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London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 20.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mary Ann Shea, alias
Magaßeim, a girl 13 years of age, who had been re-
manded upon the charge of stealinglolb. of old iron
and carpenters' 'chisels, worth 2s. 6d., from some
promises in course of erection in Mitre-court, Cheap-
side, was again brought before the Lord Mayor and
Mr. Alderman Hale in petty sessions.
At the last examination the prisoner, after the
charge had been proved against her, confessed her
guilt, and begged hard to be allowed to go home,
declaring it was her first offence. This assertion,
however, was contradicted by police-constable Wm.
Morris, No. 419, who stated that he had known the
prisoner for a long time, and that she was the con-
stant associate of juvenile thieves, a number of
whom were waiting outside the court to learn the
result of the charge. The girl said she was the
daughter of Roman Catholic parents, that for a long
time past she had been sent out to beg, and to take
to her parents whatever money she received.
The Lord Mayor, finding that the girl had been
brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, directed
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, to communicate
with the authorities of the Catholic Reformatory
School, Beauchamp-lodge, Hammersmith, and a
gentleman from that institution was present during
the proceedings at the Mansion-house yesterday.
Daniel Magabern, the father of the girl, who had
been served with a second summons, after having
refused to attend to the first, was called into the
witn-:ss-box, and in reply to the Lord Mayor said
he was a Roman Catholic, and wished his daughter
to go into some reformatory institution.
The Girl (crying bitterly)—Oh, father, pray,
pray don't send me there ; pray don't, pray don't.
The Lord Mayor—Magabern, I understand you
are in the habit of writing letters for people in
distress.
Magabern—No, I do not, indeed ; 1 work hard
for my living. I have this year been haymaking,
ha.rvtating, and hopping.
The Lord Mayor—l have been making inquiries
about you, and find that you have been in the
Duiblin police.
Magabern—That's true.
The Lord Mayor—You have also heron in the
Excise ?
Magabern—Yes.
The Lord Mayor—Two years ago you were in the
Glasgow police ?
Magthern—Ycs ; and I work at the docks some-
times now. I have two boys and four girls, the
eldest of whom is 16.
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A policeman, named M'Kenzie, said, he had
known Magabern, his wife, and children, for 10
years. They lived by begging.
The Lord Mayor—Magabern; your wife, I am
told, refuses to come here, because you have given
her a black eye.
Magabern-1 did not do it ; she fell against the
window. shutter.
The Lsrd. Mayor, addressing the girl, said—
You may think the seri.' E ice I am about to pass upon
you a very severe one, but I am convinced you will
hereafter know I am doing ae act of the greatest
alibtotluet to remove you from
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the custody of very bad parents, who have bad it
in their power properly to provide for you and
bring you up, and who have not only neglected to
do so, but have actually lived upon your success in
begging and stealing. You will now be rescued
flout. the path of vice and wretchedness, and under-
o a training which will make you a useful mem-
ber of 6ociety. Parents are perhaps not aware that
they are liable for the maintenance of their children
dnrini the time they are detained in a reformatory
establishment, and may be imprisoned for non-
payment. lam determined to free the city of the
large number of destitute children who are in the
habit of collecting principally in the vicinity of the
Royal Exchange. I hope the sentence lam ab )ut
to pass will have the effec', of lessening the number
of destitute children who are sent into the streets
to beg, and whose parents spend in idleness and
prolligacy"the money they are fortunate enough to
oLtain. The Shoeblack Society has now become, as
it were, a fixed trade, and I hope that the efforts
of the Streetsweepers' Society will be equally
successful. All the pence given to these lads
are appropriated towards their maintenance and
instruction ; and as soon as the public are aware
of this fact I am sure they will generously aid
these poor boys as far as they can. Mary Ann
Magabern, it is the opinion of my brother magi-
strate and myself that you should be imprisoned.
for 14 days in the House of Correction at Hollo-
way ; and that at the expiration of that time you
should be sent to the Catholic Reformatory School
at Hammersmith for three years.
Immediately the sentence was pronounced the
girl, who throughout the proceedings was over-
whelmed with grief, and earnestly implored ber
father to take her home with him, fell upon her
knees, and firmly grasping the rails in front of the
dock, shrieked and screamed most violently. She
was carried out of the court in a fainting state. A
more painful scene has never been witnessed is a
court of justice.
Magabern (coolly)—You have done the best
thing you could, my Lord.
The Lord Mayor—lf you had not been a worth-
less, idle fellow, there would have been no neces-
sity for my[sending her to that institution. I have
no doubt that when she leaves it she will be able to
get into respectable service, and be comfortably
situated.

GUILDHALL. —Mrs. Elie% Perkins, alias
Williams, a ias Elmsley, who was remanded from
Thursday upon a charge of imposing upon hotel
and boarding-house proprietors, was again brought
up, when the porter at Ridley's
Hotel attended
and said the prisoner applied for accommodation
on the afternoon of the 9th inst., mid on being in-
formed she could not be received she asked where
there was a respectable hotel near, and the porter
named several, including the Black Bull in Hol-
born.
The Alderman, upon beating this, decided that
the porter's evidence had upset the charge of false
pretences, and unless there wa3 any other compla'nt
she must bo discharged.
The prisoner was accordingly liberated.

BOW-STREET.—The summons against the six
booksellers in Holywell-street, on whose premises
seizures of obscene books, prints, dm,
were made on
Friday of last week, having been made returnable
at 3 u eke]: yesterday, the police attended at that
appeared for the Home-office,
hour and produced the property seized.
Mr. Bodkin again
Mr. Orridge attended as counsel for one of the dc*
fondants, and Mr. Lewis, jun., as solicitor for an-
other.
Mary'Elliett, of 14, Holywell-street, WAS first
called. She at once came for ward and expressed

great anxiety to contradict a statement made at the
last examination, that she was the same person who
on the ocoasion of the former seizure, wrote a peni-
t-ntial letter to the Home-office, promising not to
offend again. She also alleged that some of the
books now seized had been returned as unobjec-
tionable on-tlao former occasion.
Inspector Lester said this was not the case. At
the former seizure the books, &c., were all of an
objectionable character, and none were returned.
In this case one book and a few prints were re-
turned. The remainder were ordered to be retained
for 7 days, when they will be destroyed, unless in
the case of an appeal, or of any further proceedings
on the part of Government.
A person who represented himself to be a soli-
citor's clerk appeared for th© next defendant,
Edward Morris, of 25, Wych-street, but, as he
produced no written authority from the solicitor
in whose name he attended, Mr. Jardine refused
to hear him. Defendant did not answer to his
name. _ _

Two pictures in frames and one book were
ordered to be returned. Several copies of a book
called " Aristotle" were condemned and ordered to
be detained as in the former case.
In the next case the person summoned was
Thomas Blackall, of 16, Holywell-street, in whose
stead appeared an old man named Dagdale, who
stated that he was the owner and occupier of the
house. In order to attend he had been brought
up on a habeas from Coldbath-fields Prison, where
he is at present undergoing a sentence of two
years' imprisonment for selling obscene publi-
cations. He attempted to dispute the proceed-
ings from the beginning, alleging that the
seizure was illegal, and, when overruled on
this point, demanding to go over the works
seriatim,. After much time had been wasted in lis-
tening to his somewhat violent declamation,
Mr. Jardine disposed of the case by condemning
two large parcels of books, arc., and ordering a com-
paratively small quantity to be returned.
Mr. Lewis appeared for the next defendant,
William Wye n, and co u tended that the "Aristotle,"
of which 14 copies had been seized, was a medical
work, and not obscene.
Mr. Jardine was of a contrary opinion. The title
page alone was enough to condemn the book.
A quantity of books, pamphlets, &c., were con-
demned, and a small portion of books, • &c., and
some stereotype plates of "Fox's Book of Martyrs"
were returned.
Mr. Orridge appeared for the next defendant,
Richard Wynn, who, he observed, was not a habitual
dealer in these works, which had been suffered to
creep in among his stock by inadvertence.
Mr. Jardine said these observations were no an-
swer to the charge, but might possibly be taken into
account by the authorities in considering the pro-
priety of instituting further proceedings.
In this ease only a small aquintity of books was
condemned, and the remainder returned.
In the next case the person summoned was John
Thornhill, but Dugdale again appeared, and stated
that the premises were his. He took the same
course as in the former case, insisting uron each of
the condemned books being shown to him, and ask-
ing the magistrate to point out the object'onable
portions, which, of course, his worship refused to
do. As, however, he failed to show cause against
the destruction of the copies the order was made out
as in the other cases.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.----Thos. Hayden
was charged with stealing a quantity of jewellery
and other articles from the shop of his employer,
Mr. Richard Waylett,' 232, Oxford-street.
Mr. Waylett said the prisoner entered his service
about six years ago, and was discharged alSout 13
months back. About a month of er the prisoner
hail left him he missed a variety of articles, among
them a supr basin and cream jug, now in the hands
of the police. The property missed exceeded 201.
in value. _ _ _

Police-sergeant Sedgewickf of the West Riding
of Yorkshire constabulary, said, on the Ist of May
he apprehended the prisoner for robbing his master,
Mr. Cooper, of Huddersfield. On reaching the pri-
soner's house he found a quantity of duplicates re-
lating to property stolen from his former master, Mr.
Waylett. He also found a sugar basin, cream jug,
12 forks, six knives, and other articles, all of
which were identified by Mr. Waylett, who had
been communicated with as soon as the property
was found. The prisoner was sentenced to six
months' imprisonment for robbing Mr. Cooper, and
after the expiration of the sentence witness took
him into cuatody and brought him to London.
Thos. Smith, assistant to Mr. Mills, pawnbroker,
produced six silver spoons pledged on the 15. h of
Nov. 1856; and Wm. Powell, Upper Park-place,
produced a tablepoon and six forks pledged last
Dec. ; and Wm. Bezant, assistant to Mr. Brooks,
30, Orchard-street, produced a quantity of spoons
and other articles pledged at sevrral times.
All the property produced was identified by Mr.
Waylett.
The prisoner reserved his defence, and was fully
I committed.

WESTMINSTER. —Mr. Arnold, the presiding
magistrate, was occupied for some hours in hearing
a charge of libel preferred by Mr. Benjamin cole-
man, a merchant in the Poultry, against Mr. Edwin
Ward Jackson, of 14, Cravenhill-gardens, Bays-
water, a county magistrate.
Mr. Tindal Atkinson, in opening the case, ad-
vert ed to there havingbeen a recen t complaint against
the defendant for libel at the Mansion-house, which
had failed for want of legal proof. The present
prosecution was for unlawfully publishing a certain
decainatory libel against Mr. Coleman, addressed to
Mr. Wm. Dredge, 10, Great George-street, within
the district of this court. He first proposed to show
the animus which existed in this case, and which
was attributable to the defendant owing his, client
a large sum of money ; and he would then call
witnesses to prove that the letter containing the
libel was in the handwriting of the defendant. It
had the effect of creating a prejudice in the mind of
the gentleman to whom it was addressed, who had
had some transactions with the complainant, and a
more atrocious, unfounded, unwarrantable, br cow-
ardly attack had never been made upon the reputa-
tion of a gentleman whose character had never been
impeached. He then read the following letter :
"S r,—There is a deep-dyed scoundrel about town who
has tried various dodges for the purpose of extorting
money. His practice is to scrape acquaintance with
gentlemen as with myself, and others, and get to know
their history, and then, by trumped up .tales, simulated
reports, and perverted statements, to threaten to expose
them. I understand he has been lately trying his hand
with two gentlemen, one a member of the Stook Ex-
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circumstances which leave no doubt of their truth. Other
cases are mentioned, for which, however, I cannot vouch.
Having heard him lo,ast of you among his personal
friends, I deem it a duty to a man occupying your posi-
tion to write and caution you to be on your guard against
the advances of this designing plausible Jew, whom I
have discovered to be a most cunning unscrupulous man,
and whose vocation in the city seems to be to trip up the
unguarded and ensnare his benefactors. His name is
Coleman.
" City, Oat. 12.
" P. S. I obviously . cannot give you the name in a
letter by p -at, but will give particulars when I see yor.'
Mr. Tindal Atkinion added that, the facts of the
case at the Mansion-house having come Velure the
public, Mr. Dredge, with very gentlemanly feel-
ing, placed himself in communication with Mr.
cotenaan, from whom he had withdrawn his confi-
dein.; and the present proceedings were resorted to.
Mr. W. Dredge, engineer, Great George-street,
proved the receipt of the letter above given about
the 15th of Oct. He had previously had some busi-
ness transactions with Mr. o_,leman, and in conse-
quence of the letter withdrew some papers which
Mr. Coleman had in his possession.

In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Sergeant Parry,
witness said he was not personally w:quainted with
Mr. Jackson, and should not have known him if he
had met him.

Mr. Benjamin Coleman said he had known the
defendant since 1845, and had earl transactions with
him since. In the course of business there was
correspondence between them. After 1845 or 1846
be had no communication with def ndant, tilt 1855,
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on the other case, witness haft differed as to the
handwriting on the envelope, put in the following
subtsaekqeun subsequent
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at the Mansionevidence
respecting monetary transactions between the
parties :
" We have this 10th day of September, 1850, been
paid by and received from Ed win Ward Jackson, Esq.,
er the hands of Stamper, his solicitor, the sum of 2001.,
as and in full payment and absolute satisfaction and die-
charge of all and every one and each of our joint and
several claims and demands whatsoever set up, and in
complete liquidation of all our differences against him ;
and in consideration of such payment and receipt we
hereby undertake and promise that no further misrepre-
sentation in the Liverpool Stock Exchange or elsewhere
shall henceforth be made by or through the means,
agency, priiity, or procurement of us, or either of u',
that be hitherto wa,, now or hereafter may be, a re-
pudiator of shares or otherwise, in injury or prejudice of
his character or to give him annoyance; and that we will
do our best endeavours, to counteract any such misre-
presentation in the said Stock Exchange or elsewhere,
to make the contrary (being the truth) appear.
" Witness our hands,
" COLEMAN AND TODD."
" Witness, John Stamper."
Witness admitted the validity of the above, but
begged to explain. There was a balance of 1,200/.
due from defendant to witness and hispartaer,

ing out of transactions when they were in business
at Liverpool, and defendant was posted as a defaulter.
In about 12 months afterwards defendant came to
him in the guise of a pauper, with his coat brokeu
under the arm, and begged him in the humblest
manner to forget the past, to accept 2001. in liqui-
dation of the 1,200/., that his name as a defaulter
might be removed from the Stock Exchange, with
an assurance that when his prospects brightened he
would act honourably towards the firm in the trans-
action. In 1855 witness again met him in London,
when he said he would pledge his coat to redeem
his honour in past transactions, and propose fur-
ther business. Witness here went into details of
business between them, which resulted in cross
actions for their respective claims, and defendant
having to pay witness 1501. and costs.
Five gentlemen were called, who deposed to the
best of their belief that the libel was in the hand-
writing. of the defendant.

Mr. Parry said that his client, through him, de-
nied in the most emphatic terms that he had writ-
ten. or sent the letter in question. Tho learned
barrister, in defence, then went on to de-crihe the
present proceeding as part of a deeply laid scheme
to extort money from his client by the threat of
exposure of some circumstances which had occurred
in the earlier period of his life, and the letter as a
fabrication for the purpose of carrying on the en-
deavour with effect. His client, he declared, had
a claim against the complainant of 9001. at the time
of the settlement in 1846, and also bad a superior
claim to the complainent's on the last occasion, but,
in an ill-judged moment, paid 1501. before the
trial. Mr. Parry then read a number of letters
from complainant to defendant, passages of which
he characterised as part of the scheme he described.
The first of these letters, dated August 20, 1857,
said,—
" My present object in writing to you ie to again give
you the opportunity of meeting me, if you please, for the
purpose of handing to you all documents in my possession
re:ative to our recent transactions, and of coming to an
explicit understanding with you as to my future course
of action. If you decline to meet me I shall consider
myself entirely relieved from the silence I have observed
in the hope of an arrangement in the character and con-
duct of your transactions with me."
After giving th name of the bench of magistrates,
the letter went on—

" I certainly will never allow you to boll up your
head among those gentlmen so long a 4 your moral ob-
hgations to me remain unadjusted."
In a letter written by complainant to Mr. Jervis,
defendant's solicitor, bearing date Sept. 4, be says—

"Mr. Jackson's transactions with me in 1346 were
of such a character as to oblige him to leave Liverpool,
and to forfeit the friendship of his leading acquaintances
there. I paid for Jackson under most vexatious circum
stances, 1,2001. Some months after, dressed up for the
occasion, on the false plea of poverty, and mobbing like
a child, he induced me to take 2001. for this debt, with
a solem❑ promise that if he were ever in a position to do
so he would pay the whole."
Another letter accused defendant of having "failed
to redeem tho promises he bad so frequently made to
him," and threatened to " lay before Sir G. Grey
the nature of his conduct and transactions with
complainant, and also forward a copy of the com-
munication to the chairman of the Bench of Middle-
sex Magistrates." The letter concluded by offer-
ing to refer the matter to the arbitration of any
man of standing.
Five or six gentlemen, including Mr. Jervis,
were put into the witness-box, and swore to the
very best of their belief the libel was not in de-
fendant's handwriting. Some thought there was a
little similarity, others were positive there was
none. _ _ _ _ _

Mr. Arnold observed that the case appeared by
consent to have referred to him for trial. If Mr.
Atkinson wished it, he would take the alleged libel
and two other letter,,, admitted by all to be in the
handwriting of defendant, home and examine
them ; but he would put it to Mr. Atkinson whe-
ther, in a case of belief like the present, any jury
would come to the concrusion that defendant was
the writer of the letter ?

Mr. Atkinson s iid he could produce overwhelm.
ing evidence that it was defendant's writing.
Mr. Parry retorted by declaring he could pro•
duce a host more witnesses to prove it was not.

Some other remarks were made by the learned
gentlemen, dining which
Mr. Arnold said he was satisfied a jury would
not convict. There was not sufficient to justify
him in sending the matter before another tribunal,
and the case was therefore dismissed.

CLERKENWELL.—Ebenezer Hargrave, aged
24, a respectably-dressed young man, who refus©l
to give his address, and said he was of no occupa-
tion, was placol at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt,
charged with stealino• from the parson of Mr. Wal-
ter Aske, residing atlB, Queen-street, Clerkenwell,
a silver watch of the value of 2t. .

The prisoner, who said he was respectably con-
mooted, and therefore refused his address, but who
it was stated had been before convicted, walked be-
hind the prosecutor and his wife in Sr.. John-street
about 2 o'clock, and when near the corner of Spen-
cer-street, in company with some other men, at-
tacked the prosecutor and his wife, knocked them
both down, and then, cutting the watch chain,
took away the watch and ran away. Mr. Ake
called out. "Stop thief !" when the prisoner was
stopped by Police-constable Fry, 93 G, and when
taking him into custody the prisoner dropped the
watch, which was picked up by a passer and giyen
to the police. Both the prosecutor and wife were
hurt by the violence which was used towards them.
The prisoner who denied the charge, was com-
mitted for trial.

Country Markets.

LIVERPOOL—Nov. 20.

At this day's market there was a less attendance of
millers and dealers, and a moderate amount of business
done. Wheat met a heavy sale, at 2d to 3d per bushel
under Tuesday. Flour declined la par sack and barrel, and
is to is 6d for Indian corn. Other articles of the trade
wore neglected, and prices nominal.