Star.
London, England, 1809-10-28 00:00:00

POLICE.

SURREY GOAL, IioRsEMONGER-LAITE.
Yesterday Sir JOHN PiNHOßN,aceompanied by Mr.
REEVES, Chief Clerk at Union Hall; attended at the
prison for the purpose of further investigating the
charge brought forward against Elision, of having
stolen a cheque on the house of Childs and Co. for
£92; from the Office of Messrs. Hazlewood, Vizard,
and Hutchinson, Solicitors, in Lincoln's Inn, in whose
office he was a clerk previous to his being confined
for the. attempt on Miss Coulson.
A clerk from the house of Childs and Co. proved
that the cheque had been presented on the 23d of
August, and that large notes had been given in pay.
meat for it, which. notes it appeared, trom the evi-
dence of a clerk belonging to the Bank of England,
had been changed on the same day at the Bank for
two pound notes, several of which had since been re-
paid into the Bank, and cancelled. Among the
cancelled notes produced was one with the words
41 Edwards; *Belvidere-house Observatory," written
on the back ; .which, when shewn to Mr. Edwards,
who was examined, he immediately knew to be a note
he had received from Eliston on the 4th of Septem-
ber last, with other money in payment of rent.
A young man named Smith, who was also a clerk
in Mr. Hazlewood's office, stated that he delivered
the cheque to Eliston, two or three days previous to
its having been paid into Childs'. house.
It appearing, from the statement of ono.' the Wit 4
nesses, that While Miss Coulson was lying in a woun-
ded state at Eliston's father's, she received a letter
containing £lO in notes ; she was sent for and ques-
tioned by the Magistrate, as to whom she received
the letter from ; she acknowledged having received a
letter, containing that sum, but refused to say from
whom, or to answer any question relative to the notes
it contained.
The note with the indorsement of. Mr. Edwards
was then shewu to Eliston. He denim' all knowledge
of it I. knd said,' he should decline 'Answering any
question till he was before a Jury. ,
As others of the notes are daily coining in at the
Bank, the fintber investigation of the business was
deferred to a future day. • . P
MANSMN Hoarse.—Yesterday leftthael Green was
fully committed, charged with stealing from-his em-
ployers several files.
Bradky and Baron were fully com-
mitted, charged with
.stealing two great coats, and
some articles of women's apparel, which were found
in their possession by the- proprietor, who said, that
the prisoner's were disabled seamen, and lodged in
his house. -
GUELMlALl.—Yesterday Susan and Joseph Knight
and Avii Heft, were charged by a Mrs. Marshall, with
an assault and robbery in St. Paul's Church-yard, on
Thursday night.
The peosecntrix stated, that the prisoners, accom-
panied by a man who made his escape, attacked her.
That the man who had got off knocked her down,
and that Joseph Knight rescued him from her grasp,
which she endeavoured to keep, intending to have
given charge of him when the watchman came up ;
he also pulled off her hat, and gave it to the other
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lay se'nnight, the Herefordshire Agricul
paid hint four shillings per week for its support.— ' man., wk , which he made off, brit dropPed it on thel
tural Society niec at the Hotel, Hereford. The exhi.
He stated ht, loved her as his own; he called her his alarm being given. All this had been done, she said,
bitioo of animals for the premiums was much admired.
Nancy, and she called him uncle ; and that he was • without any provocation.
Yesterday morning a man exposed his wife for sal
more hurt at the prisoner's attempting such a thing,' Knight, the male prisoner, stated, that he was re-
Westminster. 'The money deman.
in the nroaaway,. _.
than if it had been any other person, as he bad been turning from Whitechapel, with his wife and sister,
ded for her was three guineas, and two being offered
a soldier in the same regiment with him, and the pri- where he had been procuring recruits, and that the I
soner was in the field of battle with him, the prose-
rosecutris, who was very drunks attacked them in ' by one of her gallants, the bargain was readily *Closed,
cuter, when he lost his leg in defence of his country, Sb Patti's Church-yard, and insisted that he had/ when she with her purchaser, accompanied by a few
and he would lose his life in defence of his little stolen her hat. He denied that there was any man lacquaintances, retired to a neighbouring public house,
Nancy I (Here this poor,. but brave fellow, sobbed ;
longed to the 59th regiment. ih their company but himself, and said that he be-
leaving her husband surrounded by a considerable
aloud.)
. number of spectators, whose attentions were aurae.
The Bmcn most generously subscribed, and raised il_ •
e two women were discharged, but he was re- .
ted by the novelty of such a scene in that part. of du
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a fund to repay this honest veteran the expence he had mended, that his serjeant niight appeAr to his character. I town.
been at in 'carrying on the prosecution. 4 Mary..llizgiar was committed for assaulting Ann I A woman was last week committed to Worcester
The Jury, and almost every spectator in Court,' Hurst, in Fleet Market, the same night, and cutting City gaol, for passing to different tradesmen in that
gave little Nancy something ; her hat was nearly fill- , her head with a patten. I city, various forged one pound notes, purporting to be
ed with silver. It is in such cases as these that honest ' BOW-STREET. —Yesterday morning, Macmanus, the : the Bank of England.
JoAn Bull displays his true character ! ; officer, having returned to town from attending the i Friday se'nnight, a fire broke out in St. John's,
David Lyon: was indicted for stealing a plank of celebration of the Jubilee at Windsor, attended before ' near Worcester, in the house of a person who keep:
Mr• READ, to explain what he told Mr. Savage, of a huckster's shop. The dames spread with great ra.
Wood, the property of Francis Edwards. The Jury • '
found him guilty. He was sentenced to be imprisoned
IT ' Walsinghamplace, Surrey-side ef Blackfriars-bridge, .
' pidity, and when discovered, had nearly reached a
for the space of 14 days. 1
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respecting his having been assaulted and turned out bed-room, when a feale had a narrow escape. 13:
of a box in Covent-garden Theatre, on the first night . great exe'rtions, the fire was got under ; but not until
A publican, named Grantee, was found guilty of .of its opening, by Jackson, the prize-fighter. i the premises, where it began. were totally consumed.
assaulting a boy named Scott, who, in concert with ' Macmanu-s explained to the Magistrate (Mr. Sa- I Boxime—,A man of the name of Solomon Purdy
other boys, was raising a disturbance near his house vage being present), that at the time Mr. Savage;
i was killed yesterday morning, in the neighbourhtiod and alarming his wife, who was lying in. The Court , wasdragging out of the box, he was standing- 'of Hampton, in a pitched battle with a brickmaker
fined him £5.
. . I behind the box door out of which Mr. Savage was' of the name of liuskisson. The combatants had
Thom Master: was indicted for stealing two books . brought; and several persons who were standing near ; fought twenty rounds, when a blow was put in be.
from the shop of a bookseller in Warwith-lane. The him observed, that it was Jackson, the prizefighter, , hind the ear of Purdy, and he fell, and died in less
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prisoner pleaded guilty. who was taking Mr. Savage out, and he only being; than half an hour, having discharged a. quantity of
The prosecutor stated, that the two books laid in , able to see the side face of the man who was taking , blOod. The contest originated in a hasty dispute
the indictment were two numbers of Robinson Crusoes Mr. Savage out, and from that appearance it was . without midi. ce, and the deciaasod was the first ag.
Stockdale's fine edition ; his windows, in the front of very like Jackson,, and those around him having as- I
. gressor..
the shop, stood open in the day time, and the books • sorted that it was Jackson, he made up his mind that
Five of the Capital Nimes in the State Lottery,
were placed near_ the window, whence they were taken , it was him, and upon this ground, and this only, he ,
drawn on Friday the 20th instant, were shared and
by the prisoner. He had since learned that the pri-; told Mr. Savage that it was Jackson. He had, how- .
wirr and Co. via. Me 4099, a Prize of Fire
leaner bore an excellent character, and had been at ever, since learned, that the man who turned Mr... sad by S
Thousand Pounds, NO. 7.53, a Prize of Two Thou, one time in a respectable situation, in business for Savage out of the box, was a carpenter belonging to •
sand Pounds, No. 548, Five Hundred Pounds, No.
himself, as a wholesale hosier; that he had been re-' Covent-garden Theatre,. whose person resembled i
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duced by misfortune, to poverty; and that distress Jackson. 2697, Five Hundred Pounds, and No. 4855, Five
I Hundred Pounds. The fortunate holders may, as must have made him commit the theft. He there-' This explanation-of Macmanus was deemed per-
; usual, receive their Money on demand, at SWIFT and
fore trusted the Court would be as lenient to him as 'fectly satisfactory.
, Co.'s Offices, No. 11, Poultry, No. 12, Charing-cross,
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possible. ; Last night four persons were taken out of the pit
A Gentleman came forward, and stated, that he by the constables ; only three of whom however were 'and N 0.31, Aldgate High-street.
was the means of the prisoner's being detected : from brought before the Magistrates upon specific charges. I The loss of TEETH, natural In the progress of age,
iris appearance, and the extreme sorrow he expressed, Mr. T. Wigmore and Mr. Thomas Mason, of Chig- . and sometimes prOduced by accident and other
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when apprehended, he was induced to make every ! well, in Essex, were charged on the oaths of Kr. causes, may now cease to be lamented, from .the
it.quiri into the pi isoner's real character, and, he was ' Brandon, arid a young man named Bennet, of Carey-
'very simple and ingenious method of supplying tub-
happy to say, that it had been most satisfactory. He : street, with fighting- and making a riotous noise in sutures, without tying or any other inecnvenience, as
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found oat that he had lived six years as confidential
.' the pit, to the great disturbance and annoyance of practised by Mr. BLADEN AUSPINI, of Pall MAL:—
cite k alai contactor to Mr. Ludlam, wholesale hosier, ; the audience. i He with the utmost facility supplies all deficiencies,
Votalearcet, in the City ; that Mr. Ludlam had the The charge was positively denied by both, bat and restores the mouth to its best appearance.
greatt:st resre:t and regard for the prisoner, and ias the prosecutors persisted in their affirmation! MARRIED.
would I.ave been happy to have assisted him, if he , upon oath against the defendants, they were ordered On Saturday last, at Eltham, Mr. WllEarn Cobbe, of t!nt Hay-
had hit wn of his impoverished situation ; but a false ;to find bail Mr. Davidson, of Horsely Dowe, was Matilda RatitAy, of the it,i-PICi
Place, nirce of Colonel Ramsay, of Shooter's NM.
File i:.1:1 prevented the prisoner from letting his si- ' ordered to find.
bail, upon the oath of Lyons the pas
tuatee. na t:eown to Mr. Ludlam. ,
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mole, who charged him with attempting to rescue .
The prisoner then said, he pleaded guilty, , On toe Zd instant, in Spain, of the f ver, , Maj .1- Str utt, .1' 'rd
jig's because ; Mr. Wigmore, whilst the latter pawn win carricu, D • Guards, ' . '
pis could say nothing in, extenuation of the offence. ' cnat of the Thee' tty.utm universaoy rtgartlLS by all 1,v,.0 -knot Was.
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