Star.
London, England, 1831-01-10 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Wousatre.Bselsvr..—Wright, a peliemonstable, name before the
sitting Magistrate with a little girl sight or nine years old, in an almost
perishing condition ; he had found that she had been turned out of
Sun on Friday, and had since been wandering unsheltered in the
streets.
She stated in answer to the Magiurate's questions, that her name is
Hutchinson, and that she had lived in Edward's.plaee, but on Friday
bee father turned her out of the house, and drove her away, telling her
to go to her mother.
Mr. Baourracow.--And where is your mother ?—She was un.
&emend to say that her own mother is dead, and it was her step.
mother that her father meant, who had left him and gone she did not
know where.
Mr. BROUGHTOIG—Whoa have you been since he turned you out ?
Where did you sleep last night ?
The poor girl mentioned a court in Sun-street, where she had
lain, upon the step of a door, during the night, (and such a night !)
Mr. finotrowrow asked her if she had naiad anything to at ?
She said that a bit of bread and butter had been given to her yeller.
day, and on Friday she had a bit of breed.:
BLOUGHTOL—Nothing else I See that something be pro.
sided for the unfixtunste child now, Mr. Garton, and then send so
officer with her to Bithopsgate workhouse to be takenteare of, until en.
quiry an be made respecting her, for it seems she slept last in that
Hite Magistrates directions were immediately carried into erect.
Lumen enaa.—Tbesou Peters. a dapper little *memo
plaisterer, was brought been Mr. Wain*, in order to his giving
ball to support a child of which a young woman nomad Sarah
Williams is at present
The young woman,=.sworn, and asked, in the ordinary my,
who the father of her child was, pointed out the defendant. He,
however, denied the hencer, and declared in the most positive terms
that he never had bad the dlgleat cenneedon with the young woman,
and she might with equal justice have filed on his Worship,
The Magistrate, however, thought otherwise, and ordered him to
find bell.
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Tower-Hass.—Edwaref Leader was charged with ammddsg Cum.
asks, a constable, on the New London Bridge. Clumnis howl him
lying drank, asrreunded by:serail well-known pi std ha,.
ing placed him upon his legs, was on his way to the Cempter
with him, when be epee idea a violent blew upon his that sent
him staggering, and a me. mead. The Islamism produced a staff,
sad salellbe was a seassable, het afterwards esehmed be was not.
Well, sir, said Alienimm ANIILLY to the primmer, what businees
had yea with a staff
The prisoner said be had been a police officer at Bow-street, and he
atdbeted his conduct to drunkenness. He was discharged upon situ.
tying Cummins.
Trams Poucz.—Richard Oakley, a Lambeth fisherman, was
charged with stealing coals front the barges off Milbank.
Mr. Sammie said be had three times convicted Oakley for stealing
cods, and on sack occasion passed a lenient sentence. He now sen-
tenced him to sires months imprisonment and hard labour.
Edward Laughton, another distressed fisherman, was charged with
stealing emas from Messrs. Lloyd's, Palats•whaef, Lanabeth.
Mr. Biome said be was determined to pet a stop to these eon-
*anal depredations on the coal merchants, and sentenced the prisoner
to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in Brixton Gaol.
QtrEss.stansam.—Mrs. Smother, of St. Maeda's-lane, was sum-
moned to show canoe why eke refined to pay Wm. Johnson, the dther
of a hackney meth, No. 70, his legal fare.
On Wednesday last five ladles got into the coach, and another he
called for an the read. He set them down at the Piazza in Covent.
wises, whitest paying him his fare, they walked into the
He waited until the play was over, and saw them into another
coach. He told the ladies that he had been waiting foe them, but they
refused to get lam his coach, and would not pay him.
The defeadint'was ordered to pay lea fee the fare, and 71. &L costs.
It further appeared that six gentlemen an foot accompanied the ladies
to the Tlemieis and the mistake arose in the gentlemen thinking that
the /adios bad paid the coach fare themselves, and the ladies fancying
that degladiesen had not been so ungallant as to leave them to pay
the isamd.