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London, England, 1830-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

MAxinow-HousE.—Ax EXTRAORDINARY PAUPER—The officers
of the parish of Aldgate were sumtr.oned before the Lord Mayor by a
pauper named Franey, for having refused to contribute to his support.
The particular of the case of the pauper, although in the highest de.
gree distressing, were told in such a manner as to cause general laughter.
In fact, the most shocking circumstance of all became from the manner
in which it was stated the source of the greatest merriment to the crowd.
The pauper is a young man, and such was his disregard for the de-
licacies of life, that the moment he appeared at the bar, the rest of the
paupers shrunk back from him. A dozen times too during the hearing
of the ease he put on one of those crying faces which children alone are
privileged to exhibit, and his tears, by washing away the dirt from the
upper part of his face, made a most ludicrous contrast between that and
the lower. He said he had a claim upon the parish of Aldgate from
having ►een born there, but in what part of the parish he could not tell ;
however, when he applied for relief nobody would give him nothing.
Kinnersley, the beadle, declared that he knew nothing at all of the
pauper. If the man was born in the pariah he must have been
born under circumstances that were a bar to his claim, for neither he
nor his father was known to the authorities.

The jumper, with tears in his eyes, aid•he had also to demand justice
upon some villians who had robbed him.
The I.oaD hlawort—.of what could you have been robbed ?
The Pauper --Why, my Lord,- they broke into my room, and stole

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away two ebairs and a cupboard, and a pair of bellows, and my medic)
—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Your mother ! what, in the name of cod,
could they have wanted with your mother
The Pauper.—Please your worship it's a well known thing that they
stole away my poor old mother, and why should Ifbe treated so? What
did I do to be marred out with sitch a robbery? why, nothing at all,
please your Worship. Why should they take away the poor old cre4
lure from me ? (laughter amongst the crowd, which it was impossible
to check.)
The case of the robbery of the old woman' was quite unintelligible
to the Lord Mayor, until the pauper proieeded farther .with his
lamentation.

The LORD MaYou.—But, my good fellow, your mother will, rn
doubt, return to you.
The Pauper—Rctum, your Worship ill oh,:shc never will return.
How can she return ? why she was dead afore she left.
The LORD MAYOR—Oh then it was her coque that was stolen •
Is that the case 1

The Pauper—Yes, your Lordship, they came when I was gom
out and broke open the door, and they takes away the chairs, an,i
body, and bellows, and all, without even asking me whether I wottbi
or no. (Loud laughter.)
The Lord Mayor said that if the statement was true, the poor man
was greatly to be pitied ; although he was, perhaps, one of the most
extraordinary figures that ever appeared at that bar, and had the most
ludicrous peculiarities about him, it was a shame to laugh at his
misery.
Ilere the poor man began to whimper and put his hand to his eyes,
which he sometimes wiped with the sleeve of his coat, and sometimes
with a piece of brown paper, which he also used copiously as a pocket
handkerchief.

Ilia Lordship directed that Franey should be taken into the houi
until proper inquiries should be made.
Kinnersley said that if the man was put into the house the other pau-
pers would rebel, and GOD only knew what would be the consequence ;
it was necessary that the living proofs of neglect and indigence which he
born about him should be removed as soon as possible.
The pauper intimated that in two hours, or three at mo.t, he should
dispatch that objection.

MAILLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a young woman, named
Mary Henderson, was brought before Mr. Roe, the sitting Magistrate,
charged with sobbing a gentleman of his watch.
A police-constable stated that the prisoner was given in charge to him
by the complainant, who said that she had robbed him of his watch
while they had been together at some house of ill-fame, and on search-
ing the prisoner at the police station, the watch now produced was found
in her possession, which the gentleman at the time identified as belong.
ing to him.
The Magistrate now asked the complainant (if complainant he can
be called,) whether the statement made by the constable was correct,
or not ?

The gentleman replied that it was not, for he never meant to
charge the girl with robbing him, for in fact she did not rob him of the
watch at all.

The Magistrate said, that was very strange—was not the watch his
property ?
The lientleman said yes, he believed it was.
Then, said the Magistrate, how did it come into her possession if she
did not rob you of it—did you give it to her ?
No, the gentlemen said, he did not give it to her, and how she became
possessed of it he could not tell, but he was sure she did nut rob him
of It.

Several police constables declared that the gentleman directly charged
the prisoner with having robbed him at the police station when she
was brought there.
The Gentleman, however, still persisted that the prisoner did not
rob him, and in the
end the Magistrate, not being able to extract any
further evidence from him, ordered the watch to be given up to the
person from whom it was taken, namely, the prisoner.
The Gentleman looked amazed at this order, but was still more
astounded when be saw the watch with several gold seals attached to it.
together with a watch guard, &c. handed over to the prisoner, who
very deliberately walked out of the office with them, not seeming to take
the slightest notice of thereat owner, but carefully putting them into her
breast vanished before the gentleman could recover from his amazement.
The gentleman subsequently applied to the magistrate to know how
he was to recover his watch, but the magistrate told him that the thine
was gone by for magisterial interference ; for, as he thought proper to
contradict his first statement, and say that the girl did not steal or rob
him of the watch, a magistrate had no power to assist him, and he must
get his watch back in the beat way he could.
The girl herself appeared no less surprised than the gentleman at the
turn things had taken, when she uw the watch delivered up to her.
lJxtox HALL.—On Saturday the particulars of a man named Pratt
having voluntarily surrendered himself for a murder committed some
years back, appeared in most of the daily papers. The man who made
the selt.accusatior., was ordered to be kept in custody until enquirLs
were instituted as to the truth of an individual being murdered in that
part of the country where Pratt alleged it was committed. Owing to
the publicity given to the circumstances detailing Pratt's confession, a
man named Berry, who seems to have some knowledge of the affair,
called on chief constable Hall en Sunday morning, and said that, hav-
ing read an account of Pratt's appearance at this office, he (Berry) had
come forward to state some facts connected with the murder of a Mr.
Wood, a farmer, which was committed about eight years ago at a place
called Ma le-road, near Stockport, in Cheshire. The deceased, he
said, was dragged out of his cart, as he was returning home from Mar-
ket, by two men, and he having resisted their attempts to rob him,
they cruelly murdered him, by beating his head with a large stone that
was found lying beside the body of the unfortunate victim. soon after
the murder was perpetrated, a man named John Dale was apprehended
on the charge, and he had not been many days in gaol before he made
a full confession of his guilt; in the course of which he implicated a
man named Pratt as having been concerned in the dreadful deed. Dale
was subsequently tried for the murder, found guilty, and afterwards
executed; but, notwithstanding the vigilant exertions of the police,
for a long time, his accomplice in the crime was not taken, and it
was generally believed in the country that he had made his escape to
America. Berry, the chief constable's informant, declares that h, was
present at the execution of Dale, and that his last words on the scaffold
were expressive of his hope that Pratt would be taken. Berry, in the
course of his statement, said that he had known Pratt previously to the
murder of Mr. Wood, by seeing him at Stockport and other places in
the same county. Chief constable Hall inquired if Berry new saw
Pratt whether he should recollect him 8 The answer being in the af-
firmative, Berry was taken to the Cnunty Gaol, where Pratt is now con.
tined, and after some hesitation with regard to identity, Bcny said. al.
though the man then in custody was much altered in appearance, yet he
firmly believed he was the man who was supposed to have been con-
cerned with Dale in the murder.
It is remarkable, that ever since the day Pratt surrendered himself,
although he then expressed a desire to unfold the particulars of an atro-
cious murder, he has preserved the utmost silence on the subject. seal
appears now to suffer under great depression of spirit.. Ile will be kept
in custody until further inquiries are made respecting the affair, to ac-
celerate which letters have been forwarded to the gaolers of 31ancliettct
and Stockport.
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THAMES POLICE —Daniel APCarlhy was remanded, charged with
plundering the premises of Mr. Brown, 1 ild Gravel-lane, Slialwell,
a quantity of iron, smiths' tools, and other property.
TOWN.IIALL.—John Brown war held to bail, charged with as-
saulting Richer, one of the officers of the Southwark ('outt of liequiso.
in the execution of his duty.
Hevrox-Gettnex.—Yesterday, Samuel Loyeock was charged with
robbing his mover, Mr. Bennett, of the Rare and Crown. Tottenham
Court-road. Suspicion had fallen on the prisoner, and Mr. Bennett
caught him early in the morning robbing the till in the bar of minx
Jiver and halfpence. He had obtained a false key to open the bar
door. He was fully committed for trial.
LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday, two policemen, named Johh BUT.
reit and William Liddiard, were lull committed, for robbing a drunken
man, named Murphy, who had been entrusted to their care by )Ir.
Boyd, of the Crooked Billet, in Rosemary-lane.
William Sheen, the man who was tried for cutting off his
head some time since, was remanded, on suspicion of being coreirned
in the robbery of Mr:Cohen, of some trunks entrusted to a porter, hav-
ing property in them to the value of 5001.

MARRIED.
The 30th inst. at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Frederick, youngest son of J.
Neale, esq. of Gower-street North, to Miss Frances Vu of
place.—The 25th inst. at Chelmsford, Mr. T. Smith, of Colchester. is
Caroline, second daughter of R. Cremer, esq. of the former place.—The
19th inst. at St. Augustine's Church, Bristol, J. G. Jennings, •"l• of
llobart.town, Van Diemen's Land, to Eliza, second daughter of
Carter, esq of Ringwood, Hants.—The 20th inst. at Sionthoot
Chapel, Devon, Assistant.Commissary.Genersl J. Lindsay. to Marti
Lucas, second daughter of the late J. Laing, esq. of the island of
Dominica.

DIED.
ADMIRAL SIR EMILY NICHOLLS, K.C.B.—A few days since, at
his residence in Somersetshire ; having embraced the Naval profession
when quite a child, he may be truly said to have been " born on the
winds and.eradied in the storm." His seal, iservevirance, and abilities.
raised him to the highest rank and honours of his profession.
The Mith inst. at his house in Norton-meet, aged 43, G. R. Nuttall.
M.D. Physician to the Westminster General Dispensary.—At Hick-
ling, Notts, in her G7th year, Sophia Charlotte, relict of the late Mr.
Basilica, formerly of Fludyer.street, Westminster —The 21st instant,
at Balinuir, Forfarahire, N.B. Miss Isabella Graham, of Balmuir.—
The 27th inst. at Watermouth-house Devon, Alta. Dann. aged 49, re-
lict of the late R. Dann Esq. of Hiakiiey.—The2Gth instant. at the
houseof his brother, at Camberwell, Ur. D. L. Iltia, of Poole, aged
31, several years resident at the Gape cif Good Hope.

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