The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-16 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

DRUNK AT A RAILWAY t 3 TATION. —Edward Jervis,
steward of a steamboat, was charged with being drunk and
making a disturbance at the Gower-street station of the
Metropolitan Railway, and assaulting James Sharp, a
ticket inspector.
James Sharpe, ticket inspector, No. 31, said the prisoner
came to the station last night and wanted to go to Pad-
dington. He had the half of a return ticket. 'Witness de-
clined to let him enter the train, as he was so drunk that
it would have been dangerous to allow him to travel
on the line. Witness told him so civilly, but he declared
that he would go, using many oaths, and foul expressions,
in the hearing, and to the annoyance of other passengers,
including ladies. Witness put him off the platform, out-
side the gate, and shut it against him, while the train went
by. When the gate was re-opened he again attempted to
force his way in. Witness, with assistance of
the porter, proceeded to remove him up the
stairs to the street. He became very violent, and
struck witness in the face with such force that he himself,
from the rebound, fell back, and knocked his hand against
the bannisters, inflicting a severe wound. He then flung
himself down on the stairs and struggled so hard that it
was with some difficulty that witness and the porter, even
with the further assistance of a policeman called in from
the street, were enabled to get him upstairs. At the sta-
tion-house his hand was dressed by the divisional surgeon.
The prisoner's head was so strapped and bandaged as to
leave but little of his face discernible.

This statement was cox roborated byJoseph George Page,
the station porter, and Policeman Frost, 168 E.
The prisoner admitted that he was the worse for liquor,
but said he should have been quiet enough if Sharpe had
let him alone. He insisted that the injury was oc-
casioned by Sharpe knocking him down. This, how-
ever, was distinctly denied both by Sharpe and by Page.
Mr. Vaughan said it was quite clear that the prisoner
had gone to the station in a drunken condition, when
he was unfit to travel by the train. However, he seemed
to have received a severe injury, and in the hope that it
might be a warning to him when he wanted to travel by
the rail to go to the station sober, he (Mr. Vaughan) should
discharge him.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A CLEVER AMATEUR DETECTIVE.—Mary Smith, a woman
about 50 years of age, who refused her address,
was charged
before Mr. Knox with attempting to pick the pockets of
several ladies in Oxford-street.

William Sherer, a young man, residing in Great Port-
land-street, said that on the previous afternoon he saw the
prisoner walking between several ladies in Oxford-street,
and saw her hand in the pockets of five different ladies.
As he recognised her as a woman who had before been at
the court, he gave her into custody.
Burns, 335 A, proved receiving the prisoner in charge.
She denied the charge, and said she was looking for her
brother, who was an omnibus conductor, but she after-
wards said she was admiring the ladies' fine dresses. She
refused her address.

Sergeant Cole, 23 C, said the prisoner had been twice
convicted at that court and once at the Mansion-house.
when she pretended to be a widow, wearing widow's weeds
The prisoner, who either was or pretended to be very
deaf, said she was a little flighty, and had been in an
asylum, and that she had been sent to prison from that court,
but that was merely on suspicion. She had a brother who
was an omnibus conductor, but, being tired of that low and
disreputable life, he was going to America to join the
Fenians. She only waited a moment to look for him, when
the young man came up and handed her over to a con-
stable.

Mr. Knox committed the prisoner as a suspected person
for three months with hard labour.

A few weeks ago Sherer detected a boy robbing the stall
keepers at the London Crystal Palace.

WESTMINSTER.

EXTRAORDINARY:CIIARGE:AGAINST A POLICEMAN.—James
Beasley, a police-constable of the B division, was brought
up on a warrant charging him with leaving his beat while
on night duty, to the imminent danger of persons and
property.

James Townsend, 254 B, said—On Wednesday night at
10 o'clock I marched with the defendant and other men to
their beats. I saw the defendant to his beat and left him
there. At half-past eleven, from information I received
from Police-constable Pace, 142, I went to the defendant's
lodging. I knocked at the door, and defendant came and
ahswered it himself. I asked him his reason for having
left his beat in the manner ho had done, when he replied,
"He did not mean to do any more duty—ho was tired of
the police." 1 cautioned him to be at the superintendent's
office the next morning, but he was neither there nor at
the office of the Commissioner. He was taken into custody
yesterday.

Mr. Selfe—Had he his uniform on when you went to his
house on Wednesday night and saw him?
Witness—No. Ho was undressed as though he was
going to bed.
s3lfe—What has he done with liia uniform ?