The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-11 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Thomas Warwick, a licensed cab driver, was charged
before Mr. Broughton with assaulting Robert Justice,
one of the Eastern Counties Railway police.
The defendant, it appeared, had driven to the railway
booking-office with a lady, who, on alighting from the
cab, expressed herself thankful to Providence for having
arrived there in safety, as the driver had, on the way
thither, nearly upset her several times. The defendant,
hearing this, addressed some obscene language to the
lady, and on being censured for that by the police,
grossly abused all present. The complainant seeing
that he was drunk, demanded the number of his badge,
which he not only refused, but commenced violently
horsewhipping the complainant, and others, who de-
tained him, and the horse rearing, struck one of the
police on the chest with his feet. At length the defen-
dant was dragged from his box, and lodged in the station-
house.

Air. BROUGHTON sentenced him to pay 50s. fine, and
in default committed him for two months to the House
of Correction.

STEALING NEWSPAPERS.—John Travers, a middle-
aged person, of respectable appearance, who stated him-
self to be a clerk in the City, was examined before Mr.
Broughton on a charge of stealing an evening news-
paper, the property of Mr. Kirton, a coffee-house keeper
in the City-road.
The complainant said the prisoner had taken break-
fast at his house every morning for a fortnight, and was
in till habit of collecting upon his table the papers of
the preceding evening, some of which were, on every
occasion, missed directly after his departure. Com-
plainant himself had watched pretty closely, and had di-
rected the waitress also to watch the prisoner, but could
never-detect him in the act, although they always missed
the papers afterwards. On Saturday morning last the
prisoner came, and had breakfast as usual, and was ob-
served to place two evening papers under a morning
paper that he was reading, and the moment he went out,
complainant, discovering that one of them was gone,
followed the prisoner and asked him what he had done
with it. He replied that he had handed it to another
gentleman in the room ; but being asked to go back to
the house, he was then told that the paper was not in
the room, and that he must have pocketed it, on which
he took the paper out of his pocket, and giving it to
the complainant, said he had never taken one before,
and he hoped the matter would not be further proceeded
with. He was, however, handed over to the police.
Police-constable 226 G said, on the way to the station-
house the prisoner told him that, having much leisure
for reading at his office in the City, he took the paper
with him for that purpose, and that if Mr. Kirton
pressed the charge against him ho should be a ruined
man.

The complainant now said he took in twelve news-
papers daily, and had to send several of them (including
the one in question) into the country by, post on the day
after publication, so that, besides the actual value, the
loss of them was a serious inconvenience. He could
swear that some of them were missed every time that
the prisoner had been there. He also said there were
several other coffeehouse-keepers present who knew the
prisoner, and had always lost papers in the same way
when he visited their rooms, and not at other times. The
complainant wished the Magistrate to dispose of the case
summarily, but
Mr. BROUGHTON said he could not do that, and the
depositions were taken for the committal of the prisoner,
who, however, was admitted to bail for his appearance
at the sessions for trial.