The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. April 9.

CLERKENWELL.—Emma Jane Doherty, a
well-grown girl, aged 15, residing at 58, Church-
street, Birmingham, described as a milliner; and
Thomas Mason, aged 28, a violinist, of Albion-
street, King's-cross, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Burcham, charged with stealing a shawl and a
bonnet, the property of Mr. John Doherty.
The prosecutor, who is the father of the female
prisoner, said he was a milliner, carrying on busi-
ness in Birmingham, but that he wished to with-
draw the present charge, and prefer a charge of
abduction against the man. The man had formerly
resided in Birmingham, and the female had worked
for his wife. He (witness) learning that an inti-
macy had sprung up between the prisoners, he
took his daughter away, and she had gone on well
until last week. The male prisoner, who had a
wife and two children, left Birmingham three
weeks ago, and came up to London. On Monday
last the female prisoner left her home, and although
she had been advertised, nothing was heard of her
until Friday, when she wrote to a friend and stated
that she was living at a house of Mason's, and was
going by the assumed name of Smith. He had
ascertained that Mason had written to his (wit-
ness's) daughter several letters containing very
loving expressions, and that on Saturday last he
had sent her a letter containing a post-office order,
to enable her to pay her expenses up to town.
Witness at once came to London, and having pro-
cured the services of a policeman, went to the
house of the male prisoner, and asked for the
female. Both Mason and his wife denied any
knowledge of his daughter; but, upon searching
the room, the bonnet and shawl belonging to his
(prosecutor's) wife were found. They still denied
any knowledge of his daughter, but upon making
a further search his (witness's) daughter was
found at the bottom of the house concealed in a
box. Under the circumstances he gave both
prisoners into custody. The female prisoner,
who treat the matter very lightly, and who contin-
ually smiled at the man, said she did not want to
go home with her father ; all she wanted was a
sit'iation.
Mr. Burcham said it was a sad case, but he was
of opinion that the evidence would not make it a
case of abduction. The man, who was married,
was a bad fellow, and would lure the girl to her
ruin. He discharged both prisoners, and directed
the girl to go home with her father. The
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not express any willingness to go home,
fellow slunk away amidst hisses.

WORSHIP-STREET.—A thick-set, determined
looking man, who gave the name of Henry Jones,
but refused his address, was charged before Mr.
Hammill with being concerned in burglariously
entering the premises of Mr. William Pollock, 16,
North-place, Kingsland-road, and stealing there-
from between £l5O and £2OO worth of cloth.
The prosecutor stated—l am a master tailor, and
shortly after 12 o'clock on Thursday night last,
securely fastened every part of my house in North-
place. About 5 o'clock I was alarmed by the police
on the stairs, and descending with them, found the
back kitchen window-shutter broken in several
places. A pane of glass had been taken from the
window, and by that means access was obtained to
two bolts that secured the shutters. The bolt of
the kitchen door was also broken, and the thieves
then had a free passage up stairs to my shop, which
I perceived was stripped of a very large quantity
of cloth and three coats. A portion of the cloth has
been since shown to me by the police. There were
footmarks of various sizes all over the place, and
ingress and egress manifestly had been effected
through the window in question, but, whether the
burglars were disturbed or overladen, they left be-
hind them an article known as a "jemmy.
Leveridge, 84 N, said—On Friday evening, about
8 o'clock, was in Britannia-street, City-road, and
observed the prisoner approaching with a parcel.
Having been some time expecting him, I stopped
and asked him, " What have you got there ?" To
this he made a most gross reply, and in continua-
tion said, " I'll let you see what it is if you touch
me ;" but I did seize him, and then he called to
three men who came up, " Let him have it, he's
only a slop" (meaning a policeman). Instantly the
three kicked and struck me to the ground, but I
retained my hold of the prisoner, who, as I lay,
hit me so severely with his fist in the face that the
blood gushed from my mouth. I struggled with
him, and at last got on my feet, and one of the
others then clasped me round my neck from be-
hind. That man I hit at over my head with my
stick, and he released me. Just as I forced the
prisoner into a doorway, Inspector Webster came
up, with whose assistance I got prisoner to the
station-house ; the other men escaped. I found
the bundle to contain nine yards of cloth, which I
produce ; and the prosecutor, when it was
to him, instantly identified the same as shown
his
pro-
perty. Inspector Webster, N division, having corrobo-
rated last witness with regard to the desperate
nature of the struggle for escsaphe made by the
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prisoner—whose appearance, a
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to state that he had
compared the marks on the shutters and door with
the point of the " jemmy," and found them to
correspond. The implement in question was ap-
parently intended also as a weapon of destruction,
one end being curved for the purpose of " prising,"
and the other having a large knob.
The officers asked for a remand • and the pri
soner, who did not attempt to account for the
possession of the parcel found upon him, yet
stoutly protested his innocence of the charge made
against, was then remanded.
Benjamin Hartle was charged with fraudulently
altering a duplicate.
Mr. Swift, a ehairmaker in the Bethnal-green-
road, stated that on the previous evening prisoner
called at his house and offered to him a duplicate
for sale, the ticket expressed, somewhat illegibly,
two planes, two
„"saws, a bevil, andsaeerer,
which articles prisoner assured him were
all
rest, notwithstanding the singular manner in which
they were written on the duplicate. Witness,
however, refused to purchase, until the young mant
besought him to comply for the sake of j a wife joist
confined and in great want of food ; then he gave
ninepence for it, not believing that the prisoner,
whom he.had known for years, would wilfully-de-
ceive him, but on sending one of his apprentices
shortly aftewards to redeem the tßooteill.sehnaiel
green,
was detained and much unpleasainatnessfoccurred.
olocsluplicate
Mr. Wilmott, a pawnbroker
said that he had the counterpart of
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which expressed very differentthaerviriting
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child's petticoat and tp\rviosogooewrnhsa;d
*tools mentioned described
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tChoeuseldeirheeumobsttaain the things really
Witness—Certainly, sir; byn-ces. making
plediga
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tion at a police-court in t
solve a question that has SO.
Magistrate—Precisely
There is scarcely Now perhaps you can
one hundred " puzzled me very much.
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timesthing to do with declarations" are brought here
for the magistrate's
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present P

Witness—l think not. The truth is that all de-
clarations under £1 in value can be obtained gratis,
and therefore the holders of duplicates are careless
of their loss. If only one halfpenny was charged
for the form, the court would not be so troubled.
The prisoner was remanded on this and another
charge.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. Combe was engaged until
a late hour in investigating the charges brought
against Michael Goldsteinand Simon Marks Gold-
berg,Tolish Jews, for conspiring to defraud the
South Eastern Railway Company of a certain sum
of money, and with being concerned with another
in obtaining money from the Great Western Rail-
way Company, under the pretence that they had
lost a. valuable box on the transit from London. to