Star.
London, England, 1802-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE.

Cult.smat.t..—Yefterday a man was examined,
charged upon the oath of Coleman, who
keeps a fale-[hop in Field-lane, with coming to his
[hop, and offering for fate the front cloth of a one
hock chaife, which he fufpeaed to have been
ftolcn. Two men, fervants to a Adler, in Black-
friars-road, gave evidence that the cloth was stolen
from their matter. The prifoner was committed
for farther examination.

The noted Mary Barrington, ali.ts Murray, and
another woman, were charged by a young man
of the name of Chapman, with robbing him early
in' the morning, in Cheapfide, of a guinea, a
feventhilling piece, and fome filver. On their being
taken to the watch•houfe, and fiarched, on Bar.
rington was found only a counterfeit halfguinea;
the other prifoner had nothing about her, but the
informant being pofitive in his charge, they were
committed for trial.

HATTON-GARDEll.—Mofiday fix young men
none of them more than eighteen years of age,
were bkought before the fitting Magiftrate, on
fufpicion 4 f being concerned in the murder which
was committed on Mr. Gordon's clerk, in Comp-
ton fireet, Clerkenwell. The Police Officers ftat-
ed, that the prifoners were idle young men, and
affociated with notorious thieves, as well as being
marked bullock-hunters, and that they had jolt
taken them in different public-houfes in the neigh-
bourhood of Smithfield. The Migiftrate told the
prifoners, that he had authorifed the Officers to
take into cuftody all fufpicious perfons, in order
to difcover the wanton perpetrators of the horrid
murder in Compton-greet ; he should therefore
commit them till a future period, and if nothing
could be brought againft any of them, he hoped
thit it would operate on each of their minds as a
leffon not to keep the company of notorious
. thieves. The friend of one of the prifoners told
the Magierate his own fituation in life, and gave
one of, the boys a good charaeer ; in confequence
of which,. the Magiftrate difcharrd him, with a
very proper admonition of the ill confequences
arifing from bad company. The other five pri-
fonert were committed for a further hearing.
Yefterday a watch-movement-maker, his, wife,
his fifter-in law, and another, were again exa-
mined on fufpicion of being concerned in the above
murder, but nothing new coming out, they were
committed for re examination. a affray was
fo fudden and fhort, that people livinngg on the (pot
knew nothing of the affair till the following day.
A man was committed for re-examinauon, on
fufpicion of haling a horfe in Kent, which he
offered for Pale at Barnet.

Three lads were committed for trial, upon the
information of an accomplice, only thirteen years
of age, who tinted that they walked the ftreets to
rob Shops of goods expofed to fale.
Mnatanttove 14. sTasur.—Monday a Bond-ftreet
lounger in drefs and appearance was examined
before NATHANISL CONANT, Efq. at this office, on
a c'.iarge of felony.
Mils Ann Renbold, a lady of very genteel ap-
pearance, Slated to the Magiftrate, that the lived
with her brother, who kept a houfe in Brook-ftreet,
leading into Bond- ftreet, and le out ready fornithed
apartments: Between eleven and twelve o'clock
that morning, the prifoner, accompanied by an el-
' derly gentleman, came toiler houfe, under pre-
tence of wanting a lodging, and- being fliewn up
ftaits, was informedle could only beaccommodated
with a fecond floor. He wifhed to link at it, . and
on teeing it, Paid he liked it very well, but should
want-it only for a fhort time, as he was about to
leave the.country. He returned down ftairs into
the fxrft floor, and raid •he thould like that apart-
ment much better, had it been to let. Mifs Ren-
hold informed hint it would be empty in a .few
weeks, and if he thought proper he might then have
it., He looked into the bed-room, and Paid he
thought it was larger than the one on the fecond-
floor. The witnefs Paid, the thought they were of
the fame fize. On which the prifoner replied, " I
can't think that you are corree ; but if you are, lam
wonderfully deceived ; I'll afcertain the fait, how-
ever; by Re ping up (lairs again." He did fo and
was abfent little more than a minute, while the wit-
nets was engaged in converfation ;rith the fecond
perfon. On his return, Mifs Renhold obferved a
piece of tape peeping out from under his hat, which
the inftantly knew belonged to a muflin drefs the
had put away in a drawer upon the fecond floor.
She challenged him with having her gown in his
hat, and whether le knocked his hat off, or whether
he took it off; the could not telkbut it fell to the
ground, and the gown rolled out. The elderly per-
tnt vas in his progrefs towards the door when the
prifoner clan down from-the fecond floor, and on
finding, ay ille-fuppod., hiariend cleated, he ran
out of-the houfe. The prifoner would have follow.
cd inttaady: the -prevented' him for a time, bilt
biliiiig.notne in theiviufe with bei, Se was intl.
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midatecirlet get iteibiltiPaitil .he nde off. • She had
courage enough, however, fl) call out, and he was
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Joteph Simplon law the elekirly 121911 CPOrrOOV.
of Mr. Renhold's houfe, and tau up the Omit
prefently after the prifoner carnet° the d'otiritneV
followed the flit Gentle-dam He then heartiMits
Renhold fay,' the man bad attempted to Real her
gown, and he immediately ran after him. • He
alto heard the prifoner call out to his friend, lay-
ing," you, Jack, flop for me ;" the other
replied, " No, d—n me if I•do," and went on.—
The prifoner then turned into a filverfmith's fhop
in Bond-ftreet, where be was afterwards taken.
Mr. Dalby, who kept the filverfmith's fhop al-
luded to, Paid, he was converfing with a gentleman
in his parlour, when the prifoner came haftily in,
Paid he bad a filver tureen Be wifbed to be wended,
and as he was ihortly going abroad, walled to
know if it could be done out of hand ? Witncfs law
.a mob about the door, and without anfwering the
prifoner, went to inquire what was the matter.
The mob Paid a Gentleman had robbed a Lady of a
gown, and they wtre-in fearch of him. Mr. Dalby
replied, he believed their fearch was at an end, as a
very fulpicions man had juft come into his fhop,
and he had little doubt, from his agitated Rate,
that he was the man they were looking after. The
prifoner was then given up, and brought to that
office.
The prifoner, with the greatek poffible aftur-
ance, laughed at the depofitions made againft him,
convinced, as he Paid, the Magiftrate-wonld im-
mediatelffee the whole was a joke, which the
alarm of Mifs Renhold had conjeaured into fe-
lony. His charaaer and conneaions would defy
fuflucion • he was a tailor, in fbort he had been to
India in the Company's fervice, as 4th Mate in the
Afia Eaft-Indiaman, commanded by Capt. Pace.
—With refpea to his having his hat on, and the
•gown fecreted, he pofitively denied the fall, ad-
ding, that he never could be guilty of fo much ill-
manners as to wear his hat in a room where a lady
was preen/. lie denied having ran away, and Paid
be had fupported the lady, who fell into his arms,
altnoft fainting with fright at what her own ima-
gination had conjured up, and might, had he pleat-
ed,-have taken that opportunity to run away. He
concluded by faying, that heAvas engaged to fail
in the City of London Indiaman, and that if not
difcharged, he should &appoint feveral of his
friends, both at the Jerufalem and Lloyd's Coffee.
houfes, who would be anxiously waiting for him.
The Magiftrate obfeived, that he muff be under
the neceflity of binding all the parties to profecote,
being anxious the prifoner fhOuld not efcape the
juftice of•the country.
The parties were then bound over to-profecote,
and the prifoner led from the bar.
He is a well favoured young man, of middling
ftatdre, wears a fathionable Brutus over his own
hair, and has a remarkably piercing eye, extremely
well dreffed, had all the exterior of a man of la.
fbion, and in the habit of conflantly promenading
the fuperior walks of ton.
• Hours.EREAKERs.—A man was.alfo fully cot.
, mined at the above Office, charged with burglari-
oully breaking and entering the dwelling-houfe of
John and William Morris, pawnbrokers, in Role-
timer, near Golden-fquare. Mr. John Morris
Rated, that on Sunday morning, between one and
two o'clock, he was alarmed by the watchman's
rattle; he got up, went to the window, and was
informed thara ladder had been found placed again ft
his window, and that it was fu; poled thieves were
in his houfe. He defired the ladder to be moved,
and being placed againft another window, he let
the watchman in. As he was leaving the room, he
heard a noire as if tome one bad jumped from a
back window. He looked out and law a man lying
in the yard; he prefented a piftol, and his brother
cried out shoot him • he drew the trigger, but the '
piftol miffed fire. He then went down intoahe
yard ; the prifoner was lying on his back, he bad
dropped from the two pair of (lairs window, and
had diflocated his shoulder.. Before he knew of the
prifonees hurt, his piftol went off ; and the powder
had marked his face, but had' not injured him. He
demanded of him if there were any more thieves
in the houfe ? and nn being affured there were not,
the prifoner was tent to the watch boufe, and a
furgeon called in, who placed his fhoulder in the
locket. Mr. Morris added, that on looking into
his wareboufe he founda bundle containing thirteen
gowns, ready to have been carried off, betides 201.
of property gone, which he underftood had been
thrown out of the window to two men, accomplices
of the prifoner, but who had efcaped on the watch-
man coming his rounds. It alto appeared the lad-
der had been itolen from a neighbour ing ftreet.
Cortorrees' IsoyesT.—Monday an inqueft was
held at the houfe of the late Mr. Martin Wood, in
the Strand, upon his body. Mr. Wood was, for 25
years pall, one of the boi.keepers of Drury-lane
Theatre, and alto the proprietor of wine-vaults, at
his houfe in the Strand, where the inqueft was bel4.
Between five and fix o'clock, on fait Friday
he was patting through Petty France, on his way•
to a little feat which he had in the fuburbs. He was
afflieted with a complaint, now very general, and
being on the fide of the high road, in a particular
fituation, offenfive to paffengers, was flruck•by a
perfOn who refides on the fpot, on the breaft with a
fpade.—The blow threw him on his back, in which
lituation he remained until one of the conftables of
Covent-Garden Theatre, who refides in the neigh-
bourhood, happened to pats by, and, knowing the
deceafed, brought him in a coach to his Houle in ,
the Strand. Dr. Radnor, of Surrey-ftreet, 'was
immediately fent for; but his affiftance was in vain,
as Mr. Wood died at twelve o'clock on the fame
night. It appeared from the teftimony of Dr.
Radnor, that the deceafed laboured under a drop-
fical complaint, and was in a very bad Rate of
health. Upon a view of the body alto, it did not
exhibit any mark of violence whatever. It fur-
ther appeared. from the tettimonyof feveial perfons
upon the road at the time be fell, that the blow by
the fpade, even fuppofing it to have hurt him, was
merely accidental. Under thefe circumftances the
Jury brought in a-verdiit—Died bx tbe viAlation of
Goo. The•man who Bruck the deceafed with the
fpack, and who has-been-flue in cultody, was ac-
cording y difcharged.

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