The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGTNCE.

GUlLDHALL.7—Yesterday Mr. John Tunnell, the
watchmaker, in Fleet.street, attended, accompanied by Mr.
Adolphus and Mr. Clarkson, as .his Counsel, and by Mr.
Harmer, as his solicitor, to meet the complaint of Mr.
Armstrong, of Liverpool, to whom he had given notice of
his intention so to do, on the previous evening.
Mr. Armstrong stated that he had a particular reason
for wishing to defer proceeding with this case until to-
morrow. Pie did not receive notice that it would he
brought on that (lay until the night before.
Sir PETI..r. LAURIE was afraid he should he doing in-
justice to the defendant to accede to this request, after he
had incurred the expense of Counsel, unless Mr. Arm-
strong could show some strong ground.
Mr. Adolphus hoped the complainant was not afraid of
Counsel.

Mr. Armstrong, who is a very young man, laughed, and
said he had no fear upon that subject, for his was a straight-
forward tale; but if the F. firing was adjourned, he ex-
pected to obtain the attendance of a witness.

Sir PETER.LAURIE inquired whether he meant to state
that he would produce new evidence, or that he only sup-
posed he should he able to do so.

Mr. Armstrong meant, he expected he should be ready
to make a fresh charge.
Mr. Adolphus understood the hearing was originally
fixed for Wednesday, and therefore would not oppose the
application for delay, but Mr. Tunnell had been anxious
to show that he was not for running away, and to satisfy
the Court, and through the Court. the public, that there
was no disposition on his part to avoid inquiry. It seemed
th ,t the robbery was committed in March, and that M
Armstrong did not hear that any part of the property was
in Mr. Tunnell's hands until the 31st October following;
and, as regarded connecting the names of Mr. Tunnell
and Ikey Solomons together, it ought to be . remembered
that up to July, Solomons was an extensive dealer in jewel-
lery and other things, many respectable houses transacted
business with him, and in the eye of the world was looked
upon as an upright tradesman. At the same time he did
not mean to grant that Mr. Tunnel! had ever dealt with
the man.
Mr. Clarkson thought the suspicion against Mr. Tun-
nel! Was repelled by the fact, that he had exgosed to the
fullest publicity, by hanging in his shop-window, the
watches that had been stolen, if it should be proved that
these were stolen.
The question then arose, whether the defendant should
be detained until the following day, and Mr. Harmer
urged, that as he came voluntarily, he might be trusted to
give his own recognizance in 100/., to appear again.
Sir P. LAURIE said, if any thing new had come out that
day, it was clear he should not be justified in trusting to
Mr. Tunnell's appearing voluntarily again ; and perhaps
how, with even the threat of a new charge to be brought
forward, he would not be so ready to attend.
Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Clarkson put several questions to
the complainant, to show that he did not mean that he
should adduce evidence as to other robberies, but as to other
articles taken from him in March.
Sir P. LAURIE, though with some reluctance, yielded
to Mr. Harmer's suggestion, and Mr. Tunnell was liberated.
BOW-STREET.—Mr. Stanbury, a gentleman of
fortune, residing in the neighbourhood of Cranford, near
Hounslow, appeared to answer an assault warrant obtained
against him by Richard Begg, the gamekeeper of Lady
Berkeley, of Cranford-house.

According to the complainant's statement it appeared,
that on Thursday last he saw the defendant in his own
potatoe-field beating for game. The complainant and the
defendant both crossed a field, and met upon the grounds
of a third party, named Edwards. The defendant here
asked the complainant if he would give him a hare? "Oh
yes, to be sure, plenty," was the reply. The defendant
then proceeded to abuse the complainant, and called him a
skulking thief several times. The complainant retorted by
calling the defendant a liar and a thief, on which the
defendant jumped across the ditch, and holding his fist
in the complainant's face, he swore be would knock his
teeth down his throat. He then took the complainant
by the collar, held the hutt-end of the gun to his face,
and swore he would split his head. The complainant was
several times assaulted in the same manner by the de-
fendant. .

Mr. Stanbury then stated that he suffered considerable
annoyance from the complainant, who on the occasion
mentioned was very insolent and abusive. It happened,
be said, that he held a freehold estate immediately adjoin-
ing the groundsof the complainant's mistress, Lady Berke-
ley; of course heshad a right to shoot upon his own pro-
perty, besides which he had the permission of several far-
mers in the neighbourhood to sport upon their lands. He
never went out, however, With his gun and dogs, but he
was sure to be watched by the complainant, and as soon
as he commenced looking for game, he ran before him
with his dog at the rate of five or six miles an hour, with
a view to prevent his sport, by starting the birds. On
the day in question; Mr. Stanbury said, the complainant
annoyed him by watching his motions across . a hedge that
divides Lady Berkeley's property from his own, and when
spoken to, he called him a liar and thief. " I certainly
told him," added the defendant, " that if he repeated such
language, I should knock him down. With respect to the
dog, he was an .animal worth 50 guineas, and one day
When sporting 'with him on my own grounds, the dog
happened to leap over the wall into those of Lady. Berkeley,
two of whose sons and the complainant were present. The
complainant followed the dog, and as he was never seen
after, there was every reason to suppose that he was
destroyed:"
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE was no sportsman himself, and
was therefore not very competent to judge of the feelings of
those who were ; but taking the complainant on his own
showing, it was certainly very annoying to be watched and
dogged in the manner described by the defendant; as there
was no blow struck, there was no harm done ; but if the
complainant said that he went in bodily fear of the defend-
ant, the latter must find bail.
Mr. Stanbury hoped that the bail would be mutual.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE—Oh certainly it shall, if you
will scree r, Mr. Stanbury, that you also go in bodily fear ;
but from your appearance and that of the complainant, I
should hardly think you are under much apprehension
from him.

It was then arranged that Mr. Stanbury should enter
into his own recognizance ti keep the peace towards the
complainant, and the parties retired.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday Samuel Fuzzey, a
watchman, was brought before War. WHITE, Esq. charged
with a violent assaAt upon Mr. William Barrow, the
engineer at the Sun Newspaper-office.
The complainant stated that on Saturday last he was re-
. turning home between the imurs of eleven and twelve
o'clock, and in passing from the King's-mews to William-
street, Pimlico, he saw the defendant and several other
watchmen, dragging a drunken man along the road in a
most cruel manner ; he said to a person who was with
him—" What a pity it is to treat the poor man so impro-
perly," he had hardly pronounced the words, when he re-
eei-red a violent blow from a stick, which broke his hat,
and on turning round, he perceived the defendant in the
act of giving him another blow with his stick, but he
parried it off with his arm, otherwise he would'have been
seriously injured. When he had recovered from the stun-
ning effects of the blow, he asked the defendant why he
struck him ; he replied—" If you have not got enough I will
give you another ;" he then abused witness, snaking use of
language too disgusting to mention. When he threat-
ened to complain of him at the watch-house, he endea-
voured to elude witness by getting into the midst of, the
watchmen ; lie kept his eye upon him until he got to the
watch-house, but he was nor permitted to go in, and after
the charge against the drunken man was taken, the defend-
ant came out, and dragged witness into the watch-house,
where, to his great surprise, he found a charge of rescue
entered against him in the book ; but, fortunately, two
gentlemen, strangers to him, who saw the whole transac-
tion, came forward and batted him, otherwise lie must have
remained in the watch-house until morning, as his friends
lived in the city. On Monday the drunken man was fined
ss. by Mr. Gregorie ; and the defendant preferred a charge
of rescue against him, bnt the Magistrate dismissed the
complaint, as the watchman who had the drunken man in
custody said that he had never seen witness ; at the same
time Mr. Gregorie told the defendant not to quit the office
until the charge of assault which he preferred against him
was investigated ; but he thought proper to disregard the
Magistrate's order, by leaving the office, in consequence of
which, Mr. Gregorie told witness to take out a warrant for
his apprehension.
James Richardson corroborated the above statement,
adding that he saw the defendant strike the complainant
on the head, without receiving the slightest provocation ;
he merely observed to witness, that it was a pity to drag a
man in such a violent manner through the mud because he
was intoxicated ; and when he dragged the complainant
into the watch-house, he would not allow witness or any
of the persons who had seen the affair to go in.
Mr. Thos. Cain, of No., 18, Stockbridge-terrace, Vaux-
hall-road, stated that he saw the whole transaction, and
the above account was perfectly correct. He never saw a
man so shamefully treated as the complainant was by the
watchman ; and although he had never seen the former be-
fore that occasion, he and Mr. Harvey, his friend,• became
bail for him. Mr. Harvey would have attended to give
evidence, only business prevented him.
Vorley, an active and intelligent night-constable of St

George's Outward, stated that it was with much regret he
took the cbirge•of " rescue," which the 'defeidrint:lad!
made against the complainant on the night in question
but as he knew the defendant was a very violent man, he:
thought it better to enter the charge than run the risk of
having a complaint made against himself. The defendant
had a particular liking for beating persons after they were,
in his custody, and the present was the fifth charge of that'
description which was brought against him. Wiriness had
often advised him not to take the law into his own hands;
and not even to return a blow from a prisoner, because
the Magistrates would give him satisfaction if he were as-:
saulted ; his reply was, that if any one struck him, he
would be --- if he would not return the blow. Witness,
knowing him to be of a most savage disposition, thought it'
his duty to .epr2sentthe fact to the Magistrates.

The defendant said the above evidence was altogether,
P.se; he never struck any person but once, and that
was only a woman of the town, to whom he gave a kick
for abusing him. On the night in question, the com-i
plainant struck him, and tried to rescue a prisoner.

Mr. WMITE said, that Mr. Cain. and his friend had
acted very much to their honour in bailing the complainant;
who deserved much praise for bringing this case under the
consideration of the Magistrates. He and Mr. Marriott,
were of opinion that such a person as the defendant was
not fit to exercise the duties of a watchman, and that he
ought to he discharged from his situation.
Mr. MA RRIOTT observed that the evidence clearly proved
that the defendant was guilty of the most cruel and unjust
conduct towards the complainant in the first instance ; and
that afterwards he endeavoured to prevent him from having
redress by making a false and infamous charge against him
at the watch-house. The gentlemen -who were his bail
deserved- the highest praise, as he might have been locked
up all night only for their kind assistance, and it was to be
hoped, if ever they fell into the same distressing situation
themselves, that they would meet with persons of an
equally humane disposition. The watchman's conduct was
most detestable, and he entirely concurred in the decision
of Mr. White.

The watchman was dismissed from Ms situation.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET..--Yesterday, 1%1r..Ee1.;
. sey, a lodging-house keeper, inEolton-row, Piccadilly, was
ordered to find bail, on a charge of assaulting Elizabeth
Smith, his housemaid, by placing his arm round her waist
and attempting to embrace her.

111ARYLEtONE-OFFICI3.—In consideration of the
imprisonment which the person calling himself Captain
John Campbell had already endured, Mr. Edwards on Mon-
day night withdrew the charge of fraud, and the prisonet
was liberated.