The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Oct. 24

• BOW-STREET.—Henry none and Thomas
Roue, journeyman shoemakers, were charged with
a ruffianly assault on Sergennt Felton and another
constable of the F division.
The sergeant had interfered to quell a disturb-
ance in Clare-market on Saturday night. His re-
monstrances were unavailing, and in proceeding to
take one of the brothers into custody, he was
knocked down and ill-treated by both of them,
dragged through a house into a back yard, and the
hair torn by handfuls from his head, until his bro-
ther officer, Pigott, succeeded in getting into the
house to his rescue. Pigott was also assaulted by
one of the defendants, and the other was heard to
ask his wife to give him the knife out of his pocket,
although this was explained by the assertion that
he only wanted her to cut his neckerchief to pre-
vent the officers from strangling him. The top of the
sergeant's head was literally bald from the savage
treatment he had experienced, and which, he said,
so confused him that he could not discriminate the
one assailant from the other. The prisoners were
assisted by others present in the house, but they
desisted when they say him (Felton) so completely
at their mercy.
Mr. Jardine said the case was too serious to be
disposed of by him. He was prepared to inflict the
full penalty, but that would be a wholly inadequate
punishment for an outrage of this kind. The case
must be reported to th Commissioners of Police,
and he should remand the prisoners for a week to
enable that course to be taken, with a view to a
prosecution at the sessions.
James Gates, a drayman, in the service of Messrs.
Combe and Delafield, was fined £5 for assaulting
George Dunman, a toll-collector at Waterloo-
bridge, and for attempting to evade the toll.
Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Bridge Company,
stated that the draymen of Messrs. Combo and Co.
had given the officers a great deal of trouble by
their attempts to defraud the company—sometimes
by representing their barrels to be empty when all
but the top ones were full, by referring to their
foreman " behind" for payment, &c., and by being
drunk and causing obstructions at the gate.
The defendant was committed for a month in de-
fault.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--CURIOUS CASE
OF ALLEGED PERJURY AND FRAUD.—Mr. Beadon
was occupied a considerable time investigating a
charge of fraud preferred against Benjamin Crow-
ther, a young man of gentlemanly appearance, in
which was involved another charge of perjury, on
the ground that the fraud was chiefly effected upon
a certain false declaration made by the accused in
this court on the 15th Sept., 1858.
Mr. Cooper, solicitor, defended the prisoner.
Mrs. Ellen Tiburnay deposed as follows—l am a
widow, and reside at No. 19, Albion-street, Hyde-
park. Near the end of June I was residing else-
where, and on the look out for a house, and raw in
the window of the premises I now occupy, a bill of
the house to let. Thinking it might suit me I went
in and saw a female, and in consequence of what
she told me, called again that same day, upon which
occasion I met with the prisoner, and asked if he
could, and were inclined to sell the lease of the
house. He said " Yes." I left, and called again
in a few days according to promise, and the conver-
sation was renewed. Besides the lease and good-
will, the furniture the house contained was to be
disposed of, and he asked me £2OO for it. Aft'r
looking over it I agreed to give £175, which he ul-
timately consented to take. On Saturday, the 2d
July, I gave him, therefore, £9O in part payment
of the total, £175, and took possession of the furni-
ture in my own right. I should mention that he
particularly said, on me paying the money, " Do
nottsia nse,enoot inoyfhietmtyo TuesdayCoaNpv tn.
following,tl,la Whitworth." rotthi
not name this to my neighbours, and especially do
and
pqiiucnieonento,l
caused the Registrar's-office in the T emp c to be
searched, and from what I learnt I gave a further
sum of £O2 to Mr. Johnson to enable him to dis-
charge a bill of sale to a Mr. Bayne. The
_declara-
tion produced, dated September,
handed to me by Mr. Johnson. 15,
.1808, was
noptasoner had
from the first assured me there wasbill of sale.
Mr. Frederick Johnson, of re astbourne-terrace,
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