The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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r*ALLEN 40USES IN ,lIARLES-STREET, DRURY-
LANE.-A young man, whose name did not transpire, was
charged with wilfully breaking down and damaging part of a
wall in Charles-street, Drury-lane, the property of Dlr. Octa-
vius Johnson.

John Forrest, the agent of Mr. Johnson, stated that on Sun-
day, about ten o'clock, from information which he received, he
went to the property in Charles-street, where some houses have
lately fallen down, when he found some 50 or 60 persons throw-
ing large stones and bricks at the walls. There was a good
deal of hurraing accompanying the work of destruction. A
part of the wall, about eight feet long and tix feet high, had
been knocked down by the assembled mob. Witness saw the
prisoner actively engagei, and saw him knock down part of the
wall to the value of about ss.

The prisoner denied any participation in the offence.
Mr. HA LL sentenced him to pay a fine of 55., or be impri-
s,ned six days.
Forrest then said that there was a man who could be iden-
tified as the instigator of this destruction, who always encou-
raged the crowd in their work; he should feel obliged if the
Worthy Magistrate would grant him a summons against that
person.

Mr. HALL—Take a summons.
Another man was next brought up, charged with stealing
eight bricks from the same place.
Policeman F 150 fully proved the charge.
'f he prisoner said that he wanted the bricks for a little job,
and as other people were taking tlum away he thought he
might do the same. They were lying like a quantity of rubbish
in the ruins.

Mr. HALL said the prisoner deserved to be punished, and if
Johnson wished it he shou'd be punished.
Mr. Johnson said he did not wish to press the charge as the
prisoner was a poor man; if it were known in the neighbour-
hood that the bricks were private property, and that those who
took them were liable to be pu• ished, he thought his ends
would be served, and he should be satisfied.

The prisoner was then discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

George Williams, a young man of respectable appearance,
was charged with uttering a counterfeit crown piece.
Mr. George Charlton, of No. 23, Marylebone-street, Got.
den-square, baker, stated that about five o'clock on Saturday
afternoon last, the prisoner entered his shop, and asking
for sixpennyworth of biscuits, tendered in payment a
crown piece, which witness instantly detected to be
spurious, on which the 'prisoner ran out of the
shop and endeavoured to make his escape, but was pursued and
overtaken. Witness had since ascertained that the prisoner
had uttered two other bad half-crowns to tradesmen living in
the neighbourhood, who would attend on a future day. The
prisoner was therefore remanded tintil Thursday next.
Base coin to a great amount, particularly crown-pieces, have
been circulated in this neighbourhood lately.
John Brown and Charles Hutchins, young men who are
known to the police, were charged as follows :
Mrs. Anne Coney, a respectable married female, and who
was evidently suffering from ill health, stated that her hus-
band kept a cigar and tobacco shop, at ?'o. 60, Wardour-street,
Soho, and that about ten o'clock on Sunday night, the prisoners
came into her shop and asked for '• a ha'porth of tobacco."
She told them that site did not sell tobacco in
such small quantities, and they went away, but in a
short time returned, and insisted on being served,
refusing to leave the shop, and after a violent altercation
the prisoner Brown struck the complainant a heavy blow with
his clenched fist on her right bosom. They were then given
in charge to the police. Complainant lied no doubt but their
object was to steal any article out of the shop they might have
had the opportunity of laying their hands on.
Mr. IsIALTHY said the outrage was a moat gross one, anti he
should therefore fine the defendants 205., or in default of pay-
ment, to 14 days' imprisonment and hard labour.
UNION-HALL.

Mary Shamans, a woman of the town, who was tried and
acquitted at the Surrey Assizes, on Friday last, of robbing
Mr. Daniel Good, of 7001., was brought up charged with
stealing a half-sovereign from an elderly man living at Dulwich.
Sergeant Logan stated that the prisoner was brought to the
station-house on the preceding night, and that the complainant
charged her with thrusting her hand into his pocket, and rob-
bing him of a-half sovereign. She was in the act of running
away when stopped by a policeman, and taken into custody,
but she contrived to get rid of the coin, it is supposed, by
swallowing it. The Sergeant added that the complainant was
not in attendance to follow up the charge.
Mr. MAUL said that the prisoner was well known at the
office as one of the mo't notorious thieves in the district ; and as
her late escape from being convicted at the Surrey Assizes of
robbing Mr. Good of 700/. appeared to have had no effect upon
her, he should insist upon the present complainant attending
to press the charge.
Shortly after the complainant appeared in Court, and the
evidence to the above effect having been given, the prisoner
was committed to the House cf Correction for two months,
the complainant thing compelled to go abroad.
TFUR S H IP- S EE T. _ _

John Lewis, a sawyer, was charged with having conducted
himself in a disorderly manner, so as to disturb the congrega-
tion in St. Andrew's Church, South Conduit-street, Bethnal-
green, during the performance of Divine service, on Sunday.
From the evidence of Hayes, the sexton and pew-opener, it
appeared that during the afternoon service on the preceding
day the prisoner entered the church, and having taken a seat in
one of the vacant pews appropriated to strangers, he began to
conduct himself in a most extraordinary way, that attracted the
nJtice of the whole congregation. Whilst the clergyman was
delivering his discourse the prisoner repeatedly interrupted him
by calling out " well done," " that's good," with similar fami-
liar expressions of approbation, as if he had been in the gallery
of a theatre, and witness perceived on approaching towards him
that he was intoxicated. On being remonstrated with upon the

impropriety of his behaviour, the prisoner promised not to re-
peat it, but he soon afterwards renewed his indecorous plau-
dits, and whilst the charity children were engaged in singing
a psalm, he pulled a shilling out of his pocket, and, in a stento-
rian voice, asked the clergyman to let him prescnt it to " the
tittle dears," as a reward for their excellent performance. Wit-
ness then went to the door and called a policeman, who took

the prisoner into custody.
'I he policeman said, that on being called into the church, he
found all the congregation standing up in a state of excitement,
and the clergyman desired him to remove the prisoner, as he
had acted in a disorderly manner, and interrupted the service.
The prisoner, however, refused to withdraw, and on his at-
tempting to remove him the prisoner offered a great deal of
passive resistance, by catching hold of the rails and back part of
the seats, but, after considerable difficulty, witness succeeded
in dragging him out by main farce, and conveyed him to the
station-house.
In answer to the charge the prisoner said that be did not
know what he was about, having partaken with some com-
panions of a quantity of ale that got into his head.
Mr. BROUGHTON said he must iay a fine of 10s., or be com-
mitted for ten days to the House of Correction.
The prisoner was locked up in default of payment.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 4.
(Before Baron GURNEY and a Special Jury.)
RANNO U. SMITH.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover da-
mages from the defendant for having removed him from on
board a vessel called the Surprise, and imprisoned him in the
Island of Java. The defendant put several pleas upon the re-
cord, but the principal one was, that the plaintiff had acted
mutinously, and that it was necessary for the protection of the
vessel that he should be sent on shore.
Mr. James and Mr. Lush were for the plaintiff ; and Mr.
Platt and Mr. Hance for the defendant.
'the circumstances under which the action was brought
were of rather a singular chvracter, and involve a question of
considerab'e importance to all concerned in the maritime com-
merce of the country. It seems that in the month of March,
1838, a vessel called the Surprise, belonging to Messrs. Bennett,
of Limehouse, sailed on a whaling voyage to the South Seas,
and the plaintiff was a seaman, and the defendant Smith, who 13
a Prussian, was first mate; and a man named Ellis, who
was represented to be a Spaniard, acted as second mate on
board the vessel. When the vessel had been out about nine
rronths, at which time she had upwards of a thousand barrels
of oil, averaging according to the terms upon which these voy-
ages are made, about 501. to each of the crew, Bill, the captain
of the vessel, died, and, according to his last request, the vessel
put back to a port called Bangee Ws ngee, in the island of Java,
in order that his body might be buried on shore. After the
captain was buried, Smith, the first mate, as is the custom when
such casualties occur at sea, assumed the command of the vessel,
and he called upon the 'crew to sign fresh articles, and under-
take to prosecute the expedition with effect. The plaintiff
and five others refused to sign the articles, or to do any duty
unless the vessel was first taken to an English port. Smith,
finding he could not induce them to sign the articles
or to do their duty, sent fer some Malays, by whom
the plaintiff and the other men who refused to sign
were taken on shore, where they were confined for some
days ; and they were at length taken in custody across the
island to Sourabay, where they got a ship and returned to
England.
'l'he case for the defence was, that the plaintiff and the other
man had acted in a mutinous manner, and witnesses sseie
called who proved that, after Captain Hill had died, and it was
expected that Smith would assume the command, that the
plaintiff expressed his intentions not to submit to his orders as
Captain, and that he had endeavoured to induce others of the crew
to assist him in preventing Smith from assuming the command.
It was also proved that the nearest English ports to Bangee
Wangee were Singapore or Sydney, end that if the vessel had
sailed to either of those places, after the death of the captain,
the effect would have been to frustrate the voyage.
The Jury retired, and were absent for about an hour, when
they returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 1.
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.
THE MANCHESTER COACH ROBBERY.
James Thebran, James Skerratt, and Wm. Mooby were in-
dicted far having, on the 18th of February last, stolen 1,500
sovereigns and 100 5/. notes, the property of Messrs. Cunliffe
and Brooks, bankers, Manchester. James King and Bridget
Jones were charged as accessaries after the fact, and as having
received part of the stolen property.
Mr. Baines stated the case as detailed in the evidence of
the witnesses, and pointed out the law as it affected the al-
leged principals and accessaries.
James Smith, cashier in the bank of Messrs. Cunliffe and
Brooks, stated that, on the 18th of February last, a parcel was
made up for the bank at Blackburn, containing the gold and
notes in question. It was put in a box, from sixteen to eigh-
teen inches long by eight wide, locked and fastened by straps.
The bank at Manchester had been in the habit of sending
such a parcel as that to Blackburn for many years past.
Richard Greenall, porter with Messrs. Cunliffe and Brooks,
stated that he carried the ,parcel to the coach-office about
twenty-Ave minutes after four, put it into the boot, and stopped
with the coach until it started. James Skerratt came to the
coach while witness was there. He had a carpet-bag, which
seemed to be nearly empty, and had a tear on the top. Ile
got on the splinter-bar, and put the bag into the boot. lie
was some time in so doing, and put nearly his whole body into
the boot. He was well known to the witness, and had helped
on former occasions in putting parcels into the coach.
Thomas Ashworth, horsekeeper to the Perseverance, coach,
corroborated the last witness. Believed Thelwall was en the
box when Skerratt put the bag into the boot.
Mary Grundy, who.keeps the White Horse, at Bury, stated,
that on the evening in question a person came into tee house
with a carpet bag while the coach was at the door. It seemed
heavy, and had something flat in it. The man asked for a
glass of gin. He seemed excited, and looked frequently at the
witness and her daughter. He asked if the coachman would
come in. She replied he would. The man then got up and
put the hag in a small recess at cue side of the counter. Tl.e
coachman did come in and the man treated him to a glass of
brandy. When the coach was gone, he tcok the bag and newt
out of the house. Witness went to the door and saw the man
turn round to look at her.
It was proved by ether parties, that no carpet bag was taken
out of the boot at Hsslingden. and that the bank parcel was
missing on the arrival of the coach at Blackburn.
Several witnesses also were examined as to the improvement
in the outward circumstances of Skerratt and Thelwall after the
18th of February.
Mary Ann Wardle witted that she keeps a beer-house at
Clayton. Recollects a person of the name of Wild coming to
her house on the 21st February. Thelwall and Jones
were with him. Served him with a pint of ale. Jones
put something into it. Thelwall and Jones were talking
about buying a horse. Wild went out. 'Miran and