The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—henry wislia,„ hunt was
charged with embezzling various sums
theumsofpirnoolnleeryt,s of amounting
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to from between £5OO and x
ployer, Mr. Noel Whiting, colonial broker, 11, Mincing-
lane.
Mr. Hodgkinson (Hodgkinson and Friend) who appeared
for the prosecution, said the prisoner had been for seine five
years in the service of Mr. Whiting, at a salary of £l5O.
The charge against him was for embezzling sums amounting
to about £550, and would consist of two classes of cases.
One of these would consist of instances in which the pri-
soner had received money for the prosecutor without
accountino for it to him, and the other of instances in
which lie hart been entrusted with stuns of money to pay to
the Customhouse, but which he lied ,misappropriated. In
the latter the evidence of several clef ks from the Customs
would be necessary, and as those clerks were never allowed
to appear as witnesses without being duly summoned, the
prisoner would have to be remanded.
T. 11. Cubitt—l am clerk to the prosecutor, and it was
my duty to collect moneys and hand them to the prisoner,
as cashier, for him to account for to Mr. Whiting. On
the 29th May I received from Mr. Ledger, a customer, £4
102., and gave it to the prisoner, in the counting-house,
in
cash. On the 26th June I received £1 6d- from Messrs.
Harrison and Cressfield, and paid it over to the prisoner on
the same day.
Mr. Noel Whiting—The prisoner was a clerk in my ser-
vice, and as such was authotised to receive money. He was
s 1 o r
iunc ttehdewas paid to him, it was
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son
.f pavinglihen moneytnoney on my account, when
insthis duty to make an entry the same day in the cash-book.
I have examined the cash-book, and there is no entry in it
of the two sums of money mentioned by the last witnes,
nor has he paid those sunis to tne. I have reason to believe
that his defalcations amount to a large sum, and I ask for a
remand to cost* nie to pro ince the nrcessary evidence.
Mr. Roscoe, solicitor. who appeared for the prisoner,
offered no opposition to a remand, but applied that the pri-
soner might be admitted to bail.
'l're application n as refused.
Charles Davidson, lately a conductor in the employ of
the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Csmpany, was brought
up on ternary', charged with having embezzled 21. 4d. by
means of a false return made by him of the number of pas-
sengers carried in a Fulham omnibus on Friday last.
The evidence being completed, the prisoner was Com-
toi:ted for trial, the Lord Mayor refusing to take bail for
his appearance at the Central Criminal Court.
Received for the poor-box, a gold signet ring.

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IVESTMINSTER. BURGLARY AND SINGULAR
IDENTIFICATION OF THE STOLEN PROPERTY.—Edward
Jonegand Janc Hugs were finally examined, charged with
hreakitia and entering the dwelling-house of
Mr. Jntncs ;sherry, and stealing a large quantity of tea.
The pio:ecutor. a grocer at 193, Sloane•street, said that
on the night of Friday, t 1:e 1 1 th of June, his house was
broken into. It wai secured at half-pad 10, before the
family retired to rest, and ou his coming down at seven the
next morning he found the floor of the shop covered with
tea, and canisters lying about empty. He tnissed a great
quantity of tra of different sorts, two coats, a pair of silver
scissors, and ether articles. Thero were no marks of vio-
lence, and his first impression wail that some person must
have entered the shop
and concealed himself on the previous
night ; but the skylight at the back part of the shop was
over, a d titere were footmarks under it.
From other testimony, it appeared that the police, from
information they received, went on the 11th of July to a
coffee-boon kept by Robert John Wale, 2, Smithfield-bars,
and there found a basket of tea, weighing nearly half a

hundredweight, which had been sold to him on the 12th of '
June by the male prisoner and another man.
John Cook, 198' on the 21st of July, went to 20, Totten-
ham-place, Tott€ellatte. court-road, and found the two pri-
soners in bed together. He told them he apprehended theta
for commit ling a burglary, when the male prisoner replied,
" What slant have you gut up for us now ?"
Mr. Wale said that the tea was loose in a basket when
brought to him. Witness knew the man who accompanied
the prisoner, and thought him respectable. He represented
that lie purchased the tea at a sale, and dealt in that way.
Witness agreed to give £ for the tee, and paid the female
prisoner, who was represento' by Jones to be his wife.
Mr. Slurry was able to identify the tea, owing to an odd
circumstance. A few days before the robbery lie threw
some black pepper by mistake into a canister of tea, when,
to prevent the tea being used, he wrote on a piece of
paper " pepper," and placed it in the canister, and that piece
of paper was foun l in the tea which lead been sold by the
male prisoner to. Mr. Wale. The basket was likewise
identified.
Prisoner Jones said that he and another man committed
the robliery, and sold the tea to Mr. Wale. He went home
two hours afterwards and found the prisoner llayes in bed.
He then took her to Wale, who was unable to pay all the
money fur the tea at once, and told him to pay her the re-
mainder, but she did not know what it was for.
The female prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery.
They were committed for trial at the Central Criminal
Court.
FEROCIOUS ASSAULTS.—SamueI Roberts, a private in
the Grenadier Guards, was charged with- desperately as-
saulting two police cons*ables.
John Coggin, 242 B, said that the defendant came up to
him in a state of intoxication, when he kindly recomn.ended
him to go with his co-m.loes, upon which defendant, withou
any provocation, kicked him most desperately in the lower
part of his person.
Ferris Carr, another constable, went to the former's assist-
ance, wken he kicked and injured him so severely that he
was rendered unfit for duty. Ile also dragged hint about by
the hair of the head and tried to bite him.
Defendant was remanded.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON AN ELDERLY WOMAN.—John
Ragan, a powerful young man, was charged with commit-
ting a savage assault upon Susan Boileau, his mother-in-
law, a poor woman advanced in years.
domplainanies face was much disfigured and swollen, and
it appeared from the evidence that on her return home O'A
the previous night, the defendant, who lives in the same
house, locked the door against her and then knocked her
down repeatedly, and kicked her about the body in the most
brutal manner, at the same time declaring that if her hus-
band attempted to interfere to protect her from violence he
would murder him. The police were called, and finding
the poor woman bleeding, took the accused into custody,
and lie was stated to be a very violent fellow.
Defendant had the hardihood to deny the charge, although
it was most clearly made out against him.
Mr. Paynter commented in becoming terms upon his
brutality, and sentenced him to two months' hard labour in
the House of CorreCtion, further requiring biro at the end
of that time to find bail for three months.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A DANGEROUS MEN-
DICA N T.—A sturdy, healthy-looking fellow, tall and power-
fully-built, who gave the name John Edward Jarman,
was charged before Mr. Beadon with begging in Oxford-
street, at half-past one o'clock a.m., and endeavouring to
extort such alms by means of threats.
Police-constable Robinson, C 48, said he saw the prisoner
accost several respectable persons wile were passing, who
seemed to have some difficulty in ridding themselves of him.
On going sufficiently near he heard him, in a threatening
manner, say to a gentleman if he did not give him some
money it would be the worse for him. This be repeated,
and witness took him into custody.
Mr. Beadon said the prisoner was a very dangerous man,
and he should sentence him to the House of Correction for
one month.
Tit E NEXT STEP TO STREET BEGGING.—John
Roberts, who has been frequently at this court for begging,
was charged with stealing a pair of boots from the shop of
Mr. Labram, 36, St. Martin's-court, the previous evening.
The boots, it was proved, were stolen from a stool inside
the door cf the shop, and found in primer's possession,
who was hurrying away with the same, and overtaken by the
shopman, who had received information of the theft, about
70 yards from the premises.
The prisoner said he was guilty. He was very sorry, but
considered he was compelled to the step he had taken.
Mr. Beadon told him, as be bad often done before, that if
he was in want lie should apply to the relieving officer, who
was bound to assist the distressed.
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AN EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN Comm—Just before
the rising of the Court, a dashing young fellow of about six
or eight and twenty marched into court 19 a very pompous
style, and evidently far gone in liquor, with a countenance
fierce-looking from Effort, and, taking up his position in the
prisoners' dock, said be wanted particularly to speak to the
magistrate. Mr. Beadon, pointing him out a nearer place
less conspicuously unpleasant than the one he bad selee'ed,
asked his business. The applicant, row shifting his quarters
and mounting the witness-box, stared at the magstrate with
grotesque fierceness for a minute, and then said he wanted
a, summons against a cabman for abuse, which he, without
the slightest reservation or apology, though it consisted of
certain filthy words, repeated. The magistrate, with much
suavity of manner, advised the applicant to make his request
the following morning, upon which he became exceedingly
irate and insisted on the summons being granted imme-
diately, for be was going 50 miles in the country and could
not be delayed. Wby could his business not be settled, he
added, at once.
The magistrate told him, if he insisted on knowing, in
plain language it was because he was not sober.
The applicant, on hearing this, got in a violent state of
passion, told the magistrate he was himself drunk, and
calling to a friend, who it appeared had accompanied him
and was standing conveniently near the door, but who was
sober, to cone and smash all the windows in.
The magistrate, who at the first show of violence had
ordered him to withdraw instantly, now called upon the
officers to remove bim from the court, which they did net,
however, without the utmost difficulty, one of them getting
his bands much grazed in doing so. Finding, when down
stairs, that they would, if he did not leave the premises,
lock him up, his friend, who really hail seemed afraid of
him, took courage, and partly by persuasion and partly by
f Tee got him into his cab, which was waiting for him at
the entrance, and they drove away.

CLERK E NWELL.—EXTENSITY. ROBBERY OF GOLD
AND SILTER WATCHES.—A very respectably tvtired young
man, who gave the name of Frederick Ticeedle, rged 21,
a commission traveller, was placed at the bar before Mr.
D'Eyncourt, charged with stealing a number of gold and
silver watches, of the value of £l3B Ils., belonging to his
master, a silversmith, of Red Lioa-square, Holborn.
The prosecutor said the prisoner had been in his employ
for some time as a traveller, and was paid a salary as well as
commission. He had lately been in Paris, and on his return
the prisoner handed him a list of gold and silver watches
which he said he had told. The prisoner went out of town
for a few days, and from certain facts that were communi-
cated to prosecutor, the prisoner's lodgings, 5, King's-
terrace Nor:h, Clerkenwell, were searched, and a number
of pawnbroker's duplicates relating to watches and clocks
were found, and which he had put down as sold. He at
present missed about 20 gold and 18 silver watches, as well
as some clocks.
Police-constable Taylor, of the G division, said from
information received he went to the Elephant and Castle
Tavern, Brighton, and found the prisoner living there in
the first of style. He had gone there with a horse and gig,
and there were staying with him two gentlemen and a lady,
the expenses of whom the prisoner had paid. He told the
prisoner the charge, and upon searching him found upon
him a gold and silver watch. He had found out that some
of the clocks had been left at a place near Leicester-square,
and he therefore asked for a remand.
The prisoner did not deny the charge, hut said he was not
paying for the parties who were at Brighton.
Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the case for a week and
refused bail.

MARYLEBONE.--A FEMALE PICT POCKET.—A well-
dressed young woman, named Frances Mortimer, was
charged with having attempted to pick the pocket of Amelia
Smith, residing at 12, StaAope-place, Paddingten.
Mr. Horry attended ler the prisoner.
From the evidence of prosecutrix it appeared that on the
previous evening, as she was going to_the post-office in the
Edgwa7c• road, she was accosted by the prisoner, who asked
her the way to Sloane-street. Witness pointed out to her the
right direction, and all of a sudden she found her (prisoner's)
halal in her pocket. She laid hold of her, and held her se-
curely until the arrival of a constable, by whom she was
conveyed to the station-house.
Mr. 'lorry cress-examined the prosecutrix, but did not
succeed in shaking her testimony.
Mobbs, 2G3 1), stated that when he took the prisoner into
custody she had nothing to say, r.nd went quietly with him.
It was further shown that the prisoner had hold of the arm
of a man when prosecutrix was accosted, and that a woman,
no doubt acting as a confederate, was a short distance off. -
Mr. Horry submitted to the magistrate that the case was
one of mere suspicion, and that of a very slight nature. He
trusted that the prisoner would be discharged.
Mr. Long considered that the charge of attempted robbery
had been clearly made out, and sentenced the prisoner to
two months' hard lalkur in the House of Correction.
VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLER.
—Richard Raywood was charged by. Mr. John Sparkes,
landlord of the Queen's Arms, Portland-town, under the
following circumstances:—

It appeared that on the same morning between twelve
and one o'clock, the prisoner went drunk to the house, and
called for drink. Complainant very properly refused to
serve him, and desired him to go quietly away, but he swore
he would not do so, and on his being laid hold of for the pur-
pose of being ejected, he gave complainant many violent and
severe blows. Newman, 288 D, came up and took the pri-
soner into custody.

Fined 203 , or 14 days in the House of Correction.

"THE KING OF THE BEGGARS."—Edward Rigby
Jones, 80 years old, and Mary, his wife, aged 63, were
charged by Fryer, an officer of the Mendicity Society, with
begging.

I t appeared that on the same morning Fryer followed the
prisoners from Hyde-park to Burne•streer, Edgware-road.
They were begging the whole way, and he saw them re-
ceive money. The male prisoner, who was known by the
appellation (Inc "King of the Beggar 4," had been in cus-
tody numerous times, and committed from different police
courts. His wife had also been often convicted. Both pri-
soners had been known to the society as impostors ever since
the year 1829. The man's " game " was that of passing
himself offlts a miner, and alleging that by an explosion he
had sustained such injury as would incapacitate him entirely
from getting a living for himself.
The prisoners were each committed to the House of Cor-
rection for a month.

SOUTHWARK.—A BRUTAL HUSBAND AND A. FOR-
GIV / NG WlFE.—Stephen Bellini, a rat-trap manufacturer,
was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with committing a
savage assault upon his wife, Emma Bellini.
The complainant, who was far advanced in pregnancy,
sated that she had been married to the prisoner 15 years,
and had five children. He was a very good husband, an
never misconducted himselfonly when in liquor. As for the
bruises on her face and arms, they were caused by her fal!-
mg down stairs on Satitiqay last. She hoped his worship
would diq!haree him, as lie never ill-used her, and she did
not give him into custe(4.
Scrgeant M, .here stepped fortvg.rd and informed
his worship that the prisoner was a brute. On Sunday
morning, about one o'clock, witness was on duty in
Bond-
street, llsiougli-road, where the prisoner and his family
resided. The children were in the street entirely naked,
and the prisoner was beating his wife in the house with the
fire shovel. She gave him in charge, but when they arrived
at the station-house she begged him off.
The complainant denied that her husnand had assaulted
her. She fill dolan stalls and caused the bruises.
Sergeant Smith teld his worship that she bad cuts on bee
body inflicted by the prisoner, and the officer who appre-
hended him saw him ill-use her.
Police-constable 9.2t3 M, said that about seven o'clock
on the previcus evening the complainant rushed out of her
house with brumes on her face and arm. She told him Ler

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