The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 16.

CLERKENWELL —CAUTION TOPUBLICANS
DARING ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—A fashionably-
attired man, who described himself as a commis-
sion agent, and at tha police-station declined to
give either his name or address, was placed at the
bar before Mr. D'Ey ncourt, charged with being
found in one of the bedrooms belonging to Mr. J.
Edwards, the landlord of the Eight Bells public-
house, St. Luke's, with intent to commit felony.
As soon as the prisoner, who has a slight moustache,
was placed at the bar, he said his name was Wm.
Laws, and that he resided at 33, Gee-street, St.
Luke's.

The complainant stated that in the afternoon,
while he was sitting in his parlour, he heard the
alarm-bell attached to his bedroom door ring, and
having ascertained that his servant was not in the
upper part of the house; he proceeded upstairs and
found the prisoner in the act of leaving the bed-
room. The drawers in the bedroom had been
opened, and the toilet cover removed. He asked
the prisoner what he wanted, when he said he was
looking for his friends who were in the coffee-room,
and then he pretended to be drunk. A few minutes
before that the prisoner was in the front of the bar
drinking with a man and woman, and then he was
perfectly sober. The prisoner, when taken into
custody by Police-constable Larney, 30 G, was
searched, and on him were found a number of
duplicates relating to property of various descrip-
tions, and two cheques on the London and County
Bank at Greenwich. One of the cheques was filled
up to the order of Mr. W. H. Lewis, or bearer, and
signed Thomas Fowler, and the other was blank.
The prisoner, in defence, said that he had no
intention to commit a felony. The fact was he had
taken rather freely of liquor, and had mistaken the
bedroom for a public room.
The police stated that the prisoner had been pre-
viously convicted, and had nine months for obtain-
ing money under false pretences.
Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the prisoner until
Friday next, and refused bail.
THE POOR Lox.—The number of applicants at
this court for temporary relief from the funds of
the poor-box, notwithstanding the large numbers
that have already received its benefits, appear to be
greatly on the increase. and Mr. D'Eyncourt has
for some days past been engaged in looking over
the recommendations that the poor have brought.
In consequence of this increase the officers attached
to the court have not been found sufficient to make
the neco.ssaty inquiries, and Mr. Superintendent
Gernon, of the G division, was applied to for the
assistance of some of the officers under his command.
The request was acceded to, and the inquiries being
at once made several persons were relieved with
meat, bread, flour, blankets, coals, and in some
instances money and flannel. To show the neces-
sity of due inquiry being made, it may be stated
that a letter was received from an appraiser and
broker in the neighbourhood of Golden-lane, recom-
mending " a poor deserving woman" for a little
warm clothing, bedding, and food. With this letter
was also attached one from oneof the district clergy-
men, stating that he knew the parties recommend-
ed to be " respectable." When the officer went to
the house and saw the "poor woman" he found
that she had been convicted on a charge of receiving
stolen property, that the broker must have known
she had been convicted, that she is now not the
best of characters, being a drunkard, and that she
and her grown-up daughter were in one bed with
two men, in one room, with a large fire. In other
cases it was ascertained in many instances that the
letters of recommendation were not so strong as the
facts would justify. No really deserving case has
been sent away, and no difference is made or ques-
tions asked as to what creed or country the appli-
cants belonged to.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—THE ARTFULLY
CONCOCTED JEWELLERY ROBBERY.—John Tanner,
cabinetmaker, and Wm. Gloss, alias Solderberg,
cigarmaker, charged with being concerned with
another, not in custody, in stealing a tin box con-
taining 12 gold Albert chains, 5 other gold chains,
37 gold rings, 2 gold eye glasses, 2 pair of gold
spectacles, 7 gold watches, and 11 silver ditto, of
the total value of £2OO, from the window of the
shop 24, Haymarket, the property of Mr. John
Mesure, jeweller and watchmaker, were brought
before Mr. Beadon for re-examination.

Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, appeared for the
defence.

On the evening of Friday, the 4th inst,, a gentle-
manly-looking man called at prosecutor's shop,
and requesting some one might be sent with him
for a timepiece to be repaired, the shopboy accom-
panied him to Jermyn-street. The latter not re-
turning gt Phil time, tho prooooutor having,
according to custom, cleared and deposited the
contents of his window in a tin box, which he
placed upon the counter, put up the shutters and
closed the door. Scarcely had he done 30 than a
knock drew him to it again, and he found a dog-
cart by the kerb with a man, he believed to be
Tanner, in it, pulling at an apparently restive
horse. The man called him and kept him in talk
about his uncle's clock, which he said he would
send in the morning for repair, and then drove off.
Returning to his shop prosecutor missed the box
and contents, but not in time to secure the dog-
cart, the man, or the person who knocked at the
door. No time was lost, however, in supplying the
police with information of the felony, and giving
the best description of both men, for it is hardly
necessary to say that the Jermyn-street timepiece
story was all a hoax—the "gentlemanly-looking
man" giving the boy " the slip," after leading him
to the far end of the street, and keeping him
waiting some time for his return. Acting upon
the information given, Detective Sergeant Cole,
with Constables Dawson and Brown, of the C divi-
sion, traced the prisoners to 22, Mape-street, Beth-
nal-green-road, and apprehended them, after
watching them from the house near Shoredttch.
On Gloss the police found a new gold watch and
chain, and at their residence a number of pawn-
brokers' duplicates for watches.
Mr. Beadon asked Cole if he had any further
evidence.
The answer was that there was a city case he
was prepared to go into.
Mr. Beadon said this Court had no jurisdiction
in that case.
The officer said there would, he believed, be
another from Notiing-hill, but there was no wit-
ness now present.
Mr. Beadon asked if any portion of the property
in the case in this district had been traced in the
interim of the remand.

The officer replied in the negative.
Mr. Beadon said he must discharge Gloss.
Mr. Beard said he hoped he would do the same
with Tanner.
Mr. Beadon said he certainly should not, and
would remand him till Wednesday next.

LAMBETH.—SENDING POWDER BY RAILWAY.
—Mr. Eley, one of the firm of Eley Brothers, cap
and cartridge manufacturers in Gray's-inn-road,
appeared before Mr. Elliott to answer to a sum-
mons charging his firm that they did unlawfully
send by the South-Western Railway Company a
quantity of gunpowder without distinctly mark-
ing its nature on the outside of the packages
containing the same, or otherwise giving notice in
writing to the company or their servants at the
time of, &c.
Mr. Thomas Bent attended from the South-
Western Railway Company to support the sum-
mons, and from his statement, and the testimony
of the witnesses called by him, it appeared
that a box, addressed " Mr. Webb, gun.
maker, Salisbury," was delivered at Clemmitt's
Inn, Old Bailey, on the 2d instant, from a cart
belonging to the Messrs. Eley, and on the 3d it
was forwarded to the Nine Elms station of the
South-Western Railway, to be sent to Salisbury
as directed. The company's porter, doubting the
representation that the box contained fruit, opened
it, and discovered, instead of fruit, that it was
filled with ball cartridges. He in consequence
made a representation of the fact to the proper
officer, and the present :proceeding was the conse-
quence.
The defence set up was that the intention was
to forward the box by carrier and not by railway,
and Mr. Eley produced a printed bill issued by Mr.
Clemnaitt of the Old Bailey, in which the name of
" J. Dore" was inserted as the Salisbury carrier,
and pointed to the box itself, on which the word
" carrier" appeared in the corner.
Mr. Bent observed that it must be perfectly
notorious that for years past the road carriers to
Salisbury were discontinued, and thought thein-
tention must have been to forward this very
dangerous package by the railway, and from what
he had been informed the present was not the first
time that Messrs. Eley had been summoned for a
similar offence.
Mr. Eley declared that this was not correct, and
said the present was the first summons he had ever
received. With respect to the discontinuance of
the Salisbury carrier he had no personal know-
ledge, and founded his opinimn of the contrary
from seeing the fact printed in Mr. Clemmitt's
bill.
Mr. Elliott considered the bill of Mr. Clemmitt
calculated to deceive, and said that if there was
in reality no such Salisbury carrier, the name of
J. Dore as such should not appear on the face of
it. Under the circumstances, and the name of
" carrier" having been written on the box, he
should dismiss the summons.

SOUTHWARK.--CONVICTION OF A FEMALE
SIIOPLIFTER.—Mary Anr. Turner, a well-dreised
young WOW) w In9ug4t be bro Mr, Combo hr

final examination, charged with stealing a piece of
linsey cloth, worth 125., from the shop of Mr. Jas.
Ackerman, linendra per, 45. New-cut, Lambeth.
It appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor,
that the prisoner visited his shop on Tuesday
morning about eleven o'clock, and made a small
purchase. As she was leaving he saw her seize up
a piece of linsey cloth, put it under her shawl and
walk away with i:;. He followed her and gave her
into custody. The prosecutor added that the pri-
soner had frequently visited his shop, and after she
left goods had been missed.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she
lived with her mother in Tower-street, and was
never guilty of such an action before. She could
not account for it.
Mr. Combe told her that she must be tried for the
offence, but if she pleaded guilty before him he
could deal with her.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and
Mr. Combe sentenced her to three months' hard
labour.

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ROBBING FURNISHED LODGINGS. —John Webb,
a middle-aged, dark-looking man, rather well-
dressed, was charged with robbing his furnished
lodgings. .He was also suspected of stealing Prayer-
books and Bibles from various places of public
worship.
Emma Watford, the wife of a hard-working me-
chanic, said that the prisoner came to lodge at her
house lest week, and that morning she discovered
that the bed had been partially stripped. She fol-
lowed him from the house and gave him into cus-
tody, and when searched at the station-house, one
of her blankets and a towel were found concealed
round his body.
Sergeant Raymond, 22 M, said that on searching
the prisoner between 30 and 40 pawnbrokers'
duplicates were found on hint, relating to silver
spoons, sheets, blankets, and other property,
which he had no doubt had been stolen from
furnished lodgings. On searching the prisoner's
things, at his lodgings, he found a number of
silver clasps, wh;ch appeared to have been recently
forced off .grayer-books and Bibles, and if a remand
for a few days was granted most likely he should
be able to produce further evidence..
The prisoner, who declined saying anything, was
accordingly remanded for a week.
DESTITUTION IN SOUTHWARK:.—During the
whole of yesterday a vast number of very poor but
decent people surrounded the police-court, in the
expectation of receiving some relief''. One woman,
with a child in her arms, entered the court and
asked for some assistance. She said that her hus-
band had been thrown out of work at the water-
side, owing to the inclemency of tlite weather, and
that she and all of them were without food or
firing. Her husband was then seeking something
to do.
Mr. Combe told her that the funds sent to the
poor-box of the court were expended in supplying
the poor of the district with coals and bread.
Tickets were forwarded by Mr. Edwin, the chief
clerk, to the ministers, missionaries, visiting ladies,
and others for distribution, as it would be impos-
sible to give them indiscriminately at the police-
court. _ _

Applicant said that she had not received one, and
she did not know where to get them. She was in
very great distress.
Mr. Combe asked if she had applied to the parish
officer for relief.

She replied that she had, but could get nothing.
Mr. Combe told her that hers was a case for the
relieving officer, and he recommended her to go at
once to that functionary, and be was sure she
would be relieved immediately. The relieving
officers for Southwark were well known to that
court for their humanity to the poor.
The female said she had been there, and they
wanted her to go into the house. She did not like
to do that, as she would be compelled to break up
her little home. _

Mr. Combe told her that he could do nothing
more for her. The tickets were distributed, and,
with the funds now accruing, four thousand more
would be issued forthwith.

The poor creatures then left the court.

COUNTRY MAR.K.ETS.