The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.-The highway robbery, of the
examination concerning which we yesterday gave the par-
ticulars, has been a subject on which, during the day, a
great deal of strong feeling has been expressed.
The Solicitor having mentioned that it was a subject
which was talked of every where,
The LORD MAYOR. said that he had committed Francis,
after a long and minute investigation into. all the evidence
tendered on both sides. He bad done so from his sense of
justice towards the public, Mr. Stapp and Mr. Yarrow
having spoken in the most positive manner of the identity
of the prisoner. He was aware of the difficulty of
identifying a person amidst the confusion into which a
man must be thrown upon a sudden assault and robbery ;
but the testimony of the witnesses who ',had been called to
prove the alibi was by no means so conclusive as to stand
in competition with the positive statement for the prosecu-
tion. He had bound over the witnesses for the defence, in
order (as we understood him) that the prisoner might have
an opportunity of calling them, and deriving whatever
benefit could be derived from their evidence, it being op-
tional with the prosecutor whether he should or should not
rail upon them to appear.
The Grand Jury will he rather surprised, it is suppos-
ed, when the bill is placed before them, at the names of the
witnesses for the defence being given in as well as those for
the prosecution. They will thus be vested with powers,
of which neither they, nor those who formed the consti-
tution, ever had any idea. They will decide between the
conflicting testimony of the witnesses on both sides, and
acquit the prisoner if they think the alibi is proved, with
out sending bins to the regular tribunal. The eight per-
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to bribe with.
. A man of respectable appearance was brought up, charg-
ed with having uttered a forged cheque for 1201. on the
bank of Messrs. Grote and Co.

George Taylor, a clerk to Messrs. Grote and Co., proved
the payment of the cheque, which purported to be drawn
by Thomas Newman, per proc. John Evans. Witness
paid the cheque at about a quarter before five o'clock in
the afternoon of the 21st of September, in two bank notes,
one for 1001., dated September 1, 1827, number 5,043,
the other for 20/., dated July 5, number 2,704. Here the
notes were produced and identified as those paid away to
the person who brought the cheque.
Richard Dodd, an errand-boy to Mr. Lewis, a tailor, in
Castle-court, Birchin-lane, deposed, that about a quarter
before five in the afternoon of the 21st of September, the
prisoner stopped him at the corner of Bartholomew-lane,
and putting a cheque into his hand and a sixpence, requested
that he would be so good as to take the cheque into the
banking-house of Grote and Co., No. 62, Threadneedle.r
street, and get notes and sovereigns for it. Witness con-
sented to do as was required, .not suspecting that any de-
ception was intended, and he received in change for the
cheque a 100/. and a 201. note. When witness came out
of the banking-house he could not see the prisoner who
had given him the cheque any where about, and aftet
having: waited till five o'clock he
.put the notes in his
pocket and went about his business. Witness upon going
home put the notes into the possession of his father. Wit•
ness was quite sure that the prisoner was the person who
gave him the cheque, and never saw him since that time
until Saturday last, wren witness went into a room where
several pet-sons were sitting, and immediately recognized
hint amongst them.
Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Committee of Bankers
for the Prevention of Forgery and Fraud, then applied
to the Lord Mayor to commit the prisoner, as the case of
uttering was established.
• The LORD MAYOR refused to commit in the present stage
of the proceedings, as he thought that the prisoner ought
to have, in such a case, professional assistance. He there-
fore ordered the prisoner to be brought up on a future day,
and advised that the assistance he alluded to should be
procured.

GtJILDHALL.—Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER took
his seat in the chair at this office yesterday for the first
time since his election (Sir Peter Laurie, who had under-
taken the duty, having, it is understood, unfortunately
ruptured the achilles tendon.)
Michael Fitzgerald, a labouring Hibernian, was charged
with hawking pretended foreign brandy about the streets,
contrary to the Excise Law. (6 George 117', cap. 80).

Discharged.
Mr. Alexander Curling, a fish salesman in Billings.
gate, was summoned before the Alderman, (the Lord
Mayor having declined to take cognizance of the matter
because the defendant is related to him by marriage), for
Waving exposed to sale a salmon unfit for food.
Mr. Curling said, the weather affected the fish so rapidly
now, that they were not aware of the bad state of the One
seized. He would be more careful for the future. .
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTILIM was quite satisfied with
his promise not to offend again, and discharged the coin-
plaint.

.BOW-STREET.--A poor man named John Lamb
was veiterday charged before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr.
1111NsixuLL, by William ,Skinner, inspector of hawkers'
Licenses, with selling brooms without a licence. The de-
fendant pleaded " Not Guilty."
Skinner stated that on the 21st of September last, he
met the defendant in Chelsea. He was crying brooms
him to produce his licence,
as he was an old soldier,
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and as such entitled to sell his own manufacture without a
licence.

Sir R. BIRNIE (to the inspector).✓—l suppose you, next
intend to take all the Bavarian girls into custody. They
cry brooms, you know, and I dare "say without any licence?
Mr. Mtrtsmum.—The charge against this poor man ap-
pears to be very general. He is merely accused of crying
brooms. The Act says that the party offending must be
proved to have offered his goods for sale from door to door.
The defendant being called on to state what he could in
his defence, said, he was an old soldier, having served 14
years and 244 days in the 20th Light Dragoons, the greater
part of which time he passed upon the continent, and was
engaged in the Peninsular War. He had also served in
Ireland, where he was discharged from the regiment, and
" sent to the right about" without any compensation for his
services. Having nothing better to turn himself to, he
bethought of making brooms and selling them in the streets.
He had always understood that, as an old soldier, he might
do so without going to the expence of taking out a licence, the
amount of which would be more than he could turn in the
whole year.
Sir R. Bnozix, after expressing laiii surprise that the
defendant had, no pension for his long services, told him,
that as an old soldier, he was certainly entitled to sell his
own manufacture in any town or city in England, except-
ing those places where the two Universities were situated.
The information was then dismissed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Mr. Robertson, land-
lord of the Queen's Head public-house, corner of Queen-
street, Golden-square, appeared yesterday before Sir G.
FARRANT and Mr• CONANT, to answer to an information