Star.
London, England, 1829-08-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

MANSION-HOUSE.
Saturday CkristopWr Young, brother to Mr. Young, one of the
partners in the City of London Tavern, was charged with having
waited in ambush armed with a carving knife, for the purpose of
stabbing his brother. The complainant stated that the defendant
had of late entertained the most horrible aversion towards him,
and sought opportunities of putting him out of the world. On the
preceding day the defendant approached, thrust his hand into his
breast, and advanced towards him, evidently with the intention of
dispatching him. Sapwell, the officer, said that the defendant bad
firmly grasped in his hand a new carving knife, extremely sharp,
and pointed finely. The defendant expressed his regret that be bad
not stabbed his brother to the heart. Mr. Young produced a letter
which the defendant had written to their sister, in which he in-
formed her that he bad sharpened the carving knife, for the pur-
pose of stabbing him (complainant) to the heart. The defendant
had an animosity, he said, towards his brother, in consequence of
his mother's heart having been broken by him, and he sought sa-
tisfaction for this most dreadful of injuries.
The Loan Msvoa asked in what manner the mother of these
young men bad died?
The prisoner said, his father, on his wedding day, presented his
mother with a likeness of himself, and about three months before
her death he took it front her in an angry moment, and hung it up
in 'the complainant's parlour, so that she might see it every time
she entered the room. This was a cruelty which had been sug
gested by the complainant, and his mother could not endure it. She
pined away and died, and her death had made him almost frantic.
Mr. Young said that this •indication was for the most part
groundless. There never had been any cruelty used towards her,
The Loan M*voa—Do you think the prisoner is in his senses?
:10. Young—Perfectly so. I know that he will, if not biked
up, destroy my life. He is perfectly rational, except in his abhor-
rence of me. He had pistols with hint on the day of my father's
funeral, and he intended to shoot me, so that 1 might fall into the
grave of my father. He has taken poison twice, and is afraid of
nothing.—He was ordered to find bail in the sum of 200 L

BOW—STREET.
Tilt LATZ AFFAIR 11$FIC11/10 Ma. Couture's FAMILY an.
Ma. Famscu.—Mr. French, the barrister, and Mr. Riley, the late
Secretary of Mr. William Cobbett, of Kensington, the political
writer, came before Mr. Hasse on Saterday, and applied for a
warrant against Mrs. Cobbett.
Mr. Riley, who is about 30 years of age, said, " I apply for a
warrant against Mrs. Ann Cobbett, the wife of the celebrated
political writer, for an offence of a must serious nature ; she has
charged me with being in the practice of a crime of so heinous a
nature that, in my mind, murder is not equally shocking. I have
Mr. French here as my witness, and he will prove to you the
dreadful Imputations which have been uttered against my reputation
as a man."
Mr. Hau.s—What can Ido with your injured reputation? If
she has slandered you, the Courts of Law are open, and there you
may have your remedy, which Mr. French might have informed
you • for he must know, I should think, that I could not take cog-
nizance of such a charge. You must apply to your attorney, if she
has committed an set of defamation.
Mr. Riley—l thought you could have proceeded summarily in
the affair l Mr. French has already been beaten fur his interference
in the transaction.
Mr. HALLs—I have no summary jurisdiction in such cases.
Mr. French—Why, Sir, it is a hanging matter, if Mr. Riley be
guilty of the offence imputed to him.
Mr. Hams—Hanging, did you say, Mr. French—what, by the
head or by the heels?—(laughter.)
Mr. Rostesox (a County Magistrate, who was sitting on the
Bench)—You are a Barrister, I believe, Mr. French?
Mr. French—Yes, I am.
Mr. Rozutsos—Then, Sir, you ought to know that a Magistrate
has no jurisdiction in a case of 'tinder.
Mr. French—That is an impittinent observation to me, whoat-
tend here as a witness. _ _

Mr. Roansom—As a Barrister, I say again, you ought to know
that we have not jurisdiction.
Mr. French—And pray, Sir, are you. as a Barrister, acquainted
with the whole compass of the law? what do you think, for in.
stance, of the law of real property?
Mr. Romxsom—You do not act with propriety, Sir.
Mr. French—You make a very impertinent observation to me,
Sir; and if I were to ask yon the meaning of a conditional limita-
tion, and how it differed from a contingent remainder, I doubt if
you could tell me--(Bursts of laughter).
Mr. Haus here interrupted the conversation.
Mr. French—One Banister should not boast over another of his
knowledge of a particular branch of the law.
Mr. Hare—l'll hear no mere of this; clear the office, gaoler.
Mr. French—l doubt whether you have a right to remove me,
as a Barrister, from the Court.
Mr. French and Mr. Riley retired from the Office in high
dudgeon.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Saturday three young men named friWINN tuts, a blacksmith,
John &whet*, a boot closer, and Henry , a tailor, were
brought before the Sitting Magistrate, charged with the singular
robbery of stealing three geese and a " pair of stays."
It appeared, that about five o'clock in the morning, a watchman
at' liammenmith took the prisoners into custody just as they had ,
crossed along the Suspension-bridge, but before he could secure
them; they flung, in their attempt to escape, a sack which they car.
tied into a neighbouring ditch, and on examining the sack, it was
found to contain three large geese, minus their heads, and a pair
of stays.
Dlr. Halt, a farmer, residing at Barnes Common, stated, that
the three geese now produced belonged to him, and had been Left
safe the night before with seven others in his goose-house at Barnes
Common, but in the morning it was found that these three had
disappeared, leaving their heads behind them
Mrs. Lawrence, a respectable elderly lady, reacting, /len l!t
Barnes Common, said that the pair of stays produced were her
property, and had been left for tit airing out in her garden the night
before, and in the morning they were gone, but how they hap-
pened to get into company with Mr. liak's geese she could not
for the life of her tell.
The prisoners, in their defence, said that they knew nothing
whatever about how the stays or the geese (not even the tailor) got
away from their owners. The fact, they said, was, that instead of
going tome to bed the night before, they all three agreed to go and
see the new Suspension-bridge at Hammersmith, which they held
never seen, so they started at about one o'clock, and got to the
bridge about five in the morning, and while they were standing
near the bridge admiring its structure, and watching the progress
of the rising sun, for it was a beautiful morning, one of them (the
tailor) kicked his foot accidentally against a goose on the road, and
stooping down be picked up the three dead geese ; in a minute pr
two after another of them kicked against the pair of stays, sad he
picked them trp, and while walking on the bridge they saw the
sack lying on the ground, and they picked that up too, and put the
geese and the stays into it, and soon after the watchman came up
and stopped them; and the reason they threw the sack away in the
ditch was, that they knew the things did not belong to them, and
that they might be suspected of stealing them.
.Upon my word, said the Magistrate, that is a most clear and
satisfactory account of the affair. So it took you from one o'clock
until five, that is four hours, to walk from town to Hammersmith
Bridge, and just as you got there, you were so lucky as to find
these things on the road; however, you must try your luck with •
this /tory before a Jury.
One of the tall-col actors on the Suspension-bridge said, that so
far from the prisoners having gone direct from town to Hammer-
smith, or having picked up the things near the bridge, he saw
them come from the Barnes Common-road to the bridge, and cross
it, each paying him a halfpenny, with the sack and its contents
then in their possession.
The prisoners, who could scarcely refrain from laughing at their
own impudent inventions, were then fully committed for trial.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Saturday Elks gay was charged with robbing John Mail.
The prosecutor stated, that he was accosted by the prisoner, who
clasped him in her arms. The prosecutor returned the prisoner's
kindness with a push, in doing which, he found her hand in his
pocket, which contained .4.. and one half-crown ; it was tone.
A witness deposed to having seen the prisoner drop a halGerown,
which the witness picked up and marked, and delivered to the
constable.
The watchman and the constable spoke in corroboration ; and as
Ellen Kelly was a well-known customer at the office, she was fully
commiited for trial.
When she heard that she was about to be sent for trial, she. hi-
en under.tone, told one of the officers—" 0 then. I don't care a
din aboht it, that yeu know, and no piistake."
QVItitIiTS4DARE.
Saturday. several stage-coach proprietors and drivers were sum-
moned, and convicted, for carrripg • more passengers than allowed •
by Act 6f Parliament. William Nussell, the drjvers g one,tf ,
Tapp's Hampton enacts., was fined' 31. fir carrying one snore Ras? .
~edger than allowed by law.
• Charles Wattok•driYer of a •Duildfind stake c oac , wfi
offeriee. '
Thomas Staminers, driver 'And proprietor of another gagg-couili,
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was find tOf. fork' ilmilal'~+6entc.
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MARY-LA-BONNE. ,
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F,eaultesi Hannah Looms*.
The complainant stateditinit *between orce two' q•CiPC/I on
siseweley Riarisibe Otology 'shrittg up for 'her' luisbigt, who had
'eubsbutaid. 1111111ilr'frork '" bed and board" since Thursday. ans'
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