The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—John Williams was charged -with
stealing a cash box, containing about 401. in money r,0,1
some papers, from the premises of William Merchant, a
dealer in shoes, in Field=lane. It appeared that the prisoner
was discovered on the top of the, wall in the yard of the
prosecutor's house, on Monday night, when he said he
came there to look for his dog. Scarcely, however, had
he uttered the words before he fell down into the water
butt. He extricated himself before any person could arrive
to his assistance, and was hastening through the passage of
the house, when lie was secured, and the cash box found
upon him. He had broken open a desk in the prosecutor's
shop to get at it.—He was conimitted for trial.

BOW-STREET.—CRUELTY TO ANIMALS,-Mr. Du.
pree, of the firm of Dupree and Son, the contractors of the
Savoy Wharf, Strand, appeared to answer the complaint of
Mr. Docker, a gentleman residing in Prescott-street, Good-
man's-fields, for a violation of Mr. Martin's Act, in having
treated a horse with cruelty.
Mr. Docker stated, that he was a great admirer of, and
much experienced in, the treatment of horses, and was
therefore Very indignant at witnessing an act of unneces-
sary cruelty committed upon that noble creature. He saw
the defendant's dray in the Strand, with a horse in the
shafts, and he observed affixed to the harness of the head
of the horse a piece of iron, which put the animal to great
torture, as it prevented him front rising his head; there
was also a corresponding piece of iron underneath, which
prevented him from lowering his head, and the poor horse
was compelled to hold his head in one position.
Mr. Dupree admitted that what Mr. Docker had said
was tree ; but stated, that the horse was a kicker, and
could not be taken into the streets without danger to the
public unless the iron-work was affixed to its head.
Mr. Docker said, that the kicking-strap was all that was
necessary.
Mr. HALLS, the Magistrate, recommended Mr. Dupree
to remove the iron from the horse's bead, and to use a
kicking-strap instead.
Mr. Dupree said that the iron-work did not exactly fit,
because it had been made for another of his horses, and he
was positive the horse could not be worked without that
g lard

Mr. HALLS said, that he must remove the guard, and
the warrant should be suspended.
Mr. Dupree left the Office, and said be must shoot the
horse.

Mrs. Isuaes, the keeper of a house of bad repute in
White-hart-yard, Catherine-street, Strand, with three of
her "dress girls," were brought before the Magistrate by
Nott, a beadle, for disorderly conduct in the neighbourhood
of Drury-lane Theatre, at ten o'clock on the preceding
night. It appeared that a number of Jews and Jewesses
keep bad houses in the vicinity of the Theatres, and incite
girls to debauchery. They dress them up in shabby finery,
and after the theatres are open they patrol the streets with
the girls, to induce men to accompany them to their lodg
ings. On Monday night, Mrs. Isaacs and her three girls
were walking up Catherine-street—the former was walk-
ing at some distance behind the latter—when Nott,
beadle, came down the street. The girls did not know him,
because he had not his official dress on ; and not having
the fear of •Nott the beadle before their eyes, they did not
hesitate to surround him, and solicit him to visit White-
hart-yard. At the first glance Mrs. Isaacs recognised the
beadle, though the girls did not, and she called. out, " Come
away—come along—no go." Nott called for assistance,
and took the girls and Mrs. Isaacs to the wateh-house.
Mr. Harmer appeared on behalf of Mrs Isaacs, and con-
tended that she had not committed any act of disorder.
Mr. HALLS said, that there were general complaints
made by the inhabitants, in consequence of abandoned
females stopping respectable persons in the streets, and
Mrs. Isaacs was in company with the girls for no other
purpose than to incite them to prostitution.
Mr. Harmer said there was no evidence of that fact.

Patrick Ryan, a watchman, was called, but he gave his
evidence with great reluctance. He, however, finally ad-
mitted that Mrs. Isaacs was the keeper of a brothel in
White-hart-yard, and that she patrolled the streets with her
girls.
Mr. HALLS said that he was determined to do all in his
power to put- an end to this public nuisance, and he con-
victed all the four as disorderly women and common prosti-
tute.; and sentenced Mrs. Isaacs to one month's imprison••
ment in the House of Correction, and her nyniphs to 14
days each.
Mr. Harmer said, that Mrs. Isaacs was provided with
bail, and she would appeal from the conviction to the Sessions.
Mr HALLS said, that he would accept bail if he deemed
it to be responsible.
Two Jews presented themselves; one of them said he
was the husband of Mrs. Isaacs, and he was rejected.—
Another man, who keeps a brothel next door to Mrs.
Isaaep, .next appeared, but Mr. HALLS ordered him to be
turned out of the Office.

Kitty Lynelt was charged on suspicion of having stolen
a boy, three years of age, and with taking him about from
house to house, for the purpose of soliciting charity. ~The
child was brought into the Office by two working men,
who stated that they were taking their dinners in the tap-
room of the Savoy Palace tavern, Savoy-street, Strand,
when the little boy entered the room with his hat in his
hand, and asked for a penny to buy bread. They gave the
poor little fellow some drink, and asked him who his
mother was, and he said she lived in Drury-lane. They
asked him who was with him when he went about begging,
and he said a woman. One of the men went the door
and saw Kitty Lynch peeping at the corner of Savoy-
.street, and the men took the child and pursued her into
Lancaster-place. The child, on seeing her, said " She is
my mother." The woman gave him a slap on the back,
and said " I am not your mother, and knew nothing of
you."

Mr. HALLS directed Ford, the gaoler, to ask the child
several questions, to which he replied that his name was
Paddy Hayes, 'and his mother lived in Drury-lane.—The
Magistrate committed Kitty Lynch to the House of Cor-
rection for one month, for begging, and directed the child
should be sent to the Poor-house till its real mother was
found.

UNION-HALL—lheamy.—A young man, named
Edward Green, was charged with bigamy. It appeared
that the prisoner married his first wife, Hannah Wilson,
on the 21st July, 1823.,—.He, however, deserted her ; 'and
on the 23d January, 1826, was married to his second
wife, Ann Palley; at St. Saviour's, Southwar.k. He
lived with her a very short time and then deserted her, and
was on the point of being married to a third when he was
taken into custody.
The prisoner treated the charge with the moat perfect
indifference; and on being- asked what could have induced
him to deceive so many women, he replied, that he was
only trying to get a good wife out of the lot. He was corn-
tnitted for trial.

MARY LEB ONE, tisA NIT . —Two women, named
Proctor and Berger, were brought before the Magistrate
to be examined before an order could be made for their
conveyance to a lunatic asylum. Berger, who is 22 years
of age, had recently been delivered of a child, and her in-
sanity had proceeded from having been seduced. She had
for some time lteen.in Miles's Asylum, at lloxton, where'
the paupers are now sent, instead of being placed in War-
burton's Establishment, and was sent back to the work-
house to be delivered of the infant, which had since died.
The Magistrate put two or three questions to her, but her
answers were perfectly inaudible. Anne. Proctor, the other
female, was rather an elderly woman. Religion, and the
dread of a future punishment, had deranged her intellect.
They were both sent to the Asylum for an indefinite period.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A young woman
named Reed, of no very prepossessing appearance, was
charged with having stabbed a young man named Egan.
It appeared that on Thursday evening last, Mr. Egan
was going home, when he met the prisoner coming out of
the Intrepid Fox public-house in Wardour-street, with a
mug of beer in her hand, and thinking that she was a
servant, he asked her if she was going hone to supper ?
" Yes," she replied, " and if you like, you may come and
sup with me." Mr. Egan, without further ceremony,
consented to her proposal, and walked with her to her do-
micile, 9, Meard's-court--a house kept by a man named
Liscoe, one of the constables of the parish of St. Anne,
Soho, and who, in the same establishment, accommodates
others of the same class. Upon entering the apartment,
Mr. Egan was invited to supper by his fair companion,
but he declined partaking of the beer and gin, and other
things whict were placed before him ; and suspecting that
he had got into a house of ill fame, wished to leave it, but
the prisoner said he should not depart, and since he would
not cat himself, he must sit and see her eat. After supper
the prisoner made some gin and water, and requested Mr.
Egan would partake of it, but that he also declined doing,
and the prisoner then drank it up. Mr. Egan now rose
from his seat, and insisted upon leaving the room, but was
stopped by the prisoner, who said, " I'll be if you
leave this house unless you give me half a sovereign ;" and
as Mr. Egan attempted to .force his way out of the room,
she caught up the knife which she had used at supper, and
making a thrust at him with it, said, " I'll mark yon."---
The knife slit the upper part of the prosecutor's ear, and the
point entered his head. By the application of a little adhe-
sive plaster, however, the wounds were getting well.
Mr. Egan, who resides in Portland-street, was ex-
tremely reluctant to send the woman to prison upon the

serious charge which he is the first instance preferred
against her.
Mr. CortaNT said that there had of late been several
attempts made by women to extort money from individuals,
and he felt inclined.to commit the prisoner for trial for the
capital charge.
The prosecutor then said that he could not say that the
prisoner, when she raised the knife, intended to stab
him. She might have ,had the knife in her hand when
he' endeavoured to go out of the room, and have held it
up' to prevent his opening the door. He, however, ad-
mitted that she said, when she had the knife in her hand,
" I'll mark you."
After some further conversation, however, Mr. CONANT
ordered her to find bail for the aggravated assault.

THE CONFESSIONS OF AN UNEXE-

CUTED FEMICIDE.

(From the Liverpool Mercury.)

Under this title a most extraordinary work has been re-
cently published by Mr. 111‘13hun, bookseller, of Glasgow.
We have' given it entire in a preceding page ; and, as
many of our readers, after perusal, may be apt to con-
clude, as we at first did, that " The Confessions of a Fe-
micide" is a work of pure fiction, it is incumbent upon us
to explain the reasons which have induced us to arrive at
a different conclusion. Mr. M'Phua is a gentleman of
great respectability, and we felt convinced that he would
not have deliberately palmed upon the public, as true, a
horrid and appalling story, which had no foundation in
fact. There would have been no excuse for such con-
duct, as he possessed the means of detecting the im-
posture, by ascertaining whether any murder had taken
place in Scotland, about twenty years ago, under the
extraordinary circumstanees described in Mr. M'Phun's
narrative. Ile might, also, with very little trouble,
have traced out the register of the alleged trial. These
were the reasons that led us to conclude that the story,
shocking and unnatural as it is, could not be wholly
destitute of foundation in fact. We also thought,
that if the story had been entirely a romance, the author
would not have ventured to make his principal character so
thorough-paced a villain; for however strange the assertion
may appear, it is a melancholy truth, that more unnatural
crimes leave been perpetrated in reality than any writer of
fiction has had the hardihood to introduce into romance.
If any author were to found a story upon the circumstance
of a father cutting off his own child's head, his readers
would turn with disgust from so gratuitous an outrage upon
feeling and probability. Sheen, however, did in reality cut
off the head of his own child: and did that act, too, in a
sane state of mind, if we may so conclude from the Judge
suffering him, after his acquittal, to go at large.
In conclusion, we assure our readers, that the main inci-
dent related in the " Confessions" is true. Motives of de-
licacy have induced the writer to substitute Stirling in
place of Glasgow, and to take some other liberties with the
narrative ; but the murder was committed ; the murderer
was tried, and he escaped, as related, by his servants swear-
ing an alibi.