The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Henry Hillyard, a respectable-look-
ing man, was finally examined yesterday, before Mr. Alder-
man Wood, upon a charge of knowingly uttering a forged
bill of exchange for 66/. 125., purporting to be drawn by
Messrs. Weston and Son, tailors to his Majesty, in Bond-
street, in favour of John Barton (a personage who cannot
be traced), upon Messrs. Herries and Co., the bankers.
It also purported to bear the acceptance of Messrs. Herries.
Mr. GArEs attended as solicitor for the bankers ; Mr.
WEsrox, of the Temple, for the drawers ; and Mr. BUT-
LER, of Barnard's Inn, for the prisoner.
The facts- stated upon the part of the prosecution were,
that the prisoner, with another man who said he was the
John Barton mentioned in the bill, called at Mr. Alcock's,
the gold refiner, in Little Britain, on Friday last, and
asked for six ounces of fine gold, if the bill of exchange
could be changed in payment. Mr. Alcoek knew it was
irregular for a town banker to accept a bill dra%, n by a
town house, and said he would give an =ewer in two
hours. The prisoner and Barton conferred together, and
consented to leave the bill, and Mr. Alcock immediately
despatched a clerk to the bankers, in St. James's- street,
where he learnt the bill was a forgery in all itr parts.
The bill was proved to be a forgery, both as to the ac-
ceptance and drawing.
Mr. Clarkson, a barrister, hoped the Alderman would
allow the prisoner to be bailed. He could give sureties to
any amount. _

Mr. Alderman Worm replied, that if he had any doubts
of the prisoner's guilt, and some length of time would elapse
before he was put upon his trial, he might have listened to
this application,but here the case might go before the Grand
Jury the next morning, and the trial come on the day after ;
and the evidence against the prisoner was so strong, that
he thought it would be improper to take bail.
The prisoner was then removed, with the understanding
that he was finally committed, but would be brought up
again to hear the depositions read over in the form in which
they will be returned for the use of the Judge.

Mr. Brown, the warden of the Fleet, solicited the attend-
ance of the Alderman at that prison to hear the proofs of
the insanity of the Rev. Mr. Hughes, an inmate, with a
view to obtaining his discharge under the 73d clause of
the Insolvent Act. The Rev. Gentleman, he said, was
respectably connected, but was deserted by hie friends.—
His brother (a Baronet) had sent him 61., and that was all
the assistance he had received in the prison. He was in a
state of dangerous insanity, and upon the Magistrate being
assured of that, the Insolvent Court would, under the above
clause, !Recharge him.
Mr. Alderman WOOD said, the Magistrate who would
be sitting for him on the morrow would attend.

BOW-STREET.—Yeste ri 1 ay Mr. Thomas White, a
most respectable young gentleman,was charged with having
assaulted Thomas Sikes, a private belonging to the 3d bat-
talion of Grenadier Guards, while on duty.
The complainant stated to T. TIALLs, Esq., the sitting
Magistrate, that he was one of the piquet guard, which
had been on duty at Covent-garden Theatre on the previous
night. After the conclusion of the performances there, he
was marching with his company down New-street, on their
way to the barracks, when Mr. White shoved him out of
the ranks, and threw his firelock froth off his shoulder, and,

on stooping down to pick it -up, struck him, the witness, a
violent blow On the • back of the head, which occasioned
considerable pain, and sent his cap into the middle of the
street. The witness gave no provocation for the assault,
and was unable to account for being singled out.
The complainant's statement was fully corroborated by
the sergeant and corporal who were in command of the
piquet.
Mr. White said, in his defence, that he did not strike a a
blow, nor act in the manner described. He and friend
were returning together from the theatre, when the soldiers
came behind them, and endeavoured to pass them in a way
so rough, that he conceived he and his friend had just right
to complain of it. Feeling aggrieved, he certainly did re-
monstrate with the soldiers, and told them they were not
marching single file, in obedience to the Order issued by the
Secretary at War (Lord Palmerston).
Sergeant—lt is evident this gentleman is unacquainted
with military tactics. We were marching two abreast,
and that is single file ; four abreast would be double file.

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Mr. HALLS—And what is one abreast?
Sergeant—Oh, rank entire, Sir.

Mr.White--Rank entire is what I meant.

Mr. HALLS—If you, Mr. White, had been insulted by
soldiers, and had come here, as you ought to have done, we
would have put you in the proper way to get redress.
Mr.- White—But, Sir, what use would be my coming
here unless I was able to give you some more definite ac-
count than that I had been insulted in the street?

Mr. HALLS—You did not, it seems, try the utility of it,
but have committed a very serious offence, for which I
must send you to the sessions.
Mr. White—Then, Sir, we are to understand, that when
we see a soldier on the flags, we are to run off them.
Mr. HALLS, understand what you please. I shall order
you, however, to be bound, yourself in 401. and two
sureties in 20/. each, to meet the charge at the Sessions.
Bail was instantly given, and Mr. White departed.
Mr. Parry, a law-stationer, residing in Carey-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields, appeared upon a summons obtained
against bins by the parish-officers of St. Clement's Danes,
for not supporting his wife, who, in consequence, had
become chargeable on that parish.
A Solicitor who appeared for Mi. Parry stated, (that
which the Magistrates were well acquainted with, namely)
that Mr. and Mrs. Parry have been living separate, and
that she is a woman of the most abandoned and profligate
character, being one of those wretches who nightly infest
Drury-lane, to the great annoyance of passengers. He
then proceeded to contend, that his client was not bound
to contribute anything towards the support of his wife, on
the ground that the adultery of a wife is a discharge of a
husband's liability, even for ordinary necessaries, at com-
mon law; and consequently, as the Act under which the
Magistrates are empowered to adjudicate in these matters
(the 6th Geo. IV. c. 83, sec. 3) requires that the party to
be charged with the maintenance of another shall be legally
bound to maintain, that the parish-officers were without
remedy, and should do by Mrs. Parry as they would by
any other pauper.
The Magistrates declared their opinion to be, that the
husband was bound, under all circumstances, to support
his wife. They said, however, that a very small allowance
would meet the justice of the case, and therefore recom-
mended the parish-officers to accept ss. a week, to which
they agreed.
UNION-HALL.—Within the last month a great num-
ber of burglaries and robberies have been committed in the
county of Surrey, particularly in the town and environs of
Croydon, by a gang of the most ingenious housebreakers
that have visited that neighbourhood for a number of
years. Yesterday morning the prisoners, who gave their
names John Bartlett and William Taylor, alias Croker,
were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, R. J. CHAM*
BERS, Esq., charged with committing divers burglaries and
robberies in the county of Surrey.
The first charge against the prisoners was as follows:
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Mrs. Goose, a lady residing at Elandcross, near the bar-
racks at Croydon, stated, that on Wednesday night the
family retired to rest at their usual early hour, after having
fastened the doors, window shutters, &c. The following
morning, on the servants getting up, the house was disco-
vered to have been broken into; the thieves, it appeared,
effected an entrance by prizing up the sash of the drawing-
room window, the shutters of which they bored through
with a centre-bit, and by that means made a space in the
wood work sufficiently large to enable them to draw back
the bolts, and enter the apartment without difficidty. The
complainant added, that she had every reason to believe the
house was entered and robbed between the hours of three
and four o'clock of the morning in question.

Martin, a private belonging to the waggon train, who
was on duty at the barracks, close to the complainant's
house, stated, that on the morning above-mentioned, about
four o'clock, he saw two men leave the premises, and on
reaching the palings which surround the house they walked
in different directions, apparently with a view of ascer-
taining whether the coast was clear ; having done so, the
witness said the men proceeded cautiously towards the rid-
ing-school, from whence he had a full view of them. The
witness, on being confronted with the prisoners, imme-
diately identified them as the persons whom he had seen
leave the complainant's premises under the circumstances
described. Their identity was further confirmed by a
female.

Myers, the constable, stated, that he has been for some
time on the look-out for the men at the bar, both of whom
have been " wanted" for various felonies. On Thursday
morning at nine o'clock, while near the Elephant and
Castle, he espied the two prisoners and a man whom
he new to be a. " fence" together, going towards the
Borough. Confident that the former were on their route
homewards, after having committed some depredations,
he cautiously followed, and having seen them enter a
house in Fox's-buildings, he immediately obtained
the assistance of Gough, another constable, and they
proceeded into the house together, and apprehended the two
prisoners, the " fence" having made his escape by jumping
out of a one-pair back window. In their possession he
found 16 sovereigns, together with various implements for
house-breaking, and amongst them, in the pocket of Bart-
lett, a dark lantern. Myers said, that having secured the
prisoners, and taken possession of all he found upon them,
he soon afterwards heard of the robbery at Croydon, and
having proceeded thither, on examining the premises, he
discovered that they had been broken into with the in-
struments he found on the men at the bar ; for the marks
on the window shutters, and those imprinted on the es-
crutoire, in forcing it open, precisely corresponded with
them. Myers intimated to the Magistrate, that he held
a detainer against the prisoner Taylor, alias Croker, for
felony committed in the county of Middlesex, namely,
stealing seven silver candlesticks, the property of the Earl
of Aberdeen.

The followinghouses were broken into the three succeeding
nights previous to that of Mrs. Goose, all of which the pri-
soners are suspeetedef being concerned in : —The premises of
Mrs. Crease, a widow lady, in Croydon : the thieves effected
an entrance by boring through the shutters, and plundered
plate and clothes. Also the house of Mr. Weller, a silver-
smith, was entered the following night, and property, con-
sisting of watches and plate to the amount of some
hundreds of pounds, stolen. The night subsequent to that
on which the latter robbery was committed, the premises
of Mr. Cheritt, in High-street, were also plundered of
plate and clothes. In fact, to such an extent have rob-
beries been planned and effected about Croydon, that the
utmost dismay prevailed in the minds of all, urtil their
fears have been at length in some measure quieted by the
apprehension of the prisoners, both of whom were fully
committed for trial.