The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-17 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

ABOMINABLE PRACTICES IN THE REGENT'S PARK.-
Yesterday a woman of very respectable appearance, named
Clarke, entered the office with her daughter, a fine child
about nine years of age, for the purpose of making the fol-
lowing complaint to the Magistrate :

The complainant, who resides at No. 19, Sussex-place,
in the vicinity of the Regent's Park, stated that about seven
o'clock on the previous evening, she sent the child now
present, together with two others of a still more tender age,
to take a walk in the above Park ; and while they were
amusing themselves in looking at the water-fowl on the
canal, 'not far from the public promenade, the eldest child
was accosted by an elderly man of respectable exterior,
wearing spectacles, who having enticed her to one of the
benches, produced a lewd and disgusting publication ; and
having succeeded by:this means in polluting the morals of his
young victim, he subsequently proceeded to take the most
rude and indecent liberties with her person. When the
child came home, she informed complainant of the conduct
of the hoary-headed miscreant, and she consequently lost
no time in making the fact known to a policeman, who pro-
ceeded to the spot, when the delinquent seeing the constable
coming, moved off and effected his escape.
Police Constable 147 D said, that in consequence of
what Mrs. Clarke told him, he went into the Park in search
of the offender, but could not find him. On inquiry, he
learnt from a boy, that a man answering the description
given by the girl had just left the Park. Witness has fre-
quently noticed a person of this description sitting on the
benches in the Park, for hours together, reading The Penny
Magazine, or some similar publication. He was a stout,
well-dressed man, his hair very gray, and he always wore
spectacles ; witness should know him again.
The child also said she could identify him, if ever she
saw him again.

Mr. RiiwLarsoN observed, that lately many cases of a
similar atrocious nature had reached his ear, all of which
related to the above Park. It was, indeed, truly lament-
able, that parents could not trust their children out for an
airing, without running the risk, of having their morals con-
taminated by a set of hoary-headed miscreants who were a
disgrace to human nature. The worthy Magistrate then
laid particular injunctions on Inspector Wiggins, of the D
division, to use his utmost exertions to suppress such a cry-
ing evil, and suggested the necessity of Policemen being set
to watch in private clothes.

The Inspector having promised to comply with the Ma-
gistrate's directions, Mrs. Clarke and her daughter then
withdrew.

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. - John Pear, a
brush-maker, residing at No. 9, Caroline-street, Camden-
town, and a boy in his employ; named Thomas Burrows,
were yesterday brought before Mr. RAwLiNsow, charged
with having been concerned in the late extraordinary and
mysterious outrage in Arlington-street, Camden-town,
where a great number of windows, as if by some super-
natural agency, have been recently shivered to pieces, the
particulars of which outrage have already appeared.
From the evidence of Thomas Drury, a lad residing
near the spot, who had been employed to look out for the
offenders, it appeared that while watching in an empty
house, on Tuesday, he saw Burrows deliberately take a
stone and hurl it at one of the windows. On a subsequent
occasion he (Drury) got up a poplar-tree, and after watch-
garden and pick up several stones, which he threw
ing there for two hours, he at length saw Mr. Pear walk
into. his
with his
force
at
who denied other windows,and then hid himself.
edthe charge, were held to
bail.
ib aell
defendants,

YOOTPATIIS.—it may not be generally known,that
if the owner of land, in which there is an ancient public, foot-
path, plough up the path, he cannot maintain an action, nor
take any proceedings against a person who makes another
path over the same ground : and where an ancient public road
lies through an open field, and the road is impassable, the tra-
veller may go over the adjoining land even if sown with corn.