The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-12 00:00:00

; yet in custody, of the name of Joseph Williams. —The case
(was heard by-Mr. GRIFFITH.
Cobb, on being questioned as to whether it was his usual
!custom to buy hay without seeing a single sample (which
!appears to have been the case in this instance), replied in a
way by no means satisfactory.
Mr. GRIFFITH said the account given by the defendant
was very suspicious, and the impression on his own' mind
:was, that Ire had been combining with Williams to defraud
the complainant. Under these circumstances, he should re-
quire him to find bail, and also to find the other man. The
hay in the mean time must be impounded.
The case of a person having been bitten by a dog, near
the Edgeware-road, reported in the Morning 'Herald of
Thursday, was revived to-day, by an application to the
Magistrate from the unfortunate man's nephew : and also
by a complaint from another person, named Thomas Phipps,
a plasterer, of having been bitten by what he supposes the
same animal. The latter, who seemed in considerable alarm,
stated that, going along the Edgeware-road on Monday
afternoon, a dog bit him, and immediately, on being pur-
sued, ran down the kitchen stairs of Mr. Scull, landlord of
the Portland Arms. He had reason to think it was the
same dog who had bit the other gentleman, and was so
frightened at the circumstance, that he went directly to a
surgeon and had a piece cut out of his leg ; and what he
was now most anxious to know was, whether any thing
was the matter with the animal, in order that his mind
might be relieved.
Mr. Scull could not tell whether it was his dog that bit
the complainant or not, as he had seen nothing of him.
Complainant said, the dog that bit him ran very con-
tentedly down Mr. Scull's kitchen stairs, and he presumed
it would not have (lone so if it had not been at home.
Another person had been bitten by it, and it made the thing
very alarming. He was frightened to go past the house to
his work.
Mr. Scull is sure it was net the same dog that bit the
other person, as his (log WAS quite inoffensive.
Mr. GRIFFITH said it was most shocking that an animal
of this kind should be suffered to be at large, and no proper
means taken to find It.
Mr. Scull was sincerely sorry, and as anxious as any
person could be. He had made the strictest search, and
would continue to do so—not that he believed it to he
his dog.
The MAGISTRATE said-it was at least his duty to confine
any dogs he had, arid he expected it would be done imme-
diately. As for the dog that was missing, it must be
strictly sought after, and it would be proper for that pur-
pose to put an advertisemen't in the papers.
The above parties bad only a short time left the office,
when the nephew of the person first bitten, who keeps a
public-house in Drury-lane, required to see the Magistrate a,
and told them that he came express from his uncle, who had
undergone a second operation, and was now lying very ill
in bed. The two surgeons who attended him were most
anxious to see the dog, as they knew not howl to act
without, and he implored them to order every exertion to
be made to find it, which was promised him. The missing
dog is described as a small animal, of the lurcher species.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday William
Curtis, one of the beadles of Burlington Arcade, was
brought before Mr. DYER, upon a warrant, charged with
assaulting a respectable married female named Rebecca
Ogden, and her sister, a single woman, of equally respect-
able appearance. - '
Mrs. Ogden, on Thursday last went, in company with
her sister, to the Arcide, at the entrance of which Curtis
was stationed for the purpose, as she bad heard, of prevent-
ing the intrusion of mendicants, and other improper per-
sons. No sooner had the complainant and her sister at-
tempted to pass than the defendant pushed them with vio-
lence down the steps, saying that they were " improper
females," and should not enter there.
Mrs. Ogden's sister confirmed the foregoing statement.
Mr. DYER-Pray are you, madam, of any business?
Mrs. Ogden—Yes, Sir, I am a dress-maker, and go to
the Arcade solely to see the'new fashions.
Several respectable tradesmen gave a favourable repre-
sentation of Curtis's general conduct.
Mi. DYER observed that general character could have
little weight in the present case; an assault had been
sworn to by a respectable femaleand supported by another.
His duty was to order Curtis to find bail.
Mr. Ogden, the husband of the complainant, wished to
inquire whether Curtis had any imputation to cast upon
the moral conduct of Mrs. Ogden ?—Curtis did not choose
to answer that question then.—He was ordered to find bail.
James Turner, a middle-aged man, was charged with
stealing a cheque for bOL, belonging to Mr. Win. Payne,
the proprietor of the British Hotel, Jerinyn-street, St.
James's, so far back as in Feb. 1826.
James Bennett, in Feb. 1826, was head waiter to Mr.
Payne ; tbelprisoner was an occasional porter. On the 6th
of that month he gave him a cheque on Messrs. Hammers-
leys, the hankers, for 501., to get changed. The prisoner
absconded, and from that day until the present lie had
never seen him.
Witness produced a letter, which Mr. Payne received
shortly after the prisoner made off. The following is a
literal copy of it :

" Bricklayers Harms, IS.
" Sir—Off to Paris as fast as I can intended to go be-
fore, but the thrashing prevented me I shall be hall right
in that new place called the PaUse Royal. Half drunk, so
no more at present I will send a few lines when I get to
Dover. " A Little Boy on the road
" To Mr. Pain, " Never was sich times."
" British late Blake's
Germin-street London."
The prisoner, upon the above letter being produced,
said that it was not written by himself, but that a person
had written it with his consent, when he was in a state of
intoxication. He was most heartily sorry for it, and con-
fessed he had committed the robbery, and threw himself on
the mercy of the prosecutor.
He was fully committed to Newgate for trial.
Two well-known thieves, named Walton. alias Howard,
formerly what is termed a cad to the Paddington stages,
and Edwards, were charged with committing a bur-
glary on the premises of William Lumley, Esq., No. 49,
Gower-etreet, Bedford-square.
The two prisoners, who appeared quite unconcerned at
their situation, declined saying any thing, and were fully
committed.

BOW-STREET:—Mrs. Francis Clifton, a woman o"
respectable appearance, who, for come time past, has kept a
book and stationefy shop in Houghton-street, Clare-market,
which was also a general post receiving-house, was placed at
the bar before Mr. HALLS, on Saturday, charged with
the capital offence of secreting a letter (which letter con-
tained a 51. note); she being, in her capacity of a receiv-
ing-house keeper, considered a servant of the post-office.
Mr. W. Holmes, solicitor and navy agent, on the 4th of
last October enclosed a Si. note to " Mr. John Holmes,
Waterford, Ireland," which he delivered to his clerk to
put into the post-office. Ten days after this be received a
letter from Waterford, stating that the letter had never been
received. The note now produced by Mr. Peacock was
the same he enclosed in the letter.

Mr. George Folkard, clerk to the last witness, remem-
bered putting, on the hth of October, two letters in the
post-office in Houghton-street, kept by the prisoner. One
of the letter s was directed to " Mr. John Holmes, Water-
ford," and the other to " Edward Gibbon, Carpenter of
H.M.S. Asia, at Malta." He paid the postage of them
at the counter, to a female. Could not swear it was the
prisoner.
Joseph Spragg, landlord of the King's Head, in Hough-
ton-street, knew the prisoner. She had kept the book-
shop and post-office, near his house some time. The
note produced he received from the prisoner on the 4th of
October.
The prisoner had nothing more to say than that she
had no recollection of having changed a note on that. par-

ticular day.
Mr. Folkard, the clerk, ought, in justice to the pri-
soner, to say that he had very often given 'money letters
to her, and that, except in this instance, they had never

miscarried.
Mr. llsm.s said, it appeared very extraordinary that,
supposing the prisoner to have stolen the note, she should
go in so open a manner to a place where she was so well
known to change it. He was afraid the prisoner was not
the only party concerned ; and in order to give time for
the matter to be fully investigated, he remained the pri-
soner till Wednesday next:
Caroline Bell, alias Jones, a young woman who has
cohabited for some time past with Daniel Frederick
Jones, the swindling begging-letter-writer, was brought
u p by Taunton,
that arch impostor. charged with being an accomplice of
Tauntonwent
eight o'clock on Friday evening, ac-
companied by Mr. Hayward, to a house in Queen's-row,
Kennington, where the two prisoners resided. He ob-
tained admission into the house, and proceeded to the pri-
soner's bed-room door. He knocked, and she said she was
in bed, and requested time to dress herself. He waited
nearly ten minutes, and then, fearing she might destroy
papers which he was anxious to secure, he burst open the
door, and found the prisoner before the tire with an ac-
count-book in her hand, and upon the fire was a heap of
burning papers. He was too late to rescue any of them,
but discovered they were the leaves of the book which the
prisoner had in her hand ; and as she had not succeeded in
tearing out the whole, sufficient remained to show that it
had been used for the purpose of registering the names
and donations of those imposed upon, and that it had