The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday Andrea Giannone,
an Italian, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged
by the street-keeper of Wall rook-ward with having offended
against the public morals.
The street-keeper said the prisoner had been about the
ward offering " that there image for sale" (exhibiting to
his Lordship the plaster cast of a sleeping Venus), which he
(the street-keeper) considered " indecent, not to say indeli-
cate ;" and, as the prisoner had been about the place befoi.e,
he thought it his duty to take him in custody, and bring him
before his Lordship, to answer for the offence.
The Chief Clerk—l suppose persons of the street-
keeper's delicacy will shortly seize our Apollo Belvedere
(alluding to a full-sized cast of that statue, recently placed
in the most conspicuous part of the Egyptian Hall, by the
Corporation Committee of Taste), and break it to pieces to
prove the superior purity of their ideas.
The Loan MAYOR (to the prisoner)—What have you
got to say for yourself ? The Italian, who appeared not to
understand English,, looked at the street -keeper, and
laughed, as if in derision at him.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, Sir, it is no laughing matter,
Ido assure you. Ido not mind letting you go this time,
but if you are caught here again you will be punished for it.
Mr. Hobler (to the officers)—Make him understand that
he must not come again into this city, unless he puts petti-
coats on his figures. All the taste is on the other side of
Temple-bar, where he must keep.
The Italian went away laughing.

GUILDHALL.—A middle-aged female, named Sarah
Cornell, the wife of a carman at the Swan Inn, Holborn-
bridge, and Sarah Satchell, who, with her husband, had
occupied apartments in Cornell's house for some months,
were brought before Mr. Alderman BIRCH yesterday, on
suspicion of concealing a small box of Portuguese coins
and some articles of jewellery, worth altogether about SOO/.
Cornell, when placed at the bar, had such an air of
wildness and alarm in her countenance, as to rivet the at-
tention of the spectators to the case against her.

The first witness, Caroline Latzon, arrived with her hus-
band from Brazil on the 11th instant, and hired two rooms,
one leading out of the other, in the house of Cornell, at
No. 36, Edmund-place, Aldersgate-street, at the rent of
16s. per week. On the 13th witness and her husband
had a trifling quarrel, and the two prisoners came into
their apartment, and saw the contents of the box now mis-
sing spread over the table. There was a gold chain, two
yards long, with an image of the Blessed Virgin attached,
a comb set with chrysolites, diamond finger and ear-rings,
and a number of such articles, worth 1501., and English
and foreign coins to the same amount. Her husband
detected Cornell in attempting to steal a bracelet,
which she
.pretended afterwards to find dropped upon
a piece of carpet. This circumstance induced witness's
husband to caution her against leaving this box shut
up in the trunk in the outer room, there being no
key to fasten the door of it, and she afterwards con-
stantly placed it under her pillow at night, in the
inner room. On Saturday, the 20th, she removed to
another lodging, at No. 5, Prince's-street, Ratcliffe-high-
way. All her property was in four trunks, which were
removed about nine o'clock in the morning. She had a
dispute with Mrs. Cornell about paying 16s. for entering
one day into a fresh week, and about a stain in the carpet,
and she went away, forgetting that the jewel-box was still
under her pillow. She returned from Ratcliffe-highway
immediately on missing the box, and Mrs. Cornell told
her to go up stairs and look, and that no one had been up
there except herself, The box was gone, but there was
its impression on the bedding. Witness obtained the as-
sistance of Mr. Cope, the marshal, who, with one of his
officers, searched the house about one o'clock in the day,
without finding a vestige of the property.
Mrs. Cornell's solicitor put some questions, to raise a
sfispicion that witness and her husband seriously contem-
plated a separation, and that the husband had secreted the
property, but the husband declared they quarrelled only
because lie had a little liquor in his head.

William Anderson, an American pilot, residing at No.
5, Prince's-street, under the protection of his Consul,
(having been wrecked on the coast of England, whilst on
voyage for the benefit of his health) went at the request
of the last witness to Mrs. Cornell's on the 22d instant,
to ask if she would give up the box privately, to prevent
further trouble. The door was opened, and when he
mentioned that he had come with a message from Mrs.
Latzon, Mrs. Cornell replied, " Oh, I know what you are
come or,—walk in." Mrs. Satchell' was there, and they
both took him up to the rooms the Latzons had occupied,
and Mrs. Cornell wished him to make a search in the bed-
room. He said he was not an officer, and he was not
sent to search, but to learn if they had found the box any
where since, and would restore it by fair means. He was
then standing in the outer room. Mrs. Cornell said,i
" Stop a gttle," and the two women went into the inner
roo!, s spoke together in a low tone, but he
heave y every word, the door being open. Mrs.
Sate " You had better return it ; it will bring
disgrace on your house, and trouble on your family."--
Mrs. Cornell replied—" No, it is gone too far now ; St is
impossible to go back ; but stop"—and returning to him,
she enquired what acquaintance he had with the Latzons ?
He told her he merely happened to be lodging in the same
house with them now ; that he perceived by their conver-
sation that they were foreigners, and he believed it was not
their intention to remain any length of time in this coun-
try. She then left him again, and returned to the inner
room, bat in a minute came back with a net purse in her
hand, which seemed to contain several sovereigns, and said,
laying the purse on the table, "If you will go back and
tell them that you cannot make any discovery, and persuade
them they have no proof and to drop the business, I
will give you fifty sovereigns." He answered that
he was a stranger and afraid ofgetting into some difficulty,
and he had heard that Mrs. Lateon was born in London,
and bad respectable friends in this country. Mrs. Cornell
remarked that be was a poor man, and would find 50 so-
vereigns very serviceable, and that she would stand between
him and any harm if he would do her business. He told
her he would do any thing that was in his power, and she
then said, " Get me the address of their friends, and I
will reward you well. I wish to know who and`what they
are." He returned to Ratcliffe-highway, told this story to
his landlady, and from her obtained the address of a gentle-
man in Great Winchester-street, supposed to be related to
the Latzons, with which he posted off immediately to
Edmund-place. He was received kindly in the apartment
of Mr. and Mrs. Satchell, who were at tea. Mrs. Cornell
asked him to take tea or wine. He accepted a glass of gin,
and gave Mrs. Cornell the direction. She then gave him
a nudge, and he followed her into Aldersgate-street, where
she slipped two half-crowns into his band, and told him to
bring her word the next morning what the Latzons intended
to do, that she might be upon her guard, and she would
satisfy him well for his trouble. She had previously offered
to accommodate him for that night with a lodging in her
house. When he called next morning, she dismissed him
hastily : she said, " I can't speak to you now, so many
sharks are about. I can't go out or come in without being
watched. I shall be happy to see you some other time."
There being no other evidence, Mr. Alderman Blau!
asked Mrs. Satchell what explanation she had to offer.
The Solicitor advised her to say nothing, and the Alder..
man told her, if she followed that advice he should certainly
detain her.
Her husband immediately called upon her to tell all
she knew.
The Alderman asked if he knew any thing of the busi-
ness, and upon his stating that he did, he was immediately
sworn.

He was by profession a clerk; heard the dispute about
staining the carpet, and soon after Mrs. Latzon was gone,
ran up stairs to see what injury had been done to it. He
attempted to walk into the inner room ; but Mrs. Cornell
hastily pulled the door in his face, and said, " You can't
go in there—the place stinks so." He was so struck with
her manner, that he told his wife directly after there was
something wrong, and Mrs. Cornell had either lost or
found something. He afterwards met Mrs. Cornell in a
great flurry in Newgate-street, and, by her desire, left word
at the Swan Inn that she wished to see her husband.
His wife (the prisoner) could give other and important
evidence.

Mr. Alderman BIRCH then ordered the prisoner Satchel'
(who is a young woman of considerable attractions) to be
sworn as a witness. She, however, commenced by assert-
ing that all the seaman had stated was false, and that a
third female, a Mrs. Smart (Mrs. Cornell's sister), was
present in all the interviews, and seemed desirous of
confining her evidence to the story of the bracelet, and the
quarrels between Latzon and the landlady. 'jam ques-
tioned, however, she admitted the seaman called on the
pardon on behalf of the foreigners for
22,1, and asked
having been so furious on the Saturday. She said that he
did make search himself, and that the conversation he bad

related as passing between herself and Mrs. Cornell never
occurred.

Cornell was remanded until Thursday, and Mrs. Satchell
entered into recognizances to attend and give evidence.
BOW-STREET.—No less than 17 prostitutes were
yesterday morning brought before Mr. MlNsuuu., the
sitting Magistrate, by a watchman belonging to St. Paul's,
Covent-garden, charged with walking the streets and being
disorderly.
After inquiring into the charge against the prisoners, it
appeared that only one of the women out of the 17 was
guilty (,f disorderly conduct. The Magistrate accordingly
committed her for one month to the House of Correction,
and discharged her companions, who were merely found
walking the streets as common prostitutes.
Mr. Cribb, the gentleman who addressed Sir Richard
Birnie on Friday, then stepped forward, and said, we have
frequently applied for assistance to the Bow-street Magis-
trates ; and in order to exculpate my colleagues and
myself, lam driven to the necessity of publicly declaring,
that the Magistrates of this office have not afforded us
that support and co-operation which we expected,
and felt ourselves entitled to receive. With re-
spect to disorderly women, when at any time our
watchmen have brought them before you, they have been
discharged without punishment. It was therefore deter-
mined by us who compose the board of watch, that in fu-
ture one of our members shall attend at this' office as often
as occasion shall require, to see that our watchmen per-
form their duty in' preferring their charges.
Mr. Mussuur.r. regretted that neither of his colleagues
was present. . _

Mr. Roach was sorry in his defence to say that the
parish authorities had never been supported by the Magis-
trates of this office.

Mr. MiNsuum.—l am very sorry, Mr. Roach, to hear
you say so. For myself I can only say that I have afforded
you every assistance in my power, and I am sure I can say
as much for my brother Magistrates.
Mr. Cribb said that his friends and he had adopted the
present course, in order that the public might judge be-
tween the parish authorities and the Bow-street Magis-
trates. In order to prove that the former were not de-
serving blame, he would instance the following circum-
stance :—Mr. Richardson appeared at the office to support
a charge of d*rderly conduct against thirty prostitutes
brought before-the Magistrate, who, however, told Mr.
Richardson that• there was no use in sending them to pri-
son, as they would be sure to be in the streets again when
the period of their confinement expired. They were all
discharged accordingly ; and what was the consequence of
the Magistrate's forbearance ? A gang of twenty of them
came to our doors the next night, abusing and threatening
us for daring to interfere with them. But this was not
all, said Mr. Cribb, for we had a charge of 4/. and up-
wards brought against us by the Bow-street officers, for
their assistance on that occasion—a charge which the pa-
rish resisted, and certainly had no right to pay.
Mr. Miwstrua, in explanation of his own conduct and
that pursued by his brother Magistrates on the occasion
alluded to, begged the gentlemen to understand, that unless
some specific charge were substantiated against persons ac-
cused, it was not in the power of the Magistrates to send
them to prison.
Mr. Cribb—We wish it to be understood, that we la-
bour under the same difficulty as the Magistrates com-
.

plain of.
Mr. Thomas, of York-street, wished to know if the pub-
lic-houses in the neighbourhood of the Theatres were al-
lowed to continue open one hour after the performances
were over.

Mr. Mnrsitut.l.—The owner of a public-house who set
up that plea was convicted the other day, on ite being
proved that the persons found drinking in his house at the
time stated, did not belong to the Theatres. The accom-
modation is meant only for those who belong to the
Theatres.

The gentlemen then retired, repeating their determina-
tion to co-operate with the Magistrates of this office, for the
purpose of removing every cause of complaint.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday, an elderly woman,
named Elizabeth Cannon, was brought before Mr.
BROUGHTON, charged with stealing a common-prayer-book
from the altar of Bethnal-green church.
The prisoner was committed for stealing a book, the pro-
perty of the churchwardens for the time being.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a man named Morris
Buckley was brought before the sitting Magistrate, R. J.
CHAMBERS, Esq., charged with having committed an
aggravated assault on a young woman named Maria Cooper,
a servant in a gentleman's family.
Mr. Jones confirmed the complainant's statement, adding
that when he arrived at the spot where the prisoner had
ill-treated the girl, he found her lying in the mud, and the
prisoner standing over her. The prisoner was committed
for a misdemeanor.