The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-29 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Stephen Clothier. clerk to Mr. Robert spiller Wedeln% was
brought before the Loup MAYOR, charged with baring stolen the
sum of 431., the property of his master.
Edward Duke (also s clerk to Mr. Wadeenn) stated, that the
prisoner was, in May last, in the service of that gentleman in the
capacity of clerk, that he (witness), a short time before the 30th of
May, delivered to the prisoner a receipt, the date being left in
blank, whit instructions to take it to Mr Turner, of Percy-street,
Itathbone-place, and, if Mr. Turner should not have received the
money of his client, to leave the receipt there. That. upon the
the prisoner's return, be (prisoner) told the witness that he had left
the receipt according to the directions I, had received, and that
Mr. 'nailer would send ; and that frequently since that the witness
had desired the prisoner to call on Mr. Turner on the business, and
that upon ail such occasions the prisoner had returned the same
answer.

The receipt was here handed in and the witness identified it. sod
swore that the date wss tilled up with the prisoner'a handwriting,
who had not accounted for the sum of 451. or any part thereof.
Mr. Turner said the receipt now produced was brought to him
by a dirk of Mr. Wittlescia'ri, to whom he gave a draught on his
bankers, Messrs. Herries and Co. for the amount of 451., and he had
no doubt that the person to whom he had paid the draught was the
prisoner.
Clothier was then fully committed for trial.
A boy named Symonds was charged with having robbed a lady
of a pocket-book, which she carrier'. in her reticule.
The prisoner succeeded in getting into his possession the pocket-
book by means of a new manceurre, which the young thieves
often practice. Another boy who led about a donkey, on pretence
of being a costermonger, as soon as he saw the lady approaching
the corner of a narrow street, near Bishopsgate.street, drove the
donkey up close to her, so that not only a great impediment pre.
suited itself, but the lady was confused by fears for her own safety.
While she wan in this rondition, the prisoner, without any stiff'.
coley, took the pocket-book out of her reticule. Daniel Forrester,
the officer, however, hod been watching the movements of the
prisoner, and seized Lim the moment the robbery was committed.
The pocket-book contained a sovereign and 10s. GI in sitter.
The prisoner was fully committed.
GUILD!! ALL.
William Dugdale, a bookseller in Russell-court, Drury-lane,
appeared before Mr. Alderman J. J. SMITH, for the purpose of
obtaining a warrant for the apprehension of a person of the name
of Williams, carrying on the same business in Angel-street, St.
Martin's-Imrirand.
The applicant stated, that be hail, been questioned by reveral
persons in his profession, within the last day or two, respecting a
cheap little edition of Lord Illyron's Corsair, which had made its
appearance with his (Dugdole's) imprint to the title pogo ,of it.
He felt some surprise upon the. subject at first, because be had
never published the work, or contemplated doing so; but ha
was soon satisfied of the truth of the information he had received,
for he found the book lying upon half the stalls in the metropolis,
and having traced them to have been published by Mr. Williams,
and having bought a copy of the work at Williams's own hatine,
he submitted he was in a situation to claim • warrant, under the
39:h Gen. 111. cap. 79, which provides, " that any person who
shall publish any book without the printer's real name and abode
upon the first and last page thereof, shall forfeit 201." Now, upon
the edition of the Corsair in question, the names upon the first and
last pages were quite different, and he believed both false. That
the work was " printed by and for William Dugdale, of Russell-
court," as stated upon the title page, was certainly untrue and
fictitious: that it was printed by hFL Dunn, Gough-square." as
stated on the last leaf, seemed equally unfounded, for the printer
of that name, who formerly lived in Gough-square, bad removed
from thence a considerable time, while the book was dated 1825,
sod, as far as he could ascertain, made its first appearance on
Wednesday last. It was not a matter of alight moment to a book-
seller that other persons, without his consent or knowledge, should
affix his name to a pamphlet, because he became liable to the
stamp duty on it, and perhaps to penalties for a supposed intention
to evade the ditty.
Mr. Iteresford, the Chief Clerk, said, if he sought to have a
penalty inflicted, the applicant must pursue the usual course, and
begin with filing a regularly-drawn written information.
Dogdsle conceived such a preliminary step was quite unncces.
nary in this cane. One of the clauses of the Act expressly stated,
that any person to whom, or in whose presence, any printed book,
having a fictitious name or abode printed thereon, shall be sold, or
offerer& for sale, may seize and detain the person selling or ex-
posing to view any such printed book, and renttiwith take him be-
fore &justice. Surely, then, if the law permits a vender to be
seized so unceremoniously by any person whatsoever, it would not
be too much for his Worship to send a constable to apprehend the
original publisher.
The A trzinumaw said, if he had apprehended the party and
brought hint to the office, he would have beer: dealt wilt as the law
dirertell; hut, as the applicant had not done so, and preferred
laying an information before a Magistrate, he must do so In the
ordinary manner.
The applicant then withdrew.
_ HATTON-GARDEN.

bluattEa..—The following investigation took place at this
office on Tunday, before Mr. Sergeant Seiko and Mr. Laing
Jeremiah Cain and Mary Cain, his wif., were charged with
having murdered a man named Maurice ritzgenthi, by stabbing
him through the heart with a knife.
Bridget Reilly, of Horns-alley, Liquorpontl-street, deposed that
she lodged in the same house with the. two prisoners, whose room
was immediately under that of the witness. The deceased was an
acquaintance of the witness, and came on Monday evening to visit
her. After be had been in witness's place some time, they heard
the prisoners quarrelling and fighting below stain, and the female
prisoner calling out for assistance. Deceased ran down stairs to
interfere, and witness saw no more of him until he was found lying
in the yard outside tile house, bleeding. lk was not then quite
dead, but breathed his last in a few minutes after. Witness did not
sat the female prisoner do anything to the deceased.
Stephen Mayer, sa asitaat to Mr. Petegiloods.oorgaol of
s Inn-lane, was called upon to attend the decaved; He 'bad
a large wound that had penetrated to the region of the heart. Ile
had also a bruise on the hack of the head, hut that might have been
occasioned by a 1.11. Vitncss hod no doubt whatever that the
wound in the heart caused the death of the deceased.

W. M'aiiinright, one of the officers of Hatton-garden, produced
three knives, which be found in the roont inhabi.ed by the mist).
nees and the isst witness stated that either of the knives produced
would have inflicted a similar wound to that which had minced the
death of the deceased.

The male prisoner here expressed a desire to state all that he
knew of the atikir, and after having been admonished by Mr. Ser-
gennt SELL.) x that all he said would be taken down, he related
the following story :—After leaving work on Morality evening he
went with several of his fellommorkmen to the Windmill public.
house, Leather lane. Ilia wile learning that he was there eame for
him, and she abused him before the company. Ile, however, went
home with her, and then commenced beating her. This caused a
sort of light, and he went outside the door, where he met the de-
cea•ed with al knitc hi his hand ; he afterwards heard an alarm that
a man was killed, nod immediately went to him ; he found him
bleeduig. and nearly dead. This the prisoner declared was all that
be knew of the matter.

Tlis.jseket of the male prisoner was here produced, and dine
were s number of marks of blood found upon it.
Th.: male prisoner accounted for the blond on his jacket by say.
ing that he picked up the deceased whilst lie wee bleeding fast.
Patrick Reilley, the son of the first witness, stated that hie mother
fetched him from the public-house in consequence of the demised
having been killed. On his arrival he saw the two prisoners and a
number of others. Witness's mother said to the female prisoner,
"The man has been killed, sod some of you have been killing
hint ;" to which the female prisoner replied, " Thee why did he
not slop at home instead of interfering with other people?' Upon
;ha witness being further questioned, he reluctantly admitted that
the language made use of by his mother w the female prisoner, re.
gulling the death of the deceased, was stronger than he at first
acted; for the, upon the female prisoner being accused of hoeing
caused the death of the deceased, she did not deny it, but said it

THE BRITISH ftESS.

screed him Tight, for he had no busineas these; he ought to have
staid at home.

Several other witnesses were now called, all of them Irish people.
They all persisted in elating that they knew nothing of the
matter, although it was evident that some of them must have
known of it.

Under these circumstances the Magistrates remanded the two
prisoners for further examination on Thursday (this day); and, In
the meantime, Wainwright, the officer, was directed to make every
inquiry, and to get all the evidence that he could, in order to trace
the MARC; to the bottom.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
PRIVATE LUNATIC Asrktram—Undet the above bead, in ;
the British Press of this day fortnight, we gave a report of estate-
ment made by a person of the usme of Carter, who came before H.
M. Dyer, Esq. the sitting Magistrate, to attest an affidavit of
an extraordinary nature, to which the worthy Magistrate deferred
giving hie signature until the following Wednesday, on which day
Carter was to appear and support those charges to which he was so
anxious to be sworn. Ott the Saturday following, in consequence
of the report appearing in the British Preen, Doctor J. waited
upon Mr. Dyer, and after that gentleman had taken his seat, Mr.
Dyer said, ••Sin I understand that you have waited upon me In
consequence of your:name appearing in the newspapers, relating to
a transaction which came before me last Wednesday ; I was not
aware that your name had been introduced, nor have 1 seen it,
for I thought it was understand by the gentlemen who attend here,
that no names were to be given, as it was only an exparte state-
ment which was that made."
In
,reply, the gentleman said, (or at least so we understood
him, as his voice scarcely exceeded a whisper) that he had no cont.
plaint to make against what had appeared ; but that he had come
forward to contradict what Carter had advanced, and from inquiries
which had been instituted since the report had appeared, he had
learned that this man, who had come forward Under the name or
Caner, bad lived in the establishment under the name of Payne. He
had been recommended by a Itlrs. Owen, residing near Brompton ;
bat as his general conduct wits incompatible with the ruin of the
establishment, he was in a few days discharged. From what cause
he was induced to make the charges which the papers stated,
every body was at a loge to conceive.
Mr. DYER—He certainly did teaks the charges, which were
of general ill treatment, but he merely stated that you attended as
the visiting physician; the stains part of his charge was confined to
the lady who keeps the house, which was, that respectable persons
were kept in much filth, that others were tied down to their heals,
so that they were not able to move, and also that to his knowledge
some of the unfortunate inmates had been starved to death ; but as
his affidavit was wholly extra-judicial, I wrote to a friend of mine
whom I knew to be one of the Committee for investigating
private asylums. He, however, informed me that he had ceased
to belong to it, but he stated that whilst he attended the establish.
I ment it was conducted in a very different manner. Front the
nature of the charges I have caused an inquiry to be instituted
in the proper quarter, and on Wednesday next Carter, whose teal
name I believe is Capper, is to come forward and substantiate his
charge.
The Physician—For your satisfaction, Sir, I believe that those
certificates will prove that the charges are totally void of truth.
The Gentleman then pulled out several papers, which the
worthy Magistrate read, and requested leave to keep them for a
few days.
"Considering that if we gave the above statement at the time it
might tend to prevent Carter from coming forward, and thereby
defeat the inquiry Into a transaction ()ranch importance, we were in-
duced to suspend the publication until after the following
Wednesday. On last Saturday Mr. Dyer made inquiries if
any of the officers had seen Carter 1 when a negative reply was
given. The worthy Magistrate then took occasion to state,
that from the serious charges which had been brought against
the establishment, he had In his magisterial capacity laid the
charges before the College of Physiciana, as that was the body
which licensed those establishments. The College had, with con-
siderable alacrity, instituted an inquire, and be was happy to
state, far as lie had been informed, that the charges were
quite false; that instead of the lady being no totally void of
humanity as had been represented, she was in every respect a per-
son worthy of beitig placed in a situation whero humanity was so
essential ; but he was led to believe that that learned body, the
College of Physicians, would transmit to him an official doeu-
mein, wherein, he believed, every particular of the investigation
would be stated, and upon the receipt of it he should feel great
pleasure lit laying it befit e the public ; and if, continued the
worthy Magistrate, Caner do not come forward by next Wednes-
day, I shall certainly consider that he is not able to support the
charges which lie had made. In consequence of the non-appear-
ance of Carter yesterday, just before the close of the office,
Mr. Dyer observed, that as far as he could judge front what had
transpired in respect of the tharges which Carter had made
against a lunatic asylum, they were, as he had been inhumed, to-
tally false.

MA RYLEHONE.
Yesterday a young man named Harrison was brought from the
watchhouse, charged with having concealed himself in the house
of his uncle, a very respectable tradesman, residing in Cleveland-
street, with an intention to commit a robbery.
it emoted from the evidence that the unfortunate young man
charged had, only some weeks nines, returned from transportation,
and upon a promise of amendment in (Mare was again received into
his father's borne. Ile remained a few days and visited his uncte's
house, but contrived to steel at VW- of the visits some trifling
articles. This wee not communicated to his father, who a few digs
after intrusted to him IW. to give his unple, but with that money
lie disappeared, arid was not again heard of until Monday night,
when his apprehension was effected in the following curious
manner:—After the family had retired to bed, his uncle was
alarmed by the barking of the house-dog, and the uneasiness of the
faithful animal increasing, he arose and searched his house, but
finding nothing of a suspicions nature, he loosed the dog, which
immediately led hint to a water.closet, where lie found the prisoner,
who surrendered quietly, and when given into Me custody of u
watchman, said he had been in the premises since Saturday. He
wan fully committed.
An: elderly man applied to Mr. Rawlinson for advice how to
act under the following circumstances:—
He stated that • very respectable man and his family lodged in
his house, but one of the daughters had been seduced by some
low fellow, who introducing her to his depraved associates, she im-
bibed their habits, and becoming an adept in rice, contrived con-
tinually to rob her father and family in every possible way that
she could devise. Last week, on a promise of amendment, having
returned home in apparent contrition, she watched her opnortunity
and went oil with ercry portable article upon which she could lay
her hands. Site within these few days had adopted another plan of
annoyance, namely, coming at night and stretching herself at the
door, and endeavouring to euite the sympathy of the passengers by
a display of misery in fainting acts, declaring herself to be
in a state of starvation ; consequently some of the goodnaturod
people passing, without at all troubling themselves to inquire the
cause of her being excluded from her father's home, veined their
indignation in a variety of ways as officious as troublesome; lie there-
furs now begged advice as to how he could get rid of her.
The girl's fatherattended, and hopeerthe Magistrate would assist
him in getting rid of her.
Mr. RAWLI7(SO2I refused to assist him, observing that probahly
the poor girl had become unfortunate and vicious, but now that the
attendant consequences of her unfortunate career came about her,
and that she cute in sorrow and illnessto his home, she was not to
be spurned from his door, and exposed, in her miseries and sink-
lion, to perish in the inclemencies of this season.
The applicanu looked disappointed at each other, and left the
office.