Star.
London, England, 1817-10-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET —Since the robbery of Mr. Winter's
house in Bury-street, St. James's, of a silver tea-pot
and other articles by means of a maa going to the
house early in the morning, under pretence of taking
a letter which required an answer, Donaldson, Maid-
ment, and others of the constables have been much
on the alert to discover the depredators who have
been carrying on their depredations in a similar way.
Information was received at the Office with a full
description cf the villeins' persons, and on Sunday.
in co.usequence of information received; Maidment
went to an oyster shop in Wych street; where he
'found in a rolm on the firbt floor two well-known
characters of the names of John Jotliere and Wain
Nofikinr, who were suspected to be the perpetrators
of the above climes; he proceeded to search Jackson,
and while he was doing that he observed Hopkins
taking It tters and papers out of his pockets and
forcing them into the fire; he, however, succeeded in
rescuing some which pr Deed to be pretended letters
directed to different persons to enable them to com-
mit robberies in parlours and passages where they
gained admittance under pretence of waiting for an-
swers. Also a paper with a list of names and their
residences, whose houses were to be plundered, with
a book containing the residences of respectable per-
sons. Sarah Dick, a servant to Mr. Thomas Hall,

of Howard-street, in the Strand, stated, that about a
quarter before eight o'clock, last Tuesday morning,
the prisoner Jackson knocked at her master's house,
and inquired if her master was stirring ; on her in-
forming him he was not, he gave her a letter directed
to him, and the prisoner said he would wait for an
answer. Sne took the.letter up stairs to her master,
and on her return the plisoner had left the house, and
she missed a silver tankard from the parlour, and a
new great coat and hat of her master's from the pas-
sage. Mr. H.ll attended, and stated, that the letter
purported to be written by Mr. Robinson, of Half
Moon street; on his calling upon Mr. Robinson, it
proved to be a fabrication. The female servant of
Mr. Hunter, of Compton-street, Brunswick-square,
identified the prisoner Jackson, as entering her mas—
ter's house, under a similar pretence, and stealing a
silver tea-pot and stand, with several spoons, which
were on the table ready fur breakfast. Sarah New-
ton, the daughter (4 Mr. Newton, .of. Devonshire-
street, Queen-square, identified the same primer, as
having st len let I and le,dger's great coats.
Two female servants of Mr. Monk, the stock.broker,
in Guildford-street, identified the prisoner Hopkins to
the ben of their belief, as having robbed their mas-
ter's house while he was at breakfast by similar means.
They were committed far another examination.
Mn —lt was stated yesterday
that a m st extraordinary affair happened at Mr.
Br..okes'S, the Theatre cf Anatomy, Blenheim-street.

On Sunday evening a min having been delivered
there as a subject, (a techuical term :or a dead man
fur clisiection), in a sack, who, when in the act of
being rolled down the steps to the vaults. turned out
to be. alive, and was conveyed, in a state of nudity,
to Si. James's watch-house. Curiosity had led matiy
hundreds of persons to the watce.house, and it was
with difficulty the re/ject could be conveyed to this
Office, where there was els° a peat assemblage. The
subject at length arrived. It: stated his name to be
Robert Mown, by trade a smith. John Bottowsks. a
hackney coachman, was also charged with having
delivered Morgan, tied up ip the sack. The rubjict
appeared in the sack in the same way in which he
was taken. with this difference, that koles had been
made to let his arms through. The evidence of Mr.
Brooks afforded much merriment. He stated, that
on Sunday evening, soon after seven o'clock, his ser-
vant informed him, through the medium of a pupil,
that a coachman had called to inquire if he wanted a
8180 ed. from Chapman, a notorious resurrection-man.
Mr. B. agreed to have it, and in about five minutes
after a coach was driven ep to the door, and a man,
answering the description of Bottontley, brought Mor-
gan in a sack as a dead body, laid him in the pas-
sage, at the top of the kitchen-steps, and walked away
without taking any lurther notice. On Hattie, wit-
ness's servant, taking hold of the isbjess's feet, which
protruded through the bottom of the sack, he felt
them warm, and that the reljecf was alive. Here the
prisoner, Morgan, who seemed to have enjoyed the
narrative with others, burst out into a fit of laughter.
Mr. Buanowes, the Magistrate—" Is it usual, Mr.
Brookes, when you receives subjegt, to have any con-
versation with the parties who deliver it 1"
Mr. 8r00ke5....." Sometimes; but dead bodies are
frequently left, and I recompense the procurers at
my bluster e."
Mr. Brookes resumed his evidence, and stated that
. he put his foot upon the sack, upon being called by
bis servant, and kicked it down two steps, when the
"lied called out. " I Am alive," and forcing half his
naked body out of the -sack, threw the whnle house
into alarm (here the relyter again laughed heartily).
Conceiving that the prisoner's intent was conceal-
;rent for the purpose of introducing others to corn-
mit ealony, witness armed himself with the bar of a
shutter; one of his pupils brought a poker, and gave
his weapon to another man in the house, whilst he
dew up stairs for his pistols, which were unloaded ;
but the prisoner seemed inclined to resist, and witness
said to bim, resign. or I'll shoot you like a bug,
and thin dissect you in five minutes." A Constable
was seat for, and the :Object was. taken to the watch-
house. He denied any knowledge of bow he came
there, and said he bad, been made very drunk. Af-
ter Mr. Brookes had returned from the watch-house,
to enter the charge against Morgan, he saw Bottom.
ley loitering about the street, and on scrutinizing his
dress, it answered that of the person who had left
Morgan there. There was another hackney-coach-
man with Bottounley: Mr. Brookes's testimony was
corroborated by Mr. Salmon, one of his pupils, and
by Henry Harris, his servant. The latter was con-
fronted. with Bottomley; and he believed him to be
the man who hod left Morgan.
• Mr. Brookes's footmen gave, the lime account of
the tfessaattion:
In defence, Morgan' said, that he hid returned
from 'Millington, Middlesex, on Sunday. where be
&ad been three days at work ; that he bad drank
freely on the road to Logdoe. He came through
Westminster and the Park; and in Ozford-street a
ma picked him up, and made him so drunk that he
entirely lost his senses, and bad no reeoUectioa until
ha awake EMI his ItePOC at 24r. Brookes's.. Ho

had no wrong intention, and he had lost Ss. and
some apparel.
Mr. Brookes stated, and he was confirmed in it
that the man was not drunk when at his house, and
the manner of his extricating himself from the sack,
clearly demonstrated it.
Bottomley, in his defence, denied all knowledge of
Morgan. He drove 'the hackney.coach, No. 1082,
for Mr. Warr, of Leather-lane, and he had been four
years in his service. He had a holiday on Sunday,
and went to see his friends. • He retuned from Pad-
dington with Smart, another coachman, and they
called at a watesing-house in Oxford street.
This public-house, Morgan had said its the.watch-
house, he had a faint recollection of.
The MAcnsTaare said, this was a case which had
excited much public curiosity and interest. He could
do no other than remand the prisoners for a week, to
enable mere evidence to be got at, and to give an
opportunity of finding the Oxford-street landlord,
and to examine Bottoinley's master as to the truth
of his story. Felony or murder might be the ob.
jest of the parties. Remanded till next Monday.
UNION-HALL.—Several families in the neighbour-
hood of Wandsworth, Brixton, &c. have lately been
defrauded of articles of plate, Btc. by a young woman
representing herself to be servant to certain friends of
the parties to whom she applied, that they were
about to have parties, and requesting the loan of
plate, &c. On Thursday she applied to a Mrs. Field,
of Brixton-place, requesting to borrow a dozen table
and dessert spoons; but Mrs. Field suspecting a trick,
sent her under the care of her gardener to a Mrs.
9 Child of Stockwell, who had been defrauded of 12
.
silver spoons in this manner, who immediately re-
cognized her, and she was given in charge of a Con.
stable. Yesterday she was brought to the Office,
when sever al pawnbrokers, with whom she had pledg-
ed plate, identified her. In addition to the evidence
of Mrs. Child aforementioned, was that of Mrs. Dow.
son, of Acre-lane, of whom she obtained six dessert
and a gravy spoon; and Mrs. Desborough, of Wands-
worth-road, whom she had defrauded of a dozen sil-
ver table spoons. These last she had pledged with
a pawn-broker in Fleet-market. The prisoner, who
does not appear to be above 17, was remanded.

Hawn& Occunance. —During the last two or
three week persons passing along a road near Pelynt,
Cornwall, were annoyed by an offensive smell that
appeared to proceed from a field adjoining; but the
Cause was nut sought after until Friday last, when in
an unfrequented corner, a person discovered what
appeared the manglcd carcase of a calf; but on a
nearer approach it proved to be the headless trunk of
a human being. Hoiror-struck at the sight, the per-
son gave the alarm, and several individuals hurried
to the spot. The body, which was half devoured,
appeared to be that of a man ; and soon after the
head was discovered at some distance in a very mu-
tilated state; the whoie was highly putrid. Tattered
remains of clothing were found on tire body, amongst
which was pert of a woollen frock, such as is worn
by stream-tinners there was also found near a small
bundle, containiog some articles of apparel, which
might be supposed to belong to such a person ; but
nothing appeared that could lead to a discovery of
the (Lane or residence of the unfortuove owner. A
fiat er used for horses was film,' tied to the stump of
a tree, not above two feet from die ground. In this
situation the body becoming putrid, was discovered
and torn by pigs, which had access to the field it is
supposed that it was by the efforts of these animals
to tear their prey that the head was separated from
the body. The whole that has yet been learned of
this wretched being is, that about six weeks sin:e a
man, who had the appearance of a miner, came to
the house of Mr. NoaTHcoTT, a respectable farmer,
to whom die field (where the body was found) be-
longs, and said that be was in seams) of employment;
he was invited to eat, but be said he should take no
more in this world, and left the house dejected. The
same day a halter was missed from the stable, but
no idea was entertained of its being stolen. An In-
quest has been held on the body, but it did not clearly
appear how the deceased came by his death. The
body has been interred in a proper manner.
MUnDltn.—At Plymouth, it few days since, J.
Green, attendant on the bit which conveys the Cor-
nish Mail to Torpoint, and liebecca Smith, wile of
G. Smith, a rigger in the Dock-yard, met at the
Lion and Anchor, in Cherry-garden-street. After
drinking a pint of beer, Green called for another, re.
questing the landlady Li warm a ?lass o. it for the
female, whose mouth was sore. '1 bey sat in a back
parleur, with the duor open to the passage, appa-
rently on die most amicable terms. Soon afterwards
Smith left the room, and returned again ; when
Green went to the tap-room fire, lighted his pipe,
and rejoined her in the same apartment. In about a
quarter of an hour the landlady (Sarah Coats) saw
Smith coming to the bar, moving her lips as if en.
deavouring to speak, though unable so to do, while
blood flowed profusely from her throat. Mrs. Coats
instantly called for assistance, and having seated
Smith in a chair, under the care of another woman;
hastened in search of a Surgeon. In the mean time
the landlord ran to. the back room, the door of which
was still open, where he discovered Green %iping the
blood from his face and hands. The landlord ex.
claimed, ,f What have you been doing ?" Green
replied. She attempted to cut my threat, and I
have cut her's." He was then conveyed to the
Town-Hall prison. The Surgcon. on examining
Smith, found there was no chance of saving her life.
A case knife. dyed with gore, was discovered secret-
ed under siime shavings in the apartment where they
had been sitting.. G. Smith, husband of the deceas-
ed, stated, that she eloped with Green a year and a
half since, leaving behind her two children ; and had
cohabited with him in Ireland until two months pre-
ceding this event, when she entreated permission to
return to her children, to which he consented. Soon
alter •Green made his appearance, and being fre-
quently sea loitering about the door. was desired so
abstain Irons such conduct. Mrs. Wilson, living in
a room adjoining that occupied by the deceased, said
that, in an interview she witnessed between the pri.
soner and the deceased, the latter said to the former,
" Jack Green, you mean nothing, but to murder me."
To which he answered, " I value not my own life,
but I don't wish to hurt you." tiba then requested
that he would never spin VOW IMO pa per,
which be promised. The Corona's Jen/ brought in
a verdict of Wilful Murder, and be was nutted
to Fame poi..

there, and said he bad, been made very drunk. Af- A case knife. dyed with gore, was discovered secret- Yesterday morning, as a porter wo
ter Mr. Brookes had returned from the wptch-lieuse, ed under vine shavings in !he apartment where they Warwick-lane, baying a heavy basket
to enter the charge against Morgan, he saw Bottom- had been sitting. G. Smith, husband of the deceas- on his head, and smoking a short pi]
ley loitering about the street, and on scrutinizing his ed, stated, that she eloped with Green a year and a passing by a cart the horse which was
dress, it answered that of the person who had left half since, leaving behind her two children ; and had turned round its head of a sudden, st
Morgan there. There was another hackney-coach- cohabited with him in Ireland until two months pre- man across theface, and drove the shs
man with Bottomley. Mr. Brookes's testimony was ceding this event, when she entreated permission to through his left check near his ear.
Corroborated by Mr. Salmon, one of his pupils, and return to her children, to which he consented. Soon Yesterday afternoon, as a groom he]
by Beery Harris, his servant. The latter was con- alter •Green made his appearance, and being It,. ROBILAT Runner:, ,isf Vauxhall, was
fronted. with Bottomley; and he believed him to be quently seen loitering about the door, was desired to, high .spirited horse belonging to his
the man who hod left Morgan. abstain from such conduct. Mrs. Wilson, living us from Kennington Cross, the animal to
Mr. Brookes's footasan gave• their account of a room adjoining that occupied by the deceased, said became quite unmanageable ;on the
the transaction: that, in an interview she witnessed between the pri- ping and curbing him up, he reared, a
jt Mown said, 'that he had returned soner and the deceased, the latter said to the former, dart, and jumped clean through a large
defenee,
from TedSint bliadltk, on Sunday, where he er Jack Green, you mean nothing but to murder me." into the shop of Mr.. Tait, baker ne
lad been th codays ot work that he bad drank To which he answered, if I value not my own life, Prince, in Princes-street, KenninvOn C
&he then requested animal was in the act of leaping in, the
freely on the road to London. He came through but I don't wish to hurt you."
and fortunately escaped n
Westminster and the Park; and in Oxford-street a that he would never again come into her premolar, of "ad,
enaq picked him up, and made him so drunk that be which be promised. The Coroner's Joey brought in likewise the persona who
.at in th
entirely lost his senses, and had no recollection until a verdict of Wilful Murder, and he was egiumitted. whole the window
woo
slut
he .awoke twin his mutat at jair. Brookes's.. H..to Easter gad.
Hay little damage was done to any thi