The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Jan. 22.

MANSION-HOUSE.—William Henry Preston,
aged 34, clerk to Mr. Young, architect, 35, King-
street, Cheapside, was charged with embezzling the
money of his employer.
Mr. R. Ashby, builder, of 24, Bishopsgate-street-
without, said—l have known the prisoner as a clerk
in the employment of the prosecutor. The paper
produced is a receipt for the payment of £3los. due
from me to the prosecutor, but I cannot recollect
whether I myself paid the prisoner the money.
The prosecutor said—The prisoner was a clerk
in my service. It was his duty to receive moneys
and to account for them weekly. I believe the re-
ceipt produced to be in the prisoner's handwriting,
and I find no entry in my book of the payment of
the sum referred to by the last witness. On refer-
ence to my book I find he has not accounted for
other sums paid him on my behalf. I saw him yes-
terday, and he shortly afterwards sent me a list of
his deficiencies, together with other papers which
I now produce.
Huggett, the detective officer, asked for a remand
for the production of further evidence, there being
26 cases against the prisoner.
The prisoner was remanded accordingly.
Wm. Brown, alias Diamond, alias Beck, John
Megan, and John King, were again brought up..
Brown and King had been committed fot trial
upon several charges of obtaining, goods from
wholesale warehouses by means of forged orders,
but were remanded with Megan for the purpose of
enabling Mr. Humphrey, the solicitor for the pro-
secution, to go through the evidence with a view of
ascertaining whether he could establish a charge
of conspiracy against them.
Megan was discharged, Brown and King stand-
ing committed as before.
Margaret Agnes Hackblock, aged 27, whose eyes
were blackened and her face covered with contu-
sions, was charged with assaulting Mr. J. Mans-
field, who keeps the China coffeeshop in Bishops-
gate-street-without.
The complainant said, the prisoner had lived
with him as servant and otherwise for the last nine
years, but she had recently become so violent in her
conduct towards him that he had been compelled to
part with her, and on two other occasions he had
provided her with an outfit to get another situa-
tion, received her back again into his house, how-
ever, on each occasion, upon her promise to behave
better for the future.
Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—But she lived with
you as your wife, did she not ?
Complainant replied in the affirmative, and went
on to say that he had always treated her well, not-
withstanding the frequent violence of her conduct.
On the previous evening, however, he found her
sitting in the public coffeeroom, tossing- -with some
men, and; sending out for drink. He told her to go
to the bar, when she refused to do so, and when he
took hold of her arm to drag her away she struck
him on the face and got away from him. She then
got under the table, and he again took hold of her
arm, upon which she flew at him, stuck her teeth
into his face, and held him so until pulled off by
others. Finding it impossible to quiet her otherwise

he sent for a policeman and gave her into custody.
For some time past he had been endeavouring to get
rid of her, but she would not go, although he offered
to give her a sum of money, and also to provide for
her child.

The prisoner, who spoke in a very excited man-
ner, said, the truth was, she went to live with the
complainant as servant about nine years ago, when
he seduced her, and she had been living with him
ever since, and had had a child by him, but that he
had been in the constant habit of ill-treating her ;
and in proof of his violence on the previous day she
referred to the state of her face, and, nulling up
her sleeves, showed her arms covered with bruises.
With respect to the charge, she said it originated
in a rather peculiar transaction. On Friday morn-
ing a ladylike young woman went to the house and
asked if she could be accommodated with a private
room for the purpose of dressing herself for her
marriage, which was to take place at a church in
the neighbourhood on Tuesday morning next,
offering to pay for the accommodation. She (pri-
soner) asked complainant, who at once gave his
consent, and the young lady went away, but very
soon afterwards returned in a cab, accompanied by
a gentleman, who she said was the one to whom
she was about to be married. This gentleman re-
quested the complainant to allow him to represent
himself as having lodged at the house for some time
past, when, as he was then about to do, he went to
procure a special license, a request with which com-
plainant at once complied, and furnished the gen-
tleman with one of his tax papers to enable him to
give an appearance of undoubted truth to the state-
ment, and the parties then took their leave. After
their departure some words took place between her
and complainant, and subsequently, while she was
standing at the foot of the stairs watching the sky-
light, where some people said they had seen a man

peeping' complainant came up to her, and,llol
outaiwo. :i
r,nd, pushed her down with great vi°lc''r
She added, that the gentleman and lady gave 5,9
names as C. harles Richard Teage and Olivia I,l'w
and said. it was to be a runaway match.
The Lord Itlrayor told the complainant, vh°
no contradiction to this extraordinary statelu.;
that he had ec.'mmitted a grave offence in etli
spiting to promote a fraudulent marriage, and 10,
.his conduct to the prisoner, after seducing her,
quite unjustifiable.
The Lard, Mayor asked the prisoner whethero*4i
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would go home and not annoy complainant 4,
more ? And she promised to cease all annoy'
and never go near Mr. Mansfield again.
The Lord Mayor then endeavoured to prevaiL
Mansfield to allow her something towar Po
maintenance ; bat he stedfastly refused to do
although he -was willing to keep her child.
The prisoner was then discharged.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Wm. Richard Jarks•°:'
a youth, was re-examined on the charge of
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concerned in -uttering forged cheques with Wl,.
to cheat and defraud iris father, Wm. Richard Ji.,,3e,e
son, a meat salesman, carrying on business in 11'
Tuns-passage, Newgate-market.
The prisoner did not utter a word, and '
Hammill, remarking on the distressing nature
the case, ordered him to be committed. for trial.
Wm. Weston, a journeyman cabinetmaker,
charged with the following outrage :
An inoffensive-looking German named Auguseter
Hauser was a fellow-workman with the priorjel
in the service, of a master manufacturer 0111 it
Jones, in the• Curtain-road, Shoreditch, and
seemed that while Hauser is the quiet man "'OO
represented to be, the prisoner was such a' &sloe
bully as to be a terror to all the workmen in 0
shop. On the 7th inst. Hauser heard the priscse,
sawing in the yard of the house, and, susfod
ing what he was about, looked into the yard, 94
found him engaged in sawing up some wood ti'o
belonged to him (Hauser). He remonstrated t 4
him on his vexatious conduct, and his mist
did so likewise, but the prisoner jeered 11ii
bullied them, told them they, were all frighte;
at him, and after grossly insulting his et;
ployer's brother-in-law, who interposed
put a stop to his insolence, he returned
the workshop, and conducted himself with suet°
blackguardism to Hauser that he at last stood til)to
give him a good thrashing. In this the prisuno,
had the advantage at first, by driving the pr°oo
tutor against the wall and then throwing him
he
his back across a bench. While in this position t;
prosecutor was heard to exclaim, " Oh, the se°w.
drel is biting me," but Hauser thrust him off 111,
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flung the prisoner in the same way across
bench, and was about to strike him, when the P:
soner seized him round the neck with one 03;d
grasped a long iron bedscrew with his disengEto of
hand, and, although the prosecutor called to one
the shopmen to take it from him, the youth was te
terrified to do so, and the prisoner stabbed HOor
in the left eye with the screw.
Mr. George Helme,house surgeon of the hospit
deposed that when the prosecutor was brought il
to that institution he found the neighbourhood o'f
the left eye greatly contused, a gash .in the ullieit
eyelid, the vision not only greatly impaired
partially gone, and the eye altogether in such
bad state that it was doubtful if the proses The
would ever entirely recover the sight of it. 15
screw produced was well calculated to inflict Sr'
injuries.
The prisoner impudently declared that all tk
witnesses, four in number, had invented an en'
pack of falsehoods against him ; but
Mr. Hammill told him that the threats he --of
uttered too clearly showed his intent to admit
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any doubt, and ordered him to be committed '
trial.

SOUTHWARK. Henry Hinds, a Custom-hod
officer, was charged with stealing 35 fancy 10,eA,
schaum pipes from a case on board the John
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Hamburg steamer, the property of Messrs. WI?
and Co., merchants, Sambrook-court, Basingll
street.

At the request of the police the prisoner was
remanded for a week, but admitted to bail.

LAMBETH.—A middle-aged man, who gave
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fictitious name of Christopher Stoddart, and. 0,,e,
refiased•to state his address, was examined on i"
following charge :
It appeared from the evidence that betel
10 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon the prisoll_iv,
called at the house of Mrs. Travers, on Chaff
pion-hill, Camberwell, and other respectable
ladies in the neighbourhood, and representing hid
self to be Mr. Stoddart, a respectable ironmongeo
in the High-street, Camberwell, said he
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making a subscription to get a poor woman i°,4
the Putney Hospital; that he had already c",:t
lected and paid in £2O, and that if he did 11,.n't
succeed in getting £3 by 12 o'clock the
woman's goods must be sold. Unfortunately S,
him Mrs. Travers happened to know Mr. Stodda,Po
the tradesman he personated, and this led to 0,
prisoner's apprehension.
Mrs. Deyks, a lady residing in Grove-hill, Carl,r
berwell, identified the prisoner, who had paid ticti
two visits on the subject of charity, and produccu
note which he presented to her on the last occii
sioß, and which purported to have been written 1/,
the Rev. Mr. Moore, but which was a forgery.
The prisoner, who was respectably dressed, v'"
about 50 years of age, was remanded.

EXEMPTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY FROM LOC°
TAXATION.—On Friday a great meeting of members of VS
liament, and others interested in giving effect to the roe'n'.
mendations of the select committee of the House of COD'
mons—" that , all property occupied for public pure/46
should cease to be exempt from local taxation"—was
at the King's Arms, Palace-yard, Westjninster. A del)
tation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was appointed
and the meeting separated.
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