Star.
London, England, 1805-10-18 00:00:00

POLICE, &t.

Yefierdajeame on fora re-hearing at Marlborough-
Rreet, the cafe brought forward by an Officer of rank
in the army, agajnit a Pawnbroker in St. James's-
beet, whp had taken in pledge, frnm a female
fer-
vant, fume articles of property ftolen film the Offi-
cer; when the Paynbt ulcer again aliened, that as the
articles had been repeatedly pledged and redeemed,
he conceived they had been fent by the girl's miflrefs,
a Ain ataie of the Officer, and therefore he was not
entitled to velure thfin, but as tbere was an evident
felony in the cafe, the Magiftrate deemed it other.'
wife, and ordered, him to retain them for a month,
to give time to apprehend the thief.
On Wednefday W. Felix underwent another exa-
mination at Union Han, on the charge of having
robbed Mrs. Laponier, of Walcot-place, (as Rated in
our Paper of Monday lag.) In addition to what
MIS. L. then Rated, the fail the was pofitive the
fpoons were lying in the parlour when the prifoner
went into the room ; and on her going in immediately
after he left it, they were gone. Several perfona at-
tended who have been robbed in a fimilar manner,
but none of them could (wear to the prifoner. He
was fully committed fur trial.
Bow-STRSET.—The three boys, John Leach, Ri.
chard Danvers, and James Leach, who a thort time
fince were apprehended by young Crocker coming
from Croydon Fair, when the eldeß, John Leach,
proved himfelf fuch a complete mailer of the Rang
language, have been brought to the Office feveral
times and underwent examinations ; but no perfons
who had their pockets picked at the fair could iden
tify their perfonc.. The Magiftrates thought they
should be doing them a fervice in preventing them
from being hanged, by fending them on board. the
tender.

PUBLIC OFFICE, HATTON Geansit.—Yefierday
foreigner was brought before the Magiltrates, who
was found in the (beets at a late hour in the evening
of the preceding day. He had feveral paffports from
the French Republic, dated in the year 8, and like-
wife German paports. He was fent to the Alien
Office.

Two perfons of the names of Kitchen and Chateau-
neuf were committed for re-examination nu fufpicion
of having committed feveral aEls of fwindling, by
means of bills of exchange between London and Li-
verpool.

GUlLDHALL.—Yefterday a man, of very refpella•
ble appearance, was examined before the fitting Al-
derman, on a charge of felony.
It appears that, as the watchman was going his
rounds, early in the morning, in Cheapfide, on pall-
in; the (hop of Melfrs. Wood, linen drapers, he per-
ceived a piece of printed cotton hanging on the bars
of the area. Having a fufpieion that the (hop had
been robbed, he •alarmed the family, and obferving
a man turn down Butcher Hall-lane. he purfued him.
On turning round the corner of the fireet, he per-
ceived the prifoner (landing (till on the pavement,
and knowing him to be the man whom he had teen
running away, he took him into cnflody.—The pri•
tong had a nick under his arm, at one end of which
was a hook, with which, it appeared, that, after hav-
ing broken the window, he had pulled out the cotton.
Mr. Alderman SMITH addrelTed the prifoner, and
Paid that the evidence againft him was fo thong as
to leave very little doubt of his guilt. The profecu-
tor, however, in cenlideration of his family, which
is refoatable, had confented to drop the profecution
if he would content to go to tea.
This the prifoner refufedt and he was remanded
for further examination.

On Saturday a man belonging to the Superb, in
Portfmouth harbour, chopped off his fingers, and
maimed his will, with a hatchet, becaufe he was re-
fufed leave to go on fhore, he having a fhort time
ptevioufly had a fortnight's liberty. He was coati.
dered one of the heft feamen in that (hip.
Wednefday night as Mr. Jafper and his wife, of
Queen-greet,Cheapfide, were returning to town in
a (Ingle horfe chaife, it came in contact with a Rage.
coach, near the Bird-cage, on Stamford Hill, by
which they were thrown out. Mrs. Jafper received
a contufion on the head, and was otherwife much
bruifed ; M. J. was but (lightly injured.
On Wednefday night, about half part t i o'clock,
as two gentlemen were paffing through Lincoln's.
Inn Fields, they difcovered a well dreffed man lean-
ing againfl a '1341. On their going up to him he
complained of (hortnefs of breath, and added, that he
had but a few minutes to live. The gentlemen ant-
ed his addrefs, and he had juR Rrength to articulate
z„ Charles-greet, Hatton Garden, before he expired.
The body was put into a coach without delay, and
conveyed to the houfe of Mr. Dale, furgeon, in
Charles-fireet, but all attempts to reflore life were
fruitlefs. The deceafed's name was Manly. He
was a widower, and has left fix children to bewail
his Ws.

A molt darin„,* robbery was committed near Pen-
krid•Ye in StaTordthire, on Wednefday. As Mrs.
Davie, a widow lady, was walking in fume fields be
tween Penktidge and Woolgartion, about•noon, the
was attacked by a man thabbily dreffed, who tied
her hands behind her, forced a handkerchief into her
month, and threatened, if the made retillance, or
cried out, to cut her throat ; he then titled her poc-
kets' and emptied the papers from her pocket book,
took out the bills payable to bearer, and threw down
the book and other papers ' • after abufing and ill-
treating her very much, he left her with her hands
bound, and got clear off.
As John Bennet, Efq. Prefident of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, Edinburgh, was on a thooting par-
ty, at Wemyfs Cattle, on the toth intl. in the aft of
firing, his fowling piece burl', and killed him on the
(pot. He was in his 49th year.
A journeyman hot-pieirer, at Leeds, was lately
fined the fum of fatten pounds, being double the
value of goods which he was convitled of having wil•
fully fpoiled.
A few days fince the houfe of Mrs. Williams, in
Baldwin's Gardens, Gray's-inn-lane, was robbed of
551. in call and raztes, by a young woman, who had
been in her family but a few days, and who has ab-
fcondeded.

F►iday, as a labou►ing man was (landing on a
ladder, atiitling to make a Rack of wheat in the farm
yard of Mr. Edward Oliver, of Temflall, in the parith
of Bithopwearmouth, it broke in the middle, and he
received fo much injury by the all as t 9 oceafion
his death the following day.

MOM it.—Further particulars Or die horrid tndr.
der we mentioned on Monday laft
On Saturday the sth infant was committed to the
Gaol of Durham, Thomas Irstfon, a journeyman
fmith, charged upon the Inqueft of Mr. Josaru
FRANK, Coroner, and a refpeetable Jury, a ith the
wilful murderof Margaret Barker, of Hutton Rudhy,
fpinfler. The circumßances of this horrid tranf-
aCtion, as appeared upon evidence before the jury,
which fat feven hours, were as follow—
The deceafed, a refpeEtable woman, about forty-
fir years of age, had for feveral years fubfitied her-
fell and her, aged parents, by travelling in the adja-
cent country, with houfewife cloth, principally the
property of a Mr. Francis Stainthtop, of that place ;
the left her home on the Wednefday morning, and
came to Stockton upon her bufinefs, and that even-
ing dept at a refpetlable public houfe; but, unfortu-
nately for herfelf, went on the following evening to
the houfe of Wilfon (where file at times had been
ufed to Ray). From the evidence of his wife and
her daughter, the prifoner at half-patt twelve o'clock,
arofe from his bed, and went up Rain to the cham-
ber, where the deceafed, the wife's daughter, and her
infant child flept ; the deceafed laid upon the fide of
the bed nearett to the door, whom he immediately
attacked with a razor, and cut her in the cheek, af-
terwards in the throat, from ear to ear, and in other
parts of the neck; foon afterwards a cry of murder
was heard by the neighbours, Come of whom ,being
arnufed, Came to the fatal fpo t, and Rumbled over
the body of the deceafed, at the foot of the Rairs, near
to the then door: upon the arrival of the town's
officers ana others, the murderer attempted to defend
hinifelf on the top of the flair-cafe, with the bloody
razor and a mould-rake ; with the latter he firuck
one of the party a violent blow upon the arm and
i head, who returned it with a (hors conftable's (ta',
and he diteBly furrendered ; of courfe, was fecured
in a place of confinement. When the Jury delivered
their verdift, the pockets of the deceafed were
fearched, and with the money, goods, Ece. there did
not appear that any of her property was taken; the
body of the deceafed was then wathed and put into
a Drell for interment, which took place on the fol-
lowing Sunday, at Hutton Rudby.
From circumUances which tranfpired, it would
feem to warrant conjeCture, that the intention of the
murderer was not direCied towards the deceafed, but
to his wife and her daughter : the latter had laid in
about four or ire months !ince of a child, of whom
he was the reputed father, and being again faid, or
fufpeited to be pregnant, it is fuppoted, that remorfe
of confcience induced him to get rid of the objea of
his lull, by perpetrating a snore grofs and fanguinary
crime.