGAIIS AND CRINOLT:NE.—EIIen Carey,
a neatly dressed young woman, Wll3 ?Drought before Mr.
Yardley, charged, on a Custom-house: information, with
smuggling 2211b5. weight of cigars, hy which she had in-
curred a penalty of £lOO.
She pleaded guilty to the informatirtn, and the magistrate
at once sentenced her to pay a fine of £lOO to the.Quecils
and in default of payment to be imprisoned for six months.
Mr. Gardner, a tide surveyor of customs, introduced to
the notice of the magistrate three ler gt) petticoats lined with
cigars,- and said the prisoner was a pusnenger by the General
Steam Navigation Company's ship The Moselle, and on her
arrival at St. Katherine's Wharf the prisoner was about to
step on shore, when her immense natundity of dress excited
his suspicion'', and he asked her if she had anything about
her liable to duty: She declared she had not, anti ex-
plained that her full blown appearance arose from crinoline,
which she and every lady in the land considered as very
becoming, whatever the gentlemen.. might say on the sub-
ject. He hinted to her that her crinoline petticoat was of
extra dimensions, and handed her over to a female searcher,
who stripped her in a private cabin, took the three petti-
coats linea with dears from bee person, and brought her
out again with her size diminished to reasonable proportions
as she now appeared.
Mr. Yardley—The prisoner is not wearing crinoline noW.
The (Seer—No, sir.

Mr. Yardley—lthought not. She appears to be dressed
in a very proper manner.
The officer—Ye?, sir.

Mr. Yardley—You have no faith in crinoline again.
The officer—N(ver, sir; I shall always suspect every
woman who wears crinoline.