The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.---A young man, of respectable
appearance, named Darney, was charged with forgery.
The prisoner was formerly a clerk in the house of a ship-
broker of high respectability, and for a short tine carried on
business himself as a ship-broker, and has exceedingly re-
spectable connections. Mr. Hobler, jun. conducted the
prosecution.

The first charge was, that the prisoner had uttered a
forged cheque for 61., which bore the name of Mr. Philip
Lazarus, a merchant, residing in Mincing-lane. The
second was, that he had uttered a forged bill of exchange,
drawn upon Mr. Lazarus, for the sum of 40/. 7s. Gd., as
if from Captain Rumbeet, of the ship London, which is
in the Haxnburgh trade, and purporting to be accepted by
:11r. Lazarus.

The first cheque was presented at Messrs. Towgood's
house, where it was made payable by the waiter of the
Swan Tavern, Fish-street-hill, who had received it from
the prisoner on the previous evening, after he had dined there
with a gentleman named Coxe.—The second cheque the pri-
soner himself presented; it was immediately discovered to
be a forgery, and lie was therefore given into custody.
Mr. Coxe, who is a person of respectable appearance,
and brother-in-law to the prisoner, having been with him
at the Swan Tavern when the cheque was given to the
waiter, was placed under the painful necessity of giving
evidence against him. He said that the prisoner had re-
presented to witness and his sister, that he had recently
got into employment as a traveller, but was in want of
money until the first quarter's salary became due. Under
this pretence he had borrowed money from them : on the
day before he was apprehended, he stated to the witness
that he had got a cheque which he should get cashed that
day, and he premised witness payment of one small sum
borrowed, if the latter met him in the city. This he did
in the afternoon, and they dined together at the Swan.
The prisoner told him after dinner, that he believed he bad
lost or mislaid the cheque he first had, but lie could pro-
cure another. He went out and returned with one. Wit-
ness had not brought any silver out with him, as he ex-
pected receiving some money from the prisoner. The let-
ter had no money, and as it was past banking hours, the
witness, who was somewhat angry at having been placed
in such a situation by the failure of the prisoner to make
good his payment, compelled him to deposit the cheque
with the landlord. The prisoner was committed for trial.
GUILDHALL—This, Sir, is Mr. Sharp, the unfortu-
nate husband of the woman you committed on Tuesday, for
assaulting him, after he Lad discovered her in an extraor-
dinary situation (said Mr. Payne, the second Clerk, ad-
dressing the sitting Magistrate, yesterday morning).
I see it is (replied Alderman GARRATT.)
He now applies (continued Mr. Payne) to have Lis wife
enlarged without giving bail.
I am astonished that he should make such an applica-
tion—can it be, that he has so soon forgotten the in-
jury he has suffered, and which he seemed to feel so acutely
the day before yesterday, inquired the ALDERMAN?
Sharp said, his wife sent to him to grant her an i4ter-
view, and when he saw her in the Compter, she intreated
him to try and get her out, and if he did she would go to
service and never trouble him again. She could not look
him in the face. He was still resolved never to live with
her again, and he had " got an attorney at work." He
meant to allow her ss. a week and give her half his property.
Give her half your property ! replied the ALDERMAN, in
a tone of surprise. There is some mystery in this. It is
not yet 48 hours since you were standing there with
a most dejected countenance, sobbing aloud and
wiping the tears from your cheeks, declaring you were
broken hearted, and complaining that she had not only
deeply injured your feelings by the misconduct you de-
scribed, but had afterwards assaulted you. And now you
not only seek to get her discharged, but tell me you mean
to give her half your property.
Sharp—She has been an industrious young woman, Sir,
and I feel sorry for her. She has promised she will never
trouble me again.
The ALDERMAN replied, that if his conscience told him
he had not treated his wife properly, he did right in en-
deavouring to prevent her from suffering for what she had
done.—Sharp said his conscience was perfectly at ease on
that head.

Then I canaot comprehend, rejoined the MAGISTRATE,
why you interest yourself for a woman who so shamefully
abandoned her duty to her husband and her child; but I
will do what you wish.—The ALDERMAN then signed a
liberate.

The person against whom the action for Crirn. Con.
has been commenced, it is said, holds an official situation,
is in possession of thirty houses, and has a wife and five
children.
BOW-STREET.—IImnr OF SEARCH.--A man named
Pearkes, the proprietor of oyster-rooms in Vinegar-yard,
Brydges. street, near Drury-lane theatre, came yesterday
before Mr. Mnisuur.r. and Mr. HALLS, and preferred a
complaint against Herring, one of the inspectors of patrol.
He.stated, that his rooms were frequented by respectable
company, who required refreshment after spending the
evening at the winter . the.atres. On Wednesday night, a
n-eiore --oiletrelo-cl, a gentleman named Ellar was in
his rooms taking supper, when Herring and a patrol
named Priest, came into his house, and without any cere-
mony went up stairs, and marched about his rooms.—
Herring treated the gentleman with extraordinary ranxin-
arity, considering he was unknown to the officer.
Mr. MINSHULL.—In what way the gen-
tleman? what ao you mean by familiarity ?
_ _

Pearkes.—He went up to the gentleman, and said—
" how do you do, Sir? I hope you are well ; glad to see
you, Sir ;" and then took up the gentleman's pint pot.
Herring.—How do you know that I did so? you were
not in the room, and, what you state must be entirely
hearsay.
Pearkes—When the gentleman came down stairs he said
that the officers who had entered the room had grossly in-
sulted him, and described their conduct in the same lan-
guage as be had done to the Magistrates. Herring said,
that he had received orders from Mr. Halls to go round
with the patrol, under his authority, to the different
Oyster and Coffee-houses, for the purpose of ascertaining
what sort of persons frequented them, what liquor was
drunk there, and to report what he saw to the Office,
that information might be laid against those who sold ex-
ciseable articles without being duly licensed. He certainly
did take up the pint pot to ascertain what it contained, but
he found it empty.
Mr. MINSHIJLL said that the officer was certainly au-
thorised to go into such houses for the purposes which he
had mentioned, and if the gentleman had been insulted, he
should have come forward in his own person and made his
complaint, and he would have been attended to.

Pearkes said, that such treatment of a customer must be
calculated to destroy his business entirely. He thought it
hard that officers should come into his house and act in so
offensive a manner, and he assured the Magistrate that no
bad women were ever allowed to enter his house.

Mr. HALLS said, that though the" right of search" was
taken from the police as regarded licensed public-houses,
yet they were authorised by Act of Parliament to search
coffee-shops, oyster-rooms, and such like places, which
were unlicensed ; and he thought it would be very hard if
the proprietors of oyster-rooms could sell liquor at a profit
at a time when public-houses, who had heavy charges for
licenses, &c. to meet, were compelled to have their houses
closed,

Pearkes stated, that he should not attempt to deny that
the gentleman gave his girl fivepence to buy him a pint of
ale to drink with his supper.
Mr. Its.t.t.s.—That is an admission upon which we shall
order an information to be laid against you, for selling
liquor without a license.—Mr. Pearkes withdrew.
Mr. Thomas, the constable of St. Paul's, Covent-garden,
who, it appears, has consented to remain in office until the
expiration of his term, applied to Mr. Halms yesterday,
to know whether be would be justified in taking into cus-
tody persons of the descr;ption of cads, a great number of
whom were at night collectedinßow..atreet, Covent-garden,
Great Russell-street, Charles-street, and the several avenues
leading to the two principal theatres, to the great annoy-
ance of many respectable householders, and also to the tas-
sengers, who were often grossly insulted by those persons.
Mr. Thomas added, that, under the pretence Of being at-
tached to ha, key-coaches, he was convinced their object
was plunder, and that many of them were experienced
pickpockets in disguise.
Mr. I can say upon the subject, Mr.
Thomas, is this, that I think you would be quite justified,
if the persons you complain of obstruct the thoroughfares,
or in a;)y way molest or annoy the passengers, to remove
them by force ; and if they resist, take them into custody,
to effect which, you nsay be a43sc.red that every assistance
we can afford you shall be readily granted.
Mr. Thomas thanked the Magistrate, and retired.

MARYLEBONE. William Brooks, a hackney coach-
man, and a man named William Parkham, were yester-
day charged with feloniously applying to their own use and
benefit Bank-notes to the value of 1001. the property of
John Esq. Mr. Edwards, ,who resides
at 37, W,Wililgirl'orEed"a
-street,,
stated that on Sunday evening, the
16th of November, having dined in the City, he hired
Brooks in Holborn, to take him to his father's house, in
Conduit-street, and alter he had discharged his coach he
missed from his pocket several Bank-notes, amounting in
value to 100/. He immediately gave information of his
loss at the Bank, and one of the 101. notes Was traced to

Mr. John Ash, a dealer in second-hand clothes, in David..
street, York-place, who said that the prisoners had given it
to hint in payment for some clothes, and they were in con-
sequence apprehended.
Brooks, in his defence, said he found the note in Ith,
coach, and therefore imagined that he was entitled to it ;
and Parkhill said that Brooks told him that he had recently
had a legacy left him, and offered to make him a present of
a suit of clothes.---They were remanded.
Sarah Young was charged on suspicion of murdering
her infant child. She was apprehended at Hatfield, Herts.
It appeared that she was delivered of an illegitimate child
on Sunday, the 2d inst., and on the 1I th inst., between
three and four o'clock in the afternoon a parcel, containing
the child, was found lying at the steps of a door, 26,
Baker-street, Portman-square, in a dying state, and it ex-
pired at eleven o'clock next morning in convulsions. A
witness identified the child to be the prisoner's from the
clothes.

The prisoner admitted that distress drove her to abandon
the child, and that she filled its belly first.—She was re-
manded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Wednesday even-
ing, Mrs. Seffert, the wife of a riding-master in Grove-
street, Camden Town, applied to Mr. CONANT for a war-
rant against her husband, which was granted. Mr. Seffert
has appeared at this office on two occasions in the charac-
ter of a defendant. A few weeks ago he was charged by
a Mrs. Geary, living in Park-street, Grosvenor-square,
with having endeavoured to obtain admittance into
her house, disguised as a female. Mrs. Seffert (who
is a handsome young woman) consented, when she
charged him on a former occasion with ill-using her, that
he should be liberated on his entering into his own recog-
nizance not to assault her again ; but she said that she new
found it necessary to again seek the protection of the Ma-
gistrates. Clements, in whose hands the warrant was
placed, informed Mr. ROE that he had been to Mr. Sef-
fert's stables, in Portland-road, for the purpose of serving
it, and on arriving there he saw Mr. S. through one of
the windows, who declared his resolution not to be taken,
as he could not obtain justice, at Marlborough-street.—A
Mr. Pinero was in the stables with Mr. Seffert, and 'the
latter exclaimed, " What am I to do, Pinero ?" The
doors of the stables were at that time all closed, and find-
ing that SefThrt and Pinero would not open them, he call-
ed in the assistance of Avis, another officer, who char-
ged Mr. Pinero " to aid and assist them (the officers) in
taking Seffert into custody." Clements told Mr. Pinero,
that he must he aware of the force of a warrant, and
it was absolutely necessary that Mr. Seffert should at-
tend at the Office. Mr. Pinero made no. reply, and did
not open the doors. After waiting an hour outside the
house, in the hope of being admitted, another officer, named
Schofield, arrived with a crow-bar, to force the door, and
they were on the point of breaking them open, when the
outer door was unfastened, and they entered. Mr. Seffert,
however, had previously effected his escape by running
along the roofs of the stables, and jumping down a wall
twelve feet high, where they found the marks of his shoes,
and although they instantly pursued him, he escaped.
Mr. ROE said, he should require Mr. Pinero to explain
his conduct when the case came before him, and the officers
again departed in search of Mr. Seifert.

SHORT STAGE COACIIES.-Mr. Merry, the proprietor
of several Camberwell stages, was fined on five informa-
tions, 25/., for travelling further than his license authorized
him. He drove his coach to Oxford-street, being licensed
to go only front Camberwell to Charing-Dross.