The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

lifAwsrox.flousi.—Edward and Thomas Hammond, the
sons of a turnkey of Newgate, were charged on suspicion of
having stolen a parcel containing 2,9341. the property of Messrs.
Snow and Co., the bankers.
The porter;of the bankers, it will be recollected, was, in going
through the City, towards the West-end, robbed of the parcel,
which was cut out of his coat pocket by some fellows who had
followed him a considerable way. One person pressed against
him two or three times, and disappeared at the corner of Shoe-
lane, when the porter missed the parcel.
A journeyman baker stated that he was, about the time of
the robbery, standing in Shoe-lane, talking to a friend; he
observed the two prisoners, whom he knew, and a person whom
he did not know, come quickly down the lane, and turn shortly
round the corner of the Court. Witness knew the two brothers
from having seen them about the streets, and their manner at
the time induced him to say to the person who stood next to
him, that they had been doing no good, or something to that
effect. He could speak more positively as to the identity of
Edward than of Thomas.

The Solicitor for the prisoners requested that they should be
dischar'ged, as there was no ground for detaining them.
The LORD MAY oft was informed by Mr. Brown, the Mar-
shal, that further evidence would be adduced in the interval be-
tween this and another examination. __ _

His Lordship, on this account, remanded them.
James Hangman, a young man of respectable appearance
and address, was charged on suspicion of being one of the gang
by whom, it is believed, the parcel, containing between 13,0001.
and 14,000/., the property of the Maidstone bank, was stolen.
C. Alexander Martin, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs.
Edmonds, Atkinson, and Co., deposed, that on the 18th inst.
he made up a parcel containing upwards of 13,000/. in cash,
and drafts payable at sight. It was directed to Sir Peter Pole
and Co., and delivered to the book-keeper of the coach-office, to
be deposited in the care of the coachman.
Thomas Paine, the book-keeper of the Coach-office at Maid-
stone, stated, that he received the parcel in question, and took it
up stairs to his bed-room. On the following morning he brought
it down and laid it on his desk. It was then a quarter past five,
and the coach was late. Its usual time for starting from Maid-
stone was a few minutes after five. When he laid the parcel on
his desk it was dark, and the coach was getting ready. He was
called out to remove a quantity of hops, which some persons on
the outside disputed about, and said were in the way. He was
not absent two minutes, and when he left his office to arrange
about the accommodation of the passengers heleftnobod.y behind
him. The person who took the parcel must have jumped over the
counter to getat it. The instant he returned he discovered that the
parcel was gone. and he cried out that somebody had stolen a va-
luable parcel. Ile laid hold of a person who was standing at the
door, and charged him with having committed the robbery,
and was about to search him, when the person said he would
not submit to be searched unless a constable were sent for:
Witness afterwards seized the prisoner, Honeyman, who was
standing in the immediate neighl iurhood at the time, and
slightly searched him, but found no property in his possession.
The prisoner said nothing. He was the only person close to
the door, with the exception of the gentleman who refused to
be searched except by an officer, and who, it bad been ascer-
tained, was a most respectable hop-merchant, resident in Maid-
stone. The witness thought he could positively swear to the
identity of the prisoner, although he had not seen him since
until yesterday. Honeyman was, ho added, dressed at that
time differently.
Iloneyman.—" My Lord, I never was at Maidstone in my
life. Let the witness take care what he is about, for I have
most respectable persons to prove that I was in town at the
time."

The witness said he certainly was greatly agitated at the
time of the robbery, and had permitted the prisoner to proceed
on his journey.
Thomas Curtis, of Maidstone, coach-master, said he had
seen his coach go off, and was standing in the yard on the morn-
ing in question, when he saw the prisoner upon the pavement
there.

This witness swore positively that Honeyman was the man
who was searched at Maidstone, and that he had on different
clothes from those which he now wore.
Elizabeth Chittenden, the chambermaid of the Star Inn,
Maidstone, deposed, that on the day before the robbery, the
prisoner, in company with two other persons, slept in a double-
bedded room. They were very particular in ordering that they
should be called very early on the following morning, to come
to town by the coach. She could swear to the identity of the
prisoner most positively, although he was dressed in a different
manner now.
The prisoner here put on his hat, and desired the witness to
look well at him, and be cautious of what she said.
The witness said, she not only knew the prisoner again by
his figure, his complexion, and the colour of his hair, but by
his voice.
Mr. Brown, the Marshal, said, he did not wish to proceed
further with the ease that day, as he expected a witness in town,
whose evidence, if it turned out that she could identify the pri.
toner, would be of the utmost importance.
The prisoner's Solicitor said, that the Magistrate could not
try a case, nor properly examine contradictory evidence, but he
had known instances where they had heard evidence of un
alibi. Ile had, he believed, powerful evidence of this nature,
which he wished his Lordship to hear, with the view of inducing
him to allow the prisoner to give hail.
The Lout) M A YO it declined hearing this evidence, and re-
manded the prisoner for further examination.
Bow-ST nEET.—On Tuesday evening, two soldiers were
brought to this office, followed by an immense crowd of people,
who thronged the office-doors and avenues so as to make access
difficult, charged with a very gross and unmanly outrage that
evening, in St' ych-street, Drury-lane. The names of the pri-
soners were Alexander Ramsay and John „Michell, the fonner a
private in the 2d batt. Ist Foot Guards, and the latter! in the
7th Fusileers. They were both in a state of intoxication, but
not so much so as to seem unconscious of what they were doing.
The complainant was an elderly woman, who seemed, lode.
pendently of the consequences of the violence she had just re.
ceived, to be in extremely delicate health. Her name is Mary
Clarke, and she is the wife of a hair-dresser in Ivy -lane, she and
her daughter callying on business as bonnet-makers in a small
way at No. 52, Wych-street. The case was about to be gone
into, when Mr. Hat.r.s, perceiving that Mrs. Clarke was much
agitated, and that the soldiers were hardly in a fit state to be
examined, ordered them to be taken to the watch-house for the
night.
Yesterday the soldiers were again brought up, when it ap-
peared by the evidence of Mrs. Clarke, her daughter, Mr. John
Marshal, clerk to a solicitor in King's Arms-yard, Coleman-
street, Langfield, a constable, and other witnesses, that about
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half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening, the defendants and
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keeping the whole of the fOot-pavement to themselves ; and
two of them pushed the third against it, and broke a pane of
glass. Mrs. Clarke very naturally ran out, and telling them that
they had broken her window,. desired that they would pay her
for it. Instead of doing so, however, they abused her in terms
the most abominable. Tlie language was described by one
witness as being of the vilest and most horribly disgusting
kind. They followed her up to the door, to which she re-
treated in the apprehension of sonic personal violence, and she
then said tremblingly, " Well, gentlemen, if you will not pay
for it, go quietly. about your business; pray do." " O you
b—y old b—h," said Illitcltell, " I'll pay you for your window,"
and instantly lie struck her a violent blow on the temple,
which forced the back part of her head against the wall,
and stunned her; and even in this state, while she was
leaning, senseless, against the wall, the unmanly fellow re-
peated the blow more than once, until she fell upon the ground.
By this time a large crowd had collected, and Langfield, the
constable, coming up, he and Mr. Marshall seized Mitchell,
and endeavoured to secure him, but he slipped from them,
knocked Langfield down, and had very nearly served Mr.
Marshall the same. Mrs. Clarke's daughter, in her feeble
endeavours to protect her mother, was threatened by the prison-
ers with the same treatment. The whole three at length forced
their way into Mrs. Clarke's shop, where they broke three
inure panes of glass, and threw some of her little stock in trade
upon the floor, and trampled upon it. They were at length
with great difficulty secured. Mitchell who had fallen among
the broken glass in the shop, and cut his face 'lightly, upon
discovering the hurt he had received, sat down in a chair and
cried for some minutes. The third soldier escaped.
Mitchell, in his defence, said he believed he broke the window,
and was willing to pay for it on the spot, but when he searched
in his pocket for Ins money, he had been robbed somehow or
other in the crowd. Mrs. Clarke, he added, hung about his
neck so tightly, that he was obliged to push her away.
Ramsay said he had no share in the matter from beginning
to end, further than endeavouring to get Mitchell away. lie
did not assault any body nor break any glass.
Mr. Marshall declared,. hat Ramsay was, during the whole
time, extremely violent, and that lie endeavoured to rescue
Mitchell after lie was in custody.
Mr. HALLS said that this was as gross a case as he had heard
of for a long time. Did soldiers suppose that instead of con-
ducting themselves like men anti like gentlemen (for so it was
his pride to see soldiers behave), they were to be suffered to go
about committing outrages upon his Majesty's peaceable sub-
jects ? Did they imagine that they who ought peculiarly to be
the protectors of the defenceless, were to be permitted to use
violence like this upon a helpless unoffending woman ? If so,
they were mistaken, and the law must teach them better. The
Worthy Magistrate then oidered them to be taken to prison,
and directed the parties to go Immediately to the Sessions, then
sitting, and indict theme;
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Mick, an auctioneer and appraiser in Sing-street, in the 130'
rough, was brought before R. J. CHAMBERS, Esq.. charged
with haring, on the 18th of September last, at the parish of St.
Saviour, Southwark, feloniously forged and counterfeited a
checque, purporting to be of the hand-writing of Joseph Tar-
ner, and drawn upon Henry Weston C. Allen Young, end
Ellis Bastock, bankers, for the payment of SOL with intent to
defraud that firm, against the Statute, &c. The prisoner ap-
pears to be about 24 years of age, and was 'stated to have been.
carrying on a very respectable business in the upholstery sp•
praising line in King-street, Snow's-fields.
Hall, the chief constable, stated that he apprehended the
prisoner at the Spur Inn, in the Borough, about 9 o'clock on
Tuesday night, and conveyed him off to the Belllock-up-hon*,
in Falcon-court, where he was given safely into the custody or
Ellis, the landlord of that house, and locked up. The nest,
morning (yesterday) the prisoner made two different attenipte
to escape from his confinement, in the following ingeniousman-
ner :—The door of the room in which he was putt tothe sleeptom,
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strong bolts, which were fastened at the outside, bot
and considered of sufficient security to guard against the escape_
of any person ; however, this obstacle was overcome by LP
prisoner, who untied the sacking of his bed, and taking the cent
introduced the bite of it through a small wicket in the door,
which is used for the purpose of passing refreslunents
those confined within. When he put the cord through, hi°,
lowered the bite down, and succeded in drawing the bolts bark
with a jerk of the bed-cord, when he instantly ran downthe
private staircase, and was stopped by the landlady of the
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whom he however rushed past. Ellis now hearing the
ran to the spot, secured the prisoner, and locked him up le end
other room, out of which the prisoner also managed to We,
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Ellis's wife, whom he knocked down, and rushed past in,1,7;
alley, follpwed by the landlord with the cry of " Steli
The prisoner got a considerable distance before he was sP"'
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secured, and was at length discovered secreted in a privy be'
prisoner, Hall stated that lie found 68 sovereigns in his purl?...
Mr. HARMER, who attended for the prisoner, requested tom!
postponed to a fluture_

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