The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOME.—A rough-looking fellow, about
twenty years of age, named Itiadrd flimmitigima Prier,
was charged With vitdetitly assaulting' his own father, and
threatening to take away his life. - •
• the bid man, whose name is Richard Price, was a sawyer,
and resided in Skinner-street. The prisoner was 'in idle,
dissolute fellow, and would not work ; tend he had Once
before been Compelled to have him takers into custody. For
a length of time past the prisoner- had been a- complete
burden, to him, toi. he had been compelled to !keep him,
aithough he was but very ill alsW to keep himself.' Not-
withstanding this,. however, he could find money to get
drunk with, and was 'in the habit of coming home all hours
of the night in a state of drunkenness, and then he alWays
set 'about abusing his father ati'd assaidtini brr
Tuesday night the OtAdrier came home about twelve o'clock
in hiS bsital drunken state, and, because lie (the father)
remonstrated with him on his conduct, he made no more
to do than to knock him down and strike him several
times. He was about to give him in charge at that time,
but the prisoner became a little quiet ; however, between
one and two o'clock in the morning he again broke out,
and seized his father by the throat, swearing by the most
horrid oaths that he would throttle bins ! The watchman
was then sent for; but he resisted being taken by every
Means its his power, kicked the watchman,, broke his
lantern, &c. •
The landlord of the house confirmed the father's statement,

The prisoner, being (gilled upon to ansoer the charge re-
plied very coolly, " Why, I am sorry for it.°
He was committed to the Compter for want of bail.
Dennis Griffin and Eliza Griffin, his wife, two
beautiful natives of the Sister Isle, were charged with cre-
ating a disturbance in the house of Mr. Uugh Dutfey, who
keeps the sign of the Black Horse in Petticoat-lane.
On Tuesday afternoon the prisoners came into his house
arid called for a pot of porter; but, before he delivered it,
the male prisoner told him that lie had not got any money
to pay for it. " Why then you cannot expect to Lave it,"
replied Mr. Duffey, " for I should have plenty of cus-
tomers of your description if I went on in that way." The
prisoners then tried all they could, first by fair means, and
then by noise, to get the beer; but, finding it of no use,
the female prisoner set about calumniating Mrs. Duffey.
She called her all the delicate names she could bring her
tongue to bear, and, finally, summed up the whole by de-
claring aloud that the female inside the bar was not Mr.
Duffey's wife, but that she was, in fact, the wife of the
male prisoner, which she could prove to be the case ; and
that she was living with Mr. Duffey, although she bad
a husband alive. This attack, of course, soon raised Mrs.
Duffey's courage, and forth she came to meet the charge,
and have vengeance on her calumniator; " and,"said Mr.
Duffey, " I don't know what the.conseqUence might have
been if I had not just stepped in between them to avoid a
combat, which I did, and then sent for an officer, to whom
I gave both prisoners in charge." •
Mr. Hobler inquired if 'there was any truth in the
female prisoner's assertion, regarding Isles. Duffey.—Mr.
Dulley—God bless you, not ithe least ; the prisoners know
nothing of me or my wife, or we of them.

The prisoners being called upon for their defence, the
female commenced by saying that she had been drinking
and the liquor went up into her head, and she did not
know exactly what she might have said.

The LORD MAYOR 'Saia it was an infamous thing for
two wretches like these to go into
,a public-house, and, be-
cause the landlord would not give them beer, to publicly
traduce the character of his wife in this way. He recom-
mended them to be cautious how they played off such a
trick again, as it might not prove to be a joke.—The
prisoners were then discharged.

GUILDHALL.—Yestenlay, John Keen, a respectable-
looking, middle-aged man, was brought up before the
Sitting Aldermen, Sir Jout.l PEKRING, Bart., and ---
FAREBROTHER, Esq., for re-examination on a charge of
obtaining goods to considerable amounts, under false pre-
'tem-Cs, from different tradesmen. The case excited con-
siderable 'interest, and the Justice:.room, during . the exami-
nation, was crowded. .

From the evidence of a Mr. Adams, it appeared that •he
is a watchmaker, carrying. on business in St. John's-
square, Clerkenvrell. In December last the prisoner called
upon him, and produced a letter purporting to be.from his
(the.prisoner's) brother, Win, Kean, whom he represented
to be a pawnbroker and salesman, living at Louth, in Lin-
colnshire. The purport of the letter was to obtain some
samples of watches, such as would be fit for the Lincoln-
shire market. •The watches were to be sent down to his
brother, at Louth, and to be paid for or returned when he
should have seen them. -The prisoner then represented
himself as a provision-merchant at Dock-head, and also
to be in the corm trade. As Mr.- Admits had seen the
name of Kean written up at Dock-head, in going up and
down the river, he considered that the prisoner was a re-
spectable man, and he accordingly sent the watches to
the priioner's warehouse at St. Saviour's Dock, Dock-
head. Shortly after• he received private information
that the watches had been pawned, and lie was also given
to understand that there was no such person as William
Kean, a pawnbroker or salesman, residing at Louth, Mr.
Adams applied for paynient, but could not obtain it. The
only proof whieu Mr. Adams produced to-day to shoW
that there was no such person as William Kean at Louth,
was a letter from a person named Jackson, a resident of
Louth, who positively stated that no such person as Wm.
Kean, either as pawnbroker, silversmith, or salesman, was
resident at Louth.

As the hand-writing to-the letter from Louth could not
be proved, it could not be admitted as evidence, and fur-
ther time'was given to Mr. Adams.to.cOmplete his case, by
bringing forward positive testimony to prove that no such
person as William Kean resided at Louth.

The next person who came forward to prefer
,a charge
against the prisoner was a Mr. John Moore, of Clerken-
well-close, a clock-maker. He stated that on the 3d of
December last the, prisoner came to his house and ordered a
spring dial, to be paid for on delivery. The dial was
taken to the prisoner's warehouse at Dock-head, and:when
the man asked for payment,, the prisoner pretended to be in
a very great passion that he 'should be suspected as uot be-
ing able to pay. He then:gave the man who took the
spring dial to him a bill at 14 days, as a security for the
'payment, and telling the man at the Um(' time that he
would call on his master on the Saturday and pay for the
dial. The bill was drawn upon Williain'Kean, of East-
gate, Louth. The bill appeared to be accepted, only that
the acceptor had omitted to sign:his name. The bill was
mask payable at Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co.'s. The,
bill was returned, with the words "no advice" written on
it. Witness then 'traced the dial into the possession of
Mr. Kirkham, a pawnbroker in the Borough, and disco-
vered that it had been pledged on the very day on which it
was sent to the prisoner.
The ahopman. who took the dial to the prisoner's ware-
house corroborated the whole of his master's testimony.
To complete this case, further evidence was required of
Mr. Moore as to the conversion of the property, and also to
negative the assertion that there was such it person as W.
Kean residing at Louth. Mr. Moore was allowed a week
to bring forward that propf.
Mr. Atsoss, a tobacconist, residing in Rosemary lane,
preferred the next charge against the prisoner. Ile said
that the prisoner hal been recommended ,to him by a person
named King. The prisoner ordered snuff from him to the
amqunt of 16/. odd, arid, in payment, ,gave him a bill
drawn upon a person named David Dickenson, of Boston,
in Lincolnshire ; and the bill was made payable at Messrs.
POcklington's of Sinithfield, due in 14 days. On inquiry
at Messrs. Pocklington's the parties were not known to
them, and they told him that it must be a swindling trans-
action—A week for further inquiry was given to Mr.
Amoss.

Roger Roden, a draper, lives in. Panton-square, Hay-
market. He had a customer of the name of Joyce, a tailor,
who had lived in his neighbourhood'. Joyce had run up an
.account with him for goods to the amount of 601. Witness
received from Joyce a bill for 161., drawn 'by the prisoner
Kean upon a person' named Webb, at Biriningharn:. Upon
inquiry tor the prisoner at' Dock-head, be lbtind that'he
had removed from thence. The bill was sent 'down to
Birmingham to be paid, but no such pertain as Webb could
be found there.
No other.person coming forward to prefer any further
charge,
Mr. Alderman FARE/MOTHER said that it would he ne-
cessary for the ends of justice to remand the prisoner for
another week, in order to give the different parties time to
bring forward the evidence which Was necessary to com-
plete their several cases.---The prisoner was then rocked up.
A youth, of the name of George, Grores, was fullY com-
mitted to take his trial for picking the pocket of a gentle—
man named Tihbett. After the prisoner was locked up,
Mr. Tibbett said that he had a complaint. to „take : it was
with regard to the Police. His pocket was robbed about
nine o'clock in-the evening in Fleet-street, and, having taken
the bey prisoner, he had to remain at least ten minutes in
the 'street, surrounded by a crowd, and expecting every
moment to have his prisoner rescued from him, before an
officer, a watchman., or a street-keeper could be found, to
give the prisoner in charge to.
Sir J. Pena:rim told Mr. Tibbett that he felt obliged to
him for the manner in which he had behaVed, and he
should take care to represent his complaint to the proper
authorities of the.ward, and he would endeavour to have
the thing remedied. - • • -
BIARYLEBONE.—On Thursday last William Hughes

alias Clarke, a person of fashionable appearance, under
twenty years of age,' was committed 'for trial for defraud-
ing Messrs. cooling and Pearce, tailors, of Regent-street,
of goods to the value of I. 1. and upwards, by represent-
ing himself as the son of a !mixer of Bristol, and about to
mine into the possession of a large fortune. He also de-
set ibed'hireself as being an assistant to Messrs. Clarke and
Starr, surgeons, of Upper Berkeley-street, the former of
*horn lie raid *as his guardian, and would answer any
inquiries as to his connections and respectability. Clarke,
it appeared, rented a furnished house in Upper Berkeley-
street, and, on being applied to, immediately gave a flat-
tering account. of Hughes's expectations, which seldom
failed in obtaining the credit for. him he required ; but
since Hughes has been in custody Clarke has disappeared,
and litighda defence is that he merely ordered the goods
for• Clarke, and throughout has been made a dupe to his
deep-laid designs. On the several days on which the pri-
soner has been examined a host of tradesmen have attended,
and brought forward specific charges against him, wherein
it appeared that either from the one or the other of them
he had obtained goods as well in the name of Hughes as in
that of Clarke. A committing case was then made out
to the satisfaction of. the Magistrate ; but the prisoner was
remanded, merely for the purpose of giving other trades-
men an opportunity of appearing against him. The con-
sequence was, as was expected, that yesterday the office
was crowded by persons who had suffered by the arts of
this young man, or by those with whom he was con.
fleeted. But the 'Magistrate thought it unnecessary to,
commit him On any other charge except that 'clearly esta-
blished by Messrs. Poole and Co., of Regent-street.
One ease, however, was mentioned, which threw a new
light on his connections. It was stated by a lady residing
in Sloane-square, that she had had the misfortune to take a
brother of the prisoner in her house as a lodger ; he came
into it by.the name of Johnson, and was accompanied by
a man and his wife, named Fletcher, who also took apart-
ments. She soon had reason to suspect the true charac-
ters of'her new inmates, and repeatedly cautioned the nu-
merous tradesmen who brought home gelds not to leave
them without being first paid. They lived in high style
while they remained in her house, and daily rode out in a
fashionable dennet. Before they left, which they "did one
day very suddenly, Johnson (or Hughes) saw that the lady
bad a valuable gold watch, and, persuading. her that it
wanted repairing, he got it into his possession, and she has
never since seen it ; he also contrived to get some sove-
reigns from her, under some idle pretence or other ; and
the' day previously to the party finally quitting her house,
this prisoner dined with them, when Mrs. Fletcher made
an excuse- for taking them into the drawing-room, to
examine, some curiosities on the mantel-shelf; and the fol-
lowing day she missed a handsome pair of bracelets, which
she had left in the room, and which, she had no doubt, had
been stolen either by Mrs. Fletcher or the prisoner.
To close the history of the prisoner's brother, it was
stated by a Mr. Woodward, who had suffered by his fraud,
that he was transported for fourteen years at- the last Ses-
sions at the Old. Bailey, for stealing a gold watch, and
also a silver watch, belonging to a Mr. Thomas Newsome.
He was also tried and convicted of another felony.' He.was
registered in the calendar under the name of James
Pickering.. .

The AIAGISTAATE, on hearing this information, asked
the prisoner what he had to say to stealing the bracelets ;
and if he could deny that his brother had been transported.
The prisoner replied—" If he was, it was no fault of
mine."

Mr. RAWLINSON observed.that hanging was too good for
him and his gang. He was then removed.
M A RLBOROUGH-STREET. --Yesterday, William
Phillips, Sam. Stone, James Eaton, Thomas. Hatsel,
Geo. Beckley, James Thcclucll, and Henry Wilson, all
hackney-coachmen, were brought from St. Giles's watch-
house, before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, charged
With a series of assaults, and creating a desperate riot, the
evening before in the streets.
About five o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday, four
hackney-coaches were seen to make their appearance in
Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, suddenly turning
in there, and racing against each other as fast as the.horses
could get along, the drivers seeming totally regardless of
the lives of the people in the street. Each of the coaches
had four or five fellows inside, two on the coach-box, and
one seated on the root, and all shouting and hallooing in an.
astounding manner, as the vehicles passed along. Several
of the male passengers, who had narrowly escaped with.
their lives, in vain endeavoured to pursue or arrest the.,
progress of the drivers, until at, last, on getting into
Drury-lane, the street-keepers- and some of the beadles of
St. Giles's parish, who happened to be on the spot, at the
hazard of their lives,- succeeded in checking the impetuous
progress of the coaches; but they had no sooner done so,
than this was made the signal fur a general attack upon
them. At. the close of a desperate fight, the seven pri-
soners, out of about four times that number who composed
the entire gang, were secured by tying each, as he was
caught, hands and feet with a rope, and depositing him on
his back 'in an adjoining coach-maker's shop, which was
borrowed for the occasion, until the whole seven-were
handcuffed and conveyed to the watch-house, but the rest
of the gang succeeded in making their escape.,
The prisoners, most of whom got broken heads in the
affray, were all ordered to find bail lo answer for the riot
and assaults at the Sessions, and to give 48 hours' notictt
of the bail they intended to offer.

It appeared that the prisoners and their companions were
returning from a pugilistic contest between two vagabonds
of their own kind, Which took place that day somewhere in
the neighbourhood of Battle-bridge.
QUEEN-SQlTARE.—Yesterday Thomas Wells, a la-
bourer employed 'at his Majesty's new Palace, at Bucking-:
ham-gate, was brought before Mr; MARRIOTT, charged
with a most brutal assault on Mrs: Ann Chant-fan, wife of
Mr. Charman, landlord of the Crown) in York-street,
Westminster.

The Magistrates consulted together, and ordered Wells to
pay a penalty of 20s. and costs.
Defendant—l have not got 20 farthings.
Mr. 51AantorT—Then lie is committed for one month
to hard labour.

HALL.—John _Birmingham, late a Lieute-
nant in the 4th Iteginaent of Infantry, was yesterday brought
before M. SIVA BEY, Esq., on two charges of felony—viz.,
on suspicion of stealing two silver tea-spoons from the
houSe of Mr. Morris, the landlord. of the White Hart
Tavern,- Shoreditch, and a silver salt and tea-spoon, the
property. of Mr. Davies, the proprietor of the New Eng-
land Coffee-house, Threadneedle-street.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial, and a de-
tainer directed to be lodged against him in the second case.
Mr. Staples, the chief clerk, here said. that the prisoner
had, on a former occasion—in November, 1826—been
brought to this office on a charge of felony, accused of stealing
a picture from the landlord of a public-house where be had
been taking refreshment. On that occasion he pleaded
distress as an apology for committing the crime, and the
landlord declined prosecuting. The case was reported in
Some of the newspapers, added Mr. Staples, awl money
was benevolenly given him. I myself paid him between
nine and ten pounds, which were sent to the office for his
relief. , •

It may not be irrelevant to state that, when Roberts
took the prisoner into custody, he found in his. pockets
some letters, addressed to different individuals, of which the
following is a copy :,-, . •
Sir,—The undersigned is able to inform you of sots..
thing which he believes considerably to your advantage, ms
receiving twenty shillings for his trouble. • Your's, &c.
There was a young man with the prisoner at the time
that he was followed by the waiter, but against whom no
charge was preferred. He was liberated, after being
cautioned by the Magistrate as to what company he kept.

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