The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTtLLIGENCR—Oct. 1.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Franklin, 39, and
William Kerp, 76, were brought up on remand,
charged, with uttering a forged cheque for 2791.,
purporting to be signed by Judah Levy Yuly, with
intent to defraud the Union Bank of London.

In the previous examination evidence vas given
by Michael Haydon the detective, to the effect that
the prisoner Franklin was given into custody at the
Union Bank, on Saturday last, for offering the
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cheque for payment, when he said aad been
given to him by the other prisoner, who was wait-
ing close, by, and whom he afterwards Fointed out
to Haydon, who forthwith secured him also.
Mr. A. J. Johnston, barrister, now appeared for
the prosecution-; and Mr. Lewis, jun., for the pri-
soner Franklin, and Mr. Humphreys for Kerp.
Mr. Johnston now said he intended to bring ad-
ditional evidence on this charge, and then go into a
fresh charge against the prisoner Franklin, of ob-
taining a cheque-book from the Union Bank on
Friday last by means of a forged order, sent by him
through a boy whom he met in the street, and to
whom he gave a shilling. • The forged cheque was
taken from the book, and so the two charges became
united. Kerp had refused to give his address, and
on a future day he (Mr. Johnston) should be able
to show, through the cabman into whose vehicle
Kerp was taken, that Kerp and Franklin went to-
gether to the spot where the cab was called.
Mr. Humphreys submitted that even if this were
to be proved, there would still be nothing to support
the testimony of the other prisoner against Kerp.
The L'ird Mayor thought it suspicious that Kerp,
if a respectable man, should refuse his address.
Mr. Humphreys said his respectability might be
the very reason, of his refusal.
Thts Lord Mayor (to Mt. Johnston)—Have you
the cabman here ?

Mr. Johnston—l am sorry to say I have not.
The Lord Mayor—Then I cannot remand Kerp
upon the present evidence ; but I shall call upon
him to enter upon recognisances to appear again.
Mr. Lewis said he did not wish to oppose that
course, but when the case for the prosecution was
closed his client would be able to show, on the
clearest e'Pidence, that he had been an innocent
tool in the matter ; and be hoped, therefore, the
privilege of bail would be extended to both pri-
soners.

The Lord Mayor said he certainly should not
admit Franklin to bail, nor yet Kerp, unless he
gave his address.
After some further conversation among the
learned gentleinen engaged in the case, it was ar-
ranged that the prisoners should be further re
manded, without any additional evidence being
taken ; and they Were remanded accordingly.
Thomas Knight, a-notorious thief, who has fre-
quently toen. in custody, and suffered various
periods of imprisonment, was brought before Mr.
Alderman Hale, charged with having stolen a gold
watch under the following circumstances :
Mr. Henry Lovelace Wa•son said—l am a clerk
to a merchant, at 15, Mark-lane. A 1 ttle before
10 o'clock in the morning I was passing along
Biehopsgate-street, when my attention was called
to a crowd of persons surrounding a house that
had fallen down. I was about to nags through
the crowd, when all of a sudden I was pressed
upon by the prisoner. I felt my watch snapped
from My guard. I put my hand to my waistcoat,
but not in time to secure the watch, which was
gone, lam afraid, for ever. My guard was hang-
ing down. The prisoner was pre.Qsing very hard
upon me at this time. I saw his hand go down
from my side, and he passed something, which I
feel convinced was my watch, to a mau behind
him, who effected his escape. I was completely
jammed up and prevented from moving for a few
moments. I called out " police," and on the
arrival of an officer I gave the prisoner into cus-
tody. .

Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l did not see the
prisoner before I was jammed.
Thomas Mtrrett, constable No. 667—1 t-ok the
prisoner' into custody. I have known him as a
notorious thief the last two yeirs. He is one of the
most expert and dangerous thieves to be found .in
London. I searched him, but did not succeed in
finding the prosecutor's watch.
Partridge, the gaoler, was then examined, and
said—l have known the , prisoner to be in mist uzly
at this curt on previous occasions. He has suffered
imprisonment at Holloway Gaol forpicki ,g pockets.
Mr. Lewis, jun., addre-sed the magitttrate, and
contended that it had /IA been satisFautorily proved
that it was the prisoner who robbed the prosecutor
of his watch. The pr )bability was that somebody
in front of the prosecutor was the thief, as it had
been admittel that the prisoner was standing be-
hind him.

Alderman Hale—l'm afraid you have got a very
bad ease, Mr. Lewis. To the prisoner—You must
be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three
months as a rogue and a vagabond.

CLERKENWELL.—John Tyas, a pewterer,
residing at No: 11, Baldwin-street, St. Luke's, ap-
peared before Mr. Tyrwhitt, in answer to a sum-
mons taken out by the Rev. Sidney Turner, in-
spector of reformatory schools, to show cause " why
he did unlawfully neglect and refuse to pay, in pur-
suance of an order made, n that behalf, the sum of
2s. 6d. per week for the support and maintenance
of Alfred 'Tyas, alias Taylor, a youthful offender
detained in a 'reformatory school.

The son of the defendant, although very young,
has been nutnerous times in custody, but owing to
his juvenile appearance the prosecutors failed to at-
tend, and he was consequQnt!ydischargecl. In addi-
tion to this he suffered two terms of imprisonment
of three calendar months each for stealing lead, and
also.three months cm suspicion. After that he was
committed to the Middlesex Sessions, where he wai
tried for a petty larceny, .and being found guilty,
was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment and hard
labour, and then to be confined in a reformatory
schoolf,r three years. Mr. Brennan the aqsistant
to Mr. Turner, hid inquired into the defendant's
means, and ascertained that he was well able t
support the boy if he pleased, but he was constantly
in the habit of getting drunk and neglecting his
family.
The defendant, who denied that he was able to
support his boy, was sentenced by Mr. Tyrwhitt,
in default of payment, to ten days' hard labour in
the House of Correction.

A pawnbroker of Islington, applie.l to 'his wor-
ship under the following circumstance. He said
some time ago the wife of a cabman offere 1 him a
valuable gold ring, set with three large brilllauts,
and two rubies, in pledge for half-a crown. He
detained the ring, and he now wished to know
whether, if it should be applied for by the person
offering it, he should be jusified in giving it up ?
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he bad b .tter detain the ring
some time longer, and in the meantime, perhaps, an
application might be Made for it.
Henry Duggan, a bookseller, of Abercrombie-
place, Hatton-garden, was charged, at the instance
of Mr. Wemyss, super;ntendent of the Royal So-
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
with cruelly torturing a dog by beating it to death
on an iron pump handle.
It was proved by the evidence of three respect-
able persons living in the neighbourhood that Dug-
gan was seen, on the morning of the 23rd of Sep
tember, to lay hold of a: small dog, and beat it for
upwards of a quarter of an hour in the most brutal
manner, scattering its brains about the street.
The defendant was represented by Mr. Lewis,
who brought a witness to prove that the dog had
bit one of the defendant's children the day before,
at which time the owner of the dog had agreed to
have the animal destroyed if it was proved to have
bitten the child.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was the most revolting
way of putting the animal to death, and he should
fine him 10s. and costs, or 14 days' hard labour in
the House of Correction.

Mr. Wetnyss applied for the costs of his witnesses.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said ho should not allow them.
The pros.!cution was takeu up -by a public society,
arid he ought not to allow them the co•its or ha
the penalty, althoUgh it was provided for by an act
of parliament. It might be all very well in the
country districts, but he thought the society was
ill-advised in doing so.
•
The fine and costs were paid.

WORSHIP - STREET. —George Edwards, a
journeyman butcher, in the employ of Mr. Fores-
bury, a Meat salesman, of Leadenhall-market, was
charged before Mr. llamwill with violently assault-
ing a married worn in named Collins.
The complainant, manifestly suffering from the
injuries seen on her eyes, ea-, and mouth, stated,
.in a feeble tone, that the defendant wag a cousin of
her husband and entertsined an d!-feeling towards
them. Last evening, she answered a knock at the
door, and he forced hiS way into the .passage,
seized her by the hair with his left hand, then
using disgnsting and threatening language, struck
her repeated, blows. with his fist on the he'ad-nnd

body, before her husband, who was in the rear of
premises, could interfere fot her protection. So
much ill-usage had she been subjected to that blood
flowed in quantity from her left ear and mouth, in-
dependent of which it had occasioned her to mis-
carry.

A- certificate from a surgeon named Edmunds,
put in by Inspector Constal de, H division, fully
corroborated the Complaint of the poor woman, who
said her husband was in court attending to his duty
as a police-constable.

Collins, 49 H, then swore that at the time in
question he was in the kitchen of his house pre-
paring for attendance at the station-house, when
he heard screams, ran to the street door, and saw
his wife as described by her ; he felt justified in
using his staff, which fortunately was near at hand,
upon the head of the assailant, and cut it open, as
was now apparent.
In answer to the charge,
The accused said, with all apparent truthfulness,
"Every word the good lady has spoken is utterly
false."

Mr. Hammill observed that he must remand the
prisoner, as the asault could not possibly be under
the circumstances immediately disposed of.

WESTMINSTER.—Francis Bradley, a boy only
11 years of age, was charged with felony.
Mr. James Graham, schoolmaster at the Park
Chapel echbol, Park-street, Chelsea, said that
during the, ast few weeks many books, some of
them classical works, value 4 or ss. each, had been
missed from the school. Every effort was made to
detect the offender, but in vain, and it was at
length determined to visit the' numerous second-
hand book shops in the neighbourhood, with a
view of discovering the proper: y. At lengt h a great
number of them were found at the shoo of John
Harris, 2, Globe-street, King's-road, Chelsea, when
it turned out that he had one at a time purchased
them of the prisoner at 2d. a piece.
Sergeant Brien of the B division pointed out the
excellent condition and value of some of the books,
and added that the very moment Harris purchased
the books for the trifling amount stated he had
marked some of them inside with his private mark
of eighteen-pence.
Harris himself having admitted the purchase,
and the price as above described, both to the
schoolmaster and to the magistrate,
Mr. Paynter animadverted upon the man
Harris's disgraceful conduct, in strong terms, and
having pointed out the encouragment that bad
been given to crime, said that if he were in the
felons' dock by the side of the prisoner, he should
feel it his duty to commit him for trial.
Harris was immediately charged with feloniously
receiv ng the property, and said that although the
books might be very good ones, he often bought
them as cheap at sales, and he had used no conceal-
ment in the matter.

Both prisoners were committed for trial. Mr.
Poynter consented to take bail fur Harris.

LAMBETH.—.George Brown was charged with
the embezzlement of divers sums of money paid to
him on acc mnt of his master and employer, Mr.
Samuel Nicholls, oilman, of No. 18, St. Mary's-
terrace Waliorth-road.

It was stated that the prisoner was a carman, and
was trusted with the delivery of goods to customers
and with the receipts of moneys paid him on deli-
very. For the moneys so received it was the duty
of the prisoner to account on his return every even-
ing. To a certain extent he did so, but it seemed
that he was in the habit of altering the invoices and
paying in to the cashier the amount a* which they
stood when so altered. Thus he had altered one
account from B. 13s. 61. to 1/. 3s. 61. ; another
from lls. 6d. to 4s. 6d. ; and A third from lls. to
45., and had embezzled the difference.
The apprehension of the prisoner bar' been so
recent that the accounrs generally had not bee❑ suf-
fici.ntly examined, and as also the necessary wit-
nesses were not in attendance a remand was granted.

SOITTH WA RIC —Frederick Hempstock, a boot
maker's shopman, a married man with 5 children,
and Caroline Hawes, a married woman, were
brought before Mr. Burcham, on remand, charged
in the first instance with having stolen a pair of
boots and a pair of goloshes, the property of Wm.
Linton, a bootmaker, at No. 8, Dockhead. The
male prisoner was also charged by the parish au-
thorities of St. Olave's with deserting his wife and
children, and by the Emigration Commissioners
with unlawfully personating the husband of the fe-
male prisoner, with whom he was about to start for
Australia. On Wednesday week the prisoners
were apprehended just as they wera about to get
into a carriage of an emigration train at the Pad-
dington Station.

Evidence was first taken as to certain boots and
goloshes found in the prisoner's possession, but Mr.
Burcham considered the evidence insufficient to
pr.ye that they had been stolen, and discharged the
prisoners on that head. The fens de prisoner was
subsequent ly discharged altogether, but Hemp stock
was sentenced to three months' hard labour, for
de•Trting his wife and children ; and Captain
M‘Lean the Government emigration inspector,
who was in attendance, expressed his intention of
proceeding against him under the Rnigratiou Oct-,
on the last charge at the 'expiration of his imprison-
ment.
William Galloway, a milkman, of 74, Kent-
street, was charged with having the carcase of a
deceased bullock. prepared for sate as human food,
and fined 31., and 19s. costs.