The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Thomas Stephens, a hackney- coach-
man, was re .examined on suspicion of having severely-
beaten and robbed a Mr. Salter, at two o'clock on the
morning of Wednesday last, at the end of Bouverie.street,
in Fleet-street.

The additional evidence received was that of two young
women, who came up while the prosecutor and a man re •
sembling the prisoner were apparently fighting- together in
Bouverie-street, and called to a watchman ; and of a boy,
named 'Wilson, just arrived from Hull, in search of em-
ploy, who saw the prosecutor pass St. Dunstan's Church
alone, about ten minutes before the robbery, and noticed
that his watch-riband and seals were hanging very low down.
Sir P. LAURIE committed the prisoner for trial.

BOW-STREET.—Mr. Thomas, the constable of St.
Paul's, Covent-garden, came to this office yesterday morn-
ing, to state that 31r. Grubb, the flash oyster-house man,
against whom it will be remembered a penalty of 201.
had lately been inflicted for selling wine without a licence,
commissioned bins (Mr. Thomas) to apologize to Sir R.
Bis.NIE for the appearances which he witnessed the other
night, and upon which he had commented so severely.
Sir R. BIRNIE—You allude, I suppose, to the night I
sat up until nearly three o'clock, watching droves of per-
sons going in and out of this fellow's house?
Mr. Thomas--Mr. Grubb is extremely sorry for the cir-
cumstance, and promises never to offend in the same way
in future.

Sir R. BIRNIE said he doubted that very much.

Mr. Thomas.—Mr. Grubb has desired me further to
say, that he has been entreated by a number of most re-
spectable persons to convert his oyster-rooms into an eat-
ing-house, and that he is about to adopt the suggestion,
principally with a view to appease the anger of your
Worships.

Sir R. 131nNtr.-011 ! he is entreated, forsooth, by a
number of respectable persons—and pray who are they?
1111.. Thomas.—l really do not know, your Worship.
Sir R. thought so; but how conies it that
you, Mr. Thomas, should be selected to convey such a
communication as this?

Mr. Thomas said he had occasion to go to Grnhb's
house for the purpose of billetting soldiers, when Mr.
Grubb made the request. "I believe," added Mr. 1.
" that he is now preparing to commence his new business."
Sir R. BIRNIE.—I see how it is very clearly. But has
he directed you to apologize for one night only ? because,
to my certain knowledge, he has been carrying on a simi-
lar game every night since.
Mr. Thomas said, if that was the case, it was very
strange, because he passed the house every night, and it
had all the appearance of being shut up.
Sir Ricuann BIRNIE.—Yes, that is the trick he resorts
to ; every scheme is adopted to baffle the police ; but I can
tell Mr. Grubb, that we are not to be hood-winked either
by his artifices or his promises of amendment. There is
no eating-house wanted in Bow-street. Mr. Thomas.—
Grubb assures me that his new establishment will be con-
ducted upon a highly respectable plan.
Sir RictrAnn BM:CIE.-1 do not believe him ; and all I
can tell him, in reply to his message, is this, that unless he
keeps order in his house, and observes the hours prescribed
by law, the proceedings which have been commenced shall
be rigorously followed up. Mr Thomas said he would
communicate the Magistrate's determination to Grubb.
I Sir RICHARD BIRNIE.—I find that Grubb is in arrear
with his taxes. Why, I wonder, do the parish-officers per-
mit this ? They are very ready in distraining upon the pro-
perty of other persons in arrear also ; why is he sheltered
from such a step ? Mr. Thomas said he would speak to
the parish-authorities upon the subject.
Mr. Thomas soon after came forward with a patrol,
named M'Donald, to charge six miserable-looking fellows,
who said they attended upon the coaches at the theatres,
with being thieves and vagabonds.
Mr. Thomas and the other witness deposed, that they
saw the prisoners; during the previous Pun', opeuilig

different coach-doors, with intent, as they firmly believed,
of carrying away whatever they could lay their hands upon ;
having no doubt of their intention, Mr. Thomas said he took
them into custody.
Sir Ricitaan Ihnsir. asked if any of tie prisoners
belonged to the same gang he committed to prison un-
der similar circumstances about a fortnight ago ?
Mr. Thomas replied, that the prisoners were not of
that party. They were all new hands. " The proprie-
tors of the theatres," continued Mr. Thomas, " have par •
ticularly requested me to rid the neighbourhood of all such
persons." • . _ _ _

111 Donald the patrol, said, that when a footman got
down from behind his Carriage to attend upon his master's
family, these fellows took advantage of the opportunity
to open the coach-door and seize upon whatever they
could gut bold of.

Sir HICIIA RI) BIRNIE recommended footmen to sit with-
in-side their master's carriages while waiting at the theatres,
as the surest method to prevent their being plundered.
The prisoners, with the exception of one of them named
Ash, on Those behalf a respectable person came forward,
were sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the House
of Correction, there to he kept to hard labour.
William Godfrey and George Staples, whose previous
examinations we have already reported, were folly commit-
ted for trial, the former for stealing two horses, and the
latter receiving the same with a guilty knowledge.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a person of
respectable appearance, who stated himself to be a doctor
of medicine, and gave his name Bevil, residing at East
Acton, in Middlesex, was brought before Mr. CoNANT, the
sitting Magistrate, from the watch,bouse of St. Ann's
parish, Soho, charged with attempting to force his way
at an unseasonable hour into the King's Head public•housc,
its Crown-street, kept by a man named Rielly.
The watchman on duty in that street stated, that about
half-past eleven o'clock the night before, as Mr. Rielly was
closing up his house, the defendant, accompanied by a
female of the town, insisted upon gaining admittance, and
endeavoured to force his way in, but he was not suffered to
do so ; and as he persisted, Mr. Rielly gave bins in charge
for creating a riot at the door, and had him taken to the
watch-house.

Mr. Bevil, in his defence, said, that he is a practitioner
in medicine, being fully qualified as such by a regular di-
ploma from a foreign university; that he went at the hour
named to this public house to visit a patient, the daughter
of Mr. Rielly, the landlord, who is ill, and whom he has
been attending for some time ; but as fur any riot or vio-
lence on his part, he totally denied it; and, in fact, he said
he was taken to the watch-house in a most extraordinary
manner, and without any charge whatever against him.
The watchman repeated, that the landlord did give him
charge of the defendant for a riot at the door, and that the
defendant had a woman of the town with him at the time.

Mr. CONANT said, that it was a most singular thing that
if the defendant was going at such an hour, or indeed at
any hour, to visit a patient, he should go accompanied by
a female of the description spoken of; and it was more
strange still, that if he went to visit the daughter of the
landlord, he should be refused admittance by her father,
and sent by him to the watch-house. He (Mr. Conant)
would, however, send for Mr. Rielly, and learn how the
matter really stood.
A messenger was accordingly despatched for the land-
lord, who not being in the way, Mrs. Rielly attended in
his stead, and said, that her husband did certainly give the
defendant in charge to the watchman for attempting to
force his way into the house with some woman. As for
the doctor, if he were a doctor, coming to visit her daugh-
ter, she entirely denied it. Indeed, she said, they knew
nothing of Mr. Bevil, except his having come to the
house three or four times as a customer, and that on
one occasion, about a month ago, he volunteered to write
some prescriptions for her daughter, who at that time had
a slight cold, but he never attended her since, nor was ex-
pected to do so.

- The doctor still persisted that be did go to see his patient,
but could not deny that he had a female under his care at
the time already.
The MaotsTitATE said, that the defendant's excuse was
quite ridiculous by Mrs. Rielly's statement, but as he had
committed no assault, he was discharged upon paying
the office-fee.

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—On Wednesday, Mr.
Samuel Hodsdon, a farmer at Greenford, near Ealing, re-
ceived an anonymous letter, bearing the Harrow post-mark,
which stated, that " seven nice fellows," including the wri-
ter, intended to break open his house.
Mr. Hodsdon having reason to snspect that Joseph Hey-
wood, a labourer, who was some time ago in his service,
and then worked for Mr. Quilton, of Harrow, was the
writer, caused him to be apprehended and brought before
Mr. Hosicncs, and produced a boy who saw the letter in
the prisoner's hands, and heard him read it in a stable near
Harrow, before it was sent. The prisoner did not deny the
charge, and was committed for want of bait.

HATTON- G AIME N. —Yesterday, William Crcc,
pawnbroker, Gray's-inn-lane, was • summoned before Mr.
ROGERS, upon an information laid against him by William
Bryant, of haring demanded and received a rate of interest
contrary to the statutes of the 39th and 40th of George
111. upon money lent.
Mr. ROGERS having found, upon examining the infor-
mation that it was deficient in form, dismissed the case.

Three several times was this same information laid before
the magistrates at this office, and three several times was it
distnissA upon the grounds of informality.
Thomas Nicholls, pawnbroker, Gray's-inn-lane, was
summoned upon a similar charge at the prosecution of the
same informant.

Mr. ROGERS having examined the information and the
pawnbroker's duplicate, found that they did not exactly
agree, and dismissed the charge.
William Cheek, a butcher, was brought up by the
parish authorities of St. Pancras, charged with deserting
his wife and three children for the last six weeks, and
leaving them in a starving condition.
It was given in evidence that he was a notorious drunk-
ard—that he made considerable sums of money by his ways
and his means—that he was in the habit of retiring to
chop-houses to provide himself with what he quaintly
termed common necessaries, while he abandoned his home,
and left his family to starve.
Mr. RoGFats ordered him to prison for one month, at
which the unfortunate wretch seemed terribly chop-fallen.
Joseph Procter was brought up by Bugg, the beadle of
Clerkenwell parish, to have a child, which is yet in em-
bryo, affiliated 'to him.
Catherine Barton, a very pretty and interesting young
woman, swore that he was the father of a child of which
she is now pregnant.

Mr. Rocißsr---Have you any thing to say in defence of this
charge?—Procter.—Your worship, she swears to it, and
that is enough, I believe. However, your worship, I do not
deny it; for, meeting her one day in Whitechapel, she
looked leeringly at me, tipped me the wink, and I fol-
lowed her; that is all I know of the matter, your worship.
Mr. Rocatas.—Then you shall find bail. Be imme-
diately entered bail, and both parties left the office in a
coach.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday David M'Kelvin
and Thomas Holmes were finally examined before Mr.
BENETT, on a charge of robbing Henry Richmond, Esq.,
Commissioner of Customs, whose residence is at Stain-
ford-hill.

The prisoner Holmes had been only three weeks in Mi.
Richmond's service as butler, and had given notice to quit
in a month. M'Kelvin, aecordisg to his own account
when apprehended, had lived as groom in the service of
Captain Else.

The prisoners were fully committed fur trial.
UNION-HALL.—On Thursday an individual named
Densham, who described himself a horsedealer, attended at
this office, for the purpose of applying for warrants against
the two eons of a respectable innkeeper, residing in the
Kent-road, whom lie accused of having robbed him of
3001. in Bank-notes, and three sovereigns and a half in
gold. He stated that on Tuesday week he spent the even•
ing at the house in question, and drank rather freely. In
the course of the night, feeling rather drowsy, he leaned his
head on the table in the parlour, and went to sleep. When
he awoke, a short time afterwards he discovered that his poc-
ketbook, containing 3001., together with three sovereigns
and a half, had been taken out of his waistcoat pocket, which
he found turned completely inside out. Before he reclined his
head upon the table, he described that the two persons whom
he now suspected of having taken his money were in
the room, and subsequently when he awoke and missed
his property, they were still present. Conceiving it at first
a joke played on him during his slumber, and that his
money would be returned to him before he left the house,
he did not take up the matter in a serious light; but find-
ing that all present disclaimed the slightest knowledge of
what had happened, he then called in the landlord, and
mentioned the facts to him, when he, having expressed
considerable surprise on the communication having been
made to him, questioned his two sons and two other indi-
viduals, whom he knew to be respectable, on the subject,
when one and all assured him that Mr. Densham's pocket-
book had not been taken by them, nor had they observed
any one approach him while he was asleep.
Mr. Densham having been asked by the Magistrate
whether he was certain that he had the money in his
pocket a short time previous to his having missed it, re-
plied in 04 affilatiTt; at the same time apromin

belief that the two persona against whom be applied for
warrants were concerned in depriving him of his property.
The MAGISTRATE observed, that there was considerable
mystery attached to the case. He should scarcely conceive
it possible that the sons of a man in respectable business
would commit a robbery, under the roof of their father,
on one of his customers; however, as it was necessary
such a charge should he strictly investigated, and as he
(Mr. Densham) suspected the two individuals, his appli-
cation should be granted. Yesterday all the parties were
in attendance, at twelve o'clock, to go into the charge;
but, owing to the absence of Mr. !Jammer, who was to
have attended for the prosecution, the case was postponed.
Before, however, the parties left the office, Mr. Spence,
the solicitor for the two individuals charged, stated that
there was not the slightest evidence to criminate his clients.
They were most respectable young men, incapable of com-
mitting the offence with which they were charged. He
(Mr. Spence) had heard that Mr. Densham was in the
habit of falling asleep in public rooms, and that jokes
had been played with bins during those times.
Mr. Spence added, that ever since the transaction had
taken place, the father of his clients had been indefatigable
in his exertions, if possible, to trace some of the notes of
which Mr. Densham described he had been robbed ; this
fact showed that there were very slight grounds indeed for
making such a charge against his sons. The room where
the offence was said to have been committed was a public
one, and strangers had access to it : therefore it was most
probable the robbery was committed by some persons of
that description, while the landlord's 80tI3 were absent from
the room.

The MAGISTRATE directed that the parties should all attend
to-morrow (this day), in order that the whole of the cir-
cumstances connected with the robbery should be closely
investigated.
The office was crowded to excess by respectable-look-
ing individuals, the friends of the parties, all of whom
seemed exceedingly anxious as to the result of the exa-
mination.