Star.
London, England, 1830-08-05 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

GUILDHALL.—William Briton, a pieman, residing in Field.
lane, Holborn, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie, yesterday, upon
a charge of knowingly receiving a gold watch, which was stolen
from an Hungarian gentleman, named Toth, by his footboy, of
which offence the latter was convicted at the last Old Bailey
Sessions.
The principal witness against the prisoner was a shrewd little
boy, about thirteen years of age, who had just been discharged
from the House of Correction, and who gave his name William
Edmead. He stated that on the 7th of June. Charles Wells,
the footboy, came to him and said he had stolen his master's
watch, and would be glad if he would assist him to get rid et
it. Witness answered he did not mind doing so, and he WIN
to the prisoner, who stood on Holborn-hill, and was in die
habit of buying stolen goods from boys; Wells told him to oak
I. for the watch, but he said he should ask 31. and did se I
the prisoner asked him to wait while he went to see a man who
would buy it, and witness tiatehed him to the shop of Mr. Reeves,'
the pawnbroker,on Snow-hill. When the prisoner returned, ha
gave witness a frilling, and Wells lis. tid. in part payment, sod
they treated him with some ale at a public hods, in Fleet.market.
Soon after they called on him again, and he said he could net give
more than 30s. for the watch ; he had offered it for sale, saying
he had given fifteen pounds fur it down in the country, and be was
laughed at, and told it was only metal, and worth thirty shil.
lingo ; witness replied, that story would not du for him, sod
be must have three pounds, and the prisoner then gave him a owes
reign and a half more, with which be and Wells started foe Dips.
ferd.fair. Wells was taken there, and committed for trial. '
Hess was apprehended next day, but was discharged, when be called
on the prisoner, and told him what had happened. Prisoner then
Agave him 7s. 6d. more, upon which witness bought one shilling's
worth of his pies, and treated him with ale, and took bs. worth of
things into Newgate to Wells.
Richard Wells, the brother of the boy who was convicted, deposed
that the prisoner had admitted to him he had purchased this watch,
end sold it again for only 41.
The prisoner declared be knew nothing of the watch nor the
boys ; but Sir Peter Laurie, after questioning the parties at consi-
derable length, remanded the prisoner till Friday, that the prosecu.
tutor may have an opportunity of tracing whether the prisoner and
the boys were seen together at the places mentioned by Edmead,
and whether the prisoner offered such a watch at the pawnbroker's

LAMBICTSZTRIZT. Yesterday, William Walker, alias
Black-eyed Billy, and Thomas Sheen, two notorious characters,
were charged with burglariously entering the dwelling.house of Mr.
Ticker, of Collett-place, Commercial-road, on Monday morning
last, and stealing therefrom plate and wearing appsrel amounting
to over 201.
Mitchell, a police constable, stated that, in consequence of infor-
mation he received, he apprehended the prisoner on suspicion of
being concerned in the above robbery.
Blimbeth Williams deposed that she resided opposite the hones
of Mr. Ticker. On Sunday night, she observed two men loitering
about the neighbourhood ; and, between twelve and one o'clock,
one of them got on the wall and entered the back premises. This
person was the prisoner Walker.
Mr. WYarr.--After seeing all this, why did not you give an
alarm ? Witness: There are two maid-servants in the house, and I
thought they were their sweethearts.
Drew, one of the inspectors of K. division of police, said he had
called at the house of Mr. Ticker on the Monday morning, and,
from the manner in which the robbery had been accomplished, he
felt satisfied that it was perpetrated by experienced thieves.
Wr. WYATT asked Drew if he had given information of the rob.
bery at this office ?—Drew replied in the negative.
Mr. WYATT remarked, that his not doing so was exceedingly ir-
regular. All burglaries committed in this district should be re-
ported at the office, as by that means they would get inserted in the
" Hue and Cry," so that every officer in the metropolis would, in a
few hours afterwards, be in possession of the facts.
Drew replied, that he was not at liberty there to state the reason
why the information was not sent to the police offices*.
Mr. WYATT again condemned the practice, and said it afforded
great facility for burglars to escape.
The prisoners were then remanded for a week.
Mr. Saunders, who is discharging the duties as deputy constable
of Whitechapel, waited on the magistrate with a pass of head-bo-
roughs, and asked if he had a right, in virtue of his office, to enter
the Pavilion Theatre when he thought proper ?
From his Maternal', it appeared that he had himself taken it into
his head, some days since, that he possessed such authority, and
with his headboroughs made an effort to get into the boxes. In
this intention, however, they were frustrated, and after a desperate
conflict with the check takers, &c. they were ejected vi el amis.
Mr. WYATT said he apprehended they had no right to enter the
theatre, except in cases of disturbance ; and this not being the case,
he considered the parties trespassers.
The headboroughs thought the case a hard one, on their parts.—
Mr. Saunders had called on them to do their duty, saying that he
had received directions from Mr. Burnell, a County Magistrate, to
act as he had done; but that gentleman denies the fact, and an in-
dictment was now threatened against them, for both a conspiracy
and tres_e!..
Mr. WYATT said that he could not help that; if they had mis-
conducted themselves, they were amenable to the laws, as well as
other individuals; and the parties then withdrew.
• The object of the New Police in not giving this information,
is of a two-fold nature ; first, that the public may not be made ac-
quainted with the number of robberies which take place in the dis-
uict in which the New Police are stationed, and next to keep the
business from the Old Police.

EXECUTION OF SLAITER, THE MURDERER, AT
YORK, ON AIONDAY.

Ilondsy morning, the last award of the law was dealt out to the
above wretched man, upon a new drop at the back of the Castle,
in the presence of some thousands of spectators. The crime for
which he suffered was:the murder of his own child 5 years old,which
he accomplished by throwing it into the river Ribble, near Skipton.
The criminal was a little past the prime of life, of a sturdy make,
and, though short, of athletic appearance. He was a working man,
and had borne a good character, up to the time of this dreadful
transaction. His conduct in gaol, we understood, was rather ex-
emplar) than otherwise ; but, from the moment of his conviction, hs
fell into a stupor, from which not all the exhortations of the Clergy-
man. or the more active adjurations of the attendants, to think upon
his situation, could arouse him. Up to the moment that he had been
led out upon the fatal scaffold he was obdurate and impenitent,
maintaining a sullen and unbroken silence ; but it has been
said that he at the last expressed some contrition, and acknow.
lodged the justice of his sentence. He met death with considerable
fortitude, and the vigour of his constitution made a struggle against
dissolution which must have produced a painful effect, tor the body
writhed a good deal.
The fate of this wretched criminal, though justified by
positive admissions of his own, and strengthened by secondary
evidence of a very strong nature, was yet calculated to excite some
pity for him. The victim of his crime was the child of a
wife, who, by the violence of her disposition, her gross irregu-
larities while in his house, and her final desertion of him for a pa-
ramour, had soured his temper and affected his reason. He was
said to be more or leas flighty since his wife had left him. He had
always shown a great affection for the child, and it might have been
in a paroxysm of insanity that he committed the crime for which
he suffered. But no such case was proved at the trial, and the
law, therefore, kept on its course, and criminal justice required
its victim.