Star.
London, England, 1826-05-30 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, a masculine figure, named Betty Angus, better known
by the appellation of Bet she out-ani-ester, was brought before the
sitting Magistrate, charged with the following singular felony:
Mr White, whs is what is termed a blacker, was the prosecu-
tor. He said, that he had lately purchased one of Vin reufs
hanistals the finest ores as ever stood; but it having gone dead
, lame and being attacked with sundry other Incurable diseases,
Mr. Villoread bad consigned it to the dogs. lie had deprived it of
its tail and mane, the hair of which was very fine, and somewhat
' valuable, and had placed it in bags, in order that he might dis-
pose of it to the best advantage. The beast was subsequently
slaughtered ; and a day or two ago, he missed several pieces of the
flesh from the yard, besides the bag containing the hair. The pri-
goner was suspected of purloining the property, and upon that sus-
picion, he had obtained a warrant, at this office, to search her resi-
dence in Sharp's-alley ; when, in the cellar, the officers found a bag,
in which was some fine horse hair, and a large piece of unboiled'
horse-flesh, which he strongly suspected tobe his property.
Shoisvaave—Prisoner, how do yeu get your living?
Prisoner—How do I get my living— Vy I deals in horse flesh.
Macisrears—How do you dispose of the flesh?
Prisoner—l cuts it up, and sells it in haperths to the eats.
BIACISTIPATZ—WeII, how do you account for the bag, &c. being
found in the cellar?

Prisoner, (in a manly voice)—Vy a fellow asked me to let him
leave it there for ten minutes, but he never came back again.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination.
QUEEN SQUARE.

T. B. Hatton, Esq. Land Surveyor, who resides in Darling.
place, Vauxhall, came before the Sitting Magistrates (Mr. Gamin.
am and Mr. WHIT!), charging two men, named .Tokns and Wkifficid,
with throwing a green glass bottle from the gallery to the pit, and
thus Inflicting a severe wound upon his forehead, at Astky's Am-
phitheatre.
Mr. flatten now deposed, that he was bitting on the second seat
in the pit, on Saturday night, close to the ride, when, about the
middle of the afterplece, a bottle fell down upon his head, he be-
lieved from the gallery. The bottle cut him severely, and his head
then bled profusely; and the Surgeon had charged ten shillings for
bandaging and dressing the wound. The complainant's hat was cut
through; and, but for that, his skull might have been fractured, and
his life lost.

William Hall, one of the officers, who took the prisoner Johns
into his custody, now deposed, that he was in the pit, at Astley's,
where he saw the complainant bleeding. He went iustantly up
into the gallery, where he saw Johns standing up, and challenged
him with throwing the bottle down into the pit. Johns replied,
" Then it's my partner, for I had no bottle;" and, on looking round,
witness saw that Whitfield was of. Witness then searched Johns,
who confessed that he had bought a bottle of rum near the Marsh
Gate, and a broken glass was found in his pocket.
The prisoner Johns averred that he never threw the bottle, but
admitted that Whitfield, who bad since surrendered himself, had
the bottle in his hand, while himself held the glass.
Whitfield and Johns persisted in saying that the bottle fell into
the pit accidentally ; and Mr. Hatton, at length, consented to a
compromise.
Mr. Gartiosta—Well, be it so; but I certainly have no proof
before me that the dropping of the bottle, which might have cost
Mr. Hatton his life, was accidental. I hope, Withheld and Johns,
that in future you will not carry bottles of liquor to the Theatre,
and there get drunk:
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Whitfield and his companion both promised in future to remetn.
bet. the Magistrate's caution.