The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-17 00:00:00

WEIGHT V. GAME.

The plaintiff in this action is an omnibus conductor,
and the defendant is a butcher and purveyor to her
Majesty, Cannon-street, and the action was brought to
recover damages for iojuri.es sustained through the negli.
gence of defendant's servants.
Mr. Buchanan, for the plaintiff, stated the case. It
appesr,d that on the 15th June plaintiff was with his
'bus in the Circus, Piccadilly, and be had got off to take
his fare from a gentleman who was on the pavement ;
he was returning, and just off the kerb, when deten-
dant's man, in a cart, drove sharply by and knocked
him down, and his coal, Sto„ were torn, and he received
• holly ii•juries.
The case was clearly made out, and his Honour gave
udgMent for 3/.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.)

TEIA 11ES.

FRAUDS ON OUTFITTERS.—John Elliott, a tall young
man, of 21 Pembroke-street, Plymouth, ship carpenter,
was brought up on remand, charged with fraudulently
obtaining clothes and money from several outfitters by
means of ,alse and fraudulent pretences.
It appeared that on Saturday, the 4th instant, the
prisoner called at the warehouse of Shores and Brill,
outfitters, Stepney, and said he belonged to one of her
Majesty's ships at Woolwich, that he had been recently
di-charged, and that he was to be raid off that day.
He then selected a new suit of clothes, pilot jacket, nec-
kerchief, cap, and complete new " rig," which he put on
in the shop, and requested that a messenger might be
dispatched with him to Woolwich to receive the I
amount of the bill 71. 55., with- change for a 101.
note. A. young man, named Page, one of the por-
ters of the establishment was directed to ac-
company
the prisoner to Woolwich. Oa reaching •
that place the prisoner managed, to " wheedle" the
porter of the money in his possession under pretence
of giving•change to his captain, and went into the dock-
yard,
the arsenal and other places, under pretence of
seeking Captain Hamilton 'his commander, and nodded I
to and seemed to know all the officials in the town.
Alter the prisoner had almost tired out the patience of
the porter he gave him the slip. Some time afterwards t
the prisoner was found riding in a carriage across Wool-
wich C immon. Page stopped the carriage and got
inside and asked the prisoner what he meant by giving
'him the slip. The prisoner said it was all right, pointed
to a large house near the Common and said that was .
Captain Hamilton's residence. The prisoner and the
potter alighted, and the former entered the garden and
spoke, to the footman who ordered him off the grounds, .
and said his master was General Barrett not Captain
Hamilton. The prisoner rejoined the porter, and dim ;
rectlyatterwards leaped over a fence into a field, and got
into the Victoria-road, where the porter lost sight of him.
The prisoner had represented himself as the carpenter of
a ship, and upon this representation, Mr. Lowe, foreman
to Messrs. Shores and Brill, allowed him to put on the
things. •

The second-charge was preferred by Mr. James Glad-
well, foreman to Mr. George Skinner, of Knightsbridge,
clothier, who stated tha►, on the morning of the 26th of
June, the day on which her Majesty distributed the
Victoiia Crosses, the prisoner made a purchase of a new ,
suit of clothes and accessories, the cost of which amounted
to 71 10s. The prisoner said he h.t.cl been in the Baltic
eatopaign, at Hango, in the Crimea, and other places,
a. d had 3001. He also said that he had blown up $
powder mag,zine belonging to the Russians ; and told sti
great number of incredible stories. The prisoner 'then
finished his story by stating that her Majesty intended
to decorate him with a Victoria Cross, that he wanted:
t . go to Woolwich to receive his pay, and that he would
discharge the amount of his bill at Woolwich. He pro-)
ceeded then with the prisoner, who managed to enter the
dOckYard as the workmen were coming out, and geve
him the slip.
Ja.ues Willis, a police constable, No. 207 It, said the;
prisoner had attempted a similar imposition on an out-
fitter named Cartwright, in the•Tottenham-court-roads-
Wnen he took the prisoner int) custody, and told blink
the charge, be said " You are decidedly wrong ; I We-
been in Portsmouth, and know nothing about the out-
fitters." The prisoner had been knocking about Wool-
woh some time, and was a regular swindler.
The prisoner made no defence, and Mr. Yardley
committed him for trial on two chirges.