The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

.POLICE INTELLIGENCE-April 22.

MANSION-B OUSE.—James Langton, a Bur-
geon, residing in Cross-street, CoMmercial-road
East, was chlrged with stealing 3 waistcoats and a
piece of silk from the shop of Mr. S. Skinner, a
clothier, 18, Aldgate.

The prosecutor, having been sworn, said—The
prisoner and his little boy, about six years of age,
entered my shop ae 12 o'clock to-day, and gave me
an order which came to 14s. Whilst measuring him
for a suit of clothes, I observed a waistcoat drop
from under his coat upon the floor. The little boy
picked up the waistcoat and placed it on a chair.
I told him I had forgot to take the measure of his
waistcoat, and upon proceeding to do so I disco-
vered two other waistcoats under his coat. • I then
gave him into custody, and at the station-house a
piece of blue sdk, also belonging to me, was taken
from his pocket. When charged he said he was in-
nocent, and that I could do no good by giving him
in charge. He is a surgeon, and bas dealt with me
for the last 4or 5 years. He told me while mea-
SUling him that his uncle had recently died, leav-
ing him an income of 41. a week.
J. Brooks, constable, No. 666, said that he found
the piece of silk alluded to by the prosecutor in the
pocket of the prisoner. He also found 9s. Bd. in
his waistcoat pocket.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said Mr.
Skinner is perfectly mistaken. I declare to God I
never took the articles at all. lam a surgeon and
a rnemb-r of the College of Surgeons. I have an in-
come of 41. a week coming in. I most solemnly
declare I did not steal the things at all.
The Lord Mayor—But the prosecutor states that
he took the waistcoats from you, and the police-
man says he found the piece of silk in your pocket.
Prisoner—No, they were not found upon me ;
there was nothing found upon me, I assure you.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
John M'Nair was charged under the following
circumstances.

Mr. H. L. Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and
Hurst, fruit-brokers, Monument-yard, said—We
have correspondents at Glasgow, of the name of
Virtue and M‘Nair, who are in the habit of drawing
upon us on current account. If a genuine letter
come from them to us, requesting us to credit their
account, we should do so. Yesterday the prisoner
called at our officP, and presented to me the letter
produced. I asked him if be was the party repre-
sent-d iu the letter. and he said he was. I asked
him whit brought bim to London, when he told
me he was travelling for the house. He said he re-
quired 121. 10s. upon the letter. (The letter, which
was a forgery, purported to be written by Messrs.
Virtue and M‘Nair to the prosecutors) I handed
him the money, and upon his giving me a receipt
for it, I sent for an officer, who took hint into cus-
tody. He then said he should be aVe to explain
matters.
The prisoner, who confessed his guilt, was com-
mitted for trial.

GUILDHALL.—Maria Burling, aged 54, o
middle height, rather corpulent, with fair com
plexion and bloated countenance, who described
herself as a 'fortune-teller, was re-examined on a
charge of having sent letters containing threats of
a most atrocious character to Messrs. Welch and
Margetson, of Cheapside ; Messrs. George Hitch-
cock and o.' of St. Paul's-churchyard ; and other
gentlemen in the City.
It will be remembered that threatening letters
addressed to merchants and others in the City
were found in the prisoner's room. The detective
officers who have been employed in the case, now
stated that they were convinced that the prisoner
had no guilty knowledge of the letters, and no par-
t;cipation in the offence, and applied to have her
bound over tn.appear at this court on Wednesday
next. The application was granted.
Rebecca Rice Hamilton, a respectably-dressed
female, about 33 years of age, and in deep mourn-
ing, was then placed in the dock, charged on sus-
picion. with writing or being concerned with the
writer of the letters in question.
Mr. Thomas Welch (of the firm of Welch and
Marg-tson), of 154, Cheapside, stated that he knew
the prisoner as having been iu employ at their fac-
tory from the beginning of 1855 till March, 1856
during the whole of which time, and since, he had
been in the habit of receiving filthy and disgusting
letters. Sometimes the prisoner brought him some
which she said had been sent to her at her resi-
dence. Persons in their employ had also been in
the habit of receiving letters inciting them to rob
their employers. He had received letters on the
24th March and Ist April in the same handwriting
with tho4e lie had been in the habit of receiving.
These w, re produced.
Mrs. Atkins, msntua-maker, of 22, Bartlett's-
buildings, who had seen the prisoner's writing, and
had also seen her write, stated that, to the best of
her belief, the letters produced were in the prison-
er's handwriting.
The prisoner was remanded, that further in-
quiries might be made.

BOW-STREET.--Mr. Wm. Cloak, who keeps
an oyster-house in the Strand, and has a beer-re-
tailer's licence, was summoned fiar having, on the
7th Jan. last, sold one gill of brandy, and for
having upon the premises, on the 21st Jan., half-a-
pin t of gin and about half-a-pint of orange wine.
About nine o'c'ock on 7th Jan. two excise offi-
cers, named Wright and Moore, went together to
the defendant'a house. Wright went in, leaving
Moore outside to watch. Wright, after eating some
oyst-rs, asked to see a waiter who had served him
on former occasions, and on seeing him ordered
some brandy, giving him the money (6d.) before-
hand. The brandy was brought, he drank it, and
then went out. Moore, who had been watching
from the opposite side of the street, posi'.ively de-
clared that none of the defendant's servants had
come out as if topurchasesp:ritsatthe public-house.
On the second charge the evidence was, that on
the 21st Jan., Wm. Gut teridge, an officer of excise,
visited the house and found in a cupboard in one ef
the entered rooms, a dec inter containing about balf
a pint of gin, and bn a sideboard and another de-
canter containing about half a pint of orange wine.
Mrs Cloak told him that the wine was left from
what was taken by some children at a birthday
party. The gin, she sai wAs the remains of some
that had been got in the night before to give the
servants a glass each after the shop was shut.
Mr. Henry observed that as to the first charge
he did not think there was sufficient evidence of
selling. As to the second, he must read the act
again, and take time to consider It's judgment.

WORSHIP-STREET.-=-Henry Johnson, a dock
labourer now, but who persisted in ass-rting that
he was a seaman, stood charged before Mr. D'Eyn-
court with cutting and wounding John Duggin, in
the employ of the Steam Navigation Company
Corn pla•nant, whose left arm was suspended in a
sting, sta•ed last evening, while in the Founders',
Arms public-house, Spitalfields, the accused, being
a perfect stranger to him, at that time suddenly
accused him of having circulated a report in the
docks that he had committed a robbery. This wit
Dess of course denied with some indignation, upon
which prisoner drew a clasp-knife from his pocket,
and opening it, exclaimed—" I've g)t it hero for
you." Instantly he made a plunge at his breast with
the weapon, which would assuredly have done him
a most serious injury bad he not raised his arm,
thereby receiving the blade on the whole of his
fingers, which were sadly cut. Prisoner then ran
into the street, and for the time escaped. _

Mrs. Duggin, who was present, confirmed the
statement, and added that when the prisoner found
his intention foiled, he struck ber a desperate blow,
which blackened both eyes. She believed be was
sober.

An officer who subsequently took the priQoner,
in the street, described his conduct as that of a
madman ; be brandished the weapon and threatened
to do f. .)r any one who approached him.
Mr. D'Eyncourt, with some strong remarks upon
the use of the knife, said he would remand the p;
Boner till this day week.

WESTMINSTER.—Amongst the applicants
yesterday to Mr. Arnold, the presiding magistrate,
was a very creditable-looking middle-aged man,
who made the following distressing communication:
Applicant sWeil that his aged. mother, a poor
widow woman, had for some time past resided uu-
'der his roof, and after a short illness died two or
three days ago. He was iu such bad circumstances
that he was wholly without the means of procuring
a coffin to put her in ; and under those circum-
stances applied to the parish for one, but was re-
fused, and had been advised to apply to a magis-
trate by the neighbours, who wee acquainted with
his condition. He had lived in Westminster a great
:length of time, and thought he was entitled to what
:he had asked for.

Mr. Arnold asked applicant how he got his living?
Applicant replied that he was only a poor sh
m Aker, with a wife and three children, whom he
ha d the greatest difficulty t.) find in food.
,%Ir. Arnold suggested that the parish authorities
mig ht be treating this as an ordinary case of relief,
and inquired whether they had offered to take him
and .his family into the house 7
Applicant said they bad not, nor did be want to
go into the workhouse, but owing to his poor mo-
th.,e, dying condition be had been compelled to
apply to them for the parish doctor to attend her,
a'id now that she was dead, he could not have her
body ,remainino in his one room where his wife
and three children were. If he could possibly have
found the means of getting a coffin - he certainly
tfoulql not have troubled the parish. It was a most

distressing thing, and he hoped the magistrate
would assist him.
- Mr. Arnold said he had no power whatever to
interfere, but would recommend the poor man to
apply to the board of guardians.
• •

MARYLEBONE.—John S. Cookson, cab pro-
prietor, was charged with having been concerned in
stealing a box containing property of con'iderable
value, from the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Solomon,
Sut ton - I lace, Ed 2 ware-ron d.
The box, which was the property of Mr. Solo-
mon's brother, who, with his family, were about to
sail for Australia, had been left with other pack-
ages. It was misi.ed, a reward of W. was offered
for its recovery, and very soon a part of the box
and Some of its contents were found at the prisoner's
house. As the police had suspicions with regard to
other propertyin his possession he was remanded
till Wednesday.

8017THWARIC.—.Edward Atkins", a middle-
aged man, a plumber, was finally examined on the
charge of attempting to murder Elizabeth Fore-
man, by cutting her throat with a razor.
The complainant, whose throat was bandaged up,
stated that she lived at 3, Union-street, Btirough-
road, and until six weeks ago she hid cohabited
with the prisoner. The prisoner lett' some of his
property at hor house, and meeting him on Mon-
day, .the 6th inst., she told him to call at her house
the next morning and fetch the things away. He
said he would, and on the 7th, while she was in bed,
he entered her room, and then she got up, and he
took a razor, and shaved himself. After he had
done so, he told her to fasten the door, which eha
refused to do. He then asked her to come and sit
by him on the sofa, and she declined doing that ;
but she went and sat near the window looking into
the street. While there she left the prisoner push-
ingsomething violently against her side, which she
at first thought to be his knuckles, but afterwards
she perceived it to be a knife, which she took f+oin
him, and told him to keep away for the future. He
then seized her suddenly by the neck, and forced
her head on the bed, and h, then cut her throat
and face with the razor he had shaved with.
• The prisoner was committed for trial.

THAMES.—Capt. Simonds, the master of the
ship Neleus, lying in the river, came before Mr.
Yardley, and stated that he shipped nine China-
men at Foo-Chow-Foo, and they,assisted in navi-
gating the ship to the port of London. He had paid
them their wages and kept them on board the Ne-
leus at work ever since. The ship was about to
sail, and had been taken up by the Government as
a transport, and he was not permitted to take out
Chinamen as part of his crew. lie wished to know
if he shou'd be justified in discharging the Chinese
and paying them the wages due to them for work-
ing on hoard.
Mr. Yardley said the captain was bound to send
them back to their own country in another ship,
and enable them to enter into a fremh agreement in
accordance with the original agreement which they
entered into with him at Foo-Chow-Fijo, and not as
pas- engers.
Capt. Simonds said he had already obtained
berths for them in a ship about to proceed to China,
and he wished to ascertain whether he ought to
pay them off at once, and discharge them.
Mr., Yardley said he would stro:,gly recommend
the applicant not to discharge the Chinamen into
I the streets, for it he did they would most assuredly
become mendicants or thieves, or both.
Mr. J. V. Roche, a pawnbroker, No. 1, Com-
mercial-road Eatt, appeared to answer the corn
plaint of Thos. Brandon, a mechanic, to whom he
had refused. to deliver a double cued silver watch
with the name of Edwards engraven thereon, and a
silk handkerchief. _ .

About a year ago Brandon raised Ds. on his
watch at Mr. Roche's shop, and on his wife and
daughter going to redeem it a few days since awatch
of about half the value of his was banded to him.

The pawnhroker now insisted that the watch was
the one which Roche had left with him.

The magistrate, however, ordered bun to pay
the compl4inant 30s. ou alcourit of the watch, and
2s. 6d. on account of the handkerchief.

EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. IN PARIS.

The Military Tribunal assembled on Saturday to
hear pleadings in the affair of the alleged criminal
assault made by the two officers and a sergeant of
the 95th Regiment. The court was crowded to ex-
cess, and the interest manifested in the case was
even
,greater than that of the preceding day. The 3
prisoner:, whose bearing was very calm, on being
placed at the b tr, shook hands with several of their
comrades., The public prosecutor, aftar some pre-
liminary observations, proceeded to insist that there
was strong moral proof of-the prisoners' guilt, in-
asmuch as the fullest confidence must be placed in
the death-bed disclosures of the deceased, who was
of the strictest virtue, and incapable of telling a
Ifalsehood; and inasmuch also as those revelations
were made not only when she was delirious,
but when she was perfectly calm and in the
full possession of her reason. He insisted that her
not having said anything as to the outrage to
any one immediately after it was committed did
not lessen the value of her death-bed revelations,
for she had evidently made up her mind to say no-
thing about it, lest, on the one hand, she .should
run the risk of losing her husband's affection, or,
on the other, should Wive him to endeavour to
avenge himself on the aggressors, and so per-
haps endanger his life. As to the letter she wrote
to Leandri the day after theoutrage, he mainta ned
that it did not prove anything against her revela-
tions, for, having resolved to observe secrecy as to
what had happened, she was natuAlly anxious to
preserve the custom of the regiment, which
amounted to 72,0001'. a-year, on which sum her
husband's profit was 10 ipr cent., and to keep that.
cult -ma it was nece-sary she should not offend the'
paymaster. As to the testimony of Dr. Trousseau
and the oilier physicians, which was to the effect
that the deceased had not been the victim of bru-
tality, but was labmning under hallucinati ms, the
public prosecutor .said .that amounted to little, as
they had only made a superficial examination of
her. Re admitted the proofs against 13maguet were
weak, but explained the participation of the elder
Leandri in the crime by saying that, as a Corsican,
he did whatever his brother desired, without stop-
ping to ask whether it was right or wrong ; and he
said that thatprisoner's declaration, that he remem-
bered little or nothing of what took place on the
25th Dec., reminded him of the Italian who con-
stantly answered " Non mi ricordo" to all questions
put to him on the trial of the Queen of England. In
conclusion, th epublic prosecutor said that thi officers
of the 95th had, in the course of the proceedings,
frequently manifested dissatisfaction with him for
the manner in which he maintained the prosecu-
' tien ; but they should rather thank him, for if the
prisoners were guilty, it was right that they should
ne expelled from 'their society ; and, if innocent,
that their acquittal should not be owing to any lake-
warmness on his part. M. Chaix-d'Est Ange, advo-
cate of the two Leandris, said that it was monstrous
to suppose that two officers and a non-commissioned
officer, who had served creditably in the glorious
campaign in the Crimea, could have been guilty of
an (Antes crime against the respectable mother of
a family. The whole charge rested on nothing more
than delirious ravings ; and he had not the shadow
of a doubt nut only of the acquittal, but of the
complete innocence of the three accused. There
was not, in fact, in the whole affair, a single
positive, material proof—there was not even a
,moral proof, a probabihty--nay, a possibility in it.
After stating that there was nothing whatsoever
proved against the sergeant, and that there was no
reason why he should have figured in the case at
all, except it was considered desirable to have three
accused, and. after showing the improbability that
the elder Leandri, who was known by his com-
rades to be so remarkably modest that he would
never even change his shirt in the presence of one
of them, could have assisted his brother in
the perpetration of an atrocious crime, the
learned counsel- entered into an examination
aef the evidence, and maintained that the pay-
master the principal accused, had not only not com-
mitted a crime on Mme. Paillard, but had not even
been gallant towards her. As to :he charge that he
had given on one occasion bonbons to the children
to get
.them out of the way, so that he might be
alone with her, he tr. ated it as absurd : " what an
abominable seducer a man must be," he cried sar-
castically, " who gives 50c. worth of bonbons to
children ?" " The fact is, gentlemen," he continued,
" that Mine. Paillard died, not of an outrage, but
because she had a malady after a miscarriage. I
deplore her fate, but such things happen every day.
On the 23d Dec., just after her miscarriage, she ac-
companied her husband to prison in a wretched
cart, which was id, suspended, and not covered in,
and she caught cold. She nevertheless continued to
go out to attend to her business to the 27th, when
she became so ill that she had to take to her bed,
and she never got up from 'it—that is the :whole
case." The learned gentleman then remarked that
on the day of the alleged outrage it was proved that
she only remained three-quarters of an 11, air with
Leandri, and he asked if the abominable crime
which was charged against him could. have been
perpetrated in so short a time ? It might be said
that the crime had not been consummated, but he
would not accept any such palliation : either his
clients were altogether innocent, or they were worse
than cannibals. And where was the odious crime
alleged to have been committed ? In some desert—in
a savage cavern—in the midst of darkness ? No, but
in Paris, in the Rue Chabrol, in a house occupied by
ten officers, whose rooms were only separated by
thin partitions, which enabled almost all that was