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London, England, 1834-04-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Mrs. Morgan, the wife of an artificial hatcher
of chickens, and egg-baker, was summoned before
the Lord Mayor, charged with having beaten a
very diminutive cripple, who called herself Miss
Smith. The complainant, whose height cannot ex-
ceed 32 or 33 inches, toddled into the Justice-room
upon a pair of crutches, of which she appeared to
have as great a command as if they were her own
wholesome flesh and blood. When she came for-
ward to give evidence, the Lord Mayor begged that
she would stand up ; and Mr. Brown, the Marshal,
having moved a chair into the witness-box, took her
up in his hand, and placed her upon it.
The complainant stated that she occasionally
worked for Mrs. Morgan, who lodged in the same
house, No. 7, Bishopsgate-buildings. Upon going
into Mrs. Morgan's room one day, however, offence
was taken by that lady, who flew at her like wink-
ing, struck her a violent blow over the eye, which
stretched her ; she then took her up, and planted
her upon one of the upper shelves, where she re-
mained bawling for assistance, until the neighbours
entered, and took her down from her perilous
situation.
The LORD MAYOR—This is a most extraordi-
nary affair. Have you any witnesses ? Miss Smith
—Yes, my Lord. There's Tom Hitchins ;he seed
how it were.
Mr. Hitchins, who had a particularly-dirty face,
then stepped forward, and said, " I never seed a
female woman so cruelly flummoxed in all my days,
as this here little body were, please you my Lord,
and there an't a civiller creatur on earth nor she.
Blest if they didn't knock her about like a dead
cat."

The LORD MAYOR—Did any one strike her be-
sides the defendant? Mr. Hitchins—Lord bless
you, all on 'em was upon her.
The LORD MAYOR—How could that be, when
she was upon the shelf when you went in Mr.
Hitchins—But if you seed the sitivation she was in,
please you, my Lord, you'd swear they was all a
sarving her out. Vy, she was all of a smoke just
as if they'd been a hatching of her in their oven.—
(Laughter.)
The defendant—Don't believe a word Tom Hit-
chins
says, please you, my Lord ; he's her fancy
man ; ax him where he lives.

Mr. Hitchins—Go along with you. I only looks
arter her to see she arn't murdered by such warmint
as you.—{Laughter.)
The Loßn MAYOR—Pray, Mr. Hitchins, if I
may be so bold as to ask, where do you live ? Mr.
Hitchins—Vy, my Lord, I lives in Bishopsgate-
buildings.
The LORD MAYOR—In the same house with
Miss Smith ? Mr. Hitchins—Vy, yes, please your
Lordship, I does live in the same house.
The LORD MAYOR—In the same room ? Mr.
Hitchins—ln the same room ! Vy, it is in the
same room.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—How many beds are there
in the room ? Mr. Hitchins—Vy, you see, my
Lord, I'm blest if there's room for more nor one.—
(Great laughter.)
Defendant—There. Can your Lordship believe
a vord such a feller would say ?
The LORD MAYOR—But their acquaintance to-
gether does not justify you in treating the poor little
woman so harshly. What have you to say in your
defence ? Defendant—Why, my Lord, she's as
fierce as a tiger. She did no more when she corned
in but she cotches my thumb in her mouth, and al-
most bites it in two.

Complainant—Oh, Tom Hitchins, do you hear
that ? Did I bite her, Tom ? Mr. Hitchins--Bite
her ! Blowed if you could bite anything whatsom-
diver. Vy, please your Lordship, she an't got nivir
a tooth in the vorld, and Tom took her by the head,
pulled open her mouth, and exhibited her boneless
gums. Look here. There's a mouth to bite with.
Blest if I an't obliged to soften her wittles for her,
or she'd starve.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Hobler Why, Mrs. Morgan, don't you
know the difference between a suck and a bite ?
—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—And do you work at no
trade, Mr. Hitchins ? Defendant—No, my Lord,
never since this little voman got hold on him ; and
he is a good breeches-maker as ever drawed a needle.
Mr. Hitchins—Bleeve you. I'm able and willing
too. I'd make you so good a fit that I'm blest if
you wouldn't look as though you pulled your breeches
off instead of pulling them on, if they was a good
brown flesh colour.—(Great laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—It is the more disgraceful
in you to live upon the labour of this poor little object.
Mr. Hitchins—Vy, my Lord, she can't live with
out me. Ax her if I don't keep her traps together ;
besides, I never throw's away a job.
The husband of the defendant (a very big-headed
and punch-bellied little man) said in a very hoarse
voice, " It's well I warn't there, plase you my Lord;
for this here tailor was the most obstropelousist wa-
gabond as ever crossed shins. He called my wife
such a name, as I'm blest if I wouldn't ha crumbled
him under my foot, or smashed him out o'windy like
a chamber wessel.

The LORD MAYOR—As you live in the same
house, it is much better for you to make up this
lifference.

Mrs. Morgan—With all my heart, my Lord ; I
bears the young woman no hannimosity, and I've got
a bit of a job for her at home.
Miss Smith—Much obliged to you, Mrs. Mor-
gan ; you always paid me like a lady.
Mr. Hitchins—She's the best pay in the whole
buildings, and Mr. Morgan is the most respectablest
man as ever I seed.

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Mr. Morgan—l don't say, plase your Lordship,
as Mr. Hitchins or this here lady as goes upon
crutches, was to blame. You see, my Lord, when
people gets angry, I'm blest if they don't think every
body's bad but themselves.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
A footman named Handyn, in the service of. Lady
Mackenzie, No. 17, Clarges-street, and a female of
loose character, were put to the bar, yesterday, be-
fore Mr.CHA MBERS, under the following charges :
Policeman C 30, about three o'clock on Monday
morning, saw the female prisoner come out of the
house of her ladyship, and knowing what sort of a
character she was, he made her go back, for the
purpose of ascertaining what her business had been
there. When he went down the area, he soon dis-
covered that the female had been admitted into the
house by the footman, of courso without the know-
ledge of any part of the family, and as it was not
unlikely that some of the plate might have been pur-
loined, the woman was searched, but nothing, ex-
cept some broken victuals and a wine-glass, was found
upon her. The footman got into an altercation with
witness, and drew a formidable Highland dirk, with
which he made a stab at him ; but witness fortu-
nately stepped aside, and avoided the thrust, which,
if it had taken effect, must have been attended
with fatal consequences ; witness then seized the
male prisoner, and a desperate scuffle ensued, in
which witness had his thumb nearly bitten through,

and received a great many kicks and blows, but he
succeeded, with assistance, in lodging him in the
station-house.
The footman, in defence, pleaded intoxication.
Mr. CHAMBERS remarked, that such conduct as
he had practised in bringing such a female into a
respectable house, was the way that so many rob-
beries occurred. For the assault he should fine
him 51., and direct that the female prisoner be
discharged.

A person employed in some works in the Vaux-
hall-road, was charged by his wife with having as-
saulted her, and turned her out of doors.
The wife, a good looking young woman, had been
married about eight years, the first four of which she
passed in comparative comfort with her husband.
About four years ago, her sister came up to town,
from Yorkshire, to learn the straw-bonnet making,
but she had not been in London but a very few
months, before she formed a criminal connexion with
her brother-in-law, which had continued up to the
present time. Her sister, in fact, had usurped her
place in her husband's affections, and had ultimately
led to her being deprived of a home. The wife pro-
ceeded to state, that her husband had frequently
turned her out of bed to make room for her sister,
and that for some time past, she had been compelled
to sleep in one room while her sister and her hus-
band slept in another.

Mr. CHAMBERS, having been informed that the
sister was outside, desired her to be sent for into the
office.

Having asked the defendant what he had to say
to the charge, the man admitted that he had turned
his wife out of doors, and alleged, as a reason, the
repeated infidelities he had detected. When asked
about his sister-in-law, he, in the most unblushing
manner, confessed that he had taken to her, and he
appeared quite unable to understand how such dis-
gusting conduct could be at all reprehensible.
The sister, who was present, with the same scan-
dalous effrontery, neither admitted nor denied the
fact, but attempted to extenuate such a proceeding
by referrinc,° to the unfaithful conduct of her sister.
The wife denied that she had acted otherwise
than correctly towards her husband, and accused her
sister of having frequently come into her husband's
bed when she was sleeping with him.
Mr. CHAMBERS stopped the disgusting dis-
closures by ordering the man to find bail.

GUILDHALL.
Yesterday the question whether a pawnbroker is
bound to restore stolen property which has been
pawned with him, where the thief has not been ap-
prehended, came before Sir C. MARSHALL. It
appeared that a clock, value 61., was stolen from the
house of Mary Bockett, a widow of Cock-lane. It
having been ascertained that it had been pledged
for 21. with Mr. Franklin, of Newgate-street, Mr.
Franklin was summoned to produce it before the
magistrate ; but, as he paid no attention to this, a
search-warrant was issued. Mr. Franklin said, that
after the clock was pledged, a woman came into the
shop and wanted it to be delivered up, as she said
it had been pawned by her drunken husband. He
refused, and he was then told the clock had been
stolen ; upon which he said it should be delivered
up on the conviction of the thief.

Sir C. MARSHALL said that Chief Justice Den-
man had decided that the pawnbroker was bound to
restore the property whether the thief was appre-
hended or not.

The robbery having been proved, Sir C. MAR-
SHALL ordered the restoration of the clock to the
complainant.

BO W-STREET.
Yesterday being the adjourned licensing day, Mr.
Thomas Jackson, the proprietor of the Globe dining-
rooms and hotel, in Bow-street, applied that a license
for the sale of wine, beer, &c., should be granted
to him as occupier of the above hotel. A number
of signatures of respectable persons residing in the
vicinity, including those of the rector, curate, and
lecturer of the parish, were attached to the petition,
in support of its prayer.
A petition was put in, signed by Mrs. Douglas
and Mrs. Harrison, occupiers of public-houses in
Bow-street, praying that a license might not be
granted to Mr. Jackson. This petition was also
signed by many respectable persons, supporting the
prayer of the petitioners.

- The magistrates were of opinion that there were
already sufficient public-houses in the parish, and
the license was in consequence refused.
Mr. Jackson has, on four different occasions, made
application for a license to his house, but has each
time been unsuccessful.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday a fellow, who stated that he resided in
George-street, Bloomsbury, was brought up in cus-
tody and placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE,
charged with extorting one sovereign from Mr.
George Glanville, the landlord of the Salutation
public-house, in Barton-street, near Westminster
Abbey, under the following circumstances :
Mr. Glanville stated that he had a house which
he was having repaired, and the prisoner, who was
an entire stranger, called upon him and told him
that he intended to lay an information against him
under the Sewers' Act, for some drains that were
making at his house, if he did not give him some-
thing to suppress the information. He told him to
go about his business, but, on after consideration,
thinking that it was a mere attempt to extort money
from him, he sent a person after the prisoner, who
agreed to suppress the information on payment of
one sovereign. He asked the prisoner if he would
give him a written undertaking not to lay any infor-
mation against him if he gave him a sovereign, and
he replied he would with pleasure. A written do-
cument was then drawn out to that effect, which the
prisoner signed, and he gave him a sovereign, and
then gave him into custody.
Mr. Glanville here handed the document to the
Bench, which was a receipt for the sovereign, and a
promise not to lay any information against him.
Mr. GREGORIE, after looking at it, said that he
could not make anything of the case. He had acted
very indiscreetly in giving the prisoner a sovereign.
Mr. Glanville said that he did it for the best ; he
saw at once that it was an attempt to extort money
from him, and he wished to bring such a fellow to
justice.

The inspector on duty said that the sovereign
given to the prisoner was in the hands of the police ;
they had taken it from him when he was searched
at the station-house.

Mr. GREGORIE said that he was glad to hear it,
and directed the inspector to give Mr. Glanville the
sovereign, and the prisoner might take his under-
taking.

The fellow was then discharged!!!

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Noitwicn, BlAtten 29.
(Before the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE.)
Two respectably-dressed young men, who gave
their names Joseph and William Jones, were capi-
tally indicted for assaulting Francis Molton, an
artist of Norwich, on the King's highway, and
taking from his person a silver watch and some
money.

The prisoners were strangers in Norwich, and
the names which they gave were supposed not to
be their real names. Their appearance was far
above that of the ordinary class of prisoneis
charged at the present day with highway robbery,
and reminded one of a former time when the busi-
ness of a highwayman was a more " genteel" occu-
pation than it has been of later years, when such
characters as the " handsome Gilderoy" and the
gallant Captain Macheath are considered but the
creatures of poetic fiction, who never had any
living representatives, except perhaps on the stage.
The case against the prisoners was, that on the
evening of the 6th of August last Mr. Molton was
walking in the Mile-end-road, one of the suburbs of
Norwich, with a lady, when suddenly two well-
dressed young men, one of whom wore a black
mask, made an assault upon them. One of the-
robbers held the lady while the man in the mask-
mastered the prosecutor and rifled his pockets, and
having taken what money he had about him and his
watch, both ran off and escaped. On the 15th of

the same month, the prosecutor met fw° Ya
! men in the market-place of Norwich, wb°l-" h
, I
once recognised as the persons who had robben,
The mask which the elder of the two wore had
covered his mouth ; and so much as he had see
L his face, along with the peculiarity of his figure.
. dress, enabled the prosecutor to identify him:
o. i
" gentlemen footpads," however, _on Perecivi
were recognised, took to their heels ; but the ,
and cry was raised, and they were soon taken c'
• prisoners defended themselves, and when the
for the prosecution closed, the elder prisoner,a;
was set down in the calendar as being 29 Ye.n
age, made a speech which showed - that he i',
man of not only strong natural talents, but that
education had been far superior to an ordinary (,
He stated that he was in the hat-trade,
calnadndheisstbinreolther left London in company isalfhtalll.''
intendingbneehr,ind to travel and dispose of hats, a 411
tity of which they brought with them in ae.
The partner, however, turned out to be a dishor
those him.
,3,0, fde c a
whichmp
he de
t; 0 butok p
man, and, having made away with the pil)!
lc/
articles was a jemmy or crow-bar, on vvh
much stress had been laid. As to the two ma=
nothing could be more innocent than the purpoe,
which they had been lied. The fact was t
William Jones had app. .
was in
a dog with which he A
habit of amusing • '
himself by playing tricks, slut
one of his frolics had cut out a cloth mask an
a
put it on his face, to amuse himself by having s°
companion,oTf htohuoguhitis;t
whichwo ri
sport with the dog en masque. He (the Prisl
was reading some serious book at the time. ,0
forget whether he mentioned " young's ''IE
iwhich
aiatdr‘g grown Tombs," but whatever the book was, and the
of
ohses elsesfi to
ns someand artseu :
1 ill-accorded with it, and having remonstrated °
him in vain, he at length snatched away the 1118
cowl
and put it in Isis pocket, but his
frolicsome
pion immediately n a
tthh
eer dog-play
boisterous'
s°: t,
ion immediately cut another to frighten the d°s
before, and in this way it happened that each bat
black cloth mask in his possession. As to the Pisic
the constable who was to prove the finding 01. it'be
not in the way, and so no legal evidence having
given of that circumstance, he was not called tIP,
to explain it. He concluded with a pathetic aiq
to the Jury, but they returned a verdict of G!..lu
against both the prisoners.
sentence of death to be recorded, stating . that ti
only mitigation to be expected was transportations
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then ordered t,'
a penal settlement for the term of their natural 11%
sw inspired,
n r Meditations

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—LAuNCESToN, MARcri
The Commission was opened here on Thursd
nine o'clock. Mr. Justice BosANVET
yesterday being Good Friday, was a dies non.
The Judges sat in both Courts this morning,
the Crown Court ; Mr. Baron WILLIAMS
pres in
idesti

Nisi Perrejuasreerine t.of whit
causes entered
for trial,
three are special jury causes. Sir James Scarl!
has come down as Counsel in one of them, 01114
involves a right of toll. it
The
e;aleonndear
wciotnhtaibnisgatmwyen;ty-five names ;
considered by no means heavy, either in respect '
slaughter ; and the remainder with number or crime. Four are charged with unnatial
offences
minor nature.
Charles Blight, aged 21, was indicted for havi2l
feloniously and maliciously maimed and wouncteei
one ewe sheep, the property of J. Penhallow
Verdict—Guilty. To be transported for 01'
years. hthreeoffweliltches mor.

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NORTH WALES cincurr—virßElßAm•
not in his lifetime (Before Mr. Baron BOLLAPIP.) 0 1)1
dtahneefdnTenchivildioesaarunv
‘errty,ta
:whoteoifa.rsneE.twroxiyisnielhly,ecipthulaireernetbificeatwuseaneesndaEtDdlivsaiirddPwrvvizar:i
scrambled for by a pretty full Bar.
WILLIAMS V. WILLIAMS. le 0,
did •
3001. and one for 400/ to the plaintiff, Ede
46
,
Williamsams, as the marriage-portion of Mary his
13j
the daughter of the said William Davies by a se°S,
ufveheteidiinthreeercdt:evsld:ivlfrleiromtwntohaehvieeengs:s:t,eyo:snieniiasei;
marriage. The defendant, David Williams, is rr„,
sonT of the deceased William Davies by his first i;;,,
To render this intelligible to the mere Saxon rie7or
and to protect the defendant from the possibif, 00
picion of illegitimacy, seeing that his sirname 1',1,0t
the same as his father's, it is necessary to state Est
in Wales the Christian name of the father bl),10
wiltßi
thaoooedubbseeadti
rri(.t)nts
be
Williams,
Dhenmeae namednv
ieoo neft
dt
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of: ,
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chapter.
, Davies
eat Robertvli ii.tdeu,
as: , ,
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bi
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would
Daviesj D
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by David d„
icna 10:: ;
inii: li
fa I
on b iutio
and if this John Roberts, again, had a °II 130
bßuitThch“aerßdpi,claihhaenrtwdifro
jsuoil.:dzetsbh;e:: caaallcntdieodnsonwoeotrneßftrichhnae rodavire.l:ooagtlietsis
changesac upon Jones, Roberts, Richards, ...
; and the result of the issue was $ verbr a°
in equityfor the plaintiffs.

V.'''.
THE Six CONDEMNED TINIOSItaio, bi
wWheichhawveejluesatrnretcheaivteadlaargleetniteeretfirnogm,
eTre::::,to,.tlif
TeeeC"'"V..ni 00
thousand in numbers, is to be. held in t",,, Trsir.4
Monday (this day). A procession of t"-the wl,,i
in es ef e.
amciLnuaroyedncaghtpleypstrotweohitlebhlneestake place, being formed,
place, of the trades from their several haus a 9abse'„
peace," is the
and lodges, at ten o'clock in the morning, all.loios, t`i
11 to entertalA
know the men of Birmingham too vit_'_, from it.
will depart, i Thaschil
evening, at a few hours' notice, held oi rest
meeting of six hundred persons was
which the g are
mimopnarolatstethoehalaslteoelfdetmethieneeytdeotifnoongre.thgisranvocudcoansprecionianerda
at
There
meeting of Monday was resolved upon. ,
aces fro
now in Birmingham upwards of seventy dele „do rjjt
0
Trades' Unions in all parts of the three
srefoese
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, &e.,, , and tit,
delegates will attend the meeting on Monaaywn, R..,"'
utmost excitement prevails throughout the
of-the
correspondent, who knows the feelings of t,,,,v thO;s
classes of Birmingham and its vicinity, Sta';', re6:ll
Dorchester affair will double the number of tiforP"'
members of the Trades' Unions there.
Paper.

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tin's-place, Trafalgar'
Philip Clayton, of a son. de 00'
On the 30th ult the lady of Mr. James Lan- 16
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Berkshire, the
surgeon,the l a doyf oaf
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On the 29th ult., Mrs. Barnett, Charterhonsy—u gib
daughter. row'
On the 30th ult., at Winterslow-place, North
/VA il°4
James Field, of a son.
On the 23d ult., at Brixton, the wife 1g do
Esq., of a son, i• lackb`
..idlo
On the 30th ult., Mrs. Robert Aylwin, °- 1 fill
daughter. e 'Ad/ P 'th
On the 27th ult., at Ingestre, Staffordshir ,
voi-
Ingestre, of a son. , Tbolll3l'..
At Berechurch Hall, Essex, the lady c'' - ' '
Esq., of a son and heir.
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Temple, to Louisa Hoskins, eldest daughter ',Gist
Hoskins Master, Esq., of Barrow.gie nj°se, ---"'"°'
a John

On the 26th ult., in WiltDonl-Epplae. e, age
Forbes, son of James Malcolmson, Escl•of ChUrChlsP.'
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a,'
court, Temple. i not001:149'
On the 27th ult., at Caroline-cottage`, 1'4.-1,,n- e,,W-11t(l'
Lucy, wife of Mr. George Doggett, of St. Martin't,— WI; '-
On the 28th ult., Thomas Jenkins Gee, of Div": ,r
is pou'-'
dlesex, and Aldenham, Hertfordshire. V alle
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El., F.R. A.S., in his 77th year. ,i, gtol),
On the 30th ult., in the Addison-road, Nen"--1- '
ol,lie
Jenkins Silver, the wife of Mr. James Silver. Car
14th year' 001
• On the 28th ult , near Croydon, in his 80th iell,,ra'r,; in '
Dax, Esq., many years senior sworn clerk and Seo"'
Exchequer.Lm Ondtne
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