The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-27 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCISE.

Mr. Win. Parsons, the proprietor of the Duke of York,
in Turk-street, Bethnal-green, was charged with hav-
ing in his possession five gallons of British spirits that
had not paid duty, and was fined 201.
Johanna Rapp, of 23, Golden-square,Westminster, was
complained of for selling wine and spirits, she having no
license. The case was fully made out by two respect-
able officers of the court. Defendant's residence is a
lodging•house, and information having reached the
Board of Excise that exciseable articles were retailed
therein as in a tavern, a detection immediately followed
—wax-lights were charged 35.; apartments, 10s. 6(1.;
fire,-Is.; servant, 35.; and the other charges for refresh-
twists were equally exorbitant.
Au attorney argued, that as the officers went to his
client's hou,e on a Sunday, stating that they were going
to a funeral, she was bound to serve them; but Mr.Nlayilw
sareasticallyreplied, that such articles ought not to be sold
by unlicensed persons, to the detriment of the very heavy
taxed tavern-keeper. Proof having. been given that the
defendant was rated in the parish books at a rental of
82/. a-year, the Court gave judgment, fining her in the
penalty of 251.
Victor Gengues, of Nos. 1 and 2, Leicester-square, was
ordered to pay 151. for a like offence.
Edward Smith, 17, East-street, Fibsbury-market, a
French_poltsher, was summoned for being in possession
of a quantity of illicitly manufactured spirits. Ten gal-
lons of the stuff was produced in court. It was 22 per
cent. over proof.
Defendant said he had purchased the spirit as naphtha.
at 9s. 6d. per gallon.
Mr. Sanders, the store-keeper, in answer to the Court,
said that the duty was 7s. 10d. on such spirits.
A fine of .51. was inflicted, and the liquor was adjudged
to be forfeited. _ _

John Gibson, 4, Providence-buildings, Old Kent-I.nd,
was summoned fur working a private still.
Mr. Bayfield, a gentleman connected with the Excise,
said that he discovered on the defendant's premises a
private still, which was in full operation, and charged
with sixty gallons of molasses wash. A most extensive
business must hare been carried on by him.— Fined 501.
No other cases than the above-mentioned were brought
publicly forward during the past week.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
CITY POLICE COMMITTEE.

The question brought by the City Police into this
Court, last week, of the alleged nuisance caused by
the Jew dealers obstructing the different streets and
avenues in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane, by
exposing their goods for sale, again occupied the at-
tention of the magistrates, Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr.
Alderman Fairbrother, and Mr. Alderman Johnson,
for a considerable time.

The Court was crowded on Saturday chiefly by
persons; of the Jewish persuasion, and the interest
taken in the proceeding was greater than on the pre
vious investigation, which resulted in consequence of
Mr. D. W. Harvey, the chief police commissioner,
having visited the neighbourhood, and the determina-
tion on the part of the corporation to suppress Sunday
trading.
After much discussion, it was resolved on the part
of the defendants and others of the Jewish persuasion
present in the Court to abandon all Sunday trading ;
and the Commissioner expressed his firm determina-
tion of prosecuting all persons found trafficing after
this day (Sunday) week.
The owners of the two marts hoped there would be
no distinction made. All dealers should be treated
alike as well as the marts.
Mr. Ryland—Depend upon it the Corporation will
indict any persons offending after receiving this
caution.

CLERKENWELL.
A man named Pearce was. put at the bar, eharged
with stealing a sovereign, the money of Sarah Bridges,
a servant to Mr. Richardson, of No. 4, Belgrave-
terrace, Holloway.
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men, inyainting and otherwise beautifying the house
of Mr. Richardson,
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!edged that he had stolen the.sovereign, expressing,
at the Same time," his sorrow, and a desire. to be
allowed to work it out.—Committed to Newgate.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Charles Stewart, a young Scotchman, and a person
of Jewish appearance, named Dan. Rogers Rodrigues,
were charged with being concerned in an extensive
robbery, amounting to 1,5001. of goods, committed

on the sth inst.,.on the premises of Mr. hay, jeweller, I
Leith-street, Edinburgh. The pri,o3ers described
themselves as " surgeon-chiropodists." Rodrigues
was known as a hawker of pens, pencils, &c., in the
neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane.
Sergeant Barker, of the II division, stated that in
consequence of information he had received, he went
with Davis, a police-constable, to Petticoat-lane,
where they apprehended the two prisoners for the
burglary at Mr. Hay's. Upon Rodrigues they found
two cases of surgical instruments, a gold pin,
and some loose jewels, and upon Steward a gold
watch, two gold chains, a gold pin, three gold
rings, a duplicate for a silver snuff-box pledged on
the 18th instant, and a silver-mounted riding whip.
At the residence of Rodrigues, Devonshire-terrace,
Bethnal-green, they found a considerable quantity of
apparel, a cloth cap, with gold band, a gold breast
pin, a dial, a neck chain, an d gold rim:B, a duplicate
for a brequet chain, pledged that day, a pair of
pocket pistols, and other articles produced. When
apprehended they declared their entire innocence.
Some of the articles found upon them corresponded
with portions of the stolen property. They admitted
having been lately in Scotland, but said they had re-
turned to London before the time the robbery was
said to have been committed. They were both re-
manded to allow time for evidence being brought
from Scotland.
LAMBETH-STREET.
Richard Pierce, a waterman, was charged before
Mr. Norton with being concerned, with others, in
stealing 33 gallons of brandy, of the value of 531., the
property of Mr. Lucev, a master lighterman.
Mr. Pelham attended for the prosecution, and
called Mr. Evans, the inspector of the River Police,
who stated, that early on the morning of the 25th of
last month one of ten casks of brandy, on board a
punt belonging to the prosecutor, in the St. Kathe-
rine's Dock, had been plundered of thirty-eight gal-
lons of its contents. A day or two afterwards a
lighterman, named Drake, was taken into custody on
charge of being concerned in the robbery, and the
evidence against him amounted to the fact of his
having taken a punt, which lay alongside that on board
of which the robbery took place, out of the St. Ka-
therine's Dock, to the St. Saviour's Dock. From
that morning the prisoner had kept out of the w y ;
but on the night before he, Mr. Evans, succeeded in
apprehending him in the long room of a public-
house in Ratcliff Highway, in company with a num-
ber of low prostitutes. He had at first denied his
name, and was rather "bounceable," but ultimately
acknowledged he was the person he (Evans) was in
,earth of, and he was taken to the station-house.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery,
and said he should be able to prove his innocence.
Mr. Pelham applied for the remand of the pri-
soner until Thursday next, when Drake, the other
man in custody, would be again brought up.
Mr. NORTON complied with the request, but said
he should take good bail for his appearance on that
day.
From what transpired during the hearing of the
ease, it appears that plunder of this description in the
docks and on the river has latterly been carried on to
a very considerable extent.
Charles Newling was charged with stealing one
hundred Manila cheroots, the property of Alexander
Stewart. The complainant stated that he was an ap-
ore ntice on board the John Horton, of Liverpool,
then lying in the London Dock, and which had just
arrived from a foreign voyage. On that day the pri
;finer and another person came to him on board, and
the latter asked him if he had any cigars which he
wished to have taken out ? He replied that he had
some which he wished to take to his father in Dublin.
The prisoner's companion then asked to see the
eheronts, and said he would put him up to a "dodge,"
by which he could take them out free of duty. He
then placed the cheroots in a handkerchief, tied the
latter round the waist of the prisoner, and endea-
voured to keep him, witness, in conversation, while
the prisoner jumped into a boat, and was about to
make his escape. He (witness), however, called out
to a Custom-house officer, and he was secured, not,
however, before he had thrown half the cheroots into
the water.
Mr. NORTON observed that it was not only a most
" artful dodge," but the most barefaced robbery he
had met with for some time.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the person who
had accompanied him was bargaining to pay the com-
plainant ten shillings for the lot, and, because he did
not pay him lie., he gave him into custody.
Mr. Walker, the inspector of police in the dock,
said that similar tricks were of daily occurrence, and
that sailors complained bitterly of being robbed of
cigars and various contraband goods by a gang of
persons of the prisoner's description, by various
" dodges" as they were called.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
A question as to the right of the Equitable Gas
Company to break the ground in the Vauxhall-bridge-
road, to lay down their pipes, was, on Saturday, to
have been determined by the Magistrate at this
Court, but was reserved for the investigation of some
higher tribunal, in consequence of the Magistrate
considering that he had no jurisdiction in the matter.
The facts of the case are these :—ln the night of
Friday, the 17th, the Gas Company laid down a new
main across the Vauxhall-bridge-road, near Regent-
street, and on the following morning a large number
of the Bridge Company's men endeavoured, under the
orders of their superiors, to take them up. As
East as the Bridge Company's party dug the
earth out, the adverse gang shovelled it in.
Mark Webster, on the part of the Bridge
Company had got a hammer, and was about to remove
or break up the pipe, when the gas-lighters shovelled
the earth over him and his tools, and, on his scram-
bling out of the hole, George Kelly, one of the Equit-
able's, shoved him in again, for which he was charged
with an assault. The bone of contention
,is, that the
Gas Company did Lot ask permission to break the
;round or lay down the pipes, and this is met by the
other party with the declaration that they were put-
ting down a fresh main by the side of the old one,
which old one had been placed there by permission,
and the Magistrate, on looking to Lord Lansdowne's
Act, which gives the summary jurisdiction in assaults,
was of opinion that he had no power to adjudicate
where a question of right was fairly set up, and left
the opposing parties to try the merits of the motion in
one of the superior courts.—Committed to Newgate
Catherine Castell, a prostitute, was charged with having
stolen a silver watch from the person of Alexander M'Cul-
loch, under the following circumstances :-111Culloch, who is
a groom, had been drinking all night, and met the woman
on his return between six and seven o'clock in the morning.
Being in liquor he was induced to accompany the defendant
to a house in the Almonry (one of the lowest parts of West-
minster, and chiefly inhabited by the lowest grade of prosti-
tutes); here he fen asleep, and was awoke by a policeman,
who asked him if he had lost anything, and on searching his
pockets, in one of which he had placed his watch, it was
missing.
A young woman, the landlady of the house in question,
deposed to seeing the defendant take the watch from the pro-
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The defendant said he did not know that the half-crown
was counterfeit.

Inspector Barefoot said the defendant was well known to
the Police.—Remanded until Monday.
Three lads, named Richards, Wynd, and Seer, were charged
by Mr. Elliot, the Master of St. Margaret's Workhouse, with
refusing to perform the work which had been assigned to
them, namely, breaking stones. They were casual paupers,
and slept in the workhouse last night, and the night before.
They were requested to break stones from seven to twelve
this morning for their support.
William Squib, who has the management of the lads in
the workhouse, said, he called them at 7 o'clock this morn-
ing, and ordered tkem to come to work. They
did so, and took the hammers in their hands,
walked about the yard, and gave a blow now
and then, and told him he might do the work himself, and
that they would neither do it for him nor the master, and
added, " We did not come into the house to work."

The lads have been repeatedly charged at this office on
similar grounds; about a month ago they were sent to the
House of Correction. _ _

The defendants were also charged with assaulting the po-
lice, but Richards appeared to have been the most violent of
the three.
The defendants, in answer to the charges, said they did
not refuse to work, but that the stones were largo and diffi-
cult to break ; that the worst kind of stones were sent to the
workhouse. Wynd, who is a thin, weakly lad, said he could
not break such big stones.
Mr. BURRELL committed Richards for six weeks, and Seer
and Wynd for a month.
BOW-STREET.

A woman named Eliza Millar was brought before Mr.
Jardine, Charged with threatening to break the windows of
Benjamin Sheppard, coffeehouse-keeper.
The woman came out of prison this morning at nine
o'clock, completing at that time her sixth imprisonment for
breaking the windows of Mr. Sheppard. She was now
brought up upon information of Mr. Sheppard, who swore
that when the prisoner was last before the magistrate she de-
clared, on leaving the dock, that when she came out of prison
she would break every window in the complainant's house.
She was now, therefore, brought up on a peace warrant to
put in bail for her good behaviour.
The prisoner said she was unable to procure bail, for she
had no friends in the world. She had no recollection of using
the threatening language of which she was accused.
Mr. JARDDTE—Why, I heard you myself.
Prisoner—Oh, then of course I did use it.
Mr. JARDINE, *addressing the complainant, said the pri-
soner had been in prison for two months this last time, and
he wished to know how the complainant would like him to
act ?—Mr. Sheppard said he only wished to be protected.
Mr. JARDINE said the effect of his ordering the prisoner to
find bail would be to send her to prison for twelve months.
• Mr. Sheppard said if the prisoner would promise faithfully to
keep away from his house he would not press the charge
against her.

The prisoner gave the required promise, and was accord.
ingly discharged.

WANDS WORTH.
Joseph G. Buck was charged with assaulting
Joseph Orger, groom to Lieutenant Colvin, of the
9th Lancers.