The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE—Au information was laid on the statute
6th Geo. IV: cap. 110, sic. against Rokrt Shoran, C.apt.
of the brig Diana, just arrived front the coast of Africa, with a
valuable cargo.
The information was laid by the owners, Messra. Willtamson
and \Vatson, who attended - with Mr. Cotterell, their solicitor, to
support it. • The Captain .also attended, accompanied by Mr.
Hobler, jun. as his solicitor.
Alderman Lucas, who presided fur the Lord Mayor, after hav-
ing read the infortmation, required the Captain to plead.
The Captain raid he was not guilty of the charge brought
against him.
Mr. Hobler, jun., stated, that it would be but proper- that the
Alderman should he informed bow it happened that the Captain
appeared before hint. The ship
,was sent from Liverpool to the
Isle de. Losa,.on the coast of Africa, lab: year. Soon after.her.
arrival there, the then Captain died, and after him the mate, and
.the next in command. No officer Laving been left in the ship,
application was made by the cousignec of the cargo to the naval
officer in command ou that station, for the appointment of. some
'Wilton qualified to navigate her. The commanding officer had
co person to whom to intrust this important charge.:
,The eon-
siguee of the :cargo was therefore obliged to select some person
himself to uudt;rtake the duty ; and Captain Shoran, being toas-
ter of a coasting vessel ilt that part of the world, watt oftioed
rand
accepted to command, and his mime was endorsed on the register
in the reguLr way. .The Captain bad brought the ship to nib'.
land, and on drriviugin Louden, he had reported her in the Cus-
tom-house, cud exhibited his papers and the register to the proper
-officer appointed to examine such docurnents, who, after. having
satisfied himself of their cOrreetneee, returned them to hint. The
'Captain had disbursed consider 441 e sums.on, account of the, ship,
having been uhrged, amongst other things, to take up some fresh
hands to assist in navigutiag into the Thames, uu account of the
sickness of part of the crew, and had vent his accoutt to the owners,
and was ready to verify it by the vouchers in his poiseeSion.
The owners bait offered to refer the account to two brokers, to
which proposition the Captain had agreed, and he'therefore con-
sidered himself entitled to detain the register, until the matter
should he settled.

Cotterell, on the part of the owners, said he should be able
to. show that there had been " wilful" detainer of the rezister,
after• a request to deliver it up to the proper officer.
Alderman Lt CAI desired to gee the act of Parliament, and he
carefully perused the section on which the information was found-
ed, after which

Mr. Cotterell proceeded to the examination of a witness.
Mr. ILIUM O'Leary, of' No. 13, Mincing-lane, merchant,
depoved, that he knew Mr. Williamson, then present, to be part
owner of the brig .Diana, of which the defendant had been
master; was present .wheat Mr. Williamson culled on the de-
fendant and required him to surrender the register to the proper
officer of the port; the defendant said he would net give it to any
person whatever; witness mentioned to hint the penalty incurred
by refusal.the
Mr. Nobler asked the witness, whether he was an officer of His
Majesty's Customs.—=lle witness replied in the negative; and he
also admitted, that no demand had been made by .an officer of the
Customs in his presence.
Alderman Lt.cAs
.then asked the defendant several qtiestions,
to which answers were given to the following effect bad,
on arriving in London, accompanied by the consignee of the cargo
here, gone to the Custoni-houre and produced his register and
manifest to the prOper officer,;who, after having done what he
thought was necessary, had returned them to him, and he had,
by 'the written direction of the owners, carried: the ship to Fresh
Wharf, to unload. . .

Cotterell theft observed, that the Captain was subject to
the penalty, inasmuch as, on his arrival in London, he bud been
disreissed the command by-the:Owners, and therefore had-no right
whatever to detain the register, after the .request had bee; made
tlie.proper way to till intents and purposes. With regard to
the Captain's account, it was true it had been sent in, but it was
not accompanied by voneliers.
Mr.- Holder objected, that it bad nit been proved that the deten-
tion was wilful, aecOrding to to construction of the word " wilful"
in the act of Parliament, in which it was clearly meant to express
a "perverse and. malicious" detention. .Besides, there was no evi-
dence that the captain hail refused to deliver up the Jegister to the
proper officer his Majesty's. Costume; the person named in the
act of Parliament. Until a refusal to him, there Was no ground
for the owner's complaint. ,
Mr. Cotterell said, lw had shown the detention to be" wilful,"
as the demand bad been made by the owner, and nut complied
with. The detention could n or, after that, be considered in any
other light than as " wilfUl."
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Mr, iVilliamseni'one of the owners, said, he had repeatedly re-
quested the Captain to deliver up the register, but without effect,
as it appeared.
Alderman Lucas RANI, whether the Captain had.eigned bile
of lading for the delivery of the cargo. •
. Mr. Hobler said- he had; and that fact furnished hint With
another objection ; fur until the cargo was delivered, the Captain
continued. Captain; and was entitleil to hold the register fur el!
the lawful purposes of the ship.
Mr. Cotterell said, the cargo bad been coosignod.to a person
with whom, it al.peared, the Captain was inleattie:
Mr. Desborough, iolicitor fur the consignee, said that could
not be correct, for the consignee had advanced hint money on ac-
count of the ship, and it was agreed that his accounts should go to
arbitration.

After some further conversation, in which it was stated that
the owners had, ri et armii, got possession of the ship, and 're-
moved her fiom the wharf; and that the Captain lad, by similar
means, redeemed her,

Alderman Lucas said, it appeared to him that, • according
to the act, there must be a " wilful" detention of. the regieter.
Now that had not been shown, for the Captain had complied
with the law immediately on arriving in London, by going to
the Custom-house, and exhibiting his manifest and register to
the proper officer. This mast have been correct, for the ship
could nut be allowed to be cleared if it were not so ; and as it
did not appear that the Captain had ever refilled to produce
the register • to. a' Custom-house officer, the laWful occasions
of the ship had not been prevented. The, Captain, by having
signed bills of lading, was personally responsible for the safe
delivery of the cargo as well 71.1 accountable for the freight, for
on lauding the goods he was entitled to recover the freight for
which he had to answer to the owners. The Captain, therefore,
could not be considered as dismissed from the command of the
ship until the whole of the cargo was delivered, and the ship eel
at liberty to be entered for any other voyage. The Captain might,
however, if he pleased, take the indemnity of the owners against
any consequences which might arise from any loss in the delivery
of the cargo; but it.veas quite at his Optien to accept of the in-
demnity. This was hie view of the case ; but if the parties pleased
they might wait teeget the Led Mayor's opinion next day. He
(Alderman Luese) coesidered himself bound to dismiss the infor-
mation, and he at the same time Landed the register to the Cup-
tain, and directed hie) to be reedy at all times to produce: it when
required by a Cestom-house officer.
We understand that the Captain was taken into custody two or
three days before this, on a warrant issued by the. Lord Mayor,
who, when the defi:ndant oame to the Mansion-house, late in the
efterneon, with the officer, required him to show the register.---
LPa liberty tinLortish hiptihs o
then Captain
ounded this reeieter, and left the
GUILDHALL—We are sorry to say that Mr. Serjeent Span
kie has been deprived of his silk-gown. The deprivation, how-
ever, was nut occasioned by spy error of his own, but by the vile
misconduct of some person at present unkuown. eThe circum
stances attending it were thus
Last Saturday Nei:might the Learned Sergeant's wig Was con-.
signed to the care of Mr. Danbee the celebrated foreneiceierre-
/icier in the Temple.eloieters, in order that it might be reelressed
and powdered, and his silk-gown was left there with it, in order
that they ought be lent together to Westminster Hall, on the en-
suing Wednesday morning ; but in the interim some rascally thief
got into the shop
purpose evils
of a picklock key, and, though he had
the conscience to leave thewwililgt.le
glre 'ale—orucrawrrhietatl
heseceanrriiiedereoaffftethr.e
strangely
off one barrister's stuff'-gown, very much worn, sundry brushes
for the hair and teeth, razors, and combs of various sorts, and a
large buudle of forensic tails and curls, finiiLed and unfinithed.
Information of these circumstances having been laid before the
Magietrattei of this office, llawkine, one of the Marshalmen, has
luckily succeeded in recovering the greater part of the property.
including Mr. Sergeant Spankie's silk gown. He found them at
an obscure lodging house in Grub-street, in an upper room, oc-
cupied by one James %aims, who had very irreverently taken
the liberty °tieing the I..earned Sergeant's gown as a coverlet for
his bed ! This James Williams has absconded, but the officers are
making stelet search she: him, and, in the meantime, the. gown

has been restored to the Learned Sergeant—though, it is possible,
he may not chuse to make use of it after such contamination.

Jilt.. Charles Lpud,, a " stout gentleman," with a very dead
voice, who described himself to he " a earn-dealer and mercantile*
man, from-Coleshill, in Warwickshire," was Grought before Sir
JOHN PERRINO, yesterday, ,charged with having driven away
with a bore and gig, the property of Mr. John Glover, an inn-
keeper; in Warwick. - - '
Mr. Glover" was not in attendance, hut. it appeared by the evi-
dence of a Mr. Hurley, that a solicitor in Warwick hired. the
horse and gig from Gliver, for the use of the stout gentleman, Mr.
Load. The solicitor understood that his friend, the stout gentleman,
intended tOge to Coleshill only; about sixteen miles from Watnick,
and knowing that thO stout gentleman was rathereccentric in his
!:::bits, he sent a man with him to take care of the horse and gig,
and return with them to Warwick. Accordingly, the stout
gentleman and his superintendent set out together—the stout gen-
tleman-driVing ; but, when they gut into the main London road,
,
'liar Stone-bridge, tee stout gentleman
prevailed upon his super-
intendent to alight, in order to ease the load up hill ; and the
superintendent had no sooner alighted than the stout gentleman
Lid him good morning, and drove off at full speed towards Lou-
don. The forforn superintendent sent many unkind wishes after
him, and then walked hack to Warwick, to relate what had hap •
pened to his master, the solicitor, who forthwith wrote to his
friesid;-Mr. Ilursey, in London, and, inconsequence or his exer-
tions, the horse and gig were found at Gerard's Hall Inn, Basing,
lane, where the stout gentleman hail left them, with orders that
they should be well taken care of. Mr. liurse;,, however, oh-
tained possesSion of them, 'by indemnifying the proprietor of the
inn; and he now charged the stout gentleman with having stolen
them. • ". 4

The stout gentleman in his defence, said, "My name is Charles
Lewd, corn-dealer, and mercantile man, * from Culeshill,
in the County of Warwick—or Warwickshire, whichever you
picasa to call it; and I'm ready to auswer fur whatever I do--
here, there, or anywhere ;- as' is very Well• known to everybody.
I got the horse and chaise from the lawyer at Warwick, because
the lawyer at Warwick owed me money, which I couldn't get
from hini by hook, and so I determined to get it by crook; for I
know enough of the law to know that I can't arrest a lawyer—
the more's the pity ! I say. I made up my mind to come off
with the horse add chaise, and 1 said to the fellow, the lawyer sent
with•me; says if you don't get out of the chaise-111 chuck
you out, neck and crop !' .wouldn't-he only laughed at
me ! So when.we got to a bit Of a hill t'othcr side Stone-bridge, I
gamMon'd hiM to get out, by way of easing the horse up the hill
you ace, and away I cater--and that's all about it; but as for
that chap there—Mr. What's-his-name (Mr. Musses), as talks of
charging me with horse-stealing, I'll pull hilts up for it, assure as
ciiy name's*Charles Loud.' •
Sir Jortis Pritanta. now called Mr. lltirsey to him, and after
some private conversation between them, the stout gentleman was
discharged ; • tind lie went mvSy, vowing vengeance against " all
lawyers and their'abettors." •
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Thomas APK.entman, William
Archer., and James. hording, the three young men who haVe
been twice before vcamitiod on suspicion of being couceined in
the biwglary at the lion. Ilenry Stanhope's, liens-place, Sloane-
street, were: brought up for a final hearing.
.Since the last investig•ation yesterday se'nnight, Morris and the
other officers who apprehended the prisOners have been inde-
fatigably employed in endeavouring to obtain evidence corrobo-
rative of the statement of Tanks, the brother of the convict Jones,
which, taken alone, could not, under the circumstances, be safely
relied upon, or afford groom/ sufficient even fora committal for
trial. . The oflicers:were uuspeeessful, and Yesterday, when the
men were brought in; Morris informed Sir R. Btamt that there
was no other evidence forthcoming.
Sir R. Dia:sit said, that being the case, he could not detain
the prisoners any longer. There was no material circumstance
stated by any unsuspected pprson, , corroborative of the testimony
of Tooke; and without some Corroboration, his evidence was nut
worth a rush. • There might be strong reason to.believe, from the
known charaCter of the men, that they :had: scone knowledge ,of
the robbery, at Mr. Stanhope's; but there was no receivable proof
of it; and, in the absence, of that, Tonics' story,must be regarded
as having been trumped up for the purpose of endeavouring to
save his brother's life... As to Tonks, he had, according to his Own
showing, been last in possession of the property which was the
produce of the burglary, and he must be detained until farther in-
quiry could be-made. _
_

They were discharged, and Tonke was remanded till Tuesday
next, Sir 11. Blittsta signifying. his wish'. that Fjr. Stanhope
should then attend, us it- would be desirable.to know whether or
not he had made any promise to. Tonks Ware he brought ttte
stolen property to him.

11IARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Neiterday a desperate cha-
racter, well known to the -police, named George Nelson i•
appears, follows the trade of a boot-closer dtiting the "day; and.
that of a robber during ilia night, was brought-before *le Ow.
Fartitaxx, the Magietrate, charged itiththe &Miring rolibeiv.
• It appeared that about nine o'clock on Wednetday erenitigia
gentleman named Harman, residing at Knockholti 'in Neese,
was driving his cabriolet along Regent-street, anclititietrfor
a moment at -14 hollse,• where be wanted to make a an, :leav-
ing his eabriolet at the door with' a valuable box-coat in. it.'
'Mr. Herman had scareely enteric( the -hot* when the-prisoner
went up in the most daring manner, and deliberately took
the box-eout out of• the 'Vehicle,. and ;was Walkidg • away
with it, when three -young men - who saw the whole pro-
seeding, one of tliciti a- servant to the Sulicitor-General, made
ep to hire cilatl • seized him. Nelson, howevore whb' is a pow-
erful fellow, made' a' desperate resistance, and laid open, in a
dreadful 'manner, the cheek of one of the young men --with a
blow; but at length, after a violent contest, and other porous
Coming up, the prisoner was secured, and lodged-in the watch=
house. When brought before the Magistrate, yesterdey, he
refused to tell' where ha -lived ; but Ballard, the officer, rot-
collected that sonic days ago he had executed: an assault,
warrant against a woman of the name of Green, who was
supposed to have cohabited with this fellow (Nelson), and, re-
collecting that he found Green at a house, Ise. •le Radon-street,
Regent-street, he thought it not unlikely that Nelson might7havo
his abode there also; and accordingly, himself and Reid, another
officer, 'proceeded- to this house, and ascertained that Nelson did
lire there with Green, and that the latter had gone -out that
morning, carrying with her a large leather -portmanteau.—
The officers having had the apartments occupied. by Nelson
and Green pointed out to 'them, which were locked, they forced
open the doors, and' loon discovered the remains of ..enest ex.
tetalive depredations. There were several leather portman-
teaus, travelling-boxes,' Sic., the locks and hinges of•which had
been forced open, and the contents taken out. They --also
discovered Upward* of one hundred pewobrokeri duplicates
for property pledged of 'almOet every description that was-portable;
and to a very considerable ansoant. There were several gold-and
silver watches; umbrellas; gold rings of various descriptions, silk.,
and bornbazinee, gold seals and chains, all sorts of wearing
apparel, &c.; all these things the °Meer') took away with them,
and Ballard. next recollected that when Green was • in custody for
the assault, she was bailed by a man named Nelson, residing at No.
SO, Rupert-street, Haymarket, and it immediately struck him
that this- must be a brother to the prisoner Nelson ; and accord-
ingly Reid and himself went into this house on speculation' to see
what they could, learn. On the door being opened, Ballard said
that lie came for the large leather trunk which Mrs. Green had
brought there that morning, and without further ceremony
the trunk was given to him. Thu officer then proceeded to
search the house, and here also they diacovered another collec-
tion of duplicates for a number of valuable articled, which
they, together • with the trunk, brought away to this office,
where they are' now to be seen. The trunks, boxes, &c. ap-
pear to be the pioduce of depredations committed upon stage-
coaches, waggons, &c. The prisoner is stated to be known as the
perm: who some time ago committed a daring robbery on the
Coventry waggon, on the Uxbridge road; he was on that occa-
sion taken near the spot by two of the patrol, but after a desperate
struggle he scr.iceeded in making his escape from Vann, and he
was heard to swear that if he had not lost his " jemmy," or crow-
bar, in the struggle, he would have put an end to both of them ;
he has also been heard often to boast, that if taken he could always
humbug the
u beaks" (magistrates) by showing that he was an
ysa named
eeensportation. in the duplicates.
industrious man, and worked all day at his trade us a bout-closer.
This is stated, too, to be the man, who, a short time ago, watt'
handfuliote a jewellers eowf es! eurff's
nslitohpe
iiiititopOkxeefoirmrd Oxford-'street, reeey
014, andrau soutiddweintlhy flingingaf
seals, rings, Sm., and got clear away,
'The prisoner is to be hrouglit up again this day, when the pawn_
sentencedproert
Th
e
brokers
prisonerivil wile
b attendad bnoncewwith the

iiA T
wTho°ll —Yesterday Thomas Ank, a black-
smith,the Middlesex Sessions for an assault
on his wife the very day of their marriage, and on a second
indictutent.for beating wife', father, went before the ma-
gistrate of this office to solicit advice how to act under the follow-
vilt AtriendEß ar:.
ing rather extraordinary circumstances
Turk stated, that however violently he might seem to have
acted on his wedding-day, yet his wile's subsequent conduct
bad fully justified his jealous suspicions with respect to her,
for ever: she has been living with another man,
the fart was, they only wanted to make. a convenience by en-
trapping hits into the marriage, she being than supposed to
blaeckuttnbceoind one that da ywhom
he
est.erued
es a true friend; hut

be in a state of pregnancy by. the other. Since the trial, he k
heard nothing about her, except that she was living at 'a boa
in Monkwell -street, Whitechapel, with her paramonr, who,
seemed, treated her with great severity.' However, on Tend
evening, whilst he was out at his work, the unfortunate worm
was brought to his lodgings a corpse, she having poisOned hers,
in 's fit of despondency on the preceding day. The body w
enclosed in a common shell, and the.men. who brought it a
that the landlord of the house where deceased committed t
rash act would not suffer it to remain there, and had sent it
him for burial, as her husband, or paramour, declined
pay the expences attendant on the-funeral. Ile consulted
wi
some friends as to how he should act, and was given to end!
stand, that as the marriage had never been consumtnatrdi
could not be considered responsible as her husband ;
bt
notwithstanding all this, he could not bear to see the reanzi
of a woman for whom he once entertained a 'sincere regal
lying unburied, and he went to an undertaker's fur the purpose
having it removed. A new difficulty was then started, fur t]
poor woman having lodged in the house previous to her marriag
had contracted a debt of 61. or N. with the landlord ; and 'win
the undertaker's men came to perform their offitie, the landle'
laid a detainer on the body, and would not suffer it to be take
away until his demand was satisfied. The applicant added, th,
it was with great diffieclty he could make up the money to 14
the expences of interment, but the discharge of the debt wal.
gether out of his power. The body was now lying there, none
the woman's friends having come forward to intere,t themsely,
about her, and he (Turk) wished to know whether the 31gistrat
could direct him how to act.
. Mr. Sergeant SZLLON—Do you mean to say that the wail
committed suicide?
Turk—Yes, your Worship, I have been informed that al
swallowed poison.
Mr. Sergeant SY.Liolt—Then there
.should be a Coroner, is
quest summoned to inquire into the cause of her death.
Turk—l have been told that there was a Jury summoned t•
that purpov, but ram not certain that any inquiry has tike
place, and I confess I have myself some doubts as to her dash.
Mr. Sergeant SEtnow—We can do nothing for you. it'
can ascertain that a Cercner'a Jury has not sat on the !,,od!..)'
should go to the parish officers, and consult with them. )jr
no doubt, will advise you hose to act.
Turk—But, please, your Worship, if the landlord would $l,
lOW. it, I would have the body decently, interred, for b""PitY
Sake.
The Magistrates, however, observed, that justice required th'
the case should be thoroughly investigated, and the Corn!
when the Jury was satiafied, would make the usual inks for is
termen t.
Turk said he would follow their Worships' advice, Pa retired