Star.
London, England, 1830-12-23 00:00:00

POLICE IMPORTS.

I GUILDHALL.— A respectable looking man, named AIMS MOMS,
who resided at Pommy'lle, was charged before Alderman WINCHES.
Till, with uttering a forged request for the delivery of goods, an offence
which was formerly deemed only a misdemeanor, but which has been
made, by the late statute amending the law of forgery, a felony, punish-
able with transportation for life.
The evidence was of considerable length. The use made out was, that
on Saturday afternoon an order was delivered (it is believed by the pri.
suer) to Messrs. Johnson and Hulmre, warehousemen, in Watling-st.
purporting to be signed by " S. Howard, for Mr. Cannon," a linen.
draper at Peckham, and requiring six pieces of Nainsook muslin, six
pieces of cambric, and four pieces of Merino, to be sent to Messrs. H.
and T. Wood, warehousemen in Red Lion-court, Watling-street, at
which place Mr. Cannon was accustomed to have goods WI for him.
The prisoner called on Mews. Wood, and intimated that a parcel of,
goods would be sent there, and requested that, if he should be un.
able to come himself for it, the parcel might be delivered to the
he should send. The prisoner went the same evening to the
ieirnopn and Hey booking-oiler, in Fleet.street, and despatched
the porter with a note signed " IL Stanley," to Messrs. Wood's,
where the parcel was in readiness, and was delivered. However,
the genuineness of the order had been suspected, the porter was followed
by a constable, and the prisoner was seised at the Kings and Key, in
the act of taking possession of the parcel. The order was a forgery.
The prisoner's defence was, that he was acting throughout under the
direction of a man named Furby, who delivered both the notes to him,
and pretended that business called him to an opposite part of the town.
Prisoner knew Furby. from having let a lodging to him two years ago,
when he was a man of undoubted character, and he undertook the trou.
ble of delivering the notes and obtaining the goods, to oblige him.
The prisoner was fully committed.
BOW.STEZIETo—CAUTION TO LICENRED VICTUALLERS.—Mr.
Houseman, the landlord of the White Hart. in bong-acre, appeared
to an information charging him with having harboured and entertained
three of the New Policemen while on duty, by which he had incurred
a penalty not exceeding five pounds.
State, a serjeant of the F. division, No 12, stated that at about
Sve o'clock in the morning of Sunday last, he missed three of his men
off their beat, and having gone to the statinn.house, and put three
other men on in their stead, he went in search of the absentees. On
passing defendant's house he saw one of them at the door (which was
open), and, on going in, found the two others drinking at the bar.
Their numbers were 94, 104, and 118. He reported their conduct to
the Commissioners, by whom he was directed to lay the present in.
formation.

Mr. HALLS—Can you prove how long they had been in the house
—for I presume it was not the intention of the Legislature that the men
should be on duty all night in this inclement season without taking any
refreshment.

Roger*, an Inspector, said the orders were the men should not enter
a public-house at all while on duty for the purpose of taking re-
freshment.

Sir R. Maxis—Well, that is strict enough at all events.—But there
is a question I should like to have answered—How was the defendant
to know these men were on duty ?
Rogers—All the men wear a band on their left arm when on duty, a
fact which the defendant must have known.

Sir R. Braxt►—lt is not impossible for the man to take the band
off, I presume, previous to entering a public-house.
Rogers—They can do so, certainly, but they are liable to be punished
if they do.
Sir RICHARD—The Act says, if any publican shall " harbour and
entertain." Now, really, a man being at the bar a few minutes—will
you call that harbouring?
Rogers—'They have no business there at all.
Mr. liht.r.s—l take it, that in ordet to convict the defendant we
must have proof that he knew the men were on duty.—(ToStace)—Had
they bands on when you saw them in the defendant's house ?
Stace said he did not take notice, and could not take upon himself to
swear that they had.
Mr. HALLS—Then I think the ease has not been proved, and, if my
brother magistrates agree with me In opinion, I shall dismiss it.
Sir R. Maxi E said he concurred in the opinion of Mr. Ilau.s, and
the case was accordingly dismissed.
Mr. HALLS.—In future I hope all Licensed Victuallers, for their
own sakes, will not suffer a policeman to drink In their houses who
wears the band, which shewa that he is on duty at the time.
11hitt.nottouGH aerr.—Yesterday, Mr. CONANT, the sitting
Magistrate, was occupied foe several hours in the investigation of a
cue respecting the identity of a dog, which involved the most extraor.
dinary conflicting evidence that perhaps ever was produced In any
Court.

The dog In question, a remarkably fine Newfoundland one, was
produced in the office, and the contending parties for the poasesslon of
it were Mr. Lang, the proprietor of a place called the shooting gallery,
In the Haymarket, and the Rev. Mr. Evans, a clergyman, who keeps
a school at Hampstead.
Mr. Evans stated that he lost the dog now produced from his house
at Hampstead in the latter end of last month, and that he had It in his
possession for an uninterrupted period of two years, during which down
to the last month it never was away a single day from the play-ground
of the school, where its kennel was; that it had been stolen he had not
the least doubt, as the collar round its neck had been taken off and left
behind. Since the morning the dog was lost he heard nothing of it
until he saw an advettisement In one of the newspapers offering a New-
foundland dog, answering the description, for sale, and on going to Mr.
Lang's premises, where the reference was made to, he there instantly
recognised his lost dog, the same now produced ; the dog was given to
him originally by a Mr. Pratt, who bred it.
Mr. Evans father, his brother, together with Mrs. Evans, and se.
veral of the pupils and ushers of the school, all swore in the most mai-
five manner to the identity of the dog, and the animal also seemed to
recognize most of the witnesses.
On the other hand Mr. Lang produced a host of witnesses, who swore
that the dog was brought up from Swansea to him, by the ship Jane of
that place, Captain Hooper, the latter having bred the dog, and sold it
to Mr. Lang in the month of July last, long before Mr. Evans lost his
dog ; and one witness, an old lady, said that she should know the dog
any where by its bark, for that it just barked like an elephant, and its
name, she said, Nebuchadnesser ; but Lang explained that she meant
Neptune.
Mrs. Evans said that the dog's name was Cesar, and it never was
called Neptune, and this Mr. Pratt, who bred the dog, also proved.
In the end the Magistrate said it was impossible for him to decide
on such conflicting evidence, and the dog, therefore, for the present re-
mains with Mr. Lang.
The dog appeared to recognize Mrs. Evans the moment she spoke,
and jumped towards her.
UNION•HALL.--Yesterday a pawnbroker named Wiwi, residing
in Bermondsey.street, was summoned on an information, for not speci-
fying the address and particulars on a duplicate of an article pledged
at his shop.
The informer's witness stated, that he pledged an article at the de.
fendant's shop, and that the shoprnan merely inquired his name, which
he put on the ticket, without specifying the address, or other particulars,
required by the Act.
The defendant's solicitor, after having taken several objections to the
information, all of which were overruled, then contended that the omis-
sion of the party's address on the duplicate could not be construed into
an offence, for there was no intention on the part of his client to commit
any; and it all originated in the mistake of the person who had takes
in the article. He expressed some surprise that the chief constable, who
was the nominal informer in the ease, should have mixed himself up
with characters such as common informers, who, it was obvious, did
not adopt those proceedings for the public good, but in order to put a
moiety of the penalty in their own pockets.
The chief mutable said, that he had received directions to look
closely after this description acmes, in consequence of several poor per.
sons having been cruelly plundered of their property by some of the
pawnbrokers. It was the practice of some of the trade merely to write
the name of the person who pledged an article on the duplicate, and
when it was to be redeemed, instead of getting the one pledged, the
owner was put off with some inferior article, and compelled to take it,
or go without ; whereas, if the ticket was written in the proper manner,
the public would be punted against such acts. He did not mean to
impute conduct such as that described to the whole trade, or to the de.
fendant ; but to some part of it.
The defendant was fined 40s. and come.
LAnstru-suntan.—A coosiderable_portlon of the time of the sit.
dog Magistrates of this ofilee, Messrs. lialDlllCa and WYaTT, was
occupied In hearing a case of hibernation preferred againsto one of the
Arm of Messrs. Nith Co oleen and coal-merchants, in es-streetost
the instance of one of the principal oases belonging to the Land Meters'
Office, at Guildhall, charging the defendant who obeeneting an °Meer
harming to that Mks in the discharge of his duty, fee which offence,
wider a dams in the Coal Act, be subjected himself to a penalty of 101.
Mr. Bullock, the barrister, and Mr. Newman, the City solicitor,
appeased far the prosecution, and Mr. Weoler for the defence.
liflr. Wools,, previous to the ease being entered on, took several legal
objections to the form of information, but they were all overruled by
Mr. Hardwick, and the use proemial with.
The brief facts are these. On the 15th of last month, a chaldron
of code was ordered from the deforest and his partners, to be sent to
the house of Capt. Langley, in Collettidete, Commercial-road. They
were accordingly sent, a 4 on their steival there, u the waggoner
was about to sheet them, a Mr. Bradfield, who described- ltint.
self is being tamely a coal merchant. recommended Ales. Langley to
IVq
the coals mound,. as he sespested the seeks did not contain the
uantity. Mrs. Isaglay, lieskoml being at sea, took Brad-
fie 's advice, and at his eiggeedin vests get • soder., to be served on
the vendors of the coals, gibs and a nog so the land meters'
oflice,requesting that a ma shield be slot to measure the goals in ques.
tion The fanner Brandi serval en the defendant, at his home, while
be lift the waggon of co* In doge of • pollees's., until be returned.
vavbi„,, a won bouvog to the Land blitee'rellse, deposed
that, in consequence of the nedoeises alluded so, be want to the re.
Adana of kits. Langley, so mast= a chalices sisals, mod as be hod
got through 22 masks of thew, the ddiedsot arrived, and expeettag
loan doubt as to whether es net he should seer be paid fee the soils,

insisted that no more of them should be measured, and desired the
goner to drive off, which he accordingly did. In the 22 sacks who,
he measured, he found a deficiency of seven bushels and a half.
The statement of this witness was corroborated by a policeman, *be
way present during the whole of the time.
Mr. Woolen, in defence, contended that his client had offered no ob.
struction to the meter, and that he had followed the coals, in conk,
quence of a communication which was made to him atter they had beta
sent out, to the effect that they never would be paid for, and not from
the notice which had been served on him by Mrs. Langley. To prove
this fact, he called a wiener,. named Davis, who sells coals on corona.
sion, and who stated that, on hearing that the defendant had lent a
eiutldmn of coals to a person named Langley, in the Commercial-road,
he went to his countlng.house and told him that be would never get paid
for them, an the party owed him a sum of money for sometime, and he
could not get It.
In his crow-examination by Mr. Bullock, the witness admitted
that Captain Langley, to whom the COWS were sent, was not the person
who owed him the money, but that, on the contrary, he was a most
respectable man.
Mr. Haapw Ica considered that a ease of obstruction, according to
the terms of the Act of Parliament, was clearly established. The im.
putation endeavoured to be cast upon the purchaser of the coals was
clearly an afterthought, and was in his opinion a considerable aggrava.
ti
on of the offence ; and under all circumstances, taking into consider.
lotion the gross deficiency in the measurement of the wale, he caw no
reason why the full penalty should not be enforced.
Mr. WYATT said he perfectly agreed in the sentiments expressed by
his colleague, and the defendant wan convicted in the penalty of 101.
and costs, which he immediately paid.
There was a second information against the waggoner, which, how.
ever, the prosecutors did not pre.s.