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London, England, 1825-09-15 00:00:00

COUNTERFEIT COIN.

Javier Eden, a dark-complexioned man, who described himself
to be a bricktuaker, was brought up, charged with having sixty
shillings of counterfeit coin in his possession.
The evidence went to prove, that in consequence of Information
given to some active agents on the part of the Mint, the prisoner'
sat apprehended- in an eating-house in Kingsland-road. The
shillings were carefully wrapped up in parcels, with tissue paper to
pee' env the effects of friction.
Mr. Freshfield, Inspector of the Mint, attended, and proved
them all to be counterfeit, and from the same die.
The prisoner was fully committed.
NARTLZBONE, SEPT. 14.—J,111114:1 Renton was brought up
on a warrant, granted yesterday, on a charge of wilfully stabbing
James Nothering.
Samuel Kerron is apprentice to Mr. Jackson, an oil and colour
man, at No. 133, Edgeware-mid ; the prosecutor, James Nother-
ing, is a journeyman in the tissue shop. On Monday afternoon last.
about four o'clock, the prisoner Kerton had sprinkled some dirt
and sludge' on the door of the shop. Nothering told hint to clean
it off, winch he refused, and in the end Nothering gave him a push,
on which a sculls ensued, and the pri•oner said he would stab him,
a menace which he immediately put into effect by first striking hint
over the head with the edge of a pallet knife, then making several
pushes at his body, and finally aiming at his cheek, which be laid
open and wounded very severely.
The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, admitted the
stabbing, but attempted to justify himself by the provocation he
hail received, in being kicked down over a cask, and being
I struck several times by the complainant. Nothering, however, de-
' nied all this, except as far as having given a gentle push, and added
that the prisoner frequently before threatened to stab him.
The father of the prisoner, a very respectable looking men, said
that he hail witnesses to prove that the affair was entirely different
front what it had been represented.
Mr. RAWLIESON—WeII, that may be, but it is not for me to
judge of the prisoner's guilt or innocence; that is for a Jury. If
INothering had not given him a push this would have been a capital
offence; as it is, it is a very aggravated assault. The prisoner Must
find good bail, and the complainant be bound over to prosecute.
Prisoner—Nothering is Mr. Jackson's brother-in-law.
Mr. &ilex's/sox—That is a reason why you should have shown
him greater respect. •
Luke Barr:, who was brought up to this office on Monday. on a
charge of felony, having been discovered delivering a quantity of
lead into the melting house of Mr. Simpson, the plumber, Cleve.
land-street, Fitzroy-square, was this day brought up again. 3lr.
Simpson was also in attendance.
Shellswell, the Bow-street patrol, who took the prisoner, at
the request of Mr. Hawlinson, having repeated the circumstances
of the case, the Magistrate then asked him whether the prisoner,
on being ordered to back his horse and cart out, made any ob-
jeetions.
Shellswell—None at all, your Worship ; he male no difficulty in
barking the cart.
Mr. RAWLINSON—That is not what I should have done if 1
had come by the property honestly.
Shellswell, the officer. said that, notwithstanding every effort.
they had not been able to tind any clue as to whence the lead had
been obtained.

The 3lagistrate here asked the prisoner, whether he had been
able to find the man to whom he had lent his horse and cart ? to
which he answered in the negative.
Mr. Rau-imam: asked Mr. IlAnagra what ha meant to do.
Mr. HAUMER, to the prisoner Luke Barra--As you have not
been able to find this man, you must be content to pay the pe.
natty for your incautiousness in lending your horse and cart to a,
strrger.

Blr. Itawx.rtesoir—.This case is a very aggravated one, and this
kind of offence has become so common that I feel it my duty to
convict you in N., the full amount of the penalty.
Some discussion here arose as to the prisoner's horse and can.
The Magistrate said he had no doubt that they were forfeited
under the act, but as no decision had yet been made, he would not
now make the first case.

The prisoner—Then I may hare my hone and cart ?
Mr. Raw LI now —Yes ; I suppose Mr. Simpson Is to pay
the M

!dr. Simpson having answered In the negstivc, the Maglamate
advised him to be more cautious in future. He was about to make
sornewvnisnation, when
Mr. Rawr.t wsow said, this is not the first suspicious circum-
stance which has come from your house. I would recommend you_
to be careful. I have very little doubt in my own mind as to what
was the real nature of the transaction.

A man of middle age, of robust stature, but who displayed the
must distressing appearance, being detrived of the use of both
hands and arms, which were hanging by his sides dapping to and
fro, as if they hail never possessed the animal functions of nature,
' applied to :Ur. RAWLINSOW to compel the directors of the parish
of 3larylebone to relieve him, without obliging him to go into the
,parish workhouse.
The applicant (who from the visitation of paralytic affection
could scarcely smnic,and was assistetbby his wife)stated, that he was
by trade a painter, but about seven years since he lost the use of
his arms, and could no longer cam his bread, and applied some
time after to the parish, who had for four ears allowed him 3a.
per week, but nine wevics since had withhel that allowance be. he refused to go into the workhouse. I is wife was unwilling
• to be &Tanned from him, as he had been a good husband, and
when by his industry he could support het he did so respectably.
• Therefore, said she, I don't want to quit him in his affliction, as
he is perfectly helpless.
Mr. RAWLINSOW said, he really did not know what was meant
by Ruch conduct. This was a case of tip most afflicting kind. •
'Whittington, a pariah messenger, said, Mr. /Storksa and the
other messengers were so engaged they mold not attend the Mike,
and of himself he could not state why the allowance was withdrawn ;
but he heani that the man had been seen in some public.houses.
The applicant, whose name is Gordon, here was aboot to speak,
I but was anticipated by his wife, who said, when he received the 3s.
lie always brought it home to her, and he never had a penny of his
own to boy a glass with, and the only time be could have been seen
in a public-house was when she Was out at work. Mr. lierridge,
of the Bedford Antis, Noro.i.street, generally admitted him into
his house, and gave Lint some food and a pint of porter out of cha.'
rity, and upon those occasions was even kind enough to feed him'
like a child, as he was so perkctly helpless.
air. RAW Ltxsox.—Really if explanation was necessary. I think
this is quitesafticient. But even if the poor man was to quit the
solitude of his room, and by the kindness of the landlord be allowed
to sit a short time in a public house, it is no reason for withholding
his allowance.
IVhittingtoo said, he was instructed to say the man would receive
the allowance.

Mr. Rawr.flrtOW--Bat, Sir, Le most also be paid the eight
weeks in arrest.
Mr. Martin, the Membee fbr Galway, obtained a summons
1 against a perstin for 110018 ad of 'cruelty to a horse. The Han. um_
deman also made some very particular inquiries into the else of a
female, nametrNott, the alleged daughter of a Captain in Me Ma.
rives, who, in a very distressed situation, and in a state of pee*.
nancy applied at the workhouse for some order of affiliation. - art,
Martin expressed Ms determination to exert himself among hi,
friends in ha behalf.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY IN SPITAL FIELDS.
WORSHIP-ST REET, SEpT. 14.—Considerable sensation hat
been excited in this neighbourhood, in consequence of' an ensnares
robbery, which was committed on Monday evening last, on tat
premises of Means. NVaterlow and Sawyer, sills.tuanufaetureru
residing in Church-street.
The case was partially gone into on Tuesday, and today
some additional testimony was adduced before Mr. Twyforti, the
sitting Magistrate.
It appears the partners es asual quitted their warehouse is the
evening of Monday, leaving it in the care of their housekeeper
and apprentices. At a late hour on the same evening, one of the
watchmen of the district was induced to watch two persons whom
he saw skulking about, of suspicious character, end observing
their attention was particularly directed towards Aleuts. Water-
low's house, he, on his return from calling the hour, knocked id
the door in order to ascertain if all was right. He had no moue
done so, than he observed two of the prisoners getting out of t:,e
window. On observing him (the wctchman), however, they spet-
dily returned, and he lost no time in entering the warehouse, and
proceeding to the rooms occupied by the prisoners. laving se.
cured them, he searched about the room, and dist:oven:diem
pieces of silk concealed under the bed-clothes. After locking the
prisoners in the watclthouse, he returned to the warehouse and
made a second search, when lie found seven other pieces of silk
and the prisonea Crook under the bed, whom ha also took into
CuStody.
The whole of the prisoners, four in number, whose lumen
were Win. Crook, Mary Gable, Edward Mason, and Samiori
Crook, were seen in concert together at various times on the pre.
ceding day, as also on that of the robbery.
The evidence of Sarah Hemming and John Chapman, given,
to-day, went strongly to corroborate the above statement, a 4
particularly to implicate Wm. Crook, with regards to whose cisali.
nighty the 111agistrate had previously expressed some doubt. Ac.
' cording to the evidence of the latter witness, it seems that Crook
' took a dog, which was considered a great safeguard to the pre.
mises, out with him on the evening in question, and it did cot re..
turn until eight o'clock the next morning. This circumstance
excited the curiosity of Chapman, who is quite a boy, and he ob..
served' to Crook the ri,tt morning, when the robbery was dill.
COVerall, " aye, if you had not taken the dog with you last night,
this would not have happened." This witness also stated, that be
was desired by Crook to go to the place where his brother lodeett.
and ask him where he should meet him that evening (M I)
but he would not do so, it being contrary to his master's orders.
Mary Ann Fox identified the prisoner Crook, and deposed to tag
going to a house in ‘Vhite's-row, on the evening iti question, tia
inquire for Mason, whom he seemed extremely anxious to see,
but not being able to find hint quitted the house with evident mor.
Lineation.

The Magistrate expressed himself satisfied with the surto
of the evidence, and committed the whole of the prisoners tutted.
Uwtow HALL..—Yesterday a conviction took place at this office
on the General Turnpike Act, under the following circumstances&
A toll-collector, named Greenaway, who attends at the Croydon.
gate, at the London entrance into that town. Oa Sunday lut the
complainant, a gentleman named Shepherd, with his wife aad et
child, passed through the gate on his way to Reigate. Is the
evening, on his return, the defendant ran out of the toll-house, and
demanded the ticket. The rain pouring down in torrents at the
time, and Mr. Shepherd and his wife and child being dreeping wet,
in consequence of their exposure in the open gig, instead of este.
biting the ticket he called out the number. However, the tog_
collector insisted that the ticket should be produced. Mr. Shop.
herd remonstrated, assuring him that it was in his pocket among
his papers. In a short time, however, he found the ticket, anti ex.
hibited it to the defendant, who said, " that won't do, you must
give it to me." The complainant refused. The defendant ex-
claimed, " but I can't see it now; it is so dark." •• Weil," said
Mr. Shepherd, "get a light, and then you will see it plain enough."
" What !" said the defendant, " are my employers bound to
keep lights for such a fellow as you ; tell you again, vou
shall stop here for a month, unless you resign it to me." 'the
. complainant accordingly jumped out of the gig, and procedded
into the toll-house, for the purpose of displaying the' ticket by
the light of a candle. IVlten he got inside there was no light,
and having asked for one, the defendant again repeated his former
insolent observation, intimating that he was satisfied, and that
complainant might go about his business. Mr. Shepherd was rot
satisfied, and requested that a candle might be lit, in order to take
down his name. The defendant said," Yon shall hare no light;
my name is Greenaway, and that is enough for you. Go out of
my house, I desire yon, for my house is my castle." }lr. bhep.
herd seeing it was the determination of the defendant net to pro.
duce candles, and fearful of personal violence. withdrew, declaring
that he would punish him for his conduct. To which the defend.
ant replied, that he might do his best and his worst, for he was not
afraid of him.

Mr. C11.0113E119, in strong language, expressed his indignation
at the conduct pursued throughout by the defendant. He observed
that, intlependent of the other charges against the defendant, he
had subjected himself to punishment for not having lights in the
toll-house, or producing them when called upon so to do by b
passenger.
Mr. Shepherd said that he would be satisfied if the rtlagistratcs
would merely punish him for the detention and insolence.
The Magistrates then consulted together, and convicted the de-
fmtlant in the full penalty of U. and costs; the complainant
desiring t:tat his share of the penalty might be transmitted for the
use of a Charity.

TITA!IES Orrice, SEPT. IL—Marries Roach, fortnerlv a
victualler residing in Wapping High-street, was put to the bar be.
fore IV. BALLAIITYNE, Esq. the sitting 51agietrate, charged
with threatening the life of Thomas Judd, beadle of the pnrisri e:
St. John of Wapping, John Oremer, a waterman, and others.
The use being clearly established, the prisoner was ordered to
find bail, two sureties in 25/. each, and himself in double the
amount, to keep the peace fur six months.
The prisoner not being provided with bail, was committed to mi.
son accordingly.