The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

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GUILDHALL.—WiIIiam Tyrell, a stout young
fellow, was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE yes-
terday, charged with defrauding various booking-
office-keepers, by obtaining money for carriage and
porterage upon sham parcels directed to vinegar' near
London, and alleged .to have been brought out of
the country by the coaches.
Mr. French, the keeper of the Rose Inn, Smith-
field, stated on the 18th of April, a man brought a
parcel directed to Mr. Whitehead, of St. Alban's,
and presented the usual ticket from the Angel Inn,
St. Clement's, with a demand for 2s. 4.d. porterage
and carriage. The complainant booking parcels for
St. Alban's, pail the sum without hesitation. He
could not recollect who brought the parcel, but it
was returned from St. Alban's with a note, that no
such pr-son could be found. Complainant took it to
the Angel Inn, where the book-keeper, on hearing
his story, smiled in his face, and said, " You are
done, there are people on the town tricking the short
stage carriers with these sham parcels."
Sir PETER—It was no smiling matter to you,
however. What did the parcel contain ?
Complainant—l asked the book-keeper to open
it, and he told me he knew there was nothing but
brown paper in it, and so it proved.
Sir PETER—And you had paid more for the parcel
than the brown paper was worth ?
Complainant-4 should think so.
Yesterday the prisoner brought a parcel directed
in the same way, " per coach from London," and
to the same party. A large figure "7" was marked
upon it with a writing brush, us if the parcel had
been the seventh upon the way-bill of the coach,
but the porter's ticket was now made out as from
the Bolt-in-Tun, Fleet-street, for 2s. 4d. Witness
sent for a constable, and the prisoner professed to
feel some shyness to returning to the Bolt-in-Tun,
because he had added a 2d. to, the porterage. He
was assured no harm should come to him on that
account, and was led to the inn, where the book-
keeper disclaimed all knowledge of the parcel, the
porterage ticket, or the prisoner, and the parcel being
opened, was found to contain, as before, only brown
paper.
Sir PETER LAURIE—How long, prisoner, have
you pursued this mode of raising the wind ?—Pri-
soner—l am but three weeks out of St. George's
Hospital, where I was confined some time ; I was
formerly in the coach line.
Sir PETER—Where did you get this parcel from ?
Prisoner—l made it.
Sir PETER—This frank admission renders it un-
necessary to look for further. evidence; but in the
case which affects the prisoner, he did not obtain the
money, and I can only commit him for 'attempting
to do so.

Two instances, however, in which the prisoner
had succeeded in getting too sums of 2s. 2d. upon
fictitious parcels, were immediately adduced.
Mr. Bills, the landlord of the Blue Posts, Hot,
born, said, the prisoner brought a parcel, as from the
Angel Inn, directed to " Mr. Simmonds, at Mt.
Fauntleroy's, Hamp.iteati.l' This was on Tuesday
week ; he paid the prisoner 2s: 2d., and he sat an
hour and a half 'in the bar drinking ale. In the
afternoon he brought a second- parcel directed to
Mr. Sheen, Kentish-town," and being paid his
demand, 2s. 2d., he threw doWn the halfpence, and
said he always spent the odd two-pence in gin. No
such person as Mr. Simmonds could be found; but
the other parcel bore a genuine direction, and was
taken in. Both of them contained only brown paper.
Sir PETER—WheTe did you get the blank printed
tickets from, prisoner ? Prisoner—From the porter.
Sir PETER—The porter must have supposed you
wanted them for an improper purpose ? A voice
behind--I. must contradict that.

Sir PETER—The porter is here, I perceive. Come

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The Porter admonished the prisoner'iliThi
vaneed—mind what you say, or, you will get me into
'trouble—and the ,priioner first denied that he had
said 'he obtained the blanks from the porter, but after-
wards explained that he did not mean this porter,
but it was some other.

The Porter said similar parcels had been passed
off on the poulterer at the end of Fleet-market, and
the landlords of the Kings and Keys, Fleet-street ;
the Swan, Snow-hill ; sand the Chequers, at Char-
.ing-eross. The form of ticket used by 'the prisoner
had been discontinued at the -coach-office for eighteen
months.

The prisoner rooms committed on the case of the
parcel directCd to Mr. Simmonds.

MARYLEBONE.-=Yesterday Mr. R. Blower
of Piccadilly, was charged by James Barton, a Pad-
dington stage coach proprietor, with having threat-
ened to kill him.

Mr. Barton stated, that as he was driving his
coach on Monday afternoon past the defendant's
house at Maida-hill, he threw a stone, weighing 61b.
against his horses, which set them to kicking, and
they broke the harness to pieces. He then got upon
the coach, threatened to throw the complainant off,
and said, " - you, I'll be the death of you if I
am hung for it," which so alarmed Mr. Barton that
he jumped down, ran away, and subsequently ob-
tained a warrant for the defendant's apprehension.
" My.life is not safe nor my wife's neither," said
Mr. B.zton to the Magistrate, " although she is his
own sister."

Mr. Blower did not deny the charge, but said if
Mr. Griffiths would defer the case till another day,
he would show' by respectable evidence, that he had
received from Mr. Barton sufficient provocation to,
justify what he had done.
Mr. GRIFFITHS replied, " No provocation can jus-
tify an assault," and held him to bail.

B W- STREET.—BANK PROSECUTION.—Yes-
terday Samuel Paptan was charged with uttering a
forged .51. note, purporting to be a Bank of England
note. It appeared that the prisoner, on Wednesday
last, purchased eight fowls of a man named Michael
Hayes, who keeps a stall at the top of the Hay-
market. The prisoner gave him the .51. note in
question, to pay for the poultry, and Hayes gave him
four sovereigns in exchange. The prisoner went
away' with the fowls, and Hayes went into the shop
of 'Cir. Jackson, a hosier in Piccadilly, and there
learned that the note was a forged one. He pursued
the prisoner, and took him in Regent-street.
Herring, a Conductor of Patrol, deposed that the
prisoner told him he had receired the note in pay-
ment for a horse, which he had sold on the 17th
instant, at Barnett Fair, for a Mr. Smith, who re-
sides in St. Paul's Church-yard. He asked the pri-
soner to go with him to the said Mr. Smith, but he
refused, stating as a reason that Mr. Smith was not
in town. He (Herring) had since been to the pri-
soner's residence, No. 6, Jenning's-buildings, Ken-
sington, and he discovered that the prisoner had ut-
tered a had sovereign to a cheesemonger, a short
time before; but upon the cheesemonger discover-
ing it was counterfeit coin, the prisoner immediately
paid him 20s. in silver, and received the bad sove- I
reign again. The prisoner told the cheesemonger,
" that if the sovereign WISS bad, he could not help it,
for he had taken it and others in payment for a horse
which he had sold for a Mr. Smith." He (Her-
ring) had discovered that the prisoner was some
years ago sentenced to death for horse-stealing,
which sentence was commuted into seven years'
transportation.

The prisoner said that he was discharged after
serving five years on board the Hulks, and he was
not aware that the note was a bad one.
Mr. HALLS ordered him to be committed for trial.

Edivard Bowden, a shopman to Mr. Hollis, a
grocer, residing in St. Martin's-court, was charged
with felony. His master, having reason to suspect
the prisoner's honesty, got a friend, named Arm-
strong,to mark three half-crowns, and three shillings,
and to come to his shop, and purchase tea and sugar
with the money, when no one but the prisoner was
in the shop. soon after the purchase was made, a
constable was called in: and on the prisoner being
searched, two of the marked shillings were found on
his person.—He was committed.
A man, named Williams, was charged with com-
mitting a burglary in the house of Mr. Trimmer, of

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' Strandseai-the-Green, Chiswick, on the night of the
17th of April. The prisoner. -was stopped on his
way to London, near Hammersmith, with part of the
' stolen property in his possession, a few hours after
the robbery was committed.—He was fully com-
mitted for trial.
, Wm. Roberts, a tea-dealer, was charged by Skin-
ner, an Inspector of hawkers' licenses, with hawking
tea without a license. Skinner swore that he fol-
lowed the defendant to four different houses, at all
which he asked, " do you want any tea ?"
Mr. HARMER attended for the defendant, and
called a witness from each house, who contradicted
Skinner; but one of the witnesses admitted that
the defendant left a quarter of a pound of tea.
Mr. HALLS convicted the defendant ; who, under
the advice of his Solicitor, enteredinto recognizances
to prosecute an appeal at the ensuing Sessions,
against the conviction. Mr. Harmer threatened to
prosecute Skinner for perjury.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Sian/ey de Courcey Ire-
land and Mrs. Mary Good were brought yesterday
before Mr. Sergeant SELLO:q, for re-examination.
The examination was private, as on Thursday
last. The prisoners were- examined separately, as
before. Stanley de Courcey Ireland was in the Of-
fice for about twenty minutes, and was then taken to the
House of Correction, in the custody of one of the
officers. Mrs. Good remained about ten minutes,
after which she was remanded in like manner. The
officers examined were Limbrick, Edwards, and
Kirby. There were no other witnesses in attend-
ance. When Mrs. Good was removed to the outer
office, she appeared quite cheerful, and shook hands
in a familiar manner wit; the officers. Stanley de
Courcey Ireland was rather depressed in his spirits.
The particulars of the examination have not tran-
spired, but the facts are substantially the same as
have been already given. Mr. Field, the Inspector
of the Mint, was in attendance. From what can be
collected, it is said that the case against the prisoners
is very simple. The reason given for the privacy at
present observed is, that there are other individuals
conce; nod, for whom the officers are in pursuit, but
who might escape were the particulars of the evi-
dence to transpire. The prisoners had no legal ad-
visers. It is expected that the final examination will
take place in a week.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday having been ap-
pointed for the examination of kary Brooks, who
destroyed her own infant by cutting its throat, the
matron of Horsemonger-lane gaol, in the infirmary
of which the unhappy woman is at present confined,
attended at this office and stated, that she was so
exceedingly ill at present, in consequence of the in-
juries she inflicted on herself subsequent to the death
of the child, that she was unable to undergo the fa-
tigues of an examination.
The Magistrate having inquired whether she now
exhibited any symptoms of derangement, the matron
replied, that since the first paroxysm, which took
place the first day she was brought to the gaol, and
which was so violent that it was found necessary to
confine her in a strait-waistcoat, she has ever since
been in a low and melancholy state. The Magis-
trate, therefore, gave directions that she should not
be brought before him until the medical man who
attended upon her pronounced that she was suffici-
ently recovered.
A smart young lass, who gave her name Amelia
Wright, was brought up by Vann, one of the Bow.
street patrol, charged on suspicion with having
stolen a watch, valued at 25 guineas, the property of
a Mr. Crichton, a gentleman recently imported from
the Highlands of Scotlands.
The complainant was accompanied by a friend,
who was spokesman on the occasion. The latter
proceeded to state, that on the previous night he and
his Scotch friend went to Astley's Theatre; after
leaving which they met the prisoner, near Rowland
HP!'s Chapel. She addressed'them first, he said,
askiwr, -for -tikovnt Irefresirinent, when they treated her
at a wine-vaults with some ruin, and water, from
whence they consented to escort her home to her
lodgings, in Windmill-street, near the Coburg
Theatre. While in in the parlour witness observed
the prisoner appraach his friend arid begin to fondle '
with him, and in the twinkling of an eye afterwards
he perceived her turn away from him, and appear
anxious to avoid him. Surprised
.at such conduct,
they soon afterwards left the house, and on reaching
home, and not till then, the complainant missed his
25 guinea watch.
The Magistrate here put several questions to the
complainant, in order to discover whether he had
accepted ,the invitations of other, females after having
parted with thsvaccused, in his way home. He de-
clared that he had not, and had no doubt she was
the person who deprived him of his watch. He
added," I really thought she had been an actress
when I first saw her, for she had. all the actions of
one. She stood," said he, "in the middle of the
road, floundering about, and using all kinds of strange
gestures. This it was," added he, " that induced
me to escort her home."
The Magistrate observed, that if actresses were in
the habit of " floundering about" the streets of
Edinburgh and Glasgow at such hours of the night
as those on which he met with the prisoner, such
was not the case in town. It was rather singular,
the Magistrate added, that the complainant should
not have missed his watch before his arrival at home.
The prisoner was remanded, until some exertions
were used for the discovery of the watch.