The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-04 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE.

Yesterday t he attention of the Magistrates, Messrs.
BALLANTINE and BRODERIP, was occupied for several
hours in investigating a charge of assault preferred
be a German sailor, named Henry Larnders, against
William Mitchell, a plasterer and stenciller, under
the following extraordinary circumstances :

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It appeared from the evidence of the German,
confirmed by other witnesses, that a few weeks ago,
having become possessed of some property, he con•
verted it into ready money, and entered into part-
nership with a man named Wilson, a harness-maker,
to open a green-grocer's and chandler's shop in
Upper John•street, Back-lane, St. George's in the
East. In the course of a short time, he found that
Wilson paid more attention to his (the German's)
wife than decorum warranted, and he frequently
complained of this, but without causing any change
in the behaviour of his wife, and he thought the best
thing he could do, would be to go to sea again, and
accordingly procured a ship. On Saturday night the
prisoner .2alled at the house and said he was a
Thames police officer, and had come to turn
witness out of the house, for nothing belonged
to him, and nothing he should have. Wilson and
witness's wife encouraged him to take possession,
but he refused to go away, and the prisoner re-
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dreadful blow in the face, and lie was in an instant
covered with blood. The blow was followed up by
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evident there was a conspiracy between Wilson, the
prisoner, and Larnders' wife, to defraud the foreigner
of his wife and property. Hs convicted the prisoner

in the full penalty of 6/., and, in default, to twc
months' imprisonment.

Mr. BALLANTINE said, that in addition to ti'
sentence passed by his Colleague, the prisoner mus
find bail, himself in 401. and two sureties of 204
each, to keep the peace for 12 months.
Edwards, a policeman, No. 43, K, stated, tha
Larnders had attempted suicide that morning, ant
produced a pistol, a quantity of gunpowder, ant
some shot, which he found upon him. The Ger.
man had loaded the pistol, presented it at his breast
and fired it ; but at the moment he drew the trigger
a person, who suspected his intention, seized hi•
arm, and the ball glanced by the side of his coat
arid passed off in another direction.

Mr. BitdtiEntt, asked the German why he at,
tempted such a rash act

tirnders replied, that on Saturday night he odd
Wilson come out of his wife's room, after she had
gone to bed, with nothing on but his shit-, and this
had so preyed on his mind, that he determined to
make away with himself.

The wife and her paramour (Wilson), who were
in waiting, were then ordered to be brought into
tl e office, and Mr. BALLANTINE censured her coo.
duct in severe terms.

The woman answered in a flippant minner, that
Wilson had never entered her room at all,
Mr. BRODERIP had no doubt that she had carried
on an improper intimacy with Wilson, and that
both were engaged in a vile conspiracy to cheat the
husband of his property.