The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-27 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

George and kic;;;de;li reaan. two respectable•look-
ing brothers, were brought up before Mr. lismmill,
charged with disorderly conduct, and obstructing the
officers of the Eastern Counties Railway, under the fol-
lowing circumstances:—
Stephen Badgery, inspector of the railway police, and
Molloy, a metropolitan constable of the li division, stated
—the former, that while on duty on the departure plat-
form at half-past two o'clock that afternoon, just as one
of the Stratford trains was proceeding on its journey and
had get clear of the station, the prisoner George Meehan
ran down the platform on to the line of rails, and open-
ing one of the carriage doors, attempted to force his way
inside. The carriage had its full complement of paisen-
gers, who objected to being inconvenienced by him, and
an elderly gentleman remonstrated with him on his con-
duct, and endeavoured to keep him out; but he persisted
in forcing his way into the vehicle, assisted by his
brother, who pushed him forward, and seizing the
gentleman by the collar, swung to it, and tried to
pull him out. The gentleman was so incensed by
the violence of the prisoner's conduct that he would
have given him into custody, but that he must
have lost his train if he had done so, and witness
having expostulated with and endeavoured to re-
move him in vain, was obliged, from the perilous pesi
tion in which they were both placed, to call for the as-
sistance of the police. Tho constable quickly made his
appearance, but the instant he attempted to secure him
he was struck by Gorge a very heavy blow upon the
shoulder, and it was only afair a lever° contest and
struggle upon the step of the carriage that ho was at
length overpowered uud token back to the platform, re-
sisting most violently all the way. The prisoner's gross
misconduct exposed them all to the greatest danger, as
the passenger train was going at least at the rate of four
miles an hour, a goods train, which had just come in,
was standing on the line of rails to which the passenger
train bad to be shifted, and but for its being signalled to
the engine-driver of the latter to stop his train, the in-
terval between the two was so trifling, they must some
of them have been forced off the step between the car-
riages and trucks, and most probably crushed to death.
Molloy gave a similar account of the transaction, and
added that his position was so perilous that it was only
with the greatest difficulty he had saved himself from
death or some very serious injury.
The first prisoner denied having struck the officer
as described,— and Alexander said that he was not
aware there was no room in the carriage or he would
not have attempted to enter it himself or help his brother
in, which was the only part that he had taken in the
matter.

Mr. lismmtu, commented upon the outrageous nature
of the conduct displayed by the prisoner George Meehan,
and, having ordered Alexander to be discharged, sen-
tenced the former, under the provisions of one of the
committed to the House of Correction
r resisting the inspector in the exe-
cution of his duty, and then to undergo a further term
f company's,r thrteoe
swt baeyne -kdl
,w fso: to Pay a penalty of 405., or in de-
fault
Imprisonmentt for his attack upon the
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WANDS WORTH.
Lewis Laces, a Jew, said :tohbe well-known on the
principal race-courses some years since, as a proprietor
cf roulette and French hazard boards and tables, was
brought before Mr. Beadon, charged with being con-
cerned with three others not in custody in robbing and
defrauding Mr. John Oldfield, an artist, residing at No.
100, Upper Ebury-street, Pimlico, of notes and gold to
the extent of 401., in Battersea-fields, on the 27th June
last.
The facts connected with the apprehension of the pri-
soner, and another man named Robert Gibbins, and their
examination at Guildhall, on Saturday, have already ap-
peared in our journal; and it will be recollected that the
offence occurring within the jurisdiction of Wandworth
Police Court, the prisoners were remanded to that court.
On their arrival, however, at Wandsworth, the sitting
magistrate had left for Hammersmith, and the prisoners
were taken there. A recapitulation of the evidence
taken the same day at Guildhall was made, and ulti-
mately Mr. PAYNTER, considering there was not suffi-
cient evidence to detain Gibbins upon (who was the man
supposed to have beckoned to the gang immediately
prior to their breaking up), discharged him; the prisoner
Lewis Isaacs being remanded to be further examined at
this court yesterday.
Mr. Oldlield's evidence was taken afresh, and he re-
peated much the same account he had given at Guild-
hall. He said that having been twenty years at Brussels
and returned t )
England very recently, he was perfectly
ignorant of the snares that are set fur strangers. The
parties he met in the steam-boat appeared to be perfect
gentlemen, and the assumed ignorance they had of the
thimble-rig man (the
prisoner) was inimitable. The
prosecutor said he could not undertake to say that the
prisoner was the man who snatched the 101. note out of
his hand, the act was so sudden. He had at that time
80/. in 101. notes rolled up in his hand, and the one that
was stolen was just detached from the others to lay on
the table or board. He had no doubt it was the inten-
tion a the party who made the snatch to have had the
bundle.
City policeman Daniel May, 337, said be had no fur-
ther evidence to offer than that he found 4/. 17s. on the
prisoner, and on Gibbins three thimbles, a pea, and a
pack of cards.
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Mr. W. Galbraith Wellington-cottage, South
Lambeth, who was in, attendance in another case, said
that seven or eight weeks since, on a Tuesday, he was
going to a shooting-match at the Rod house, when he
saw the prisoner with a board, thimbles, and peg, hard
at work. He was asked to " try his luck," but he de-
clined. On the following day he again saw the prisoner
near the same spot; there was a pile of half-crowns on
the board.
Mr. BEADON said there was no evidence to establish
the charge of felon 3, but there was ample evidence to
show that he was a regular gambler, and as such he
should commit him to Guildford House of Correction
for three months' hard labour. The money found upon
him was evidently partly the produce of the fraud or
the robbery, and he should order the expenses incurred
in the prisoner's apprehension to be paid out of it, as
also his keep in prison, and the residue would be given
him when he left the gaol. The magistrate also re-
marked that he hoped it would be a warning to Mr.
Oldfield for the remainder of his life not to become
intimate with strangers he might casually meet on a
steam-boat.
The prisoner was then removed to the cells, apparently
well satisfied with the result.

of Horton, was last week diggm
A labourer in the ern.ploy of Mr. William Brown,
about a mile north of Tan-hill, when he came upon a human
skeleton, burned in a sitting posture, .and perfectly entire:
, for chalk on the down,
There is little doubt that the body, of which this is the re-
mains, was buried in the time of the ancient Britons, an
earthen vessel being found with the skeleton, constructed of
sun-burnt clay, and otherwise bearing the character of the
domestic utensils of that remote period.
Remains of pottery
of the same character and age are very frequently found on
these downs.—Bath Herald.