The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Emma Cooper, a modest looking young
girl, was charged on Friday, in the Court-yard of the Old
Bailey?, with wearing on her person a gown that had. been
stolen, She was taken to the Compter, and after prevari-
cating in her answers, said if the officer would go to Mrs.
Bryan, N0...2, Black Horse-court, Fleet-street, he would get
another dress to replace that which he was about to take off
the poor girl's back. Mrs. 'Bryan was not at home, but
a Mrs. Jones claimed the prisoner as her lodger; and gave
her an excellent character for honesty. She added,
that she had advised the prisoner to buy for 18d. a pawn-
broker's ticket of the dress, and several other articles of a
distressed person. The story did not seem very plausible,
and Mr. Alderman Wood remanded the prisoner until a
further search and inquiry could be made.
FORGERY.—Henry Hilliard, represented to be a re-
spectable gold refiner in Clerkenwell, was brought up again
for final examination on the charge of having attempted to
Ass a forged bill of exchange, well knowing it to have
been such. The bill purported to be drawn on the
7th of May, by Weston and Sons, on Harris and Co.;
hankers, payable at two months after date, and was for
561. 12s. The depositions of the witnesses that had been
taken on'a foimer day were,read over. The witnesses were
Mr. Alcock, of Little Britain, to whom the prisoner
endeavoured. to pass the bill in payment for 4 ounces of
fine gold ; Mr. Weston, jun., who proved that the
signature of the drawer was neither in the 'handwriting of
his father nor brothers and the clerk of Messrs. Harris and
Co., who deposed that the acceptance of their firm was a
forgery.
The Alderman fully committed the prisoner for trial,
who made no defence, but certainly appeared respectable.
It is supposed that the Bill was forged by a person of the
name of Barton, who is not now to be found.
FALSE Pak-maces DETECTED. —Harry Lambert was
charged with-having obtained goods under false pretences,
in 1825, from Mr. Potts, a cabinet-maker, to the amount
of 143/. He disposed of the goods, and immediately de-
camped to France. Mr. Potts accidentally met him
on Friday, and charged him with felony. Lest he should
not make good this charge, he also issued a writ that night,
and had the Sheriff's' Officers at the office next morning:
The charge of felony failed, but Lambert, on being dis-
charged from it, was instantly walked off to a lock-up-
house. This sharp act excited considerable inters t.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Saturday, Mr. Edward
Treadway, who keeps a china-shop in Grosvenor-row,
was charged with the murder of his wife.
It appeared that, abeut•twelve o'clock on Friday night,
a gentleman cabled upon Varley, a constable, at the watch-
house, and informed him of the death of Mrs. Treadway.
Varley instantly hastened to the house, and there beheld
the corpse of Mrs. Treadway,. surrounded by her husband
(who appeared greatly affected at the circumstance), some
medic:al gentlemen, and several females. Mr. Treadway
at once admitted that he was the cause of his wife's death.
He said that, whilst they were in bed together, she said
something to him which displeased him, and he struck her
in the side. She said, " You have hurt me very much,"
He struck her a second time, and she said, in a few minutes
afterwards, "I am very ill." He added, that, being fear •
ful he had injured his wife, he got out of bed and got some
vinegar, but hie wife died instantly:
This account was partly corroborated by several persons
whom Mr.. Treadway had called in when the melancholy
occurrence took place,- and they stated that the deceased
and her husband had not lived happily together for many
years. They had three children; one was six years old,
and the other fifteen months. .
The officer said that Mr. Treadway appeared greatly
afflicted at the circumstance,- and when told hi must go
`to the watch-house, he kissed his children, and said ho
was sorry for what he had done.
The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday.
In the evening an inquest was held on the body, when
the above facts were disclosed ; but as the Jury were not
prepared to state the cause of the deceased's death until the
body was opened, the inquest was adjourned.
LAMBETH;STREET.—Ixvv SoLosross.—Mrs. So-
lotions, the wife of Ikey, whose escape from the officers of
Newgate has caused so much surprise, waited on . the Ma-
listratee, Messrs. WYATT and HARDWICK, to solicit their
assistance, in recovering from a person, named Isaacs, who,
though not a solicitor, undertook her husband's defence at
this office, It considerable sum of money, which he had re-
ceived for his use, and which he now, though having no
claim on it, either for services past, or
_in prospective, re-.
fused to deliver up. The circumstances out of which the
application arose, were these :--When Solomons was taken
into custody, at Islington, on examining his person, the
officer found on him, • among a• variety of trinkets. and
jewellery, 180/. in gold, three ten pound, and ten five
,pound Bank of England notes ; -these were detained for two
:examinations, when it appearing,- beyond the limits of
probability, that the gold, which consisted of sovereigns,
could not be indentified, it was, by order of the Magis-
trates, and on Solonuins urging that he was unprovided
with the means to carry on his defence, delivered to Isaacs,
his agent, to be transmitted to him. The day after his
final commitment to Newgate, haws pressed for the •
restoration of the notes, and those also were restored; it
was for the recovery of those that Mrs. Solomons now
applied.
Mr. Haanwxcx—Did your husband receive the
sovereigns? Mrs. Solomons—He did, Sir ; but out of
those you will perceive Isaccs has received 64/. odd, and
now, in addition, detains the 80/. in notes. After my
husband had got away, I called on him for the latter, but
he refused peremptorily to give it to me, saying,. that his'
wife had 40/., and he had the remainder-, and that I should
not get a "skurrig " of it ; these were his very words.
Mr. HARDWICK—He may detain it as secret service
money, of which he does not consider himself called upon
to give an account; however, with- this we have nothing
to do;- the .money was paid by your husband's request to
his accredited agent, and we cannot farther interfere—your
only remedy is by action of trover.
. An investigation, we understand, took place, at Guild-
hall, on Saturday, as to the escape, of Solomons. What its
result is, we have not as yet been able to learn ; but we pre-
sume, it must have been favourable to the inculpated
officers, as they still continue doing duty in Newgate.

EXECUTION OF WILLIAM GILES, FOR
Foacaus,-.—The last awful penalty of our laws was exe-
cuted on this unfortunate man on Monday, on the drop,
then for the first time used, on the west side of our county
gaol. It is constructed on the same principle as the drop
in London and Lancaster : a hook is, fixed in the cross-
beam, and a similar one is attached to the point of the halter,
so that the time occupied in tying the rope across the beam
is altogether saved. For some time past Giles has been
very attentive to his religious duties, and appeared to be
quite prepared for the " great change" lie was destined to
undergo. On Monday he received the holy sacrament,
with the most profound devotion and Christian resignation
to his impending fate; and the night previous to his exe-
eutiow he slept soundly for some time. About ten minutes
before twelve o'clock, he was brought up,. pinioned, to the
vast tower of wood erected in the situation we have before
described; and after spending a few minutes in prayer, he
was conducted to the upper platform, or drop, almost im-
mediately hooked up, and the platform sinking beneath
his feet, he,was released from his suffering ! all motion
having ceased in about three minutes. His remains were
delivered to hie friends on the following day for interment.
The evening preceding his execution Giles spent in the
greatest quiet, and slept soundly..He mentioned on the mom-
ing on awaking, that he bad drcaint,of the awful scene
which was.shortly about to present itself, but talked of it
with that calmness which indicated the most happy resig-
nation. • While in -chapel, and after he had partaken of the
sacrament, he was asked by one who wit', present, if he
Was happy, to which he answered, " I what, you as happy
* Lam ; for I feel completely so." His approach to the
place of execution was steady and firm; ,and the fortitude
he . had - evinced ever since his hopeless fate was -made
known-to him,- never for a moment forsook-Itim.4e.,Berk-
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