Star.
London, England, 1828-07-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.
I" Saturday a porter in the house of a chemist and druggist near
the Mansion House charged one of the Gentlemen of the estab-
lishmeot with having wrung him so violently by the neck, that he
thought his head was coming off.
The LORD Aaron asked whether no provocation had been given
to account for such an extraordinarract of violence?
The Porter—Not the least, except that 1 refused to go for his
►lippers.
The defendant stated that the porter, in the first place, was in
the habit of showing his independence in a very obnoxious manner,
by taking opportunities, when the defendant was engaged in business,
to act before strangers as if he was more than the equal of any of
the Gentlemen on the establishment. In t►e next, be never failed
to contradict the defendant before persons in the most offensive
manner. In the third place, he remained out of the house which
he ought to have remained at home to protect, until an unseasonable
boor; and, in the fourth place, he deserved punishment for some
petty thefts.
The Porter—Thefts! Who dares to say I committed thefts?
Defendant—My Lord, look at his head (the hair of the porter
was highly polished, and neatly divided) ; that bead of his costs his
miter a great deal more than the fellow is worth. Nothing will
do for him but otto of roses—(Laughter). The moment one of us
turns our back he runs to the Otto of roses, or eau de Co!ogne, and
covers his ugly head with it—(Load laughter).
The porter admitted that he did use a little perfume sometimes,
but then lie considered that a perquisite—CA laugh). Nobody could,
he said, call the liberty he took with the perfume a robbery.
The LORD Mayoe—That depends upon circumstances. You
won't tell me that a porter in drinking his master's wine while at
work in his cellar does not commit a theft. I say he does.
The defendant said that the otto of roses cost three pence a drop,
so that a porter could carry a great deal of it. The complainant
was unlike any other porter that ever lived—he was to be nosed a
mile off—(Laughter).
The Lotto Maros did not think that the offences of the porter
should have subjected him to a drubbing, and ordered the defend.
ant to be bound over to answer for, the assault.
GUILDHALL.

Mrs. Efisa Freiman*, otherwise Mrs. Elks Hawkins, a lady whose
personal conformation is precisely that of which Lord Byron has
recorded Ms hatred—via. the decidedly dumpy, underwent several
examinations at this office last week, on a charge of having taken
unto herself a second husband before bet first had departed this life.,
The charge was preferred by the aputleman on whom she last
bestowed her band and person—one Ir. Ethelred Hawkins, an
officer in the army, at least twice the height of the Lady, and per.
haps some ten years younger. He was moreover very muck em-
bittered against her, at least if we may judge front the tone and
terms of his evidence—" I married ibis women," said he, " on the
29th to May, in the year 1819, in the church of St. Andrew's,
Holborn, and I have since discovered that the cranium bad a hus-
band then living."
The Lady, on her part, began her response with a—" When f
married this fellow be had not a and no doubt a very edify-
ing recriminatory altercation would have ensued, had not the Ma-
gistrate nipp'd it in the bud, as it were, by peremptorily enjoining
them to be quiet.
Mr. Hawkins was then asked—" At the time you married her,
did she represent herself as a spinster?"
" Neither one nor the other,' replied Mr. Hawkins.
" What do you mean by neither one nor the other ?" asked the
Magistrate.
" Neither as spinster nor widow ; but she was married as a spin.
ster," replied, Mr. Hawkins. 41'
A marriage certificate was then put in, by which it appeared
that, in the year 1815, four years before she married Mr. Haw-
kins, she was married at St. Olive's, Southwark, to one Henry
Freeman, and several witnesses were called to prove that he was
alive at the time of her marriage with Mr. Hawkins. But they
could only prove that in the year ISIS she was living with a person
named Henry Freeman ; that she always passed as ins wi:e, by the
name, style, and title of " Mrs. Freeman," and that he, Mr. Free.
man, was alive in October I all, when, after a ling series of mis-
fortunes and ill health, he died in St. Thomas's Hospital.
As for the Lady herself, when asked by the Magistrate whether
she wished to say any thing in explanation—she replied that she
left it all to Air Solicitor) and her Solicitor boldly contended that
there was no mare. " You have not proved," said he, '• that the
Henry Freeman she was living with was the Henry Freiman
named in the certificate of marriage; and unless you prove that,
you prove nothing—tor it does not follow that, because she was
living with Henry Freeman as his wife, she must -Lc his wife."
Unfortunately for her, however, at subsequent examinations it
wag sworn that the signature " Henry Freeman," in the certifi-
cat.; was the sign-manual of the Henry Freeman with whom slit
lived; and upon that evidence she was on Saturday last fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial—to the great comfort of Lieutenant
Hawkins, her own great chagrin, and the considerable profit of her
Solicitor—who gave her great hopes of being able to " pull her
through it at the Old Bailey."
BO NV-STREET.

Saturday a man named Thomas Steluta was charged with having
attempted to murder his wile. It appeared that the prisoner, who
is a labouring gardener, had been for some time previous separated
from his wile, but happening to meet her on Saturday morning. in
Kensington Gravel Pits, they went into the Feather* public-house,
and sat there a considerable time drinking together. The prisoner,
however, feeling offended at some remark made by his wife, struck
. her on the bead with a knife, with which he had been cutting some
bread, and then attempted to plunge it into her breast... She, how.
ever, held up her hand to ward off the blow, and the blade of the
knik went through it. The woman Iva unable to attend. The
prisoner appeared very sorry for what had oc:urred, and said be
vias quite overcome with drink. He was remanded.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Edward Evans and Frederic* Turnley were charged with at-
tempting to commit a burglary. Symonds, a watchman, deposed,
that about twelve the preceding night, the servants of the home,
No. 14, Guildfard-place, Brunswick-Inoue, Informed him that the
adjoining house, No. 13, which was uninhabited, had been entered
by some persons. He called !Cereal of his brother watchmen, and
having mashed himself that persons were inside, he and some of his
rty went round to the back door, which they burst open and
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shed up stairs, having previously heard the sound of feet in that
rection, when two persons were seen to get upon the roof, whither
the watchmen pursued them, and after following them over the
roofs of several houses, apprehended Evans in the gutter of the
house No. 6, and Turnley was taken in the•upper room of the same
house, having forced the window, and thereby effected an entrance.
Turnley also in his flight leaped a distance of between twelve and
fourteen feet, from one house to another, without being hurt. Upon
the prisoners, and in the house No. 13, a quantity of housebreaking
implements were discovered ; fte witness and his party als6 found
that the grates of the drawing-rods of No. 13, were disturbed from
their situations; as were also the brass locks and nobs of the doors
bhlonging to the different apartments. The prisoners were com-
mitted to the House of Correction for three months. '
MA It LBOBOUG H-STREET.
• Saturday a market gardener, named..fas.E/slest, was charged with
cOnusitting a gross astray on Thomas Scott, coachman to Lieu.
tionant•General Slr IL 6.. Ferguson, Bart. M.P. It appeared that
on Friday evening Scott was returning home through Piccadilly,
from the residence of the Duke of St. Alban**. whete be bad left
Sir Roaald and his Lady, whets htwas met by the defendant, wbe
drove his cart with great vielenceogainst Sir itonald'scarriase,tand
the concussion was se great that the lamps and glasses were shat-
tared .to atoms. Scott alighted from Pis box with the intention of
stopping the defendant, and for that purpose seized hold' of the
horses had, and the defendant at the sate moment driving on-
' tit greater violence, Scott was thrown tender else tam, the whack
le Injured which passingiever his Lam and Johis him se severely
la t t he was carded home insensible, and still remains in a ptecs-
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dem wank A watchman, in attempting to soh) the prisoners wi

also Bogged severely.--The prleoner -was reseeded mil Scott
should be able to attend.
• M A RY-4.. A—BON NE. •
Saturday, a young who is in the service of a Gentleman
In George-street, Portman-square, wass charged with attempting
to violate the person of Rebecca Bond, ayoung girl- The prisoner
resides in the Gentleman's house in question, but his family reside
in a neighbouring street, where the complainant was engaged by
them as servant. On Monday afternoon the prisoner desired hrr
to carry his infant child to his master's, and when she arrived there
and bad taken the child up to his bed room, he endeavoured to
perpetrate the offence in question. He was cotninitted in default
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of bail.