The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 14.

BO W-STREET. boy ❑amed George Welford,
who said he was 13 years of age, but looked older, was
charged by George Retson, a carpenter, with breaking
into his workshop and stealing a quantity of tool , Scc.,
valued at 304.

The prosecutor said that he rented a small room as a
workshop at 12, Charles-court, Strand. Tne prisoner
lived with kis parents, who are honest working people,
in the adjoining r‘ om. About 3 o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon witness went out, leaving the place securely
locked up, and on returning he found the padlock had
been broken open, the room euter2d, an 1 five planes, a
saw, a screw' driver, and some other articles taken
away. His suspicion fell on the prisoner, who had once
before attempted a similar exploit, and ne mentioned
the matter to the lad's father, who assisted in searching

for him. Ultimately they traced him to the Victori;
Theatre, where he was given into custody. Hs
acknowledged that he had broken the lock open with
Ms la her'- pincers, and had stolen the tools, sold part of
them, and pledged the rest at a pawnbroker's in Soho.
tue tickets were found on him. lie said he was wholly
unaided in the robbery, and took the things to the
pawnbroker's himself.
This the pawnbroker denied, saying that he was quite
sure ha should know the boy who pledged the things ;
he was much taller, and looked much older than the pri•
Boner. _

Mr. Henry observed that the pawnbroker was liable
to a conviction if he took a pledge from the prisoner,
who was under sixteen.

Tne prisoner acknowledged his guilt, and admitted
that ho had been previously committed.
Mr. Ile.,ry—Tne only thi❑g to be done with such a
boy is to put him into a reformatory, and with that view
I will commit him for trial.

WORSIIIP-STREET.—EmiIIe Triese, a middle aged
man, in an evident state of abject destitution, but who
described hinkelf as an Italian merchant, was brought
up on remand before Mr. D'Eyncourt charged under the
following peculiar circumstances. _

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It appeared front the evidence of a police constable of
the K division that on the night of Tuesday sen'night,
the prisoner was discovered coiled up under a quantity
of loose straw in a detached shed at the rear of the d wet-

ling-house of a gentleman of Old Ford, and it having
been suspected that he had made his way there for felo-
nious purposes he was at once given into custody.
In answer to the charge, the prisoner, through the
medium of an interpreter, emphatically denied having
been actuated by any felonious intentions, and informed
the magistrate that he had carried on business as a mer-
chant at the town of Lyons in France for twenty-one
years, but having fallen into difficulties he was formerly
expatriated by the local authorities, in common with
numerous other persons in the same condition, and that
k• had been wandering about for the last month in a
houseless state and without the slightest means of sub-
sistence.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was a most extraordinary
statement, and he should order the prisoner to be re-
manded for a week, to afford the police an opportunity
for obtaining further information with regard to his
antecedents.
Henri Delavitte, a detective officer attached to the
French embas,y, now attended and stated that he had
closely interrogated the prisoner, who persisted in de-
claring that he had been expelled from Lyons and
shipped over to this country at the expense of the French
Government, under the circumstances described.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that if the particulars of the case
had been correctly stated, he considered that the atten-
tion of Government should be directed to the subject, and
the prisoner in the meantitm, must be conveyed to the
workhouse of the district in which he was found, where
he would be provided with a temporary asylum.

LAMBETEI. —Mrs. Martha Bacon, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of her two children, was
again brought up for examination.
The evidence received on this occasion was that of
neighbours of the prisoner, and chiefly of a negative
character.

The case has become so perplexed that, in its present
stage, a report of the proceedings, given without expla
nations not yet authorised, might confuse, but could nut
interest the public.

HAMMERSMITH..-Edward Gilbert, aged 41, a
cab driver, badge No. 3,542, was charged with carelesr
driving and wilful misbehaviour, whereby a lady named
Mary Ann Sparks, lately staying with her friends at
evena-villa, New-road, ilauluiersumb, was severely
injured. _ _

•ymour, of the B division, stated that a'uout half-past
six o'clock on the previous eveniug he received infortna-
tio❑ that a serious cab accident had taken place in the
Kensington district, near Prince's-gate, th-tt one lady
had been killed and another severely injured. 11.3
immediately hastened to the spot and found a great
many persons round a Hansom cab and a horse,
which was out of the shafts, and it appeared as if it had
just been got up. He was then informed that the two
ladies had been sent to St. George's Hospital.. Tie
prisoner was standing by, and assisted in putting the
horse in the shafts of the cab. The prisoner first denied
that he was the cabman, and declared that the right
cabman had gone to the hospital. Witness asked him
where his cab was, and be replied at Knightsbridge
rank, that hearing of the accident he had left the stand
to see what had happened. Witness then believing that
the right cabman was gone to the hospital, took posses-
sion of the horse and cab, and the prisoner walked away.
Witness was told that the horse had run away, the cab
had overturned, and the ladies fell out. Witness in-
quired at the hospital, and found that one of the ladies
was dangerously ill, but the other was only slightly
injured. Witness had called at the hospital that morn-
ing, and had received a certificate, stating that Mary
Ann Sparks had several of her ribs broken and her right
shoulder injured, and was in a dangerous state. 'The
prisoner was subsequently apprehended in the D divi.

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Tile prisoner denied having said the driver had gone
to the hospital. That statement was made by others
and the ;
reason he did not claim the horse and cab was
that he N/88 so frightened that he thought the best plan
fur him to adopt was to acquaint his master of what had
happened. The horse " shied" while he was driving.
Henry Heruett, of No. 12, Catuden-street, said on the
previous night he was walking in the Kensington-road,
in the company of his father, on the park side, and
when Dear the New Exhibition-road, Prince's-gate, he
saw a Hansom cab coining along in the opposite direc-
tion, towards Kensington, at the usual Hansom cab rate.
When about 1& yards from them the horse made a sud-
den bolt, and darted right across the road towards the
front of witness. At that spot the path stands very
high from the road, and one wheel of the cab passed up
the embankment, and raised the side of the vehicle
almost perpendicular. Witness's father caught hold of
him, arid draw him on one side; as he did so the horse',
head touched his shoulder. The cab immediately toppled
over on its side, and the cabman was thrown into the
road from his box behind, and two ladies who were in-
side were by the force jolted out in front. Almost im-
mediately afterwards the horse fell over on its side upon
the two unfortonate ladies. One was under the body of
the horse, and the other was between its lege, in which
condition they remained for ten minutes, the horse all
the time kicking and plunging in a most fearful manner.
As soon as they could procure assistance, the ladies
were extricated and sent to the hospital in two cabs.
One of the ladies appeared as if she was dead, but the
other lady was only slightly injured. The defendant was
the driver. He (witness) added that this made the fourth
accident which he had seen take place at the same spot
under similar circumstances during the past 12 months.
The constable said the path from the road was above
three feet, but he did not know of anything that would
cause horses to " bolt."
Mr. Ingham directed the officer to examine the place
at night, and ascertain if there was anything to frighten
horses, as it was a very striking circumstance that there
should be four accidents of a similar nature upon that
very spot within the last I`2 months. At present the
case appeared to be accidental, and he would, therefore,
remand the prisoner on bail for the inquiries to be made.
The prisoner, not being able to find the required sure-
ties, was removed to the House of Detention.

EXTRAORDINARY PRRNONENON.—During the occults,
tion which occurred on Friday the entire diso of Jupiter
was projected, by some extraordinary refraction, on to
the obscure surface of the moon, which was distinguish•
able at the time ; the planet was again visible on the
luminous portion of the moon before its real exit. This
phenomenon, was noted by Dr. Foster on the continent,
was ascribed by him to an extraordinary terrestrial re-
fraction, but by other observers was referred to a lunar
atmosphere. The effect was beautiful, and more satis-
factory than the projection of Aldebaran on to the disc
of the moon, which the late Mr. Stephen Lee communi-
cated to the Royal Society, arid which ho ascribed to
"differential refraction." There will be another occul-
tation oft star in Leo on the sth, of March, to which
the attention of astronomers will be directed, for the
phenomenon bears closely on the disputed question of an
atmosphere about the moon.
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