The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Mr, Thomas Wood was
brought up for further examination. Our readers will
recollect that he is the alleged proprietor of the perpetual
little auction shop in Cheapside, and that he was charged
with having obtained a quantity of French toys from M.
Gottheimer, of Aldermanbury, by representing himself to
be the proprietor of the said little auction shop, when, ac-
cording to his own subsequent admission, lie had no con.
troul over it whatever—he having been ousted of his pro-
prietorship, as he alleged, by certain Hebrew auctioneers ;
and consequently M. Gottheimer complained that he had
been " chous'd " out of the French toys aforesaid, by the
aforesaid false representation.
When Mr. Wood was placed at the bar yesterday, the
constable who bad him in charge, addressing himself to the
sitting Magistrate, said—" Your Worship, I have seen M.
Gottheimer this morning ; and he says he is so very busy
that he can't awhile to prosecute his complaint any further,
and he does not mean to attend again."
"Yes, I understand it perfectly," observed Mr. Alderman
VENAILES let the prisoner be brought up again to-
morrow, and M. Gottheimer be summoned to attend."
Charles Church, the driver of one of the Chelsea
coaches, appeared upon summons, charged with furious
and improper driving.
A gentleman named Harrison deposed to the facts.—
On the day named in the summons, he saw the defendant
driving a pair horse coach into St. Paul's Church-yard.—
He was evidently drunk, and was driving very furiously—
ten miles an hour, at least; and by so doing he knocked
down a child which was crossing the top of Ludgate-hill.
In his defence, he said he was very sorry that any thing
should have happened ; and that he pulled up as soon as he
saw the child.

His master (Mr. George Child, of Chelsea), said he had
been in his employ many years, and was a remarkable steady
young man ; but unfortunately on the present occasion se.
veral of his fellow-servants had " got him into a snare" and
made him drunk.

Mr. Alderman VENABLzs asked whether the parents of
the child were in attendance.

The street-keeper replied that they had notice to attend,
but they declined coming forward. He added, that the
child was very slightly hurt.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES said they ought to have at-
tended nevertheless, for their child might have been killed
by the defendant's misconduct, and it was a duty they
owed to themselves and the public to assist in punishing
that misconduct.

Defendant was then fined in the mitigated penalty of
Forty Shillings.

BOW•STRET..—COACHEE AND THE COUEDIANS.---.
Yesterday, three heroes of the sock and buskin, named
Blanchard (not the'veteran of Covent-garden), Cooke, and
M' Gibbon, were brought from St. Clement's watch-house,
before THOMAS HALLS, Esq., charged by the driver of a
hackney coach, No. 959, with having abstracted from his
vehicle the plates affixed to each door.
The coachman stated, that the defendants hired his coach
in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, at a quarter of an hour before
twelve o'clock on Tuesday night, and he drove them to
Exeter 'Change, where they alighted, and paid him eighteen-
pence for his fare. When the defendants got into his coach
the plates were safe, and immediately after they had dis-
charged him he discovered that the plates were missing.
He pursued the defendants along the Strand, and stopped
them near the English Opera House. They denied all
knowledge of him, or his coach, or plates, or of any other
coach ; and he called the watchman and gave them into
custody, he being positive as to their identity.
Cousins, the night constable, said that the defendants
were brought to the watch-house at half-past one o'clock,
and they denied having taken the plates. Eikie, a night
patrol, pointed out to him a piece of tin which he had
picked up near to the spot where the gentlemen stood
while they were being examined in the watch-house. The
tin was identified by the coachman as one of his coach plates.
The coachman said, that he had been that morning at
the hackney-coach office, and was directed on no account
to compromise the matter with the defendants, and there-
fore he rejected the offer made by Mr. Blanchard to receive
a sovereign to withdraw the charge.
Mr. Blanchard—Oh dear, Sir, I assure you, Mr. Halls,
I did no such thing. I certainly offered him a sovereign to
keep our names out of the newspapers.
Coachee—Pooh, pooh, that is a likely thing, is'nt it
now? Why bow was it possible for me to keep your names
out of the Papers ?—the thing speaks for itself.
Mr. Har.Ls—lt certainly does.
Mr. M'Gibbon said it was impossible they could be
guilty of the conduct imputed to them—quite impossi-
ble. The coachman had said that they got out of, his
coach at half-past twelve, and the night-constable could
prove that they did not arrive at the watch-house till
about an hour after that tinte. It was evident that the
coachman had mistaken them for other persons, and he
could assure the Magistrate they were never in his coach
at all.

Mr. HAILS—Were you in any coach ?—Mr.
bon—Yes, Sir, we were.
Mr. HALLs—Where did you hire it ?—Mi. M'Gibbon
—At the bottom of Ludgate-hill.
Mr. HALLS—The thing is perfectly clear.
Mr. Blanchard.—ls it not much more likely that the
coachman himself took off his plates, for the purpose of
trumping up this false charge, than that we should have
done so?

Mr. M'Gibbon.—l hope, Sir, that you will ask the
coachman if we acted at all improperly while we were in
his coach.

Mr. HALLS (addressing Mr. M'Gibbon).—Pray, Sir,
what are you ? Mr. M'Gibbon.—We are professional men.
Mr. HALLS.—What profession ? Mr. 14PGibbon.—
Why, Sir, we belong to the Histrionic Art—that is, Sir,
we are Comedians.

Mr. HALLS (addressing Mr. Cooke).—Are you a Co-
median also ? Mr. Cooke.—Why, sometimes I am.
Mr. HALLS.—This last night's part, which you enact-
ed, partakes more of farce than comedy ; and I think, as
relates to the whole Dramatis Personae before me, the
whole was a very foolish enactment, and that you added
disgrace to folly. You should not have denied the accusa-
tion, when it is as clear as possible that you were guilty.
—You, perhaps, were not aware that the coachman was
liable to a heavy penalty, if he had taken another fare
without his plates.
The gentlemen made no reply, the observations of the
worthy Magistrate having completely dumb-founded them ;
and every particle of the vis comica vanished from their
lengthened faces.
Mr. M'Gibbon took courage, after some time had been
taken for cogitation, and proceeded :—The fact was, Sir,
that on our arrival at the watch-house, we were all charged
with felony at first, and so serious an accusation quite in-
timidated us—the thing which, in reality, was merely a
joke, assumed a serious aspect.
Mr. HALLS.—As you are comedians, I am inclined to
treat the matter as a farce rather than a tragedy; and you
will, therefore, pay for the damage, and for the coach-
man's loss of time.

This was computed at about a guinea, which they paid,
and exeunt cranes.

MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday Evan Lloyd, of No.
52, London-street, Fitzroy-square, a milkman, was held to
bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 50/. each, to
answer the charge at the sessions, of assaulting and beating
his son, John Lloyd, aged 10 years.
The bruised features of the child, and a deep wound in
the back of his head, bore dreadful testimony of the father's
severity, whose. anger was excited by the circumstance of
the boy having lost the key of the beer-tap, and having
afterwards absented himself from home. The bruises and
cuts were inflicted on Sunday, with a walking-stick, which
the boy said was not very thick, and his shirt collar was
soaked with blood.

Thomas Davis, of No. 1, Little Store-street, Bedford-
square, the uncle of the boy, arid brother to his mother
(who is dead), said that a daughter of the prisoner was
frequently subject to similar treatment, and Mr. Rawlinson
sent an officer to fetch her. Mary Lloyd, who appears
two years older than her brother, answered Mr. Rawlin-
son's questions with reluctance. She heard her brother's
screams on Sunday, but as he and his father were in another
room, and the door was shut, she (lid not like to go to
him. She said, that her father beat her with a walking
cane occasionally, but not so hard as he did her brother.
The prisoner confessed, that being in a passion, be beat
his son too severely ; and having bail in readiness, he was
liberated.

Henry Smith, of No. 22, Mitcham-street, a footman
out of place, was fully committed for trial, on suspicion of
having stolen 13 yards of silk, the property of Mrs. Sophia
Street, of No. 9, Brvanston-street.
The silk and other articles were lost by some means un-
known to Mrs. Street, from her house, on the sth inst.,
and she never saw the prisoner to her knowledge before
she was called to confront him at the Police-office.

Mr. Gideon's shopman, of No. 19, Stafford-street, pro-
duced the silk : it was pawned by the prisoner at his
master's house, on the sth instant, and notice having been
given of Mrs. Street's loss, he caused the prisoner to be
apprehended on Monday, when he came to pledge a coat.
The prisoner not being able to give a satisfactory account
of how the property came into his possession, and having
deceived the officer as to his address, was sent to Newgate.
George Churchill, a young man of extraordinary ap-
pearance and good address, wearing only the fragments of

a shirt and pantaloons, underwent a second examination as
a vagrant.

He was seen begging in Oxford-street, on Monday morn-
ing, and asked alms of the street-keeper, who took him
into custody.
He said, his father was a Magistrate of the county of
Kerry in Ireland ; that he was agent to the Earl of Listo-
wel for 20 years, and that his death was occasioned at the
last election, by over-exertion in canvassing for Mr. Hare,
the Member for Tralee, the shire town.
Mr. ItAwuttson caused inquiry to be made at the Earl's
town house, but his Lordship is in the Isle of Wight, and
all that could be learned was, that the porter, an old ser-
vant, knows nothing of his name.
When the prisoner was informed of the result of the in-
quiry, he said—" If I was let go, Muter (a word which
he substituted invariably in a singular manner for Sir, and
your Worship, during both examinations), I can prove
the truth of what I have asserted ; my father was the gen-
tleman I have described him to be, and the Earl will admit it.
Mr. RAWLINSON.—You have all the appearance of a
deserter.

Prisoner—l am no deserter, master ; and if you will
but let me go, you will be convinced of it.
Mr. RAWLINSON—For your own sake I cannot let you
go ; I shall send you to the House of Correction, subject
to your being discharged, if you can be disposed of to your
advantage. He was committed.