Star.
London, England, 1830-07-28 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Bow.STIEZT.—A marTirTZTarb of a horse.dealer, named
Phelps, residing in Hart-street, Covent.garden, and Mary his wife,
were charged with having robbed a ficotchman named Baxter, of a
purse containing 14 sovereigns.
Mr. Baxter stated that he lodgedin the prisoner's house, and that
on Friday last be missed his purse from his neck.handkerchid, in
which be had placed it for safety. No one but the female prisoner
was in the room, and her husband stood outside the door.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS, (for the prisoner :) Where did you sleep that
night ?
Prosecutor : At Mother James's in Lisle-street (a laugh.) I
stopped at Mother James's for eight days, and she claims 401. for
that time ; but I have refused to pay her so unreasonable a de-
mand : (a laugh.)
After some further questions, from which it appeared that the
prosecutor was leading a very dissolute life, and had more money
than wit, Mr. lilinshull said be should send the case for trial, but
would accept bail.
The witnesses against Captain Helsham having arrived from
Boulogne, Mr. Harmer, the solicitor for the prosecution, applied to
Mr. hlinshull to have Captain Helsham brought up Prom the New
Prison for immediate examination, in order to avoid further delay.
Dodd, the gaoler, was accordingly sent for Captain Helsham,
who, on his arrival, prayed that the matter might be postponed
until Friday, when Mr. Adolphus was expected in town, and would
attend as his Counsel.
Mr. Minshull said that, unless it was Captain Helsham's desire,
the examination should not be proceeded with until Friday.
GUILDHALL.--Georve Ford was brought up for re-examination
charged with purloining two diamond 'hiss from the shop of Mr.
Lamb, of Ludgate-bill, jeweller.
The prisoner was remanded at his own request, that he might ob-
tain professional assistance, and yesterday Mr. William Humphreys
attended on his behalf.

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Mr. Humphreys asked
the prosecutor if his shopman did not say,
when he brought the prisoner back to the shop, that he was sure
prisoner could not have stolen the rings, because he had watched
Idm so closely.
Mr. Lamb replied that the shopman's notions of the matter would
not help the prisoner, because witness actually saw one of the rings
fall from him after he had been fumbling in his pocket, as if be
found some difficulty in getting out his handkerchief.
Mr. Humphreys begged him to answer, aye or no, to the question
put to him, which he repeated.
Mr. Lamb still evading It,
The Chief Clerk said be had better give him an answer.
Mr. Lamb then said he did not hear such an observation.
The prisoner wished to be remanded again, that he might adduce
testimonies to his character, but Sir John Peering thought the cir-
cumstance of the ring being observed in the act of falling from him,
was conclusive, and committed him for trial.
HATTOW•GAILDZIC—Yesterday, Mr. Thomas ROSS, who keeps
a bonnet-shop in Gnat Russell-street, Bloomsbury, was charged
with having assaulted Eliza Douglas, formerly his servant. The
complainant summoned her master for the recovery of her wages,
1L ls. lid. On Saturday evening she went to the defendant's to
serve an absolute order upon him, when he struck her, and tore her
clothes. The defendant was ordered to pay a sovereign and costs,
for the assault.

Quszr; Bctu Aut.—George Dale, James Gales, Edward Glo-
ver, and Wm. Bayley, were charged with stealing pocket hand-
kerchiefs in the park, and fully committed to prison.
Thomas Webb, Joseph Pool, and Frederick BrindaU, were
charged with attempting to pick pockets in the park. They were
committed for three months to the House of Correction to hard la-
bour, as reputed thieves.
THAMZB POLlCL—Yesterday, Patrick Scannell, the landlord
of the Ship public-house, Old Gravel-lane, Shadwell, appeared to
an Information laid against him by Fagan, an inspector of K
sion of New Police, for keeping his house open at late hours, and
not maintaining good rule and order therein. The defendant, a
rough Irishman, said, very little could the people have been drink.
ing, for he only sold a butt of beer a month, and a very small quan-
tity of liquor. Mr. BALLANTINE—If you behave no better at
your own bar than you do at this, you are very ill adapted to keep
a public house. A respectable gentleman said the defendant wu in
a state of great poverty, and unable to meet his engagements with
his creditors. He (the gentleman) was now conducting the business
on behalf of the creditors, and he hoped that, under those circum-
stances, the fine would be mitigated. The defendant was then con.
victed in the penalty of 40s. and costs.
Towx-HALL.. William Furness, William Huntingdon, nos
Carter, and Robert Jarvis, the last a policeman, No. 28, letter
AI, were brought up for final examination, charged with the coin.
mission of several burglaries.
John M'Cure stated that he resided in Lordship-lane, East Dul-
wich. On the morning of the 7th Inst. he found one of his windows
open, and missed a black bag, containing the robes of the Kee.
Matthew Anderson, the resident Minister, consisting of a black silk
gown, a silk cassock, two silk scarfs, and a belt ; he also missed a
silk shawl, a Dunstable bonnet lined with French silk, and a
muslin window curtain, belonging to himself, the value of the
whole 101.

Helen Sullivan, servant to Mr. Bowman, a publican, in Ber-
mondsey-street, said the prisoner Furness came to lodge at her mas-
ter's house the Bth of this month, and the same evening oared to
sell her about a and and a half of black silk for 32. @d; hs after-
wards agreed to let her have it for 2s. which she paid him, and to
ascertain its value, afterwards pledged it with Mr. Wharton foe 2s.
E.4:ving her master the duplicate. Furness told her that he had
ed from thirty to forty yards of it elsewhere. The silk was
died by Mr. AlTure as having formed part of the Rev. Mr.
Anderson's robes.

Mary Ward said that, on the night of the robbery, she slept with
the wife of Huntingdon, at his house, 334Uxbridge.street, Newing.
ton Causeway ; early the next morning, she was awoke by three
men entering the rooms they were the prisoners, !Furness, Hun.
tin on, and Carter. Carter bad a Dunstable bonnet on his head,
and one of the others, she could not recollect which, had a minister's
black silk gown upon him, and she saw taken from a black bag a
black silk scarf; a shawl, and a muslin curtain.
A second case was brought forward, in which Mr. Wm. Carter,
of Brixton, deposed to his house being entered on the night of the
6th instant, and a Dutch clock, a pair of brass candlesticks, a tea.
eaddiznand a fur cap, stolen. He afterwards saw the cap in Hun.
tin 's house.
Mary Ward swore to purchasing the clock of Huntingdon for 6s.
Myers, an officer, confirming the connexion between Jarvis and
the other prisoners, by swearing he saw him enter Huntingdon's
house the night after the robbery, and acknowledging to him after.
wards that he had supped there,
Mr. Alderman ANSLZY considered that the charges were clearly
made out against the prisoners, and fully committed them for trial.
LANSZTR.ITREET.—Yesterday a respectable tradesman was
charged before the magistrates with assaulting polite constable
147, of K. division.
The policeman stated that, on that morning, between twelve and
one o'clock, he observed the defendant lying in Stepney.fields, and
understanding that he had been robbed of his pocket handkerchief,
be went to him, and asked him about it. The defendant, however,
not missing the handkerchief, he (the policeman) observing him
somewhat the worse for liquor, asked him where he lived, and
offered to see him part of the way home. He then raised him, and
was assisting him along, but they bad not got very fu when he at.
tacked and struck him in the most violent manner, and he (the po.
Haman), in his own defence, was compelled to knock him down
three or four rimes, and he at length, with assistance, succeeded in
taking him to the watehhouse.
The defendant declared the fact was, that when the policeman
first aunt to him, he told him be knew him to be a Jew, and that he
came there foe the of thieving. He next caught him by the
collar, and dmpedVirtisP°l:e a felon, and on his telling him he would
walk quietly awl; with him, be struck him several violent blows,
and knocked him down, as he had stated. Not content with this,
he still continued to useinsulting language, with the view, no
doubt, of provoking him to strike him in the presence of another
officer, who he had called to his assistance, and for the truth of
this be would appeal to that policeman.
This policeman being sworn, said that he saw every disposition
on the part of the defendant to go quietly to the station-house. He
heard the complainant tell him that he was a coward, and that he
was a better man than him.

Mr. WYATT dismissed the use, observing. that he could not
consider it new/nary, where there appeared such a disparity of per-
sons, to knock a man down four times to secure bim.

.74;11N Car, a middle-agednTaii7v;;cliaried;il robbing hi,
ready-furnished lodging of almost every moveable article.
When taken into custody the prisoner had on his person a num-
ber of blank checks on the different London bankers, some puwn.
brokers' duplicates, and a variety of flash notes, together with some
curious documenta, all of which indicated that he obtained a living
otherwise than► by honest industry. He was rctuanded, in order to
give the officers time to make the necessary enquiries.
WOISRIP.STRZET —Jells Hooker, a bird-fancier, was yes-
terday committed for trial for stealing a goldfinch and cage. Mrs.
Watts, of Shoreditch, on the night before left as usual the cage and
bird hanging outside her house. On the following morning she
found both had disappeared. A police constable produced a long
pole, with a book attached to it, which at four o'clock that morn.
ing he saw the prisoner using, and with it carry off the cage and
bird, when he secured him.

An inquest was7o7 at tWhouse, Birmingham,
on Friday, on the body of an unfortunate female patient in the In.
sane ward, who, during the temporary absence of the nurse oe
Wednesday evening, was forcibly suffocated by another patient
named Poole. The latter was peasant during the inrestiption and
it was clearly crideut that she was of unsound mind. The Jury,
as directed by the Coroner, returned. verdict of " Murder" against
the accused.

EXECUTION OF MARTIN THE MURDERER
From the Journal des Debate.

Martin, who was condemned to death 61amiss inating Margate.
Gautruche, the fruitress, in the Seminary of Chartres, in the Bois
de Boulogne, was this momin4 removed from the infirmary of 1.,
Bicetre, to undergo the execution of his sentence, at half-past four
o'clock in the evening. Ever since his condemnation, Martin be,
been in a state of cruel suffering and indisposition. He has ins,.
sandy received the consolations of religion. It appeared at first tha•
his natural death would stop the course of human justice, as far sN
he was concerned. The last sacraments had been administered t
him a fortnight ago, but he had the misfortune of recovering suit.
ciently to expiate his crime. It is asserted that he persisted in pro-
testing his innocence, whilst the woman °Arlin, his concubine, who
was condemned to ten years of seclusion for barely being his accom
puke in the theft, charges every thing upon Martin, and pretends to
ave had no share in the crimes.
Deplats, a medical man, has been sentenced to imprisonment and
the pillory, for exempting young men from the laws of recruitm.l
by artificial illnesses that were nearly killing them. His appt:,
was rejected, as well as that of Thome 011ivier, and his mother, fa-
assassination.