The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 23.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Langabeer, a shoemaker,
living in White Rose-court, Coleman-street, attended
before Mr. Alderman Finnis, to solicit his advice
and assistance under the following circumstances :
The complainant, who was in much tribulation,
said that his daughter, a girl 14 years old, had left
her home on the 11th of this month, and since that
time he bad received no tidings of her. He feared
that she had been deooyed away to some house of
ill-fame, anti was detained there against her will.
He had applied to all the inspectors of the district,
and had been out day and night with Sergeant
Leonard, a detective, endeavouring to find her, but
to no purpose. Not the slightest clue had been ob-
tained to her whereabouts. He now thought that
if publicity were given to the case, the parties who
had seduced her from her home would be afraid to
keep her when they found the magistrates were in-
terfering.
Alderman Finnis said he was at a loss to know
how he could render any assistance in recovering
the girl. Publicity might certainly be of use, and
he had no doubt the press would render its valuable
aid in such a case.

In answer to further inquiries, the complainant
said that his daughter, though only 14 years of age,
looked like a girl of 18. She was a very fine
and beautiful girl; and might be picked up as an
attractive object for immoral purposes. She had
been apprenticed to a dressmaker, and left home as
usual on the llth, without any unpleasantness be-
tween her and any of the family, and she was on
perfectly good terms with her mother. She was
sent out during the day by her mistress upon some
errand, and she never returned.
Alderman Finnis said it was a very distressing
case, and the complainant might depend upon every
assistance being given by the magistrates and the
police, and he would advise an application to be
made at once to the metropolitan, as well as the
City police.

The following is an accurate description of the
missing child :—Her name is Tamzen Langabeer,
but among her companions she sometimes called
-herself Emma Lord, the name of a neighbour's child
she was much attached to. She is 14 years old, but
appears 18 ; height 5 ft. 2 in., fair complexion, blue
eyes, dark brown hair, round face, high colour in
her cheeks, and a scar from a burn on the right
side of her neck. When last seen had on a short
plaid frock and drawers, a black Cobourg cloak, a
mantle, and a black silk bonnet.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. E. Bletchly, surgeon, of
the City road, waited upon the sitting magistrate,
Mr. Jardine, and made the following statement :
It would probably be in the recollection of his
worship that, about six months ago, a young man
of considerable position and education, named
Smythe, was committed from this court on a charge
of stealing a valuable bracelet from a jeweller's in
the Strand. He was tried for the offence and sen-
tenced to twelvemonths imprisonment. A young
girl who had been acquainted with the prisoner be-
fore his incarceration, and who had been permitted
to see him once or twice in the House of Correction,
in Coldbath-fields, called the other day, and
was informed that he was dead. She claimed the
body of the prisoner, with the view of having
it decently interred at her own expense, and,
incredible as it might appear to his worship, the
body was delivered up to her in a state of nudity.
In this condition it was taken to Mr. Shillibeer's,
the undertake'', whose premises adjoin the house
in which he (the applicant) is residing, and on exa-
mining it he saw upon the chest of the deceased
prisoner the mark of a blister, 14 inches long and
nine inches wide. In all his experience he had
never known anything like it. It would have been
a fearful thing to apply such a blister to a person
in health ; but placed upon a man in a weakly state,
living on bread and water, or some light food of
that description, he could not help feeling that it
was a most injudicious proceeding. Whatever
might be said in justification of this treatment of
the deceased, nothing surely could be said in de-
fence of the conduct of the prison officials, who
delivered up the body, absolutely naked, to the poor
girl, who out of sheer kindness had requested leave
to bury it.
Mr. Jardine—But are you sure this was the fact!
Applicant—Perfectly certain. I saw the body
myself in Mr. Shillibeer's yard as it was fetched
away, and I saw the girl bring in a shirt which she
had purchased, together with a bouquet of flowers
with which she intended to strew the body, and
feeling that such conduct was intolerable in a
Christian and civilised land, I felt it my duty to
lay the facts before your worship, and to ascertain
, if anything was known of his relations, who moved
in a high position of life, in order that the sad fate
of the prisoner might be communicated to them.
Mr. Jardine—You are aware that a coroner's
inquest is always held upon the body of any pri-
soner dying in gaol ?
Applicant—l am quite aware of that.
Mr. Jardine—We; as magistrates, have no juris—
diction or control over the metropolitan prisons. We
commit prisoners to the gaols, and there our con-
nection with them ends. There is ample protection
ensured, however, we should think, in the constant
visits of the inspectors, visiting magistrates, chap-
lain, &c., against any possible ill-treatment of any
of the inmates, although I confess I am at a loss to
account for the delivering up of the body, as you say,
in a state of nudity. in I should advise you to com-
municate the facts, the form of a letter, to the
visiting justices, and you may be sure that a strict
inquiry into all the alleged circumstances of the
case would follow, as a matter of course.

The applicant then thanked his worship and
withdrew.

SHAMEFUL DEFACEMENT OF PUBLIC
STATUES.

On Saturday, at the meeting of the vestry of St.
Marylebone, Mr. Churchwarden Taverner in the
chair, Dr. Bachhoffner inquired whether any
„advance had been made in discovering the per-
petrator of the recent desecration and outrage at
Marylebone and All Saints' churches. He added
that on that morning had been discovered another
most shameful outrage at the establishment with
which he was connected—the Royal Colosseum.
Although that establishment was not in Marylebone
parish he was sure they would regret to hear that
ome miscreant had, during the night, got over the
railings, and in the first place knocked off the head
from the equestrian statue of the Queen, and then
smashed it to pieces on the ground, and that the
face of the figure of the Prince Consort, and other
parts of the statues had been shamefully
mutilated. The perpetrators of the crime had
also scratched on the walls some indecent
and obscene observations, and he had reason to
believe that the individual was the same who
had mutilated the pictures in the Marylebone
churches. He had offered a reward.for the appre-
hension of the party, if possible.---Sir James
Hamilton said the rector himself and his colleague
had, with the police, been doing all they could to
trace out the party who had committed the dese-
cration at the rectory church, and he had reason to

ope that they would be successful, and also that
the perpetrator was not in his right senses.—Mr.
Nichelay said, after the enormous sums paid for
the police, it was monstrous that these things
should occur as they did. Considering the close
proximity of the portico of the Colosseum to the
public highway, the noise which, must have been
made, and the time taken to commit the depreda-
tions, the question arose as to what the police were
doing when suck atrocities were being performed.
He thought an inquiry ought to be instituted, and
that the police should be publicly censured'. (Hear.)
—Mr. M'Evily did not see upon what ground they
could censure the police, when they had not the
facts before them. He believed that the act was
that of some lunatic, and he trusted he would be
detected. The Chairman could assure the vestry
that the commissioners of police felt so much anxiety
about these outrages that the constable on duty
near Marylebone Church on the night of the out-
rage had been suspended. After some further dis-
cussion on the subject, the next order of the day
was moved and carried.
Before the closing of the Marylebone police court
on Saturday a man named Edwin Bailbrook, who,
at the police-station, stated that he had no settled
place of residence, was charged with having wil•
fully damaged statues at the Royal Colosseum,
Regent's Park. A considerable degree of interest
was excited in the court, which was crowded,
as the prisoner was believed to be the man
who, a few weeks ago, defaced tablets, and
did damage to a valuable picture, Sze, in Mary-
lebone Church, the particulars of which sacri-
legious outrage have already appeared. James
Brown, foreman at the Colosseum, having deposed
to the nature of the injuries to the statues. Valen-
tine, 417 5, stated that at nine on the previous
evening he saw the prisoner near the Colosseum,
and said to him, " Have you got any chalk about
you ?" Mr. Long—What made you ask him that?
Witness—He has been in the habit of chalking
filthy words upon walls. Mr. Long—What did he
say in answer to your question ? Witness—He
made no reply. Police-constable Cook, S, deposed
that on the same afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock,
he and Whinkles, another officer of the division,
apprehended the'prisoner close to the " Mother Red
Cap," Camden Town. He was told what he was
charged with, and he said, " I have written upon
walls, and done so for the last,l2 years."
bringing him down Mary-street on the Way to the
station, he pointed to several spots, saying,
" That's my writing," (The wordy: Were quota-
tions from Scripture.) Mr, I.4o4,—Have you any