Star.
London, England, 1830-09-13 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

OIIILDMALLIL Montagne, who has been In custody several days
charged with stealing a parcel. containing halves of provincial notes, of
the value of 4001. from the Swan with Two Necks Inn, where he was
emloyed, was finally examined= Saturday before Mr. Alderman Win.
cheater.
Mr. Hunt, the Solicitor for the prosecution, said the party in the
country who packed up the parcel was unable' to come that day to
prove the contents, but he would attend at the Sessions.
Mr. Burford, a clerk to Messrs. Roberts and Co. the bankers, said
the prisoner brought in the half of one of the stolen notes on the
24th of August. He did not ask for payment, but stated that be
had picked it up in Broad-street, opposite the Excise-office.
When called upon for his defence, the prisoner said be could not
tell what had induced him to do it, but he had stolen three par-
cels. He did not remember the address of the first, but the snood
was directed to Mr. Ashby, and the third to Fair and Son, sectionals,
in the Borough.
Mr. Alderman Wurcnsir xi expressed the pain he felt at com-
mitting such a boy (he had the apparence of being only twelve or
fourteen years old) for a capital offence; but he said he feared that
though he was so young, he was old in crime.
He was committed for trial.
A handsome girl, named Mary Mitchell, nearly sixteen years of age,
was brought up on the charge of her uncle, for deserting her
parents, to become one of the unhappy creatures who infest the
streets.
The uncle said she was the eldest of nine children, and her father re-
sided near Maidenhead. About a fortnight ago, she absconded with a
younger girl in the village, and came to London, and the letter which
communicated the fact to him, stated that her poor mother had been in
fits almost constantly since she had been missed. With some difficulty,
he had discovered the girl in a brothel at No. 2, Lombard-street, White.
friars, decked out in the first style. He now merely begged that the
Alderman would detain the girl till her parents could reach town to re-
ceive her.
Mr. Alderman WINCHEITIM despatched two officers to the
house, and, in a short time, Mrs. Jones and her husband were
brought up.
The defendants protested that they had strongly urged Mary Mitchell
to return to her friends. No rows or robberies ever occurred at their
house, nor could any body say they ever permitted an innocent girl to
be ruined in it.
Mr. Alderman WINCHICSTZI4 however, said he would not shew
them the least lenity, and committed thein for keeping • disorderly
house, at the same time ordering the City Solicitor to prosecute.
HATTON.GAILDEII.—There were 775 summonses disposed of, all of
which were for poor.ratn. It appears that a rate of one shilling per
pound had been made on the inhabitants, which was understood to have
been occasioned in consequence of an order for defraying the expense of
police ; and that to make up the deficiency in the accounts of some de.
rankers who had been entrusted with the parish monies, the inhabl.
tants had been paying a tate of amen of the old Watching Act ; so
that the rate of arrears, and the other together, amounted to about ls.Bd.
in the pound. All the persons summoned were unable to pay, and the
usual number of days of indulgence was granted them, at the expiration
of which they were told the warrants of distress would be is-
sued against them. Should their total inability to pay be really un.
affea4 and the law be enfotced to Its full rigour, it is probable that
the parish will have a vast accession of applicants for support from
the very sources towards which they had been called upon to contribute.
QUILW.SQUARIC.—ifistiIda Beiges was on suspicion of
having made way with her infant child.
Elizabeth Davey, of No. 36, Saint Anne-street, Westminster, stated,
that the prisoner and her husband came to lodge with her on the Ist of
last July. The prisoner appeared to be very large. A person told
witness that the prisoner had been brought to bed, and she asked her
husband what bad been done with the child ? lie replied, 4, you make
a great deal of fuss about it, go in and ask her. Witness:went accord-
ingly and asked her what she had done with the child ? She said that
the child had been buried in Saint John's Church-yard. Witness went
to the sexton of Saint John's, and was told that no child bad been bu-
ried in the burial ground of that pariah from Saint Ann-street. The
prisoner and her husband left her lodgings a few days after this, at an
early hour, and took the key with them.
The prisoner was fully committed to take her trial for the offence,
and also for stealing a shawl at Camberwell Fair, and pledging it at a
pawnbroker's in Tottenham.coutt-road.
WORSHIP.STILEZT—R. Wilson, alias " Brighton Dick," was
finally examined before Mr. Broughton, with a man named Austin, on
, a charge of breaking into and plundering the house of a lady named
Stayley, at South lancing, Sussex.
[ Armstrong and Attfield, officers of this establishment, have lately
found some of the articles pledged at various pawnbrokers' shops in
Walworth, by a girl who gave her name Margaret Wilson, 1, Ptinces.
row, Walworth.
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Mrs. Mary Foster, a pretty and very showy-looking little woman,
stated herself to be a married person, but said that about 10 years ago,
she became acquainted with Wilson, and lived with him till lest June.
About the 25th of March, Wilson had been away from home for a day
or two, and at two o'clock in the morning she heard a knock, and found
Austin and another man at the door, with a tilted can, containing a
quantity of furniture, which they brought into the house. Wilson re.
turned bow a day or two afterwards, and said be supposed they had
got the things all right. Witness had a daughter about lb years of
age, who was sent with Austin to pawn some of the articles. Witness
continued to live with Wilson, in Prospect-row, till the 17th June,
when he absconded with her daughter, whom she had never since
beard o£

The prisoners were onnmited for the burglary, to be tried in Surrey.

COURT OF JUSTICIARY, GLASGOW, Septaaber 8.

ir• Feat, porter, was charged with the rnur..er
of his wife, Maxwell 11,11 inlay, or M'Feat, in so far as he did, on the
24th of April, in a house in klinspeon's-land, Shuttle-street, Glasgow,
strike her several severe blows on the head and other:parts of the body,
with his fists, and with kicking and trampling on her belly, and with
stabbing her with a pair of scissors ; in consequence of which she was
deprived of life, and auelly murdered.
Witnesses proved the manner in which the demand came by her
death. She was drunk, and singing and dancing in the street, with a
child in her arms, and a crowd round her. They went home, a great
noise began, such as swearing, &c. Mrs. M'Feat was crying, and wit-
ness heard her say more than once, " 0 Goo Almighty I" Witness
heard more than one fall in in the house. In the course of the squab-
ble witness went to the door and knocked. She then saw Mrs.ll•Feat
!ruing on the floor in front of the bed. One of the daughters opened
door. Mrs. M'Feat did not rise, and the husband was close by.
He laid hold of his wife by the legs, and threw her with her feet to the
door. In drawing her bee clothes were drawn up, and pan of her per-
son exposed. She did not observe any marks of blood at that time.
Mrs. was thrown with violence, and the door was shut in wit-
ness's face. There was a noise after that similar to what had been be-
fore witness went into her own house. A Mrs. Ogilvie came in, and in
consequence of what she said, witness went again to West's door, and
saw Mrs. M'Feat lying in front of the bed. Wiest was smoking by
the fire. Witness went to the bed-side, and put her hand on her; she
soon after left the house, and went away on a message. On her return
the police were there, and all was over..

EXCULPATORY PROOF.
Din. Munn, vintner, has known the prisoner for ten years. He was
four years servant with her ; be takes nervous tits, and is weak in his
judgment ; he does not know what he is about when in them ; she has
hard him talking like a assy persona thinks he is worse In his
ment than be was when with her.
Alex. Brown. fannes—M,Feat was in his service for one year. He
observed a general delirium about him, sometimes approaching to in-
sanity. He talked lautherently. He had to dismiss him on account of
his weakness.

ll'llutray, porter, has known West for 20 years ; be often
thought be was deranged, and was frequently in fits, when he was not
in his right mind ; be had many delusions and fancies, and spoke much
about being at the wars, which witness knew was not true.
Lord PITYILLY •1111111Theephe evidence, and the Jury having rto
tired for a short time ret with a verdict of guilty, bat mom.
mended him to mercy in the strongest terms, on account of the peat
provocation he received.
The prisoner was then sondsmited by LordPltmilly to be executed on
the 29th September, at the usual hour and place.
On the conclusion of hi
s Lordship's address, BlTest " My
Lords, will you allow ime to speak ?" He than said, " Before (ion
and my Jury, and your Lordships, as Lam doomed to die, 1 never
touched that woman with any instrument, so help me 00D. lie main-
tained the utmost composure throughout.

The body of a fine female infant was found by Mr. Mori-
son, of the Rlia Tavern, Augustuaatreet, Regent's-park, en Thurs-
day morning, on the bank of the Regent's-canal, with a large stone fas.
toned to it. It pp from the situation in which it was discoveted,
that it was In to have been thrown into the canal ; but from some
cense, es yet undiscovered, the object of the inhuman wretch was true.
trated.

A Chinese sow, the property of Mr. J. Padbury, of Little
Clarendon-street. Oxford, on Thursday last, brought faith a Bust of
vi 26 plysallj 130
dof whkh are living. ! The sow is very prolific, having pre.
m y need ones
A re broke outy,about one o'clock on Saturday morning,
at Dlr. Hoskins's, pacer, in Spectacle-alley. near Whiteehapel CA
It was dhcovered by a pallor constable. By timely mortices the goods
and furniture were saved. The engines were on the spot, and a plead.
fill supply of water being obtained, the firs was moon extinguished.
Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, as a poor woman,
with a basket of fruit on her head, was crossing from Farringdon.strest
as Bridge-street, the pole of a coach drove against her, and **eked her
down with great violence. She was taken up quite insensible, and eon_
veyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, when it was discovered that her
Ooller.bone was broken!