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traffic in these forgeries, and it appeared he had
exercised such wonderful ingenuity that he was
never seen to be personally mixed up with any
one single transaction. The result, how-
ever, showed that the law was too strong
for any amount of ingenuity to contend with, and
the sentence he felt called upon to pass upon him
was that he be kept in penal servitude for the re-
mainder of his life. With regard to Bateman, it
appeared that he had been twice before convicted
of felony, and the second offence, that of robbing
poor people of the money they could so ill spare,
was regarded by the Court as of such a wicked
character that he was sentenced to 10 years' trans-
portation. His sentence appeared to have been
mitigated in consequence of his subsequent good
conduct, but there could be no doubt that he was
connected with the whole of these forgeries, and
the sentence upon him therefore would also be
penal servitude for life. As to the prisoner Hum-
phreys, although he had also contrived to keep a
good deal out of the way during the proceedings,
it was clear from the evidence that he had been a
principal agent in carrying out the schemes of
fraud and forgery, and the articles that were found
at his lodgings were a strong confirmation, and
showed that he was ready to carry out offences of
this character to any extent, and upon him there-
fore the sentence would be that he be kept in penal
servitude for 20 years. With regard to the other
prisoners, there was no reason to doubt that they
were also concerned in the guiltyproceedings of their
associates, but as there was no previous conviction
against them he should only order them to be kept
in penal servitude for ten years.
None of the prisoners uttered a word when the
sentence was pronounced. It is to be hoped that
these convictions will relieve the metropolis of a
most desperate gang of forgers who have infested
it for the last two years. The police have been
engaged in watching the different parties during
nearly the whole of that period, and they appear
to deserve considerable credit for the skill and in-
genuity they exhibited in at length bringing the
case home to the prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 14.

CLERKENWELL.—COMMITTAL OF A POLICE-
MAN FOR BURGLARY.—George Woodhead, police
constable, 171 N division, was placed at the bar,
before Mr. Tyrwhitt, chltrged with burglariously
breaking and entering the dwelling, house of Mr.
Paul Puzey, the landlord of the Island Queen pub-
lic house, Hanover-street, Islington, and stealing
therein £1 ls. 6d. in silver, and about 18s. in cop-
per moneys, a half pint of rum, one quartern of
peppermint, and nine heart cakes, his property.
Inspector Judge, N division, watched the case on
behalf of the Commissioners of Police.
Sergeant Robinson, 50 N, said—About three
o'clock this (Saturday) morning I was on duty in
Hanover-street, and heard a slight noise in the bar
of the Island Queen public house. I listened for
some little time, and hearing the noise continue I
went to the side door, and pushing it, found it open.
I went in and saw the prisoner behind the bar, and
he seemed very much excited when he saw me.
He was the constable on the beat. The landlord
was coming down stairs at the time, and the pri-
soner saidar" I have the place open, as usual." I
said to the prisoner, " How have you got here I"'
He said, " By that door (pointing to the side door),
which I found open." The landlord then said, " I
bolted that door at 12 o'clock, before I went to
bed." The prisoner then said, " I came in by the
kitchen window, which I found wide open." I said,
" You had no right to enter by yourself, until you
had knocked them up from the outside." I asked
the landlord to examine his premises, to ascertain
if he had lost anything. He examined a cupboard,
and said he missed £1 ls. Gd. in silver, and about
18s. in copper moneys. I said, " This appears to be
a strange circumstance," when the landlord said, " I
believe that no one has been here but the police-
man." We all went to the police station, and when
there I asked the prisoner what money he had about
him. He said about 30s. in silver and copper, which
he took from his trousers pocket, and placed on the
table. There was I ls. 6d. in silver, and 4s. 9d.
in copper. I asked him if that was all he had got,
when he said " Yes." I said I would search him,
when he took from his pocket the two bottles pro-
diiced, containing liquor, and lls. 4d. in copper.
Upon examining his hat I found the cakes produced
in it. I afterwards went back to the house, and
with the prosecutor found ss. 2d. in copper money
in the rubbish. The prisoner had passed that spot
as we came out of the house to go to the station.
When charged at the police station the prisoner
made no reply.
The prisoner said he did not wish to ask the
witness any questions. He found the door open.
Mr. Paul Puzey said—l keep the Island Queen
public-house, Hanover-street, and it is my dwelling
house. This (Saturday) morning, about 3 o'clock,
I heard a knocking on the stairs. I got up, and
proceeding down stairs I saw the prisoner, who said
" I have found the house open as usual." I have
been called up by the prisoner in a similar way
twice previously. Each time I have found him in
the bar. On one occasion, after he had gone, I
missed 3s. This morning, as I came down, the
sergeant came in by the side door. I heard the
prisoner say to the sergeant that he had come in
by the kitchen window, and that he had found the
side door open from the inside, I was the last
person up in the house. lam sure that the side
door was, when I went to bed, bolted on the inside,
and I am quite positive that the kitchen window
was shut down close. The window goes up and
down by a pulley. When the prisoner was in the
bar this morning I went down stairs and found the
kitchen window open at the bottom sufficient to
admit a man. You can get to the kitchen through
a yard, which has a gate fastened by a piece of
string. The sergeant desired me to see if I had
missed anything. I examined, and missed from a
cupboard in the bar Ll in silver, and about 18s. in
copper. From the till I missed ls. 6d. in silver
and a few coppers. The two bottles produced are
mine, and they, now full, were empty in my bar
when I went to, bed. I had cakes, similar to those
produced and found in the prisoner's hat, in the
bar.

Mr. Tyrwhitt inquired how long the prisoner
had been connected with the police ?
Inspector Judge—About four years, sir.
The prisoner, who said he should reserve his
defence, remarked that it was a fact that he had
found the door open as he had told the sergeant.
Mr. Tyrwhitt fully committed the prisoner for
trial at the Central Criminal Court on the charge
of burglary.
The prisoner, who seemed to have been drinking,
was then removed.

MARYLEBONE._ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A
FEMALE WITH A CARVING-KNlFE.—Rebecca Merry,
aged 20, in the service of a family in Western
Villas, Paddington, was brought up from St.
Mary's Hospital, charged with having attempted
to destroy herself by cutting her -throat with a
large carving-knife.
Elizabeth Butler, servant in the same house,
deposed that at seven in the morning of the Bth ult.
she went into the kitchen, and found the prisoner
in a kneeling position, and in the act of lighting
the fire. She was bleeding from the throat. Wit-
ness said to her, " Oh, Rebecca, what have you been
doing ?" and she exclaimed, " Oh, dear, what shall
Ido ?" The bleeding was partially stopped, and
without loss of time the prisoner was conveyed in
a cab to the hospital.
Rhodes, D 306, produced the knife—a large one,
and very sharp, and upon it were many marks of
blood.
Mr. Broughton—Where did you find it ?
Witness—ln the dining-room, sir. The wound
must have been inflicted there, as there was a pool
of blood on the carpet.
Mr. Broughton—Have you any surgeon's coal-
ficate ?

Witness—No, your worship.
The father, who was present in court, and de-
scribed himself as an engine-driver, said he believed
the prisoner to be not quite right in her mind. One
of his sons had been affected in a similar way, and
was for some time in Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.
The prisoner, who had not a word to say in reply
to the charge, was given up to a married sister, who
promised to afford her careful protection.
DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—Edward
Cavanagh was charged with having, in conjunction
with another man not in custody, burglariously en-
tered the premises of Mr. Standfast, carpenter,
&c., Gloucester-mews, Portman-square, and stolen
therefrom property of different descriptions.
John Tribe residing nearly opposite to prosecu-
tor's, stated that on the previous night, between
nine and ten o'clock, in consequence of something
which was communicated to him, he came out of
his back parlour and went to the front window,
when he observed the prisoner and another in the
act of breaking open his (prosecutor's) door,
through which the at last entered apparently by
means of a, key.
Witness, who kept watch out-
side, being convinced that a robbery was going on,
saw a light cvried fsom the lower to the upper-part
of the house. In the course of a short time it
was
extinguished, and th .
The prisoner and his companion
came quietly downey were making their
egress hastily from the''dwelling, when witness
seized hold of the prisoner, Who,
mhowever
.
ceeded in breaking away from hi
but be pur suc-
sued him, crying
-
"Stop thief," and he was speedily
captured. The other man got clear off. Clarke, 171 D, by whom the prisoner was taken,
produced a silver lever watch and guard and four
silk handkerchiefs as also some keys and Inciter