The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-14 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THE SHEFFIELD TRADE UNIONIST CASE.—At Leeds
Assizes Justice Lush sentenced the three mcn, Armstrong,
Hinclicliffe, and Sanderson, to four months' imprison-
ment.

PROSECUTION OF AN UNQUALIFIED MEDICAL PRAC-
TITIONER.—At the Hales Owen Petty Sessions, Thomas
Holland, of Oldbury, was charged, under the 27th,
36th, and 40th sections of the Medical Act of 1858, with
having wilfully and falsely pretended to be, and with
having taken and used the name and title of a surgeon,
implying that he was registered under the Act ; and also
with having acted as surgeon to a fiiendly society for
affording mutual relief in sickness, contrary to the said
Act. It appeared that Holland had practised in Oldbury
for many years without any interference from the medical
men of the place, but having lately placed himself in an
antagonistic position to them in the club question they
felt it their duty to take the present proceedings to protect
their professional interests. Two cases were proved, and
fines of £5 in each case were inflicted.
FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.—At the Leeds Assizes
John France, a mungo merchant, was indicted for conceal-
ing property within sixty days of his bankruptcy. The
accused, after being adjudicated bankrupt, was examined
before the registrar, but gave such evasive answers
that the commissioner had to be sent fur to make
him divulge. On a subsequent occasion he acknow-
ledged that the accounts he had furnished to the
court were false, and it seemed that the accused had made
ever property with a clear intention of defrauding his
creditors. Having been convicted, the learned judge
sentenced him to fifteen months' imprisonment.
HEAVY SENTENCE FOR ARSON.—At the Ipswich Assizes,
is man named Isaac George Tatum was indicted for
setting fire to some farm premises in the occupation
of Mr. Clements, at Lavenham. Early on the morning
of the 4th .of July the prosecutor was awakened by
the noise of fire, and on getting up discovered that all
his buildings were in flames. Nine horses, twenty pigs,
and a large number of fowls were burnt to death, and a
number of stacks destroyed. The prisoner had been dis-
charged from Mr. Clements's service, and had been refused
when he asked for a re-engagement. He had been heard to
express a wish that his late master's place would be burnt,
and on the night of the fire was seen within a mile and a
qurirter of Mr. Clements's premises. The jury convicted
the accused, and the Lord Chief Justice sentenced him to
twenty years' penal servitude.

3ERIOUS CASE OF GAROTTING. --At the Southwark
rolice-court, Thomas Condon was charged with assaulting
Miss Mary Curling, the daughter of the chaplain an,:
rector of St. Saviour's Church, Soutliwark, and robbing
her of a portion of a gold chain, worth .E 5, in Union-
street, Borough. The prosecutrix was passing raviours-
Alley, Union-street, about noon, when the prisoner rushed
up against her, seized her by the throat with one hand
and snatched her gold guard chain with the other. He at
last broke the chain and ran away. She was rather
frightened at the time, and seeing two young men near she
called to them to pursue the prisoner. They appeared to
do so, but she saw nothing more of them, and the prisoner
escaped. When apprehended the prisoner made a state-
ment to the effect that hunger had driven him to the com-
mission of the offence laid to Lis charge. The magistrate
committed the case for trial.

MONSTER CONTRIBUTION TO TIIE POOR RATE.--
The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board is about to make
its first contribution for the relief of the poor of the parish
of Liverpool. At the meeting of the select vestry, Mr.
Bairstow, the chairman of the Finance Committee, stated
that a communication had been received from the chair-
man of the Dock Board, intimating that a cheque for
£105,000 had been signed in favour of the parish, and
would be handed over as soon as certain preliminary
wypirepents in the Poor-law Board had bceu settled.