The Sun.
London, England, 1857-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 10.

MANSION-HOUSE. —George Harrison and
James Hunter were charged before the Lord Mayor
with having robbed Mr. Fred. Wm. Jacob, of Great
Russell-street, Bloomsbury, of his gold watch.
Mr. Wontner attended for Harrison.

Mr. Y. Prisnet, clerk to Messrs. Padmore, of
Hatton-court, Threadneedle-street, stockbrokers,
said—l was at the end of Finch-lane on the morn-
ing of Lord Mayor's day, and felt a great crush. I
observed the two prisoners and some other persons
shoving against a lady and gentleman, who were
together, and against Mr. Jacob, who was also in
the crowd. Harrison put his fists together in front
of his breast and forced himself up against Mr.
Jacob, who immediately seized him by the collar
and called out for help, and Hunter then ran up
to Harrison, evidently to take what he had got.
Several other persons then rushed upon them, and I
saw something passed from one to the other, but 1
did not see what it was, and the officer then came
up and took the prisoners into custody.
Mr. F. W Jacob said—l am secretary to Spanish
and American bondholders. I wasgoing to the Bank,
of London on the 9th inst., and there was a great
crowd in Threadneedle-street, and I stood in the_,
middle of the road. Several persons were in front
of me, and all at once a man put his hand into my
waistcoat-pocket and took out my watch. Harrison
was the person. I held him tight till the officer
came and took him. He struggled very hard to
get away from me. I did not see my watch after-
wards. I felt the guard distinctly broken from the
watch when it was taken.

Franks (634)—1 was in Threadneedle-street at
the time, and heard cries of " Police !" and I went
to the spot. I saw Harrison struggling in Mr.
Jacob's grasp, and endeavouring to get away. Mr.
Jacob said that Harrison had stolen his watch and
gave that prisoner into custody ; and Mr. Prisnet
p )inted out Hunter, who was then trying to force
his way through the crowd, and said that Hunter
had received sometidug from Harrison. I then
took Hunter into custody, and Mr. Jacob charged
them both.

Mr. Woutner cross-examined the witnesses, but
their testimony was not weakened by the ingenuity
of his exertions for Harrison.
Hunter said he was innocent of the offence.

Mr. Wontner submitted that a jury would not
return a verdict of guilty against Harrison in'such
a case. It really appeared to be a mere case of
fun in which his client had been engaged on a day
remarkable for larking in the streets, and that
some practised thief had taken advantage of the
confusion produced upon the occasion to run away
with the prosecutor's watch.
The Lord Mayor said the fun was just what the
most active and ingenious thieves were in the habit
of practising, and he would, neither summarily dis-
pose of it, nor decide it in Petty Sessions, but would
refer it to the more serious consideration of a jury.
The prisoners were then committed for trial.
William M'Clure was brought before the Lord
Mayor charged with having deserted from the 19th
Regiment of Foot, and also with having stolen a
pair of shoes, the property of a private in the
regiment.
Isaac Wilcox, a private in the 19th Regiment,
said he was in the recruiting service. On the 25th of
last month he missed his shoes from the place at
which he lodged, and on the same day the prisoner,
who had enbsted in the regiment, ran away. Some
dad a afterwards the prisoner was met in the street,
and upoit his feet were the shoes which had been
stolen.
desertion.the Wll
presse you
would
The prisoner-4 am guilty.
The Lord Mayor—You must go to Holloway
w are
ld
Prison for two months, and labour hard there ;
when you come out your commanding officer will
discharged from the prison you will be a better
soldier.
deal with
T.he
torydoumafoyrortrheequestei
that
acknowledge his receipt of 101. from M. A. for
the poor-box. •,

..•,1.1.,.... ....,

GUlLDHALL.—Georgeßerry, a traveller, in
the employ of Messrs. Hutton and Slee, of New-
gate-street, was placed at the bar, before Alderman
Phillips, charged with embezzling 6/. 7s. Bd. and
61. 18s. 3d., the moneys of his employers.
Mr. George Stephen Rix said—l am a cashier in
the employ of Messrs. Hutton and Co., fringe
manufacturers, of 5 and 6, Newgate-street. The
prisoner was a town-traveller in their employ, in
which capacity it was his duty to collect orders and
money on account of his employers, and to account
for them each day as he received them, and to hand

the money over to me. He has not accounted to
me for the sum of 6/. 7s. Bd.'received of Mrs. Ro-
berts on the 10th of October, nor for the sum of 61.
18s. 3d. received from the same person on the 31st
of October; neither does the book contain the en-
try of either of these sums.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wontner, for the pri-
soner—l have on many occasions given the prisoner
particular directions when to account for the money.
There is a commission allowed him in addition to
his salary, but I am not aware if there is a balance
due to him, as that belongs to another department.
Sarah Roberts said—l keep a Berlin wool ware-
house, at No. 30, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square,
and on the 10th of October last I paid the prisoner
6/. 7s. Bd., and on the 31st, 61. 18s. 3d. ; and he
signed the receipts produced in my,presence. I paid
those amounts on Messrs. Hutton s account.
Mr. Wontner said this charge was open Lo ex-
planation ; but he would not object to a remand.
Alderman Phillips said he would remand the
case till Saturday, but he could not take bail.
William Mennett, who gave himself into custody
last week for embezzling 45/. 11s., belonging to his
master, Mr. George Baker, of Cecil-street,
Birmingham, when a detective officer from Bir-
mingham attended, and said a warrant had been
out for the apprehension of William Mennett, for
absconding from Mr. Baker's employ in 1854.
with 45/. 11s., and from the description given in
the line and Cry he believed the prisoner was the
same person.
Alderman Phillips thought it extraordinary that
no person Loin Mr. 131kur had att,e ;'ei, atd askA
the officer by what authority be claitued the
pris-uer, as ha had to warrant with him ? '
The officer said, Mr. Baker would have to come
to London ; but as the witness lived in that part
of the country, and the communication stated the
prisoner would be given up to any officer sent to

conduct him to Birmingham, it was thought un-
necessary for Mr. Baker to attend. The officer
then produced the correspondence which had passed
between that office and the Birmingham police, and
having satisfied the court on that point, the alder-
man ordered the prisoner to be given into the offi-
cer's custody to be conveyed to Birmingham, to be
dealt with by the authorities of that place.

WORSHIP-STREET. Edward Jackson, an
oil and colourman, in Leonard-street, Shoreditcb,
and his wife, Anne Jackson, were brought up for
re-examination, charged with having been found in
possession of various valuable articles of wearing
apparel, the property of the Countess df Ellesmere,
and which had been abstracted, with a travelling
trunk containing property to the aggregate amount
of 15,000/.' from her ladyship's carriage during her
journey to Windsor Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended as before
for the defence, but no counsel or attorney was pre-
sent to conduct the case for the prosecution. •
The facts adduced at the former hearing have
already been published, and the following addi-
tional evidence was now proceeded with.
Charles Froud, the driver of a cab 10,932, stated
that at 6 o'clock on the evening of Jan. 12, 1856,
(the day of the robbery) he was called off the stan..l
in Davies-street, Grosvenor-square, by two men,
one of whom directed him to assist in placing a
large black box inside of his cab, and, after having
taken leave of his companion, he entered after it,
and directed to be driven to Willow-walk, Shore-
ditch. As they were passing through Finsbury-
square he was ordered to proceed into Leonard-
street, on reaching which the man got out and
walked away with the box, which witness had
placed upon his shoulder, and he saw no more of
him. He noticed at the time that the box wau very
weighty, and, to the best of his belief, it was the
one now produced by the police as the property of
Lady Ellesmere.

Thos. Gear y, a horsehair corder in Antelope-gar-
dens, Shoreditch, stated that shortly before eight
o'clock on the night referred to, ho found the empty
box produced, the lock of which had been wrenched
off, upon a piece of waste ground at the rear of his
house, within about 300 yards from that of the
prisoners.

- Eliza Parsons, a poor widow in the neighbour-
hood, was then examined, and stated that she had
been in the occasional habit of washing for the fe-
male prisoner, in whose possession she had seen ar-
ticles of dress of the most costly description. Some
lace handkerchiefs and part of a dress which had
been proved to be the property of Lady Ellesmere
were here shown to the witness, who recognised two
of the articles as a portion of those to which she re-
ferred. A valuable black scarf was also exhibited to
her, in reference to which she stated that since the
former examination she had been spoken to by the
female prisoner, who urged her to give evidence to
the effect that she bad known it as her property for
five years, but she declined to do so as she had
never before seen it.

Inspector Brecknell—ln the absence of a prose-
cutor, perhaps your worship will allow me to ask
the witness whether she oan give any evidence re-
specting certain diamonds.
Witness—Yes, Mr. Jackson once showed me two
very splendid diamonds, which she told me had
been sent to her by a gentleman in Australia, who
had paid his addresses to hor before she married her
husband.

The Inspector—And I believe she has some dis-
closures to make in connection with a copper tea-
kettle.

Witness—You mean the kettle that Mrs. Jack-
son gave me to take care of, when her husband was
in trouble about receiving a cask of butter. I re-
member there were two watches in it, besides some
silver plate, a longjewel pox, and a lot of rings, with
pearls and red stones, but I returned the whole of
them to her about 10 days afterwards.
Police-constable Evans then deposed, in addi-
tion to his former evidence, that on the discovery
of Lady Ellesmere's property at the house in Leo-
nard•street, a portion of it was claimed as her own
by the female prisoner, who declared that some of
the articles were presents from her mother, and
that others had been given to her byafemale friend
in the Hampstead-road. With regard to the
haberdashery goods which had been found upon the
male prisoner, their owner had not yet been traced,
but he had ascertained that the man Woodward,
from whom Jackson alleged he had obtained the
property, was now in the House of Correction un-
der a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment for re-
ceiving stolen goods.
It having been intimated by the police that fur-
ther time was necessary to complete the investiga-
tion, the prisoners were again remanded for a week,
but the magistrates required them to put in an in-
creased amount of bail for their future appearance.
W. Enzor, 17, was charged with creating a dis-
turbance in the Standard Theatre, Shoreditch, and
assaulting one of the officers in uniform attached to
chat establishment.

Lambert, the complainant, stated that several
persons from the boxes having complained of the
conduct of some person abOve them in the gallery,
he proceeded there, and cautioned the defendant,
whose language was of the grossest description.
The interference, however, only increased the evil,
and witness proceeded to remove him. A scene fol-
lowed that was not in the programme of the even-
ing's entertainment ; defendant resisted violently,
and but for the aid rendered by a cabinetmaker,
complainant really believed he should have been
killed, as the offender called loudly for assistance
from his companions, who to the number of half-a-
dozen most shamefully complied. The performance
was for the period stopped, a portion of the wood-
work of the gallery was torn up, and a heavy blow
made at the officer's head happily averted by a man
standing near. Lambert was severely injured by
kicks dealt principally by the defendant, who was
well known as one of a band of ruffians frequenting,
the railway terminus. This gang went by the name
of the Forty Thieves. _

Mr. heritage, for the proprietor, assured the
magistrate that every care was taken to conduct
the theatre, which was most respectably attended,
with the greatest order.

Mr. DrEyncourt said he believed this, and would
not tolerate such abominable misbehaviour.
Sent for one month to the House of Correction
in default of paying 40s. and costs.

CLERKENWELIL—Thomas Sayers, the well-
known pugilist, and at present the champion of
England, attended before Mr. Corrie, at the in-
stance of the parish authorities of St. Pancras,
charged with refusing to support his wife, Sarah
Sayers.

Some facts connected with this case have already
appeared from which it will be recollected that Mr.
Birchmore, the relieving officer, stated that the de-
fendant had refused to support his wife, awl that
she had therefore become chargeable to the parish,
and was now an inmate of the workhouse. The de-
fendant refused to support his wife on the ground
that she had committed adultery, but took his chil-
dren away, and well looked after them.
Some witnesses were called by Mr. T. Wakeling
for the defence, who proved that a number of men
had been seen in Mrs. Sayers' room at all hours of
the night, and that she was a very drunken and
dissolute person.
Mr. Wakeling proposed now to call Sayers' child,
a girl about 7 years of of age, to prove that strange
men had been seen in bed with her mother.
Mr. Corrie said he would not examine a child so
young, and he would take upon himself the respon-
sibility of refusing her evidence. He would adjourn
the case for any time that would suit the defendant.
Mr. Wakeling asked for an adjournment for a
fortnight.
Mr. Birchmore had no objection to an adjourn-
ment, but was prepared to have the case decided
at once. He should be able to show that Sayers
had visited his wife lately.
The case ultimately was adjourned for a fortnight.

THAMES.—Thos. Ashwell„ a master tailor, at
the corner of Holmes-street and Green-street,
nearly opposite John Knox's Church, Stepney, who
had been out on bail, surrendered before Mr. Belle
to answer a charge of stealing gas, the property of
the Commercial Gas Company.
Mr. Selfe having heard the case said that if there
had been anything like satisfactory evidence that
the pipe now in court, and called a "ferry,"had
been fixed with any felonions intention, he should
have committed the prisoner for trial. There was no
pretence for saying that it had been 'fixed before the
meter was removed, and it was possihle the meter
failed to register the gas consumed. The prisoner
had acted most improperly in fixing this pipe with-
out the sanction of the gas company, and without
giving them notice. lie was a very foolish man, and
had been guilty of an unlawful act, but there was no
case on which a jury would convict the prisoner of
felony. He should inflict a penalty of 101.
Mr. Jones added that the prisoner was liable to
a penalty of 21. for every night he surreptitiously
used their,gas.

WANDSWORTIL—Mr. William Watling, the
extensive pork-pie manufacturer and provision
merchant, of Pimlico, was summoned before Mr.
Ingham, at the instance of the 'Wandsworth Dis-
trict Board of Works, for having caused a nuisance
at his piggery in the York-road, Battersea-fields,
by the boiling of stale pork-pies.
Mr. Con-milis, the clerk of the hoard, sth,ted that
this w-a 8 a proceeding to previ-nt a recurrence of
tha nuisance which was likely to occur daily. His
instructions were that the nuisance was caused by
the boiling of stale pork-pies to fatten the pigs.
Mr. Dunoomb', who appeared for the defendant,
said that statement was not correct ; and he could

prove that, notwithstanding Mr. Watling's exten-
sive trade, they did not average more than eight
pork-pies per day that were thrown into the hog-
tub. These pies were highly flavoured, and patro-
nised by nearly all the licensed victuallers ; and,
therefore, when they were broken up and boiled
with the other food for the pigs, it was not likely
that it would causo such a nuisance as complained
of. The defendant, kept a great many pigs,
and his
premises were at least 100 yards from any dwelling.
He denied positively that any nuisance existed.
Dr. Connor, the medical officer of health for the,
sub-division of Battersea, said on one occasion ha
experienced a most offensive smell, which he traced
to the defendant's premises. He was in the habit
of passing the premises daily, and only experi-
enced that offensive smell on one occasion. He
spoke to Mr. Watling, who expressed his willing-
ness to do anything that would obviate the evil.
Mr. Duncombe said, according to the suggestion
of the medical gentleman, his client had placed a
lid over the large copper, with a shaft to carry off
the smell.
Dr. Connor said he afterwards recommended that
the lid should be placed much lower, and the shaft
con-iderably higher. He had never tasted par.
Watling's pies.
Mr. Young, the surveyor of the board, and also
inspector of nuisacices, spoke to having experienced
the offensive smell on two or three occasions. He
also stated that the neighbours had complained.
He said the smell was much more offensive outside
than it was in. He had the lid taken off, and saw
that the food consisted of materials such as are used
in pork pies. The foreman told him that the pies
were boiled to extract the fat. He liked Mr. Wat-
ling's pies.

Mr. Ingham thought the evidence was very
slight, and recommended an adjournment of the
summons for the p arties to come to an arrangement.
The officers did not complain of Mr. Watling as a
manufacturer of pies, but of his boiling them for
food for the pigs.
The summons was accordingly adjourned, Mr.
Dancombe stating that there was no doubt his wor-
ship would bear no more of the caso.