The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-09 00:00:00

POLICE thi'haibttqct

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday three persons, John
Day, a servant of Messrs. Calvert and Co., the brewers ;
John. Perkins, a cow-keeper, residing in. Snow's-fields;
hild Matte§ Mathews, his labourer, underwent a final
examination, bn a charge of having stolen a
.quantity of
grains, the property of Mr. Laycock, a cow-ketpet, re-
siding at Islington.
The apPrehereiion of the three prisoners, with three other
persons, labotirer4, ih the einployinent of Mr. Laycock, on
the charge of 'hiring been concerned in the robbery, was
mentioned in our paper of Friday. The examination lasted
a considerable tune oh the lii ekiit oteittort. The chief
facts on which evidence was given for the prosecution were
as follows :—Mr. Laycock, the prosecutor, has for a long
tune contracted with Messrs. Calvert and Co. for the
supply of their grains, the whole of which after each brew-
ing belonged to him. • He had recently strong ground for
siispecting that a quantity of thein were abstracted at the
brewery, and he set a watch. On the morning of the 3d
instant he went with an officer, and apprehended Mathews,
who was about to move off with a cart containing a load of
about eight quartets of grains. The account be gave of it
was, that he was about to take it to his master, Mr. Per-
kins. Day, the stoker to the brewhouse, who has the
care of the grains, was also apprehended, together with
three men belonging to Mr. Laycock, who suspected them
of being concerned in the robbery. The other prisoner,
Mr. Perkins, came to claim the horse and cart seized, when
he was detained on .a charge of being particeps
Subsequently Mr. Laycock applied to have his three men
discharged, on the ground that he could not. obtain suffici-
ent evidence to warrant their detention, and they were ac-
cordingly liberated.
One of these labourers now deposed, that on the night in
question, the prisoner Day had said to them, • " Give us a
goodish lot, and, you shall have plenty of beer." The pur-
port of this witness's testimony went to show that it had
been a practice to bribe them with beer to leave behind a
quantity of grains belonging to the prosecutor, which they
were bound to have carted away.
Matthews was now, at the instance of the prosecutor,
taken from the bar, and admitted to give evidence. He
deposed that he received the grains in question from the
prisoner Day. The witness had been in the habit of cart-
ing
away grains from the brewery nearly a year and a half
in the same manner as on the present occasion. Some.
times he fetel-ed them away for his master in the middle of
the day, and there never was the least concealment.
Mr. Perkins, in his defence, protested that he had not
the slightest idea the grains were dishonestly obtained. It
was well known that in most breweries the sweepings of
the mash-tubs, were allowed as the stoker's perquisites.
The grains had uniformly been purchased as such by him
(Mr. Perkins) openly, and carried away regularly, as his
servant had deposed, ui the face of day, nor was, the quantity
such for 'so large a concern as naturally to excite suspicion.
One of the operative brewers belonging to the firm said,
that the sweepings were considered at some breweries,
though not at this, to be the perquisites of the stoker, but
he Seldom heard of their getting more thin one or two
quarters. Here the quantity taken was nearly eight
quarters, and was worth from lbs. to li.
The LORD MAYOR, upon this evidence of the custom of
other breweries, and the proof of the open manner in
which the grains were carried away, discharged Mr. Per-
kins; The stoker, Day, was fully committed to the Old
Bsiiey, to take his trial on the charge of stealing the grains

. GUILDHALL.— Wm. Eason, a groom, was brought
before Mr. Alderman AwsLiv yesterday, charged with Ma
terrimting divine service on Sunday evening, at St. Ann's
church,- in Blackfriare.
Potter, the beadle, observed the prisoner walk in with
a drunken gait and seat himself among the male paupers,
who attend the church twice a day. Having seated him-
self;the beadle was afraid that a greater interruption would
ensue from attempting to' exclude him again than might
occur if he were suffered to remain; and therefore he did
not disturb him. For a time he sat quietly enough, rock.
ling froth side to side. He had come with the serious in:
tendon of profiting by the lecture, although so drunk he
could scarcely see or walk ; and in his anxiety to be edified]
and-attributing-the effects of the liquor upon his eompre4
hension to the indistinctness of the preacher, he rose, and
looking towards the Rev. Mr. Clementsoia bawled out—
" Du you speak out louder." The beadles instantly pounced
on him, and hurried him off to the Compter.
Mr. Alderman Anstes, said it was disgraceful to be
found drunk on the working days of the week, but it was
doubly so ott the Sabbath, and his offence was still further
aggravated by the disturbance he had created in the church.
He should therefore pay a fine of fie.
At a subsequent period of the day, he was. dismissed
with an admonition, without paying the fine.
BOW-STREET.--:-Mr. Hooper Hof ton, Mr. Edward
Horton, and -Mr. Jos. Smith, persons of respectable ap-.
pearance, were yesterday brought to this office,, in the
custody of a constable, under the following circumstances
Mr. M. Ansel' said, that he resided at Brompton, and
bad 'known •the -defendants for some time. A short time
ago, witness and Mr. Hooper Horton engaged in-a specula-
tion in busittels, in which it was necessary to give security,
and witness gave his owe acceptance for 3001., payable at
three months to the party with whom they had entered
into- a contract. When this transaction was completed,
witness said that he thought it hardly fair that the entire
responsibility should rot upon his shoulders, and suggested
that Mr. Hooper Horton should give him a bill of acceptance
for 160/. payable at a' month, to hold as security for him.
self. Mr. H. Horton consented to give him his bill for
that amount, but after giving it, he complained that he
ought not to have been required to give a bill at so short a
date as a month, when the hill of witness for 3001. had three
months to rim. Witness, upon this, agreed to. provide S.O/.
to enable Mr. H. Horton to take up the bill when it he.
came due at the end of the month. Thus matters stood
till last Saturday night, when the three defendants
called at the house of witness, and, after some con-
versation about the hill, Mr. Jos. Smith observed that
his friend, Me. Hooper Horton, had been informed
that the bill had been drawn upon a four-shilling stamp in-
stead of one of 4s. 6d. Witness said that be was not aware
of that, and he believed that it was not a tact. Mr. Smith
said that Mr. Horton was uneasy on the subject, and wit-
ness replied, that there could be no ground for his uneasi-
ness, because, if the bill was on an illegal stamp, he (wit-
ness) would, be the only loser. Mr. Smith replied, that
Mr. Horton would be liable to an information for having
drawh the bill on an improper stamp. Witness, with
some warmth, asked Mr. Smith if he meant to insult him
t
in his mist house, by intimating that he would debase him-
self so ntuelt as to become an informer? and he immedi-
saptealrytmseenntth. is
Witness
servant for the
thebill ,
to
which
thesva sH
oirnt oannsoer
, noth
parting with it from his hand, and particularly directed
their atteutiOn to the stamp. • Mr. H. Horton asked the
witness tet shove the hill to Mr. Smith ; he did so, and
Mr. S. snatched at it, and tore it asunder, each retaining
half of the bill. Mr. Smith tore his half to pieces; and
upon being remonstrated with for such a gross outrage,
they all mated that they came there for the express pur-
pose of obtaining possession of the bill by stratagem, in
order to destroy it.
'the defendants did nut attempt to deny the facts stated
by Mr. Ansell, and' along discussion -took place between
Mr. Halls, the Magistrate, Mr. Harmer, who appeared
for Mr. Arisen, and Mr. Prendergast, the barrister, who
appeared for the defendants, as to what offence the parties
had really committed ; Mr. Prendergast contended, that
no offence cognizable by a Magistrate had been made out
against his clients.' If the parties had committed a tres-
pass, the complainant bad his remedy by action ; and if
they were guilty of a conspiracy, he might indict them at
the Sessions.
Mr. lIALLs said, that he coincided with Mr. Prender-
gast, that the case was one in which he could not interfere.
It did not appear that an assault or breach of the peace
had been committed. When Mr. Smith tore the bill, it
did not appear that he touched the person of the com-
plainant, and therefore he should leave the party to indict for
trespass, assault, conspiracy, or whichever they might
think proper.—The parties were dismissed.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday an eccentric and very
grotesque-looking person,
Stamford-bridge,named Tebbutt, who resides at
Chelsea, charged one Susannah Dugdale '
with robbing him of a silver watch and chain, and eleven
guineas of the reign of the late King. Mr. Tcbbutt is quite
atroriginal., His dress consisted of a pea-green upper and"
dreis coat, both of which had large silver buttons upoP'
thenr,.beating a stag- and his name in full; a yellow svah!--
coat, with mother-u'-pearl buttons, and a second waistcoat

MARRIED.

On the 6th instant, at Fishbourn, near Chichester, Sus-
sex, Villidm Nunn, Esq., of Upper Tooting, Surrey, and
Jesus College, Cambridge, to Mary Christian, only daughter
of Ralph Clarke, Esq., Of Fishbourn.
On the 3d inst., at Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, the Rev.
George Cornelius Gorham, B. 1):; Fellow of Queen's Col-
lege, to Jane, second daughter of the Rev. J. K. Martyn,
of Kimbolton. _ _

On Saturday, the 6th iast., at Shepton Mallet, Charles,
son of David Martineau, Esq., Stockwell Common, to
Elizabeth Mary, daughter'of W. P. Jillard, Esq. Oak-hill
Cottage, Somerset.
On the 6th instant, at Christ Church, Surrey, Charles
Roberts, Esq., of the Heath, near Stowbridge, to Miss
Noble, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars.
On the 6th instant, at St. George's, Hanover-square,
Mr. Henry Fox, of Regent-street, to Miss Sophia Cleaver,
of Hanover-street, Hanover-square.