The National Register. — London, England, 1821-11-26 00:00:00

I Volta. .mm.nion.m.. MANSION HOUSE. FRAUD RIC A BR OICER.—.—As soon asAblermanßrowne, who sat tOr the Lord `layer, had taken his seat on Fit day, an elderly woman, very poor in appearance, applied for a warrant to apprehend a stockbroker, whom she had employed to receive her dividend of 61. LongA snail ies,and who, having brought her to the Bank for the purpose, as he said, of signing a hook to authorise hot to receive the dividend, had, under that pretence, canted him to sign an actual transfer Of her stuck to a third per-on. A clerk from the Bank accompanied the complainant, and corroborated her statement as far as the transfer of the stock. Ile said, that the Bank being no sufferer by the fraud, would not prosecute the Broker, but were desirous to give the poor woman all the assistance in their power fur the recovery of her stock. lii answer to an inquiry irom the Alderman, he said, that the Broker who committed the fraud was regularly licensed. The poor woman said, she had no other property in the world. Alderman Browne said, the best way of dealing with the Broker was to coin ilain to the Court of Aldermen, before %void' lie most he bailed to the amount of YOOOl. and if the Court found that his conduct had been frau dulent, they would immediately come down upon the sureties. ROSSER Y Or THE LONDON TAffEEN —Elizabeth Kendall and Jane Clarke were charged by Nlr. Bleaden, the proprietor of the London Tavern, with having robbed lion of %arums articles of plate, china, sheets, blankets, quilts, curtains, table cloths, napkins, knives, forks, &c. to a great amount. Mr. Bleaden stated, that fur a considerable time past a great uuuuter of the above articles were missed at the Tavern, and 011 Monday one of his porters told him he had seen !mine of them at the house of a friend of the prisctuer Kendal l's, iu Link, Britain. Mr. 13. in conse queoce went mere with an officer, and found several of ere articles, and also a great number of duplicates of ar ticles or his that had been pledged. From thence he went to a house in Jewitostreet, where the woman's daughtes lord, and there he found some of his knives and forks iii use. The prisoner Kendall, on being goes *totted by him, admitted that she had taken the things that had been found, but said she only lent them to her friends for a christening, and meant to return them.— Mr. Bleaden went again to the house in Jewin-street, sad by promising the womais not to prosecute, prevailed on her to make a hill discovery, when she gave up two large boxes filled with his property, and a great number ol duplicates lor more, pan of which had been pawned by the prisoner Clarke. Tnis WOlll.lll ' S e%ideocc being necessary to the com -11,111.11 et pris.iners, tiwy were tem.thsletl, to give tone for tier attendance. GUILDHALL. On Friday Mr. lirn%vne, the keeper of the Rose Inn, appiled to the Shhuhr Nt.ezi-tr ite, Alderman A.trlry, for his ads ice tinder tile toilowmg peculiar cir coniitance.:— _ ..... Mr. Browne stated, that on the 2.;ih of last month, a servant man drove into the yard with five horses, winch he said belonged to his fussier, who would soon follow, tile it came soon atter, and desired that his 6...rVa11t hould lie aec ..... misdated, and also lived 31 the house himself for several days. In the mean time the horses were sold and taken away, all but one, when he (Mr. 13.) presented his bill, which a:immured to 9!. 8 7tl. and was told it should Ise settled. The next day, as the owner of the horses was sitting with another person, Mr. Browne entered the room, and the stranger said to nim, " Landlord, tell me what 1 owe Mr the keep of my horse," Mr. Browne replied he did not know lie had any horse of his. Bath die gentlemen then stated that the remaining horse was the property of the stranger, who otiered to ply for his keep, and threatened Mr. 11. an action ihr refustng dthver him. The Magistrate thought, as all the horses were left together, with \I r. Browne, as an implied security IM the debt, that h.! was ji.ssilied in keeping the one that remained till be should be v The o,vner of the horse then came forward, and said lie had I).en no party to tie incurring the debt—he had merely sent his horse at his friend's request, and was ready to pay for his keep, and unmet a hard he should not get hum Tne Nlagistrate said, he believed the Lawyers most settle it—he could not undertake it. NI A REBOROUG H STREET. THEOUTRAOE IN CHARLES STRIAT, DRURY LANE. —On Friday, Hannah Pethick, Maria Angel, and Mary Haggerty, three prostitutes of the lowest description, and a titan n Burrell, underwent an examination before Mainwaring, the sitting magistrate, charged with being concerned in throwing a man, nanntl Tilayers (oho accompanied the prisoner Pethick to a house of ili Lune, in Chat les-street, Drury-lane), out of a window, about six weeks since. Thayers was supiaarted into the office, and presented lAlher a melancholy spectacle: he appeared in great pain from the brunet un his body. lie was allowed to sit while giving his evidence. He stated, that Oxon six weeks since he met the prisoner Pethick in Holborn, and being in a state of intoxication, allowed himself to Ire prevailed (won to at.e ttttt pally her to Charles-street. On going into her room, up IWO pair of stairs, be gave her sonic silver to purchase steaks, as he had not dined ; she went out, and shortly returning, gave him the steaks and keeping the change, which he wanted to :lave. Af ter some altercation between therm, the prisoner, and a matt and woman who came into the room, he got back his money, and was retiring, when he received a blow on the head front a candlestick—the blow was repeated, and he tell senseless, and recollects Lo more of the trans action until he found himself in the hospital. 'Die un fortunate man here looked very attentively at all the prisoners, and declared he could only swear to the wo man Pethick, as he knew nothing of any of the others, THE NATIONAL REGISTER A woman named Price stated, on the night of the outrage, she was a:armed by some person crying Murder! and on going to her windrow, she perceived a woman, resembling the prisoner Pethick, push the man through the window, when he fell into the street. S. Wurseman and Clark, constables, stated, that, hear ing a Mall had been Bung from a window into the street, in Charles-street, they went there, and found Thayers lying on his lace in the kennel ; they entered the house, and saw a man sitting on a table in a pat lour; they, in the hope of detecting the persons who had thrown the man out of the window, rushed up stairs, but found no person, although the place bore all the appearance of a dreadful senile; the room door was men from the hinges, the bannisters and stairs broken, and the walls splashed with blood; the window was thrown up, and 'hewed no unusual marks ; on coining down stairs, the Mall hail fled who was in the parlour. Scott, an officer, arrested the prisoner Burrell at Chel sea. Mr. Nlainwaring here addressed the prisoners, and re quested them to tell all they knew of the transaction. Angel then described the outrage in neatly the same terms as Thayers, only adding that he behaved in a must outrageous manner, and Hang himself riot of the window. Haggerty deposed to the same elleet, saying that Bur tell was in the newt with the mill, and struck him also, alleging, that he was in the house during the whole fra cas, and might have been engaged in it. Burrell denied all this, declaring he could prove he was not any way concerned in the attack on Thayers, although he admitted bring in the house. Pethick said she lett the man by himself in the room, and while gone to call the watch, he fell from t h e win dow. Mr. Mainwaring said, that the business was involved in much mystery, and he remanded the prisoners fur another week. .EXECUTION. On Wednesday, at the usual hour, J. Cadman, Gen. Sparrow, J. Toply, and G. Ellis, for uttering forged ;SI. notes • \b'• Garton, for stealing in a dwelling-house; W. Harding, for sheep stealing; and G. Smith and I. Cabelia, for highway robberies, were executed, pursuant to their sentence, in the Old Bailey. At half past seven the unhappy culprits were brought front their respective cells to the press-vard, to undergo the last awful prepara tions fur the scatild. They entered, accompanied by Mr. Cotton, the Chaplain; the Rev. Mr. Baker, a Dis senting Minister; and a Jewish Priest, tie latter bring engaged in administering the consolations of religion to Cabelia, who was of that persuasion. Josiah Cadman 'vas the first who advanced to the block, to be divested of hit irons, Ike. and Boring the ceremony he conversed freely and with cheerfulness with Mr. Sheriff Garratt. He said that, perhaps, he ought not to complain of his punishment, nor was he inclined toil° so; bit he could not help thinking his case a little hard ; and he hoped that he and his companions would be the last who would stiller for this species of crime.— He spoke of his wile with the utmost J Ifec ion, and said, his only consolation in leaving her thus wretched and forlorn was, that she would have rim. and opportunity to prepare herself for the world of eternity, where he hoped, with humble confidence, to meet her. When his irons were knocked off, he said—'• Now my bundle is gone; I am prepared." fhe other colprits were engaged in earnest prayer and religious conversation with the reverend gentlemeo while they remained in the press-yard ; and all being prepared, they were conducted thrinigh the passage to the owe, room, preceded by the Sheriffs and Mr. Cotton. Cad man having shaken hands with Nlr. Biker, and bid a respectful farewell to the Sheriff's and other gentlemen present, ascended the scaffold with a slow bin firm step, accompanied by \I r. Comm, whom he joined in prayer while the executioner was adjusting the rope. A partial groaning was heard in the crowd when he appeared, hot he shook his bead as if in disapprobation, and i: ceased. Sparrow, who was a fine looking young man, and genteelly dressed, next ascended, and a !owl and univer sal groan, and cries of " Murder!' were sent forth by the multitude. . The other convicts came out in the following order: Topley, Ellis, Gamin, :Minh, Harding, Cabelia. Topley and C;Artun went up three or 1 . (1111' steps at a jump, and secured but little affected. Ellis, who wa, of respectable connections, had conducted himself with becoming liminess and tesignation up to the moment when he WAS summoned to the scaffitld, bait then his comage seemed to forsake him ; lie ireitioled, and it was with great difficulty that he mounted the spells, sap parted by au officer. Some water was brought to him. —While the executioner was perlorini , •st his ditty with the other prisoners, Cadman addressed the people at con siderable length, and with much earnestness. The pur -1 port of his observation was, that lie !nought himself hardly dealt with by the Hank, itia,much as they had suffered infinitely greater offenders titan himself its plead to the minor offence; and many w.. 0 had even been capitally convicted had afterwards lint their sentences commuted to transportation for life. He dwelt !Twit the circumstance of his having toad a faithful ills closure to the Bank-officers of all he knew contenting the traffic iii forg,tl notes: and sa id,t hat altituogh he knew he deserved tile pimisiiment, yet he could out, e'en in his dying moments, avoid remarking, that he was most unjustly dealt with. fie repeateti Ins hope, that tie should be tune of the last victims offered tip lOr this kind of offence; and earnestly entreated those around hire to benefit by the awful t xainple now beiote them. [las ing concluded his .iddress. which was delivered in a manner which proclaimed the mail of talent, he inrited to the clergyman and resumed his devotion. Mrs. Cad man has been allowed to see hint every day, formic hour, since the ordet for his execution. Their anal interview on Tuesday evening was truly heart-rending— Mrs. C., as we were informed by a gentleman who was prettent, appeared almost mad—her eyes sccint..l lucrally la* 313 starting front their sockets, and she was taken from him in a state of insensibility. The case of the prisoner Harding excited much com miseration: he was 67 years of age, and not long since was a respectable fanner and brewer in Oxfordshire, and had property to the antoont of 4,0001. or 5,0001. He was a venerable looking man, and conducted hint,elf with great propriety. As he was about to go to the scaf fold, he exclaimed, " Oh, toy poor children!" and the tears trickled down his cheeks. His wife and children took leave of hint on Tuesday, and the younger ones clung to hint and tittered the most piercing cries. They were literally torn from him by force. At a quarter past eight the fatal signal was given by the Chaplain, and the drop fell. The men appeared to suffer but little. QTY POLICE. Amongst the documents laid before the present Lord Mayor on Saturday, was a return of the number of per sons who were taken before the late Lord Mayor, on va rious charges (lurk)! his Mayoralty, and also a return of the her of person's taken before the Sitting Magis trate. at Guildhall, daring the saute period. The following are the total numbers of poisoners front Nov. 9, 1820, to Nov. 9. 1821: At the Mansion House 1755 At Guildhall 2575 beings majority of 819 more prisoners taken in the Guild hall dktrict, w hich includes the North West half of the City, than in the South East division of the City. There are row al poliec-officers on the establishment of the city, whose !rosiness is to patrol the streets day and night. The night patrol go on duty in the evening, and remain until ten in the morning, when they are re. hieved by the day patrol, who continue en duty the remain der of the day. Each of the principal 'tiros is patrolled ►y tour officers. Others watch different stations at the directions of the Marshals. It having been observed by the late Lord Mayor that most of the burglaries committed during his Mayoralty were committed in hy streets, and just at the hour the watch going off, lois Lordship had right linen of activity and long experience as special constasles sworn in, in additimi to the then establishment, far the purpose ut keeping a .look-nut in certain quarters of the city at the hour of the sievorttore of the watch and afterwards. The following are the number of prisoners brought be fore the Magistrates of the city, on various charges, from assault to felony, during the several Mayoralties trout the first ot— Alderman Wood, in 1810......... 4740 Second Mayoralty, Isl 7 6092 Alderman C. Smith 4sOJ Alderman Atkin 5...........•. Alderman Bridges 4612 A Iderntan Thorp ... The following acromit of the relief given in cases ot an urgent nature, during the Mayoralty just terminated, will enable the citizens to form some idea of the ditties of these Chief Magistrates, and of the charity dispensed from the Itlansion•lionse . . N her of persons sent to the hospital 1134 Of whom were clothed.. .• • • • ifizgratirs !Drought into custody..... 646 Of whom were parsed.... 93 T wo hundred an d s i x were brought at the same time before the Magissrates at Guildhall, who passed 130. In lII4IIy of the above rases pecuniary relief was given, and in many eases of a particular nature, the passage borne by waggon paid. On Monday last tie Recorder made a report to his M.l. josty in Council of I he pri:oners who were capitally convicts/ at the Oct alter sessions, when the following were cot drred for execution on l'itesday the instant : Ann Norris, for a robbery in a dwelling house, attended with violence.—Ainey Steele fun a like offence. S.tinuel Flay d, for a burglary loaner's town. Joseph South, for littering u gorged 101. nom, and John Jacolts fur a highway robbery at White pe attended with violence. Eleven also capiially convicted at the same sessions Mere respited durat.; m, Majeto'e pleasure. Ex ex urioN.-011 Friday the Ifith inst. Gen. Thom, cOO% lewd at the last circint court of Justiciary, of murder lira by poison Wilham Mitchell, his brother.itslaw, residing at Burnside, iii the parish of Keig, stiff-red the awful and ignominious punishment due to his crime, -5 front of the gaol of Aberdeen. The circiiinstance of 1.:15 extraorthiroy and atrocious case were of an aggrarat,-.1 nature, and attracted the attention of the puldic in au o r. divary decree, so as to leave an impression not reach y he effaced. It is, therefore, doubtless in the recullccnul of oor readers, that Thom attempted the destruction of a whole family, with which he had laiely connected him self by inarria,4o, in oider to get the itiouey, and other property of which he knew than to he IP. , sessrd, or t.) which the branches o! tit: family had recen,ly succeeded. To effect this titirriule purpose, he found means of intro ducing poison into their % ictii-ls, in co•!sequence of which William, the ytaiii:.er brother, after great sufferinz, di e d t while the Other 1)1,1 , 11Cr-111-1.1W, and two who g.IVC evideuce on the trial, after being reduced to sate of paht and debility, untl, r which they still labour, were merely saved Iront iallnig a ISO eietiitS to the ruth less design ol their rinwtritily relJt,le, by the accidental circumstance of having ate sparingly of the poisoned food, so that medrcal aid, thong!' late resorted to, was so tar effectual in bringitigaboot their recovery. On Saturday everting last a sr daring robbery wts committed between Elhant and Staines, on the person of alto rr old woman, !mown Carey, nearly lit years of age. 'rile villain cm meeting her gave tier a violent blow with his list, knocked tier down, and draw her into .t field ; he than stripped tier, and left her for Through the exertions of Mr. 11111” S B.nister, of E.:- omit, the villain was taken, a•sii has been fully commu ted to tiorserriongei-latie for trial. The poor wrim a , l lay f half-pas sot till hal—past two on the Stili.liy morning, and if a had not heen for ss road waggon pass ing at utak time, shetnetst have perished. The imprisurament to which Strut, the botcher in Pimlico, was sentenced for an attempt to kill his wile, expited uu Monday morning. . , . 1 %