The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Thomas Wood, the ostensible pro-
prietor of the Auction Room, No. 96, Cheapside, was
charged before Mr. Alderman Venables yesterday, with ob-
taining various articles, of the value of 6/., from Messrs.
Gottheimer, of Aldermanbury, - French and German toy-
merchants, under false pretences, Mr. Brougham attended
as Solicitor for the prosecution.
Lesser Gottheinter, one of the partners, deposed, that on
the 23d May the prisoner called to arrange for the pay-
ment of some goods that had been obtained previously by a
Mr. Lyons, who was understood to be an agent of Wood's ;
that I/. was payed off the old account, and' the prisoner
selected the goods in question, saying, that if they were
sold in the Auction-I.6pm, they should be paid for; and if
they were not sold, the complainants might fetch away all
or any part of them whenever they pleased. Witness had
Since repeatedly endeavoured to get the goods or the value,
but to no purpose ; fin- if he met with Mr. Wood, he was
told a Mr. Cohen was the real proprietor of the rooms, and
he must look to him. From the Auction-room in Cheap-
side, he was sent to another on Ludgate-hill, in search of
Mr. Cohen ; and when he eventually did meet with that
person, he was referred again to the prisoner. The false
pretence he charged Wood with having used was, that he
stated he was the head of the concern in Cheapside.
Wood admitted that he had obtained goods to the
amount of SI. 135., which were now to be seen in the
rooms in Cheapside and Ludgate-hill) bat they were in the
hands of a set of Jews, and he had not the smallest controul
over them. He had entered into an agreement with tlat.;e
Jews to open certain sale-rooms on honest principles ; thJ
articles vended were to be good, and the money returned to
dissatisfied purchasers. He, as being a citizen, was to lend
his name on receiving ten shillings per week ; but the
rooms having been established, they choose to quarrel with
him, discontinue the allowance, and introduce all sorts of
trash. He wished the complainant to have his goods
back; but he bad no more power to restore them, without
the assistance of the Magistrate's warrant, than he had to
call down the Monument.

The ALDERMAN examined a number of papers found
on the prisoner, from which it appeared, that Messrs. Co-
hen, Lyons, and Co. intended to open a sale-room in Fleet-
street ; and there was a memorandum on one paper of the
names of three persons who acted in these rooms as auc-
tioneers, without being licensed.—The Alderman said, it,
was desirable the public should be made acquainted with
the parties and the system pursued at these rooms, and
he should take time to consider what further proceedings
could be had. It was evident the prisoner was living by
his wits.

The prisoner was then remanded till the following day.
TV. Baines, apparently a gentleman's coachman, was
charged with negligently injuring a child, eight years old,
named James Newton. It appeared that the prisoner was
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ing, at a smart pace. He saw Newton and the other child
playing in the road ; but instead of stopping until they
moved out of the way, he pursued his course, and cue of
the gwheels passed over James Newton. A certificate
from St. Bartholemew's Hospital stated that one of the
boy's fingers had been amputated, but he was doing well.
The prisoner said he was extremely sorry, and upon
making some compensation to the child's parents he was
discharged.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. W. Sams, the re-
spectable bookseller of Pall-mall, appeared to answer to an
information lodged at the instance of Mr. Sykes, the So-
licitor to the Stamp Office, for having neglected to pay the
stamp duty upon some numbers of the work called
" The last illness of his Royal Highness the Duke of York,"
&c., by Sir Herbert Taylor. The information was laid
under the 10th of Anne, which requires a certain duty to
11 be paid upon all printed books or pamphlets which consist
of more than one, and not less than eight sheets, under a
penalty not exceeding 201.
Mr. Sykes stated, that the duty upon works of the
kind above-mentioned was evaded to a very great extent,
and in many instances, he believed, it was done in error,
and not with any intention to defraud the revenue. The
Commissioners of Stamps, however, had new come to a
determination to enforce the payment in every instance ;
and therefore the information had been laid against Mr.
Sams.

Mr. Sams pleaded guilty to the information, but said he
had incurred the penalty by sheer inadvertence. He was
in the habit of paying considerable sums at once to the
Stamp Office, and he thought the duty on the books in
question had been included in some one of those payments.
Sir R. BIRNIE said, there could be no doubt that the
omission was unintentional, and fined Mr. Sams in the
mitigated penalty of W.
Mr. Sykes hoped the case would be reporter!, as it
would have the effect of putting others on their guard.

UNION-HALL—A man named John Grey wag
charged with working in an illicit distillery.
An officer of the Customs deposed, that on the previous
day he went to a house in Little George-street, Bermondsey,
and on entering it, saw the defendant in the passage, in his
shirt sleeves, as if he had just left off work. The officer
proceeded to the rear of the premises, and under a shed in
the yard saw a copper still, which bad been just worked off,
and then contained wash for the yard. There were several
tubs containing treacle and other ingredients used in the
process of distillation.
For the defence it was contended, that rui the defendant
was not actually at work at the still when he was appre-
hended, he was not liable to the penalty. The Magistrate,
however, thought the case was satisfactorily proved, and
fined the defendant thirty pounds.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SPARRING.

Jem Ward took a benefit at the 'Tennis Court yesterday,
and cyllected a pretty fair muster of swells, amateurs,
and originals. The sparring was very good. Among
the matches was " a Gentleman from Cambridge" and
Harry Jones, in which the Gentleman proved himself a
teaser of his weight, and conducted himself very respect-
ably. Dick Curtis and Barney Aaron made a pretty set
to, and handled each other as playfully as kittens. Dick,
however, having been the winner, carried the shirt.—
Young Gas and Young Dutch Sam conducted themselves
in a meet amiable manner ; Sam,
although much the
lightest, was remarkably punctual in his visits to the pun-
box of the other. The great novelty, however, was Jem
Ward and Young Molineux. Massa shewed so much
good-humour, that it really was a pity to pit him with
such a disrespectful bitter as Jem. The latter, however,
behaved most handsomely to him, merely now and then
tapping him, by way of good fellowship. The dark
gentleman at length made two or three unconscionable
lunges with his left at Jean's victualling-office. The latter,
however, most honourably returned the compliment with
his right between Massa's ministers of light ; so unex-
pected a retaliation put Blackee in a happy state of amaze-
ment, and be acknowledged himself struck forcibly with
our summary mode of returning past favours. Fur
Blackee seemed quite out of his element, and left himself
frequently at the mercy of Jem, who took no advantage
of him.—After this bout Young Gas mounted the ros-
trum, and challenged Reuben Martin, who replied that
he would be ready with his money on this night week, at
Belcher's, to make a match for 501. or 1001. Barney
Aaron also challenged Redmond, who -replied that his
money was ready to put down then, to fight Barney at his
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