Star.
London, England, 1824-01-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

ROBIZRY AT TUX House or Ma. Macciturvx, will be
recollected that among the property stolen from this Gentleman's
house was a dirk studded with Scotch stones, called cairngorums.
This dirk was yesterday morning taken to the house of Mr. Mac-
queen by a Mr. Indcrwick, an importer of foreign snuff-boxes, in
Prince's-street, Leicester-square, who stated that he bad bought it
from a Mr. Falack:, a Jew merchant, from Germany. Mr.Falacke,
when he sold the dirk (for five guineas), was accompanied by a Mr.
Aaron, a Jew dealer, at Norwich, whom Mr. Inderwick had known
for many years. dr. Indcrwick took the dirk :to Mr. Macqueen,
in consequence of what he had seen in the newspapers respecting it.
Mr. Inderwiek attended, and gave evidence as to the possession of
the dirk, and will be present at the next examination.
Revesses.—Elise Colwell was charged by a watchman with having
behaved in a very disorderly manner in the street at one o'clock in
the morning. She was making a great hubbub, he said, and defied
him to take her to the watch-house ; and so he took her, " just to
shew her the difference."

The accused, a very pretty brunette, apparently about twenty-
five, miserably clad, in a ragged black silk pelisse, listened to this
charge with the tears trembling in her eyes.
" What are you—an unfortunate woman ?" asked the Magistrate.
" Unfortunate enough !" she replied, "though not an unfortunate
woman in the common acceptation of the phrase. I am a wife,and
had been to see my husband in the ?darshalsea Prison, who was
taken there for a small debt, and I thought I might remain there
with him. But they would not allow me to remain, and having no
home, I sought protection for the night in St. Giles's watch-house.
I was turned out of that place also, and no doubt felt some irrita-
tion, when this man afterwards refused me the miserable privilege.
of sitting down in the street."
1 She wept as she was making this reply ; and in answer to the fur-
I cher questions of the Magistrate, she said she was a native of Seville
—daughter of Mr. Musgrave, formerly the British Cogtul in that
city ; that her father, dying, left her 10,0001. and she married a
Mr. Colwell, who was then a respectable linen-draper, in Great
Russell-street, Bloomsbury, carrying on an extensive business, under
the firm of Fisher and Colwell; but they bad met with reverses,
and had sunk lower Arid lower, " until at length," said she, " he is
a prisoner for debt, and I am a miserable outcast."
The Magistrate ordered that she should be taken care of in St.
Martin's workhouse, until inquiry could be made respecting her.
Atitoctous Assaf i.T.—A fellow of the name of John Moores was
yesterday brought to this office, on a charge of cruelly beating his
own mother. The unhappy parent stated, that the prisoner lived
in the same house with her, and such was his tyrannical conduct
that she was really in fear of her life; independent of which her
remonstrances were always met by blows.
The prisoner, on being questioned by Sir Riettann Rims, said
he was two and thirty years of age. He did not deny that he had
maltreated his mother, but observed, that " there was still seme
good in him."
He was ordered to find sureties for his future good conduct, and
in &fault of this was committed to Tothill-fields.
MARY-LA-BONNF..

An inquiry took place at this office relative to a cruel highway
robbery committed on Thursday night, near Shepherd's Bush, by
two well armed footpads, who, it appeared, had knocked down a
poor laundress front Aylesbury, and robbed her.—Several robberies
of this kind have latterly been committed on the roads leading into
London.