Star.
London, England, 1830-11-15 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

GOILDBALL.—Richard Slade, a young man, who said he was a
porter to a cheese-factor in Thames-stmt. was brought up by Lord, the
exciseman, on suspicion of having stolen 101 b. of gunpowder tea.
Lord said he stopped the prisoner with the tea in his possession, in
Dear-lane, Farringdon.street, (where he lodges) on the previous evening.
The tea was of excellent quality, such as the Company would not sell
for less than 10s. a pound; and, as the prisoner had no permit, and was
not in circumstances to use such tea in his family. he presumed it must
be stolen property. A large quantity of this descriptien of tea had been
stolen at Dover.
The prisoner's father, a boisterous old fellow, here stepped forward,
and said the tea was not stolen, but belonged to him, and be had cm.
ployed his son to dispose of it.
The Alderman asked the prisoner where he was carrying the tea?—
Prisoner said to a man whom he did not know.

Mr. Alderman Vawaiitzs said that the tea had not been distinctly
proved to be either stolen or smuggled, and he should discharge the
prisoner.
WORSHIP-STREET.—MYSTERIOUS DRATIS OF MR. HEWITT.
OF ADDLE-STREET, LONDON-WALL.—Saturday, the disconsolate
widow of the late Mr. Hewitt, accompanied by her solicitor, attended
before Mr. BROUGHTON, the magistrate, when Edward Jam/tett and
Alice Lunn were placed at the bar, charged under the following cir-
cumstances .—lt appeared that on aturday morning, the oth inst. the
deceased (who was silk presser) left his house, and went to a Mr.lVil-
son's, from whom he received two 5L notes. He then went to the Stock
Exchange, and had a conversation with Mr. Field respecting the sale of
some Stock, and to whom he showed the notes. The deceased did not
go home, but in the course of the evening he went to the house of the
prisoners in Swan-court, Plummets-street, City-road, where it appeared
he had drank only an inconsiderable share of a quartern and a half of
gin, and a pot of ale, after which he became unwell. The prisoners
sent for the hackney coach, No. 441, driven by James
Trew, when the deceased was given into his care, and he was
ordered to drive to No. 19, Anne-street, Pentonville ; on his arrival
there, no such person as the deceased was known, either at that
house or in the neighbourhood. The coachman then drove back to
Swan-court ; but there were no persons in the house, and he then con-
veyed him to the police station, in Bunhill-row, when, upon opening ,
the coach-door, constable Wright, G. division, 132, discovered that he
was dead. The constable, after procuring medical assistance, and find-
ing only a fuw pence in the pockets of the deceased, went with the
coachman to the house of the prisoners, and took them into custody.
In a day or two after an inquest was held on the body ; when, after a
careful examination of two medical men, who declared, that although
the lungs were affected, still the stomach was free from the effects
' of either mineral or vegetable poison, and that it was the opinion of
the jury that the deceased came to his death by apoplexy.
The magistrate observed, that front the report of the coroner's verdict,
he would discharge the prisoners front the offence of poisoning the de.
ceased, at the same time he would detain them for the robbery.

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Uwrox-HALL.—A man named Long was brought before Mr.
Hoxx, for taking two dead bodies out of Rotherhithe Church-yard.
It appeared, that on the preceding night, as a police constable, be-
longing to P division, was on duty near Rutherhithe Church, he ob-
served a cart drawn up close to the wall of the burial-ground. He
watched for some time, and then saw three men mount on the top of
the wall from the other side, lugging a box between them. When they
got the box over the wall, they bundled it into the vehicle, and were
just about jumping in themselves when the policeman ran towards the
horse to stop it. The instant he was seen by the " Snatchers," they all
ran away, leaving the cart to its fate. The policemz.n pursued them
and came up with the defendant, who made some resistance, and in the
setae he was thrown into a muddy ditch, and was easily secured af-
terwards.
The cart was found to contain two bodies, which had been interred In
Rotherhithe Church-yard the preceding day.
The defendant asserted that he was as innocent of the offence for
which he was brought thtte, as the " baby unborn." Unfor-
tunately for, him, however, he was known as an old body-snatcher,
and he was accordingly held to bail, to answer the charge at the
Sessions.
Another batch of bakers were fined for the offence of having alum on
their premises, for the purpose of adulterating bread.
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LAMBETH ST BEET.—Edward Abel and George Burke were charged
with stealing two jackets and two pair of pantaloons from the shop of
Mrs. Howard, in St. George's-in-the-East.
The case was clearly proved by two witnesses, who swore positively
to having seen one of the prisoners take the property from the shop and
hand it to the other, and they were fully committed to Newgatc for
trial.
Maui, Poticz.—Jeremiah Coghtan, foreman of the delivery
warehouse A, in the St. Katherine-dock, was charged with stealing
a quantity of valuable Chinchilla.skins, the property of the Com.

Pal:l7l.te prisoner offered to dispose of a few hundred weight of hemp, in
one of the warehouses, to a gentleman, beneath Its value, who informed
Mr. Hill the Secretary. On searching the prisoner's lodgings the of-
ficer found nine Chinchilla skins, and two sample bottles, belonging to
the Excise, which had been stolen from the Dock. In his desk, within
the Dock, the oaken found ten more skins.
He was committed to Newgate for trial.
IMPORTANT DECISION,—OR Friday, Captain Edward Hewitt.
Master of the Royal George Margate steam-vessel, and Samuel Lloyd,
his Chief Mate, were charged with wilfully running down a boat be.
longing to his Majesty, on the river Thames, on the 2d of October last,
and thereby assaulting John Weal, the cockswain thereof.
The prosecution was instituted by the Lords of the Admiralty.
It appeared that Weal was in the gig, 24 feet in length, belonging to
the Admiralty surveying cutter, waiting for Captain Bullock, his com-
mander, off Plumsted, under the Lower Gallons Point, when the Royal
George steamer bore rapidly down at the rate of ten miles an hour.
Weal, who wait then about three boats' length from the shore, beckoned
the captain, who was on the starboard paddle-box, to keep out, but the
caution was unheeded—the steamer passed on and cut down the gig,
passing over the stern sheets, and sending her under the paddle-box.
Weal was nearly drowned, and the boat, which contained 700 weight of
iron, was much injured. The steam vessel passed on as if nothing had
happened, and never slackened her speed. A person on board, how.
ever, said," that serves you right, you lubber, you had no business
there."
Thomas Groves, a Greenwich Waterman, corroborated Weal's state-
ment and said the accident might have ben avoided.
The captain of the steamer declared the accident to be quite un-
avoidable,
and said the Royal George had been running daily from the
29th of May until the 6th of November, and only had two collisions
during that time.
The mate said he did not see the boat until she was struck, and by
the captain's orders he immediately put the helm a-starboard, and
shared out.
Mr. Jones. the Solicitor to the Admiralty, contended the defendants
were responsible for any injury while navigating the vessel at such
a dangerous speed. The master and mate of a ship had been sen-
tenced by the Court of King's Bench to six months' imprisonment, for
running down a King's boat in the River alcdway. two years ago.
Captain lIICHNZLL and Mr. BRODE ail. concurred in deprecating the
dangerous speed of the steam-packets, and said, if death had ensued
in this case, the parties would have had to stand their trial for man.
slaughter, as they offered no assistance after they had run over the boat.
Mr. Jones said he was directed by the Lords of the Admiralty to
proceed against both defendants, and they were held to bail in the Wm
of 501. each, to answer the charge at the next Kent Sessions.
QUZEN-SRUARE.—CUTTING AND MAIMING.—Jamea Love, a
private in the Ist Regiment of Guards, was charged with assaulting and
stabbing William Araling, a workman in :he employ of Mr. Tame, of
Paddington.
It appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor, that on Sunday
evening last, between seven and eight o'clock, he was standing at the
dour of the Coach and Horses public-house, at Kensington, with his
brother. The prisoner and another man, both drunk, came out
of the house, when the latter aimed a blow at him, and knocked
hhn down • as he was getting up the prisoner drew his bayonet and
made a stab at him; he had just time to raise his arm, or the
weapon must have gone through his body ; as it was, the bayonet en.
tered just above his wrist, and came out on the other aide of his
arm, in a slanting direction, the blood flowed iu torrents, and a
number of paeans came to his assistance, who endeavoured to take the
prisoner and his companion into custody, but the prisoner flourished
his bayonet among them, and made his escape to the barracks ;: he
was, however, followed, and information given to the scrjeant on
duty of his conduct. Witness gave the prisoner no provocation
whatever.
Richard Tilbury witnessed the whole of the transaction, and fully
confirmed the prosecutor's statement.
The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, said that he was is
liquor, and had no recollection of the circumstance of drawing his
bayonet.
The prosecutor, whose arm was bound up in a sling, further stated,
that be was taken to Mr. Maryman's, a surgeon at Kensington, and af-
terwards conveyed to St. George's Hospital.
Mr. MARRIOTT said, that it was a very bad case ; and, otter con.
suiting with his colleague, ordered the prisoner to be committed for

The necessity for an enlargement of Newgate market
cannot be more clearly demonstrated than by the fact of the great in-
crease of the business of the market within a period of about ten years.
An estimate has been made of the number of waggons, vans, and carts,
that were employed at the former period, hi bringing pianos of meat,
poultry, /cc. thereto, and those employed list month t- by which it ap.
pears that the increase is not less thin fbrtv five waggons, nine vans,
and a number of carts; that in the month'of October, 1818, the quan-
tity of pad taga detivered by the prizcipal carriers alone were fifteen
hundred and'aine, and that the same carder delivered, during the
brat mouth,* no less than. three thousand eht hundred sail thirty-four
packages,being an increase of two thousand five hundred and forty-one,
packages.