The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

. On Thursday Join Riley, a smartly dressed dapper
young man, was brought before Mr. Cottingham,
charged With. stealing 101. from William Charles
Curden, under the following- circumstances :—The
-prisoner•was taken into custody on Tuesday night in
the act' of 'Striking a woman near Astley s Theatre.
On' the way to the station-house he was observed to
take something out of his' pocket, which he seemed
very antiOnAto throw away, but being noticed by the
policemen, 'on being taken from him it turned out to be
a purse containing a number of flash notes at one tnd,
anclat the other several well-executed counterfeit
,sovereigns. -and half-sovereigns.. The prisoner then
,pretended "that he had picked up the purse and its
contents, but a policeman in the court having stated
that the prisoner was .suspected 'of having committed
.a robbery near the terminus of the Dover Railroad,
he Was accordingly detained, and when brought up
.yesterday young man, named Curden, from Dover,
Appeared against him. Curden's account was that he
came up from Dover on the 7th instant with 101. in
'his pocket 'to enable him to live until he obtained a
situation in town. On his arrival at the terminus,he Was iddresied by the prisoner, who assumed to
be a strarigei in town, and inquired the way =to
Newington,'Al the complainant was going in that
direction they proceeded together, and on the way the
priiener Was,invited into a public,house, where they
had not beed-long before a well•dressed elderly man
-entered the-room and joined in the conversation. The
*ringer prOdueed a pack of cards, and made a bet
with the priioner, with whom there was no doubt he
was in collusion, respecting the cutting of the pack.
Tbe bet was taken by the prisoner, who bOrrowed
the stakes of complainant, saying he left his purse at
hislOdgingsoind that he would repay hini. In, this
manner the prisoner and the other stranger continued
at play until' the former obtained possession of-' the
whole of complainant's 101., and then left the house
with hiin, saying he would go and get his purse and
pay him. Stirm after they left the prisoner made
some frivolous, excuse, and
." bolted" away from the
complainant, .who had not seen him again until that
day in Custody..
The prisoner declared complainant was Mistaken in
his identity ; but it having been stated that he was
suspected of being connected with a gang of thieves,
called " magarnen," who lie in wait for the arrival of
strangers from
,the country, and muster in strong
numbers About the different railway termini, he was
therefore remanded, as other cases were likely to be
got up againit hiin. •
• Thomas Dunn was charged with committing a violent
assault on Tithothy M'Carthy, by which he fractured his
-

It appeared that the offence arose out of one of those
disgraceful affrays which are of such common occur-
rence amongst the lower orders of the Irish in the me-
tropolis. On the preceding night a row commenced in
White Hand-alley, a locality peopled chiefly by the
Irish,,t and the complainant, who seems to have
interfered in the character of peacemaker, was
attacked by the prisoner, who struck him three
heavy. blows with a poker on the head and frae

tured his skull. The whole place was in a state of
complete uproar,: men, women, and children being en-
gaged in the affray, which was not put an end to until
the police interfered ; and the wounded man was obliged
to be conveyed to the hospital, where, on examination,
it was discovered that his skull, was fractured.

Although the injury is of such a serious nature, yet it
was pronounced that WCarthy's life was not in danger,
and his assailant was held to bail to answer the charge
at the session'. •

,M44RYLEBONE.
Two working, men, named Merman and Jones, were
charged with being drunk, and whilst in that state furi-
ously driving a gig along the Edgware-road.
Policeman 206 D: said he saw the defendants driving
a gig along the road, and lashing the poor animal most
unmercifully, at nine o'clock last night. They both had
hold of the rains; and were quarrelling, and both wanted
to drive. He Went up to the horse's head and stopped
their prograss ; and, finding they were intoxicated and
incapable of driving, many persons having been nearly
run over, be took them to the station-house and the horse
and gig to the green-yird. When he stopped them the
horse was rearing about the road, and would most likely
have darted off, had he not interposed.
The defendants-said they had been drinking, and were
very sorry for their conduct. They were fined 20s.
each, which they immediately paid.
THAMES POLICE.
Thursday, a young man named James Boeett was
brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with stealing
a quantity of linen, valuedat 51., the property of a man
named Day, of No. 10, Turner-row, Bow-iommon.
It appeared that Day's family had made yesterday
a washing day, and at an early hour were in a shed
adjoining the premises, where they left a quantity of
linen partially "in the suds, and were at breakfast.
On their return they found the linen gone and
raised an alarm, when all the gossips of the
neighbourhood met for the purpose of discussing
the best means of discovering the thief who
had invaded•' the laundry. While they were in
full conclave, • a boy named Wilson, who had
seen the prisoner in a ditch rolling up some linen
in a red handkerchief, gave information of the fact.
The women immediately set off in •arious directions.
and formed a cordon about the fields, while others
started across them to intercept bim. The alarm
spread in all directions, and the whole population of
the neighbourhood turned out. The prisoner, finding
himself hotly pursued, sought refuge, first in a ditch,
afterwards under a hedge, lanly In a ponat but
he was driven trom his hiding-place, and at last took
to the main road; and passed a beer-shop called the
Farm-house, at full speed, with a bundle under his
arm. He had not gone far before the women con-
fronted him, and-. he took to his heels in a contrary
direction;" and dropped the bundle. He passed the
beer-shop again-running, and Fielding, the landlord,
who had been iri the meantime acquainted with the
robbery, ran out and seized the prisoner. but lie got
away, and leaped over a fence. Fielding pursued
him over hedges; ditches, and fences, from the Ben
Jonson Fields 'at Stepney, to Poplar, and at last
captured him. The prisoner knocked him down and
started again, and•such was his agility that.he passed
over brick walls,. quickset hedges, fences and dykes
with the quickest' rapidity. He was met, however,
in all directions .by-the cordon feminine, who turned
him back, and- while making his way across a turnip
field, he was met:` by Fielding again, Who fairly run
him down, and detained him until a police-conitlib!e
named Cunningham, No. 142 K, arrived, who ►earched
him, and .found `upon him pieces of linen, which he
had concealed under his clothes. The articles were
identified by the disughter of the owner. There were
two silk handkerchiefs found on the prisoner which
Were not owned.

The prisoner, -in defence,' said he was in the em-
ploy o Wigram'and Green, at Blackwell, and that
hc., saw a bundle bf linen in the road, and picked it
up. He run away because he saw others running.
Fielding, thelatidlord of the Farm-house, said the
chase lasted an hour, and the prisoner cleared fences,
ditches, and embankments in no time."

deterni-
_Mr. BILLANTINE committed the prisoner to New-
gate for trial.
N-
-fll
EreNssDed.
nation of the presiding magistrates to put a stop to the
practice of ' touting" for the steamers on the Sun-
daytAht tre'ciGue R
frequently VEexSp
in particular; as a breach of the Sabbath as well
'as a nuisance; and, on week days as a great public nui-
sance, on Thursday James Reid and Samuel Rowe were
again charged with the commission of this so often-
repeated offence. ln purkluaOneWeo.

lir, Southgate, solicitor for the town commis-
sioners, having applied to the Bench to have the
penalties in all the former convictions enforced, as the
commission of the offence was contumaciously per-
sisted in, .

Mr. Mathews, for the defendants, warmly contended
gainst the power of flt. Bench to enforce payment of
the penalties and costs pending the' appeals which hi
had entered in every case of conviction of the touters
for. the Star. Steam-packet Company.
The repetition of the offence by the defendants on
the 3d instant, in aPparent defiance of the- numerous
convietions-recordid against them, having been fully
proved by James Adams, the street- keeper,
The. Magistrates convicted them in penalties of
forty shillings and, costs for each repetition of the of-
fence, as set forth in the informations.

Samue Rowe was also charged by James Adams
with .having,- olv.the evening of the 3d instant, at-
tacked him in the:High-street, near the Star-office,
and with abusing `him, with a view of provoking a
breach of the' peace.
Fined foriy shillings and costs.
Mr. Mathews immediately lodged with the town
clerk notices of appeal against the convictions.

. STRANGE OCCURRENCE.
There is u report.abroad of a very distressing nature,
in which the name of an' officer in the Royal Marine
force.is mixed up. .It appears that a ball and supper
were given on the 26th of last month, by Capt. Warren,
at his summer resicre'-nce, Coolgrena, near Cove, at which
the officer referred• to attended, and that the following,
morning a number: of silver forks and spoons were mis-
sing. Suspicion alighted on the , servants, but inquiry
of them, a
dfaeislcinrgiptiion attachingn.tf.the ctoirleitnninal4y propertytn anywas published in
handbills, and nothing More was known until Satur•
day. In the, course of that day, a respfctable-
looking woinart tendered pieces of silver spoons and
forks Or sale at the shop of Mr. Hawkesworth,
Grand-parade. The, manner in- which they .were bat-
tered 'and broken up attracted his attention, and with
the aid of a. powerful magnifying lens, he discovered that
sotnepf the pieces lore the crest of Captain Warren,
while one bore his initials, thereby corresponding with
Some of the articles stolen. Perceiving this he informed
the lady. that he shOtild stop the silver, as he had rea-
son to suppose it wai stolen, and that he should also
require to know from her by what means it came
into her possession. To this strange and startling
announcement she it once said it could not be the
case, fur that it had. been given her that morning by an
as some old silver,
which he had had a long time in his possession, and had
officer of the- Royal Marines to sell,.
no other use for: The lady lft the shop, no doubt la-
bouring under excited and embarrassed feelings. and, in
some minutes after, Mr. Hawkesworth, who had de-
tained the articles,- went out with a view of making
further inquiries, and met her again, when he requested
her name and address, for which she at once referred
him to a respectable citizen residing on Merchants'-quay,
who, on inquiry, informed Mr. Hawkesworth that she
was the Wife of a gentleman holding a Government situa-
,tion- in the Cirdhance Store Department at Haulbowline
Island, and that she must have been utterly unaware
of the property :having. been come by otherwise than
properly. Mr. Hawkesworth having been,
_of course, at
once assured of this, expressed his regret that she should
have been:subjected to any trouble or annoyance, and,
as •we were subsequently informed, she acquainted her
husband with..the matter on her return home the same
evening, whosit.Pnce made a report in writing of the oc-
currence to the commanding officer on the island, through
whom it .-was transmitted officially to the Admiral, and
at an early hour_on Sunday morning an order was issued
from the; Adiniralty-office at Cove to put under arrest
the officer .named. When the order reached he was
absent from his'quarters, but soon:after returned, and
was informed 'of -the 'dircumstanees with which his name
Wei so painftiTlyinixedup. He asserted that the articles
had been in his pOsiession for a year and a half, and were
his own
ProPersy;and'so the matter remains until the re.
suit of a public inquiry shall have determined the cor-
rectness et. otherwise:Of his statement. Intimation was
received by,Mr. Hawkesworth this morning to attend
in COve at an niestigation which "was to take place
there this day,`' the result of which, we shall probably
be enabled to•airefetnice in our next, and if it should
remove from 'the character of a young man entering
.pn an honourable
profession so distressing an impu-
tation, it will. give very great satisfaction. If, on
the contrary, "it should establish the charges, we shall
expect to see the casedealt with in the same manner as
if the accusedielonged to the humblest station of life.
It is With ireai regret 'we notice the matter at present ;
but, as it foring prominent topic in many Circles, we
have only to publish the statement, as we were enabled
to collect the partieulafe !hat have as yet transpired from
sources the leastilkelY:to exaggerate or misrepresen•
them—Cork Alper or
Tuesday.

NEW POLICE;COURtS.—Jt is now, we believe, de-
finitely arranged that the two new police-courts, recently
.erected at Stones-4 nd, Borough, and at. Kenningtor,
shall be opened simultaneously about the latter end of
this month. The hilliness that is now transacted at
Union-hall will be divided between these two courts.
The whole of che
M. and the inner portion of the 1'
division charges will go to Stones-end, whilst the L and
outer portion of the
1' division will take their charges to
the court at Kennington, to which the Lambeth-street
magistrates, clerks, ushers. &c., will remove,
it being the
intention of the Government to abolish Lambeth-street
court altogether.
FATAL ACCIMNT AT DALET.—Thursday, while
a number of workmen were engaged in excavating the
foundations of the Free Church about to be erected in
this place, and in taking down an old wall of twelve or
fourteen feet in height, a large portion of the wall ud-
denly fell down, burying William Hannah, the contrac-
tor fur the building, beneath the mass. Medical aid was
immediately procured, but when be was got out he was
found to be dead, his skull being fractured in two or
three places, and his lefrleg broken. One or two others
who were beneath; the wall escaped very narrowly from
a like deplorable fate,---Glasgow Argta.

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