The Sun.
London, England, 1810-08-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

M sioN-HousE.—Thomas Gilfillan, who was
on Wednesday , charged with having committed a
rape u, on two children, was again brought up yester-
day. , • • •

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The mother of one of the children stated, that
the prisoner was an acquaintance of her an her
' husbAnd : he had been in the habit of frequently
thinktng tea -at their lodgings ;. and she had no
doubt but he had made use of these opportunities
to debauch the mind of her child, and of the other
little girl, who was her playmate. She never .sus-
pected him to harbour such an unmanly design, as
he had always professed the greatest friendship for
her family.

It appeared that the children had absconded with
this 'wretch on Sunday last ; and, when discovered
by their mothers, endeavoured to escape, and.ap-
peared desirous of continuing with the miscreant.
The Loan .MAYOR, in addressing the culprit,
observed, that he was an offender of the most
shocking description. He appeared to have pro-,
ceeoed with the utmost coolness and deliberation
in attaining his diabolical putpose—pretending the,
greatest friendship •for the parents,: whilst he was
plotting the destruaion of their child—and well-
kno,A ing, no doubt, that the law could not ulti-
mately reach
.him. Thk latter Ca,,Curus,ance he
deeply regretted—for he should have found a plea-
sure in punishing a wretch so lost to every principle
of moral rectitude, to every sentiment of manly
feeling. As the fact of. violence having been used
by the prisoner could not: be brought home, he was
under the necessity of discharging him—a necessity
which he very much regretted.
The prisoner, attended by several, constables to
protect him against the assaults of an infuriate
mob, who awaited his liberation; was -let out at
the side door of the Mansion-house: here he was
met by the mothers of the children, and a number
of versoni, whom their story had collected, and as,.
sailed with such violence, that the constables found
it necessary to place hit", • fir safety, in the Poultry
Compter.

IFilliani Casson was -charged by his master, an
oil-mercham of the name of appinger; with hay-
in4 robbed him of three bottles of sweet oil.
Mr. Copp:tiger, 'suspe6ting hat the prisoner, who
was employed by him as a porter, was in the habit
of robbing him, stopped him as lie went out, yes-
terday, an,l found on the prisoner the three bottles
of oil.—He was fully -committed. . , .
GUILDHALL. •—•Ye4terday' Catherine Rooke . was
charged by Samuel Brown, with having abandoned
her infant child, yesterday morning, on Holborn-

Mr. Brown .stated, that he saw the child yester-
-day mernina, on Holborn-bill, completely naked ;
4 a crow''d had gathered round it. On his inquiring
to whom the infant belonged, a girl pointed to the
prisoner, who was making tier retreat ; she was
brougA back, and the child pn peiceiving her, im-
mediately ran'and caught hold of her petticoat ; she
at first denied that the infant was her's but at length
acknoWledged it, ,and alleged that she was ashamed
- to own it becair,e it was naked. On being asked
asked where she lived, s,,e referred Mr. Brown to a
misera' to place " neighbourhood of Saffron-,
bill ; Mr. Brown and a constable went there, ,and
were intot med that tie ; risoner leid come there the
night before, Very tunLii intoxicated, and bad
.slept
on .he boardS; she had never been in the house
before; curing the rug t she-behaved NOth much
barbarity to the infant ; she had several times burned
it with her tobacco-pipe; and had also endeavoured
to smother. it. 'The prisoner said that her regular
dwelling,place was rn the Borough, but she refused
to tell where.
Tile constable who had the prisoner in custody,
Wormed the sitting Magistrate (Sir W.-LkroirroN)
that the child had many marks of violence on its
thighs and loins ; the unnatural mother Said, that
th:ise marks were occasioned by the child's having
sat on a quantity of red-hot coals.
The prisoner was remanded until to-morrow, to
- afford an opp%triity of discovering her usual place
of reidence.
`John Yates was charged by Mr. Isaac Bentley, e
retletnan residing in Statfoidshire, with having
stoen his watch.
Mr. Bentley stated, that having business in town,
he h -d put up at the Angel Inn, in St. Martin's-le-
Grat.d. On his rising in the morning he missed his
watCh ; he inquired of the waiters, &c. whether
they had -seen it, but without success; at length a
gentleman who had
.heard of his loss informed him,
• that the prisoner,who was employed as porter at the
inn, had offered a watch (or sale at a public-house in
the neighbourhoOd. The description of the watch
agreeing exactly with that which Mr. leiviey had
los, he immediately set out with Mr, Robinson, the
iandlord.of the Angel Inc, in search of the prisoner;
he wa.-, apprehended at the Swan' with Two Sleeks,
in Lad-lane ; and on searching hint the watch was
. found in his possession. He had been asked, when
the watch was, first missed, whether he had seen, it
but had denied all kn9wiedge of it.
'The prisoner, who appeared intoxicated, said, that
be had found the watch in the privy.
He was remanded tail to-morrow, that the person
to whom he exposed the watch for sale may be
brought forward.

UN-Lox HALL—Yesterday, John Drage was
charged With steirmg a considerable sum of money,
iu notes and cash, the pniperty of Mr. Robert Law-
son, landlord of the Ship and Mermaid public-house,
Snow's Fields.

The prisoner, some time since, went to the house
of the prosecutor, which is a house of call for
painters, and representing himself as a journeyrnan
painter in great distress, who was come to town to
seek employment, the landlord humanely told him
he might lodge there for nothing till he got employ ;,
he accordingly continued therefor sometime, when
oa Friday last Mrs. Lawson saw him take something
out of a glass which stood in the bar with some. mo-
n.V in it, and on examining oit after he was crone out,
she missed a half-crown; he immediately informed