The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—On Saturday William Kendall, a porter
in the 'employment of Messrs. Cux and Baylisa, printers, of Great
Queen street, was charged with robbing his employers of consi-
derable quantities of printed works of value, which he sold at the
shop of Mr. Geary, a wholesale bacon and butter dealer, in
Broad-street, Bloomsbury, at the rate of 4d. per pound, as waste
-paper. Some of the works were nearly complete, and the names
of Cox and Bayliss were affixed to them, so that the purchaser,
had he taken any trouble, might have discovered it was stolen
property.
Mr. MINSHULL, the Magistrate, was a long time hesitating
before he admitted Mr. Geary's shopman an evidence against the
prisoner, and he asserted, that, if there had been other evidence
against the prisoner, he would have committed the shopmen tbr
feloniously receiving the property_
The prisoner did not deny his guilt, but made a strong appeal
to "Mr. Cox for mercy, on account of his having a wife and
children. •

Mr. Cox said, his loss was 1501. in one instance, and to make
up the work, which th( property found at Mr. Geary's had been
taken frons, would cost above 201.

The prisoner was committed to Newgate.

MAALBOROUGII-STREET.—Jacob'Slurrer, coacbman
to.a• Mr. Meyer, appeared before Mr. Dyga, on Saturday morn-
ing, to•auswer u complaint made against him by Ballard and
Clements', officers u!• the establishinent.

On Friday night the defendant was in attendance on his mas-
ter's family with the carriage, at a Concert at .the Argyll Rooms,
,and endeavoured to cut into the rank out of his turn. The offi-
cers interfered to prevent this, • and he flogged them •with his
whip ; but Ballard plied his ash plant upon his shins so vigo-
rously that he was soon glad to tiesist. He then, with a view of
preventing-the officers from finding out who he was, turned his
horacii and drove furiously along Argyll-street; but he made no-
thing by his motion, for Clements had mounted behind. Not-
withstanding his, being thus baulked in his intention, he drove on
at a furious rate along Marlborough-street into Dean-street,- and
through several other streets into Oxford-street, alternately flog-
ging his herses, and the officer behind the carriage. Seeing that
all attempts to escape uimknown would be useless, he joined the
rank of carriages in Regent-street again, and the officers ascer-
tained who he was.

In his defence he contented himself with. complaining of the
rough treatment he received from the officers.

Mr. -Welsh, one of the proprietors of the rooms, attended and
expressed his unqualified approbatiou of the. Conduct of the officers
on MI occasions, and on this in particular they had acted with the
greatest forbearance, till it became absolutely. necessary to use
force.

The coachman was fined fur furiously driving, and ordered to
find bail for. the assault upon the officers.
UMON-HALL.--CIiteIThisTANTIAL CA4E OF.IIO4sEIsNZAE-
INC.—Two youths, by trade chimney .sweeps named Thomas
Full tint} 'William Reeves, were brought up, on Saturday, befoie
R. J.. Chambers, Esq. for final examinatioh, on suspicion of
having entered the house of one Rodman, in one of the Courts in
Kent-sti t-et, on the 15th instant, and stolen therefrom a bundle
of linen and wearing apparel.
The evidence was entirely circumstantial.
,The prisoners
were observed near Union hall by one of the officers shortly after
the robbery. Hall, the chief officer, said it was by no means
uncotinnon for thieves, immediately after any theft, to hasten to
the police office, and loiter about till recognised by souse of the
officers, in order to create a doubt whether they could be the tn-
dividuals guilty of the offence.
Mary Ann Rodman, the. prosetutrix, deposed that about four
(Moil in.the afternoon she left the window-ahutterif of her house
and the door .closed ; a bundle of linen was tied up in "the trzd-
room, worth 41. or M. She returned about .eight o'clock-and
found her shutters open, and a pane of glass broken in the window:
On going up stairs she missed the linen. She -perceived on ex
attaining the apartment two black marks on the witidow ledge,
and some spots of blood sprinkled about the floor. The adjoining
houses were not inhabited.

•
Elizabeth Coates examined—As I was standing et my house
door, on the evening of the lath inst. about five'o'cloek, law the
prisoners pass by me, and go up the court leading to . the
prosecutrix'r house, each of them having an empty sack.
In the course of an hour they 'raised again. Reeves then
carried•beth•the sacks. • One of them seemed to contain a bundle,
and the other dust. Hill was squeezing blood from his finger,
which appeared to have been cut. lam sure no one else passed
up the court from the time the prosecutrix first went out, till the
robbery was discovered. Directly after, a person who collects
rent went up, I followed him, and seeing him shut the. door of
the prosecutrix's house, I immediately gave an alarm.
Wm. Rogers said,"as he was standing at his window, about five
o'clock, • the prisoner passed, and went towards the house of the
prosecutrix. Reeves stopped a little, and took up some dust
which •he put into a sack. Hill asked witness if he wanted his
chimney swept. The prisoners went towards the house of the
prosecutrix, and presently returned. Hill's finger was bleeding.
They had no implements for sweeping chimneys.
manna' Gibbons, alittle girl, proved haring seen the prison-
ers pass and return. She saw one of them. scraping dust together
with his hand.

Matthew Smith, a constable, apprehended Hill the day after the
robbery: Reeves was also taken about the same period. Witness
was conversing with Hill when they were it, the watch-house,
when Reeves desired his companion to be silent, and say nothing
till they were taken before the Magistrate.
The prisoners denied all knowledge of the transaction with which
they were charged.
After the parties had bred bound over to appear against them
at the Sessions, they were taken away in thecustody of the gaoler.