The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

An order was made on appellant for 10/. costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAL\ SIOW-HO LT SE .
A fashionably-dressed, powerful man. named William
Barber, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in the cus-
tody of Hay don, the officer.
The officer said—At a quarter before two o'clock
this day I saw the prisoner, whom I know to be a mem-
ber of that large knot of thieves called the swell mob,
standing at the corner of the Bank next to Princes-
street. After some little time he got into an omnibus,
and took a place next to a lady. I followed the omni-
bus as it passed down King William-street, and stopped
it, and told him he must get out. He refused to do as
I required, and I told him he belonged to the swell mob,
and he must get out. I then procured assistance to re-
move him, and we got him out and took him to the sta-
tion-house, where he was ►earched. There we found
upon his person six sovereigns and a gold watch and
guard chain. He asked me what solicitor he should
employ. I replied that it was a thing for his own con-
sideration. He said it would cost him 2L for a solicitor,
and that I might as well have that money as a solicitor,
and I should have it if I would let him go. I said to
him that ho was mistaken in the person.
Fauce'l, the officer, said he knew the prisoner to be
the constant associate of the moat daring thieves.
The prisoner—l acknowledge, your Lordship, that
the account given of what took place is perfectly cor-
rect. The officer is right in all he has stated about the
omnibus, and his conversation with we; but I had no
criminal intention. I vrai going over the water upon

business.
Haydon said the prisoner was, when first seen by bun,
moving towards Lothbury.
One of the other most active officers said he had
known the prisoner to be the associate of the desperate
thief who was some time ago transported fur robbing
Alderman John Johnson, when Lord Mayor, of a gold
watch and seals at the terminus of the Blackwell Rail-
way..
Inspector Mitchell also identified the prisoner as one
of a notorious gang of thieves.
The prisoner—You never knew me to be tried at the
Old Baileje? Inspector Mitchell—No.
The Loma MAYOR directed that the prisoner should
be remanded till Thursday, and that inquirit s should be
made about the gold watch found in his possession.
The prisoner is, it is believed by the police, generally
employed in "covering" others of the gang when their
work of robbery is going forward, an occupation for
which his personal size and strength seem peculiarly
adapted to qualifylim.
THAMES.
Mary Grace. a sPeguldr,- gypsy-looking woman, was
charged with smashing sundry squares of glass at the
house of the Rev. Mr. Horrabin, official clergyman at
the Roman Catholic chapel, Virginia-street Ratcliffe-
highway. .
Mrs. Harriet Creamer, housekeeper to the rev. gen•
tlearan, stated that being informed by the servant that a
woman aas breaking all the windows, shertierit out, and
saw the prisoner dashing her fist through square after
square successively. On asking her the cause of her
outrageous conduct, the prisoner said Father Horrabin
had sent several men to kill her.
Prisoner—So he has, the robber. I wanted to see the
old villain, but though I knocked several times the door
was not, opened, and then I took the other way of calling
attention. He is one of a gang of the most desperate
robbers in London, and I am sorry to say that my own
brother belongs to them. Oh, this man (pointing to Mr.
Horrabin), I should rather say this monster, for be is a
demon incarnate, after digging many pit-falls for me,
came and vilified me to my neighbours.
Mr. YARDLEY—Where do you live ? Prisoner—At
Norris-court, Greenwich.
Mr. YARDLEY—DO you belong to Mr. Horrabin's
religion?, Prisoner—No, I am a Churchwoman; but is
that a reason why I should be pillaged, waylaid, ma-
ligned, perhaps murdered, by that monster, who is a
fiend out of hell? He distressed me in everything.
Mr. YARDLEY, addressing Mr. Horrabin, who is
highly respected by all his neighbours, and seemed
utterly astonished at the woman's bitter attack on him,
asked whether he had any knowledge of the woman.
Mr. Horrabin said it was possible he might have seen
her before, but he could not say when or where.
Prisoner—Oh, ye;, you know well when and where.
You stole me when a child, only nine years old, from my
comfortable home iu the Isle of Wight, and changed me
for another child in Ireland. I was well treated there,
but when I began to be comfortable you pursued ale
with your devilries.
Mr. YARDLEY—This seems to be madnesr.
Prisoner—Oh, of course that monster will have more
justice than I, for he can put his hand into his pocket
and pay for it. It is cruel that a poor creature like me,
because I am poor, should be delivered over to a mon-
ster. a devil.
The constable here produced a stone which was found
upon the prisoner, and which she admitted she brought
from Deptford for the purpose of demolishing the rev.
gentleman's place.
Mr. Horrabin hero said he had never, by any chance,
been at the Isle of Wight.
Mr. YARDLEY said it was evident that the woman was
mot in a state to be at large, and wished her to be taken
for the present to St. George's workhouse.
The prisoner was removed, loudly denouncing the law,
which sided with the rich and oppressed the poor.
SINGULAR A PPLICATION.—The Rev. Charles Gulliver
Fryer, vicar of Elthate, Kent, applied yesterday to Mr.
Yardley for a warrant to apprehend a man named
Joseph Cracknell, whom ho charged with stealing a
ring-tailed marmozet monkey, which he valued a: W.,
buteweuld not part with it for three times that sum, as it
was a epecial favourite of his wife's, and though of the
smallest of the simian kind had a closer resemblance to
humanity in all its lint atnents than he had ever seen in
the animal world.
Mr. YARDLEY said if there was a charge cf theft, ap•
pricant had better state the facts to a police inspector,
and the party accused could be taken into custody in
the usual way. The rev. gentleman, who hal Arch-
bold's Reports under his arm, said the circumstances were
rather peculiar, and there might be some difficulty in the
way of the course recommended. The facts were these.
The marmuzct was generally kept on board his yacht,
the Hebe, in the East India Dock, and this man Crack-
nell, who belonged to the Ganymede, another pleasure-
yacht, lying alongside, took some umbrage at the animal
and threatened to destroy it. The man in charge of his
(applicant's) yacht dared him to do so, and the result
was that the fellow contrived to get possession of the
poor little animal and dashed its brains ou'.
Mr. YARDLEY said the man, if the animal was not
over 51. in value, could be proceeded against for wilful
damage, hut a summons might be issued under the Act
for cruelty to animals.
Applicant said he had intended to proceed under that
Act. but the penalry would be only 4th.
Mr. YARDLEY—No, you are mistaken there; but I
have some doubt whether a monkey comes into a class
of animals intended to be protetted by the Act. The
word any animal is used, but as a number has been enu-
merated, the question has been much discussed.
Mr. Fryer—l find by Archbold, that persons stealing
dogs, beasts, or birds, render themselves liable to ape •
natty not exceeding 20L
Mr. YARDLEY—There is a doubt of stealing here,
as the party did not apply the thing taken to his
own use.

After some further conversation two summonses were
granted against Cracknell—one charged him with " un-
lawfully stealing a certain beast ordinarily kept in a
state of confinement, to wit, a monkey," and the other
ith " beating, ill-treating, torturing, and abusing " the
said animal.
The rev. gentleman then went off to Ratcliffe-highway,
to a stuffer of beasts and birds, to ascertain the value of
the animal.