The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION- H OUSE. —FLA s HoUSEs. —Yesterday
came on a case which depicts, in a very strong manner, the
consequence of visiting the infamous flash houses in the
neighbourhood of Covent-garden.
A young man, of respectable appearance and connexions,
named Butcher, was brought before the Loan MAYoa,
charged with having embezzled many sums of money, the
property of Williams and Co. of Clement's-lane, insurance
and ship-agents, in whose employment lie had acted as con-
fidential clerk for Iwo years. The prisoner seemed to be
in the deepest affliction and shaMe. He held his hands over
his face from the beginning to the end of the examination.

The prisoner was usually employed in collecting the
amount of the agency accounts, and it had been lately ascer-
tained that he bad been appropriating to his own necessi-
ties and debaucheries various sums olinoney, which he was
in the habit of replacing with other sums which he collected
upon subsequent occasions from other customers to the con-
cern ; he of course was obliged, fur the purpose of conceal-
ing his plans, to make fictitious entries in the books, and be
got into his possession by this practice, some hundreds of
pounds, which he spent amongst the most profligate charac-
ters. The firm he had defrauded had not yet been able to
say to what extent they had been plundered. It was
necessary to select from the vast numbers as acts of embez-
zlement which he committed two or three palpable cases,
upon which to prosecute him. It was proved that he had
received 41. 18s. Id. frOm Messrs. Landers and Co. ; 71.
from Messrs. Rupp and Co. ; and 61. 19s. bd. from' Mr.
Ronalls ; and that he had not accounted for one farthing of
those sums to his employers. Those were the only charges
on which it was thought necessary to commit Butcher,
although these are many others, which were said to be
equally clear against him.
While the prisoner was at the bar crying bitterly, and
totally inattentive to what was going forward, the prose-
cutor stated that he deeply regretted the necessity of pro-
ceediug against the unfortunate young man, but lie could
not help it. He felt it to be a public duty, under all the
circumstances, to do so. He lamented the obligation to
prosecute the more, as the prisoner had maintained, up to
the period of the detection, a most excellent character, and
had conducted himself with the greatest propriety, in the
service of a highly respectable house ' for tpwards of six
years. At last, however, the unfortunate young man be-
came connected with some of the 'well-dressed thieves who
infest Mother and other flash houses in the neigh-
' bourhood of the theatres, and who led him on iu dissipa-
tiOn until they ruined him. At first he began; as appeared
from the investigation into the various acts he had com-
mitted, by appropriating small sums. His progress was
rapid, and no doubt lie would have continued to commit
depredations, if not detected, until he had done irreparable
mischief.

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• The Loan MAYOR asked the prisoner whether be wished
to say any thing ?—He sobbed aloud, but said not a word.
The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.
Richmond, the old black pugilist, applied to the Lord
Mayor on the subject of a six legged ox. He was attended
by Cribb and others of the fighting fancy.
Richmond stated, that a person named Hildyard, who is
proprietor of the White Bear Inn, in Basinghall-street, and
another man named Benson, had unlawfully detained the
ox, which was a regular curiosity.
The LORD MAYoa asked by what means the ox Caine
into the possession of Mr. Hildyard.—ltichniond said, that
the ox was a most curious ox, for it had six legs. It had
been put up to be raffled for, and he (Richmond) was one
of the subscribers, and he sent a man that " throwed" for
him, and he " throwed" forty-three the highest number.
The Loan MAYOR observed, that the man might•plead
that he won for himself not for a stranger. Rictinond
said, that could not be the case, for the numbers were re-
gularly put down at the time, and the highest was put down
opposite to his name.
The LORD MAYOR still supposed that there might be
some rational question as to ownership, and doubted
whether the only remedy was not to be found in a. Court
of Law.
Mr. Holder said, that if that was the case, Lord Tenter-
den would refuse to try the cause, as the question arose out
of a gambling transaction.
Richmond said, that it was known to all parties that he
had won the ox, and the two persons against whom he
sought for redress had offered him a third of the profits, if
he consented to put it up for another raffle. It was worth
501.. and he intended to exhibit it for his next benefit, as it
was a greater curiosity than the gloves.—(A laugh.).
The LORD 'MAYOR thought that if Richmond had won
the ox, he ought not. to be deprived of ' it, and, there-
fore, under all the circumstances, issued summonses to the
detaining parties.
GUILDHALL.— George Holford, a waggoner in the
employ of Mr. Stone, a town carman in Whitechapel, was
charged before Sir PETER LAURIE, yesterday, with ob-
structing and annoying the free passage in Fleet-street, on
Wednesday the 7th instant. ,
Marmaduke Hart, Esq. of Meeklenburgh square, stated
that he was riding •in his carriage, accompanied by Mr.
Robinson, the Member for Worcester, through Fleet-street,
on the day named, when he perceived the horses were stid-,
denly checked, and looking through the window, he saw
the defendant tugging violently at the horses' heads, and he
forced them across the road against a gig, which was in
imminent danger of being overturned on the pavement.
Mr. Hart's coachman was then sworn. He said the de,
fendant tried to keep him from passing, but he found an
opportunity to get by. He had not, however, reached so
far as the defendant's horses when the attack took place.

Sir PE7Elli LAUME.—There was room to pass, and yOu.
broke out of the rank because your pace is a trot, and the
waggon-horses walk.—Coachman: Yes.
Sir P. LAURIE.—We really must check this. From
the daring misconduct of the drivers of waggons, and other
heavy carriages, it, has become dangerous to go through the
city with valuable horses. Gentlemen are on this account
compelled to leave their carriages at the west end of the
town, and come on in hackney-coaches. I shall inflict
the severest penalty in my power, and I shall, therefore,
fine you 51._ _ .

"Then I must go to prison," said the defendant, mourn-
fully, and he was removed from the bar.

BOW-STREET.—Mrs. Frances Clifton, the keeper
of the post-office in Houghton-street, whose detention on
a charge of hating abstracted a 51. Bank of England note
from a letter, has caused a strong sensation in the neigh-
bourhood; was brought up again yesterday morning.
On re-examination Mr. Folkard (Mr. Holmes's clerk)
declined, as before, to,swear positively that he had put the
letter in question into that particular office kept by the pri-

loner; and Mr. Wooler, who attended in her behalf, re-
',questing an extension of time, in order to procure evidence
respecting the person from whom the note was received,
Mr. HALLS, with the consent of the prosecutor, readily
rcmanded her till Wednesday next.

FURIOUS DRIVING.-Yesterday Richard Harris, the
owner and driver of a Brentford stage coach, was Sum-
moned to answer to a charge preferred by Mr. Jesse, one
of the Commissioners. of Hackney Coaches, for furiously
driving, and thereby endangering the lives of his Majesty's
subjects.
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Mr. Jesse stated that about a fortnight ago he was
coming to town from his country seat, by a stage coach,
when he saw the defendant's coach and another, also of
Brentford, belonging to Saxton, racing against each other.
They both drove at a furioss rate, and the defendant en-
deavoured to pass his opponent on the wrong side of thz.
road. At this moment a gentleman was passing on horse-
back, and the defendant drove against him and knocked
him and his horse down. He fell beneath the coach, and

his head must have been crushed by the wheel if he had
not happened to raise himself instantly. He wi:.s assisted
upon his horse, and rode away, and witness had no oppor-
tunity of ascertaining his name, but he
.thoughiit his duty
to punish such flagrant conduct
The defendant denied that be drove furiously called
two witnesses connected with his coach, who re that
the horses were not galloping. The defendant, however, in
the. course of some conversation with the Magistrates,
boasted that his horses could trot 16 miles an hour. Alis
witnesses conducted themselves very impudently.
The defendant was fined in the full penalty of 10/. -and
costs. He gave notice of appeal. 4

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-LA very decent -and
good-looking young woman, ,who gave her name Mary
Holloway, but which is believed not to be her real name,
was yesterday brought before • Mr. DYER, the Sitting
Magistrate, charged with encumbering the parish of
St. George, Hanover-square, with a bastard child, of
which she refused to tell the father.. Two months ago
she applied to the officers of the above parish, for some
casual relief, which they afforded her, and took her into
the workhouse, until they could pass her to her own parish,
which she stated to be in a, distant part of the country. At
that time she had not the slightest appearance of being in a
state of pregnancy, but in a day or two some circumstances
arose to induce the matron of the workhouse to suspect that
she was so, and some questions were accordingly put to her
upon the subject, when she positively denied the fact. To
the astonishment, however, of the parish officers in one day
after this denial she was delivered of a fine little girl. As
she was now likely to become a permanent weight upon the
parish, unless the father of the child could be discovered,
the officers questioned her closely upon this point, when she
told them a systematic story about a gentleman at Chertsey.
Upon this one of the officers went down to Chertsey,
where, however, he soon learned that the whole of her story
was a fabrication, for that no such person as she described
resided or was known there, and that she herself, who was
known there under another name, had not been at the
place for five years, when she was delivered there of a child
under as mysterious circumstances as the present. After
this she gave ether accounts to the officers, which turned
out to be equally false, and in the end they were obliged to
give up all search after the father of the child, but they were
determined to have her punished as the law allowed.
Since, however, they threatened thus to punish her she
has declared her determination to destroy the child ; and, on
Tuesday night last, she actually left the poor little innocent
in a cold unfrequented passage of the workhouse, with an
evident intention to desert it, had she not been observed by
one of the inmate;, before she could get out of the way.

The young woman, who still obstinately refused to dis-
close who the father. of her child was, said that she wished
for no further aid from the parish, but only wanted to be let
go about her business, and allowed to take her child with her

The MAGtszaAn said that, after the horrid threats she
had made of destroying the child, aid deserting it, she was
not a fit person to have the unrestrained charge of it at
present.—Committed for three months to the House of
Correction►.

MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday George Garbett, a
journeyman baker, was charged with robbery and embez-
zlement. Evidence was given to prove that the prisoner
had stolen some split peas, a basket, a roll-tin, some oat-
meal, and two rasps, from his master, Mr. John Bland, of
No. '3, Upper-Park-place, ➢larylebone, and bad sold them
to Mr. Charles Butler, of 43, Exeter-street, Lisson-grove;
and several of Mr,• Bland's customers stated, that they had
paid sums of money to the prisoner on his master's account,
which he embezzled. _ _ _ • .

The prisoner, who had on a former occasion been chatefl
with felony, made no defence, and he was fully committed
for trial.

HATTON-GARDEN. —John ,Tegg, driver and owner
of the hackney-coach, No. 817, was yesterday summoned
before Mr. ROGERS by Mr. William Brookes, residing at
No. 42, Queen-square, for having, on the sth of November,
made an extortionate demand of 16s. for damage which be
alleged had been done to his roads.
William Cole deposed, that on the sth instant he en.
gaged the above coach in the Minories for five persons, to
be drives first to Crutchedfriars, thence to Broad-street, St.
Giles's, and lastly to Queen-square. He engaged the coach
according to the distalice, for which he was to pay 4s.
William Bettie, servant to Mr. Brookes, deposed, that
when the coach arrived at his master's house, the'driver de-
manded a sovereign for' fate ind.darnage which he said his
coach had sustained. The servant and Cole remonstrated
against such an exorbitant demand, and tendered to the dri-
ver half a sovereign, which he peremptorily refused, and in-
sisted on his being paid a sovereign, with which the servant
accordingly complied.
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Mr. Roozas (to the driver. )_What is your defence 2
Driver.—Please your worship, When the gentlemen for
whom the coach was engaged were about to enter, I perceiv-
ed they were all in a state of intoxication. When I came
to Broad-street, I disburdened the coach of three of the per-
sons, upon whom the motion-of the coach having operated
like an emetic, they filled it with nuisance. They were so
excessively intoxicated, that I was obliged to assist in
carrying them into the house, and then helping them up
stairs to bed. By the time I got to Queeu-square, the two
remaining persons had been similarly affected; in conse-
quence of which, besides the disgust of cleaning, my coach
suffered considerable damage. I had it not cleaned until
five o'clock in the afternoon of the following day. Ido
not think that 16s. would compensate for the injury.
' When I requested those • persons not to abuse my coach,
they said they were gentlemen, and would'afford me ample
compensation.
Mr. Ro9mts—The demand was most extortionate ;
and if you conceived pm' coach bad received such serious
injury, you knew the law was open to you, to seek and
obtain rediess. •

The coachman pleaded ignorance of the law, and any
other mode of proceeding, when
Mr. ROGERS said, ''You shall refund the 16s. ; I shall
then award what compensation I think fit. I shall do jus-
tice to both parties."

The driver the? refunded .to the Magistrate the 165.,
when the Office was ordered to be cleared of strangers.
We understood afterwards, that the worthy Magistrate
awarded him 4S. for his fire, and 12s. for the injury
sustained.

Last night, about eight o'clock, just as the Magistrate
had retired from this office, a travelling chariot, with three
ladies inside, a gentleman on the box, and two female ser-
vants, drove up to the door of the Office, where the gen-
tleman alighted to inform the Magistrate and Police that a
robbery bad been committed somewhere between Black-
friars-road and Goswell-street upon the chariot, of plate to
the amount of nearly 4001. The various articles were marked
W. C. and had been taken from the boot behind the
chariot. A reward of 201. has been offered for the dis-
covery.

UNION-HALL. —John Freebairn, a respectable-look-
ing man, was brought before the sitting magistrates, T. T.
HONE and D. KING, Esqrs., on an information filed against
him, charging him midi having been concerned in aiding
and assisting in unthipping a large quantity of tobacco,
which had been imported into the country without the par-
went of duty, which subjected him to severe penalties.
It will be recellected that on board a vessel called the
Deception, a large quantity of tobacco was seized near
Vauxhall in the month of August last, and two men taken
on board were convicted and sent on board a vessel of war.
One of them was now admitted an evidence against the de-
fendant, to prove that he had been concerned in running
the tobacco in question from a port in Holland to Eng-
land ; and another witness, named Norris, deposed that the
defendant engaged him to navigate the Deception from
Wapping to Nine Elms, above Vauxhall •bridge, antecedent
to the seizure.

Mr. Platt attended on the part of the defendant, and
cited a clause of the 6th Geo. 111., which enacted, that
tobacco imported in less quantities than packages of 450
pounds should be forfeited, and the tobacco in question
bating been imported in packages of 38 pounds, he con-
tended that the defendant was only liable to the forfeiture
of the tobacco.
gr. Sheppard, on the part of the Customs, was heard
on behalf of the information.

The Magistrates decided that the tobacco became for-
pited, but no further penalty was incurred under the in-
formation; and the defendant was discharged.