The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—On Saturday a man of respec-
table appearance, who said his name was Smith, and that
he was a master miller carrying on business near town,
was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with
having run away with a bowl of gold coins from the bul-
lion-shop of Mr. Savory, of Cornhill.
'One of the Marshalmen, about six o'clock on the pre-
vious evening, heard that there was what ho called a
"piece of work " at Savory's, in Cornhill. He went to
the shop, and was told that the prisoner, who was there
in custody, had broken the window and snatched away a
bowl of coins. Mr. Savory would not give charge of the
prisoner.
T. Matthews, a perfumer, residing in Church-street,
Bl,ckfriars, as he was passing Mr. Savory's shop, saw the
prisoner snatch a bowl of Napoleons through the shop-
window, and run away as hard as he could. Witness fol-
lowed him closely, upon which he threw away the bowl in
toe street. Witness collared him, and nire Napoleons
were picked up in the mud, and. restored to Mr. Savory.
In the prisoner's hat were found 181 Napoleons, and in his
pocket was found the sum of 21. '73. 6d. his own property.
There was in his hat, besides tli7 Napoleons, sonic fine grain
gold. The 2/. 'is. 6d. were given to Mr. Savory, as is ell
as all the Napoleons. The prisoner looked wild, end raid
that two of his children had run away from him, and he was
very miserable.
Stephen Bradley saw the prisoner before he broke the
window. The prisoner then had his hat under his arm,
and when he broke the window and 3eized the bowl of
Napoleons, he popped most of the contents into his hat.
The grisoner said, that his head was literally broken
in pieces, and that he was sometimes wholly beyond the
controul of reason. His appearance favoured this descrip-
tion of himself. He was remanded for further examination.
Benjamin Solomons, the brother of Ikey Solomons,
was brought up for re-examination, charged upon suspi-
cion with having practised in his brother's trade.
The Bow-street patrol, who obtained the warrant to
search the house sf the prisoner, had no evidence to offer
in proof of the charge, but expressed a wish that the pri-
soner might be detained, as his wife had not been able to
account for a watch which fell from her person.
The Loan MAYOR, without hesitation, refused to detain
Solomons a moment longer.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged. It was men-
! tioned in the Justice-room, that Solomons was determined
to bring an action against the officer.
A starved-looking journeyman butcher was charged by
the proprietor of the Auction Mart Coffee-house Tap, with
having stolen a shoulder of lamb.
He was fully committed to prison.
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GUILDHALL.---Mr. Alderman GARRATT attended on
Saturday, to give his et:ision upon a complaint against a
journeyman silk:Aveaver, for neglecting to fulfil a contract
he bad entered into with Messrs. Wilson and Co., silk-
manufacturers, in Wood-street. The case seemed to have
excited considerable interest in the trade, as a meeting of
the journeymen had been called by placards posted about
Spitalfields, " to assemble peaceably" in Guildhall-yard.
The Alderman ordered the doors to be thrown open, and
the justice-room, spacious as it is, was immediately filled.
The case appeared to be, that a great demand having
arisen for velvets, the defendant (a man named Perreau),
and others employed in weaving that article, thought an
excellent opportunity presented itself for obtaining, under a
threat of discontinuing their labours, an advance of wages
upon all descriptions of work. On the 25th of July the
defendant received the materials for making 30 yards of
velvet. On the Bth of September he obtained some wages
in advance, representing to Messrs. Wilson that he had in
the six weeks completed 24 yards of the work, and that
be would finish the whole in ten or eleven days more.
At the end of seventeen days, however, he and some other
journeymen waited upon Messrs. Wilson, and defendant
said that unless they would consent to a general ad-
vance of wages, he would not continue working at the
velvet. Messrs. Wilson would not consent to the advance,
and the defendant kept his word as to neglecting the work,
thereafter going on at the rate of nine inehes a week, so as
to save himself from the operation of a clause in the 17th
Geo. 111., cap. 55, under which he would have been liable
to be sent to the tread-mill for not less than a month, for
neglecting his work eight days successively. Messrs.
Wilson's foreman visited the loom repeatedly after the 25th
of September, and found the seal of the journeymen's com-
mittee on the work, by which he understood that defendant
was receiving the strike-allowance for continuing idle. On
the 9th of October the foreman brought away as much
velvet as was finished, which did not amount to twenty-
' two yards.
Mr. Alderman GARRATT said, that it was his opinion
that the repeal of the Spitalfields Act bad not taken them
out of the jurisdiction of the Magistrate ; for he could not
conceive that the Legislature had contemplated leaving
such an extensive bran h of our manufacture.; without
regulation. He should tt, however, inflict any punish-
ment on the defendant, believing he had acted from a mis-
conception of the state of the law, and that now the weavers
were assured there was a law to meet their misconduct, the
offence would not he repeated.
Mr. Alley thanked the Alderman, and said he was sure
this lenity would make a deeper impression on the minds of
the body, than severity could have done.
Mr. Wilson also thanked the Alderman for the course he
bad adopted. He did not intend to press for punishment,
but merely to show the power in the hands of the Magiiarate.
Mr. Alderman GA/MATT hoped the men would bear in
mind, that if they raised their wages so high as to prevent
their employers from medal; the Aron competition they

had to encounter, they, in fact; would titeply injure them-
selves.
Several of the men cried out, they knew that ; they only
wanted " fair wages," keeping that point in view.
As they retired, some of the weavers began to hiss ; but
this manifestation was stifled by a more general one for
silence.

BOW-STREET.—ADA NDY DRX SALTER. —On Friday
evening, Thomas Tate, the driver of the hackney-coach,
No. 370, was brought before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE,
charged with having assaulted a fashionably-dressed young
man, who styled himself E— P—, Esquire, drysalter,
of the city.
This " Esquire" stated his complaint in the following
manner:—Sir Richard, I was driving along the Strand,
about half-pat six this evening.
A cart or a hackney-coach? asked the Magistrate.
The " Esquire."—No, Sir Richard, my curricle. I
was driving along rather in a hurry, and this fellow was
before me. I called out to him to get out of the way. He
didn't choose to hurry himself, so I pushed by him ; but I
hadn't got past Somerset House, when he comes galloping
after me, and drives his coach against my curricle, and
stops it. He then jumps down off his box and catches hold
of my home. I got down to ask him what he was about,
and without more ado, he knocks me down ; and as soon
as I gets up, he knocks me down again ; and I was robbed
of my pocket-handkerchief, though I can'st say this fellow's
got it.
The coachman, in his defence, said that as he was
coming with a fare to the theatre, just on this side of
Temple-bar, " this gemman," who was behind him, called
out, " Hallo ! you fellow, get out of the way and let me
come by." And because he did not " get out of the way"
of this magnificent personage soon enough, he drove his
" curricle thing" at a furious rate past him, the two men
in the dicky playing a flourish upon their key-bugles; and
as they passed, they came so close to him, that the wheel
of the curricle took his horse's shoulder, and grazed the
skin off. He called after the gemman, and told him what
he had done; but be only his eyes, and drove en.—
S► he thought it the best thing he could do to follow and
try to overtake take the gemman, which he did opposite
Somerset-house. . . .

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But what do you say to the assault? asked the Magi-
strate. This young man says you knocked him down
twice, and he seems to think you have stolen his handker-
chief.
Coachman.—Why, I've this to say, your Worship, that
be knocked me down first, and that I lost a shawl out of
my hat, worth more a great deal than his handkerchief.
The " Squire,"---I assure you, Sir Richard, that what
this here fellow says is false. I done nothing at all to
him before he knocked me down ; and one of my fellows
here will prove it, Sir Richard.
A smart young groom stepped forward and said, we
were coming along the Strand at the rate of about twelve
or fourteen miles an hour—
Sir RICHARD asked the " Squire" if if he was in the
habit of driving at that rate ; and
The " Squire" replied, that his usual rate of travelling
was nine or ten miles an hour.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked this witness if it was true
that some persons were blowing horns in his master's
curricle.
The grown cautiously replied, there was a horn in the
curriele, Sir.

Yes, said the coachman, there was two of 'em, your
Worship, and a fine noise they made with 'am too. I
thinks they played the Cockney Swell to the tune of
Jenuny Green; which, I think, saving your Worship's
.presence, was a wetly 'propriate un, though it's likely they
hadn't t!ie:sense to know it. , . .

Neither- the " Squire," nor " his fellow," deigned to
reply to the coachman's wicked waggery.
His Worship then asked the " Squire " what damage his
curricle had sustained ; and the " Squire" replied, that the
pannels were a little bit grazed ; but that he didn't care
for so much as being knocked down twice in the mud l
The coachman urged, that he ought to be the cons-
plainant, for he had received the first injury. The" german
druv" against him first and damaged his horse's shoulder ;
and he declared that in the row afterwards, the gemman
knocked him down first.
But the " Squire" had a witness, and the poor coachman
had not, so he was ordered to be locked up, in default of
bail; and the " Squire" retiring, presently made the office
echo with his horns as he drove off.
AIARLBOROUGH-STREET.--On Saturday, an
elderly gentleman, accompanied by a youth of IS years of
age, applied for a warrant against the proprietors of a gamb-
ling-house in Bury-street, St. James's. The elderly gentle-
man stated, that the youth was the son of a banker on the
continent, and his brother-in-law. He came to this coun-
try about four months since, bringing with him 7001. given
him by his father for his expenses, and had been allured to
the gaming-house of Messrs. ___-, Where he was induced
to drink till. he became inebriated, and to play at a game
he knew nothing of till be lost his last shilling ; in fact, he
was robbed of between 500/. and 600/. A few days since
he called on him (the senior gentleman), and asked him to
take a walk. They went out together—the youi.h appeared
extremely dejected—he naturally inquired into the cause,
and was horrified at discovering that he hadfalled on him
to take leave of him for ever—that he was meditating
suicide. This 'led to further inquiries : the youtli con-
fessed the cause of his despair. He, iu consequence, went
to the house; and saw one of the proprietors, who told him
he night go and be hanged ; they did not care for him or
the Magistrates.
Mr. DYER asked the applicant what was the purport of
his application.
He replied, that he wished to have a warrant for the ap-
prehension of the proprietors of the house.
Mr. DYER observed, that there was no use in granting
warrants, or binding parties to prosecute, in such cases, as
they were always bought off.
The young man stated, that about nine weeks ago he
was introduced to the house and lost a considerable sum of
money. He determined never to go into it again, but was
constantly waylaid by the persons he met thae, until at
length he was induced to return. They had also taken
him to another gaming-house in the same street, where he
lost 150/. When he was totally ruined, and they discovered
that he had no snore to lose, he was kicked out, on question-
ing the fairness of the play of which he had been the victim.
Both the applicants offered to enter into security to prose.
cute, if the Magistrate would grant the warrant.
Mr. DYER refused, granting the warrant, but recom-
mended the young man to go before the Grand Jury, and
prefer a bill against the persons of whom he complained,
for keeping a common gaming-house. ‘,
The parties left the office, declaring their intention to do
so immediately.
MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.--Benjamin Conner, a
very old man, was charged with robbery.—Committed.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—On Saturday a young female,
about IS years of age, who gave her name Sarah Peppiatt,
was brought up in custody of one of tl'e Bow-street patrol,
before D. W. GREGORIE, Esq., charged with feloniously
uttering a forged Si. Bank of England note to Mr•. John
Emery, landlord of the Duke of York, in the Vauxhall-road.
Mr. GREdORIE, after having consulted the solicitor for
the Bank, said he should remand the prisoner until Thurs-
day. The prisoner might state any thing if she liked.
Mr. Wooller said that the prisoner had nothing to say,
but that she had "received the note from a man named
Shorter, to procure the beer and gin, and she knew nothing
of its being a forgery.--The prisoner was then removed.
UNION-HALL.—On Saturday a mechanic, named
Farr, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, J. T.
lows, Esq., charged with having committed a very cruel
assault upon his wife, by biting off part of one of her ears.
An atrocious case of a similar description occurred at this
office only two days previously,—one man, in a struggle
with another, having bitten clean off a great portion of his
antagonist's nose.
The complainant in the present case related a series of
the most cruel treatment towards her on the part of the
defendant. By his depraved habits and immoral conduct,
she declared he had driven their only daughter, a girl of
15, away from her home. On Friday she proceeded in
o quest of this child, and on her return home, after a fruit-
less search, the defendant in a most violent rage, seized
her by the hair, and having dragged her round the room,
kicked her several times ; and in her struggle to get away
from him, he got her ear into his mouth,. and bit off nearly
half of it. The poor woman here exhibited the lacerated
wound, which she alleged had been perpetrated by the de-
fendant.
The defendant endeavoured to palliate his conduct by
deelaring that it was impossible to live under the same roof
with such a termagant of a wife as he had, without being
obliged to resort to personal chastisement occasionally, to
keep her within bounds.
The Magistrate, in holding the defendant to bail, obser•.
ved, that nothing could justify him in committing such an
atrocious assault upon his wife:
TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.--Mrs:E/len Towzer
a person in creditable cireuttotances ae• a lodging-hawse
kee'per. in Freeschwi-streett HorslYelown, appeared on Sa-
turday, in obedience to a'aummomi to 'show cause for de-
taining several shirts,, silk-handkerehiefia waistcoats, Btc.
the property of John' Marden, • captain in the merchant's
service.
Mr. Aldermen 'J. J. Saithr, whose observetiott it hid
, not escaped that a pretty-looking yottne *omit* vood-by

the side of the defendant, asked if there were any WWI
matters in dispute between them.
" None on earth," replied the capt.an, "with the exect
tion,indeed, of this last washing bill, which I have repeated
sent the money for, but it has never been accepted ''''
which puzzled me still the more."
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Alderman, calling on the defendant for reply, when
disclaimed all intention of withholding the captain's 10.7
perty, whom she had no claim whatever against, she 01
of at pecuniary nature ; her conduct was the result ef
very different circumstance, in which she took a far gilt,
interest, namely, her daughter's happiness, to who'
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had paid h., addresses for the last four years and

and promised marriage. uevet
" Promised marriage !" interrupted the captain ; 401
in my life, I do assure your Worship, or ever though
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such a thing."
You did, Sir, repeatedly," exclaimed the young wongt
" He urtainly did," resumed her mother, the defeods!liii
" and it was the wish to have a personal interview svae,'
hint occasioned my not sending his property, as I loity
sirous to learn his motive for his unexplained and dog •
wanner of giving tip our acquaintance."
The captain condoned to declare it was a inisundersteu,
ing ; be had never given occasion for any such exP'siy
Lion, or the least reason for complaint against hint bf r
young lady, whose character be believed to be tines
tionable.
A long dialogue ensued, each party insisting on
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to by observing he had nothing to do with the matter' •O
recommending the property to be given up, to vlwti
there being no demur, the matter ended.

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