The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-11 00:00:00

13MTARY 11, 1859.

officers acting under him, towards the defendant ;
and all they wanted was the proper and necessary
protection to the men in their charge from insult
and violence, such as that sworn to, while in the
execution of their necessary and important duties.
Mr. Solomon characterised the complaint as one
arising purely from motives of jealousy on the part
of the Fire Brigade towards the servants of Mr.
Hodges for their humane interference in the pro-
tection of property, -while their right to do so was
as undoubted as that of the Brigade men them-
selves. The learned gentleman also drew the
attention of the magistrate to the extraordinary
discrepancy of the three witnesses called re-
specting the alleged assault. The complainant
himself said that the defendant caught him by
the collar and raised him from the ground, while
the police inspector said he pushed him out of
his way, and a third witness said he pushed against
him in a disrespectful manner. He (Mr. Solomon)
concluded by assuring the magistrate that his client
denied having used the slightest degree of violence.
Mr. Elliott observed that there could be no doubt
it was very kind on the part of Mr. Hodges to keep
an engine to assist in extinguishing fires, and that
his servants had a right to attend at fires, but at
the same time the engine should be placed under
the control and management of a discreet and pro-
per person, and not one giving way to such
temper as that indulged in by the defendant. His
conduct on the present occasion was most improper,
and for the assault complained of he must pay a
penalty of 405., or 20 days.
The penalty was paid.
Mr. Giffard assured the magistrate that in all
other parts of the metropolis the Brigade men were
on the best possible terms with the attendants on
private engines.

SOUTHWARK.—EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF VA-
LUABLE MEERSCHAUM PIPES FROM THE JOHN
BULL STEAMER.—ThOmas Preston M'Carthy, de-
scribed as a wholesale tobacconist, of Royal Mint-
street, Tower-hill, and 24, Bear-lane, City, and
John Summers, a tobacconist, carrying on business
at 20, Weston-street, Southwark, were brought
before Mr. Combo, charged with being concerned
with another in custody, in stealing 35 valuable
meerschaum pipes, from a case on board the John
Bull, Hamburg steamer, the property of Messrs.
Woolf and. Co., Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street,
City.

Mr. Lewis, sen., appeared for the prosecution,
and in opening the case against the prisoners, said
that on the 17th Dec. last the John Bull arrived in
the port of London, on board of which was con-
signed a case of valuable meerschaums from Vienna
to Messrs. Woolf and Co. It was delivered on the
following day, when 35 pipes were missed. On the
21st Jan. one of the stolen pipes was traced to the
possession of Henry Hinds, a Customs waterman,
who was taken into custody and remanded for
further evidence. He "should now be able to
show that the prisoners at the bar had possession
of most of those pipes, and on a further investi-
gation, no doubt circumstances would be brought
to light exposing an extensive system of robbery
and smuggling entered into by certain parties hold-
ing a respectable position.
Wm. Jarvis, a City detective, said—From infor-
mation he received from the prisoner Summers, who
was at the Seething-lane police-station, he went
with Hughes, an officer of the M division, to Royal
Mint-street, Tower lin, on the previous evening,
where he met M'Carthy, and asked him to accom-
pany him to the station house in Seething-lane to
be identified, or to identify another man who was
there. He consented, and as soon as they entered
the station house Summers called out," That is the
man I had the pipes from," at the same time point-
ing out M'Carthy. The latter denied his assertion,
at the same time calling Summers a vagabond.
Witness then took M'Carthy into custody as well
as Summers, and brought them to this court. When
M'Carthy was charged he said he did not steal the
pipes ; he bought them in the usual way as smug-
gled goods, and a Customs officer who was in cus-
tody stole them and brought them on shore. He
also made a communication.to witness which he did
not wish to make public, as it might defeat the ends
of justice. M'Carthy- refused to give his address,
but witness knowing it, went to 24 Bear-lane, City,
and having searched it he found a large quantity of
foreign tobacco, snuff, cigars, gloves, Berlin-wool,
and two formidable-looking life-preservers.
M'Carthy said he kept them for his own protec-
tion.

Mr. Lewis here asked his worship to discharge
Summers, and allow him to be made a witness.
Summers was liberated and put in the witness
box. On being sworn, he said he kept a tobacco-
nist's shop, at 20, Weston-street, Southwark. He
had known M'Carthy for six or seven years. He
saw the pipes produced on the 20th Dec., when he
lived in Marble-court, Bermondsey. On that
day M'Carthy brought three to him as a sample,
when he said he had a number of them at home,
and asked witness if he could sell them for him.
He said he required Bs. 6d. for each of the claws,
and 7s. 6d. for each of the plain ones. Witness
told him to leave them, and he would see what he
could do with them, as he was in the habit of soli-
citing orders from shops. He left the three samples,
and on the following day he saw M'Carthy again,
and told him he had been to a tradesman in Picca-
dilly who would give an order for some, but before
he did so he wanted to see some of the others.
M`Carth_y then gave him 12 more, making in all 15
pipes. Witness took them to Mr. Simmons's, at 62,
Piccadilly, and sold him the 10 now produced for
£4 ss. at the rate of Bs. 6d. each, and received the
money. Witness saw M'Carthy at his own house
the same night, and handed him £3 195., leaving
him 6s. for his trouble. The five remaining pipes
witness sent to him on the following day by his
errand boy.
Mr. Combe asked when all this occurred.
Mr. Lewis replied, on the 19th and 20th of De-
cember—about the time the pipes were stolen.
Summers here said that previous to M'Carthy
bringing him the samples, he called on him and
asked him to wait on him and look at some
smuggled meerschaum pipes. Witness knew him
as a tobacconist, and dealer in smuggled goods.
M'Carthy acknowledged selling the pipes, but he
bought them in the regular way. He denied having
said that they had been stolen by a Customs man,
now in custody, and that he brought them to him.
That was all false.

Jarvis said that was his statement at the Seeth-
ing•lane police station.
Mr. Combe asked whether the pipes now pro-
duced had been identified as those stolen from the
case in question. _

Jarvis relied that they had.
Mr. Lewis here informed his worship that Hinds,
the Customs officer, who stood charged with being
concerned in the robbery, would come up for fur-
ther examination on Saturday, the 19th instant,
therefore he asked his worship to remand the pri-
soner M'Carthy until that day.
Mr. Combo accordingly remanded him and re-
fused to accept bail.

WORSHIP-STREET.—RECOVERY OF STOLEN
PROPERTY.--John Lee, 26, a thick-set man, de-
scribing himself as a potato dealer, was charged
before Mr. Hammill as follows :

Deeble, a detective officer, 11 • division, in conse-
quence of certain information went on the 3d inst.,
early in the morning, to the prisoner's shop, in
Baker's-row, Whitechapel, and passing through a
passage to a room at the rear, found it locked. He
returned, and accosting the prisoner's wife in the
front apartment, demanded the key. She opened
the door of the room in question immediately, and
he there perceived a quantity of property which he
knew to have been stolen. The prisoner himself
admitted that he was landlord of- the whole pre-
mises and answerable for the contents. The officer
pointed out a quantity of cotton print, beads, furs,
and brushes in the room, respecting which he gave
evasive accounts as to how they came there, and he
was, together, with the property, removed to the
station.

Mr. Simon Isaacs, a furrier, in Middlesex-street,
Whitechapel, claimed the skins, 219 in number, as
portion of a burglary committed .on his premises,
between the 7th and Bth of January last, and valued
at £35.

Mr. Moses Levin, bead merchant, of Bevis-marks,
said that on the 25th of November last he received
12 cases and 25 barrels of beads from Liverpool,
invoiced to him from Venice, and intended for the
African market. Between that date and the 30th
of the same month one case of the goods was stolen
from his warehouse. Those produced corresponded
in quantity, weight, and description with the
contents of that case.

Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, here elicited that
witness had not seen the contents of the package,
and therefore urged that there was not evidence of
beads any more than buttons having been stolen.
Mr.' Hammill thought that fact fatal, but ordered
the ptisoner for trial, Mr. Beard reserving his
defence.

It was stated that the prisoner had been several
Imes convicted.

WESTMINSTER.—DISTURBANCE AT AN ORA-
TORY.—EIiza Macdonald, a very respectable look-
ing youno. woman, 26 years of age, who described
herself as a servant, surrendered to her bail for final
examination, charged with assaulting John Joseph
Munce, porter at the Brompton Oratory,
It appeared from the statement of complainant
that at half-past five on the evening of the 28th
ult. he was told by the priest to turn defendant out,
as she had been annoying him during the day.
Witness proceeded to eject her, when she became
very violent, and scratched his face, insisting upon
remaining 41 the place. There WM per ice at 010

time, but persons went in and out all day for their
private devotions. When he got her outside she
created a great disturbance, alid collected a mob of
persons, . _

Police-constable Patrick Leonard proved appre-
hending her. She was outside the Oratory, with a
large mob round her, very violent, and attempted to
scratch the porter's face, but witness prevented her.

Defendant's answer to the charge was that she
had done nothing to be turned out for. She had
gone there to confession, and the priest ordered her
to be turned out, when the porter tore the hooks off
her mantle and pushed her down outside the Oratory.
Mr. Arnold said there was no doubt something
behind which had not transpired, but he would not
inquire into that. All he had to deal with was the
charge before him, and defendant's conduct on the
whole appeared to be extremely improper, obtrud-
ing herself, as she had, into a place of worship and
annoying those assembled, for although no service
was actually going on at the time, still persons
were in the habit of entering the Oratory all day
and must have been much inconvenienced by the
disturbance she had occasioned in resisting the
porter, and trying to force her way into one of
the confessionals. The assault, however, was
no doubt committed in her endeavours to force
her way in, and it would, therefore, be suffi-
cient for her to find bail to keep the peace for six
months.

Defendant's former master appeared in the course
of the afternoon, and readily undertook to be surety
for her to the required amount.

CHARGE OF ENDEAVOURING TO DEFRAUD THE
PARISH.—EIiza Johnson was finally examined,
charged under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 5
Gee. IV., cap. 83, with making a false statement at
St. Margaret's and St. John's Workhouse, West-
minster.

About a fortnight since the police discovered
defendant at one in the morning in the neighbour-
hood of the workhouse, and as-she appeared to be
in great suffering and said she was in the pains of
labour, she was conveyed to the workhouse, and
there told the porter she was in labour, and was so
ill that she could not stand. She had been seen
about that evening very drunk, but the porter
fearing that serions consequences might result if she
were turned away, had the nurse woke up. Defen-
dant repeated her statement to her, and was taken
to the lying-in ward, where the nurse discovered
that she had told an untruth, and that there was
every reason to suppose that she was not even
pregnant. Before the magistrate she denied that
she had made a false representation, and Mr. Whit-
marsh, assistant to Mr. George Pearse, Regent-
street, Westminster, was sent for, and gave it as
his opinion that the nurse had come to a right con-
clusion. Subsequently, it was discovered that an
old lady in the almshouses had lent her a shawl
which she had illegally pawned, and it was stated
other cases could ibe brought forward against her,
in addition to which Mr. Arnold received a letter

from a gentleman in the City from which there was
every 'reason to believe defendant was the woman
who made a similar statement to the gentleman a
short time since.

Yesterday the gentleman spoken of attended, but
found, although the description of defendant was
similar to the woman he had written of, they were
two separate persons.
The additional charge was then proceeded with,
but as the prosecutrix in it had been in the habit
of allowing defendant to pawn things, Mr. Arnold
was of opinion that the accused might have con-
sidered she had an implied authority to pledge the
article she had disposed of, and therefore could not
entertain the charge. In the. shawl case, as the
pawning had taken place more than six months
ago, Mr. Arnold had no jurisdiction, and defendant
therefore had only to answer the first charge.
The accused said she had been led from natural
causes to suppose that what she represented was
true, as she had suffered very much. But a short
time since she had an offer to go abroad but refused
it, supposing she was in the family way.
Mr. Arnold thought it strange that a woman of
36 years of age should make such a mistake, when
the medical testimony went to show that she was
not even pregnant.
In answer to inquiries from the magistrate, the
nurse at the workhouse said defendant, when ad-
mitted, might have been in pain, although witness
was of opinion she had feigned illness. Witness
would not like to swear defendant was not suffering
at the time.

Mr. Arnold sent for Mr. Whitmarsh, and after a
private conversation with that gentleman, said,
from what he had heard, it was just possible that
the defendant might have been led to suppose she
was in the pains of labour. He (the worthy
magistrate) did not think she had been herself de-
ceived, but still he must give her the benefit of the
doubt. He should not, therefore, convict her, and
she was discharged.
Defendant left the court, seemingly very much
surprised at not having been sent to prison.

WANDSWORTH.—AISETZURE OF AN ILLICIT
STILL.—H. Clifton, a Sung man about 30 years of
age, who was stated to have moved in very good
circumstances, was placed in the dock before Mr.
Dayman, charged with working a private still,
whereby the revenue was defrauded to a consider-
able amount.

Mr. John Vanstone, a supervisor of Excise,
deposed that about twelve o'clock on Wednesday at
noon he went, accompanied by Mr. Leigh and two
other detective officers of Inland Revenue, to a house
having no number in Montgomery-road, Merton.
He knocked at the door at the end of the lane, but
could gain no admittance. Mr. Leigh knocked at
the side door and was admitted. Witness followed
in and saw the prisoner in custody. He was taken
into a front room, and witness went into the yard,
where he saw a washhouse. Upon entering that
building, which was attached to the house, he dis-
covered a very large copper still, containing about
40 gallons, with a fire underneath, and it was
distilling spirits. He also saw several tubs contain-
ing about 150 gallons of molasses wash in a state
of :fermentation. He lurther found a quantity of
molasses and about 20 gallons of illicit spirits.
This spirit was liable to a duty of Bs. per gallon.
He returned to the house, and asked the prisoner if
there were any persons there, and he replied in the
negative, with the exception of his wife and five
children, and that the still was his own. He also
said that he had been out of work for some time,
and that distress compelled him to adopt that course
to obtain a living for his family. Witness was sorry
to find the prisoner in this position, as he believed
he had formerly been in better circumstances.
Mr. Dayman inquired the cost of the plant for
the still.

The witness said ho had no doubt it cos
about £lO.

Mr. Dayman asked the prisoner what he had
to say.
The prisoner, who held his head down, replied,
" Nothing."

Mr. Dayman said he had no discretion in miti-
gating the penalty. He therefore fined the prisoner
£3O, or three months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

The prisoner WQ,S then locked up.

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