Star. — London, England, 1818-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE. BOW-STRERT—IMPOSITION, FRAUD, AND FORORRY. —Fridav private information was received at Bow street, by R. BIRNIR, Esq. that a great number of fe males of the lowest class of Irish, were going about the country with forged passes, purporting that they were the wives of soldiers in his Majesty s service, ' and thereby obtairing sums of money from Overseers, Churchwardens, and Magistrates, to an amount al most incredible ; indeed, there is every reason to be lieve, that within the last two months, a sum not less than five hundred pounds has been paid to different persons with forged passes, by parish officers, within thirty miles of London.—Lavender and Bishop being put in possession of some particulars, made inquiries by which they obtained such information as led them to request the Magistrate to issue a warrant to search a house in St. Giles's, from which they suspected the misthief had emanated. A warrant was granted, and Lavender, Bishop, Salmon, and a number of pa trole, hastened to execute it. The house is situate in Church-street, St. Gaes's ; and the officers knowing, by experience, the determined resistance they were likely to meet with, took with them sufficient force to render all resistance unavailing. They surroun ded the house, while Bishop, Lavender, and Salmon went into the premises ; the officers heard some voices on the first floor, and without giving any pre iions alarm, they broke open the door and entered the apartment, and discovered five persons, two men and three women, manufacturing forge d passes.— Their names are Barney itTDou,gall, Thomas Williams, Mary Fisher, Kelly Quin, and Ann Duggan. The officers also fo und blank passes ready for filling up ; ethers signed with the names of different parish offi cers, Magistrates, and Mayors of different borough towns. Others sealed and filled up with fictitious names of females, purporting to be the wives of sol diers in his Majesty's service, sealed and signed by Magistrates. The room in which the business was carried on, was rented by Kelly Quin, for which he paid four shillings and sixpence per week. Each individual had a separate task. Barney Mllougall was employed in filling up blank passes. Williams, who is clerk to this concern, was employed in forg ing Magistrates names to the passes which Nl'llourgall bad filled up. Mary Fisher was employed in cutting pieces of blue paper in the shape of a diamond, for the purpose of affixing on the seal, in imitation of the passes issued by the Police Magistrates ; and Ann Duggan was employed in sealing them. The officers seized about 200 forged passes, a number of which had been used, and the signatures of the parish offi cers, with the amount of the money paid, was written upon them. The officers secured the party, and conveyed them before the Magistrate. They denied all knowledge of the papers which the officers pro duced. The officers gave evidence of the manner they discovered the prisoners employed when they entered the room, and they were committed for ex atnination on a future day. A Solicitor belonging to one of the Government Offices attended for the purpose of assisting in the prosecution of the priso ners, it being the determination of the Home Depart ment, to put a stop to these frauds, by making an example of those in custody, if it is possible for ex ample to have that desirable effect. A very interesting young female, apparently not more than 17 years of age, was brought to this Office, charged by her own mother, a woman of most re spectable connections, residing in the Strand, with • having, at different times, plundered her of property to a large amount. The mother, as well as her ex treme agitation would permit, stated the following circumstances :—Her husband, the father of the pri soner, died when the latter was about nine years of age, and left her, with three other children, to be supported by the mother. Every attention was paid to the education of the children, and especially to that of the prisoner, who was somewhat of a favou• rite. She always seemed sensible of the kindness that was shewn her, and her behaviour was most du tiful and proper, until about a year ago, when she unfortunately became acquainted with a man named Rotherton, who represented himself to be a Captain in the Army, upon half-pay. Upon his being intro duced by the prisoner to her mother, the latter invi ted him to become a visitor at her house. Taking advantage of this invitation he came, and remained several hours at the house every day, and sought every opportunity of taking the young girl from her home to places of public amusement of an evening. This intimacy at length proved fatal to the virtue of the daughter, and the behaviour of the latter from that moment was the total reverse of what it had al ways been before. She was haughty in her manner; and, upon being slightly rebuked, she would conduct herself in the most violent manner, abusing her mo ther, and bestowing upon her the most disgraceful epithets. Within the last three months she (the mo ther) missed many articles of considerable value; principally jewellery and wearing apparel, from her house, and at length, upon inquiry, she discovered that they had been stolen and pledged by her daugh ter, the prisoner, and she had every reason to believe that the produce of these articles went to support the vile seducer, who she had lately learned was no more than an adventurer, he never having been in the Army at all. She put up with these losses in the hope that her daughter would listen to her remon tzrances and amend her conduct; but it was of no use, and on Thursday evening, having detected her in the act of • carrying away her (the mother's) own watch and seals, she gave her in charge of an officer.—The Magistrate observed, that this was one of the most la mentable cases he ever recollected, and asked the prisoner what she could have to say in answer to the weighty charges which had been rreferred against her f—The girl, with a sn:i'e, said, she would do the same again, and ten times mere, "to assist her dear Mr. 11.'—At this answer the unfortunate mo ther dropped senseless into the arms of an officer, and was conveyed out of the Office.—The Magistrate, after giving the prisoner a most severe admonition, which however seemed to have no effect upon her, ordered her to be remanded till a futurb day, and to be kept in close confinement, without a single person being allowed to see her. At the conclusion of the Middlesex Sessions on Thursday, 1% persons were discharged by procla mation, against whom no human being appeared to prosecute. Several had been eight months in custody. V• • • OLD 4 ,tarr - szsszoss. On Saturday the CO)1110/1 S2IIL TEA poolieiled to pass sentence upon the following prisoners, wito, with the .. single efieption of William Sadler, (vilto was convicted by the verdict of a Jury), pleaded Guilty to the minor offence of, having forged Bank of England notes in their possession, knowing them to be forged. The Bank abandoned the capitaTprose cutions, on their pleading guilty to the minor charge: Maria Wilkes, aged 21'; William aMrters, 9a ; William Wilkes, 21 ; James Yeowell, 19 ; John Dunn, 18 ; James Da. las, 23 ; Jane Williams, 25; Sarah Ireland, 20 ; Charles Bans come, 25; John Anderson, 20 ; Henry Way, 27 ; Jnhn Wat son, 19; Benjamin Tatham Willis, 21 ; Thomas Owen, 17; Wiliam Quln, 16 ; Thomas Seeney, 17 ; James Wolfe, 16; Joseph Turner, 21 ; William Sadler, 20 ; Edward New, 18 ; and Joseph Longwood, 20. The COMMON SERJEAXT, in passing sentence of ,transportation for fourteen years upon the prisoners, observed that they had all, except Milian? Sadler, who had suffered his case to go to trial, confessed themselves guilty of the crime of having forged Bank of England notes in their possession, knowing them to be forged, and availed themselves of the, humanity of the Bank, the Directors of which were willing not to proceed capitally against them on a confession of guilt to the minor charge. They ought to feel the force of the mercy thus extended to them by the prosecutors ; for had the capital charges been persevered in against them, and convictions ensued, their lives would have been the inevitable forfeit which the law would have enforced for their crimes. The greater past of the prisoners seemed perfectly indifferent while sentence was passing upon them.— About seven more gill remain to be sentenced for the same offence. Thomas Winks, a coachman, was indicted for steal ing eleven 1/. notes, the property of Matthew Brady, on the 28th of August. It appeared that the prose cutor, who is servant to a Mr. Spencer, at Ealing, had hired the coach which the defendant drove, and which belongs to the famous Caleb Baldwin, the boxer. He was accompanied by another person, whom he described as his brother; when they ar rived at the place of destination, the prosecutor found that he had lost his notes, which he recollected taking out of his pocket at Notting-hill, to look for the turnpike ticket. The prisoner produced three of the notes at the public-house at Ealing. In his defence, he put in a paper, which stated that he found four notes at the bottom of the coach, which he conceived he was obliged to keep to deliver up to the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches, or subject himself to a penalty of 501. and therefore Ile did not produce them until the prosecutor demanded them. Several most respectable witnesses gave him an excellent character for honesty. His master, Ca leb Baldwin, concurred in their testimony. Mr. VAILLANT, who presided as Judge, read over the evidence against the prisoner. The Jury, after consulting some time, found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on account of " his extraordinary good character." Thomas Dover, a boy of 12 years old, was found Guilty of breaking the window of a Mr. Fox, in the Haymarket, and stealing a parse, value 7s. John Thomas Littleton Burton Williams, aged 24, was indicted capitally for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James Deboux, and stealing therein a quantity of wearing apparel and several articles of plate, in the parish of Edmonton, on the night of the 9th of Jude last. Mary Freshwater, servant to the prosecutor, proved I the burglary having taken place on the night in question. The prosecutor detailed the articles of property he had lost, amounting in the whole to above 7C/. 1 and swore 'to a pair of boots which the prisoner had on when he was apprehended as being his property. William Taylor, a boy in the employment of the' prosecutor, stated, that on the 9th of June, in the evening, he saw the pri3oner and two other men get off the Edmonton stage. He observed one of thew point to Mr. Deboues house, and heard him say,' " This is the house." The prisoner took hold of him by the arm, and said, " Come along, you fool." The prisoner, in his defence, said, he purchased the boots, and had repaired them. He called two witnesses to prove that he had been in the habit of wearing top-boots long before the robbery was com mitted. The COMMON SERJEANT summed up; and the Jury instantly found the prisoner—Guilty—Death. He was again indicted capitally, for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Catchpool, on the night of the 25th of June, and stealing therein twelve silver spoons, nine table-cloths, seven shirts, a watch, and a variety of other articles, amounting in the whole to above 44)1. his property. Mr. PLATT stated die circumstances of the case to the Jury. The prosecutor is a Member of the So ciety of Friends, and lived in the parish of Edmon ton. On the morning in question, about three o'clock, William Main, a labourer, living opposite Mr. Catch pool's, saw two men walking backwards and for wards and looking towards Mr. C:s house. On coming down stairs he saw the prisoner going to hide a bundle in the shrubbery ; he tied the bundle, and was returning towards the house, when Main asked him what o'clock it was? and he said just gone three. Witness went into his house, and coming out met him again towards prosecutor's house, and as he passed prosecutor's house he heard a noise, as if doors and locks were being broken open. He went a little farther, and met Matthew Butterton, and they went to the shrubbery and took one bundle from thence; and on their return they saw a man come out of Mr. Catchpeol's house, and go towards the village; they pursued him, and in the course of that pursuit they saw three men, who ran as fast as they could, , and one of them threw a bundle away. They pursued them for nearly a mile, and then caught the prisoner in the middle of a field ; he made a stout resistance, and struck Main a violent blow with a stick ; but finding resistance ineffectual, be called to the other , two for assistance, but they ran away, regardless of his solicitation. The bundles were produced, and their contents were proved to be the property of Mr. Catchpool. The prisoner in his defence, said he was going to look for work, and he met two men, who gave him 2s. 6d. to carry the bundle to town; but as they were coming along, they told him to put it in the shrub bery, which he did. The COMb/ON SERJEANT in summing up the evi- • ,•ft..c • *nee to tlte'Sury, said they were bound to dismiss the burglary from their consideration, as it was proved by the evidence of Main that it was day-light when he, first saw them before the pmsecutor's house. Independent of this there was no witness, except the prosecutor, to prove the security of the house the night before, and as the prosecutor was a Quaker,he WAS not put into the box to speak to that fact. • The Jury immediately found the prisoner guilty of stealing to the amount of 10s. in the dwelling house. The COMMON SELMA NT observed to the prisoner, that both both these cases must necessarily be repre sented to the Prince Regent therefore, as a friend,' he would advise him to prepare for that ignominious end which in all probability awaited him. The pri soner, on hearing this, began to cry very much. Mr. A R A BI SI stated to the Court that above tweet: burglaries had been committed in that neighbour hood before the prisoner was taken up, and it was a little extraordinary that not one had been committed since his apprehension. John Christopher Pytvell, a person of some noto ' riety as a hose-dealer, was indicted for feloniously stealing a warrant for the payment of 03/. the pro , perty of Captain Clarke, It. N. A second count charged the prisoner wish stealing from the prose cutor two Bank-notes for the payment of 501. each, and three 11. notes. It appeared that the prisoner, who was very smartly dressed for the occasion, was one of those advertising horse-dealers commonly called Chaanters," whose advertisements in the newspapers present a very at tractive description of the cattle for sale. In answer to an advertisement of this description, the prosecu tor sent his groom to the Angel-inn, Fleet-mat ket, where the latter was shewn a bay mare, by a groom named Giblen; with whom it was agreed to purchase the animal at the price of 60 guineas, with a war ranty of perfect soundness, and two days' trial, or the money to be returned. On the sth instant, the prosecutor's servant attended at the Angel-inn, with an injunction to pay the money into the hands of the innkeeper. He was introduced to the prisoner, who said he was the master of the Inn, and a check for the money was paid into his hands, Giblen, the groom, giving a receipt for the money. The mare was then driven out of the Inn-yard ; but she had not gone many paces before she was found to be dead lame, and utterly useless: subsequent inquiry was made for the prisoner, but he was not to be found, and it was discovered that he was not the master or The Angel Inn. He was afterwards apprehended. The COMMON SERJRANT was of opinion, under the circumstances of the case, that an indictment for felony could not be sustained, and therefore di rected an acquittal. Saturday evening, Crisp, the pedestrian, completed his task, at Newbury, of walking 75 miles a day for six days successively. His next attempt, it seems, is, to walk from London to York in forty-eight hours. Sunday, Mary Bagshaw, a young woman, about twenty years of age, residing in Richard -street, Chat ham, fell under the fire-place in a fit, when her bosom was SO dreadfully burnt before she was discovered, that little hopes are entertained of her recovery. Wednesday night, a young man, most fashionably dressed, went to the Coach and Horses inn at Plais tow, in Essex, and, after ordering and disposing of an excellent supper, retired to rest in one of tie best beds of the house. In the middle of the night he arose, packed up several articles of silver plate, and 'other property to the amount of nearly £3O, belonging to the randlady, with which he got clear off, and has not since been heard of. SHAKESPEARE..—The admirers of Shakespeare--, and what Englishman does not admire and revere his transcendant genius ? will rejoice to hear, that an original Portrait of the Poet has just been brought to light. It is painted in miniature, in the stile of Hil liard, a celebrated artist of that age, whose works are well known to Connoisseurs, and from its spirit and truth it displays the hand of a master. It has been shewn to the President of the Royal Academy, to Sir T. Lawrence, Mr. Owen, Mr. Shee, Mr. Th om son, and other eminent judges, who all concur in pronouncing it to be an original Portrait of the immortal Bard.— This little treasure is now the property of Sir J. Bland Burgess, to whom it has descended though his mo- 1 ther s family, and by mere accident it was lately dis covered in an old cabinet formerly belonging to that lady. It bears a general resemblance to the best busts of Shakespeare, but it differs from the Chandos oil pic ture, which has hitherto been considered as authentic, the miniature being painted with light coloured hair. It is set in gold, and enamelled in good taste. MR. COCKRELL.—The following declaration has been made to the Police of Brussels, by .Ir. CCCK HELL, the attack on whom we lately mentioned : " The assassin, on entering my chamber, said, that he came to pay the rent of the house occupied by Ma dame Montaud. I observed to him, that besides this rent lie had also to pay that of a cellar, and 14. francs, which I had paid for water. On this he became in solent, and denied that I should make such a claim. I told him that it was my wish to postpone the ques tion until the following day, that I might be enabled to send some one who could speak French to explain the affair to Madame Montaud. He then left my house, and I went out at the same time. Some mi nutes after Madame Montaud herself came, and in quired of a boy in my service if I were at home. On my return I found her at my door ; she said she had come to pay her rent. I repeated to her what I had already said to her domestic; that I had spoken.to friend, with whom 1 should go on the following day to her house to explain the affair to herself. But Madame Montaud persisted in wishing to pay me the rent, otherwise she would deposit it in the hands of al Notary. At the moment I had signed the receipt the assassin again entered, saying, ‘.'ou have treated me with contempt.' It is you, I replied, who are be ginning again to insult me. No, Sir,' said he, I have been 12 years in the service of France, and you would now thrust me from your house.' Saying this, he drew from his left pocket two small pistols, with one of which he fired at me. I fortunately had time to turn his arm; he teen fired the other pistol, which I also had the good fortune to escape. He then struck me several times with a bayonet. The little boy who was with me fled. crying out, d l'Assassin On which the assassin left me, and escaped through tee street-door."—The Editor of The Cosntopditeadas, that the assassin was in the service of 31a1Montand. Hopes are entertained of Mr. CociirtzLes recovery. • 1 . . 11 . i - 1 1 , i ,a 4 i I , t t. . itt it , l . r 1 1 , 111(311 WATER at LONI)ON I' .1 (` Maytag Aftenmon - .•• ..- -_ - - • LUNI)IiN : Printed a d publi,hed !ICC. TCHIVI4-1.‘:61. ECCLESIASTIC Pno.i :orlon • • The Archbishop of York has _-lie .Bed r. to the perp etua l curtsey of flielyor .. lil t Bev. C. E. Green, Rector of 6 • tory of Trusl e y, D er b ys hi re . erse tudis flee. Edward Reed. B.A. Curate of S. m ar . has been unanimously elected to thr•afrer ne —, united parith t ; o f S t . M agnus the Martyr an d .. Y' Mr. J. Rob e ru, o f Ki ng ' s College Chow. • - Fellow of that Society. ' nage' ' 111 h ad teup or : e n i at tt uda vi e t lla kCa- Beon : n h thedin e igh h ett lo ta l: 4t p h O ea rm ; t 4.- 14whir i ? ke " Dt co shb : P l e irge o f i u4 :: : :: rli : . a ti ] t " . 1 1::7 ' : John Chas. Clapp, St. Jobo's College, C at ~ umbrid=r J Th oh il fi r i n p i i it na h n t e ll Fi: t ri ollo set st tcot arin Ce iwnt. li g jbe le e tri 7 t A ls C e irm . c.i der mj:nd c 0. • Coker, Oriel Colleg?, Oxford, A. M. • Ch i ,to ,-„;"` at cc .B. and St. l ea Lß ie o hl fn : f . l o E s t r es. Car i l i : a t legs, CamLridge, A.M. John Manley, U. lege, Cambridge, A.B. The Rev. G. C Renonard, E.D. Fslkw e f Cambridge, has been presented Sy the of or i th. : At tk i°det e C y ar rh ubarb,f7t.eir the the Rectory a 7 n h p :w l e y —a it n ak o 'u t ' which will in a few momeats perform a c are On Miss WORGUAN'S cheerful return toth e sal erwore of her dance, lately, at the . Theatre, some person threw half.a. c .„.„ stage. The Manager, consider ing hirnseii the Manor, seized the spoil as Es right, tez i the Infirmary. Thursday night during the peforma nze cf *. called the Dandy Family, at Ast:ey's, Ei z c • FMLINGIIANI,, and SLONIAN, were engaged ',al listic contest as Pyeman,Picipolket aadDig y when the former received an unlucky Liow (roe MAN, which made him perform as inrs,:ara n s, merset from the stage into the orchel.r.l, and ',LII - - the feet of the musicians. He was shonir m from his unpleasant situation, and elicue.: . bruised, went through the remainder ct his pat Wednesday night, 'an Inquest was Lela is Board-Room of St. James's Workhouse, cr. tle of Francis llawsbury, a watchman, oho died denly Gil his beat on Tuesday mornin. Ile abo'it -V) years of ate, and has left a famil-, dict—Died by the visitation of Coo. On the 23d ult. a storm arose upon the Righi, in Switzerland, such as hns not happmef within the memory of man. The lightniL; struc• cross which is at the top of that ir.mmtain, partly destroyed it. At the place where the inn situated, which is 2000 feet below the summit snow fell so thick that it was ;I,ll'diy I - I..rthi'oie.o the flashes of lightning ; the Righi Ni4SCOVtal snow for several days. Where an assemblage of talent and expetitre concentrated in cone line of practi:e, a success attend their application, not to be fourd chew. This has been evinced in the Establishment ci Medical Board at Charlotte-House, 13Lickfriars- and at Woodstock-House, Woodstock-street, Oil• street, where cures are every day performed in - which have baffled the skill of eminent proles , and excited their astonishment-111e Medical t • have particularly attended to those consequences ci certain disease, which entails the men. &stressing • bilities, and unhinges the constitution of both :es They also remove the effects of those symptom; zip ing from juvenile indiscretion, from irregular and from a long residence in warm clinsates—Li description they beg particularly to notice aiall eruptions in the skin, sore throat, pins in the::eidol limbs, freqttently mistaken for rheumatism, stairs, 1 fistulas, sci ophula, dze.—Messrs. Coopnv aTA after forty years practice in various Ha pink," consulted at Woodstock-sti cot, Orford-street, as from eight till eight; and at the Metli:al Charlotte-I louse, Great Charlotte-,:rest, Illacktr road, precisely from twelve until eight in the evenis! —Mechanics, and persons of moderate income, , advice, gratis, if they attend at certain hars, narneit, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday mornings, nutrias , o'clock, and from six to eight every eve Ling. g 7 A side door, and privase rooms tot BT RMS. In I.imeriek, the Lady .f the Rev. 11. 'afros. of 14...tt • April 14, at Calcutta, the Lady of G. J. Su'....vtis, ot ('lullSiviit, of a M.kRRIED. Robert Suthrtiard. r4l• t° 3 netts (te..rvmbe.rmiT,urratayL,3:l:jealle daughter gh Murray. Tbesday, attWoodat place.britige , th u eßs te v r . t r i. onr )L" Murray.. Skeels, both of th at lhe Rev. Wm. Marriott, to Caroline second rang i of the late Rev. Clarks Warre. DIED. 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