The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Dec. 28.

MANSION-HOUSE.. —John Green was charged
with drunkenness.
A policeman—On Saturday evening, at half-past
7 o'clock, in King William-street, defendant was
driving two horses in a van, and there was a cry to
stop him, and I did so, and he struck me violently.
He was the worse for liquor, and when we pulled
him from the van, which we were obliged to do, he
struck me again, and tried to escape between the
horses.
The street-keeper said—l saw defendant driving
violently, and I called on the policeman to stop
him,, and he was stopped, and acted with great
roughness. He was in such a condition as to be al-
together unfit to drive, and the safety of the public
was much endangered by him.
The driver of an omnibus proved that defendant
had knocked down both his horses with the van,
and the damage done amounted to 2/. 10s. The
defendant had galloping and no mistake.
The defendant paid he had been drinking in the
course of the day, but not to intoxication, and that
the galloping was entirely upon the part cf the
omnibus servants.
A boy, who had been with the defendant in the
van, said that the driver of the omnibus was to
blame, as he tried to rush along before the van and
got entangled in the wheels; which occasioned the
accident. The van had been going at the rate of no
more than six miles an hour.
The Lord Mayor fined defendant 10s. for the as-
sault upon the policeman, and said that as to the
damage it must be decided in the county court.

GUILDHALL.—Thos. Emerson, a builder, at
48, Milton-street, was charged with stealing gas,
thesproperty of the Great Central Gas Consumers'
Company,
The prisoner had been supplied with gas till
Feb. last, when the supply was cut off and t',e
meter taken down, in consequence of non-payment.
On the premises being examined it was found that
the cap which stopped the supply had been rc-
moved, and a fresh conexion pipe attached. There
were two burners in the drawing-room, one in the
kitchen, one in the bedroom, one in the yard, one
in the stable, and two in the workshop, all of which
were fully supplied with the company's gas.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, was committed
to prison for one month with hard labour.

WORSHIP-STREET.—James Alfred Harman,
a trimming manufacturer in Anchor-street, Beth-
nal-crreen' who stood charged with having feloni-
ously set fire to his house, and caused the death of
three of his lodgers, named John, Ann, and Julia
Metcalfe, was brought up for final examination.
Mr. Lewis, jun., attended as before on the part
of the prosecution ; and Mr. Sleigh conducted the
defence.

The case attracted an extraordinary amount of
interest, and the following additional evidence was
proceeded with :
Sarah Harvey, a widow, residing at 33, Anchor-
street, immediately opposite the prisoner's house,
said—Between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning of
the 19th inst., I was suddenly awakened by my
grand-daughter, who raised an alarm of " Fire,"
and on goiug to the window I saw the prisoner's
house in flames. At the second floor window I
obseved the deceased Mrs. Metcalfe dreadfully ex-
cited, who, addressing the prisoner standing in the
street without his coat, exclaimed, "Ob, you wretch
—you villian—you have bean the cause of this :
you have done it all, and you know it well." Pri-
soner at once replied, "Get out at the top," which
remark ho repeated several times, and deceased an-
swered that she was unable to do so.

Sarah Griffith, granddaughter of last witness, was
also examined, and fully corroborated the evidence
of her relative.

Inspector TiTeakford, of the H division—Kt the
time the fire was raging I saw the prisoner in the
street, and from a communication previously made
to me by the constable Andrews, I akked him if he
had not been robbed. He replied •' No, I've not."
I said, "Did you not report to a police-constable
that you had ?" which he also denied. I then
asked him if he had seen a policeman in the court,
which he admitted having done, but that no par-
ticular conversation had taken place between them.
Ann Finlayson, housemaid to Mrs. Brown (the
prisoner's mother-in-law), residing next door, was
then examined, and repeated the evidence given
before the coroner, to the effect that at half-past
ten o'clock on the night in question she went to
his 'house, at which time ,there was not any fire
in the kitchen grate, and in cross-examination s'.ia
stated that the premises were small—a wooden
partition lining the shop, which was furnished with
numerous card boxes for fringe manufacture, and
supplied with two gas burners.
George Cole, foreman attached to the London
Brigade, said that on reaching the spot and ascer-
taining the alarming nature of the fire, ho made
his way to the second floor window, on entering
which he found the bodies of three persons in a
lifeless state from suffocation. He was afterwards
engaged in minutely examining the lower part of
the premises and discovered that the outbreak had
been at the rear of the shop.

Mr. Henry Atkins, clerk of the London and
Liverpool Insurance Company, 21, Poultry, proved
that in the month of March last, prisoner effected a
policy of insurance at that office on his personal
goods, to the amount of 3001.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Am rot aware
that insurance was transferred froin another office.
Believe there was a previous insurance which was
cancelled by this one. We do not instruct this
prosecution.
It having been intimated that there was no fur-
ther evidence on the part of the prosecution,
Mr. Hammill said, although he considered that
the entire conduct of the prisoner, who had beau
dearly proved to be intoxicated, was replete with
suspicion, there was not sufficient evithiice to sub-
mit to a jury, and he should therefore order hAn
to be discharod.

WESTMINSTER.—George Allan, a mechanic,
was brought up on a warrant, charged with neglect-
ing to pay a cab fare.
Henry Flock, a cabdrvcr, said that on the Ist of
Nov. last he agre:d btakethe defendant and tip e 3
oth. r men from Francis-street, Totteuham-court-
road, to New-street, Brompton, for Gd. each. On
craving there they all refused to pay, and abused
him. Defendant, the only one of the four whose
trim° and address the cabman could alcertain, was
summoned early in November at this court, and
failing to appear, a warrant was issued against
him. He was out of the way until Saturday night,
when a policeman succeeded in apprehending him.

Defendant caid he was out of work at the time
he had the ride.

Mr. Paynter said that, under those circumstances
he should have walked, and adjudged him to pay
the fare, 25., and 11s. costs, or in, default be com-
mitted for 21 days to hard labour.

SOUTHWARK.—Richard Jallrich, a man of
dissipated appearance, was charged with cruelly
beating one of his children, a little girl six years
of age.
The child, whose eyes were blackened and files
very much bruised, said that on Satu-day evening
her father came home intoxicated, and commenced
beating her first with his fists and then with a cane
in a very violent manner. She had not done any-
thing to deserve correction, and she begged of him
to save her life. Her mother called in a police-
constable, when he left off beating her.
A neighbour said he heardcries ofmurder beforethe
coustable.entered the house, when he wen k in and saw
the prisoner ill-using his little girl. He hld her by
the neck till her face was quite black, and v. itn:ss
was compelled to strike the prisoner several blows
on the head to make him relinquish his hold, or ho
really believed the child would have been murderer'.

Mr. Burchain told him that it was one of the
most cruel cases he had over before him, and his
being drunk was an aggravation to the ofienc•z... He
should sentence him to six months' hard labour in
the House of Correction. He also ordered the pri-
soner's wife, a decent-looking female, to receive a
sove.reign from the poor-box, as she was mainly
depending on him for support.
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D.,.3C/DENT TO COMMANDER LAKE.—Commander Lake,
'•,..mspecting commander of the coast-guard, itams-
gate dibtriet, while on his rounds during a dark night
last week,
met with a very severe accident. He.was
approacLing one of the coast-guard stations near. Deal,
whtu his hors; being frightened by some one running
out, threw him to the ground and broke his thigh.