The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET._.On Saturday John Green and
Edward Gerald were brought up for examination, the
former charged with stealing several ends of cloth, the pro-
perty of his master, Mr. Gustardi a draper, raiding in
Bedford-street, Covent-garden, and the latter with inciting
him to commit the said robbery, and receiving part of the
property, knowing it to have been stolen.
Both prisoners were 'remanded for a week, to give the
prosecutor time to make further inquiries.
A fellow named :William Gent was brought up on a
*arrant, charged with. cruelly ill-treating his wife. The
CoMplainant,,, a very decent-looking woman, who was
scarcely able to stand in consequence of the injuries she
hal sustained from the defendant's violent conduct towards
her, stated that she had been married
.to him about ten
years, and that latterly his•conduct bad bees violent in the
extreme. Last Wednesday evening on his returning home
from chapel, he beat her first with his fist,, and afterwards
knocked her down a chair, with which he continued strik-
ing her until she was covered with bruises from head to
foot. She also sustained a very serious internal injury
from the effects of which she was not likely to recover for
a considerable time.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, commenced by
stating, " I had been to a meeting of an hoxiliary mis-
sionary society, your Worship."
Mr. Ilm.rs—Don't talk to me, fellow, about missionary
societies. A wretch who could treat his wife in the brutal
manner you have done is a disgrace to any society.
Defendant coutinued—And when I left chapel one of
the members and myself had a few glasses of gin together,
and then I went home, and laid down on the bed, as I was
very sleepy, but my wife would not let me lie, and so I
admit I was provoked to thrash her.
Mr. HALLS—AniI so, after attending these missionary
meetings, you and the members go to the public-houses
and get drunk, and then beat your wives. You must find
bail, and I hope your wife will exhibit articles of the peace
against you.
The defendant was then locked up ; and the unfortunate
complainant was led out of the office apparently in a dying.
state.

TUE LATE SINGULAR FRAUD. two of the morning.
papers of Saturday there is a lohg account of a conversation
between. Mr. Horatio Philippe, the bookseller, and the ma.
gistrate, at Bow-street, respecting, the affair in which
Messrs. Sparrow, Earle, and Leitch, are mixed up.
We can'safely assert that no application or conversation
between Mr. Philippe and Mr. Halls passed at all on the
subject. It is true that some circumstances were stated by
Mr. Philipps in his own shop when some gentlemen were
present, but not at Bow-street.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday the pro-
prietors of= several houses in Frith-street, Soho-square,
were brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting magistrate,
under warrants, to compel them to enter into sureties for
their appearance at the approaching sessions, to answer
bills of indictment then to be preferred against them at
the instance of the parish authorities of St. Ann's, Soho,
for keeping disorderly houses, or, in other words, common
brothels.
Mr. Allen, jun., attended on the part of the parish, to
inquire into the sufficiency of the sureties to be required,
and a great number of the respectable inhabitants of Frith-
street and that neighbourhood, who are dreadfully annoyed
by the nuisance of these houses, were present to watch' the
proceedings:
The first two persons placed before the magistrate were
Thonias' Mennen and Mary, his wife, the admitted pro-
prietors of the house No. 44, in Frith-street, and they
were called upon to enter into recognizances, themselves
in 401. each, and two sureties, responsible householders,
to be bound for each, each householder also in the sum
of 401.

The next couple were William Vinter and Mary, his
wife, the acknowledged proprietors of the house No. 21,:in
Frith-street, and they were ordered to enter into the like
recognizances as ie the first ease.
Next came George James and Anne, his wife, the ad-
mitted proprietors of the house No. 21 A, in Frith-street,
the same in which the family of the Goddards performed
so extraordinaty a scene a few days ago ; and here the par-
ties were also required to procure similar sureties as in the
two former cases.
This last house and the adjoining one, No. 21, were ori-
ginally one mansion, where Velno's Vegetable Syrup was
first manufactured ; but after the removal of the manufac-
tory some years ago to Berners-street, Oxford-street,,this
building was divided into two distinct houses, now num-
bered 21, and
,21 A.
In the coarse of the day all the above parties having pro-
cured the necessary hail, and entered into their recogni-
zanees, they were discharged out of custody. •
The persons who bailed those individuals were Mr. •
Martin, a cheesemonger; Mr. Webster, a chandler; Mr.
Bennet, a glass-cutter; and Mr. Bernard, a butcher, who.
each became reponsible in double recugnizances ; this is 80/.
There are several other proprietors of houses in the same
street still to be brought forward ; and Mr. Allen ex-
pressed the determination of the parish authorities to sup-
press this nest of brothels, by prosecuting the law against
them to the temost.

Mr. .I.ones, a pawnbroker, appeared to answer an infor-
mation Keferred against him by Atkinson, . the noted in-
former, for taking more than the legal interest on a pledge ;
but Atkinson totally tailed in his proof, and be had to pay
all the costs,—a circumstance upon which Sir George Far-
rant, the Magistrate, congratulated him.
Margaret Stark, in custody upon a charge of deserting
a female infant not more than four months old, by leaving
it exposed in the street at night, was brought up for final
examination.
A constable belonging to'St. Giles's parish, to the work-
house of which the poor infant was discovered, stated that
the child had died on Thursday last, and an inquest had
been held on the body, when the jury returned a verdict
" that the child had died of disease, brought on from ex-
posure to the cold air by its mother." The jury, the
constable said, had deliberated for five hours, as to whether
or not they should bring in a verdict of " manslaughter"
against the prisoner ; but as it was, the parish were,deter-
mined to prosecute her for the desertion.
The prisoner was ordered to give 48 hours notice of bail.
A very respectable-looking well-dressed man, of middle
age, named Charles Archer, was charged with begging in
the streets.
One of the constables of St. James's parish stated that
he saw the prisoner ask charity of a gentleman in the street.
The prisoner addressed the Magistrate with much fluency,
and contended, that although he might have asked for a
little temporary relief for himself and his family from a
passer by, he was not therefore, a fit subject for punish-
ment under the vagrant laws. He bad been, he said, for
many years a respectable and respected tradesman in the
City of London, and had five apprentices of his own at one
time, and every body who knew him respected and esteemed
him still, although he' had fallen into decayed circum-
stances. On Monday next he is to enter, he said, upon a
situation as clerk in the manufactory of Mr. Browne, of
New-street square, Bethnal-green, which will enable him
to support his wife and four children respectably, and it
was nothing but their immediate necessities that could urge
him to ask charity of any one; it would, therefore, he
said, in the most emphatic manner, be a shame and a
scandal to send such a man as he was to prison as a vagrant.
After the prisoner had concluded a very long and loud
harangue, Plank, the chief officer, said, that he was re-
luctant to interfere to the prejudice of a person of the pri-
.eoner's appearance ; but when the prisoner talked so largely,
he ought to have recollected that he was at this office once
before on precisely a similar charge to the present, and that he
then told exactly the same story about getting a situation as
clerk, &c. that he told now ; and from his appearance and
manner, he was then discharged without any inquiry being
made as to the truth or falsehood of his statement.
The prisoner admitted that he had been here before under
similar circumstances to the present, but he then, as now,
told the truth ; he did get a situation at that time which
lie held until lately, but now lie was again (not from any
fault of his) thrown out of employment.
Mr. DYER. said, that on this occasion he should certainly
have inquiry made as to the truth of the prisoner's state-
ment before lie parted with him, and despatched a constable
for that purpose,
who, on his return, reported that Mr.
Browne bad certainly engaged the prisoner to go into his
service on Monday next, and his wife and family did live,
as he said, at Red Lion Wharf.
Mr. DYER then discharged the prisoner, and advised him
to continue in the situation he was going to on Monday,
and by his own exertions prevent the disgrace of his again
begging in the streets.

James Springett, a tailor, residing in Dean-street,:Soho
was brought to the office upon a warrant, charged with ut,
saulting a youth, named Joseph Pit.
The complainant stated, that he is in the set vice.of 111
Turner, a button-manufacturer, in Hatton-garden ; and
on Thursday list, by the directions of his ouster, he.called
upon Mr. Springett for the payment of IL lbs, due to Mr.
Turner, but Mr. Springett said that he could not then, pa)
the demand. Complainant ventured to urge the defendant
for payment, observing, that it was very inconvenient, to hi
sending so far for such a trifle, and that this was about tin-
fiftieth time that Mr. Turner had either called or sent.fot
it, which was the fact ; upon which the defendant seized
him with great violence, shoved him up against the wall, and
kicked him with great force out of the shop; much so,