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London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

POLICE IihttLiGENCE.

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tegintent.niw statitiked; ai.thiXoweri With assaulting
several itiibris with Ihelr. drawn :barners.-41t appeared that a
female peens invoked 61: Rose .at .tltl34atker, on Sunday
night, ae",key'ratlierions went tp her asalsianCe. when Rose drekv
his hayoiie*: grkif swore that be woyld, use it if *Ay one daiEd
to ip-
peoseb-, 'APlCiattiin histenid to the italistaiice'of iorprak, and
also drew his tiaYixtet ; But the ine'reasingiturnhere;of the peace-
makers . forced the. soldlets to yield, and they
swere tike4l into 'cus-
tody. The Serjeant said that they had been. absent 7Mitsui leave,
and would nieet With '
severe punishment. They were, therefore,
'sent to be tried by martial law.

GUILDHALL..
William Zing, an able-bodied young fellow, was brought before
Sir PKTOIR LAURIC, charged with begging.
Mr. Simmons, of Duke-street, Aldgate, a Gentleman of the
Jewish persuasion, stated, that in passing through St. Paul's
Church-yard on Sunday evening he noticed the prisoner begging
with a child about eighteen months oltlin his arms. The prisoner
gave the child a pinch, which caused it to cry out piteously. The
child cried for itt mother, and as witness passed lie beard the fa-
ther use a disgusting term to the infant. lie watched him for 20
minutes, and whenever a decent person was approaching, the fellow
either pinched or shook the child to make it cry. A Gentleman
was feeling in his coat pockets to give the prisoder some alms, but
witness stepped up to him and related what he had observed, and
the prisoner was taken into custody. Three shilling and four pence
in loose copper was found on his person, al hough be had spent
enough of teat day's gains to make himself completely drunk.
The Alderman committed him to Bridewell for a month.
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Tkentas Smith, a deformed, dirty looking, little old man, was
charged with attempting to rob the hen house of Daniel Myeis,
Esq.& County ',%lagistrate, residing at Acton-squire.
it appeared, that Mr. Myers's hen house is erected within the
cow house, and tepeated attempts having been made
.to steal the
folds, a man-trap, of the homane kind (cakulated to catch a thief
without maiming him), was placed near the entrance. About
three o'clock on Thursday morning, Mr. Myers's valet was dis-
turbed by a tereible; uproar in the direct' of the cow house,
some unfortunate biped was roaring " ten thousand nmeders;"
while the cows were bcilowing—the dogs barking, and the fowls
cackling with the utmost vigour. The valet, armed with a pistol,
pioreeded to the cow house, and discovered the prisoner with one
of his legs in the man trap, with a sack by has stela, -which he ad-
mitted lie had brought to " put a few fowls in." He had pulled
&wit part of the lattice looking into the hen house.
Ile had nothing to say in his defence,and was committed to the
Douse of Correction ftr three months. _

A respectable looking man, a journeyman silversmith, was brought
ip by Dike, the officer, charged with unlawfully pawning twe small
silver salvers, the property of Mr. Smith, a silversmith, in Bedford-
bury.
Mr: Smith said, that the prisoner had worked fur him for some
time, and he was in the habit of giving him out articles of value to
take home to finish. A few days ago he give him two salvers, and
another article, to chase and p.olish, but he did not bring them back
at the appointed time, and witness, on applying at his lodgings, was
informed that he had been out getting drunk fur several nights
together. The witness found the prisoner drinking at a public-
house in Clare Market ; and the moment the latter saw him, he
confessed that he bad pawned the articles, and gave up the dupli-
cates for the salvers. The other, he said, he had left at a public.
house adjoining the Surrey Theatre.
Duke said, he had been to the public house named by the pti,
toner, but nothing had been left there by him.
A shopman of Messrs. Forrestall and Bird, pawnbrokers, in
Blackfriar's-road, produced the salvers, upon which he said 351._
had been advanced. _ _ _

Mr. Smith said, that the salvers were worth 10/. and he handed
them to Mr. Halls to sbew him that they were in an unfinished state.
He complaitad of the conduct of pawnbrokers in taking ankles of
that kind in such a state, observing, that robberies would be much
less frequent if more caution was exercised. Here the pawnbroker
had got 101. worth of property for 11. 15$. and if the prisonerhad
not been found, he (Mr. Smith) would never have discovered
where it was. •

Mr. HALLs said, the pawnbroker had acted very improperly.
Mr. Smith, in mercy to the prisoner, reduced his estimate ottlat
value of the salvers from 101. to 61. mod the prisoner was ordered
to pay 61. and a fins of 00s. which not being able to do, be was oeen•
mitred to the House of Correction for two months.

M A RLBOROUG H-STREET.
Just before the Jose of the Office, a gallant Colonel appeared
before Mr. Cotia:Nx and Mr. Roe, to shew cause why an order of
of affiliation should not be made on him by the parish officers of St.
George's, Hanover-square.
From what transpired, it appeared that the young Lady who now
sought relief for her child, is the daughter of highly respectable
persons residing in the vicinity of Kensington ; that about 18 months
since she and the gallant Colonel formed an attachment of a tender
nature, which ended by the young Lady leaving the protection of
her family for that of her admirer, with whom she subsequently co.l
habited, but from some cause they separated, and, from the female
being unable to keep the child, she applied to the parish for relief;
on the order being made out, she attended at the Office yesterday,,
but her feelings were so overpowered, that the instant she men-1
tinned the gallant Colonel, she was forced- to be taken out of the
Office, when she fainted away in the passage. From what couldbe
seen of b-r features from beneath her veil, she appeared to possess
considerable personal attractions. The deputy Overseer then stated
that the relief which they had bestowed amounted to 16s. 6d. that
the expense incurred in trotting after the gallant Colonel was 19s. 6d.
and that from his rank in life the parish would expect the sum of
ss. per week ; the various items were then sworn to, when the
Colonel paid the money, and ss. in advance.
Yesterday two juvenile thieves, well known to the Police, named
John Unborn and Henry Gerrard, whose united ages would scarcely
take one of them out of hes teens, were brought before Mr. Ros,
the sitting Magistrate, charged with picking a silk handkerchief
from a Gentleman's pocket the night before, in the street.—lt ap-
peared that the prosecutor and his wife were passing through High-
street, St. Giles's, about seven o'clock in the evening, when the
prosecutor felt a pull at his coat-skirt behind, and suddenly turning
round, saw Osborne withdrawing his band from the skirt, and ex-
tending i; towards the other prisoner, as if handing something to
him ; and at the same time the prosecutor missed his handkerchief
from hi. pocket. The prisoners then endeavoured to escape, but
were pursued without being lust sight of, and taken into custody,
when the handkerchief was found sander the jacket of the prisoner
Gerrard.

The Magistrate asked Osborne, who has been several times at
thi; office before, what he had to say to the charge?
lie replied h) a Total denial of his baying taken the handkerchief
at all, or knowing anything about ir, but the other prisoner ex-
claimed to him, " Why you know you picked the Gentleman's
pocket, and when you got the handkerchief out, you shoved it up
under my jacket.*
No, I didn't said Osborne. you took it yourself.
Why, you know, said Gerrard, when you were doing k I told
you you'd be cateied,"and you was.
Settle it between yososid the Magistrate, but you shall both
go before a Jury, and be committed them to Newgate to take
their trial.