The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 2.

MANSION-HOUbm—The Lord Mayor, upon tak-
ing the chair in the justice room, said be was happy to
find that the attention of the Poor Law Board had been
directed to the condition of the casual ward of the West
London Union at Battle-bridge, and that steps were about
to be taken for making better accommodation for the re-
ception of the casual paupers. He had expressly stated on
a former occasion that the males and females were not
huddled together, but were kept in distinct compartments
of that institution, and he thought it necessary to make
that statement, in order to remove an impression which
seemed to have somehow gained currency, that he had
used an observation to which he had never given utter-
ance. He was confirmed in the opinion he had previously
expressed, of the deplorable want of accommodation in the
building to which he alluded, by his friend Mr. Moore,
Of the firm of Copstake, Moore, and Co., of Bow-church•
yard, so well known for extensive philanthropy, who
upon a recent visit to the place was shocked to find that
human beings were subjected to such degr►dation. His
lordship then said be would take the liberty to suggest
that as there were severta unoccupied building in the
vicinity of the old Smithfield-market, which could be ad-
vantageously appropriated to the purposes of the \Vett
London Union, the guardians could nut do better than
make a selection from that neighbourhood for the ac-
commodation of the numerous claimants whom necessity
has driven into inevitable dependence. lie hoped that
the matter would not rest, and be declared that it was
his determined intention to call upon the c3mmissioners
of the Poor-law Board, for the purpose of submitting to
them the urgent necessity which txisted fur energetic
action upon the occasion.

WORSHIP-STREET.---Two smartly dressed young
men, named Thomas Caarters and William Baker, were
charged with the commiekion of the following artful and
daring robberies.
It appeared from the evidence that on the morning of
Monday se'nnight, while a 'la ]y nsined Wakeling, resid-
ing in Merriou-place, Hackney-road, was seated in her
parlour, she was informe t by her servant that a
young gentleman was waiting in the pas-ago who had
requested permission to search the garden f,r a ball
which he had accidentally thrown over the back wail. At
the same moment, the prisoner Charters appeared at
the door and reiterated the request with such profuse
apologies for his intrusion, that Mrs. Wakeling was in-
duced to accompany him to the garden, and after a pro-
tracted search ta no purpose,they were returning through
the house, when a man whom she recognised as the pri-
soner Baker, suddenly emerged from the parlour anal
darted out at the street door, which had been incau-
tiously left open. The prisoner Charters instantly
hastened after him, with the observation that he would
soon catch the scoundrel and bring hint back, but nc-
thing more was seen of either of them, aid on entering
the parlour she found that her husband's watch had
been abstracted trim the mantel-piece. On the after-
noon of the same day, a lady named Burbidge was pas-
sing through the Hackney-toad on her way to her resi-
dence in Patriot-square, Cambridge-heath, when she felt
a sudden pressure at her side, and on turning her bead
she observed Charters and another man closely following
her; Their furtive intentions were so unmistakeable
that she rapidly removed her purse from her pocket, and
was holding it tightly in her hand, when the pri-
soner Charters gra-ped her by the arm, and forcing
her fingers asunder secured the purse, with
which he darted off at full speed. A gentleman who had
witnessed the transaction immediate ly pursued the pri-
soner, and after a lengthened chase he was overtaken at
the side of a lofty wall, which he mounted with cot like
agility, but before he could descend on the othtr side he
was dragged down by the legs, and handed over to the
police. The other prisoner succeeded in eluding appre-
hension until the fallowing Thursday, when he was ta'ten
into custody for being concerned in another robbery in
Bartholomew-square, and after a brief examination l•'ore
the magistrates of that district he was transferred to this
court.
Mr. Lewis, jun., called two witnesses with the view
of establishing an alibi on behalf of Baker with regard to
the first charge, but the magistrate considered that the
evidence was perfectly conclusive against both prisoners,
and ordered them to be committed for trial.
Joseph Edwards, a private in the 4th Drags. an Guards,
was charged before Mr. D'Eyncouit with the following
robbery :
Mr. G. Sehbard, a German loatheriresser in . Heneage-
street, Bethnal-Green, stated that while prepari 2g to go
out with his wife, at 8 o'clock on Saturday even ing, the
prisoner, who was a total ktrangur to him, kno eked at
the door and asked for Mr. Smith, ofOxford-stret I. Wit
ness told him there was no Mr. Smith there, n or any
Oxford-street in that neighbourhood, and explain .ed to
him that the streets of that name he knew were at the
\Vest-end and Stepney. The prisoner apologised f. ir the
trouble he had given, and wished them to drink it his
expense. Witness refused, but the prisoner pees
fetched some gin, and with great persuasion, or " fc Tee,'
as the German expressed it, he, his wife, and an other
woman were induced to take a small quantity of it. He
and his wife then left for Whitechapel, the prisoner :say
ing he would go with them, and be did so, till r‘t _last
the prosecutor found his company a nuiFa?•nce, wan.tecl. to
gpt rid of him, and told him bluntly, "I ,waht no. nat )re
of your society ; you had better go." the prisot, ‘er
readily took the hint and left them, and on the pros, '-
cutor and his wife getting home they found tti^ ,A see t
iu confusion, the prisoner in custody of a pol' wa
Aexaar,

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Pris .ner—Yes, Sir, I am upon furlough, and about
to join tbo 3d Dragoon Guards, now under orders for
India. I don't wish to ask questions, but I should like
to say a few words, if you'd let me.
Mr. D'Eyimoltrt—Yes, certainly ; do so.
PriEouer—Well, Sir, I met the prosecutor's wife last
Saturday week in Wfutechapel, and she asked me to
treat her. That was the firet time I saw her, but I did 'Jo,
and we went to a coffee-house there kept by a person.
named Hughes, and afterwards I went to her house and
stayed with her there all night. Next morning, after I
had left, I missed several things from my pockets, and
among others a peculiar knife given to me by the owner
of a casino at Sheffield on my return from the Crimea,
with my name, regiment, and the engagements I had
been in upon it. As I wanted to get back my knife, I
went to the prosectitoea,, as he ear., but saw hitt! and

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his wife together. I did not wish him to know of ml
previouE acquaintantoe-„with hja,_. and therefore
asked for a Smith, and; bairlok proffered some drink.

the wife then sent her husband out upon some pretence,
and I, in presence of the landlady, asked the wife for
my knife. The landlady said, " What ! is that knife
yours t What a pretty one !" and the wife then fetched
the knife, and returned it to me. _

Mr. D'Eyncourt—Well, and allowing all that you say
to be true, it dues not at all meet this charge of robbers
against you.
Prisoner—Oh, I know nothing whatever about that
box.

The officer having intimated that the wife was out-
side, and the prisoner expressing a wish to have her
questioned, she was called in. She was a tidy, neat-
looking woman of 30, and on her getting into the wit-
ness-13,x the magistrate asked her, ;" Did you ever see
this knife before t"

Wife—Yes, Sir, on Slturday night, at the station-
houie, when the prisoner produced it.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—And did you ever see the prisoner
before that time
\Vile—Never, Sir.
Mr. D'Eyncourt (to the prisoner)—Well, I shall re-
mand you for a week.
Prisoner—l am very sorry, sir, to be obliged to tell
you all this about this man's wife, but I assure you,
notwithstanding, that it is all perfectly true, and I do
hope that at the next examination you will have both
the landlady of the prosecutor's house, and also Mr.
Hughea, the coffee-house keeper, brought here and ex-
amined.

Thp prisoner said this very earnestly, and, Mr.
D'Eyncourt having replied "Certainly; let the officer
see to that," the prisoner was remanded.

MARLBOROITGH-STREET.—Ajourneyman tailor,
named L ‘oney, was summoned by Simon Wentheim
tailor, Regent-street, for detaining two coats.
Mr. Wentbeim said it was the practice of journeym.n
tailors to get work to do at their own houses, and to
keep it until ( xt,ortionate prices for their labour were
paid. As these workmen generally knew whether the-
job they were on was a time job, that is, for a wedding
or a funeral, and that the garments must 'be delivered by
a fixed time, they seldom failed to carry their point., The
defendant bad obtained two casts to make a fortnight
ago, and had not yet sent them home.
The defendant said the reason was that the complainant I
gave him a, coat to make, telling him to make it A 1,
:neaning in first-rate style. He worked four days on
the coat, and was only paid 125., which was not suffi-
cient payment for his time, considering that he had to
find silk and thread. As he expected to, be served in
the same way with these two coat, he did not send
tLe•n home, but was willing to give them up on payment
of 245. for his labour.
Mr. Wentheitn would pay the money, but he had a
set off of 17s. 6d for cloth sold to the defendant.
Beadon said he could not set off goods against
labour, unless there was a previous agreement.
Mr. Wentheim wished to know whether a workman
was bound to deliver goods given out to him at the shop
' from which he received them. . . .

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Mr. BoAd9n said certainly a workman must take back
work to the shop from which he received it, but 11.-
no.d not deliver up the goods before he got the money.
The order was made fur the delivery of the coats on
payment of 24i.

LAMBETH.—Yesterday, Mary Webb, Hariet
Worefold, and Mary Kingsgate, kitchen maids at the
Crystal Palace, were charged with carrying away no less
than 82 pounds weight of beef, mutton, bam, fowl, veal,
butter, soap, flour, bread, pastry, besides eggs and fruit,
the property of the Messrs. Staples, of the Albion Tavern,
Aldersgate-street, who are contractors for refreshments
at the Crystal Palace. James Scull, a waiter at the
palace, was also charged with a similar offence, and
Alfred Kingsgate, the husband of one of the female pri-
soners, was charged with receiving some property found
at his house, 1:01)1:ging to the Messrs. Staples.
From the evidence it appeared that Mr. Lund and
Serjeant Coppin stationed themselves opposite to the
gate at which the servants of Messrs. Staples leave at
night, and when the females came out they foil med and
stopped tkein, and at the station-housefound each loaded
with property of every description, in large pockets tied
round their shoulders, body, and waist, and placed in-
side their dress. Oa one of them alone was concealed
no less than 32lbs. weight of different articles. Soul!
was also taken with a bag in his possession, containing
31bs. weight of beef, barn, fowl, and other articles, and
at the house of Kingsgate was found 21bs. of butter,
some bread, and a steel.
The prisouere' solicitor hoped that both the prosecu-
tors and his worship would deal leniently with the pri-
soners, who had up to the present borne a good charac-
ter, and, treat their offence summarily for the unlawful
posses-i n.
Mr. Norton observed that the offence was one of a
wholesale and ruinous character, against which no
Amount of capital coul I stand. He should remand the
prisoners to a future day to give time to inquire about
their character, and on the account he received of there
would depend in a great measure the mode in which be
should ultimately dispose of the case.
The prisoners were aen remandecl.
THE CASE OF THE LATE CONSTABLE JORDAN.—The
following sums have been received for the widow of Jor-
dan the policeman, who lost his life by the brutality of a
Crimean soldier, viz. : —5l. from J. W. C., 3/. from Lord
8., 1/. from E. C., 10s. from B. N. D , ss. from C. D.,
ss. from J. F., and half-a-crown each from J. S., C. G.
M.., and E. S.—Five pounds have also been received,
per Coutts and Co., from Lady C. Proby, for the poor-
box.—" Peter Pickwick."—The second half of a Si. note
from this benevolent contributor to the poor-box has been
acknowledged by mistake. The s cond half has in
reality not yet come to hand.

THAMES —Alexander Harnett Clark, photographic
artist, 5, Sun-court, Upper East Smithfield, was brought
before Mr. Yardley, charged with causing the death of
Eliza Bunn, a married woman, by striking her on the
head with a hammer. The prisoner was fined 20s. for
the assault, which it was alteged caused the death of the
vvoitinu. Gov days ago. Since the fine the poor woman
was attacked by illness, and died ye.aterday.
It appeared that the prisoner was banging some pho-
tographic portraits to a nail, and that the deceased en-
tered his shop and an altercation took place between
them, but what led to it did not appear. The woman
scratched the prisoner's face, and he took up a hammer
and struck her on the head. When the case of assault
only was heard before, the magistrate thought some pro-
vocation was given, but nut such as
.to justify
. the pri-
soner taking up a deadly weapon and striking the woman.
After a long investigation, Mi. Yardley remanded the
prisoner.

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Captain W. Croaker, 27th VstWirs;'' ' —1
rived at Chatham, and taken
depot and companies at that garrilk. a. S
• The colours of the 3d battalion of the Grenadier
Guards, the Ist battalion of the Coldstream Guards,
and the Ist battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards
borne by those regiments duringd the late war-11.-
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the Crimea, were on Friday
Wellington
tary chapel adjoining theosited in the mill
barracks- in
Birdcage-walk. Major-General Rokeby, K.O B
and many of the officers of the three regiments a
the Guards who servel•during the late war were
present at the ceremony. Ae
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colours in the building, the three pacing
bands of thethe
Guards played the National Anthem.
Lieutenant-Colonel Holloway of the Royal Ma-
rines, has been appointed aid-de-camp to the Queen
in the room of Col, nel Graham, promoted.
The following is an extract 4rom a letter from,
Captain Denham, of her Majesty's ship Herald, i.,_
porting an accident to a boat's crew of 'hat ship,
which has just been received at the Admiralty ;...._
"It is my painful duty ,o state the accidental
upsetting and sinking in deep water of one of our
cutters on the 20,h of October, 1856, whi e return-
ing from the island of Wakaya, adjacent to Ovolau,
in the Fejees, while under a press of sa'e, with an
overload of cocoa-nuts, through which the till -:ere
in charge, Mr. A. R. Nugent, midshipman, aged. 20,
and five seamen, 1, st their lives, while to free f om
turbillence was the channel between the island
and ship that two of the crew swam back to the
shore, a distance of two miles in the wind's eye, and,
another gained the ship with the sad intelligence.
"All the united efforts of the stnallcraft of Ovo-
lau, and the ship's boats failed in even recovering
the bodies of our lamented shipmates.
" The names of the seamen drowned were—Geo.
Findley, A. 8., Alex. Win tyre, A. 8., Dialiel
Welist.r, A. 8., Benjathin Minnus, ordinary, and
Fred. M'Carrick, ordinary."
The foll Owing appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. A. R. Owen, to the Retribution ; John
D. Irvine, mate to the Emperor • C. Albert, mas-
ter to the Juno; the Hon. J. C. Ellis, midshipman
to the Calcutta, for disposal.
Commander W.dter Reid and Commander F.
EL Stevens have been appointed agents for mails on
boa.rd..coatraet steam vessels.
COMmatider Win. -Eloveat has been promote7l to
the rank of captain on reserved half-pay list.
The extensions and improvement of the dockyard
at Pembroke are this year to be carried out to the
extent of 120,0001. The widening of the entrance
dock is to cost 8,0001., and the lengthening and
widening of the dock which has been so 'long in
hand is to cost 20,0001. this year. The two new
slips and the boat basin extending along the -wharf
are also to be vigorously carried on, and these, with
provision for scouring away the mud between the
Carr. Spit and the dockyard back in front of the
dockyard, will cost 30,000'. It is proposed to im-
prove the navigation in I oat of the yard, and to
deepen and widen very materially the channel.
This will be done by removing large quantities of
mud which have been for years accumulating. The
roof over slip No. 12 is to be extended Enward,
and altogether the sum appropriated to this will be
10,000/. The erection of larger sawmills, engine-
house, workshops, a new foundry, and plumbers'
shops, is to cost upwards of 20,0001. The sawmills
are advancing towards c:mpletion, and the sheds
over Nos. 17and 2 ara being extended seaward.
The foundry is to be erected on the site of the old
iron store. The new slips ara being constructed in
the hest manner. The t.ed is of limestone and the
copings of granite, and the whole is being laid most
sati,faetorily. The work of each contractor is per-
formed under the superintendence of an inspector,
who sees that it is done in a proper manner.