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to the subscribers without interest, but without any deduction what-
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
• MANSION-HOUSE.
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An elderly man, who stated his name to be James Wyatt,
and was reported to be a Lieutenant-Colonel, and a young
man, named Jonas Quested, were brought before the Lord
Mayor, charged with a misdemeanour of the most revolting
description.
George Foster, policeman 425, stated that in consequence
of information which he had received, he hadwatched Wyatt
sometimes three or four times a week, and had seen quite
enough of the conduct of that individual to show him that
there was strong ground fa- the very worst suspicion about
him. At last witness saw Wyatt and Quested, who met in
the street, go into a public-house together, and observed what
confirmed him and two other witnesses in the opinion he had
formed of the character of the old man.
The evidence of Foster was corroborated to the full extent
by Arthur Finn, policeman 276, and the waiter of the house.
A solicitor cross-examined the witness for the prisoner.
Wyatt.
The prisoner Quested, upon being asked by the Lord Mayor
whether he wished to say anything, stated that he first saw
Colonel Wyatt in King William-street, at a shop, where the
Colonel called as a cuitomer' about two months ago, and
where he .(Quested) served behind the counter; that be
afterwards saw the Colonel in the street,- and was invited by
him into the public-house, and that they were not long to-
gether before he discovered what sort of person the Colonel
was.
The prisoners were committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court, and the Lord Mayor directed that the City
Solicitor should be instructed to prosecute.
GUILDHALL
The examination of Daniel Gapratt, the railway thief, was
resumed befo: c Mr. Alderman H. Hughes. The Lord Mayor
elect and Mr. Alderman Challis were also on the bench.
The justice-room Ives crowded with persons interested in
the case.
Mr. Clarkson, for the prosecution, began by calling a wit-
ness to complete the first charge, that the prisoner stole, and
Maynard, the estate agent in Howland-street, received, the
letter-case, containing bills to the amount of 2,0004 the pro-
perty of Mr. Vaughan Prance, of Nether Stowey, Bridg-
water, solicitor.
John Rowland Wilson, the landlord of the Blossoms Inn,
Lawrence-lase, stated that he knew the prisoner Garrett ;
he became acqOainted with him eight years ago by lodging
in the same house. On the 7th of August a friend left town,
and witness went to see him on the 4th or sth. On which-
ever day it was, the prisoner came to the Blossoms Inn,
which he had not visited tkefore, or since, and stayed a short
time. It was about noon ; he asked the prisoner to wait till
after dinner, and then he would accompany him to the west
end of the town, where he was going to see a friend. The
prisoner declined, saying he was waiting for a friend.
It was on the sth of August that Maynard attended,
about noon, at the Guildhall Coffee-house with Mr. Prance's
desk, when he was given into custody, and it was presumed
Maynard was the person the prisoner said he was waiting for.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES committed the prisoner on this
case.

Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to a new case.
"William John Winter, of 47, Jewin-street, said he came
from Barnstaple to London by the Great Western line on the
26th of August. His luggage consisted of a carpet bag,
containing apparel, and a hat-case, containing a hat. On
reaching the terminus his luggage could not be found. He
valued it at 121. and claimed it from the Company. His
name on a card was sewed to the bag, and also was on the
handle of the hat-case.
The carpet bag, hat-case, shirts, and other articles were
produced, and identified by the witness. The marks had been
removed from a part of the linen.
Collard, the superintendent of the railway police, stated
that he found a part of the property at the prisoner's lodgings
at Lisson-green, where he apprehended him. The carpet bag,
hat, and hat-case he received from Mr. Hawkins, a wine-
merchant, at Kennington-green, who purchased them from
the prisoner while he was lodging at the Cock, at Kennington,
and the rest lie received from Mr. Clarke, the of the
Cock.
Mr. Clarke, of the Cock, Kennington-common, said his
sister-in-law assisted him in his business. He received the
six shirts produced from her. The prisoner lodged in his
house from the 14th of August to the sth of September.
Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke corroborated his evidence. The
prisoner used to be away for three or four days at a time.
About the end of August he called her into his bed-room, and
asked her to buy a half-dozen of shirts, the collars of which
buttoned behind, instead of down the front. He said he was
going abroad, and had more luggage than he wanted.
While shp was looking at them she was called down stairs,
and he rolled them tip, put them in her hand, and said,
"There, take them." She should have returned them, if
she had not been. in the country on the day the prisoner left.
She gage them to her brother when the officer and Mr. Nash
came to inquire about the prisoner.
Mr. Thwaites, the prisoner's solicitor, declined to 'cross,•:.
examine the witnesses. . -
Mr. Clarkson submitted that he had clearly shown a .pos-
session of the property recently after it was stolen,
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Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES asked Mrs. Clarke if the pri-
soner brought in fresh luggage from time to time while he
was staying at the house ? . .
She said she saw none brought in.
The Alderman asked whether three shirts produced by.
Mr. Clarke, and which Mr. Winter did not identify, were
owned?
Mr. Nash said they were part of the large quantity of arti-
cles found, and which were almost daily advertiSed,, but
which had not yet been claimed.
The prisoner was then committed on this charge.
Mr. Clarkson then proceeded to a case of robbery on the
South-Western Railway. At present the gentleman who was
robbed, a Mr. Bedingfield, was too ill to attend; but he should
offer some evidence. Mr. Bedingfield was on his way from
Gosport to London, after witnessing the sailing of the expe-
rimental squadron, when his travelling case was stolen, con-
taining apparel and money to the amount of 501. He adver-
tised and received by the Parcels' Delivery Company a parcel
containing his pocketbook, and any papers that could not be
converted into money.
Mrs. Isabella White, carrying on business as a hosier in the
Strand, said Mr. Bedingfield had lodged in her house for seve-
ral years. She, with a friend, met him at-Gosport on the 15th
of July, and returned with him to town: She saw hie travel-
ling case at the Red Lion, at Portsea, and on reaching London
it was missed. They were told it had been put along with
witness's luggage, and it was " all right." This, however,
.turned out to be otherwise. She identified a blouse, shooting-
. jacket, a stock, and some other articles. Mr. Bedingfield
brought home a day or two afterwards a parcel he had re-
ceived, addressed to No. 50, Old Change. The wrapper was
the same now produced.
Mr. Wilson, of the Blossoms Inn, was examined as to the
handwriting of the direction. He believed it was the prisoner's
but he would not swear to it.
The prisoner asked permission to look at it, and then,
much excited, exclaimed, for ;a thousand pounds to a
penny it was not his handwriting. He would call a friend
who would swear it was not, and he would re-write the
direction to satisfy the Alderman.
Mr. Aldermen H. HUGHES said his writing the address
differently now he had seen it would have no weight with
him; and it was awkward to pitch on a scintilla of evidence
out of a mass to which he made no objection, for that was
lake an admission of the rest.
The prisoner wished his friend to be examined on the
point.
Mr. Clarkson recommended Mr. Thwaites to advise with
his client, or he must take the consequences of calling some•
body who could swear to his writing. •
Mr. Thwaites with some difficulty appeased his client.
Collard, the offider, proved that the articles produced were
found at the priSoner's lodgings at Lisson-green.
Mr. Clarkson hoped to complete this case on a future day
by calling Mr. Bedingfield. He said there was a case of
stealing from the Brighton Railway, but the gentleman who
bad lost his luggage was obliged to go to China.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, stated that he appeared on
behalf of the Birmingham Railway Company. Much of the
evidence which had been taken at length in the previous case
applied equally to his charges, and might be admited into the
dep•isitions upon being sufficiently referred to.
Mr. Price Lewis, of Jermyn-street, and Llandlear, in Cardi-
ganshire, said lie came to London from Blisworth by the
Birmingham line on the 28th of March, and lost his port-
manteau, containing a writing-case, a pair of leather breeches,
and various other articles. He identified the writing-case, the
leather breeches, two waistcoats, and some other articles,
which Collard produced. He believed the portmanteau pro-
duced was his property, but he would not swear it.
Collard said he received the Writing-case from Mr. Nash,
who in his presence received it from Mr. Roberts, the land-
lord of the Dolphin, in Oxford-street. The leather breeches
he received from Mr. Broom, the landlord of the Rising Sun,
in Air-street, Piccadilly, and the other articles he found at
the prisoner's lodgings at Lisson-green.
Mr. Roberts deposed, that the prisoner lodged at his house
from the last week in March to the beginning of June. He
was in the prisoner's bed-room one day and observed, "What
a many things you have here." Prisoner said, " Yes, I have,
I want to dispose of some. What will suit you ?" The pri-
soner recommended him to buy this writing-case for his
children. 'Witness observed that the lock had been forced.
The prisoner explained that he had lost his keys, and was
obliged to break it open. When Mr. Nash and the officer
came to inquire if he could give them any information about
Garratt he produced this writing-case to them.
Mr. Broom, the landlord of the Rising Sun, next accounted
for the possession of the leather breeches. He saw the pri-
soner sell them in: his parlour to a customer, and witness
purchased them of the latter.
The evidence of 'Mr. Nash and Mrs. Noble as to the find-
ing of the rest of the property in the room occupied by the
prisoner was added.
The priioner was committed on this charge.
Mr. Keep, a lace manufacturer, at Newport Pagnell, was
then examined as to the loss of a carpet bag. He travelled
from Wolverton on Dec. 18. It was stolen at the Wolverton
station, and he was told by the bell-ringer that some man
had seized it, and taken it into a second-class carriage. He
heard no snore of it till he found it in the hands of Collard,
the railway officer. The bag had a new lock now.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES asked if he was quite sure he
could recognise his old friend with a new face? Mr. Keep
said he was sure; for he had travelled thousands of miles
with it. Mr. Kees) also identified a shirt collar. (What
other property the bag contained did not transpire.)
Collard deposed to finding the carpet bag and collar at the
prisoner's lodgings, in North-street, Lisson-green, and the
prisoner was committed on this charge. '
Mr. John Jones, of Kingstown, Dublin, solicitor, was next
called. He stated lie was a passenger from Chester to London,
by the Birmingham line, on the 2d of August, and arrived in
London about 10 o'clock at night. Amongst his luggage was
a portmanteau, the same now produced by Collard, and the
articles of apparel produced were part of its contents. He
identified a black dress coat, two pairs of trousers, a satin
waistcoat, and other articles. " The contents of his portman-
teau wee' worth 201.. He missed it at the London terminus.
Inspector Collard proved the finding of the property at
Garratt's lodgings.
Mr. Alderman H. HUGHES committed the prisoner on this
charge also. •
• Mr. Webb, merchant, of Huddersfield, was examined rela-
tive to the loss of a portmanteau on the Birmingham line on
the 25th•of July. He said this was a part of his luggage.
He identified the articles produced, consisting of a dress coat,
four white waistcoats, a shirt, and several other articles.
'Witness had four ladies with him, and had a strong recollec-
tion of seeing the prisoner standing near him at the terminus.
On the prisoner's spectacles being removed, and his hat put
on, the witness was further convinced he was the same per-
son. • His luggage was safe on reaching the Euston Station,
but on- setting the ladies down in Torrington-square, and
giving them their luggage, lie missed his own.
Inspector Collard said he found the whole of these articles
at the prisoners's lodging.
The prisoner, who appeared to be even cheerful, was com-
mitted on this charge.
Mr. Humphreys said that concluded the charges he had to
support.
Mr. Nash then prayed that the prisoner might be remanded
upon a charge of stealing from the Brighton Railway, as well
as to offer further evidence in the case of Mr. Bedingfleld.
It was arranged that the prisoner should stand remanded
till the 17th instant.
Mr. Nash complained of a scurrilous attack which had
been made upon him by name in one of the railway papers,
but which he was told was 'intended for a person of a dif-
ferent name. It had given his friends great pain, as they
could not conceive how Mr. Nash had committed himself in
this prosecution. " •

Mr. Alderman H. HUGHE3 said there had been nothing in
his conduct :to justify any such observations. He had dis- ,
played an ability and discretion in pursuing the investigation
for which the public were infinitely indebted to him.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Walter King was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with stealing a valuable print from the shop of Mr. Pizzali, cf

egen t-st reet.
The prisoner was seen to go into the shop and take up the
print and walk away with it on his shoulder. He was pur-
sued, and stopped with the property in his possession.
The prisoner, when asked to state what he had to offer in
defence, burst into tears, and said he had taken the print
through distress. He had formerly been in respectable cir-
cumstances, but latterly' had become so much reduced, that
he had no settled place of abode, and procured a scanty living
by carrying loads for those who chose V.) give him a job. He

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was well known at that court from the —circumstance of
fatlitr, a baker in the parish, having for many years supplied
the resident magistrate's family with bread. The prisoner
added that he had been an inmate of more than one lunatic
asylum.

The evidence being complete, the depositions were taken,
and the pri•oner was fully committed.

LAUB E.TII.

Mr. Vickery, a solicitor, attended becore Mr. Henry, at the
request of that magistrate, to give an explanation in refer •
cm) to a statement which he had made respecting the con-
nexions of the Rev. James West, and also to hear the state-
ments of Ferguson and Horaford, officers of the Mendicity
Society, in reference to the pti!;oner.
Mr. HENRY, addressing Mr. Vickery. reminded him of his
appearing at the examination of a pri oner who had given
the name of Fletcher, and his making a statement relative to

the prisoner's high connexions, and also giving the names of
distinguished persons as his near relations. Since the publi-
cation of the case, he (Mr. Henry) had received several
letters relative to the prisoner. and one from Earl Derawarr
denying the accuracy of his (Mr. Vickery's) assertion that
the prisoner was a nephew of his. He (Mr. Henry) was
anxious to hear from Mr. Vickery whether the statement he
had made about the prisoner was from circumstances which
were personally known to him, or were merely derived from
the prisoner's own representations ?
Mr. Vickery replied, he would state the whole of the cir-
cumstances, and all he knew about the prisoner. About the
year 1830 or 1831 be first became acquainted with the pri-
soner, through his applying to his (Mr. Vickery's) brother
to dispose of some shares in an insurance-office, and the mat-
ter was referred to him to ascertain time value of the shares,

&c. The result was that he advised his brother to have no.

thing to do with the shares, but, notwithstanding, an ac-
quaintance commenced between himself and Mr. West,
whom
.he then considered to ba a person of great respectabi-
lity and highly connected. West had not only represented
himself to him as the nephew of Lord Delawarr, but he had
frequently seen him write notes which he represented were
intended for the Noble Earl, written in the most familiar style,
and beginning "My dear uncle; but he (Mr. Vickery)
could not take upon himself to say that they had ever been
posted.

Mr. HENRY here remarked that the Tall Delawarr had no
brother, and it was' impossible, therefore, that the prisoner
could be a nephew of his.
Mr. Vickery proceeded to say, that besides the prisoner's
representations, there was another circumstance which led

him to believe the prisoner stood in the degree of relationship
to Vie Noble Earl he stated, and that was, lie was present
when West gave an order to Mr. Holder, of Battle-bridge, to
execute the arms of Lord Delawarr in stained glass, for the
purpose of his presenting it to " his uncle ;" but Mr. Holder
had fortunately neglected to attend to his directions. From
about 1834, until two years and a half ago, he lost sight of
the prisoner, and the first place he saw him was close to the
London-bridge Wharf. He then represented that he had not
1 nig arrived from the Continent; that his wife was at the
Spread Eagle Hotel ; tbat he was in want of some cash, and
asked him (Mr. Vickery) to get a small bill done for him.
Such was his opinion of his respectability and honour, that
he actually got a bill of his for 40!. discounted by a friend,
and that bill he had since to pay himcelf. After his first
examination at this Court his wife called upon him (Mr.
Vickeiy), and requested he would interfere in her husband's
behalf, and having clients to visit at Horsemongerslane gaol,
he saw the prisoner there, and he also requested he would
assist him professionally. The evidence against him was,
however, so conclusive of his guilt, that he told him he could
be of no service to him whatever, and that his best defence
would be the fact as he had represented, that he had been
driven to the commission of the offence through distress and
that alone. He (Mr. Vickery), however, promised to attend
his examination, and did so, but it was not his intention to
have interfered in any way.. His Worship would recollect
that what he had stated was after ,Mr. Henry had committed
the prisoner for trial; so that his statement had not influ-
enced his worship's decision. He wished also to add that he
hadinit the least idea, when he made the statement, that it
,would find its waybefore the public; and he regretted ex--
,eeedingly that he should -have been unintentionally led to
`Makera statement calculated to give the slightest pain or
annoyance to any one. Indeed, upon seeing the contradic-
tion in the papers, it was 'his (Mr. Vickery's) intention to
have Written to Lord Delawarr, and also to have waited upon
his worship to exoperatOlimself from any intention to mis-
lead or misreptesents -
HENRY was quite satisfied that Mr. Vickery had been
himself iniposed'upon by the prisoner's representations, which
*ere io)vell calculated to mislead. The publication of the
case afforded additional proof of the beneficial results of the
publication of cases at police-courts, as it had brought forth
many facts relative to the history and crimes of the prisoner
beneficial to the ends of justice. In the first place the pri-
. soneegaye the name of James Fletcher, and .had it not acci-
:.dentally transpired that his name was different, and that the
statement of Mr. Vickery obtained publicity, he would have.
been tried,for an offence which before a jury might be made
to appear very trifling and induced by actual distress, and
he would perhaps have been acquitted or let off with a slight
-punishment. The publication of the case, however, attracted
the attention of the officers of the Mendicity Society, two of
whom were then present, and the consequence was the dis-
closure of his being a notorious begging letter impostor.
•Horsford, one of the Mendicity officers, said he was pre-
'sent at the prisoner's conviction, and then stated to the ma-
gistrate the fact of his being a begging letter impostor. He
also handed in a card, which he found on a notorious im-
postor who called himself the Hon. Mr. Stafford, who had
been examined before the Lord Mayor, upon which was
written " The Rev. Mr. West, M.A., 1!.," which, he said,
showed the connexion between him and the prisoner.
The card was here shown to Mr. Vickery, and he at once
recognised the writing to be that of the prisoner West.
• Mr. Vickery declared he had not the slightest idea that
West was the character he had been described. He was per-
fectly satisfied that the father and mother of the prisoner
were respectable persons, and he had in his hand a letter
from his mother declining to do anything for him, and
stating. that for some considerable time his father and bro-
ther had ceased even to open his letters to them.
Mr. HENRY expressed himself satisfied with the explana-
tion of Mr. Vickery, and directed Ferguson and Horsford to
attend the trial of the prisoner at the ensuing Surrey Ses-
sions, and if found guilty to put the Court in possession of
all his previous misconduct.
The reverend delinquent still remains in prison, and it is
very likely he will remain there until his trial, as from his
previous character and conduct it is not likely he will find
bail.