The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

G UIL 1) HALL.
Yesterday James Evans was brought before Mr.
Alderman KELLY for re-examination, charged with
itidecen,ly exposing himself to several girls belong-
ing to Sr. Er helburga Charity-,hoot, Bishop.gate.
Mr. Greenaway, the treasurer of the school, had
learned that the prisoner was to be charged with
corrupting the minds of the girls of five oilier schools
in the vicinity of Bishopsgate, but he begged that
the proceedings of that day should be confined to
his original charge, in proof of which he should call
two other girls, in addition to the two who were
heard at the first examination.

Swan Garrett and Martha Wood were ques-
tioned at some length, but their evidence did not
establish an asqiult, although it showed gross mis-
conduct on the part of the prisoner, who made no
defence.

In reply to questions from Mr. Alderman KELLY,
the prisoner had been a city coal-meter, and was in
receipt of a pension by way of compensation. He
was now a clerk in the employ of Mr. Sheppard, of
Mark-lane, and resided in Manor-row, Rotherhithe.
Mr. Alderman KELLY said, the prisoner's con-
duct was so disgusting he could not dwell on it. He
should have gloried in sending him to trial, so that
he might meet a more severe punishment than a
Magistrate could summarily inflict ; but his great
anxiety was for the children, and he knew they
could not be examined before the Grand Jury and
Petty Jury without renewing and impressing on
their. memories that which it was better they should
forget as soon as possible. He therefore committed
him, for hard labour on the tread-mill, for three
months as a rogue and vagabond.
The prisoner shed some tears of shame or remorse.
IVilliam Ingram, a fishmonger in Clare-market,
attended on summons to answer a charge of impro-
per driving, preferred by Thomas Mellish, Esq.
Mr. Alderman KELLY fined the defendant 20s.
and costs.

B 0 TV- STREET.
Yesterday John Ayles, a young man about nine-
teen years of age, was charged with being the father
of a male child, of which Sarah Evans, a young
Welchwoman, was the mother. The charge was
preferred by the vestry clerk of St. Paul's, Covent-
girden, in order that the child might not become
chargeable to that par sh.
Sarah Evans was delivered of the infant which
she then had in her arms on the 23J of September
last, and John Ayles,now present, was the true and
only father.

'the defendant never had any intercourse with..
the young woman further than his having lived in
the same house with her, when she was in the ser-
vice of Mr. Davis, the hatter, of York-street, Covent-
garden, with whom he lived as shopman, up to Ja-
nuary last.

Sir F. ROE told Lim that unless he could pro-
duce evidence to prove that he was not the father
of the child, his bare assertion was of no avail, as
opposed to the solemn oath of the young woman.
The defendant then said, that one evening in
January last, while his master, Mr. Davis, was en-
gaged with company in the parlour, the door hap-
pening to be a-jar, he saw a livery servant, whose
name was William Bale, go down the kitchen stairs.
He taxed Sarah with the circu,nstance, and she con-
fessed that the man was her sweetheart, and that she
was then with child by him.
Sarah positively denied that she had ever said so,
and again declared that no other person but the de-
fendant was theTa-ther of her child. She admitted
that she knew William Bale, and that he used to
visit her occasionally when she lived in the service of
Mr. Davis.

liiendant—Had you not a child by him before
,his was born ? Sarah—That has nothing to do

Hr. HALLS observed that this statement of Mr,
Davis was in direct contradiction to the evidence of
the young woman, who declared, that she had not
seen Bale for 18 months.
Sir F. ROE a'.ked Sarah, where she became ac-
quainted with Wiiliam Bale. She replied, that they
lived together in the same family, at Clapham-rise.
Sir F. ROE—How long did you live there ?
Sarah—For nine months.
Sir F. ROE—What was the name of the gentle-
man in whose service you lived ? The young woman,
after a long pause, did not recollect the name.
Sir F. ROE—And yet you lived for nine months
in the family ! The Magistrate then observed, that
the evidence in support of the charge was of that
description, that he did not feel himself called upon
to make an order on the defendant, without further
inquiry. Charges of this description were easily
made, but unless they were supported by something
like satisfactory evidence, no man would be secure
from the liability of having a child fathered upon him.
The Vestry Clerk had no desire to press for the
order, if the Magistrates were not satisfied that the
defendant was the father of the child. He suggested
that the case should stand over for a week, with a
view to the production of further evidence both on
the part of the defendant and the parish.
This suggestion was immediately adopted, and the
case was ordered to stand over accordingly, and that
Bale, the servant, should be summoned to attend the
re-hearing.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday a person named Finney was charged
with an unprovoked and desperate assault on Mr.
David Robertson, of King,gate-street, Holborn, on
the 2Gth ult., by knocking ban down and falling
upon him, whereby the complainant's leg was broken.
Mr. ROGERS, after remarking on the brutality of
the defend dm's conduct, sentenced him to pay a fine
of 51, and to be imprisoned two months in the
House of Correction in default of payment.
Edward Howell and James Howell were placed
at the bar, the first-mentioned charged with stealing,
and the latter with receiving, seven dinner knives
and forks, six dessert knives, and one carving knife
and fork, the property of Mr. Smith, of the Angel,
Islington.—Both prisoners were fully committed.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday, Susan Cambourn, a very pretty mo
dent-looking young femme, and Thomas Brown, her
sweetheart, mud to whom it appears she was to have
been married in a short time, were placed within the
felon's bat, the former charged with robbing her
master, a gentlemen residing in Poplar, of wine
glasses, table linen, tea, and various other articles of
property ; and the latter for receiving the same, well
knowing it to have been stolen. It appeared that the
female prisoner, who had not been quite a week in
her situation, commenced all extensive system of
plunder; and on the preceding evening a box of
ti,rs, in which she had packed half a dozen of
wine, wine glasses, and other property, was stopped
just as she was about to have it taken to the lodg-
ings of her lover. She was remanded, and her
sweetheart, on his receiving an excellent character,
discharged.