The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day).

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William Painter, a boy aged about 12 years, whose ap-
pearance was that of the most abject misery, was placed
at the bar charged with robbing his mother.
The complainant, a poor but decently-attired woman,
said the prisoner was her son. Yesterday she left her home,
1, Lincoln-court, for the purpose of earning a little money
by shelling walnuts in Covent-garden Market, and on her
return she found the room door had been broken open,
and a tippet, a shawl, and other things had been stolen.
She immediately •suspected that her son was the
thief, and accordingly she informed the constable of
her suspicions, telling him, at the same time, where
he.would most likely find the boy. Until he was taken
into custody this morning she had not seen him since yes-
terday ; but that was not an unusual occurrence, as of late
he had frequently absented himself from home, and she had
discovered he was in the habit of passing the night in the
dark arches of the Adelphi in company with a number of
other boys as bad as himself. She had tried all the means
in her power to induce him to alter his bad behaviour ; but
her efforts had been of no avail, and she confessed he was
" her masterpiece." So bad had he become that it was
impossible to keep a thing at home worth a penny. his
sister came home from her situation a few days ago, and
during the short time she was there he stole several articles
of wearing apparel belonging to her, and sold them.
Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, observing that the boy's
hair had been very closely cut off, asked who cut it ?
The complainant replied that she did it in consequence
of his returning home one day swarming with vermin.
Mr. Jardine—ls the boy a Catholic ?
Mother—No, your worship.

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Mr. Jardine—My reason for asking is, that I might have
got him into a school ; but as he is not, there will be some
difficulty in doing so.

Mother—He can both read and write, your worship.
Mr. Jardine (to the boy)—What have yon to say to the
charge ?
Prisoner—Nothing.

The police-constable who took the boy into custody said
he told him that he had spent the money, for which he had
sold his mother's clothes, in bread, apples, and other things.
Another constable also said he knew the boy to be one of
the most troublesome of the` numerous yoimg thieves that
infested Covent-garden Market. When he was ordered off
by any of the officers, he instantly turned round, and after
using the most filthy and disgusting language, run away,
but only to" another part of the market, where he would
hang about until he could pick something up with which
he would make off for the day.

Mr. Jardine.—lt is a shocking thing that one so young
should have become so thoroughly depraved. All I can do
at present is to remand him for a week, in order to ascer-
tain whether anything can be done towards getting him
into some school or reformatory.
The mother, after thanking the magistrate, left the court
crying.

ruE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2,, 1858.

BOILER EXPLOSION AT MAN-

A terrific boiler explosion occurred yesterday
morning at the West Gorton cotton-mill, 'Manches-
ter, by which two men were killed. It was a small
mill, containing 50 weaving looms, for the manu-
facture of domestics and regattas. It had been
built about two years, but the present owner,
John Robinson, a working man, had only been in
possession a few weeks. The engine was of six
horse-power, and was driven by an eight-horse
boiler. The engine was inside the shed and the
boiler outside. The engine-driver, W. Cannon, had
got up steam at about minilles before 6in the
morning, and the workpeople,nen and girls, were
mostly at their looms, when the boiler burst with a
terrific report, destroying the engine, weaving-shed,
and a chimney 45 feet high. Cannon and a me-
chanic named James Redmond were buried in the
ruins of the engine-house, and were dreadfully
bruised and crushed, the former being dead when
taken out shortly afterwards, and Redmond only
surviving the accident a few hours. One of the
girls sustained a slight blow on one cheek, but the
others escaped unhurt. The boiler was torn into
fragments, and some portions of it were projected
to a distance of 100 to 200 yards in various direc-
tions. One heavy fragment fell upon the roof of a
new wing of the City Gaol (the nearest building),
about 200 yards distant, destroying a large portion
of it ; and a stone flag on the seating of the boiler,
nearly 1 cwt., was projected to a distance of 120
yards. The damage done will be about £2OO to
£250, and will probably be the ruin of the owner
of the factory. The boiler plates were a quarter of
an inch thick, and evidently of very inferior metal.
The working pressure was usually from 151 b. to
201 b., and the boiler ought to have stood a much
greater strain. It is supposed that the driver had
got up steam with insufficient water, and had after-
wards admitted cold water upon the heated plates.