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London, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 31.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Charles Claridge, carman
to Mr. Maybury, carrier, Billiter-street, was charged
before Sir R. W. Carden with having feloniously
forged a receipt for the payment of money.
tion in the War-office, said—l reside at Gloucester-
' Mrs. It. Shoemack, whose husband holds a situ-
grove, Brompton. On the 24th inst., a hamper,
with a delivery ticket attached to the address, was
brought to my house by the prisoner. He asked
2s. for the carriage. I told him that there was Bd.
to pay, according to the ticket. He said that the
charge of 2s. was correct, and that he should ask
what he liked, as it was Christmas time. I paid
him the 2s. The signature to the delivery book
produced, " F. Shoemack," is not my hand-

writing.
Mr. H. Smith, clerk to Messrs. Wheatley and
Co., agents to the Globe Parcel Express Company',
identified the ticket produced as the one he had
made out for the delivery of the hamper at the re-
sidence of the prosecutrix. The proper charge, as
marked on the ticket, was Bd. Mr.- Maybury was
employed to assist the compatiy, who were very
busy about Christmas time. •
Sir R. W. Carden.—The two previous entries
appear to be in the same hand Writing as the forged
signature of the prosecutrix. •
Foulger (the officer).—Yes, and there is also
another at the. top of the page.
Sir R. W. Carden.—How was the fraud dis-
covered?
Mr.
_Smith-1-11r. Shoemack called at the office
on Monday evening, and communicated with us
upon the subject of the overcharge.
Mr. F. Maybury—The prisoner was employed
by me to deliver the hamper, and he returned the
•delivery book to me signed as it now is.
Foulger said that the prisoner, upon being taken
into custody, said he was in trouble but must get
out of it.
The prisoner was fully committed upon this
charge, but will be again brought up, as there aro
a great many other cases against him of a similar
nature to the last.
George Christy, a cab-driver (number of badge
5,886), whose conduct and demeanour were of the
most offensive and insultinc, character in court, ap-
peared upon a summons, which charged him with
having refused to carry a gentleman named Dor-
land from his house, in the vicinity of the Black-
wall Railway Terminus on Christmas-day.
The defendant pleaded guilty.
The complainant, after stating that the defendant
refused to drive him to Notting-hill, said he should
not have summoned him had it not been for his
offensive and insolent behaviour.

Defendant '(impudently—l told you my horse
was tired and I wasn't going to kill hina to accom-
modate you. I told you so then, and I tell you so
now.

Complainant—He was on the cab stand when
sent for him.

Defendant—l. had just had a fare from Peckham-
rye, aid this man wanted me to go to Notting-hill.
ir R. W. Carden—l can judge from your conduct
here how yOU behaved to the complainant:
Complainant—When-I asked-him -his name-and
number he refused to give me. a proper answer. He
would neither give me his ticket nor his name, and
I was obliged to get my servant- .to fetch a candle
before I could see his number. •I' watched him after
he left Jny door, and he returned direct. to the cab
stand.

Defendant—No, I didn't, I went straight home ;
I wasn't going to Notting-hill when my horse was
nearly knocked tip.
Sir R. W. Carden—Then you had no business to
be plying for hire. Your whole conduct here
proves how insolent you must have. been, and I
shall fine you 255. and costs for the offence.
Defendant—l shan't pay it.
He was then committed to prison for 14 days.

WESTMINSTER. --- MisooStucT or PAWN-
BROKERS.—Emma Fitch, a very interesting-looking
girl, between 15 and 16 years- of age, was re-exa-
mined, charged with robbing her mistress of a
quantity of plate and wearing apparel.
It will be remembered that, through the kindness
of a benevolent gentleman, named Moore, who
found the Prisoner destitute, a situation was got
for her in the family of Mrs. Cook, 5, Gloucester-
street, Pimlico, from which she absconded after a
month's service only, taking with her several
articles of plate and clothing.
Frederick Heavens, assistant to Mr. James Mills,
pawnbroker, 103, Edgware-road, produced a cloak
and several articles of silver plate, consisting of a
table spoon, three dessert spoons, and four forks,
which were pledged by the prisoner on the day
after she absconded.

Mr. Arnold—Did you ask her any questions be-
fore you took .the property in ?
Pawnbroker's Assistant—Yes ; she said she
brought them from her mother. I asked whether
she was a housekeeper or a lodger 'and the usual
questions. I was very particular.
Mr. Arnold—That is whi.t you call being very
particular, is it ?

John Hurd, assistant to Mr. Thompson, pawn

broker, 20, john-street, Edgware-road, produced a
table spec n, a dessert spoen, and two forks, pledged
on the 20th, by a girl, for 12s.
Mr. Arnold—Did you make any inquiries of the
girl before you took the plate in ?
Assistant—l believe the questions were asked
who it belonged to, and so on, but I cannot say for
certain.

The officer in the case said that the first pawn-
broker had, when information of the robbery was
given, communicated that he had got some of the
plate, but the second one had not.
Mr. Arnold said he could not refrain from ex-
pressing his opinion of the scandalous facility
afforded by these two pawnbrokers for the disposal
of stolen property.
The prisoner was remanded till this day (Satur-
day) week.

THE CHELSEA SWINDLING CASE.—In the late
case of Mr. Gruneberg, against Thomas Higgins
and George Davis, it will be remembered that
Higgins cleared away all Mr. Gruneberg's furni-
ture under the bill of sale, and deposited it in his owx
house, where it remained till the committal of the
prisoners for trial. The execution creditors
alluded to in that examination, who had the
power to seize the goods, and were urged by
Higgins, when out on bail, refused to do
so pending the investigation, but since the last
examination poor Gruneberg's goods have been
taken in execution by Higgins's landlord for arrears
of rent, which he despaired of getting in any other
way.

CLERKENWELL.—COMMITTAL OF THE MAN
WITH SEVEN WlVES.—Gloucester Gale, the poly-
gamist, was again placed at the bar before Mr.
Tyrwhitt, on remand, charged with feloniously in-
termarrying with Cecilia Maria Wye, his wife,
Eliza Cecilia Gale, being then and now alive.
Mr. Catlin, who appeared on behalf of the Society
for the Protection of Females, said that since the
remand the pocket-book found on the prisoner had
been examined, and was found to contain the par-
ticulars of the whole of the marriages, and of the
parties whom he had proposed to. From the entries
in the book it appeared that he corresponded with
four of the wives on the same day, and was also
asked in three different churches, to three different
females on the same day.

The depositions having been read over,
The prisoner said he was Guilty, but he should
reserve his defence for the jury. There were seve-
ral little articles which he had belonging to the
young ladies which he should like to be given up
to them, and for that purpose he wished to see his
wife.
Mr. Mould (Chief Clerk)—Which one do you
mean ?

Prisoner—Why, my first and proper one.
Mr. Tyrwhitt granted the application, and fully
committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial.
Mr. Coleman, clerk to the Board of Trade, who
made the application to the Lord Mayor in the
first instance, said that another lady had seen the
prisoner, and stated she was married to him about
two years ago.
The court was crowded to excess.

MARYLEBONE. A DISABLED AND DIS-
TRESSED WARRIOR.—William Graham, -wearing
a military dress, and who walked limpingly
into the court, was charged before Mr. Long with
having been found begging in Munster-street,
Regent's-park. ....
The case was proved by 346 S.
The poor fellow's answer to the case was, that he
had been eleven years in India as a private in the
86th Royal County Down. Four years ago he was
discharged at Bombay with a pension for two
years, and since the expiration of that period he
had, owing to a diseased hip, been quite incapable of
obtaining a livelihood by any kind, of labour. He
should be glad to get into a workhouse, or any other
place where he might be sheltered and obtain food.
If he could not do so, nothing but the prospect of
entire starvation awaited him.
_ _ _

Mr. Long discharged the disabled warrior, who
said he would make the best of his way to the parish
in which he had been compelled to solicit alms, and
make his sad case known to the relieving officer, in
accordance with the worthy magistrate's suggestion
that he should do so. _ _

BRUTAL AND SERIOUS ASSAULT.-Wm. Middle-
wick and Charles Cumming were charged on war-
rants with a most brutal assault upon a man named
John Wells, and who, from the serious nature of
the injury which he had sustained, was unable to
attend.

Mr. Wolff, from the office of Mr. Herring, solici-
tor, appeared for the prisoners.
Elizabeth Butler gave evidence which showed
that on the night of the 18th ult., while in Praed-
street, Paddington, she saw Middlewick give Wells
a blow on the head by which he was knocked down.
He (Wells) was also struck by the other prisoner,
and he bled very. much. He was lifted up by some
bystanders, and. was taken to St. Mary's Hospital,
Paddington.

By Mr. Wolff—l'll swear that Wells did not
strike either of the prisoners first. I cannot say
whether all or any of them were drunk or not.
After some further proceedings the accused each
entered into his own recognisances in £2O for re-
appearance. to-morrow (this day) week.
RUFFIANLY OUTRAGE.—John Murphy and Wm.
Dobson were charged under the following circum-
stances :

The particulars gone into showed that, at two
o'clock on the 'previous afternoon, the prisoners,
who were drunk, went into the shop of Mr. Hoare,
White Lion-passage, Paddington, and without any
provocation Murphy seized him by the throat and
nearly strangled him. They both ran away, but
were ultimately captured by Doble '147, and 28 D.
On the road to the station Murphy was very vio-
lent, and struck and kicked Doble several times.
Dobson was discharged, and Murphy was fined
10s.. for assaulting Mr.Hoare, or in default of pay-
ment seven days and in addition thereto 20s. or 14
days, for his violence towards the constable Doble.

SOUTHWARK.—TuE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF
THE MASTER OF ST. °LAVE'S WORKHOUSE. --
Dennis Mahoney, a young fellow about 20 years of
age, dressed in the workhouse garb, was brought
before Mr. Combe for final examination, charged
with cutting and wounding the master of St.
Olave's Union Workhouse, Horselydown, with in-
tent to murder him.

Mr. Corner, the solicitor to the Guardians of
the Poor, appeared for the prosecution.
The master of the workhouse, who seemed to
have recovered in a great measure from the effects
of tht wonnds inflicted on him, said that the
prisoner had been a burden on the parish for
nine years. He was quite right in his intellects,
but :very unruly. On Wednesday, about eleven
o'clock, witness had occasion to go towards the sick
ward, and when near the top of the stairs he saw
the prisoner, but he took no notice of him, and
when endeavouring to pass him he struck witness a
heavy blow on the left car, which caused him to
fall against the banisters. As soon as he turned
round, and was recovering himself, he saw the pri-
soner with a knife in his hand, which he flourished
about, and swore he would murder him with it.
Mr. Combe asked whether he saw where he
took the knife from,.
Witness—Yes, sir, from his coat-pocket. It was
a table-knife belonging to the house.
Mr. Combe—What did the prisoner then do?
Witness—He made several attempts to cut my
throat with the knife, 'and in warding the thrusts
off from my throat I received several cuts, one on
my right arm and shoulder, and then fell on the
stairs. As soon as I recovered myself I rushed
doWn stairs when the prisoner -followed • me, and
made another desperate attempt to cut my throat.
I put up my left hand to parry off the blow, and in.
doing so, the prisoner nearly cut off my left thumb.
Mr. Combe—Did he make use of any threaten-
ing language then ?
Witness—Yes, sir. lie said,
_" You

murder von." I managed to get away from him, and
rushed into the surgery, when Dr. Mackintosh shut
the door, and dressed my wounds.
Mr. Combe—Can you account for this attack oil
your life ?
Witness—The only thing I can imagine is, that
on Friday last he came to me, and wanted clothing
to leave the house, and, on account of his previous
misconduct, I refused.

Mr. James Innes Mackintosh, M.D., medical offi-
cer of St. Olave's Union, said he was in his surgery
shortly before twelve o'clock on the morning in
question, when he saw last witness rush in with
his left hand covered with blood. He closed the
door to prevent the prisoner coming in, and examin-
ing the master's left hand, he found that he had a
desperate cut at the lower cnd of the thumb. There
were also cuts on the right shoulder and arm, all of
which he dressed, and directed the master to keep
his room. He now considered that there was no
danger. The knife produced was such as likely to
have caused the wounds.
Mr. Combe asked whether there was anything
the
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kwith
sthh ereppliiiseodn
ethtsttinttheelrleeewt.as not, and
that he was quite strong and healthy.
Timothy Crawley, a tailor, said he went into the
workhouse to see his daughter, who-was in the
sick ward, and on proceeding up the stairs he saw
the prisoner make three distinct stabs at the mas-
ter. Witness went to his assistance, when the
prisoner turned on him, and the master rushed
down into the surgery.
Joseph Vellacott, 224 M, said when he took the
prisoner into custody for stabbing the-master of the
workhouse, he said, " I meant it." The knife was

found on the other side of -a wall, where he had
thrown it.
The prisoner, who said he should. reserve his
defence, was committed to Newgatg for trial.

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