The Sun.
London, England, 1807-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE;

NBLIC Fl CE; ll.vvrtits-QAttaw-77,-Jo4n. Fe /11,-
an hostler and stable-I:nper, waSbroughtlefore the.
Magistrate at this Office,' `charged' with having. in his.
possession a .bay . niat'e, the property, .of Stephen
Cooper, a-fitrtner, at Elernington, in the County of
Northampton, w hich, had been stolen ft ornthe said
Cooperin the Month of JunelaSt.
It appeared that the horse in question was stolen
at a fair in the neighbourhood.,..where „Cooper re-
sides, together with his great coat, bridle, and saddle ;
and the week after the robbery, ,the horse .was
seen in Smithfield market, ,by the person who Bold
him to Cooper two years before, in the possession of,
one Sanderson, a horse dealer. Fells had bought
the horse from a Mr. Rawson, and was to have paid
him 61. but finding he was'a stolen horse, he sent
him back. Rawson
,purchased the horse for a friend
from Sanderson, which latter, since the horse had
been discovered 'by the right owner, had offered to
take him hack and return the monev he had origi-
nally paid for him. 'The value of the horse to the
owner was considered about 81, Fells bore a good
Charaaer, kit was well known' in the neighbour-
hood, and Mr. Rawson. was a respe6table.stable-
keeper. The suspicion therefore• of the felony
rested, wholly upon "Sander;on, fi,r whose opine-
bensiOn the Sitting Magistrate gave immediate di- ,
reaion.

Henry Clethents, a hackney7coachowner, was also
brought before the Magistrates, charged with a si-
milar offence, in having in his possession a bright
bay, mare, the property ofone Bridgman, a resident
of,High Wycombe, who 'Was in the habit of letting
out horses to hire. On the. tst of January last a per-
son hired the mare in question, and was to return
that night, or the next tnerning, but who wholly
absconded with the mare, which was now found in
the possession of Clements ; who said, that being in
want of a horse; a person, calling himself Pritchard,
came to hiM with the mare, and told him that a
friend of his (naming him) had informed him that
he wanted a horse, and having examined her dud
agreed aboUt the price, he paid him m Ul. which was
considered to be the full value of the mare. Upon
furthetinvestigation it turned out, that the mare was
Stolen by Pearce,' who was tried, condemned, and
executed at the, front of Newgate„last Wednesday
sainnight, for horse-stealing, and who, shortly pre-
vious to his execution, wrote to Bridgman, direEtin,,,,ir
himto.call on his (Pearce's)- wife; in a fortnight-,
and he should hear something about his mare. It
alSo appeared, that Bridgman, and his hostler, at-
• tended the examination of Pearce, before the Ma--
giStrates of Bow-street; when the hostler-recognized
him to be the person by whom the Mare was .hired
notwithstanding which he preferred no Bill of ln-
dieltnent against him, bat now sought restitution of
the mare through the means of the Magistracy.,
The SittingAlagistrate told him, he should have
prosecuted Pearce in the first instance, and the Judge
would then have ordered the mare to be restored;
but'as the present owner of .the mare had given a fair
price for het, acid no suspicion of felony 'attaching
upon biro, he (the Magistrate); had not, the,power
of restoring the mare, and he therefbre referred
him to. his remedy by a civil a&ion. The Magistrate
also reprimanded ate' coach-owner for purchasing •a
horse from a person he 'had never seen or heard of
. „
before. •

GUILonALL.-.--Yesterday, Page and Perthshore,
the mio persorli who were committed On 'Tuesday
fir breeding a riot at.an audion in' Skinner-street,
and beating- Harwood, the Au6tioneeo,• and' his
wife, as mentioned' in 'our Paper of yesterday, were
again brought' up, 'and admitted to bail, to appeaf
and take their trial the next' Quarter Sessions.

an:llal‘}'
i
charged ..two girls of the town,
with. baying, in company with
other t wo. girls.who had escaped, nude aim attack on
her op,the preceding evening., while walking peace
orst..inl-gi.o.7z
ably along Cheops*, and after beating, kicking,
and abuiing her,, ,and tearing her bonnet 'in pieces,
with robbing ber,of lit.l,dtxik,. Wbieh,they forcibly
dragged tionlabout. her neck.
The complainant, who Wao,areskAable look
ingwoman, said, that haring been at the tither side
of the water, and
,expetaing to find her husband at
,a_house in Cheapside, which be was accustomed to
use,, she was,Walking,alone, about cleven o'clock at
night, When she was ruZ;ly pushed by one of the
women, and afterwards assaulted by the wholelbur,
and by the young wall, who were all in conipany.
To otre of the girls now in custody' she swore posi-.
Lively," as being tile person who had torn her bonnet
in piee«ces,
cices, and to the other, as hayloft- carried off il,r,
cloak': _ .. .

No person was adduced who; 'Lid Witnessed 'the
assault, but a per,iou who happcned to. pass imme-
diately afterwards proved his having heard one of the
Prisoners boast of having carried otr the t:loak: it
was afterwards tbund, alongwith the fragments of a
cap, handkerchief, 08c.c. on the spot 'where the af-
fray- took ,place. The Alderman (Sir MATTHinc-
BLoxAm) ordered both the girls: Coe of whom was
a w•plt-ItnOwn chara6ter, to be confined. to hard
O ur. lirid,ewell. As to the yoong man, th 6 COAI-•
plainant ; though she had sworn that by was in com-
pany with the girls, aiding and aissiiling theM, yet
being unable to plate any specific a& of violence
committed by him,. while, at the same time, several
respeoable Witnesses gave him the charaeler of a
sober, orderly, and inoffensive .person, the worthy
Alderman was inclined, the. evidence not being po:••
to allow his general good charade'. to avail
Imo. He was therefore discharged.

MAstsidOqousa..---Long, the. porter to BulloCk,
.who, was about ten days ago committed to take his
.trial for concealing his etietts from his creditors, wag
again , brought betbre the Lord Mayor to-day, and
persisOug,in his declaration, 'that he had already dis-
cove'red every thing.that he knew of the transaclion,
was:, ordered to be discharged, on .entering into a
recognizance to the extent of 2001.40 give evidence
on Bullock's iri.tl.

PUBLIC OPTICS,. WORSHIP •sTnEET.--,-Yelteray
Alichad,Scates was conviCted in the penalty of 40s.
and costs, being charged by the Trustees of the Toll-
gate at the Stone.'s-ead, King land-road, wi b passing
through the sante with 34 a beep, and -refusing Jo pay
the ac cufrtomed toll.

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