Star.
London, England, 1831-03-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

111aarLanowt.—Saturday Mr. Paull, watchmaker and jeweller.
Clevelandweet, attended respecting a pair of valuable regulatios
epaulettes which had been stolen from Captain Cowper, of the Oxford
Blues. The epaulettes in question were purchased by :aptain Const
at the sale of his late Majesty's wardrobe. On Thursday week, th;
Captain being engaged to a ball at the Duke of Devonshire's took foul
parcels in a coach from the Regent's Park Barracks to Aladdox-street.
where lie was to dress ; one of the parcels was a tin case containing the
epaulettes, which was missing when the coach arrived in Maddox-
street. On Thursday the Corporal-Major of the Regiment discovered
a portion of the epaulettes at Messrs. Abud and Co's, refiners, in Long.
acre, where it had been sent by Mr. Paull to be burnt down ; part of
the property had already undergone the refining process.
Ale. l'aull said, that on Tuesday last a well.dressed man came ins;
his shop, and tendered nine ounces of what he stated to be fringe be.
longing to an old Court dress sold when the late King's wardrobe war
disposed of. He (Mr. P.) bought them at ss. per ounce, and, on the
following day, he bought eighteen ounces more of the same kind. Hr
asked neither the name nor the address of the stranger, nor did hi
believe that any shopkeeper in London would have required it from s
person of the stranger's appearance.
Mr. Itawarws(»; said that Mr. Paull was bound to make every
exertion to discover the stranger, which Air. Paull promised to do, and
departed.
Um); Hata....-Lieutenant J. H. Wheatley appeared to answer a
charge of assault made by Mrs. Day, the wife of a tradesman In the.
Kent-road. The defendant's wife, it appeared, had been placed in a
private mad-house by the defendant, although not insane. On Tuesday
week she made her escape from her husband, who had taken her our
for the first time, in order that she might go to the Accountant-Gene.
rays office in Chancery-lane, and receive some money that had Jaen
placed out for her in the care of the Court of Chancery. She fled reMr. Day's, whom she had known before, and who refused to let het
be taken away by the defendant, when he came the next day with a
, certificate. Mr. 1/ay had, however, obtained a certificate himself of
her sanity, and was firm. An altercation then ensued, in which the.
Defendant pushed Mrs. Day in the stomach violently, because she was
removing the bonnet of Mrs. Wheatley, who fled up stairs. The de-
readmit denied the assault, but calling no witnesses was held to bail.
himself in GUI. and two sureties in 401. each. Mrs. Wheatley professed
great fear, but was assured she should be protected.
THAMES POLICE.—An old Irish woman, named Mary Lemon,
was placed at the bar, with twelve girls of the ages of from 10 to ln
years whom she was charged with sending out to procure money by
prostitution, stealing and singing ballads. All the girls appeared halt-
starved : some were afflicted with disease, and others had scarcely any
clothing. When the officers entered the woman's residence in Marra..
duke court, St. George's, they found it in a most filthy state. Thr
woman was in bed drinking gin, and two boys, who exhibit.slight.of•
hand tricks In the streets, were lying by her side. The girls were hud-
dled round a fire eating potatoes, and, notwithstanding their tender age.
made use of the most obscene language. The effluvia arising from thr
place was so great, that the officers could scarcely endure it.
A cooper said that one ot.the children. a girl, twelve years of ag...
who had neither shoes nor stockings rat and no other clothing than
old frock, was his daughter. She left Ls house on Monday, well clad,
and was decoyed into the woman's hovel, where her clothing was take:
from her. The girl was given to her father, and others were sent—
some to the hospital, and some to the parishes to which they belonge
The woman was sent to prison.
Al A ItHIED.
At Edinburgh, on the 28th ult. Captain Nicholas Wright, Blyta.
county of Northumberland, to Miss Margaret Scott, of St. Andrews.—
At Edinburgh, on the 2d curt. the Rev. John Taylor, M.D. Alinirci
of the United Secession Church, Auchtermueitty, to 31atian
, youngest daughter of the late Mr. J. Wardlaw, merchant in Dalkeit;l.