The Sun. — 1857-11-11 (London, England)

CLERKENWELL.  V if'  A gentlemanly dressed man, about 50 years of age, with a profusion of hair about his face, who gave the name of John Hubert Heath, .describing himself as a gentleman residing at Wood-green, Tottenham, was charged with being drunk, disorderly, and creating a dißturbance in a railway carnage on the Great Northern Railway, and, further, with interfering with the officers of the railway at the Hornsey station. Mr. Thomas Williams, the superintendent of the company's line, attended to watch the case. When one of the passenger trains was proceeding along between Holloway awl Hornsey the guards and pissengers were much alarmed at hearing loud screams of "Murder !" and "Police !" proceeding from one of the carriages. As soon as possible the train was brought to a standstill, and the noise and scrums continuing the passengers all left their carriages, and it being dark, and a train nearly due, much danger was incurred. When Clayer, the guard, went to the carriage from which the noises were proceeding he found the defendant, who was very drunk and much excited, fighting with the other passengers. He asked him to leave the carriage quietly, but he refused, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he could get him out and put him in the break with himself. The defendant was very noisy, and when the train reached the Hornsey station he was put out, and although Mr. Crosby, the stationmaster, asked him several times to go away quietly he would not do so, but made such a noise and confusion that business was for some time brought to a standstill. Altogether the train was delayed two or three minutes, which was a very serious affair. The byelaws of the company were produced by Mr. Williams, and one of them ran as follows :  "Any person found in a carriage or station in a state of intoxication, or committing any nuisance or otherwise wilfully interfering with the comfort of other passengers is hereby subjected to a penalty not exceeding 405., and shall immeiiate'y, or at the first opportunity, be removed from the company's premises." The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was very sorry for what he bad done. The fact was, he was a little the worse for liquor, and when he and his wife got into the carriage a person was smoking, and, having asked him to desist, and he refthing, ho certainly did knock the pipe out of his mouth, which was the cause of the disturbance. When he got out at the Horusey station he was very much excited, but having been !incarcerated the whole night, he hoped the magistrate would consider that, with an apology, a sufficient punishment.  Mr. Corrie, having looked over the byelaws of the company, fined the defendant the full penalty of 405., or in default of payment one month in the House of Correction.  Thomas Harding, aged 23, residing at 28, Sydney-street, St. Luke's, a jeweller, was charged with stealing about 6 dwt. of gold filings of the value of 13s. 6d., tbia property of Mr. W. W. Stirling, jeweller, of 58, Amwell-street, Clerkenwell.  The prosecutor, having for some time past been losing a quantity of property, kept a sharp lookout, and suspecting the prisoner, watched him, and found the abovenamed property in his possession as he was leaving his employment. The prisoner, who did not. deny the charge, was sent to the House of Correction for two months.