The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

4.MBETII-caREEr.

Four :;,:ng WO!, apparently mechanicF, were
placed at the
,bar yesterday, and charged before J.
WALKER, Esq. by Henry 'Never, a watchman on
.
he Ude-end-road.

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" 'Phcm 'ere three men, please your Worship,"
l Turvey, "• I seed a Saturday night, conversing
sick languages as never Vas heard. So I desired
le:nto go on, or I'd thc,re 'em on; and they said
3arcily as they vottldn't be thottso 'em
up in the voichus."
" Were they intoxicated ?"intii.tired Mr. WALKER.
" Caw' t says as they vas," replied the watchman.
" What did the fourth mart do ?" said Mr.
WALKER. " 'try," said Turvey; " just as I got
them 'ere three to the votehus;up comes this feller
and axes For vot ?' and as I- was pretty sartain
as I'd seed him along vitlt 'etn about an hour afore,
vy I lock'd -him up alSo." •
Mr, WALKER instantly ordered the dismissal of
the tylitite of the defendants.
The'same .watchman then placed anether mite at
the bar, on a " widen/ suspii..Ton of felony." The
charge, as detailed, consisted of the watchman
hear-
ing a cry of " Stop thief !" and, obser'Vini., the de
fendant crossing the road at the came moment, he
collared him, and took hint to the watch-house; but
the person who had been robbed. declared he was
not the. man ; nevertheless the watchman, in his
Wisdom, had him confined till the Monday morning.
The man. charged stated that he had numbers to
speak to his character as a bard-working weaver, and
vests utterly ignorant of the charge against him Until
this moment explained.
Mr. WALKER directed he should. be immediately
liberated.

When all parties had quitted the office, the Ma-
gistrate called Turvey before him, and gave him a
sharp-lecture upon this extraordinary manifestation
of the power placed in his hands, and recommended
him in
_future not to imprison people upon such
.frivolous pretences.
A couple of peripatetic musicians, both-Irishmen,
made cross chatges against each other.
" Plase your Reverinc,!,7 said the piper, " that
man's an imposing man. He imposed on me in a
way that I wident mintion."
How do you mean ? said Mr. WALKER.—He
pulled out his fiddle foment the company who'd
ax'd me for a taste o' my pipes. . " Blod anti owns
man," raid I, " tion't you see that lijontle»idies -in
the room who's going to be after trating the paple
wid mewsick. Died burn ye, Sir,. if -you don't
take your big ugly carcass wid you out o' the house,.
I'll put my futt to your -breeckies.". I'd ax'd him
civilly to be aisy, but he whident,. so I knocked him
down clane and dacent. He then got up and whacked
me wid his tastes till the. watchman come to the foi-e,
and tuk us both to the watehlui."
The Magi-trate, after a suitable admonition on the
propriety of their living in " harmony" in future,
dismissed both the belligerents.
Hannah Moses, a young Jewess, was charged
by Mr. Waite, one of the overseers cf Wh;techapel,
under the sth of Geo. 111., the provisions of which
he prayed might be put in force against her, as a
lewd woman, and one who had burdened that parish
with her maintenance.

Mr, HARDwIcE, on hearing the nature of the
complaint, asked why it was that the prisoner had
'beetrvetetted''as- 'object of plinMment, when
doubtless there were many other females in the pa-
rish equally if not more guilty of the same offence
which the officers had hitherto permitted to pass
with impunity.
The Overseer—Because, Sir, this is the second
time she and her children have become chargeab!e to
us, and we are unable to discover the father.

Mr. lanDwicK—This is not an iso:ated
Why then do you press it ? There must be some
other rause.

The Overseer—That may be, but it is one of an
aggravated nature. It is not eleven months since
the prisoner bore another illegitimate child, which
we were also obliged to maintain, and for its sup-
port not one farthing have we been able to obtain ;
but, besides this, her conduct in the workhouse has
been most °tat ageous and insulting, and fregnently
complained of by the master.- Had she conducted
herself with propriety, she would not have been
placed in her present situation, nor would the parish
have pressed for puni-bment.
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Mr. WYATT wished to know if the fiat child was
still living ? The overseer replied in the negative,
adding that that' they had been burdened with the
prisoner and the infant she then carried in her arms,
as a substitute since its death.

The prisoner, when asked what reason she had to
assign for not being committed as a lewd woman to`
the tread-mill, denied the accuracy of the overseer's
statement us to the impossibility of finding the father
of her children. He had been found and taken into
custody, and an order made on him for the payment
of ls. 6d. per wrek. The parish itself liberated
him, and she wax not to blame if it had not been paid.
. Mr. WALICEIt asked if the same person was the
father of both the bastards ? The prisoner said that
he was ; he prevailed upon . her to consent to his
wishes by his promising to marry her ; but when a
little property, left her by her mother, was expended,
he deserted her. •

Mr. WYATT—That certainly might have oc-
curred in the first instance, but it is not probable
that it would in the second. Experience should
have taught you caution.
Mr. WALKER sand, that to prevent the increase
of the offence, the impunity of which held out a pre-
mium on its commission, an example was certainly
necessary ; some object must be selected, and as the
parish meant to commence with her, they would act
as leniently as the Act of the Legislature pet mitred,
and sentence her to an imprisonment of six weeks.