The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--When we stated yes-
terday that Joseph Holcombe was committed on a charge
of an indecent nature, awl that his master, who was in at-
tendance to hear how far the charge was substantiated, said
not a word in his servant's favour, we did not mean it to
be inferred as a necessary consequence that the master was fully
convinced the servant was guilty, and still less that he had
nothing to say in favour of the prisoner's previous character.
If a trial takes place, we understand the master will be
quite ready to speak to the prisoner's apparent good con-
duct in all respects whilst in his service.
A very respectable-looking man, whose appearance and
demeanour by no means bespoke him a person familiar with
fraud or dishonest practices, was yesterday brought before
Sir GEORGE FA 11 RANT, the Sitting Magistrate at this office,
for re-examination upon the followiag charges, on which
he has been in custody for several days past :
Mr. Phillips, the barrister, attended on the part of the
Prosecutors and Mr. Adolphus appeared on behalf of the
prisoner.
A great number of the prisoner's friends, who, with his
general connexions are said to be very respectable, attended
the examination, and seemed to feel a deep anxiety about
his fate, as the prisoner himself is stated, up to the present
grounds of accusation, to have borne through life an un-
exceptionable charaeter.

Mr. Charles Wainwright, being sworn, deposed that he
is in partnership with George William Wainwright and
another person in the plate-glass.manufacturing business.
Their manufactory is in East Smithfield, but their ware-
house is at No. 44, Conduit-street, Bond-street. The
prisoner has been in their employment between eight and
prisoner had also authority to make sales of glass, Ste.,
ten years, in the capacity of clerk and book-keeper. The
to
customers; but it was his duty to enter every transaction
of sale in the regular account-books kept for that purpose,
and he had no authority whatever to deviate from this
practice. Witness had, he said, examined all the accounts
belonging to the house, and had brought them with him
to the office, and he could find no entry made of any plate
or plates of glass sold to a Mr. Capps on or about the 23d
of May, 1827, although he had searched the accounts for
a month before and a month after that date.
In answer to some questions put in cross-examination to
Mr. Wainwright, by the prisoner's solicitor, (Mr.
Adolphus not having as yet arrived), he said that entries
might have, and be believed had, been sometimes omitted!,
to be made by himself in mistake, and the prisoner might;
have at times paid to him cash for articles sold which cash
the witness might have neglected to enter in the cash'
account. He could not, however, particularly call to mind!
that any such occurrence had ever taken place, but he
would not swear that none such did happen. At. all
events, whether the prisoner paid over the money or not,

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he was bound, the Chums said, to mate an entry, of
sale in the sale-book:

Dennis Capps deposed that he was a carver and gil4,
residing at No. 46, Foley-street. He bad known the pri-
soner very well for some years as the clerk of Messrs.
Wainwright, with whom' he had occasional dealings. Qn
or about the 23d of May last, 'witness. purchased at tue
warehouse of Messrs. Wainwright, 'of the prisoner, one
plate glass, measuring 22 inches by 19, and paid him 30s.
for it, which was about its fair value. On the 19th of
January, 1827, witness also, he said, -purchased of the pti-
soneranother plate glass, measuring 29 inches by 21 : this
glass was sent home to the witness fronl, Al!tsej,,,Nain.
wright, and in a few days after, he met the prisoner in; a
gig in Oxford-street, and he told witness that he was going
to call upon him for payment of the glass, upon whidh
witness paid him 21. the amount agreed for. In F,eptenk-
ber, 1826, witness bought of the prisoner, at' the ware-
house of Messrs. Wainwright, two other plate glasses, one
silvered plate measuring 40 inches by 22, and the otherla
polished plate measuring 29 inches by 21 ; the price of the
former was Si. 18s., and of the latter 395., and these
glasses were paid for to the prisoner, who called in the fol-
lowing month at witness's house for the amount; and in
witness's absence from home at the time, his wife gave the
money to the prisoner.
Mr. Phillips, who examined all the witnesses for the
prosecution, here asked Mr. Capps if his wife were present
to prove that fact? Mr. Capps said, that she was pro.
sent ; he had brought her with him.

Mrs. Sarah Capps was next sworn, and deposed, that
she was the wife of the last witness, and that in the absence
Of her husband from home, when the prisoner called, die
paid the latter 5/. 175., for two plates of glass, had of
Messrs. Wainwright, in the month of September, 1826.
She paid the amount in a Si. note and silver. She asked
the prisoner to give her a receipt; Abut.he said there was
no occasion for that, as he would enter it in the books as 'r
cash transaction.
Mr. Wainwright was here again examined, and he stated
that there was no entry in the books of the money paid by
the last witness to the prisoner, nor was there any entry of
any of the transactions spoken to by Mr. Capps.

Mr. Phillips said, that these were all the cases he should
go into at present, and this was Mr. Adolphus's time, if
he wished to ask any questions of the witnesses present.
Mr. Adolphus said that he did not mean to put any
questions to the witnesses, and those which had been asked
of Mr. Wainwright, in cross-examination, as he under}
stood, were pnt before he entered. He (Mr. Adolphus)
was of opinion that Counsel had no right to cross-examine
witnesses before a Magistrate in this stage of such pro!
ceeding as the present, and he always had and ever should
refrain from doing so. He sat there merely to watch the
proceedings on the part of the prisoner, and unless there
appeared some clear ground for doing so, not even to in}
terfere with the discretion of the Magistrates as to coma,
witting or not committing the accused for trial ; all he
should ask of the Magistrate in the present case was to
admit the prisoner to bail, if he thought it consistent with
his duty to do so.
Sir GEORGE FARRANT said that he could not in a case
of this sort suffer the accused to go at large upon bail.

Mr. Phillips said that there was a man named Trevella
a carver and gilder, residing at Newington, in custody,
also, he understood, charged as a guilty receiver of various
articles of valuable property, belonging to Messrs. Wain.:
wright, from the prisoner. Since this person has been in
the House of Correction, he has written a long statement
of all his transactions with the prisoner, and had sent it
of his own accord to Mr. Wainwright; this statement he
(Mr. Phillips) then held in his hand, and he wished Tre-
vella now to be placed at the bar, that he might ask him
one or two questions ; for upon his answers to those ques.,
tions would turn out whether or not he should be admitted
as a witness for the prosecution.
Mr. Adolphus did not care what his Learned Friend did
with Trevella, as he (Mr. Adolphus) did not attend there
on his behalf, but merely for the prisoner.
The MAGISTRATE ordered Trevella to be brought from the
lock-up-room and placed at the bar, which being done,
Mr. Phillips, after cautioning Trevella not to answer any
question put to him if he did not think proper, as neither
promise nor threat should be held out to him to do so,
handed him a written paper, and asked him if that was his
hand-writing?
Trevella immediately answered that it was, and that he
had sent the document to Mr. Wainwright as containing
a true and faithful account of every transaction 4e ever had
with the prisoner, and he was 'ready to authenticate it by
his signature, which he accordingly did.
Mr. Phillips said, that as Trevelli had acted and spoken
so candidly; he would now admit him as a witness for the
prosecution, and if the Magistrate would remand the pri-
soner, fresh charges would be gone into against him, on
the evidence of Trevella and others, on a future day.
Sir G. FARRANT said that he would remand the prisoner
for another week ; but in the mean time any of his friends
whom he might wish to see might have unrestrained access
to him at proper hours, which has hitherto nat been allow-
ed to him. Trevella, the Magistrate said, should be dis-
charged, on his procuring bail for his future appearance as
a witness.

This case, fer some reason or other, seems to have ex-
cited an unusual and remarkable sensation amongst the
tradespeople at the west end of the town, particularly those
in the glass line.

MARYLEBONE. —Daniel Day, a journeyman baker,
was charged with embezzling various sums of money be-
longing to his master.
The prisoner was discharged a week ago by Mr. James
English, of Hampstead, after having been in his service
for two years ; and now it appeared he had received the
amount of many bread bills, without accounting for it.
Mr. English told Mr. GRIFFITH he had already disco-
vered a deficiency of 261. 14s. and the prisoner was re-
manded for future examination.

Mr. John Gidney, late of Old Cavendish-street, coach,
maker, charged with obtaining timber to the amount of
140/. under false pretences, from Mr. Robert Ashby, of
Bugbrook, in Northamptonshire, was brought up for
examination.

Mr. Robert Leigh, of No. 27, Great Castle-street, Re-
gent-street, coach-maker, stated that he had known the
prisoner for 20 years, and on the 3d of December bought of
him this same lot of timber at the rate of 71, per load (41.
less than Gidney agreed to give the owner) it now lies in
Robert's Mews; Hampstead-road, under the care of a person
named Hoare, and the witness had paid Mr. Gidney 401.
on account.

Mr. Hosxflis asked whether any other charges were likely,
to be brought against the prisoner ? Buckeridge the offi-
cer replied " Yes ;" and he was again remanded.
Samuel Charles .Durant was charged with being a
party to the fraud. This is the person whose name ap-
pears as the acceptor on the two bills for 701. each, with
which Gidney pretended to pay the owner for the timber.
He has been apprehended since Gidney's first examination;
and was yesterday remanded.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Ann Smith was yesterday
again brought up, charged with stealing 9s. 6d. from a
gentleman who had fallen into her company. The prosecutor
was summoned, but did not choose to come forward. It,
appeared that Bs. 6d. had been given by the prisoner to a
person formerly intimate with her, and, as it was supposed,
to be returned to the prosecutor. Against this person and,
his brother, who, it turned out, are respectable individuals,
the Magistrate (R. E. BaouGHTOI4, Esq.), having dis-
charged the prisoner, made her a witness. She then stated
her name to be Ann Frencham.

After a hearing of some length, Mr. Baouowrow was:
of opinion that the two individuals in question had coin
mitted a misdemeanor in interrupting the course of justice,'
and he therefore held them to bail, themselves in 501., and
two sureties in 251. each, to appear at the next sessions to.
answer any charge preferred against them.
Whilst this examination was going on in
Adolphus
aptaternloduerd,
theanoathßerolcva-ssetrxeveatsphaetarrotinforwhom office,onirt irre.spAecdtionjpg the conduct
of
as counsel, but it presented nothing materially of public in-
terest. The patrol was held to bail.

season'
to the very many!
0 f
the
OyeVaEr R
is,
as. this
persons now resident here) as in the summer months. I
During this week, the easterly Storm, Maid '
we mentioned in our last, continued with great severit
AgaN;
a2ood.—liveTlyh(eovrt?nvvgn at
and violence, and on Wednesday night it bleW a tre
mendous gale from S.E. accompanied with showers of sno
and sleet. On Thursday, it aarne to a thaw, and a heav
rain falling in the course of the night, the snow has disa
peared along, the coast. The mails have, until yesterdaY
got in pretty regularly ; but the Inverness mail, . with ai
horses, was obliged to return on Thursday, when abou
two miles beyond Oldmeldrum. There was no interrup
tion from Turriff to Inverness, nor from the latter place t
Huntly, between which and Pitmachie the • *low -le
pretty deep. The south mail of yesterday, due at balfrpas
nine A.M. did not reach until about one o'clock this morn
ing, being 15 hours out of course. Therprincipol stoppage
we understand, was at the large den beyond-Perth, wher
the snow was drifted to such a depth, that some of th
coaches going to the southward, were obliged the day pre-
vious to return to Perth, in the streets of which the snow
lay about three feet clesp,.../Derdeen cowlick. i

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THE MURDER IN MONTAGUE4IACE.

130 W STREET.
EXAMINATION OF JONkS CONTINUED FROM OUR pAFER,
Or YESTERDAY.
Mrs. Staploni, the landlady of the }Muse- ill
Mitre-street, in Which the prisoner kidged,..klego:sed
as follows :—On the Thursday after ChriitinaSiday,
a woman, calling herself Mrs. Edwards;' came' to" my
house and took the' back room on the' gist floor; -she
paid one shilling deposit. On the' Satuiday
lowing she came with ,1% plan . whom- she called her
husband, and they took poisession,,,;:theeriFoner is
the person who came with itet., .an 4
~teptletged
himself to be her husband. I did not seel.the
prisoner on the Monday follOWing, but the woman
came down stairs for water, and I saw her. I 'aid
not see rither of them again; that flay. In the
evening, between five and six o'clock, .1' :heard
them go out and put their candle on, the, stairs is
the manner they were accustomed to do.; I beard
them return about _ eleven o'clock - the. same
evening. The woman paid me three, shillings on
New Year's day, and two
,shillings _ the
Friday following. Jones himself nempaid:itte any
thing. I saw Jones about one.: or„twO..Oreloek on
New Year's day ; he came in with an umbrella; he
wished me a happy new year, and went up to his
room. He had gone out earlier than usual. They
both went out on Newi;Y,ear's evening, but I did
not see them. Thezt„ieft my house 04 the, following
Sunday. On Sunday ,evening about five o'clock; a
woman, named Mills, knocked at my door, and asked
if Mr. and Mrs. Jones
.were,, at hoinA; ,:and)Fl isr
swered that there was no one in our house of that
name. - Some one up stairs said in, an mnder tone,
" Tell her to send her name
;up,"; ,
.land I' asked the
woman her name. She said it was Mills,: and, I
sent a young woman up„tu noonii toi ask
if they knew any one of the,natne of J.otios,,,i They
said they did not, and the woman Mills went away.
Mrs. Edwards then came down, and asked me if I
would let my little girl go to the,• top, and bottom
of the street to see if any one was watching,' =.The
little girl returned, , and osigt,that-sha,',couhr sot
iiMurriredc,l7l74ls,
,s,eepoani,lyt
ipe ritoonk.
as if I had been doing ?
,7 't
sind‘lshe"iurned
asthmenueshai,d.fiurtorimede,
from me. She seemed very much 4440,. ; I
made no reply, but asked her if she knew a, pctspn
of the name of Mills, and she: said ,
.she_ ,she
then asked me to let my little girl look out again,
and I did, and the child could see no one. ghe then
went up stairs, and presently came down again; and
asked me to look out for her myself. I did SO and
told her I could not see any persoir about ; and she
then asked me to do the same favpur for her has'
band, and then went out; and.. I never saw, her
again. In about ten minutes the prisoner Jones Fame
down, and asked me if Mrs.'EdWards was gone otql
I told him she was ; and 'he then asked me to Odle
same favour for him that I had: dOnel4,lter4--410
was to look out and see if any one was:watching tie
Louse. I did, and told him there were .none but
neighbours. He said, " Hush l don't speak so
loud ;" and he then went out, and I did not 'see him
again. I did not hear till twelve o'clock that night
what the Edwards's were-charged with.
Mary, the wife of John Mills' a labOuring man, re-
siding in Cornwall-road, Liunbeth, examined-1
knew the prisoner. On the night 'Of WednesdaY,
the 2d of January, about half-past five, the prisoner
and Charlotte Berry called at mT house; I opened
the door to them. She said, " how do you do,
Mrs. Mills ?" I asked them °to walk into' the par-
lour. They said they were going to the play, to 4iT
the Battle of Nelson. The prisoner' asked me` if I
would take somethink to drink. -I said I had rather
not, and he then put a crown-piece upon the table.
I called my daughter Jane, and he told her :to' fetch
a quartern and a half of the-best gin: My daughter
procured the gin,. and gave Jones the change. In the
course of conversation, Charlotte.seid: they, had 0
very bad joh,for , chey had been obliged; pawm hi
coat ; but, shei*tl, he had gone,out:tbe day befoFe
and, got her 2/., with which sholhtid been enabled tn•
get her things out of 'pawn. My hfilbandteame in,
and he and the prisoner had some conversation
about their affairs ; and I beard the prisoneraay, that
it was his intention to go to, set again, and take
Charlotte with, him. They went Away Omit ;.sis
o'clock. ,

Jane. Mills, aged 13, the daughter of the last wit'
ness, corroborated her mother's,statment. -
Alice Handly, of No.'ll, Bridge-toad, Lambeth,
shopkeeper, deposed to haiing sold, an umbrella
(produced) to the prisoner for five and siipenCe,
between one and two o'clock on New 'Year's-dap
The prisoner paid her with two half-crowns and .9
sixpence. The witness did not observe that he 410
any other money.
Furzeman was called, and stated that he found
the umbrella produced in the prisoner's lqdgings in
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Mitre-street.
Mrs. Stapleton was recalled, and asked if her bus'
band was in attendance; because he had let the pii"
soner into the house on the Monday night. Mrs'
Stapleton said he was not in attendance, and there-
upon the prisoner's solicitor submitted to Mr. Halls
the propriety of postponing the examination, in
order that his evidence might be taken before any
other evidence was gone

Mr. HALLS said it would he better to do so, eso'
cially as it was then so late, and supposing .all the
witnesses to be in attendance, it would not be pow'
sible to get through :the evidence that night; be
would therefore adjourn 'the hearing of the case to
Thursday.—The •prisoner was then taken•away.

.
The easterly gale, stated in our la.st, contiptv
ing Without intermission during this week, •and inarsiog
even in violence, has prevented all intercourse by . sea, 0°
thatdays past, nor any sailings for ,upwards of a fortnight, s
circumstance, we believe,
without precedent, iu , the me'
been no arrivals at Aberdeen for these ten
morythoefrte have
heold
oldest person, On Wednesday, it blew a tre-
mendous gale from S.E., and the "a lat'4'cleY wee higher than known far a number of years. On the rocky coast
immediately to the southward: of Aberdeen,• it Woke with
such prodigious force and violence as, to end,auger the.fi,b.
ing-boats in the fishing-creeks.—Aberdeen CAN/tick •
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Es
instant,
ißulßjavenHSd.
ish-square, the lady of
of Charles Pott, Esq.,
DaOvinnd
ttß hhae erc2lßayd,
q., M.P., of a son.
0
22d instant, in Hunter-street, Brunswick-squarer
On the 20th instant, the lady of Dr. Holland, of Lower
Brook-street, of a son.
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of a daughter.
the lady

oEfsgAidoerfinßedan feorhdr-issqtoupa
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to Catherine
n'Of StarhOrough'
D.D., vicar, Mr. Joseph Taylor, of
Christopher
, ,
M-A•,
ureßnr2rkec2eyhdC.aro.disle,ge, Oxford, eon of Richard WoOdfiimk,
instant, the Rev. Edward Woodohninyuee,ai
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On the 22d instant, at St. Martin's-in-the-Piehla,hy the
Charing-cross, to Sarah Ann Bell, only daughter, of the
late Mr. Thomas Johnson, of St. Martin's-court, Leices-
daughter of Edward ,Shewell,
. ...•_
ri.nstant, at
,St. Mary's Chu h'M 'I b e
coafivvOtl.een:Gtshb
he Rev. 're
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Dibdln,.t John Bateman, AL A. 1
Richard Bateman, Esq., of Wheat-
hill,sbt :yet' °Otsnhntideutaßshroeeen:2.:Dd the late
Esq., o"."-- r''
of Jul l 827 at Madras,'
. On the 16th y,. ,
den , Carthsv, 21st Native Infantry,• to Jeminaa Borland,
ter of John Ewart, Esq., late
fifth daughter
of
wewington,
Edinburgh- i:ll.4te:
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On the 20th instant, aged 22 months, tiavid'Ste;4lBfan•
rice,
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P. i eos cu° Prescott-street.
eldest-hset r sone
el t 4. t ofh
Mr.instant,
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esteemed for her maternal virtues and ezeinplary life; Mfa.
D'S.at l‘
vicar of Killian', in Torkshke. i • • ,
Jacobina Bayne, relict of the Rev.
On the 18th instant, at Camden-tilaci, tYiektim Mr.
Reader Wilkinson, aged 81. .. , .
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,On the 21st instant, Mr. William inart. 'cof Thelibortel
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street, Golden-square,, aged, 75,. . ,
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nab Water Man, well known 414, nide-o tht lt4lo`!s
'Woman." She was upwards o 92 yeara'af age, - ; ;

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