Star.
London, England, 1821-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE.

Gutikuram..*Yesterday, Mary Williams and Ann
Gordon, whose previous exanainations have been be-
fore the Public, were brought up for a final hearing,
and fully committed to Newgate for trial. Mr. Boor-
man, whose attendance was expected, did not make
his appearance; he had, however, seen the lasses at
the Giltspiir-street Compter, and knew them directly
as the gills by whom he had been accosted in Skin-
ner-street, on the evening when he lost his pocket-
book ; he had al,o identified the £lO note of the Rye
Bank, found on Miss Williams, as his property. The
girls had probably seen, or heard of, the account in
the newspapers of their very dashing appearance, and
had in consequence altered their chess to the very
picture of neatness ; a plain Norwich shawl covered
the neat coloured gown of each of them, from which
every vestige of trimming had been removed ; their
bonnets no longer displayed either bows or feathers,
and their tout ensemble might have passed for a per-
sonification of demureness.
Jan Davis and Charles.llideson, the two lads who
were examined on Tuesday, on the charge of stealing
some wearing apparel • from a portmanteau in the
Southampton waggon, which the humanity of the
driver had afforded them rest and shelter in, were
again brought up. The owner of the portmanteau at-
tended and identified the property : he, however, ex-
pressed great unwillingness to prosecute ; he was
himself, he said, the father of a family, and could not
but feel for the youth of the prisoners, who, he hoped,
would take warning from the awful situation in
which they had placed themselves. The mother of
Hideson.was present, and gave her son a good cha-
racter, as well as his companion, whom she also knew
as an industrious lad. The prisoners, by their own
account; being tired of being out of employ, had ac-
companied a sailor lad to Portsmouth, with a view
of getting a birth on board ship, in which their com-
panioa was successful, but they knowing nothing of
the sea, were refused, and were making their way
back to London again, when the waggoner consented
to give them a lift on the road. They pleaded dis-
tress and hunger as the inducement to the offence
they had committed. Under these circumstances, the
Alderman permitted them to be discharged, after a
suitable admonition.
Bow•STßET.—Yesterday, John Elwyn Dickson, a
respectable-looking middle-aged man, was charged
' before the sitting Magistrate by Sir Mark Wood, Ba-
ronet, under the Statute of the 51 Gco. 111. cap. 63,
for fraudulently embezzling and applying to his own
use, a check for the sum of £5B. Os. 4d. which had
been intrusted to him for a special purpose.—Sir
Mark Wood stated, that the prisoner had formerly
been in his employment, as a sort of clerk; and since
he quitted his service,. he had employed him occa-
sionally in matters obusiness. On or about the 26th
of June last, witness gave him a check upon Messrs.
Hammersley and Co. his bankers, with directions to
get it cashed, and to pay the money to Smith and
Gell, his Attornies, in New Basingliall-street, for a
particular purpose. The money was paid to the de-
fendant at the banking-house, but he never paid it
over to Smith and Gell.. lie absconded, and witness
understood he had been dashing about, with one or
two women whom he had in keeping. A Police officer
had had a precious chace after him, but could never
find him.—The defendant began his answer to the
charge by stating, that he attended here voluntarily,
at the mere request of Sir Mark Wood. He was em-
ployed by the Baronet, at his seat at Gatten, from
March, 1818, to the same month in 1820, as a clerk ;
and subsequently he did business for him on various
occasions as an Attorney. Sir Mark had in June last
given instructions to Smith and Gen to tax the bill
of a Mr. Swan ; and on the 26th, the check in ques-
tion was given to him (the defendant) for the purpose
of being paid over to Smith and Gal as a portion of
that bill. The same day, however, it was intimated
to him by a letter, written, as he understood, by de-
sire of Sir Mark, that the latter had altered his mind
and would not have the bill taxed. He did not there-
fore pay the money to Smith and Gell. He certainly
received it, but theme was an unsettled account be-
tween him and Sir Mark for business done.—Sir M.
Wood denied that he owed the defendant a farthing,
and said he had never employed him as an Attorney ;
he never could have been such a blockhead as to
employ such a man as an Attorney.—The defendant
persisted in his story.—Sir Mark Wood said he had
the impudence of the very d-1 himself, for there
was not a word of truth in it!—Mr. MtxattuLLsaid,
it was clear that the defendant had applied the money
to his own use, and he must answer for it.—He was
ordered to find sureties, himself in £2OO, and two
responsible housekeepers in £lOO each, for his future
appearance, and was ordered to be detained until
those sureties were found.
John Elting ford anA Joseph Fair were charged
with being receivers of stolen goods. Davis and
Read, two of the patrol, in consequence of private in-
formation, went on Monday to the house No. 36, in
Well-street, Oxford-street, of which Ellingsworth
was the owner, and Fair the occupier. They there
found concealed in a cellar, a large quantity of brass,
pewter, copper, and other metals, and several large
chests of candles. Davis left the house for some lit-
tle time, and while he was gone, Ellingsworth, his
wife, and some other women, knocked otf the lids of
the chests, and threw the candles about the floor.
—They broke the greater part of them, and en-
deavoured all they could to destroy my marks •by
which the goods could be identified.—Mr. Smith, of
Cambridge, attended as the executor of his late bro-
ther, who was a tallow-chandler in Red Lion-street,
and identified one of the candle-chests as his pro-
perty. _ He stated, that soon after he took possession
of the concern in Red Lion-street, which was very
extensive, several chests of candies were stolen from
the warehouse, and he received information from
a Mr. Eaton, who was formerly clerk to his deceased
brother, that some of the stolen goods had been
offered to him for sale,"and that he could introduce
to him a person who knew an about the matter.—