The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-20 00:00:00

CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.

Thomas Stamford, clerk, 43, whose trial was postponed
from the last, session, was indicted for embezzling and steal-
ing several sums of money, the property of the South-
Western Railway Company.

The trial was devoid of public interest, and was proceed-
ing when we went to press.

NEW COURT.
(Before Commissioner Kerr.)
COUNTERFEIT COIN.

Richard Martin, 20, shoemaker, was indicted for feloni-
ously having in his possession counterfeit coin, well know-
ing the same, will intent to utter, &c.
The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty.

The evidence of Brennan, the policeman attached to the
Mint, and others, clearly proved the offence, and the jury
returned a verdict of guilty.

Brennan said the prisoner was the associate of

" smashers," and he was afraid he had become infected
with passing counterfeit coin. The profit was so great and
the risk so small, that when once a person " took" to it
they seldom could leave it off.

The prisoner said he wished to bo transported.
The Commissioner said he did not feel inclined to pass
such a sentence, but he would do what he could towards
removing the prisoner from his bad companions for some
considerable time. He then sentenced him to two years'
imprisonment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

APPLICATION FOR A PROTECTION ORDER.-Mr.
Vaughan, solicitor, applied to Mr. Mansfield for a protec-
tion order on behalf of Mrs. Ann Addey.
Mrs. Addey said she resided at No. 2, North. terrace,
South-street, and was the wife of William Addey, whom
she married on the 22d Sept. 1851. She had three chil-
children. On ths 28th Nov., 1854, her husband left her
and never returned, and she believed he had gone to Aus-
tralia. She had received no money from him, neither
had he written to her. She had since her husband had
doserted her held a situation as houskeeper, and acquired
a little property, which she wished protected.
Mr. Mansfield being satisfied with the answers received,
granted the order prayed.

DESTROYING WORKHOUSE WINDOWS.—Throe ill-
looking women named Fanny Crouch, Emma Cole, and
Mary Smith, were charged with creating a disturbance at
St. Martin's Workhouse, and breaking several panes of
glass.

Michael Brennan, the porter of the workhouse, said that
about nine the previous night he was informed the pri-
soners were creating a disturbance and breaking the win-
dows. On going out the prisoners had just finished their
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work of destruction, and Itsikysio itot to say, women ged having done it.
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the windows to De taken in.
Cole—l've nothing to say.

Mr. ➢lansfield—There is no excuse whatever for your
conduct. There is plenty of work in the fields, at hopping
and harvest work, in-stead of lying about idling, is order to
be kept out of the poor rates paid by hard-struggling rate-
payers. You must pay 145. each, the damage, or 2 months'
each.

Smith, who as well as Cole, has been in prison on seve-
ral me iSions, said in a derisive Tr anner—" Thank you."

THAMES.
A MAN SHOT BY A VOLUNTEER.—Thomas Payne, a
working man, applied to Mr. Woolrych under the follow-
ing circumstances. He stated that he was in the Victoria-
park on Saturday last looking at some volunteers who were
at drill. They fired a volley with blank cartridge, and at the
same time he was struck on the head, and was rendered in-
sensible for five minutes. A blank cartridge went through
a leather cap he was wearing, and struck him on the fore-
head. He was much hurt and had been under medical
treatment ever since. He was continually bathing his
forehead on Sunday and again yesterday. He was some
distance from the volunteers when they fired, and as he
thought out of the range of blank shot.
Mr. Woolrych said that Victoria-park was not in his
jurisdiction, and if it was he did not see how he could in-
terfere, or what law there was to meet such a case.
Payne said a man lost his eye under similar circum-
stances at a Volunteer Review in the country, and .if the
blank cartridge had struck his eye he should have lost the
sight of it.

Mr. Woolrych—When volunteers are practising and
firing spectators must keep a respectful distance, and then
no harm will arise.

Payne then left the court.
JACK ON A LEE SHORE.—Elizabeth Smith, a woman of
the town, well known to the police of the K division, was
brought before Mr. Woolrycb, charged with stealing a
silver watch, a gold albert guard, two silk handkerchiefs, a
gold ring, and a silk umbrella, the property of William
Smith, a seaman, at an infamous den, No. 1 Philip-street,
St. George's-in-East, and close to the Shadwell railway
station.

The seaman fell in with the prisoner, and after he had
treated her with sundry glasses of grog, she invited him to
her lodgings, and no sooner had he arrived there than the
woman of the place asked him far drink. He sent for

porter, and what was given to him was no doubt drugged
a two silk handkerchiefs, a
He " sung out" lus •
for directly he had partaken of a glass of it, he felt very
badly and sick, threw himself on a bed, and became stupi-
fied. He recovered in about a quarter of an hour, and
missed h
gold ring from his finger, and his silk umbrella, which he
had
tily for a police cqnstable, and one soon arrived, and took
the prisoner into custody.
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All the sailor's property was found concealed behind a
large box, with the exception of tb e gold ring, which has
not been recovered.
Inspector Allison, of the K division, an officer of great
experience, said the women in the infamous dens of St.
George's-in-the-East, Whitechapel, Shadwell, and Step-
ney, were in the practice of hocussing sailors, for the pur-
pose of more easily robbing them.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and Mr. Woolrych sentenced
her to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.