The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-05 00:00:00

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1 maiiing imc nention to , eeemparty, and Oving
. A Well:looking Voting evoinen, named Aim Hai, the necessary instructions I 51, itiOrtt Nyde theft de-
te:le, was brought before 11r: HALL by a police:eon: i
mended for writirig the petition, and it citethifottte
staple, ami the owner of a 6ottteshhPJ ih Bedford: ! myth appliCant hfid not sufficient money, tliev took
bury, charged with contemplating self-destruet'on. what tact' el'i!l4 get, tin 4 gaVe him Credit for the
The account she gave was, that, some weeks ago, r,ma;nder, The bargain a:se cirri-; that there 1)666-
being then out of place, site went one day into the tioners who were successful should pay te',.:.!.e. Com•
tit y After a service, and on her return, she watt tret party, on their appointment, 10s. 6d. additional.
by it gentlemaii Who rittitAted her; and eekedi if she Weeks, bewever, rolled on, anti the petitions v. ere
was in want of a situation. She replied, that sit not aile‘,',veteti; The candidates c:tiled day after day
had just been to look for one. The gentleman then
until they were tired. Th 6 frieorier§ importuned
told her that if she would go with him he would i those who had not paid the balance of t`'6 55.,
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give her money and provide her with a good place. threatened to summons them to the Court of i‘e- •
She declined the offer, and slid she could not go
quests, until they began to see pretty clearly that
with him then, as she was iii a hurry to go home: the prisoners, with all their specious promises, had
He then forced some money upon her, and she cots- no interest whatever. Under these circumstances,
sewed to meet him on the following evening. She they gave information to the new police how the
did so, and they met several times after, until, at
money had been obtained from them, and the pri-
last, by oaths and promises of protection, arid hay- sorters were apprehended.
ing also sworn most solemnly to make her his wife,
she consented to his wishes, and her ruin and dis- Mr. WHITE questioned the complainain at sc;tne
length, and it appealed from their answers that !lteY
grace were the consequence. had given tie money merely for writing the petitions
The unfortunate girl appeared dreadfully affected and not for ohtaining the appointment, although it
while giving this statement. was clear the poor fellows had been induced to do so
Mr. HALLS asked her if site knew the name of by supposing that the prisoners had great interest.
her seducer. She replied that she did not, but de- Mr. WHITE told the prisoners that they were
scribed him as.ll tall, dark mun, quite the gentleman little better than swindlers, and a very little more
in his appearance, and apparently independent in his evidence would Lave justified him in sending, them
means. He had quite deserted her, she said, and to the House of Correction as rogues and vagabonds.
although site had taken every means to find him out, He should, however, discharge them, but cautioned
site had not succeeded. them to take care N: hat they were about.
The Magistrate told her that he would give an As soon as the part:es got outside the cflice, a
order for her admission to st. Ann's workhouse, mid violent altercation took place, eted the discharged
at the same time the parish officers should be made prisoners threatened to summon all those who lital
acquainted with her story, in order, if possible, that riot paid up their .sz. •
the person whom she charged with her seduction
might be made responsible to the parish for the in-
cumbrance which his heartless conduct was likely
to entad upon it.
Eliza 31ann, a female about 30 years of age, was
also charged with havi rig attempted suicide.
The prisoner was discovered ie the act of throw-
ing herself into the Thames at Watelloo-bridge,
about six o'clock in the morning, and was given into
custody of one of the new police.
She stated that she was driven to make an at-
tempt upon her life, owing to the ill-treatment she
experienced from her husband, who had another
wife living. She was a widow, site said, when site
had the misfortune to meet with him, and lost her
father, mother, husband, and child, all within two
years. She expressed contrition for her conduct,
and the Magistrate ordered her to be locked up until
her friends should be sent for.

FOLtCI INTELLIGRNCe

UNION-HALL

In the course of f lie day three youths were brott,,Yht
up on a charge of attempting to commit a felony a
few hours p►eviou;ly. The youngest of them, a lad
not more than 12 years of age, on being questionA,
stated that he was reared in Laml►eth workhouse,
but had never been appre►►ticed out by the parish
officers. From further inquiries into the matter, it
appeared that the little fellow, becoming tired of the
life he had led in the I,vorkhouse, absconded, and
soon fell in with a number of dissolute boys of his
own age, who were initiating him into bad and per-
nicious practices. It, however-, seemed that he was
not a hardened ofezn and Air. Chambers, anxious
to save him f►om the destruction that awaited him
f not pre,ently rescued, directed that he might be
taken to the overseers, with a request that they
would put him apprentice to some trade whereby
he might by industry and honesty earn a live-
lihood. The Magistrate, in the course of the
inquiry, threw out a few suggestions which, if
carried into effect by the different parishes in the
district, might tend to decrease a considerable por-
tion of the expenees incurred in binding out the
children of paupers to different trades. Mr. Cham-
bers's plan was to this effect—that if each parish, or
even one, commenced the trial of either• building a
boat, or purchasing one already built, to be em-
ployed in fishing, and to engage a competent person
to act as toaster, and instead of binding the parish
boys to trades in London, to bind them to him.—
This plan would he (the Magistrate) Lad no doubt,
be attended with the most beneficial results, fur it
would not only take a considerable expence off each
parish, but would also strike at the root of a mono-
poly that existed in the fish-trade, for then fish
could be brought to London, and sold at least for
one-third of the price that is now charged. Places
for the sale of such fish might be easily established
at Deptford, Rotherhithe, and other places on each
side of the river, up as high as Vauxhall; and in the
event of war, the boys who had served their time on
board these boats, and were consequently inured to
a seafaring life, would make excellent sailors to
serve on board King's ships. The Magistrate
added that he was convinced, were this plan to be
generally adopted by each parish in the district, it
would be found, on a trial, to succeed in an eminent
degree.
A parish officer of Bermondsey, who happened
to be present, acquiesced in the opinion, and said
that if such a plan was adopted some of the parish
boys, who were • incanigible while in London,
would have no opportunities at sea of acquiring bad
habits and pilfering, as they were in the hab►t of
doing the moment they were permitted to leave the
workhouse.

On the night of Saturday last, a young woman
named Susanna Budd, was charged under the fol-
lowing rather singular circumstances :
Mr. Edward Burrows, surgeon, of No. 111, High
Holborn, stated that on that evening the prisoner,
whom he had known as an occasional patient, came
to his shop and brought a bottle with her, which
she wished him to examine, stating that something
was wrong in the house in which she resided. The
bottle contained a liquid mixture, and witness ob-
served that the prisoner appeared strangely unsettled
iG her mind. Just at this moment there was a dis-
turbance at the shop-door, and a man in a dying
state was brought in. The prisoner, as soon as she
saw him, exclaimed, " Save him I save him ! Ile is
murdered!" The man soon afterwards expired, and
the prisoner was given into custody. The witness
added, that he had not at that time examined either
the state of the body or the contents of the bottle.
The prisoner, when before the Magistrate, mani-
fested every symptom of temporary derangement,
and the Magistrate felt it his duty to detain her until
the circumstances under which the man had met his
death should be inquired into. She was accord-
ingly conveyed to the House of Correction, where
it required the assistance of several men to hold her
down and prevent her from doing mischief. She
afterwards became more calm, but it was deemed
necessary to keep a constant watch upon her actions.
Yesterday she was brought wt
to the office for the
purpose of being re-examined.
Mr. Hans inquired whether a coroner's inquest
had been held upon the body, and what was the re-
sult of the inquiry ?
It did not appear, however, that any judicial in-
quiry had been instituted by the Coroner; at which
both Sir It. BILINIE and Mr. Haus expressed their
surprise, directing an officer to proceed immediately
to the churchwardens of St. Andrew's, Holborn, to
understand the cause of the delay.
An officer stated, that Mr. Burrows had given it
as his opinion that the bottle which the young wo-
man brought contained a simple mixture of sarsa•

patilla. -
The mother of the prisoner came forward and said
she lived at Dorking, and came to town upon learn-
ing the circumstances in which her unfortunate
daughter was placed. She had been to see her, she
said, in the lock-np-room, and was happy to find that
she was more composed.
Mr. HALLS observed, that although he had every
reason to believe that no blame whatever attached
to the young woman, yet it was his duty to detain
her until the Coroner's verdict should be known.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

On Tuesday evening, at seven o'clock, just as
Mr. WHITE, the sitting Magistrate, had taken his
seat, the office was crowded by numerous candidates
for the New Police, to prefer charges against five
men, who had been taken into custody on their
complaint, of having obtained money front them tin-
der false pretences. In a few minutes the prisoners
were placed at the bar, and gave their names,—
Michael Casey, a schoolmaster, Eugene Casey, a
schoolmaster, J. Whittaker, a chemist and druggist,
J. Winnafen, a discharged police constable, and
Woods, a butcher.
The prisoners, it appeared, had been for nearly
two months carrying on a most profitable occupa-
tion in writing petitions for candidates for the New
Police, and they conducted their business in the
tap-room of the 'Rose and Crown, at the corner of
Downing-street, where they daily attended, and the
following notice to attract strangers was posted up
in the room :—" Petitions for the New Metropoli-
tan, Police, written on an entire new principle, may
be had here." The petition company consisted of
six, the five men at the bar, nod another man named
Shaw, not in custody, and some of the party acted
as touters, and frequented the neighbourhood of
Scotland-yard to look cut for candidates, and to
represent to them where they might get petitions
dawn up that would be sure to get them situations.
The prisoners were apprehended by one of the
New Police constables in the tap-room, on com-
plaint being made that they had obtained money
from several poor men under false pretences. On
the table were found writing-paper, the Court
Guide, and a Directory, also a book containing the
receipts of the day for petition writing : the higest
sum for one (lay was 3/. 17s.
Mr. WItITE observed that there could be no great
harm ill persons writing petitions for others, and
receiving money for so doing; every person had a
right to be paid for his labour, and perhaps the pri-
soners wrote 'the petitions better than they could be
procured any where else : he would, however, hear
the complainants.
It appeared front their statement, that they had
been attracted by the board in the tap-room to get a
petition written on the " new principle." Winnafen
pretended he was an inspector of the police, but
always requested that his name might not be men-
tioned, and Eugene Casey pretended to be a serjeant
of the new police; -Michael Casey acted as a kind
of secretary to the company. One of the party
gave them most sanguine hopes, on account of his
great interest with the Commissioners of Police,
that they would be appointed in the course of three
or four days at farthest. From the plausible man-
ner of the prisoners, the poor fellows thought them-
selves as good as appointed, which,may,ia some
measure account for .the number .of, persons who
have been daily surrounding the New Metropolitan
Police-Office, in Scotland-yard, Whielt,has at-length
became so great a Illi15,,"•• the Commissioners
have been compelled to put up a printed notice,