Star.
London, England, 1822-09-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Meineb.House.•—Monday, the owner of a Highgate wage
was tbarged with plying for hire within the City, be not bring
licensed so to do by. the Commissioners fur the Regulation et
Hackney Coaches. Thie was an Information lodged by several
hackney coachmen for the purpose of preventing the short stages
from carrying passengers to intermediate places on their route.
The fact of the defendant's plying for Kentish and Camden
Towns, and setting oat with nine passengers, being proved, he
was called on for his defence; when he urged the heavy duties
paid to Government by st ch owners ; that he was licensed
to go from the Bank to gate, and that persons who could
not read, or were short-sighted, would not be able to find theit
coaches if the drivers were not allowed to ply. As the defend-
ant, however, was not aware of the importance of the question
until he had entered the Justice-room, the hearing of the case was
postponed, that he might avail himself of professional assistance.
UILDHAL4—A very creditable-looking young woman, of the
name of Arm Fromm*, was brought up on Monday before Air.
Alderman Cox, on a charge of felony.
On her being placed at the bar, a Gentleman named Mooney,
a solicitor, of Wood-street, Cheapside, proceeded to state at
some length, aided by a paper of notes in his hand, the miscon-
duct of the prisoner, who, it seems, was a servant in his faintly,
stating her improprieties, in holding long conversations with a
man at his door, and subsequently continuing them with the
same person in the kitchen, notwitbsnmding the strong remon-
strances made to the contrary by his son : he then stated some
confused account of windows being broken, which he suspected
to have been &me by some of her acquaintances.
Here he was interrupted by the Magistrate (who having a very
long list of prisoners to go through, was desirous of brevity)
and reminded that for none of these offences had the prisoner'
been brought there, but upon a charge of felony, to which he
requested him to confine hirriself as neatly as possible.
Mr. MOnney, however, requested to be permitted to go
through his notes, and towards the concluelbo of them, it ap-
peared that the prisoner was charged with having pilfered at va-
rious times sundry small quantities of tea, sugar, coffee, starch,
stone blue, &c. di of which were eahlbitlal by Ilse officer wise
bad her in custody.
As Mr. Mangey knew nothing of these trannetions, his Lady
was called as an evidence, and from her testimony, together with
that of Smith and Tomkin, two officers of the night, it appeared
that the girl had been permitted to go out on Thursday last to
look far a situation, being about sodeave Mrs. Mooney'''. She
bad been ordered to he back by seven o'clock, but did not re-
turn till between nine and tea: "During her absence, her mis-
tress, somehow or other, for she said she could not tell what
possessed her, coat it into her head to look into the servant's
drawer, where she dinenvered a entail quantity, about an ounce
and a half, of coffee, in a bag, which she suspected to have been
pilfered out of her own stock. Soon after the girl came home,
one of the drawing-room windows was brokerifrum the street
The two officers were passing at the time, and Amid the Bolle
young Mooney came to the door; they Were had into the house •
and under Mrs. Moneys direction, the bon belonging to the
prisoner, who had conducted herself rather pertly, and was sus-
pected of' knowing something of the window-breaking affair,
was searched. Nothing, however, war found ; but upon fur-
ther search, the sundry articles produced were discovered in the
kitchen cupboard, tied up in a handkerchief, which, when ques-
tioned, she said she had bought.
The articles of course could not bb Morn to, nor was there
any direct evidence of the girl's having stolen them. Specimens
were, however, produced of Mn. loony's bleak and greets
tea, coffee, brown and white sugar, sad even a lump of her
stone blue, to Mew by comparison that the articles produced had'
been Parr of her property, and their agreement in etdoer Mn
Mooney urged as evidence against the girl to go before
a Jury.
The Magistrate, however, thought the evidence by no means
, conclusive, and sobtnitted to bk. Mooney, whether he, as a
juryman, would convict upon such evidence?
Mr. Monoey declared he thought he should. •
The Magistrate was of a different opinion, but as he believed
the girl bad been guilty of pilfering, he should taitefinse to con-
sider what he should do with her, and accordingly remanded her.
Yesterday the pr loner was agate brought up before Mrs Al.
, derman Cue and, notwithstanding the very LOGVICIIIBIVe nature
of the evidence produced to critninate her, Mr. Mooney, thE
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