The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGIi-§TREET,--:-A lamentable case of seduc-
tion. was yesterday deVeloped berate' Mr. Cotrasr, on the hearing
elan assault Jwarrant, obtained by. the seducer against Robert
and Isabella Perry, the parents of the unfortunate girl.
:Mr. John Caride, a genteel-dregeed man, stated that last Sun-
day evening he was walking in the Park, with a friend, when the
defendant'and his wife ran after him, and, after abusing him,
struck him, for doing which he had applied at the office, and ,ob-
tained a warrant.
Mr. ,C 014.% NT inquired of Carnie, if there had subsisted any pre7
vious acquaintance to occasion the asaault.,
111 t Carnie mid they 'had formerly been on terms of intimacy;
but he had done nothing last Sunday to provoke the outrage
Mr. Perry admitted the fact of !miring struck the complainants
but pleaded in extenuation the ,cluatrof irritation. Mr. Carnie had
lodged with him some months since, and, by artful persuasions,
had seduced his daughter, a girl 17 years of age, whom, after
taking her to alMitss of ill-faine, he had left. At that time she
was in a situation which produced 12s.'per.week, which he, had
been the cause abet lasing, rand they had now had her to support:
Last sei,a,,), evening, about nitre o'clock, he .was walking.with,
Mrs. Perry, in the Alan, In 'the Park, When he uliserved the
'complainant, walking with it 'young Woman, who, aesting there
app roach hint, walked away into the horse-road. With feelings of
it father, naturally, excited by the • conduct ,of the complainant,
he went to hint, not, with: the intention of assaulting
,him, hut
Iris company, to expose Line to, the young woman in Ins company, to pre-
vent her, if nOt too late, hoin falling a sacrifice to the arts
of Mr. Carnie. They certainly hid wools, and: the 'complainant
struck him, on which be attacked him to the best of his strength,
in a mutual fight.
Mr. CoNahr censured the complainant in strong terms for le
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timing the defendant's daughter, and said it %vita not to be Won.,
dered at that he should lay hands on the: man iwhb;bad. reused:
snub irreparable injury; .and ,asked Carnie :if he,waa a married
man?
'Mr. Carnie replied lie was single As to seducing "the defen-
,ilant's daughter, lie, assured the Magistrate he had not done so ;
for the giilliettelf bad acknOtivledged to him that she hadTassed
a Sunday afternoon in the same room, with a young man who had
previously lodged in the house.
Mr% Perry, whiailistl hien, in tear* during the ex:Ordination, de-
nied that such an occurrence had taken place. '
I%lr. Co ri A N'l7' 'said 'the coniplarnant's story was too improbable
to believe. It' the girl bad done ache asserted, it %Teeing likely
she would ackumvkalge .4.. It was a very disgraceful transaction.
He,s4ould discharge the warrant.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday morning, as soon as the sitting,
Magistptto (Mr.: Cif .4.41141t0, lad entered the office, the follow-
ing extraordinary ;circumatances wire commtiniCated to hint by
Jones, one of the Constables 'of Vauxhall, who stated;'thitt between
the hours of four and fiie, o'clock that morning Mr.; Kiernsitt,, a
gentleman residing in South Lambeth, sent one of his servants to
the watchhouse requesting-1134 some. ;persons, might, be sent from
thence to his house in order to prevent a man of respectable appear-
ance front annoying the family by violently knocking at his door
and ringing the bells. Two watchmen were itinediatelytiespatch-.
ed in consequence, who, on reaching the house, observed .a person
whom they described as quite the gentleman, knocking at Mr.
Kiernan's door with great. V iolvnce. They remonstrated with
him in vain to quit the place and. goon about his business; but
the more they urged him to desist the more he . persevered in
" banging" away at the door, to the very great diaConditure of the
Whole family. The watchmen were, at length, under the neces-
sity of tubing him away by force; and he was carried to the
watchhouse. When. he got to the watchhouse, Jones, the con•
stable, instead of plating him in the urinal lock-up, cell, per-
mitted knii to remain in the outside. room in which were at
the time sea era! watrhinen off duty, all of whom were sitting
around dozing. The perion whom they brought in bees.* Very
tranquil after a little' time, but all oat sudden, while everyone
else was napping, he jumped,up off his ileac, to,the'tireldsce, •
and taking up heavy:fire...shovel, struck one, of the watchmen
who happened to he next him fast asleep, a desperate blow tin
the top of the head that laid him 'prostrate along the ground.
The offender was shout to serve another Irian the'eaine'rrian-'
tier, but was prevented, the shovel having:. hem taken ;away
from : He :ins then, in consequence. of the attack, plated,
call, and not been lung there when the informant,
on leokieg through the grating that2iliVitle!'4the uutaide. room
front the cell, sow the untOrtiniete nail with big throat cot in
a shacking manner. Jotiek' added, that he 'tort its firm, in
procuring nautical aid,, nod eltirough, the, wound that snothsnot
uttlitacit- •hilosolf,wws of iitl dreatlrol nature, yet there
.611 noon:, hopee,of .raving bin hie. In reply to the magiatretr.
Jones Alitted that be could out, ascertain who the unkirtithate
nian was, lie having refused to give his name or addreiii When'
first brought to the watch-house, hut he had the appearance
of a gentleman, and was ;dressed in: blatik., -The wounded
.man
' was conveyed to St. Thomas' Hospital, where he now remains
in a doubtful situation, without the knowledge of any of his
friends or relations. Jones said, that on hooking 'into the
Wounded MAWs hat; he sair written ' "' G. MAP' but
no address. The magistrate retiommended that an advertise.-
ment, stating that such a person was now in the above hoe-
would- be the best-method' of ittfOrming•'his'lllitiOns of
his situation.