The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-06 00:00:00

Fairclough, a carman, and were engaged in carting
sugar from the dock to Messrs. Goodhart's, Hooper-
square. The charge against them was that they
lonke the bulk of one of the bags, and abstracted
about 701 s. of sugar. The case was rather comp)i-
cated, and Mr. Metcalfe, the counsel for the Dock
Company, opened it as one in which there was an
absence of absolute and positive proof of guilt.
The jury acquitted both prisoners.
Mr. Metcalfe was for the prosecution ' • Mr. J. P.
Doyle defended Holyland ; Mr. Langford defended
the other prisoner.
Henry Ellis, 19, and Thomas Jones, 18, were
convicted of stealing a handkerchief from the per-
son of a female unknown, and assaulting and beat-
ing two police officers.
Jones had been repeatedly convicted.
The Assistant-Judge sent Jones to three years'
hard labour, and Ellis to six months' hard labour.

A great number of cases of larceny, chiefly from
the person, were disposed of.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 5.

MANSION-HOUSE. ALLEGED MISAPPRO-
PRIATION OF A BILL OF LADING.—Mr. Nicol, of
George-yard, Lombard-street, was re-examined be-
fore the Lord Mayor and Sir R. W. Carden, upon
the charge of having converted to his own use a bill
of lading for 148 bhaldrons of coal, which had been
entrused to him as a bailee, by Messrs. Fowles and
Co., of Water-lane, Tower-street.

Mr. Humphreys appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Sleigh for the defence.
_

At the request of Mr. Sleigh,
Mr. Henry Hunter, a partner in the house of the
prosecutors, was called into the witness-box, and to
further questions in cross-examination gave the fol-
lowing additional evidence :—Mr. M'Gregor is a
clerk and traveller of ours ; not a partner. Before
I handed him the bill of lading to the defendant,; it
was Mr. M'Gregor that had the dealings with the
defendant. I had seen the defendant once before
about this transaction. I had heard that the cargo
by the Eagle was sold, and was intended for: Cher-
bourg. Mr. M'Grego.i -went to the colliery district
with reference to thir business, not with reference
to the cargo by the Speculation. He had no posi-
tive instructions in reference to the Speculation
cargo. I did not agree that the bill of lad-
ing for the Eagle cargo should be made out
in the name of John Nicol and Co. I did not
telegraph to Mr. M'Gregor. I gave Mr. Nicol
his address. I am not aware that the
coals by the Speculation were inferior coals. I be-
lieve there is a difference in the price of heap coals,
from ls. to 2s. less than nut coals. I have been in
the coal trade about two months. I have only one
partner, Mr. Francis John Fowles.
Mr. M'Gregor was then called into the witness•
box and sworn, but was not questioned by either
side.

Mr. Sleigh said that his client, of whose respecta-
bility after what had been admitted so readily by.
the Lord Mayor upon the first examination, it was
quite unnecessary to say a word, was prepared to
place in the hands of his lordship or Sir It. IV.
Carden the amount of the value of the coals, and to
abide by the decision of the Bench as to the claim
of either party. That offer had been made at the
commencement of the inquiry, and no hesitation
would take place if the Bench would consent to the
suggestion. _ _

Mr. Humphreys said if the defendant chose to
hand over the money to the prosecutors, they would
have no objection, with the consent of the Bench,
to withdraw the prosecution. They had come for-
ward from no motives of a vindictive nature, and
wholly relied upon the justice of their case.
The Lord Mayor said the Bench could not pay
attention to the propositicn for any arrangement of
the kind.

Mr. Sleigh then contended that there existed no
pretence for the charge against Mr. Nicol, who
having been done once, was deternnned not to be
done again, and adopted such measures as he con-
sidered necessary for his ov, n protection. It was
true the defendant had taken the law into his own
hands, but that he was the aggrieved party there
could not be the shadow of a doubt, any more than
that he had not committed any act approaching to
fraud or false prefer-::e.
Such a case would not, for
a moment, stand. active a jury.
The Lord, kayorisaicl he had a plain and painful
duty to perform, and considered that the case
clearly came under the act upon which the prosecu-
tion had been undertaken. The matter must
therefore be taken before a higher authority. '
• Mr. Nicol then addressed the Bench in the fol-
lowing terms :—I have simply to say that the
statement of Mr. Hunter is utterly untrue as re-
gards the conversation in Finah•lanc. The bills of
Jc.aing were given to me on the express under-
standing that they %vele to be handed to Mr. Wig-
dhal, to enable him to send' them to Cherbourg
that evening. , Mr. Wigdhal had telegraphed to
Mr. McGregor to obtain the bills of lading, and
was ready to pay any extra expense there might
be to•get them that afternoon. It was never un-
derstood that they were to be returned to him (Mr.
Hunter) in any case, and he well knew they were
sent off that afternoon. He gave them to me to see
if all was in order, and if all was in order only was
he to come up at three o'clock for a settlement. I
have only to add, that I acted under the advice of
my solicitor in retaining those bills of lading, and
I only protected myself against what I considered
a common swindle, and I most indignantly deny
any intention of fraud.

r"Ths defendant was then committed for trial, but
his own recognisance for £l,OOO to appear at the
ensuing sessions, was accepted.

MARYLEB ONE.—ASSAULT AND HIGILWAI
RornEn.r.—John White, a very old offender, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with
having assaulted Wm. Dyne, a plasterer, living at
9, Desbarough-street, Harrow-road, and stolen from
him a silver watch, value -.C5.
It appeared from prosecutor's evidence that
Saturday night last, while walking alonc-
ware-road, the prisoner, who was 4, Edge-
by accompanied
another man, seized him ,y round the
waist, and asked him t-
~fgh
Ile refused to do so - "stand" tl
some drink.
the other madeff
upon which the prisoner and
robbed o. off. Prosecutor, who had been
Lebo-_ nis watch, followed, and in the Mary-
_ie-road, seized hold of the prisoner, who
gave him a desperate blow on the head and
effected his escape. He pursued his assailant for
a long distance, crying " Stop thief" as loudly as he
could; and he was at length captured by police-
constable Berne, 178 D,, by whom he was conveyed
to the station-house. He was there searched, but
the watch was not found upon him.
The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was re-
manded, in order to afford time for the officer to
trace the property, till Saturday next.
ASSAULTS ON THE POLlCE.—Charles Dean, a
labourer, and Mary Dee' a prostitute, were charged
with being drunk and disorderly and violently
assaulting two constables, 346 D, and 371 A, while
in the execution of their duty.
For each of the assaults Dean was fined 15s. or
10 days, and Deo was fined 10s, or seven days in
the House of Correction.

S OUTH WARK.—B URGLARY AT A JEWELLER'S,
AND ATTEMPT TO STRANGLE A POLICEMAN.—
Humphrey Delorey, alias Daddy- Windy, a despe-
rate character, well-known to the police, was
brought before Mr. Seeker, for final examina-
tion, charged with breaking into the dwelling-
house of Mr. John Gaisworth, jeweller, Etham-
place, Kent-street, and stealing therefrom four
watches, a card of rings, two silver spoons, and
other articles; and William Mains and Elizabeth
Mains, were charged with rescuing him from the
custody of a constable, who was nearly strangled
by the man.

The prosecutor said, that at ten o'clock on the
night of the 18th ultitr.o, he fastened up his shop,
leaving everything safe in the window. Shortly
after Wards he retired to rest, but about two o'clock
he was. disturbed I.y hearing a smashing noise in
the shop. lie iniraediatelv got up, and proceeded
there, when he perceived two shutters down. He
raised an alarm, and then procured a light, when
he missed. the articles above-mentioned from the
shop windoWr. Two of the shutters had been forced
down, and a large thick square of glass broken.
Re had since.:
broker's. seen one of the watches at a pawn-
Sergeant •
t.,
Wise 12 M, said he was on duty in
Hunter-str ce
shortly after two o'clock in the.
morning i
n question, when he heard a.smashing of
Mass clan
.e by. He ran into Kent-street, and saw
the prosecutor at his door, when he informed him
of the •robbery. Having heard footsteps pass to-
wards,•the Bermondsey New-road, he turned down
Russell-place, having previously sent constables-in
other ,directions. Witness said that he saw two
lads 4.n a van, and as soon as he approached, one or
there called out,
"it's not me that—did it, but
Paddy Windy," mean ingthe prisoner, and " Goosey
F.arris." That lad tiaras now in court as a witness.
in answer to a summc,.. is to compel him, but he (the
sergeant.) was positive - he had been tainpered with
since the prisoner had . been in custody. He was
apprehended on the dt tY of the robbery, hut rescued
from the officer with great violence. He was after-
wards retaken, after :smile resistance, by Clark and
Hunt, of the M divisi on.

William Webber, a shoeblack, who bad been
summoned to give cvidwince, .on being sworn, said
he was found in t he N.'an by the sergeant, but he
never' told him f aat the prisoner and " Gooses,
Harris" did the robhery. He taw two men rush
out el' the place, wad. as soon as they sow him they
ran brick again. isT,?,ither of them was the prisoner.
Mr. Seeker 7,,sked if he did not tell Sergeant 11'6e