The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-Aug. 29.

MAN SION-HOUSE.—John Linch, who was
brought up last Thursday charged with stabbing
Ann Parsons, daughter of Mrs. Baker, of the Lamb
and Flag public-house, Crutched-friars, where she
acted as barmaid, was again placed at thel bar.
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, informed the
Lord Mayor that since the former examination it
had been thought necessary, in consequence of the
critical state of the unfortunate woman, that her
deposition should be taken. Alderman Sir R.
Carden, accompanied by Mr. Oke, the second clerk,
accordingly attended St. Thomas's Haspital on
Tuesday, when, in the presence of the prisoner, the
following statement was made by her :
"My name is Ann Parsons. I live with my mother,
Mrs. Baker, who keeps a public-house in Crutched-friars.
I have been married, but my husband is now absent from
home. I know the prisoner. He was employed by my
mother in the cellar and in attending to the business. He
left our house about nine or ten months ago ; it might not
be so long. On Wednesday last, between 8 and 9 o'clock in
the evening, I went out on some errand and met the pri-
soner at the corner of John-street and the Minories. I
spoke to him first. I said, ' well, John.' He said,' What
business have you come to meet me ?' I said, ' I have not
come to meet you as I know of.' He began to swear at me
because I went out the night before with a young man and
woman. He swore at me, and took out a knife—a clasp•
knife, and opened it, and said, Consider this in your
heart.' I said, Go on with your nonsense, :and he took
and put the knife back in his pocket. He called me all
sorts of terrible names ; some more words ensued, and
he took out the knife a second time, and I thought
he put it back into his pocket. He then knocked
me down by a blow on the side of my neck.
Two women picked me up, and I found I was wounded.
As soon as he knocked me down he crossed the road, and I
did not see him afterwards. The prisoner, John Linch, is
the man. I was taken to Dr. Cook's, and afterwards to this
hospital."

In cross-examination by the prisoner she said
—I met you on Monday night, and agreed to
meet you on Tuesday night. On Tuesday night
I went out for a ride. 1 told you on Monday
that I should not be able to go out with you on
Wednesday night, because I should have a hard
day's washing.

The following additional evidence was now given :
Mr. Daniel Reeve said,—l am a mercer, residing
at 124, Minories. On Wednesday, the 21st inst.,
about 10 minutes past 9 in the evening, I was stand-
ing at my door, looking towards John-street, when
I saw a young woman with the prisoner, whose
back was partly towards me. In about half a minute
from the time when I first noticed them I saw the
prisoner raise his arm and give the woman what
appeared to me to be a smack in the face. She in-
stantly fell on her knees, and the prisoner walked
coolly across the road. I at first thought the woman
was intoxicated, but she cried out " Seize him !
seize him ! he has stabbed me." I saw the prisoner
go slowly down Haydon-street, and there I lost
sight of him. When I turned towards the woman
I saw she was bleeding from a deep wound in the
neck, and that the blood was rushing from her in a
torrent. I have known the prisoner for the last 12
or 18 months from seeing him in the neighbour-
hood. I am quite sure that he is the man who dealt
the blow. I subsequently saw the young woman
in Dr. Cook's surgery, and shortly afterwards
police-constable 531 came in and saw her there. I
saw no knife or other instrument in the prisoner's
hands with which it was likely he could have in-
flicted such an injury.
Police•-constable Brown, 531, in answer to the
Lord Mayor, said that he had made inquiry at the
hospital, and found that the young woman was going
on more favourably.
The prisoner, who said nothing, was again re-
manded.

CLERKENWELL.—John Carey and Matilda
Carey, news agents, carrying on business in Little
Gray's-inn-road, were charged with having a large
quantity of counterfeit-coin in their possession.
The man has been convicted of a similar offence,
and the woman has also been in custody. For some
time past the prisoners have been under the sur-
veillance of Mr. Brennan, the Mint agent, and he,
in company with Inspector Bryant, G. division ;
Sergeants Brennan, 21 G ; Leather, 6 G, and
Elliott, 13 G, went into the prisoners' apartments
and seized a large quantity of counterfeit coin.
Mr. Pater, who appeared for the prisoners, sub-
mitted that the woman ought to be discharged.
The man would reserve his defence.

Mr. D Eyncourt fully committed both prisoners
to Newgate for trial.

THAMES.—Louisa Nieumann, a native of Ger-
many, aged 34, and dwelling at the time of her ap-
prehension at No, 13, John's-hill, Ratciiff-highway,
was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with
committing a series of violent and brutal assaults
on her son, a boy aged seven.

It appeared from the evidence of Alice Smith,
Ann Dartnell, and John Harris, neighbours of th e
prisoner, that she had for some time past been in the
practice of beating the son with a broom handle
and cane over his head, arms, and body. On
Wednesday morning the prisoner compelled the
child to break up coke in the yard at the back of
her house from seven to eleven o'clock, and refused to
give him any food until he hack completed his task.
She beat him with a broomhandle a week since,
and to stifle his cries seized him by the throat. On
Wednesday, after the boy had finished his task of
breaking up the cok she beat him savagely with
a cane over the head, arms, and back. The little
fellow was convulsed by her savage expedient of
stifling his cries by compressing his throat. There
was a little stream of blood on his shirt sleeves, and
weals on his arms from the brutal caning he had
received. The child's back was exposed to the view
of the magistrate, and shown to be covered with
weals. There were also several lamps on his head.
His appearance generally indicated that he had
been greatly neglected.
On Mrs. Smith, one of the witnesses, remonstrat-
ing against this cruelty a few weeks ago, the pri-
soner replied in English, using abusive language.
She at the same time threw water over the witness.
Hugh Andrews, a police-constable, who arrested
the prisoner, said she was in custody 12 months
ago for ill-using the child. The witnesses were not
then forthcoming. Her husband had been con-
victed and sentenced to seven years' penal servi-
tude for sheepstealing, and she had since been
cohabiting with a saddler, who had also beaten the
child very cruelly.
Mr. Woolryeh—Why is he not is custody P
Andrews—He has absconded.

The prisoner, in defence, stated, in the German
language, that her boy had stolen money and a ring
from her, had ill-used the baby she carried, and
tried to set fire to the house.

Mr. Woolrych interrogated the child, who denied
the charges preferred against him by his brutal
mother. lie then addressed the prisoner in German
and English, and sentenced her to one month's im-
prisonment and hard labour for an aggravated
assault.

Andrews proposed to take the child to the Ger-
man Orphan Asylum, where he expected it would
be provided for.

James Macnamara surrendered to answer a charge
of eating and wounding Dennis Shea, on the night of
Saturday, the 17th inst., at Old Ford, Bow, both
being Irish labourers.
It appeared that on the night in question a luna-
lic had escaped from an asylum in the neighbour-
hood of Old Ford, and Macnamara, Shea, and others
had assisted in the recapture of the madman. The
keeper of the asylum gave the men half a sovereign
for their trouble. A quarrel took place about the
division of the money. The two Irishmen parted
at midnight. At 2 o'clock in the morning the pro-
secutor was on his way home, when he was again
met by the prisoner who " fell upon him and put
his foot out to throw him." Shea got away
from the prisoner, who thereupon went into his
own house, in Taylor's buildings, Old Ford, armed
himself with a knife, and came out again, without
his coat, Waistcoat, and hat, and attacked Shea.
whom he attacked in the left thigh. The wounded
man fell and bled oopiously, lie has been ever
since under the care of Dr. Hill, a physician and
surgeon in the Bow-road, who now described the

wound as one of a very serious nature, 31 inches in
length and 21 inches in depth. The wound had
been inflicted with great violence, the knife having
been stopped by the bone.
Police-sergeant Poole, of the K division, who
arrested the prisoner, said both men were the worse
for liquor on the night in question, and the prose-
cutor was the worse of the two.

Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial,
but he said he would accept good bail.

SOUTHWARK.—Mr. James Burr, the landlord
of the Winchester Arms Tavern, Winchester street,
Southwark, also carrying on an extensive business
as a carman in the same street, and George Cope-
land, one of his men, were brought before Mr.
Combe, for final examination, charged with stealing
upwards of 60 quarters of oats, the property of
Messrs. James Hartley and Co., wharfingers, West
Kent Wharf, near London-bridge.
Mr. Lilley, instructed by Mr. Edwin, appeared
for the prosecution; and Mr. Best was counsel for
the prisoner Burr. The other was undefended.

Mr. Thomas William Wright, manager to Messrs.
Hartley and Co., said, that in consequence of an
extensive fire in West Kent Wharf some time ago,
they hired the basement floors of premises adjoin-
ing those in the occupation of Burr, for the pur-
pose of depositing a large quantity of Russian oats
consigned to them. There was a large hole in the
wall nest to Burr's premises, which witness had
strongly boarded up on their side, prior to the oats
being stowed away. It was also matted over. In
November the cellar was filled with oats and
securely locked. On Friday last he received such
information as induced him to call on Mr. Burr. He
proceeded with him to his basement floor, which
was used as a carpenter's workshop. There was a
great deal of lumber piled up against the hole in
the wall, and oats were sprinkled about the floor.
He called Mr. Burr's attention to that, and told
him that he understood that there had been a com-
munication between his and their side since the oats
had been stowed there. Burr said he knew nothing
of it. Witness expressed his surprise, and directed
his attention to the spot behind the lumber, and
asked if he had any objection to its removal. He
did not object but assisted witness in doing so. Wit-
ness then saw boards nailed on Burr's side of the
hole, and on removing them he perceived oats lay-
ing in the thickness of the wall. Their boards were
not in their original position. One of their boards
was actually on Burr's side. Oats were scattered
from the opening all over the workshop, a portion
of which witness collected, and found them to cor-
respond with the bulk on the other side. Witness
asked him how he could account for those oats ; but
he made no answer. He (Mr. Wright) left him and
communicated with the police, when he examined
the stock of oats and missed about 50 quarters.
In cross-examination by Mr. Best, witness said
that the prisoner Burr called on him at West Kent
Wharf previous to his inspecting the premises, and
told him something about a carpenter named Smith
spreading a report that he knew enough to convict
him. He then tendered witness the key of his work-
ship, and went with him to examine the place.
William Smith, a carpenter, residing in Kent-
street, said that some months ago Mr. Burr em-
ployed him to build a van. Witness worked in a
basement floor in Winchester-street, and when he
left off work generally carried the key of the place
away with him. About four months ago, when he
had left off, Mr. Burr asked him to lend him the
key. He did so, and went to a publichouse close
by. On leaving the latter he returned to Mr.
Burr's to ask how he could get the key in the
morning. He saw both prisoner's in his warehouse.
The lumber was cleared away and the hole in the
wall was open. The prisoners were dragging a
sack of oats from the latter, and Copeland carried
them into Burr's house. On the following mulling
when he went to work he found the opening closed
up as before. Since then witness had seen the pri-
' Boners carry oats from the same place.
Mr. Combe here cautioned the witness, as he un-
derstood that he was suspected of stealing the oats
himself.

The witness, cross-examined by Mr. Best, said
that when he first saw Mr. Burr removing the oats
from the opening, he thought that it was all his pre-
mises, and that they all belonged to him ; but after-
wards he suspected something wrong, and mentioned
the fact to Mr. Hayman, the superintendent to
Messrs. Sturdy Brothers, and other persons. He
never had any of the oats, neither did he offer to
sell any to a man named Battey ; nor did he show
the latter the key, telling him that was the key
where the oats were kept.
A lad named Airey, lately in the employ of Burr,
said that he had seen oats brought out in sacks
from the workshop mentioned, but he could not say
where they came from.
William Holmes, 252 M, said that on Friday
afternoon last he was called to take the prisoners
into custody. Mr. Wright was present, and handed
him the bag of oats produced, which he had picked
off the floor. Witness asked the prisoner Burr
whether he could account for the hole being opened
and the oats scattered about. He said he could not.
This being all the evidence for the prosecution,
Mr. Best contended that there was not sufficient
evidence to seed the case before a jury, as no reli-
ance could be placed upon the testimony of the wit-
ness Smith, who was clearly connected in some
way with the oats. He therefore called upon his
worship to discharge the prisoners,
Mr. Combe observed that he could not do that.
It was a case for a Jury.
Mr. Best remarked that if such was his worship's
decision he supposed bail would be accepted for Mr.
Burr. He was a respectable licensed victualler, and
had for many years been in business as a carman.
Mr. Combe agreed to accept bail for Burr, and
the required sureties being entered into, both pri-
soners were committed for trial.

LAMBETH.—Three men named Lloyd, Dicken-
son, and Kent, who have held the situations of
timekeepers and foreman to Messrs. Lee and
Bowles, contractors under the Board of Works for
the high level sewer, were finally examined on
various charges of plundering their employers.
From the evidence it was clear that since the
month of March last the prisoners had been carry-
ing on a wholesale system of robbery by. disposing
of gravel, bricks, timber, barrows, and, in fact, all
sorts of materials.

Several clear cases were established against the
prisoners, who were fully committed by Mr. Nor-
ton to take their trial.

GREENWICH.—WiIIiam Tarbuck, lately an
attendant at Bethlehem Hospital, was brought up
on remand charged with stealing the contents of a
cashbox and a silver cream-jug, and other articles
of plate, the property of Mr. Teesdale, an uphol-
ster, of Greenwich.

Th.) prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge.
Mr. Traill, at the request of the prosecution,
dealt with the case summarily, and sentenced the
prisoner to four months' imprisonment, with hard
labour.

THE HARVEST IN NORTHUMBERLAND AND
DURHAM.—The harvest in these two northern counties
promises to be ingathered fully a month earlier than last
year; and this week frolu Barnard Castle to Berwick ope-
rations are being pushed forward with immense energy and
activity. The weather is beautifully fine ; on Wednesday
it was quite hot, and human labour is supplemented by
reaping machines, a considerable number of which are
used this year by the farmers. By the end of the week a
very considerable quantity of grain will be gathered into
the stackyards in prime condition. The corn crops, to
appearance, seem to be a good average. Turnips are look-
ing extremely healthy, but there is a talk of disease among
the potatoes in certain parts of the country.

ST HELENA.—By the Cape mail steamship
Athens, which arrived on Wednesday at Plymouth, we have
Solomon and Moss's shipping list. The Viscount Sandon,
90 days from Rangoon, for Liverpool, arrived July 16 ; the
Douglas, 85 days from Rangoon, on the 17th; the Sunrise,
69 days from Cochin, for London, and the Crisis, 113 days
from Singapore, for Liverpool, on the 18th ; the Star Queen,
60 days from Bombay, for London, on the 19th; the Serin-
gapatam, 78 days from Bombay, for London, on the 20th;
the • Shantung, 83 days from Batavia, for London, on the
21st ; the Sir Robert Seppings, 107 days from Akyab, for
London, on the 23d ; the Sarah Scott, 91 days from Akyab
for Falmouth ; the Joshua, 80 days from Bombay, for
Liverpool, and the Strathmore, 99 days from Wharapoa, for
London, on the 20th; the Christabel, 76 days from Ceylon,
for London, and the Madagascar, 67 days from Bombay,
for Falmouth, on the 22d ; the General Caulfield, 56 days
from Madras, for London, sad the Siam, 83 days from Cal-
cutta, for London, on the 23d ; the konneguash, 80 days
from Ceylon, for London, and the Early Morn, 20 days
from Port Natal, for London, on the _22d; the Tiberias, 61
days from Ceylon; for London, on the 24th; the Victory,
68 days from Cochin, for London, on the 23d; the Forgan-
hall, 72 days from Bombay, for Liverpool, and the Char-
lotte Jane, 117 days, for London, on the 24th; the Lam-
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