The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-17 00:00:00

LAMBETH STREET.

Yesterday Ja;;;;211;;;;;th, an ostler at the Bell and
Mackarell Inn, in the Mile-end-road, was brought before
Mr. Walker for final examination, on a charge of feloniously
receiving forty bunches of turnips, the property of Mr.
Mason, a farmer, in Essex.
The facts having been deposed to by police constables K
254 and 59, and Mr. Mason, the owner of the stolen pro-
perty. Mr. Walker committed the prisoner to the House
of Correction for two months.
Previous to the removal of the prisoner from the bar
a Mr. Dunstan, his landlord, stood forward, and said he
had known the prisoner, who was his tenant, for a long
time, and had always found him to be a very honest man,
and he conscientiously believed that the charge against him
was a trumped-up one, and his apprehension was owing to
the officiousness of one individual.
Mr. WALKER expressed some surprise at the observations
of the last speaker, or that there should be the slightest
doubt on the mind of any person after what had been sworn
to by the witnesses of the prisoner's guilt.
A Mr. Goodlad, a schoolmaster, here stood forward, and
said that as he was the person alluded to by Mr. Dunstan,
as being officious in the present matter, he hoped his Wor-
ship would hear him. He stated that in consequence of
the repeated instances of the dishonest practices which he
witnessed between the servants at the Mackarell and the
farmers' waggoners, he felt it to be his duty to apprise the
police of them, and the result was the detection of the pri-
soner and the other parties. When the prisoner had re-
turned to his situation about seven months since, his (Mr.
Goodlad's) impression was that he had served a term of
imprisonment for his offence, and consequently he did not
feel it to be his duty to interfere in the matter. Much,
however, to his surprise, he had discovered in a conversa-
tion which he had with a policeman that the prisoner had
not only not been punished, but had never been brought
before a Magistrate, though the fact of his absconding for
the offence and his returning to his situation was not only
well known to the two policemen K 254 and K 259, but to
Mr. Morris, their superintendant, and one of the in-
tors • and it was not until he (Mr. Goodlad) had made
spec ,
application to a second inspector, and expressed his deter-

mipation to have the prisoner brought to justice, that the
prisuriei it;ag itftt o+l4 edy, •
Mr. Goodlad then asked the constable f= 59 why it was
he had not apprehended the prisoner on his return id his
situation seven months ago, and brought him to justice?
The policeman considered the case to belong to his brother
efteet Dat'is; and therefore he did not wish to interfere.
Mr. Cloudlad should feel it to be his duty to write to
Lord John Russell, and acquaint him with all the facts of
CAW ; for if officers in high, as well as low, station in
the police were as capable, as in this instance, of lending
ihettigelVet ftit m.sons best known. to them, to screen a cri-
minal from justice, the Decrier they made room for others
the better,

The prisoner WAS then committed for two months.

GAINSBO►UOUGII.

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In levelling Lord-stiect, in Gainsborough, in which
it was considered n&6Agat'y tO lower the West end about
two feet, a considerable number of human bones were dis-
covered; which; from the irregular manner in which they
were laid, there Is reason to suppose must have been the
consequence of some skirmish i not, however, any regular
engagement, as appears from the comparatively small num-
ber of them. only very few articles were found to enable
us to conjecture at what titild Al had beeii deposited there.
An iron pencil-ease, on the top of whiell appears a crowned
head, perhaps dri4 of the Henrys, may lead to the supposi-
tion that it must have been during some of disturbances
which took place in that unsettled period, but of waL.:ch we
have do decOtitits In the immediate neighbourhood tioon
a Catholic chapel, though the site of the discovery does not
appear to have been a burying-ground nttache'd thereto,
owing to the irregular disposition of the bones found. In
Stark's " History of' Ciainsborough" it is mentioned that, in
making a drain in Lord-street, a similar discovery of dead
bodies was made, " which appeared to lion been promis-
euously interred, as if of persons who had fallen iii battle,"
and which he geettis to suppose took place in 1643, when
the town surrendered to the duke of" Newcastle, and from
the loose manner in which the capitulation was drawn up
or darried Into execution, the prisoners in the absence of all
restraint began to pillage the inhabitants, which the Duke's
soldiers perceiving, soon joined in. The pillage continued
for some time, despite the attempts made to suppress it ;
and it may be that numerous murders were perpetrated,
and the bodies afterwards promiscuously interred in this
spot, a suspicion which is rendered not unlikely from the
circumstance of no weapons of war having been found with
the remains.—Hull Observer.