Star.
London, England, 1829-07-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.
Williams Jones and Joseph Doman were brought up for re-exami-
nation, before Sir Peter Laurie yesterday, on suspicion of having
stolen two silver spoons from the Rainbow Tavern, in Fleet-street.
They were remanded, that other tavern-keepers might have an op.
portunity of bringing charges against them, and that the prisoners
might produce witnesses to their character.—No fresh complaint
appeared.
Jones said he was a silk manufacturer, in business for himself,
In the Hackney road, and repeated his former declaration that be
was intoxicated at the time, and that before Gon, be was not con-
scious that he had put the spoon in his coat-pocket.
Dowman, who bad a gold watch, and three sovereigns about
him when apprehended, called his employer, Mr. Jones, of St.
Paul's Church yard, who testified that the prisoner was in his
service, and that he considered him incapable of committing such
a crime. At the same time he had no idea that he was a frequenter
of taverns.
Sir Peter Laurie said, it was possible that he might, as be bad
stated, sit next to a thief in a coffee hawse, and converse with him,
and yet not observe his actions; and as he was in employment
(which was not usually the case with persons brought before him
for felony), he should discharge him; but be would seriously ad-
vise him to leave off haunting taverns and public houses.
The charge against the other prisoner was so clearly established,
that be must commit him (or trial.

HATTON-GARDEN•

A boy named Francis Samuels, ten yens old, and diminutive of
hit age, was charged with violating a little girl, only five years of
age, his master'selaughter.
The mother of the child made the discovery on Saturday ; bear-
ing an unusualsnoise in tie parlour, she went softly in, and saw the
juvenile delinquent committing the offence. She took the little
girl to a surgeon immediately, who pronounced that she bad been
most seriously injured.
The boy, when questioned, said that he bad been induced to
commit the offence from seeing another lad abusing the child in the
same manner.

----Tb;iisgistrs--- te ordered him to be iinrisoned in the House of
Correction for one month, end to be soundly whipped.
An inquiry was ordered to be niade relative to the truth of the
bey's defence.
DIARY-LA-BONNE.

William Swain and Jane Swabey, man and wife. were yesterday
placed at the bar, before Mr. Hoskins, the presiding Magistrate,
charged on suspicion of stealing ten sovereigns and a large quantity
of plate, from a person of respectable appearance residing in Buck-
ingham-place' Mary-la-bonne.
It appears that the female prisoner was in the habit of assisting
the servant of the prosecutor in cleaning. On Saturday last the
twe prisoners knocked at the door. and the mistress being out, the
servant took them down into the kitchen where they waited
upwards of an boor, and best part of the time bad been left to
themselves. At length they left the house, and shortly after the
servant went to bed ; but upon rising in the morning discovered
that the drawers in the kitchen had been broken open. and the ar-
tides, to the amount of 301. stolen. She (the servant) was certain
that go one had entered the kitchen after the prisoners went out,
and they could not have entered the room without disturbing her.
Buckeridge, the officer of this establishment. searched the pri-
soners' lodgings, and found nothing whatever connected with the
robbery.
The prisoners denied all knowledge of the property.
Mr. Hoskins thought the evidence was nut sufficiently strong to
warrant him in detaining them. and therefore ordered them to be
discharged.