The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

BOlf-STREET.

THE POLITE MAX.—An odd looking personage, who cer-
tainly had not the appearance of a Beau Nash, a Beau Bruiumel,
or a Simpson, was placed at the bar charged with being drunk
and incapable, in Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields. The
policeman added, that he took off his hat, bowed to every one
he met, and was otherwise too polite to be agreeable.
rhe prisoner, placing his right hand on his heart, and
chassez-ing from one end of the bar to the other, bowed to the
very ground. " Sir," said he, "though I'm a vulgar looking
person, I believe I'm the politest man in the universe, I am, in
fact, the essence of politeness. When I meet a person in the
street I give him the wall. This is what I do." In illustration
of " what he does," the prisoner having placed his hat on his
head, re-chassez-ed to the other end of the bar, with his body
in a sideline attitude, raised his hat, and again bowed to the
ground, uttering in an insinuating tone, " the wall, Sir ; the
wall, Sir."
Mr. TWYFORD ordered him to be discharged, adding, that
no doubt he was not in his right senses.
As Tyrrel was assisting the poor fellow from the bar, with
rather less courtesy than a polite person would have shown,
" Stop, stop," said he, " you've been very kind, I'll make you
a bow, Sir," and again was the hat replaced, again was the
chassei repeated, once more was the body in a one-sided atti-
tude, again was the hat delicately raised between linger and
thumb, and down dunked the little round, bald head far below
the bar; presently it re-appeared, and away chassez-ed the
polite little personage out of Court. Down Bow-street we
saw him chassez away, and turn the corner into the Strand;
where he chassez-ed to we do not know, but we should surmise
that the crowded thoroughfare soon put a stop to his singular
and rapid progress.
CLERKEN WELL. _ _

..4lary Arm Turvey, aged thirteen, was brought before
Mr. Greenwood, under rather extraordinary circum-
stances.

It appeared, from the evidence that at midnight on
Friday a policeman found the prisoner on hii beat. She
was crying very much, and on being asked the cause,
she said that she had been beaten at the house of a gen-
tleman named Newman, in Liverpool-street, New-road,
and afterwards turned into the street ; in consequeflce
of which statement witness removed her to the station-

house for safety, where she was recognised as having
very mysteriously disappeared some time ago, and as
she was ready to disclose under what circumstances, she
was brought before this Court.
The girl stated that about two months back she and
another girl were indecently- assaulted in the Copen-
hagen-fields, by a man named Newman, who holds a
very responsible and lucrative situation under Govern-
ment ; that Mr. Newman was at the time taken into
custody, and afterwards committed by Mr. Hardwicke
to take his trial for the offence ;- that while attending the
Sessions-house to give evidence against the accused she
and the other girl were decoyed away, and taken by
Mrs. Newman to Taunton, in Somersetshire, each being
`provided
with excellent clothing and plenty of money ;
and in the evening they were conducted to a farm house
not far distant, where he remained until Thursday last,
when the mistress of the farm remarked that she could
not afford to keep her any longer, and sent her to town
by the luggage train; that on her arrival in London she
went immediately to Mr. Newman's, who, as well as'his
wife, was from home ; that the servant put her to bed ;
that on Mrs. Newman's return she was made to dress,
and afterwards flogged an 1 pushed into the street.
Mr. Mould, the clerk, said he recollected having taken
the depositions in the case.
Mr. GREENWOOD, after perusing the depositions, said
it was certainly a very serious affair up to the committal
of Mr. Newman for trial, and it had been rendered
doubly so by the extraoruinary proceedings which had
since taken place to defeat the ends of justice.
It appeared that Mr. Newman was acquitted for want
of the evidence of these two girls.
The girl stated that she used to look after the cows
while-in the farm-house, that the other girl had received
10/. but she did not know where she was.
Mr. GREENWOOD said this was a most abominable in-
terference to stop the due course of justice, and he would
do his utmost to sift the matter so as to lay the fact be-
fore the public.
Mr. Ashley, the overseer of tae parish, was then sent
for, and instructed to spare no expense in bringing
Mr. Newman, and all others concerned in the charge, to
Ustice.
UNION- HALL.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Charlotte Bald-
win, a loung female of prepossessing appearance, was charged
with attempting to destroy herself.
A policeman stated that at four o'clock that morning, being
on duty at Battersea, he saw something floating on the surface
of the river ; he got on some barges and saw the defendant in
the water. Being no swimmer himself, he procured a
piece of plank and threw it towards the defendant,
who seize:) it as she was about to sink, and he
contrived to rescue her. She was in a state of insensibi-
lity, and was conveyed to the hospital, where the usual means
of resuscitation being resorted to, she recovered.
In reply to Mr. COTTINGRAM, she assigned, as the cause of
her having attempted suicide, her mother having made a false
accusation against her r that she (defendant) at first purchased
three-pennyworth of laudanum, and swallowed it, but that
quantity not having the designed effect, she then proceeded to
le river and threw herself is.
She was discharged.,