The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
John Cleave, the publisher of the Weekly Police
Gazette, attended before Sir P. LAURIE and Mr. Al-
derman COWAN to answer two informations filed at the
instance of the Stamp-office, for exposing to sale and
selling an unstamped newspaper called the Police Ga-
zette, on the 26th of April, and for a like offence on
the 4th of May,
Daniel Buckley, an inspector from the Stamp-office,
proved the publication.
Mr. Wire, for the defendant, repeated the argument
he urged a few days since, that, as the defendant's pa-
per contained chiefly police and that sort of matter, and
did not contain the information which a man of busi-
ness would require, such as foreign news, the Gazettes,
parliamentary news, &c., it was not a newspaper in the
sense the legislature contemplated.
Sir P. LA nut said he and his brother magistrate
were of opinion that the paper was a newspaper, and
that it contained. the sort of news most attractive to a
very large body of. readers, the police intelligence.
He, therefore, sentenced .the defendant to pay a fine

of 5/., or be imprisoned three months in the Giltspur-
street Compter.
Mr. Cleave should not pay the fine ; and, if any
body offered to pay it for him, he should onsider
his foe.

Mr. Cleave was then taken away to the Compter.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Jean Francois Boutant, a respectable looking man,.
a native of France, was yesterday evening charged
with stealing, under the following extraordinary cir-
cumstances, diamonds to the value of 17,0001.
The prisoner on Saturday last went to the prosecu-
tor, Mr. Desvignes, a diamond merchant, in Golden-
square, and pretended that he wanted to purchase a
suit of diamonds at the price 'of 40,000 f. for a lady in
Paris who is about to be married, and that she wished
them to be of English manufacture. The prisoner,
after looking at several suits, chose one, and called
yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, for the' pur-
pose, as he said, of taking the prosecutor to his
banker's for payment of the jewels. When the pro-
secutor declared himself ready to accompany the pri-
soner to his banker, the prisoner requested a glass of
claret, as he was very thirsty. Mr. Desvignes was
about to hand him a glass from a decanter on the
sideboard, when the prisoner observed he thought
that would be too warm, and requested Mr. Des-
vignes to fetch a bottle from the cellar. He then
left the prisoner for that purpose, having first
accompanied him to another room from that in
which they had previously been, and left him where
the prosecutor's daughter and her Italian master were.
As soon as the prosecutor had left them, the prisoner
said, " Oh, I'm afraid I intrude," and left the room ;
and upon the prosecutor coming up from the cellar,
he observed the prisoner leaving the house. He then
proceeded in pursuit of the prisoner, but could not
overtake him ; and upon returning to his ware-room,
he observed that the prisoner had stolen the very va-
luable suit of jewels,in question.
A constable found the jewels under the prisoner's arm.
A Mr. Holmes, a butcher, was standing at his shop
door in Silver-street, when fie observed the prisoner
leave the prosecutor's house, and that he had some-
thing under his arm, and from the circumstance of his
very hurried manner, he was induced to follow the

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prisoner, who was running at full speed, although no
alarm had been given. He continued to follow him
through several streets into Jermyn-street, where he
gave the prisoner into the custody of the police con-
stable.

The prisoner denied the charge, and was then fu
committed to Newgate for trial.
LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday John Edwards, alias Thomas Edwards,
alias W. Heathy, who is stone blind, Peter Leccasser,
Jeremiah Weedon, and Mary Leccasser, were charged
with being concerned in the extraordinary outrage on
the person of Mr. William Gee, the solicitor at
Bishop's Stortford, and extorting from him a check
on his banker for 8001., as described in our paper of
yesterday.

Thorrias Shelswell, an officer,stated that about eight
o'clock on the evening before he saw the prisoner Ed-
wards come out of the house of Mrs. Canning at Old
Ford, and suspecting that he was one of the parties
concerned in the outrage on Mr. Gee he followed and
kept him in sight. The prisoner, who was accom-
panied by a little girl, proceeded in a direct line to
York-street, and as he ( Shelswell) had no doubt, was
going to the house No. 27 in that street, had he not
heard the remark of a female who was talking to
others in the street, and who said, " They have appre-
hended the men, and taken them, the chain and all,
away." The prisoner, though he was at the time quite
close to the house, hurried out of the street, and had
crossed the Commercial-road, when he ( Shelswell),
his former suspicions being confirmed by his conduct,
went up to him and stopped him. On doing so he
asked him if he knew a person named Gee ? The
prisoner Edwards, after some hesitation, replied that
he did. He then asked him if he had seen Mr. Gee
on that day ? The prisoner smiled and said, " I'll tell
you the truth—l have been with Mr. Gee, but have not
seen him, for a good reason, that I am blind. " He ( Shels-
well) then took him back to the house in York-street,
where ho was identified by the persons residing next door
as being frequently seen going in and out of the
house since Saturday. On their way from York-street
he asked the prisoner who the persons were who were
concerned with him in the transaction, and if he would
give him their names ? The prisoner replied that he
certainly would not, as he would be sorry if they were
taken, adding that he was the person who had planned
the whole affair; that the other persons were only
employed by him, and knew nothing of what the place
they assisted in fitting up was for, and he was the only
person that ought to suffer, if any one did. The pri-
soner further stated to him ( Shelswell) that all legal
means had been tried for six years past to get the mo-
ney, and as they could not get it in that way, he was
determined to see what he could do by main force.
He also acknowledged that he had sent the letter and
coach for Mr. Gee, for the purpose of getting him
down to the house, and asked if it was not an excellent
plan of his to accomplish his object. He ( Shelswell)
asked him what was meant by putting earth about the
cell or building, and if it was not to prevent any per-
son in it from being heard? The prisoner replied that
it was ; that he did not mean that Mr. Gee should he
heard ; and the only thing that puzzled him was how
Mr. Gee could have made his escape.
The prisoners were remanded to await the attendance
of Mr. Gee.