The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Sir RICHARD Brawix took
occasion to contradict a statement which appeared in some
of the Morning Papers, headed " Bow-street officers out-
witted." The article in question, the Magistrate observed,
was copied from the Cheltenham Chronicle, and pur-
ported .to describe the adventures of a female swindler,
named against whom a warrant had been issued
and placed in the hands of two of the Bow-street officers,
who, however, managed matters so clumsily at Chelten-
ham that the lady escaped from their custody from a win-
dow into a saw-pit, and from thence over several walls,
until at last she got clear off, leaving the officers chop-
fallen' and discomfitted. The whole story, said Sir R.
BIRNIE, is, I believe, a fabrication : at least, lam sure that
as far as Bow-street officers were concerned, it is a delibe-
lately ins-exited and gross lie. He therefore thought that
those papers that had given circulation to a report so
unfounded, would &so insert his contradiction to it.
A foreigner named Clerk came to complain that he had
been robEad of money, and duplicates of property, pledged
to the amount of 25/., while a prisoner in Clerkenwell-pri-
son. The complainant charged a fellow-prisoner with the
robbery, who is in custcrly at the suit of the Excise, but
who acts as one of the wardens of the prison ; on the first
night of his incarceration, he threw some blankets over him,
end deprived him of-all he had in his pockets.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE expressed the greatest surprise at
the circumstance, and wished that it had been mentioned
on Thursday at the meeting of Middlesex magistrates.
Jones, the gaoler, said that such robberies were very
frequent. •
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE immediately directed that the
Governor of the prison where the robbery was said to be
committed should be apprised of the circumstance, with a
view to an immediate inquiry, and he directed the appli-
cant to attend at the office again on that day week.
A poor man, a cow-keeper, named James Power, ap-
peared to prefer a charge of assault against a person named
Davis, who collects the assessed taxes for the parish of St.
Giles's-in-the-Fields.—The defendant was held to bail
for the assault.

MA RLBOROUG I-I- STREET. —Yesterday a gentle-
man of fortune, residing in Euston-terrace, Euston-square,
was brought to this office before Sir GEORGE FARRANT,
the Magistrate, under a warrant, charged with having as-
saulted a young female, who had for some time lived as
servant in his establishment. Some weeks since Mr. S.
went to reside for a short time at Brighton, leaving his
house in Euston-terrace under the care of an elderly married
couple, and having no further occasion for the services of
the complainant in this case, and another female servant,
he discharged both before he quitted town. During his
absence, however, it appeared that these two discharged
females came repeatedly to the house, and even remained
there two and three days at a time, in defiance of those in
charge of it, representing that they had Mr. S.'is permis-
sion so to do. On Mr. S.'s return home from Brighton, a
few days ago, he missed from his house several articles of
property; and learning that those discharged servants had,
under a false pretence, often visited the house, his suspicions
immediately fell upon them, and he applied for and obtained
at this office a search-warrant to search their lodgings for
his stolen proper ty. The apartments of the present corn-
p!ainant, at Kilburn, were accordingly searched by an
officer ; but nothing was found there belonging to Mr. S.
After his search, the complainant came to this office, and
for the first time applied for a warrant against Mr. S. for
an assault, which she alleged he committed upon her so
long back as the 4th of December last, and the warrant
being granted to her, the case thus came before the Ma-
gistrate.
The complainant, a very good-looking girl, stated, that
while she lived in the service of Mr. S., that gentleman
made, upon various occasions, proposals to her of an im-
proper nature, but she rejected all his attempts, which
were confined to mere verbal solicitations, until the 4th
of December last, when he proceeded to accomplish by
force and violence that which he had so long failed to do
by entreaty. Having under some pretence induced her
to go into one of the rooms, he threw her upon a sofa,
and assaulted her in other ways, that in her mind made
the present proceeding necessary against him.

in his defence,-solemnly denied the whole
of the complainant's assertions.
Sir GEORGE FARRANT said, that as the girl had sworn
so positively to the assault, he could not discharge the war-
rant, but would leave the case to be judged of by a Jury ;
and he should therefore require bail, which was immedi-
ately given.
MARYLEBONE-OFFICE. -- On Thursday night,
Captain Edmund Wentworth Pearce, charged Mr. William
Bradley with an assault.
Mr. GRIFFITH ordered Mr. Bradley to be bound in his
own recognizance to appear at the Sessions, and answer it.
Elizabeth Martin, an old woman who says she be-
longs to Reading, in Berkshire, was charged with stealing
a great coat from the Hon. Leslie Melville's, No. 27,
Park-crescent.—She was committed to Newgate.
Catherine Skilbeek, a very loquacious dame, was charged
by Augusta Cunningham with an assault.
Mrs. Cunningham proved, that Mrs. Skilbeck struck
her with all the " vengeance of a market basket," upon the
stairs of their lodging-house, and disfigured her nose.—She
was required to find bail.

HATTON-GARDEN.—Charles Allen and Thomas
Waters, mere boys, were yesterday charged before Mr.
ROGERS, as principal and accessory, with stealing six silver
spoons, the property of Charles Cousins, a builder, residing
at No. 20, Drummond-crescent, Euston-square.
Mr. ROGERS, from a feeling that there were persons pro-
bably of maturer years acting as instigators of this felony,
and sharing in the spoil, ordered them for re-examination
on Wednesday next, and desired that a strict investigation
should be set on foot meanwhile.

The late frequent and effective perpetration of robberies
within the district of this office is truly singular, and ex-
cites astonishment where there is a vigorous and an ex-
tensive police. Scarcely a day passes that informations
are not received here of houses having been entered and
robbed on the previous nights; and, strange to tell, done
with such skilful management and profound secrecy,
though evidently by a plurality of persons, that no trace
can be, had to lead to the detection of a single individual.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Joseph Newman was yester-
day committed to the House of Correction for a month, for
deserting his wife and child, whereby they became charge-
able to the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.
Alexander Macdonald, charged with stealing a saddle,
was fully committed to Newgate for trial. The singularity
in this case was, that the saddle, which had been pledged,
was, through 'the medium of another person, offered for sale
to the very person from whom it had been stolen.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a man named James Kip-
ping was brought up in custody, charged with breaking
into and robbing the house of Mr. Henry Hart, landlord of
the King's Head, at Mitcham. Before the examination
commenced, Mr. Hart, and the constable who took charge
of the prisoner, represented that Mitcham was infested with
a gang of desperate housebreakers, and that scarcely a night
passed that houses iri that village were not broken into and
plundered of property. The prisoner, it was alleged,
belonged to this formidable gang that were a terror to the
neighbourhood.
The complainant stated, that between three and four
o'clock on Friday some of the inmates were alarmed by a
noise down stairs. On his proceeding to ascertain the cause,
he found that the tap-room window had been forced up, and
the'shutters opened, apparently by means of a centre-bit.--
On further examination of the premises, he discovered that
the lock of the door leading into the bar had been wrench-
ed open, and other rooms below stairs entered by the
thieves.—ln the bar, every thing was in disorder, the till
and all the drawers having been forced open, and their con-
tents, consisting of money and several articles of plate, car-
ried off. Amongst the property stolen, were several silver
spoons, marked with the initials of Mr. Hart's name, to-
gether with a quantity of clothes, and large damask table-
cloths. The complainant lost no time in giving informa-
tion of the robbery to one of the constables of Mitcham,
and lie immediately went in pursuit of the thieves, con-
ceiving that they would bend their course towards London
for the purpose of getting rid of the "swag "
in Petticoat-
lane, or some of those streets inhabited by the receivers of
stolen goods. When the constable arrived at Wandsworth,
he went into the tap-room of the Falcon, and observed the
prisoner sitting there with a pint of beer before him, and
knowing that he belonged to the " Mitcham Gang," he
insisted on searching him, and found in his pockets half a
dozen of table and tea-spoons, together with some other '
articles, which were produced and identified by the coin-
plainant as his property.
Mr. Hart requested that the poisoner might be remanded,
which was acceded to by the Magistrate.
An incorrigible boy, named James Smith, was charged
with threatening the life of his father, who stated that be
was in the constant habit of giving him the lie plump
when he spoke to him. On the previous day the father
having desired his hopeful son to do certain work, which
he .refused, and on being remonstrated with, he took up a
bill-hook, swearing at the same time he would cut his
father in' two with the weapon, if he attempted to inter-
fere with him. The father then proceeded to describe
many other vicious traits in the character of the young
offender.

,The father declared that he uniformly set his children a
good example but that from hie very cradle the boy had

shown a violent and impetuous temper, which no correc-
tion of his could subdue.

TOWN-HALL.—Mr. Joseph Taylor, one of,the sur-
gical students of the torough Hospital, appeared this morn-
ing to a summons to answer for the commission of a gross
assault upon Mr. Thomas Smith, a fellow pupil of the
same school, in the anatomical theatre of Mr. Grainger,
Webb-street, on Wednesday morning last.
After the confusion created by the influx of nearly 100 of
the friends of both parties, who crowded most indecently
round the Magistrate, to his very great inconvenience, to
witness the hearing, had subsided, through the interference
of the officers, Mr. Smith addressed the Alderman (J. J.
Smuts), to explain the nature of the offence complained of.
which, in the abstract, amounted to this:—lt appeared
that the defendant, Mr. Taylor, having had a dispute with
a Mr. Octavius Munton, both of them members of the
same class, at the head of which the complainant stood, ap-
pealed to the class for decision, and in the course of dis-
cussion, applied certain offensive terms towards Mr. Mun-
ton—such as " rascal," 6. scoundrel," and " buffoon,"
and threatened him personal chastisement,—that thereupon
he (Mr. Smith) rose, together with several others of Mr.
Munton's friends, and declared, that if any violence was at-
tempted towards him, he (Mr. Smith) for•one would re-
sent it,—that on the followhig morning; the defendant awaited
his quitting the theatre, and asked him what 'he meant
by the language he had used the previous day, when
he, Mr. Smith, observed, that he did not wish to
revive the subject, what he had said was as a mem-
ber of the class, and mildly expostulated with him On
the injustice of a personal attack, when the defendant
immediately struck him in the face ; and he had every
reason to believe would repeat his violence whenever he
met him, and being a much more powerful man, give him
a good beating.
Mr. Taylor, in reply, insisted that the conduct of the
complainant was of the most unwarrantable nature.
Mr. Smith pressed the necessity of his being protected
from any further violence on the part of Mr. Taylor.
This Mr. Taylor disclaimed any intention of.
Alderman Ssirrx—" Then shake hands, and be friends."

A sort of an apology was then made by Mr. Smith for
the expressions he had used, and further proceedings
stayed, though it was very evident perfect conciliation was
out of the question.