The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1868.

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Atrival of Colonel Burke in London.

(THIS DAY.)

Burke, Casey, and Shaw left Warwick this
morning, by the 7.50 train, for London, accom-
panied by 15 armed policemen. On their arriving
at Newgate later in the day they were delivered
over to the custody of Mr. Jonas, the governor of
the prison.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--This Day.

(Before the Assistant Judge.

William Fraud, George Froud, sen., and another
man named Leech, were indicted for assaulting a
sheriff's officer, and also resisting him in the execu-
tion of his duty.

Mr. F. H. Lewis proveutei, and Mr. Rib ton de-
fended, the prisoners.

Chapman, the sheriff's officer, said that on the
30th December he went to Acton to arrest a person
named George Frond, who kept the Railway
Tavern at that place. When he went into the house
he had two other persons with him, and there h e
saw the man he was about to arrest serving in the
bar. having informed Froud that he had to
arrest him for a debt of £57 he made no
particular observation, but asked to be allowed
to go into the cellar to attend to some
barrels.
.one of the persons in company
.with
Chapman went with him, and, on retiring above
stairs, he then washed his hands, and afterwards
made a bolt out of the back door of the house and
escaped. A scene of confusion ensued, when the
prisoners, it was alleged, assaulted the officers, and
they were compelled to leave the house without
retaking their prisoner. Chapman said he was
quite sober when he went to the house, and so were
those who acconapaniel him. The prisoners not
only obstructed the officers but violently assaulted
them.

Two police-constables, who were on duty near
the public-house, said they heard the cry of police,
and, on going to the place, saw Chapman, who
told them that they had been violently assaulted,
and the prisoners were then given in custody.
For the defence it was urged that Chapman and
his assistant were wholly and entirely to blame.
Mrs. Frond, the wife of the debtor, said the officers
came to the house, and he and his friends having
partaken of some ale, they all entered into conver-
sation with her husband ; but she never heard,
neither did he tell her, the business they had come
upon. Her husband appeared to transact his busi-
ness as usual until some disturbance took place,
when he went out of the back door, the officers go-
ing after him. The other prisoners then spoke .to
the officers, when (as the witness alleged) G. Frond,
sen., received a violent blow on the head from one
of the men who charged the prisoners with aiding
and assisting George Frond to escape.
G. Frond, the debtor, said he was at home on
the evening in question when Chapman and his
friends entered the house in a state of intoxication.
They asked to be served with some ale, and know-
ing one of the men he gave them some ale, and then
Chapman came into the bar parlour and told him
what he was about to do. He (witness) without
the slightest obstruction walked out of the back
door into the yard and concealed himself behind a
wall when the disturbance took place, which he had
a good opportunity of seeing. He was certain the
blows that were struck were inflicted by the prosecutor
or his assistant. He had remained out of the way
ever since, but he believed a proposition had been
made to the effect that if he surrendered himself the
present proceedings would not have been taken, but
he had refused to accept such proposals, because he
believed that the officers had acted in a most unjus-
tifiable manner.

Mr. Lewis said there was an escape warrant for
the witness now in full force, and he asked that he
might be directed not to leave the court.
The Assistant-Judge gave directions accordingly,
but intimated afterwards that ho did not do it with
respect to any other civil proceedings.
The jury being unable to agree to their verdict,
the Court proceeded with an indictment against
Mrs. Gordon for keeping a disorderly house in the
Haymarket.
A number of witnesses proved the character of
the house, and some of the " unfortunates" who
frequented the place informed the judge that the
prisoner used to charge very high for her apart-
ments, and that she also used to insist on receiving
five shillings out of every sovereign they received
iu her house.

The prisoner said the whole of the witnesses for
the prosecution had not spoken the truth, and in-
sisted on some witnesses being examined to support
her assertion. The first called was a Mrs. Claxton,
a young widow, who said she bad resided some time
with the prisoner, and always thought her a very
nice and respectable person. Another young lady,
occupying apartments at the top of the house, was
called, and she said " her aunt," the prisoner, al-
ways took the greatest care to have none but quiet
people. A " professional lady," another lodger,
was also called to the respectability of the house.
The Assistant Judge, after hearing her, told her
he had a great mind to commit her to gaol. The
prisoner vehemently protested her respectability.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the
Assistant Judge told her her case was bad enough,
as it had been proved, but she had made it worse
by imputing perjury to everybody. The " com-
mission," or whatever it was called, that she exacted,
and. thus pillaged the poor objects who frequented
her house, was detestable. Ile then sentenced her
to six months' imprisonment with hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGII-STREET•

PITY THE SORROWS OF A POOR OLD ACTOR.—
James Lee, 44 elderly man, who seemed quite
broken down with care, was charged before Mr.
Knox with begging in Burlington Arcade.
George Smith, the beadle of Burlington Arcade,
said that on the previous evening some gentlemen
in the Arcade complained of the prisoner asking
them for charity, and on his seeing the prisoner
asking a gentleman to assist him he took him into
custody.

In answer to the charge, Lee said—l was not
begging. I was merely stating my misfortunes to
the gentlemen. lam a poor old, used-up actor.
I was born in 1798, and served my time at the
Coburg Theatre under the late Mr. Glossop, and
when the late Mr. J. Plooke was the stage
manager. I have performed a great deal in the
provinces, and also in London theatres. My wife,
who is younger than myself, has been for four
months in the London Hospital under Drs. Cooper
and Adams, and has undergone several operations,
and will most probably be lame for life. The last
engagement I had was at the Agricultural Hall
with Professor Sanger ; and last winter I appeared
as Pope Pius IX. in the " Congress of Monarchs."
Since then Messrs. Sanger have done a little for
me, and are making a subscription amongst their
company with the view of assisting me in my dis-
tress. I have a prospect of getting a living shortly
for my- wife and myself,
though a very humble one,
and was only stating my case, being a few weeks
behind in my rent when the officer came up. .
Mr. Knox—lf I discharge you,
will you promise
not to go to the place again ?
Lee—l will.

Mr. Kuox—Then you aro discharged.
sir.
Lee—l am much obliged to you,

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—THE BLUEGATE FIELDS
Tio-REss.—Mary Ann Alulcahy, an Irish woman,
aged 39 years, whose husband is the landlord of
several infamous houses, was brought before Mr.
Paget for the second time, charged with committing
a savage assault on Catherine Cronin.
On Thursday morning, between the hours of one
and two o'clock, a serious disturbance took place in
Bluegate-fields, which is divided between the pa-
rishes of St. George-in-the-East and St. Paul,
Sladwell, and is, without exception, the most ini-
quitous place in the metropolis. Robberies and
outrages have
been frequent there, and the pri-
soner and her husband have taken a leading part
in many of the affrays. The prisoner is a violent
and savage WOUUD) and known by the not very