The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-10 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

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- -•--- -... GUILD—HALL. .
A BAD Joiri.—Yesterday John Phillips, a horsekeaper,
was charged with stealing a German smoking pipe, value-15.1
from a foreign Jew, named Swaisener, who had just arrived
with a stock of such commodities from the Continent.
The Complainant yesterday morning went into a public-
house near Alderagate-street to offer his wares for sale to the
folks in the taproom, when the Prisoner put the pipe above
mentioned, which had been placed in his hands for inspentil
only, into his pocket. He thanked the Jew for it as if he had
received a present, but the Jew insisted that he would have
the article again, or the value of it, and finding remonstrances
were useless gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner, who was smiling and enjoying the anxiety of
the complainant to recover the property, said the Jew held the
pipe out to him and asked, " Will you have this ?" to which
he answered, of course, " Yes, and thank ye too:" It Was
(1.-_..cidedly a free gift in the way it was offered, without all
price marked on it. " You must understand a man by his
words, and not suppose what he means."
The Complainant declared his question was, " Will you
buy this ?"

-Mr. Alderman Lucas said the prisoner had better make the
Jew some compensation for his trouble.
Oh no," said the prisoner, chuckling, it was a gift, Sir."
The Jew eagerly denied it, and the prisoner re-asserted it,
thinking it was all capital fun, till he was committed for trial
at the next Old Bailey sessions.

INCENDIARISNI AT SPALDING.—On Thursday
morning, between two and three o'clock, a stack of straw, on
the premises of Mr. Webster, farmer, in the parish of Spalding,
was discovered to be on fire. The Spalding engines and suf-
ficient help were quickly on the spot, and through the success-
ful application of the engines, the fire was confined to the straw
stack, and one of faggots, which were wholly consumed. A
barn (thatched), containing between 40 and 50 quarters of
newly-thrashed wheat was preserved, though the flakes of fire
frequently reached both it and the dwelling-house. It is sup:'
posed that the firing of the barn was the object of the incen-
diary. Mr. Webster is one of the overseers of the poor of
Spalding for the present year.—Boston Hcrald.
SINGULAR AND AFFECTING CONTRIBUTION
WO THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY.-At the communion service
which closed the recent Missionary Society Anniversary at
Sheffield, a gentleman of that town put into the plate one o,t
the medals which had been conferred upon his deceased son by
the London University. In providing for his education, it i 5
understood that the father had been at greater expense tits°
he could well afford ; and just as the object of his fondest hopes.
after acquitting himself with honour in his preparatory studies,
was entering upon his profession with the most flattering pro-
spects of success, it pleased the Supreme Disposer to remove
him to a higher and purer sphere. Every sum of money which.
would have belonged to his son, Mr. A. now devotes to bene-,
volent purposes. The real value of this medal was ten gui-
neas ; and it was the first that had been conferred, on any oc-
casion by the Council of the London University. On learn-
ing the circumstance, the members of the Literary and Philo-
sophical Society of Sheffield, not willing that a prize should
be thus alienated, which they considered as an honour to their
town, resolved to purchase it at the cost of between thirty and
forty guineas ; conferring at once a benefit on the cause o(
missions to that amount, and an imperishable tribute of respect
to the memory of their accomplished and lamented young
townsman.—Sheffield Patriot.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.—On
Tuesday night last, about nine o'clock, as Thomas Holloway,
a young man, a carpenter, residing at No. 13, Stoner-street,
Borough, was proceeding along Holborn, on his way home, he
was accosted by a female, who requested him to treat her to
some liquor, and eventually invited him to accompany her to
her lodgings, which he consented to do, and she conducted
him to a notorious receptacle in Buckeridge-street, St. Giles'so
where they were introduced to an apartment ; after a short
time he fell fast asleep, when his partner seized the opportu-
nity and left the room to inform her friends below that there
was good game above, and they proceeded up stairs, when
Holloway was awoke from his sleep by a noise, and he over-
heard the parties whispering, and distinctly heard one say " is
he asleep ?" " Yes," was the reply ; on which a man's voice
uttered, " Let us kill the —. let, bring us the knife
and the wallet." Holloway was greatly terrified, and jumped
out of the bed, when a dark tremendous looking fellow, the
female who led him to the place, and two other women,
rushed into the room, one of the women seized him by the
throat, while the others held him behind, and they robbed hit°,
of his hat, coat, trowsers, waistcoat, money, and shoes, and
beat him unmercifully ; but being a powerful young fellow, he
fought with them, and called out " Murder," until he mad°
his way down stairs, but the parties escaped. On his arrival
in the passage, the landlord of the house stood at the door,
to prevent his going out to make an alarm, or pursue the
thieves, on which he made a dreadful blow at his head .1.4
felled him to the ground, and rushed out in his shirt, making
an alarm, by calling " Police," until Walker, of the E divi-
sion, came to his assistance, and took him to the station-house,
where he was supplied with temporary clothing, and after
strict search the man and two of the women concerned in the
transaction were apprehended, and taken to the station-house,
but none of the property was found. They gave their names
Joseph Orford, Anne Jones, and Anne Reardon, all notorious
characters, who have been in custody on various charges.
They were yesterday morning taken before the Magistrates at
Hatton-garden Police Office, and examined, when the prose-
cutor positively identified the whole of them, and ttry were
remanded in order that the stolen property might be traced,
and other parties apprehended. 7- .
EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE AND ROBBERY.----
Between six and seven o'clock yesterday morning, a carpenter,
timed Middleton, occupying the house No. 5, Crown-court,
Dean-street, went out to his occupation, leaving his wife in
bed in a back room on the ground floor. About three-quarters
of an hour after this one of the lodgers heard a struggling
and moaning, as if some person was in violent distress. She
opened the door of Mrs. Middleton's bed-room, and there, to
her great astonishment, found Mrs. Middleton lying on the
bed, bound hand and foot, with a handkerchief tied over her
mouth. Having released her, and given an alarm, Mrs.
Middleton, as soon as she was able to speak from the
fright which she was labouring under, gave the following
account of the circumstances connected with her singular si-
tuation :—She said that her husband could not have proceeded
more than a hundred yards after he went out before she heard
some persons enter the parlour adjoining her bed-room, and pull
down the window-blinds. She called out to know who was
there, when her bed-room door was opened, and two men,
having their faces concealed with black crape, came towards
her. She was about to give an alarm, when one of them,
laying hold of her, swore if she made the least noise he would
cut her throat. One of them then asked her where her hus-
band kept his money. She said her husband had no money,
to which the other replied he knew that Middleton was never
without money, and therefore, if she wished to save her life,
she must say where it was to be found. She then said it was
in a box in the bed-room, but her husband had the key with
him. The men then proceeded to tie her hands behind her
back with a piece of strong cord used for window pullies, after
which they tied her legs together, and concluded by fastening
a handkerchief over her mouth, so as to prevent her cries for
assistance from escaping, having first taken off her wedding ring.
Having thus secured her, one of the men, with a chisel belong-
ing to her husband, forced open the box, and took out of it two
purses, one of them containing six sovereigns, and the other
fourteen shillings, They also took out three Russian Bonds and
then decamped with their plunder. She made all the efforts
in her power to release herself, and it was owing to her groans
and struggles that one of the female lodgers came speedily to
her relief. The undisguised terror of Mrs. Middleton,
and her
agitation, which continued for a considerable time, together
with the wounds on her wrists made by the cords, which had
been fastened so tightly as to cut through the skin, left no
doubt of the truth of her story ; and the facts were further cor-
roborated, by finding, a short time afterwards, the three Ras-
sian bonds down the area, thrown there by the villains, who
were probably ignorant of their value. It is conjectured that
the persons who perpetrated this uncommon outrage must have
been acquainted with the movements of Mr. Middleton; ana
must have watched him out, and then let themselves into the
house by means of a latch key. Jarvis, a policeman of the C
division, was passing a short time after the occurrence, and ett
learning what had taken place, immediately went to the house
to get information, so as to enable him to trace the parties.
One of them was a tall man in a dark frock coat, and the other
a shorter man, stout, in a blue coat.

BIRTHS.
On the Bth inst., the lady of Richard Twining, jun., Esq., of
the Strand, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at llampstead, the lady of James G. Murdocb•
Esq., of a son.
On the 6th inst., at Milford House, Lymingtoni the lady of
Lieut.-Colonel D'Arcy, late R.A., of a daughter. • • :I_,

MARRIAGES.
On the 4th inst., at Goodnestone, Sir Brook Bridges, But.. of
Goodnestone Park, Kent, to Fanny, eldest daughter of thelitt°
Lewis Cage, Esq., of Milgate, in the same county.
On the 17th ult., at Guernsey, Major J. K. Chubley, to Ellenor,
third daughter of Staff- Surgeon Paddock.
On the 9th inst., at Trinity Church, John Laurie, Esq.,.. of
Harley-street. to Eliza Helen, youngest daughter of Kenrick ON'
lett, Esq., of Harley-street, and Holerofts, Fulham.
On the 21st ult., at Spalding, George Augustus Moore, Escll
eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Moore, 59th. Regime,'"
Native Infantry, in the Hon. East India Company's service, t°
Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Rev., William Moore,
D. D. , of Spalding.
On the 4th inst., at St. Martin's Church, Guernsey, Captsia
George Carpenter, 41st Regiment, only son of Gen. Carpenter,
H.E.I. Company's service, to Mary, third daughter of Lieut.
Colonel Cardew, Commanding Royal Enn.ineer in that Island.
On the 2d inst., at Swanswick Church, near Bath, Lieutenant'
General Sir William Cockburn, Bart., of Cockburn aind Ryslaw,
the county of Berwick, and Lansdowne-crescent, Bath, to Martha
Honora Georgina Jervis, of Rochetts, Essex, great niece to Joh°,
Earl of St. Vincent, niece to the present Viscount and the Earl °'
Cavan, and widow of the late Osborne Markham, Eici.

DEA THS.
On the Bth inst., Susan, wife of the Rev. T. W. Carr, and
oldest daughter of the late R. Woodward, D.D. •
On the 6th inst., at Hastings, Eliza Selina, the wife of Mr. C'
B. Bowman, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, aged 3'7. ../
On the 6th inst., at Hythe, in Kent, Anne, second daughter
James Watts, Esq.
On the 7th inst., in Bedford-place, Russell-square, John SkYll.
ner, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn.
On the sth inst., Thomas Kynaston Selwyn, 8.A., of Triniti
College, Cambridge, third son of Wm. Selwyn, Esq., Richt:ooo
Surrey.
On the 7th inst., at Kensington, the wife of Read Parson, Ear

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