The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-20 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

A DANGEROUS SELF-STYLED FENTAN.—A low, ruffianly.
looking fellow, named Samuel Tattim, who described him-
self as a hammerman, was charged before Mr. Cooke with
being drunk and assaulting P.C. Henry Jones, 202 G, and
and Abel Hibbert, 171 G.—lt appeared that about a
quarter-past twelve on Sunday morning, whilst P.C.
Henry Jones was on duty in St. John-street, Clerkenwell,
the prisoner came up to him and said, " I'm a Fenian,"
and immediately struck him a violent blow on the mouth,
which he followed up by again striking him on the face
and knocking bins down, when he seized him. They
struggled together, and he kicked the officer
whilst he was down, and also P.C. Abel Hibbert,
who went to his assistance, and was also assaulted. The
prisoner then became so outrageously violent that it re-,
quired the aid of six policemen to strap him on the
stretcher and convey him to the police-station. During
the whole of the struggle he was endeavouring to kick and
strike the officers. He had been drinking, but was not
drunk. The prisoner said he recollected nothing of the
matter, as he was subject to fits. He was on the ground
when the officer came up.—Mr. Cooke sentenced him to
twenty-one days with hard labour.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A BOY SENTENCED TO BE WIIIPEED.—Morgan Eastland
and John Joyce, the former 14 years of age and the latter
12, were charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing some
cigars, the property of Mr. George Gibbs, tobaccoi..,t, of
No. 32, Wardour-street, Soho.—The prosecutor, while
having dinner on the previous afternoon, saw Joyce's
head above the counter, and on his sister going
into the shop to see what he wanted, he said, "To
'know the time." As soon as Joyce left the shop,
the prosecutor missed some cigars, and ran down
a court, and saw the prisoners and some other boys divid.
ing cigars between them, and he secured Eastland with a
cigar in his hand, and gave him into custody.—Binstead
Webb, 112 0, said that at the station he found a pack of
cards, a tobacco-box, a pipe, and some fusees on Eastland.
He subsequently took Joyce into custody, when his uncle
gave him a very bad character, and it was only a week ago
his hand was found in a till but he was not prosecuted.
—Eastland:s father gave him a good character, but said he
was afraid he had got into bad company.—Mr. Mansfield
ordered Joyce to be imprisoned for three days, and to re-
ceive ten cuts of a birch rod ; and he gave Eastland over to
his father, with a recommendation that he should be well
looked after.

A TRAVELLER CHARGED WITH ENBEZZLEHENT.—Francis
Deakin, a commercial traveller, was brought up at the
Mansion House, on several charges of embezzlement. The
prisoner was a traveller in the employment of Messrs.
Jones, Lloyd, and Co., tea grocers, Little Tower-street.
and was in receipt of a guaranteed salary of £4OO a year.
It was stated that there were numerous charges to be pre-
ferred against him, but only one case of embezzling a sum
of £7B was gone into, and the prisoner was then remanded
till Saturday.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The January Sessions for the
county of Middlesex commenced at Clerkenwell this day,
before Mr. Payne, deputy assistant judge. The calendar
contained the names of 81 prisoners committed for trial,
the whole, with four exceptions, being indicted for felony.
The offences with which the prisoners are charged consist
of robberies in dwelling-houses, indecent assaults, robberies
from the person, attempting to break and enter dwelling-
houses, robbery from the London and North-Western
Railway Company, assaults with violence, corruptly
receiving money for the restoration of a stolen dog, einhez-
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SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY OF SILVER PLATE.—Henry Stur-
gess, a working silversmith, was placed at the bar of the
Guildhall, on remand, charged with robbing Messrs. Hol-
land and Son, manufacturing silversmiths, of 16, Jewry-
crescent, his masters. The Prisoner had been in the service
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On the 7th inst. Mr. Holland went to Debenham and
Storr's sale, and there recognised eighteen unfinished
silver spoons which bore his mark. He purchased them,
and then found they were the same that had been given
to the prisoner to finish about eighteen months ago, and
had nut been returned. On making inquiry of the pawn-
broker, it was found that the, were pawned by the
prisoner's wife in June 1866. The prisoner was given
into custody, and further inquiry was made of pawnbrokers
in the neighbourhood, when many pledges were discovered.
All the plate was marked with the prisoner's mark, and
pledged by his wife.—The prisoner admitted taking the
plate, but stated that he did not do so with •the intention
of stealing it.—He was committed for trial.

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night, and on being expostulated with by the constable, he
gave utterance to a Yankee-Irish oath and kicked him in
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the lower part of the body and disabled him.—The
prisoner, a tall, weather-beaten, red-headed American sea-
man wearing a heavy pair of sea-boots, said he was drunk
on Saturday' night, and that he had recently come from
California and was going to sea again in a day or two.—
Mr. Benson : No, you will not. 1 will not tolerate these
diabolical assaults on police-officers. The constable was
doing his duty mildly and properly. You are sentenced to
six weeks' imprisonment with-hard labour. - . -