Star. — London, England, 1821-10-10 00:00:00

POLICE. • BOW•STRICIT4.••MR. BINJAMIN Yesterday, Mr. Benjamin Bloomfield, the person charged with defrauding Mr. Shirley, of Rocking ham-row, Kent-road, of £2OO, under the pretence of, procuring him a situation in the Customs, was placed at the table fronting the bar. He is a tall young man of very gentlemaiily appearance and imposing man ner. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, in an undertone, asked him hots he had been treated in prison during his confinement ? The defendant said quite as well as the nature of the place would admit of. Sir RICHARD then said "Is there any person present who has a charge to prefer against this young man?" No an swer was made. At this time the Office was crowded in every corner.—Mr. ADOLPHUS, for the defendant, requested that the examination might be deferred till Friday se'nnight. A long conversation then ensued between the Learned Gentleman, Sir R. BMUS, and Mr. Shirley, who pressed for an immediate exami nation, urging , the inconvenience of his attending again ; but, after some conversation with Mr. Har mer's clerk, who attended for the prosecution, he consented; and Sir R. BIRNI E being informed that, if the examination was deferred till then, there would be ample time to bring the case on at the Middlesex Sessions, it was poitponed till that day.— While this conversation was going on, two Gentle-. men, who had been refused admittance at the door, on account of the crowded state of the Office, sent in a note to the Magistrate, and, on being admitted, one of the Gentlemen stated that he saw an adver tisement, stating that a mercantile situation was to be procured for the sum Of 1.'700, and a reference was made to the defendant, whci, when be saw him, said it was not a mercantile situation, but one under Government, in the Lottery Department, and that he had interest to procure R. Boons. " Did you pay him the money, or any part of it?"—The Gen tleman replied in the negative.—Mr. ADOLPHUS said " Then there is nothing in that case ; there is an end of that." Sir RICH Ann BiltNIE thought the complainant in " high luck." The second Gentleman stated that be had an interview with the defendant respecting a situation in the War Department, which be profess ed himself to be able to obtain. The price was to be £lO9. He called subsequently at No. 1, King's Bench-walk, Temple, where he saw a Mr. Nightin gale, who said Mr. Bloomfield could not procure the situation, and, ringing the bell, desired complainant to walk out.—Mr. ADOLPHUS. "Then you can't say he took you in."—The complainant then added, that he was first referred to Mr. Nightingale, but when be called he saw Bloomfield , who said ie was the person who had interest to procure the situation.— Ihese complaints were dismissed, as not being tan gible by the law. The further hearing was then ad. journed until Friday se'nnight, and the defendant was committed until that day to the House of Cor rection for the County. MANSION-Mouse.—Yesterday a powciful who is known by the name of Bob Smith, was brought before the LORD Mayon, on a charge o il having committed an outrageous assault on a lad named Campbell. Oil Monday, several street-rob bers who ietest the neighbourhood of Bishopsgate, were fully committed for trial on charges of high: way robbery ; ail) amongst other persons, the com plainant Campbell gate evidence against them.— Campbell, wlio lives in Angel-alley, was smoking his • pipe near his door, when he saw two robbers go•up to a : man .ind take his watch from him, as he was standing at his own door. Campbell knew the man by sight, and mentioned the circumstance to the Police-officers, fur which his life has since been con stantly threatened. Ile stated, that he has been se veral times beaten with great severity, and he charged the prisoner, who is the bully of the place, with hav ing set upon him at night and beaten him most un mercifully, calling him a nose (informer), and using the most horrid epithets. The complainant's mother had also been constantly assailed on the same ac count ; and they both stated, that unless they re ceived powerful protection, they had everything to apprehend horn the resentment of the thieves belong ing to that alley. This body, it appears, is so nu merous and power fu!, that those who inhabit the place are kept in such awe, that they never dare give a word of information, or speak in any way upon the robberies which they daily witness. The pri soner admitted that lie had beaten the complainant, but said it was a private quarrel, in which he (the prisoner) had received great provocation.• He denied that it was on account of any police matter, and said he had never used language which indicated other wise. The complainant swore to the Lica he had stated ; and the complainant's mother stated, that she had been assailed with the most foul abuse and threats by the woman with whom the prisoner cohabited.— The LORD MAYOR strongly animadverted on the case, and said, that the characters who associated in these places would find themselves greatly mistaken, if they thought they could contend with the present police of the city. Those who presumed in any way to annoy the persons who did their duty by giving evidence, would meet with punishment so severe as would convince them of the folly of setting them selves against the law. His Lordship ordered the prisoner to find bail to answer for the outrage at the Sessions, and in default he was committed to prison. His Lordship ordered the City Solicitor to prosecute, and bound over the complainant to give evidence ; and desired that he would bring information of who ever should in future in any way molest him. GUILDHALL..--YOUTHFUL D.CPRAVITY.It is la mentable to observe the alarming increase of crime among the juvenile branches of society, evinced in the number of grown lads that are brought up almost daily at the different Police-offices, charged with va rious offences. No less than five prisoners of this de scription underwent an examination at this Justice room yesterday, before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox. The tiva, a lad about 16, named Georg Green, was charged by his master, James Brampton, a dealer in coals, in the neighbourhood of Golden-lane, in whose employ he had been not quite a fortnight, with re ceiving. money from several of his customers and converting it to his own use. Brampton's customers, who had heretofore always paid ready money, seemed on a sudden as if to have agreed together to take credit ; for whether it was a bushel or a sack of coals be was sent oat with, the prisoner always returned, with some excuse or other why they were not paid 'tor, and on subsequent inquiry his master learnt that the lad had received the money, as usual in that busi ness, from the majority of the customers. In this way he had received upwards of 355. in one week, which his master had discovered, and 'he expected to find other sums in a similar situation. Two small sums so received by the prisoner, and not accounted for to his master, were given evidence of ; and the prisoner, who had nothing to urge in his excuse, was commit• ted to take his trial for the offence. James Smith, a lad about a year older than the last prisoner, was committed to Newgate for picking a Gentleman's pocket on Fish-street-hill, in.zhe middle of the day, being taken in the act of making his escape, and the stolen handkerchief found in his possession. John Davis and Charles Hickson, the former 13, and the latter 18 years of age, had very humanely been permitted by the waggoner to geo into the Southampton waggon, to give them a lift on their road to London, and in return for his kindness bad contrived to cut open a portmanteau, and pack up a part of its contents into a bundle • but the robbery was fortunately discovered by a fellow-passenger in the waggon, before an opportunity offered for them to make their escape with the property. The owner of the portmanteau not being in attendance, the pri soners, who had confessed the fact, were remanded for a further hearing. The case that excited the greatest interest was that of Benjamin Butlel,an apprentice, who was brought up by his master, Mr. Light, a wholesale hardware man, No. 71, Fleet-market, with the view of getting his indentures discharged; under the provisions of the Statutes 20 Geo.ll. cap. 19, and 32 Gen. 11. cap. 37, for regulating Parish Apprentices. His master did not actually charge him with theft, because,. as he silt!, he could not bring proof of the fact, although he considered that numerous articles that were missing could not have been taken away without his know ledge and connivance ; but his general conduct and behaviour, as described by Mr. Light, exhibited a most extraordinary instance of incorrigible obstinacy and perverseness of disposition. The lad, who is now eighteen, and has been with Mr. Light four years, was left an orphan at an early age, and brought up by a poor couple, his foster parents, residing at Bromley, in Kent, who described him as of a most wretched temper, even from a child. The school master where he received the little education he had, stated, in a letter to Mr. Light, that he had scarcely ever witnessed a child of so exceedingly bad a dispo sition, and that he occasioned him more trouble and uneasiness than all his other scholars put together.— Mr. Batt, the parish clerk of St. Mary Woolchurch, by which parish the lad had been apprenticed, bore testimony to his extraordinary perversity. Mr. Light said, he had used every possible endeavour to correct the obstinacy of the boys temper, and the habitual surliness of hi., manner, but without the slightest effect. lie had parted with two or three female ser vants through the violence of his conduct, each de claring it was impossible to live in the house with him. Neither kindness nor threats are of any avail with him ; he will do as he likes, and does not hesi tate to say so. Indeed he allows, to use his own ex pression, that he thinks the very devil is in him. He knows his business very well, and is now of an age to be exceedingly useful to his mister. But Mr. Light stated, that no consideration could induce him to take him again into his house, and had no hesita tion in saying that he thought his own life and that of his family in danger, front the violence of the lad's disposition. The obstinacy of the boy's disposition was apparent in his countenance, which exhibited no trait of feeling or kindness ; his very voice when he spoke was a sort of harsh surly roar, and the few tears that he shed on finding that he was no longer to be uncontrouled, were evidently those cf anger, rather than sorr ow.—Mr. Alderman Buren, who had attended on this very case, the presence of two Ma gistrates being requited, thought it wild be rather too precipitate to discharge the indentures, as there appeared no prospect for the lad, without friends and with such a character, to procure another employ ment, and suggested the propriety of first trying the effect of severity upon him, in which opinion ' Mr. Aldermaa Cox coincided, and as an experiment the boy was committed to the House of Correction, to be kept to hard labour for one month. • Ilnnoa•GAanEN.—Jarncs Hall, one of the Pad dington coachmen, yesterday appeared at this Office, to answer to an information under the 50th of the late King, charging him with furiously driving his horses, by which the pole was broken, and the lives of Mr. G. Grove, of Postern-row, Tower-hill, Mr. C. Burford, and other persons, were endangered. — The defendant pleaded Not Guilty. Mr.HUMPURZYS, who appeared for him, objected to the summons, on the ground of an informality, but which the Magis trate over-ruled. Mr. G. Groves deposed, that having occasion to go to the w est end of the town, he got on the coach in questidn in the City-road. While wait ing at the Star Inn, four other coaches came up; and on one, in particular, going away, the defendant said, " I'll soon overtake him," and went off at full gallop. He did pass him, and then slackened into a trot. On coming to the Blue-coat Boy, the same coach again passed them, and on the defendant getting on the box he said, " D— that Jack, I'll cut his ear off," and again went off at a gallop. He overtook the: coach near the end of Penton-street, and in endea-' vouring to pass round the coach and to escape a chaise coming up, the pole broke, and the horses being unable to act as the defendant wished, they were propelled against their will down Pentonville hill at full gallop, till they came very near Battle bridge. . During their progress, one of the passen gers dropped of the coach, being fearful of an acci dent ; the witness got down as soon as the coach stopped, and having paid his fare, proceeded to where he was going, not deeming it safe to go with the de fendant. Mr. Charles Burford fully corroborated the statement of Mr. Grove s as to the furious driving from the Blue-coat Boy public-house to the place where the coach stopped. Mr. HUMPliaEys objected that the words " unavoidable accidents always ex cepted," contained in the Act of Parliament, had not been negatived. This objection was also overruled by the Magistrate, and the defendant convicted in the penalty of £lO. A long discussion ensued as to the question whether the defendant could be admit.' ted to bail without paying the fine (a point still unde cided), which was stopped by a person becoming, conjointly with the defendant, bound to lodge an ap peal at the Sessions. The Magistrate then said to the defendautp "I recommend to you to tell your trother whips, that the very strongest measures will be adopted, to put a stop to their shameful conduct. The conduct evinced on this road is disgraceful, and the subject of complaint at all the Police Offices, and must be put an end to. Whatever may be the opi nion of my decision elsewhere, those who travel that road are well aware that more is merited than the Act describes." MARY-LA-BONNE Onriez.—Yesterday, Miss Anal Davis, a female of very interesting manners and ap pearance, and a youth of dashing exterior, named George Wood, were brought up in custody of William Hewitt, the officer; the former charged with felony, and the latter on suspicion of being an accessary to the fact. Mrs. Ann Stephens, residing in Welbeck street, Cavendish-square, deposed that the female prisoner took a suit of apartments in her house about eighteen months since, and was always considered a lady of highest respectability, till within the last few days. A short time since, Mrs. Ann 'Thorne, who also resided in hir house, whose husband was steward to Lord Plymouth, in Grosvenor-square, left London on a visit to her friends in' the country, leaving her household furniture, wearing apparel, &c. in the care of witness, who for safety locked the linen, &c. in a closet in one of the apartments. On Thursday last the female prisoner intimated to wit ness that it was her intention to leave her apartments, as she was about to settle with the prisoner Wood, who was also a tenant in witness's house, and wits going to reside in Boston-street, Regent's-park. The prisoner then took her leave, and left the house in company with her intended husband. Next day wit ness found in the apartment of the female a pawn broker's duplicate of a quantity of French lace in pledge for one pound. She, knowing that some fo reign lace was in the closet amongst Mrs. Thorne's property, instantly suspected that the lace pledged was stolen flora the closet : she repaired to the pawn broker's and redeemed it, and found her suspicion was true: she then examined the closet, and found that a valuable silk shawl, several silk handkerchiefs, shifts, &c. had been stolen therefrom. The descrip tion given by the pawnbroker who received the pledge of the person, left no doubt in her mind that the prisoner was the thief. Witness instantly went to No. 3, Boston-street, Regent's-park, where the pri soners were living in grandeur, and passing as brother and sister. On the female seeing witness, she in stantly confessed having perpetrated the robbery by opening the closet.door with a false key, during her absence on Thursday last, but declared the prisoner Wood was not in the slightest degree implicated.— Witness then searched a trunk belonging to the pi i soner, .in which she found two silk handkerchiefs and a chemise, the property of Mrs. Thorne ; also a du plicate of the shawl, pledged for 16s. at the shop of Mr. Akers, pawnbroker, in Upper Mary-la-bonne street. Richard Ilingston, shopman to Mr. Akers, produced the shawl, and identified the female pri soner as having pledged it in the name of Molyneux. The shawl was identified as being the property of Mrs. Thorne ; and the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to take her trial. There being no charge against Wood, he was discharged. The unfortunate gill was taken from the bar in great distress. MARLBOROUGH- STREKT....YeSterday Richard Phil. 'lips, a boy about ten years of age, of very ragged appearance, was brought up in the custody of Bart lett, the beadle, charged by Mr. Walker, bookseller, of the Strand, with stealing a sovereign under the most artful circumstances. Mr. Walker stated that, yesterday morning, he was walking along Broad street, St. Giles's, and on releasing his hand from his pocket it turned inside out, and fifteen sovereigns contained therein fell on the. pavement. Several per sons assisted in picking them up, and restoring them to him ; and he received the whole of them with the exception of one. The prisoner, who had been stand ing by the whole of the time, was lurking off under very suspicious circumstances, when some one said he had the sovereign. He was secured; and on being questioned he positively denied that Ire had it ; how ever, he was given into the custody of Bartlett, who searched the whole of his dress, but found nothing. The officer, conscious of there being other places of concealment besides the pockets, determined' on sear ching the prisOner's mouth, where, tinder the tongue, he found the sovereign snugly concealed, and the prisoner was forced against his. will to eonfess that it could not have come there by its- own accord. The beadle stated that the prisoner was a well-known character, and had been in custody several times before on charges of felony. The Magistrate, how ever, not feeling the case to be sufficient for a con-' mitment, discharged the prisoner, assuring him that if ever he were to be brought there again, he would be severely treated. Qtreeri-SQUARE.--Mr. Jackson, a respectable boot maker in Chelsea, 'obtained a warrant yesterday for au outrageous .assault committed upon him by a man of the name of Reed, and his son. On their appear •ance to answer the complaint, it appeared that the younger Reed had been apprenticed to Mr. Jackson by the Royal Military Asylum ; and that his proceed ings had been so bad while au apprentice, that his master had him brought twice to this Office for mis-. conduct. The assault originated in Mr. Jackson's refusal to grant a proper certificate of the young man's good conduct.while in his service, which would have enabled him to get £5 from that Institution.— The assault was clearly proved against both father and son, and Mr. Jackson was bound over to prose cute them at the ensuing Sessions. Mr. WHITE strongly animadverted upon their conduct, and trusted that no consideration would induce Mr. Jackson to refrainfrom prosecuting two individuals who had been guilty of such an outrage to himself, and at tempting to obtain money unworthily from so excel lent a Charity. Jane Connelly, the unfortunate woman who 'was remanded on a former examination till to-day; for robbing a man of 16s. was fully committed' for trial. UNION-HALL.--A young Irishman, who has not been long in this country, complained against a court tryman of his, who had part of a room and a bed to let, that the latter had acted in a very unkind and ungentlemanlike way. The complainant said that he lodged with the defendant about three months.— He was out of employment :in this town, but he got • a little job in the country, sand asked for his clothes, which were worth about £5. The defendant refused to give them up, and witness was obliged to go to business without them. The,Magistrate asked what complainant owed to his landlord? The - complainant said he believed about 20s. The defendant said, the least the complainant owed tlat was 255. and h e !thought that quite low enough, for he had onit charged him two shillings a week for washing,' W in nd mending. s' he complainant.—Goo knows, your Worshir, t h at wzi , lima, for we were five in a bed. There was your ea, child, and Pat Donovan, and myself. you kn ow it wen, nn at ,' The Magistrate directed that the twenty s hu on should be paid, and that the clothes should be dai. vered up to the complainant. Another Irishman was charged with kkking np row in a fit of drunkenness. The Magistrate spoke of fining him ss. for getting drunk, but was di sarmed by the following speech : " Your Worship, I got a wound at Watetkis, can't stand liquor slime. I took an oath a year ago not todrira a drop of spirits for a twelve month, and yesterday my ye ar' , out, and I cooks little, but it took braid of me. Now, yi; Worship looks over this, upon my smirl 111 take my mai ma w row not to take another drop for another twelumontlir The Magistrate smiled at this assurance, a q ua the defendant good bye for another year. Yesterday Mary Ann Woad, who had been charged last week with having obtained property from sere. ral persons on false pretences, in conjunction with her husband, was again brought up for examinati oz . On inquiry being made by the Magistrate wh e th er her husband bad in every instance heen present, at I the time the property was obtained? it appearedtim he bad. The Magistrate then said, as the husband had been present, he was considered in law as sol e ly answerable for the offences, the wife being suppo se ! I to have acted under his controul. He therefore or. deted the prisoner to be discharged, and issued ha warrant against the husband, directed to the Mas shat of the King's Bench. Immediately after the prisoner had left theOffic her mother, a woman of very respectable appe t ante, came into it in a state of great agitation, ay applied to the Nlagistrate to protect her from he daughter, who had threatened her life in such arm tier as to alarm her in the hi hest degree. She xil she always acted towards her daughter with E t greatest affection, and had been wholly ruined in hr circumstances by Wood, her daughter's holm* she had frequently of late declared she uould Li t her (the complainant's) life, the moment it shouldle in her power; and on one occasion she came cute( her house with a knife in her band repeating k x threats. The prisoner denied the fact. A ier vo came forward, who said he could explain the can of the prisoner's having a knife in her band. The e was a small gate in front of the prisoner's hom e which it was difficult to open, and it was for thep se • pose of opening it she came out of her house withtk knife in her hand. This person did not deny the the prisoner had threatened her mother in the man. ner she had stated. Tine Magistrate said, mg; had been stated to chew it was necessary that t h e prisoner should enter into recognizances to keeptie peace towards her mother. She must therefoiefil two securities in the sum of £4O each, or be sat: prison. Two persons who were present entered its the recognizances, and the prisoner was discharge'. Hall, the officer, brought up six persons whack charged with being reputed thieves. He stated .he had taken them the night before, in the Olen and avenues of the Coburg Theatre, which wa crowded to excess, and afforded an opportunity Ica persons of the prisoners' description tolaboutsmAiw vocations, as a vast number of persons had der pockets picked, and in some cases the pockets set actually cut off. Amongst the prisoners weretke sweeps, one of whom, the officer stated, bad thorn a large ball of soot from the gallery on the head d .a well-dressed female in the pit, whose appeataret of course, it completely transformed in a muchme effectual manner than Harlequin could with hisvral Hall said he knew the prisoners to be supiciousth ratters. The prisoners being called on to gi' account of themselves, and produce persons to their characters, the friends of two of forward and undertook for their future conduct: other four were sent to the House of Correct' Brixton. Mr. CHAMBERS, the sitting Magil the course of the examination, observed, highly improper for the Proprietors of '. admit sweeps among the audience. Tursday night, betweeneleven and twel , as Mr. EDWARD WHATTLE, accompanied b and sister, were returning home in a eh: Croydon fair, they were attacked on the road Brixton by two footpads, one of whom horse's head, whilst his associate jumped int and robbed Mr. WHATTLE of fourteen shilliags •MARRIED. Saturday, Edward James, Esq. of James Hall, the Island of Jamaica, to Charlotte White, relet of Thos. White, Esq. of Chapel-place, Duke-street, IVesuniens, DIED. Sunday, at Chelsea, in the 16th year of his age, Han to shaw, fourth son of W. Earnshaw, Esq. Solicitor aids* ty's Customs. Saturday, at Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, aged A** Salmon, upwards of thirty years resident surveyor to &king present Duke of Bedford. Oct. 3, at Edinburgh, Alm Jane Roberts" fekt of William fimellle, Esq. printer, Secretary to the Scottish Antiquaries. Oct. 5, while rising from her bed, Mrs. Finch, of dingham, relict of James Finch, Esq. late of tint place. COURSE OF Anuterdant l2 17 C.F. 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