The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-01 00:00:00

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TTATi-ots--alanEN,—,-1/enry Brooks and Elizabeth
Dillon, two notorious characters, W'ere charged
with a crime of the blackest dye.—Jane Ballard,
4n interesting. child of 12 years of a g-e , stated,

that on-Thnrs►l^p night, the 21st 'of last, July,
alunit the hour of 12 o'clock, sho was going with
• the key of the street-door to her father, who was
at a public-house, at his benefit ch.!) ; she met

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the privmer, Henry Brooks, in Gray's-inn-I3ne,
•ancl he gave her- an .eighteenperiny piece to shew
,him _ the way to Feathers-court, in Holborn, near
(ray's-inn-lane; she accompanied•him to the end
of •the • court,
..and said, that is it. The prisoner
then teal; her up in his arms, carried her into a
house in the court, and Itaing 'brought her up
stairs, threw her On!a.bell in 'the room, in which
- the female prisoner was at the time. When the
prisoner Brooks-carried witnes-s • into the room,
the prisoner Dillon said; " What,-Harry, ano-
ther ?" He said, " Yes." Witness screamed, and
'the prisoner, 'ElizabetkDilloo, held the poker
over her, threatening to kill her if she made a
noise-, "and- by force and threatx.the prisoner exe-
cuted his infernal purpose-.-The honse where the
44renee *as committed being in the city, the Ma-
istrate ordered the prisoner to be taken before
the LORD MAYOR.

MunDEn-,-7 hpnpiu Byrne was brought -.up on
.suspicion of haring niurdered his wife; at their
tiiiartments, in Red Lion-court, Saffron-hill,
.by
beating and-otberWise ill-using her : she died -on
Tuesday morning,, and remains for a Coroner's
Inquest.

(3.utr..n HALL .----YesterdayJohn Richards and Min
nah Richards, h's wile, stood charged by Johnson

a.-city officer, frith coining and colouring base
nionev. Priloner Richards, on a charge of having
robbed his 'master, a tradestnim, in Fleet-street,
of varicos articles of property, which he had sub.-
sequently pawled. The prisoner lodged in a court
in the•narroiv part of Holborn, near Drnry-lane,
and when the officers entered the, room where be

and his wife were, they foubti them liitsily etu

ployed in,tiie act of colouring base mottey.....John7
wit iminediately smelt the very pungent odour of
Dqua fortis, and requested leis brother -officers to

seize the prisoner,s,Avhich they did, and 'he hiinsel

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Ivent to the fire, on which lie found an iron pot,
eml in it a cop half full of the ligui<l with which
they coloured the money, which was in the ope-
ration of being Incited. 'Another cup was near

with some other matter used in the same trade.
Thcre were also a great number of had shillings
that been recoronred, new pieces resembling
shilline ready to be coloured, and several 01-4
bid shillings for new facing,' every other neces-
sary article for the whole of the trade, and several
articles of property-belonging to the person with
whom the prisoner Richards worked. The'pri-
soners were remanded till.to-morrow, as the Soli-
citor for tine Mitt did not attend.

-Bow -ST VC ET Thomas Head, a well-known
'character, was charged with stealing a basket- of
crockery-ware, and two washing-tubs, from a house'
in :Monmouth-street.- tsther Joseph stated, that
about six o'clock on Weduzsday morning she was
disturbed by a noise in the passage;, and going out
she saw the pa isoncr there, .who instantly'ru§ked
out at the street-door,
,and got,away. On look—
ing down stairs she miE;sed the crockery and tuliS,
and discovered that-the copper'had been FCITIOVed
its" setting. Th e officer went to a house in
the neighbourhood of Fitzroy-square, and fOund
the prisoner counting out the crockery-ware, and
sviAching him found'a pistol, a knife, and-two
pin. keys. The washingtubs were also found.
fle was committed. •

, .O,IfEEN-Sau AR E .—Maria Thompson Boas char-
ge4 by. J. \VP.Son, a blind beggar, with having
rok-,oen him of several articles of wearing up 7
yard. Wilson is a ClieNea pensioner, with 'an'
allywance, of lsd. pet' day; and about nine weeks
alga he took toe prisoner', quite a young woman,
loeping! .'One day, while 11}e,prosecutoy was
out beLtging she pawned his clothes, and bad
nlin.ry-mating. On the foll Owing morning., when
be,w-anted to metamorphose • himself into SOMe
ne,A, Aaractcr tar impositiim,: he. discovered the
and we•trunt tor her: !Oe. eerti-
h,„ of his PcUsion
~prodnced, the lia-
rite aSlicd wby lte wouin not e, ,r 6 into•ai
W ti II ,; (.! Where he. "c~re'ltl live emofortably On
o.7nision, when said, he foinid. a
yoting woman Oefill to 1 itn ; and c-q, being iiress7
eel PO tell • how much ntoirT:lie. brou•ght home on ,
ills .11.; s:)loccilut's I°B',; but; ea an
it, errigc, 3s. or 4s. per day. The ,Aa...,;;strate re-
nol...(led pris(uer,. itlitl r,ecoic,liended the con=
to usctiqun the'. dlly on which -Wilson
and be.vvould-conialit .hits as a rogue and

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Jl;t/ D'PAP-it ll'.

At the OLb B-lIL EY, Sept: 4, deorge I.

THE KING V. -

The indictment charged, that the defendant in
and upon certain Cat, the property of the prose-
cutrix, made. an assault, and with a certain air-
On, which lie then and there held in his hand,
discharged the same with a Laden bullet there,
in, fired .at -and against the said Cat, whereof
the said Cat languished and died—viz.- at West-
mittster, in the connty of Middlesek..
The Counsel for the Crown said that he shOuld
not elh'rge upon the inhumanity of the act, nor of
the wrong to the prosecutrik ; as these would be
the. subjects of Ilre Court's consideration when
the defendant was convicted. kle would only add,
that the reason the pi osecutrix had not proceed-
ed by action was, that the fact could not be proved
but by her own evidence. The prosecutrix was,
then called and pro..•ed the fact,and was cross-ex-
unlined as follows by the defendant himself, who
had no Counsel :--

Q. Pray Madam what age- was your Cat ?
A. An old Cat Sir-7-my constant, and indeed al-
most my only companion.
Q. Do you•see no .company then ?—A. Oh yes,
occasionally card parties of.my friends in the

evenings.
Q. "Old Ladies. I suppose ?-4. Some of' them
no doubt.
.Did your Cat go to bed with the rest of the
family, Or walk about on the roofs of the houses in
the night ?—J. it is difficult to confin'e animals of
that description.
Q. Did von try to confine him ?---J. No I did not.
Q. he a Tom Cat, Madam I know
nothing about Tom, Sir. 1 hitie heard, but it
cannot concern this matter—I really can answer
no more indelicate questions,. I hope you tvefe
not sober when you did this cruel act:.
Julio-Ft.—Witness, you must answer all legai
questions put to you 7-4 see no objection to any
that have he'en asked. , . .
"DEFENDANT—My Lord, As I see the Lady bas
learned of her• Cat to set her buck up, I will trouble
her no farther. The defendant then said,
• Gentlemen of the Jhry-7---.Although lam alto-
gether unacquainted With the forms and proceed-
ings of the la vtr, . vet, thinking; the occasion too
trifling to engage the attention or the Court by
couniel, I resolved to speak , for myself; and J
'shall begin by a•,short remark noon the pions wish
with which'the prosemitrix concluded her
,exami-
nation. She hoped, forsooth, 1 was not sober
when I did the act for which she seeks to 'minis!)
Me. Charitable Christian !—Sh ticked at the com-
mission of one crime, she xvishes 1 had conintitted
agrcater ; beCauseshenOt only wishes 1 had been
drunk, but drunk to that eXcess 'to SHOOT A CAT;
a
.
thing very rare amongst Gentlemen.
But it- seems that this Cat was her only compa-
flion--:--a Tom- Cat. the only companion of a Lady,
who cannot even be questioned as to the . maseu-•
line or feminine gender. But mark
,me
Gentlemen—" her only companion "—Ose old
Cat•the only•companiOn of a Lady who has card
parties' in London every-night in the year, (Son.;
days, (*dare say, not excepted). You remember,
-Gentlemei-i", my-question and her answer—" Q. Old
Ladies, I suppose ?;--.41. SOME of them, no doubt."
.---SOME OF THEM ! Sonic nu snaans, she might
have answered with more truth. I'll warrant the
thermometer's, standing at above an humlred
amongst them' next Christmas, though this old cat
is no more.
But, Gentlemen, to come gravely to my de-
fence, for I have a gave one, and it lies in a very
few words : I admit that 'this proseentrix had `a
right to this Cat as a companion if she had kept
him at Monte, where companions ought to be ;
,but
you find that she (lid not. On the contrary, he
wandered forth every night on the tops of all Our
honses (mine amongst the number), like the
Devil on two sticks in the streets of Madrid—nay,
an improvement on Asnodeus—the Devil upon
fino-lu'the streets of London. '
Now, Gentlemen; I -also lu.s.ve a Cat as my 'coin-
panion, with this difference, that mine is not an
old Toni Cat, but a eery young -one, and afemale,
who hiy constantly in my chamber, contented
and happy, till this old debauchee began his cater-
wauling : from that nionieut no sleep was be
had; perpetual mewing begin with darkness,
ending only with the light, and what outraged my
nerves in the notes of this old ,Scarflmouch, was
the music of the spheres to my favourite .Psu,„s,
Under these ciremaistances, Gentlemen, I thought
I had a right to return this constant serenading with,
a single Ball. Bat it has been called cruel,. Now
let us try, that : Suppose I had sufferathis court-
ship to continue, and my Cat had had Kittens,
which certainly, would have happened, what was
to becoine.of them ? Cats are generally odious ;
I could easier have brought up ala-ege faMily of
children by getting them counnissions
,in the army
or navy, or appointments in the public offices,
than have got monsters and mistresses three or four
times,
_a-year, for seven Or eight young Cats,.
What. beconies, then„ of this cruel attack triton
life. These seven or eight young Cats Must Ai
have been drowned.- Seven or -eight young lives
must hive been taken instead of one old 'life.
Now, I Would submit to the Court this moral con-
sideration, end I cannot help thinking-7---
JuDOE. Sir, we cannot enter here into this
comparison ; it would involve a concatenation of
cireumst-ances and events.
DrFENDANT-Since that is your Lordship's
opinioh, l will leave it here ; but I must,still ni-
sist -upon it that the cat should have been shut tip.
Suppose Mr. Pidcock, of Exeter Chang,-e; were toi
let lOosea tiger, or tiger,-cat, in the Strand—
; JuDGE—A tiger or a tiger-cat ale animals-farce
nainiwi and INDOMITABLE Common cats are re-
claimed animal's, and though their wanderings in
the night May be inconvenient, they are not Mis-
chievous or dangerous.. Lexfdelicatorum vo'bis on
:meet. You really have no legal detente. Si'.
Cirenmstances in mitigation must be tuidrbssed
hereafter to. the Court ; it would he better, hort•-
ever, that ybu should speak privately to the, prO-
secutrix. You are apparently: a siire'wd young
man,- and May find- means to soften her resedt-
ni-ents ; • but you must talk care not to set • htir
brick up as you have done to-day.
It is supposed that the defendant took the hint,
as,- thbitgh the verdict passed against him, Clic
matter was neVer aftcrwards beard of.