The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The Right Hon. the LORD
MAYOR haring to attend at Vintners'-hall, of which Com-
pany he is a member, Mr. Alderman 'ENABLES sat for
him.

John Wright was charged by William Unmoral) with
driving away his horses and cart from Dowgate-hill to Bow-
lane, and subsequently demanding and receiving payrnent
for the same. •

The complainant fairly stated that he thought the pri-
soner was drunk, or lie would not so have committed
himself.

The ALDERMAN thought he recollected the honest face of
the complainant, and fined the " looker-out for a job" ss.
for being drunk.
One of the children of Israel, named Raphael Romanel,
was heard upon a summons granted against Mr. Edward
Alford, an upholsterer, in Bishopsgate-street.
Rapbael stated, that about a week since, he had made
a bargain, by way of barter, with Mr. Alford, whose
porter took home the goods ; but, as instructed, refused
to leave them without payment of a balance of some 4!.
Raphael selected certain goods which he wished to retain,
and to pay ss. as a balance. One of the porters sent ap-
plied to his master to know what course he was to pursue ;
the master returned with him, and, as Raphael stated, broke
open his street-door, and took away by his servants his
property—clearing away the complainant, his aged father,
his female servant, and knocking him all but down, he fell.

The case was supported by an elderly " good woman,"
who declared, that she was not a Jewess, but a West
country woman ; and had it not been for her superior
strength (although decrepit) she herself would have been
injured; but her master was assaulted,—struck,--and she
did her best. Other witnesses were called ; and the de-
fendant also called witnesses with a view to show that a
trick was intended to be played off.
Under all the circumstances, the ALDERMAN ordered Mr.
Alford to enter into his own recognizance in 501. to ap-
pear at the Sessions, and recommended Raphael to abstain
in future from attempting to play off little petty tricks.
Thomas and Alice Richards, husband and wife, were
summoned to answer Mr. Fairclougli, who gave his address
in St. Mary Axe, and stated that he was a merchant's
clerk. He complained that a house-keeper of his, Maria
Eames, departed this life on Tuesday, in the last week ;
that on Thursday the defendants went to his house, rum-
maged every room, packed up whatever they thought pro-
per to say belonged to the deceased, and placed them in
trunks upon her coffin ; that on a subsequent day they
again went and took them away, although he had given
strict orders to the nurse not to allow auy thing to he
taken out of the house. A constable was sent for, but he
was got rid of, by being told that it was only a distress fur
rent, and he refused to interfere.
To the deceased he had acted with the greatest kindness
—he had supported her during her illness, paid nurses and
doctors to attend her, and all the difference between himself
and the defendants was, who should bury her.
The defendant, Mr. Richards, stated, that be would act
fairly with the worthy Alderman. The deceased was his
wife's awn
she
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and her mother had even been obliged to part with their own '
goods for the support of the deceased • that after her death
had been
attended, and his wife seduced by the com-
plainant,ee
they.had asked the complainant to bury her, and that he
replySo
.help me God, I have done enough; and
if you
choose to bury her, I will apply to the parish."
do said,not
f have, added the defendant, even pawned my Bible to sup-
port the deceased, and, I may say, the complainant.
The mother of the deceased and a brother were present,
ind it appeared that they had been in the habit of 'visiting
the deceased While living with the complainant, Who is

married man, and has been at the office before, charging
his wife.

The ALDERMAN ordered the defendants to give an in-
ventory of the articles taken to the complainant, and if he
fottnd that any of them were his property, he had his re-
remedy. They certainly had acted improperly.
BOW-STREET.—Harry Prendergast, who has long
been known to the police as a crack bnzzman, that is, a
thief of the first order, and an elderly, respectable, ma-
tronly-looking female, who gave the name of Jane Wil-
liams, were brought in custody to this office yesterday,
charged with having robbed an old lady on the 3d of April
last, in Piccadilly, of a purse containing seven sovereigns,
three half sovereigns, and some silver. The male prisoner,
who, from his size, goes by the name of the Elephant, was
fashionably dressed, and when brought before the Magistrate
he feigned the greatest surprise, exclaiming, " Well ! I de-
clare this is a pretty piece of business. I should be glad
to know why lam brought here. Pretty work, truly, if
a person cannot walk the streets without being pounced
upon by you gentlemen of the police!"
" What is the matter," said Mr. HALLS, who was evi-
dently deceived by the appearance of the prisoners ; "who
are these persons, and what are they charged with ?"

" They are both notorious thieves, your worship," said
Alderson, the officer who took them into custody. " I
have been looking for the male prisoner these seven months,
but could meet with him nowhere." He then stated the
particular fact with which they were both charged, when
it appeared, that in April last an old lady was hustled in
Piccadilly by the Elephant and another of his associates, a
great crowd being passing at the time ; and while she re-
tired for a moment to the hall of a house, the door of which
happened to be open, she was followed by the female pri-
soner, who very kindly offered her assistance, in rendering
which she contrived to steal the purse containing the sum
we have mentioned, with which she made a precipitate re-
treat. These facts, together with a minute description of
the prisoners, being communicated to Alderson, his suspi-
cions immediately fell upon the prisoners, but he could
not meet with either of them until yesterday, when he took
them both into custody in the Strand, where they were evi-
dently on the look-out for customers.
" I assure you it is all a mistake, Sir," said Prender-
gast, when he and his accomplices were ordered to take
their stations at the bar, " we are not the persons alluded
to at all."

" Do you know any thing of this man, Ford ?" said Sir
RICHARD BIRNIE, addressing the gaoler.

" Yes, your Worship," said Ford, " lie is a notorious
thief: we have had him here before."

" No such thing, I assure you, Sir Picharti," said the
Elephant, with the most undisturbed countenance.
"Do you know the prisoners, Gardiner ?" asked Sir
RICUARD BIRNIE, addressing another officer.
" Oh, yes, your Worship, I know them well," replied
Gardiner, " Prendergast is a regular ' out and outer,'
and the old lady works with him."
" The last place where I saw Prendergast," said Alder-
son, " was at Ascot Races, and I was going to take him
into custody then, but was obliged to attend to another
charge."
" What brought you to Ascot, Mr. Prendergast," asked
Sir R. BIRNIE ?

" I was there for a week, your Worship, with a cousin
of mine," said the Elephant. " Your officers have fre-
quently seen me since, and if I was really ' wanted,' I
dare say they would have had me up long ago. I think it
a very hard case to be brought here on a charge of which I
am perfectly innocent."
Mr. HALLS—Take the evidence of Alderson, and let the
prisoners be remanded until the old lady who was robbed
can come forward to identify them. You are well known,
Mr. Prendergast, and this is not the first time you have
stood where you now are.
" But I assure your Worship," said the Elephant, with
an air of the greatest apparent sincerity, " I have quite
reformed since that time, and get my living in a different
way altogether."
" Do you know any thing of the prisoners ?" said Mr.
FIALL,, addressing Herring, one of the patrol conductors.
" Oh, yes, your Worship," said Herring ; " they are
both noted thieves. It was only the day before yesterday
I saw them dodging about Temple-bar, ready to take ad-
vantage of the first favourable turn to carry on their game."
" Really, Mr. Herring," said the Elephant, " this is
tod bad ; hut as I find none of you will believe my story,
I suppose (shrugging his shoulders) I must submit with a
good grace."
The prisoners were then removed from the bar.
The Elephant has been a long time upon the town, and
being a person of rather good appearance and address, he
contrives to visit the theatres, and other places of public
amusement, where he enters into conversation with those
whom lie selects as good subjects for robbing, and is sure to
come off with a watch, a pocket-book, or some other arti-
cle of value. His female companion is no less dexterous
in ber particular line. She is generally
to
most crowded part of the metropolis, and
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of which the Elepr. hantHer leader,iathpelaliy usuaairle always
to addresslwaysa somet hand to
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female, whispering in her ear, that a part of
her dress is deranged, and offering her services in setting it
to rights, in performing which apparently kin .I office, she
generally contrives to provide herself with whatever port-
able property ths lady may have about her.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—The case of the un-
happy Mrs. Seffert and her husband, that of Miss Emma
Carey and her landlady, with the addition of Miss Emma
Carey's female domestic, was again yesterday for a short
time before the Magistrate.
It appeared that the fellow Seffert went the night before
to the house in Park-street, where the woman Carey lodges,
and in the disguise of a female's dress endeavoured to gain
admittance to Carey's apartments, but the landlady recog-
nizing him refused to let him in : and as he persisted she
had him lodged in the watch-house, from which, however,
he was bailed put by a Mr. John Pinero, of London-street,
Fitzroy-square. Miss Emma Carey, thus disappointed of
the worthy Mr. Seffert's society, with the aid of her servant
girl, attacked the landlady of the house, and, as the latter
described, literally tore the clothes from her back.
The watchman stated, that when he deposited Seffert in
the watch-house, the latter was dressed in a woman's shawl,
cloak, and bonnet.
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The landlady wanted a warrant against Carey and her
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constant M rst .
o Seffert,servant, which was immediately granted ; and Seffert, as it
continued
was not shown that Ise had committed any assault, was
tiraeahtis
discharged.

HATTON-GARDEN.--Mr. Harmer, the solicitor, ap-
peared yesterday before Mr. ROGIRS, to defend one more
of the many prosecutions instituted against Thos. Nicholls,
pawnbroker, No. 43, Gray's-inn-lane.

Mr. Beetharn, who conducted the prosecntion„said, that
Nicholls deserved no indulgence from the magistrates, that
he obstinately refused upon all occasions of the present kind
to plead guilty, and though repeatedly convicted, he would
still set all the decisions of the magistrates at defiance, and
appeal from them to the sessions.
Mr. Harmer—There seems to have been a systematic
arrangement, properly digested and organized previously to
the filing of the first information against Mr. Nicholls, and
formed for the sole purpose of galling and forcing him into
a compromise. I know several individuals who are regu-
larly pensioned upon the fears of men in public business.
I complain of the mode of proceeding against this injured
individual. He is distracted by informations day after
day. Why will not the prosecutor bring them forward in
the gross, and all at once, instead of by piecemeal ?
Mr. ROGERS---I have nothing to do with the manner in
Which they choose to lay their informations.
Mr. Beetham—lf Mr. Nicholls will now plead Guilty,
which Mr. Harmer should have long since advised him to
do, I will give up any further prosecutions, and will under-
take to' shield him against them for the future.
Mr. Nicholls then pleaded Guilty, and was convicted in
the penalty of 40s.
Mr. Beetham said that the prosecutor would ware all
claim to any portion of the penalty, and both parties went,
away fully satisfied with each other.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday two men named Abraham
and Joseph Lane, brothers, were brought before the Sit-
ting Magistrates, M. SWABEY and D. KING, Esqre.,
charged with having kidnapped a fine little boy named John
Walsh, seven years of age, the son of decent parents, re-
siding in Mint-street, Southwark. The prisoners, one of
whom is a chimney-sweeper, and the other a shoemaker,
were apprehended by Pople and Reed, the officers, at a
house in Peckham.
The boy, a very intelligent little fellow, attended at the
office accompanied by his mother, who seemed overjoyed at
having her lost child restored to her. On Friday last, at
four o'clock in the afternoon, his mother sent him from
home on an errand, and in passing the Town-hall, in the
Borough, one of the prisoners (Abraham Lane) came up to
him, and having inquired where he was going, he said that
if he accompanied him, he would give him a good tea, and
it penny in his pocket besides. The child readily complied,
tand proceeded with the prisoner down the Kent-road, and
ht length, after a tiresome walk, they arrived at a miser-
able dwelling where the other prisoner was waiting. Tea
was made, and the little fellow partook of it and some slices
of bread, with a good appetite after his long walk. After
the meal was over, he expressed a wish to go home to his
irnother, saying that she would be uneasy until his re-