The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGtICCE.

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MANSION-HOUSE.--.GILT SIEPENCO. —IL Lloyd,
the person who • was some time ago brought up at Guild-
hall, charged with having uttered gilt sixpences as half'
sovereigns, was charged before the Loan AII.YOR with
having continued the practice. He had been discharged.
from Guildhall, Mr. Powell, the clerk to the solicitor
of the Mint, having stated that the offence was not
" counterfeiting the coin of the realm.!' He received
upon that occasion an admonition from the Alderman,
and advice to change his mode of life. Finding, however,
that no punishment was (in the opinion of the Magis-
trates' legal adviser at Guildhall) attached to the dishonesty
of which he had been guilty, be began to gild sixpences
in Bishopag
again, and he succeeder), notwithstanding the repeatni
cautions given by the preen to the public, in obtaining
eight or nine shillings and some theese from a cheesemonger
Mr. Hobler (with whom
pose upon the eheesemonger soon after the firot fraud, but
he was taken into custody.
ate-street. He attempted a secowd time to iin-
Powell concurred in opinion) thought that if the offence
was not counterfeiting, according
to the Act of Yarlia •
that aCjitiySo
ment, it was at all events a fraud, for which an ina:ict-
ment would lie against the prisoner.
The Loan MAYOR said,
direction of a Judge, certainly decide upon the matter.icitor
He, therefore, ordered the prisoner to give twenty-fcur
should,l u•aindder 7%tlirri
hours' notice of bail. His Lordship had, he obeerved*
heard that a groat number of frauds of this description h.ish
been lately committed.
THE ROBBERY or Mr. lIATTON..--a man, in sailer's
attire, who charged himself, some days ago, with having
been coucerned in the robbery of Mr. Hatton's shop of
goods, to the amount of 1,0001., was again bren.eht up
yesterday. He pleaded drunkenness in excuse ior his
raving, and begged to be discharged; he, however, i."9und
it more difficult than be supposed, for
Mr. Hatton stated that he had every reason to believe'
that the prisoner was sincere in hisfirstaccount of himself.
The self-accuser was remanded for nne week.

GUlLDHALL—Yesterday a jobbing butcher, namti
Jones, was charged before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY with
fraudulently obtaining ten lambs from James Gregory, a:
master drover in Smithfield. It turned out on investigr.--
tion that the defendant agreed for the purchase of the lambs.
with the owner at 245. each, and that they were to be de-
livered to him on his paying the money-taker. soon after-
wards the defendant sent a drover for the lambs, on which
enquiry was made of Mr. Jones, the money-taker, and the
answer given was, by mistake, that they were paid foz..
Upon this the lambs were delivered, but it was not for sole
time afterwards discovered who had them.
Under these circumstances Mr. Alderman ANSLEY was
of opinion that the defendant could only be sued for the
value, and he was therefore discharged.
MARTLEBONE.— William Pymm, a creditable look-
ing young man between eight and nine o'clock...sun Monday
night, came to the office and told R. H. Wall, the constable
on duty, he wished to surrender himself, and teterred to
Mr. William Junes Clearer, bookseller, Orchard-street,
Portman-square, for the cause.

He was detained, and yesterday Mr. Cleaver gave evi-
dence against him, that he had been his servant, and on. the
3d of July was sent to get cash for a 201; cheque, a limn
upon Mr. John Lawrie, army-agent, Robert-street,
04 :and he never returned.

Mr. Patrick Lawrie produced the cheque, bearing' :!ti
acknowledgment of payment, under the prisoner's hand.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate fur trial.
The prisoner came from Gospott to surrender himself;
and had only three farthings in his pocket.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A man named Fichts,
the landlord of a public-house called the Castle, in the
Broadway, Westminster, was yesterday brought before Sir

G. FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, upon tLe
charge

Acabriolet-driver stated, that on Friday evening last,
while he was in his cabriolet on the stand in 6zford• street,
the defendant came driving along at a most furious rate in
a one•herse chaise with another person in it beides him-
self, and came with such force against the cabriolet, as tar
smash it in pieces, harness and all, and upset it, su that the
complainant was pitched out with great force; and so
violent was the concussion, that the defendant and his corn-
panion were also thrown out headlong from their chaise.
The defendant then attempted to drive oft• again in his
chaise, and when witness endeavoured to prevent his doing
60 until he should learn who he was, the defendant knocked
hint down twice, and it was not until several constables
And ntieers came up that the defendant could be secured ,
but, owing to a severe wound which he received on his
head by the fall from hiss chaise, he was, on his addrtLa
being ascertained, suffered to go home.
Severe/ witnesses confirmed this statement, and described
the conduct of the defendant as most outrageons. He was
fined 51. for the assault and wilful damage; and the com-
plainant was to2d that he might have his civil remedy
besides.

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Yesterday Catherine Steel and Jokanna Brown, two
of those low prostitutes err infest that great thoroughfare,
Broad street, St. Gilee's were brought before Sir GEORGE
FAXRANI, for re-examination, charged with violently ae-
saultiog and stealing from the person of Mrs. Wilkie, a
reticule, containing a sovereign and some trinkets of value.
Mrs. Wilkie, a respectable lady, of Tottenham-court-
road, deposed, and her testimony was substantiated by whys,
witnesses, that on Thursday evening last she seas proceed
ing to her own house from Holborn, and intended to have
passed through Plututree-street, as the nearest way. Un-
fortunately she passed that turning and got into the
next, which is George-street, formerly Dyott-street, one
of the; greatest sinks of iniquity in the metropolis.
Being at a logs to find her way, Mrs. Wilkie addressed.
three women, who were standieg in the street, and
asked them to direct her, which they did, and then
aovfl‘edi:fil:errtirallnaetion of the robbery to the officers of the parish
Wilkie so give them a penny a-piece. She
reticule, and gave them what they required,
proceeding on her way home when she was
violently on the back, and levelled to the gonna
prieoners, whilst the other seized her rest
off with it and its content,. Her husban i
Nicholas, a street-keeper of St. Giles's, stated that, in
consequence of the description given by Mr. Wilkie, his
took the prisoners into custody.
Mrs. Wilkie identified the two women as those who
had robbed her, in conjunction with a third.
The two prisoners were fully committed for trial.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a man named Actrort
Wolfe, an inmate of the King's Bench prison, was brought.
up to this office by habeas, on a charge of stealing five gold.
watches, and several gold rings, the property of Lyon
Samuels, a Polish Jew, and vender of jewellery.
Isaac Samuels, a boy, the brother of the complair;ant,
stated, that on Tuesday last, on going into the King's
Bench prison with a box belonging to his brother, contaisse
ing five gold watches, and several other articles of jewelletya
the prisoner, whom he had some previous knowledge ori,
invited him into his room, and requested that he would,
open the box, and show him the articles it contained.—
After some hesitation on the part of witness, he at length
displayed the jewellery, upon which the prisonomearzi
thrust his hand into the box and took out five gold watches
and some rings. The witness desired
them, saying, that Lis brother had nut authorized him
them,
to sell them, but the prisoner, instead of replacing .
him sa replace
hastily left the room with the articles, leaving. hisi wife
and witness together, the former of whom,
the departure of the ptreieotnakere,
prevented witness from following her linsband.to get back
proceeded to describe that he
the property. The witness
r for
was detained in the room by the tri.* the space of five.,
hours until the prisoner returned, when the latter produciag
what he called a bill of exchange,. said, " there, take that,
it will pay your brother for the things I have taken." •Tba
that the articles :night be returned, which, however,
was refused.
The owner of the watches stated that be had not in-
trusted hie brother to dispose or
sany of the property in
witness was unwilling
the box ; being a stranger to the prison, the boy had
merely go" in there out of cli • 't
nom y to look about him,
when the prisoner induced him to open the bo It was here stated, thatthe x.
when prisoner was taken
into custody on the charge, he asserted that he had .sent
the watt hog to Bi •
rnaingharn ; when, in paint of fact, they
were •,,ul-Thetittently found in the possession of sonic of the
other inmates of the •
The watches wereprmiL
produced, as also the bill of ex-
change alluded
to. It was for 95/, and was accepted by
a man named Foreman.
Foreman, who accepted the bill of exchange forced into
the hands of the complainant's brother after the property
was taken out of the box, in reply to the magistrate,
admitted that he accepted the bill for the prisoner, on
the latter promising to give him 2/. for the accommo-
dation. The witness admitted that he was possessed of
nu property, and had no means of paying the bill.
The lad, from whom the watches had been taken,
stated that he had not entered into any agreement what-
soever with the prisoner, as to the sum of money the
owner of the watches required for them. He added that
the prisoner thrust the bill of 95/. upon him, desiring
him to take it to his brother for the watches.
'The Magistrates, Messrs. Swaney and JONES. the
Marshal of the King's Bench prison, acquiesced in the
opinion that a case of felony was established against th
prisoner, and accordingly committed hies for trial,
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