The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Capp, the person who was
charged on Saturday, with having stolen some silver spoons
in coffee-houses in the City, was yesterday brought up for
another examination. The Justice-room was literally
crammed with coffee-house-keepers, .tavern-keepers, publi-
cans, and waiters, a report having gone abroad that the
prisoner had made what is sometimes called a most respect-
able livelihood, by walking to places of public entertain-
ments. Several who could not prefer charges against him
recognise) him as a visitor, immediately before they missed
their property. Upon being conducted to the bar, he fixed
his eyes upon the ceiling, and affected to be absorbed in
serious meditation. He kad amused himself in prison with
copying some of the Psalms- of David, in a letter to the
Clergyman of the Compter, whom he •requested to take
care of his wife and two babes.

After the robbery in Baker's Coffee-house, and that in
the George and Vulture Tavern, had been investigated,
A pawnbroker stepped forward, and produced a spoon,
which he swore the prisoner bad pawned on the 13th
instant. This spoon was marked " Lomas," and was
proved to be the property of Mr. Lomas, who keeps the
hotel opposite to Astley's Theatre. The waiter of the
hotel stated, that he had missed two silver table spoons one
day, and he believed that produced to be one of them. He
did not know the prisoner.
A gentleman, who was in Baker's Coffee-house when
the prisoner was detected, stated that he observed Capp
shifting about as if he wanted to get rid of something, and
throwing down a newspaper on a table where there lay
three table-spoons. Witness soon afterwards saw four
table-spoons on the table, one of which was marked
" George and Vulture Tavern."
The waiter at Baker's Coffee-house had previously told
the prisoner that he had taken one of the spoons, and the
prisoner bad given it up; but knowing that the officer
who had been sent for would search him, he was naturally
anxious to get rid of the plunder which he bad possessed
himself of at the George and Vulture, where he actually
paid for a bowl of soup,with half a sovereign, and accord-
ingly slipped it in amongst the other spoon
He had, it was stated, once been in respectable business
as a broker, and is married to the sister of a gentleman of
property.—He was fully committed for trial.

BOW-ST REET.—F RAU D.—John Palmer was re-
examined on suspicion of having committed various frauds.
In consequence of the publication of the former case against
the prisoner, 111 r. John Brooks, a stationer, in Oxford-street,
came forward and substantiated a fresh charge of fraud
against the prisoner, who entered Mr. Brooks's shop on
Tuesday week, and requested ..that two reams of the best
paper, and two writing desks, might be sent to his master,
a gentleman residing in Great Portland-street, who would
pay for them upon delivery. Mr. Brooks sent the desks
and paper by his shopman, who was accompanied by the
prisoner; and when they reached Great Portland-street,
the prisoner went into a Mews, and shortly afterTteds came
out, saying that his master was not at home, but they
might find him' at a house its Chapel-street,' Grosvenor-
square, where they accordingly proceeded, and the prisoner
took the desks, &c. from the shopman, under the pretence
of showing them to his master, but he never returned.--
The prisoner said he was not guilty of this charge; but
the parties swore positively to him, and he was committed
for trial.
A man named Sibbald, who keeps the Lamb public-
house in Clare-market, was ordered to find bail for an as-
sault on a Mrs. Vitch, of Oxendon-street, who it appeared
went to the public-house in question to look for her brother,
an idle lad, who spent the best part of his time and all his
pocket money in the defendant's skittle-ground. Mrs. Vitch,
besides being rather roughly handled, was also saluted with
the contents of a basin of dirty water. The landlord being
asked how he could have acted so to a respectable female,
said he had behaved with the greatest sympathy towards
her. A person who was present, however, confirmed the
complainant's statement, and the sympathetic Mr. Sibbald
was ordered to find sureties, to answer the charge elsewhere.
MARYLEBONE.—On Tuesday, Thomas Davy, a
Paddington coachman, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH,
with assaulting James Hornsby, the driver of Buckmaster's
Bayswater stage, in the New-road, on Friday night.
Hornsby stated, that in consequence of Davy's furimis
driving, he was ordered by Mr. Buckmaster to take his
number. As soon as. Davy his intention, he left his
box; collared him, and threatened to awash lai.o oit

against the wall ; and in the mean time, Davy's employer,
Mr. Poole, took the reins and drove away.
Mr. John March, of No. 2, Judd-place East, New-road,
formerly of Ludgate-street, and Mr. Daniel . Edward Col-
ston, of Peel place, Kensington-gravel-pits, supported the
charge by their evidence, and directed the Magistrate's at-
tention more particularly to the circumstance of Davy's
furious driving, which, they said, placed other passengers
upon the road imminent danger.
The defendant requested Mr. GRIFFITH to postpone the
hearing of that complaint for one day, that he might bring
forward Mr. Poole, who, sitting upon the coach at the
time, ordered him to pass the Bayswater stage, and there-
fore was the person responsible. . . .

Yesterday, when the case was again brought forward,
Davy said he did not know who was his employer ; and
William Poole defied the Magistrates to prove that he was
proprietor of the coach, because his name was not upon it.
The case having been proved by the before-mentioned
gentleman, Mr. GRIFFITH inflicted a penalty of 10/. upon
the defendant regretting at the same time that he could not
make it ten times the amount; and ordered him, in de-
fault of payment, to be committed for six months.

The defendant afterwards gave notice of appeal, and Mr.
Poole and another became bis sureties.

A person of respectable appearance, whose name did not
appear, informed Mr. Griffith, that in the year 1816, he
was married to, as he supposed, a widow, at Ealing church,
by which engagement he forfeited his claim to a small in-
come. Within a short time he has discovered that her
former husband, to whom she was married at Dovercourt
in Essex, in 1797, is still living., and under these circum-
stances he requested Mr. Griffith to render him advice and
assistance.

Mr. GRIFFITH told him he could do nothing for him
without evidence, but if he procured such as was necessary
to establish the charge, a warrant should be granted.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--We stated yesterday
the circumstances of a robbery committed on a young lady
named Mason, residing at No. 3, George-street, Hanover-
square, whereby she lost a sum of 1001. in Bank of Eng-
land notes, and that a man named Gunnion, and his wife,
the latter of whom had been employed as charwoman in
the house, were in custody on suspicion of being concern-
ed in the robbery. In accounting for a valuable assort-
ment of fine dresses, &c. which were found at their
lodgings, and which they had lately purchased, the pri-
soner said that the money with which they had made those
purchases, had been given to them a few days ago by a
'Ornate relation residing at Clapham. In consequence,
Goddard, the officer, who, with Ballard, was employed on
the occasion, proceeded to Clapham, where he -learned
from the relation in question that she bad given no money
to the prisoners, nor had she seen them for a long time.
The officers next went a second time to the lodgings of the
prisoners, in Monmouth-street, and while there making
further search and inquiry, a respectable-looking female
entered, and inquired for the prisoners, for whom, she
said, she had been waiting for the last two hours at the
Blue Posts public-house, in Tottenham-court-road, where
they had appointed to meet her. The prisoners had in-
vited her to go with them on a jollification party with some
other friends, and she was much surprised at their want of
punctuality. On learning, however, 'that they were both
in custody on a .charge of stealing 100/. the woman at once
'gave the officers all the information in her power. She
said that they had both been at her house, the Red Lion,
on Hampstead Hill, the day before, in a state of intoxica-
tion, and had left a large sum of money in her care, which
she still held ; and as she now had no doubt it was stolen, ,
she was willing to give it up to the officers. The latter
then accompanied the woman, whose name is Sidwell, to
her home, where she delivered up to them one 10/. note of
the Bank of England, and 87 sovereigns, the whole of
what the prisoners had left with her; but no trace has, as
yet, been had of the remainder of the 1001. Nothing can
show more clearly than this robbery does, the culpable
conduct of servants in intrusting the care of their em-
ployers' houses to any other persons than themselves in the
absence of the family. In this ease, it appears that when
Miss Mason went out to spend the day, she left her own
female servant at home, in charge of the house : but the
latter thought she had as good a right to spend the day
with her friends as her mistress, so gave herself leave of
absence, confiding the care of her mistress's property to.the
two prisoners, who were total strangers to her, except that
the female prisoner ozcasionally acted at the house us a
charwoman, and so afforded them an ample opportunity
of plundering the whole house if they were so minded ;
and thus servants not only have their masters, &c. plun-
dered, but are themselves justly suspected of the robbery,
often sent to prison, and ruined.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, a' very eccentric
character, without either hat, shoe's, of stockings, nanaccl
James Marquis, was brought before G. Manttiovv, Esq.,
charged by the driver of the hackney-coach No. t 54, with
refusing to pay him his fare.
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This is about the fifth time the defendant has been
brought to this office on similar charges, and he has also
figured at several other police-offices, when he will be
sooner sent to prison than pay the coachman's demand,
although he has either half-pay or a pension from the
Ordnance Department, to the amount of upwards of
1001. a-year.
Thos. Castren, the coachman, stated that he drove the
defendant from the stand at the Adelphi, to the Haymarket
theatre, about half-past 10 o'clock. Thinking he was
going there to , convey a party home, he did not approach
the doors, when this defendant called out, and asked him in
an authoritative tone, why he did not drive up to the doer
as well as other carriages. The defendant then got out of
the coach, and seizing a bill of the performance, attempted
to enter the theatre, desiring witness to wait, as he should
want him again; the door-keepers soon turned him back,
and he then ordered him to drive to the Ordnance-office in
Pall-mall, which he did; when, after waiting there for a
considerable time, he wanted to be driven to the Tower,
but on demanding his fare, the defendant said he could
not pay him.
Mr. Maaniorr said, that he was astonished how any
coachman could admit a man of the prisoner's description
into the coach, when he TM destitute of hat, shoes, and
stockings.
The coachman stated that the waterman let him in, and
from the manner in which the defendant spoke to him
when in the coach, he thought that he was a first-rate
gentleman ; nor did he discover his dress until he got into
•

Defendant.—l really don't know what the charge is
against me. (To the coachman)—Did I Rot order you to
drive to 13, Crown-street, Westminster? Coachman—
Yes, you did ; but I had had quite enough of you with-
out that.

Mr. MARniorr declared that the prisoner was a corn.

plete nuisance, and he could not conceive how be could be
allowed to enter a coach, as he was apparently insane....

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Defendant. -- Try whether I am insane, and ask me any
questions you may think proper.
The coachman said he had been repeatedly summoned
tfor refusing a fare, and had been fined. He had also been
informed that the prisoner had an income.
Mr. MARRIOTT said it was true•by the Act of Parliament
coachmen were liable to a penalty for refusing a fare, but
yet there were certain eases, like this, in which they might
use their own judgment.
Bathgate, the night constable, stated that the prisoner
requested to have pen, ink, and paper, and he would pro-
cure the money for the fare, when he wrote a draft on the
Bank of England, as follows :
" St. Margaret's Watch-house, Aug. 22, 1827.
" At sight pay to my order the sum of one hundred
pounds. (Signed) JAMES LE ROY,
To the Governor and Company of Edinburgh.
of the Bank of England. JAMES MARQUIS,
£lOO. Master of the Ordnance."
It was also mentioned on the back of the draft, that the
money was for the purpose of building a new post-office at
the Ordnance Department.
The coachman now stated, that his fare and loss of time
amounted to I is.
The defendant declining to pay this sum, was ordered to
be committed to Tothill-fields for a month, when as soon
as he is liberated, there is no doubt he will again exercise
his irresistible propensity for riding in a coach.
LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday Josephßlachburn,
a builder, residing in St. George's-in-the-East, appeared
before the Sitting Magistrates, Mr. Wyatt and the Rev.
D. Mathias, in answer to an information laid against him
at the instance of the Surveyor of Pavements, to show
cause why he did, contrary to an Act of Parliament, and
without the permission of the Commissioners, or their
officers, dig up thirty feet of pavement on the public high-
way, for which offence he rendered himself liable to a
penalty of 150/.
Mr. Unwin, the clerk to the Commissioners, with Mr.
Laidlay, the Chairman to the Paving Board, attended to
support the charge; and it being most distinctly proved,
Mr. WYATT remarked, that he thought that if the extent of
damage was laid at five feet, it would meet the justice of
the case. This was at once assented to by Mr. Unwin
and Mr. Laidlay, the latter of whom said that he hoped
the decision in this case would have the desired effect of

Weventing builders and others from committing similar
offences.—The defendant was then convicted in the penalty
of 251., being 5/. for each foot, the least sum the Act
allows.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday the secretary of a benefit
society, called the " Tent of Aighteousness; the mem-
bers 9f which are of the Joyiah peretimivD; was viiratuonoil

to this office, on the complaint of Emanuel Lei!, who was
expelled the society on the alleged ground of breaking the
rules.

The complainant stated, that he.had been a member of
the above society for a considerable time. A few weeks
back he declared on the box in consequence of illness, and
received a small weekly allowance. Before his ultimate'
restoration to health, he attended at a neighbour's house
during the ceremony of a circumcision which was performed.,
therein, and that fact having been made known to the;
Committee, they immediately struck his name out of the
list of members of the " Tent of Righteousness," on the
alleged ground that be had forfeited all claims to any bene-
fits arising from the society owing to his having been pre-
sent aiding and assisting in the said ceremony, at a period
when he was supposed to have been at home on a bed of,
sickness. Complainant on his expulsion requested, ac-
cording to the regulations of the society, that the matter
might be settled by arbitration ; this mode of arrangement,
however, the secretary refused 'to accede to, and he was
therefore summoned to explain the grobuds of his refusal.
The complainant added, that be was most anxious the Ma-
' gistrate should decide the case, as, even in the event of its
being settled by arbitration, he was persuaded that the
officers of the " Tent of Righteousness" had its affairs so
completely in their own hands, that it would be decided in,
the way most favourable to themselves, and his claim to be
restored would be scouted.

The Magistrate, on perusing one of the dailies in their
hook of regulations, discovered, that if a member offended
against the rules, and was expelled, on the payment of 7s.
he was authorized in calling for an arbitration, which, how-
ever, was to be final, without the power of appeal. " If,"
said the Magistrate, " you choose to belong to such a so-
ciety, I cannot help you. You must pay the 7s. to the
secretary, and then the matter between you will be arbi-
trated."

Complainant.--I know the Committee will dome : how-
ever, I shall do as your worship advises me.
The Magistrate remarked on the folly of persons throwing
away their money in the expectation of being benefited by
such societies as the " Tent of Righteousness." " If,',
said he, " the working classes deposited part of their eat n-
ins in the,Savings' Banks, instead of benefit societies,
they would soon have reason to congratulate themselves on'
the selection.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY.-FRIDAY,

AUGUST 24.--(At ttia Court of

Commissiomers, Basinghall-streef.)
Broad, T., Penzance ll Joseelyne„ W., Bishopsgate-
Burt, R., Lucas-st., Cont street
mercial-road 1 Jordan, F., Augel-emnt ... 11
Child, D., Fan-street
Downer, W., Leadenhall- Pool's, G. and Co., Moor-
-,,

street
Evans, W., Rotherhithe 11
Hewitt, N., Portland-ter-
race lO

fields ..... . ...... : .... 10
Shurmer, J., Shirloy ll
Walker, W., London

UNNATURAL MOTHER.—EarIy on Thurs-
day morning, as a woman was proceeding to
her work at Messrs. Stocks, of Heaton-Mersey,
near Stockport, whilst passing through a corn-
field, she heard the cry of a child, and on going
to that part of the field from whence the sound
proceeded, she found a female infant about tell
weeks old, lying upon a wheat sheaf, in a most
pitiable condition, having apparently been there
the greater part of the night. The child is now
at the Heaton Norris workhouse, and the over-
seers have offered a reward for the apprehensibn
of its unnatural parent.— Manchester Mercurip
HYPOCHONDRIA.—A per Son at Taunton
often kept at home for several weeks, under the
idea of danger in going abroad. Sometimes he
imagined that lie was a cat, and seated himself
on, his hind quarters; at other times he would
fancy himself a teapot, and stand with one arm
a-kimbo like a handle, and the other stretched
out like the spout. At last he conceived him
self to have died, and would not move or be
moved till the coffin came. His wife in serious
alarm, sent for a surgeon, who addressed him
with the usual salutation, " How do you do this
morning, ?" "Do !" replied he in a low voice,
" a pretty question to a dead man !" Dead,
sir ; what do you mean ?" " Yes, I died last
Wednesday ; the coffin will be here presently,
and I shall be buried to-morrow." The sur-
geon, a man of sense and skill, immediately felt
the patient's pulse, and, shaking his head, said,
" I find it is indeed too true; you are certainly
defunct ; the blood is in a state of stagnation,
putrefaction is about to take place, and the sooner
you are buried the better." The coffin arrived,
he was carefully placed in it, and carried'towards
the church. The surgeon had previously giver':
instructions to several neighbours how to pro-
ceed. The procession had scarcely moved
dozen yards, when a person stopped to inquire
who they were carrying to the grave : " Mr.
our late worthy overseer." " What ! is the old
rogue gone at last ? a good release, for a greater
villain never lived." The imaginary deceased
no sooner heard this attack on his character than
he jumped up, and in a threatening posture said,
" You lying scoundrel, if I were not dead I'd
make you suffer for what you say ; but as it is,
am forced to submit." He then quietly 1°
;4,
down again ; but ere they had proceeded ball
way to church, another party stopped the pro-
cession with the same inquiry, and added invec-
tive and abuse. This was more than the
_sup'
posed corpse could bear ; and jumping from the
coffin, was in the act of following his defamer 9
when the whole party burst into an immoderate
fit of laughter, and the public exposure awakening
him to a sense of his folly, he fought against the
weakness, and in the end conquered it.--. Liver
pool Albion.
—Jo