Star.
London, England, 1828-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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Ikl A NSION- HOUSE.
Georgs Draper, a Buckinghamshire man.was charged with.having
assaulted John Meadows. The complainant, who appeared with
his nectcloth covered with Mond. stated that as he was riding close
behind the Wandler coach; on Fish-street-hill, the prisoner, who
was driving a one-horse•cart, approaching him so closely, that he
re re nested him nor to shove him in upon the coach. The defendant
not the slightest attention to the request, but whipped on his
• . The complainant begged Varnestly• that he would permit
' to go on in the fine of cisaches, but the fellow persevered, and
shoved the complainant out of the line, so that he came in most
dangerous contact with the carriages which were passing the op-
posite way. Complainant, upon remonstrating with the defendant
upon such unworthy conduct, received a desperate lash across the
face from him, and was covered with blood in an instant, and on
seeing the blood he again lashed him more desperately across the
face and body, not attending to the loud and indignant observations
of those who were near him. A street-keeper, however, dragged
tke ruffian from the cart, brought him at once to the• Justice-room,
and sent his cart, which contained a good deal of property, to the
Green-yard. The complainant was bleeding profusely while he.
was making this statement. It was impossible to have resisted the,
defendant, so very dangerous was his situation. This testimony
was confirmed by a Gentleman who saw bow desperate and un-
provoked the assault was.
Alderman FAILIIIROII4IIIt a-ked the defendant, who is a big lub-
herly looking fellow, what he had to say in answer to this extraor-
dinary charge of brutality?—The defendant said, " Oh ! I shall be
ruined—both me and my family—l'll never do it again. Let me
have my cart—there's twenty pounds worth in it. Let me gc,,
and I'll never do so no more."

Alderman—l can't let y,•u go ; you have acted in the most cruel
and utile, ling manner, and you must find bail.—" Oh, dear! oh,
deaf !" said the great coward, crying, " What shall I do? I won't
lash nobody no more if you only let me go this once."
The Alderman said he was sure' that the defendant would. not
lash any' more, when there was danger of being detected and
punished; but his Worship rejoiced in locking up a fellow guilty-of
such cowardly baseness.—The defendant was then committed to
prison in default of bail.
Christopher Bennett was charged with having assaulted a young
Lady ill a very gross manner, at ten o'clock on Monday night, on
Fillostreet hill.

Mr. C. L. Phillips stated, that he was attending home to her
parents' house the young Lady, who was highly respectable, when
the defendant approached, and assaulted her in the grossest manner
pos..ihle.
Dafentlant—l deny the charge.

The young lady was then called forward. She very reluctantly
confirmed the evidence of the former witness.—Defendant. 1 deny
the charge.

Alderman Etamovueu said he regretted that Mr. Phillips had
not chastised the defendant on the spot, for the offence was 'even
more base and cowardly than the assault upon which he bad just
before decided.

i•lr. Phillips said, he was apprehensive of annoying the Lady
still niore by entiring into a personal conflict in the streets.
The Alderman—l wish he had received a good threshing ou the
spot. Although he is the bigger man. lam sure it would be easy
to beat him, for I never knew a man yet who was capable of such
conduct that was not an arrant coward.

The defendant 'was very anxious to have the matter arranged,
and as Mr. Phillips said, that as the young Lady would be hurt at
coming forward again, he thought it more advisable to forbear
prosecuting, if the def.tudatit consented to pay a sum of money to
a charity. Alderman FAlteaaoti,ea said, he could not be a party
to a compromise in such a case; and Mr. Hobler also highly dis-
approved of letting such a fellow escape with comparative im-
punity. The defendant was then ordered to fine bail, but was,
liberated, upon sending some money to a Charity.
Mr. Reeves, a pawnbroter in Reticross-street, Cripplegate, ap-
peared upon an information before Sir Jona Pzaanso yesterday,
fur demanding .Is. as the interest of a loan of 3s. for one year, when
the utmost he could lawfully claim was 9d.
Eliza Buckrridge, the wire of weaver in Bethnal-green,proved
that she pawned a cloak for 3a. on the 20th of August, 1827, and
on the 20th of August instant, when she applied to renew the
pledge for another year by paying the interest for the past, she ten-
dered 9J. but the lad in the shop, although cautioned he was
charging too much, persisted iu demanding ls. and " sniggered" at
her as she left the shop.
Air. Reeves said it was an unfortunate mistake on the pan of
his shopman, and he would submit to whatever penalty the Ma-
gistrate would inflict.

Sir Joux PRIMING fined him 40s. being the lowest penalty, and
`6s. costs, which the aefentlant immediately paid. .
Lnots, shopman to Mr. Morris, linen draper in Fleet-mar-
ket. was summoned before Sir Joni: Neatest by John Knight, for
passing a counterfeit half-sovereign to the complainant's wife.
Caroline Knight, a woman of respectable appearance, stated,
that she purchased some goods at Mr. Morris's, and gave a sovereign
to pay for them, and that the defendant gave her back some silver
•and a half-sovereign, which she pyre to her husband, who went
with the half-sovereign to a butcher's, who refused it as a bad one.
She went back with it to Mr. Morris, who refused to exchange it,
*and she summoned him for the amount before the Commissioners

of the Court of Requests, who left Mr. Morris to do as he liked
about-it. She had nu other half-sovereign at the time.
John Knight confirmed his wife's testimony. The haltoovereign
was never out of his sight at the butcher's.
Mr. Morris stated, that the complainant came to his shop the
next day and purchased a handkerchief, for which he paid with a
sovereign, and took the difference, without mentioning the half.
sovereign paid to his wife.
The complainant admitted this, and explained that this was ;after
his wife had received a refusal to her demand to have the money
change d, and that he had Concerted that she should come again
while he was in the shop to hear what am wee she got. —The caw
was dignissed.