The Sun.
London, England, 1806-09-13 00:00:00

PoLIcE

'Bow-sTanET.We Yesterday , copied, "from a
Morning Paper, a rriAnWtured tale of a sick man
having confessed his being concerned in the murder
of Mrs. Pooiey, at Horsreydown, 'in tilt> 3rough,
which we find is wholly erroneous
.and ent
.that such accounts should be Published.
The account alluded to said, that the sick than
was inCuStody custody; that he had no knowledge OE the
murder, but was privy to the robbery ;, that he had
confeied this to his DO6tor • and that the circum-
stance was made known- to ;he principal Clerk; and
that led to his-apprehension.
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Mr; Gaaumg has undertaken the investigation of
the business, and We hardly need therefore inform
the public, that no penetration, abilities, or exer-
tions will be wanting to bring the perpetrators of
this horrid murder to condign punishment, as it will;
be recollected; that it was awing to the, indefatigable
exertions of this worthy Magistrate that Patch was
brought to justice.
No circumstances have yet transpired that are
proper to be made public, without 'impeding the
ends of justice ' • but, in answer to the erroneous ac-
count of yesterday, we .will state, that a-man .Who.
resides in the Borough, was in bed, being ill, about
a week since, and in conversation .with a friend,
told'. him that his brother had been asked by. tiro
men to join them in going_to rob ,an old woman,
but had very properly declined it, this talc being.
talked about, got to the knOwledge of a Gentleman,
a relative to the deceased, who communicated the
circumstance personally to Mr. GRAHAM. On com-
paring the time when the man was asked to join the
two others in going to rob an old woman, and the
time when Mrs. Pooley, was robbed and murdered, .
they were foundlo correspond. Mr.. GRAHAM, in
consequence, commenced an investigation, andnn
Wednesdey he caused a man and woman to be ap7
prehended.
On Thursday Mr. GRAHAM, accompanied by Mr.
'Stafford, the principal Clerk, were in the Borough
nearly the whole of the day making inquiries;
,the
result was; that on his return to tae, Office' in the
afternoon, he dispatched Rivett and Cox to appre.-:
bend another man.

The parties are at present at the Brown Bear
public-house, 'opposite the Office, merely,, because
the circumstances against, them are extremely slight;
it would therefore be improper to state .who they
are, or the circumstances which have appeared..
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-Yesterday Joseph Bland;
a colle6tor of toll at thellammersmith turnpike gate,
was charged with assaulting the servant of a,Gentle-
man residing in Golden-square. The D.dendant is
one of the renters of the gates belonging to the Con-
don Commissioners. The Complainant, who Is
footman in the family of the Gentleman alluded to,
paid sd. toll for the passage of his.master's carriage
through the.gate, on the .16th ult, to a lad who as-
sisted in taking iuotiey. The Defendant, after abuSing
the coachtuanfor some time, gave two bad halfpence-
in change for the 6d. and by his' conduct the car-
riage, with two ladies in it, was_ detained nearly a
quarter of an hour; alter which, on the carriage
being let through the gate,. the Defendant threw a
stone at the footman with great violence. This out-
rage was passed over, but the carriage was again
stopped by the Defendant on the following Thurs-
day, although the footman called out the number,
and had the ticket ,ready to prcidude. The Defend-
ant peremptorily insisted on the Gentleman in the
carriage giving his name and address, stating for his
reason that the coachman had horse-whipped him,
whilst he, the Defendant, was attempting to stop
the horses. The Magistrate ordered the offender to,
find bail ; but he snapped his fingers, and advised
the Magistrate to aft as he thought proper. He was
then committed to prison until he found bail.

UNION HALL.=—An information was exhibited at
this Office, yesterday, at the instance of Mr. Bowles
and Mr. WiSsett,; two Magistrates of the County,
who are 'of the Committee of the Society for the
Suppression'Of Vice, against Mr. Wade, the land-
lord of the Golden. Lion, at Camberwell.
. The offence Was laid under an old Statute,' and
was, that Mr. Wade was in his own house seen in
an alledged state 'of 'intokication on the, first. two
nights of Camberwell Fair. To this charge' was.
added, that .he suffered' tippling in his house at
proper times, and by improper persons. •
Mr. GURNEI was employed by the Clerk to the
Bench'of Magistrates, as their Counsel, to sulipOrt
the information:

Mr. Wade attended to .. answer the stiminoii3;.
which he said was not delivered till nine o'clock the
night before. It was then too late to obtain
professional assistance, 'and he Was now unprovided.
He therefore prayed that the hearing-of the business
might be postponed; to give him time for that pur-.
Pose. With this request the Magistrate acquiesced,
and it stands postponed; •

MANsioi4-HousE.--Yesterday Edward Edwards,
against wfiom the Lord Mayor had direaed a prose-.
cation to be instituted at the expense of the' 'City;
for illegally detaining the chests of two seamen; one
of them an American, till his exorbitant-demands.
Were complied with, was brought up by his Lord-
ship's warrant. The statement of:the sailors being
repeated in presence of Edwards, one of the Offigers
was dispatched along with him to his house to bring
the articles in question into Court.—Having return-
ed, the Lord Mayor called on Edwards to state what
he had to alledge why an order should not be made
on hint to deliver over their property to the corn=
He then proceeded :to state that he had a right to
retain, the articles till he shdtild be reimbursed the
expences he had incurred, in bringing them and the
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Icomplainants froth on board the Bonabay Castle In-
,
diatnan. Havinvothe men on board that Ship, he
'hired a wherry and a passage-boat to take them up
and their luggage. " On board :of the-Bombay Castle
he saw one of the Claimants, 'Smith (not the Ame-
rican), by whom he Was.recog-sized as an old ac-
quaintance, and by. whom he was requested to assist
in conveying him and" certain others of his Ship-
mates,, with their chests, &c. to Londori. He ac=
cordingly assisted in bringing the -baggage on deck,
in looking after it while it 'vas overhauled by the
Revenue Officers, and 'in afterwards"conveying it on
board his wheyry. The complainant,
,Smith, also
accompanied hith On board, and they proceeded on
theirway till they, fell in with the7Petrell passage=
boat, Which, he had also hired, on board of which

they were received, and where tahr he, Edv,'ards,-
asgisted, while tile Officers once More Overha tiled
the-lUggage,.
At the time oftaking the baggage "out of the torn-
,m bay Castle,. he hadnarked cacti package belongin,
to those who employed him with hisinitialS; E. E.
on severalylaces, He gave the passengers on board
this boat gin and other refreshinents, of•whici
Smith, as well as the others, pirteok. He paid all
expenses attendant on the bringing up of the'gOodi,
particularly 'l2l. for landing, betides two guineas for
the hdat and the wages of the jnen on board. When
the packages were left .at the public house, the Y;
were left as•the property•of hiS friends;. and when.
lie took, them away, lie identified thern
tials oneach, paying for them at the sanie time the
`i.varehouse-rooth demanded. When the Men; there-
fore; came to demand frbm hiM their 'a-Isere:l
trunks., he apportioned among them the eipence,ht,
had, incurred, amountingto the,snnis-charged again; .t
the complainants.

The L-oRD MAYOR said, because he..(Edwards).
had chosen to enter into a speculation as to the hir-
ing of boats to convey men' from on board of. an
Indianian, in Which he 'been unsuccessful, the
expence arising from such. speculation was not to be
charged against any seamen, whom; like the present
complainants, he might chance to-pick tip. "He had'
no right, by marking his initials on Other persons'
goods, to assume to himself the proprty of them:
His'conduetaltogethey, the Loan MAYOR could not
help thinking, amounted ,as near to , felony, as he
could well conceive.. He warned him to beware
how he again appeared before his Lordship h
similar circumstances ; assuring him, if he ,ever
did; that he should not escape so easily as, he felt
inclined to allow him todo on the present occaSion.
The only benefit the Seamen,hid,derived from 'bin,
was the conveyance from the Bombay CAstle,to the
passage--boat, a distance which he himself had ad-1
-mitied_did. not exceed one mile and a half. That
his Lordship over-rated wheu.he estimated it at is;6d:
for each. The regular price far landing, porterage,
&c. for each .parcel. was 4d.' whiCh amounted, for
tour. parcels belOnging to the complainants, to is. 4d:
The Landlady
.liad'stated the sum paid by Edwardi
to her to be 2(.14 per'parcel, making altogether ss.
:on payment
.of,which_bq ordered the property to be
restored" to the' proper owners. •

One ofthe Otlicorsstated .the'expence of cartage
of the aieStS from Edwards's house to have been'
2s. gd, :Thath;.S.Lordship' also r6gardect as an ex-
pence atiebdant. on' the iinp-yoper condnal of Ed-
wards,. N. 3d. of eourse,'Would be 'the sum he had
to receive..

Edwards, in an rinbeCominenianner, declared he
would not accept of any such :sum ; he could lose
that as well as the rest his conduct had on every
occasion been 'Corm%

The LORD MAYOR said he was sorry again
,to re-
peat, that thep)iidat of Edwards had been every
thing but correcton the present occasion; and ha
W again arned himto beware Of appearing On any fu-
ture occasion in a similar .Situation: He desired;
.therefore, that the 2s. 3d. should be proffered to Ed 7:.
wards which he having iejeaed,- the LORD MAYOR
Ordered the propertjr to be given up' to the cony;
plainants.
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