The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-01 00:00:00

PO iICE INTELLIGENCE.-2 his Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
CAUTION TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.--Mr. James
Grey, of the Grapes, Little Windmill-street, ap-
peared before Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer a sumtrens
taken out by Inspector Bush, of the C Division, for
keeping open during the prohibited hours.
Inspector Morgan said that at 15 minutes past
one on the morning of the 20th nit , he went into
the defendant's house, the Grapes, Little Windmill-
street, and saw 12 persons there in front of the bar,
11 men and one woman. Four of the men were
drinking in turn from a quart pot and seven of the
men entered after one o'clock, and were there when
he went in.

William Fish, 42 C, gave similar evidence.

The defence was that persons were later at the
house than usual in consequence of their discussing
the conditions of a match for £4 between two men
as to which of them would make a pair of boots in
the shortest time.

Two witnesses, named West and Scannell, were
called for the defence, and they both said that the
beer they called for, and which the inspector saw
them drinking, was called for at five minutes to
one o'clock.

Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the defendant 10.3. and costs.

THAMES.

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John. Looney, a
rough-looking fellow, was brought before Mr. Ben-
son charged with committing a very daring high-
way robbery.
Captain Charles Brown, the master of the Ame-
rican ship Daniel Webster, lying in the London
Dock, stated that yesterday evening between 7 and
8 o'clock he was passing along Ratcliff-highway,
when the prisoner made a snatch at his watch
chain, a gold Albert, and broke it. The prisoner
ran away wick the watch, and he pursued him.
'The prisoner was stopped by a police constable,
and he recovered his watch, which he valued at
£2O.

Thomas Gudgeon, 37G K, was in Blue-gate-
fields, a most infamous place, full of thieves and
prostitutes, and saw the prisoner running. He
caught him and held him fast. While talking to
him he saw the watch at his feet.
The prisoner, who put on a very penitential air
and cried, but is known to be a great ruffian, said
that he was formerly a costermonger, and was at-
tacked with a severe illness which compelled him
to go to the hospital. Ho lost all his stock money,
and being in distress he had recourse to the very
desperate expedient of highway robbery. It was
his first offence, and it should be his last.

Mr. Benson would put it out of the power of the
prisoner to repeat such a very serious offence

or a long time, and committed him for trial.

Captain Brown sail he was going away with his
ship on Thursday, and that he could not remain
here to prosecute.
Mr. Benson called the prisoner, and asked him
if he would plead guilty or not guilty ?
The Prisoner (blubbering)—l am guilty, sir.
Mr. Benson said that highway robbery was one
of the most grave offences known to the law. lie

would sentence the prisoner next Tuesday, and in
the meantime he would direct inquiries to be made
about him. The prisoner would not, under any
circumstances, receive a light punishment.

ATTEMPTED BURGLAP.Y.—JOIIII Iligley, a man
about 30 years of age, who is well known to the
police, was brought before Mr. Benson, charged
with being concerned with others in attempting to
break into the dwelling-house of Mrs. Mary Cowell,
of No. 1, Green-street, New-road, Whitechapel.
The prisoner was formerly clerk to an attorney,
and he once attempted to practise as an advocate
in this court. lie was prevented doing so on the
remonstrances of Mr. Joseph Smith, Mr. Stoddart,
Mr. Charles Young, and Mr. Pelham, solicitors,
practising in this court. The prisoner's master was
soon after declared bankrupt, and the prisoner was
brought up to this court charged with an outrage
on a female, for which he was convicted by a jury
and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. On

the expiration of that sentence -he fell into evil
courses again, and was convicted of obtaining
goods under false pretences from a Mr. Hallett, in
Ratcliff, and sentenced to imprisonment. On Sa-
turday morning last, shortly before one o'clock, an
attempt was made to break into Mrs. Cowell's
dwelling. She heard a noise and something fall in
the parlour. On looking out of the first floor win-
dow she saw a man who gave the name of John
Robinson, at her shutters. She called to him and
he went away, and found Higley and another man
in the street. Mr. Herbert Cowell came home
at that time, and in consequence of what his mother
said he gave Robinson iu charge, and was struck
and knocked down by him. Mrs. Cowell after-
wards discovered that the shutters of his parlour
windows had been forced, and the bolt was lying on
her parlour carpet. •
Mr. Benson remanded the prisoner until Satur-
day next, and after hearing the case against Hig-
ley, who was apprehended last night, remanded
him to the same day.
Higley—You will take bail?
Mr. Benson—No, I will not.
Higley—There is no evidence against me.

Mr. Benson-1 think there is.
ROBBING LONDON HOSPITAL VISITORS.—Anne
Macarthy, a dirty and bloated Irishwoman, about
60 years of age, was brought up on lremand before
Mr. Paget, charged with attempting to pick
pockets in front of the London Hospital, White-
ch apel- road.
It appeared from the evidence of police-con-
stable Smith, 225 K, that for some time past the
prisoner had mixed among the visitors on Tuesday
and Friday in each week with a large basket in
her hand, and she was supposed by some to
be a visitor to some patient or to have things
for sale in the basket. Repeated complaints have
been made by females on visits to patients in
the hospital on visiting days that their pockets
have been picked of their purses and money,
and many a case of distress was mixed up with
these complaints. At last Smith, au intelligent
officer, was appointed to loiter about the gates of
the hospital in plain clothes, and if possible dis-
cover the thief. His suspicions were soon directed
towards the prisoner, who was making inquiries of
some, condoling with others, and putting her hands
in their pockets. He observed her put her hands
into the pockets of two women under cover of her
large basket. She took nothing from them, and
then transferred her attentions to a poor woman
with a child in her arms, who was about to visit
her invalid husband. The prisoner was blarneying
the woman while she was ransacking her pocket with
her hand. Smith seized the hand of the prisoner
and asked her what she wanted. "Faith, then,
I've got nothing at all, at all," was the prisoner's
reply. She was forthwith arrested and locked up.
Frederick Southern, a beadle of the London
Hospital, said he had often seen the prisoner among
the crowds of visitors on visiting days, and during
the hours of 3 to 5, and he had asked her what
business she had among the female ♦isitors. Her
reply was that she had only conic there to sell a
few things in her basket.

Mr. Paget—Was there anything in her basket ?
Smith—Nothing, sir, except a few bits of rag and
old ribbons, of no value whatever.
Mr. Paget said he had no doubt the prisoner was
at the hospital gate for the purpose of robbing
people, and that she was a most artful woman. lie
sentenced her to three months' imprisonment and
hard labour.

Till POLICE IN THE SUBURBS.—Referring to a
statement contained in a letter recently published under
the head of " Suburban Robberies" that there is an interval
of two hours between the withdrawal of the day police and
the entry upon duty of the night police in the suburbs, we
are informed that the Chief Commissioner has ascertained,
after careful inquiry, that such is not the case. The double
relief day duty is posted at 7 p.m. and remains on until re-
lieved by the night duty at 10 p.m.
ANOTHER TIDAL PLIENO3IENON.—A Canadian
paper states that on the Ist of November, at Cobourg (on
the north shore of Lake Ontario), the waters of the lake
receded from 50ft. to 100 ft. from the usual water-mark,
returning again rapidly, with a loud rushing sound, simi-
lar to that heard when the tide is coining in on the sea
coast. The ebbing and flowing wore repeated a number
of times, for the space of three-quarters of an hour.