The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

GUILDHALL.--stills DAY.)
Edward Stakes was placed at the bar, charged with em-
bOazling certain sums of money, the property of his employers,
Messrs. Reeves and Co., stationers, of Cheapsi&.
The prisoner had Veen in the employ of Messrs. Reeves and
Co. for seven years as collecting clerk, and it was his duty each
day to account for the money received.
Several witnesses were called, who had paid him different
sums in the course of last year, none of which he had accounted
for to his employers, amounting together to a very large sum.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A SCENE IN LITTLE CATHERINE. STREET—Abraham
Levy, Sarah So!oinans, and another man, were placed at the
bar, charged with creating a -riot and disturbance under the
following circumstances :—Police constable F 48, stated that
about hallspast one this morning, as he was going his rounds
in Brydges-street, he heard a great noise and cries of
" Murder" and " Police," proceeding from Little Catherine-
street. He at once hastened to the spot, when he saw forty
or fifty persons, principally prostitutes, with a small assembly
of men amongst them, who all appeared to be fighting. They
did not seem to have any specific object in view. The row
was a general one. Blows were indiscriminately given,
and as indiscriminately received, and each one seemed to be
trying who could inflict the greatest number of strokes in the
shortest possible time. Notwithstanding the confusion which
prevailed, however, and the general character of the strife,
witness singled out a diminutive woman (the female prisoner)
as being the most desperate, and, at the same time, the most
successful pugilist in the crowd; wherever she went she spread
havoc and destruction around; the mast powerful fled before
her single arm, aid the stoutest heart quailed at her appreach.
Seeking a fitting object for her fury, she had seen the prisoner
levy, who now stood by her side, him she attacked; and when
a reinforcement of police enabled her to be secured, she was,
in the words of the witness, " fighting at him like a tiger."
Maria Levy, the wife of one of the prisoners, whose face was
much bruised, and who mounted a large black eye, or, as it is
more expressively, and perhaps more correctly, termed in Scot-
land, " a hlue eon," here stepped forward, to prefer a complaint
against the ft male prisoner; she stated that, about one o clock
this morning, as she was returning from the theatre, and pro-
ceeding up a certain court, not mentioned, but which the com-
plainant termed " our court," the prisoner followed her, and,
without saying a word, struck her on the eye and lip, which
knocked her clown, and, in her own words, " I lost my senses
ever since." She called out " siurder," and her husband, who
was in doors, sleeping by the fire, came out to rescue
her. This was the commencement of the disturbance. The
prisoner had struck complainant once before, some years ago,
when she was taken before a Magistrate, and in consequence 01
this she had owed her a grudge ever since.
Policeman, F 102, corroborated the testimony of his brother
constable as to the violence of the female prisoner.
The prisoner denied the allegations of Mrs. Levy is tote.
She was the most harmless creature in the world, and would not
hurt a worm. The fact was that Mrs. Levy bad struck her first.;
and this was the way of it. Mrs. Levy and the prisoner, Solomons,
both took in lodgers, and a young lady vs ho had previously lodged
with Mrs. L. being desirous of leaving what the fair speaker
called "dress lodgings" for " private lodgings,',' quitted Mrs.
Is.'s apartments, and took up her abode wish Mrs. S. ; Mrs.
1.. feeling herself aggrieved by the young lady's preferring
Mrs. S.'s lodgings to hers, determined to make Mrs. S. suffer
for it, and to this end she with her husband, son, two dress-
lodgers, and servants, fell upon the prisoner this morning.
Finding herself attacked, and set upon- by so many, she very
naturally did her best to defend herself ; how well she
succeeded, though opposed to such heavy odds, witness Mrs.
Levy's black eye and cut lip. The fact was, said Mrs. ,olemns,
" I am an English woman though I am married to a Jew, and
that is the reason them Jewesses are always actin me ; they
never lets me alone, and I never has no peace a single moment
of my life." She concluded by calling what she called a strange
witness, to prove that Mrs. Levy struck her first.
The strange witness (a woman), was called, and said every-
thing that could be desired of her.
Mr. JARDINE said these disturbances could not be allowed
to go on, he should however discharge the two men, and he
should hold the female prisoner to bail to keep the peace, her-
self in 101. and two sureties in 'al. each.

lINION4IA LL—(TI118 DAY.)
CII ARC E OF EM ZZIE M E NT. 'Valiant wharf..
clerk, it-1111e employ of Mr. Dixon, the coal-merchant, of Bank-
side, was charged w ith embezzling divers sums of money the
-property of his employer.
'the complainant stated that the Prisoner had been five years
in his employ, and that within the last few days it was dis-
covered that he had received various sums of money from the
customers, which he did not account for. Defalcations to the
amount of 80/. had been already discovered, but it was sus-
pected that money to a much larger amount would be found to
be missing when the accounts were examined. When the dis-
covery was made, and the prisoner questioned on the subject,
his account was that he was robbed of 401. in a Camberwell
omnibus, and that in order to keep it a secret from his em-
ployer he. had kept money back to make up the deficiency.
The complainant asked the Magistrate to remand the prisoner
for further inquiry, and he was remanded accordingly.

WORSIIIP-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Burdon, a young man of respectable exterior, was
charged before Mr. Bingham, under the following circum-
stances :

A policeman of the N division stated that he was on duty at
Hackney on the preceding night, when the prisoner accosted
him, saying, that he had been accused of committing a rob-
bery, and wished the matter to be investigated, in order that
he might clear his character. The: prisoner continued- talking
in the same incoherent strain for some time, and a.; he insisted
on being introduced to a Magistrate, witress conveyed him to
the station-house.
Inspector Barton, of the G division, said ti-at the prisoner
called a few days ago at the station .house in Featherstone-
strtet, and stated that he was suspected of having committed a
robbery at the house of Mr. Foxall, a publican in Museum-
street, Bloomsbury, and he wished to meet the charge, A
messenger was dispatched to Museum-street, who ascertained
that Mr. Foxall had really been robbed, but not the slightest
suspicion attached to the prisoner, whose father. was a - man of
.the highest respectability, residing in the neighbourhood.
Mr. ITINGIIA7r.—Then there is no charge against him?-
-The Inspector.—None whatever, Sir ; he is labouring under a
;delusion.
Abe. Magistrate, asked the prisoner. if he. Wished to kay any-
thin. Prisoner.-0, no, I hive aatltiiik to say.
'lie Nagistrate..Yost are discharged.