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, Fenchurch-street, and who about
ten days back was charged here with having em-
bezzled the sum of £6 12s. 9d. belonging to his em-
ploN'ers, 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 cur-
cum,,tances 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-
ployment ; and thereupon he was discharged with
a most feelinc, address of warning and admonition
from the Lordt' Mayor.
Three fashionably-dressed women, named Martha
Reeves, Mary Clancy (alias Garrett), and Mary
Manton, were brought up on remand, charged with
attempting to pickpockets.
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 in 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 trN elve 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.
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.
An Italian, who gave the name of Dominic Ferez,
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 he 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--He jabbered a good deal in some fo-
rciun lino.° that I could not understand ; hut I had
seen hint the cloth, and I knew what that
\vA enough.
Lord Mayor—Tell him what the witness says,
and ask him whether he wishes to put any qtestions.
Interpreter—lie says no ; no questions. But he
wi,ihes to state hat he met a man in the street,
who gave him a piece of paper, and told him to go
into the wareheuse with it, and bring awihy a roll
of cloth.

The Lord Mayor-=Well, ask him what he did
with the paper ?
Interpreter—He says he dropped it in the shop
while he was struggling to get away.
The Lord Mayoa—That's not at all a likely tale.
Is anything known about him ?
Partridge (gaoler)—No one knows him here, my
lord.

Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—l dare say he is one
of the lot who have 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.

GUILDTIALL. 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 ad-
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.

Nfr. 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 R. W. 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 ordered to
be estreated.

CLERKENWELL.—WiIIiam Williams, a pain-
ter, who said he resided at Deansgate, 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
t here 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 premis2s, 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, ho 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
mest 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 prove 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-
fore he should fine him £5 and costs.

THAMES.—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. Selfe—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 OCCURRENCE AT BIR-
MINGIIA2II.

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
poker to him. Early on Friday afternoon the de-
eeased commenced drinking in company with a
fellow-workman named Blick, 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 shoullers against the wall of a
house, while a man was in the act of kicking him
violently. His companion Buick rushed forward to
rescue him, whereupon the assailant immediately
decamped, and Dut ton, who was bleeding profusely,
was conveyed, together with the injured woman, to
the surgery of Dr. Rann, where he expired. The
wound of the 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

with blood. On searching the spot where the tragedy
was enacted a police-constable found a small pocket-
knife. It is a black-handled instrument, about three
inches and a half in length, and has two blades, the
larger about two inches in length and half an inch
in width, and the smaller a pen blade about an inch
and three quarters in length. The larger blade is
bent, and both were stained; but whether the stains
are of blood or not does not clearly appear. It is
probable that the stab in Dutton's groin was inflicted
with the larger blade; it is such a wound as might hays
been inflicted with such a knife, but it is extremely
doubtful whether a large knife or even a small dirk
was not employed. A singular fact is that the knife
when found was closed. The same or even greater
doubt also exists with respect to the wound in the
woman's neck. The knife found might certainly
have inflicted such a wound, but, considering the
length of the incision, it is somewhat improbable.
To inflict a wound two inches in length with so
short a blade would almost indicate a passiveness on
the part of the woman altogether at variance with
the circumstances under which she received it.

The whole affair is at present involved in mys-
t cry. In the woman's case something is mentioned
about jealousy on the part of a man with whom she
is connected. Supposing this to have existed, Dut-
ton might have been attacked in mistake and his
assassin might also have perpetrated the outrage on
the woman. The latter gave the name of Fanny Bird
but her real name is Ann Camdoore, and she also is
about 24 years of age. She still lies at the General
Hospital in a dangerous state.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

OXFORD—OcT. 1.

A large quantity of wheat on offer to-day, with a good
attendance of buyers, and, although there was a fair de-
mand, the generality of the transactions were at last week's
rates—viz., for white, 42s to 48s, red 40s to 44s per qr.
Barley plentiful, and a few prime lots were soon caught up
at 2s advance. Best samples were worth 425, and inferior
sold as low as 28s. Other grain dull. Oats 20s to 295, but
little doing. Beans, 38s to 50s. Hog peas, 39s to 42s ;
boilers, 45s to 50s per qr, Flour, 31s per sack. Hay, from
£3 10s to £4 10a per ton.