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London, England, 1824-02-14 00:00:00

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. POLICE IN7....ZLIGENCE.
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, Oiseseew Wades Dative weary sevedableAsettodrettak Ins
~ -4,,,, egAlellote Sir ilsoacson Ilmodic4ril:r? A-I Okffsf/Wied- with
iploberyrt C.oVene-Garden on Thursday nighf. ,
Islak Oliver Myd. of No. in, aliforits lattl,'sitted, that he was
' Pit -of 'CoventsGaraen Theatre an frhunday vvening, but
Van ,of .the bode becoming very NI at helfspece., het end It.
blend +grids] cup tortheßoxes. itis Lbw Nett leaving the rit tile,
prisoner came, behind them and deliberately taking hold of. Wit
watch-chain, snatched it violently, and deivelffnim -Me-pocket, bee
it was by's guard-chain. Witness selneiPtbr prisOner hithe
cellary-and held him until Donaldson, the malleable of the Theatre,,
came up and took; charge of him. . • .. 2, , • •. A
The prisoner made no defence, and was fully committed for t-
It was stated that he is now under recognizances to protect! e•
appeal against a conviction' under the Vagrant Act; atijodgvel
him as a reputed thief, by Mr. Hardwiche, the Magiatzettee •
bath-street Police Office. . . , . . , ~,..,!,,, ...,1 ,
•George Musters, a well-known thief, was convicted under the P -
lioe Act, and committed t* the Sessions, he having been found in
the Pit-entrance of Covent-Garden Theatre, under suirpielbes do.
tettmstances' on Thursday night. Donaldson caught him just u the
doors opened, end probably saved the-property of not,.a few of, the
visitors to the Theatre, for the prisoner is considered one. of;the
most active of his fraternity. •
Juba Powell, a hackney-coachman out of employtnent;,reitre-
examined on a charge of stealing a coat, under curious &dm-
stances, and two fresh charges were exhibited against him. •
The original Aharge was preferred by a poor boy whom the pri•
saner, under pretence of procuring him a situation, decoyed to Lin"-
coln's-inn, where he took him up in the first landing-place of-one
of the sets of chambers, and persuaded him so take off his coat,
which the prisoner ran away with. •
George Plummer, servant to Dr. Loircock, ofaßerners.street,
stated, that on the 6th of September last, the prisoner told him he
could get a situation for his brother, and an appeintinent beteg'
made, they met at a public-house in the -evening. There the pri-
saner wrote a letter, which he pretended was one of recommeq-
dation to a Gentleman who wanted a servant ; and when be Ira
finished, 1w asked the witness to lend himd his seal to seal up fhe
epistle. He took out,his watch, and the prisoner then asked hi •
if he had any sealing-wax, and he replied in the negative t• ppoa
which the prisoner took the watch and seals in his. band, and said!
he would get a bit at the bar. He desired the witness tq dry the
letter, and walked straight out of the house with the watch:
• the next charge' as preferred by a lad named liddrey, 'servant
tq a :publican in Upper Ground-street, Blickfrises, **with* ;wi-
eder robbed of his coat in the same manna as in the first case.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
MARY-LAI-BONNE OFFICE.
Yesterday Widnes Gres underwent another examination. at this
'Office, upon various charges. of fraud and swindling. The Office
wall crowded to excess with tradesmen to prefer their complaints.—
Some frith evidence was adduced, but in consemience 'of the AO
. sence•of Some material witnesses, and otte of the Gentlemen be;
longing to the house of Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, in Craig's-
court, Charini-cross, the prisoner was again remanded for further
examination. -
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M A RLBOROU G H-ST REST, • I
34hursday last, a respeeteble Gentleman, named Evans, redder*.
near Golden-square, came to this ;dike, accompanied by Mri rani
his solicitor, and a number of respect:Mak friends. to claim the PM
deem of Mr. Dom, the Magistrate, under the following extra*.
dintry circumstances:—lle stated thai a conspiracy had bean.
for his wife and her friends, in conjOnction - with Main
Haslam and .PuweU, to deprive him of his liberty under the pre-
tence of hisheinginsane, and, by locking gm up in a lunatic asp-
lam, enable hie wife to. take possession'of his house and all his pro..
pear. He then stated, that some time ago these very parties did
&dually place him, Without any certificate of insanity, in a privet
nedlcerse in the Country, from which he was soon afterwards..
•dischatged through the interference of his friends,on the certified*,
a these two Medical Gentlemen who now were endrayouring,.st
tie instigation of hie wife and her.party, to confine him again. Mr.
grins said, that he had been ever since the 13th of`January obliged
to abscond from his home, to *odd being forcibly carried off; ated
Men in different parts of themosery; where he has been coned-
big himself, helms been pursued by his unrelenting enemies. with it•
view to attain their object. . Near Oxford,* coach in which he was
travelling was surrounded by'armed men prepared to take hid odic
but the iletertninotion of the other passengers in the esack not ti
surrender him alive, G had, no doubt, saved him on that:amide&
Thus pursued and pereanited, ,be cause to town again a fete . illE
ado,toweek legal advice sad xesirus; but the very first .11t :
*lltel ttibisa flltleltdaTo'.ltesc:o74l:l;ekr::* ';4ll.6ess. 'lb
ddame
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i- Perry Of -Ms den to ss+he hid, endive with dilicalty escaped.
- the* he has mat dared tis go into hie. gust; neldhittoOlood---
r. Evans here altered into wane very were obeervations upon
t vanduct. of Mr. Harlem, while tuider his control', befdie, and
'coke tette! horn • The latter to Mr. Putt, tie-solicitor; while Mr.
Vat was in the cooler*, saying that if he (Mr. Evans) would
retain tottlivu, and attend to his business and family, he should
not he molested ; but this letter, Mr. Evans said, now turned out to
be only.; trap to get Min to ndon. Mr. glans next read a se.
ski of intresptindebce which he has held with various persons upon
burtnees, Ante be'hid been this charged with insanity; none et
Whith, any more gun the '. Deaner of his +needed, certainly MAl-
billed,any %Intern% of that disease; finally,
,Mrs Evans requested
the. Magistrate gketild grant him warrants against" ill the perk*
Concerned in tMs atrocious censpleacy against tali liberty', and put.
baps MX life; "' ; -
-Mo. bv rot sitilAbit one perion titentaelag to:deprive, another*
liberty. we not eniffekte ground for a, Megiatrasato issue a wart!"
against the 'party ; and unless some assault, or *cal of *family was
proired, he feared he coidd ilford Mt. Evabl iiir Schee ; Fitt AnildJlelet
Midslitaet Sessions conurieneed Shindy, ad" he could indict the
vatdi‘ Tore eisnipiraCy. . . . , . . -
lifg. Buns thenleft tbeolilir with his friends, deternsined.not to
Itortt.hlp home untii.ite prefers ctment at the Sailetss. '. .
t was OiSia hiyite Trrencli or dies, fiat the ground 'uptlir
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tt.illitliirge oVnianitt iris ittelispeed to be suppOrted was d+
did fa this Gdtkmasiln forwarding the convesiger
ef,isins;an.he gnesegany tams stn active part, as his wife's fa.
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dilly 'Maki to the atAectoLOßrivete ;Alm
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, BATH, FEB. 113..01-TfltarsdiOligwas i'pprehended in thi
4ky, by that active officer,. . let.ont •a your op '. 1
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genteel appearante, named ifson, who , fur
Amite time past passing forged C. 5 ILIA o , pglkwi;
;sotes te.a great extent, here and in:Bristol. e,tiniftur
1 +rent a long etamination on Friday and Saturday, 49)
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the. Mayor, at which hlr..ltitipath, Solicitor to i*
kof Englaiid, for this city, was preSeut„ The ac-
is combined_ for limber examinatiuu, until in.
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ctioni can he received. from Abe Saiit.. He hadjast
ousted a w Bath,
ash that was leaming ati4;thecoacitc.
an was en the box, ready to start,whentheolfreer seii.e4
int. Among the persons istithis city ors wholi be im-
posa, was Mr. Large. of the Matketrplace?cf scliernhe
Ordered goods to the amount:of five guineas, tpquesting
them to be sent to the Gloncester•lnu
.where he would
pat for them. Mt goods weiesent,.and,.ha_gave (What
proved to be) a tbrged fili Bank of .England
.note in
part of payntent.. llr.,Largefs good.s.were tit his pos.
lession when Apprehended, .On Oeißg tithea into cus-
tody, he was searched. but no other, notes wirefinnd
-on him. .At his examination at. the Ouildhalle on. Fri-
day, Mr. Garland, ofJohn-street, identified the prisoner,
as having passed a forged V. Banknote at his house in
November last. It has .been assertaitiMi that this man
has gone here 'anil.at Bristol .4y.the several names of
Cunningham, Crawford, Simpson. and Johnson. On
Sunday night 'he mad* a desperate attempt to escape
from prison by burning the door of his cell: he so far
succeeded as. to get out from his cell to the inner court-
yard. He Willbe again brought to the Hall this day,.
when it is ekpected he will be fully committed.
Wednesday a youth, in the—service of Sir JACOB
AST LEY, to hasten the lighting of a fire in the harness-
bottle, determined to throw some gunpowder upon-the
kindling afier he had se; Ate to it.: 'Apparently aware
ufithe danger of the experiment, he took a-- powder;
horn, and widritig -.it ,in ,one„hand
,struck: It with fib
either, D 4 tImPitrevstIACIPPPON a sinall ci u'i,iAi;Y:it_ ss
1 taut; uttt All9l OMlKAsilikmAi C 4 .t VI. the porectes,jb we
horn, and both is haajeweroo dreadfully, lacerated,
' that immediate amputation becatne indispensable.