The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-16 00:00:00

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.

G UILD HAIL.
A working man named George Waite, was brought
before Mr. Alderman COPELAND, charged with being drunk.
Charles Thorpe, a city policeman, said he took the pri-
soner into custody for being drunk, and swearing aloud on
Snow- bill, about twelve o'clock, the preceding night.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND, who is determined to enforce
the New Police Act vigorously, asked who he was swearing
at? Thorpe said, at an oysterman, refusing to pay him
fortsome oysters he had eaten.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND asked if his language to the
oysterman was likely to lead to a breach of the peace?
Thorpe said it was. He was damning the man's eyes.
Mr Alderman COPELAND asked the prisoner if be denied
being intoxicated and swearing at the oysterman? The
prisoner intimated he could not.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND asked how he got his living ?
Prisoner said be was a printer—a pressman.
Alderman CorELAND---Earning about 40s. a-week.
Prisoner replied no, not above 335.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND said, he fined him 40a.,
or to be imprisoned seven days, for being drunk,
and using abusive language, whereby a breach of
the peace might have been occasioned. The clause impo-
sing a penalty on this offence was the best in the whole
Act. Formerly when a man used bad language to another,
the officer could not interfere because it was merely words.
Then if the man who was abused was provoked to strike
the other, he was apprehended for the assault for.breaking
the peace. Now, man_ who used the prcvoting lan-
guage was c-onsiderekihe breaker of the pea-e. and the
affair w'ss stopped :.-fore any breach of the peace oc-
curred.
The printer said the option the Magistrate had given
was no option with him, for he cou!d not pay the money,
and therefore must go to gaol.
The prisoner was committed.
Inspector Martin asked how he was to dispose of poor
people found destitute in the streets in the night time.
Some time since they were received at all hours of
the night, at the union workhouse in West street, Smith-
field, but lately the watchman had refused to admit them,
or awaken the master. Seeing Mr. Miller, the re-
lieving officer, in the room, he had thought it a proper
time to mention the business.
Mr. Miller said an additional wing was being built, and
the temporary receiving house for casuals had been pulled
down.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND said if one place had been re-
moved another must be provided. It was not new to
him to hear of a master of a workhouse saying he must not
have his rest broken in the night time for any body. The
destitute- paupers must be taken in at all hours of the
night, and the next time a case was refused the refusal
must be reported to the Magistrate, and the pauper taken
care of at the gaol.

BOW-STREET.
On Saturday Mr. James Weston, the landlord of the
White Swan, in Earl-street, Seven Dials, appeared to a
summons charging him with having unlawfully refused to
admit Inspector Musgrove of the F division of police, to
his house, he well knowing that he belonged to the police
force.—The defendant pleaded not guilty.
Inspector Musgrove stated, that at a quarter past twelve
o'clock on last Saturday night, or,rather Sunday morning,
be went, accompanied by two policemen, to the defendant's
house, and knocked at the door, demanding admission.
No one answered, and after knocking several times, he
looked through the keyhole of the door, and saw the de-
fendant in the act of pouring some water from a tin can
into a glass, and, and, as he believed, mixing a glass of
gin-and-water. A man was standing by him at the time.
He renewed the knocking, and at length the defendant
came to the door, and said, " I can't admit you—l am just
going to bed." Witness then told the defendant that he
was an inspector of police, and again demanded admis-
sion : upen which the defendant said, " I can't help that ;
my house is closed for the night, and I shall not open the
door again for any ono ; lam just going to bed."
Policeman F 13 confirmed the statement of his Inspec-
ter, and said that he also looked through the keyhole, and
saw the defendant pouring some beer from a tin can into a
glass. There was also another policeman, named Pocock,
who looked through the keyhole, and saw all that took

place.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, stated that on
the night in question he closed his doors before 12 o'clock,
and at that time the only persons in his house were himself
and two lodgers, and they ail three retired to rest at ten
minutes past twelve o'clock. He never heard any person
knock at his door, and he denied most solemnly that be had
gone to the door at all after twelve o'clock, or answered the
police in the manner they had stated ; in fact, be was con-
vinced they bad never applied for admission to his house at
all, and that the charge against him originated in spite.

He then called
Thomas Reed, who stated that he lodged in the defend.
ant's house. On the night in question he went to bed a
few minutes after twelve o'clock. The other lodger and
the landlord went to bed at the same time. The doors
were closed at twelve o'clock, and even the lodgers were
not served with anything after that hour.
Mr. Simpson, another lodger in the defendant's house,
gave similar evidence.
Mr. TWYFORD said that he could not receive the evi-
dence of the defendant's witnesses in opposition to the dis-
tinct and positive testimony given by the policemen, and
therefore he should fins the defendant twenty shillings and
costs.

On hearing this decision, the defendant, with some ye
hemence, said, " Well, if I had bribed the police, as some
of my neighbours have done, by giving them a sovereign
each, this charge would never have been brought against
we. It is done out of mere spite."
Mr. TWYFORD (addressing the defendant)— As you
have thought proper to make that observation, I rrcal the
judgment I have pronounced, and adjourn the further con-
sideration of this case until Tuesday, on which day I de-
sire that Pocock, the other policeman, may be in at.
tendance, and if his evidence confirms that already given,
you may depend upon it that my judgment will be very
different from that I have just revoked. The case was ac-
cordingly postponed until Tuesday.
Mr. Reed, the landlord of the Old Cheshire Cheese, in
Marquis-court, Drury-lane, a very old and respectable ta-
vern, to which gentlemen have been in the habit of resort-
ing to procure refreshment after leaving the theatres, ap-
peared to a summons, charging him with keeping open
his house after twelve o'clock on Saturday night.
Inspector Black of the F division of police stated that be
went to the defendant's house at half-past twelve o'clock on
Saturday night, and on entering the parlour, found seven
persons sitting there drinking and smoking.
Cross-examined by Mr. Stuart, the defendant's solici-
tor—They were all respectable persons; the bar was closed
and the gas extinguished. Did not know whether any
attempt had been made to get them out of the house.
Mr. Stuart, in answer to the charge, said that his client
was as anxious as any person could be to comply with the
provisions of the Act of Parliament, and on the night in
question closed his doors at twelve o'clock, shut up the bar,
extinguished the gas-light, and gave notice to his customers
in the parlour that they must immediately retire, informing
them of the consequence to himself if they did not do so ;
but they laughed at him, and declared that they would not
"budge an inch" until "they had finished their glasses."
He, of course, did not like, as he knew they were all re-
spectable persons, to take them by the collar and turn
them out, as he well know that he would lose their custom
in future if he did, and the police were not authorised to
assist him in clearing the house unless there was a disturb-
ance there. Under these circumstances he did not know
bow to act.—He then called the defendant's sister and the
bar-maid, both of whom confirmed his statement.
Mr. TWYFORD, however, said that the defendant was
bound to clear the house y twelve o'clock on Saturday
nights, and fined him in the penalty of 40s. and costs. The
money was immediately paid.
Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, was summoned by two
cabmen, each of whom charged him with refusing to pay
them the sum of fourpence. It appeared that they had
driven the Learned Gentleman from the Strand to his
house in Gower-street, for which he refused to pay them
, more than eightpence, they demanding one shilling as their
fare.
Mr. Adolphus said he knew the distance was only a
mile from the middle of the Strand, having formerly paid
for having the ground measured; indeed he was so parti-
cular that he never called a cab till he got within the pre-
scribed limits ; but if, as on the present cases, the drivers
chose to follow him from the other end of the Strand, and
then invite him to ride, he was not liable to pay the differ-
ence beyond the mile ; in fact, he had ridden the distance
so often, and was so well known to the fraternity whocon-
gregated opposite the New Church as being only an calf ic
penny customer, that on one occasion when he appro h d
the stand all the cabs were suddenly driven off. On other
occasions he had met with the greatest abuse.
melatsuwrd.aseultimately arranged that the ground should be

THAMES POLICE.
MANSLAUGHTER.—A WOMAN KILLED BY HER
ateSBA
—Joseph Aiiley, a coal whipper, was placed SBA
bar
before Mr. BALLANTINE, charged with causing the death
of his wife, by kicking her in the stomach, on the 26th of
June last. He was also charged on the Coroner's in •
lion with manslaughter. The circumstances were made
public at the time, from which it appeared that the
pri-
soner returned home one night at a late hour fromhs
his
o a s e blow,
and
ef
work, and finding his wife in a state of intoxication, a
quarrel ensued, and he gave the unfortunate woman
house
u constable
from which she died. Sayre, the re
Shadwell, stated that the prisoner came to
said he was desirous of surrendering
lie
station-house, iappearedon h
bitterly at the time.
very great distress,
he
was Witness
locked immediatelyu p
for
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himself up before was,
melancholy transaction The reason he gave o
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, because he had been ever
not giviielg
since thehospital confined on beownarrdratnhte
ship through illness.
Magis-
trate committed him to Newgate on the CoroneTr'hs

UNION-HALL.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, the divorced wife of Mr. Brooks,
the extensive linendraper, of Blackman-street, Southwark,