The Sun.
London, England, 1805-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE._

BOW,-STREET.--Yesterday John Powell, alias.
Dungworth, alias. Nimble Fingered Jad, was brought
before NICHOLAS. BOND, hig. 'charged with having
returned from transportation before the expiration of
his sentence. .It appeared that the Prisoner had'
been convicted about three years since, for stealing a
box from 'behind a chaise; for which he was to be
transported for 14," years, and escaped from Wool-
wich, Warren three months since. On Monday
night the Pris Oner was recognised by several of the
Officers at the end of Bow-street. talking with seem
prostitute's, when they tdok him into custody.
Mary Dow, Mary Jones; and Juliet Shaw, Were
charged, with stealing from the shop-door of Mr.
Davis, Linen-draper, in Holborn, l 8; yards of print.-
ed cOtton. An Officer ' stated, that on., Monday
se'nnight, in the afternoon, about four o'clock, -as
he was passing along Holborn, he observed the
soners,and knoWing,them to be reputed shop-lifters,
he followed theM, and observed thetp look into se-
veral shops. They went to the P.cutor's .shop,
where there was a variety of goods exposed at the
outside oldie door,. which they surrounded; and;
-on their going away,. he observed the prisoner ShaW.
with a. bundle in her • lep. 'He followed and secured
her, and found a piece of printed cotton in her
apron. He left her in the care ota shopkeeper,
followed the other two Prisoners, secured them, 41)(1
found upon the prisoner Jones a piece- of black and.
white cotton. A shopman Of Mr. Davis proved the
cotton found upon Shaw to .be the property. of • his
Master.—They were committed for trial. •

PURL' C4OFFICf?,, HATToa-G.a.n0Lx....-Yesterday
Mary Holland was accused of .having a lftte quan-
tity of leather for boots and shoes in her possession,
auspeeted to have been • stolen. Not giving a satis-
faeiory account of herself, she was committed for
re-examination.

llrillinna Cussins, journeyman optician to Mr.
Wilson, hi Charter-house-Line, and to another
Gentleman of the name of West, :was charged with
purloining Opera Glasges and Telescopes, which he
pledged with several pawnbrokers, -and others he
sold at a very inferior Price. Other charges being
expeaed against !hire, he was committed for
.re-
examination. mink
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William Smith, a lurnper on the Thames, was cN e,,
charged by-'the watch in Holborn, with having . itt lush
his possession an iron. gate, whielthe had Wrenched 4 per
from the Engine-hon se, at St. Andrew's-hill, Holborn. 33 re rr
It-appeared that he ha;l serv.ed in the Navy, where kink
he was wounded in. several a6tions, and when he
t to
drinks to excess he is much deranged. He was seat
to the workhouse.

Puntc-Ovrtcs,UNrioN-HALL.—Jane Thompson
was yesterday brought up to be re-exarnined on a
charge of wounding. and stabbing Susan Lediird, on
Tuesday, the .17th inst.—By the evidence of Martha
Brower it appeared that she keeps a house in Gray-
street, St. George's-fields, where the parties, who
are both Cyprians, lodged. • They had been making'
merry the whole day and had drank very freely ;
the evening. soma words arose, and a battle 'ensued
between all parties, in the course of which Thomp-
son snatched -up a knife which was lying on the table,
and in the scuffle, having first cut Ildiard across
the arm, then plunged, it into her breast. 'The poor
girl fainted from the loss of blood, and. was conveyed
to Guy's Hospital, where she stilt remains in a bad
way. Conceiving that the.whole arose from the un-
fortunate effeds of lintfor,j and not from Malice, she
came up from the Hospital, to consent to the Pri-
soner's liberation, who, oti her part, expressed much
contrition.

The Magistrates, wishing for farther information
on the subjeEt before they consented to liberate the
Prisoner, remanded her till Friday.

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