The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.,---Abrahant Paantore, au old man, dad in the
uniform of a Greenwich pensioner, Wtl.y brought up for re-exami-
nation yesterday, charged with defrauding one Hannah Keel, a
poor woman, residing in Poppiu'a•court, Fleet-street, of the sum
of Is. Sd.

The complainant stated, that on Sundays the 15th ult., soon
after she had returned from worship, the prisoner gave the pecu-
liar knock at the street door (that is, knociced twice), which de-
noted that the visitor was to her. When eke went to the door,
the prisoner, quite a stranger, looked otedfaetly in her face, and
inquired if her name was not Kimber? She replied, it was not.
" Then," said the prisoner, "it is Keel." She admitted it bad
been Kimber, and was now Keel. "I am right, then," said the
prisoner. 44 My son, who is now at the Dundee Arms, Wapping,
has brought from the East Indies a parcel delivered to him by your
son. 1 have seen it. There is written upon it 4 For Hannah
Keel, delivered into the care of James •White, July 4, 1826.'
The prisoner said she would have the parcel free of expellee, upon
payitig him Is. 3d., but she must go to the Dundee Arms before
six o'clock that evening to fetch the parcel, as his son would start
at that hour for Plymouth. Her husband invited him to dinner,
mid during the meal she noticed he had lost one of his fingers.—
Her husband said to him, " My. friend, I have lately read in the
papers that some gentlefulke have been tricked by such a person as
you are, and I fear thou art an imposter. If you are, be assured
your sins will find you out." " God forbid," exclaimed the pri-
soner, " that I should deceive you ;" and his frank address lulled
entirely their suspicions. Before they parted, she paid him the
Is. 3d., and he borrowed a handkerchief, which he was to return
next day, but she siw no more of him until he was apprehended.

Wolfe, the officer, said the prisoner called upon him ou the
17th ult., with intelligence that his son-in-law had sent from
abroad a parcel which was left at the Dundee Anus. He gave
the prisoner 6d. for his trouble; but on going to ,the Dundee
Arms, he found he had been hoaxed. _ _

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A brief notice in four lines, published in one of the Sunday
Papers, that such a character was in custody, produced fresh au-
cusers at the office yesterday morning.
Jane King, chandler, City-road, related that the prisoner knock-
ed at her door on Sunday the Ist ult. She peeped between the
shutters, and having a Gott at sea, and espy►ng the old man's
Greenwich uniform, she became greatly agitated. Ile asked her
if she had not a eon at sea? she told him shelled ; he went out in the
Spartiute. "The same,'' said he. ." And he went over to the
Marquis Wellesley," added Mrs. King. " The very same," ex-
claimed Abraham. " lam quite right," After keeping her in
some suspense, slid calling for pen,'ink, sad paper, he wrote a (E-
-rection, by paying attention to which She would find something
desirable. The direction ran thus

"Your to seta touvaley to the Eiupper Wartage (Upper
\\rewrote7, laeofora, uu board the. Spqrshous with aperd.
" JAMES SMITH,
,Colage Man."

" Bring a fren with thee► that Person that come."

Witness explained that her son had left the Spartiate some
time, but he said that did not matter ; she would find that all
right. She wanted to treat him with some spirits, but he de-
dined, observing that he might have rolled in liquor when he saw
her son the night before. She next pressed him to stop and dine
with her, which he consented to "doi provided he might pay for
.what hei should eat, us he could not bear to eat at the expense-of a
poor widow; but she positively refused to tike his money, awl
after some further reluctance, he said grace, and then dowu be
sat to her joint of Mutton. Raving finished his meal, he stole a
handkerchief out of a clothes' basket by his side, while she was.
absent for a minute ; and on her return she found him eyeing
so►ne little valuables in a glazed etipboard. She did not leave him
alone after that, and he soon departed, promising to call again on
the following Sunday in his gold-laced clothes. Shortly after-
wardµ she missed the handkerchief, and the story about her son's
return, and the Spartiate, turned out to be untrue.

Ann, the wife of John Allen, Jetvin-street, said the prisoner
knocked at her door On the SOth of September; and informed her
that her son (who Went out in the Industry for the Cape of Good
Hope) and his son; .and all the ship's crew had run away, on ac-
count of the ill treatment they received from the Captain ; but
that if she would call unit Capt. Jones, Stepney-eauseway, she,
might receive 27e. a part of her son's pay. She gave him 3d.
and invited him to a slight repast, which he accepted, after ex-
pressing much reluctance, because, froM her flunily, he saw she
had so many mouths to feed. When she reached Stepney-cause-
way, she met with another female in quest of Capt. Jones, who
produced a knife the prisoner had left in her lodging, and which
witness identified as having been stolen from her. After wander-
ing about Stepney-causeway for an hour and a half, accompanied
by a pilot, they returned home,: convinced that they had been;
duped.
Rebecca Ainner, East Smithfield,. and her husband, had lost a.
day's lakour in searching the river from the I.ondon Docks to.
Woolwich, for the Marquis Wellesley, which the prisoner re-
Desented,to have returned, and to be lying oft, the Broadway,
eptigni, with her brother on board. At the Broadway they
were treated with a loud laugh by the watermen, who said they
were the two-and-fiftieth couple that had been there lately on a
sin filar errand.
lu reply to he inotiriet of; the Alderman, the prisoner said he,
had belonged to,Greenwich College, but was expelled about three
months ago, tor breaking Petty. He complained that he was
subject to insanity.
Mr. Alderman Awetav said, be felt disposed to commit him

on two charges of felony, but he would remand bun till to-mor-
row (this day), that he might establish his insanity if he could.
BOW-STREET.-..;AA application was made last week, by
Mr. William Palmer Moffatt, for a summons to require the at-
tendance of Alexander Soloiitans, a jew, charged by Miss Alicia
Glover, with whom Mr. Moffatt is at present cohabiting, near the
Obelisk, with having framlulently obtained several pawnbrokers'
duplicates, and released from pawn three gold bracelets, two
diamond pins, and a piece of silk, the prPPertY of M Glover.
Solomon, in his defence, declared that he bought the tickets
from Mr. Moffatt fig 2/. one day, when Miss Glover was out of
the way, and Mr. Moffatt ►vas in a state of intusication.---Case

dismissed..
QUERN.SQUARE...:-.Yesterday a man named William Ben-
" 110 wan cliatP4 before t. W. Gags:mite, Esq., with robbing
the apartments of Mrs. Sarah Jane Harding, otherwise Cotterell,
of two one pound Ilank-notes, a sovereign, and two half sovereigns.
`Thy circumstances of this case .were Of a most similar &scrip
ltiieenzji marriedwtik ngatwrideell Mrs.
her first husbandCotterell. a U officer appeared
ICvearstbi :Ixtoencgauliitnee
executed
ad
etteihlr3ednßwegithmaelniv,teo.f Prbt:mintafmouedr I,lo,eardrsinaggioh.y whom she had two
the country for an unnatural crime: this shock had such an effect
upon her mind, that she was afterwards confined in St. Luke's,
but having recovered her senses, she came out, and shortly after
executed
marriedciitettfor ftoo a
rgeuryia.n nAaned Cohered,
few
wteksaftewr,hao,noltternimonitshrosrta.ugloie,
blefvaiel
this unfortunate woman : her bay, while playing, got his thigh
and arm broken, and 'even now remains at her residence, York-
street, Westminster, in a dying state, having had 4° medical
at-
tendanceisince Tuesday, and nothing to eat from the Thursday till
Sunday.

gwofnithfi:r u'ufortiniate
George Pape,ttn °Meer belonging to this estOlishinentt 1r,,114
reapecting the robbery, witneAled the miserable situation
and rendered them iunnetbate relief
It appeared thin tho poor woulag woo livimg upon dimity, area

the money which Bennet had stolen was given to her by some in-
dividuals aware of her unfortunate situation.

Mts. Sarah Jane Harding, otherwise Cotterell, now stepped
forward deep distress was visible on her countenance, and she
appeared to lab Our under an aberration of mind ; her appear-
ance showed that she had seen better days. Mr. Gregorie most
humanely ordered her a chair ; a glass of water was brought, as
she was nearly fainting while giving her evidence. She became-
acquainted with the prisoner at Twiekenham ; it was at his re-
quest that she came to reside in Westminster, as he said she could
live cheaper, and he would do all in his power to serve her. She
had washed for him, and he boarded under the same roof. On Thurs-
day last she took the money'from her pocket, and placed it in the
drawer before sl le went out. On her return she met the prisoner on the
wirs,Who passed her Without speaking. About 20 Minutes afterwards I
on her going to the drawer, she instantly missed the money,
which she had intended to buy furniture with ; but having no
coals, and also being withopt food, and her poor little boy ill in
bed, she reluctantly went to break into her money to provide sub-
sistence. The prisoner had slept in the same apartment with her
and her family for three months; but from the time of the rob-
bery until Sunday evening, she had not seen him. When became
in on the Sunday, she gave her daughter a hint, who went out
k and brought an officer, and the prisoner was taken into custody.
George Pople, the Officer, said that he was sent for to appre-
hend the prisoner, whom he found intoxicated ; he told hint he
had no regular lodging ; had been drinking for some days, and
bad no employ. On searching him, he only found a few shillings,
The prisoner, in his defence, said, that on Thursday night he
was in bed with Mrs. Harding, and in consequence of some words
between them, he got .up and went out. He could also prove an
alibi.

Mrs. Harding positively denied having seen him that evening.
Remanded until Monday next.
MARYLEBONE.—The Proprietors of several Coffee-shops
were summoned by Johnson, for keeping their shops open until
a later hour than allowed by the Act of Parliament.
The first case was proved against a Mrs. Mary Warren, by
John Brooks, one of Johnson's men, who said, that he went into
the defendant's shop at half-past five o'clock, on the morning of
the 28th of October, at which time there were four men in the
shop, not including himself. The defendant was fined 20s.
and costs.

The next ease, against Mr. Hale, in Well's-street, was dis-
mind, Mr. Hale having proffiiced witnesses who directly contra-
dicted the informer's evidence.
The third case was prOved against John lialcombe, the keeper
of a coffee-shop, in. Crown-street, St. Oiles'e. The Magistrate
(Mr. Griffith) expressed'some relnetance to hear this information,
as it was out of the district of this Office Mr. Griffith, how-
ever, ultimately consented to hear the case, in order to save the
parties any further' inconvenience. The case was proved in the
usual manner, and when Mr. Griffith informed Mr. Halcombe
that he must convict him in the mitigated penalty of twenty shil-
lings,
Mr. Halcombe said ;—" It is quite out of my power to pay
the fine ; therefore I must take the consequences."
Mr. Gamtrit—l cannot argue upon that subject; the law
must take its course.
Mr. Halcombe was then ordered to be detained for the amount
of the penalty; but shortly afterwards Johnson returned to the
Office, and begged the Magistrate's permission to withdraw the
information against Mr. Halcombe, as he understood that be had a
wife and large family, and was in very reduced circumstances.—
Mr. Griffith told Johnson that, in so doing, he had acted very
properly, and he felt uo hesitation in complying with his request.
The information was accordingly withdrawn.
UATTON-GARDEN.—Yestertlity, Mn -John James Daw-
son, an attorney at law, of Symoud's Inn, Chancery-lane, and of
Woodland House, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Mr. Richard Husband,
and Mr. Thomas Gordon, who are also in the legal profession,
were brought up by Hall, the watehhouse-keeper at the Found-
ling, into whose custody they had been given at an early hour on
Sunday morning, charged by Mr. Busbridge, the livery-stable-
keeper in Gray's-inn-road, with creating a great disturbance at Hs
house, to the annoyance of his family and the whole neighbour-
hood.

The Magistrate said, that it was highly improper on the part
of Mr. Dawson and his friends to create such a disturbance, and
at such an hour in the morning; however, on the present occa-
sion, he should not call upon them for bail, and therefore they
were at liberty to go about their business.
The defendants were then discharged, Mr. Dawson declaring
he would bring an action against Mr. Busbridge.
UNION-llALL.—Within the last month numerous burglaries
have been committed in Wa'worth, Newington, and their vici-
, nities, and notwithstanding the vigilance of the constable* of those
parishes to apprehend the ollintilers, their efforts havb not been
crowned with success. The house of Mr. liindmareb, in Carter-
street, Walwurtb, was forcibly entered on the night of the 17th of
October, and a variety of articles, chiefly linen and wearing appa-
rel, were carried off by the thieves. The litter, it was manifest
from the snffles' of the aperture by which they entered, were
mere boys. A short time after theburglary, Snow, the constable of
Newington, succeeded in apprehending three lads, on suspicion of
being concerned in it, whore names are Buket, Baker, and
Meek. These boys have already undergone an examination, and
are remanded.

Yesterday some aiditional evidence tending to criminate them
was produced. About four o'clock ou the morning of the,
burglary, the prisoners were found lying on some straw in a shed'
belonging to a person named Sparrow, on Walworth-common,
and under the straw some articles which Mr. Ilindmarsh stated
belonged to him were' discOvered concealed.
The prisoners denied all' knowledge of the transaction.