The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2-., 1644.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESITRDAY.)
CLERKENWELL.
REPORTERS AT POLICE-COURT3.—A change has
been made within the last few :days in the interior
arrangements of the Clerkenwell Police-court, pro-
ductive of great inconvenience to the reporters for the
morning newspapers who attend them. The box
which had been designed and constructed for the ac-
commodation of reporters, and which has been ex-
elusively occupied by them since the erection of the
court, is now, by direction of the magistrates, only
140 l py_police officers. A seat at the rear of the box
has been placed for the reporters, and this is the only
part of the court, except ,the body, which they are
permitted to occupy. At other Police-courts, the
Thames, for instance, reporters are allowed to sit at
the table when they find it more convenient, although
there is a box for their especial accommodation, the
very same as that from which the reporters have been
expelled at Clerkenwell. But no such privilege is
allowed at Clerkenwell—they have been forbidden
even to lay their hats upon the table, a convenience
denied to no other persons. Owing to a defect in the
construction of the court, the difficulty of hearing is
very great, and one of the magistrates, at least, com-
Owns of the defect almost every day he sits; but re-
porters are now placed at a greater distance from the
applicant, the witness, the prisoner, and the magis-
trate, than before. The applicant and witness are at
one side of the court, the reporters' seat by the oppo-
site wall. In addition to the inconvenience of dis-
tance, the new seat has been placed directly between
the gaoler's door and the magistrates' fire-place, so
that there is a current of air constantly rushing from
the cell -yard, which, in cold weather, will be most
prejudicial to the comfort, if not to the health, of those
who sit there. The reporters, in the first instance,
remonstrated with the chief clerk on the subject, but
finding it fruitless, memorialised the Secretary of
State. The subjoined answer has been returned to
the application :

" Whitehall, Aug. 22, 1844.
" Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir
James Graham to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 17th inst , complaining that an alteration
which has been recently made in the position of the
reporters' box at the Clerkenwell Police-court causes
inconvenience to the reporters in the discharge of their
duties. And I am to inform you that Sir James
Graham is desirous that every opportunity should be
given for affording to the public accurate information
of the proceedings at the Police-courts.
" Sir James Graham has made a full inquiry of
the magistrates respecting the alteration, and from
the report which he has received, it appears that the
change has been made with a view to the conve-
nience of the public and of those engaged in the con-
duct of business in the Court; he directs me, there-
fore, to inform you, that under the circumstances, he
must decline issuing any instructions to disturb the
existing arrangement.s.—l am, Gentlemen, your obe-
dient servant, " 11. MANNERS SUTTON. •
" To the Reporters, &c."
WORSHIP-STREET.

Two. men, named John 1-funt and James Waterloo,

the former a journeyman locksmith, and the latter a
weaver, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Brough-
ton, charged on suspicion of having stolen a large
quantity of jewellery and other articles, the property
of Mr. Joseph Burns, landlord of the Black Si,yan
pubiic-house, in School-house-lane, Mile-end.
The prosecutor stated that the prisoners were
members of a Society called " The Old Friends,"
the meetings of which were held at his house, and
they both attended there at a general meeting of the
members on the previous night. On going upstairs
soon after the company had dispersed, he found that
the door of his bed-room, which was situated imme-
diately over the club-room, had been broken open,
and that a quantity of jewellery, consisting of three
gold brooches, several rings, seals, breast-pins, and
other articles, had been abstracted from the different
compartments of three chests of drawers, the whole
of which had been forced with some iron instru-
ment. In consequence of the equivocal conduct of
the prisoners during the evening, he immediately
suspected that they were implicated in the robbery,
and caused them to be taken into custody.
Mr. BROUGHTON inquired if anything was known
as to the habits and general character of the
prisoners ?
Sergeant Barker said that he knew nothing at
all prejudicial to the character of Waterloo, but that
Hunt had been known to the police fur some time
-as a suspected person.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that there was no evidence
to inculpate the prisoner Waterloo ; but he consi-
dered the conduct of Hunt was so full of suspicion,
that he should certainly remand him for further
inquiry.
_ .

The prisoner, Waterloo, was discharged, and the
other prisoner was ordered to find substantial bail
for his appearance on Wednesday next.
GREENWICH.

OnThursday Mary Ann Kendall, a fine-looking
young woman, aged 22, was brought before Mr.
Jeremy, charged with attempting self-destruction by
throwing herself into the Grand Surrey Canal, at
Black Horse- bridge, Deptford.
William Arthur deposed that he was going to his
daily labour, and when near Black Horse-bridge lw
heard a scream repeated three times loudly. He saw
the prisoner jump into the water. Supposed she was
trying to save her sister, who had previously jumped
in and sunk. She resisted witness very much, and
sail she was determined to go in again. He got her
out of the canal with the assistance of the police and
other persons.
W. Padgam, 278 M, deposed that he conveyed the
prisoner to the station-house. On the way she de-
clared that she would go into the water again. She
would go with her sister, but assigned no reason for
so doing.
Prisoner said she did not know her sister Eliza was '
going to drown herself. ller sister dipped her hand-
kerchief in the canal, and wiped her face. Witness
turned round. and in an instant she heard a splash in
the water. On again turning she saw deceased sink-
ing. Don't recollect saying I would follow her.
Jane Kendall deposed that she and her sister went
out to get from the sight of their father ; they left
home early in the morning, at five o'clock ; there
are five in family, her father, self, and three sisters;
they all work at shirtmaking, for a slop- house at Ber-
mondsey; the person they work for is a Mr. Nor-
man ; deceased and her sister had pledged some
shirts; witness lent them ss. to redeem them; it was
money given her by her father to pay the rent with.
They could earn by working very hard indeed, early
and late, 3s. 6d. or 4s. per week. They received from
is. 6d. to 3s. per dozen for making them.
Mr. JEREMY—That's 'from I id. to 3d. each.
It was not mentioned to her father that the money
had been misapplied, to their knowledge; but they
much feared his knowledge of the fact ; ss. was all
that her father had to pay his rent with.
Mr. JEREMY said she had much better have told the
truth, that the money had been applied to redeem 1
shirts.

The father of the prisoners stated that he got his
living by working along shore among the shipping.
He had made no complaint of her pledging the work,
or redeeming it with his money.
Mr; JEREMY said the present case was one of those
exhibiting•the effects of the grinding system in pay-
ing for labour. Mere was a scene of distress and
misery; two young girls going out deliberately in
the morning for the purpose of destroying them-
selves, and one of them at that moment lying a corpse.
After reading to the prisoner a most feeling admo-
nition, Mr. Jeremy ordered her to be delivered over
to Ler father, who promised to sooth and keep a
watchful eye upon her for the present.
The unhappy parent and his daughters then left the.
Court, absorbed in grief. _