The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL—Elizabeth Purv;s, servant to Mr.
Langford, of the firm of Keating and Co., druggists, north-
west corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, was charged with
wilfully throwing some vitriol over a silk dress belonging

to Miss Langford.
%liss Langford stated,. that she huhg the dress in a spare
bed-room, on Saturday evening, and saw it apparently un-
injured on Sunday morning, hut when she was putting it
on about five o'ctielc that afternoon, she discovered it had
been burnt in two places with some liquid, which was still
wet upon it. She called Purvis up, and asked her whether
she used vitriol for any purpose, and she replied she did
not, and that she did not know even what it was.

Sir P. LAURIE asked the prisoner if she wished to put
any question to the witness.
The prisoner very confidently replied, that she did not,
for she was not guilty of what she was charged with.
Mr. Langford then called one of his assistants, named
March, who said he attended to the shop on Sunday after-
noon, and about three o'clock the prisoner applied to him
for some oil of vitriol. As usual, when he served any per-
son with a poison, he inquired what purpose it was wanted
for, but though he repeated his question he did not obtai❑
an explanation. She was not two minutes in the shop.
She afterwards came to him twice to beg that he would not
mention that she had had the vitriol. In the evening Mr.
Langford showed him the large holes. He said it was an
acid, and on tasting it pronounced it the sulphuric acid,
and mentioned the serVanes application to him.
A female servant remembered the prisoner's going into
the shop. She did not return to the kitchen again for 10
minutes. She saw the vitriol in a mug, and threw it away
not knowing what it was.

The prisOner still stoutly asserting her innocence, Sir P.
LAURIE asked her why she desired the young man to con-
ceal that she had obtained some vitriol from him ?—She
said she had no motive.
Sir PETER asked her what she wanted to do with the
vitriol ?—She said to clean a copper, but she admitted
that for two years and a half before she had never used a
stronger arid than vinegar for that purpose. Her fel-
low-servant threw the vitriol away before any of it had
been used. Had no pat ticular reason for wishing to make
the copper brighter than usual. Had no malice against
Miss Langford.
Mr. Langford explained that until his sister came to re-
sitle with him a few weeks ago, there had been no mistress
to look after the servants.
Sir PETER said he could understand this would make her
place worse than before. As she had no longer to pay for
and order goods, though she had the same wages, her per-
quisites were less. (A laugh.)
She still persisted in asserting her innocence, but the ma-
gistrate adjudged her to pay 31. 10s., the value of the dress
she bad spoilt, or to be committed for two months. She
preferred the former course.
In the course of the slay, Sir PETER LAURIE sent
Herdsfield, the marshalman, to inquire what had become of
Mr. Holtaway, who kept the notorious office for hiring
servants in Ludgate street, having received two letters com-
plaining of that person—one from a young man at Lough-
borough, who kid been duped of 20/. ; and the other from
two brother+, who had paid the admission fees of 10s. 6ti.,
and but for the opportune publication of the police reports
respecting the office, would have advanced perhaps 501.,
which Mr. Holtaway required as security. •
The Marshalman returned with the information that he
was confined in Whitecross- street prison, and
Sir PETER LAURIE said, as doubtless Mr. Holtaway
would apply in a feii days to the insolvent court for his dis
charge, he hoped all the persons who had been tricked by
him would .attend before the commissioners, who, after
heating the case, might award the prisoner such a punish-
ment as he deserved.

Early in July the premises of Mr. Hopping, a silver-
smith in St. Anne's-lane, by the new Post-office,
were broken into, and property to the amount of 400/.
stolen ; a man named Heath, a brother-in -law to the
Turnleys and Crowders, was committed for the robbery,
and his trial was fixed for the first day of the pre-
sent
Old Bailey Sessions. Mr. Hopping attended there
with fourteen witnesses, but the family solicitor having
failed in a private overture to Mr. Hopping for a
postponement, brought in three counsel, who challenged,
without assigning any particular abjection, each of the
jurors, and even the Judge himself (Arabin), claiming to
be tried by one of the twelve. The question was reserved
for argument before the Judges on Tuesday (this day), for
which the Sheriff was ordered to summon a double panel of
jurors. Yesterday, however, Mr. Hopping came before
Sir PETER LAI:RIE (the Alderman of the Ward in which
the offence was committed) to complain that his principal
witness (an old woman named Foster, whose evidence
brought the possession of the property home to the prisoner,
Or rather to his wife) had been bought offand had absconded

on Friday, and he wished to kaow-whether the trial could
be postpone! till next Session. This was communicated
privately to Sir Peter, who turned to Heath's solicitor then
attending the Justice-room on other business, and said,
" Your party—l mean Turnley, Heath, &c., have suc-
ceeded in bringing off the chief witness, but we will en-
deavour to prevent this from frustrating the ends of
justice." The solicitor was all indignation at being thus
identified with the " party,"- and solemnly denied having
an eye to the " stalling off," as it is termed, of the wit-
ness, when he effected the postponement of the trial. Ile
merely -acted professionally, as the gentleman at his elbow
(Mr. Harmer) or any other respectable man would have
done.

Sir P. Liu KIE disclaimed having intended to say the
solicitor was actually in the gang ; and after consulting
the clerks, advised Mr. Hopping to apply to the Court at
the Old Bailey next morning, upon an affidavit stating all
the facts, and pray an adjournment. The solicitor said he
should oppose it.
MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday John Gni=
jiths, a postillion in livery, was charged before Mr. 11Aw-
LINSO:4, with assaulting W. T. Hodsoll, Esq. the banker.
Griffiths was in the service of a young lady, to whom
Mr. Hodsoll is guardian. He formerly lived with her fa-
ther, and lost his situation through iniseonduct, but when
his prewit mistress became of age, she reinstated him.
On Suaday afternoon, as he was driving this lady, with
Mr. and Mrs. Hodson, from Haverstock-hill to the Edg-
ware-road, he reeled upon his saddle as if he was drunk,
and fell between the horses. Mr. Hodsoll jumped out to
him, and as lie attributed it to an accidental slip-
p;ng of his foot out of the stirrup, he was allowed to
drive bo, This he did at a more furious rate, and the
accident occurred again. On the second occasion Mr.
Hodsoll and the ladies all got out, in a copious shower of
rain, and Mr. Hodson stood at the heads of the horses,
while Mrs. Hodsoll ran to a public•house to inquire for a
constable and another driver. The constable lived a toile
distant, kt;al while means were taking to got him, Grif-
fiths swore nobody should drive his mistress but himself,
and attempted to take die ;;T:ses from the carriae. Mr.
Hodsoll opposed him, and Griffiths, after putting Limself
into a boxing attitiule, struck hint with great violence upon
his moialt, and Mr. Hodson told the magistrate be should
have returned it, hia feelings were so much excited by the
fellow's audacity, but C.. Lamb came up at the moment
and advised him not.
When the constable came and received ortLirs to take the
prisoner to the watch-house; he said there was no law to
corners a wan to walk to prison, and if they took him
there, he would .-- if it should not be in a coach.
The constable handcuffed him, put him into a cart, and
carried Lim there, and he was lockad up till yesterday
morning in the black hole.
After this, Mr. Hodson and the ladies remained in an
awkward pllghfi, The ostler of the public-house attempted
to drive, but they fic4ifil their lives in danger, through his
unskilfulness. " I then r;.;.4nted myself, as po,tillions"
said Mr. Hodson to the magistrate, " `sit I ran the car-
riage up a high bank; and finding I was no :oc.,i.innan,
I sent for pow:Am:see to take us home."
GrifF.ths said, in an.e.aer to the charge, " If I inter-
rupted Mr. Hodsoll, I am sorry for it ;" and nu-
thing more to say, Mr. Rawliman ordered the gaoler to
take him away, but not send hint to prison in tan
tress's is ,tines, and Mr. Hodsoll was instructed how to
proceed agair,4 1,.10 at the sessions.
MARLBORUC 614
'ST"
I‘.---iY.ii:,7lti7todtalYy fiolr'ilsioiamne
Willis, a young man who hast_tnr
iciarving to be
days upon a charge of lOrgliong
itiee,rit:gi
fotcred, a nestle for 64/. s: sr— lankey and e,„
the bankers, was 14;:zight before Mr. RoF, for final exami-

ra tiun.
Mr. Street publishes the Times journal, ar.d resides in
Water-street, lilackfriars. Witness knows Mr. .John Davis,
he is a nowspaper.Tgent, and
of Broad-street, Bloom,bury ;
is known at the Times office an " West-end Davis," to dis-
tinguish him from another Mr Davis, who is in the same
business in another part of the town. Witness has known
Mr. Davis ever since he (witness) has published the Times
journal, and has supplied him daily with a certain number
of copies of that paper, for which be always paid in advance,
that is, be paid every Monday for what he should require
during that whole week : ' he always paid by a cheque on
his hanker, and the amount was generally about 60!.
it-
ness also-knows the prisoner at the bar, and bad kric7-rt
him for a considerable time, as being in the employ-
ment of Mr. Davis, in which capacity alone be knew
any thing of him, for he was the person who usually came
every morning to the Times office for the supply of papers
for Mr, Davis. On the 2bth of August last the prisoner

came to the counting-house at the Times office, between
four and five o'clock in the afternoon, as well as the
ness recollects, and presented to witness the cheque now pro-
duced for 641. 10s., and desired him to take ten guineas
out of it that were owing at the office for extra numbers of
the Times, over and above what Mr. Davis had paid for en
that Monday, which had been supplied to the prisoner, and
as .witness supposed for the use of Mr. Davis, to whose ac-
count they; were charged. 'The witness deducted this ten
guineas from the amount of the cheque, and paid the
balance of 541 to the prisoner, all, as the witness believed,
in sovereigns : and the prisoner -then went away. Im-
mediately after' paying the prisoner the balance of the
cheque, witness wrote on the back of the cheque what
now appears written en it—" W. E. Davis," meaning
West End Davis. On the same evening the cheque was
paid into the banking-house of Messrs. Gosling and Co.,
from the Times office, and returned from that house the
next day as a forgery.
The cheque was here handed in, and ran thus :
" Messrs. Hankey. " London, Aug. 23, 1828.
" Plea,e to pay to Mr. Ibbotson, or bearer, the sum of
sixty-four pounds ten shillings.
£64 10s.

U. A. TAYLOR."

Mr. George Skeate is the principal clerk in the banking-
house of Messrs. Hankey and Co. in Fenckureh-street,
and can positively take upon himself to say that no person
of the name of 11. A. Taylor, as signed to the cheque pro-
duCed, does keep any account at Messrs. Hankey's bank.
Witness does not know any one named Ibbotson, the payee
of the cheque.
John Davis is a newspaper-agent, residing at No. 47,
Broad-street, Bloomsbury. Witness kni,w nothing what-
ever of the cheque for 611.- now produced ; he neither knew
Taylor, the supposed drawer, nor Ibbotson the payee, nor
did he ever give this cheque to the prisoner to take to the
Times office or any where else.
The evidence being here concluded, Mr. Roil said that
he should commit the prisoner upon it to take his trial for
obtaining the money at the Times office under false pretences.
Mr. Harmer—But, Sir, I mean to proceed against the
prisoner for the forgery.
Mr. ROE-LYou have produced no evidence as yet for
that purpose.
Mr. Harmer then called—

Mr. Davis, and the cheque produced having been placed
in his hands, he deposed that he was well acquainted with
the handwriting of the prisoner, and he had not the slightest
doubt but that the whole of this cheque was written by' the
prisonir. Indeed, he could venture to swear quite posi-
tively to it.
Mr. ROE said that this evidence made quite -an altera-
tion in the case; he should now certainly commit the pri-
soner on the charge of forgery.
The person who attended for the prisoner said, that he
would not recommend him to say any thing at present.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial, and the
witnesses bound over to prosecute.
Some conversatinn now arose as to committing the pri-
x ,ner to take his trial at the present or the next following
sessions ; but in the end, as it was stated that the Grand
Juries, both for-London and Middlesex, at the present Ses-
sions, were no longer sitting, it was decided to commit the
prisoner to the ensuing Sessions.
The prisoner is a decent-looking young man, about 25
years of age, and he seemed much depressed by the serious
situation in which he is placed.
BOW-STREET.--Moan SWIN DU NG ..--Last night
Mr. Thomas Little, a respectable tradesman, in Tottenham-
court-road, came to this office, and requested Sir R. BIRN E,
the presiding Magistrate, to render him his advice and as-
sistance, to proceed against a person who hail swindled
him of two rolls of carpet, value shunt IW. Mr. Little
said, that on Saturday morning last, a man of gentlemanly
appearance and imposing address, apparently about forty
years of age, came to his shop in Tottenham-court-road,
and said 1 e wished to purchase some carpeting for the
drawing-room and parlour of a house which he occupied at
Stanmore. lie presented his card? " Mr. Coleman, No.
23, Norfolk-street, Middlesex Hospital."—Several pieces
of carpeting were shown to the soi-disaut Mr. Coleman,
who expressed his admiration of their beauty, and ordered
two pieces to be sent to bis town residence in Norfolk.
street, that his lady might make her choice from them.
He said that he should pay ready money for the goals, and
that it was his constant rule never to suffer tradesmen to
call twice for payment of their bills. He also said, that
he should want one of Mr. I.ittle's workmen to go down
on Monday to Stanmore, to fix the carpet on the floors ;
the two rolls of carpet were sent according to the di-
rections given, and on the delivery the porter was told
that Mrs. Coleman was from home, anti could not
therefore snake a selection till she returned ; the porter
left the carpet, and on Saturday evening Mr. Cole-
man called again at Mr. Little's shop, and said that
his wife was very unwell at her father's, at Park-crescent,
and she would not be able to make her choice till Mon-
day. On Monday morning, a slim man, marked with the
small-pox, wearing spectacles, called at Mr. Little's shop,
and said that be had been requested to call by Mr. Cole-
man, to say that his (Mr. Coleman's) market-cart would
be in town on Tuesday from Stanmore, and would convey
Mr. Little's servant thither, with the carpet. Mr. Little
began to be somewhat suspicious, and sent his servant to
No. 23, Norfolk-street, to obtain the carpet which Mrs.
Coleman had selected, and on his arriving there he ascer-
tained that Mr. Coleman had, with the assistance of a
porter, carried off the whole of the carpeting several hours
before. Mr. Little proceeded himself to the house, and he
learned that Mr. Coleman, and a person who appeared to
be his companion, who was marked with small-pox, as
above stated, had lodged only a few days in the house. Mr.
Little proceeded into one of the apartments occupied by Mm.
Coleman ; and there he found the slim gentleman marked
with small-pox who had called upon him that morning,
sitting at a desk writing ; hut it did not escape Mr.
Little's notice, that the said person who appeared su very
short-sighted, when in his shop, as to be scarcely able to see
objects distinctly with the aid of spectacles, could now see to
write very well without them. He, therefore, concluded
that the spectacles had been worn merely as a• disguise.
Mr. Little's porter, on quitting the house No. 23, Nor-
folk-street, fortunately met with another porter, in the
employ of Mr. Harris, the carpet-manufacturer, in Lei-
cester-square, who was laden with two pieces of carpet for
Mr. Coleman. The porter of Mr. Little gave such infor-
mation to the man, that he wisely called a coach and
took the carpeting back to his master. The aforesaid gen-
tleman marked with small-pox, rather slim, and wearing
spectacles, had that day (Monday) gone to Mr. Harris's
shop, and ordered two pieces of carpeting, which, he
said, he wanted for the drawing-room and parlour of a
house be occupied• at Hampstead, and the carpeting must
be sent immediately to his residence, No. 23, Norfolk-
street, Middlesex Hospital, when his lady would select part
of it, and pay ready money for it.
Sir R. BI ItNIE Acid, that the party making different
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statements to the tradesmen, viz., to one that-Ids house
Was at Stamnore, and to another that it was at Hampstead,
and his carrying off the carpeting which he had obtained
Erma Mr. Little, was to his (Sir Richard's) mind, satis-
factory proof that it was a swindling transaction.
Mr. Little—l know that I am defrauded of my pro-
perty ; but what can I do, Sir Richard ?
Sir R. BrasrE—Why, I do not give you my advice as
a Magistrate; but as a private person I should say, when
yoo ace the fellow, seize him by the collar.
Mr. Little—Really it is abominable, Sir Richard, that a
tradesman is to be robbed in so barefaced a manner.
Sir IL B110:1E-Really, Sir, I think you and other
tradesmen have only to thank yourselves for the frauds
that are daily committed un your property. The facility
with which propert is now obtaiuo encourages the sys-
tem of swindling which has become so prevalent.
Mr. Little—What can we do, Sir? There is great
competition in trade, and we are glad to do business ; and
when persons of such appafent respectability present them-
aelves, and represent, as Mr. Coleman did, that he should
be a good customer, we do not like to offend them. Mr.
Little then said that he would adopt the most prompt mea-
sures for causing the apprehension of Mr. Coleman, au.'
lr.ft the office.

MALTA, AUG. 27.—The treaty for the eva-
cuation of the Morea by the Egyptian troops was signed at
Alexandria the 6th of August. Admiral CODRINGTON,
with the Asia, Ocean, and four smaller vessels, was at
that place, and about giving convoy to the transports des-
tined I:4r the embarkation of the troops from Nayarit).
WomAN.--Never fihrink from a woman of
strong sense. If she becomes atttached to you, it will be
from seeing and valuing similar qualities in yourself. Yon
may trust her, for she knows the value of your confidence ;
you may consult her, for she is able to advise, and does 82
at once with the Firmness of reason and the consideration
of aff,ction. Her love will be lasting, for it will not have
been lightly won ; it will be strong and ardent, for weak
minds are not capable of the loftier grades of passion.
A poor woman who resides in Clackman-
nen has, at the age of fifty-five years, gone to school to
learn to read. She had great difficulty in scraping the
school fees together ; and when the fact of honest EISPETH
havingergi s, Airs.docuormme R
ncedhaeAr,cu,
studies became known among her
n
of Hillend, at once offered to
pay the scfiool fees; so that Er.serrx is now enabled to
prosecute her studies without reducing her means of sub-
si,tence,—,Fife Herald,