The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Walter Dowding, the proprietor of
the Streatham coach, No. 7,209, produced his driver to answer
the complaint of a Mrs. Molony, of Robert-street, Brixton, for as-
saulting her.
The complainant had some business to transact on Fish-street-
hill, and for the sake of reaching town with speed, she got upon
the defendant's coach, after having been told by him that lie was
going over London-bridge. Hearing a promise made to a gentle-
man, who was afterwards taken up on the road, that he should be
conveyed to the end of Fleet-market, Mrs. Molony reminded the
defendant that she was going to the Monument, and expressed a
hope that she should not be detained. The driver said London-
bridge was blocked up, and going round would make no difference
to her. The coach came straight on to Fleet-market, and there
she alighted, being informed by another coachman that the de-
fendant was going up Fleet-street. As she had been brought so
much out of her way, she declined paying anything, alleging that
her husband would be there in a few minutes. The defendant,
however, insist.; upon being paid instantly, tore open her cloak
and shawl, pulled her about, and collected a mob round her. She
then rod him 10d., took his number, and had walked but 50
Innis when she met her husband, who had set out from Brixton
at the same time with herself, and had walked all the way; so
little speed had the coach made.
The defendant denied having used Mrs. Molony roughly, or
that she had said any thing about London-bridge. His regular
route lay over Blackfriars-bridge, round St. Paul's, to Graee-
church-street ; and before she went away, he desired her to get
up again, and said he would set off at once to Gracechurch-street.
Three gentlemen spoke to the general good conduct of ti de-
fendant
" The plain truth is," cried the defendant, "she wanted to bilk
me out of my fare."
" The plain truth," replied Mr. Alderman VENABLES, " seems
to be, that she was dissatisfied, because you broke your contract
with her, and therefore refused to pay you, in which I think she
was fully justified. You delayed her, and took her greatly out of
her way. When you knew she was going to Monument-yard,
you should have told her, what a circuit you would make before
you would reach it. I shall send the case to the sessions, unless
you return the fare, pay all costs, and make her some compensa-
tion."

The parties retired, and soon returned to state that the matter
had been settled.

B OW- ST REET. —Eleanor Murat, a female of respectable ap-
pearance, dressed in black, was yesterday placed at the bar,
charged by her landlady, Ann Midway, with having de-
serted her ready-furnislied lodgings, and with carrying from
thence a number of articles.
Mrs. Midway deposed, that about two months ago, the prisoner
and her daughter, a girl about seven years of age, came to her
house, at No. 9, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square, and agreed
for two furnished apartments, which they occupied until Friday,
when they decamped, without any previous notice, leaving a
week's rent unpaid. On searching the apartments, the prosecu-
trix found that various articles, consisting of sheets, towels, &c.,
were missing ; and she also discovered that some china cups and
saucers, on which she had eet a high value, were broken, although
she had given the prisoner ropeated cautions not to use them,
and had supplied her with other articles of crockery, to prevent
any accident occurring to her favourite china. On Friday
evening, while deploring her loss, a letter was handed to
her by the servant girl of Mrs. Murat, in which that lady
promised her payment for the week's lodging which was
due, and she also promised to make good whatever articles were

Missing or ibrokeii while she arid hei daigfiter occupied the rooms
which from unforeseen circumstances she was obliged. to vacate.
On further inquiries the prosecutrix found that the prisoner and
her daughter were living izr Lislet-street, and on repairing to their
lcolgings,"the prisoner solemnly assured her that if she would wait
until Tuesday, she would faithfully discharge all- demands. She
failed, however, to keep her promise, and the prosecutrix gave her
into custody.

The prisoner pleaded in her defence that she had formerly moved
in a respectable circle, although now reduced to distress. She
assured the Magistrate that if time had been allowed her she
would have faithfully discharged her rent, and made good every
reasonable demand of the proseeutrix.
Mr. I-fa Lts, after perusing the letter sent by the prisoner to
the prosecutrix, was.of opinion that the charge of felony was not
established. He therefore dismissed the prisoner, with a caution
to be more circumspect in her future conduct, and he also told
her that she should lose no time in settling with Mrs. Midway.

MARYLABONNE.—Yesterday, Mr. William Pole was
brought before Me. Griffith, on a peace warrant, charged by his
wife, Mrs. Frances Susannah Pole, the proprietress of a respect-
able ladies' boarding-school, in Great East-street, Manchester-
square. The appearance of the parties presented a striking
contrast. Mrs. Pole is a lady upwards of seventy years of
age, and of tall stature, while Mr. Pole is about five and
twenty, and of low stature. Mrs. Pole stated, that she had
only been married to Mr. Pole about six months, but during
that period his conduct had been most violent and eccentric.
On Sunday last he took the poker and knocked her down; he
had twice attempted to poison himself; the last time was on
Christmas-day, when he swallowed a quantity of laudanum,
and no fewer than four medical men attended him on that oc-
casion, but he was still in the habit of constantly carrying a
large quantity of poison about him ; she felt in danger of
her life, for he had repeatedly threatened to murder her.
When she married him, she had a large school of 30 scholars,
but the greater part of them bad left her, in consequence
of his violent behaviour. He would likewise remain up all night
in the drawing-room, with a large fire before him, screw down
the windows, and tie the door up with cords, and she was ob-
liged to have the locks taken off before she could obtain admit-
tance. Since his marriage, he had not troubled himself about
following his business, and he had been maintained entirely
through her exertion!.
Mr. GRIFFITH remarked, that the complainant seemed to have
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Mr. Pole coolly said, that his wife had thrown boiling water
over him several times, and threatened to murder him.

Mr. Gaivrrrn—She says it is you who have threatened to
murder her.

Mrs. Pole said her object was to have him bound down to key
the peace, and her statement was fully confirmed by one of the
inmates of her house.

Mr. GRIFFITH said the defendant's conduct was so unac-
countable, that he was unable to say whether he was or was not
in his senses. The warrant might stand for a week, and it he
repeated his conduct, he certainly should be sent to the House of
Correction.—The parties withdrew.

Mr. and Mrs. Hall again appeared before the Magistrate to
adjust their connubial differences, and it was ultimately ar-
ranged that Mrs. Hall should not molest her husband in future,
and that articles of separation should be drawn up, and duly
signed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—James Tyrer was charged with
robbing Mr. Hughes, a bookseller, at Islington, by whom he had
been employed as an engraver.
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when the shop boy
to render the prisoner suspected, he was taken into custody, and
disclosed an extensive system of plunder which he had been carry-
ing on for more than a twelvemonth, giving information also of
the pawnbrokers with whom he had pledged the property.
In the course of the examination a vast number of books, some
of them very valuable, were produced, and the prisoner was recog-
nized in many instances as the person who had pawned them, and
the pawnbrokers were bound over to prosecute.—The prisoner
was committed.

UNION-HALL—Yesterday two young men, named John
Vaux and Charles Goring, of respectable appearance, were
brought up to this office in custody, before M. SWABEY, Esq.,
from the Camberwell watchhouse, where they had been confined
during the preceding night, charged with uttering two counterfeit
sovereigns.

Baxter, a constable of Camberwell, shortly stated the circum-
stances under which he apprehended the accused persons. He
said, that on the previous evening, as he was passing along Cam-
berwell, he observed Vaux in a shop making some purchase,
in payment for which he tendered a sovereign, which on
being sounded on the counter by the shopkeeper, did not
appear to him to " ring" as a genuine one should; he there-
fore refused to take it, observing that he thought it was a
counterfeit ; upon which Vaux produced another sovereign,
which was also refused upon the supposition that it was a bad
one ; the latter then left the shop, and proceeded to another,
within a few doors, followed by the constable, who made his
appearance just as Vaux had handed one of the sovereigns
which had been pronounced as counterfeit coin in the first in-
stance, to the person within the counter. Both the sovereigns
were also rejected here, upon which Baxter immediately took him
into custody on a charge of uttering counterfeit sovereigns, and
locked him up in the watch-house. It appeared that Vaux had
repeatedly declared them in his judgment to be genuine sove-
reigns, and recollecting that he had taken them a short time pre-
viously from an individual named Goring, he sent for that person
to the watch-house, who at once admitted that he had paid them
to Vaux, and expressed his surprise and astonishment that the
sovereigns should have been rejected, as he was convinced they
were gold. The. constable, however, instead of placing any re-
liance on Mr. Goring's statement, locked him up also in the
watch-house along with Mr. Vaux, where they were detained
during the night. Baxter now produced the two sovereigns
which were described as counterfeit ones; he said that he had
tried them, and was convinced they were composed of spurious
metal.

The magistrate, on looking at them, observed that they appeared
to have been filed a good deal.
The constable said that he cut them in order to discover what
they were made of.
Magistrate—And can you now positively swear that they are
counterfeit ?

Baxter--No, Sir, I should not like to do that ; but I firmly be-
lieve them to be base metal.
The Magistrate here directed the sovereigns to he rung on the
table, in order to discover whether they were good or bad ; but
that plan failed, as the constable had been exercising his ingenuity
on them with the file, by which he took all sound out of them,
and rendered it impossible to arrive at the merits of the case by
that method.
It was here suggested that Mr. Phillimore, the pawnbroker,
should be sent for, in order that he might be enabled to state posi-
tively whether the suspected money was genuine or otherwise.
In the interim, the case against the accused persons seemed, in
the view of the Magistrate, to be so pregnant with suspicion, that
he actually directed their commitments to be made out. Air.
Phillimore, however, soon entered the office, prepared with the
usual test for trying gold—viz. aquafortie ; and on applying it to
the sovereigns, he at once pronounced them to begenuine : they
were afterwards placed in the scales, but were a little deficient in
weight, and this was accounted for from the operation of filing
they underwent in the hands of the constable, who cut into near
the centre of one of them during the experiment. Upon hearing
the decision of the pawnbroker, the constable, more than any
body else, appeared to be astounded. What !" said he, " the
sovereigns not bad ; why this has been a dreadful mistake indeed.
Well, I could have almost sworn they were counterfeit before the
trial with the aquafortis."
Vaux complained of the hardship of having been locked up on
such a charge, and said that his committal to gaol (had not this
investigation taken place) would have brought utter ruin upon
him. His associate in trouble also inveighed against the constable,
for having locked them up without more minutely examining the
money which he charged them with having uttered as counterfeit,
but which now, after they had been confined a whole night,
turned out to be genuine.
Magistrate expressed his regret that they should have been.
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tothe serious inconvenience alluded to, and observed, that
they were now perfectly exonerated from the charge, and there-
fore left that office without the slightest imputation on their
character.

Thursday morning, Mr. Agar, Governor of the
county gaol at Maidstone, received a letter from the Secretary of
signifying that the execution of the sentence of death, passed
the 14 smugglers, should be respited until the further S
upontat e,
sig-
nification of his Majesty's pleasure. Agreeably to further orders,
all the 14 prisoners were yesterday removed from the gaol, to be
put on board ship, for the purpose of transportation for life. It
was supposed by many people that some of them would be exe•
cuted on Monday morning ; according an immense concourse as-
sembled here, for the purpose of witnessing the execution.—Maid-
stone Journal.

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