The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Osborne, the Governor of Bridewell, stated
to the Lord Mayor that Denis Collins, the ruffian
who threw the stone at his Majesty at Ascot, had
been more than once committed to Bridewell for go-
ing about the streets as a sturdy vagrant, and in.
sulting those who would not give him contribution.
One of the officers in waiting upon the Lord
Mayor -aid that Collins was in the habit of using
threats with his entreaties for relief, and that, upon
leaving the Mansion-house one day, be promised to
sarve out his Lordship, if something was not done
for him. To menaces of that kind, however, which
were often muttered by discontented applicants, very
litte attention was paid, but it was probable that, if
the Lord Mayor had not given Collins a few shillings,
some violence would have been offered to his
Lordship.
It was stated by another that to the best of his
belief Collins could neither write nor read. _ •

. . _
M. nobler, upon looking to his books, found
that the man had been charged and committed for
vagrancy.
The LORD MAYOR recollected the person per-
fectly well, and regretted that Collins had not done
something at the Mansion-house calculated to excite
the suspicion of his violence. Nothing could be a
more decided proof of insanity than an attack upon
our Sovereign, but it was really ridiculous in gentle-
men, whose years and acquaintance with life ought
to teach them better, to ascribe the brutality of the
assailant to the education diffused by the liberal
Press. It was, in fact, the crying down of any thing
like violence, that made the enemies of Reform as
mad and brutal as the sailor.—(Laughter.)
It was intimated to his Lordship that Collins's
inability to read was rather unfavourable to the heavy
charge against the Newspapers of having instructed
him in the art of throwing stones.
The LORD MAYOR hoped for the sake of com-
mon sense that such insufferable trash would never
be repeated. It wai but supplying the friends of Re-
form with additional weapons,:if they wanted to add to
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It must be in the recollection of most of our
readers that towards the latter end of the last month
a statement appeared in our paper of the circum-
stances under which a young woman, named Sarah
Drew, living in the service of a gentleman named
Levoi, who was a lodger in the house of a Mr. Jus-
tice, a biscuit baker, in Brydges-street, Covent-gar-
den, had been delivered of a child, and was supposed
to have attempted to deprive it of life by throwing
it down the privy. The young woman was taken
into custody shortly after her delivery, and has so
remained ever since, living in the workhouse, at-
tended night and day by a police officer.
She was yesterday brought before F. A. RoE,
, Dr. IlontNsoN, and the Rev. Mr. LENDON, for
the purpose of affiliating the child, which is still
alive, and answering any charge that might be made
against her, Mr. Levoi being also present, attended
by a Solicitor.
Before the case was entered into, Mr. Levoi's
Solicitor was requested by his client to ask for a
private examination, as some questions might be
put to her that would perhaps be of a very deli-
cate nature.
Mr. ROE said that if it were strictly neccessary
for the purposes of justice or delicacy that the exa-
inination should be private, he would not object; OF
if even the personal feelings of any individual were
concerned, so long as there was no 4uestion affect-

ing the interests of the public, he would consent to
4 private hearing; but even after a private hearing
had commenced, he would in one moment make it
a public one if he found any question arise by the
decision of which the general community could la
affected.
The Solicitor did not press the application fur-
ther, and Sarah Drew, the mother of the child, was
then called forward and sworn. She was well
dressed and good looking, and appeared in delicate
health. She deposed that she was delivered of a
male child in the house of Mr. Justice, a baker, 25,
Brydges-street, Covent-garden, on the 22d of May
last. She was a single woman, had never been
married, and the child was a bastard, and chargea-
ble to the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden. Mr,
Nlontague Levoi, now present, was the father of
the child.
Cross-examined by the defendant's solicitor—l
was nearly two years and a half in the service of the
defendant and his wife. When I first went into his
service they lived at 63, Regent-street, and I had
been six months with him in Brydges-street before
the birth of the child. I first saw him in the city
of Bath, two years ago last March. Some time
before my delivery I was taxed by Mrs. Levoi with
being in the family way, and I denied it, but I con-
sented to undergo an examination by Mr. Douchez,
which took place, and to him I did not deny or ad-
mit the fact. I remember Mr. Thomas asking me
who was the father of the child, and I said Mr.
Levoi. I stated nothing else to him. I told him
(Mr. Thomas) that the intercourse first took place
at Brompton, where the defendant then lived. I
told Mr. Thomas nothing about force having been
used, nor that the intercourse between me and my
master had only taken place once. I had but one
interview with Mr. Thomas, arid that was on the
23d of May, the day after my delivery; it was then
I told him who was the father of the child. I did
not tell Mr. Thomas whether I had frequent inter-
course with my master or not, or how frequent.
My first intercourse took place with my master at
his house at Brompton, in the middle of August,
last year.
In answer to a question from Mr. Roe, as to
what enabled her to fix the time, she said her master
had been out of town for ten weeks, and the inter-
course took place the day after his return. Her
mistress was ill at the time, and Mr. Douchez at-
tended her. No intercourse had ever taken place
before between them, but there had since. She
told Mr Thomas her master was the only person
with whom she ever had intercourse, and that was
the truth.
By the Solicitor—She did not know a medical
man at Bath of the name of William James Long.
She was not in the family way at Bath in 1826,
nor was she ill. She knew there was such a gentle-
man as Mr. Long at Bath, but he never attended
her. No other medical gentleman attended her at
that time for any complaint.
Some questions were then put to her by the de-
fendant's Solicitor, with a view to elicit how and
where the child was boar ; but Mr. ROE refused to
allow her to answer, observing that he would not
permit her test itnony to be shaken by questions cal-
culated to add to the weight of her liabilities as to
another and more serious inquiry.
Mrs. Norton, the wife of a police constable, who
was called in to attend upon Sarah Drew soon after
her delivery, was sworn, and stated that two days
after the birth of the child she asked her (Drew)
if she intended swearing the child to Mr. Levoi, and
she said she did. 'Witness asked her if any young
man visited her as a sweetheart, and she said no.—
She asked her if her master ever had intercourse
with her more than once, and she said, " No, never
but once, and then force was used."
i♦lr. Thomas, the superintendent of police had an
interview with Sarah Drew the day after her de-
livery of the chili, and she toll him her master was
the father, and that she never kne„• any other man.
He asked her if her intercourse had been frequent
with her master, and she said never but once, and
that was in the kitchen at Brompton. She was in a
very weak state when witness first questioned her ;
but he again had conversation with her a week sub-
sequently, when she was better, and she then gave
the same statement.
The Solicitor for the defendant submitted that
the testimony of the girl was so materially shaken
that the Magistrates would not feel it safe to rely
upon her statements.
Mr. ROE consulted with Dr. ROBINSON and Mr.
LENDON, and said that they all three considered the
case as against Mr. Levoi as proved, and pro-
nounced that he should pay 4s. per week for the
maintenance of the child, and 40s. for lying-in ex-
penses.

This decision being come to, Mr. Thomas stepped
forward and said he held a warrant (which he now
produced) against Sarah Drew for concealing the
birth of her child, which was granted by Mr. Min-
%hull at the time of the occurrence, and he now
wished to know what he was to do with respect to
her and the warrant.
Mr. ROE asked if there was any one present de-
sirous of proceeding upon the charge embodied in
the warrant ?
Mr. Corder, the vestry-clerk, had no desire to
proceed with that charge; and Mr. Walker, one of
the overseers, expressed the same opinion.
The Solicitor for Mr. Levoi was then asked if he
had any charge to perfer, and he said he had not :
but in a few moments, after retiring, and consulting
with that person for a short time, said he should
certainly prosecute under the warrant upon the
original charge.
Some evidence of the original transaction, the par-
ticulars of which were described at the time, was
then gone into, but the Magistrates at this juncture
were obliged to leave the bench on other important
business, arid the defendant (Sarah Drew) was re-
manded till Friday. The investigation lasted several
hours, and appeared to excite great interest.
UNION-HALL.
Yesterday a young man, who gave his name
Fitzhugh Harding, belonging to Richardson's show,
was brought up in custody, charged with the ab-
duction of a young female, the daughter of a respect-
able tradesman, residing at Deptford.
On Friday last, the mother of the young lady,
having had occasion to leave home in the afternoon,
the latter took advantage of her absence, and eloped
with the prisoner, who at the time of his visit to
Deptford was engaged as an actor in Richardson's
company. It was ascertained they had been seen
in company together, and they were traced to Turn-
ham-green, by Grossmith, the officer, who held the
warrant against the prisoner. He proceeded towards
East Ealing, where he came up with the prisoner
and the young lady on the road, the former of whom,
on being told by the officer that he must consider
himself in custody, made a vigorous resistance, in-
sisting that he had committed no offence to justify
his apprehension, and declaring that he should pro-
ceed against the officer for false imprisonment if he
locked him up. The young lady's father being with
Grossmith at the time, the moment she saw her pa-
rent approach, she rushed into his arms, and exhi-
bited great anguish of mind for the affliction into
which she had thrown her family by absenting her-
self from home under such circumstances. The pri-
soner was brought up to town on Saturday evening,
and remained in custody until yesterday morning,
when he was brought up to this office.
The young lady, accompanied by her parents, at-
tended the examination, and may well lay claim to
the appellation of a handsome girl. In the course
of her evidence, she stated she first saw the pd.
sorter at the recent Witsuntide Greenwich-fair,
when she was walking with two young ladies, and
that he was at that period playing in Richardson's
company. Upon a subsequent occasion she saw the
prisoner again at the Deptford fair, and had some
conversation with him, during which he endeavoured
to prevail on her to quit home and accompany him,
saying that his salary as an actor was sufficient to
support them in comfort and respectability. In an
unguarded moment, it appeared, that she listened to
his persuasions, and left home with all her clothes
and some money, which he suggested was neces-
sary for them until he obtained an engagement at
the Surrey, about which he was then in negotiation

,vith the proprietors. Upon their arrival in town
t.e took her to a house near the Elephant and
Castle, where they remained on Friday night; and
'rom thence he prevailed on her to accompany him
0 the country, saying that be was going to join his
oompany again, and finish his engagement with
Richardson, at Ealing. She soon had reason to re-
gret leaving her home, the prisoner appearing to be
in very great want of money; and when that which
she had brought from home was exhausted, he then
Advised her to return to Deptford; but she was ap-
prehensive of again facing her friends, a ter leaving
home under such circumstances. She then de-
.cribed their journey on foot from London to the
place where the officer and her father had overtaken
the prisoner and her together. She added, that in
a short time after leaving home with the prisoner,
she regretted the step she had taken, and when she
mentioned it to the accused, he renewed his solici-
tations, and finally succeeded in urging her to aban-
don the home of her kind and indulgent parents.
The prisoner, who is a tall, thin young man, de-
clined saying anything in answer to the charge, and
he was remanded for further examination.