Star.
London, England, 1830-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Mawstow.nouss.—Lereis Lyons, a Jew, was charged before the
LORD MAYOR with having forged the Goldsmiths' Hall-mark upon a
base metal watchcase, and with having defrauded a young man of the
tam of 4L 6s. by pretending that the case was fine gold.
The complainant stated that the prisoner exhibited the watch-case.
which was brilliantly polished up, and looked for all the world like
gold, to him for sale. Witness asked him whether be would warrant it
genuine, and was answered in the affirmative, and the amount required,
41. 6s. was paid down for it. The case was an extremely heavy
one, but it was in weight alone it resembled gold, for when
it began to get accustomed to the complainant's pocket, it began to look
very dull, and wanted another scrubbing up, to make it at all like what
it had been when it was purchased. The prisoner refused, when in.
formed that he had practised an imposition, to pay back the money, and
as the defendant had judged very naturally that the Hall-mark wasin
criterion by which to form an opinion, he did not make the accusation
before a Magistrate until he had shown it to some of his people, a set
very well qualified to decide.
A gentleman from the Assay Office examined the mark, and said
that it was an extremely well executed forgery of the Goldsmiths'
Hallmark.
The prisoner said he considered the case a very valuable one, although
not gold. If it had been gold, it would be worth upwards of 121
The prisoner was remanded.
Two men, named Thompson and Hall, were charged with having
stolen no less than 45165. of beef from the stall of Mr. Hick inbottom,
of Whiteehapel.market.
Mr. Hickinbottom and other butchers had been frequently plundered
by idle vagabonds, and a watch was set for them. Between 9 and 10
o'clock, the prisoners walked up like men of business, and in the pre-
sence of several persons, took up a buttock of beef, and walked deli.
berately off with it. They turned down the Minories for the purpose,
it k supposed, of disposing of it to some retail butcher, but was over-
taken and taken into custody.
The ptuoners said they were both hungry ! They were fully corn.
mined for trial.

BOW-STlZET.—Yesterday, an elderly Jew, who gave his name
Abraham Cornell, was brought before Mr Pollesnut.x. charged with
having stolen a cup and saucer, the property of Mary Sheen.
Mrs. Sheen is the keeper of an open-air coffee-shop, and her stand is
placed at the corner of Southampton-street, Strand, where she was
visited, a few nights, or rather mornings ago, by the prisoner, who, not
content with devouring sundry cups of coffee and slices of bread and
butter, decamped with the utensils. In the pursuit the prisoner dropped
the saucer, but succeeded in getting clear off with the cup. He was
met, however, yesterday, by Mrs. Sheen, who, the instant she saw, re-
cognised him, and gave him into custody.
The prisoner, who put on the sir of an inserts person, behaved In the
most impudent manner, and talked largely of his respectability, although
literally in rags.
Mr. Alinerstrxt. expressed his determination to commit him.
Prisoner—But surely you'll take bail for a twopenny felony.
Mr. MINSUULL said be would, provided his brother Magistrate
concurred that bail ought to be taken.
Mr BECKETT and Mr. MALLARD, however, declined to join ie
admitting the prisoner to bail.
Prisoner—Ohl very well, send me to prison ; I'm quite reedy to
get on the wheel, to grind the wind. (Laughter.)
The primmer was then committed.
A middle-aged female, evidently labouring under the encheisent of

cheap beer, was charged with having assaulted Nesbett, a constable of
1 St. Clement's parish.
Nesbitt stated, that observing the defendant "kicking up a row,"
outside of one of the newly opened beer shops, in Clement's Lane,
he proceeded towards her for the purpose of mains ber "move es,"
when she flew at him like a wild cat, ad droll iis fine with her
nails. He had great difficulty to extricate himself Inn Me gripe; and
most probably would not have escaped with such trifling damage, had
not one of the policemen come to his assistmee.
Mr. HALL. asked if any new beer shops had been opened in St.
Clement's perish ?
Nesbett replied that there had, and that the neighbourhood in which
they were presented a acne of drunkenness.
Defendant—And here's long life and somas to those " vat" cheap-
ened the beer; for now one can have a drain in comfort at little ex.
pears : but, your Worship, I did not mean to " insault" bit. Nesbett,
I only wen n' to press him to have a pot of threepenny with me to I
drink "God bless King Wi/liam."
Mr. Ram.s.—But wh-m you found Nesbitt flagging in loyalty, you
ought net to have persisted. You must put in bail.
The defendant, who seemed very wroth at this decision, was coo.
ducted from the office, inveighing bitterly against its justice.

WORSHIP-STlLEZT.—Yesterday, Sans ?Unser was charged with
stealing eight half-crowns from Mr. Henry Vickers. The prose-
cutor was on his way home on Monday night, when Selina took his
arm, and walked a short distance with him, and he then discovered
that she had taken his money and the key of his desk. She was,
remanded.

Mari AIM HUI, a child stated to be only seven years of age, was
charged with committing a robbery. It appeared that the young pri
soner had been locked up in the Station-house with a woman, who had
been taken into custody for drunkenness. The woman stated, that when
she was put into the lock-up-house, she had a bag in her pocket, con.
taming some money, which she counted, and then went to sleep. She
awoke about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and again counted
her matey. When she awoke some time afterwards she missed the bft,
and at charging the prisoner with having robbed her, the prisoner fdi
on bar knees, and restored the bag. On discovering that some of the
mousy had. been stolen, the woman gave the child into custody,
and on searching the place, the money taken from the bag was
found. The oars were well acquainted with the child and her
parents. They said the father was a had-working man, but the
mother was a worthless character, and encouraged the child to commit
robbaiss.

dlr. TwTroaD was unwilling to send the prisoner for trial, but
observed .that Ito place her under the care of
.Iwejnother was certain
desweedon.

The worthy Magistrate was then informed that SOON time since, when
a child of equal tender age was sent to the Old Bailey, the Judges or.
dered her to be sent out of the country for life, to prevent her cammuni.
eating with the parents.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
MARTLIDOXI.—Yesterday afternoon a tall atbisde young
_man,
who gam his name Williams Hunt. was charged before Mr. Gabbs
and Mr. Hoskins with breaking the peace in Oxford-street.
He appeared in a white hat, decorated with the tricoloured cockade,
holding in one hand a bundle of straw, and in the other a quantity of
ballads, and his hat bore an inscription of gold upon blue, ' Hunt and,
Liberty.°
Where do you live, said Mr. Hoskins.
Hurt—ln the New North.road, sir.
Mr. Hosanrs—What are you ?
Hunt—Nothing at all, sir.
Mr. Ontrerres—Don't talk nonsense, man. Why don't you say
how you get your living ?
Hunt..—l am employed by the nobs of England ; they give me a
pension.
Mr. Gnarrrres—The what.?
Hunt—The nob.

Mr. Garoorrus—The nobs ! What does he mean by the nobs ?
Chief Clerk—The great people, sir.
Mr. GRIPTITIES laughed. and the charge was taken.
Charles Loughton, a police constable, o. 48, of division D. saw the
defendant at one o'clock selling straws, and giving away ballads, on the
side of Oxford.street which was in the parish of St. George the Martyr.
He waited until a crowd assembled around him so large as to obstruct
the passengers, and a gentleman desired him to remove the nuisance,
and then finding the defendant absolutely determined to remain whites
he was, he took him into custody. Loughton said he brought him a
month ego out of Bryanstone.square, before Mr. Rawlinson, for creating
a mob in the same way, and he promised to sell no more straw in
Mary-le-bone.
Defendant-1 kept my word, your Worship ;lam a man of hamar ;
I was not in Mary.le.bone to day when I was interfered with.
William 81,Kenzic, a policeman, No. 177, of division C, assisted
Loughton in taking him out of the crowd, to the station-house. He
asked the defendant who be wee ? and he told him he was Squire Hunt's
son, the blacking-maker, and the man that talked on Kennington Com-
mon, and at St. Pancras meeting.
Hunt said the police did not like him, because he wrote against them
in the " Weekly Dispatch," and for that reason he was persecuted
by them.
The Magistrate examined his ballads, and found them to consist ef
" A frog he would a wooing go,"—" I'll marry a soldier," and Obit
harmless things,—aced they discharged him with a threat, that if he
collected any more crowds in the district of the Mee he should be Mt
to
trnLy night, Sarah Cook, an elderly woman, was charged betas
Mr. flounce with pot-stealing.
At half-past four o'clock in the afternoon, a lady in Euston.cresent
told John Scully, a police constable, that she saw the prisoner take up
a quart pewter pot from the front of a house, and secrete It under bee
shawl. He apprehended her, and when she was searched at the pollee
station in Albany.street, a quart and a pint pot belonging to Mr. Clay.
toy of the Plasterers' Arms, in Seymour.street, Somers Town, were
found upon her; also a pint pot belonging to Mr. Hodges, of the
Adam and Eve, in the Hampstead-road; and a pint pot belonging to
Mr. Thomson, of the Duke of York, Osnaburgh.street North, Re.
gent's-park.
The above gentlemen attended the examination before the
trate, and were bound over to prosecute her. She was committed to
Newgste for trial.
Harrow.eaapitsr.—A IPAIIICATZD ASPORTA report which,
we believe, first appeared in some Evening Papers of Saturday, was
copied into several Sunday Papers, and appeared in two or three of the
Morning Papers of Monday, occasioned much inquiry at this Office.
The paragraph begun as follows Hatton.tholes.—A young man,
fashionably dressed, named Frederick Middleton, was ehar with
having in a most gross and indelicate manner &c. Ike.. The Magis.
trate ordered him to find bail, and to give 48 hours' nodes."
Yesterday a gentleman applied at the oMce, who stated that he had
read the paragraph, and baying a relative named Frederick Middleton,
and observing that the Frederick Middleton, who was alleged to have
eseumitted the assault, had been ordered to find ball, and give 48 hours'
notice, be (the applicant) was desirous to know if bail had been ob.
mined ; if not, he was prepared to air bail, if the party turned out to
be his relative.

The clerks, lie. Illallett and Mr. Edwards, replied that no such
case bad been heard at the Office at all t and that the paragraph was
entirely a fabrication of whoever had written it t but that the gentle-
man might be better satisfied, he was referred to Lee, the gaols, who
could Inform him if such a person remained locked up for want of
, bail. Lee gave him a similar answer. that no such person had ever been
in his charge. The inspectors and the officers of the (I. Division were
equally in the dark on the subject, as no such charge had ever been re-
gistered in their officmbook, nor did any one about the establishment
know anything about it but what they had read in the papers, and the
reeding had excited their astonishment. The reporters who attend the
office regularly were likewise first acquainted with it by reading it in the
Pate".
The imposition on the papers must have been practised by same one
who is not thoroughly acquainted with the affairs of the office, for Mr.
Sergeant Sict.i.ow, the Magistrate, who is represented to have heard
the;case, is in the country, and has not sat in the office for the last
fortnight.
Bass Cols.—Mr. Field, Inspector of the Mint, in attending to a
chage against a person yesterday for uttering bass coin, remarked that
more base money was circulated iu Smithfield on the market days, than
in any other part of England.
Ustrow-maxi..—Yesterday, Jambes Prince, a hackney-coach driver,
was charged with cruelty to a horse. He was fined 20s.
Geer,* Cook was charged with threatening to kill his wife. The
poor woman, with tears in her eyes, declared that she was afraid to live
with her husband, as he had on more titan ore occasion threatened to
make her a " stiff-un " before morning. He was generally unkind to
her at night ; and what made it doubly unpleasant was a habit that he
had lately contracted of jumping out of bed, and exclaiming that the
Devil was in the room, and wanted to any him off to the infernal re-
gions. While labouring under this delusion, she was afraid to be in
the room with him, and If she presumed to algae with him on the ab-
surdity of his notions, he would threaten her. He was held to bail.

Charles Phillips, the convict who effected his escape from
Newgate a fcw days ago, having been ever since unremittingly pursued
by the Governor and his oiliccra, was on Monday night te.captured by
Mr. Harris, one of the head turnkeys, and safely lodged in his old
quarters.
A well-organized plan, by the convicts under sentence of
transportation, for their escape from Newgate, as we learn, hag lately
been detected by the vigilance of Mr.Wontner, the Governer. The
arrangements were so secret and well conducted, that no suspicion was
excited until those concerned in the attempt had been enabled to bring
their plans to such a state of forwardness that they had bored holes in
the wails, having provided themselves with a strong bar of bon, to
answer either for a crow-bar or a weapon of defence. The full parti-
culars of the attempt have not yet transpired, but on Saturday last 21i of
the most desperate of the gang were sent of to the hulks under a strong
guard, and the expectations of the rest entirely frustrated.