The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 21.

I BOW-STREET.—A ;vell-dressed Frenchman,
named Lotds Leroy, was charged with having ut-
tered to Mr. L. E. Engleback, clerk to Messrs.
Coutts and Co., of .the Strand, a forged draught for
921., purporting to be signed by M. Trognon, se-
cretary to Prince de Joinville.
Mr. Engleback proved that M. Trognon banked
with Messrs. Coats and Co. At about half-past
10 o'clock that morning the prisoner presented the
order produced for payment at Messrs. Coats's. It
purported to be signed by' M. Trognon, and was in
favour of aM. Moreau. The prisoner said, iu re-
ply to questions from witness, that M. Moreau,
who occasionally did writing
.for the Prince, bad
handed him (pri.oner) the draught in payment of a
debt of 321., and that he was to take the balance,
601., to M. Moreau, at 72, Regent.street, or, if he
had left, to forwatd it to him at Geneva. He also
said that he had met M. Moreau, by appointment,
at the South-WeAern Railway station' that morn-
ing, having come from Southampton the night be-
fore. WI neSs then gave him in charge. The note
was not in the handwriting of M. Trognon, but
was somewhat like it. Witness had inquired at
No. 72, Regent-street, and found that no M. Mo-
reau was known there.
Anscombe, F 102, took the prisoner into cus-
tody. He said he could explain the matter. He de-
clined to give his address. Witness searched him
at t.ne station and found 11 sovereigns on him.
'The prisoner said in French that he wished M.
rfrogn o n to be produced. He declined to state where
he had lived at Southampton. He had only lately
come to England from the United States.
Mr. Henry remanded him to give time for M.
Trognon to be produced.

WESTMINSTER.—A person about 45 years of
age, of very respectable appearance and good ad-
dress, who gave his name Nathaniel Ward, was
charged with two assaults.
Defendant, on being placed in front of the table,
addressed the magistrate in French, and after as-
suring him with much earnestness that he was half
brother to the King of Naples, and co nnected with
Prince Albert, turned round to the ?auditory, and
apologised to them in the same langu age for being
there. He, however, subsequently ispoke English
with so much fluency as to induce the belief that
he is a native of this country.
John Carmody, 148 B, said he irlas on duty in
White Lion-street, Chelsea, at aq• trader past one
that morning, when he was attract '.;ed by a cry of
" Police !" and found a man lying i in the ground,
and the defendant standing over hi m with an um-
brella in his hand. The former to Id witness that
the defendant bad knocked him a. 3WII, and upon
witness stooping
to assist him tp the defendant
gave him (the witness) a violent b low on the eye. ,
Mr. Arnold inquired whether t 1 to person who had
charged the defendant with assaulting him, as de-
scribed, was in atteniance ?
The constable replied that he w r.s not.
Mr. Arnold asked whether tha defendant was
intoxicate ?

The constable tAought not. He ap, peared thep. as

at the present moment, and his impression was that
he was of unsound mind.

Mr. Arnold felt there was too much reason to
fear that such was the case, and remanded the ac-
cused until this day, in the hope that his friends
might come forward, or that the police might learnt
something about him.
He is described as a surgeon.
Benjamin Richardson, Thomas Woodworth, and
Emmanuel Barker, the first two privates
.of the
Scots Fusiliers, and the latter of the Coldstream
Guards, were charged with a series of desperate as-
saults and serious conflicts with the police.
It appeared from the lengthy evidence adduced
that Richardson conducted himself in a very offen-
sive manner in the • private' passace of Mr. Hath-
way, a newsvendor, at 62, Tothill-street, when the
latter having quietly remonstrated with him, seeing
he was intoxicated, left him and went into his shop.
In two or three minutes afterwards the defendant
Richardson rushed into the shop, and, after drag-
ging Mr. Hathway_ about until lie had literally torn
all the clothes off his back, swore he would split his
head open, and taking his belt off made a blow at
him with it. Mrs. Hathway, seeing the imminent
peril her husband was in, seized the belt, when the
defendant struck her several blows about the head
with his fists. The police were sent for, and Rich-
ardson taken into custody, when the other defend-
ants and a third soldier, not in custody, came up
and attacked the police. An indescribable riot en-
sued, in the course of which the soldiers took off
their belts, and after a serious affray Richardson
was rescued, but was subsequently apprehended in
the neighbourhood. The other two defendants
having taken shelter in a public-house the police
waited outside till a guard was fetched from the
Wellington Barracks, whither they were taken in
custody, and produced at this court yesterday. On
their way to the barracks Woodworth rushed away
from the guard and again assaulted the police.
Richardson pleaded drunkenness as an excuse,
and the others said it was altogether a mistake re-
specting them, as they hal not left the public-house
'for hours before the guard came in and took them.
fir., Arnold observed that this was one of the
most serious cases of the kind that had ever come
before him. .As Woodworth and Barker asserted
they were innocent, he would remand the case, to
give them an opportunity of bringing evidence.
He, however, remarked that Barker was proved to
have assaulted the police on his way to the barracks.

WORSHIP-STREEZ—William Wick., a thick-
set bargeman, was charged with the following scan-
dalous outrage :
Mrs. Fanny Badcock, landlady of the Marion
Arms at HackneY, whose head was bandaged, her
voice almost inaudible from exhaustion, and who
was obliged to be seated and supplied with water
during her examination, stated :—On returning
home on Saturday evening I noticed some very
improper conduct going on between the prisoner
and some women who were standing in front-of the,
bar. I had noticed the same conduct between them
before I went out, and now expressed my surprise
to my husband that he should not have checked
it. The prisoner used some disgusting language, and
asked me what business it was of mine. I had not
spoken to him, but now told him he had much bet-
ter go home to his wife, and threatened if he did
not desist to tell her' of his behaviour. The pri-
soner on that cllled ms two most disreputable epi-
thets, and feeling exasperated at them I thtew,at
hint a pint pot I had in my hand, but which did
not strike him. He then callei me by more dis-
gusting appellations, and I threw another pot and
a tin can at him, but neither struck bim, and, if
they had, they could not have hurt him. I was
then turning to enter the bar-parlour, when the
prisoner seized a quart pot, which was standing on
the counter with some porter in it, and flung it
at my head with such force that it cut my tem-
ple open. I staggered against the bar, felt my-
self instantly covered with blood, and on reaching
the,house of a neighbour entirely lost my senses.
I bled very much and was taken to a surgeon,
who dressed the wound, but I still feel very weak
and exhausted, and intend on leaving here
to go to the hospital. My husband was present all
the while, but did not interfere for my protection,
as the prisoner and he are always together.
Sergeant Townsbend--fler husband treats this
woman very badly, and has himself been charged
with assaulting her. He is not here now, and said
he should not trouble himself about it, and that he
wished the prisoner•had killed her. On her being
conveyed to the surgeon's he said that the tempo-
ral artery was cut through, and that it was surpris-
ing the woman was not killed on the spot. He
could scarcely stop the blood, and thought erysipe-
las was likely to supervene.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—As she wishes to go to an hos-
pital, let it be so, as it may be better fur her, but
see that she is conveyed there in a cab.
Williams, 102 N—l was called to a house in
Pritchard-row, where I found the complainant
smothered in blood. I told her husband, and he
said it served her right, and that it would be a—
good job if the prisoner had killed her. I then
went to the house of prisoner, who looked out of
the window, but refused 'to open the door, and
upon my threatening to break it open swore he
would shoot me. I directly after heard the noise of
a ramrod being forced into a gun, and a female
voice saying, "For' God's sake don't." I thought
it not safe to enter, but watched outside, and he
promised to surrender next morning, if I came fur
him.

Sergeant Townshend—l afterwards got admitted
by an old lady and took the prisoner, who admitted
the assault, but said the prosecutrix had attacked
him first, and that he was intoxicated. In the
room I found the gun I produce, which I believe to
be loaded, but cannot get it unscrewed. Powder
comes out at the nipple, and I can feel the shot, I
think, with the ramrod.
John Rawlings, a labourer, gave a similar ac-
count of the transaction, but said that one of the
pots thrown by the 'prosecutrix struck the prisoner
on the arm. He was standing about nine feet from
her, picked a pot up,, threw it at her, and struck
her on the head in such a mannor that "she bled
wonderfully, all down her bosom and on to the
counter. She appeared not to know what she was
about after that. Prosecutrix was in a passion when
she threw the measures at the prisoner, which she
did one after the other; but, of courie, a woman
could not throw them with such force as a man."

A certificate was put in from a surgedn named
Morgan, describing the injuries received by the
prosecutrix, who was conveyed from the court in a
cab ; and the prisoner was remanded till that day
week, with liberty to put in substantial bail, the
magistrate at the same time giving directions that
the woman's husband should at the next examina-
tion be in attendance.

SOUTHWARK.—Elizabeth Liberty, the wife
of a respectable mechanic, .was charged with steal-
ing half-a-sovereign, the property of Mary Ann
Williams. The complainant, a widow, residing at
8, George-street, Blackfriars'-road, said that the
prisoner and. her husband lodged in the same house.
On Saturday afternoon, between four and five
o'clock, she took a half-sovereign from a caddy in
her room for the purpose of paying for something,
when she • went downstairs and spoke to the pri-
loner on the kitchen stairs. She then accidentally
dropped -the half-sovereign from her hand, *hen
the prisoner stooped down and picked up some-
thing, which she did not give to witness.: She ac-
cordingly looked on the floor; and not finding her
half-sovereign she asked the prisoner for it, when
she said it' was only, a penny that she had dropped
herself. The prisoner had no money on Saturday
morning, but after witness lost her half-sovereign
,she went out, and on her return paid her is. 6d.
She also had other money about her.
On cross-examinaton by Mr. Solomon, witness
said she-Was' positive that it was a half-sovereign she
dropped, and she had never promised to say nothing
more about it if she had her money. She was
positive that the prisoner picked up her money.
Sarah Ann Fensom, the female searcher at the
station house, said she had searched the prisoner,
and found 85.,11c1. on her.
Mr. Solomon contended. that • his client was too
respectable. to commitinich a paltry theft, but
Mr. Combe committed her for trial, accepting
bail for het appearance at the next sessions.

LAMBETH.—AIfred Arney, a smartly-dressed
young man, with a showy pair of mustachios, was
charged before Mr. Elliott with plundering his em-
ployers.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner
had been for some years a shopman and coufiden-
tial servant to Mes-rs. Simpson, Maule, and Co.,
praciical and manufacturing chemists in an exten-
sive .way of bUsiness in the-Kennington-road, who
treated him with great liberality. The extrava-
gance of his habits, as disclosed to the firm, gave
rise to considerable suspicion as to his honesty, and
the consequence was that Sergeant Coppis, a de-
tective of the P division of police, was consulted in
the matter, and he soon put the question of Ira
honesty to the test. He marked a half-sovereign,
and two shillings and a sixpence in silver, and seat
a woman to the shop of the prosecutors to purchase
articles to that amount. After the goods were
purchased. and' paid for the till was examined, and
it was then diwovered. Opt the prisoner had poc-
keted the half sovereign. and put only the silver
into the till. • When the half-sovereign was.-found
on the prisoner he at once admitted it, and said it
was his first eft:once, though there was every reason.
to believe that he had carried on his system of plun-
der to a considerable extent. His conduct was
considered more reprehensible from the fact that it
was not many weeks since a porter in the service
of his employers had been committed to Wands-
worth B.ouse of Correction for six months for rob.

bing them, and this circumstance, it was thought,
should have acted as au example to him.
The prisoner pleaded for mer. y, and wai ser-
tenced to six months' hard ldso;:r.

Mary Anu Brown, who stood remanded from Sa-
turday last on a cliarofte of bur Lary .and r.-.bb:-ry at
the house of Mr. Budd, in Lion street, New Kent
Road, was again brought up. It appeared t hat .be-
tween 2 and 3 o'clock on the Saturday mr)rring the
prosecutrix was awoke by the noise created by the
prisoner's drawing a chest from under the bed on
which she (prosecutrix) lay, and the prisoner was
taken into custody with a quantity of proporty tied
up in her possession.
The evidence of the witnesses was taken, and the
prisoner was fully committed for trial at the Cen-
tral Criminal- Court.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD-LIEUTENANTS
County of Stafford—Lieut.-Col: James Horton to be.
Deputy Lieutenant.

2d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia—Lieut.
Frederick Alfred Augustus Whyte has been permitted to
resign his commissiou.

Royal Wilts Militia—• Ensign Alfred Wyndham to be
Lieutenant, vice Paton. appointed Quartermaster ; Ensign
Thomas Edward Pinkett to be Lieutenant, vice Robinson,
promoted.

Royal South Glonclster Light Infantry Regiment of
Militia—Thos. Lyford Champion, Gent., to be Enmign.
Southern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Ca-
valry—Henry Chariton Staunton, Esq., to be Cornet, vice
Lowe, promoted; Henry BeevarGent., to be Cornet, vice
Clowes, promoted.

BANKRUPTS.
Leonard Dalton, stone merchant, Canal-bridge, Old
Kent-road, to surrender, May 5, at half-past two, and
June 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official
a.simee, Alderruanbury ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer,
Old Jewry-chambers, City.
George Brooke, provision dealer, Leadenhall-market,
City, May 5, at twelve, and June 2, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basinghall-
btreet ; Lawrance, Plows, and Boyer, Old Jowly-
chambers.

Robert Ashling, brewer, Duxford, C9.mbridgesbire,
May 4, and June 3, at eleven, at the Court of B:inkruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Aldridge and
Bromley, South-square, Gray's-inn ; Probert •at,d Wade,
Saffron Walden, Essex.

John Shaw and Joseph Shaw, woollen drapers, Shef-
field. May 2 and Juno 6, at ten, at the Council-hall, Shef-
field. Browin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Broadbent,
Sheffield.

John Pepper and Edwin Addy Holmes, grocers, -Shef-
field, May 9 and June 6, at ten, at the Council-hall, Shef-
field. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield ; Chambers and
Waterhouse, Sheffield.

Michael Neville, brassfounder, Liverpool, May 8 and 28,
at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official
assignee, Liverpool ; Dodge, Liverpool.
John Wick, electro-plater, Sheffield, May 2 and June 6,
at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield. Brewin, official
assignee, Sheffield ; Smith and Burdekin, Sheffield. '
Thomas Evats, grocer, Newtown, Montgomeryshire,
May 4 and June 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District
Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Jones, New-
town.

Sarnitel Joseph Smith, auctioneer, Birmingham, May 1
and 22, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District
Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Knight
and Suckling, Birmingham.
Henry Noel!, accountant, Phillack, Cornwall, April 30
and May 28, at one, a; the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter ; Roscorla and Davies, Penzance ;
Stogdon, Exeter.

fiedeiiek Bliedberg and Marc Saran, commission trier-
°haat!, Liverpool, May 4 and June 1, at eleven, at the Li-
verpool District Court. Cazonove, official assignee, Liver-
pool; Holden and Soo, Liverpool.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
The Stansfield Printing Company, Stansfield. and Man-
chester, calico printers—J. Galley and Co., Felling. Dur-
ham, iron workers—A. Grundy and Co., Bedford, Lanca-
shire, cotton spinners—W. Miskin and T. E. H. Halls,
Queen Elizabeth-street, Southwark, surgeons— Payne,
Slee, and Slee, Church-street, Bermondsey, vinegar makers;
as far as regards W. Payne—Morris and Co., Harpurhey,
Lancashire, cotton spinuerg— J. W. and J. T. Mead,
Westbourne-park-villas, and Hereford-road, Paddington,
nilders—T. Estwick and W. Tyler, Plaistow, japanners
Long, Smith, and Wellings, Wotton-under-Edge. and
elsewhere, clothiers • as far as regards J. Smith—H. and
K. Billington, Salford, and Manchester, smallware manu-
facturers—E. Wilding and Co., Manchester,' mercantile
stationers—Smith and Lockwood, St. Swithin'sdane, and
Place Vendome, Paris, engineers—Townend, Wood, and
Ackroyd, Bradford, Yorkshire, colliery proprietors—For-
ster and Harris, Cardiff, carvers—R. Haworth and G.
Bailey, Wigan, manufacturing chemists—T. Cooke and R.
Smith, Cheltenham, farmera—J. Foster and T. S. Ron t-
ledge, Stockton, and Middlesbrough, tailors—W, and G.
Ryder and J. Jessop, Leicester, engineers; as far as regards
G. Ryder—Armitage and Co., Manchester, manufacturers;
as far as regards W. Heap—Wilkinson and Heap, Man-
chester, commission agents—Walliss and Wynn, Dews-
bury, cabinet makers—J. Greames and Co., Liverpool,
and Dublin, and Greatne, Brothers, Kingston-upon-Hull,
wool brokers—Toogood and Whitfield, Everton, near
Liverpool, coach proprietors—R. R. Allen and T. W.
MacCallum, Belper, manufacturers of bricks—M. White
and Son, West Ham, Essex, and Wapping, corn merchantF.

DECLARATIONS OF DIVIDENDS.
T. C. Hawkes late of Abingdon-street, coal merchant
—third and final div. of lid. on Wednesday next, at Mr.
Lee's, Ablermanbliry.

W. O. Young, Manchester, and Liverpool, sbipbroker
—first div. of 3s. 2d., on Wednesday next, at Mr. Lee's,
Aldermaubury.

F. B. FareSrother, G. W. Bremner, and J. H. Collyer,
Stockwell and Manchester, wax merchants—first div. of
35., on Wednesday next and three subsequent Wednes-
days, at Mr. Edwards's, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
streel.

W. Pickering, Piccadilly, bookseller—fifth di r. of le.
6d., on WeLloasday nest and three subsequent Wednes-
days, at Mr. Edwards's, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
street.

Whitmore, 'Wells, and Whitmore, Lombard-street,
bankers—tenth div. of ld., any Thursday, at Mr. Stans-
feld's, Basin hall-street.
S. Amer, Bradford, grocer—second div. of 11id., any
Friday, at Mr. Hope's, Leeds.
J. Sngden and G. Webster, Bradford, woolstaplers—
first div. of 11 1-16 d., any Friday, at Mr. Hope's, Leeds.
J. Clayton, Bradford, commission agent—first div. of ls.
6t1., any Friday, at Mr. Hope's, Leeds.
E. Wood, Bingley, worsted spinner—first div. of 18.
7/d., any Friday, at Mr. Hope's, Leeds.
R. J. Heleby, Garston and Warrington' builder—first
div. of 6s. Bd., any Monday, at Mr. Bird's, Liverpool.
J. Reid, Liverpool, tailor—first div. of 48., any Monday,
at Mr. Bird's, Liverpool.
J. Roberts, Holyhead, shipbuilder—second div. of 61d.,
any Monday, at Mr. Bird's, Liverpool.