The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 28.

MANSION-HOUSE.—William Callaway, clerk
to Messrs. Lightly and Simon, of Fenchurch-street,
wine merchants, was charged with having stolen
£3O, the property of the firm.
Mr. Hudson appeared as solicitor for the proseeu.
tion, and having stated the case, called the follow.
ing witnesses:—
Mr. F. W. Girdlestone, c]erk in the office of the
prosecutors, said,—The prisoner was a clerk in the
same employment as myself four or five years. He
was called the Custom-house clerk, and it was his
duty to pay duties on wines and to. account to me
for the amounts he paid. The cash-book I produce
is in the prisoner's writing, and there is an entry
of the date of the 11th of February, in his hand-.
writing, of the receipt of the money from me, which
he duly accounted.for ; but on the 12th of Feb-
ruary he appliedsto me for £25 and £5 for the pur-
i pose of pay.m duties, which sums I gave to him in
the followm way—viz. two £lO-notes and two
£5-notes. e left the Office to pay the duties as I
supposed, but he never returned, and I did not see
him till he was in custody. He has not in any way
accounted for the £3O. It was his duty to extract
from the books the duties to be paid, and to ask for
the money with which to pay them. The £lO-
- produced has upon it the names " Lightly and
Simon," which were, I believe, written by him.
The number is 27886, and the date is the Bth of
December, 1858, On the 12th of February I ob-
tained cash for the cheque produced•for £6O drawn
by my employers upon Martin and Co., the bankers,
and out of that money I paid to the prisoner two
.Trio ....l unv .as ....,L.

Mr. Leman, cashier in Messrs. Martin and Co.'s
bank, said,—l cashed the cheque referred to by
Mr. Girdlestone for £6O, and the £lO-note pro-
duced in evidence is one of the notes which I then
handed over the counter in payment of the cheque.
Foulger, the detective officer, said,—About half-
past 7 o'clock this morning the prisoner came to my
house in Mark-lane, and said to me, " I dare say you
are surpriied to see me." I had known the prisoner
before. I said, " Yes, I am, rather." Ire said, " I
am come to give myself up. I knew you would
have the case in hand." I took him to the station
house, and, in consequence of information which I
had previously received, I charged him with having
stolen £3O from his employers, Messrs. Lightly and
Simon. The inspector said to him, "Then you
admit you are Mr. Callaway, and that you took the
money ?" He said, " Yes, I did."
The Lord Mayor—Did he mention to you what
he had done with the money ?
Foulger—He did not, but said he had been out
of town with his wife.

The Lord Mayor—Prisoner, have you anything
to say ?

Prisoner—No, my lord.
He was committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.—Mary Wakefield, a woman about
30 years of age, and in an advanced stage of preg-
nancy, was charged with a robbery in an omnibus.
Mr. Beard said this robbery occurred in one
of the omnibuses belonging to the London General
Omnibus Company, by whom he was instructed to
prosecute, it being their determination to do all in
their power to put a stop to robberies of this kind
by prosecuting, at their own private expense, for
all such offences committed in their carriages.
Mrs. Shadbolt said she got into an omnibus at
Shoreditch to go to Chelsea, having at the time a
baby in her arms and a little boy by her side. The
prisoner shortly after entered, and took a seat on
the opposite side of the omnibus, but in about four
or five minutes afterwards she changed places and
seated herself by the side of the prosecutrix, and
next to her pocket. Her purse, containing two half-
crowns, two or three shillings, a sixpence, and two
fourpenny-pieces, was safe in her pocket before the
prisoner entered the omnibus, and the latter had
not shifted her seat very long before she displayed
some anxiety to leave the omnibus. The prosecu-
trix at the same moment felt for her purse, and
upon missing it accused the prisoner of picking her
pocket. The prisoner denied the charge, and recom-
mended the prosecutrix to see if she had dropped
it, and offered to hold the baby while she searched
the omnibus. The prosecutrix looked about. anti
_ At the prisoner s
feet. She called the conductor's attention to the
prisoner, and accused her of robbing her, and when
the policeman came up he found the money near
where the prosecutrix had found the purse. The
prisoner attempted to leave the omnibus, but she
was detained and given into custody. _

Police-constable- 345 said, when at the police
station the prisoner attempted to swallow a piece of
paper which he found was a notice from some pri-
soner of the date of his approaching discharge or
liberation. She had a parcel containing a new
brown holland jacket in her hand, and she gave a
false address.

The female searcher said she found in the pri-
soner's dress pocket a florin, a 6d., and six four-
penny pieces, and in an under pocket a handsome
purse containing a half-crown and 2s. She also had
three or fou: keys and a silver watch.

Mr. Beard said there was no doubt the second
purse was tie produce of another omnibus robbery,
and if the circumstance became known through the
press the ovner might be found.
Aldermai. Gabriel said it was a case for further
inquiry, and he should therefore remand the pri-
soner till Friday, the 6th of May.
The purse found on the prisoner is of dark green
leather, with steel frame and clasp, the inside being
of buff-coloired leather, with a large pocket on
either side end a smaller one clasped in the centre.
Thomas kealy was charged with the following
watch robbery :
The robbry was committed about a fortnight or
three week: ago, on which occasion Capt. Frtysor
was waitin; in Fleet-street for a friend who, the
prisoner ani a companion, who is now serving three
months in orison for the same robbery, inquired the
way to Rei Lion-street, Holborn. The prosecutor
directed hit, and while in the act of doing eo the
friend he las waiting for came up and called his
attention o his chain hanging outside wthout
his watch, upon which the prisoner's comlanion
ran away, Ind in the absence of the prosecubr the
prisoner nide his escape, as was believed, will the
watch, thcother man having unscrewed the swivel
while speking to the captain, and handed the
watch to tte prisoner before drawing the pr3secu-
into the disc after his watch.

The prioner denied all knowledge of tle rob-
andtlleged in his defence that he hagbery, since

been in custody for robbing a lady in Holborn at
the very time this prosecutor lost his watch.
The officer said the prisoner had made a mistake
in the time. The lady was robbed in Holborn at
eight o'clock, and the captain at 10 o'clock in Fleet-
street, leaving plenty of time for the prisoner to
have had a hand in both cases. He had also been
convicted, and had 12 months for two cases of pick-
ing pockets.
The prisoner was sentenced to three months' im-
prisonment witk hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Horton Bate-
man, ticket-of-leave man, whose name was much
mentioned in the evidence already given at this
court in the case of the forged check on Drummond's
bank, Charing-cross, for £270, presented on the
21st of January last, by the man Wm. Wynne
Bramwell, in custody, and under committal) with
Wm. Wagner for forgery, was charged with being
closely implicated with the other prisoners in the
said felony.
Mr. Mullins, as on the former occasions, attended
for the Society of Bankers, and the prisoner was
undefended.
Edward Funnel, the officer, examined by Mr.
Mullins—Assisted by Webb, I apprehended the
prisoner last night at Battersea, on the charge of
being concerned with Wagner and others in the
forgery on Messrs. Drummond's bank. I told him
the charge, and he made no remark.
The prisoner, when called upon, said he should
reserve his defence. _

Mr. Mullins said—Upon this evidence, all I pro-
pose giving at present, I ask your worship for a
remand till Monday next.
Remanded accordingly. _ _

Bateman, described above as a ticket. of-leave man,
was convicted on March 27, 1852, at the. Central
Criminal Court, for felony, and was, other convic-
tions being exhibited against him, sentenced to 10
years' transportation, of which he served six, when
he was set at large on the licensed Government
ticket, and came to London last year, when he en-
tered the service of Mr. Rigby, builder and con-
tractor, of Holyhead, as a clerk. Here, however, he
appears to have remained no long time, for in No-
vpmbor last known tO have been in bubinebs
with Wagner, who is his brother-in-law, ostensibly
as a law, parliamentary, and general stationer, at
10, York-buildings, Adelphi, but where in reality
gigantic forgeries were concocted and carried out.
He had been traced to the east end of London,
where it is known he has been lying closely con-
cealed for several weeks past, and the constant
watch the officers kept up resulted in his capture on
Wednesday night, as stated, at Woodbine-cottages,
Battersea, in the rear of which, he having taken
the alarm on their entrance, they found him crouched
into as small a compass as possible.
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MARYLEBONE.—EXTRAORDINARY APPLICA-
TION.—A poor man, who said his name was George
Marsh, a carman, living at 35, Charlton-street,
Somers-town, applied to the sitting magistrate, Mr.
Long, for his advice in the following distressing
case :

Applicant stated that his wife was removed from
his residence to Middlesex Hospital where she died
of cancer eight days ago. He had since applied to
the officers of St. Pancras and Marylebone parishes,
but neither of them would bury the body.
After some questions, Mr. Long directed that Mr.
Tubbs, the relieving overseer of Marylebone, should
be sent for, and that officer shortly after appearing
in court, the facts were stated to him.
Mr. Tubbs, in return, thought it a very unfair
proceeding on the part of St. Pancras to refuse to
send for the body, the deceased having i‘ legally"
died in that parish, as, by the 12th and 13th. Vic.,
c. 103, sec. 4, a temporary abode in an hospital was
not considered a break from their last residence.
He thought, under the circumstances, it would be
better to send the body to applicant's residence in
Somers-town, and then the officers at. St. Pancras
must do their duty.
Applicant here interrupted by saying that he
had only a small room, and four children were
living in it.
Mr. Tubbs continued by saying that, under those
circumstances, and as the body was (as he under-
stood) much decomposed, it would be an act of
cruelty to send the body there, and he thought he
should be only carrying out the wish of his board
in receiving the body, and causing it to be buried.
Mr. Long expressed his gladness-that Mr. Tubbs
would take that course for the sake of the suffering
family, although legally he believed that St. Pan-
cras were compellable to receive the body ; and he
should recommend Mr. Tubbs to lay the case before
his board at their next meeting, and no doubt they
would demand the expenses from St. Pancras, and
if refused it was a proper case to lay before the
Poor-law Commissioners for their decision.

Mr. Tubbs said that, on behalf of the board of
Marylebuue, he begged tu say they always bent for
the bodies of their poor inhabitants, no matter what
hospital they died in.
The parties then left the court.

LAMBETH.—THE INDECENT ASSAULT BY A
CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. Nicholas Bessot,
a Catholic clergyman, belonging to St. George's
Cathedral, who stands charged with the commission
of an indecent assault upon the person of William
Harris, a butcher boy of about 15 years of age,
attended before the Hon. G. C. Norton in discharge
of his recognisances for further exemination.
Mr. Solomon, as on the day before, appeared on
behalf of the accused.
When the case was called on, Mr. Norton was
informed that the complainant kept out of the way
on the day before, but that his father, who is a
butcher, carrying on business at No, 241, Tennyson-
street, York-road, Lambeth, had promised Mr.
Elliott he should he in attendance to give his evi-
dence on that morning. He had not, however, kept
his promise, as neither father nor son were present,
and Mr. Solomon applied for the discharge of his
client.

Mr. Norton, however, desired an officer to proceed
to the residence of the lad Harris, and bring him to
the court to give evidence, but on the officer's return
he informed his worship that the only answer he
received was that both the boy and father were from
home.

Mr. Solomon complained in strong and indignant
terms of the conduct of Inspector Byron, of the L
division, in having, during his (Mr. Solomon's) ab-
sence, and while wholly disconnected with the case,
most indecently and improperly interfered in it.
The charge was in the hands of a most intelligent
officer, and the interference of Byron was both un-
called for and highly reprehensible. The judges in
the superior courts would not tolerate such an in-
terference, and he trusted that for the future his
worship would not do so.
Mr. Norton directed that the constable Lake, 153
M, and Sergeant Brand, of the L division, should be
sworn, and after hearing their evidence he re-
manded the accused, but offered to take bail for his
attendance on another day. He also ordered that
summonses should be issued for the attendance of
Harris and his son.

SOUTHWARK.—EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT
OF A GENTLEMAN IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.—Mr.
Nathaniel Butler, a respectable-looking middle-aged
person, described as a gentleman, residing at No.
29, Percy•street, Dublin, was brought before Mr.
Burcham, charged with unlawfully travelling in a
luggacce van on the. South-Eastern Railway, and
en angering his nte and the nves or milers by
opening a door while the train was in motion.
Mr. Robinson, the chief law clerk to the company,
with Mr. Dyne, the superintendent of the line,
attended to prosecute.
Henry Smart, a guard in the employ of the South
Eastern Railway Company, said that he had charge
of the 7.10 train from Stroud on the previous even-
ing, and on arriving at New-cross he assisted in
putting the passengers into the carriages and shut-
ting the doors. His place was in the break com-
partment next to where the luggage was deposited,
and no passenger was allowed to enter either.
Shortly after the train started, and while they were
going at the rate of 20 miles an hour, witness heard
the slamming of a door. He instantly looked out of
the break window, and saw the door of the luggage
compartment open, swinging to and fro, with the
prisoner holding on. 'Witness was struck with
terror at the prisoner's position, as well as the
great danger to be apprehended by the door
coming in contact with anything on the line.
He, however, at the risk of his life left 'the
break van, and crept along the edge of the car-
riage to the luggage van, when he fortunately
succeeded in closing the door of the latter
and returning to his own place. As soon as the
train arrived" at London-bridge, witness imme-
diately communicated with Mr. Dyne, the station-
master and superintendent of the line, who gave
the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Burcham told the witness that his conduct
was highly creditable by putting his own life in
jeopardy to save the prisoner's life, and, perhaps,
the lives of many others in the train. He asked
whether the prisoner was sober?
Smart replied that he appeared to have been
drinking, and seemed much excited. He had no
ticket, and how he got into the luggage van was a
miracle to him, as everything appeared to be safe
when the train left New-cross.

Mr. Burcham said he hardly knew how to deal
with such a case. It appeared to him to be a
serious offence, and ought not to be lightly passed
over. Not only *had the prisoner endangered his
own life, but he had endangered the lives of all the
parties in the train.
The prisoner, who seemed to be aware of his
position, here said, that he did not know how he
got in the luggage van, He found the door open

after the train started from New-cross, and, fearing
a collision with some abutment, or other impedi-
ment on the line, he endeavoured to shut it.

Smart, the guard, informed his worship that he
was actually swinging on the door and it was a
miracle he did not fall and lose his life.

Mr. Robinson said it was an indictable offence,
and as it was of such a peculiar nature, perhaps his
worship would remand the prisoner, to enable him to
lay the case before the manager and his superiors.
Mr. Burcham considered that such a proceeding
was necessary, and under those circumstances he
should remand the prisoner until Wednesday next,
but accept bail for his appearance.