The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW.STREET.

A decent-looking man named Bolton, accompa
tiled by his wife and two small children, came be-
fore Mr. HALLS on Thursday for parochial relief,
stating that he had been to the overseer of St.
Clement Danes, who had refused him admission to
the workhouse of that parish, on the ground that
lie had slept the overnight in the parish of St. Mar-
tin-in-the-fields.

The poor man stated his case. He was a native
of Tewkesbury, but quite destitute. After an ab-
sence from town for some time, he returned lately,
and took lodgings in the parish of St. Clement
Danes, a distress was put into his apartment on Mon-
day last, and himself and family were turned into the
street; he applied to Mr. Mumford, the overseer of
St. Clement Danes, who relieved him with small
alms for a day or two, and at length he received
from him a shilling, with a recommendation to pro-
cure a lodging where he could. He slept that night
in White Hartlard, but the next day, his means
being exhausted, he applied again to Mr. Mumford,
who told him that White Hart-yard was in St.
Martin's parish, and there he must apply for relief.
Mr. Munford had merely acted acted according to
what he conceived to be his duty.
Mr. HALLS, after observing that if the poor laws
were properly administered, it would save a great
deal of the confusion and inconvenience which
existed at this and other police offices, said that it
was quite clear that in giving the present applicant
Is., with directions to get a bed where he could, the
object was to turn him and his family over to some
other parish. Now, however ingenious this subter-
fuge might be, it was not defensible in point of law,
and perhaps Mr. Munford was not aware that in
doing so lie had committed an indictable offence.
11e (Mr. Halls) was, however willing to believe
that he had acted through ignorance. Mr. Halls
then directed that Bolton and his family should be
received forthwith into the workhouse of St. Cle-
ment Danes.

Last night Jeremiah Redding, one of the gang
that infested the neighbourhood of St. Giles's when
street robberies were so frequent there, and who
stood at the bar of this dice about two years since
charged with having robbed Mr. Horace Twiss,
M.P., of his gold watch and appendages, was
brought before Mr. HALLS, together with a female
named Ann Kcary, charged capitally with having
been found in the act of coining.
Serjeant Wheatley stated, that at five o'clock that
evening, in consequence of information he had re-
ceived, he, in company with his brother Edward,
No. 50, and Thomas Smee, proceeded to the house
No. 10, Bloomsbury-market, and went immediately
up stairs to the first floor, the door of which was
locked. He knocked at it twice, arid called out
" Jerry," upon which the door was opened by the
female prisoner, and he saw the male prisoner F. eated
on a chair near the fire-place. His coat and waist-
coat were off, and the sleeves of hiS shirt were
tucked up. 'the instant he perceived the witness
he cast something from him, and -he attempted at
the same time to thrust his hand into his breeches'
pocket. Witness seized it, however, and drew from
the pocket a mould containing a counterfeit shilling,
which evidently had just been cast, as both the
mould and the metal were quite warm. - Witness
immediately handcuffed the prisoner, and directed
his companion to lock the room. In searching a
cupboard he found a bag of plaster of Paris, and a
piece of metal, together with a case knife and file,
both of which had evidently been used on metal. A
pipkin was also found containing metal such as is
used in casting base coin. Two or three pieces of
the same metal were found in the cinders and about
the hearth. In conveying the prisoner to the
watch-house he declared that he was a dead man.

The brother of Sergeant 'Wheatley and Smee cor-
roborated his evidence.

At the request of Mr. Field, of the- Mint, the
prisoners were remanded.

LAMBE TH-STREET.

The overseer of St. Mary Stratford, Bow, came
yesterday before Mr. HARDWICK, at this office,
bringing with him a pauper named Arnoll, and
begged of the Magistrate to grant an order to com-
pel the new Select Vestry of the above parish to
grant the pauper some relief.

Mr. Penn, the overseer, knew the man was a
deserving object, and, nevertheless, the new Select
Vestry refused to grant hire any relief. The Vestry
had given him the sum of N. per week, which he
had expended, as well as 1 Is. of his own money,
last week. The Vestry, instead of giving him an
unlimited power of relieving paupers, had been in
the habit of only giving him this small sum of
money weekly; and once a fortnight holding a
meeting among themselves for the purpose of re-
lieving the poor, which meeting was held at six
o'clock in the evening, and it often happened that
poor paupers, who had been waiting outside the door
from six o'clock in the evening till twelve o'clock at
night, were sent away without any relief.

The Magistrate said that the reason, perhaps,
why he was not given unlimited power to relieve
the paupers, was because they had an opinion that
he was too good-hearted.
It was mentioned in the office that the expellees
of relieving the paupers had at one time increased
from N. per week to 201. during Mr. Penn's over-
seership, but this Mr. Penn denied.
Mr. Penn would take very good care never to
accept another overseership when he got rid of this
one. It was really terrible to be continually tor-
mented by poor deserving objects, without any
power of relieving them.
The Magistrates adjourned the case till this day,
to enable some gentlemen belonging to tha new
Select Vestry to attend.