The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSIOIsT.HOUSE.

Wheatley, Kite, and King, the three men who,
together with Young, the approver, were charged
with having broken into the )Lock-houses at Teds
dingttin, and robbed Mr. SeVary, the keeper of it;
brought lip for re-examination.
Nothing new was elicited upon this occasion,
ex-
cept evidence to prove that Wheatley had got thi3
coat of Mr. Savary, which fell to his lot in the divi-
sion of the plunder; altered by a tailor immediately
after the. ro!.%ery ; and that when the .prisoners were
leaving the Lock-house,they handed a candle to Mr.
avary to light himself to bed with, and showed no
disposition whatever to do him the least violence.
Young (the approver) is, it appears, as has often
been the case on occasions of the kind, the worst
amongst them, Although his brother was executed
tbotiths ago, he unhesitatingly joined in the plan
for robbing the Lock-house.
The prisoners all stated that they had wives and
children who had no food, and that they must perish
if assistance were not immediately afforded to them.
The unfortunate men begged hard that intercession
should be made for their families with the overseers
of the parish.
Mr. Savary has, it seems, ascertained that the
men are all wretchedly poor, and their families are
upon the very point of starvation. He has under-
taken to interest himself with the parish-officers,
to have the wives and children of the prisoners
taken proper care of.
The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate
for trial, and Young was ordered to be detained in
the Compeer until the trial shall have taken place.
ERROR IN TILE NEW BANKRUPT the
course of the examination of a person who was
charged with having absconded after a commission
had been issued against him, and with having taken
wiih him between 700/. and 800/., it was ascer-
tained that the Act is so worded as to allow a man
to plunder his creditors to any extent, provided he
has not passed his third examination.
The LORD MAYOR, in the course of the investi-
gation, expressed some surprise at this extraordinary
oversight.

GUILDHALL.
On Saturday last the driver of the hackney-coach
No. 372, was charged before Alderman Bißcx,with
wantonly ill-treating one of his horses in Fleet-street;
the case was proved by two of the Society's officers,
for preventing cruelty to animals, and the defendant
not being able to pay the fine of 10s. and costs, he
was committed to prison.
AN ANTI-FRATERNAL MOUSETRAP.—On Tues-
dAy Mr. John Williams appeared before Mr. Alder-
man KEY, upon summons, to show cause why he
si.ould not be held to bail for having assaulted his
brother, Mr. James Williams, on a plea of and con-
cerning a mousetrap.
It appeared by the statement of James, that some
time ago he lent John a mousetrap; and, being of
opinion that John bad had the mousetrap quite long
enough, he repaired to his house with the intention
of reclaiming the mousetrap ; but that he had no
sooner demanded the mousetiap—saying, "John,
thank you fur that mousetrap" —than John
"flew into a violent passion ;—swore he knew nothing
at all about the mousetrap ; wondered at his impu-
dence in asking for a mousetrap; and, finally, struck
him off the steps of the door, to the exceeding
great amusement of divers idle persons in the front
of the house assembled—the said idle persons
having been drawn together by John's own clamor-
ous manner of denying all knowledge of the mouse-
trap. This was James's case.
John, in reply, solemnly.affirmed, in the first
place, that James never lent him a mousetrap, and
that he (John) never had a mousetrap belonging to
James: 6econdly, he declared that it was James
who drew the aforesaid idle persons together in
front of the house, by the very outrageous manner
in which he demanded the mousetrap. Thirdly,
that lie (James) repeatedly called him (John) a
swindler, alleging that he (John) had swindled him
(James) out of his mousetrap ; and this he conti-
nued to repeat, although he (John) repeatedly said
to him (James), " Don't commit yourself, for I haVe
not the mousetrap." Fourthly, and lastly, that he
(John), in consideration of the premises—that is to
say, the clamour, the scandal, and the crowd of idle
persons cUllected together as aforesaid, was con-
strained to put him (James) out of the door, and
down the steps, which putting was performed, not
by a blow, as falsely alleged by James, but by a
push; in testimony whereof, he (John) could pro-
duce " a creditable witness."
The creditable witness, a deputy mutton-manu-
facturer, deposed that he happened to be present at
" the bother about the mousetrap ;" that he repeat-
edly heard James call John, not only a swindler, hut
son of a female dog; and that, finally, John ejected
James from the door-way, neither by a blow, nor a
punch, nor a hit of any kind, but by " a sort of
shove."
And thereupon Mr. Alderman KEY dismissed the
complaint, leaving James to seek such other means
for the recovery of his mousetrap, and satisfaction
for the sort of shove which he had endured in that
behalf, as he might be hereafter advised by counsel.
BOW.STREET.

A grave-looking elderly man presented himself
before Mr. HALLS yesterday, and told him that a
woman was in custody upon a charge of murder and

felony.
" Murder and felony !" repeated Mr. 1-lau.s,
" and where is the prisoner ?"
" She is here, your Worship." said an officer,
and at the same time an elderly female advanced in
front of the bench, and acknowledged that she was
the person alluded to.
" By whom is the charge preferred ?" asked the
Magistrate.
" I am her accuser," exclaimed a middle-aged
woman, who wore the appearance of better days.
" I charge this woman with having trepanned my
husband six years ago, and I further accuse her of
putting him to death either by poison or some other
means, she first having caused him to make a will
in her favour, by which she became possessed of
6001. and other property, to all of which I alone was
entitled as his true and lawful wife. The truth is,
your worship, that this woman here, this Mrs. Rey-
nolds, was my husband's anise, in a fit of sickness;
and she, aided by her husband, caused him to ‘vill
away all the property he possessed, and make her
husband his heir. The poor man died while under
the prisoner's care ; and I have reason to believe—
indeed I have proof of the fact—that she hastened
his death by some unfair means.
" And what has become of the prisoner's hus-
band?" asked the Magistrate.
" He is dead also," replied the complainant.
" In that case," observed Mr. 1-laaes, " I fear
you have no remedy. The money having been will-
ed to him, if he obtained it by any undue influence,
he is gone to his trial elsewhere, and is no longer
amenable to human justice.
" Mrs. White knows," said the prisoner, " that
she had been parted :"rom her husband for some years
previous to his death."
" And what of that," rejoined Mrs. White;
" what of that, you wretch ? Was he not my law-
ful husband, and am I not better entitled to his pro-
perty than you, who were a stranger to him ?"
" Moderate your passion, my good woman," ex-
claimed the Magistrate, " 1 see how the matter lies.
You, perhaps, have been uefairly dealt with, but I
regrut to say I have no power to serve you. Who
administered to the effects of your deceased lina-
hand ?"—" I w ill explain the matter to your wor-
ship," said a Mr. Mott, pushing his way to the
bench. " I was appointed executor to the will of
the deceased, and I beg to assure your Worship that
every thing was conducted in the fairest and most
honourable way."
" Talk of honour and fairness, you villain," ex-
claimed the complainant, " can you look in my face
and say that you did not conspire to rob me of my
just right ?"—" She is deranged, your Worship,"
said the executor, in a suppressed voice.
" But vet there's method in her madness," ob-
served the Magistrate, "and I do believe, for the