The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 14.

CLERKENWELL.—COMMITTAL OF A POLICE-
MAN FOR BURGLARY.—George Woodhead, police
constable, 171 N division, was placed dt the bar,
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with burglariously
breaking and entering the dwelling house of Mr.
Paul Puzey, the landlord of the Island Queen pub-
lic house, Hanover-street, Islington, and stealing
therein £1 ls. 6d. in silver, and about 18s. in cop-
per moneys, a half pint of rum, one quartern of
peppermint, and nine heart cakes, his property.
Inspector Judge, N division, watched the case on
behalf of the Commissioners of Police.

Sergeant Robinson, 50 N, said—About three
o'clock this (Saturday) morning I was on duty in
Hanover-street, and heard a slight noise in the bar
of the Island Queen public house. I listened for
some little time, and hearing the noise continue I
went to the side door, and pushing it, found it open.
I went in and saw the prisoner behind the bar, and
he seemed very much excited when he saw me.
He was the constable on the beat. The landlord
was coming down stairs at the time, and the pri-
soner said,—" I have the place open, as usual." I
said to the prisoner, " How have you got here ?"
He said, "By that door (pointing to the side door),
which I found open." The landlord then said, " I
bolted that door at 12 o'clock, before I went to
bed." The prisoner then said, " I came in by the
kitchen window, which I found wide open." I said,
" You had no right to enter by yourself, until you
had knocked them up from the outside." I asked
the landlord to examine his premises, to ascertain
if he had lost anything. He examined a cupboard,
and said he missed £1 ls. 6d. in silver, and about
18s. in copper moneys. I said, " This appears to be
a strange circumstance," when the landlord said, " I
believe that no one has been here but the police.
man." We all went to the police station, and when
there I asked the prisoner what money he had about
him. He said about 30s. in silver and copper, which
he took from his trousers pocket, and placed on the
table. There was £1 ls. 6d. in silver, and 4s. 9d.
in copper. I asked him if that was all he had got,
when he said " Yes." I said I would search him,
when he took from his pocket the two bottles pro-
duced, containing liquor, and 1 ls. 4d. in copper.
Upon examining his hat I found the cakes produced
in it. I afterwards went back to the house, and
with the prosecutor found ss. 2d. in copper money
in the rubbish. The prisoner had passed that spot
as we came out of the house to go to the station.
When charged at the police' station the prisoner
made no reply.
The prisoner said he did not wish to ask the
witness any questions. He found the door open.
Mr. Paul Puzey said—l keep the Island Queen
public-house, Hanover-street, and it is my dwelling
house. This (Saturday) morning, about 3 o'clock,
I heard a knocking on the stairs. I got up, and
proceeding down stairs I saw the prisoner, who said
" I have found the house open as usual." I have
been called up by the prisoner in a similar way
twice previously. Each time I have found him in
the bar. On one occasion, after he had gone, I
missed 3s. This morning, as I came down, the
sergeant came in by the side door. I heard the
prisoner say to the sergeant that he had come in
by the kitchen window, and that he had found the
side door open from the inside. I was the last
person up in the house. lam sure that the side
door was, when I went to bed, bolted on the inside,
and I am quite positive that the kitchen window
was shut down close. The window goes up and
down by a pulley. When the prisoner was in the
bar this morning I went down stairs and found the
kitchen window open at the bottom sufficient to
admit a man. You can get to the kitchen through
a yard, which has a gate fastened by a piece of
string. The sergeant desired me to see if I had
missed anything. I examined, and missed from a
cupboard in the bar £1 in silver, and about 18s. in
copper. From the till I missed ls. 6d. in silver
and a few coppers. The two bottles produced are
mine, and they, now full, were empty in my bar
when I went to bed. I had cakes, similar to those
produced and found in the prisoner's hat, in the
bar.

Mr. Tyrwhitt inquired how long the prisoner
had been connected with the police
Inspector Judge—About four years, sir.
The prisoner, who said he should reserve his
defence, remarked that it was a fact that he had
found the door open as he had told the sergeant.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fully committed the prisoner for
trial at the Central Criminal Court on the charge
of burglary.
The prisoner, who seemed to have been drinking,
was then removed.

MARYLEBONE.-ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A

FEMALE WITH A CARVING-KNlFE.—Rebecca Merry,
aged 20, in the service of a family in Western
Villas, Paddington, was brought up from St.
Mary's Hospital, charged with having attempted
to destroy herself by cutting her throat with a
large carving-knife.

Elizabeth Butler, servant in the same house,
deposed that at seven in the morning of the Bth ult.
she went into the kitchen, and found the prisoner
in a kneeling position, and in the act of lighting
the fire. She was bleeding from the throat. Wit-
ness said to her, ," Oh, Rebecca, what have you been
doing ?" and she exclaimed, " Oh, dear, what shall
Ido ?" The bleeding was partially stopped, and
without loss of time the prisoner was conveyed in
a cab to the hospital.
Rhodes, D 306, produced the knife—a large one,
and very sharp, and upon it were many marks of
blood.

Mr. Broughton—Where did you find it ?
Witness—ln the dining-room, sir. The wound
must have been infiscted there, as there was a pool
of blood on the carpet.
Mr. Broughton—Have you any surgeon's certi-
ficate ?

Witness—No, your worship.
The father, who was present in court, and de-
scribed himself as an engine-driver, said he believed
the prisoner to be not quite right in her mind. One
of his sons had been affected in a similar way, and
was for some time in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
The prisoner, who had not a word to say in reply
to the charge, was given up to a married sister, who
promised to afford her careful protection.
DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—Edward

Cavanagh was charged with having, in conjunction
with another man not in custody, burglarionsly en-
tered the premises of Mr. Standfast, carpenter,
&c., Gloucester-mews, Portman-square, and stolen
therefrom property of different descriptions.
John Tribe, residing nearly opposite to prosecu-
tor's, stated that on the previous night, between
nine and ten o'clock, in consequence of something
which was communicated to him, he came out of
his back parlour and went to the front window,
when he observed the prisoner and another in the
act of breaking_ open his (prosecutor's) door,
through which they at last entered apparently by
means of a key. Witness, who kept watch out-
side, being convinced that a robbery was going on,
saw a light carried from the lower to the upper part
of the house. In the course of a short time it
.was
parnon
were making
extinguished. and the prisoner and his corn
came quietly down. They
egress hastily from the dwelling, N hen witness
ng witness
seized hold of the prisoner, who, however,vhim ; but he pur-
sued in breaking away from
he sue
was speedil
sued him, crying "Stop thief," and
captured. The other man got clear y
Clarke, 174 A by whom theoff.
prisoner
was taken,
produced a silver lever watch and guard and four
silk handkerchiefs, as also
some keys and Lucifer ,

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matches which were found upon him (prisoner)
when searched at the station-house.
The watch, guard, and handkerchiefs were iden-
tified by the prosecutor, who deposed to the pre-
mises being safely locked when he left home in the
early part of the day.
It was further stated that the locks of two doors
had been forced.

Inspector Combs said that in the event of a re-
mand for a few days the prisoner's companion
would no doubt be in custody.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re-
manded till Thursday next.

WORSHIP-STREET. -- ONE OF ENGLAND'S
SAILORS.—John Hall, described as a hawker, was
charged, before Mr. Hammill, with stealing a
pocket handkerchief from the person. A very
diminutive weather-beaten old man with difficulty
mounted the witness-box, and in reply to a ques-
tion from the magistrate as to his name significantly
replied "Punch."

Mr. Ilammill—" Punch !" Well, Mr. Punch, you
have lost your handkerchief, I believe. Now tell
me how did it happen ?

Prosecutor—Well, my name is Jem Punch, your
honour. Yesterday I came from Portsmouth by
the what-you-may-call-it, because I received a pro-
mise from Major Wilson, and another gentleman,
that I should go into Greenwich Hospital. Weill
stowed away my traps at Tower-bill, and then
stood for the " Three Loggerheads," at Shoreditch,
for you see I wanted to discover the latitude of an
old messmate, Tom Stubbs, he as was on the coast
guard service with me at the time of the great
blockade breaking up. Well, I says to this young
gentleman (prisoner) " Can you tell me where Tom
Stubbs has a berth." Then two other gentlemen
came up and got axing me some questions, while
this one picked my pocket of a beautiful handker-
chief I brought from Rangoon. That's all I knows
of the matter, except that I tried to run after the
thief, and could not catch him.
Mr. Hammill—You have been at sea some years
I think ?

Mr. Punch—Aye, your honour, twenty-three
years and eight months•, but I must lay up in dock
now, for you see my old woman has gone aloft—
we parted company the first month of this blessed
year ; and after having sailed so long together—
no less than forty-seven years, your honour—why
I begin to think I am not much use now.
Mr. Hammill—Have you any family ?
Mr. Punch—l have a son, your honour, who has
been to sea twelve years, but he is working now
where I have left.

Mr. Hammill--You must have seen some service ?
Mr. Punch—l was all through the French war ;
at Trafalgar, on the same deck when the great
Nelson fell. Yes, I'm a " Victory" man. I was at
Algiers, Navarino--there I got my first wound,
and at Acre.

Mr. Hammill—You got a pension, of course ?
Mr. Punch-0 yes ! I got a pension for my first
wound, but I threw it up and was off to sea again.
Now I've got ls. a-day, and what's more than that,
eight medals (putting his hand in his pocket.)
Mr. Hammill—Take my advice, don't show them,
they might follow your handkerchief.
Mr. Punch, with apparent alarm, acted upon the
suggestion, at the same time exclaiming, " Bless
your Honour, I hope not."
Mr. Hammill—You have not lost a limb I per-
ceive.

Mr. Punch—No, your Honour, thank heaven I'm
sound yet—sound to the last.
Mr. Hammill—Where are you going to when
you leave this court ?
Mr. Punch—l want to see the Lords of the Ad-
miralty, but don't know how to get there.
Mr. Hammill—Very well. I will take care that
your journey there shall be a safe one.
The worthy magistrate then directed Mr. Wood,
the third clerk, to accompany the veteran and ex-
pedite the important business with as much despatch
as possible.

This was done, and the prisoner, who had listened
to the sea•dog's story of a life with apparently as
much interest as any in court, was remanded, upon
the declaration of Holland, 155 H, that he doubted
not being able to apprehend those who had acted
in complicity with him, from having seen them dart
off in different directions while he secured the actual
thief.

Subsequently Mr. Wood stated that be had lodged
Mr. Punch and his "traps" at Rockingham House,
New Kent-road, a necessarily preparatory step to
his appearing before the board at the Admiralty.
Mr. Punch further desired that his duty might be
offered to Commander Hammill for the great good-
ness shown to him at a time when he had not more
than threepence in the world.

LAMBETH.--A RICH MEAL.—George Wilson,
a cab-driver, was charged before Mr. Elliott with
having swallowed a sovereign under the following
circumstances :
Mr. Edwin Winter, grocer, Frith-street, Soho,
said that on Friday nighthe and a friend engaged
the prisoner's cab, which was on the stand
at St. Clement's Church. Prisoner was to drive
them to Kennington Park. On their way down
Oakley-street, complainant directed the prisoner
to stop at the Oakley Arms, where they got
down. He and his friend had a glass of gingerbeer,
and the prisoner had a glass of ale. Prosecutor
put down a sovereign, Which the prisoner took up.
Mr. Elliott--Did you ask him for it ?
Prosecutor—l did. But he put it in his mouth,
and soon after exclaimed, " It is gone," and he then
asked for a biscuit.
Mr. Elliott—He was drunk, surely ?
Prosecutor—No, sir, not at all. I and my friend
entered the cab, and I soon after gave the prisoner
into the custody of a police-constable.
Prisoner—You asked me if I would have the
sovereign for my supper. I said that I would,
when you put it in my mouth.
Prosecutor--I did not. There was no larking.
Mr. James Bishop, licensed victualler, and pro-
prietor of the Surrey Arms, Thomas•street, Ken-
nington Park, corroborated the evidence, and
stated that the prisoner observed he would return
the sovereign in four days.
The prisoner in his defence repeated the state
ment he had previously made, that the prosecutor
asked him if he would have the sovereign for
supper.
The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next,
bail being accepted.
NUMEROUS ROBBERIES AT RAILWAY STATIONS.
—Henry Watson, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, was brought up on remand, and placed
at the bar, charged by Mr. Thomas Bent, inspector
of the A division, who is employed by the South-
Western Railway Company, with the following
robberies at the Waterloo Railway Station, and at
the terminus of the Brighton and South Coast
Railway, London-bridge :
Mr. Neale attended for the prisoner.
In reference to the robberies on the South-
Western railway, the evidence went to show that
InSpector Bent, on Saturday last (that day week)
received information that a Mr. Gastron,
solicitor, Horbury-terrace, Notting-hill, had lost
a bag, containing various articles of wearing
apparel, with a cricket-bat in it, which were in the
waiting room. He left the room for a minute, when
on his return ho missed the property. Mr. Bent
sent information of the robbery to Inspector Byron,
who traced that the property had been left at the
shop of Mr; Matthews, pawnbroker, Princes-row.
On Wednesday last the prisoner called on Mr.
Matthews to redeem the articles, when he (Mr.
Matthews) sent for Mr. Byron, who took the pri-
soner into custody, who stated that he bought the
articles of a man, named Davis, at the Victoria
Tavern, Waterloo-road, on the Saturday afternoon.

Mr. Nutley, proprietor of the tavern, said that
he was in his bar all Saturday afternoon, and that
the prisoner was never there at all.
The property was produced, and identified by
the prosecutor.
Upon this case being disposed of another charge
was preferred against the prisoner by Inspecter
Bent, of stealing a portmanteau, the property of a
gentleman of the name of Kernott, on the same
da,3rr.he
robbery at the other railway took place as
follows
Elizabeth Carl, barmaid at the refreshment rooms,
izab :
said that last Friday week the pris')ner had a glass
of stout. After he drunk it he had another, which
he took to a table, on which was a cruet stand in
which were six bottles. She left the room for a
minute, when the prisoner was gone and the cruet
stanhdoamlsaos.
T
proved havßinigellards' a constable of the railway, seen the prisoner pass him on the
Friday with a cruet stand in his possession. Wit-
ness thought he was going with it to the refresh-
ment rooms of the South-Eastern line. Witness
has frequently seen the prisoner at the station.
Mr. Carpenter, an inspector, said that many rob-
beries had lately' been committed there. On one
occasion a carpet bag, in which was above ,E7O
worth of property, was stolen.
Mr. Bent said that the prisoner, who in 1852 was
a clerk on the South-Western Railway, was in that
year discharged.
Mr. Elliott said he should send the prisoner for
trial, when
Mr. Neale stated that he should reserve his de-
fence.
The prisoner was then committed.

THE CATTLE TRADE, Norwich, May 14.—At
this important market to-day store cattle were lbs. to 20s.
per head lower, and a clearance was not even effected
at this reduction. Sheep were ls, tQ 2s. per head lower.