The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

' BOW-STREET.
Thomas Edwards, a lad about 16 years of age,
Ib7l4c'harged by his late master, Mr. John Bacon, of
Muswell-hill, with stealing from his
gequnds two cows, value 461., his property.
. The prosecutor is a cow-keeper, and the prisoner
tped to carry out milk for him about six months ago.
'! appeared that on the morning of Monday, be-
IVfeen five and six o'clock, the prisoner, who was
sePPosed to be assisted by another boy, stole the
1`" Cows from the prosecutor's field, and drove them
,")
i Smithfield market, in order to sell them. Not
• the
a purchaser, however, and fearing a pursuit,
prisoner thought it prudent to quit Smithfield,
rd,taking an opposite direction to where the owner
rd,
he drove the cows to the neighbourhood of
Dulwich, and let them loose in a field at eleven
(tel°ek at night. The prisoner then, overcome by
of.
igue, went to a cow-shed adjoining, on the farm
a gentleman named Oxley, where he soon fell
fast asleep. Mr. Bacon, in the mean time having
!eisged his cows, went in pursuit of them, and trac-
leg them to Smithfield, he there, upon inquiry,
'ear, tied that two cows answering the description of
by a'
that had been stolen had been offered for sale
LI a' lad, who, however, had driven them away
`about an bout an hour before, having failed in his
• endeavours to sell them. The prosecutor lost no
hoe in following up the pursuit, and with the as-
ljstance of a dismounted patrol, named John War-
Jen, whom he met upon the Kent-road, he sue-
Seeded in discovering his cows quietly grazing in a
`stranger's field at Dulwich. Suspecting that the
thief was not far distant, Mr. Bacon and the patrol
,Went to the cow-shed, where the prisoner was dis-
Avered buried in a heap of hay, and so sound
Veep that he was with great difficulty awakened.
om a rustling which was heard in another part of
the cow shed, it was supposed that the prisoner's
etnpanion, hearing the noise, had crept out of the
shed and escaped. At the time the prisoner stole
the cows he was in the employment of a cow-keeper,
named Marsh, who resides at No. 11, John-street,
New Kent-road.
The prisoner, who with difficulty kept himself
Order
that further evidence might be produced to
toake out the case against him.
MARYLEBONE.
,Yesterday Mr. Benjamin Farrow, baker, No. 6)
Oxford
-market, told Mr. GRIFFITH he believed an
attempt had been made to burn his house, and strong
suspicion
bi attached to one individual respecting it.
e stated the particulars as far as they came under
As knowledge, and Mr. Griffith sent Buckeridge,
41a officer to examine the place, and apprehend the
"euisPeeted party. Buckeridge returned with Richard
ark i n
custody, a youth who, as an apprentice, has
Was eighteen months with Mr. Farrow, and he
"as placed at the bar.
Farrow said, that about half-past one on
Thursday morning, he was roused by the servant-
maid'
who sleeps with the children on the same
floor.
InistressS, he knocked at the door, and said to her
" I hope, Ma'am, your room is not on
T:e, for mine is full of smoke." Mr. and Mrs.
the
found theirs to be the same, and he, thiuking
ei: shavings prepared for the oven furnace had ac-
ueentally taken fire, ran down to the bake-house.
anfound both his apprentices, Henry Doughton
thethe prisoner, asleep, or apparently so, upon
7 troughs in which the dough is prepared, and
Ini.ell are generally used by bakers as bedsteads,
vdoting the intervals of night work. He cried out,
i'do_vvhat have you set on fire ?" Doughton jumped
town and followed him into a passage (for he saw no-
re Ing was amiss in the bake-house), and the prisoner
mained upon the board as if still asleep. Mr. Far-
towth went in one direction, and Doughton in ano-
e") and he (Doughton) discovered a light through
the cracks in a closet door, and when they opened
It, they found its contents were on fire,and the
fl antes-extended a yard in height. They were ex-
tinguished by water, and Mr. Farrow produced be-
fore the Magistrate the fragments of a child's chaise
!art, and a pair of boot-trees, in a great measure re-
!need to cinders, and represented that in a box be-
bueath the above articles, which was used for the
f:21" of receiving old iron and nails only, they
by fir..a smell quantity of shavings partly destroyed
clo') Which ought not to have been there. The
locked Was under a flight of stairs; it was not
pren,; it was a place for lumber, and both his ap-
tiler
vs after the fire happened said they had been
1474; He has one maid-servant; she gave the
the he has no journeyman ; his apprentices do
werk; a man and his wife lodge in the second
in bland a single man in the attic; they were all
elo- 0, and never have occasion to go near the
ets.,!t; it is a pair of stairs lower than the yard. He
" aPprentiCeS to work a little after eleven, and
his
thing then appeared safe.
bilenry Doughton, the other apprentice, who had
)(leen four years with Mr. Farrow, added the fol-
elting particulars to his master's evidence :
wher Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon of last
cceelt, he cannot say which, the prisoner asked him
house on fire." The witness replied, " there were
Plenty
on of ways ;" and they had more conversation
br,fhe subject, which was not particular, and the
r"soner said, " Don't talk loud about it, else if
at,
thing happens here, they will lay it to us two."
e conversation, he believes, was occasioned by a
IT which happened lately in the neighbourhood.
~ passage in which the closet is situated leads to
" vault for coals and other things. On Thursday
111 °riling, at
.a quarter before one, the witness put
sont the candle, that he and the prisoner might lie
().wn upon the troughs to sleep. The prisoner
tr. " Don't put the candle out, I am going into'
e vault to put the beer there" (some left after
supper), and the witness lit it again, and went to
sleep, and slept until his master awoke him. The
nloner no doubt did take the beer into the vault,
e„r it was found there afterwards. He never knew
k Shavings being put into the closet.
kr. GRIFFITH asked the witness if the prisoner
hod had any recent quarrel with his master ?—Wit-
tlesa---He has bad a great mink words with my
feaster, as well as my mistress.
Mr. GRIFFITII recollected that he was charged
before him, two or three weeks ago, by his master,
with getting drunk and neglecting his work.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked the witness if he had had
any conversation with the prisoner respecting the
fire in the closet ?—The witness said yes, but he
did not recollect any thing material about it.
• The Chief Clerk asked him his opinion, and he
,sreplied that no one else but the prisoner was sUs-
Pected.

Mr. GRIFFITH told the prisoner he was at liberty
then to say any thing he pleased in his defence, or
nensk any question of his master or the other wit-
s.

Prisoner, (to his fellow apprentice.)—You told
Me that master did not wake you, but that you
'woke, and saw him in the bake-house standing so
kthawing his coat together and shaking.)
Doughton—No : I told you he awoke me out of
eep,' and said,' What the are you burning
The prisoner said the witness had altered his
Statement, and declined asking any more questions.
). The Chief Clerk asked Doughton whether, when
~H 8 master came down to the bakehouse, he was
dressed. He replied, "in his night-trousers only."
Mr. Farrow was asked whether his property was
insured. He said yes, for 3001., in the Westminster-
°See, and he had then 40 or 50 sacks of flour, and
• Valuable furniture.
uckeridge examined the premises, and told Mr.
GRIFFITIs he had no doubt they were set fire to in-
tentionally. He found an empty beer cask had
been destroyed, as well as the child's chaise-cart,
end the boot-trees, and the shavings appeared to
„,41'n been placed in the box on purpose.—The
~
,'"soner was remanded.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
yesterday Joint Potter, an elderly looking man,
/118 brought up in custody by Colton, a constable