The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-10 00:00:00

THAMES

A RUNAWAY KNOCK.—Alexander Peterkin, a grave-
looking, middle-aged man, and described as a clerk in the
service of the North London Railway Company, was
charged with unlawfully knocking at a street door.
Mr. Thomas Gray, a surgeon in Poplar; said he had been
greatly annoyed by frequent ringing of his bell and knocks
at his door by foolish and disorderly people. This morn-
ing, at a quarter before 2 o'clock, he was in his parlour
writing a letter when ho heard the voices of two men
laughing outside. He heard some one directly afterwards
on his door-step, and immediately after a loud knock at his
door. He got up and opened the door, and saw the pri-
soner and another man running away. He followed them
and they separated at the end of the street. He caught
the prisoner and gave him into custody. Prisoner was under
the influence of liquor, but not drunk. He denied having
knocked at the door.
In answer to a question by the magistrate, police-con-
stable 147 K said the prisoner gave his right name and
address.

Prisoner—l am innocent of knocking at the surgeon's
door.

Mr. Partridge—The probability is that either you or
your companion knockod at the door, but there is no proof
that you did so. It is a very annoying practice, the amuse-
ment of fools, to knock at doors. You appear to be a re-
spectable man, and have given your right name and ad-
dress. You are discharged.

WESTMINSTER.
• A FIT CASE FOR lIANWELL ASYLUM.—Elizabeth Cor-
bett, a girl of 20, who has been at this court several times
charged with creating disturbances at Chelsea Workhouse,
assaulting the porters, and doing damage, was charged this
morning with breaking six panes of glass, value 35., at the
workhouse of St. Liike's, Chelsea.
George Blandford, the porter, said that prisoner came
night at 7 o'clock, and was ad-
went to the master's door, and
rung
to
nt thet;d h house
bae .
casual, onT She i
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masterd ay
desired him to fetch a police-
man. When he came with the policeman she went into
the hall and tried to fasten herself in. Witness opened the
door, and then she smashed six of the windows with her
hands, and was taken to the station.
In reply to Mr. Selfe, the witness said she was not con-
sidered insane by the medical officers. Sho behaved her-
self as long as she,was allowed to have her own way.
The night porter, M‘Lachlan, said prisoner had been
threatening him several nights this week. He never
spoke to her. She discharged herself voluntarily last
Wedndesday, and had annoyed them ever since.
The prisoner, whose parents are insane, and who is
herself undoubtedly mad, at times, went into a long
detail of the treatment she had experienced at the
hands of the master, matron, sad all the officials of tho
workhouse at Chelsea. She complained that on this occa-
sion she had to walk about the courtyard in the drenching
rain to avoid the horrible language of the other paupers in
the wardroom, and when she complained to the master and
asked him to interfere, ho shut himself up in his room with
the matron and jeered at her through the window. When
she saw a policeman coming she preferred a night in the
police-station to being abused and assaulted by casual
paupers, and smashed the windows to be.locked up. She
now lost her temper, and having violently threatened
several persons,

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Mr. Selfe sentenced her to seven days, imprisonment for
tho damage.

Prisoner said she had witnesses to call, and her relatives
would employ a solicitor. She was always being ill-
treated and threatened.
Mr. Selfe ordered her at the expiration of the seven days
to find a surety in £5 to keep the peace for three months.
She was removed, threatening the master, matron, and
porter.

MUTINY ON THE HIGH SEAS.—On Thursday
three sailors, named M'lnnes, Kennefick, and Sharp,
were charged before the Liverpool magistrates with mutiny
on the high seas on board the barque Rosendale, from
Cardiff to South America. On the outward voyage the
prisoners and others of the crew were stated to be very
unruly, and on several °cessions refused to obey orders.
At Bahia, where they were imprisoned for a row on shore,
they were heard to express their determination to take an
early opportunity of knocking the mate's brains out. On
the homeward voyage they continued their misconduct,
and on an attempt being made to put Kennefick in irons
ho resisted, the other persons helping him, and ISPlnnes
laid the mate's head open with a blow from a belaying
pin. The captain was stunned with a blow from a sling
shot, administered by Sharp, and the mutineers then took
possession of the fore part of the vessel. The captain put
back to Pernambuco, where the prisoners were ordered by
the consul to be put in irons, and they were thus conveyed
back to Liverpool. Two other mutineers were discharged
at Pernambuco, there being no room to bring them home
in the vessel as prisoners. After hearing all the evidence
the Court ordered the prisoners to bo imprisoned without
hard labour for 12 weeks.