The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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11ARLBOROVcill-STlttEt.—teSertlay, a Mithll-
aged fettiale; hotted Ftrzabo ltrlol,
was brought before Mr. UONANT, the sitting Magistrate,
charged upon suspicion with the following robbery :
Mrs. Waters, the wife of a master butcher, residing at
No. 288, Oxford-street, stated, that on the Ist of Septem-
ber, the prisoner was taken intd her, service dpdet a very
excellent charaetei giVen to her by it ladyiWho tills
the sittiation of housekeeper in the establishment of Ladi
George Stuart, in Conduit-street, torici-istieet) bait that
in a very few days the pi-isoner showed herself to be such a
constant and habitual drunkard, that she could do no
household work *hatever, and she- *as frequently obliged
to go to bed, from intoxieatiorn for five or Rik hOurs in the
middle of the day ; and very often at dinner time she was
so drunk, that she was absolutely unable to hold in her
hand, much less to dress, a joint of meat given to her to
cook ; and at last she .beeartle so entirely Useless as a ser-
vant, that they were obliged to discharge her, after being
tormented with her for about Eve weeks. While the
prisoner was in the house, Mrs. Waters said they did not
suspect her of any act of dishonesty, but since she had
quitted several things were missing, and amongst the rest
same shirts, and other articles of wearing apparel belong-
log to Mr. Waters; and feeling satisfied that nobody else
besides the prisoner. could have taken them, they bad her
apprehended on suspicion.
• The constable who took the prisoner into custody found
in her possession a vast number of pawnbrokers' dupli-
cates, which he produced, for various articles of property,
amongst which were sonic fur shirts and other parts of a
man's wearing apparel.
Mr. CONANT asked Mrs. Waters if she had really re-
ceived so good a character as she spoke of with the pri-
soner at Lady Stuart's house.
Mis. Waters replied she certainly did.receive aremark-
able good character of the prisoner from Lady Stuart's
housekeeper, and particularly for honesty and sobriety.
The Magistrate then despatched Goddard, the officer; to
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Lady Stuart's house, to require the attendance of hei
Ladyship's housekeeper, to account for her having given
a good 'character of such a woman as the prisoner turned
out to be. In a few • minutes Goddard returned, accom-
panied by Madame Becka, a'French female of very genteel
appearance and manners, attended by one of Lady Stuart's
servants in livery, • and she presented herself before the
Magistrate as the housekeeper in question.
Madame Becka, who speaks English remarkably well
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fin• a foreigner, said that it was quite true she did give the
character as stated, of the prisoner to Mrs. Waters, when
the latter called at Lady Stuart's house ; but then she
(Madame Bccka) did so because she thought it to be a
true character, nor had she still any 'mon to alter, from
her own knowledge, the opinion she had entertained of the
prisoner.

Mr. Corr_vr.e asked what it was then, that the prisoner

had been discharged from Lady Stuart's service for ? Ma-
dame Becka replied, that it was because the prisoner was
almost every day complaining of being unwell, and she cer-
tainly had all the appearance of being so when she did
complain, and'eould only get through her business with
seeming great difficulty and labour from weakness, although
a better cook than she was never entered a house.

Mr. CoriANT—But might not her apparent illness have
been the consequence of intoxication, or the effects of
drinking ?—Madame Becki-,I do not know that, Sir; I
am no judge of illness arising from intoxication.
Mr. CONANT inquired of Madame Becka at whose re-
commendation it was that the prisoner. got into the service
of Lady Stuai t, and how long she bad been there ?—ma-
dame Becka said, that the prisoner had only been three
weeks in Lady Stuart's service, and she quitted there about
five weeks ago ; the prisoner was first introduced to the
notice of Lady Stuart by Mr. Payne, her Ladyship'sgreen-
grocer, but was taken into the service upon a written re-
commendation, produced' by the prisoner herself, from the
Hon. Mrs. Heneage, a lady residing in Gralton,street,
,Bond-street. •

Mr. CONANT—Are you sure that there was no property
missing from Lady Stuart's house since the time the pri-
soner first came to live there ? Madame Becka--I a►rl
quite certain there was not, and I believe the prisoner to
have been perfectly honest while there.
Just as this time Plank, the chief officer, happened .t 9 be
reading over the pawnbrokers' duplicates found on the pri-
soner, and naming the different articles of taroperty.men-
tioned in them, and amongst the rest he read "one brown
silk umbrella."
" Oh, molt Dieu !" exclaimed Madame BeCka, 4.1, that
is surely the unahrella.we lost."
" How is.that," said Mr. cotiat4r, " I thought you,
said you had not missed or lost any thing ?"—" I did not
recollect_ Until this moment," said Madame Becka, ".that

while the prisoner was at' Lady Stuart's. house, a gentle
man who 'happened to be on a visit with her Ladyship's
family at the time, lost there a brown silk umbrella ; but
there was no suspicion until this instant that the prisoner
knew any thing of it." . .
The prisoner was now asked how long she had lived
with the lion. Mrs. •Heneage ?:—.Sbe replied that she had
lived there nearly two years, and had only left there in
August last.
Plank here observed that a great number of the. articles
pledged by the prisoner appeared, by the dates of the
tickets, to have been so disposed of while she must by her
own account have lived with Mrs. Heneage ; and amongst
these articles there appeared several volumes of books, that
must have been of a very valuable description, as each
volume was pledged for 10s., and there was also an entire
suit of gentlemen's wearing apparel pawned at the same
time.

The prisoner was then remanded to have the attendance
of the several pawnbrokers on a future day.
A very respectable young gentleman, named Rennie,
was brought from St. George's watch-house, charged with
assaulting a girl of the town in Bond-street the night before.
The complainant, a pert, impudent, young hussey, said
that Mr. Rennie, without any provocation whatever, first
pushed her about, and then struck her a Wow in the breast.
Mr. Rennie, in his defence, said that as he was on his
way home the night before, about twelve o'clock, in pass-
ing through Bond- street, the complainant, whom to MS
knowledge he had never seen before, came up and caught
hold of him, and accused him of haring slept with her
five successive nights, and then bilked" her, and that
not only she• said had he thns acted, but in quitting Fer
lodgings be locked her into her room and carried•off the
key with him. At first he really thought she was jesting,
and he only laughed at her and told her to' go about her
business, but she still persisted and declared that she would
stick fast to him until he paid her for five nights' occupa-
tion of her bed, and returned the key of her room ; and
annoyed a good deal at such a charge, and' at her conti-
nuing
to lay hold of him, he certainly, he admitted, did
push her away, but as for striking her lie never did any
thing of the•kind. She, however, called the watchman,
who, with very great alacrity, conveyed him (Mr. Rennie)
to the watch-house at the complainant's bidding, - and be
would have been locked up there all night had he not sent
for a friend to bail bins.
' The watchman here stepped up, and volunteered his
evidence that he saw Mr. Rennie strike the girl in the
breast.
The night constable of the watch-house' said, that'the
girl herself made no such charge the •night before as that
Mr. Rennie struck her.; she only said that lie pushed her ;
and as for the watchman, the constable said that he did
not sets► to know anythiag of the matter when he brought
the patties to the watch-house.
The complainant declared still that what she hail charged
Mr: Rennie with was true, for that he did sleep five nights
at her lodgings, and that he left her lucked up in the man-
ner described, taking with him the key of the room, and
with so much seeming earnestness and sincerity did she.
persist in this statement, that the Magistrate appeared halt=
inclined to pay sonic attention to her story, when Plank,
the chief offier, suggested that as Carnaby-street was so
very near to the Office, it would be as well to send for the
landlord, to ascertain if lie ever• bad such a lodger at all
as the prisoner.
The landlord was accordingly sent for, and he imme-
diately recognized the complainant as having beers cer-
tainly once a lodger of his, but be said that she was of the
very worst of leer sex ; indeed, lie could scarcely. describe
so bad a character as she was, and as fur believing her on
hemath, he had a little dog at home that he would a
thousand times sooner believe ; and when he found out the
sort she really was, he_turned her out of his house.
• Mr. Coria NT was now perfectly satisfied, -and dismissed
the complaint altogether.

WORSHIP.STREET.—L-Yestei day Onisephorus
derick was brough t before SAmo EL Tw 10 LI, Esq., charged
with bigamy.
There were circumstances detailed in evidence which
rendered this case nor a little 'extraordinoy. The prisoner,
who has through- life trod in the paths of poveftraud hard
luck, became . acquainted with.. his: first wife, Mary
Jolly, some time Wore 1823. Mary Jolly *as" a ser•
yaw, and had a good place, and she considered ber-

self born of better parents than the prisoner : but,
though, he was poor, she thought she loved him. Glad
,
tinta that Mary's pride. had . yielded to
his solicitations, arid Ocotge's, , bay they Were
Married at WalthainatoW ChUrch. • From -the* then
proceeded to a.. house to partake of Ilyttien'S' feriSti
but nu grand diShes.itnoled upon the board—the poor,
lintfinshaitdA etiald regale the party with only
bread acid e6to) arid beer.. St/11 good 11.0inotir preiailed,
and they arrived. at Stoke Newington arid supped together.
ft NvO not itated.of *hat viands that meal was composed,
btjt after scupper tlie. :parties retired, and the bride and
kiriegrootii parted, Mai, Went tki her ,lace, and Onin-
phorus returned to his employer—the .oxid g:'a#elY
dsring the hard fare of one day's residence with her bus,
band, and the other regretting that fortune had not en-
abled him to give better entertainment to his. wife,—
For (12 afid days- did Onisepitorus tall upon his
lihtiothed, biti (lie vt,a§ iticitorablei • and the marriage
ryas never coiistitiiniated.. Three feta and a hair
had rolled away, and do tidings of talk Oiete da-
notineed to her linshatid. At that time be became
atlitainted with his Second wife, Alice Clark. He
emitted hot a year and a half ; he told her Of his first mar-
riage, but said he did not know what had become of hi?,
wife. Alice assumed a • little prudence, and suggested it
would be better to inquire into the fate of his first spouse
before she United herself.as the setond. Onisophorus had
no intention to deceive; he encouraged het When
in the beginning of the present year Alice found Mary an
example of the faithless fair. the was married to a man
who kept poverty from the door, and love and his little
ones feasted within. That Alice had found his former.
wife was now sad news to Oniscphorus, for though
he once loved her sincerely, his love was now
attached for ever to. Alice. lie pressed, but she
doubted; however, reason supplied force to the power
of !MT. Onisephorus had been • told that a mar-
riage not consummated was void in law, and Alice wished
to think it was so. Besides, the first wife had for-
feited the protection of •the church. She had violated
her conjugal' fidelity, and was the wife of another
man. Love prevailed, and on the 723 d of July last,
Onisephonis led to the hymeneal altar of St. Mar-
tin's, Ludgate, in the City of London, his good and
fair • Alice. Poverty was no ,drawback upon her at-
tachment. She loved OnisepliOrtis in 'Nei:irk and out of
work, and did all those things which lovely woman can' dd
to smooth her husband's- road through this chequered life.
So the days and. hours glided for a month, when stern
poverty once More overclouded their happiness. Onise-
phorus was out of employment, and-Alice could get no-
thing to do. Still, in their want of food, they were a con-
solation to each other. But " hunger breaks•through stone
walls," and in the bitterness of their misery, they applied
to the parish for relief. They'obtained it, but this pro=.
duced an order of removal: -The-parish to which Onise-
phorue belonged had him taken -into custody-and brought
before the worthy Magistrate. The evidence of the first
and second marriage was clearly proved, and it was equally
clear that the first wife was living at the time of the second

marriage.
Poor Alice betrayed all the feeling and affection which
the truest of wives can feel for a husband ; and Onise-
phorus with tears in his eyes, .said there was no soul in the
world to afford him the smallest comfort, for her kindness
and attention had lately recovered him from a bed of sickness.
The Magistrate said he Was glad to find so much of miti-
gation in his case ; but, as a Magistrate, he was bound to
commit, at the same time it would be for a Court ofJustice
to say what punishment he deserved, if he deserved any,
The parties were bound over, and Onisephorus was
committed to Newgitte. ' • •

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