The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-10 00:00:00

POLICE

MANSION-. —Chas.
Cullam, a porter iu Jssrs, E.
Moses and Son, Aldgate, who was brought before
the Lord Mayor last week, charged with embezzling
the sum of £4 6s. 3d., was brought up yesterday
for final examination.

It appeared that the prisoner's duty was to take
oat parcels and receive the money for them. On the
evening of the 19th of August the head porter gave
him two parcels to deliver, one for £3 11s. 3d., and
the other for 155., which he was to receive and ac-
count for next day. On the prisoner's parcel-book
being examined a day or two after by a young man
named Wilson, the head porter, he discovered that
the two amounts for the parcels mentioned had not
been entered. He spoke to the prisoner, who said
that he had lost a sovereign of the money, and did
not like to pay in the balance until he had made it
up. He spoke to Mr. Adolphus, the head ware-
houseman, who asked the prisoner what he had done
with the balance, and he replied that it was up-
stairs in his box. He was sent up for it, and as he
was gone a long while, Mr. Adolphus sent Wilson
to look after him, and he saw him coming down the
stairs with a bundle, and asking him what he was
going to do, he said he was going to pawn his clothes
to raise the money. Mr. Adolphus asked him how
much he had got left, and he handed him £2 ss.
Ild , and said he had lost a sovereign, and made use
of the rest.

The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was com-
mitted for trial.

BOW. STREET. INGENIOUS FORGERIES.—
Frederick Golding, a young man, under 20 years of
age, was brought up on several charges of forgery
preferred by Messrs. Shoolbred and Co., the exten-
sive drapers, &c., of Tottenham-court-road.
Mr. A. Warrand, the solicitor to the Association
for the Prosecution of Swindlers and Shoplifters,
appeared for the prosecutors.
From the evidence of Mr. Y. I. Knight, one of
the firm, and Mr. T. Harrison Durham, their ma-
naging assistant, it appeared that the prisoner's
mother was employed to make hassocks for the
establishment, and when they were delivered the
prisoner was in the habit of receiving the money
for them on her behalf. He usually presented the
bill for examination, and when the initials of Mr.
Knight and the signature of Mr. Durham were en-
dorsed upon it, they constituted the authority to
the cashier to pay the amount. Evidence was
given, however, to show that three bills, for the
amounts respectively of £1 Bs. 5d., £1 75., and £1
Os. id., were entirely fictitious, the prisoner having
made out the bills and imitated the signatures with
sufficient skill to deceive the cashier, who paid the
money accordingly.
Mr. James Shoolbred stated that the prisoner
had succeeded in defrauding the firm to the extent
of £l5 in this manner.

The prisoner, who offered no defence, was fully
committed for trial.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A FOREIGNER.
—A well-dressed middle-aged man, who wore a
profusion of beard of the blackest hue, and gave
the name of Lupino Jacob Levisohn, was charged
before Mr. Corrie with having falsely represented
himself as a detective in the City police.
The complainant, Mr. T. Johnson Brown, archi-
tect, of 2, Robert-street, Adelphi (the prosecutor in
a recent case investigated at this court), stated that
on returning to his home about seven o'clock on
Saturday evening last, he was informed that a
foreign gentleman had been waiting for some time
to see him. lie (complainant) went into the office
and saw the prisoner, who said "I wish to see
you about the case of the female servant you have
lately had at Bow-street." Witness said, " Wno
are you P" He replied, "I am a detective officer
in the City, and I want to see the woman's
things, which I understand are now in your
possession." Witness said "They are all locked up
and in the custody of the officer, therefore I can-
not show them to you." He asid " I must see
them, and particularly the photograph which I
have read of in the newspapers, and which repre-
sents the woman as having
,her arms round the
neck of her male companion. Witness repeated
that he had no power to show them, and as the de-
fendent became importunate, and insisted on see-
ing the woman's clothes, witness asked him by
what authority he had come to him at all P He
then produced a card having the name and ad-
dress of witness written upon it, and said it had
been written by Mr..l)nrkin, the superintendent
at the Bow-street poliiie-station, to whom he was
first referred by ••e' hepector Hamilton. Wit-
ness said he di. - eve, the story at all, or
that the defends r officer, and therefore
he should give hi„- ''''f::.harge unless he would
go to Bow-street. : tness accompanied de-
fendant to the stab. -house, and asked if the
writing on the card was Mr. Durkin's. The In-
spector said " Certainly not," and that the defend-
ant was nGt in an • way connected with the
police ; upon which • ess gave him into custody.
Mr. Bard, solid ' ho attended for the de-
fendant, cross-examines the complainant, and said
that his client luta been misunderstood and grossly
ill-treated.
Mr. Corrie—lt Will be better if you can offer
some explanation of,64natter, then. Why did
he go there P

Mr. Beard said he could explain everything.
The defendant,a poor foreigner, with only a partial
knowledge of the English language and customs,
had the misfortune to have a very bad wife,
whose conduct had driven him to commence
proceedings for a divorce. He had lately
heard that his wife had been repeatedly
photographed by different artists, in compa-
nionship with her guilty paramour ; and when the
defendant read in the newspapers that a woman
had been charged at Bow-street, and that photo-
graphs representing her as caressing some man, had
been found in her boxes, he (defendant) was natu-
rally anxious to see these pictures, to ascertain if
the woman was his wife. He may not have gone
the right way to work, being a foreigner ; but cer-
tainly he had intended nothing wrong in what he
did. A gentleman of great respectability, Mr.
Hamilton, who was present, advised him to go to
the police-station, where the defendant was referred
to Mr. Brown by one of the inspectors, who ac-
tually wrote Mr. Brown's address on a card. It
was possible that the defendant might have said he
was sent by the "superintendent," not understand-
ing the term to be different from " inspector," but
there was no ground for the charge of false pre
tences, and he (Mr. Beard) considered it disgraceful
to the police thet they took such a paltry charge
at the station.

It being admitted that the defendant did obtain
Mr. Brown's address at the station,
Mr. Corrie said he did not think the defendant
had any improper intention, and was willing to
believe that a misunderstanding had led to the
present charge. The defendant, therefore, might
be discharged.

CLERKEN WELL.—THE METROPOLITAN RAIL-
WAY COMPENSATION CASES.—The three cases of
compensation that occupied two days in hearing
were decided to day. The cases were those of Mr.
Edwards, milkman, of Acton-place, who claimed
£289, the company having offered him £7O ; Mr.
Briggs, of 4, Acton street, who claimed £l4O, and
was offered 60 guineas; and that of Mr. Newbury,
who claimed £l2O, and was offered by the company
£52.

Mr. M'Donnell attended for the claimants; and
nElt dywhaarsd presented
and it
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Mr. Burchelt for the company.
Mr. D'Eyncourt, in giving 3ndgment, said—The
first
icas only
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yofdiNiffire.
itself. Mr. Edwards claims compensation not only
for the four months unexpired term in his premises
up to Christmas next, but also for the damage he
will sustain by the loss of his tenancy beyond that
period—a loss, he says, occasioned by the act of the
company, as bat for them he would have remained
a yearly tenant of Mr. Silcock. I cannot regard this
notice to quit as the act ofthe company. The land-
lord gave the notice not as the agent of the corn.
' pany, bat in order to get possession of the house for
business. I have therefore only to assess the damages
upon the loss of the not profits of the business for
four months, for the fixtures, for some delay in ob-
taining a new house suitable for his trade, the time
given him for seeking a new house being shortened
by the company taking possession, and fora slight
loss by removal, perhaps to another place in the first
instance. Taking all these items together, I deter-
mine that the company do ply Mr. Edwards as
compensation for taking possession of his premises,
the sum of £l4O. This award includes the value of
the costs. The company must pay I:5 ss. for costs
in this case. In Mr. Newbury's case, taking all
matters into consideration, I determine that the
company do pay him £Bl 10s., and £4 4s. costs.
In Mr. Brigg's case the award will be by consent of
the parties for £B6 10s., he being at liberty to re-
move the tenant's fixtures. The company would
also h .ve to pay £44s. costs.

The decisions seemed to give satisfaction.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—George Chutch, of 11,
Church-way, Somers Town, was charged before Mr.
D'Eyncourt with stealing a valuable gold brooch,
and a large quantity of jewellery, the property of
Mr. Shaw, surgeon, of High-street, Hampstead.
The prisoner was further charged with stealing a
quantity of floorcloth from near Somers Town.
Mr. Hubert Wood appeared for the prisoner.
It appeared that rhe prisoner forced his company
on the cook engaged by Mr. Shaw, under the pre-
tence that he would marry her. One Sunday even-
ing while the family was at church, the house was

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entered, and suspicion fell on the prisoner. He was
taken on Saturday.

Mr. D'Eyncoli remanded the prisoner for a
week, and refused to accept bail.
A CABMAN CHARGED WITH CAUSING THE
DEATH OF A BOY.—A respectably attired and de-
cent-looking man, who gave the name of John
Muckley, aged 32, the driver of a hackney carriage,
badge 6259, residing at 5, St. Emmen's•hill, West-
minster, surrendered to his bail, charged on his
own confession with causing the death of Francis
Bidborough, a boy about ten years of age, by driving
over him with his horse and cab, at Tonbridge-
street, Euston-road, St. Pancras.
Inspector Reynard, of the E division, attended to
watch the case on behalf of the Commissioners of
Police.

Mr. John William Standford, a foreman in a boot
factory, said, about ten minutes past three on Satur-
day afternoon, as he was coming out of the Dolphin
public-house, he saw defendant driving a horse and
cab. The cab was then in the act of turning from
Claremont-place into Tonbridge-street. At the
moment he looked the wheels of the cab were then
passing over the body of the deceased, who was
lying on his stomach. The prisoner, who was driv-
ing a Hansom cab, had a gentleman inside as his
fare and was driving at a very moderate pace ; in
fact, he was walking, as he had pulled up to turn
the corner. The deceased, with some other boys,
was playing at the spot at which the accident hap-
pened.

The prisoner, in defence, said he was not aware
that he had run over the deceased until he was
called to by the first witness, and then he turned
round and saw the boy lying on the ground. When
the boy was picked up he could speak. He was
truly sorry for what had occurred.
Richard Bidborough, the brother of the deceased,
residing with his father at 44, Little George-street,
Hampstead-road, sain he was playing with his
brother and some other boys at the time in ques-
tion. His brother took a ball away from a boy and
ran across the road, and was in the act of turning
round to see if the other boy was following him,
when the horse the prisoner was driving struck
him on the shoulder and knocked him down. The
cabman was driving slowly at the time.
Another boy who was present at the time of the
accident said that the cabman was not in the least
to blame, as he was driving very slowly at the time
of the accident.

Mr. D'Eyncourt said he was very sorry for the
poor boy's father, but, from the evidence, there
could be no doubt that it was an accident, and the
defendant was not to blame in the matter.
The prisoner then left the court.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET,—IMPORTANT TO
BENEFIT SOCIETIES. ATTEMPTED FRAUD.—
Henry Banman, a boot and shoemaker, was charged
before Mr. Beadon, with the following attempted
fraud on the West-end Boot and Shoemakers'
Society.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
appeared for the prosecution, and said the prisoner
was charged with endeavouring to obtain money
by false pretences. The society consisted of four
branches, the West-end Men Bootmakers' Society,
the West-end Ladies Bootmakers' Society, the
Boot-closers' Society, and the Heavy Bootmakers'
Society, and there were both provincial and metro-
politan lodges, where assistance was rendered to
workmen at different towns in search of employ-
ment, and the funds of the society were dispensed
by means of cards given to applicants to enable
them to receive assistance in the different towns
through which they pass, but no workmen was
entitled to the possession of more than one card.
On Saturday week last the prisoner applied to
the Female Bootmakers' Society, and obtained the
necessary assistance by the production of a card,
and he, on the same night, applied to the Men's
Bootmakers' Society, and by producing a similar
card, but in a different name, attempted to obtain
further assistance, but it was at once detected by
Mr. Dadshon, the secretary, to be a forgery, and
the prisoner given into custody. On being searched
a third card was found on him. Mr. Lewis stated
that in consequence of the society having discovered
numerous forgeries of late they had determined to
prosecute.

Mr. Wm. Palmer, secretary to the Bootmakers'
Society of Reading, said on the 29th of August he
relieved the prisoner at Reading by the name of
Foster, and signed his card, but the card produced
and purporting to be signed by him was not signed
by him nor with his authority.

LAMBETH.—WiIIiam Stevens, the proprietor
and conductor of a Peckham omnibus, No. 6,709,
and the owner of the conductor's badge No. 1,555,
appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer a charge of
gross misconduct towards Miss Martha Topham, a
young lady who had been a passenger in his vehicle.
Miss Topham said that on Sunday week she had
been to visit a sick sister, and about half-past 10 at
night, is company with a young lady friend, took
a seat in the defendant's omnibus, in Gracechurch-
street, to be conveyed to the residonee of her mother,
Camberwell-green. The vehicle moved over London-
bridge, and having then its full number of passen-
gers, and she (witness) being seated next the door,
requested the defendant to close it. His reply was
that he supposed he knew his business without
being told it, and he should close the door when he
thought proper. At this time defendant was stand-
ing on the step, with the door in 1 is hand and
smoking a short pipe, and witness told him that he
had no right to smoke, that it was offensive to his
passengers, and that she should lay a complaint
against him for doing so. He said he did not care a
farthing for such a person as she was, that she was
a woman of the town, and that if he had noticed her
at first he should not have permitted her to get
into his omnibus. On the omnibus reaching Cam-
berwell-green the defendant opened the door, and
alluding to her, no doubt, said, "Now, woman, get
out." She told him she required his number, to
have some redress for his slander, when he in-
stantly slammed the door to, and drove herself and
her friend to Tfigh•street, Peckham, where he put
them out. He then demanded her fare to that
place, but she refused to pay him the fare beyond
Camberwell-green, where he should have put her
down. He told her if she did not pay twopence in
addition he should take her to the police station. A
police constable fortunately came up, by whose ad-
vice she paid the fare for both to Peckham, and the
officer took the number of the omnibus and the de-
fendant's badge. . _

The witness was cross-examined at some length
by Mr. Edwin, the defendant's solicitor, but with-
out materially varying her previous statement. It
appeared, however, that there were some females in
the vehicle between whom and the complainant a
few words passed in reference to the conductor.
Miss Minnie Magner, the young lady who accom-
panied the last witness, corroborated her testimony
in every important particular.
For the defence, three ladies of undoubted re-
spectability were called, and all described the man-
ner of Miss Topham as of an overbearing character,
and not only offensive to the defendant but to them,
calling them the creatures of the conductor, and
making use of language which they attributed to
something more than excitement. There were some
discrepancies in their statements, and all swore that
the defendant was not smoking a short pipe, while
Miss Topham and her witness solemnly asserted the
contrary'.
Mr. Elliott observed that it was quite clear that
the conduct of the defendant from the beginning to
the end was most improper, and for it he must pay
a penalty of £2 and expenses, or be imprisoned for
20 days.
The penalty was at once paid, and the defendant
discharged.

GREENWICH. HIGHWAY ROBBERY WITH
VIOLENCE.—WiIIiam Thomas, an American sea-
man, was charged with being concerned, with two
others not in custody, in assaulting and robbing
James Caliem on the public highway.
The prosecutor said he was returning home on
Saturday night, and when in the Plough-road,
Rotherhithe, met the prisoner and two other Ame-
rican seamen, who asked him if he was the steward
of the Grace Darling. a vessel lying in the Com-
mercial Docks. He told them he was, and they then
said they were seamen on board another vessel in
the dock, arid that they were to be paid wages on
Monday, at the same time asking him to lend them
each a shilling until that time. He lent them the
money, and also treated them to something to drink,
when they said they were going on board their ship
and would accompany him along the road. They
then walked together, the prisoner and his com-
panions speaking of him as the kindest friend they
had ever met with ; but they had not walked more
than 70 y irds before one of them struck him a blow
which felled him to the ground, when a cry of " Boot
him," " Kill him," was raised, and he was kicked
violently in the face and head, one of his eyes being
now closed from a kick he had received. While
lying on the ground one of the party knelt upon
his chest, and he was robbed of 17s. He seized
the prisoner and raised an alarm. The other two
men ran off, and made their escape.
Police-constable Kelly, 55 M, having confirmed
this statement,
Mr. Traill remanded the prisoner till Saturday.
DEFRAUDING A FORESTERS' BENEFIT SOCIETY.—
William Aram, a journeyman bricklayer, residing at
64, Earl-street, Edgware-road, was brought up on
remand charged with obtaining money under false
pretences from the funds of the Foresters' Society.
The facts of the case have already appeared. A
gentleman now attended for the prosecution,
and said there was no desire to proceed harshly
against the prisoner, but at the same time, as the
society possessed so many members in all parts of

the country who had similar travelling licences, it
was thought necessary to proceed against the pri-
soner as a csution to others.

Mr. Trail convicted the prisoner under the Va-
grant Act, and sentenced him to the full term of
three montls' imprisonment with hard labour.

M,ARYJEBONE.—DARING ROBBERY OF THE
RECORDn OF LIVERPOOL.—John Gilderoy, who
described himself as a tailor, but refused to state
where he lived, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Mansfield, charged, with a daring robbery ofjewel-
lery, &c., at the residence of Gilbert Henderson,
Esq., Recorder of Liverpool, 24, Hyde-park-square.
Prosecutor, on being sworn, said—On Saturday
afternoon last, between 2 and 3 o'clock, I went to
my bedroom on the second floor, and found that the
door was fastened on the inside. I called out
" Fanny," meaning my wife, but receiving no an-
swer I tried again to open the door, but could not
do so, and I then went down stairs, when I saw my
wife in the breakfast room on the ground floor. In
consequence of what I said to her she went up, and
I followed her, and on the first flight I met the
prisoner coming down. I said to him " What do
you do here, and whom do you want ?" to which
he replied "I want George." I remarked Who
the devil's George ?" upon which he turned and
went up stairs again, and then upon getting near
the tcp of the first landing, where there is a large
French sash window, which also served as a door
leading on to the balcony over the portico, he
turned round, and lifting up his arm smashed a large
pane of glass, by which means he dropped down to
the ground, the height, which I have since measured,
being 16 feet. I saw him running away along the
north side of Hyde-park-square. I cried out " Stop
thief," and observed a body, whose name, I believe,
is Alfred Wilson, strike at him with a stick as he
passed him. I rushed into the street, and found that
the prisoner had been captured, and detained in
Cambridge-street. On being searched at the station
numerous articles of jewellery were found upon
upon him, which were now produced by the police
and identified by the prosecutor.
Mr. Mansfield (to the prisoner)—Have you any-
thing to say to the charge?
Prisoner—Nothing.
He was remanded for a week.

WANDS WORTH; RUFFIANLY ASSAULT UPON
A F trAll A 1.,M .-A respectably attired young man
named Joseph Sykes, gun case-maker, was placed
in the dock before Mr. Dayman, charged with in-
decently assaulting Miss Rose Stacey, a young lady
residing at No. 9, Priory-road, South Lambeth.
The complainant stated that about 10 o'clock on
Sunday evening she was proceeding along the South
Lambeth-road on her way home, she having just
left some friends, when the prisoner suddenly sprang
out of a gateway, clasped her round the waist, and
said he would kiss her, upon which she boxed his
ears. The prisoner then tried to strike her, but she
escaped the blow. He then seized her round the
waist and threw her violently into the road, and
behaved in a most indecent manner. She screamed
out loudly for the police; a constable came up, and
she gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner
was quite a stranger to her.
Police-constable Peabody of the V division having
given confirmatory evidence,
The prisoner in defence said he stopped at the
gate to light his pipe. He did not succeed, and he
might have staggered against the complainant. He
also said that he had been drinking.
Mr. Dayman said it was a very unmanly and
ruffianly assault, for which he fined him £5 and 102.
costs, or two months' imprisonment.
The prisoner was locked up in default.

HAMMERSMITH: ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—
Thos. Sweeney, who stated that he had just been
pensioned from the Indian army, was charged with
attempting to steal a watch from Mr. T. Darling,
an engineer, residing at 29, Winchester-street,
Harrow-road.

The prosecutor said that on Saturday afternoon
he was in the Spotted Dog, Harrow-road, and
while in conversation with some gentlemen, the
prisoner came up, and stated that he had been
robbed of 445. While making the statement he
took out a piece of string, and showed where his
purse had been cut off. Witness ordered him away,
but he persisted in talking, and he then felt a pull
at his watch. He looked, and saw his watch hang-
ing down out of the pocket, and the prisoner's hand
on the chain. When he accused the prisoner with
attempting to steal the watch, he said it was an
accident.

The prisoner said he had ls. per day. He had
served for 22 years in the East Indies, and this was
the first time he ever stood in London. He arrived
in St. Katharine's Docks on Friday. He should
lose his passage to Ireland if he did not go by the
train that night.
Mr. Dayman—As the prosecutor does not wish
to press the case, I shall discharge you, and you had
better make the best of your way to the place men-
tioned in your pass.
enn't Promising to
Tne prisoner then left the
obey his worship's directions.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN A CANAL
TUNNEL-TWO MEN SUFFOCATED.

BLIS WORTH, SEPT. 7.
To the long list of recent railway fatalities there
is to be added to-day a melancholy and fatal acci-
dent which happened in a tunnel on the Grand
Junction Canal, near this village, yesterday even-
ing, whereby two men have lost their lives, and the
lives of two other men have been placed in immi-
nent danger.
The tunnel at Blisworth is constructed on a simi-
lar principle to the tunnel on the Regent's Canal
under Primrose-hill, and is sufficiently wide to
allow of the passage of two boats at the same time.
There is no towing-path, and the only means of ven-
tilation is a shaft near the middle of the tunnel,
but this shaft is enclosed by woodwork at the top.
Until very recently, all the boats on the canal were
towed by horses. On arriving at the mouth of the
tunnel the horses are detached and sent on above
ground to the other end of the tunnel, where they
are again attached to the barges. The boats them-
selves are worked through the tunnel by men who
are kept in these villages for this sort of labour.
These men, who are termed " leggers," lie in the
boats on their backs and propel the barges through
the tunnel by means of their feet, with which, so
to speak, they walk upon the roof of the tunnel.
This roof is semi-circular, and is so low that, during
the passage of the boats through the tunnel, they are
compelled to remain as low as possible.
The Grand Junction Canal Company have, how-
ever, within the past few months, made an impor-
tant alteration in the mode of working their barges,
so as to dispense with the services of these "leggers."
Last November they started a barge called the
Pioneer, fitted with a small screw propeller. Since
that time they have fitted other boats with a similar
apparatus. The machinery is very compact, and
occupies but the space of a few feet in the stern of
the vessel.

The particulars will best be gathered from the
report of the inquest.
The following is a list of those who were killed
and injured:—

DEAD.
William Webb, carpenter, of Stoke Bruerne.
Edward Broadbent, boatman, of Brauuston, re-
siling at Birmingham.

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