The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

CHANCELLOR V. LADY MARY KING.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Complainant stated that on Tuesday afternoon, about
four o'clock, he was walking through Belgrave-square in
company with a friend, when defendant came up, and
pointing to his (complainant's) little dog that was fol-
lowing him, said he must go with him to the station, as
'he believed the dog to he the one which had been lost by
a gentleman a short time ago. Complainant assured
the defendant that the dog was his property, and offered
to give him his name and address, but the defendant in-
sisted on it that the complainant should go to the station
with him. Complainant refused unless it was in the
road he was going, when defendant replied, that if he
did not he should take him into custody and make him
go. Defendant then forced him along by the arm, and
on complainant stating that he was a rospt stable man, and
did not like to be so handled in the public street, de-
fendant replied that he did not care what he was, and
taking him by the collar, used him more roughly than
before. After being treated in this way for some time,
in the presence of a number of persons who had as.
sembled, complainant insisted upon having a cab, and
rode to the station with the constable. On arriving there
to his great surprise, defendant did not say a single word
about the dog, but informed the sergeant that there had
been a robbery of fcur pairs of boots and a pair of shoes,
that afternoon, by a man wearing a Taglioni coat, and
he thought complainant resembled the description of the
man, as the person in the boot and shoe case was des-
cribed as being about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches and complain-
ant was 5 feet 10 inch, s? arid defendant said, he thought
he answered the description. Complainant was liberated
and considered it his duty to bring the complaint, to de-
ter others from committing such an outrage.
Defendant, in a strong Irish accent, observed—He
said he'd knock my head off.
Complainant—I was much excited at being treated as
a felon in the neighbourhood where several gentlemen
for whom I work reside, and I did say, when he was
handling me roughly by the collar, that if it was not for
his being a policeman I would knock him down. I made
use of no bad language at that or at any other cunt'.
Complainant's friend confirmed the greater part of
his statement.
Defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was never
told the height of the person who was wanted fir the
boots; and as complainant and his friend hitered about
the square in a suspicious way, and aus veered the des-
cription, he took him.
Complainant and his friend denied most positively that
they had loitered.
Defendant said—Yes, they did ; and looked in at shop-
windows.

This was denied in equally positive terms ; and com-
plainant said, ho would show defendant's incompetency
to be a policeman by his own admission. He (defendant)
had called at his house that morning to entreat forgive-
ness, and said, " I have been a policeman for 12 months,
and you are the first man I ever took up."

Mr. Locke and Mr. Keyser appeared fur the plaintiff,
and Mr. Beaden for the defendant.

This was a❑ action brought to recover the sum of, 81.
for damage done to the plaintiff's carriage, by the wil-
ful conduct of her Ladyship's coachman in insisting in
breaking through the ranks, and endeavouring to take
up out of his turn. The plaintiff is an extensive job-
master at the west-end of the towr, and he let one of his
carriages for the season to Lady Charles Somerset. On
the evening of the last Derby-day a select party was
given by Lady Philips, at her residence, 12, Hill-street,
Berkeley-square, to which both Lady Charles Somerset
and Lady Mary King were invited. The party broke
up at midnight, and Lady Somerset's carriage was called
to take up by the linkman, when the coachman of Lady
King, who had been previously called, attempted to
" cut in," by which means the carriages came in contact
with each other, the wheels getting locked together, and
on the coachman of Lady King endeavouring to back
out, considerable damage was done to the carriage of the
plaintiff, the panel was broken and the wheels injured, so
much so, that Lady Somerset refused to have it any
longer, and another carriage was sent by the plaintiff for
her ladyship's use.
The Learned COUNSEL called several witnesses, who
completely proved his case, among the number was th©
linkman, who kept the Court in a roar of laughter during
the whole time he was giving his evidence.
John Mayer said, he had the honour of being ap-
pointed linkman to her Majesty's nobility for these last
thirty years, and his son-in-law was his deputy and man
of all work.—(Loud laughter.) He did not see the ac-
cident occur, but he heard the cry of " Linkman, bring
your light," and ho then saw the two carringes con-
tracted together.—(Great laughter.) Lady King's
carriage had smashed the panel of the carriage
of Lady Charles Somerset ; her Ladyship's (the
defendant's) carriage had come out of its turn and broke
the ranks. The coachman had come the artful dodge of
"cutting in," and witness told him that he had got in a
pretty mess.—(Loud laughter.) A regular aristocratic
coachman would have quietly waited until his lady called,
and not have been out of the way when he was wanted,
by which means he was sent to the bottom, and lost his
turn.

Cross-examined—Then, I suppose you are the " light
of other days."—Yes, a very ancient linkman, and was
first brought out in well bred society by a celebrated
lady of rank.—(Laughter.) Didn't wonder at accidents
happening now-a-days, they called things such rummy
names, as wasn't illegitiwate.—(Roars of laughter.)
They had Brougham,, buggys, flys, sulkys, and such like
jiuncracks, instead of the real nobleman's illegitimate car-
riage.—(Convulsions of laughter.) My Lord Duke, or
her Grace, in going to parties, was no sooner in than
they were out again ; and that wasn't so when George
the Third was King.—(Continued laughter.) That's
the way these here accidents occur, for as one's coming
the other is going, and that creates confUsion. There's
always great smashing at the Opera.
The Learned COUNSEL then addressed the jury at great
length, and contended that the servants of the defendant
were not to blame, and Lady Somerset's carriage drove
up when it was not called. The Learned Gentleman
called three witnesses ; but they totally failed to esta-
blish his defence, and the jury, without giving the
Learned Judge the trouble to sum up, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, V., being the full amount
claimed.

On Thursday a messenger of the Great Western
Railroad establishment was robbed of about 1,3001. in
Bank-notes, sovereigns, and silver, in the following
manner :—lt has been-for some time his practice to
take a blue bag with a considerable sum of money in
it, from the railroad station at Paddington to Sir R.
C. Glyn's banking-house, in Lombard-street. On
Thursday, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, he
got upon the roof of the railway omnibus with his
blue bag, in which were wrapped up in a leathern
trunk 800 sovereigns and 500/. in Bank-notes. A
gentleman at the station having occasion to say a few
words to him, he got down, leaving his valuable
parcel on the top of the omnibus, and the moment he
was on the ground, five men mounted and occupied
the whole space. These men got down at different
places between the terminus and Marylebone Church,
and the messenger, upon arriving at Lombard-street,
took what he considered to be his parcel to the bank-
ing-house. He soon found that a very unwelcome
exchange had been made, for the blue bag, which had
been made to resemble his as closely as possible, wt s
filled with old pieces of lead and copper. Imagining
that his bag was still on the top of the omnibus, he
ran after the vehicle to the Brighton station, but
there, to his dismay, he ascertained that there was no
parcel of any kind.
The Bank-notes were ordered to be stopped at the
Bank, and immediate intelligence was given of the
robbery to John and Daniel ForreAer, the officers.

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday, a miscreant, respectably-dressed, who
refused to give his name, was brought before Mr. Jardine,
to answer the charge of having indecently exposed him-
self to a little girl, 13 years of age, in St. James's-park,
shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon.
The charge was fully established, it being proved also
that the offence was committed in the presence of two
still younger children than the one to whose care they
were entrusted.

The defendant said he had no reason to .dispute the
evidence which had been given, but he assured the magis-
trate that everything he did was with the unqualified
consent of the girl. lie would not attempt to justify his
conduct in a moral point of view, but he denied that he
had offended against any law. He added that he was a
gentleman livinrupon his fortune, and moving in a station
that would save him from the imputation of having in-
dulged frequently in habits of this nature.
Mr. JARDINE, after some hesitation, expressed his
regret that he was compelled to believe that the child
was a consenting party to all that he did and said in her
presence, so that it was impossible to convict him of an
outrage upon her. But; as the act of exposure in a pub-
lic place, frequented .by persons of high respectability,
was an offence for which he thought it probable he might
be proceeded against, without reference to the child, he
should mark his abhorrence of such disgraceful and im-
moral conduct by requiring him to find two sureties in
401. each, and to enter into his own recognizarices of
MI. to answer any charge that might be instituted at
the next sessions, and in the meantime to keep the
peace, &c.
[Surely neither of the younger children or the park-
keeper, all of whom witnessed the disgusting offence,
were consenting parties ? Could not a charge for the
offence as against them be supported? If it can possibly
be procured, we shall certainly publish the name and ad-
dress of this disgrace to human nature, that his crime
may not go wholly unpunished.]
QUEEN-SQUA RE.
Yesterday Michael lll'Donough, police-constable B 66,
was brought before the magistrate, charged with having
apprehended Mr. James Lambden, a boot-maker, residing
.at 39, St. John. street, Clerkenwell, and dragged him
through the streets in broad daylight, without the slight-
est excuse for such conduct.

Mr. BURRELL said that defendant had clearly, and
without knowing what he was about, apprehended com-
plainant on two charges without there being a shadow of
foundation for either. He should not impose a flue, but
commit him for one month to the House of Correcti, ti.—
Committed accordingly.