Star.
London, England, 1830-06-21 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

AL►xstox.HousE.—Saturday Mary M'Lean, a vender of po.
tatocs and other vegetables, was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having stolen a turbot, the property of Mr. Benjamin,
a fish-salesman, in Billingsgate Market.
Mr. Benjamin stated that he had purchased a quantity of
turbot, at 12s. each, at an early hart in the morning, and soon
afterwards missed one of the largest size. He was informed
that the defendant was the thief; and, upon taking her into
custody, he found a turbot, which he had no doubt was his, in her
basket.

The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant how it happened that
the turbut was found in the basket ?

She said she couldn't tell for the life of her, except it was
Peg Delany that had done it: Peg and she had gone to market
together, and as she couldn't kcep her eyes all the while on her
basket, why Peg might have slipped the fish in " unknownst."—
(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Benjamin said it was evident that it was meant to conceal the
turbot, for, when the woman was taken into custody, the fish was
covered allover with potatoes.
The LORD MAYOR said he supposed Mrs. Peg Delany was
present to give an account of the appearance of the fish in the
basket.
The prisoner said he supposed Peg was striving to get an honest
bit for her children ; but her own husband, Jack 11I'Lean, was pre-
sent to speak to the fish and her character.
Mr. lioatca- -Well, Mr. M'Lean, how did the fish find its
way into your wife's basket ?
Mr. 1114 Lean—In troth I don't know how the d-1 it got there,
only I'm sure she never put it there. If they went the right way
about it, your Honour, they would soon find that she wasn't the
thief.

The Loan 3f/wn—Why, I think that finding the fish in her
basket was pretty good proof that she stole it.
Mr. 3PLean—Stole it ! Oh Lord ! your Honour, is it Mary ?
You didn't steal it, jewel, did you ? Tell God's truth !—(Loud
laughter.)
" I never seen it, jewel, upon ray sowl, jewel," said she, "until
they pulled it from under the fruit."
Mr. M'Lean—" I thought so, darlint ; but smell her fist your
honour, if she's a thief, she'll smell of fish, and not of prides."
(Excessive laughter.) Here the husband held up his wife's hand in
triumph.
Mr. Hoar.za said they were not in the habit of judging of peo-
ple's honesty by the organ of smell, and it was very well for most of
the visitors to that room that they did not depend up that organ.—
(Laughter.)
3lr. 3l'Lean—" If your honour will let her come home along
with me, she shall stick to her own market, and never go to that
thieving place again. I'm sure, it's a place where no respectable
woman ought to be seen."
Mr. lloin.zst—" If you ever let her go to Billingsgate again,
don't let her take potatoes in her basket, for if you do, all the Irish
fill: in the market will be after her. I have no doubt myself that
this turbot leaped into the basket after the new potatoes."...
(Laughter.)
Mr. Benjamin's foreman—" Please your votship, that's impost.
ble for the head and tail was tied together, and she couldn't leap;
and besides, your vorship, turbots vots.catched in France never eats
no tatoes."—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. M'Lean—" Please your Honour, this boy knows nothing at
all about it. How can he tell what countryman the fish was; and
as for praties, if your Honour would expose a couple of sacks of I
'em in Billingsgate. the d—l fire the one you'd see in half an hour."
Mr. Benjamin said that as M'Lcan had promised never to let his
wife tempt the fish again, he should not prosecute.
Mr. M'Lean—" Anal:, then, the Lord bless your Honour ! Now,
Mary, let this be a lesson to you : if you go among 'em again, upon
my cowl they'll make a rogue of you, and I won't conic forward to
tell any more d—d lies about you ; you know well it's not the first
time, and be d—d to you."
The husband wife then departed amidst the laughter of the room.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Andrew Glee, a gardener, was charged on
suspicion of being a participator in a robbery upon Mr. Cubitt,
builder. A man named Miller, employed by Mr. Cubitt, was en-
trusted with 6111. in gold and silver, to pay workmen, with which he
absconded. Mr. Jennings, solicitor for Mr. Cubitt, discovered that
Glee had taken his place on the coach for Liverpool, from the Angel,
Islington, and had sent his boxes to that house. Glee was taken
into custody, and in the boxes were found 321. and some silver. It
had also been ascertained that a few days previous to Miller ab.
sconding, Glee had been without money. A person was despatched
to Liverpool after Miller and his wife, but no vestige of hint was
to be discosered.—The prisoner was remanded till Monday week.

BlALaYzEzowr..-11i/liam Cooke, coachman to Sir Henry Hal.
ford, Bart. appeared to answer to an information that had been laid
under the following circumstances :—The defendant being acquain.
ted with a Mrs. Jones, who was indebted to her landlord, took his
master's carriage several mornings as early as five o'clock, and re.
moved the portable goods, as It was suspected that they would be
seized for her rent. .

The Magistrates having valued the property at 30L convicted the
defendant in a penalty of 601. being double the value of the property.
The defendant's solicitor remarked, that Sir Henry was deter-
mined to protect his coachman, and the matter would be carried into
another Court.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—George Jordon, who described himself as
a jeweller, residing at Harp-alley, Shoe-lane, was placed at the bar,
charged with an assault on Henry Stride, a police constable of the
A. division. The prosecutor stated the nature of the assault, which
took place about three o'clock on Thursday morning, while he was on
duty near the King's Mews, Charing.crosd. The prisoner put in •
written defence, denying the charge altogether, and attribnting the
;police constable's complaint to an expectation of extorting money
from him. The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

Lssuirrw-rriwzT.—A number of wretched individuals were
u usual in attendance to get relief from the overseers, but there was
nothing of interest in any of their cues.

DlAar.aoaouoH•STlEET.—Dorothy Fenn, the woman charged
with extensive robberies in the houses of the Nobility, where she
was engaged as nurse, underwent another examination. Lord In-
gestre again attended, and persona also appeared from Earl Howe,
Earl of Cardigan, Duke of Buccleuch, Lady Augusta Chichester,
and others of the Nobility, all of whom it was represented, would
establish clear cases against the prisoner if the noble owners of the
property were disposed to proscute. It appeared that the prisoner
had attended on Lady Isabella Cust, the Duke of Buceleuch s sister,
during the illness of her Ladyship, which terminated fatally, in Oct.
last, and about the period of her ladyship's demise, several costly
publications and China vases were stolen from his Grace's library,
and have since been found in the prisoner's possession, and were
identified by the Duke's librarian.

On Sunday last, during the absence of Mr. and Mrs.
Reynolds, of Tittenhanger.green, a son of Mr. Reynolds, a youth
about 11 rears of age, took a gen front the fire-place, and said he
would frighten some of them. At the moment a labouring lad, of
the name of James Howell, about 17 years of age, entered the door,
a distance of between three and four yards, when the youth Imme-
diately presented the gun, and said " bang I" the gun at the same
moment discharging, lodging the contents in the face of the unfor-
tunate lad, taking part of the lower teeth, cheek, and the left eye.
Surgical aid was immediately procured, and the unfortunate lad was
conveyed home to his father's cottage, at London Colney, where he
still continues in the must precarious state.—llerle Mercury.