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London, England, 1831-03-14 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT—CHELMSFORD, Macs 12.
Caowx Covivr.—(llefore Mr. Baron BAYLEY.
THE STOCK awa.—Henry Griffin, butcher, Jo wit„„
baker, James Jarvis, sawyer, Robert Taylor, C'hurks Penny, Jan,
Jourdan, l'lsomas Hutt, and Charles Flack. labourers, and II idisr:
Hardy, baker, were Indicted for a nurober of burglaries and rot,
barks committed in and near Stock. It appeared that them. run
were associated together for the purposes of plunder, and not ,
night passed but a robbery of some description or other occurrut
It is strongly suspected that these men must have been in clots
connexion with London receivers, for very little trace of any of
the property realized by these depredations has been obtainw.
Two of them were admitted as King's evidence, Flack and Griffin
Taylor and Jarvis were first tried for stealing a sheep belonging to
John Clark, of Buttesbury, but in consequence of the bad character o
the witnesses, the Jury found the prisoners rot guilty.
Hutt and Penny were then tried for stealing a lamb. belonging
Mr. Bridge. with a similar result.
Taylor, Wilson, Jourdan, and Jarvis, were next charged wits,
stealing 17 turkies, belonging to Mr. Cleve, of Rettendon. The thrt,
former were found yuidy, and Jarvis not guilty.
Jourdan and Hardy were again indicted for stealing nine turkeys a,..!
two fowls, helonging to Mr. John Salmon, of Ramsden
Jounlan guilty, Hardy not guilty.
Wilson and Hutt were next tried for breaking and entering tr,
dwelling-house of Mr. Afattain, of Stock, and stealing seven hams and
five bottles of wine. The Jury acquitted both prisoners. 'Wit",
succeeded in establishing an alibi.
The JUDGE said he thought the Jury exercised a very proper dim.
crimination. He had been adverse to their admission as King's eti.
deuce but the Counsel who had die conducting of the ease assuredi:Or
they should fail in the proof of the charges against the others. Taylot,
Jourdan, and Wilson, were then ordered up tot sentence.
The JUDGE maid it was clear they had for tt length of time lived br
plunder, and, in fact, that they wore associated for no other purposr.
He should take care that the connexion was dissolved, by transporting
Taylor for life, Jourdan for 14 years, and Wilson for seven year.
NISI PRIUS COURT.
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Before Mr. Baron -0-AR-11-0-W-.

EFFECT, or JEALousr.--1114 was an Indictment for an assail!•
committed upon the plaintiff under suspicion that he war seducing the
affections of the wife of the defendant.

The Learned JUDGE said it appeared to him that the defendanthad
been made the victim of village gossiping Glands:, and sentenced him to
pay a tine of 50L and enter into sureties to keep the peace.
SALISBURY, blawcsr 11.
RXTRAORDINARY AND HORRID CASS OP )(UDDER.
Charles Giles was indicted for the wilful murder of a male child, tic
son of Harriet Hone, at Warminster, on the lilt of Sept. last, by giving
it poison.
Harriet Hone (the mother of the child) denosed that she had a child
by the prisoner. Before its birth he desired her to smother it, but shv
did not think him to earnest. After it was twin he said she might a;
well let him poison it. About a fortnight after he came to her at ten
o'clock at night, and sent her out for change of a sovereign ; on her
return he had the child in his arms, and on her taking it from him, and
kissing it, she found something hot over its mouth, and said—" Oh !
mq 4.kxl, Charles, you have poisoned my child." The prisoner had
buried the body in a chalk pit, but information being given to a Ma.
gistrate by the mother, the body was dug up, and an inquest held
upon whose verdict of wilful murder the prisoner was committed tar
trial. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on Monday.
LANCASTER, MARCH 10.
Mewls Jones, aged 32, was found guilty of uttering, in Liverpooi,
a forged bill of exchange for 1201. lba. purporting to have been drawn
by Pickford and Co. and accepted by James Marshall and Co. a ith in.
tent to defraud iVilliam Winn. The prisoner was strongly teem.
mended to mercy.

POLICE REPORTS.
HATTON GARDEN.—Saturday night, a young woman of the next
of Charlotte Whitehead, was brought before the sitting magistrak.
Mr. LAING, under the following circumstances :
Police constable Britton, No. 141, division E, stated that on Fritts)
night, at half-past eight o'clock, the young woman was found in Kings.
gate-street, Holborn, in a very exhausted state, brought on by remand
distress, and she was taken into a neighbouring coffee-house, where
every attention was paid to her until she recovered. It being under-
stood that she had neither home nor friends to go to, he (the const4bl4
was called in, and requested to take het to the station-house for the
night, and he did so.
Mr. Laixo.—Why was she not brought to this office at II o'clock
this morning !
Britton replied that he was instructed by Mr. Palmer, the clerk.
take her, at ten o'clock that mooring, to the 31endicity Society's of
in Red Lion-square, and he had left her there.
31e. Liaxo.--Who is Mr. Palmer? I know there are police-corn.
missioners, police superintendents, police-inspectors, and police con-
stables, but I know of no such individuals as police-clerks. wa•
the inspector on duty at the time?
Britton replied, that Mr. List was the inspector before whom he had
brought the young woman, and that Palmer was the acting inspector,
wbo directed him to take her to the 3lendicity Society.
I Mr. I•AING observed that both the inspector and his deputy had at-
Irogated to themselves the duties of a magistrate, in sending the swag:
to the Mendiciiy Society instead of bringing her to this office in the
first instance, where she would have been dealt with as the magis.
trate in his discretion might think proper, and he asked what was the
charge against her ?
Britton replied that he bad no charge against the young woman, but
that finding her in a destitute condition, he had taken her from motives
of bun-unity, as well as agreeably to his instructions as a constable, to
the station-house for protection and relief.
Mr. Lxixo.—She was in a coffee-house at the time, and you had no
right to take her out of it. Where was she detained during the night !
Britton.—ln the guard-room, Sir.
Mr. Larx6.—.ln the guard-room ! What do you mean ?
Britton.—ln that room set apart for the reserve, Sir, at the watch-
.

Mr. LAING.—Then, if there was no charge against her, hew comes
it that she is brought before me now ?
Mr. Stevens, the manager of the Mendicity Society, who was in at.
tendance, observed, that the young woman was an exceedingly bad cha-
racter and a gross impostor, and he was very glad that there was now
an opportunity of entering into some explanation, particulaly as than
appeared lately some paragrnpha in the newspapers—
Mr. LAING—Don't talk to me of newspapers, for we know per.
fectly well that newspapers often contain the most notorious lies. la:
me know why this young woman is now brought before me, after a
lapse of nearly 24 hours that sate has been in custody.
Mr. Stevens said that it had occupied nearly the whole of the day to
make inquiries into the woman's character—that it was ascertained she
had a respectable industrious mother residing in Kentish town—that
she was herself a person of the very worst character—that she had in.
posed as well on him as on the police, and that be therefore catutidered
st his duty to bring her before the magistrate, either for reprimaed et
punishment, if the magistrate should think proper to do so: that, in
fact, she was nothing but a common vagrant.
Mr. LAlNG—There is no evidence before me that she has committed
any act of vagrancy ; in fact, there is no specific charge whatever against
her, and therefore I have nothing to do with her. But the authority et
the magistrate shall not be suverseded by police inspectors again; and
let Mr. List be here on Monday morning, to explain his conduct to rm.
and do so satisfactorily, otherwise I shall report the entire proceedings
!lo the commissioners. If proceedings of this kind are to be suffered, X
were as well to do away with magisterial authority altogether.
Mr. Stevens observed, that he was sure that both the inspector and
the clerk had acted from motives of pure humanity.
Mr. Luxe said be certainly should have the matter inquired Into.--7
Ile told the young woman to go about her business, and the panics ktt
theofflce.