The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

PROFESSOR HARRISON AND MS PUPILS.—James
Harrison, " the Strongest Man in the World," and
landlord of the Sheridan Knowles public-house,
Brydges-street, appeared in discharge of his bail
to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily
harm upon two persons, named William Jolley and
and James Rainey, on Thursday last. •
Mr. Abrams appeared for the defendant, and
stated that he had but just been instructed in the
case, and as there were a great number of witnesses
whose evidence was very conflicting, he had to ask
for a further remand until next Tuesday.
Mr. Flower at once acceded to the application,
and the bail having been renewed " The Professor"
quitted the court with his friends.
Two respectably dressed men, named Smith and
Fearman, were placed at the bar, on remand, charged
with stealing a cheque for £lO, the property of Mr.
Mason Jones.

From the evidence it appeared that the wife of
Mr. Mason Jones, on the 15th of May, had her
pocket picked of her purse, containing a cheque
for £lO, a Bank of England note for £5,
two sovereigns, a receipt for gas, and other
trifling things. On discovering her loss she
sent to the bank and the cheque was stopped,
On the same afternoon the prisoners entered the
Plough public-house in Museum-street, when Smith
told the barmaid he had found a cheque, but that he
should like to rcaore it. At this time a person who
had been partaking of refreshment left the house,
whenStnith asked the barmaid if she knew his name,
as more than likely he was the person who had lost
the money. She told him she did not, but that if
be would write his name on an envelope, in the
event of his returning to make inquiry about it, she
would give it to him. Smith then wrote on a paper
the following address :—" S. W. Walters, 15,
Berners-street, Oxford-street." After the men had
gone away the barmaid, on entering the taproom,
found a receipt for gas made out in the name of
Mr. Mason Jones. Knowing that that was the
name on the cheque, she at once communicated
with the lady. When the nature of the robbery be-
came k nown Dowdeil, a police constable, succeeded
in taking the two men into custody. The prisoner
Smith had obtained the amount of the cheque from
a Mr. Gould the proprietor of the Euterprize public
house, in Long Acre, on the representation that he

had received it from Mr. Mason Jones for
work done—that be had had previous trans-
actions with Mr. Jones, for which he Lad been
paid by cheques, and that he always found them
right. The address written by Smith on' the
envelope was a fictitious one.

Mr. Metcalfe,.on behalf of Mr. Smith, said the
men had picked up the cheque at the Plough
public-house, where it no doubt had been lef t
by the actual thief, and that as they had not
attempted to negotiate it immediately after they
had found it, but, on the contrary, had shown it to
the barmaid, and expressed a desire to return it to
the ;owner, there was no evidence of felDny,
neither was there any evidence that the prisoners
were at all connected with the omnibus robbery.
Mr. Flowers said they might have easily ascer-
tained the address of Mr. Jones by applying at the
bank, which they- had not done, and, moreover,
Smith had actually made use of a false representa-
tion to get the cheque cashed. Under these circum-
stances, it was his duty to send the case to a jury.
The prisoners were then duly committed for trial,
but admitted to bail.