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London, England, 1857-04-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 24.

MANSION-HOUSE.—R. Collins, G. Picker-
ing, G. Bryce, F. d. Maybery, D. M'Carthy, and
G. Reynolds were further examined beforethe Lord
Mayor and Mr. Aid. Wire upon the charge of bay-
ing been concerned in stealing the contents of 15
boxes, consisting of boots and shoes, which had
been consigned by Mr. L. Isenburg, merchant of
Leadenhall-street, to a firm at Melbourne.
Mr. Lewis asked for a further remand.
The Lord Mayor—Collins, I M'Carthy, and Rey-
nolds will be liberated upon their entering into
their recognisances in 501. each to attend at the
next examinotion ; but Pickering, Bryce, and May-
bery must each find a surety in 501. in addition to
entering into their own recognisances to the same
amount.

The prisoners were liberated, with the exception
of Pickering, who was unable to procure bail.
Richard Steel, a shoemaker, who had been re-
manded, but admitted to bail, upon the charge of
having received some boots stolen. from Messrs.
Moses, appeared in the place allotted to the de-
fendants.

The charge against the defendant rested entirely
upon the uncorroborated Gvidenca of Desmond

who upon a former occasion said be bad sold him
some of Mes-r 3. Mo3es's property.
Mr. Lewis said be did not intend to off, r any fur-
ther evidence against the defendant.

The Lard Mayor—Then he will be dislharge3.
Steel—My L rd, I complain of the course that
has been adoptel towards me by the proEecntors.
I was given into custody without the slightest
ground ex;sting for any charge against me. I
know nothing whatever of the boots belonging to
Messrs. Moses. I have always borne a good cha-
racter, and have been in the habit of working for
fiat-rate shops. This harsh proceeding hai totally
ruined my character, and it has nearly killed my
wife, who had been confined but a few days before
I was taken into custody.
The Lord Mayor—l am very sorry to hear this
s'atement, but it is totally out of my power to iu-
terfere in the matter.
The defendant then left the court.

Mr. Lewis—My Leta, the officer, Tho'. Hayton,
who has had the conduct of these cases requests me
to say that there is not the most remote foundation
for the charges which the prisoner M'Carthy
brought against him at a former examina.ion. He
feels that the observations which were then made
have done him a great deal of injury, and be is
anxious upon oath to contradict those sta'ements.
The Lord Mayor—Officers should not pay atten-
tion to what prisoners say. If they do they will
have their time pretty fully occupied.
Hayton My Lord, I can't go into the street but
what the people call after me ; they also annoy my
wife, and call alter my children " Your father's a
thief."

The Lord Mayor—You as a policeman are sub-
ject to.all these things, but you need not pay at-
tention to them. Thieves will say anything of an
officer.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET'.—Captain Joseph
Erlam, holding a commission in the Militia, and
residing at No. 54, Queen's-road, Bayswater, was
charged with the abduction of Rose Goodman, a
girl under 16 years of age. -
Mr. Morgan was for the defendant ; Mr. Lewis,
of Ely-place, for the complainant.
The charge was laid under the 9th of George IV.,
cap. 31, sec. 22, which provides—" Be it enacted
that if any person shall unlawfully take or cause to
be taken any unmarried girl being under the age of
16 years out of the possession and against the will
of her father or mother,' or of any other person
having thel awful care or charge of her, every such
offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and
being convicted thereof, shall be liable to suffer
such punishment by fine or imprisonment, or by
both, as the Court shall award."

Mr. Lewis stated the case, from which it appear-
ed that the prisoner formed an acquaintance with
the girl, then living with her parents in London,
and that he induced her to leave England under
promise of making her his wife, although he was a
married man ; that, after remaining on the Conti-
nent for several weeks, he left the girl at an hotel
in Mayence ; that the girl wrote home to her
parents, and the father telegraphed back to the land-
lord to have his daughter detained ; and that the
prisoner returned to the hotel, paid the bill, took
the girl away to Ostend, and there gave her up to
her father, who threatened to give the prisoner
into custodyfor abduction the first time he saw him
iuEngland. The prisoner was seen in London the
previous evening, and was given into custody.
Rose Goodman, daughter of the well-known
sporting character known as " Goody Levy,' a
well grown, attractive Jewish girl, was then put
into the witness-box and sworn. She said—l am
living with my father at 31, Oxendon-street, Hay-
marke'. I was 16 years of age last October. In
the month of July last I was residing in the New-
road, Hammersmith. My mother was then alive,
and my cousin was staying with me. I was out
walking one day when I made the acquaintance of
the prisoner, wbo gave ma his card, which I showed
to my father, and he tore it up and was angry.
The prisoner was then lodging near the I.arracks.
In consequence of something that transpired I was
removed to Brighton, and my mother accompan'ed
me, but as she was very unwell, she was unable to
walk out with me. I saw the prisoner at Brighton
and I walked out with him several times without
the knowledge of my mother. Before I left
Brighton t 13 prisoner asked me to marry him. He
did not say whether he was single or married, but
he said his mother was a very religious woman, and
that he could not marry me in England, for if he
married without his mother's consent he should
lose several hundreds a-year. He asked me my
age, arid I told him I was not then 16. I told him
I would not leave England without being first mar-
riel. I returned to London in August last, and
went to reside at 31, Oxendon-street, with my
parents. After I returned to London' I met the

defendant on two or three occasions, and the end
of the interview was that I agreed to leave home
with him. I left my home on the 23d of August
without the knowledge of my parents. To induce
me to leave myhome the defendant said he was sure
his mother would give her consent when she knew
we were married. On the afternoon of the 23d we
went by railway, and afterwards crowed ov,r to
France. I met the defendant at the bottom of the
Haymarket, according to previous appointment. I
took nothing with me but the clothes I had on. I
left all my other clothes and my watch and chain at
home. I remained with the defendant about six
or seven weeks. I wrote several letters to the de-
fendant before we left England.
Cross-examined by Mr. Morgan.—Had cones-
poncied with the defendant previous to his making
proposals of marriage. Was not aware that de-
fendant was a married man. If I had known he
was married I would not have kept up the ac-
quaintance. I went away with him willingly.
Mr. Morgan contended that there was no evi-'
dence against the defendant. The complainant
left her father's house voluntarily, and in the case
of "the Queen v. Edward.," where a servant-girl
had been induced to elope from service, Baron
Parke held that such a case did not constitute a
charge of abduction. Mr. Morgan here read the
case at length.
_

Mr. Lewis contended that the case in question
did not bear on that before the Court The case
quoted was that of a servant-maid not in the
custody of her parents, and in which no fraudulent
statements were made. The present cage was that
of a girl under 16, who was at home with her parents
and to whom a false statement was made to induce
her to leave her father's protection. The prisoner
was waiting for this girl, and he took her abroad.
with him. The act in question—the 9th Geo. IV.
—contemplated a constructive as well as a physical
taking away. It was meant to apply to the case of
girls under 16 on whom undue influence was exer-
cised without the knowledge of their parents.
Mr. Bingham—Yon contend that this is a con-
structive taking away ?

Mr. Lewis—That is my argumeni%
Mr. Morgan said his view of the act was, that
there must be a physical taking away, and in that
opinion he was confirmed by the dictum of the
learned Baron.

Mr. Bingham—That the child was taken out
of the house arm in arm or as-isted out of the win-
dow—that is the physical taking you mean, I pre-
sume ?

Mr. Morgan—There must be a pbysical taking ;
there was no taking here according to the Act.
The girl accompanied the defendant voluntarily.
The mere decoying or enticing away would not con-
stitute a case under the 20th section.

Mr. Bingham—l th nk there is a sufficient dis-
tinction between this case and that of " the Queen
v. Edwards" to induce me to say that the charge
must be settled by a higher tribunal, bait I have so
much doubt about the matter that I shall admit
the defendant to bail ; I must have two sureties of
25u1. and the defendant's recognisances in 5001., to
al ')ar next Thursday.
the defendant was reported to base been in the
Austrian service.

WESTMINSTER.—Thos. Kelsall, alias Kruse,
alias Sheppard, and William French, alias Johnson,
two well-known impostors, were brought up fur re-
examination, charged with impudent frauds.
The prisoners owed their apprehension to an im-
posture practised upon Mrs. Dolley, an aged lady,
at Chelsea. In October last Kelsall went to her
house, and representing himself as the son of Mr.
Kruse, coal merchant, stated that a man in their
employment having met with a terrible accident a
subscription was being raised to maintain his family
and get him out of town, by which it was hoped
that his health would be perfectly restored. Mrs.
Dolley gave 55., and Kelsall went away. A few
days ago he agaia visited the old lady, and intro-
ducing French as the man for whom he had previ-
ously enlisted her sympathies, said that his mother
in assisting him had parted with her last half-penny
and had had a distress put in upon her goods, which
would be sold unless she could raise 2/. Mrs.
Dolley referred the matter to her son, who, having
made inquiries into the prisoner's story, gave the
prisoners into custody, when they were remanded.
There was now a fresh case exhibited against the
prisoner French, fur obtaining money from Mrs.
James Whatman, wife of the member of Parlia-
ment. The fraud was committed by means of the
following letter :

' London, April 9.

"Honoured Madam,—l left home this morning (Box-
ley) for the purpose of obtaing admission for a pcor
orphan girl, named Hickman, into the asylum for Indi-
gent Blind in St. John's-wood, and I find that in conse-
quence of the child being able to discern the smallest
degree of light she is rejected at that institution, and
recommended by letters to the asylum in Bristol, where
she will be admitted for five years at the rate of 21. per
week, one year's money payable in advance. I have not
eufficient means in my purse to defray the unexpected

()spores, and my reason in calling on Lady M. Bess wai
in hopes of finding Mr. James Whatman, M P., of Vin-
ter's, in town. I was desired to cal at 6. Carlton-gar-
den-,. and wly, there informed that Mrs Whatman had
just llft for 60, Portlan.'-place. lam deficient of 1/. 10s.,
anal if you n;ill condescend to lend me that amount I
will pay it to Mr. Whatman, or return the same accord-
ing to order.
" I am your humble servant,
" Mrs. Whatwan. JOHN G. FAWCETT, Jun.

" I am compelled to leave town to-night."
The above letterwas delivered personally by French
to Mrs. Whitman at her brother's house, when he
represented that be was the son of the superinten-
dent of police at Bosley, who was a tenant of Mr.
Whatman's, and the lady gave him 1/. 10s.
Mr. Whatman proved that he had no tenant of
the name of Fawcett now, and that French was not
the son of the superintendent of police, who was
his tenant formerly.
The frauds having been distinctly proved aga'nst
the accused they wei e committed for three months
to hard labour in the Souse of Correction, and would
have been committed as incorrigible rogues to the
sessions, but for the very advanced age and in-
firmities of Mrs. Dolley, which rendered her atten-
dance there a matter of uncertainty.

William Norris was finally examined, charged
wit a most murderous assault upon Mary Anne
Maloney, with 'a hatchet.
Prisoner had been several times remanded owing
to the object of his violence being in too precarious
a, state to leave the hospital.
The injured woman and the accused had lived
together for the last three months, and had a quarrel
on the evening of the 28th ult., when be followed
her upstairs, and taking the hatchet from the land-
ing made a murderous attack upon her, at the sans•
time declaring "he would learn her to follow him."
She was taken to the hospital in an insensible
state, and the prisoner captured in the course of
the night, when be said "it was a bad job, and be
must get out of it the best way hp could."
Mr. J. H. Hooper, house surgeon at St. George's
Hospital, said the woman was brought there on the
night of the 28th ult., suffering from three scalp
wounds,, otis on the forehead, one on the top, and
the other on the back of the head. The one on
the front had a piece of the bone chipped out, and
the bone was exposed in the wound on the back.
They were very serious wounds, and must have
been inflicted by three distinct blows. The unfor-
tunate woman was in danger for three weeks, and
was still an inmate of the hospital.

Prisoner, who made no defence, was committed
for trial at the Central Criminal onrt.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Ax EXTENSIVE BET-
TING ESTABLISHMENT.—Peter James Knott, the
proprietor of a beer-shop in High-street, Shore-
ditch, James Hazeltine, Edward Jenns, Henry
Newman, William Morgan, Frederick Lock, Frank
Love, Michael Cox, Thomas Winworth, and Wil-
liam Bernett, were brought up on a warrant, in
which the first-named prisoner was charged with
keeping a common betting-office, and the nine
others with having been found, therein without
lawful excuse. •

Mr. Superintendent Martin, of the G division,
having pioduced the usual authority from the
commissioners of police, to justify the entry and
capture of the defendants,
Henry Bennison, a respectable-looking elderly
man, was examined, and stated that on Thursday,
the 16th instant, he called at the house of the de-
fendant Knott, in which he found from 15 to 20
persons standing in front of a small box at the end
of the bar, and engaged in betting upon horses with
a man who was seated inside. The man in the box,
who was familiarly addressed as "Jemmy," was
answering questions respecting .the odds against
different race horses, the names of which were in-
serted in a small black book. About 16 bets were
made on that occasion by the parties, each of whom
deposited half-a-crown wit t " Jemmy," who
entered the stakes in his book. Witness subst-
quently attended at the house, but in answer to an
inquiry as to the odds against " Sydney" in the
Two Thousand Guinea Stakes, he was informed
that no bets would be taken that day.
Police-c )nstable G5l stated that on the precious
morning he proceeded in plain clothes to the defen-
dant's house, when be found the man "Jemmy"
behind a desk surrounded with curt iins, and in the
act of taking bets from persons who were constantly
thronging iu. Bets of 40 to 1 were laid against
Sydney and Highflyer for the Chester Cup, and
Jemmy himself offered 40 to 1 against another
horse, whose name he had forgotten. All the bets
were entered by Jemmy, who receives no fewer
than 32 half-crowns during the short space of two
hours. The defendant Knott was present during
the whole of the time, but he took no active part
in the proc-edings. Superintendent Martin stated

that h; visited the place that morning, and on in.

titnating to Knott, who was sera•ing behind the bar
that he intended to apprehend him for suffering
betting an the premises, he denied that his house

was us d for such purposes. There was no
betting going on at that time, but on searching a
desk at the ei,d of the bar, the key of which was
reluctantly handed to him by Knott, he found
therein the several racing lists and betting cards
DOW produced. The prisoner Knott was then taken
into custody, together with the rest of the defend-
anti, who were smoking an drinking in the baga-
telle-room • but he had no evidence to prove that
either of the latter were betting characters. After
some observations from Mr. Beard, who appeared
on behalf of the defendants—Mr. D'Eyncourt said
that the case had been so fully established against
Knott that he should require him to enter into his
own recognisances in 2001. and to procure two re-
spectable sureties in 1001. each, for his future ap
pearanc3 ; but as there was no evidence to affect
either of the others, he should order th it discharg...
Andrew Andrews, a tall well-dressed man,
described as a watchmaker, was charged before Mr.
Eaaamill with the following wanton outrage.
A respectable-looking married woman, nsmed
Catharine Gilling, the wife of a harpstriug maker
in Butler-street, Bethnal-green, stated,—l was
returning home last night, in company of a female
friend in the same line of business, and conversing
with her, when the prisoner, who is a total stranger
to me, came up, and placing himself directly before
me, grasped hold of me in a most indecent and in-
sulting manner. I said something to him in re-
proof, which I do not recollect, and he immediately
turned round, and, raising his umbrella, struck me
so violently in the face with it that the blood fol-
lowed the blow profusely, and the front of my dress
'was completely soaked with it. He instantly
walked away, but I called " Police !" and, a con-
stable happening to come up and stop him, I gave
him into custody. He pretended that it was an
accident, but it was not, and I can swear that both
acts were intentional. [The complainant here drew
notice to the sta a of her face, her right eye being
contused and her nose cut at the bridge.]
Mary Fitzgerald, the friend referred to, said—
The complainant made no observation to the pri-
soner till he seized hold of her in the way she has
described ; she then called him a nasty fellow, or
something to that effect, and he immediately struck
her in the face with the umbrella. Both acts were
certainly done on purpose.
Card, 132 11.—I heard the cry of "Police !" and
on getting to the spot found the complainant co-
vered with blood. She pointed out the prisoner,
who was cooty walking away down a dark street,
but, on hearing me running' after him, stopped
and asked what was the matter. Complainant fol-
lowed and charged him with grossly insulting and
assaulting her, and he said it was nothing but au
accident.

Prisoner.—And so it was. I happened to touch
this go id lady as I passed her, and she abused me ;
I turned round to apologise, and my umbrella,
which was over my shoulder, struck her in the face.
Mr. Hatumill.—l am coutinuslly endeavouring,
by inflicting the full amount of punishment the
Act enables me, to put a stop to these abominable
assaults, but, I regret much to. say, only ineffec-
tually. This is a very bad case, and I shall send
you to the House of Correction for six months,'
with hard labour.

The prisoner listened to the sentence in astonish-
ment.

DIALECTS OF BIRDS.—I believe there is a dialect in
the song of birds. The song, for example, of a thrush near
London, or in any of the home counties, has little re•
semblance, except in tone and specific character, to
that of the same bird in Devonshire, or near Exeter.
The same notes, I suppose, will all of them be detected ;
but they are arranged, for the most part, in a diffe-.
rent tune, and are not sung in the same way. They
are given wtih different values, and the singing is
pitched in a different key. One great distinction be-
tween the two cases is the number of guttural notes of
which the song of a Devonshire thrush is often made up,
but which, near London, are heard only at the end of a
bar, or even much less frequently ; while those chief
notes which mainly constitute the song of the other bird,
and make it impressive, are rarely pronounced by the
Devonshire thrush.—.Tesse's Country Life.

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