The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

POLIO ItYPELLIGENC B—Jan. 14.

BO W-STREET. A boy named George Welford,
who said he was '3 years of age, but looked older, was
charged by George Retson, a carpenter, with breaking
into his workshop and stealing a quantity of tool , &c.,
valued at 303.

The prosecutor said that he rented a small room as a
workshop at 12, Charles court, Strand. Tne pris,,ner
lived with his parents, who are hone,t working people,
in the adjoining r,om. About 3 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon witness went out, leaving the place securely
locked up, and on returning be found the pallock had
been broken open, the room entered, ant five planes, a
saw, a screw driver, and some oiler articles taken
away. Hie suspicion fell on the prisoner, who had once
before attempted a similar exploit, and he mentioned
the matter to the lads father, who assisted in searching
for him. Ultimately they traced him to the Victoria
Theatre, where he was given into custody. He
acknowledged that he had broken the lock open with
his father'., pincers, and had stolen the tools, sold part of
them, and pledged the rest at a pawnbroker's in Soho.
l'he tickets were found on him. He said h• was wholly
unaided in the robbery, and took the things to the
pawnbroker's himself.
This the pawnbroker denied, saying that he was quite
sure he should know the boy who pledged the things ;
he was much taller, and looked much older than the pri•
Boner.

Mr. Henry observed that the pawnbroker was liable
to a conviction if he took a pledge from the prisoner,
who was under sixteen.
The prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and admitted
that he had been previously committed.
Mr. Ile,:ry—The only thing to be done with such a
boy is to put him into a reformatory, and with that view
I will commit him for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Emilie Triese, a middle acted
man, in an evident state of abject destitution, but who
described himself as an Italian merchant, was brought
up on remand before Mr. D'Eyncourt charged under the
following peculiar circumstances.
It appeared front the evidence of a police constable of
the K division that on the night of Tuesday sen'night,
the prisoner was discovered coiled up under a quantity
of loose straw in a detached shed at tae rear of the dwel
ling-house of a gentleman of Old Ferd, and it having
been suspected that be had made his way there for felo-
nious purposes he was at once given into custody.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner, through the
medium of an interpreter, emphatically dented having
been actuated by any felonious intentioi,s, and informed
the magistrate that he had carried on business as a mer-
chant at the town of Lyons in France for twenty-one
years, but having fallen into difficulties he was formerly
expatriated by the local authorities, in common with
numerous other persons in the same condition, and that
kit had been wandering about for the last in a
tiouseless state and without the slightest means of sub-
sistence.

Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was a most extraordinary
statement, and he should order the prisoner to be re-
manded for a week, to afford the police an opportunity
fur obtaining further information with regard to hio
antecedents.

Henri Delavitte, a detective officer attached to the
French embas.-y, now attended and stated Witt he bad
closely interrogated the prisoner, who p,rsisted in de-
claring that be had been expelled from LT,ns and
shipped over to this country at the expense of ,he French
Government, under the circumstances described.
Mr. D'Errcourt said that if the particulars of the case
had been correctly stated, he considered that the atten-
tion of Government should be directed to the subject, and
the prisoner in the meantime must be conveyed to the
workhouse of the district in which he was found, where
he would be provided with a temporary asylum.

LAMBETH. —Mrs. Martha Bacon, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of her two children, was
again brought up for examination.
The evidence received on this occasion was that of
neighbours of the prisoner, and chiefly of a negative
character.
The case has become so perplexed that, in its present
stage, a report of the proceedings, given without expla-
nations not yet authorised, might confuse, but could not
interest the public.

HA.MNIERSMITH.—Edward Gilbert, aged 41, a
cab driver, badge No. 3,542, was charged with careless
driving and wilful misbehaviour, whereby a lady named
Mary Ann Sparks, lately staying with her friends at
Revena-villa, New-road, Hammersmith, was severely
injured.

Seymour, of the B division, stated that about half-past
six o'clock on the previous evening he received informa-
tion that a serious cab accident had taken place in the
Kensington district, near Prince's-gate, th it one lady
had been killed and another severely injured. He
immediately hastened to the spot and found a great
many persons round a Hansom cab and a horse,
which was out of the shafts, and it appeared as if it had
just been got up. He was then informed that the two
ladies had been sent to St. George's Hospital. The
prisoner was standing by, and assisted in putting the
horse in the shafts of the cab. The prisoner first &Iliad
that he was the cabman, and declared that the right
cabman had gone to the hospital. Witness asked him
where his cab was, and he replied at Knightsbridge
rank, that hearing of the accident he had left the stand
to see what had happened. Witness then believing that
the right cabman was gone to the hospital, took posses-
si,,n of the horse and cab, and the prisoner walked away.
Witness was told that the horse had run away, the cab
had overturned, and the ladies fell out. Witness in-
quired at the hospital, and found that one of the ladies
was dangerously ill, but the other was only slightly
injured. Witness had called at the hospital that morn-
ing, and had received a certificate, stating that Mary
Ann Sparks had several of her ribs broken and her right
shoulder injured, and was in a dangerous state. The
prisoner was subsequently apprehended in the D divi-
sion.

The prisont r denied having said the driver had gone
to the hospital. That statement was made by others ;
and the reason he did not claim the hone and cab was
that he was so frightened that he thought the best plan
for him to adopt was to acquaint his master of what had
happened. The horse " shied" while he was driving.
Henry Herriett, of No. 12, Camden-street, said on the
previous night he was walking in the Kentongton-road,'
in the company of his father, on the park side, and
when near the New Exhibition-road, Princt's-gate, he
saw a Hansom cab coining along in the opposite direc-
tion, towards Ken-ington, at the usual Hansom cab rate.
When about 15 yards from them tne horse made a sud-
den bolt, anil darted right across the road towards the
front of witness. At that spot the path stands very
high from the road, and one wheel of the cab passed up
the embankment, and raised the side of the vehicle
almost perpendicular. Witness's father caught hold of
him, a.,d draw him on one side; as he did so the horse's
head touched his shoulder. The cab immediately toppled
over on its side, and the cabman was thrown into the
road from his box behind, and two ladies who were in-
, side were by the force jolted out in front. Almost im-
mediately afterwards the horse fell over on its side upon
the two unfortunate ladies. One was under the body of
the horse, and the other was between its legs, in which
condition they remained for ten minutes, the horse all
the time kicking and plunging in a most fearful manner.
As soon as they could procure assistance, the ladies
were extricated and sent to the hospital in two cabs.
One of the ladies appeared as if she was dead, but the
other lady was only slightly injured. The defendant was
the driver. He (witness) added that this made the fourth
accident which he had seen take place at the same spot
under similar circumstances during the past 12 months.
The constable said the path from the road was above
three feet, but he did not know of anything that would
cause horses to " bolt."
Mr. Ingham directed the officer to examine the place
at night, and ascertain if there was anything to frighten
horses, as it was a very striking circumstance that there
should be four accidents of a similar nature upon that
very spot within the last 12 months. At present the
case appeared to be accidental, and he would, therefore,
remand the prisoner on bail for the inquiries to be made.
ties,
The priremovesoner, not Bingbn able to find the required bure•
was dto House of Detention.

EXTRAORDINARY PLIENOMENON.—During the occulta-
tion which occurred on Friday the entire disc of Jupiter
was projected, by some extraordinary refraction, on to
able the obscure surface of the !noon, which was distinguish-
luminous or titrinoen ;oftl e moon before its real exit. This
phenomenon, was again visible on the
phenomenon, was noted by Dr. Foster on the continent,
wast ascribed by him to an extradinary terrestrial re-
fron, m but by other observers was referred to a lunar
atmosphere. The effect was beautiful, and more satis-
factory than the projection of Aldebaran on to the disc
of the moon, which the late Mr. Stephen Lee communi-
cated to the Royal Society, and which he ascribed to
" differential refraction." There will be another occul-
tation of a star in Leo on the sth of March, to which
the attention of astronomers will be directed, for the
phenomenon bears closely on the disputed question of an
atmosphere about the moon.
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