The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Oct. 3.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John C. W. Harrison,
formerly chief clerk in the offices of the Commercial
Dock Company, Fenchureh-street, and who about
ten dal. s back was charged here with having em-
bezzled the sum of £6 12s. 9d. belonging to his em-
ployers, was again placed at the bar,
The directors of the company, it will be remem-
bered, on Saturday requested to be permitted to
withdraw from the prosecution, upon the ground
that they believed the prisoner had acted under cir-
cumstances of great pressure, without any inten-
tion of defrauding the company, and the Lord Ma or
remanded the prisoner to enable him well to con-
sider the propriety of acceding to that application.
His lordship now said he had taken into consi-
deration all the circumstances of the case, and was
inclined to discharge the prisoner, provided the di-
rectors of the company would take him back into
their service ; otherwise he thought it would be
ruinous to the prisoner to discharge him from custody
and throw him upon the world without resources.
On the part of the directors it was stated that they
could not take back the prisoner, but a gentleman
present undertook to provide him with future em 7
ployment ; and thereupon he was discharged with
a most feeling address of warning and admonition
from the:Lord Mayor.
Three fashionably-dressed women, named Martha
Reeves, Mary Clancy (alias Garrett), and Mary
Manton, were brought up on remand, charged with
attempting to pick pockets.
Some few days ago they were watched by Spital,
an active detective, who saw Reeves try the pockets
of several ladies in St. Paul's-churchyard, while
" covered" by her confederates ; although there was
no evidence of actual theft in the case, Reeves gave
a false address, and principally upon this ground
the Lord Mayor. remanded them for inquiry.
Mr. Beard, who attended for the defence, said his
clients, since their former examination, had given
their correct addresses to the police, who had there-
fore had every opportunity of inquiry; and the
learned gentleman also called a witness as to the
respectability of Clancy, who, hoWever, damaged
her rather than otherwise, by proving that her
name was Garrett.
A. Green, police constable 376, deposed that about
three years ago he had her in custody iu that name
on a charge of shoplifting and pocket-picking,
which resulted in her imprisonment for six weeks.
Since that she had been convicted of shoplifting,
and had been sentenced to twelve months' impri-
sonment.
There was no other evidence in the case of the
other prisoners ; and
Mr. Beard contended that the whole three were
entitled to their discharge.
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The Lord Mayor said he had no doubt as to the
fact of Reeves having attempted to pick pockets, or
as to the other prisoners being her accomplices
but unfortunately the evidence against them was
insufficient to insure a conviction, and they must
therefore be discharged.
Discharged accordingly.

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An Italian, who gave—the name of Dominic Perez,
was charged with stealing a roll of cloth, value £B,
the property of Mes rs. Garside, warehousemen,
Wood-street.

The prisoner pretended to be ignorant of the
English language, although there was reason to
suppose he understood it well enough, but said he
spoke French, having last come from France, and
the services of a French interpreter were therefore
called into requisition.
Langford, porter to the prosecutors, said—ln the
morning, about ten o'clock, I was at the back of the
warehouse when I saw the prisoner enter at the
front door, take up the roll of grey cloth produced,
and walk off with it. I immediately ran after him,
and caught him about 40 yards down the street. I
seized his collar with one hand and the cloth with
the other, and pulled him back to the shop, where
I held him till a policeman came in, and he was
given into custody.
Lord Mayor—Did he say anything when you
collared him ?
Witness—lle jabbered a good deal in some fo-
reign lingo that I could not understand; but I had
seen him take the cloth, and I knew what that
meant well enough.
Lord Mayor—Tell him what the witness says,
and ask Won whether he wishes toput any questions.
Interpreter—lle says no ; no questions. But he
wishes to state that he met a man in the street,
who gave him a piece of paper, and told him to go
into the warehouse with it, and bring away a roll
of cloth. _

The Lord Mgor—Wtll, ask him what he did
with the paper ?
Tnterpretyr—He says be dropped it in the sbn's
whilet !ae was ttruggling to get away.
The Lorca Mayoz..—Th;lt's not at all a likely`lsls anything known about him ?
Partridge (gaoler)—No one knows him here, my
lord. .

Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—I dare say he is one
of the lot Nyha hp.ve been turned out of France lately

to get rid of them. They always come to England,
and almost half of the thieves we have had here
lately have been foreigners. I should like to send
them all back again.
The Lord Mayor—Yes, with tickets on their
backs.
Mr. Goodman—O, there's no necessity for that;
they. are known there well enough without tickets.
The Lord Mayor—Well, he must go to hard
labour for three months.
Committed accordingly.

GUILDHALL. The further examination of
Thomas James Stowell, the notorious common in-
former,relative to a charge of conspiracy to defraud,
having been fixed for yesterday, the court was
crowded by persons, who waited very patiently for
upwards of an hour, but Stowell, who had been 41-
mitted to bail on Saturday last, did not appear.
Mr. Lewis said he feared what would be the re-
sult of Stowell's liberation on bail, as he was too
good a judge of legal evidence to treat this charge
as a trifling matter.
Sir R. W. Carden said he would estreat Stowell's
recognisances, and those of his bail.
Mr. Lewis said he hoped the worthy Alderman
would grant a warrant, so that Stowell might be
apprehended immediately, as he was up to all sorts
of tricks, and was doubtless using the time allowed
him to get fnrther away instead of appearing here.
Sir B. AV. Carden said of course he should grant
a warrant.
One of the bail said that Stowell had only gone
to Westminster to see his counsel, and he expected
him every minute.
The defendant was then called on his recognis-
ances, and not answering, the bail was crdered to
be estreated.

CLERKENWELL.—WiIIiam Williams, a pain-
ter, who said he resided at Dem:Agate, Manchester,
was charged before Mr. Corrie with travelling from
Barnet to London in a second-class carriage on the
Great Northern Railway without having previously
paid his fare, and with intent to avoid the payment
thereof.
From the evidence of Lunniss, a ticket-collector,
it appeared that when the 7.20 train arrived at
Holloway, the prisoner, who said he had travelled
from Hatfield, had no ticket. When the train ar-
ved at King's-cross, the prisoner was given into
the custody of Green, one of the detective officers,
when the prisoner said he was very sorry; he had
tramped up from Manchester, and having no
money, had got into the train at Barnet.
The prisoner said in defence that he had been
out of work for three months, and had gone on
Saturday to look for work, but not being able to
get it, and having no money, went into the train.
Mr. Corrie said that there was plenty of work in
London. He understood there were thousands of
men wanted to paint and do other work, and that
there were thousands of men who refused to work.
Mr. Mould (chief clerk)—lt is because they will
not sign the " document."
Mr. Corrie said, as he understood it, the masters
did not wish the men to sign the document. All
that the masters wanted was that the men should
not conspire while they were in their employ.
The prisoner said he had applied at Messrs.
Cubitt's and other places for work, but could not
get it. He was not connected with any society,
but he could not get any work.
Mr. Corrie said he should not be very severe,
but the railway companies must be protected. He
should order him to pay a fine of 55., or suffer five
days' imprisonment in the House of Correction.
The defendant said he had no money.
Mr. Corrie said the prisoner would be confined
until Friday, and when he came out he had better
get work.

SOUTHWARK.—WiIIiam Underwood, the pro-
prietor of the Yorkshire Grey beershop, Great
Suffolk-street, Borough, was summoned -by the
police for unlawfully keeping his house open for
the sale of beer during: the prohibited hours on
Sunday morning.
Job Turner, 44 M, said that on Sunday morning
week he was instructed by Inspector Moore to
watch the defendant's house in private clothes.
Adjoining the beer-shop is a stable-yard, in which
are several sheds, and on Sunday morning the
gates are closed. About 11 o'clock witness saw
the wicket opened and several labouring men ad-
mitted. He followed them and saw the defendant
standing near the back part of the premises, where
he was supplying beer to the men and receiving the
money. He asked witness whether he wanted
any ; and on his replying in the affirmative, de-
fendant knocked at the wooden fence, and a female
brought out a pint of beer, which defendant handed
to him and received the money. Witness went out
and reported the circumstances to his inspector,
who ordered him _to return, and on again entering
the yard, he had another pint of beer, and then he
went to another part of the yard, and found the
defendant carrying on a wholesale business. Wit-
ness then called him, and informed him he was a
constable, and that all he had seen would be re-
ported to his superiors. The defendant begged him
,not to say that he had served other men.
The defendant elected to be sworn, and in the
most impudent manner denied on oath that he had
served any one but the constable, and he thought
him to be a traveller. He called the ostler to Mr,
Dart to provo his assertions, but that man .gave
such evidence as not to entitle him to any belief.
He knew nothing or saw nothing in the yard on
Sunday morning although he was there all the time.
The magistrate said he had no doubt defendant
had carried on a wholesale business on Sunday
mornings for some time. It was a bad case, there-
for© he should fine him £5 and costs.

THAMES.-L-Mrs. Macfarlane, of No. 3, Eliza-
beth Cottages, Millwall, appeared before Mr. Selfe
to answer to a charge of unlawfully detaining a
camphor wood chest, late the property of John
Boyd, who was scalded to death on board the Great
Eastern steam ship.
The complainant, Mrs. Rebecca Kingston, of No.
7, Great White Lion-street, Seven-dials said—Her
husband was in Sydney. The deceased John Boyd,
was her brother-in-law, and brought a camphor
wood chest from China, and made her a present of
it. Boyd was afterwards engaged as engineer on
board the Great Eastern, and was killed by the
explosion on board that ship.
Mr. SeHe—How came the box in possession of the
defendant ?

Mrs. Kingston said that Boyd asked her for the
loan of the box toput his things in when he went on
board the Great Eastern. The chest afterwards
got into the possession of the defendant. She wished
to regain possession of the chest as a keepsake of
her deceased relative. _ _

The defendant said that Boyd had incurred a
debt of £5 with her father for board and lodging
before he joined the Great Eastern. Her father
also lent the deceased £2 in addition.

Mr. Selfe—Where is your father ?
Defendant—He is now on board the Great Eas-
tern. The chest was given by Boyd to my mother.
Mr. Selfe asked the value of the chest, to which
Mrs. Kingston replied that it was worth £5. The
defendant, however, declared it was worth 30s. only.
Mr. Selfe finally made an order upon the defend-
ant to deliver the box to Mrs. Kingston upon the
payment of 305., its value, and said that would go
in part liquidation of the debt owing by the de-
ceased.

SHOCKING OCCURR.E.NOR AT BIR-
MINGHAM.

Under this heading we stated yesterday that a
man-named Dutton was stabbed early on Saturday
morning, while in a state of intoxication, and died
shortly after, and that at the same time a woman's
throat was cut so fearfully that her life was
despaired of. Up to yesterday no clue had been
obtained by which to trace the party or parties who
perpetrated the outrage.
Dutton was a young man, nearly twenty-
four years of age, and has for some time past
worked as a tube-maker, at the coin and tube
manufactory of Messrs. Ralph Heaton and-Co., in
Bath-street. His father dying a few years back,
the young man, who was unmarried, of steady and
industrious habits, has been mainly instrumental in
supporting his widowed mother, and up to the time
of his death resided with her in Belmont-row. Of
the woman little is known. It would appear, how-
ever, from her language that she belongs to the
lowest class of society. Although Dutton and she
were found lying near each other, it does not seem
that she had any acquaintance with, or had even
E poken to him. Early on Friday afternoon the de-
ceased commenced drinking in company
.with a
lellow-workman.. named Buick, and, it being fair
time, the two men strolled together through the
fair. About three o'clock on Saturday morning two
women were seen fighting near the Bull Inn, Dut-
ton and others being near the spot. Suddenly a
cry was raised that one of the women had had her
throat cut. A general uproar prevailed, and in the
midst of it Dutton was found lying on the pavement
with his head and shoulders against the wall of a
house, while a man was in the act of kicking him
violently. His companion Blick rushed forward to
rescue him, whereupon the assailant immediately
decamped, and Dutton, who was bleeding profusely,
was conveyed, together with the injured woman, to
the surgery of Dr. Rann, where he expired. The
wound of tthe female was sewn up. On her way to
the hospital she said she knew who had perpetrated
the outrage, but positively refused to disclose the
name, and she still persists in keeping it secret. In
Dutton's left groin was found a punctured wound
about an inch in length and two inches and a half
in depth, and his shirt and srousers were saturated

PATRICK AND PRIEST.—" Patrick, the widow
Maloney fells me that you have stolen one of her finest
pig. Is that correct or not?" " Yis, yer Honour."
" What have you done with it ?" "Killed it and ate it,
yer Honour." " Oh, Patrick ! Patrick I when you are
brought face to face with the widow and her pig on judg-
ment-day, what account will you be 'able to give of your-
self when the widow accuses you of stealing." " Did you
say the pig would be there, yer riverence?" "To be sure
I did." " Well, then, yer riverence, say, 'Mrs. Ma-
loney, there's yer pig.'

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