The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-02 00:00:00

POLICE.

O'Connor was brought up
yesterday, charged by Mr. Nu ley; Shoemaker, of
Newport-street, Long Acre; to vhom he was fore•
man, with stealing sevt•ral pairs of boots and shoes
from his Shop. - Numerous pairs being missec4 sus-
picion flAl en the Pi .•olicr 3. his lodgings were
scorched, and one _pair o the boots. stolen- was
found in his room, \ridli the usual mark of llt'.
Nutley effixed 5 but on the inside lining ,of the boot:
being ripped, Mr. Nutley's private mark was disco-
vered. then conleSsed that he' had sold
several pair to a sccons.l43andshoe-seller on Holborn-_,
13ill, where Mr.. Nutley then went, and discovered
another pair of 13-,s bo,,ts exposed for sale, with the'
out -A and marks ah:yei;aced ;" but 01Y ripping them flat
t:inner to tho,-e first discovered, he found..
his private mark.
The'Prisoner was COMillitted to take his trial at``
tie ensuing- Old Eailey. Sessions. .
• A G,2fit.enTta of respectability applied at this Of
fire, to solicit the assistance of the 'Magistrates to
apprehend 'a gang of huklers who infest the streets;
Lip,iriing.Oxford-road. .He stated, that in pasitid--
cloy, n Cavendioi-street, in the morning, he was.sud-
denly at by five of therkand afterbeing push
Qod abo,, and several .attetnpt.S.Made to pick his poc-
ket, hr at length got away with some difficulty,'
without sustaining any loss:' He then described the
persons of the offenciers,. and an ataive officer tvas.

sent to reconnoitre the gang.
A Jow Denti::t stood clialiged with violently .as-
saulting-a rel•pec-table Loia:-,ekeeper in the Strand on
Tuesday evening. Jr appeared that the Defendant,
With his mother and sister, lodged in the house of
the Plaintiff, and, lrom their uncleanliness, became
extreitolv obnoxious to their-landlord.; and on his
expoquiating with the Defendant, he. threatened to
beat hi heal to a mummy, and commenced his en-
dc.o. ours to carry, his threats into execution, strik-
the face.. On the Ma6istrate
expressing a wish to be informed what the cause if
contention really was, the enraged DeOadotbr
said, that he had set a tooth in the head of the Plain.:
zi.Ve, and made his regular Charge, but the
PhHLIT thought it too exorbitant, and refused to
offei-ing a smaller sum, which .Defendant
;oi. accept ; and that ever since the Plaintiff
bad I,)‘-en ei.rlt.:!%ourihg to .get him out of the house.
Several perky,s came forward atic proved the assault,
and the Defendant was ordered to find bail.

PLIDL IC4 JUICE, HATTON-GARDENu —Yesterday,
a man-of the natne of Bradbury, a grave-digger, be-
loltging w_Clerken well Burial-ground, was examined
on a charge having..near 200 weight of lead in hiS
possession, suspected to have been stripped from cof-
tins in the vaults under the Church. On one piece
of lead a brass plate was atlixed, on Which was
graved the name of Elizabeth- Cross.. He was com
mitted tbr re-examination. • •

A young woman of filename of Barret; servant to
Mr. Fowler, of Albemarle-s.,reet; Clerkenwell, was
committed for re-examination on a charge of stealing
a large quantity of linen and other goods, the pro-
perty ot-her master and other persons.

GulLDii. LL.—Yesterday a respe6tatile'lnnlceeper,
in Holborn, was summoned 'before the;`Sitting
Rif!iszrate, for detaining a turkey in 'his ware-
bobse; sent from Norwich by 'a Mr. Balsou to Mr.
13-_,4y, of Watling-ttieet. The' latter stated, 'that
ii r:-:::eived a letter froth his friend at Norwieh, in-
ng him .thata turkey had been sent by the coach
t 23d pecenher. IFe consequently applied
tor.it at the: where it Was to arrive,- and. he was
tohi it had ri(t reached the Office.' On. the 27th,
aftei the CQ•intqainant.ha‘i given- up•all exiieCiation of
receiN log the tuvii9,,, as brought to his houe in
a pu;-id .s:te t-e, and he. rethsed to- take it in 01'
for the, porterage,' _lathe course of'the examination
it 'appeared Oat the turkey, had been detained by
negligence of:the ion--;4ecpers servants- until it was
spoiled, and he w:.4 ordere6-to,pay the coinplainant
the-value of it; which he accordingly did.

On Thursday. se'nnight a' melancholy accident
happened at ':a woollen mafinfacifoty, is nlingWorth,
near Halifax: young woman -of the' name of
Sarah - Earnshaw, employed at spinning engine,
was assisting to adjust
.the strap of the wheel, she
unfortunately' got entangled there With„ and, was-
violently drawn' rotted' the druar or tumbling shaft,
and instantly It is remarliable that tmtne--
diately preceding:the. accident, she Was observing, it
was little more than five years since her brother was
killet;: in that place,' and by' the 'same engine.: .She
had scarcely uttered the words.when it ‘,.%* hermis-
fertune to meet a premature end nearly in the same
manner.

Ow Saturday last an Inquest was taken at Caw-
thorne, near Barnes'ev, ,before_ Mr. EDW. BROOKE,
Coroner, on the body of Martha Mellor, a girl, 17
years Of age, -.Who- was on Thursday last shot, by
Samue Ibbotson, a boy twelve years of age. Ver.
die-t—lanslaught.,2r. He has since been comMitted:
to Yori Castle. The boy having gone into the
home where the girl was, took up a gun, but was'
desired to.llay it down immediately as; /file pulled it,
it would go off: a little while after he took it up
again, and seeing this' girl in another room, he said
ShDOI. her, which, shocking'to relate, he
immediately did.

' The Coroier's Jury sat. en Tuesday on the body of
Mrs. Peake, 'of tiv'King's.Artni, Kent Road, who
was found dead in her bed on Friday morning last,
and found a verdia,Died Ly the Yisitation.of God.

On Thursdaythe Coroner's inquest met finally to
Consider, ti:e'cluSe of the death of the UnfOrtimate
George Cal% ert, the Selby carrier; and after •a mi-
nute investigation 'from eleven in the forenoon till
six in the returned a verdict of wilfurienu:-
der Joaeph Hazlegrave and Joseplv.grOwit.
They ivete'consequently committed to York Castle,
the-following mpftning to taketheirtrial at the'nex' t
assizes. • • .

An o:•.1 Hamburgh sailor, named Van Felson, on
Christthas-da3", at a aim-ping-house in Old Gravel-
] cnga4ed, for a trifling wager, to eat tour
Ty, of-beef-steaks, two pounds of• bread, and
t pounds'of potatoes, and to drink two quarts of
wit!,in an 'hour which he performed in less
niinutes.

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COURT OT CHANCERY,• Dic 12

THE ASSIGNEES O 1 WI-IFELEY V. DITTO

. .
It appeared, that alter a.commissiop et bankruptcy
had been taken Out w2-,ainst, the.Detendant, he was
allou:ed ley file ssi ee.to keep pcp;ses,sion of the
lionise and prernises v.-hich 11;2 i,d; but on an
-application to alai
.ereditorsy a
Messenger was appointe,,i, part, to retain
joint po.,,session him., A gilesiion since= arose
Whether the.,befendant- could . have 'been,. in law,
made liable to.bankruptcy ? and _Whether his. com-
mission wasnOt supersekble The present appli-
cation was to compel the premises to .he given .upto
the Assignee§ till thatqueson determin-
ed, and the expellees-of Che applicationrshoula be.paid
out of the property of the bankrupt. .
The L6RDCEIA-NCI:LcoR said, it had..often struck
him with surprise, drat people :were so reagy to ,un-
dertake the office of As.:,ignees,' colisidering,..all the
risk and trouble that belonged toy it., It ;was not,
indeed, very Often ,that persons of the description of
the Defendant, who was described as,. a Gentleman
of fOrtune, disputed` be validity of his commission ;
because; • nine cases.' Out'of ten such commissions
were frauaulent--or collusn'e.; but, when tliey .were
superseded tine u
e Assignees ;often. fond themselves in
a situation, of great embarrassment, for Couri.s.ofJus-
tioe would not allow their expellees to:theAssignees
of a man .who had no right'to be a bankr4t.
knew of one case occurring in the Court of Com-
-416n E.-leas, where all the Assignees got by their
cake, trOubte,: anal management of the property,
was a Joss of 23901. in the present case, what was
alledged against Mr. Wheeley, besides the commis-
sion of an act of
.bankruptcy, was, 'that he traded in
bricks, which he had.made upon his estate. How
far that stood good was a question for a Special Jury;
in the Court of Common Pleas ;. but until it was so
decided that.Wheeley was . liable to the bankrupt
laws, he - could not direei any expenses to be paid
out of his estate, What he should order, under all
the circumstances of the case, was, that.the'Messen-
ger of the Court should retain joint possession with'
,him, sanct that he shOuld be.restlained making away
with any of the property ire the meantime. He
wished it also to be understood, that the parties
were tolay before nun a special verdia on.the sub-
ject of the bankruptcy on the -first seal after the next
'fern].

, .Mr. RcuiLLT,-on the part of the Defendant, sub 7
mitted, whetuer he might not. be allowed to retain
sole possession, interirkedi.ltely, on. giving sufficient
security for the property in. ills charge ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR consented to his having
sole possession, on condition that the Messenger
should also have possession jointly until security
should be given to the Master's satisfaCtiou.,