Star.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
nomegs Moller, an itinerant greets-grocer, from Warwick.;
place, Whitecross-street, appeared to answer the complaint of
Mr. Martin, for wantonly and cruelly beating a donkey. Mr.
Dlartin prefaced his complaint, u usual, with a short speech, in
which he again eulogized the Magistrates of London, not omit-
ting.a
slight hint at the difliculty and opposition he bad expe-
rienced in convicting under the Statute elsewhere. • From this
exordium he proceeded to expatiate upon the general ill-treat-
ment these unfortunate animals (the donkeys) were subject to.
as Statute, he said, formed an era in legislation, inasmuch as it
gives tights to brutes—rights against their masters —and he
wished it to be understood, that this hitherto unfortunate race, the
donkeys, be was determined should have the full benefit of them.
The oath being administered, Mr. Martin stated that he fol.-
lowed this monster upon two legs (the defendant) for nearly a
quarter of a mile in Fleet-street, and saw him, during the whole
of that time, beating the donkey he had in his cart in the most
violent and atrocious manner, with a hard leather strap with
an iron buckle at the end of it. The brutality of the fellow was.
such, that he sometimes struck with the Bat side of the buckle,
and at others turned the strap so as to make the iron tongue which
projected come in contact with the animal's flesh. To those who
might not know what a dangerous weapon a hard leather strap
was to flog with, he would just tell them that the soldiers in the
French army, were formerly, fur great Owen, flogged with
their leather belts, and scarcely one of them so punished ever
survived it. The brutality of this fellow so shocked the by-
standers, that at least a dozen of them ran to assist him in stop-
ping the cart, and taking the number of It.
" Please your Woraltip," said Wormer, in his defence " I al-
ways uses the animal well; be's as fat as a mole, your Worship,
and as good a creature as need be; only he's a little obstinate,
anti shies and flies back at the stages, he's so tiosersome."
Mr. Alartin.—" Why, man, you are justifying your conduct. I
thought you said you was very sorry for what you had done."
Worster.—" Yes, your honour; I owns I beat him, but I say
I always feeds him well. Only go and look at him, your honour ;
there ia`nt a hair awry in him. lam very fond of him : hese
countryman, your honour;; but he shied, and ran back from one
of the stages, and he put me in a passion. I never beat him but
when I'm in a passion, and I'm always sorry for it afterwards,
and I'm very sorry fork now; and if your honour will look over
it, I will never beat him again as long as I live."
On this expression of contrition, Mr. Martin prayed the miti-
gation of the penalty to the smallest sum-10s. Even Chia, how-
ever, the defendant and his wife had hoped their submission and
humility would have avoided, and they became clamorous in
their protestations—the lady with regard to their poverty, and

her husband of his peniten.ce ; and upon his pconase always to
lead his ass in future, and never drive it, sod to caution all his
fellow donkey-drivers to do the like, Mr. Martin undertook to
go halves with him in the fine. and, giving him a half-sovereign,
the fellow fumbled two half-crowns out of his pocket for Mr.
Martin, handed over the half-sovereign to the Marshalman; and
was discharged, seemingly very well pleased.
till W-STItEET.

Yesterday, one Derby O'Chense, a sturdy Hibernian knight
of the hod and shovel, was brought up on a warrant, charged by
Mrs. Beicigo. Savage, a Tow.' black-eved emerald islantiu. with
committing sundry violent and unbecoming assaults upon her
person. Airs. Savage had a blooming infant in her arms, and
two other children scarcely old enough to walk, hanging by the
skirts of her gown. She bore upon her face and antis, which she
bared to the shoulders for the inspection of the worthy Magis-
trates, divers proofs of the power of Mr. O'Connor.
It appeared, that Darby O'Connor being a little better a
than some of his neighbours, is the fortunate landlord of a single
room, about eight feet by twelve in size, and this room he Ter/
economically lets out " in tenements," as he himself expressed it,
to no less than four married couples, besides himself and Mrs.
O'Connor. In that apartment they eat, drink, and sleep ; the five
beds being so contrived, as to roll up in a snug little bundle in the
day-time. Sunday last Darby determined to give " a little bit of a
bate" to his lends it being the birth-day of Darby O'Connor,
jun. a chubby boy Of three years old. Mr. and Mrs. Savage being
tenants, were of course invited ; and besides these, there were Mr.
and Mrs. Shaughnessy, Mr. and Mrs. O'PheUin, and the young
OThelims ; Denis O'Brien and Kate Cormick, a young couple
about to be married, and divers others of Darby 's countrymen
and women. Porter and gin were the order of the day, which
Darby, with true Irish hospitality, spared not in quantity.—
Towards evening Mrs. Savage, as Darby bad it, got a little Po.
*Ma In regard to liquor, and became exceedingly captious; she
commenced hostilities at length by slapping her husbabd's face;
but as the company thought she bad a right to do as she please
with her husband, no notice was taken of this. beyond a gentle
hint from Mr. Savage, that he would " break every bone in her
body if she isialsstsd Lim again." Mrs. Savage, however. was
not to be silenced with a mere hint; she called him a coward,
swore that Darby O'Connor was no better, declared the whole
of the female part of the company to be and protested
that she was " a better nun than the best of them, and would
prove it."—" Ah, now." said Mrs. O'Connor." Biddy Savage,
have ye no dace of recency and good manners about you—can't
ye be quiet, and have another drop of gin to cool your temper?"
" Quiet be cl.---41!" quoth Biddy; " what have I to do with
quiet? I am an honest bard-working woman, and I have a
right to kick up a row if I like, and do that same, as you'll
seer and, suiting the action to the word, she made a spring to
the shelf over the fire-place' which was decorated with " tea-pot,
cups and saucers, and the like of that," and with one sweep of
her arm demolished the whole of poor Darby's stock of deif.
Darby, enraged at this took' her up in his arms to remove her
from the room, but she stuck her nails in his face, and fought
and kicked so powerfully, that she got the better of poor Darby,
and they both fijki together on one of the rolled up beds in a
corner of the room. Some of the party took the part of Darby,
others that of Biddy, and a battle royal commenced, and aided
with a victory on the side of the former. there being sundry
broken beads, black eyes, Ike. on both sides.
Darby, in answer to the charge of assault, asked the Magis- '
trate if a man was to stand quietly by and see his little bits of
things demolished by the like of Biddy Savage, and not put her
out of the way? He was sure be got the worst of it, as his face
would shew. Darby then stroked back his hair as if to give
a better view of his face, which certainly exhibited an excellent
specimen of the skill of Airs. Savage in the scratching way.
Witnesses were called on both sides, who flatly contradicted
each other, and among others, Mister Savage, who appeared on
behalf of Darby. He said it was a sad thing, to be sure, for a
man to spoke against his own wife, but he must say Biddy was
&gloated in liquor, and misbehaved herself very sadly.
The Magistrate dismissed the warrant, and Biddy, with her
young Savage, left the odic, in high dudgeon.
WORSHIP-STREKT.
&rah WelskArd was reexamined on suspicion of wilfully set-
ting fire to the house of her master. Mr, Addington, in Spitai-
square. Mr. A. on his return to town, missed no property, but
though the case is still involved in mystery as to the motive the
prisoner could have, such eircinnstances of suspicion attached to
her, that the liagisuate thought It a fit case foe a Jury to in-
vestigate, and fully committed her.
THAMES POLICE.
Several pawnbrokers appeared' u sunsmosises. In two cases
where the day of redemption of *the articles pledged fell on a
Sundayrand the parties slid net apply tW the Monday, one of
the defendants was fined by one Magistrate, for charging addi-
tiosial interest ; anti the other was told- by, another Maelstrate,
that pledges, like bilis Of exchange, coming due on a Sundaykinust
1-be taken up on the Saturday In a case where s woinio took
duplicate
dated instead or and the pamenbraker eub-
-BelluesilY relOsell Waive up lbeardpitti. the cohipishit **a
ttarged;.pitales, she was told, she -ought to have discovered the
error at the Mit.

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• BEPTEMBitIt s.
AI•LE-DED ROORERE IN VAtitikALL GARDENS.
John Itlarrtoce was indicted for stealing a twenty
pound bank note from Mr. Clifford Elisha, at Vaux-
hall Gardens, on Thursday morning list.
Mr.-Titesstoan opened the case to the Jury, and
observed that the present prosecution was •itutituted
by the Proprietors of Vauxhall Gardens, in order to
protect the public resorting to that place of amuse-
ment, as far as, possible, from the depredations of any
of the waiters or their assistants. It was with plea-
sure he stated that this was the first offence commit-
ted in Vauxhall.Gardens, by any waiter or assistant
during the management of the present Proprietor,
which hid existed for two years.
Mr. Clifford Elisha was then called, and deposed,
thathe lived in Shoreclitch, and that he went to Vaux-
hall Gardens on Wednesday last, between ten and
eleven o'clock. The witness had a pocket-book in
his coat pocket, containing two 201. note.;, a•check
for Li. Su and another check for gOO/. Witness saw
the prisoner acting as a waiter in the Gardeits. He
was not quite sober when he went in, and, drinking
some arrack punch there, be became mere intoxi-
cated. Witness asked prisoner to shew him the water-
closet, which he did, and on his coming out he saw
the prisoner on the outside, who gave the prosecutor
his pocket-book. Hall, the officer of Union-Hall,
came up at the moment, and desired witness to look
in his pocketbook and see if all his property was
there. On Mr. Elisha examining his book he missed
a 201. note. Witness was positive the note in question
was in the pocket-book when he entered the Gardens.
Cross-examined by the prisoner.—ls that Gentle-
man in Court from whom I received your book?
Mr. Elisha.—l know nothing of the circumstance.
Robert Hall, the officer of Union-Hall, saw the
last witness and the prisoner in the walk leading to
the water-closet, about half-past twelve o'clock on
the morning of Thursday, the 28th ult. Mr. Elisha
took a small book from the prisoner, and said—" I
have plenty of money about me." At that moment,
a Gentleman, whom witness did not blow, came for-
ward and said—" Elisha is a neighbour of mine; give
the notes to me, I will take care of the notes." The
prisoner then caught at the notes, and took them from
the Gentleman, whose name witness afterwards
found was Graffham, saying, " Nobody shall have
his money but me : he 1.. an old master of mine, and
I will take care of his money and him too." Pri-
soner then folded up the notes. Witness went foe
Mr. Hughes, one of the Proprietors of the Gardens.
and on his return with Mr. Hughes he found Elisha
and the prisoner still together, though in another part'
of the walk. The prisoner said loudly, '" It is all
right now, the Gentleman has got all his money back,
he has got 3501." Hall asked the prisoner if he was
a waiter in the Gardens ? He replied, Yes." Mr.
Hughes desired to know his number. He said it was
36, but he did not produce it. The witness searched
the prisoner, who struggled violently. Mr. Hughes
took a tavern-bill out of his left band. Mr. Elisha
said, " Don't ill use the man, he has not robbed me."
Witness answered, that he was confident the prisoner
had robbed him. Wharton put his hand to his mouth
and said, " Ir is zone," and appeared to have swal-
lowed something with difficulty. When his party
had secured the prisoner, and was taking him to the
watch-house, the witness insisted 'upon Mr. Elisha
giving up his pocket-book to him, and at the watch-
hOuse asked him the contents of the book. When the
witness and Elisha were examining the property to-
gaiter, the latter said, " I have lost a 201. note."
Mr. Henry Hughes stated, that he was the Ma-
nager of the Vauxhall Gardens. On themorning of
the :/Bth of August, about half-past twelve, he was
applied to by Hall to accompany him towards the
water-closet, where he saw -the prisoner and Mr.
Elisha. (The tavern-bill mentioned by Hall was
here produced, and proved to be one that the witness
wrenched from the prisoner). Witness believed that
the prisoner was not employed as a waiter on Al*
night in question ; he had acted in. that capacity on
the King's Birth-day. On the 29th witness found a
201. note in the Gardens, which was produced and
sworn to by Mr. Hughes as the one he found.
Mr. John William Graffham sworn.—He was a
wine-merchant in Shoreditch ; be knew Mr. Elisha,
and met him in Vauxhall Gardens accidentally, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock, on the morning of the
28th of August. The prisoner was with Elisha, and
he said to witness, 66 This Gentleman has proP
about him, and I am taking care of him." Mr. Grath`
ham asked prisoner who he was ? and he said a
waiter, and his number was 38. Witness said, if Mr.
Elisha bad property he bad better give it to him, and
immediately Elisha gave him a roll of notes, which
the prisoner seized, and said, 66 No, Sir, this Gentle-
man is a friend of mine, and I will take care of his
money." Prisoner then put the notes into, the pocket-
book, and said to witness, " Now, SiC, you perceive
this Gentleman has got all his property again." Hall
and Mr. Hughes afterwards-•came up, and the wit-
ness perceived the prisoner scraping his feet on the
ground, which at the time was very muddy.
Benjamin Jessup, the principal waiter at Vauxhall;
Gardens, swore, that the prisoner was not employed
at No. 58, on the night of the 27th of August. He
was waiting for employment in case the Gardens
should be full.
Mr. Elisha was again called, and identified .the
201. note as his property. as well as the tavern-bill,
which he stated was in his pocket-book when he en-
tered the Gardens.
The prisoner; in a very long and unconnected ad-
dress. endeavoured'to shew that he had several times
given the notes. to Mr. Elisha ; and, is allusion to
that part of evidence in which he said that the

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prisoner appeared to swallow something, and said, at
the same time, ,!! It..is gone ".Wharton said that the
orker :hack i1irM4...11.s- stale so far down his throat,
when he was searching him, that on his withdrawing
it he did twit know which way it was goner whether
down. his throat .ur our of his' month, and on that ac-
'count it was he- said,;" 'lt ii.gone." This rearm k
created great amusement iu the. Court. ' .
Wharton called three Waivers of Vauxhall, whose

united testimony only proved that they saw Mr.
Elisha invite him to drink. - •
I- The CrialttliAlf Olettly summed up to the. Jury,
; and pointistklidi.thAntheontradicticin in the
gvi-
deace' of gliolsraad. Ha .0
ll 4 .the former staTtng that he
tiiisSed ttec. 46601.1. Gititicns, and the latter that
I Mr. Elisha onlinistieeriiiilMS at the witch-house:

(This, he observed, might arise from
.)/r. Elish3 not
being quite sober at the time.
' The Jury asked leave to retire, and were out at
Court upwards of two hours. On their return they
pronounced, through their Foreman, a verdict 0f....:
Not Guilty.
'Mr. ADOLPHUS came into Court about Mitt
o'clock, and as soon as it was disengaged, moved 1114-
the recolnizances of the prosecutors of Beeman aid
Clihuaefor receiving books stolen from Mears. Bens.
le', 'should be respited until the next Se,sions.
The Collier informed the Learned Counsel that a
similar motion, although not worded in the same
way,'had been made on Monday, and acceded to rl.
certain conditions, which were not agreed to by t!*
Counsel who then made it, and the motion was with•
drawn on that account. •

Mr. ADOLPHUS replied that hi; friiend Mr. IkLiii;
gles had not been fully instructed nn Monday 6;f
he could assure the Court if the trial of .these prime
soners did not take place in Lon:!on, the princiNt
receiver coact not be brought to justice.
The CHAIRMAN 'said that was an important fat
connected with the motion.which did not come out
on Moni!wy; and asked Mr. Adolphus if he meant,
in case the motion was acceded to, tz) try the princi•
pal receiver in London orMidilesex, astlieslatter had
been mentioned on Monday ?
The Learned Counsel answered, cei t nly in Lnndot.
The Cover, after some further desultory conver.
sation, consented to the motion, and Mr. Adolphus
promised that the parties should be brought to trial
at the ensuing London Sessions; they being previously
moved to Newgate by habeas corpus.

THE SAILOR'S ReTurts.—A gallant seaman jot
returned from a long voyage, arrived in Tradesson,
near GlisgoW, from Liverpool, hoping to meet the
kind attentions of a faithful partner, to compensate the
rude blasts and perils he had encountered in foreign
climes. He cast anchor the end of last week io what
he considered his own cabin, in Commerce-street, but
found in the house, besides his wife, ano:.her mess-
mate, in the person of a tenter belonging to one of the
mills, who had lostihis wife a short time ago, and
passed for a lodger : Jack looked somewhat surprised,
turned the tobacco quid in ...is cheek, and passed it
over for the time. He then got up his trunk and
hammock, and all seemed to go on well enough for
a day or two. In the interim, however, he obtairel
information from his son, that his mother had acted -;
falsely in his absence, which corresponded with his
own suspicions. On Monday Morning the injured
tar returned to his house, when he burst open the door,
and upbraiding his wife and paramour, swore if
he had a rope he would hang them both at yard's
arm. He proceeded, it is said, to pull them both ont
of bed, and was using the tenter roughly, when the
latter pulled out a pistol; but Jack was not to be
daunted in that way, he bad too often stood at the
mouth of the cannon in hot action ; he knocked Cis
wife's gallant down, and turned them both out • f
doors. He then got. exclusive possession of the house, I
and proceeded to demolish all the furniture; dashing
it'out of the window. He had, however, to milked!,
on hearing that some of the Gorbals police were com-
ing. When they had retired, considering all was over, •
Jack suddenly re-appeared, and climbed up by the
window as nimbly as if it were the ship's shiciuds,
and proceeded to complete the destruction of what t
he had left unbroken. When he threw over any at. 4,
tide that was not properly broken, he sprung dowu
after it, and made sure work of it. He formed a sort
of ladder with chairs, &c. which assisted him in his
descent. He took hold of a tent bed, which he tore
asunder without the aid of any screw-key, but not
considering it as rightly done, he sprung out after it,
and broke it completely. Everything that his Strength'
and time would allow him to destroy shared the same
fate, till the house was nearly gutted. On the news
that operations were resumed, the police were again
ou their way to the scene, but Jack, who seemed to
have a good look out, was out of sight. He even came
back a third time, when the tumult had somewhat
subsided, and again scaled the window to perfect the
business.' He then sheered off; and leaping into
boat, got safely on.board one of the Ilroomielaw ves-
sels, having previously taken down his trunk sal •
hammock. During the demolition of the furniture
the wife and paramour having approached the fell
of action, the latter was pursued by the injured sailer
into a house three stories high, and would, probably,
have been tossed out of the window had cot Ws:
persons that followed thought the punishment too se-
vere. The-wife and her gallant were much hooted
by the mob, who began to use them somewhat
roughly, and they were taken to the police office lor
safety, where they were afterwards discharged. Tut
novelty of the scene attracted a great mob, Midi
continued all day, and the general feeling was strongli
in favour of the brave tar, who was a well-made
fine-looking seaman. He allowed his wife to draw
SOs. monthly of his pay.

MARRIED.
Saturday se'nnight, at Stonehouse Chapel, Capt. 11. Kent. L
son of J. Kent, Esq. of the Royal Naysi Hospital, and oepisry
of the late Vice-Admiral Hunter, ro Pl.nzloise Perceval, dale
ter of the late H. Kent, Esq. Commander of H. M. ship 010°_,'
Saturdays at Clapham, Richard Bevan, Esq. to Charisttasir
daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hunter, of his )120114
19th Regiment. .
August 22, at Edinburgh, the Rev. James Traquair, Make
of Rhynd, to -Elizabeth Mary Baillie, niece of Mr. Will•Ti*
quair, builder, Pitt-street.
August-26, at FAinburgh, the Rev. J. Stevensoa,,to Lai!
Turton, second daughter of John Gordon, E 4
' • DIED.
August 23, Mr. James Thomsen, preicher of the perk II
of the Rev. James Thomson, Minister of Presto ;kirk. •
- August 21, at Edinburgh, Eliza Fran.. Longlltaal?
of the late George Longmore, Esq. AL•dical Staff,
August 19, at Wintehorn, aged 73,J0110 lOM's '
upwards of 40 yeas!, *rid the abet of lowa clerk. to
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