The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-25 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

These Sessions were yesterday held at the Town
Han, in the I,4orough before the Lord Mayor,
Recorder, Sir John Hamer, and other Aldermen,
Catherine Shaw, aged 12, and Noraif Lee, a
child of about eight years. of age, were indicted
for stealing a quantity- of tobacco from the ware-
hunse of Soloinon.Davis, .sq. High-street, in the
lioron.gh. . ,

The prosecutor stated, that be carried on an
extensive manufactory, and was daily subjected
to losses of the most alarming kind. The two
pt isoners were engaged by some of the men in big
warehouse, and having been informed of the con-
cealment of some bags of tobacco by the elder
prisoner, he bad her watched, and upon leaving
the premises, searched her, when a large bag of
tobacco was found concealed in her apron. Dur-
ing the search the younger prisoner contrived to
escape to the privy, where she threw clown a
quantil ot tobacco. This fact, however, could
not be established.

The RacoßDea, in addressing the Jury, lament-
ed the depravity manifested by such yonng_cha-
racters, encouraged, no doubt, by their parents,
or some experienced thieves.
The Jury acquitted Norah Lee, but found Ca-
therine Shasst
A few other cases of assault and _misdemeanour
were tried; after which the Sessions adjourned.

POLICE INTELLICENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Pußuc-FlovsE.PpEAT;ciANs.—A man, named
Spear, ‘010•4a barber by trade, summoned a
her-
son of respectable appearance for an assault•
had, he said,, be ti beaten in :a public-room 4 the
defendant, for no other:offence than that of say-.
inghc.wisled:the English were all driven ont of
France at the point of the bAyonet, byTwhieh lie
it meant, that the nation wr»ld be bee6.tcd by the
return of the wealthy En;::ish persons so long re-
sident in a country where they • spent all their
money; and that be amongst the rest weld(' be
serval by the return of froMe rniiit try etistomer,,
who left England a considerable number .Of
links in-hi 4 debt.

. .
The defendant said, the harper had not only
used the words just repeated, and which were
mentioned in a very
.-aggravating way, but also
applied epitriets to brim which were as severe a

Personal 4114111( ity tl e 3:l:Cr3 Patin! 111 eOll-
- ltt v
‘VI4 ;hook tie balbt:.;,
not strike It
Allin'yrpe'rsons F. appearance
firincd this- avd thwit...ll inirber
swaS habit of accolom'o(!lting to the
• of his tlifft:rerit clisti:lners, by titteri;l4 see
Oitiotts s'entintents 1(1 so,ne, and 1:,,,:11 to outteri,
he oft eit got I,i(t).seif bit() scrapes by his provoking
totigue.--:-The ease tr,,S (!stnitsetl.

EVOi:ti,:::r..s f~i E I'.

AN6 ATTIF.;',IPTED :_itubtnr,—Yester-
day William Jon s, a %V•eit er kind shuttle-maker,
residing in liethn,d-gr._,eil, was clvirged by Samuel.
Kemp, CilVer, aisinliting
.tll4 ihreatvplifig his life.
Mr. Kcnip stated, that on Thursday evening
he Was sitting comfortabiy with hi, fancily,
the prkoner came and tequested to spei.,k to him,
Witness stood lip and %vent towards the door,
when the prisoner accused him of liirbourifir, his
wife; an altercation ensued, and the prisoner,
tvho was on the outside oldie door, threw a stone,
which was at least 51b. at him. The prisoner was
secured and sent to the watch-house, when he
swore he svould take the life of his wife as well as
that of the witness. The wife canie•to the office
in the evening to complain against
Prisoner flew into a violent rage, and, with
dreadful oaths, declared Mr. Kemp had seduced
his wife, harboured her in his house, and for a
considerable time past made her his bed-fellow,
by which he ruined h s (prisoner's) family ; and
not only his family, lint another tradesman's fa-
mily, whose ss ife he had also seduced, having pre;-
vionsly turned away his own wife.
Kennedy OR: Officer-1 saw you yesterday,
soner, at a vnblic-house, diinking with your wife.
Prisoner—Yes, I met her and Wonld forgive
her and take her home, becanSe if know her limo-,
cence,and that,she not aware of the injury dmie
to her family, or even that she is doing wrong
but the villain prevented her going home, Mid sha
went to him again.--blare the prisoner became
apparently frantic, and clenched his fist, 'meting
the most dreadful oaths and threats to Mr. Kemp.)
The prisoner's daughter, a girl about seventeen,
said her mother was quite innocent.
Magistrate—Mr. Jones, the only charge against
you is for assaulting Mr. Kemp. 1 have nothing,
to do here with what provoked you to do so ;
therefore you must find hail for the assau!t.

. The. prisoner became extremely outrageous, a►rc/
it required five of the officers to remove him from
the bar into the strong.room,.•where they had no
sooner turned their backs, than he pulled a knife
from his pocket, and cut his throat dreritlftly.
One of the officers happened to look back before
the door Lad been closed, and seeing the blood
flowing, gave the alarm, and sprung .upon him.
Garten, the gaoler, then forced the knife from I,is
grasp ; he was again overpowered, and taken into
a room in the public-house, where a 'stikgeon teas•
inimcdiately Sent for, who with great difficulty
dressed the wound, and reported it not to be
mortal. The unhappy titan still declaring be
w0411:1 destroy himsdf, the I\.lazistrate ordered him,
to be taken to Clei.kenw, 11 Infirmary. -

QUEEN-SQUARE.

CHAIIGEt OF COINING —Wifflan! Loive, of
cer-st rear, Long-Acre, and his tsru sons, Josepli
-nod Titoma, Lowe, cheirvl with cr.,ining
Ten. Cent. pieces, svere brought up for a turthe;-
(Atnination. No fur' her evidence was hrouv,lit
lot ward against the ptisonerf,, so that at present
there is no proof of any thing more than tliat so
pinch foreign coin iieis been found in the f:itticr's
possession. In answer to a question from the
Magistrate, what past of the cottony he came
from i he answered, that he was front Stafford 7
shire ; was born within a few miles of Mr. II ,1-
ton's, Soho, and set yea his tune or apprentice-
ship at that manufactory. He declared he had no
intent nor idea of harm in making the piee,s, but
did it merely in the way of business.' William
Lowe, the father, was remanded, and the two
sons discharged.—Benjamin -P. Capper, Esq. of
the Alien office, attended On the part of the prose-
cution. _