Star.
London, England, 1824-10-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSTON-110USP..
Yesterday, .7eios Levi, a hawker of watches, and his wife, were
charged the first with having beaten John Cohen with his fist, and
the other with having assaulted him with a frying-pan.
The witnesses filled the room, and manifested the strongest dis-
position to swear anything at all that appeared likely to tell for
their respective favourites.
The ccnnplaina+•t swore that he had lent ten shillings to Levi, to
prepare matters for his marriage, and upon asking him for it, was
treated in the most brutal manner by the person who was under
obligation to him. Levi, who was a boxer, and went by the name
of Lee amongst the Fancy, struck him about the body, and broke
his nose, without any more provocation than was contained in the
demand of his money. The complainant was provided with the
usual accompaniments of assault complaints, and produced a hand-
kerchief with sonic red and itome black evidences of violence. The
black wounds had, he said, been inflicted by Mrs. Levi, who, with
all the fury of a Christian, seized a frying pan, and battered his vi-
sage with it in such a manner that he could trace no resemblance
between what he was and what he is. Mrs. Levi was not without
assistance from another party. One of the " Peoples," encouraged
to a warlike effort by her example, struck him while he was writhing
under the effects of the frying-pan, which first made a wound, and
then dried it up with its horning heat. All was over then with the
complainant, who swore that he made no effort to retaliate.
This account of the business was sworn to be correct by half a
dozen Jews, who all engaged in a noisy emulation to convince the
Lord Mayor that Mr. Cohen was.the most ill-treated of human
beings, since the days of Sr. Stephen, and who expected nothing
less than a " stoning unto death,' from the cruel persecutors on the
other side.
Then came on the defence. The accused party and their friends,
in the heat of justification, called for the Old Testament to swear
by, before they spoke a word, and offered, if it would add to the
measure of their credibility, to swear by the New, that the accusa-
tion was as false as that made by Potiphar's wife.
'The LORD Maros, however, did not choose to administer any
more oaths. _ _ _ .

It was then stated by the defendants and their friends, that
Cohen was the aggressor, that he threw part of a pint of heavy"
over Levi, who was no boxer, but a respectable man, and struck
him with great violence; that Cohen, not satisfied with this re-
venge, challenged Levi to fight, and actually dragged him into the
street, where, as there was no alternative, both stripped, and had
four regular rounds of fighting, to the great prejudice of Cohen's
face and body, and the total subjugation of his valour ; that Cohen
refused to come again " up to the scratch," said he had got enough,
and that Mrs. Levi never handled a frying-pan, and never laidA
finger upon anybody but her own husband, with whom she was still
in the honeymoon.
The LORD Matron was perplexed between these conflicting
statements. He asked the complainant whether he had thrown the
porter over Levi ?
" No," resounded through the room, from the voices of all Cohen's
party, both those who had seen and those who had nut seen the row.
The Loan MAYOR then asked Levi, whether the porter had been
thrown upon him by Cohen ?
" Yes,' exclaimed all Levi's party—men, women, and children.
Both parties again chewed a great impatience to be sworn. They
would swear by anything at all.
Levi offered to let anybody look into his mouth, which he said
was cut by Cohen, who treacherously hit the pipe he was smoking,
and stuck it in his jaw. The fight was as fair a one as was ever seen.
Cohen's party—" There was no fight ; we'll swear there Was none."
Levi's party—" There was a fight ; we'll take our oath of it."
The Loan Maros, who heard with great patience all that had
been urged on both sides of the question, declared that he was com.
pletely in the dark as to its real merits. He could not presume to
meddle with a case which was so much above his comprehension,
and that, therefore, if the complainant was disposed to pursue the
means of satisfaction, he must go before a Grand Jury, and repre-
sent his sufferings and wrongs to them.
The defendant's party considered this a triumph, and Petticoat-
lane, from which all the inhabitants had been transferred to the
Mansion-house, during the examination, must have rung with
their exultation. _ _