The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-01 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Charles Ldwards, late Inspector of the S
Division of Police, Hampstead, was re-examined on a
charge of fraud.

The defendant had signed a receipt in the name of his
late servant, Mary Squibb, for 145., money received for
cleaning out the station-house. This receipt was given to
Captain Carden, the Superintendent, who handed it over
to the Receiver-General, by wham the money, purporting
to have been paid, was reimbursed. It now appeared that
Mary Squibb had been Edwards's servant, at a salary of
live pounds per annum, and that she received one pound a
year extra for cleaning the station-house. The defendant
made out a receipt in the name of Squibb, charging I4s.
a month for the cleaning, and putting the money in his
pocket. It however appeared, that 14s. was the sum al-
lowed by the Commissioners for the eapence of cleaning
the house ; that the work was always properly done, and
that if the servant had not been engaged, same one else
must have been employed. • It was the defendant's duty to
see that the work was attended to.

Mr. Phillips attended for the defendant, and submitted
that there w.ts no ground for any charge. The defendant
was to be con►idered in the light of a contractor.

Captain Carden, on being questioned, considered the
defendant had not meditated fraud, and be would not may
that much a system was not pursued at the other station-
houses.

Mr. HALLS felt it his duty to bold the defendant to
bail, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501. each, to
answer the charge, if the Commissioners intended to press
it further against him—
. Bail was immediately put in.

Tuesday morning, Mr. MINSHULL, the sitting Magis-
trate, received a 1. tter from Mr. Shee, an inhabitant of
Great Wild-street, calling his attention to the case of a
family, consisting of a man and his wif• and six children,
who were then at a miserable apartment at a house in
Wild-court, utterly destitute of all the common necessaries
of life, and in a state of actual starvation. The writer
added, that such was the accumulation of filth in the
apartment occupied by these wretched beings, owing to
the inability of the father and mother from exhaustion to
move out of the room, that the stench reached the sur-
rounding houses, and was quite intolerable, and the inha-
bitants were seriously alarmed lest the breaking out of some
pestilence should be the consequence.
Mr. MINSHULL inunediatly sent the letter to Mr.
Thomas, the Superintendent of Police, with a request that
the case might be at once inquired into, and Serjeant
Stewart was sent to the Louse.
TLe serjeant, on his return, reported to the Magistrate
that the letter, so far from exaggerating the state of dis-
tress of the family in question, had fallen short in its de-
scription of the dreadful misery which they were suffer-
ing. He found a man and his wife and six children, all
very young, and nearly naked, in a small miserable apart-
ment, without tire, without furniture, and literally without
even a piece of blanket or other covering, huddled together
in a corner—the parents moaning and the children crying
with cold and hunger. The room in other respects was
in a condition which he could scarcely describe, and was
altogether most dreadful and likely to cause disease. The
wretched family had been for days without food, and but
for this timely interference must very soon have perished.
He went immediately back to Mr. Thomas, who gave him
orders to procure some bread and cheese and bier and take
to them, which he did ; and I shall never as long as I live,
your Worship, continued Stewart, forget the scene when
I entered the room with the provisions. The poor
children, the moment they saw the loaf under my arm,
sprang towards me, and absolutely tearing it from me they
pulled it in pieces, arid commenced devouring it with an
eagerness that is indescribable. The parents were scarcely
able to eat, but the knowledge that their situation had met
with attention in the proper quarter seemed to revive them
greatly. He had procured some fuel and made them a
fire, and bad also got some temporary covering for them,
so that they were in comparative comfort.
Mr. MINSIIULL said the officer had behaved extremely
well, and directed that five shillings should be sent to
them from the office funds, to be laid out for their benefit,
and also desired Stewart to make an immediate represen-
tation to the parish officers of St. Giles upon the subject.

MAR YLEB ONE.
Yesterday Mr. John Brydone, a shopkeeper, in Pad-
dington, was charged with violently assaulting a French