The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-31 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

LTHIS DAY.)

MANSION-HO USE. name
A respectable-looking middle-aged man, who gave “Ign
James Thompson, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
KELLY, charged with having committed indecent assaults 13P°
females on London-bridge.
Howell, a City police.officer, 77, stated that about si:
o'clock yesterday evening the defendant was pointed out,t,e
him as having been guilty of various indecent tricks. Pr
watched him, and observed him put the back of his hand und
the haunches of an old woman and three little girls of the age
of 10 or 12 years, who immediately walked away.
Alderman KELLY—I did not know there were any haunches
but haunches of venison.
Mr. HOBLER— He put his hand on their b—
—3, I suPrse
you mean ?—( Great laughter)—that's the English of it. He
The defendant said he had had no criminal intention. i__
had dined with a friend, and had drank rather freely •
passing over London-bridge he stopped to look at ;he fire
there was a great crowd on the bridge, and he might acct"
dentally put his hands upon the person nearest him. pi),
Alderman KELLY—But it is so very strange ; and the
liceman says you assaulted children under ten or twelve Yea'
of age.
Howell said the defendant did not appear to be at all inteli'
cated.
Another police-officer, Le Bruk, saw the defendant at
that vi
his
tricks, but he was stationed on London Bridge at that moment
The defendant stated that he had always hitherto led an
irreproachable life, and that this was the first time he was in
a Justice-room.
Alderman KELLY thought that under all the circumstances,
the females not being present, and there being no secondary
e
evidence that the defendant had any criminal intention, a
must dismiss the case.
The defendant then bowed and retired.

BO W- STREET.
THE JOYS of WEDLOCK. —J. Richardson was brought be-
fore Mr. MiNstium, on a warrant which charged him with
lently assaulting his wife.
Mrs. R., being sworn, said her husband was a seqletar.
About a year ago he brought his family up to London ire,
Newcastle, but soon after he sent her and six children d_.1.1,
again, and for four months he did not send her a single Id
ling. She wished him to come down to the north if be el t.
not get work, but his answer was that if he ever came to ees
again, might he be d --d. She did not know what it W„ad
for, and came up again. He then frequently abused her, 8"t
on Monday last, when he came home, because she bad been lid
his employer's shop, he struck her in the face and sid•all
threatened to murder her before he was done with her. a
A woman who lived in the same house heard the blows 8"
the threat.

The prisoner, when called on for his defence, said be via°
very sorry to say that the woman his wife was a prostitute.
Mr. MINSHULL—I will not hear any thing of that ; she ill
aJ
have been unfortunate, but if she has been a faithful wife to
you, she is all the better for it. She must not be abuse" "
the way you do.
The prisoner pressed the Magistrate to read a letter whicht
he had received from Newcastle, in which it was stated that
the complainant had cohabited with the Captain of the vesse
with which she went down at the time of her absence .°
London.

Mr. MINSIIULL said the letter was no evidence, and he
therefore, could not look at it. She might be bad, but 6
must not be struck in the way it was evident she had been.
The prisoner then entered into his history since he had ea':
to London. His wife would not be contented with one r00:1;
as became poor people, nor was she content to reside ona
him, because he was at that time earning only fifteen shilling°
a week. She, therefore, went away to Newcastle, Where Stt
lived in open adultery. After she came back, she gave Ye;
to a very bad temper on every occasion, and aggravated Mal ;
that he had baen obliged to chastise her. Her temper "It
shocking bad, as the officer had seen last night, when he toe
the prisoner.
Nat Fall, the officer, was sworn, and said the scene which wat
enacted between the two was indescribable. He could no
possibly say which began it, or which was worst, but as ter
in such cases, the woman was both loudest and quickest.
husband complained of her infidelity, and she said he °„1/,
wanted to get quit of her, in order to live with another wenloife
Mr. MiNsnum. said they appeared to be both jealous. as
would take the prisoner's own bail this time, but if he
brought there again he would have to find sureties.
The complainant said she would not live with him again'
Mr. Mitvsnum, said, with that he had nothing to do. 4'7
might agree to separate as soon as they left the office; an
from what he saw, he thought it would be the more advisebl;

course.
The parties then retired, looking as lovingly at each other
as cat and dog.

UNION-HALL:
Mr. Winter, a person of very gentlemakly appearance, !II:
this morning brought before Mr. JERENty,Yharged with bone
intoxicated. From the statements of the police-officer, it el;
peared that early this morning he found Mr. Winter lyingoo
the Borough-road, completely overcome with liquor.
searching him he found upwards of 60/. in notes in his pocket
and nearly 201. in gold in a pocket-book. Upon being asked
by the magistrate how he came to be in such a state,
Winter said he had been out with a friend, and the wine u"
had drank overcame lOm.
Mr. JEREMY-I really think Mr. Winter you are extremely
fortunate, having so large a sum of money about you, that you
were not robbed.
Mr. Winter—.l have lost a very valuable watch and son°
silver.

Mr. JEREMY—WeII, you are still very fortunate
in not los-
ing every thing you had with you.
Mr. Winter said his watch was a very particular one,
he believed there was only another like it in the country.
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would have sooner lost all the money he had about him
his watch. He would willingly give 5/. to the officer for the
recovery of his watch.
Mr. JEREMY thought the better course would be for gri
Winter to give the Police a full description of the watch, an
then it would probably be recovered.
The officer said when he discovered Mr. Winter, one of big
pockets was turned inside out.
Mr. Winter then left the office in company with the officer'
to give a description of the watch at the station-house.

TOWN-HALL.
Samuel Wheatley and Ann Wheatley, in appearance 11,1
the two most respectable individuals in the world, were brougmy
up before Sir JOHN KEY, charged with assaulting a lady P°
particularly careful of her virtue, named Ann Burfit. to
Mrs. Burfit stated that the prisoners resided next aoor •
her, in that respectable part of the town 'yclept Kent-street'
that he carried on the unlawful calling of catching other Pe,:e
sons' pigeons, and selling them ; and on Tuesday, because '',
would not allow her husband to purchase one of the umber
nate pigeons he had catched, Wheatley, the husband, vicaentl
assaulted her, and the wife showed her the length Of he
tongue, swearing she would do for her.
A witness corroborated the statement of Mrs. Burfit.
The male prisoner, on being called on for his defence'
de-
nied in the most positive terms, that he had ever struck Mrs'
Burfit.

Ann Wheatley, the other prisoner, immediately exclaimed":
Mrs. Burfit f she's no more Mrs. Burfit than I am. pleas;
your Worship, she's no better than she ought to be ; she
lived with God knows how many men, and she's only Wl_
perated because we won't leave our house in order that su'
may make it as bad as her own.
Sir JOHN KEY inquired if the policeman was in attendance'
and, on being answered in the negative, ordered the case to he
remanded till to-morrow.

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A friend of the prisoner's, who keeps a huckster's shop le
the the same neighbourhood, said, God help your Worship, so
cannot enlighten you much upon the subject, for he was
drunk with the gin Mrs. Burfit gave him as to be unable to
distinguish your Worship or the prisoner from Adam.
(Laughter.)

The prisOners were then remanded till to-morrow.

PPING.-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, AUG. 30.—Wind, S.W., fine. Arrived, the Pr'
tector, Bragg, from Hobart Town ; Augustus Cow,
Wise-
man, from Sidney ; Dauntless, Pindar, from Calcutta'
Planter, Field, from Jamaica ; Traffic, Phillips, from Barbs;
does ; Creole, Mann, from Sierra Leone ; Caledonia, Wart;
from Galipoli. Arrived from the river and proceeeed--t"
Narcissus, Currie, for the Cape of Good Hope ;
Campbell, for Calcutta ; President, Chadwick, for New Vr
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 30. —Wind W.—Arrived from n
don, the Isabella, Hart, for Launceston. Sailed--.the
Graves, for Miramichi ; Numa transport, for Woolwich. iv,
ISLE OF WIGHT, AUG. 30.—Arrived off, the Hope, Sug
rue, from St. Kitts ; Emerald, Paulson, from St. Croix ;Pao;
tario, Huddlestone, from New York; Eurus, Byers. from-
Quebec.

BRISTOL, Auo. 30.—Arrived, the Adelaide, Brooks, &WO
Tabago ; Abbotsford, Hicks, from Miramichi.
HOLYHEAD, Auo. 29.—Arrived off port the Independence'
—, from New York.
'
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 29.—Wind W.—No arrivals. —allea
his Majesty's ship Cornwallis, for Lisbon; aild his Majesty "
ship Magnet, for Falmouth.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 29.—Wind N. to N.W.—No arrivr JP
Sailed the Lapwing packet, for Lisbon, with '.hails.
DUBLIN, Auo. 28.—Arrived the Eden, Frar,iklin, from 71381.‘
badoes; leanor, Peters, from Quebec; Em;erald, Flet' cher,
from Bordeaux ; and Arina, Lovell, from Lonidon.
CoRK, AUG. 28.—Arrived the John Wheeler, Pollock:
from Quebec; Howe, Higginson, from Ifrirginia
Willis, from Newfoundland; Margaret, K(illy, front "
'II
Fr '
Edward's Island; and Bellissirna, from Gil,,ralta r.
WHITEHAVEN, AUG. 29.—Arrived the thonapsom„ BrutOris
from Quebec. Off port the Cambrian, Rosser, from. Quebc

The Margaret, Liddle, bound to Q•Liebee has put back- t°
,
Liverpool leaky.
The Elizabeth, Brown, of I,(2.thdon, was condemned 11:
LeoneSitheerrGaa on the 25th of Jut,. C., having been on shore I
.ia.

BIRT.II.—On the 30tht inst., at Marriott Lodge
Snaresbrook, the wife of Edmund Gore, Esq., of a son. Last week Lord Broug,ham, accompanied by b jo
daughter, arrived at Keswick,-firom whence they proceeded
an excursion through the Vale eif Borrowsdale, and afterire,
ties
took their departure for Ambleiside. His Lordship &alto
in excellent health, and will be e nabled, without injury to
constitution, to resume his Parliaanentary duties next seSslol 5,
A. handsome new theatre Itas been built r,t Lei Ce.
ter, which will be ready for use by ,the autumn. ".