The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH-STREET.--A TURTHIR DISCOVIRY or
PROPRATY.—Yesterday, Anne, wife of Ikey Solomons,
was brought up in custody of Skillern and Gooding, two
conductors of the Bow-street patrol, charged on suspicion,
with having in her possession, goods to a considerable
amount Which had been stolen. Oa the apprehension of
her husband, the property found hi his temporary lodgings,
at Islington, exceeded in value 2,0001., but that produced
in the present instance was nearly double in amount.
When placed at the bar, Mrs • Solomon:, who was aided
with the professional advice of Mr. Humphries, appeared
much agitated and dejected, and during the examination the
tears rapidly chased each other down her cheeks.
The preliminary evidence was to the following purport :
goinghou the rounds with his party, he per-
ceived
of Isaac:, alias they Solomon:, in
Bell-lane, l
1 a
se
Richard Skillern stated, that he was a conductor of the
Bow-street patrol. On Tuesday night, at half-past ten
o'clock,
ael,vh theWentworth-street, a cart drawn up at the door ;
from it two men were employed in unloading mahogany
furniture, and removing it into the house, he asked the
carter where he had brought it from, and he replied,
" What is that to you ?" The lateness of the hour, and his
anxiety for concealment, excited his (Skillern's) suspicion,
and he then told the carter that he would take both him
and the things into custody. Mrs. Solomons, the prisoner,
then came out and said, that she had had it for years in her
possession ; he told her he must apprehend her and the
two men, and send the furniture to the Green Yard, as he
suspected it was stcien, and he afterwards informed the car-
ter, that if he did not conduct him to the house where it was
brought from, he would lock him up. He replied that he
did not know the name of the street, but that he would be
able to point it out to him. He, Skillern, then, having
first left two of his men in charge of Mrs. S., whom, as an
indulgence, he did not remove, as she had a large family,
and a sick child, accompanied the carter to a house in
Henry-street, Bedford-square, Commercial-road, and
rapped at it. The door was opened, and suspecting, from
what he had heard, that he might be able to catch Solo-
mon., he at once rushed up stairs. The bed-room door
was open, and the bed appeared as if it had been hastily
risen from. On examining it, he found underneath the
pillow the large horse-pistol he then produced, which was
well primed, and loaded with ball ; beside the bed there
was also a sword-cane, and in other parts of the apart-
ment all the property which was then produced, the
greater part of which, if not the entire, he was convinced
was stolen. Two of Gooding's party were left in charge
of the house, and the property was afterwards removed.
Mr. HUMMI.IIIO asked if bail would be accepted for

the prisoner's future appearance, if so. he was prepared
with securities to any amount.
Mr. WYATT was aware that if bail even to the amount
of 50,0001. was demanded, it would be presented, but be
would not, however, take it; to do so would be a crime
against society, and as a late occurrence (we believe he
meant the escape of Solomons), defeat the ends of justice.
Mrs. Solomon* was handed over to the keeping of the
gaoler, which terminates the business for the present.
THAMES OFFICE.—An intelligent-looking,
welt-
clad Hibernian, who said his name was Edmund O'Hal-
loran, and that he was a schoolmaster, came to request the
advice of the Magistrate under peculiar circumstancee•
He said, that, some months since, he and Norah, his wife,
arrived in London from Ireland, and took lodgings in the
house of a black man named Wiggins, at Wapping, where
he carried on the business of a barber. At the end of solve
months Norah proved to be pregnant, and as the time of
her accouchement approached she began to lose her apps'
tite, and one day she expressed the greatest possible fang
for black potatoes. He (O'Halloran) therefore went among
the Irish shipping, and procured a few black potatne*
which, after Norah had partaken of, she appeared
much more cheerful, and, shortly after, Norah be-
came the mother of a black child ; and when be
asked Norah the cause, she and Wiggins said it $Ol6
in consequence of her having eaten the black P°'
tatoes. If that were the cause, he imagined that a little
ablution would remove it, and accordingly tried the effect:
of soap and water, but in vain ; he rubbed and scrubbed
until the cries of the little urchin rang through and through
the house, and, by the intercession of Norah and Wiggle,*
he was induced to desist. Suspicion then began to haunt
his mind, and the surprise of his neighbours at seeing the
child increased it. He communicated it to Norah ; she
still persisted that there was no cause, nor could she COo"
ceive any to which the unusual colour of the child could be
attributed, except the black potatoes.
Mr. BALLANTINE here interrupted O'Halloran in hie
narrative by observing, that perhaps all his suspicions were,
groundless, and his mind was only agitated by ill-dispose"
persons.

- O'Halloran replied that it was quite the contrary, for not
a shadow of doubt remained of Norah's guilt ; for, on en:
mining the head of it, instead of the flaxen down of Iri'
infants, it had the little curly woolly hair of the Moorit
tribe, and was a veritable miniature of Wiggins, the black
barber; even Norah did not deny the unhallowed familiB-
- of the Moor, and was oppressed with shame, guilt'
and anguish; nor could she be prevailed upon to suckle the
hideous testimony of her faithlessness. He immecliatelt
left the house, and the neighbours feeling an indignation at
the conduct of the black, threatened to demolish his house•
s
He now entreated the advice of the Worthy Magistrate what
course he should pursue to obtain satisfaction.
Mr. BALLauxim expressed the greatest sympathy
for
his situation, and regretted that he could not assist him.
Poor O'Halloran, on leaving the Office burst into tears,
and sobbed most piteously.