Star.
London, England, 1828-09-27 00:00:00

HOW-STRRET.

Thomas Lewis Hanson, a medical student, was brought up
charged with endeavouring to pass a genuine M. note to a brothel
keeper, named Isaacs, rending in Eagle-court, who thought pro-
per to su•pect it Was a forgery, and on that presumption had the
Gcntlenion incarcertred all night. •
The to.te was pronounced by Sir IL Mama and Mr. Mtesuou.
to be genuine, and the constable was censured for taking the charge,.
It appeared that kin Hanson was "picked up" by a girl in the
Strand, about ten o'clock on the previous night. lig accom.
paned her home, and having no silver, gave the note itt question
to be chaneed. Mrs. Isaacs handed bins four sovereigns and a
pound's worth of silver, but in a moment utter Wards demanded to
have them restored to her, alleging that the note was a forgery.
Mr. Hanson limited her that it was genuine, but said if she, would
give him his note, he would return her bee moo-y. She then.
swore that if he would entrust her with the money, she would
give him back his note. its soon wish, got possession of the money.
she refused to give up the note, and thregtened to give him into
the custody of an othcer. She and the other kmak then flew upon
hint, and endeavoured to drag his watch from his pocket, in which
they were assisted. by Sarah Reynolds.* servant woman, who took
up a poker with intent to knock Mr. Hanson on the head. Bring
(bus uAai!cd, 31r. 11.1111011 ran to the window and called for help;
upon which a constable appeared and received him ip charge, for
indeasouring to pa's a (urged note.
Mr. AIIII4IHULL decbred that grosser conduct he had rarely heard.
of. It was a downright attempt to essb. He, however, Ordered_
the evidence, a. to the assault, to be taken. ..
A bookbinder, who resided in the email' and is subject to in-
creasing annoyance, stated that he observed the defendaut go up the.
court with a female, and said Labile. " that be would be rubbed if,
be went into Isaac's."

air. MINSUULL advised the bookbinder to indict the house, which.
he said he would do. The Magistrates then ordered Mrs. heats•
and Satab lieynoWs to nod bail, and they *err locked up in default
QUEEN-SQUARE.

Mr. Jahn Stahl was brOught up wider the following circum-
stances: The prosecutor, a respectable tradesman, who was lICCOOS.
pitied by his daughter, a genteel-Inn/dug young female, charged the
defendant with seducing bit daughter, and afterwards robbing her
of her property, and ,then sending her home to him in a state sof
pregnancy. Complainant's daughter waif residing with' her uncle
in Piccadilly, where she formed an acquaintance with -the prisoner,
and on the 10th of May lawhe gat her away. • Het family Wm.'
posed be.was married to her. They lived together for four months;
A few days ago he sent her home, since which time. sheleid ads:
carried. He took' a ring from her, and made away with most or
her clothes. Yesterday, on being questioned„she'eatifeseed she was
not married, Ind he tad the prisoner apprehended for thitfelony.'
WntraThe question is, whether:your:daughter may not-
* to blame ? a young woman of 2l ought to act with more caution.
Complainant:—'.He has arced abase part towirds my poor daughter,
even robbed her, after seducing het, and' then' iurninglier Istidy.•
Mr. Wl4llll asked the prisoner what he bad to say to:the eliatget
The pristoserl deny the charge of sedecing her ; I lived with her,
as the complainant states. but, with her own approbation; let het
deny it if she can. 1 endeavoured tnmake her comfortable as tat
as laid in my pottier, and it was at her own Wish chit she retimed
home to her parents. Is was. with: her wen cousins I pledged the
ring; together with pain, • things of; my own; to ray a debt. The
daughter did not utter a word in reply to.the prisoner. Mr.- Kurtz
—Do you mean to marry her? Prisoner--I du intend it. Mr.
Weirs—l hoprit may be se; there hi nothing is the case that
amounts to felony. The prisoner was discharged.
MA'll'ON—G A RDEN. '
•
Doted Archer was brought up tin a charge of stealing a clod mid
coat belonging to .fir. Andrew Tilt, a-Sutgeon, at Chichester-place.
The servant girl at the htorae stated,' that the prisoner came there
between eight and nine o'clock on 'Thursday tight, and gave her a
note, which he said was fur her .mater. The ptliemer told her he
.would wait for an answer; and while, the girt went to delivrr the
note be took the cloak and coat, which were hanging up in the
b4ll, and decamped with them. Ho was nursaed directly, and
wben.talten in Dray's Inn-lane she. iroperty. was found upon him.
The note had no direction upon it, but contained some frivolous
informatiert,"and was signed, fi S. ()elec." •
The'prisoner behaved very eiolently,orben apprehended, and in-
flicted several severe blows upon the pertonswho took him.
Archer, when asked if that was larealmaine, mid the Magistrate,
•(Mr.,LensG), that be should not answer hint-is be did' not wish to;
'be known, and he migfit find it out. The ptiaoner said nothing in
his defence, and was committed for trial at the neat Middlesex
Sessions. -
• WORS HI P- STREET. • • '

Yesterday two boys were charged with wilfully breaking an iron
fence. before the house of -.- bias Esq. of blington.—The blasts-
trate convicted the boys under the Act, in the penalty ni it beyond
the value of thq property, ore in default of payment, to two mouths
hard labour lb the House of Correction.
Aim Gripe, not quite eleven, years old, was fully committed for
trial, for stealing a sostieign nut of the box of Sarah Manners, ser-
vant to blr. Dean, of St. John's-street-road. Tite.prisonet was
employed to clean knives at her master'. house, and stole the key
of her box, front which he abstracted a auveteigtf, with which be
purchased some fulling tackle, and treated some boys to Cook'
Riding House. On searching him two half-crowns were fond,
and the rest he said hr had spent.

, LAMBETH—STREET.
Tvienty-eight miserable looking wretches, from the ages of sixty
to eleven years, were brought from the watchhouses of Sc. George's
and Whittchapel, charged with an act of vagrancy, in sleeping in
the fields. The ofiicets who apprehended them said, that on the
day. before, Mr. Ward, a Magistrate of the county, and an extra•
sive sbip-owner in Ratcliffe, called at the office, sod leaving his
card, requested that they would lend their assistance in clearing a
large brick-field of his, which was nightly infested by crowds of
ithe lowest vagrants who materially injured his property. In con-
sequence they went there on the preceding night, and found no
less than 120 persons lying among the brick kilns. Not wishing
to act harshly, they merely drove them away, but scarcely had the
officers turned their backs when they returned to their Old quarters,
and took up their former position. Finding them inetkrigible, the;
apprehended the 28 who were then before his Worship. They
were each examined separately, and no redeeming trait appearing
in any of their cases, 27 were committed to the 'House of Correction.