The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-16 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN- S QU A RE.
Yesterday, Mr. William Douglas, of St. John's-
wood road, was charged before Messrs. WHITE
and GREGORIE, with violently assaulting George
Holt, of No. 1, Bedford-court, Red Lion-square.
Mr. WHITE asked the defendant, who wore large
mustachios and a bunch of hair on his chin, what
profession he was.
Mr. Douglas had been a commissioned officer in
the array, but was at present out of commission.
The complainant, about 11 o'clock last night, was
drawing a truck at Knightsbridge, when the de-
fendant came up to him, and asked him how he
dared to make use of such language towards him.
He was surprised at such an accusation, and told
him that he had never seen or spoken to him in his
life; upon which he struck him several blows with
a sword-stick which he had in his hand. Surprised
at such treatment from a stranger, he called him a
Frenchified humbug, which exasperated him more ;
and he told witness, that if he had him round the
corner, he would do for him. A police constable,
who witnessed the assault, came up and took him
Into custody.
Mr. Douglas, in reply to the charge, was walking
with a lady,at Knightsbridge, when the complainant
used towards them the most offensive language,
which it would be indelicate to express, and which
irritated his feelings.
Mr. WIIITE asked if the lady was in attendance.
Mr. Douglas replied that she was not. He could
not offend her delicacy by bringing her forward as a
witness.

, The complainant most solemnly protested he
; never spoke a word to the defendant.
Mr. WHITE said, that it was evident, even if
such language had been used, it had been by another
person ; but even then, it did not justify him in
taking the law into his own hands.
The Magistrates having consulted together,
ordered Mr. Douglas to pay a fine of 50s. to the
King.
Mr. Douglas wished to give bail, and take the
case to the sessions.
Mr. WHITE told him there was no appeal.
Mr. Douglas then retired in custody, and sent to
his friends, as he declared that his poeket had been
picked shortly before the affray took place.
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mr. BROUGHTON, the sitting Magistrate, was
occupied nearly the whole of yesterday with
the examinations of Henry Brown, alias Wil-
liams, &e., William Bekinsale, alias Smith, and
Samuel Solomon:, the Jew, who had been several
weeks in custody, charged with numerous depreda-
tions at hotels, taverns, and public offices, in and
about the metropolis.
A number of cases had already been taken in
order to the commitment of Brown and Solomons.
Hanley, the officer, now had witnesses present to
prove a charge against Brown, of stealing Bank of
England notes, and other property, from the Sussex
Hotel, in Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
John Nichols, principal waiter at the hotel, de-
posed, that on the 24th of May two 101. notes and
a quantity of wearing apparel, in a carpet-bag, were
stolen, the property of a gentleman named Sparks,
from Guildford, who was then lodging at the hotel.
Witness had seen the property safe at one o'clock
on the day mentioned, and missed it about two,
upon inquiry made for it by Mr. Sparks. That
gentleman had received the notes at a banker's in
Fleet-greet, and the numbers being ascertained, a
porter was sent to the bank to stop payment the
following morning; but they had been already
changed. The witness afterwards paid Mr. Sparks
251. 10s., the total amount of his loss.
Mr. Palmer, cashier at Messrs. Hoare and Co.'s
bank, in Fleet-street, stated that on the 24th of
May he paid the two 10/. notes produced, and
14/. 7s. 6d. for a cheque drawn in the name of
Charles Hilford, on the part of the New River
Company ; but he could not tell to whom he paid
them.

Mr. Kempser, clerk in the Cashier's-office, Bank
of England, produced the two 101. notes in question,
Nos. 5,039 and 6,162, dated April the 26th, for
which he said he paid 201. in gold on the 24th of
May. The notes were paid in by some person who
wrote as his address upon the front of each, " John
Tebbut, 29, Austin-friars."
Mr. Tebbut, of 29, Austin-friars, attorney, stated
that the prisoner, who called himself Brown, was a
clerk in his employ about three years ago, and lived
with him about 18 months. He had frequently seen
the prisoner write, and believed the writing upon
the notes to be his.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Have you any doubt about it ?
Witness—Not the least. I can say with confidence
that the handwriting upon the produced notes is
the prisoner's. He produced a book containing
various entries by the prisoner, and corresponding
with the writing upon the notes.
Mr. Tebbut, in answer to questions put by the
Magistrate, said be had discharged the prisoner for
stealing books from his office to the amount of about
121., but did not prosecute on account of the respect
he entertained for the prisoner's father, who had
also been in his employ, but had since left him, and
is now conducting the business of a highly respect-
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prisoner, who had been employed by him as clerk
since he left Mr. Tebbut.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked under what circumstances
the prisoner quitted him.
Mr. Manning said the prisoner had robbed him of
books to a much larger amount than that mentioned
by Mr. Tebbut, but he did not know until afterwards
of his having robbed the latter. He discharged the
prisoner without prosecuting, however, on account of
rig father, whom he knew to be a respectable man.
Mr, BROUGHTON remarked, that the case seemed
perfectly clear as far as it went. The property was
stolen from the hotel between one and two o'clock,
and the nixes changed at the Bank for gold imme-
diately afterwards, and, as it appeared, by the pri-
soner, who was now proved to have written the
name and address of his former employer upon them.
To complete the evidence, however, they must have
Mr. Sparks, who was stated to have received the
notes at the banker's.
The depositions of the witnesses then present
were taken, and a time appointed for Mr. Sparks to
attend and give his evidence.
Watley, the officer, then produced a barometer
found in the possession of Mr. Richard Phillips, of
Addle-hill, to whom
it had been sold by the pri-
soner Solomons.

It was proved to have been stolen from the
George Inn, Smithfield, on the 14th or 15th of May.
The depositions were taken, and Solomons com-
mitted on this charge.

Brown was then finally examined for a robbery at
Mr. Michie's, the Spread Eagle Tavern, Oxford-
street.

The prisoner was committed upon' this charge,
and after some further proceedings, he and the
others were again remanded.
THAMES POLICE.
Mr. Cooper, steward of the Albion steam-vessel,
was summoned under very peculiar circumstances,
to show cause why he refused to pay the sum of
2/. 195., which Benjamin Blissenden, his fore-cabin
steward, claimed as arrears of wages due to him, at
the same time complaining that he hind been sud-
denly dismissed from his situation without previous
notice. _ _

Mr. Cooper had received repeated complaints
from the passengers of the bad quality of the ale,
beer, brandy,aand liquors sold in the fore cabin,

though he provided Blissenden with the most supe-
rior articles, and similar to what he disposed of to
the chief cabin passengers. The conduct of his under-
steward not being so correct as it ought to be, he
one day, during his absence, broke open his lockers,
and not only discovered that the brandy and liquors
had been watered, but the corks had been removed
from the bottled ale, stout, and porter, the contents
drawn off, and an inferior beverage substituted in
lieu of that he supplied him with. On the discovery
of this fraud, he instantly dismissed him, and the
Company had approved of what he had done. On his
sending to Blissenden for a book and other articles
he had kept back, he took out a summons for pre-
tended arrears. He declared that this was an at-
tempt to extort money; that Blissenden had not a
farthing due to him, and that he had paid him vari-
ous small sums, which he had regularly entered into
a memorandum-book in Blissenden's presence.
The items were read over, and the complainant
was questioned whether he had received them. He
at first denied that he had received any of the sums
entered, but on being closely pressed, admitted one
psyment, and bad some recollection of another.

Mr. BRODERIP did not like those prevarications.
It was not likely Mr. Cooper would enter sums he
had never paid, and he asked Blissenden if he was
not told on his dismissal that his lockers had been
broken open, and the adulterations detected.
The complainant said he had not; and on the
question being repeated, he gave the same answer.
He was then asked if this was the first he had heard
of it, and he swore it was. He was not aware un-
til that moment that his lockers were broken open,
and denied the adulterations.—The cook of the ves-
sel, and Hart, a waiter to Mr. Cooper, said they
were present when the lockers were broken open,
and that Blissenden was told by them and others
that his adulterations had been detected, and he was
fully aware of the cause of his dismissal.
Blissenden now said he was aware his lockers
were broken open, and he had misunderstood the
Magistrate's questions.
Mr. BRODERIP said, the questions were too plainly
put to be misunderstood, and the complainant had
so grossly prevaricated, he could not credit his tes-
timony. That the liquors had been adulterated he
had no doubt, and Mr. Cooper had acted very pro-
perly in dismissing Blissenden. He should not or-
der the payment of the arrears claimed, for it was
not clear they were owing, and he discharged the
summons.

11AT T ON-GARDEN,
Patrick O'Keefe was charged with having bitten
off the nose of James M'Carthy, and otherwise ill-
treated him.
The prosecutor, a young man, on Monday last
was at a public-house in the neighbourhood of
Gray's-inn-lane, where his wife and the prisoner's
sister quarrelled. He endeavoured to appease them
and prevent blows, when the prisoner entered the
place and struck him. Witness retreated into the
street, when he was followed by the prisoner, who
struck him repeatedly, and knocked him down. The
prisoner fell upon him, and seizing his nose between
his teeth, bit it clean off. Witness at the time,
and ever since, had endured the most acute agony,
and had been under the care of a doctor. He had
taken great pains to find that part of the nose that
was bitten off, under the impression that he could
have it stuck on, but he could find it no where, and
the prisoner had boasted of having swallowed it.
The unfortunate man was in great pain, and ex-
ceedii.gly depressed in consequence of his misfortune.
The prisoner, in his defence, said he heard that
the prosecutor and his wife were ill using his sister.
He did not deny having knocked him down, when
his nose came in contact with the curb-stone, but he
denied having bitten his nose off.
Mr. ROGERS.—You seem to have got the best of
it; you don't appear to have got a scratch, and this
unfortunate man has lost his nose.
O'Keefe.—l didn't bite his nose off, by G—d,
your Worship.
M'Carthy produced a witness who positively
swore that while the prisoner had him on the ground
the prosecutor exclaimed, " For God's sake don't
bite me if you strike me." He then saw him-with
his pose off, and bleeding profusely. He was taken
toille hospital.
Prosecutor's wife corroborated this.
Mr. ROGERS.—You are a savage monster. I
never in the whole course of my experience heard
of a more brutal or inhuman act. You might have
murdered the man, and you ought to be ashamed of
yourself.

lie was fined 5/., for which he was detained.
MARLB OR 0 UGH-STREET.

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Mrs. Peggy Costello and Mrs. Norah Tierney, a
brace of masculine Irish ladies, came before Mr.
CONANT to have their differences adjusted—the
main object, however, being to get Mrs. Norah
bound over to keep the " pace" with all his Ma-
jesty's subjects in general, and Mrs. Peggy in
particular.

The defendant is well known in Covent-garden
market as a professor of the art and craft of the
" tackle and ticket porters," engaging to carry any
thing under three hundred-weight, as basket-wo-
man; and the complainant, at the corner of a court
in St. Giles's, dispenses halfpenny bunches of " in-
gans" to the " pensive public."
Mrs. 'Costello had the advantage, as complainant,
of prior speaking, and appeared fully inclined to
have kept all the talk to herself, had not Mr.
Conant, the Magistrate, checked her manifold ex-
cursions into extraneous matter. Eventually it was
elicited that several skirmishes had occurred between
them, each time commenced by the defendant, who
completed the series of assaults on Sunday morning
by rushing upon her as she was passing the door,
tearing her cap from her head, and inflicting 10
handsome and well-meant scratches down her face
with her finger-nails.
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tatters.

" Cap for cap," retorted Mrs. Norah, capering
about the office, and shaking the ragged remnants of
gauze before the Magistrate.
"Be the oath," said Mrs. Peggy, " she was
drunk on that morning."
"Oa ! it's Mr. Buckland, the beadle, who'll
make a liar o' ye, Mishtress Costelloe. He knows
I'm never rale dhrunk but twice in my life—once
whin I was married, and once whin I waked my
husband, whom I'm married to these twinty years."
" I've got two wetnesses to take oath of it, yer
Wurtchip," said Mrs. Peggy.
_ .

" Don't let 'em in, yer Honour," said Mrs. Norah,
" thim two helped to murther me on Sunday morn-
ing, and now they want to take away me life agin."
" Hold your tongue," said the Magistrate.
" And why will I hoult me tongue," said Mrs.
Norah, " whin they're going to hang me ?"
" Well," said the Magistrate, " let me hear your
story ?"

" Thin, yer Wurtchip," said Mrs. Norah, " on
Sunday morning I came home wid me basket, and
as I had'nt time to wash a clime cap, I says to me
childer, Biddy,' says I, go and get the loan of the
bellows,' for I wanted to cook a few paratees, and
may be, my darling,' says I, ' as Mishtress Costilloe
has been at an Irish wake, she'll be dhrunk, and
)e'll borry the sasspan too.' Thin did'nt I hear
Biddy cry murther, and says I, Och, they're killing
you, me darling, and nobody but meself to save you?
Wid that I claps the taste taste of coal, about as big
as me two fistes, into the toe of an ould stocking,
and may be 1 did'nt give Mishtress Costilloe a nate
wipe wid it. But, me Lord, she came wid two fay-
males, and trew herself on me, and bate the life out
of me, and me houlding me head down, bekase I
wid'nt get a scraped face. And now, Mishtress
Co stilloe,' says I,' I've got the breath into me agin,
now I'll have fair play wid ye. So come down into
the coort and have it ont, and this is the thing to
do it,' says I, showing her me fist. But, yer Von-
chip, she wid'nt come down, but goes and gets a
warrant, and takea me into the prisence."
The Magistrate, finding one party almost as much
in fault as the ocher, dismissed the warrant, upon the
defendant's paying a portion of the costs.