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POLICE IN i'----ELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Smith and Savage, mere lads, were brought before
Alderman Gibbs charged under these circumstances :
Mr. S. H. Day, wine-merchant, of 21, Pudding-
lane, Eastcheap, said, on Tuesday week I received the
order produced (in the _French language) for six
dozen bottles of champagne. It purports to be signed
" P. Nind," and was put into my hands by the pri-
soner Smith. In consequence of information which
I received, I detained him until a constable privately
arrived, and then I delivered one case containing
three dozen of champagne to him. The prisoner
Savage, who was outside waiting with a truce- when
Smith went out, assisted in putting the case into the
truck, which they then bosh draw away. When
Smith gave me the order I asked him where he came
from, and he said from Leicester-square.
Mr. Philip Nind, cf the Sabloniere Hotel, Leices-
ter-square, said the order produced is not in my hand-
writing, nor was it written by my direction or sanc-
tion. I know nothing of the prisoners.
Mr. F. de Yrigyli, clerk to Messrs. Louis Marie
Canneaux and Son, wine-merchants, Coleman-street,
seid, on the 31 of September, a young man, whom
I cannot identify, brought to me the order produced
(also in the French language) for one case of cham-
pagne. The order purported to be signed by Mr.
Nind, who had been a customer of the house, alai I,
-believing it to be genuine, gave directions that the
wine shou'd be delivered.
Mr. E. Canneaux—l was in the counting-house
when the order was brought by Smith, and when the
case was packed it was delivered to him, arid he signed
the receipt produced in the name of " Henry Car-
nell." The champagne was taken outside to a truck
which was in the care of a young man whom I be-
lieve to be the prisoner Savage, and I saw them go
away together.
Mr. Nind stated that the order produced by the
last witness was also a forgery.
Mr. G. J. Booly, clerk to Mr. P. Scott, wine-mer-
chant, in St. Swithin's-lane—On the 22d of last
August, a young man brought to me the order pro
duced for one six-dozen case of champagne, but as it
was not sufficiently- explicit es to the quality and
colour, and we had to pay the duty on the wine, he
was told to send again next day, and accordingly, on
the following day, the prisoner brought the wine and
a paper, stating the particulars, and he received the
wine and gave me the receipt produced, purporting
to be signed by Mr. Verrey, of 229, It:Tent-street.
Mr. Louis Verrey, who is in partnership with his
brother, said—The order produced was not signed by
my brother or by me, nor was the other paper, pro-
duced by the officer. If any wine had been required
for the use of the establishment, I must have known
it. I know nothing of the prisoners.
Ratcliffe, 375—0 n the morning of the 22nd of
August, I was on duty in St. Paul's-churchyard, and
I saw the prisoner Smith, and a man named Thoth,
drawing a truck containing a case of champagne. I
went close to the truck, and Smith turned round and
saw me, and ran off with another man, who was on
the pavement. I followed them and lost them both.
Another man took hold of the truck then and went
off with Beoth. I followed the truck and stopped it,
and it has been returned to Mr. Scott with the wine.
J. Calcott, coal-dealer, of Tower-street, proved
that he had lent the truck to Smith on the 22nd of
August.
llvde, 516, who had been sent for to watch and
take into custody the prisoners, stated that he fol-
lowed them from the premises of Mr. Day, and ap-
prehended them as they were dragging the truck
containing the case of champagne.
Alderman GIBBS asked the prisoners whether they
wished to make any answer to the charge ?
Smith—No ; none from me.
Savage—l know nothing of anything wrong, but
was asked by Smith to help him draw the trunk, and
I did so, when the officer took me into custody.-
Committed for trial.

SOUTHIVARK.
Elizabeth Guilday, a respectable-looking woman,
setween 30 and 40 years of age, with an infant in her
arms, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton,
charged with bigamy.
The circumstances attending the alleged offence are
of a singular description. It appeared that the pri-
soner's first husband, to whom she was married in
June, 1935, was shortly afterwards apprehended on
a charge of felony, tried, and convicted of the offence,
and sentenced to transportation for seven years. lie
remained, however, on board the hulks for some time
in this country, during which period he had oppor-
tunities of communicating with his wife, the pri-
soner, but he was ultimately sent out, with other
convicts, to Sydney, where he remained until the ex-
piration of his sentence, and when he returned to this
country he sought out his wife, and found that she
had married another man, named Fletcher, with
whom she was then living, and by whom she had
some children. She, upon that occasion, did not
attempt to screen herself from the consequences
of the act she committed, and rested her
defence, first, on her having contracted a mar-
riage with a man of bad character, through whose
profligacy and misconduct she had suffered severely,
and, secondly, not having heard of him or from him
during the period of his transportation, she considered
he was dead, and that, therefore, she was justified by
law in availing herself of an offer of marriage made
to her by a respectable man, who was informed of all
the circumstances attending her first unfortunate
union with the complainant. The latter, finding that
the prisoner was still determined on remaining under
the roof of the second husband (Fletcher), had her
apprehended, and adopted the present , proceedings
against her_
The necessary evidence to establish the second mar-
riage, as well as the first having been adduced, the
prisoner, by the advice of Mr. Dancornbe, her solici-
tor, declined saying anything at present on the sub-
ject of the charge. She, however, complained to the
magistrate that she sent her daughter, a girl cf twelve
years of age, to see the complainant (her father)
eleven weeks ago, and that he did not suffer her to
return. She now wished to know if the girl could
be kept forcibly away from her ?
Mr. NORTON told her that if the girl was the
daughter by the first husband he was entitled by law
to keep her.
The complainant here stepped into the witness-
box, and addressing the magistrate, said the morals
of his daughter would be preserved, as she was living
with him and his mother, and that was the reason he
prevented her from returning to the abode of a
mother who had disgraced herself by forming a
matrimonial alliance with a man while her own hus-
band was living.
Air. NORTON remarked that he could not well dis-
tinguish the reasons that induced the 'complainant to
adopt the present proceedings.
The complainant said that he was convinced the
prisoner must have known all along that he was still
in existence at the time she wished it to be believed
that lie was dead. That he had written letters to her
from Sydney and Launceston, where he acted in the
capacity of constable soom after his arrival, owing to
his good conduct. That he was certain his communi-
cations had come to hand, but if she had any cloub':s
about him, she could easily have ascertained by an
application at the convict establishment. He added,
that he had suffered according to the laws of his
country ; that it was not he was but what he is at
present, and that his character since he had retrieved
it, he was proud to say, would bear investigation.
The pri,oner was committed, but the magistrate
accepted bail for her appearance to answer the charge
at the sessions. Sureties to the amount la quired were
tendered immediately, and the prisoner left the court
with a number of her friends, who appeared to take
a deep interest in the proceedings.

GREENWICH.
William Cuss en , aged 31, a police-constablp, N
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142, of the R division, stationed at the dock and vic-
tualling-yards, Deptford, was brought up and placed
in the dock, before Mr. Seeker, by hir. Inspec:or
M'Gill, charged with assaulting Jana Robertson, aged
18 years, a married woman, and wife of Gunner
Hector Robertson, belonging to the Bth battalion of
the Royal Artillery, Woolwich.
The prosecutrix, a neatly-dressed young woman, of
very modest and pleasing demeanour, stated that she
went to the dockyard station to report the prisoner's
disgraceful conduct on Tuesday, abut three o'clock.
She left Woolwich, bringing a letter from her hus-
band to police-constable &Afore], of the dockyard
police. She left by the 'Woolwich train at twelve
o'clock, and got out at Deptford station, New Cross-
road, where she saw a policeman (the pri:oner)
walking over the bridge, of whom she in-
quired the way to the Deptford dockyard, and
told him that she wanted to see police-
constable Setford. The prisoner told her that Setford

„ 11,; twelve munths prey ous;y he .1,.d
had ix weeks' imprisonment, also for picking pock .
lie was the regular companion, too, of eunvict,:d
thieves, as well as of his own corps of the swell-mob.
The prisoner again exclaimed that urgent distrsss
had driven him to this theft. He was hot a thief on

Another policeman then stood up in the witness-
box, and said that to his knowledge the prisoner had,
for a considerable time, been the associate of thieves.
He was one of the " mobsmen" who plied his voca-
tion with great success in omnibuses. lie was very
well known in the City districts.
The prisoner, whilst these characters were being
given of him, held up his hands in silent surprise.
The Learned CHAIRMAN said he had heard quite
sufficient to satisfy him that the prisoner was a titter
subject for a residence abroad than in this country.
The sentence upon him, therefore, was transportation
for seven years beyond the seas.
The prisoner again held up his arms in astonish-
ment in true Maw worm style.