Star.
London, England, 1824-05-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Gettnnatr..--Jahn SroiA, an ill-favoured, muscular f,ilow, wal
charged before the Sitting iMagistrate with all :-,by
the house of Mr. Sherman, 27, Water-lane, 13!act:friars, wl:ith he
entered in the !riddle of the day, while Mrs. Sherman was eug.:ged
with some customers in the shop—ascended to the second floot,aed
!yid broken open every drawer, cupboard, &c. when he was diy
tufted by heating footsteps on the stairs. The wire of tete ul tie
Beacon-sallice firemen, who lodges in the house, came !tome (Tv.
tunely, met the prisoner tm the stairs with a bundle, and suspocnn
upon what errand he had been, courageously seized him by the wide,
and called out " A thief !" but he whirled her round and continued
his course down ,stirs. At the bottom, however, he etictiunterr4
Mrs. Sherman, and a Mrs. Steward, of ['rioter-street, Illackfriati,
and he struck at the former, but inimediatrty received so sever': a
blow from the latter, that he fell backwards on the stairs, and his
bundle of plunder was wrested from him. Other assistance le,;
then obtained, but it required the utmost exertions of Ave
duals (among them a 40w-street patrol aid Potter, the beadle; to
secure and convey him to the Compter. The ininithae strength and
the fury he exhibited were like those of a amerriac. The hutalle
taken from him contained a quantity of Mrs. Sherman's apparri ;
and ivory searching him, a silv..r cream-jug, tits property of tr!
complainant, was discovered in his hat. A watch was also found
in his possession, which he claimed as his father's. lie was com.
milted for trial. 'Me undaunted Anuaintian conduct of the women,
in contending with so lotmidablea rulArn, excited the admiration
of the Court.

DIA RV-LA.13,24Na OFFICE.YCStertlaty a ludicrous seem was ev,..
heated at this office by two persons of rise most eccentric and mi-
serable appearance, named Nut and Jingles Ridge, styling themselves
gentlemen, sons of an Irish namisier. They were charged by a
man named William Couch with proceeding, after the Irish nun-
' in r, to pull down his cottage, and destroy his property.
Some months since the defendants and their father presented
themselves in Portman-green, where Couch lived, and took a cotti:c
very close to hint. Since their visitation they had comiloaay Fein
the neighbourhood in an uproar, by causing the best ft-4111510
quarrel. Somehow or other, Couch having interfered in some attar,
the father of the defendants denounced hint, and notified throu;hut.:
the Green, that he as an Irish barrister would find means to shore
him off the ground, and accordingly corol•senced a wordy war neigh
poor Couch,who, unable to stand so pot: ;It assailant In profusion
of phrase and brilliant metaphor as an Iris:t barrister, Was obliges'
to adopt other measures to avoid cr ccantitract the anathemas dealt
out by Counsellor Ridge ; but was amazed on Saturday morning
last, when he was besieged in his little. dweding by the Counsellor
and his sons, who, without a w.lrti of explanati,n, procteued to
destroy his gatden, and tear down some sheds which contained
small stock of p sultry, which, by the falling hi of the roof, were
killed. Ile could not calmly look on and see his property thus
destroyed. and he most humbly asked one of the defendants the
meaning of this strange outrage? he was atisrered, " Arrah, my
honey, it will be nothing when you are used to it ; you know you
are a rogue, and tliat's euoagh, :,o says my father, the Coun-
sellor, to turn ytai out le ;ally." This would not do for him, and
he sent for Mr. John Griffiths, a respertahle Solicitor, win, al-lived
just as the defendants, assi3ted by their father and a group as
lawless as themselvzs, had unroofed the cottage, and destroyed all
his furniture.

Ur. Griffiths pro:tie:le put them to flight, but not before the
" Counsellor" had broken " a big stick" over Coudi's head ; ed oz
Mr. Griffiths making etoperies, it seemed a person named Harris
had let the ground to " Counsellor" Ridge. who was thus cleireg
it without having previously teauired whether Harris had any right
to sell it, which he had not, having no claim at all un the Lied.
For this outrage upon Crush's person and property, a warrant was
obtained against the family of the Ridges, and shortly after Thomas
Hooker, or this office, secured the two prisoners; but the " Coun-
sellor," who bad previously gime through the neiehtourbood de.
fying the Magistracy, and saying, from his practice at the " Ole
Bailey Bar," during tte years, he well knew the law, had, on hear-
ing that warrants were out egeinst him, disappeared, leaving his
sons to bear the effects of his folly.
The defendants, who were bath intoxicated, and who were net
sparing in their abuse of Couch, were unable to excuse themselves,
and were ordered to find good bail. They were eventually
up, and were taken to priein fur want of sureties.
Bow-Sra err— Mesta:: ERADk: COMI'A mons the watch-eoiee
prisoners brought before Mr. II ILLS yesterday morning, was a:all,
gaunt, bony, bushy.whiskered tailor, named Snail,
was charged with stealing a hat and a Hebrew grammar front use
Mr. Julius Rubensohn, a teacher of languages.
Mr. Itubensolue it seems went to the elasquerade in his own
character. a teacher of languages, having his Hebrew grammar with
him; tired with the sports, he retreated to a public-house at thf
corner of Charles-street; and after taking some refreshment ell
asleep, his hat and grammar standing beside him; on awaking he
found both were gone, and an okl bat substituted not worth two-
pence. He then sallied forth into the street, hatless as he was, and
made his loss known to Reid and Smith, two of the patrol belong-
ing to this Office, and then on duty in the Haymarket. They ad-
vised him to watch the masqueraders as they came out of the the-
atre, and they had no doubt be would find his hat upon the head
of one of them. He took their advice, and he had not watched
'more than ten minutes when he saw a masqued lady come out of
the theatre with his Hebrew grammar in her hand. " Pray, Ala-
data," raid Mr. Julius Rubensohn, " may I be so bold as to
where, when, and how you became possessed of that small Hebrew
grammar?"—" Hebrew grammar, is it !" replied the masque!
lady ; " why then I got it from that there tall gentleman in te,
greasy top coat." The tall gentleman in the greasy top cos:
was our prisoner—Mr. William Smith, who, eery unfortie-
nately for him, was just at that inuineut issuing from the
theatre with Air. Julius Itubensohn's chapeau on the top of
his knowledge-box. He was immediately charged with teo
theft, and though he was extremely indignant, and talked o:
actions for false imprisonment, and many other things too et.-
merous to mention, the patrol took the liberty of taking him into
custody. Upon searching him they found three pocket-hankerchiee
(one of which was a dark silk one, marked in the centre P. 1).), ore
pair of sharp-pointed scissors, a tailor's thimble, a lump of be.: -
wax, six needles of sorted sizes on a hit of red ceoth, and no motive
The searching over, they restored the I lebrew grammar and the
hat to Mr. Rubensohn, and took Alr. William Smith away to
the watch-house, with no other covetiee on his Carta than :13•
ture hail given it.
Mr. Rubensohn and the patrol having detailed these facts, the
Magistrates asked Mr. William Smith what he had to say is as
defence ; and lie replied thus:—" Faith, Sir, I know nothing at all
of the stealing, and I'll be ruined by this job. A Gentleman I Lao,
corned out of the Maskyrade, and giv'd me a ticket to go in, bacawe.
I'd never seen the like of one ; and while I was sitting on °tie ot
the sofys, with a spiel: and span new boa by the aide of me, a G,
denial; comes up to ow with that boo!: in his hand, and says ee
t;) me, How do ye do, Sir?' says lie. 6 you kititky, met
I hope you are the same,' says 1. • Do you %know that Gentle-
man ac is dancing so gaily in the great big hat ?' • Serely I do,' seys
I, ' he comes out of the City, from Pendy-beg.wulk, and I tieeit
lice of my own professien, by the manlier of him.' "lhea,' says
will you do me the favour to take this book to bite?' saes
lie ; and I did, but ['other gentleman weuldn't have it, and when /
went back to the sofy be was gone away with my new hat I tole
you of, and left me this, that all this bother's about, in the plate. at
it; and I wish I'd never gone to the maskyrade, iur VI! he ieeeel
by it, and that's all I have to say."
The Magistrate put some questions to him toechleg the IL:tali-et.
chiefs, and the &tie pair of sharp-pointed scissors, found by tite
officers in his pockets.
He replied that the scissors he used in his profession, as a tOet,
the old cotton handkerchiefs he had carried time cut of mind, ael
tee netu silk one he bought at .5... end-eyed somewhere about Nce •
port-market—but he did not 1:::ew that is was marked, and ta)
best of his belief it was not niolted tt all.—lie was committed for
further examination on Tuesd.iy ;lee:.

BIRTH.
Ye.terday, in Strattun-street, Lady Jane I'eel, of a dughter.

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