The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 30.

MANSIONTHOUSE.
Thomas Piper, jun., and John Young were re-
examined on the charge of unlawfully disinterring
and exposing bodies in a state of decomposition in
the Roman Catholic burial-ground in Mcorfielils.
Mr. Mitchell, inspector of the City police, Dr.
Letheby, and other witnesses, deposed to the great
qnantity of human remains which was exposed in
the burial-ground, and the sickening and dangerous
character of the effluvia which arose from them.
it was admitted that Messrs. Piper and Young,
when the nuisance was complained of, did every-
thing that was suggested to obviate it.
T►he Lord Mayor thought it would be satisfactory
to all parties that the ease be submitted to a jury.
The defendants said they should reserve their
defence, and entered into their own recognisances
in 401. each to meet the charge at the sessions.
The Lord Mayor has received 51. from T. C. for
the poor-box.

William Broodie, a respectably-dressed Scotch-
man, was charged with stealin.4 a great coat.
dr. J. N. ?ones, warehouseman, in Newington
Butts, said he was in Cheapside News-rooms at two
o'clock to-day, and placed his great coat at the
back of one of the settles. He presently moved
away to another spot, and had not long been there,
when he saw the prisoner in the act of bolting off
with his coat. He called to him, " Holloa, where
are you going to take that coat to 'I" Prisoner
came bac in a state of great excitement, and said
he was taking it away thinking it was his own.
He had no coat of his own there, and witness took
him down stairs to the proprietors, and he was
given into custody.
White, constable No. 3, said he searched the pri-
soner, and found on him 6d. and some keys.
Many coats, capes, and umbrellas have lately been
stolen from the same place.
Prisoner---I took my own coat there and placed
it near the prosecutor's, and mistook his for mice,
which I looked for and could not find.
He was remanded till Wednesday, and bail was
refused.

Three girls named Catherine Casey, Sarah Lang,
an(' Honora Connor were charged with begging in
Corn h ill on Saturday afternoon.
Police-constable 416 proved the offence, and said
that he found 7d. upon the prisoners.
They were sentenced- to 7 days' imprisonment
with hard labour, and the Lord Mayor expressed
his regret that he was not empowered to commit
their mothers for a similar period.

CLERKENWELL.—A tall powerful-looking
fellow, who gave the name of Thomas Preston
McCarthy, aged 38, described on the police-sheet
as a tobacco manufacturer, residing at 53, Burr-
street, Lower East Soiithfield, was placed at the
bar before Mr. Corrie, charged with carrying and
conveying in St. John-street, Islington, one cask
containing two hundred weight of foreign manu-
factured tobacco, liable to forfeiture under a
law of the customs ; also with assaulting the officers
in the execution of their duty.
A solicitor attended to prosecute on behalf of the
Board of Customs.

The prisoner, it was stated, was well known to
the officers as one of the most expert and daring
smugglers on the banks of the Thames, and in ad-
dition to pursuing his unlawful calling in the most
open manner, has often been heard to say (he being
a very strong man) that he would never be taken
alive by any single or two men. When engaged in
carrying any of the contraband "goods, he always
drove a very fast and high-spirited horse, so that he
managed to make his escape, although he has been
followed a great distance
,by the Excise officers.
Information having been forwarded to the proper
authorities that the prisoner was about moving a
quantity of tobacco that had not paid the duty, the
case was put into the able hands of Mr. Superin-
tendent Evan.,, of the Thames police, who watched
the prisoner's movements, and saw him at the
Islington toll-gate, in a chaise c trt, paying the toll.
He told the officer of customs to seize the horse's
head, while he and another officer got into the cart.
As soon as Mr. Evans got into the cart, he said to
the prisoner, " M'Carthy, I want to know what
you have got here I" pointing to the cask, when he
said, " All right," and begin beating his horse very
violently. Mr. Evans then said to the pri3ouer,
" M'Carthy, you know me," upon which he re-
plied, " No, Ido not, you —," and then seizing
him by the collar, pushed him against the side of
the cart, and leaning all his weight upon Mr.
Evans' chest, threw him completely over head and
heels into the 'read. Fortunately Mr. Evans was
not much hurt, and at once got into the cart to the
assistance of the constable, whom the prisoner had
pushed over the seat, when another desperate
struggle ensued. At list
,the prisoner was got out of
the cart, when he plunged and kicked violently,
and knocked the skin off the shins of the superin-
tendent's legs. By this time a mob of between 200
and 300 persons, many of them of the lowest cha-
racter, the both in Irish
and English, called upon them to rescue him, and
it was e ith the greatest difficulty that the officers
could retain him in custody. Other assistance hay-
ing arrived the prisoner pretended to be very much
the worse for liquor, and while the police were
dra.zging hire to the Islington-green police-station,
he tried all he could to tin owthe men down, and
thus to make his escap... When at the police-station
his conduct was so violent that ho had to be hand-
cuffed, and his boots taken off. The tobacco was
taken to the Custom-house stores, and it was found
to be of the value of 1121. 63. 9d., including the
duty.
The prisoner, in defence, said it was his first
offence, and he was very sorry for what he had done.
He was the worse for liquor, or he should not have
assaulted the officer. He did not know what the
cask contained, and had been employed by a man
to carry it. _

Mr. Corrie said it would be better for the pri-
soner to say who it was that employed him. It
was a pity that he should suffer for another person.
The prisoner said he would never tell who em-
ployed him. That was not his game, and he would
sooner die first.

Mr, Corrie said if the prisoner liked .to he obsti-
nate he must take the consequence 3. He then
ordered him to pay the sum of 3371. 3s. 3d., or iu
default of payment nine months' imprisonment in
the House of Correction.

The prisoner, who treated the matter very coolly,
was then locked up.

SOUTHWARK.—The two coloured girls, fugi-
tive slaves from. Kentucky, who were originally
brought up at this court on a charge of begging,
and who were discharged by the magistrate, and
have since received some advice from him and souse
assistance from the poor-b tar appeared yesterday
to state that they had received a letter from a per-
son at Brighton, offering to take thorn both into
his service. They handed the letter to Mr. Bur-
chain, and said the writer had called that morning,
and wanted them to go to Brighton at once.
Mr. Burcham observed that tho letter was anony-
mous, and recommended the girls to tell the per-
son, if he called on them again, to wait upon him
at this court.
. .

Some further assistance was then given them out
of the contributions which persons interested in
the case have forwarded, and an American gentle-
man in court handed in 21., to be applied in pro-
curing them some warmer clothing.

THAMES.—John Stephens, GO El, and John
Brown, 186 H, the two eonitAbles charged with
causing the death of Withams, a sailor, by violence
towards him in Ratcliffe-highway, were re-exa-
mined. They had been remanded to await the
result of the coroner's inquest, which took place
yesterday, and will be found in another part of our
columns.

Themagiitrate, after hearing some evidence said
there was no case against Stepheng, and discharged
him, and directed him to go into the witness-box
and state what he knew of the matter. He then
discharged Brown also, remarking that the officers
left the court without. any imputation on their
character.

GREENWICH.—CharIes Hartley was charged
with wilfully altering a telegraphic signal at the
Deptford station of the Loudon and Greenwich
Railway.
John Stbbiug, who has charge of the telegra-
phic signals at the Deptford station, stated that on
the arrival of the 10.25 train from Lon ion on the
previous night, he telegraphed, as usual, to the
man at the Ncrth Kent Junction, to "Stop all
down," and received a signal that the nwice bad
arrived. He then left the signal room to attend
t) the ou'side danger signal, when he heard
a sound from the gong, and a i-igual wAs received
from the man at the junction, acknowledging the
receipt of a message from IXptford of " All c!ear."
He hal not sent each a message, and he then saw
the poisoner coining out of the signal room. It
was immediately after.foned that an improper
had arrived a'..Greensvichto the effect that the
up line was blocked, which was not the CASE'. The
iiouer was the only person in or nett- the signal-
rocm at the time thee messages were sent, and
was accordingly given into cu,tody. lie was as-
sistint to a grocer at Deptfurd.

Tile magi'strate, after referring to the a&, de-
cided to send the prisoner for trial, when Mr. Rees
applied -for a remand, in order to prove that the
prisoner had been four. years in the service of the
Great Western Conipatty, a fact of import:nee, as
showing that the prisoner knew the nature and im-
portance of these signalei.
Tho priSoner, who merely remarked that he had
been four months only in the employ of the Great
Western Company, was then remanded.

DECE-MRER,- 1, 1.851,