Star.
London, England, 1829-01-22 00:00:00

110 W-ST EFT.

A respectable-looking man, followed by a crowd of persons,
yesterday entered the Other, and addresdng the Sitting Magistrate,
Mr. HALL% told hint that a female was in cu.tody on a charge of
murder and felony.
Mr. HALLS—lndeed, where Is she ? Who has her In custody?
—no applicant answered that the Constable in whose charge the
accused had been was gone away.
Mr. HALLS here la. prisoner, and who is her accuser?
A tall elderly woman, and a little pale. faced female, also in the
decline of life, here stepied forward. The latter said she was the
individual accused, and the former intimated that she was :be
accuser.

Mr. Hants—What is the charge? You speak very flippantly of
murder and felony.
The tall woman. who said bet name was Mrs. White, pr4ceeded
to date that, about ►is years ago, her husband re.ided in the house
of the accused, where he was taken ill, and the accii‘efl acted as
his nurse. During this illme•s Mr. White was induced by the ac-
cused and het husband to make a will in their fAv,,ur, After Which
he became suddenly worse, and died under clrcumstAnces which
led her to believe that foul means bad been resorted to.

The accused, whose name it appeared was acknow-
ledged that Mr. White had beque.thstl to her and MA husband all
his property, but she denied that any nie.ns whatever had beets
used to hastso his death.

Mr. natl.% asked who had administered to the will ?—Mrs.
Reynolds replied that her husband had.
Mr. 141.1.8—Where is he, is he forthcoming ?—Mrs. Reynolds
replied that he was dead some years.
Mr. Hants—lt appears, then, that the principal actor in the
business has gone to his great account. There seems, however,
to be no grounds for the charge now made, although, certainly, it
seemed to me.on a former occasion that poor Mrs. White had not
been fairly treated. There was one circumstance—an erasure in
the will—which raised in my mind something like a suspicion that
all was not fair.

A Mr. Mott, who stated that be was one of the executors to the
will, here came forward to assure the Magistrate that every thing
bad been conducted with the utmost fairness.

Mrs. White expregbed herself in no very polite terms of a very
different opinion.
Mr. flimu Awned that as the matter stood. he could not,
interfere.

Mrs. White said if she could not obtain juts ice from his Worship.
she would appeal to another quarter.—The partil then rcured.
IIATTON—GARDEN.

?Somas Waiker was charged with attempting to break into the
premises of Mr. Hopkinson. coachntaker, situated iu High Hol-
born. From the statement of a 'migrate watchn,an attached to the
establishment. it appeared that about two o'clock yesterday morn-
ing, he observed the prietmer dropping from an out.isouse belonging
to a Mr. Taylor, into the yard at the rear of Mr. Hopkinson 's
premises. He immediately alarmed the family. Mr. Hopkinson
and two of his clerks ran down stairs, and on proceeding to the
yard, discovered the prisoner concealed behind the water-butt.—
The prisoner was then taken to the watchhouse and searched, and
a complete set of home-breaking implements found upon him.—
He was committed to the Howse of Correction for three months.

M A RY—L 4 BON NE.
Yesterday, Maurice Harris was charged with having in his pas-
session a quantity of pewter and oilier articles, under the denomi-
nation of marine stores. Wrb.ter, the officer, stated, that the de-
fendant, yesterday morning, placed his cart apposite w a Mr. Hil-
ton's shop. and received from her a bag, filled with something, and
he placed it in pis cart. Webster immediately searched his cart,
and found one keg filled with metal, which had been melted in a
frying pan, and was of pewter pot quality.
Mr. Rawention required the defendant to show that all came
lawfully into his possession.
The defendant declared be hmaghtibe whole of Mrs. Moan, and
she was sent for. On her arrival she denied thatilse,sold bin any
thing but an old metal tea-pot and a few odd thltifs.
The Magistrate convicted him is the inidgetett
shillings and casts.
QUERN-SQUARE, • e.
Yesterday Jabs Field was charged by Irving with Laving Ogg*
two hates for sale. •
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Irving stated ibat the defendant came to him in the strait, and
offered the two bares for ss. a head.
DefendintZ—Your Wonhip, I bought them in Leadenball-inirlitti,
I gave es. for the two, but I did not know there was any harm
in selling them; I mold neater have sold a parcel of matches about
the street.

Mr. MA 1111110TT said the Act of Parllaisent was peremptory; and
the lowest penalty be could convict irt Was Ss per bead, or in de-
fault of payment, ten days' imprisonment.
The defendant being unable to pay the penalty, wee then locked-
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up, and his hares confiscated.
LA M HETMSTREET..
Tuesday sbonly after Mr. WYAT? had taken his eat,
&Jeri Flat:4,a miserable looking object, was charged with having
broken a large pane of glass in the Mee window.
Heaky, one of the officers, stated, that hi beard a loud crash,
as If caused by the breaking of glass, In the Outer yard ; be hurried
out, and found that one of the panes of glass in the window of the
Clerk's Office was broken. The prisoner, who was handing op.
pwite to it at the time, on his asking if he knew who it was that

crmmitted the offence, said that he himself was the person, on Week
he (Healey) took him into custody, and locked him up.
Tbe prisoner readily admitted his guilt, but said, distress and
famine had drove him to the act. lie bad not a single place to lay
his head ; be bad in vain applied to the pariish fur relief, and k
was with the intention of beng taken up, and securing a shelter,even
in a gaol, that he had broken the window.—He was, in charity,.
him,committed for one month to the House of Correction.
UNION HALL.
A Smasuam—Yesterday James Scott, a respectable looking mu.
was charged with the following offt nee :—Tbe preceding night the
prisoner went into the shop of a confectioner, whose none is M.
gan, in the Wa:wortls road, and purchased a penny plum bun, fee
which he tendered a shilling and received the change. Presently
afterwards be again entered and bought a tart, for *bleb be has.
wise offered a shilling and received the differet.ce. Having eaten
his tart he walked out, but was absent only about ten mi totes
when he again returned and purchased a biscuit, for which he ten.
dered a shilling, and the change was given him. Suspicion attache
ing to him that Al was not right, he was taken into custody, au
on elansining each of the abillisigs be had given they were all fib
to be counterfeit.—The prisoner was fully committed fur trial,