The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas, the superin-
tendent of police, appeared before Sir R. BIRNIR
and Mr. HALLS, attended by a young woman,whom
he introduced to the Magistrates as the wife of In-
spector Ouseley, why had been attached to his (Ma.
Thomas's) division, and whose absence, under cir-
cumstances which he was about to repeat, was the
cause of the present application. Mr. Thomas then
proceeded to state, that Ouseley had absented him-
self from his duty for some days, without having
assigned any cause for so doing. It was subse-
quently discovered, however, that he had eloped
with the daughter of Mr. Kidder, the highly•
respectable silversmith in the Strand, leaving his
wife and two children entirely destitute of support,
and taking with him the sum of 1,0201., which had
beon placed to his credit in the Bank of England.
His unfortunate wife and children are thus thrown
upon► the parish, and the object of his (Mr.
Thomas's) application was, that they might obtain
an order to a(hnit them to the workhouse.

Mr. HALLS said that the wife should certainly

have an order for the admission of herself and chil-
dren to the workhouse, and the Proper step to take
would be to advertise her husband, giving a full de-
scription of his person, and stating that he had de-
serted his wife and children.

The poor woman, who seemed to be dreadfully
affected, then retired with Mr. Thomas.
Ouseley, it appears, is the son of Lieut.-Colonel
R. Ouseley, who also holds the rank of Lieutenant-
General in the Portuguese service, and who is nearly
related to Sir Gore and Sir William Ouseley.
About six years ago he married Ws present %rife,
who is the daughter of a coal-heaver, and since that
time he has been discarded by his father. About
three years ago lie was appointed a street-keeper in
the Strand, between Cecil-street and Charing-cross;
and when the new police was formed he obtained
the situation of inspector, from his former good
conduct, and the known respectability of his con-
nexions. lie was said to be in high estimation

with his superiors, and would probably have been
promoted had he remained in the service. He is a
very good-looking young man, and previous to his
late appointment had prepared himself for an appear-
ance on the stage, to which line of life he had al-
ways, it is said, a strong predilection. It is sup-
posed that the unfortunate partner in his flight was
not aware that he was a married man. She is a
very pretty young woman, scarcely 18 years of age.
It was not stated that she had possessed herself of
any of her father's property ; but the rash step
which she has taken bus plunged her family into the
deepest distress. A reward, we believe, will be
offered for Ouseley's apprehension.
Mr. Zachariali, of the firm of Zachariah and
Noora, importers of German goods, Hanway-street,
Oxford-street, waited upon Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr.
HAus, with the view to obtain a warrant against
two parties whom he charged with felony. He had,
he said, applied to Mr. Minshull a few days back
on the same subject, and upon hearing his strize-
went that Magistrate at first consented to grant him
a warrant, but afterwards changed his mind, and
declined to interfere in the matter. He now begged
to renew his application, and would state the grounds
upon which it rested. He had received, from one
of the parties whom he charged, his acceptance for
201., in part payment of goods delivered. The bill
became due on Saturday fortnight, and he (Mr.
Zachariah) sent his clerk to the acceptor for pay-
ment, who requested that it might be held over till
the Monday, when lie promised to call and take it
up, The acceptor and drawer of the bill accord-
ingly came to Hanway-street on the day appointed,
when the bill was shown to them by a clerk, under
the impression that the amount was about to be
paid. The moment, however, the drawer of the
bill caught a glimpse of it in the hands of the clerk,
he seized hold of it, and, assisted by the acceptor,
succeeded in tearing away the' greater part of the
document, leaving behind him the fragment which
he (Mr. Zachariah) now produced. Under these
circumstances, he had applied to Mr. Minshull for a
warrant against the parties, but was refused it.
Sir 11.131RNtE observed, that in his opinion Mr.

Minsbun bad acted perfectly right in refusing to
grant a warrant for felony under such circumstances.
Mr. Zachariah—Then I shall most certainly apply
to Mr. Peel on the subject.
Sir R. BIRNIE—How can Mr. Peel assist you ?
Mr. Zachariah—l shall lay my case before him,
according to the advice I hare received.
Mr. Ham. observed that there could be no ob-
jection to that course, but for his part he was clearly
of opinion that there was no ground whatever for a
charge of felony.
Mr. Zachariah—And is there no redress, Sir,
against the parties for forcibly possessing themselves
of my property ?
Mr. HALLS—I do not say you have no redress,
but you certainly cannot obtain a warrant for felony.
Sir R. BIRNIE—The Sessions are now holding,
and you can if you please go down and indict the
parties whom you charge with a conspiracy to de-
fraud you, in which form I think an indictment may
be shaped.
Mr. Zachariah should certainly adopt that course,
not so much for the value of the bill as for the pur-
pose of punishing the parties whom he charged ;
and he cared not what expense lie went to in effect-
ing that object, as the question was one which '
nearly affected the whole trading community. He
then retired.
Two young men, named William Watson and
Benjamin Lazarus, were brought in custody from
Hammersmith, charged upon suspicion of having
been concerned in stealing from the till of Mr.
Rogers, a baker of that place, the sum of 521.
It appeared that Mr. Rogers had, a very short
time before, handed 521. to his wife, with directions
that she should pay it to the flour-factor, who was
expected to call in the course of the evening. Mrs.
Rogers accordingly took the money from her husband
and placed it in the till of the shop. The two pri-
soners and another party (not yet in custody) were
observed lurking about the door, under the pretence
of selling pencils, and it is supposed that they ob-
served what had passed between Mrs. Rogers and
her husband in the shop; for almost immediately
after the money had been deposited in the till, the
two prisoners entered the shop, and made a purchase
of some biscuits, keeping Mrs. Rogers in conversa-
tion while the third man slipped round the counter
unobserved, and with some instrument forced open
the till and abstracted the 521. in question. The
money was missed soon after the prisoners and their
expert accomplice had left the shop, and notice hav-
ing been given of the robbery to the Hammersmith
constables, an instant pursuit was made, which ended
in the apprehension of the prisoners; but the prin-
cipal in the robbery managed to get clear off with
his booty, he having given the coachman of Sir John
Lilly (one of the Magistrates then holding a petty
sessions near the spot) a shilling to give him a lift
in his master's coach, which was proceeding towards
London, by which means the fellow effectually eluded
pursuit. Upon searching the prisoners, a cobler's
awl was found upon the person of Watson, and there
is reason for supposing that this was the instrument
by which the till was forced open. The prisoners
were taken before Sir John Lilly, one of the resi-
dent Magistrates, and underwent a long examina-
tion, and yesterday they were brought before Sir
R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, Sir John Lilly being
also on the bench. _ _ .

Sir R. BIRNIE closely questioned the prisoners,
whom he examined separately, touching their pos-
session of the awl, but nothing material was elicited
from their answers, and they were put back for re-
examination with directions that they should be
-kept separate.
The following characteristic epistle, received by
Mr. Rogers a few days after the robbery, and writ-
ten no doubt by the party at large, was handed to
the magistrates :

" April 9, 1830.
" have to inform you that your health has
been drunk with three times three, upstanding and un-
covered, by the party that had the luck to get the few
pounds out of your till. We likewise drank the health of
the vigilant constables of Hammersmith and its vicinity,
wishing there may be a Petty Session every week, and
that the constables may be as drunk as they were on that
day. The best way you can do to regain the aboVe sum;
will be to make an extra dead man a day, which will
soon put you all right. Your's was a very lucky hit, as
I had not the price of a pint of porter in my pocket at
the time. I shall visit Hammersmith again very soon ;
and, if I have any luck, I will treat you with a bottle of
the best wine the Bull and Anchor has in the house, and
the wade-awake officers of the above place shall have a drain
of gin. The blunt (money) is now nearly half gone, or
you should have half a doze❑ wine sent you to drink my
health. Your obedient servant,
" ONE OF THE NEW POLICE IN DISGUISE."

Mr. Rogers, it was stated, had very recently set
up in business, and the loss of so large a sum has
considerably deranged his affairs.

MARYLEBONE.

On Tuesday night Sophia Morgan, a young
woman whose husband has been dead about four
months, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH with
the wilful murder of an infant.

C. R. Edwards, a serjeant of the New Police,
Hampstead district, in consequence of private in-
formation, went that afternoon to the prisoner's
room, No. 7, Suffolk-street, Battlebridge, and ac-
cused her of secreting the birth of and destroying
a child. The prisoner said she was sorry for it,
but it was now too late; she had done so, and she
was delivered of it on Saturday fortnight. On search-
ing the premises, circumstances appeared which
coincided with her confession, the body of a male
child was found in the vault of the sewer, and it had
a bruise on the left side of its head, which the ser-
jeant suspected had been occasioned by the blow of
a hammer, which he found in the prisoner's room.
Elizabeth Williams, an old woman, who took the
nrisoner as a lodger, and slept in the same bed with
her, was in the first instance placed by her side .at
the bar as a confederate : but nothing coming for-
ward to implicate her, she was liberated, and her
evidence was taken.
The prisoner came to lodge with her four weeks
before this affair happened; she suspected that she
was in the family way, and told her so, and she de.
nied it. On Saturday fortnight, the prisoner got up
at six o'clock in the morning, to go, as she said, to
work ; she returned again to her room in two hours,
very ill, and she " looked like a corpse." The
witness was alarmed, and sent for Dr. Wright, but
he did not come, and the cause of her illness was
not discovered until the body of the child was
found.

The prisoner :said she did not use any instrument
to murder the child; it was accidentally killed by a
fall in consequence of its birth being unexpected.
The body was taken to St. Pancras workhouse,
and examined by a surgeon, but its condition was
such, that he could not form an opinion whether its
death was occasioned by accident or not.
The prisoner was remanded till this day.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mary Murphy ,an Irish fruit-girl, vas finally ex-
amined before Mr.BENETT, ye;terday, charged with
stealing la necklace and cap from the person of a
little girl, named Davis, a species of robbery in
which it appears she is an adept.—Committed.