The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-30 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(B,Lie Mr. V; ITHIM, Chairman, and a Benc'i of

Magistrates.)
'T,sterday Witiain IYlyerscroft, alias William Wilson,
surrendered to take his trial uuder an indictment which
charged him with having stolen a silk scarf, the pro-
very of Lavinia, Smith.

The prisoner was a very respectable-looking man of
about 40 years of age.
O'Brien appeared for the pr3ccution, and Yr.
Pa, no was for the prisoner.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutrix that
she was a dressmaker, living in Church-street, Stoke
Newington, and that when before the magistrate she had
given her name as Lucille Montague. Her proper name,
however, was that described in the indictment.. It had
happened that as she was returning home from Charlotte-
s reet, Fitzroy-square, on the evening of the 6th fast,
and was ple.ceeding along Holborn, at about nine o'clock
iu the ereuing, she was accosted by the prisoner at the
bar, who put some questions to her on the subject of the
'weather, which at the time was wet. At first she paid
no attention to him, but pursued her onward course.
Eventually, however, she entered into conversation with
him, and shortly afterwards he persuaded her, as it was so
wet, to accompany him to a coffee-shop where they might
take shelter. Whilst they were at that place the prisoner
called for half-a, quartern of brandy, of which spirit
she partook of a glass. They remained in the coffi es
shop about twenty minutes, and in the course of their
conversation she mentioned that she was on her way to
the Bank, where she should get into an omnibus which
would take her home. Upon this the prisoner said that,
si. gular enough, be was going the same way, and be
would be happy to accompany her. Accordingly, as
she did not decline the proposal, off they started, but
they had not proceeded very far before she became per-
fectly unconscious as to where she was, as welas of
everything that was passing. What became of her frem
that moment she did not know, but when she regained
her settees, towards the miudle of the night, she found
that she was in a house of ill-fame in the vicinity of
Hoxton, and that the prisoner was in the room with her.
Upon discovering the situation in which she was placed
she implored the prisoner at once to quit the room, a
course which he refused to take, whereupon she called
out, when a woman belonging to the house came up, from
whom (as she again felt very N) the asked for a glass of
water. At this period she took off her bonnet and scarf,
and laid them on a chair is the room. She thou renewed
her solicitation to the prisoner to leave the room, but t,©
again refused to do so. She thereupon intimated to the
young woman who had come up that it was her with
that the prisoner should leave the room, when the for-
mer said that if she (the prosecutrix) would come down
stairs she would herself soon get rid of him. Ac-
cordingly she went down stair; into a beck par-
lour. The woman of the house called out to the
prisoner to the effact that the prosecutrix was gene.
The prisoner then came don, when upon being told
that she had run away, he ran out as if after her into
the street. She then went upstairs, and on reaching the
room where she hasl previously been, and where, toe,
she had left her scarf, she discovered that it had been
taken away. She instantly went after the prisoner, and
having overtaken him, gave him into the custody of an
officer, and then, being in custody, he took the scarf out
of - his hat. The prosecutrix, en her cross-examination
by Mr. Payne, stated that she had Leon married, and
had had two children, one of whom was illegitimate, the
father being Mr. Murell, of Marlborough street. Tee
other child was by her husband. That she had been
married she would swear, but she declined to say who
her husband was; she was now a widow.
The policeman, II GO, said that the house to which
the eresecutrix hurl teen taken was in the Vinegar-
ground, Ciey-road, a most notorious locality, full of
houses of ill-tame aid prostitutes.
Mr. PAYNE made a powerful speech on behalf of the
prisoner, and subinitte4 that the fact of the scarf havieg
been found in hie het was purely an accident.
Professor tlolloway, of 244, &reed, was called to
speak to the character of the prisoner. He stated that
tee prisoner had beer; in his service to. bookkeseper and
foreign correspondent tor the last five years, and that
his conduct and character were irreproachable.
The CHAIRMAN having i-untated up,
The jury tenursoed a verdict of Guilty.
Tee CHAIRMAN sentenced the prieueer to one month's
imprisonment a d heed letieur.

POLICE LW TELLIGENCE.
itiA.N.:4ON-iio US H.
Charlei Siiadholt coratuetor of omnibus No. 2,327,
was summened before Mr. Alderman Glebe up at the
cheige of having mewld to admit a person in o the
Jinn bus when there was sufficient, room.
Cleirlee Busterd, 333, N dirsion of the meteepolitan
police, said—Oar the 21st of August I was at the
Flower rot public-house, in Bishopseete—teet t, at five
and I waited tit' a clearer-pest five, when the
delsniftteth. Omnibus took its beard in front of the 11,1.13,-.
The horses' heeds were towards Kingsland-read There
were three passengers, anti one got out and two gut it
I went up to him and said I canted a sat to Kineslaud.
He said he would not take me, that he had room far no
wore than his customer a, :and he persisted ia refusing to
admit me. Hu then refus .d to take two ladies, eltheueth
one of them offered to pay any amount of fare tor the
aceornaii dation. He irttated that his was not a three-
penny " bus," and I told hun I asked 11. thing about the
fare, and that I should certainty report his conduct in
the proper quarter.
The defendant said he objected to /Omit the corn-
Olefins because the charge of Gel. was re used by that
person.
James Overton said he wsiat down to Kingsland by
the defendant's omnibus on Thursday night, and there
was a crowd round the place. The complainant was
amongst the crond, and the conductor said his fare was
Gd., and be carried no threepenny fares upon that oc-
casion. The omnibus, he thought, carried thirteen
passengers.
Alderman Gins said the public were accustDined to
overcharges in tee way described, and that females were
very frequently victimizsd. The penalty he should in-
filet would be 20e, or Bridewell for one month, and the
offence should be nominatedin the licence.
WORSIAP-STREET.
Two men named John Sutherland and John Francis
Richardson, journeymen tyi.efounders, wore brought be-
fore Mr. Hammill, charged, the former with having ob-
structed the thoroughfare and caused a crowd to assemble
in front of the premises of Messrs. Henry Callon and
Son, letter-founders, is Chiawell street, St. Luke'a, and
the latter with disorderly conduct in inciting a mob to
rescue the other prisoner from the custody or the police.
Mr. Wakeliug attended to conduct the prosecution,
and Mr. Child for the defence.
Inspector Brannan, of the G division, stated, that
having received information that a large mob had
assembled in Chiswell-street, and that the thorough.
fare was completely obstructed, he proceeded there
accompanied by four sergeants and a dozen con-
stables ; and on reaching the complainant's foundry
observed the defendant Sutherland wading about
in the front of the premises, with a large
placard at his back, and a similar one slung to his
breast, fled surrounded by a crowd of at least 150 per-
sons. Witness immediately stepped up to the prisoner,
and requested him to withdraw, to whittle he replied, "I
am paid for what I am doing, and while I keep moving
on you have no power to interfere with me," The pri-
soner then resumed his walk backwards and forwards at
a very slow pace, occasionally- shouting out "French
invasion! French invasion!' And as fei passed the pro-
secutor's windows he obtrusive ly exhibited the placards
towards them, After warning him several times that
unless he went away he must take him into custody, the
/slimmer suddenly etdepeti, and continued to mark
" time" in a military wanner with his feet, but without
advancing more than a yard in several minutes; and as
he persisted in this conduct he secured him, and whilst
conveying him to the stadon house, the prisoner re-
peated his Fries of " French invasion!" until they reached
Finsbury-square, when the other prisoner, Richardson,
presented himself, and repeatedly addressing the mob
with the exclamation, "Do you call this justie,
pressed upon the police with such violence that it re-
quired the efforts of Leveret constebl-s to keep him back.
The prisoner, however, again thrust himself in front to
the crowd, and turning round to them exclaimed, " that
it was a shame that the man should go to prison fur no-
thing," with other violent observations.
In cross-examination the witness said that he had
known the prisoner Richardson for many years as one
of the workmen in Messrs. Caslou'e type-foundry, arid
that the other prisoner was employed in the same capa-
city by another extensive firm.
In answer to a question from Mr. lleatellea, the in-
spector said that ho had also seen another man in the
crowd, exhibiting similar placards, but that he instantly
disappeared on finding that the prisoners had been taken
into custody.
Mr. Childs, for the defence, said it would be unneces-
sary to call any further evidence, as there had been quite
enough to show that the proceedings of the defendant
had been wholly irregular, and amounted to a breach of
the law, but they had acted under the erroneous impres-
sion that as long as they kept moving about the police
had no authority to interfere with them; and if the ma-
gistrate would take a lenient view of the case, he felt as-
sured that, under his advice, such conduct would never
again be repeated.
Mr. HA3IMILL ordered both prisoners to find substan-
tial bail for their peaceable behaviour for the next three
months; in addition to a penalty of 40s. upon the pri-
soner Richardson for obstructing the police and inciting
to a rescue.

WESTMINSTER.
John Gould, a toll-collector in the employ of the
Vauxhall-bridge Company, was charged wida having
caused the death of Albert Arthur Towers, a child be-
tween seven and eight years of age, under circumstances
of a peculiarly heart-rending description.
It appeared from the evidence of Emily Jackson and
Catherine Foulsham, two girls, that on Monday, the 22d
of July, at about five in the evening, the child, who was
the son of a very respectable elderly man named Tow-
ers, a warder at Toothill-fields Bridewell, was crossing
the Vauxhall-bridge-road, apparently coming from
school, when a quantity of boiling water was thrown out
of the window of the toll-house at the corner of Roches-
ter-row, which fell upon the child, who was shockingly
scalded. There was at the time no other person in the
toll-liChise bat the accused, who, hearing the child's
screams, came out and expressed his regret at what had
happened. The child was immediately taken by a baker
opposite into his house, and subsequently to the house
of its parents. One of the girls, in giving her evidence,
alleged that she had heard the words " I have caught
you at last," at the time the water was thrown; but,
up'm being pressed upon this point, she mild only say
that she beard sermthing about "last," and had taken it
to man "I have caught you ut last."

Henry Panting, 185 13, prow d hearing the child's
serearn, and going to the spot, when the accused in-
fumed num &L.; he bad thrown the water out of the
window into en angle outside the tollhouse, where they
threw rubbish. There was nothing to prevent the
public) passing over the place so described.