The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

IN RE DAVID JONES.

This insolvent, a clerk to the Poor-law Board, ap-
plied to be dL‘charged. He had a salary of 175/, a
year, and purchased some property in the Wands-
worth-road, o❑ account of which he got into litiga-
tion and into pri,on. It was stated, that in the
"Wandsworth -roac, there were many houses vacated in
consequence of the cholera last year, and a gentleman
who was examined, said there were more than twenty
now in a row unlet•

The insolvent, vsto was supported by Mr. Sargocd,
was ordered to b 2 aiscbarged.
The court sat till five o'clock.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
.130 W-STREET.
Alm Bartlett, potboy at the Duke on Horseback,
in Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, was charged
with stealing a cashbox and its contents (131. 10a.)
belonging to his employere, Messrs. Moore and Lock-
Ea, the landlords.
Constable F 40 met the prisoner near Temple-bar
on Sunday morning, the 15:h inst., and seeing some-
thing bulky concealed under his coat stopped him and
inquired what it was.
the
prisoner refused to sa-
tisfy the curiosity of tne officer, who consequently
took him to the station. It afterwards turned out
that he had just absconded with the cash-box from
the above house.
Mr. JARDINE committed him for trial.

Thomas Miller, salesman in Covent-garden mar-
ket, Thomas Ilewson, his nephew, and Rose Symonds,
were charged with several violent assaults upon the
police.
Constable F 94 said that he saw Hewson and the
young woman in a narrow court near the Artichoke
public-house, after twelve o'clock at night, and told
them to go away. They refused to do so, and Hew-
son, who was 'drunk, said that they lived there, it
being the side entrance to the public-house. Witness
did not believe this, and, after two other useless at-
tempts"move on," he went to the
to ascertain htnl
if they did live there. He was
At
Artichoke
ore make
followed by them, and an altercation took place in
the house, during which witness was assaulted by
Hewson, while the woman relieved him of his staff.
In the meantime Miller, who lived in the house, came
down stairs in his shirt and helped the others to eject
him from the place. They succeeded, but witness re-
turned with a brother constable, F 130, and, having
regained possession of his staff, proceeded to take
them into custody. They were resisted with savage
violence, witness being severely beaten by Miller, who
employed a tin-kettle and a' rolling-pin to attack him
with. A clasp-knife was flung at them during the
affray, but he could not say by whom. Witness
struck Miller a smart blow with his staff, and even-
tually he went willingly to th© police-station.
The defence of Hewson and the girl was that they
were out late, looking at an Irish wake which had
been going on, and that the interference of the police-
man was most unwarrantable.

Miller said he was disturbed by the noise, and got
out of bed to see what was the matter, when he was
treated with great brutality by the police, who also
used infamous language.
Corroborative evidence was given by Mrs. Hew-
son, who resided in the house, and by her son, a
youth of about 15, who slept with his mother and a
married sister on the night in question, and was,
with them, disturbed in their bed by the fighting on
the stairs. Both these witnesses declared that they
had not such a thing as a "rolling-pin" in the house,
but had always had to borrow one.
Mr. JARDINE believed the statement of the consta-
bles, and w as resolved to protect them in the fair
execution of their duties. He fined Miller 31., and
Hewson 11. The girl was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A summons was obtained last week against Sir
James Sutherland Machenzie, of the Army and Navy
Club, by a woman named Mary Smith, for cutting
open her head with a gin bottle on the 16th inst.
The summons was to be heard yesterday, but at the
time appointed neither party came into court.
The assault arose out of the following circum-
stances :--The defendant, who was on terms of inti-
macy with the complainant, called on her, and was
asked to stand some
gin. He gave a shilling for that
purpose, and when the gin came he demanded his
change. No change was forthcoming, and being ex-
cited he threw the bottle at the complainant and cut
her head open.
Mr. liVler, from the office of Mr. Dod, stated to the
chief clerk, Mr. Leadley, that Sir James had com-
promised the business with the woman by paying her
31. and compensating the doctor.
The summons was of course discharged.
LAMBETH.
Eliza Jones, alias Long, and Esther Stone, two
well-dressed married women, were finally examined
before Mr. Elliott on charges of defrauding trades-
people by the follywing means :
The
Prisoners, who generally dressed in the style
of servants to respectable families, entered the shops
of tradesmen, principally grocers, and gave a small
order—generally two ounces of tea and a pound of
loaf sugar, and obtained change for a sovereign.
When the change was given they took exception to

the price of the sugar, refused to take the things, and
got the sovereign back. Then they changed their
minds again, and offered to take the goods upon the
tradesmen returning the change with the goods.
They then asked for some other small articles to di-
vert the attention of the shopkeeper, and having paid
for the latter they carried away the goods, the change,
and also the sovereign ; and since their commitment
for re-examination several communications have
reached the magistrate to prove that they carried this
system of imposition to a vast extent.
One of the witnesses, Mr. Gannon, a grocer in
Duke-street, Lincoln's Inn•fields, deposed, that about
two years ago the prisoners, with a third woman in
their company, entered his shop, and Jones having
given her usual order, and getting the change for a
sovereign, played off the usual trick of returning the
goods and ultimately taking them, and when asked
for the sovereign all three women used the most so-
lemn aeseveratione that he had token it up. He
(Me. Gannon) felt morally certain he had been
"done" at the time, but he still submittal to it, and
on counting his cash at night he was satisfied that he
had been swindled. In about six months after the
prisoners again called at his house, awl having gone
over precisely the same course as respected a small
order, attempted by the same means to defraud him
of another sovereign. He toll them, however, that
once was quite enough to be done by them, and
desired his servant to go to Bow-street and
fetch • a constable. The prisoners assured him
he was much mistaken in their character,
and begged he would not give them into
custody. He, however, declared he should; upon
which Stone stooped down, and exclaiming, " Why,
here it is," took the sovereign from the floor, and
gave it to him. He did not then wish to have any
trouble with them. Having subsequently seen by
the newspapers that two persons answering their de-
scription had been committed by one of the city ma-
gistrates to Bridewell for a similar offence, he went
to that prison for the purpose of seeing and recognis-
ing them, but they had been discharged a few minutes
before he got there.
John Spittle, a City officer, deposed to having had
the prisoner twice in custody on charges of de-
frauding tradespeople by the means above de-
scribed, but upon both occasions they had been dis-
charge&
The defence set up was that the prisoners were the
wives of two young men, journeymen carpenters, who
had always borne good characters, and were in ex-
cellent employment; but the present inquiry has dis-
closed the fact that the prisoners had been married
from a house of ill-fame, where they had resided for
some years before.
The prisoners were fully committed for trial at the
Central Criminal Court on four charges.