Star.
London, England, 1830-08-07 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

MArroos-House.—John Williams, a well-dressed man of re.
spectable appearance, who said he was a shoemaker, and two pri.
vates belonging to the third company of Grenadier Guards, named
Marshal and Price, were brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged,
the two first with having stolen a 3001. Bank of England note, and
the last merely with having been found in the company of his coin.
rades soon after the attempt was made to pass the note.
Mr. Joshua Freeman, a gentleman in the Inspector's Office in
the bank, stated that, at a quarter past ten o'clock that morning, he
was sent for at the cashier's office, and he received there a bank of
England note for 3001. which had been stopped at the bank on the
14th of last December. He found that the prisoner Williams had
presented it for payment, and he asked him his name and address,
and from whom he had received it. Williams said he resided at
No. 10, Friars-street, Blackfriars, and was a shoemaker, and that
he bad received the note from a friend, but of the name and ad-
dress of that friend he knew nothing. The witness expressed a
great deal of surprise at so singular a circumstance as that of Wil-
liams' being confided in so largely by one whom he did not know,
and Williams then said he had received the note from a sergeant in
the Guards, stationed at the Tower, but he did not know the ser-
geant's name, but a friend of his named Jack Murray, saw the
sergeant give it to him. Witness had Williams apprehended.—
Witness then went to Bartholomew-lane with Williams, who
pointed out Marshal to him as the person who gave the note to him,
and Price was with Marshal at the time, and was taken into Cu..
tody at the same moment. Marshal, in reply to the questions put
to him on the subject, said that a gentleman had made a present of
the Bank-note to him in the street, about six weeks ago. The wit.
ness ascertained, with respect to Williams, that he was wholly un.
known at the place which he had given as his address.
Sergeant Samuel Pearce of the Guards, stated that he knew Mar.
shal and Price, both of whom were privates. Marshal had been an
officer's servant.
Rowe the officer said that he apprehended Price because be was in
company with Marshal. The Offim then produced a large Numb of
picklock keys, which the officers said were as ingenious and mil.
executed as they had ever seen. These keys he said he had found
In Williams's pockets. He also produced a cash-box, which Wil.
Hams took to the Bank with him, for the purpose Of protecting the
change from thieves. .
The LOAD MAYOR received an intimation that a military gentle.
man had been robbed,of a three hundred pound note in the neigh.
bouthood of Northampton last pecember, and these appears to be
little doubt that the abovementhined note is that of which he had
been plundered. •
His Loaysnio then ordered that Price whose character, it
seems, has been hitherto good, should be discharged, apd that Wil.
limns and Marshal should he committed for further examination.
BowSTßEST.—Yesterday, Mr. Help the proprietor of • a
divan in the Strand, appeared before Sir RICRARD Bums tai
answer to an information which had been exhibited against bina
under the Act of Ist of Charles the Second, called the fiabbeek.deg
Act, for having kept his shop open during the hours of pie* asm
vice, on Sunday last.
Mr. Reis pleaded not guilty ; and Mr. Larmier, a constable in
his own right, of St. Martin's parish, deposed that the defendsses
shop was open at the hour of nine o'clock on Sunday night.
Sir R. Mainz observed that, at the hour referred to, Divine
service must have been over.
Mr. Larnder admitted that the fact might have been so, but
contended that it was quite enough for him to show that the dm
team' carried on his business on the Lord's day.
Mr. Reis said* that he Could not conceive how keeping a shop
open, was to be tortured into a violation of the law. His divan
was resorted to by young men who' preferred amusing themselves en
a Sunday evening with a cigar, a cup of coffee, and a ite
instead of spedding their time at a public-house or tavern:lle,
it mat be admitted, he said, was not an immoral practice, and
Certainly tended rather to the advantage than disadvantage of young
men.
Sir it 'ham remarked, that coffee, cigars, or even newspapez
were little known at the period the act referred to was
he could not therefore understand how that statute could st7pdPly
them. The case wps one that might, with as good discretion, have
been left undisturbed.
‘hit; Gaunter a)..ked Whether the effect of this decision was to check
his endeavours to have the Loan's day properly observed ?
Sir R. Blasts declined answering the question observing, that
every case turned upon its own hinges. He thought that in the
Present instance he would not be justiffed, if he were to indict a pe-
nalty. • lie, however, recommended that Mr. Nth should pay the
costs out of pocket, which Mr. Reis freely consented to do, and the
matter mded.
• SHIRT SDRARIifOA paper has been presented to
the French Academy by • pg. Pmt g German, in which it is stated,
as thermal' of experiments, that by shearing lambs early, and shear.
ing them several times in.the year, a thicker and duet fleece is ob-
tained than by the present practice.