The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.— Thornley, who was some days
ago brought up, charged upon suspicion of having broken
open the Swansea Bank, was re-examined. Two witnesses
appeared from the country, the one from Swansea, the
other the waiter of the house at Black Rock Ferry, near
Bristol, to which the four persons who robbed the bank
were traced. Those persons stated that the prisoner was
not one of the four.
Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Society of Bankers, stated
that as tha robbery of the Bank had been effected on the
evening of Sunday, the 17th, and as the 50/. note found
upon the prisoner was, it could be proved, obtained on the
18th in the morning, at the Bank of England by that
person, it was impossible that he could have been con-
cerned on the spot in the robbery. It also appeared that
the four persons alluded to had been traced to Birmingham
on the 19th of February.
It is a remarkable fact, that Thornley had obtained, on
the morning of the 18th, between 150/. and 2001. in sove-
reigns for notes, at the Bank of England. He was dis-
charged.
GUILDHALL.-=-An examination was resumed respect-
ing the illegal arrest for debt of Mr. Jones and Mr. Man-
sel, two special pleaders, of the Middle Temple. The
inquiry commenced on Monday, and the statements were
of suds length that we can only spare room for a brief
outline of them.
It was stated that in September last Mr. Jones and Mr.
Mansel moved the exclusion from a society of which they
are brothers, of a certain person, who was not named, on
the ground that he was, and had been for years past, a no-
torious swindler. The motion was adopted, but it was ne-
cessary that it should be confirmed at the next monthly
meeting. To prevent the attendance of these gentlemen to
press the confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting,
the swindler instigated some person to swear that they owed
him 5001. A latitat was obtained on the 17th of October,
and was enforced on the 20th, on the night of which the
society met; the gentlemen were arrested in the morning,
and one was detained in custody till 1) at night, the other
till the next morning. The writ stated that the gentlemen
were indebted 500/. to one Jonathan Clark, a personage to
whom they owed not a single farthing, and of whom indeed
they had never heard before. Messrs. Jones and Mansel
preferred a bill before the grand jury at the next Old Bailey
sessions against this Jonathan Clark, for wilful perjury, in
swearing before the signers of the write to the alleged debt,
and an indictMent being duly found, the Recorder and Mr.
Alderman Thompson immediately issued a warrant for
his apprehension, and on Monday last Mr. William One-
siphon's Wild, of Exmouth-street, Spafields, was brought
to Guildhall, on suspicion of being the person who had re-
presented himself to be Jonathan Clark.
To ascertain whether he was the party, the attorney who
prepared the affidavit of debt, and accompanied Jonathan
to the signer's office, and also another attorney, who had
introduced Jonathan to the one before mentioned, were called.
Mr. Thomas Spencer, of Wellington-street, Newington,
attorney, said, that on the 15th of October, he met io
Barbican with Jonathan Latimer Clark, a bill-broker, of
Chart-street, lioxton, whom he had known about eight
years. Jonathan said he would employ him to arrest two
persons. Witness told him he had not taken out his cer-
tificate that year, but would recommend him to Mr.
Henry Leech, an attorney, in Thornhaugh-street. They
met on the business the following morning (Sunday), and,
in the afternoon, witness called on Mr. Leech, told him the
business, and, by appointment, himself, Mr. Leech, and
Jonathan, met next day at the Goose and Gridiron, St.
Paul's Church-yard, and adjourned from thence to the
Blue Posts, in Shoe-lane, where the affidavit was drawn
up, and Jonathan and Mr. Leech went away together to
swear it. Jonathan represented that a gentleman had en-
trusted him with 5001., to buy Iron and Gas Company
Shares ; that he had given the money to Messrs. Jones and
Mansel to be so appropriated, and a week having elapsed
without any thing having been done, the gentleman threat-
ened to arrest him (Jonathan) for the amount. Three or
four days after, as he was going to Leech's, he met Clark
in Gower-street. Clark produced Leech's bill (Si. 10s.),
and said he had just been settling it. Upon his soul and
body, he had faith in Clark's story about the debt at the
time he heard it. Clark did not mention the name of Mr.
Richard Coster, of Staining-lane, as the party to whom
the 5001. belonged. Witness had heard of this Mr. Coster
as a man among the Jews—a man upon the town. The
prisoner Wild was not the said Mr. Clark, who was a tall
stout swarthy man of 50 years of age,
Mr. Leech's statement was, that he sued opt the process
believing Clark's story to be true, and that he had not seen
Clark either before or since thel7ih 'of October. That he
was all the costs of process out of pocket, and had been
saddled with 101. costs in addition, through having spelled
Mr. Mansel's name in the writ with a double 1. He some-
what doubtingly deposed that Wild was not the person who
had employed him.
Wild himself stoutly asserted that he knew nothing of
the business, or any of the patties in it, and
Sir PETER LAURIE, after a long and careful examina-
tion of the witnesses, dismissed him.
, It was mentioned, that the same trick of arresting upon
a fictitious debt had been played by a man named Taylor,
against a person named Sharp, to prevent him from col-
lecting evidence to support an action for trim. con.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, a man named James
Walsh, a miserable-looking being, in the dress worn by the
prisoners in the House of Correction, applied to the Magi-
strates for relief, alleging that he was in a state bordering
on starvation, and that he knew no means of obtaining a
subsistence, having outlived his friends and relatives. He
had, he said, for the greater part of his life, served in the

navy, and was engaged in several battles, but when his ser-
♦ices were no longer available " he was sent adrift without
a shot in the locker."

Sir R. BIRNIE expressed his surprise at this, and asked
the applicant if he had not a pension.
The old man shook his head, and replied in the nega-
tive, adding, that the garb in which he then appeared was
not that exactly to which his services were entitled. ,
Sir R. BIRNIE asked the cause of hisbeing sent to prison.
" I was sent,, your Honour, for no crime, thank God,"
said the old man ; "but being unable to obtain a mouthful

of food, my necessity was so great, that I was compelled to
ask alms of the passengers, and for so doino. I was taken
up by an officer, and sent to the House of Correction as a
vagrant, where I remained until yesterday, when I was dis-
charged. But what am Ito do?" continued the poor man.
" I am willing to work as far as my age will allow me,
but without employment, I must turn to begging again."
Mr. MtNsnuLL, after observing that the applicant's case
appeared to be a very hard one, asked him where was his
parish ?—The applicant replied, that being an Irish Man by
birth, he had never acquired a settlement in England. "If
I were passed to Ireland, your Honour," said he, " I might
perhaps find something to do ; or at any rate I would die
contented in my native place."

Mr. AlmsHuLL observed, that the feelings of the applicant
did him credit, as unlike many others, similarly situated, he
did not appear to be desirous to be a burden to any parish.
" Where did you sleep last night, my poor man ?" inquired
the Magistrate,

In the open air, your Honbur," replied the old Nan.
had no means of obtaining a lodging, and even ifl had,"
looking down at his prison dress, " I should have 'found
some difficulty to get a bed in these clothes."
Mr. MINtHULT. directed that the applicant should be
supplied with money to procure a lodging in order to entitle
him to be passed to his native country ; and a gentleman,
who was on the bench, kindly increased the donation.

HATTON-GARDEN. —James Barton alias Frederick
Vanderville, surgeon-dentist, formerly residing in Charles-
street, Hatton garden, was yesterday brought up to this
office before the sitting magistrates, Mr. Sergeant SEr.LoN
and Mr. Lama, charged' on Suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the late robbery on Sir George Tarrant, at 52,
Upper Brook-street, Grosvenor-square.
Waddington, an efficient officer of this establishment,
and Thompson, one of the Bow-street patrol, stated that
on Sunday morning last, while passing along Theobald'a-
road, they perceived the prisoner in the act of carrying on
his shoulder three elegantly wrought steel fenders and two
standers. Knowing him to be a reputed felon, and to
have been some time ago committed for three months, from
this office to the House of Correction, for having been
found concealed, with intent to commit a robbery, in the
area of a house on the Foundling Estate, they immediately
stopped him and took him into custody. They then in-
quired of hint whence lie had brought the fenders, and
in what manner lie became possessed of them, to
which he replied that he brought them from a house
in Lincoln's Inn-fields, where he had purchased them,
on the preceding Saturday, at a public sale. Upon
further inquiry it afterwards appeared, however, that this
was not the fact, and he then altered his position by finally
averring that he had been employed by seine person whose
name, character, or place of residence he was wholly unac-
quainted with, to carry them for hire. His person was
then searched, and there was found upon him a large valu-
able silver watch, with some other articles of trifling im-
portance..

The prisoner stated to the naagistrates that he was by
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rofession a dentist, and that he became possessed of the
fenders in the manner last represented. Me claimed the
watch as his own, and -requested that it might be re-
stored to him; but Mr. LAING refused to comply with
his request.

The fenders having been examined, two of them appear-