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I • '11,15.11 POLICE OF THE . , rE TROPPLIS. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE► TAKEN BEFORE THE COM • ' MITIEE OF 'Me HOUSE OF COMMONS, ON THE siA un OF THr. YOLICE OF THE ME l'ltoi l ol.lB. The Hon. Harm( Oita, BINNZT in the Chair. JOHN TOWNSEND, called in, and etimined. You are one of the police officers at Bow-street? — Yes. How long have you held that situation?—l think .somewhere abt-tut lour-and•thirty years ; ratite' better Do you hold 04; situation at present ?—Yes. Is your time em:Joyed Rt the Office alone, or do you attend at the Conn at levees and drawitrg.rooms, and all public places ?-119t1;, day and night. What, in general, do you consider is the nature and extent of the duties of your office ?—The duty 01 .the office, as a matter of course, is to attend at the • o ffi ce, and at tuber pu blic things for the officers ; hut two of us have been more immediately placed about the Court. I th i nk in the year UN, when Mr. Don. das was Secretary of State, and Mr. Pitt was Minis ter, that appointmerst took place in consequence of the various depredations vailimitted at Conn, and in con sego. ace of the King and the Royal Family being frequency teased with lunatics: that was the original occasion nt that appointment taking place. You speak n ise of your duty as it is connected with the Court ; wnat is your duty as connected with the Public °dice in Bow-street ?— a lb attend when any of the Magistrates want my assistance within the jut risd-ction of Middlesex, for I cannot go out of Nen on account of attending on the Caurt•days, and .par- Ocularly if there is any thing wanted at IVindsor ; or supposing that the Prince goes out of town to Brigh ton, and so on, then we attend there. How many officers of the Police consider them selves as particularly attached to the Court, 10110 - iing the Court where it goes ?—ti-When the Regent goes to Brighton, for instance, Sayers and I go. There are two officers appointed at Windsor, who are uncon nected with the Office, Rivett and Dowsett. Except when the Regent is at Brighton, your re sidence is constantly in London ?..Yes. Do you attend at the Office in Bow-street every day ?—No, not every day ; that would be impossible. Is it considered as the duty of die Police officers all to attend at the Public Office daily, or to go turn and turn about, so many one day and so many another ? I never knew that to be the case; but it frequently happened in the early part of my life, that the public niay want an officer, especially public bodies—for in stance, the Excise-uffice,the'Custurn house, the Stamp. once, the Bank, they all come there ; and if they see au officer, whoever is in the way they instantly go, because t( they were to wait for matter of form, per haps the party they warted to apprehend would be gone. Is it customary to have an officer from Bow-street cnn.tantly in attendar.ce at the Bank ? No, ooly ten days a quarter; th4t Sayers and I Jo every quarter, alto nave done fcr many years, these five-and-twenty years, I dare say. Depredations used to be committed there dreadfully at dividend times; and when Mr. Gills and Mr. Thornton were Governor and Deputy Governor, the application was made, and we went. Is that considered as part of your ordinary dui y, or do the Directors of the Bank recompense you for that as a special service ? e have a guinea a day tor it. That is paid by Coe Bank ?—Yes. liititpendetit us the salary which arises from the Office ?—lads pendent of our salary. When you attend at any of the crher Offices—you have named the Custom-house, the Stamp-office, and so en, do they pay you for that attendance?—Cer tainly. At the same rate ?—At the same rare, provided there is no reward. In the instance where the officers so viir.srously apprehended that banditti that murder ed the Revenue Officer ; there, for the first time in my life , I fi nd that the Government, or the Solicitors and Commissioners of Excise, have given 41000 re ward to whoever should give information, or cause the parties to be taken, together with the apprehen dews, and sn forth, to which I have no doubt they will be all entitled. The usual way in distributing the 440 on convictions is, that the Recorder gives the prosecutor from S 5 to 415 and £2O, according to ciscemstances, and the apprehenders the remainder, An comes to, perhaps, only three or four pounds a piece, though the world runs away with the ridicu lous idea that the officers have M.O. It is a singular circumstance, but in all cases of felony there are but two cases where there is any reward at all; those are a highway robbery and a burglary ; all the others are merebagstelles, for they are merely certificates, what the vulgar call Tybora.tickets, to free from parish offices. Those are worth se2o a piece, are they not ?—1 have sold them as low as £l'2. In such a parish as St. George's, Hanover-square, the people are of so much consequence that they will serve themselves.— The highest is in Covent-Garden, where it is worth £23 ; for the constable of the parish must sit up, I thistk, opareight out of three ; and whoeser is hit up on as •a parochial constable says, This is a hard thing, and therefore I will buy myself off ;" and a ticket in that parish, therefore, is worth more. It an officer gets a guinea a day, it is a chance whether he gets any reward; that must r depend upon the libera lity of those Public Offices who,. choose to pay it; I am very sorry to say, That sometimes they are rather mean upon that subject. You mean the guinea a-day is for your trouble in attending at the Public Offices for the prevention of crimes, and the appiehension of robbers ?—The pub. lie bodies employ an officer to go to apprehend pee. sons; the Solicitor crimes, if any body touches their office, to the Office in tow -street, to get proper as sistance to apprehend those persons ; then, after the thing is finished, if there is no reward, of course the offiCer has his guinea a day for his trouble. Is the time of the officers much taken up by the Public Offices ?—That must depend materially upon public business ; they may be very quiet this week ; next week there may not be an officer to be had ; so much so does it happen at Bow-street that they are ob ligeci to refer to minor officers—some of the patrole, and send them rather than the public should be injured. Do' you then think, considering the demand that is made both from public bodies . and from individuals upon Bow-street, that the establishment of the regular officers is sufficient ?—I think myself, that what there is wanting of the established officers is made up by the pattole, wlo step in directly; therefore, I think, upon • . . * •• • the whole, the esiabSsbment is Urge enotzb ; for if once the establishment was made mere then:thCoillp► cell.. could 40, they . woold starve one another; it is like a rank atehairs, or of hackney coaches if there .are too Inaqthere is not employment for them ; and ; when it does not so happen that they'are all employed what is the consequence ? sgmetimes I have myself, in the early part of my life, when I was In the habit of going to de 'the business for Public Of.. fices, been out of tos.., tor a week or a fortnight. I went to Dunki: k, in the year 1756, to fetch over leer, that were hanged. 1 went for Mr. Taylor. a Ham. bergh Merchant. There are certain cases in which we may be employed longer; there have been officers .for eight or ten days on the poaching cases. Vicary was down for a fortnight in Gloucestershire, with Colonel Berkeley ; frequently it takes a great deal of time to detect a banditti like that. In those cases where the individual, in a case si. rnilar to that you have just mentioned, sends for a Bow-street officer, the expense of his journey, and the payment of his trouble, is defrayed by the individual? —Certainly. Are the Police officers much sent nut of the metro. pits oil the service of individuals ?—A great deal ; the great mans of their living, in a measure, is that of their being employed, as I have always termed it, upon foreign service ; that is mit of their localjnris diction, because the officer's salary is only a guinea a week. II it was not for the rewards for the industry and services of the Police officers, which are paid for by individuals who employ them, should you think the salary which is paid them sach as could procure pro per officers for the purposes of the Public?—lm possible. Have you any doubt that there is no officer at pre sent employed at Bow -street, who could continue to maintain the situation which. it is fit he should hold, by the salary and regular allowances made him from the Office ?--Impossible. At how much ',Arid you estimate the ordinary profits which an officer of the Police makes, from what is called the £l , O Parliamentary reward ?--That must entirely depend upon the qUantity of persons that he convicts, together with the distribution of each et the rewards by tke Recorder to the officer, whe ther the Recorder distributes liberally or not ; for it is upon the Judges on the Assize, and the Recorder in London, that the officer depends, as to that libe rality or not. In point of fact, it does not amon.it to any great sum in the course of the year ?—A mere bagatelle ; a mere nothing. Should you put it at lino a-year, upon the average ? —I have very great doubt whether there is an Mixer on the establishment who has ever made £3O a-year by rewards. There are eight sessions in die year ; taking it for granted that the officer should convict two capital felons for burglary or highway robbery, each session. which I am earttoick they do aot, - becitusts in many cases the Jury will take c.ff the bilightry, and the officer is lett in the lurch ; therefore it is a rob bery, not berglariously breaking and entering, but stealing only ; then the officers apply to the Judge fur what they term their expenses, ohm!: they are ailowed, which is somewhere about 4s. a day for their time; therefoye I am perfectly satisfied they cannot get A - 3() a year. Hardly over £2O perhaps ?—I should think not one of them. Shou,d you not think that it would be a much better mode of rewarding the services of the officers of the Police, if it were left to the Police Magistrates to pay, for every special service which each officer did, the reward that thci.e Magistrates thought fit toapportion ? —I have always thought so; from the earliest part of my life I have thought it, and for the best of all rea son ; 1 have, with every attention that man could be stow, watched the conduct of various persons who have given evidence against their fellow-creatures for life or death, not only at the Old Bailey, but on the Circuits, and I have always been perfectly convinced that would be the best mode that possibly could be adopted to pay officers, particularly because they ate dangerous creatures; therhave it frequently in their power (no question aboukit) o turn that scale when the beam is level, on the other side; I mean against the poor wretched man at the bar : why ? this thing called nature says profit is in the scale ; and, melan choly to relate ! but I cannot help being -perfectly satisfied, that frequently that has been the means of convicting many and many a man ; and I told Sir Charles Bunbury my opinion upon that subject thirty years ago, when he wanted to get rid of rewards, it should be in the breast of the Judges on the Circuit, and the Judges at the Old Bailey, or the Judge who tries at the Old Bailey, whether they have convicted ur not convicted the party, if they see the officer has done his duty towards the public, and his duty fairly and uprightly towards all parties, they should have a discriminating power to pay that officer-according to the nature of the case: then the officer does not stand up and look at this unfortunate creature, and swear to this or that thing, or the other thing—for what ? for lucre—for nature is nature, do with us what you will; and therefore I am cotrvinted, that ' whenever A. is giving evidence against B. he should stand perfectly uninterested. Da. you not think that that feeling you have ex pressed governs the conduct of the Jurymen in finding the verdict, when the principal evidence is an officer of the Police ?-1 have no doubt about it ; and in deed so it would to ourselves, provided we did not know the officer. I, for one, should natiimlly say, if placed upon the Jury, yes, it may be ti ue these officers are speaking truth ; but it turns out by cross-exami nation that there is £l2O to be given if these three men are convicted, and therefore I cannot believe all these men are sworn ; but if there was no reward, the officer might be always paid liberally, provided the Judge had the power by Act of Parliament to pay it,' and no doubt this has been the chatter ; :them can be no ques:ion about it; but the prosecutor says, bow am I to do ? if this man is not convicted I shall not get my expenses. Here is going to Kingston, or somewhere else; how much shall I . have allowed to be paid by the county ? It will not half pay the ex penses." is Yes, says the officer, this is a pretty thing; I will take care I will play no more.at this game;' beCause that giunc will not afford even the poor devil of an offices to appear decent on the Mandl morning. or to acquit himself, perhaps, from being sumitsoned before the Court of Conscience for some trillfillg4Fbt; for I have been always of eltiuien. 'bat an otter is a dangerous subject to the somosenity, it • be is not so kept- lola to pald as to afford sant the Means or being' honest; for in some cases, Gno knows, it has beetl 'frequently the case. I remember a case, which was proved, in the time of the trading Magistrates, where there was a fellow who was a public officer belonging to Justice Hyde, was hanged, and yet. he was one 01 the officers; but I well remember whist the man :aid at the time he was executed, for in those days, before the Police Bill took place at all it was a trading bosi ness ; and there was Justice'this and Justice that. Justice Weida in Lichfield.street was a great min in those days, and old Justice Hyde, and Justice Grdler, and Justice Blackborough, a trading Justice at Clerkenwell-green, and an old ironmonger. The plan used to - be to issue out Warrants, and take up all ithe poor devils in the streets, and then there was the bailing them 2s. 4d. which the Magistrates had ; and taking up a hundred girls, that would mike, at 4d. se] 113 s. 4d. They sent none to gaol, for the bailing them was so much better. That was so glaring that it led to the Police Bill, and it was' a great blessing to the public to do away with those men, tor they were nothing better than the encourager; of black.."tiarda, vice,. and plunderers ; there is no doubt about it. Having stated these different objections to the officers of the Police receiving rewards, do you not think there is another objection also, namely, v..!iere the officers hold in their hands the tall ince of lite and death in any evidence that they may give, it is pos sible that a rich criminal may have an influence over a needy officer highly injurious to the public interest ? —No question about it ; I will give the Committee a case in point ; supposing for instance, when I con eicted Broughton, which, 1 belive, is now twenty two years ago and who was convicted for robbing the York Mail. I coniicted, at the same assizes, the summer assizes, a celebrated old woman, Mrs. Usher, worth at least three thousand guineas, for she made over that property by her attorney. • I was then in the habit of attending Vauxhall, for which I received half-a-guinea, and a half pint of nine, which I relin quished, and took the fifteen-pence: Mrs. Usher picked a lady's pocket ; I was close by and secured her. She was tried before Baron llotham. Mr. Ives, the gaoler in'Surrey, before the trial came to me, and said, ‘4 Townsend, you know mother Usher very well," " yes," said 1, these ten years ;" I,e said, 4. cannot this be stashed ?" meaning put an end to : I said no, it was impossible that it could be ; because the case was very plain, and of all wonon upon earth she might to be convicted ; an .t in my opinion, if she is convicted capitally, nothing but her sex and her old age, ought to save her [torn 'being executed ; and I shall think it my duty when she is convicted to state to the Judge, after conviction, my opinion upon her case, v hicta I did. Slie was c , 4)- : reeled, and Baron Fiotham ordered the nay expenses, i which expenses, I believe, amounted to four guineas and a hall. I set off immediately in a post chaise ;o give evidence against Broughton. The present pAetnenei-Cfniareral Will her ciaolisel. Baron Hotta m I said to me," this woman you seem to be weal ac quainted with ;" .4 Yes, my Lord," 6 3id I.;' I am very sorry to say she is a very old offender ; but her I ! age, which your Lordship has heard her give, and her sex, are ,the only plea . that ooght to save her ;" fo.. the Jury found her guiity of stealing, bat not privily, which took away the capital part; therefore she was sentenced to two years imprisonment, in the New Gaol in the Borough. I then lived in the' Strand ; two of her relations called upon me, trying to see what could be done, and they would have given me 4200 not to have appeared against that woman. She was a very rich woman, and made over all her property before she was convicted ; she got the best part of it by plunder. On Broughton, who was tried for robbing the Mail, I found 8135 in Bank-notes, a gold watch, and a guinea and a half. Mr. Parkin, the Solicitor, paid me. Justice Buller staid till 'got down there to give evidence against him ; finding a letter which confirmed the evidence of Shaw the ac complice, who was the planner and plotter of that robbery, I traced poor Broughton, and another, who went afterwards to America. Broughton was con victed. Broughton was brother to one of the King's Messengers, and another brother kept the Red Lion in Barnet for years. There was another plan laid, so that if an officer had not been firm the consequence would have been, that temptatiouswould be frequently thrown in officers way, and how-is it possible to avoid those teMptations, provided the officer so employed has not the means of barring off those temptations, by being paid libefally for st hat he does ? 1-91 how ever we may be, in whatsoever state we are placed, nothing can be so dangerous as a public officer, where he is liable to be tempted ; for Goo knows, nature is at all times frail, and money is a very tempting thing; and you see frequently, that much higher characters than Police officers and thief-takers, arthey are called, have slipped on one side, and kicked over places ; but I have been always but of one opinion; I am convinced it is so, and so I told Lord Melville, at the time he was Secretary of State, the Police Bill being framed, that the only thing, I, for one, objected to, was the paltry salaries they gave the officers. 1, it is true, have steered clear, but l do not owe that to any merit myself. I have been lucky enough .to have situations where I have been very liberally paid ; and whether it has been my own sobriety, or attention, it matters not s but I have had many gratuities, and from the first people in the nation, or 1 might have been as liable to temptation as any one 'in London ; but I have a' fellow-feeling for other officers, and I must say, that 1 think that some of the officers de serve every. praise, though I do not change ten words with some of them in'the course cf a week, but for their attention and their sobriety ; and I cannot help again repeating, that nothing but their industry would-, enable them to get through the piece; for what is so small a stipend as a guinea a-week ? Have you at all formed an opinion what would be lan adequate salary that Government ought to pay to an officer in ,that situation ?—I am not one of those that wifuld give money to make them lazy, because there is a line to be drawn ; but I think that a guinea is too little • because, taking the thing fir granted that a man has been very lucky this week, the next week, and the other week, yet he may stand tipon his oars Air a montlr, then it takes all the cream off that milk entirely ; and I am decidedly of opinion that he should be held up and made respectable. I would give them a hundred kyear, or two guineas a-week, and the effects of their industry. Giving power to Nlagistratestoreward them accord ing to their merit ?—Yes ; and to Judges at Assizes. Do you think that it is an advautageous plea for the Public Police of ering the lative me m o s, the Government and individuals occasion qty the apprehension of offenders?—Yes, I will state I do : In case of those desper.oo. affairs which appeared before the eyes of the pobl ts; suc h murder of the Revenue Officers, or the glari o 'rages committed by poachers, if there was not , oil reward, I do not speak of a thousand pourto, couple of hundred pounds; we should reckon, old school, that an hundred pounds was we used all to fly about ; but in the case rft the nuc Officers a thousand pounds was given. an opportunity of throe people be!criging to th impeaching. One of them o•os, " damn ii made for ever ; I will go and tell ;" and it large scope for a m in to reflect—supposing I others and commit a deoredation to night, o ften...aids give information, they are boom me the reward ; for the advertisement is, shall give inkraiation, or cause the parties tt preheilled, and I have cooscd that by my it tion. It is not one .:ime in twenty thot then thing like /1,000. - The largest sum evs r gi the Bank was £2OO, and that does not alwal to the officer, for if there is a person who h as the means of giving the fficer information, th e y give that person. I remedito r a case of an rohhery at the Post-office, where the Receiver ral's Office was to be robbed ; the very keys made, and nothing could stop it, and they only for a very large sum, for they wore in the i fr o ., I think there was too much said abort it; sequence was, the officer got a little blamed. was not ioa noble information for these men to i convince the Solicitor and the Secretary of the of that a banditti was to have come in on night, and plundered the office of from 120,000? There was a doubt as to the fact they went so- far as to prove it. I said to ", " prove your case ; bring all the parties &non face to face ;" for in most cases we never bring ow informer forward ; for, as I observed to Low ta m borough, on a question by Sir William (- 4 4 Ash! Townsend, you have been very fuel gave you information 1" and I laughed it the tion. It would not do for us to answer questions. In the case you allude to, Vickery was paid sum of money ?o-I do not know the amount suns exactly ; I do not think be got much hit Du you not think thot those large rewAri offered have a tendency to make the officer! Police, to a certain degrze, tieklect seism the reward nfireted?—l should hope nut ; because frequently occurred, and doesOrequently oflicors take up a v triety of people, and cony; for transportation, and they get nothing. many times myself; and I recently saw it s levoral of our own officers, who have not farthing. Sometioots they meet an old thief, watch him, and and something upon him that to discovery, and tie is tried and convicted, ar get nothing but shat the Court gives them, s termed the expenses, of four shillings, or t h e sixpence a d ty.-1C he callused. We are informed by Urs. Cooptn, NIL - Nana, end' DUNCAN, Physicians to the Medical Board at Chan. Lott , ' House, Blaektriars Road, that upwards of 40t1Cl patients are cored annualiv of prevailing Disorders, , that hundreds were in a most distressing state ow to quaCking themselves, and by consulting met ignorant of an important branch of the professim Eruptions on the head, face, and body, ulcerated throat, swelling in the neck, nodes on :he shin bones, pains in the head and limbs, frequently taken fa rheumatism, swelled ancles and nervous debility are the consequences of improper treatment.—Messrs. COOPER, MUNR(,E, and Co. are consulted trom eight in the morning until nine at night, cr by hater, con. taining a fee, and the poor have advice on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sundays, till twelve o'clook.—A side door and private rooms for females. BIRTH. At Stonehouse, the Lady of Captil Hire, R.N., of a daqiuer. PAMIR lED. Jan. 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