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London, England, 1857-05-13 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—May 11.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Samuel Wright, Mary,
Donovan, John Bradley, and Samuel Thorn, the
two former charged With having stolen a large
number of sacks, the property of their employer,
Mr. Jamieson, sailcloth factor and sack merchant,
the two latter with having received the property,
knowing that it bad been stolen, were brought be-
fore the Lord Mayor for further examination.
His lordship was for a considerable time engaged
in hearing evidence from new witnesses, as well as
in hearing additional evidence from the witnesses
previously examined, brought forward to connect
the various details of their remarkable and extensive
system of plunder which was alleged to have been
carried on in the premises of the prosecutor.
Upon the application of Mr. Lewis, jun., the
solicitor for the prosecution, James Downing, who
bad been examined as .a witness at a former stage
of the proceedings, was placed at the bar and
charged as an accomplice, and the case was ad-
journed to Wednesday, the 20th inst.
Michael Rook, 13 years of age, was charged with
having stolen a piece of leaden pipe.
A labouring man employed at a building in the
neighbourhood of Cannon-street, said he saw the
boy taking away something from the premises, and
ascertained that it was a piece of the water-pipe,
which had been just cut away.
The boy said be had accidentally picked up the
lead, and was perfectly innocent ; but it was proved
that he had been lately discharged from prison, in
which he had been confined five days for robbery.
The Lord Mayor—We must see what confinement
with hard labour for 24 days will do for you.
William Carrilly, a wild-looking Irish shoemaker,
was charged with having assaulted and torn the
clothes of an Irish tailor, named Michael Connor.
The two parties were samples of the most deso-
late of Irish adventurers.

The complainant said the defendant broke into
his room and tried to knock down a woman, who
lodged there,, with a poker, and upon being resisted,
dragged the clothes off his body.
The complainant then exhibited two or three
pieces of a filthy old shirt and about the third part
of a pair of breeches ; the remains of his Sunday
suit. There was a roar of laughter, which was in-
creased upon the appearance of ie woman who
bad been threatened, and who said she hoped the
Lord Mayor would tie up the unruly vagabond at
the bar, who was good for nothing but plundering
poor women, and beating their brains out when-
ever he had an opportunity.
The Lord Mayor—Have you not been drilling
gin together?
Witness—l never will again, I can tell you.
The Lord Mayor—l have no doubt that the three
of you have been in the habit of drinking all you
earn, instead of putting clothes on your backs.
The witness—Why, then, he follows me every-
where, and tears me to pieces. Look at him ; sure,
he's the cut of a good-fur-nothing fellow.
The Lord Mayor—l shall bind him over in two
sureties of 201. each to keep the peace towards
everybody for three months.
The Defendant—Nobody will bail me.
The Lord Mayor—Theo you will have time to
get clean and to become sober.

CLERKENWELL.—James Cahill, aged 39, a
respectably-dressed man, described on the police-
sheet as a messenger at the Admiralty office, So-
merset House, residing at No. .3, Grafton-street,
East, Tottenham-court-road, and Mary Josephine
Cahill, of 1, Fitzroy-place, Kentish-town, who
stated herself to be the wife of the male p isoner,
were brought up in the custody of Inspector Dai-
gan, and Hassell, 167 E, and placed at the bar
before Mr. Corrie, charged with obtaining, by false
and fraudulent pretences, the sum of 2501. from
Alexander Duncan, of 6, Charlwood-street, Tach-
brook street, Pimlico, a gentleman, under the plea
of obtaining him a situation at the Admiralty.
A gentleman who attended from the Admiralty
to prosecute stated that "the case was one of the
greatest importance, and was laid under the 49th
Gee. 111., c. 126 ; that if any person shall sell, or
bargain for the sale of any Government office, or
receive, have, or take any money, fee, gratuity,
loan of money, reward or pro it, directly or indi-
rectly, or any promise, agreewent, covenant, con-
tract, &c., for any appointment or nomination to
any office, in every such case every such person, and
also every person who shall wilfully and knowingly
aid, abet, or assist such persons therein, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanour. From the facts
he should be able to produce he had no doubt but
that he should be able.to show that both persons
were concerned in this offence.
Alex. Duncan was then called, and stated—l for-
merly resided in Hunter-street, but am at present
living at No. 6, Charlwood-street, Pimlico. In the
month of Febrbary last I placed an advertisement
in the Morning Post newspaper, offering from 2001.
to 6001, if a good situation could be obtained in a
proper way fur me. The next day I received a
letter without name or address, written in a female's
,handwriting, which stared that the party writing
had an appointment which would, perhaps, suit me,
and would Ibe written to again I After I had le-
ceised, a number of letters, one was sent to me
which stated that the writer lad an appointment at
his disposal in the civil service at a salary of 3001.,
rising 151. per annum. For the appointment ,to
that situation, the writer would expect a douceur
of 5001. I answered that letter. I never saw any
one, but I was told that upon receiving my appoint-
ment, I should be expected to pay 2501. at the
place where the letters were addressed to, viz.,
Park-street, Regent's-park. A few days after that,
I received a letter, written on official paper, and
sealed with the Admiralty seal, appointing me to
the second clerkship in the storekeeper's department
of the Admiralty. The letter came at night, and the
next day I inclosed 25Q/. in bank notes, and left
them as directed. The appointment was signed
Thomas Phinn. On the following day I received a
letter signed Louisa Sherose, acknowledging the
receipt of the money, and asking me to see the
writer at No. 9, Gloucester-place, but upon going
there I found that I had been duped. On the Sa-
turday I received the following note, written in a
man's hand, and which bore the Southampton
post-mark, "Sir,—This will be posted for me when
'lamon my way to a foreign country. The docu-
ment you received on Monday is useless. I was
employed in the department temporarily during
the war, but before answering the advertisement
had received notice to leave on the 31st of March.
Such is the reason that I have put off the matter.
Before leaving the department I provided myself
with a seal, cover, &c., in service, and you know the
result. If lam successful in a new country you shall
not lose by me. Ido not.leave from fear of you, as
you could not injure me; you being guilty your-
self would be severely punished. The money
would go if I remained. I sent to the Bank for
gold on the .morning after,- and changed the notes
after you left the needful. It is right to add that
the people in the little shop in Park-street never
saw me, and did not know what the letters referred
to. I sent for them and gave the man money to bu 3
things from time to time. The letters were written
by one who now shares my fate. I answered adozen
such advertisements, but no one would pay manor
woman money whom they did not know.
" THOS. PHINN."

Mr. L. Jacquet, a hair-dresser, of Park-street,
proved having given a number of letters to the pri-
soner, but be did not know what they contained.
Mr. H. H. Smith, a clerk at the BAnk of Eng-
land, said he believed that the female was the
person who changed the notes on the day in question.
, Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoners forafew days.

WORSHIP-STREET.—G. R. Rackley, a Lt-
boner in the employ of Mr. Nicholson, rag-mer-
chant, Shoreditch, was charged with the following
brutal assault upon his wife, who on Monday ap-
plied for a warrant, declaring her life was in
danger, that she feared to go home, and was mani-
festly in such a state of suffering that money for her
immediate wants was kindly supplied her from the
poor- box.
Complainant now evidently regretted the step
she had taken, and did the utmost to screen her
husband from the act he was charged with, namely,

burning her face with'hct leather. This being the
case,

D'Eyncourt observed—l never desire to
force a wife to give evidence against her husband,
but a painful intimacy with assaults brought to this
court convinces me that no lenity shown by women
is of the slightest service to those who act like
brutes and cowards. The best plan is to speak the
whole truth and face out the worst. Twice you
have obtainedprocesses against this man before.
After these remarks, complainant, whose face
was bandaged, said—Well, sir, be merciful to him,
never mind what he has done to me, perh,ips he
will be bettertor the future. Last Friday night
he came home, and because I would not take his
boo's to be mended, being at the time very ill, as
indeed as I have been since my confinement, he
swore MOs' dreadfully at me, bat he was drunk at
the time. Well, I was irritated at hearing the bad
words, and threw the boots on the fire. He let
them be till they were red hot, and then picked one
up and held it to my face. My chin is injured from
the under lip to beneath the jaw, as also my eye. I
ran out screaming " Murder," and one of the
neighbours, seeing the charred leather sticking to
my skin, poured some oil over it. I could not eat,
but am better now. Dobe merciful to him. He is
not so when sober, and brings me home his money
regularly.
Mr. D'Eyncourt, after Fairall, the warrant of-
ficer, having stated that the man bad a good cha-
racter for industry, observed that but, for the fact
of his not neglectinc, to support his wife he would
assuredly have sent him for six months' imprison-t
ment. The act was most brutal, and detendan
must go for three months.

MARLBOROUGH- ST RE ET. —Ohm. Thorpe,
of 124, Jermyn-street, was charged with keeping a
betting-office.
The defendant has already been convicted of a
similar offence, and had to pay a penalty of 501.
Since the conviction the office has been turned into
a wine-room.

The police entered the premises and found a
number of betting-books and racing-cards on the
premises, and heard persons ask the odds. Thorpe
was seen to receive money, and write something in
albook.
Mr. Abrahams, for the defendant, applied for an
adjournment, that he might produce counter-evi-
dence.

The case was adjourned for a week, the defen-
dant entering into his own recognisances to appear
on the day.

THAMES.—David Callaghan, alias Kelly, a
strong rough-looking young fellow, an Irish la-
bour, .r, was charged with assaulting James Viney,
landlord of the Blue Anchor public house, in the
Mile-end-road.

On Saturday night the prisoner came into the
tap-room, annoyed the guests, and abused the land-
lord and his wife, when the former knocked him
clown. Next day in the afternoon, when Mr.
Viney took the Sunday paper to a cuitomer in the
tap-room, he found the prisoner standing before the
fire. He requested him to leave the house, when
the prisoner knocked him down, seized him, and
threw him heavily, breaking his leg.
Fined 51., or in default two months' imprison-
ment.

GREENWICH.—Join Liall, 41, shipwright, of
29, Upper York-street, Rotherhitbe, was charged
with neglecting to support his two children, Eliza-
beth and Jane, aged respectvely 10 and 12 years.'
Mr. Bayley, relieving officer of Rotherbithe, said
that his attention had been called bythe neighbours
to the children, and on proceeding to the prisoner's
residence he found them in the house without food
of any kind, and presenting a truly shocking spec-
tacle from neglect. They were covered with vermin
and dirt, they had no under clothing whatever,
and were without shoes and stockings. In the room
in which they were the flooring was literally covered
with vermin, and th 3 children's bodies and hair
were matted with disease and dirt. He afterwards
saw the prisoner, who promised that, the place
should be cleaned and the children attended to by
his sister, but that morning, on going to the house,
he found nothing had been done, and that they
were, if possible, in a worse state than when he left
them on the previous day, and the prisoner was
given into custody.
Mr. Bayley also said that be had ascertained that
the prisoner was well able to provide for them, earn-
ing 9s. per day wages, and being an excellent work-
man ; but he spent all his money in drink.
Mr. Seeker said the prisoner earning the money
he did could well afford 18s. per week towards their
support, and inquired if he would consent to con-
tribute that amount

The prisoner declined doing so, observing he was
willing to look after them himself.
Mr. Seeker—The horrible condition your chil-
dren have been found in shows you have neglected
your duty as a parent ; and in order that you may
be taught you have a duty to perform, you will be
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 21 days.
The prisoner was then removed.

AN ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

(From. the Sontk-Eastern Gazette )

About three o'clock on Sunday morning, as the
mailman was entering Canterbury by the New-
road, he observed a donkey standing by the side of
the path, immediately opposite the end house of
Barton-terrace, on the opposite side of the road.
There was something on the path, but it was nut
sufficiently light at the time to enable him to see
what it was, as he quickly (trove past. He -bid the'
police of the circumstance, and Inspector Sprat and
Dodd went to the spot indicated. There they found
, a donkey side-saddied, and under the hedge were
two young females, wrapped up in foreign travel-
ling dresses, with the hoods over their heads, and
by their side stood a large home-made loaf, a car-
pet-bag, and a Skye terrier dog. There were also
two gentlemen's hats, but no signs of any male
, companions could be seen. In answer to the police,
the young ladies said they had arrived from the
Continent, and were going to visit a brother at
Tunbridge, but reaching Canterbury too late on
the previous evening to obtain accommodation at
an hotel, they had resolved to remain at the out-
skirts of the city all night. On the previous day
they stopped at Ewell, near Dover.
• The police left the fair travellers to their own re-
flections ; as although they considered it very
strange, there did not appear any circumstance con-
nected with them of a sufficiently suspicious nature
to call for their interference. The inspector had
formed a somewhat novel notion of the object of
; the young ladies. He said he thought that "they
were some of those religious fanatics who travel the
, country, and that they were making a pilgrimage
to Canterbury for the purpose of worshipping in
the cathedral." Upon thinking the matter over,
and mentioning the circumstance to one or two
parties, a reference was made to the advertising
columns of the Times, when the mystery was solved,
for an advertisement in the well-known second
column, offering a reward of 10/., stated that two
young ladies had left their home since Thursday,
the 30th ult., and were supposed to be in London.
The following descriptions were given of them :
"One aged 19, light hair, dressed in a bright blue
silk dress, with three flounces, white on the borders
and white fringe, fancy straw bonnet trimmed with
brown, pink rosebuds inside—usually wore a black
velvet rouleau over her hair in front ;- the other
aged 16, light hair, dressed in a black silts gown
with three flounces, with green stripes, a small
brown straw hat, with feather, and a fall of lace."
This description answering 'in every particular to
the parties encamped in the New-road, the police
immediately had them removed to a place of safety,
while they communicated to the firm mentioned in
the advertisement. A telegraphic message was re-
ceived in reply, stating that they were in the coun-
try, but would be in Canterbury by the first train
on Monday morning. Since their detention the
young ladies have secluded themselves in their bed-
room, observing that they were unwell. They are
represented as being fine-looking girls, and evi-
dently well brought up, being acquainted with the
French and German languages.
Yesterday morning the mayor and several of the
magistrates went to the station-house, where the
young ladies had been removed to, and were
ushered into the private room of the superintend-
ent. The ladies at once admitted that they were
the parties referred to in the advertisement, but
that they were not sisters, although distantly re-
lated to each other. They stated that their names
were Lewis and Webber, but declined giving their
address. Subsequently, it was elicited that their
friends resided at St. Leonard's and Colchester,
and that family differences and " other
oauses," had led them to leave their homes,
and proceed to France, from which place they had
just returned, and had been travelling almost night
and day since the 30th ult.
There is no doubt that the sequel will prove in
this, as in many other cases, " that the course of
true love never did run smooth." Much interest
was manifested in this affair, and the police station
was besieged by persons anxious to catch a glance
at these young ladies of the romantic school.

The .Kentish Gazette has a narrative agreeing es-
sentially with the above. "It appears," says ou'r
contemporary, "that the father of the young ladies
(sisters we believe them to be, though they deny
it), is an officer in the
.navy, and that they had
lived at home with their mother-in-law. This
home, which is at St. Leonard's, they left, and fit d
'to France, whence, after staying a time, they came
here on Saturday last ; and the better to preserve

themselves incog., one of them was dressed as a
menial, as if a servant to the other, and both passed
so well, as to ecape the observation of their uncle,
who was on board the same packet. Iu the streets
of Dover, too, they actually passed their parents
unobserved, so well had they completed their .dis-
guise."

- The same journal says :—" In consequence of
non-compliance with the message of the previous
day, another was despatched on Monday to Messrs.
Dawson, indicated in the advertisement ; and a
gentleman of some rank reached this city in the
afternoon, and had an interview with the Mayor,
Alderman Brent, Captain Love, and lir. Philpot,
magistrates—producing his letter of introduction
from Mr. Dawson in reply to the telegraphic de-
spatch. He gave his name Baron Glucky de Sten-
itzen, and represented himself as deputed by the
family of the young ladies to take charge of them.
He stated this in reply to the mayor, and that it
was his intention to convey them back t) London.
The yentag ladies on having it put to them, ex-
pressed themselves but too happy at having the
opportunity of being placed under his protection.
The Mayor, in addressing the baron, stated that as
the young ladies were not detained on any charge,
it was the desire of the magistrates only to see
them restored to proper bands. Such assurances
were given as to satisfy all parties ; and arrange-
ments were made for preserving their privacy as
much as possible before returning home, awl for
this purpose a special carriage was engaged on
the railway, and a private carriage to convey
them from this city to Clailham, whence
they. would embark with their guardian by
the last train. The ease and :dignity with
which they deported themselves afforded evidence
of their superior accomplishments, and. we
are informed that they are highly connected. The
baron before leaving inquired the name of the po-
liceman through whose instrumentality they were
rescued from the road and duly provided for ; and
also as to who should participate in the reward that
had been offered. He undertook to communicate
with the mayor, that he might be responsiMe for
its being appropriated to those to whom it is. justly
due. The young ladies, though anxious- to keep
their privacy, were most affable and engaging in
their commuuLations with those who obtained
brief interviews, and raised in every one a deep
e.ncern for their condition."