The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A yoting man named 21Pkeich, alias
M'Pherson, alias .zir Gillivray, alias .211' Gregor, was brought
before Alderman AN nil-, on a charge of fraud.
The prisoner had, it appeared, made it a practice, to defraud
the Scotch commercial men in the city, by going and .pretend-
ing to claim relationship to them, and representing hirn.telf in
extrerge distress, from a number ofunavoidable accidents.
Mr. Haddan, of the firm of Hadrian, Gattie; and Haddan, re-
spectable solicitoM in Throgmorton street, now charged the pri-
soner ate an impostor. He had, some time ago, come -and re--
presented that he had just escaped from the shipwreck of a Leith
smack, aid was 'in the utmost distress. He mentioned some
7,,ties in Scotland, and other circumstance, which the prosecutor
did not particularize, but which induced him to give the prisoner
relief.—Altogether the prosecutor gave him about 131. The last
time be went away he said to .one of the clerks as he went out,
' Your master says you are to give me half a crown." The cle't-k
gave it to him, and this additional piece of swindling coming to
the ears of the prosecutor, he requested the clerk to apprehend
him wherever he met him. The clerk happened to meet the pri-
soner when at work at another place, and secured him.
The Alderman ordered the prisoner to be sent to the tread-mill
for one month. ' .

The prisoner roared out most lustily for mercy as soon as he
heard the tread-mill mentioned, and begged the sentence might
be mitigated.
The Aldertnsn.--If the law would allow me you should hays a
more severe punishMent.
The Chief Clerk, on looking at the act, found that the Magis-
strate had more extended power.
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Alderman 'Atzstri.—Then make out tl'e commitment fur two
nfontbe--this was accordingly done.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET..--The following case has been
under investigation fer, come days past before. Mr. Cosutir, the
Magistrate. • _ _ _ _

eFor the last two or three .years, Mr. Royle, a respectable sta-
tioner, in Leather-lane, Holborn, has had frequent occasions to
feel cetwinced that some persons in his employment were commit-
ting serious depredations upon his property,. of every description.
Mr. Royle; although he had abundant cause to suspect every
body in his service generally, yet he had no sufficient cause to
suspect nay individttell particularly, and the game of plutider went
on mouth after inontt without discovery'. In vain did Mr. Royle
discharge from his service foremen, shopmen, warehousemen, por-
tens, errand-boys, servant-maids, carpenters, bricklayers, &c. &c.
all was useless, until about a fortnight ago, when an accidental
circumstance brought to light the system of robbery under which
Mr. Royle had been so long suffering. Mr. Royle chanced to
detect one of his female servants in the act of purloining some arti-
cles of plate, and she was taken with the property upon her, before
she had time to convey it away. She was forthwith brought to
this office, from whence she was fully committed.
On the examination of this girl, Mr. Royle bitterly complained
to the magistrate of the ruin his property was suffering from some
private system of spoliation, carried on by some persons in hie
employ. This statement, with a report of the girl's committal,
was published in the newspapers the next day ; and in the course
of the following Mr. Royle received an anonymous letter, stating,
that the writer, having seen by the newspapers that the system of
robbery on Mr. Royle's property, in which .the writer himself had ,
once joined, but of which he had long since repented, was'still
going on, was impelled by his conscience to point out the persons
carrying on this system of plunder, and the means by which it.
was effected. In consequence of the information contained in this
letter, Mr. Royle employed Clements and Scofield, two active offi-
cers of this branch of the police, who quickly apprehended Henry
Wayman, foreman to Mr. Roele ; Charles Flint, a disharged
shopman from Mr. Royle's ; Juslma Jones, a carpenter, working
for Mr. Royle by day, and one of the watchmen of St. Luke's pa-
rish by night ; Peter Faulkner, a porter in the service of Mr.
Royle ; Charles Faulkner, son to the last-named prisoner, as er-
rand boy in Mr. Royle's service ; and Henry Roffy, another er-
rand boy, discharged from Mr. Royle's service.
On the apprehension of these prisoners, each seemed more
anxious than the other to what is techniCally called " split,"
that is implicate all the others, and save himself if he could..
Wayman, however, caught the officer's ear first, and as he was
the ringleader of the gang, so was he the better able to describe
their operations, and as he was the most confidential person in.
Mr. Royle's service, he was the better able to carry on an
,unsus-
pected plunder. Wayman then voluntarily stated to the officers,
that he was in the constant habit of supplying the other prisoners
with every description of property from Mr. Royle's stock, &c.
The rest of the prisoners also confessed, their participation in the
various robberies, and pointed out to the officers, where they had
most recently sold or pledged any of Mr. Royle's property.
The officers proceeded to several pawnbrokers, and other shops,
when a vast quantity of paper and stationery were found belong-
ing to Mr. Royle. To show the destructive nature of the plunder,
a brass-embossed printing roller, which cost Air. Royle 20/., al-
though a very small size, was sold by the prisoners for 10s.; and
in this way, hundreds of pounds' worth of property had been sacri-
ficed. All the six prisoners were yesterday brought tip for final.
examination, when Wayman, Flint, and Jones, were fully corn-
tnitted-fovirial:
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The two Faulkners were, from a leFe participation its guilt than
the others, admitted witneseee for the Crown, and discharged, and
Roffy WAS detained for another examination.

CORONER'S 'INQUEST.

Yesterday afternoon, an inquest IV/I3 held at the spread Eagle,
Millbank, before THOMAS lirccih, Esq., on the body of Ann
Gross, a fine 'young woman, who was found drowned in the

Thames.
Captain Andrew Pellet Green, R.N., of James-street, Buck-
ingham-gate,
ofrsemb
deposed,ovtbaetr
last, a
the tles hus
ceao emailsed been in his service
she
It
as strongly
recommended to him, and came from Ipswich ; she was of the
most respectable connections; one of her relations was married
to a clergyman, another in the late. The deceased was a most
exemplary young woman ; 8110 was a most valuable
servant ; it
was impteojble to speak in too high terms of her conduct. Wit •
peas had made every inquiry,
and believed that she had no fOl-
- She was a very different kind of young Ntronan, ex-
tremely modest, and rather distant. She had only been out of
his house twice since she had been in his service.
Coroner—Was she a girl of weak intellect ?
Witness—By no means ; quits the contrary.
Edward Frostick, servant to Captain Green, stated, that on
Monday last the deceased complained of her heed. On Thursday
last he mentioned to her about a servant, who had lived with
Colonel Hamilton, having drowned hersclf, which he read intl'e
newspapers. She asked him if he thenlit that drowning was au
easy death; for she had heard it was? Witness replied, that he
could not tell.
In answer ton question from a Juror, Avituess said, she had nu
sweethearts, and it was rather a joke against her that she was get-
ting old maidish.
Thomas Beal, a waterman, deposed to finding the body floating
within two yards of the shore, near Vauxhall Bridge ; he got as-
sistance, and conveyed the body to the Spread Eagle ; there were
no muks of violence on her person.
The Jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned, without nt •
marks of violence on her person.''