The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
PLUCKING PLANTS IA HYDE-PARK.---John Taylor, 41,
was charged before Mr. Beadon as follows :
It appears that about half-past seven this morning the
prisoner was seen by John Browning, park constable 21,
with a quantity of chrysanthemums in his possession. At
first the prisoner tried to conceal them, and finding that of
no use he threw them down. He took the prisoner back to
the plantation, and there found appearances of plants
having been removed. The prisoner gave two or three
different accounts of the way in which he got the plants.
Prisoner said he went into the plantation after his dog,
but he picked the plants up, finding them lying there. He
was not aware that he was prohibited going into the plan-
tation.

Mr. Beadon said he did not believe the prisoner's story,
and fined him 10s. or seven days for illegal possession.
ASSAULT ON A LICENSED VICTUALLER.—John Holmes,
a boot-cicser, was charged with assaulting Mr. P. Robin-
son, of 69, Wardour-strest, Soho, a licensed victualler, and
the case being proved, hs was fined 20s. or ten days, with
a caution that the next time he was charged he would be
committed without a fine.

THAMES.
ROBBERY IN A DWELLING-HOUSE.—Henry Stainsby,
calling himself an engineer, who has been in custody a
fortnight, was brought before Mr. Woolrych on remand,
charged with breaking into a room in the dwelling-house of
a foreman carpenter named Allender, of No. 9, Jane-street,
Commercial-road East.
It appeared that the prisoner and his wife rented an
apartment in the prosecutor's house, and that soon after they
came to live there, about five weeks ago, the prosecutor's
bed-room was entered, and two cloaks, two bracelets, a gold
guard, a silk velvet cap, and other articles were stolen. When
Mrs. Allender, the prosecutor's wife, discovered her loss
she spoke to the prisoner on the subject, and he said it was a
very singular thing, the property could not go without
hands, and that some one well acquainted with the pre-
mises must have committed the robbery. The prisoner and
his wife left the house that night without paying the
arrears of rent due to Mr. Allender. It was afterwards dis-
covered by Cox, a police-sergeant, 45 K, that the prisoner's
wife and a woman of infamous character named Page, alias
Stark, whose real name is Elizabeth Stark Page, had
pawned the two-cloaks stolen from the prosecutor's room at
a pawnbroker's shop in the Mile-end-road. Page was
a*rested, but there not being sufficient evidence against
her, she was liberated. She was now the principal evi-
dence against Stainsby, and said that, five or six weeks
ago, she was living next door to Mr. Allender,
and the prisoner called upon her and a•ked her
if she wanted any money, to which she replied in the
affirmative. He then proposed to her to enter the prosecu-
tor's bedroom by the window and help herself to the valu-
ables in the room. She refused to do this, and the prisoner
then unlocked the room door, opened a chest of drawers,
and took therefrom the various articles named in the charge
sheet. He gave them to her and his wife, and they pawned
and sold the things among them.
The evidence of Page was given with the most unblush-
ing effrontery.
The prisoner in defence said Page was the tempter, that
he unlocked the door of the bedroom, and she opened the
drawers and took the things out.
Stimpson, a police sergeant, No. 21 K, produced the two
cloaks, the only portion of the property recovered.
Mr. Woolrych convicted the prisoner of unlawfully dis-
posing of the property, and, in default of paying £7, sen-
tenced him to six months' imprisonment and hard labour.

.PLUIVDERIAG IVE6T-END TRADESMEN.

At the Marlborough-street Police-court yesterday Thos.
Jones, described as a cook, was charged before Mr. Beadon
with stealing, at 205, Regent-street, a revolver pistol of the
value of £8 Bs., the property of Mr. James Beattie, gun-
maker.

On being plaeed at the bar he gave the name of Samuel

Lyons.

From the evidence of Mr. James Beattie it appeared that,
on Saturday the prisoner went into his shop about three,
followed by three others. Two of the persons asked to see
some silver-mounted pistols, which he showed them, telling
them the price was five guineas. They purchased nothing,
but left the shop—the prisoner and another remaining.
Prisoner, as he was show,ing the two out, walked up to the
show case and then walked out. The other man asked for
some oil, and purchased two bottles. About half an hour
after, in consequence of what the officer (.lillingford, 141
C) told him, he missed a pistol from the show case where
the prisoner went to. The value of it is £8 Bs.