The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. William Lewis Hanson, a
surgeon, residing in Norton-street, New-road, was brought
up from the watch-house of St. Mary-le-Strand, charged
with haVing attempted to pass a forged 5/. note of the Bank
of England, at the house of one Isaacs, a Jew brothel-
keeper, in Eagle-court, Catherine-street, strand.
Sarah Reynolds, one of the "dress girls" of Mr. Isaac's
establishment, deposed that she met the defendant in the
Strand, about ten o'clock on Thursday night. He in-
sisted upon seeing her home, and she brought him to Mr.
Isaacs', when the gentleman gave her a 6/. note, and de-
sired her to get it changed. Mrs. Isaacs took the note,
and gave the gentleman four scnereigris and a pound in sil-
ver. In a short time, however, she returned with the
note in her land, saying it was a forged one, and desiring
the gentleman to return her the change. The gentleman
refused to do so, and Mr. Isaacs then requested him to put
his name to the note, which he also declined to do ; and
Mr. Isaacs having sent for Edwards; a constable, charged
the prisoner with attempting to pass a forged note, and he
was taken to the watch-house.
The note was here produced, and was immediately pro-
nounced genuine by Sir R. 131RNIE.
Mr. Hanson then stated, that 'instead of ,being the de-
fendant, he ought to have been the complaining party ;
and if the constable of the night had done his duty, he
would have taken his (Mr. Hanson's) charge against MN.
Isaacs for an assault, with intent to rub bin,. He then
explained, that when Mrs. Isaacs returned with the note,
saying it was a forged one, he assured leer it was genuine.
He declined, however, to endorse it with his name and ad-

dress, as he did not wish to expose himself in such a place.
When Mrs. Isaacs expressed a wish to have her money
again, he said he had no objection, but expressed some
doubt, that if he gave her up the gold and silver, she would
still retain the note; upon which she dropped upon her
knees, and used the most solemn protestations, which she
called the great Jehovah to witnees, that she would restore
him (the defendant) the note • the instant he handed her

the money. He foolishly partCd with the money upon
those conditions, when Mrs. Isaacs told him he was an

impostor, and refused to give him up the note, alleging
that it was a forgery. The defendant said lie then at-
tempted to snatch the note from the hand of Mrs. Isaacs,
who flew upon him with the fury of a tigress, and assisted
by the girl Reynolds, and a servant-woman, who bran-:
dished a poker, not only assaulted him in the most violent
manner, but attempted to rob him of his watch, which.
was pulled from his fob and fell upon the floor. He
was then taken to the watch-house, and though he ex-
plained the case both to Edwards the constable, and
Shiel,-the constable of the night, the charge of Mrs. Isaacs
was taken in preference to his, owing to an evident un-
derstanding which existed between Mrs. Isaacs and the
constables.

Mr. AIINSHULL was sorry to observe that such things,
to the disgrace of parish constables; were but too common.
The defendant, it appeared, having more money than wit,
was induced to accompany a female to this house of Isaacs,
which was one of. the most disgraceful nuisances in the
parish. He there requires change of a 5/. note, and after
obtaining it, the money is taken from him, and the note
retained under the pretence of its being a forgery. He is
then assaulted, his watch taken forcibly from his person;
and be is finally sent to the watch-house upon a charge
affecting his life. The charge, proceeding as it did from
such a disreputable quarter, ought not to have been re-
ceived, at all events without due inquiry. It did not
appear there was the slightest foundation for supposing
that the note was forged, and he (Mr. Minahull) would
at once dismiss the charge as far as it regarded Mr. Han-
son, who was at liberty in his turn to become the com-
plainant._

Mr. Hanson accordingly repeated the statement which
he had already made respecting the detention of the note,
the manner in which his watch was snatched from his fob,
and his person assaulted.
A person named Isaacs, who is said to be -a solicitor,
warmly defended the conduct of his client, and endeavour.
ell by a cross-examination to shake Mr. Hanson's credit.
The ardour of this person (Isaacs), drew from Mr. Min-
shun the observation; that if he could exonerate his client,
be would be in no want of employMent amongst the re-
spectable inhabitants of Eagle-court and White-hartqard.
Mr: MrsistruLL then obierved,, that he ought to commit
both Mrs. Isaacs and her girl, for an assault with intent
to rob. The house which Isaacs kept was a disgrace to
the parish, and ought to be indicted. •
A respectable inhabitant:of Eagle-court, who carries on
the.businesa of a bookbinder, stated, that every night the
neighbourhood was alarmed by the-cries of " murder,"
proceeding front the house of Isaacs; and others of a like
description, in Eagle-court. Gentlemen were constantly
robbed and ill treated in those houses. On. the night i►l
quistien be (the witness) saw the present complainant
going up the court with a female, and told him, if he went
he would be surely robbed. He paid no attention, how-
ever, but went on.

Mr. MINSHULL said he should feel it his duty to call
upon Mrs. Isaacs and the girl Reynolds to find bail for the
assault upon Mr. Hanson, and he shinild take care that they
were indicted at the Sessions.

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Mrs. Isaacs and the gill were then removed in custody.
MARLBOROUGII-STREBT.—Yesterday the coach-
man of Sir Francis Freeling appeared upon autuniona before
Mr. Co*ANI, the sitting Magistrate, to answer thecom-
plaint of Lord Barham's coachman,.who charged .him with
'''antcnllY driving against Lord Barham's carriage"- so as to
smash one of the panels, and otherwise much damage the
It appeared, by the statement of the complainant, that
he tvas driving Lord Barham from Portman-square to
dinner in North Andley-street, about. -six o'clock in the
afternoon, and just as he had crossed Osford-street from
Orchard-street,.and bad got his. horses' 'heads. into North
Audley-street, an the other side, but before the carriage had
time to follow the horses, the defendant came driving along

Oxford-street, towards Tyburn gate, at a rapid rate ; and
although there was abundance of room for him in Oxford-
street to pass on without nearing Lord Barharn's carriage
at all, he ran the pole of Sir Francis Freeling's carriage
against the side of his. Lordship's carriage, and smashed in
one of the panels, to the great injury of the carriage and the
great danger of his Lordship, who was inside at the time.
A solicitor, who attended on the part of Sir Francis
Freeling's coachman, said, that he was instructed positively
to state, that the accident, or whatever else it might be
called, was entirely owing to the conduct of the complainant
himself, who, instead of cautiously and quietly driving, as
every coachman ought, in crossing such a public thorough-
fare as Oxford-street, he suddenly entered that street from
Orchard. street at a very fast rate, and dashed across to
North Audley-street without at all slackening his pace, or
calculating what he was likely to Come in contact with that
might be proceeding along Oxford-street at a quick pace
too ; and this was exactly the case with Sir Francis Free-
ling's carriage; and to show bow suddenly the complain-
ant crossed upon it, Sir Francis's coachman, in a sudden
and violent effort which be was on the instant compelled
to make to pull up, broke in several places the harness of
his own carriage.; but still he could not check the horses
in sufficient time to avert the accident altogether. Sir F.
Freeling was in his earriage at the time, and so quietly was
the defendant driving, that he was not aware of any ap-
proaching accident, until the shock of the two carriages
coining together. It was out of the question, therefore, to
suppose that the defendant caused or would cause such a
contact of the two carriages by design, or out of any ma-
licious feeling; and unless this could be shown, the tran-
saction did not at all come under the provisions of the Act
of Parliament on which the summons was granted by the
Magistrate. Indeed, the solicitor said, Lord Barham him-
self, who was in his carriage at the time, had since de..
dared that he .was perfectly satisfied the whole was only an
accident.

Several witnesses were examined upon both sides, no
two of whom agreed in their account of any one.single
point of the transaction; and in the end the Magistrate
came to the conclusion that the whole affair was really an:
accident, and dismissed the case on the defendant's paying
3s. 6d., the costs of the day. .
A filthy, sottish, reckless looking tailor, named John
Power, residing at No. 111, Men-street, St. James's, was
brought to the office in custody of Avis, the officer, under.
a warrant, charged with starving and otherwise neglecting
his infant child, a fine little boy about three years of age.
Several of the neighbours, 'residing near the house in
which the prisoner lives, attended. to give evidence, and it
appeared by their statement that the prisoner's conduct to
his wife had been so bad, that she was obliged to quit him
altogether, and go into service for her Own support ; and .
that knowing the evil disposition of the prisoner, she, to
secure this, their only child, against want, as the prisoner
refused to part with it, allowed him for its support 3s. a
week out of her own wages ; 'but that, instead of applying
this or any part of his own earnings, as a tailor, to the
comforts of the poor child, he generally went from home,
about six o'clock every morning, and did not return
until 12 o'clock at night, leaving the poor infant all this ,
time alone in a front room on the second floor, with the
door padlocked, so that it was impossible fur it to get out,
and the sash of one of the windows always raised and open,
to a height that the child could easily fall through into the
street. At this open window the child was to be seen
crying all day long, and seated on a high stool, sometimes
with oue of its little legs dangling out, of the window, and
so late as 12 o'clock at night it has been seen in this posi-
tion, until the neighbours would call to it from the street,
or the adjoining houses, and frighten it to make it go in to
save it from being precipitated into the street. In this
manner was the child left all day without food, unless
sometimes with a hard crust of bread, which it was seen
striving to eat, and a drink of water, while the prisoner
himself passed the whole of his time drinking at some low
public-house, or playing at skittles with a parcel of idle 1
fellows like himself. Mr. Cooke, a respectable tailor in
the Regent's Quadrant, had-for a long time continued to
give work to the prisoner, chiefly to enable him to support
this child, notwithstanding the prisoner's idle conduct, and
his repeated neglect of the work given to him ; but at last
he became so entirely dissolute and idle, that Mr. Cooke
could employ him no longer, especially as he learned the
manner in which the prisoner neglected the child ; and
Mr. Cooke not being able to find the prisoner at home for
several days together, he was obliged to have his door
broken open some days since to get away some clothes
that he had sent him to finish, but which he had never
sewn a stitch in. It was also stated that the prisoner had
not only pledged every article of wearing apparel belonging!'
both to himself and the child, except the few miserablel,
rags they had now on, but he had actually taken all the i,
feathers out of the only bed left in the place, and sold them,
so that there vas nothing left either for himself or the poor
child to sleep on, except an empty bed-case, and with
scarcely any covering.
Avis, the officer, said, that when he went that morning:
to execute the warrant, the prisoner refused to let him in,!
and threatened to split his bead with a poker which he
flourished, if he attempted to enter ; hut at last be (Avis).
broke in the dour, when the prisoner least expected it, and
secured him while he lay on the bare floor in a state of
beastly intoxication, and the poor child was almost naked,'
stretched on the floor, in the same apartment. There was
not a morsel of food of airy kind ahotrt the place, nor was
there even as much as a draught Of water to be seen in it
An elderly respectable female, who first came to this'
office and gave information to the Magistrate of the situa-
tion of the child, upon .which the warrant was issued, said,
that two days ago, on hearing the poor child crying for
food, as it did all day long, until the neighbours contrived
to put some in through the window to it, she remonstrated,
with the prisoner, on meeting him in the street, on the.
barbarous treatment of the infant, but the only notice lie
took of her remonstrance was, to spit in her face.
For this assault the prisoner was locked up in default of
bail, and the child was ordered to be taken care of for the
present in St. James's workhouse.
The prisoner, who held the child in his arms while he
stood at the bar, refused to give it up, and it was only after
a violent struggle that the officers succeeded in taking it
from him by force.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, Mr. John Stubb, of
No. so, Red Lion-court, Bermondsey, was brought up in
custody before Mr. WHITE, charged with a felony under
the following circumstances.
The prosecutor, a tradesman at Chelsea, whose name we
refrain from nmentioning•for the sake of his family, was ac-
companied to the office by his daughter.
Mr. WHITE inquired the nature of the charge against
the prisoner ?_

The coniplainant replied that he charged him not only
with seducing his daughter, but afterwards robbing her of
her property, and then sending her home in a state of
pregnancy, and destitute.

Mr. WHITE—What age is your daughter ?—Complain-
ant-21 years of age.
Mr. WHITE—Did she gO to live wish him ?—Colis..
plainant—No, Sir, he took her ,away under pretence of
marrying her.
Mr. WHITE—Do explain the matter a little more in-
telligibly.
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Complainant—My daughier xesided some time hick with
her uncle, an upholsterer in Piccadilly, where she got ac..
quainted with the prisoner, and in May last, he got her
away, and they all supPosed.she.was married until yesterr
day. They lived together in lodgings near the Regent's Park,
and a few days ago he sent her home, since which she had
miscarried. He took a ring from .her and .pledged it,-and
also the greater part of her clothes. Yesterday she con:.
fessed she was not married, and he had the prisoner appre:.
hended.
Mr. WHITE—But it appears they have been living. toge-
ther as man and wife.

Complainant--Yes, Sir, but he made her take au oath
',hat she-would say she was married.

Mr. WHITE—The question-is, whether your daughter
is not, in some degree,, to blame: a young woman of 21
ought to act with more caution—she is not like a :giddy
girl of 15.
Complainant—He bat acted a base pact towards my
poor daughter, even robbed her of her clothes after seduc..
ing her, and then turned her away : I have now to sup-
port her, for she has no other_friend.
Mr. IYHITL commended the filial affection he evinced to-
wards his child, and asked the prisoner what he, had to say
to the charge.

Prisoner--I deny the charge of seducing his daughter.
I certainly have lived with her, but I never seduced her but
with her consent. I also deny having ever compelled her
to take an oath to say she was married ; if I state what is
wrong, she is here to contradict roc. 1 endeavoured to
make her happy as far as laid in my power, and it was at
her own wish she returned !ionic. It was with her con-
sent I pledged,the ring,
to pay a debt. It is the last of
my thoughts ever to behave in so-dishonourable a manner
to her.

The daughter did not utter a %%And in rep .y to the pri-
soner.
The Magistrate asked the prisoner whether he intended to
marry bil`r•
The prisoner replied he did intend it.
may be so. There is nothing
in •to felony, and the prisoner is dis-
charged.
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his daughter then left the offices