The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-15 00:00:00

FIFTH

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

; MANSION-HOUSE.—On Saturday, a young man, the son
of a corn-merchant, was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having robbed a horse-dealer, named Harris, of his
pocket-book, containing three 5/. Bank of England Notes, sundry
small Bills of Exchange, to the amount of about 501., and three
Cambridge Bank Notes.
The prosecutor stated that, on Friday night, he had been
drinking in a house in Lombard-street, Bouverie-street, and left
it about 12 o'clock, and proceeded towards the house of a friend
at the other end of the town, through the Minories. He was a
little intoxicated, and, upon teaching the farther end of the Mino-
ries, he was jostled against by a person, and he fell down. The
piisoner, upon seeing him fall, approiched, and, under the pre-
tence of assisting him to get up, thrust his hand into his (prose-
cUtor's) breast, snatched his pocket-book, which contained the
above-mentioned property, and handed it to a man, who stood
behind him, and who, upon receiving it, ran away. The prose-
cutor held the prisoner fast, called the watchman, and gave him
into custody.
The Len)) MAYOR asked whether the prosecutor was con-
vinced that the prisoner was the person who forced his pocket-
book from him.

The prosecutor declared that he entertained not the slightest
doubt of the identity of the prisoner ; for the moment the young
man's hand was thrust into his breast, he grasped the wrist,
and held the prisoner, and never let him go until the watchman
came up.
. .

The Loan MAYOR asked whether the prosecutor was not
greatly intoxicated.
The prosecutor replied, that he was certainly in liquor ; but
not in such a condition as to be capable of mistaking the person
who robbed him.

Mr. HOBLER, jun. appeared for the prisoner, and mentioned
to the Lord Mayor, that he expected a gentleman, whose evidence
could throw a very considerable doubt upon the prosecutor's state-
ment. The Lord Mayor consented to wait, and the expected
witness soon arrived.

Mr. Pember stated, that as he was walking along the Minories
he saw the prosecutor, who appeared to be quite intoxicated, fall
down evidently from drunkenness. A man went over to lift him
him up, and the prisoner went to give his assistance also, upon
whose appearance the first man went off. The prosecutor then
seized the prisoner, -and charged him with the robbery. The
witness having a lady under his protection did not go to the aid
of the prosecutor.
Mr...11_ ontxa! jun. urged that this evidence was .a contradic-

.tion to that of the prosecutor in its most material circumstances.
The LORD NAlroft again questioned the prosecutor, who ad-
hered to his first statement, and his Lordship said that he consi-
dered himself bound to send the case to a Jury, and fully com-
mitted the prisonerfer trial.
HATT ON- G ARDEN. --=Two men, John Hammond, alias
Hamilton, and Jodeph Marshani, who were apprehended a few
days ago, the former charged with committing an extensive rob-
bery in the King's Arms Hotel and Tavern, at Woolvyich, on the
15th of last December; the latter (who had been waiter in the
house) with being an accomplice, were brought before the rani*.
trates of this ofli;e, for examination, on Saturday last.—The pri-
soner, Hammon, on the afternoon the robbery was committed,
ordered dinner at the prosecutor's house, and said he should sleep
there. He was shown into a bed-room, and afterwards he took
a walk. On his return he said he could not stop that night.—
About an hour after he bad left the house, it was discovered
that a room opposite to the one into which Hammond had been
shown was broken open, and robbed of money, plate, &c. to the
value of 1507. The prisoners were remanded, to give the pro-
secutor an opportunity of bringing forward further evidence
against them.

WORSHIP-STREET.-A LADY CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.

Saturday, a middle-aged and fashionably-dressed female,
'the wife of a Director in a Government Office, was charged at
this office with shoplifting. She gave her name Elizabeth Fore-
man.—Thomas Atkinson, shopman to Mr. Hopkins, linendraper
and mercer, Shoreditch, deposed that the prisoner and another
female (her daughter) came to the shop about five o'clock on
Friday evening, and he shewed her some lace, of which she pm--
chased a piece value 2s. 711 d. He afterwards, at her desire, die-
played some halt stockings, of brown cotton, but with these she
expressed herself dissatisfied, said she had bought much better at
la. the pair (the price he had asked her), and refused to purchase.
While she was sitting beside the counter, the witness saw her
draw a pair of the stockings from the counter into her muff, which
lay in her lap; knowing her as a customer at the shop, he was
much surprised and embarrassed by her proceeding. He then
asked her if he should show her any other article? She replied
in .the negative, and paid him for the lace she had purchased.—
He afterwards told her he was sorry to say he believed she had a
pair of stockings in- her muff. She replied, " No, I have_ not
but as the stockings were partly out of the muff, he reached
across the counter and drew them out. He said he was sorry to
find a person of her appearance guilty of such a transaction, and
desired her to let him shake the muff to see if any thing else was
concealed in it. She then, after withdrawing her right hand
*from the muff, held it up and shook it herself with the left band.
After this she offered him 2d. a-pair less than he had asked for
'the stockings, which he refused to take, and she prepared to
leave the shop. While she was moving towards the door, the
witness looked over the counter and observed a card of lace (pro-
duced) lying at the foot of the chair in which the prisoner sat,
and he immediately passed round the counter and stopped her,
saying, that he could not allow her to quit the shop until he had
acquainted his employer with her proceedings. On searching her
a pair of stockings that she had been looking at were found tightly
rolled up in her hand. She was then given into custody of the
officer, Armstrong.
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for the accused, and urged that she might have taken the pro-
perty involuntarily, and Mr. Hopkins said he had no doubt of it,
statementistant
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and appeared most anxious to forego a prosecution. The Ma-
gistrates ordered the prisoner (who was allowed a seat at the bar)
to be committed ; but admitted her under Mr. Peel's late-Aet to
bail in the sum of 2001. to answer the charge at the Sessions.
UNION HALL.—In the course of Saturday, Hall, the Chief
Officer of this establishment, took occasion to complain of some
misrepresentations which had gone abroad, in respect of the ex-
pences in the prosecution of William Page and' Mary Ayres, who
were committed on suspicion of being implicated in the murder of
Akehurst and his housekeeper, at Fetchana. It had been asserted
that he and his brother officers went down to the latter place in a
chaise and four, paid for by the county. This was an untruth,
for a gentleman, who was at the office, connected with the Morn-
ing Papers, being desirous of obtaining the earliest particulars of
the murder, ordered an additional pair of horses to the chaise at
his own expence, that he might go to FOtcham and back, with the
utmost expedition. There was also another assertion which had
gone abroad, concerning the expence to which the Baron de Tes-
sier had been put in the year 1818, in prosecuting a matt named
Austin, who was charged with the murder of the Baron's game-
keeper. Now he (Hall) could not undertake to say what May, the
chief officer of Union Hall, might receive, but with respect to
himself, he would say that for all the trouble to which he
was put in endeavouring to bring the murderers to jus-
tice, not one farthing had he ever received. He had that
morning- been- •to May's widow. (May having died a short
time after that murder), to ascertain what had been' paid to
her husband, but she could not state. She, however, said that he
was actually arrested a.short time previous to his decease, on ac-
count of the printer's expenses in printing bills and placards, of-
fering a reward for the apprehension of the murderer of Ely Cox,

the gamekeeper.
[Austin WAS tried and acquitted of the murder, but we under-
stand he confessed, when dying, which event happened recently,
that he was guilty of the dreadful deed After some other ob-
servations respecting a watch transmitted to the office, from
Guilford, which had been found in the possession of Cobbler
who was apprehended and discharged in the course of the last
week, on suspicion of having committed a highway robbery near
that pface, Hall added, that notwithstanding the Grand Jury
had ignored the bill, he was still persuaded that Page and his com-
panion were concerned in the murder at Fetcham.
Richard Chin, a young man who was until recently in the
employ of Mr. Morris, a butcher, at Walworth, was brought be-
fore M. SWABEY, Esq. for final examination, charged with bur-
glariously entering his late master's house, and stealing (among
other articles not produced) a coral necklace.

v.
The evidence was chiefly of a circumstantial nature, and may be
thus briefly summed up :
The prisoner was seen in the neighbourhood of the. prosecutor's
about midnight, on the 23d December (the night the burglary
was committed), and a few days afterwards, suspicion having
attached to him, a search-warrant was obtained to search a house
which he was in the habit of frequenting, when a pawnbroker's
duplicate for a coral necklace, was found in the possession of a
young girl named Edwards, to whom the prisoner had presented
it, for the trouble she had taken in pledging the necklace for him.
Some plate and linen were stolen at the time, but no traces to dis-
cover either could be made out, although Pople, the officer to
whom the case was intrusted, had used great diligence in endeav-
ouring to find where they had been pledged or sold. The neck-
lace in question was distinctly sworn to, and it was stated to have
been lying on a box in the room from whence the other stolen ar-
ticles were deposited.—Committed.

MARRIED.
On the 7th instant, at Ballygallane, County of Waterford,

Nicholas Purcell O'Gorman, Esq. Secretary to the Catholics ;f
Ireland, to Mary, only daughter of the late Alexander Power, t
Ballygallane, Esq.
On the 18th inst., at Wickham Church, Suffolk, Mr. H. Mor
ley, surgeon, Hatton-garden, to Miss Elizabeth Bond, daughter
of Mr. Stephen Bond, of the latter place.
On the 13th inst., Christopher Davison, of Brabant-court, 81
Caroline Frances, eldest daughter of Major Haswell, formerly °`
the Sd Foot, and grand-daughter of the late Admiral Haswell. •

DIED.
On the I 1 th inst., in Orchard-street, Mrs. Miller, widow °
of the late William Miller, of Craigentinny, Esq.
On the 9th of August last, at Quito, in Colombia, Henry
Wood, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Guayaquil, AO
third son of the late Captain Wood, of Brambling-house, Kent.
On the 11th inst., at the rectory, Walton, Somersetshire, Fry'
derick Charles, the youngest child of the Rev. Lord J. Thynne.
At his residence, at Curnloden Cottage, near Newton-Stewart!
on the morning of the rith January, in the 54th year of his age'
Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Win. Stewart, K.G. C. 8., Colonel j
Commandant of the let Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and secoto,
son of John, late Earl of Galloway.

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