The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

211ANSION-HOUSE.

Saturday the Lord Mayor closed his Mayoralty.
Mr. Booker, one of the parish officers for Bishopsgate,
was summoned before the Lord Mayor for having refused
to give assistance to Mary Hodges in her necessity.
Miss Hodges, who has been from her infancy living upon
the bounty of the parish, had applied to Mr. Booker for a
few shillings with which to purchase a pair of shoes and
other clothing, and that lie refused to give her those neces-
sary articles.

The LORD MAYOR—Why, you are able-bodied, and can't
require the assistance of the parish. The Poor Law Bill
will impose a penalty on the parish officers if they give
money to such a powerful young woman. You are the very
picture of strength and laziness.
Miss Hodges—Please your Lordship, me and my Tom
was looking over this here Bill, and he says I have a claim
because my case is a case of " mergency."
Mr. Booker said that several of the claimants had con-
trived, by a subscription, to buy a copy of the Act, and they
were constantly at work in scanning the provisions of it.
The young man, whom Miss Hodges called " her Tom,"
had been brought up in the parish, and was never known to
take the trouble to read anything for years until the new
Poor Law Act was published, and then he was never easy
until he got a copy. He had tried to apply various passages
of it to his own peculiar case, but had failed, and he gave a
great deal of trouble, by persuading the paupers that they
had a right by the Bill to more than they were entitled to
before the Bill passed.--(A laugh.)
Miss Hodges—Why, how can you refuse to give me the
price of a pair of " mud pods ?" The Commissioners says
that you are to give us money when we are in necessity, and
I 'ant got a fardin in the world.

Mr. Booker—l have got you into employment a hundred
times, and it is all useless—you never will work.
Miss Hodges—Work ! How can I work without shoes
or a shift ? You don't think I can go to work like a Scotch
piper, do you ?—(Laughter.)
Mr. Booker--The young man who keeps her company
pushes her forward to raise disagreements and opposition.
The LORD MAYOR—Pray what is this man who gives
you this legal advice ? Miss Hodges—Who is be ! Why,
he is a man. He arn't no expense to nobody, barrin my-
self, now.

The Loan MAvoa—i-Well, as you are able to provide for
him, you can have no great claim upon the parish, and I hop.
that you will both act like independent people, and leave it
altogether.

Miss Hodges—Ycs, your Worship, we will leave ; but
I'm blest if I don't have a little conversation with these
here infernal hofficers first.

Mr. Booker charged a young man named Burnham with
having forged an order for one shilling. The prisoner, who
was an out-door pauper, applied to him for money, and he
gave to the man an order to receive half-a-pound of bread.
The prisoner, however, blotted out the words "half-a-pound
of bread," and substituted, in a light coloured ink, and in
writing of a very superior character, the words "won shil-
ing." When the order was presented at the Workhouse,
the forgery was detected, and the prisoner, who swore that
the writing was all witness's, was detained.
The prisoner was committed to Bridewell for three months.

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Teague, the keeper of the Giltspur-street Compter,
informed Mr. Alderman ATKINS that about nine o'clock
the preceding evening a prisoner named Brown, the wards-
man of the Infirmary, was walking in a yard, when another
prisoner, named Hetherington, rushed upon him from one
of the rooms and inflicted a wound. He was evidently in
a state of phrenzy, and was not secured without considesra-
ble danger and difficulty. The surgeon who was called in
to attend Brown did not consider the wound to be a dan-
gerous one.

Hetherington was ordered to be kept in close confinement.
Hetherington was formerly a Manchester warehouseman
in extensive business in Cheapside and King-street, and has
latterly been subsisting on an allowance of ss. per week
from the Commercial Travellers' Society. He was brought
up in custody for continually besetting the office and annoy-
ng the Secretary of that Society.

BO W-STREET.
On Saturday, William Johnson Neale and Melville
Neale, appeared to answer a charge of assault preferred
against them by Captain Marryat, author of the " King's
Own," &c.
The complainant, on Wednesday last, was walking past
the New National Gallery, when he met the two defen-
dants. William Johnson Neale, addressing him, said,
" Captain Marryat, I believe." " Even so." The de-
fendant then said, " You are a liar and a blackguard, and
only want the courage to become an assassin." The de-
fendant then raised a thick stick which he held iu his
hand, and attempted to strike him, but he warded off the
blow, and knocked the defendant down. A scuffle then
ensued, and the defendants ran away.
The defendant (Mr. Neale) was proceeding to enter into
some statement respecting former proceedings which had
taken place between him and Captain Marryat, but the
MAGISTRATES refused to hear it.

The defendant then proceeded to say, that he had taken
every means to obtain the satisfaction which one gentleman
had a right to expect from another.

The MAGISTRATES heie again stopped the defendant.
Both defendants were then bound over to !Keep the peace
and to answer the charge at the Sessions.

HATTON-GARDEN.
Mr. James Ogden, a young man of respectable appear-
ance, and a master jeweller, residing in St. James's-walk,
Clerkenwell, was brought before Mr. LAING, charged with
having unlawfully transposed a certain Hall-mark of the
Goldsmiths Company to a gold ring. The case excited
considerable interest, from the known good character and
respectability of the prisoner, who was attended to the
office by numerous friends and relatives, whose anxiety was
evidently manifest, as it was made known to them that the
prisoner was to be charged capitally, and, in the event of
conviction, was subject to death without benefit of clergy.
Mr. Flower, of the firm of Alderman Harmer and Co.
attended for the prisoner ; and Mr. Lane, the solicitor of
the Goldsmiths' Company, attended for the prosecution.
The Master and Wardens of the Company, and the Soli-
tor of Stamps, were also present.
Mr. Lane, the solicitor, called the following witnesses :
Mr. Beeby, silversmith, &c., 67, Red Lion-street, Clerk-
enwcll, about three weeks ago received an order from a
gentleman, named Gleeson, for a gold ring, and he called
on the prisoner, and directed him to make one, giving him
at the same time a paper containing the instruction as to
weight, &c. The prisoner undertook to send it home in
eight or ten days, which he did, and furnished with it a
ticket, stating the weight of it, with, other work done by
him. Witness forwarded the ring to Mr. Gleeson, who
sent it back to be made fifteen grains heavier, and it was
returned to the prisoner for that purpose. The prisoner
subsequently brought it to witness, it then being of the
weight required namely, six penny-weights and fifteen
grains. •
Mr. FLOWER, at this stage of the proceeding submitted
to the Bench whether any charge existed against the priso-
ner, as it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Beeby that
the ring in question did not weigh seven pennyweights, and
that by the 12th George 11., chap. 26, sect. 6, small arti-
cles of gold under ten pennyweights did not require to be
marked at the Goldsmith's Hall.
Mr. LAING would not take upon himself to decide the
point, which must be discussed before a higher tribunal ;
he should take the evidence.
Mr. Beeby then proceeded—The ring had the Hall
mark upon it, and was the colour of a wedding ring.
Mr. Josiah Sharp, Deputy Warden of the Goldsmiths'
Company, deposed that on the first of November a Mr.
Maxwell brought the ring (now produced) to the Hall to be
examined, as he doubted the genuineness of the Hall
mark ; the ring was left with witness, who subsequently
discovered that the mark had been transposed from another
piece of gold and inserted on the ring alluded to.
The witness was about to state a conversation which he
had had with the prisoner, when
Mr. FLOWER hoped the Bench would not permit it to
be received as evidence. The prisoner, he observed, had
been induced to attend the Goldsmiths' Hall through a let-
ter he received from Mr. Lane, the solicitor, and, when un-
prepared, a statement was made by him which he now de-
nied. Mr. Flower here handed the letter to the Magis-
trate. It had been written courteously to the prisoner,
and anything drawn from him under the circumstances aught
not to be received, and he should decidedly object to it,
Mr. LAING, however, ordered the witness to proceed.
soner
Witness stated that when it was ascertained the 'pri
had made the ring he was sent for, and while at the Hall he
confessed that he took the mark from a wedding ring.
Mr. Leslie Alexander, Prime Warden of the Goldsmith's
Company, deposed that h 9 Showed the prisoner the ring
(now produced), and asked him if it was his manufacture,
and he said it was, Witness then gave him into custody.
William Bateman, Warden to the Goldsmith's
Company, said he was present when the prisoner said lie
had taken the mark from another ring, and introduced it to
the one now produced.

Mr. Gleeson and the other witnesses hero identified
the ring.
I.4ane said that the Goldsmith's Company wished to
deal as leniently as possible with the prisoner, and intended
only to prosecute for a misdemeanour.
Mr. LAING understood that the Commissioners of
Stamps would prosecute the prisoner for the forgery of the
assay mark, which would subject him to the extreme penalty
of the law if convicted.
The Solicitor of Stamps remarked that it certainly was
their intention to act as the Magistrate had intimated.
Mr. Flower argued that it 11'44 luito incomrteut fir the