Star.
London, England, 1830-09-16 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

BOW-BTRlEZT.—Yesterday, Nary Ann and Sarah 'Pokily's, two
sisters, were charged with having robbed a lady, named Sparks, with
whom the prisoner Ann had lived servant. of a quantity of plate and
other articles. _ _

lin;.ipsrits lived in Norris-street, Haymarket, and the elder pri.
soner was her servant for about eighteen months. Articles of plate,
consisting of spoons, &e. were missed, and the prisoner was charged
with the theft, but she denied all knowledge of it, until it had been as-
certained that several of the articles were pledged at the gimps of dif.
ferent pawnbrokers, who identified the younger prisoner as the person
who had pawned them. The father of the prisoners also brought to
Mrs. Sparks several duplicates which he had discovered in the possusion
of the prisoners, who were thereupon given into the custody of Mr.
Thomas, the supseintendant of police. No blame whatever was attri-
butable to the fat.. The property was produced by the ahoptnan of
Mr. Harris, of Tothill-street, and fully identified by the prosecute's.
Mr. Mirtslitru. observed, that pawnbrokers who took in pledges
from children of the tender age of the younger prisoner were highly
culpable ; and if it should turn out that she were under the age of 12
years, he would inflict the highest penalty on Mr. H. allowed by the
Pawnbrokers' Act. _ _ _

The father of the little girl said he believed she was 12, but he was
not quite certain.
Mr. 3111MIULL said he would have this feet ascertained beyond a
doubt. The case, however, was clear, and it was his duty to commit the
prisoners, which he accordingly Ga.
WOIIIIIINSTILEET.—John Denny and William Huston, ch.,
with violating and robbing Mary Thomas, a soldier's wife, on Sunday
morning, the 22d of August, were finally examined. Mr. Rogers,
the Police Inspector, informed the Magistrate that the woman Thomas
was not to be found, and there was no doubt that money had been
given to her, and she was gone to Ireland. Mr. Broughton dis-
charged them assuring them, however, that they did not depart with
cleared chara;ters-

---6WrielliatWries, an interesting boy, 14 years of age, was charged
with felony.
--.:Wilkinson, a barber, in Whiteeross4treet, stated that the
prisoner was his apprentice, and had robbed him of a pocket-book, con.
twining 71. 12s. which he had left locked up In a drawer in the bed-
room, and also two new razors out of his shop.
A female, residing with the prosecutor, deposed to having herself
placed the money in the drawer, and having left the key in another
part of the room. No one but the prisoner could have taken the pro.
perty, there being at the time it was stolen no other person in the house,
saving the prosecutor himself.
The prisoner, who appeared quite unconcerned at the charge against
him, declared his innocence, and, after crosa.examining his accusers in
a manner, for his age, that astonished every one present, turned
round upon the prosecutor, and accused him of having stolen the
money himself, in order that the woman who was living with him might
not have it.

Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his anxiety to have evidence of a more
satisfactory nature. The conduct of the prosecutor, in living in the
manner he did, was enough to injure the morals of any apprentice. No
money bad been found in the boy's possession, therefore he should re.
mend bim for another examination.
Tuesday the boy was again brought up, when proof was produced
of his being the thief. A pillow from his bed was brought by an
officer, in which, amongst the feathers, was found a sovereign,
which, unfortunately for the prisoner, had been marked by the fe-
male alluded to, and who swore to it as part of the 7L lils. The
sovereign had been introduced into the pillow through a small bole
in it.

Prisoner (impudentl) to the prosecutor): Well ! and is it not as
likely that you put it there yourself?
The prosecutor declined making any reply to this insinuation, and
tbrisoner was fully committed to New for trial.
THAMES POLICE y Captain George Sherrord
Battle, commander of the Lowther Castle East Indianian, was charged
before Mr. Bartawrzsts with assaulting David Gristle seaman of
that vessel, on the high seas, during the voyage homewards
.
The complainant, a tall powerful German sailor, deposed that on the
7th of May kat all hands were called on deck. He was obeying the
orders given him, and was under the necessity of leaning against some
paint pots, when the Captain called out " You d—d Dutch son of a—,
you have rubbed the paint off the side of the ship." The paint was wet
at the time, the vessel baring been recently painted. Witness replied
" Indeed I have not, Sir ; it is too bad to be called such names forma
thing at all." Captain Battle immediately came down the poop ladder
and struck him on the head with his spyglass. He asked " What do
pia do that for ?" when the Captain struck him several severe blows in
the face, and made his nose bleed profusely. Be was then taken on the
poop as a prisoner, his nose still bleeding, where he remained about a
quarter of an hour, when helm ordered to his duty. As he passed the
captain, he showed him his trousers, to show that he had not touched
the paint, when he was again sworn at, and told to attend to his duty.
Samuel Morrison and Oliver Hildebrand, able seamen of the Low-
ther Castle, were then called in separately, and rigidly examined by
Mr. BALLA/MINI. They gave exactly the same account of the affair
as Gristle, and confirmed his evidence.
Captain Battle, in defence, said the whole statement of the complain-
ant was false. At the time mentioned, one of the after-guard trod on
Grirsle's toe, and the latter called the man by a very offensive and hor-
rible epithet. lie immediately called out, " Come, sir, I don't allow
that language here." The complainant then abused him, and behaved
very insolently, when he pushed him on one side, and ordered him aft.
Captain Bettie declared that he never struck him with his glass at all.
Mr. Gasman, the chief officer of the Lowther Castle, corroborated the
Captain's evidence.
The complainant was again called, and said nothing ofthe kind passed
as sworn to by Mr. Gisman.
Mr. Ballantine—Did any one tread on youctoe ?
Complainant. —No one, Sir; nor did I have an altercation with any
person at the time.
Hildebrand and Morrisson gave similar testimony, and positively
swore that Captain Battle called the complainant a d—d Dutch son
of a b---, and, after striking him with his glass, knocked him
down with his fist.

The complainant said, there were other witnesses in attendance ; but
Mr. BALLawviss declined questioning any more.
Captain Bettie said the complainant was stopping all the work by
the conversation, and it was necessary to check him instantly, to prevent
worse consequences.
Mr. BALLANTINg observed, that officers must do their bat to pre.
serve proper discipline on board, but ff.:they exercised undue severity,
the crew had a right to question their authority in a court of law on
coining ashore. In this use the assault had been distinctly and clearly
proved, and he should call on Captain Battle to enter into his own re.
as to the amount of 501 appear to take his trial at the next
an to
Admiralty sessions. The magistrate said if any of the ship's =twiny
insulted Captain Battle, or any of his officers, on leaving the 'Mee,
they should be immediately committed to prison ; but no such attempt
was made.

Uatox-waix—Yesterday a young female, named Mary Guest,
WAS brought before Mr. SWAVEY, charged with threatening the life of
a young man, named Cannon, on the preceding day.
From the statement of the complainant, who is a milkman at Wal-
worth, it appeared, that Mary Guest had for some months past annoyed
him with her importunities to be married. Never having given her any
encouragement to expect such an event happening, the milkman told
her " plump and plain" that he would not have her at any price,
adding, that if she was to remain single until he made her his
wife, she would assuredly meet with a disappointment. Mary,
however, would not take a denial on a ;subject which concerned
her future happiness so much, and declared that unless be con-
sented to a matrimonial alliance with her, she would haunt Mon
night and day. Alter having made this declaration, she rigidly
kept her promise, and followed him like a spectre about to the
houses of his customers, whom she took pains to inform of her attach.
meat for him. To such a height did she cFnst on this sus at
*nee, that he was fearful it would operate his ergele, eel Ike be
would ultimately lose his milk altogether, she was pawed wpm.
vete in it. On the pre.. in day, she was at her post as
his movements. and he spoke to her as calmly se possibrAllagthiSr
the absurdity of persecuting him, and his determined*" to live in
single blessedness. The moment, however, he uttered the needs,
she got into a violent rage, and for the drat time exhildesd her tem-
per, which, he could assure the Magistrate, wee rest of the most
agreeable kind, for she gave him • thump on the twee with
such force, as to stun him ; and moreover, threatened, that elle or the
other of them " should fall" before many days had elapsed. This
threat implied that she would either kill him or herself. With nerd
to his own life, he should not much relish to lose it yet, and there was
no knowing what a woman might do while labouring under such ex-
cited feelings as she had displayed ; therefore he trusted the maps.
trate would grant him that protection which he stood in so much
need of.

The defendant declared that the milkman bad acted the part of a
faithless lover towards her, and that was the chief reason that induced
her to follow him about. She had made up her mind to annoy him
foe his conduct towards her, and considered she was justified in the way
she had acted. _ _

Tne magistrate said, that notwithstanding the alleged misconduct of
the milkman towards the defendant, yet she was not justified in pur.
suing such • system of annoyance towards that person, and in order to
restrain her in future she must now be made to put in bail.
The defendant said she should prefer a gaol rather than procure bell
for committing that which she did not consider an offence. She was
therefore locked up.
Qusax.liQuoar.—Pahick Mahoney, a tall athletic Irish mos.
tor, and Terence Jupp, an Irish shoemaker, were charged before Messrs
GazooaT and bloaarosT with a violent Insult on • waterman,
named Joseph Groves.
From the evidence it that on Monday night some twenty
m Irishe and about six lish people assembled at the White Lion
public-house, Vanith The Irish challenged the English to
fight, at toes for some spirits. The latter was accepted, and the Irish
became the losers, and refined to pay. Some angry words ensued,
and the Irish boasting of their strength drank the English people's

beer. This was followed by remonstrances from the English,
one of whom was the complaiqant, and they were immediately at-
tacked In the most brutal manner by the prisoners' party, who
struck the icomplainant on the head with a quart pot, which felled
him to the ground, and rendered him insensible for some time. The
prisoners, who were the ringleaders, would have murdered the ann.
plainant, had not the landlord rescued him from their grasp, with the
assistance of the constables of the new police. The complainant appeared
before the Magistrates with his bead bound up, and in an apparently
weak state from the profuse loss of blood.
The defendants, in reply to the charge, called witnesses, who deposed
that both the English and Irish were in a state of Intoxication when the
affray occurred, and that the English called the Irish an opprobrious
epithet.
The Magistrates ordered the prisoners to pay a fine of 110 s. each to
the King, or in default of payment to be committed to the House of
Correction for one month.

They were locked up in default of payment.
Tuesday police constable No. 118, L division, brought ups poor
woman who appeared in extreme distress, and with a child about two
years of age in her arms. He gated that he was on duty in Btam.
ford-street, Blackhiars, about 10 o'clock the preceding night, when a
lady and gentleman gave the woman into his custody, on a charge
of having attempted both suicide and infanticide at Blackfriam
bridge. He took the woman to the station house, where she repeatedly
declared that it was her fixed deterrrination to drown herself and her
child at the same time.

The poor woman, in reply to Mr. &node, said that her name was
Hannah Jones, and she was a widow. Her husband was a licensed
victualler in the Borough when he died, and her friends, who are all
dead, were very respectable. She bad not slept in a lodging for se.
veral nights, and she and her child were starving for food.
Mr. Grmorie ordered the poor creature to wait in the outer office, and
he would consider what he could do for her. She, however, bad not
waited long before she quitted the office.
George Haien, a most notorious character, was charged by a police
sergeant of the B. division, No. 7, with being found in the area of a
house, No. 4, Colesh&street, Pimlico, under sustut circumstances.
The prisoner was only discharged from this office about a fortnight
ago, with seventeen silk handkerchiefs in his possession, on account of
norzsecutor appearing.
, in his defence, said, that a man had thrown his hat
down the area, he merely got over to recover it.