The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ARSON.
MATILnoROuGH-STREET.—Yesterday being the day ap•
pointed for the final examination of James Haley, the fruiterer,
lately residing in Argyle-place, for wilfully setting fire to the
premises of Messrs. Etherington and Dundee, the avenuesthe ill.
lead.
mg to the Office were unusually crowded, so great was
terest excited on the occasion.
At half-past one o'clock, Mr. Alley the Barrister having st-
rived, Sir G. FARRANT ordered the prisoner to be brought into
the parlour, and the investigation was inunediately resumed,
and the following additional testimony wasp roduced.
3lw hr.
iTetio are rn
heldpson on as
aSluervee by the
Surveyor, to
pwthoosmeeottlioersremises belong,
but
was snd
.
proved that it was a moral impossibility for the fire atecieti
havel eri
ginated in the premises of Mr. Dundee. He was enabled to
state this from a minute examination.—[lt was stated by the
prisoner on his first examination, that as there was a Mill.
munication between Mr. Dundee's premises and his own, it
was not impossible that the fire might have originated In hie
house.]
The next witness called was Mary Haley, a irl about IS
g
years of age. She deposed that she was the daughter of the
prisoner. She recollected the morning the fire took place; the
usually slept in the shop, and her father and the rest of the
family in the parlour; no person slept below stairs. About
half-past two o'clock in the morningwitness was awakened by
a suffocating smell, and immediately jumped out of bed and
aroused her father and mother ; her father unbolted the shop
shutters, forced them into the street, and made his escape with
the infant in his arms.
In answer to some questions from Sir GEORGE FARRANT,
the witness said that she was the last person on Saturday night
in the kitchen ;it was then about half-past ten o'clock. When
she left to go to bed she left the fire burning, which she was not
in tile habit of doing. She placed the account-books hi a cup-
board, and then bolted the door. There was a hair trunkfam in the
closet which contained wearing apparel belonging to the
and 95!. in cash. She believed there was that amount from
having heard her father say so. It was all in bank-notes, 11
was partly the produce of a clock and some other furnituk
produce Ale. thisirE ig.iasrl
which her father had disposed of some time befolotll lirheetil
place, for the purpose of paying the rent; the reinalouee
received from his customers.
was favourable to the prisoner, and indeed the only one he lied
heard that at all availed him. Solicitor for
After some consultation it was resolved by the - • was
the prosecution not to avail himself of her evidence, °lel wit-
therefore not included amongst the depositions of the other
nesses.
W. Skarrow a watchman of St. James's, koend itfhiet
twrasial.theliretteintotisotnsaoyf ttlhieaphroesreceuvitodresnetoe
mediately opposite the prisoner's shop, deposed,o'clock, when
the house of the accused, calling the hour of two box in
he tlistincly heard a child cry, and on his return to the
dov, he
about half an hour after, on re-passing the parlour win
iv ,
i.,
heard a noise inside, as if Haley and his wife were having wen)
Ile went to his box, and soon afterwards he head the parlousan
shutters fall into the street (King-street). He ranover, as;
saw Haley standing in his shirt, with an infant the _
Mrs. Haley had also an infant in her arms, and daegnic'
f nudltY.--
was also standing there ; they were all in a state ° en, the
Presently the flames burst both, and witness ran
engines. sked if Pert
ohfouKsettokftnaanfret4ndio ofh
The prisoner's daughter was again called, and a ,_ ..i„ht
whose
tiut
tbo hex
Pies
ssinei
of the family had not been removed from the housetwenoc_tpers
preceding the fire? She said that her brother and
ne tolhe
the oldest of whom was only eleven years,
alyrunfadtehretra'kseinn
cinal waters. states
th"
.11r. W. H. PliEby, of Portland-place, Solicitor,,e
_le and
on the 27th of October the prisoner called at his I:00%Ln",
requested to see Mr. Crombie, who is Solicitor 1;111'N.
Etherington and Dundee ; he said he wanted to He sap,
2s. 61, for a quarter's rent due at Michaelmas. 1-,,i; ices sot
Crombie, who declined receiving the money, as '
authorised. The prisoner never tendered the m0ney...:00.....
This being the whole of the evidence for the proaeitu nos
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the clerk, read the whole of the tine se,
in the presence of the prisoner, which were signed 0Y w_
,
spective witnesses.
to say in his defence ? He would caution him notltoloosh
tolirpersoctauilarestthhadeitnel.sOmilee iii-llsajl-
thing to criminate himself ; and would further say, states I' ,
Sir 0. FARRANT then asked the prisoner if he had any
had been proved against him to warrant his conidtiesty•es rip
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, 'anti I bound
committed to take his trial ; and the parties were
to prosecute. •
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31aNsiosr-HousE.—Yesterday the LORD lA. ~„te, .11
the Justice Room for the first time as Chief Nag's" yjsiel•
the course of the day he received several comp her
were
Barrat, the person who s some days ago ehariCesuinacrl.
the late Lord Mayor with harmng committed 4,4.111' Aga°
Ing a widow named Wood, while his wife was vALY-'
examined. .
cod et of the
It will be recollected that the MysterioaS .difail excited
prisoner with respect to the absence of his first husband
was
much suspicion amongst her friends, and that for
represented as having no objection to the tansy of hesy sPPellf
likelytisfaetitoon
matakthe
another woman. Extraordinary as this circumstance, IP tsdeeliri-
iitlnoegrb
statee ,
by i t3toluf, :h.
es
iiivut
hot
,tt)don beWood,
ol
fna
tufoahecaht
n.
cf
reTireylni.eti
al
spni poor
shhitn•e‘oiinno_gat
fnhe
rb to
cuacf
yr
is
,hooeuwip
bteo;
sition to a wedding proposed by her helpmate, w
_„n„ es her agt-
• 1 does not e
eliiinresemnotreeoncdointlito'ontuofblethinSghs,el;a7
il ;aro'
toseeta
at all disposed to interfere, at least so long 0 {I" 'pealleOta
with an asylum. We find that the matrimonial acn!!te ;he was
had, from the commencement, her concurrence; I" h
bod, at - °
removed from her former lodging, to her present a. from her
own desire, and that she receives frequent front
,
husband and his new spouse. her evidence
The SoLicrron for the prosecution had no furt
the cosi.
of' the bigamy ; but considered that, upon prodaeingeoclusive.
ficate of ihe second marriage, the evidence would be _
ion to
The Loan MAYOIt could' not think of cononittintl2:ciane 0
prison upon such evidence. The prisoner had be
which he pal
confinement ; and, except proof of the fact with Yin loge be
charged were Immediately produced, he sh"idsilßa°Tl3
detained. His Lordship • • discharge—
p accordingly
wife, t
custotly. his tsp., II
S. Duval, charged with firin,, a pistol at
_.., snow.
brought sip. The woman being ;anciently recoverri I) her
ed, and stated that on the 3tith day of Oewver' callingBl) her bl.
in the evening, the prisoner came to her, and ~,,ts 00.
name, presented a pistol, which he immediately well.), her a
tents of it did not touch her: but be instantlyksyriee dowe'
violent blow with the but-end of it, which kn°'e. her 314419 P
He repeated the blows until the watchman Cattle tO
WO 3
ance. The prisoner was fully committed. knife 11
J. Lee, the man who struck leis wife with a
month since, was admitted to bail. oral `..
.i, Well'iter• 4.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday .11etLitioils Burn, ...-_,in , in.,
pugilist and landlord of the Rising Sun üblicleln„T,ln NP!,
null-street, Haymarket, was brought before th n"rr'hr dial'?
Mites, Sir It. lIIIIN icE and T. BALLS, Esq. bY /%1° 9 4/13° . aardaer, ,ds.
with violently assaulti ,
nt., and beating Jatoeb ' es non kof
the patrol of this establishment, ant!. resetting own . wortint,...
fendant's nephew). who was in legal custody tilvetdished in
bastardy at the time.—The . ~ n esi.
case having ta-e pea
evidence, f,nasn
Sir R. BIRNIE said that the conduct of the de t• baud 0
most aggravated. Here, was publican who wasspd yet 'lc
a recognizance to keep good order in his house,.
_yotio„
was one of the first to break the peace and resist tnoe;;fruptin th
of a Magistrate's warrant. The defendant nlight,,ra,fd Off,'
that independent of any proceedings for the assn
licensing ..4
lie
the facts of the case should be transmitted to the
gistrates of St. James's that they might consider whet.
was a proper person to have a license at all. conce-
etica*
Mr. Har.r.s said that as far as he was individuallyaing al
he objected to granting a public-house license t° P shaehl '
_kb
at all. Ile could not consider it proper that lieens,ese of low
granted to men who were notoriously in the Pr""C irl'l9 fl t‘
0
Ing the peace whenever it suited their pleasure or the,loot Or
Burn was then ordered to finbail, Jolt • elf in 511•'dreSe'lg
ti unnl, ~,,,I lt and
sureties in 25/. each, to answer the charge o'*ll-ti
at the Sessions.OP
to on of
Mr Pi . tt, of the Adelphi, appeared to answer , oevat
illation exhibited against him by Mr. Stately, the P,;„. ,A.
Pavements for the paris:i of Saint Martin, under iliro'iling ie
Taylor's Act, for refusing to remove a certain 11.13 n been non
front of Isis dwelling-house, notice to remove having...rnetio
perly served upon him, anti the railing being a "
n 00ci
oforgu-
to the free passage of the King's subjects. Aftcr ",110s.
nientation, Mr. Pitt was convicted in the peal nalty

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fcutter, the Royal Gift, which measures onilievell
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inches. broad. We understand he purPste,,ve
mg some days at Chatham. This is "le pelf—
cutter in which he crossed the British an
from Dover to Calais.
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the .
C)rrlcK, No. 112, Strand, by J. B, CmiwrAiss.

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