Star.
London, England, 1826-08-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

• MANSION-HOUSE.
'Yesterday. a Gentleman named Heaphy, who Is a respectable
member piths sack Bethany, tame attended by Mr. Davis, the
solicitor, of the Sens of Readen and Davis, ands number of friends,
to mefm a chimp of assault against •••••••• hiller, who is a tailor,
resit in Beimirete. Lela:Wm-Adds.
Mr. Heaphy mated, that be resides at St. John's Wood-grove,
Rego is-park, and d9seed•that en &May morning the prisoner
came to his hame, aid wished to me him. He went down, when
;thepriaoner refused to cons* in, said be had something particular
io say to hist, and wished him to come out. Witness put en:his
hit and treat out. when the prisoner began stating a long case about
hi. wife. :He said, (continued Mr. Heaphy,) that IV got kis wife;
be said Chit thing and that thing about her, and said that I knew
where she was.
The Loss Mavoa—Did you know his wife, Mr. Heaphy ?
' Cdr. Heatiky—Yes. my Lord. I was met again by him yester-
' day,morniag at Maehory-placit, when be mid he was a man In a
poor way, and alike was willing to take a soniof money, when he
iwould sign any ptwt or release that I liked, I Wade no repast.
the to MM. and' he came to•the Stock Exchange, where he used
say bad language. Recoiled me by the collie. created a Jima-
banes, tad said be Wasdetermitsed to follow me up. A crowd was
assembled, and I was obliged to give him Into custody.
The Lotus Maroa—Pray, Mr. Heaphy, how long have you been
acquainted with his wife?
Mr. Hea—l really can't exactly answer.
The Leasphy Maros—De you kno* where she now is ?
Mr lielpin't can't say, my Lord, really. I know no more
about her than a stranger.
The Loan Maros proceeded to put some other questions ; when
Mr. Heaphy, who had answered with great reluctance these previ-
ously put whim, objected to answer any more. He came there, he
said, to prefer a charge of assault, and he wished the case to be
tonSnei to the fact of the assault.
The Lame Mavoit.—Bot the assault, as stated by you, against the
prisoner, is a very trifling one, supposing that you have glean great
prima:ado& I wish,ta see lurty that fact is.
Mr..Heaphy.—lf he conceives himself injured by me in any mbar
way, be may seek his remedy in a Court of Law; but I am not m
he assaulted.

--The pa;;Ser, who listened with impatience to the statement of the
ems against him, here said, '• I tell you how it is, my Lord. Ups
I will listen to me, I have no fear. It is els weeksket Monday sines
my wife asked me to let her go horne to her mother's, I told her
she might, if she liked; but said she must Whack soon, as I wanted
to go to VaushalL She went accordingly, bet she did not time home
till past ten o'dock at night. • Good Goa I (says I) when the d—l
I have yon been till this time of night ?' She said she had been at
her mother's ; and that there were some Meads there, and that
they had persuaded her to stay with them. The nest morning there
comes a Gentleman to me that I knows, who says to me, • Your
I wife's a bad woman : I saw her walking with a Gentlenan, and
!knowing her to be your wife, I followed her, and sass her go
with him to the white-horse, in Soho-square • and .I thought
it but right to teU you of it.' I then (continued the pristmej)
called the servant, to ask whether there had been anybody 'about
the hates. ' Tell me the truth, Sally,' said I ; • have you seen any
body about the Mouse. behaving improper to your mistress?'
began to cry, and seld there was a Gentleman in a whits hat %The
had-called and talked to. my wife. He said to her be was awry
she imanurried, and wanted to go upstairs with her, but she would
not la him. He was with her in the print* passage when the
door was open, and my wife said to the girl, • Shut the door,
Madam; and he said to ler, Sally. why do you not do as your
mistress bids you ?' He then went away. Igor a young man to
' watch her when she nest went out, and she met a Gentleman, and
went with hiss to a house at No. 5, Oxendon.street ; they after•
wards went together to a house in Uchleld-street. I did not sq
them, but the young man saw than ; and I can bring the servants
from the three places, who will prove that he went with her there.
He was away a fortnight when she met him in the New • he
was on horseback, and shook bands with her.w—He then described
that he surprised hii wife just as she left him, on. another occasion,
and had not seen any thing of her since.
The Loan Maros—You do not wish to see her again, do you ?
The prisoner—Yes, my Lord, I do not mind saying it, that I
!should like to see her again very much. (Loud laughter). I have
tried all I can to see her. Ile says he does not know where she is,
14sut I have good information that he saw her last night..
The LORD fiIaTORHOO/ long have you been watching your
wife's conduct ?

The prisoner—More than Ave weeks.
The Low blAroa--What Is your occupation?
The prisoner—l am a tailor.
The Loan MAroa—ls be a customer of yours ?
The tailor—Not in that line. (Roars of laughter, in which the
tailor joined).
The servant girl, in the employment of the prisoner, deposed,
that she had seen Heaphy come into the house. He wished to go
up stairs, but her mistress would not let bon. She had seen him
come last Saturday week, In the afternoon ; she had seen him conic
and beckon her mistress out. • _

The tailor added, that he•had been married seven years, and had
bad one child, which was &ad ; he declared he was all happy and
right until this man came across the door. The neighbours bad
observed him shaking bands wit► her.
Mr. Davis, as Solicitor to Mr. Ikaphy, treated ate whole aa a
conspiracy to extort money, and stated, that the defendant bad pro-
posed to take a sum of money as cenlyensatitut&wttich 'proposal ►ad
bora rejected.
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