The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.---A young man of education and ad-
dress, named Gilligan, was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having, by false representations, obtained from Mr.
Gerock, of Covnhill, the sum of 205., besides eating and drinking

for two days.
The case, from the evidence, appeared to he as follows :

Mr. Gilligan called upon Mr. Gerock, who is a musical instru.
Ment maker, and said, " I am the son of Mr. Errald, a gentle.
man in Ireland, who does a great deal of business with you." Mr
Gerock, who had considerable peCuniary transactions with Mr
Errald, immediately invited his supposed son to dinner; the in-
vitation was accepted, and the prisoner not only dined, but drank
tea and supped with the prosecutor. The next day the prisoner
was equally obliging, having called at dinner-time, and stayed till
supper was over. He added another obligation to that which his
company conferred upon Mr. Gerock, by borrowing 11. from
him ; he also began to pave the way for more serious contribu-
tions, by stating, that he had been paying off the sum of 8001. to
Messrs. Clements, fin his father. The suspicions of Mr. Gerock,
however, were by this time, strongly excited, for he had, in fact,
been led to pay a marked attention to the manner in which his
guest bath cleared away every thing in the shape of food that was
laid before him. An officer was procured, to whom the prisoner
acknowledged that his name was Gilligan, and that he had no 111.,
lationship to, or acquaintance' ith, the gentleman whom hot had
called radon..
The unfortunate prisoner declared, that ht was led into error
by the mere force of starvation, .He was a member of the me-
dical profession, but be had not eaten a bit for three days before
he called upon Mr. Gerock.
Mr. Gerock.—Ay, ay, any Lor. He did eat much, vere much.
I though I should never ha done helping unt.—(Laughter.)-..-The
prisoner was remanded till Tuesday.
John Knott and his wife, who had been brought before the
Loafs Maws on Saturday, charged with having written threat-
ening letters to ,Mr. William Knott, of Graeechurch-street, brother
to the male prisoner, were yesterday finally examined.
The male prisoner said he had induced his wife to write the
letters, as he was very poor, and his brother was very rich, and
had refused to assist
The letters were full of quotations front Scripture, and assured
the person to whom they were directed, that his brother would
ruin his character for ever, by bringing against him publicly
charges of the most horrible nature.
The Lomas Micros discharged Mrs. Knott, as she said that the
had acted under the direction of her husband in writing the let-
ters, although his Lordship believed she was worse than her hus-
band. John Knott was then fully comntitted for trial.
GUILDHALL.--Mr. Alexander Gouge, one of the contrac-
tors for paving the city, appeared before Mr. Alderman C. Slam
yesterday, to 'answer the complaint of Samuel Fogg, one of the
marshalmen, for repairing the carriage-way in Fish-street-hill in
the middle of the day, against the provisions of the City Sewers'
Act, which enacts, that the pavements in certain streets; naming
Pa-street-bill among others, shall be repaired only between the
hours of six in evening and eight its the morning.
Fogg not making his appearance in due time, Mr. Alderman
Wood stepped forward and admitted that he himself was really
the complainant in this case, the marshalman acting merely under
his directions. There was not a street in the world, he said, where
such a number of persons and vehicles were passing between the
hours of,tbreeaud five in the afternoon as on Fish-street-hill, and
it was quite rextraordinary that the,yery persons to violate so tot-
lutary a regulation as that concerning the hours for repairing the
streets should be the Commissioners of Sewers---a part of the very
body that .had sought for the •enactrnent in questton. He took
considerable pains to get the ACt passed, and there was not a mem-
ber in the Parliamentary Committee. on the Bill who' was not de-
lighted with the regulation* respecting , paving. The inconve-
nience that must arise from repairing the roads in the day-time, iu
such a thoroughfare, was sufheiently obvious ; and it was the
more inexcusable now, as it was light 'enough for• such work at
two o'clock in the morning. He asked Mr. Gouge if the repairs
were going on that time.
The defendant replied they were.
Mr. Alderman Wood siafd, then that was shameful: Mr. totike
had begged on Saturday that the case should stand over till this
day, and it 'was allowed, on the understanding that the. working
by day should be discontinued in the interim. He should. press,
therefore, for a conviction.
Mr. Gouge stated he had persevered under the sanction of the
Commissioners of Sewers of the Ward.
Mr. Deputy Saunders said the local Commissioners felt them-
selves aggrieved at the interference of the worthy Alderman. The
very next clause to that which orders the repairs to be done within
certain hours, provides, that in every case in which there shall be
an immediate anti urgent necessity, the local Commissionere may,
under their hands, authorise the continuance of the working tin ongh
the day, they reporting their reasons for such licence to the Court
of Commissioners at their first meeting. He therefore felt him-
self justified incompleiOing that the Alderman had interfered im-
properly with a discretion'' they were exercising agreeably to law.
They had given Mr. Gouge their authority to work by day.. ,
Mr. Alderman Sstrrit—You have not stated why.
Mr, Saunders-,--We shall report the cause to-morrow to the
Court of Commissioners, as direeted by the itet.
Mr. Alderman Surru—But what w"
Me. Saunders—That the state of :the pavement was such as to
endanger the lives of every one passing over it.
Mr. Alderman Wood—That is no reason. The sinantlielereirdsao.n.
would have existed on Ludgate-hill, but, yet that "a paved in the
nigshit,r.frshomunoditters_endßtroidratrtrt, about al‘mi,Anndtahmaimigo.
time# but. Mr. APA,darn war a feeourite just then, and was not
interfered with.
Mr. Alderman Wood said, the discretion vested in the local
Cronmistdotters only reached cases of the sewer falling in, pipe
bursting,' &e.. .
Mr. Gouge put in his written authority from the Commitoion-
ere, and Mr. Alderman Wood expressed hinuelf dis Pissed to with-
draw his complaint if the pavers would work by Hight as well as
by day.
Mr,4khlernians?,lllll, however, said, that as a member of the
Legislature he Would not truffei tiny set of ltieit,CAOinnilisionets
to fly in the face of an Act of Parliament. The regulation was