The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—JoAn Garrope, an Italian boy, who
has recently arrived in this country to exhibit the tricks of
a, monkey and a dog, was charged with assaulting Ann
Dexter, a poor woman who keeps a green-stall in Fleet-

market.

The complainant was going up Holborn-hill about nine
o'clock on Friday night, and the prisoner was walking in
a contrary direction, nursing the monkey upon his left
arm, and leading the dog with a long string. The dog,
which was of considerable size, somehow got entangled
With the complainant, and attempted to extricate itself by
f2reing its way between her legs. In her confusion at this

instantly sprang elrfdlrellirtheolieNta,4l4,44-44A%
and bit her arm. The poor woman, who is far advanced
iii pregnancy, said-her sight left her, and she should have
fainted if she bad not been relieved from her new assailant
immediately by the persons passing at the time. Prestidge,
a city constable, took charge of the prisoner, and he now
stood at the bar with the monkey in his arms, who alter-
nately eyed his master, the witnesses, and the Magistrate,
as if conscious of what was going forward.
' Sir Join; PERRINO having satisfied himself that the
boy had not incited either the dog or monkey to the attack,
dismissed him, with 'an order to make the woman the
best recompense he was able. This he did, by giving her
'is. 3d. all in copper, which he cried most heartily at
parting with.
LAMIIETH-STREET.—The hand of fate seems to
press heavily on the family of the Solomons, and proves,
that though the course of crime, as in their instance, be
persevered in, with impunity, justice, though slow, and pro-
ceeding with a tortoise pace, will ultimately impede its
career, and avenge itself on its offenders. Scarcely had
the wife of Solonions been liberated from the fangs of the
law owing to her coverture, and the presumption that the
property was hitherto in the possession of her husband,
when her son was taken into custody for an offence similar
to that with which she was charged, viz....--being in posses-
sion of stolen goods, found in Henry-street, Commercial-
road) and was on Saturday placed at the bar, before M.
WYATT, Esq. His name is John Solomons ; he is a
ybung man of good appearance, as yet in his minority, and
seemed persectly undismayed at his situation.
A solicitor gave him his professional assistance.

Richard Skillern, one of the conductors of the Bow-street
patrol, stated that on the preceding night he apprehended
the prisoner as being the person in the occupation of the
house in Henry-street, where the stolen property, part of
which he produced, was found. When he made the dis-
covery, neither the prisoner nor his mother were there, and
the only persons he saw were a little boy and girl. The
house was, he understood, taken by the prisoner in a
fictitious name.
The Solicitor.—l shall show, by the landlord, that it
was taken by Mrs. Solomons.
Skillern.—l believe not, Sir ; the landlord is here, and.
he will inform you differently.
Mr. WYATT.—Let him be sworn; there is a receipt in the
hinds of one of our officers in the fictitious name of Sloman,
taken by the prisoner. .

TheSolicitor—Solomons, Sir, is often pronounced and
spelt in that way.

Mr. WYATT_at may be so, among illiterate persons ;
but not, I should suppose, by either the prisoner or the
landlord.

James Parish, the landlord, then stated that he was the
proprietor of the house in Henry-street, or more properly
speaking Rutland. street, where the property was found.
He had seen the prisoner before when he came to take it :
it was next door to his own residence. The house was
taken in the name of Sloman. Witness asked the prisoner
his name, and, in reply, he first said it was Isaac, and then
correcting himself, said his father's name was Isaac SlO-
- but that his was John. The witness told him if
he paid a half quarter's rent in advance, they would ar—
range matters. The house and fixtures he let to the pri-
soner at 261. 15s. per annum. The prisoner observed
that he did not wish to be annoyed with the taxes
acid rates.

Mr. WyAn—Hitherto You have only spoken of one
person, was there any other, save the prisoner, present ?
Parish--There was not. The impression on his mind
was, that the house was taken for the father Isaac. He
had an entry in his book to that effect (the book was here
handed up); the entry was made previous to his receiving
the rent in advance. He did not inquire whither the
father lived, or who he was ; hie partner's wife told him,
that in his absence two respectable-looking ladies had
called with a young man, and were particularly anxious to
rent that house.

lflr. WYATT--When you were here before, you said
nothing of this, neither did you at all speak of the father.
You then said that you had let the house to a person named
Sloman.

V.
The Solicitor—Who were you paid the advanced rent
by ? was it not by Mrs. Solomons ?----Parish-..1t was not.
It was by the prisoner, who said he would go to Highgate
for it. This witness further said that his alarm was first
excited by the removal of a quantity of goods without his
being made acquainted with it.
Mr. WYArr--If you had suffered for it, it was only what
you merited. j-lere is a house taken under every circum-
stance of suspicion; the rent is paid in advance—a very
unusual occurrence; no inquiry is made by you as to the
Party whom you had let it to, or what was his character :
—goods are removing surreptitiously, and yet you talcs

no notice ; your negligence, to call it the least, is certainlv
not to be excused.

The Solicitor—Mrs. Solomens, Sir, is ready to prove
that she was in the ()empathy!' of the house.
Mr. WYATT.-Mrs. Solomon has been discharged.
You had better not go into the business, it would be pain-
fUl to me to make the wife prove the criminality of the
husband; and this must be the result, if she shows that this
stolen property was in his possession. There is not at pro •
sent sufficient evidence to send the case before a jury, there-
fore I shall discharge the prisoner. Before he left the bar,
Mr. Wyatt addressed him most feelingly and emphatically,
on the course he should hereafter pursue in life.
UNION-HALL.—On Saturday much merriment was
excited at this office during the examination of a boy named
Jackson, who was charged, under the Vagrant Act, with
sleeping in the open air.
One of the constables of Lambeth stated, that on the
preceding night, as he was passing along the Bishop's-walk,
he heard a noice proceed from a place where timber was depo-
sited, resembling the cries of
.a cat in great agony. He has-
tened to the spot in order to extricate the animal, conceiving
that it had been jammed between the logs of wood, from its
doleful lamentations. On his way thither, however, the
cries of distress were changed into the most loud and boiste-
rous squalling he had ever heard in his life, as if at least a
dozen cats of both sexes were engaged in their noisy
amours. He therefore stopped short, not much relishing
the idea of approaching too closely, seized up a brick-bat,
and flung it at random (the night being too dark to dis-
cover objects) towards the place from whence the " row"
proceeded ; but he might as well have spared himself the
trouble ; for the caterwauling, instead of diminishing, in-
creased to a degree that was quite stunning. He, there-
fore, plucked up all his courage, and having cautiously,-on
tiptoe, advanced, with a stone in his hand, weighty enongh
to knock the " nine lives" out of any poor mouser, he was
astonished, on looking about, to see no cat or any thing in
the shape of a cat, but discovered the boy Jackson, lying
very comfortably coiled up between two immense beams of
timber. He pretended to be asleep at first ; but when the
constable said he was convinced he was only "shamming,"
and added, that the uproar the cats had been making
would have prevented any human being from closing
their. eyes ; " the boy then admitted," said the constable,
" to my wonderment, that it was he who kicked up the
disturbance, and imitated the cats to the very life."
"And so," added the constable, " I took him to the
watch-house, and locked him up, for lying out in the
open air."

The boy, who stood smiling diiring the constable's state-
ment of his adventures the'night before, on being asked how
he got his livelihood, replied, " By chanting the cat's last
dying speech."
Mr. CHAMBERS-What is the cat's last dying speech,
my boy ? Is it such a noise as the constable has represented
you made last night, sufficient to disturb a whole neigh-
bourhood ?
Boy—Please your Worship, it is rather noisy.

Mr. CUAMBERS—Show me how you do it ?
The bey, having exhibited a little embarrassment at first,
on account of all eyes in the office being directed towards
him, at length, to the great amusement of the auditory,
commenced with bil right hand to strike his chin with
great rapidity, which, aided by his voice, produced the loud,
shrill, and discordant yells of a cat, whose body, one would
suppose, was jammed under the leg of a chair.
Mr. CHAMBERS—That will do, my lad. You have
given us a pretty good specimen of your power in imitat-
ing the feline species. You are discharged now, but take
care that you are not found again sleeping in the open air.
The boy, oh 'leaving the office, the moment he got into
the passage gave another proof of his powers.