The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAwsmiv-HOUSE.—A fellow named Davis, who pretended
to be mad, was brought before. the LORD MAYOR,. charged
with having committed a robbery on Thursday last, in a fishing
boat lying off Billingsgate.
Thomas Ingram, one of the owners of the boat, called the
Prince Regent, stated, that on that morning he left the boat
before eleten o'clock,' and 'upon his return found the cabin
broke opens box also broke open, and 31. stolen. Another
box was likewise forced open, and the contents taken away.
There were missing, besides the money, some of the witness's
clothes, and the register and license of the boat.
An Officer stated, that he apprehended the prisoner in a
public-house in Dark-house-lane, with the clothes of one of the
complainants upon him ; he had no money.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he had any thing to
say ? began to talk nonsense, with the view of passing for a
madman, but suddenly stopped, on being told that he was per-
fectly well known. He was committed for trial.

GUILDHALL.—ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.—Lucy Parsons,
a motherly-looking woman, and Samuel Parsons, alias Stokes,
were charged before Sir CHARLES FLOWER, the sitting. Al-
derman, under the following circumstances :
The female prisoner was engaged in attending as nurse upon
Mrs. Spriggs (the wife of a hosier, No. 62, Fleet-market), who
has, lately lain in, and Stokes, her pretended nephew, . was in
the habit of calling there very frequently to see his aunt.
Nurse was called down to him on 'Wednesday evening,
and after a short conversation together, she 'borrowed 6d. of
Mr. Spriggs, which she gave to the nephew, in order, as it
seemed to get rid of him. He was then evidently drunk, and
on quitting, Nurse begged her master, if the nephew .should
call again that evening, to say she was not at home. He did
call again about half an hour after, rather more intoxicated
than before, insited on seeng his aunt, would not believe she
was gone out, and, in short, conducted himself in so disorderly
a manner that it was found necessary to have him'taken to the
watch-house. _ _

When taken to the Compter, and searched according to cud-
torn, two pair of stockings were found in a bundle he had with
him, which Mr. Spriggs recognized as his property ; :and on
his person.three duplicates, two of them for property, which, on
inquiry in the morning, turned out to have been stolen from Mr.
Spriggs's shop. One of the pledges, a remnant.of very fine
flannel, had been previously missed.
As the fellow had never been permitted to go into the shop,
it was concluded that he must have had the assistance of his
aunt, and a constable was immediately dispatched to take nurse

into custody.
In the interim the fellow's lodgings were traced out, where i
was soon learnt that nurse and he were not at all related, and
she had supplied him for the last six, weeks with the means of
defraying the rent of the apartment.
Stokes prudently held his tongue, but the female prisoner was
extremely voluble and had prepared herself with a very plau-
sible defence. She allowed she had given the flannel to Stokes
to pledge, but had bought it of a Mr. Stone, the person whom
Mr. Spriggs had succeeded in the shop, and whose stock he had
taken; It was no wonder, therefore, her master thought it was
his, as it was probably cut off the piece, the remainder of which
was among the stock he had subsequently purchased.
Mr. Spriggs was, however, enabled to swear that the flannel
had never formed part of the stock of Mr. Stone,- but had been
purchased subsequently by himself.
As Mr. Spriggs stated that various other articles had been
missed, the prisoners were remanded for a few days, in order to
give time for the necessary inquiry whether any thing further
could be traced to their possession.
Bow ST RE T.—Yesterday Willianz Hughes, a " shabby gen-
teel" looking young man, was brought before the sitting Ma-
gistrate, Sir RICHARD BaRN XE, charged by Mr. Tate, a silver.
smith, in Salisbury-street, Strand, with having defrauded him
of a quantity of silver and plated goods.
The prisoner was some months ago chief clerk to Mr. Gray,
a silversmith of eminence, -in Sackville-street, Piccadilly. On
the 18th of May, he called at Mr. Tate's, and selected silver
and plated goods to the amount of about 101. which he wished
to have for sale to a person that he knew, upon commission, a
mode of doing business very common in the trade. From his
former respectability witness had not the smallest hesitation in
letting him have the goods, the condition being, that he should
return them, or bring the purchase money the following day.—
He called two days after, without either the goods or the money,
but made what appeared a very satisfactory apology, and re-
quested to be furnished with another lot of goods of higher value
than before, which was very readily acceeded to. He never
made his appearance again at Salisbury-street. He was not
seen by the witness until yesterday morning, when he met
him in Bedfordbury, and gave him in charge to an officer.
The prisoner said he should not make any remark at present.
Mr. 'fate said his principal object in bringing the prisoner
up was that the trade might be guarded against him, for lie
had every reason to believe that he had practised this system of
depredation upon nearly half the silversmiths and jewellers in
the metropolis; the circumstances of his having been at Gray's,
and his supposed high character giving him a facility in obtain.
ing goods which no man otherwise situated would have possessed.
The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday next.
Edward .21/4 Williams and. Charlotte AP Williams, alias
Crane, were charged on the following statement, as given in evi.
dence by the witnesses.
On the night of Tuesday, the 12th of September, Mr. Samuel
Skelton, a jeweller, at No. 2, Upper King-street, Bloomsbury,
was plundered of a silver teapot, some spoons, and jewellery, to
the amount of 2001. Some bundles of small pencils, used to put
into silver cases, were also taken away. Within the last two
days, however, the officers obtained such information as led
them yesterday morning to apprehend the prisoners at Draper's-
buildings,. Burton-crescent. The officers proceeded to search
their apartments, when, concealed in various curious places,
they found about 30 picklock and skeleton keys, a small crow-
bar, 3 phosphorous boxes, and several pipe-keys of Bramah's
patent, a pair of gold ear-ring drops, and a number of duplicates
relating to articles of jewellery. In the male prisoner's pocket,
they found a bundle of small pencils, which were identified by
Mr. Skelton as part of the property stolen from his house. The
drops also he believed to be part of his property, but could not
swear to them.
The male prisoner, in his defence, said lie found the pencils
in the street, and that as to the skeleton keys, &c. he knew
-nothing of them.
The other prisoner said the keys, fire-boxes, and crow-bar,
belonged to her brother, Daniel Crane, who was transported
about eighteen months ago, and she had imprudently kept them
ever since.
While the examination was going on, the Magistrate saw a
pair of rings in the woman's ears, ail directed them to be
examined by the prosecutor and officer. This was done, and
Mr. Skelton immediately identified them as being his property,
and as belonging to the drops, which of themselves he could
not swear to.
The prisoners were committed for re-examination. The
male prisoner was considered to be a man of unimpeachable
character. He worked regularly at his trade as a carpenter,
generally spent his evenings at a respectable public-house in
the neighbourhood, and was remarked among his acquaintance
for the seeming steadiness of his habits. H€ is a very intelli-
gent man.