The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-27 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

(Sittings at Nisi Pri —G
_before Mr. Justice

Byles, and a Common Jury.)
HEMP V. HARRIS.-BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE AND

SEDUCTION.

The hearing of this case, which commenced yesterday,
was resumed this morning..
It appeared that the plaintiff is about twenty-three or
twenty-four years, and the defendant twenty-seven years
old. He was a publican, and proprietor of the King's
Head, Newington Butts. The plaintiff had been en-
gaged by him as barmaid and entered his service last year,
and, she being a person of attractive appearance, he " fell
in love " with her, and by letters he had written in-respect
to her it was evident that at ono time he seriously con-
templated making her his wife. However he succeeded in
seducing her, and then refused to perform his promise.
At the close of the case this morning, the jury, without
leaving the box, found a verdict for the plaintiff, and
assessed the•damages at £l5O.
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-This Day.

MARtBOROUGII-STREET.

CURIOUS CASE.— John Wm. Parker, a respectable-look-
ing man, butler to Mr. Harrison, of No. 40, Bryanston-
square, was charged beforo Mr. Tyrwhitt with being in
possession of a silver tankard much battered and defaced,
and not being able to give a satisfactory account of the
same.
Police-constable Irwin, 218 C, said that from informa-
tion ho received he stopped the prisoner in Duke-street,
Grosvenor-square, with the broken tankard produced in his
hand. On asking him how he became possessed of it, he
said that it was left him by his aunt 16 years ago, but that
he had shown it to no one, and kept it locked in his box
all the while, and that the reason why ho had filed the
name and crest off was because he wished to ascertain
whether it was silver or not. Not being satisfied with the
prisoner's story he took him to the station.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the constable said the pri-
soner was a butler at 40, Bryanston-square, and on making
inquiries there he ascertained that the plate was all correct.
Theprisoner sail that he told the constable that the tan-
kard was left him by his uncle, and not his aunt. He was
living at the time at Alderman Carden's, in Wingate-
street, and his uncle, who had been a butler for many years
to a gentleman at Romford, left him the tankard, and
his brother a horn. It being very old and worn, he
knocked it up and went to see whether it was silver.
Mr. Mellish, pawnbroker, of Duke-street, Grosvenor-
square, said ho was the person who ave information to
the constable. The prisoner brought tghe property to his
house, and ho refused to receive it, and sent for a con-
stable.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he would take one bail in .£lO for the
prisoner's re-appearance in the week, and he could then
produce any witnesses he might think proper.
DARING STREET EOEBERY.—William Brown, described
as a seaman, address refused, was charged beforo Mr. Tyr-
whitt with stealing a gold watch and chain of the value of
£5B, the property of Luca Passasso, a courier residing at
21, Bury-street, St. James's.
The prosecutor was crossing Lower Regent-street into
Jermyn-street last night about 12 o'clock when the pri-
soner passed him and rushed back and snatched his watch
and chain from him and ran off. He was pursued and
taken to the station, and on the way he told the constable,
330 A, that be was innocent of the charge, but while being
searched at the station he dropped the watch and chain
down the leg of his trowsers and put his foot on them.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner to give the police
an opportunity of making inquiries respecting him.