The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUsE.—Yesterday a young man, who
said his name was William Brithant, was brought before
Alderman FAREBROTII ER, who sat in the early part of
the day for the Lord Mayor, charged with having attempt-
ed to defraud Mr. Kipling. a hosier, in the Poultry, of
goods to the amount of between 501. and 60/. The pri-
oner, who appeared to be about 23 or 24 years of age,
, was dressed in a very fashionably-made green frock. His
hair was bushy at the sides and parted in the middle, and
he looked very like those city hair-cutters who stand at
their masters' doors, with " not a hair astray," to catch
customers. Ile stood at the bar without appearing to
think that there was any thing out of the ordinary way in
his situation, and he heard every thing with perfect in-
difference.
Mr. Kipling, stated, that the prisoner came to his shop,
and said that he wanted an outfit for New South Wales,
to which country he was going forthwith. Articles of
dress were shown to him, and he chose the most costly,
stating at the same time, that he was nephew to Mr. Bal-
lard, who resided at Dock-head, and who would pay for
the outfit. The order was taken, lint before it was exe-
cuted, the witness had the prudence to make the necessary
inquiries. There rrete tWo gentletteia of the name of Bal-
lard residing at boekhead, but both disclaimed the prisoner,
who, upon returning to the shop, was apprehended as a
swindler. Inquiry bad also been made at the prisoner's
lodgings in High Holborn, where it appeared he resided
with his mother, and it was found that several tradespeople
had complained of, and were antious to meet with, bins.
His mothers upon findiag that all was bhawn, walked out
one morning with a gentleman, and bad never returned
since, and she left a rent debt amounting to 184 behind her.
Alderman FA REBROTHER asked whether any person ac-
companied the prisoner ? It was answered that his 'nether
was with him at the time be was looking over the articles.
Alderman FA REBROTHEE-He told you he was going
to New South Wales. If he does go, he won't go either
at your expense or his own. Didn't you lose any thing at
all by him ? Mr. Kipling—Nothing.
Alderman FA REBROTHER—WeII, Sir, what recount do
you give of this transaction ? Prisoners—l don't Wish to
say any thing at present.
The Atnsearast then remanded the pricener until
Tuesday next.
A waterman 'vas summoned for having charged more
than his fare to and front a steam-boat lying in the Theme*.
It is now a common practice w ith some of the waterinen
to state when they are accused of making overcharges, that
the luggage has been enormously heavy, and as they are
entitled to demand a shilling for every hundred weight
above 661 h. which a passenger may have conveyed without
a charge, they think very little of mistaking the weight of
every box or article they carry. On this occasion, there
happened to be a box of ladies' bonnets, along with other
things. It was clearly proved that the weight was at least
1501 b. lighter than it was represented to be by the water-
man in this ease.
Alderman FAKE:BROTHER said that he should be content
to fine the defendant 55., as the man might have laboured
under some mistake. The bonnets of the women had of
late grown to such a prodigious size, that a man could not
judge, from his former knowledge of that article of dress,
of the weight. -The ss. and expenses were then paid.
Another waterman was summoned for having charged
more than his fate fur taking a passenger from Alderman's-
stairs to Blackfriars-bridge. The overcharge was just double.
Alderman FaiesnaoTHEß fined the defendant 55., but
said•that it was evident that the old system would not be
broken up until the full penalty of 5/. was inflicted in
every case.
GUILDHALL.—John Clerk, a genteelly-dressed young
' man, well known to the police, was brought before Sir J.
PEERING yesterday, charged with stealing 17s. from the
pocket of Mr. dyers, of Wild-street, Lincoln's-inn•fields,
in Bartholomew-fair, on Wednesday evening.
Mr. Givers stated, that while he was showing his two
children the wild beasts at Wombwell's booth, the Prisoner
Was very officious in explaining to the children the habits
&c.- of the animals. The crowd in the show was very
great, and complainant was obliged to lift the youngest boy
upon his shoulder for a few minutes, to see what was
going forward ; and while in this position, the prisoner,
who had cOntinued hovering about them, pressed a little
upon him.. When complainant put the child down, he
felt for his money, and missing it, he went to the entrance
of the booth for a constable. Here, however, he was told
no officer was employed, and every one was expected to
look to himself, and he returned into the booth, deter-
►aned to be his own officer upon this ()erasion. But he
didsmt succeed in meeting with the prisoner again till he
was leaving the booth, when, feeling a tug at his pocket, he
turned round, and seized the person, who proved to he the
very man he was in search of. In dragging him through the
fair, complainant was severely beaten by about a dozen fel-
lows, who wished to rescue the prisoner, but on reaching
Duke-street, he fell in with Hawkins, the moat shialmnan,
who secured the man. The prisoner also did his best to
set the mob against him. He first threw off his hat,
which was full of handkerchiefs, and which was secured

by his accomplices, and then chargrd witness with having
stolen the hat; and he also charged another person, who
was assisting the complainant, with having robbed him of
a watch. Only ss. 6d. was found on his person, but he
had had ample opportunity to pass the rest of Mr. Cavern's
money to his companions.
The prisoner denied the charge, but the ALDERMAN
committed him for trial.

There were only two _other charges of picking pockets in
he fair.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Mrs. Springay, a respectable
looking woman, was yesterday brought before the Magi-
strate charged. with having an hour before attempted to
drown herself in the canal at Hackney.
. . . .

A labouring man employed on the canal, stated that he
had been to his dinner, when returning from it, feeling
rather sleepy he laid himself down in a field, near to the
spot, to have a nap, but was soon awoke by bearing a vio-
lent scream. He ran to the lock of the canal, and before
be got there saw a man take the woman out. The
woman told him, witness, she wished herself in Heaven !

that she was the mother of nine children, she was in great
distress, and ill-used by her husband.

Mr. BENETT desired the woman who was standing at
the bsr, to come round, when he feelingly asked her how
she could think of committing such a rash act.

Prisoner—l am a miserable woman; I have been mar-
ried now twenty-one years to a man, or rather a monster
in cruelty, who ill-uses me daily by beating me with a
broomstick and a rope. I had a warrant here sometime
ago against him, but he never attended, nor did I after-
wards follow it up.
Mr. BINETT—Do you not think it is a horrible thing
to leave nine children unprovided for ? Pray, what does
your husband allow you towards the maintenance of your
ch ildreu ?

Prisoner—He has allowed me 12s. a-week, but ,latterly
has neglected them entirely. Oh ! I wish they were all in
Heaven.

Mr. BENET': asked her if (providing be granted a war-
ra.it against her hti;band) she would go home with her
daughter, who was in the office.

. The prisoner promised as far as laid in her power, but
would rather nut go back with either her daughter or
her Sister.—

The Magistrate said will you go to Bethnal-green work•
house until to-morrow, when your husband will be brought
before me ?

To this the prisoner assented ; and an officer was de.
sired to attend her.

A warrant was issued forthwith against the husbind.

MARLBOROUGHSTREET.—Yesterday a decent.
looking middle-aged evidently in a state of much
fatigue and exhaustion, and carrying a very fine infant.,
about 18 months old, in her arms, applied to Mr. ROE, the
sitting Magistrate, for some assistance, or advice how to act
in the distressing situation in which she was placed. She
was the wife, she said, of a soldier of the 35th Regiment of
Foot, which has been absent from England for upwards of
two years, but has very recently returned, and is now quar-
tered at Jersey. Since the departure of her husband from
England, she said, she had not seen or heard from him, as
he was obliged to leave her behind ; but having heard of the
return of the regiment to Jersey, she was on her way to
join him at that island, but was' now totally destitute of the
means of proceeding, as she had not a farthing to support
herself or her child upon the road.
The MAGISTRATE ached her where she had come from ?
—She replied, that she had walked up from Cambridge,
and arrived in Londo❑ about three o'clock the day before.
On her arrival in town, she went directly to Mr. Mac-
donald, the army-agent, who is the agent to the 35th
Regiment, and told there who she tva•, her distressed situ-
ation, and asked fin• Rome aid to help her to join her• hus-
band, but she was refused ; and the consequence was, that
she was obliged to walk the streets with her infant in her
arms all night, and without any sustenance.
The MauIsTRATE asked her what parish she belonged
to ?—She replied, that she had no claim on any parish, as
else was born in a marching regiment, the 3d, or Old Buffs.
The MAGISTRATE inquired what parish her husband
had a claim on ? She said on none, for he, too, was born ,
in a marching regiment, the sth, or Young Buffs.
Why did you not apply to the authorities at Cam-
bridge, before you started," asked Mr. Roe, "for some as-
siatance to join your husband ?" The poor woman said

that she did, and the Mayor of Cambridge gave her half-a-
crown, but that was espended before she reached London.
The Marais:maTe asked her if she was sure she had ap-
plied at the agent's proper office, for he certainly saw by
the army-list to which she had just referred, that Mr.
Macdonald was, as she said, the agent to the 35th Regt.
She answered that she had applied there twice, and on
the last occasion, when she mentioned that she mom go
and apply to a Magistrate, the clerk said that lie did not
care one pin for either her or the Magistrate.
" And I dare say he spoke truth," said Mr. ROE.
" I really do not know, my poor woman, how I can Assist
you, as you did not sleep any where lust night; if you had,
the parish where you slept I could call upon to aid yon,"
"itis a h ea-se, Sir," said the poor woman, " that
after my husband and myself have been all our lives in the
army, and he has served his King and his country, fur 19
years, 1 and my little child should be allowed to go about
starving in this manner."
" Indeed it is a hard case," said the Magistrate, " and I
am sorry I cannot remedy it."
Mr. ROE then ordered half-a-crown to be given to the
poor woman, and she withdrew with many eriptessioes of
her thanks and gratitude. She gave her name Sophia
Preebe-g;
HATTON-GARDEN.—The driver of what is called a
" go-cart," or a one-horse-chaise, w,s yesterday brought
before Mr. Serjeant Szetox and Mr. LAING, charged with
obstructing the carriage-way, plying for hire without
licence, and assaulting a constable.
The complainant, a constable of the name of Cope,
stated; • that sit.* the Comrhttictrherit of artlitjlorneet-fitir,
Uri roads on each side leading from the Angel inn, at Isling-
ton, to the city, have been completely lined with carts,
waggons, wains, and other carriages, plying for hire, and
taking np passengers to and from Smithfield ; and so greA
was the nuisance created by these vehicles, that the long
stages and gentlemen's carriages could not possibly draw up
in any one convenient spot. He- had orders, he said, from
the Commissioners of the parish to remove these obstruc-
tions ; and accordingly, perceiving the defendant's cart for
the space of three or four hunts that thorni--g to beet tatted
in the catriage-way, without any person attending to it,
he went to it, with a View of taking it to the green-yard;
but he had no sooner laid hold of the horse's reins, than the
defendant rushed out of a public-house, where he bad been
at the time drinking, and wresting the reins out of his
hands, swore he should never take his horse and cart away ;
to a green-yard, and dared him again to lay bands on it. ,1
Cope, in the execution of his duty, persisted in removing
what be considered to be a nuisance, and turning the
horse's head in the direction of the green-yard, the de-
fendant imtnediately struck him, and became so violent and
obstinate that he had to take
_him into custody and brit%
him before the magistrates.
The defendant being asked was his cart licensed, he re-
plied that it was, when Mr. LAING informed Mr. Serjeant
SELLON that those sort of vehicles, one-horse chaises, were
licensed only to ply in Surrey,—that is, from London to
Greenwich, from London to Croydon, &e., but. hail no
permission whatever to ply at this side of the water, and
inquired of the defendant where he had come from? The
defendant replied, that he had come from the Kent-road,
sent, thither by his master, who wished to turn his horse
and earl to the best advantage during the time of the fair ;
but he insisted that be had not drawn tip above ten minutes
when the constable interfered; and he denied to the Ma-
gistrate the charge of having assaulted bins.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON thought there was no harm in
a man's endeavouring to turn to the most advantage such
property ae a horse and cart during the fair, • but agreed
with Mr. LAI so in fining the defendant ss. for the asasault.
•

A person of the name of Bele, clerk to Thomas Stirling,
Esq., the coroner, brought a woman in custody to this
office yesterday, and applied to the Magistrate for an order
of commitment to send her to the New Prison, under the
following circumstances :—Some time ago a man having
murdered a child of hers, in the parish of Maryleisure, an
inquest was :held upon the body, and a verdict of wi;ful
murder was returned by the Jury. Upon the Coroner's
warrant the man was taken into custody, and fully com-
mitted. The woman, however, having since manifested a
disposition to refrain from prosecuting the murderer, and
having fled urwards of 70 miles into the country to avoid
the necessity of doing en, she was pursued and taken, and
he (the applicant) producing the Coroner's warrant for her
apprehension, wished to have an order to secure her within
the walls of a prison till the murder should be tried.
Mr. LAING said he would have nothing to 'do in the
case, and told him to get either a 'commitment from the
Coroner or take the woman before the magistrates at Mary
lebone police-office.
The applicant and the female then left the office.
QUEEN-SQUARE.---A nrsreli..o* Antatobt..—Y,B..;
terday morning a young woman, With an Infant at her
breast, who gave her name Ann 43furrey, was brought
before D. GAEGORIE, Esq. charged with the following
robbery and assault.

George Clackioston, bricklayer, of No. 4, Exeter-build-.
ings, Knightsbridge, stated that the prisoner's father and
mother lodged in his house, and that she (the prisoner)
was in the habit of coming repeatedly to see them. Last
Friday Week he missed a new table-cloth from a chest of
drawers, and taxed the prisoner with having taken it ; she
acknowledged the fact, but on his attempting to take her
into custody, she seized the poker, and laid him sprawling
on the floor; the prisoner consequently effected her escape.
Laing last night into a public-house, he espied the pri-
soner there drinking. lie went out and procured a con-
stable, and en his entering the roots with bin,, the pri-
soner flew at. him (prosecutor) and knocked him down with
a quart pot, and it was with considerable difficulty that
she was secured. •

f<everal charges of a similar nature were made against

le prisoner, and she was remarultd until to-morrow.

TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—A young woman,
calling herself Lettice Izzard, was.introdueed by the parish
officers of St. Olave'e, to whom •he had made application

for relief, to substantiate her husband's desertion of her;
and having stated that after being married to him for five
years, he sold the bed from under her about a fortnight
since, and left her the wretched inmate of bare walls, with
half-a -crown only for her support, the husband, a man se-
date and of bland manners, was called upon for reply, con-
veyed in these terms :
" Sir," addressing the Alderman, " I have borne for
years with this woman's conduct under very trying circum-
stances, in the belief that it was out of my power legally to
rid myself of her ; frequently has she left me for days toge 7
ther, returning at all hours of the night and morning so
overcome with liquor that I have feared to quit the house
lest she should set it en fire ; in abort, to such an abject
state did she reduce herself, and so lost to all sense of shame,
that my fortitude was about to forsake me, when I learned
that she had another husband living, who had a prior claim
to her; and joyful enough I was at the intelligence.
" Is it so ?" inquired the ALnertma xof the young woman.
"I do not deny it," she answered, trembling ; bat we
parted, after living together for six years, on my discovering
that he had another wife."

" Another wife ! said Mr. Alderman ANSLEY (who
presided) with surprise ; " then how could you deceive this
poor man so shamefully ?"
The young woman said she did net ennsiderit a decep-
tion : the had been informed she was at liberty to marry
again, and that the defendant was no stranger.to her sitttation.
I.k Mendaut, dertied, the least knowledge of theformcr
tnairiage until a few days before he discarded her. "At
all events," he continued, " she has no claim upon me."
" Yes, she has," returned the ALDERMAN, " till you
substantiate your right to get rid of her before another
tribunal."

The parish officecs here interposed, to submit to the
Alderman that passing her to the parish her first husband
teas living in might obviate further difficulty.
The Alderman saw no objection to such a course, and
the young womrn being content, it was so settled—she
being.told she had the same title to proceed against him
that the second husband had against her. There were no
children by either marriage.

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UNION-HALL—In the course of yesterday morning,
without
teki t eih.t,caona td,
addressing the Magistrate, said—" I have to apologise to
your Worship, for appearing in this trim before you, brit it
has been unavoidable, my landlady having deprived me of
several of lay garments, and being unfortunately without a
change of clothes, I was compelled to appear before you to
solicit your advice."
MAGIATHATE—What i 9 the nature cf yonr application ?
Applicant —I am indebted to a lodging-house-keeper one
week's rent, and bring unable to discharge it the day on
which it was due, my landlady stole into my bed-room the
night before, and took possession of my cost, waistcoat,
and hat. tihe now refuses to deliver them up unless the
rent is paid, and I am at present in such difficulties that I
cannot raise the money, nor shall I be enabled to do so
without she resigns my clothes. What am I to do under
these circumstances ? inquired the young man.
MAGISTRATZ-It was useless for you to come here, 1
taus
cannot assist you ; it must be admitted that your landlady
has adopted a very harsh method of obtaining her rent, by
depriving you of the only coat you have ; it is well, how-
ever, that she did not deprive you of your breeches : that
would have rendered your situation still more disagreeable.
Applicant—l have some friends at the west end of the
town, from whom I could borrow the money, if I only
could appear with some sort of covering over my shoulders.
The applicant was acctuntnodated with the loan of a

watchman's great coat, and he set tiff to the teat ends jilt;
tired as a guardian of the night, to solicit a fa% otlaf
friends.

A man named Green was charged with stealing a glut',
the property of Mr. Hay, landlord of the White Horse, 10
lio•lland-street.
The prisoner, it apptured, entered the cinnplatnant'9.
house on the preceding night, arid ealltd fors glass 01
porter. 1-faring been served, after drinking the contents,
tat was observed to pocket the glass, and then haatilY to
retire from the house. On getting into the street be took
to his heels, but was so closely pursued that he was soon
overtaken, and the glass found in his possession Iva,
fully cottin►itted. _ . .

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