Star. — London, England, 1821-10-16 00:00:00

DREADFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION. Yesterday an Inquisition. was taken before Jour: WRIGHT UNwIN, Esq. Coroner, at the Golden. Hart, Lamb-street, Spitalfields, on view of the body of .Elizabeth Sui.pter, aged 19. It appeared that the deceased was bar-maid at the house of Mr. Jackson, the Salmon and Ball, Wooler-street, Spitalfields, and that on Friday forenoon, about twelve o'clock, she was discovered by Mrs. Jackson lying on the floor of an apartment up stairs, drunk and insensible. The, deceased remained in this state till about fotir o'clock, when persons in the street were alarmed at seeing her get out at the attic window and stagger about in the gutter; when in attempting to sit on the parapet, she was unfortunately precipitated out into the street from a height of four stories, by which her head was dreadfully fractured, but not one of her limbs re ceived the slightest injury ; she was carried into the house in a dying state, and expired soon after. Ver dict—,, That the - deceased came by her death by ac cident, being at the time in a state of intoxication." There is now sojourning at Brighton a Gentleman ninety-two years of age, who was never before ten miles from London, and who, it is said, frequented an inn in Bishopsgate-streA daily, for upwards of • fifty years ; and at which, it is farther reported, he .latterly allowed himself five bottles of port wine per diem, and that upon calculation and proof it appeared -he had actually drank at the abovementioned house, no less a quantity than 35,609 bottles, or 57 pipes, Of that generous and genial juice! Alarrier in the country lately made out a bill to a farmer who had employed him, and whose Christian 'name was Jacob, which he conttived to spell without Using one single letter contained in the word Jacob. It•would puzzle some people, perhaps, mote learned 'than the farrier, to put five letters uvther, none of which are in the word Jacob, and make it sound st, well as Getup, which was the way the doctor (as such persons are called sometimes in the country) spelt it. Oa the sth instant, at a horse-race, in the neigh. bourhcod of Aughuacloy, near Newry, T. MOORE, Esq. of Dawn, a most worthy and respectable cha••• meter, seas killed in the-following manner:—After the first race was over, a Gentleman galloping over a field, ran his horse to a ditch—the animal being un manageable, took a contrary direction to that which the ruler intended, and having made his way over, came in contact with the horse on which Mr.Moone sat—both -. horses and their riders fed ; and the Gen tleman's hot trampled on Mr. Moofte's head, and in a moment the vital spark was extinguished. Earl TEMPLE was overturned in his gig on Sam . day evening, near Braintree, on his return to town • from Gol.seld Hall, in Essex; but neither his Lord ship nor the servant who was with him, received any serious injury. - - - . Wednesday forenoon, a melancholy accident hap- Fcled at Boos a :—The Lincoln old coach, from Lon con, was on the point of setting off, alter changing Losses at the Bull Inn, when the sp►rited animals took bu:ldea alartr, and drew the coach out of the usual mad, - over a heap, of building materials lying neat! the sew Town. 11.111; the consequence was that the vehicle was overturned; and the driver,:loseph Bright- I more, had the tnisformae to hive both his arms and.' 'both his thighs broken, No other pet son was htli t The unfortunate maa lies in a very dangerous state. -He had deserve.lly the character of a steady coach m:in, and was highly respected at Lincoln, where • be has a wife and large family. _ _ An accident happened to tlieTunbridge coach com- I gto L')ridon, on Saturday evening. It was upset at Bromley, and the coachman, and a Lady, an outside 'passenget, were severely hurt. The re,t of the pas • sengers, both inside and outsi received some bruises Monday se'nnight, about eight o'clock in the even ing, a man rode up the Bath road, near Bristol, and meeting a cart, with seven passengers, sti tack the horse with his stick, by which the animal was fright ' ened, and ran away; the car t was upset, the passengers thrown not, and some of them Holed ; the horse then • ran against a wall, and dashed his brains out. A melancholy accident happened on the 9th inst. near Calliot Castle. William Frampton, of Fawley, was unfortunately droWned; whilst as,isting a seaman in putting ballast on board the yacht of Air. Pare, with whom he lived as servant; the boat'being over loaded, sunk a few yards from the shore, and the • poor young man being , unable to swim, disappeared almost immediately. The sailor was picked up soon after Wards by a fishing-boat, and recovered. At Doncaster, a short time since, a child, four years . old, son of Mr. Clarke, Church-street, fell from the a window of the attic story, but fortunately man was passing at the time, when the head of the child came in contact with his shoulder, by which the fall was much broken, and the child was taken up only very slightly injured. Monday se'rinight, an inquest was held at Ply , mouth on the body of John Williams, a seaman be longing to his Majesty's ship Tartar, who was drowned under the following circumstances:—The deceased Lad applied to the Commanding Officer to obtain leave for himself any others to go on shore, which being refused, he communicated to his com rades his intention of swimming to the beach, and procuring a boat to take them nut of the ship. He accordingly leaped overboard, and had only p;o -ceeded a little way, when he sunk to rise no more. .Verdict --Accidentally drowned. SWINDLING.—At Kirkby-Stephen Fair, a few days I . ago, a young man was completely tricked out of a horse of £25 value, in the following manner:—A ' person came up to him and proffered to exchange horses, during which time a man, who seemed in no way connected with the parties, whispered in the young man's ear to strike zhe bargain, and he would give him V 25 for the other horse, as it exactly suited him. The youth seemed to hesitate, but agreed the former should get upon his horse and fry its pacings, while he himself held the one proffered to him; the man accordingly mounted and rode,_ so far, that, as Paddy observed iu the song, he" was .seen clean out of sight," and forgot to come back again. In this dilemma the_ young man looked about fur the man who had agreed to give 1:25 for the horse he held, but to no purpose—he had fled also ; consequently he was left with a five pound bargain in exchange for that of £25. POLICE. Mewston-House—Y esterday, , a man named George Lane was brought up before the LORD MAYOR, and charged on suspicion of having robbed the Office in the Tower for the deposit of records belonging to the Ordnance, and other departments, of records of im portance, which had been sold as waste paper. Jo seph Ryder, a labourer, who works in the Armoury at the Tower, stated, that on Saturday morning he saw the prisoner coming out of the Record-office, heavily laden with a large package, tied up with brown paper, on his shoulder. He locked the door and put the key in his pocket, and then moved off with the parcel. Witness suspected from the pri soner's manner that he had been acting without pro per authority, and followed him to the outside of thc Tower, where there was in waiting a regular porter with a knot. The prisoner immediately transferred the load to the porter. Witness followed and saw them enter the shop of Mr. Price, cheesemonger, 11.5, Bishopsgate-street Without. Witness then returned to the Tower, and informed the Gentlemen of the Ordnance what he bad seen. Harrison, the Marshal man, stated, that.. he went to the shop of Mr. Price, in company with several Gentlemen belonging to the Ordnance-office. Harrison asked Mr. Pa ice whether he had not just got sonic books from the.Ordnance-', office? Mr. Price very readily shewed some which he had bought that morning from a man, the descrip tion of whom answered that given of the prisoner.— The Gentlemen identified fourteen large volumes which were produced. Hesketh went in pursuit of the prisoner, who was known in the Tower, having been once employed there, but the circumstance having been the subject of general conversation, the prisoner availed himself of the publicity of it, and abscended. After some search the police succeeded in :apprehending him at the house of a relation, to whom he had fled for shel:er. Mr. J. H. Warring, one of the principal clerks of the Ordnance, deposed, that the papers found at the house of Mr. Pr ice were documents belonging to his Majesty, which had been • deposited at the Iteccird.office of the Ordnance. They were of various dates. Sonic were 50, others IN) years old. Some of them were ledgers. The papers found at the prisoner's apartments also belonged to 114 Ma. jesty, but were not documents of any importance.— Those found at the house of Mr. Price were docu ments of importance which ought not to be :.goad. Mr. Price, cheesemonget, of 115, Bishopsgate-street Without, stated, that the prisoner came to his shop two or three months ago, and asked witness whether he wanted any waste paper ? Ile replied in the af firmative, and the pri:oner brought him a consider able quantity, for which he p aid the full price, which was four-pence a pound. Witness questioned him at the time as to the manner in which he procured it, namely, whether he had come by it honestly ? The invariable answ..er of thz prisoner was, that he, had got it into his possession by honest means, and added, that he got nothing by it himself, as he had been em ployed to sell it for another person. Mr. Price, how ever, in answer to some questions put to him, said he had not asked the prisoner who or what he was? The Lonis MAYOR censured the witness for the care less manner in which he had received the paper. Something more should, he observed, he required by cheesemongers than the bare words of persons who offered manuscript for. sale, that they became pus sassed of it honestly. In comequence of such con duct, things of the utmost value to the owners had been lost. In the course of the investigation, some strong instances were mentioned of the very blame able conduct (to give it the lightest name) of cheese mongers and others in their dealings with low fel lows who offer them , books for sale. On one occa . MOP (not long since), a boy went to one of the. butter shops, with the entire library of an eminent• Solicitor, which he contrived to get out piecemeal alter many journey% Amongst other valuable books were the ' no: ks of Htitne, Bolingbroke, Paley, &c. in superb editioas, richly gilt with morocco covets. The cheesemonger said he could not buy them unless the covers were torn off. This ceremony having been performed by the boy, the cheesemonger bought the whole library, and still escaped transportation. At the time the Post office was under repair, one of the laboUrers each day carried away a basket full of the Annual Register. Mr. Freeling ascertained the de ficiency in time to save the valuable set from de. struction, and found those which had been stolen with the covers on, as it happened. Not long since it was found that a merchant's ledger which had been stolen was purchased at a butter shop. The loss of character which a cheesemonger had recently sus tained in the City would, it was hoped, operate as a warning to all those who were disposed to make cheap purchases of books.—The prisoner, upon being asked whether he had anything to say in his defence? was about to make a long statement, when the LORD MAYOR advised him to be very cautious in the ac count he gave of himself, lest it might prejudice him elsewhere. The prisoner then said_he would reserve his statement until the next examination. It was stated by the Gentlemen of the Ordnance-office that they had not yet ascertained the full es tent of the robbery, but apprehended that it had been most ex tensive. The officers stated, that they had learned that several butter-shops had been supplied from the Ordnance-office, and that much had been already used.—The prisoner was remanded. GUILDHALL.—Lewis (Joule, one of the watchmen of the Ward of Cripplegate Within, was brought up yesterday before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alder man ScuoLer, charged with an assault.—John Os born, a green-grocer in Aldermanbury, the officer who had the prisoner in custody, is one of the con-1 stables of Cripplegate, and . his rota for duty at the. watch-house was Saturday night last. His wife, a respectable motheily-looking woman, after finishing business for the week, was proceeding about half-past twelve o'clock through Addle-street, part of the pri soner's beat, in her way to the watch-house to take, her husband the key of the door to let himself in on his coming off duty in the morning, when she ob served the watchman reeling about evidently much intoxicated, which she, feeling her dignity as the wife, of the constable of the night, thought it her duty to notice, and accordingly, on coming up to him, said, Why, watchman! you are drunk!" Cottle, who. was unused to be so talked to by a female at an hour' when his authority was at its utmost plenitude, in mediately seized Mrs. Osborn, declared he knew her to be a common street-walker, and that be would take her to the watch-house for her impudetke. He was not so drunk but he knew what she was well enough. Aware that she should meet a protector at the watch-house, Mrs. Osborn sheared no unwilling ness to go; but Cottle, who mistook her coolness for impudence, would use force, aml dragged her with much violence the whole of the way. Osborn, the constable, having finished his sepper, had just taken his magisterial cliair for the night, and was not a little surprised that the first prisoner brought before him should be his own wife. Mrs. Osborn, being under no alarm for the issue of the charge, had pre sence of mind enough not to appear to notice her husband, who on his part also kept his countenance, and proceeded to the hearing of the charge with all the assumption of dignity as if the prisoner had been a perfect stranger to him. The watchman detailed his accusation with much minuteness, said the pri soner was conducting herself in a very disorderly manner, that he knew :ter to be a common street walker on his beat, that she had the impudence to come up to him and tell him he was drunk, and on his attempting to bring her to the watch-house, she offered so much resistance that he was obliged to bring her by force.—The prisoner was then formally heard in her defence, and from her statement, corro borated by the evident intoxication of the watchman, Mr. Constable decided that she was the aggrieved party, and recommended her to prefer her charge against the watchman for the assault, in thus impro perly taking her into custody. This was accordingly done in due form, and Cottle was ordered eff to the Compter ; but before his departure, to his great sur prise and mortification, he saw his prisoner claim the constable of the night for her husband, give him the key of the street door nut of her pocket, and affec tionately desire him not to stay out later than there was occasion.—Cottle, in his defence before the Ma ! gistrate yesterday, stated that be was very subject to the cramp! and it was a touch of this disorder which had occasioned that reeling about which Mrs.Oshorn had mistaken for intoxication ; and said his taking her to the watch-house was occasioned by the abusive language she used towards him.—The general cha racter of Mrs. Osborn, who is, it seems, a very iaof fensive woman, and her husband's testimony as to the state of the watchman at the time, rendered this in genious defence altogether-nugatory. As there was no personal harm done to his wife, the constable was not anxious on his own account to press for any fur ther punishment upon the pri s oner. The Alderman, however, considered it to be highly necessary to make an example of him. Reference was accordingly had to the new Police Act passed last Sessions, Ist and 21 Geo. l\ cap. 118, which gives authority to any two Justices, upon proof of any misconduct or delinquency upon the pal t of any constable, •patrol, or watchman, to suspend the individual, giving notice of the same to the persons by whom he was appointed, and the individual •so suspended is thereby rendered incom petent -to hold such office for ever after. Mr. Alder man SCITOLEY • did not think proper to act upon this Statute, btit deemed it more advisable that the Com mon Council of the Ward should he made acquainted with the circumstance, and requested to attend before the Alderman at a future hearing, for which the pri, soner was remanded. Bow-.STREET.—Yesterday John Smith, 2 most noto rious thief was charged before Sir RICHARD MIME, with stealing from the person of Thomas flail a pocket-b.:ok containing one sovereign, one shilling, and one sixpence. The witness, who is a respectable tradesman residing in Gerard-street, Soho, stated that, on Saturday night last he went into a public-house in Long Acre, and called for a glass of liquor, and took out his pocket-book, which contained the above stated money, to pay for it ; at this time witness ob served the prisoner standing close to him, and in a minute after felt his pocket-book move in his coat pocket; he immediately turned round and saw the prisoner draw his hand in the direction from his pocket, and the prisoner immediately ran out. Wit ness missed his pocket-book, and pursued him crying' "stop thief." Some watchmen succeeded in stopping him. Two watchmen of St. Martin's corroborated this statement. About twelve months ago the pri soner was apprehended with three others on a charge of highway robbery on the Edgeware-road. He was armed with a loaded pistol, &c. and committed for trial at the Old Bailey sessions, when, owing to some doubt as to identity, the prisoner fortunately escaped the capital charge; he was, however, sentenced to six months' imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond, in having the pistol in his possession with intention to assault some person. Subsequent to the expiration of his sentence he has repeatedly been in custody for felony.—He was fully committed. MARLDOROUGII-STREET.--STEALING COFFIN IK sCHIPTIONS.—Howe, a grave-digger of St. .LlTllees Parish, and Wyatt, one of the sextons, were charged with stealing 60lbs. weight of lead, composing the inscriptions on coffins. Gook, a constable on duty at the watch-house, detected the grave-digger leaving the church-yard on Sunday night, with as much lead as he could well stand under, and he took him into custody. The ponderous load turned out to be coffin plates wrenched from.coffins. Wyatt came forward to prove for his friend, the grave-digger, that the lead was his perquisite, and by virtue-of his em plovment'he had consigned it to the grave-digger. —The defence of Howe was, that in digging graves the shovel was impeded by the lead separated from coffins which were totted. But appearances nega tived this assertion, as some of the plates were of dates as recent as 1817, and, instead of rotting off the coffins, the metal had been wrenched off the de positaries in the vaults.—The prisoner was remanded for another hearing. QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, Rebecca Bissel was charged by her landlady, Mrs. Mills, with stealing several articles of silver plate. It appeared, that on Thursday last, when the complainant missed her property, she mentioned the circumstance to Bisset, who immediately thereafter left the house, and was not heard of until Saturday ni g ht, w h en a letter was received from her, inviting her husband, an industri ous, honest shoemaker, to meet her the following evening •in St. Margaret's Church-yard. As Bisset could not read the letter, Mrs. Mills was applied to for that purpose; and she then proeured Betts, the constable, to go along with her to the place where Rebecca Bisset expected to meet ber own husband. She 'was apprehended and taken to the watch-houte, where she confessed everything charged against her. She repeated that confe ss i on b e f ore the Magistrate yesterdahandmeutioned the various pawnbrolit rs with whom she had pledged the nttleles of plate. . 4 w o e acremanded till Wedne s d a y, to g i ve. time t 2" pawnbrokers to attend. Two persons were brought up fro house for being riotous and noisy in t h e sttees " l. l! terday morning: they pleaded intosicatio, l ;„ nuation of their offn: ce, but which Flea 111 , 11. 1-- eni A re trate considered an aggravation, and fi ned th a g. ls ` shillings for being drunk. - THE TABLES TURNETL—A persnn narrc.i e nt id n charged three persons with having %011ie at his wile's lodgings (fur the had left him: his violent conduct), to take aa SOMC articles • wearing apparel. He could not e...tahlish his char and the complaint was dismissed. B e i m , le . tvi 4 e Orice Carridge struck his wife a violent blow, v ,!h;a levelled her to the ground, and the wo l h, trate, to mat k his sense of this outrage in th e . sanctuary of justice, instantly committed him enb il; shall have found bail for future good tendott UNION-HALL.—Yesterday, thA Evans, and a female, avele brought 'before 11,( H4 6 ; 'mita, Esq. charged with having caused aatirm atoo the terror of the inhabitants of St. George% Veld t _ It appeared that Evans had been paid oaf from t h Agamemnon East Indianian on Wedtte -day last, ab i received his wages, amounting to f,38. He ,r parried the female to het apartments, and ha y . mained with her some time, he suddenly sr and accused her of robbing him, and rm.!' her into the street at two o c:ock in th e a state of complete nudity. The watchnrtn the house, and found the sailor in bed, dint the pt ironer had robbed him of ail thl had left, and they were both e.corted to I house. Subseqtt,mtly the sailor's silk hal was found in the bed, and tied up in one the money he had missed. Mt. L.:Hamm. the prisoner what he had been doing sino laid off? The sailor said he had been crui• the town, and that he was • now nearly The Magistrate. " Why don't you put yt into a Savings-bank,' and contrive to keep a-time when you will retire from the sea in your native land ?"—Sailor. " Piirae ship, May he I shall not return, and the! have the pleasure of spending arnsTedith: yon are brought here again, I shall send son." —Sailor. " Ah, lam your Honour,. l', sea again to-nnirrow."—The Nla:!,kirate sailor five shiilings for getting drunk, and the other party. DARING ROBBERY AND ATTENIPTED Mt BitorfrEf..—anday night, about ten u'ck habitants Whiteelrapel high-street err alarmed by the cries of Minder," whici from a notorious brothel in George-yard. Fawcett, a respectable carpenter and build _ in Devonshire-street, Milc-end 01.1 Town, bad.. to spend the day with a friend in \VhitrchaFei, of was returning home about nine o'clock, wheats' accosted by a female at the corner of Osht.r t .e.mr, opposite Whitechapel Church, and was at irn;.i allured to the brothel above-mentioried. Over knocking at the door they were admitted by a norm of small stature, and ushered into the parlour, n which the female who entered with Mr. Fawcett r. quested 6d. fur some gin, which he freely gave her, and she went out at a back door :in , that vusiNw. Almost immediately after her departure them= above-described seized Mr. Fawcett, and with sra. prising agility, although a small woman, faced lie out at the back door also, which opened into a sat of yard communicating with the back doorof: public-house. Here he was surrounded four ruffians, w•ho.with a bludgeon strucl tremendous blow, which felled him to Mr. Fawcett called out " Murder I" sever but no person came to his assistance. Thr to prevent his again calling murder, mouth with a handkerchief, and then kick him about the body in a most unmerci ner, by which three of his ribs on his rig/ broken ; his entreaties for mercy proved and the villains continued to beat him quite insensible. The inhuman monsters valuable watch and appendages from four sovereigns and 16s. in silver from with which they escaped. On . kr. Paw' to his senses, he, as well he was able, m; out of the yard through the public '.you ceeded to the watch house, where he obt ante, and several watchmen returned wit house, but found it completely deserted. morning he gave information at the Poli Lambeth -street, of the outrage, and Mill the officers, were instantly dispatched the offenders ; after a vigilant search they sacceedd in apprehending Susannah Slater, the landladr °fel brothel,: who was the woman who forced 31r. FW cett into the yard, and another prostitute named Ella Griffiths, who was suspected to be concerned in de outrage. They' were yesterday brought before ge DANIEL WILLIAMS, and remanded for a week,iin it is expected the villains will be in custody - ---- ----------- NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL MARKETS, Oct. 4 (By the Carcase.) Beef 2s 841 to 3s 4d I Veal .........3s 4d to Ss d Mutton..• 2s 8d to 3s 4d Pork .........'=s 8d to as d Lamb 3s. 04. to 4s. Bd. ___-..... PRICF.S or HAY Aso STRAW YESTERDAY . • ST. JAUKS'S. 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