The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARYLEBONE-OF rlCE.—Yesterday .losse, a
young man of genteel appearance, was charged before,Messrs.
RAWLINSON and GRIFFITHS, the Sitting Magistrates, with
defrauding Mr. Nutting, pianoforte-manufacturer, of Dean-
street, Soho, of a piano, valued at 30 guineas.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Nutting, that the
prisoner was connected with a numerous gang of swind-
lers, the most active of whom were James Walker, and
Joseph and Robert Bunning, who are held to bail to ap-
pear at the Sessions. In this case, on the thirty-first of
January last, the prisoner called on Mr. Nutting, and hired
a pianoforte, giving Joseph Bunning as his reference, who
of course gave him a most excellent character for honesty
and prompt payment ; the pianoforte was then delivered to the
prisoner at a house in Cumberland-street, New-road, from
whence in a few hours after it was forwarded to Mr. Gideons,
the pawnbroker, in Stafford-street, Lisson-grove, and there left
by the prisoner for the sum of 101.: however, it remained, only
a few days in the pawnbroker's store, being transferred to a
broker's shop in Newman-passage, Oxford-street, the broker
having purchased it of the prisoner for 151., redeeming it with
part of that sum, and giving the prisoner the remainder, who
was found by Staples, the Officer, in the middle of Thursday
night, on the roof of a house near Sadler's Wells, having
a few moments before extricated himself from the parlour
chimney, into which he fled on the Officer's making his appear-
ance ; but was obliged to make a sudden and hasty retreat in
consequence of the scorching heat of the flue.
The prisoner declined saying• any thing, and was fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial for felony, the Magistrates being of
opinion that the prisoner's conduct amounted to that.
Since the examination of Walker and the Bunnings, two de-
pbts belonging to the gang of swindlers were discovered—the
one at Pentonville, and the other at Islington—which, on being
entered by means of ladders and searched, were found to con-
tain an immensity of property of every description ; amon,,
which was discovered the piano obtained from Mr. Garlick;t
the beds, mattresses, and bed-steads belonging to Mr. Lowe ;
Mr. Twigg's carpets, &c., and an innumerable variety of other
articles, which remain unclaimed.
Qtr EEN-S at:A RE.-On Thursday Capt. B. charged a young
Lady, who gave her name Sarah Jackson, and apparently un-
der twenty years of age, with an assault, and threatening to
murder him.

The Captain stated, that he was constantly annoyed by
the prisoner. She resided in Villiers-street, Strand, and
amuses herself by following him about, collecting a mob around
him, going to his house in Buckingham-street, and threat-
ening either to murder himself or his wife. He had
called himself to expostulate with her, but it only height-
ened her violence ; he sent other Gentlemeii" also to reason
with her, and she declared to them that either he or his
wife would fall by her hands before next Saturday. She
had loaded pistols and a dirk at her lodging, for this purpose.
She came to his house on Wednesday, and conducted herself
with great violence in the hall ; he then found a knife concealed,
under her pelisse—she told him that it was to murder him or
his wife ; that she substituted it for the dagger, which she sus-
pected him to have stolen, but upon his honour he had not
' stolen it.
The Magistrate called upon the lady for her defence. She
answered she would not make any ; that it was the Captain's
ambition to get her hanged, and she would most willingly sub-
mit to his (the Magistrate's) decision. The Captain seduced
her from her mother, in Dublin, three years ago, and now he
wanted to turn her into the street, but she would rather lose
her life first.
The Magistrate told her, when she trusted to the Captain's
honour, she had a better opinion of him. She was as much in
fault as he was; and now,' when she knew him to have mar-
ried another, the best thing she could do was to return to her
friends in her own country:
The Captain said he offered to furnish her with money for
this purpose before, but she declined any,terms.
The prisoner, in answer to the Magistrate, said she-was per-
fectly sensible of the fault she had so imprudently committed.
The Captain took her from her mother with abundance of
clothes and money ; it was true he wished her to return de.
graded, and without either clothes or money. When he brought
her to London, he made her take expensive lodgings, and
contract debts, then got married to another, leaving her no
means of subsistence but her dresses. She would willingly re-
turn to her friends, or at.least would try them, if he redeemed
her dresses and paid, the debts, but, till then, she would suffer
any persecution to which he could expose her.
The Magistrate endeavoured to prevail upon them to settle
the matter amicably, but not succeeding, be ordered her to find
bail. She had no friends, anti was, committed.

SUICIDE.—Thomas Blarney, a private soldier
in.the 2d or Queen's Royals, put an end to his existence, at
the barrack-yard, Brighton, on Monday evening, by placing
the muzzle of his musket in his mouth, and discharging it with
his foot, by means of a string tied to the trigger : he hadlit2rally
blown his head to atoms.