The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-13 00:00:00

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

A SOLICITOR CHARGED WITH ASSAULTS AND
WILFUL DAMAGE.—Mr. Edward Frampton, solici-
tor, staying at Bentolini's Hotel, St. Martin's-
street, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with
being drunk, and assaulting James Wright, the
beadle of Burlington-arcade, and William Holden,
58 C ; and he was further charged with breaking
six panes of glass, value 55.., in the cell at the Vine-
street, police-station.

Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
appeared for the defence.

John Wright, the beadle of Burlington Arcade,
said—On Saturday afternoon between five and six
o'clock I saw the prisoner in the Burlington Arcade,
and as he was drunk I spoke to him in a quiet
manner, telling him that persons in a sate of in-
toxication were not allowed in the place. Upon
which the prisoner made no more to do but up with
his fist and struck me a blow on the nose, making it
bleed. I attempted to put him out of the Arca le,
when he struck me several times about the face.
After that a constable came up, and the prisoner
assaulted him also, and behaved in a very rough
manner, and they had sozne trouble in getting him
to the station.

By Mr. Lewis—The prisoner did not hit me
very hard. They were not such blows as a sober
man would give, and he did not suppose if the pri-
soner had been sober he would have done it. The
prisoner did not ask to be allowed to go up the
Arcade. I did not push the prisoner before he
struck me. The prisoner could have either turned
back or gone forward. All I wanted was to get
him out of the Arcade.
Police-constable William Holden, 58 C.—On
going to the lower part of the Arcade on Saturday
evening I saw the prisoner in a fighting attitude,
and the beadle, whose nose was bleeding, gave him
into custody for assaulting him. I took hold of
the prisoner by the arm and told him that he must
go to the police-station, and directly I did so he
struck me several times on the forehead, and also
on the body, and became very violent. With
assistance I got him to the station, but on the way
he struck me several times.

By Mr. Lewis—l have a mark on my forehead,
and had I not got close to the prisoner I should
have been hurt more.

Mr. Lasana, architect, of Shrubland-road, Dal-
ston, who was passing at the time, proved seeing
the prisoner strike the beadle and the constable.

By Mr. Lewis —The beadle, before trying to eject
the prisoner, said " 1 am not going to have you in
here drunk." The prisoner struck about like a
drunken man. When the constable walked up to
the prisoner the latter was walking quietly and
straight.

Inspector Bason—The prisoner was brought to
the station on Saturday evening for assaulting the
beadle of the Arcade and the constable. He was
very violent, and some persons came to the station
and complained of being assaulted by him, bat did
not press the charges. While in the cell he took
off his boot and smashed six panes of glass of the
value of ss.

Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate on behalf of
the prisoner, stating that he had come from Bath
on Saturday, and had gone into the City to meet
some friends, with whom he took more than was
good for him, and that afterwards he went into the
Arcade, and what with the pushing about he got
and the knocking which he gave to the others, he
became much worse, hence the unfortunate position
he was then in. .

Mr. Mansfield fined the prisoner 40s. for each
assault, and ordered him to pay the damage and a
fine of 18.—in all £4 6s.

THAMES.

STEALING A GOLD WATCH AT A RAILWAY
STATION.-At 12 o'clock this day an important in-
quiry was commenced respecting the guilt or inno-
cence of Mr. Hiam M'Cue, aged 22 years, who has
hitherto maintained a very good character. He Is
a clerk in the service of Mr. Crane, a tea merchant,
of Love-lane, City. On the 4th instant the Rev.
John Joseph Halcomb, of the Charter House,
was on the way to the University boat race in a
third-class carriage on the underground railway.
The carriage was very much crowded. He looked
for his watch while on the way to Hammer-
smith and found it had been stolen. The gold chain
was still attached to his waistcoat. On Saturday
night the prisoner was shown to the prosecutor
among 11 or 12 others. He believed he was very
much like a man in the railway carriage when he
missed his watch, and he was now directed to look
at him, and in answer to a question by Mr. Benson,
said that if he was asked to select the man who was
alongside of him when he missed his watch he should
select the prisoner if 20 others were present, but he
would not swear to him. The watch was valued at
£2O. He had it in his possession 21 years.
,Micah Harvey, 276 AR, a police sergeant, said
he took the prisoner into custody at the shop of Mr.
Spiegelhalter, a watch and clock maker, Mount-
place, Whitechapel-road. The prisoner's wife took
it to the shop, and wanted a new bow to be made
and attached to it on Thursday last. The prisoner
said he bought the watch of a man in the Red Lion,
Whitechapel, on Saturday, the 4th of the present
month.

Mr. Charles Young, solicitor for the prisoner,
said he was a respectable man, of great integrity,
and that he had told the truth about the manner
he becams possessed of the watch, for which he
gave £2 17s. 6d.

Mr. Stephen Crane, wholesale grocer and tea
merchant, No. 7, Love-lane, Eastcheap, said the
prisoner was in the warehouse attending to his
usual duties at half-past nine o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 4th of the present mouth.
Mr. Charles Young—What was his time to be in
the warehouse ?
Mr. Crane—At nine o'clock.

Mr. Charles Young—The watch was stolen soon
after half-past 9 o'clock, and the prisoner was then
in his master's warehouse.

Mr. Crane.—the prisoner has been in my ser-
vice three years.
After a lengthened investigation Mr. Benson
fined the prisoner 20s. for the unlawful possession
of the watch, and it was delivered to the owner.

GENERAL POST-OFFICE.---The estimates in 1866
and 1867 included votes amounting to £344,000 for the
purchase of a site for additional of-flees iu St. Martin's-le-
Grand. The estimates now before the House of Commons
propose a further vote of £20,000, part of an estimated
cost of £lO,OOO for the erection of the proposed new
Offices.