Star.
London, England, 1813-08-09 00:00:00

POLICE.

Vow-renr2T.—SaturdayT. N. Mooney was charged
viith deserting is wife and family. The wife of the
prisoner statedk that about a year and a half ago he
Waits., at which time she was pzegnant y since that
time she had been delivered of a child, and, having
no means of supporting herself an 4 child, she was
•131;g.ed to apply to the Parish Officers of St. Mar-
tin's in the Fields for relief. Mr. Lemage, the Ves-
try Clerk, stated, that the woman and child had
been, and still were, chargeable on the parish. Mr.
O'Shaughnessy, the prisoner's master, offered
r but the Act of Parliament not allowing thereof,
and the prisoner not being able to indemnify the
parish, Mr. Kinnaird committed him as a rogue and
vagabond.
GUILDHALL.—SOUTday. George Sear and William
Murphy, accused before the Magistrate, on Friday, of
having made several attempts to pick Gentlemen's'
pockets during the punishment of a person in the
pillory, were brought up again for re-examination
when the facts, which we mentioned on Satur-
-Bay were again sworn to, and several persons de-
posed that Star was a most profligate and dangerous i
character, a common associate with pickpockets and
swindlers and moreover, that being lately detected
in the act of stealing a bale of goods Salk. Paul's

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Church 4 d, he bicyclic, IN A: fib sight per. 4
sons witligreat ease, and made his escape. Murphy
was of late the eciiisfint•-tiefiiiriiion oif star, and was
wall acquiitted with if kginsi of pickpockets. Thpy
were both filly committed for trhil at the ensiling
Sessions. '
• dentleike -
A reepe.etiable.morried of the name of '
Brown, Wilfkrlicctikd by a young woman of having
committed a vicOnt".tisafitt bri her person, in, the pub.
lic street, late on Friday night. Several of the cf&
cers said the complainant was an arrant profligate,
who infested the streets, and permitted few Gentle.
men to pass without' polling them by the skirts of the
coat, and if they refused to go with her she loaded
them with reproaches and abuse: She had been re-
peatedly before the Magistrate, on Charges of theft
and outrages, and was a common street frequenter
and a drab. Mr. Brown said, as he walked home.
wards on Friday night, the young woman laid bold of
him in a most indecent maned iii the street, and
while he Was struggling to get rid of her two of 'her
companions came to her assistance, and pinruiered his
pockets of a silver snuff box, a silk handkerchief, and.
some money, Mr. Brown was most honourably dis-
missed, and the complainant received a wholesome
admonition, concerning the impropriety of her be-
haviour, and was warned to take care how she came
before a Magistrate again.
Williams Owire, a driver of sheep to Smithfield mart
ket, was accused by several Cenci:rata, who resided
in Holborn, of being a common nuisance, in the per-
forfnance of his buiihess. He filled the streets with
shouting, noises, and imprecations, cursed all who
counselled him to amend his manners, obstructed
people from passing, throwing himself into indecent
postures, and held ali the Magistrates of London at
defiance : for this gross conduct he was fined ss. and
discharged.
Thomas Baker and Benjamin Mayo were accused by
Edward Pritchard, a butcher, from Hackney, with
having a mare in their possession, which was his pro-
perty, and had either strayed or been stolen in De-
cember last, from the marshes of Hackney.
The prisoners, who are respectable people, and
next-door neighbours to Baker, said they had pur-
chased the mare and a cart from George Ramsden,
their neighbour, in Smithfield market, three weeks ago.
The Magistrates ordered the mare to be restored
to Pritchard, and liberated the prisoners.