Star.
London, England, 1829-06-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUI I4L.
Putman Baer elm VlstreCT..l eiterday Jails Conner, one of
the 'viva, was charged IdforitSir-C. T. Ileum, with soliciting ad-
Illusion into Whieecroesoteeet prison, with a bottle of whiskey con-
cealed about his person, contrary to the rules and regulations of
the same.
Mr. Douglau, the principal turnkey, was the person applied to
by the prisoner for admission to visit one of the inmates. but Mr.
Douglers. suspecting from the enamel swell Glebe boy's boiom that
it contained something not allowed to be taken in; had him searched,
when the bottle and its fiery contents were discovered.
Connerrwho certainly wore a very dal); appearance. being asked
what he coold say in reply to this charge. answered, that for the
lest four tumults be was unable to work through a severe attack of
the ague; that his medical adviser recommended him to infuse a
certain osedicstes of Peruvian bark in a bottle of whiskey, and that
he bad pronged the whiskey for this aid no other purpose ; but
jobs et some distance from home, and having to call upoo a prisoner
in Whitecrom.street, he deposited Abe bottle in his bosom; but he
begged to assure the Alderman that he was too apaiostato.recover
his health to part with a drop if it in Saint Peter.
The Alderman thought the defence a 'very ingenious one. and
would remand him for a day or ;wo to give him time to procure
emblems? of -what he stated. as, if it were Due. it world have the
effect of at least mitigating his punishment.—He was accordingly
remanded. .
now-STREET.
Yesterday a simple looking young female, named Etisobtes Dewier
was charged with having practised a most iugessious fraud upon -
several pawnbrokers.
Samuel Sheppy deposed, that he was sbopntan to Mr. Cameron,
the pawnbroker, in Chandos-street. About ten o'clock iso Tues-
day morning, the prisoner _pledged two silk handkerchiefs at his
employer:lt shop for 31., Tbe.primmer Came in the evening to re-
deem them, and offered to leave a shawl in lieu of them. • The
shawl not eing worth more than half the sum tent upon the hand-
kerchiefs, her request was not complied with, and she wenr away.
The witness then discovered that the prisoner bad talon away the
pared oentainiog the handkerchiefs, and left in its place a parcel
grass, rolled up Ma similar manner. The witness, upon discovering
the fraud, followed the prisoner, and gave her into custody.
Mr. -Hetes said there would be some difficulty in framing an in-
illettnent against the prisoner. The question was, had she stolen
the handkerchiefs, or the sum which she bad obtained upon them?
Mr. hlnunutt.—She stole the handkerchiefs, most undoubtedly.
Mr. HALLS said he should nut he at all surprised if,". putting the
cam in either way, the prisoner should get acquitted. A similar
thee was tried some time ago ; and although the indictment varied
the natdre of the charge. the prisoner was acquitted by two separate
Juries. Arne indictment was for stealing the goods—the other
the ittoney.
le ITt. Maui= asked if there were any other charges against the
prisoner?
Several pawnbrokers here came forward, and produced bundles
of rags, which bad been substituted by the prisoner for different
articles which she had pledged at their shops.
T. Race deposed that be was 'hornets to Messrs. Townsend and
Page. pawnbrokers, Little Russell-street. The prisoner offered
witness two handkerchiefs, upon which she asked 4t. but witness
refused to lend her mute than 3s. 6d. upon them. She demurred
to this, and the parcel was given back to her. Seeing him. how-
ever, engaged in serving another customer, the prisoner shoved over
to him ahundle which he conceived to contain the two haudker.
chiefs, and consented to take what he had offered her. Not sus-
pectiog fur a moment the species of sid3lat of hand which she had
premised, he gate the prisoner the matey, rad upon putting by tba
parcel which he supposed contained the handkerchiefs disco d
*hat it was made up of rags.
It appeared further that the prisoner had practised a double
fried, for she sold the tickets of the supposed bandkerchiefa to dif-
ferent poor persons.
Several other charges were ready to be gone into, but Mr. Alm-
MOLL conceived that the above were sufficient to answer the cues
of *Lice. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.
MA RI. BOROUG H-ST BRET.
A respectable looking female of the name of Pastel was brought
before Mr. Cortex:, charged by the parish officers of St. George's,
Hanover square, with deserting her three children.
Mr. Grist deposed that the prisoner had a dales on their parish,
and upon the =oth of May last two children were brought to the
workhouse which bad been left in the street. One of the children
had the following letter in her possession :—" Gentlemen, I am
very sorry to inform you that I have sent James and Henry Pavitt.
Want has compelled me to it. Me and my children have walked
the streets for three nights. I have a situation for myself. One
of the children I win put out, but the other two I cannot."—Un-
&math this was written—" The children belong to St. George's,
Hanover-square." This letter was perfectly conclusive as to whom
the children belongetLand they were taken is, although on the pre-
vious day she had been to the Board, when the Gentlemen gave
her 15s. and which was the sum she asked for, and which was a
direct contradictios to the letter; for the above sum would have
enabled her to propeu:e a bed for the children, and also to provide
seine food for them. Although repeated inquiries had been made,
no tidings could be pined of her, and nothing more was heard of
her or the other child until last week, when a female, who 'stated
her name to be Tatnalb. residing in Upper Ground-street, came to
the workhouse, and stated that the prisoner had some time before
called and got her to take her youngest child to nurse, but she had
weer *tiler any thing towards its support ; being a pour woman,
die was unable to keep it. on which she was paid 3s. and which
awinehe was desired to call for weekly. Nothing further occurred
mil the night before last, when Reeves, the messenger, met her in
lbe Park, and took her into custody.
The female, in reply, said she was in great distress, and that she
4res totally unable to keep her children, when she thought it was
better to send them to the workhouse than to keep them at home
starving.
Mr. Cowes in Moog terms animadverted upon her unfeeliug
tooduet in deserting her poor children, when she was committed
to the House of Correction.
LA hl BETH-STRERT.

A master builder was charged with violating the person of Mrs.
Catherine Glascock.

The prosecute ii, a yams and elegantly dressed female, on being
Bra brought into the *Moe fainted.away, and was in consequence
obliged to be removed for a time, and restorative. administered to
her. On her recovery, she proceeded to depose as follows : She
said she was the wife of a journeyman bricklayer, and lived in Bot-
son's Buildings, Aldersgate-street. On the morning of last Mon-
day week she left home for the purpose of looking out fur work for
her husband ; in pursuit of that object she passed by some buildings
which were in progress, and asked who was the master builder?—
One of the workmen told her it was the prisoner. When she saw
him he asked her her business? and having told him, he said dust
be retold eaU at her lodgings in the course of the evening, and see
her husband. He called as he appointed ; but he not bring at home,
be desired her to send bins to bins the next morning. He
went accordingly, and continued to work with him until last
Monday, when she received a message from him by one of his
workmen, requesting of her to call on him on particular bassi.
less. She did so, and met bins at the buildings, when he re-
quested her to accompany him to a public house to avoid the
sun. Ske consented, and they went into a house in Parliament-
sweet. wince she took a glass of wine and water. After stopping
a short time, but without any business being spoken of eacept the
subject of a letter which he had written, by her husband's request,
to his father for sons, tools and clothes, they left, and she came
home. On arriving there she was told that the prisoner had called,
and in shoat a quarter of au hour he returned, and walked into her
apartment. and sat down on the sofa. At this time she was ens.
ployed in washing some plates; and when she had finished them,
and was about placing them in the cupboard, he started up soddenly,
and pulling down the window-blind and locking the door, he threw
her on the Sour, and placing his sleeve over her month, mom-
plidsesithis purpose.
The Prosecutrix, who gave her evidence with a great deal of
modesty and distinctness, was minutely questioned by Mr. Hard-
wick, as to . whethei in any of his previous meetings, he had intl.
naissdhisineentions ? She replied positively in the negative.
. The priermenin &fence, declared that the liberty he had taken
with the prosecturia, was by her own consent, and was not the
first, as apace which he addressed to her on Monday, would prove,
and requested that it might be produced, and be remanded to
another day, to give him an opportunity to show, that not only had
she gone by difereat names, bat had actually walked the streets u
'a common woman.
The husband said, that if what the prisoner asserted was the fact, '
there world be no necessity for his using violence to effect his pur-
pose, but as aiwoof **the bad forcibly violated bar, ber arms and
.sides were bruised, end blackened in resisting his attack; but
,beeldp, when be called on bias for his wages, on Monday last, and
charged hint with an attempt on his wife's chastity, he declared, In
the pigmies of several witnesses, that she was a virtuous woolen,
and that he knew it, for that be bad tried every means to seduce
bar, het without semess.
Thalileglatrate.ashad fee the note alluded to by the prisoner.—
. The igegrescstriz replied.thut the bad burned it; adding, that all it
contained, was a request from the prisoner to call ipso him.
The prisoner's request was compiled with, and he was remanded
untillianwaynext.
WORSHIP—STREICT.
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afterwards saw that Use haroloor had been forced one% bet letns.
mulling she but some ;lump war had been taken from • basie,Q
which was found In the prisoner's pockets. There weir no mart,
on 'the back dour, which be bolted before he Went to bed. The r,h ,
toner, therefore, must have cisneesled himself in the bowie (.4 he
had been in the taproom drinking only a few hours beim/),itt
when the family were all in bed. Let the ocher men In at the bid
door.—Tbe prisoner said nutting in his defence.
lie was committed for trial on the capital charge.
James Noakes, a young Married man, was charged With tinyttfti
the person of ilarrient Morgan, a smartioshing girl of 16, servant
en Grlmsdak, who keeps a potatoe warehouse in Whites:mi.
street. The prisoner, at the time the transaction was alkgrd to
have taken place, was engaged in palming Mr. Grimsdale's house.
The statement of the prorteecutrix was to the following effect
About seven o'clock us Monday atoning site was washing in tkt
back parked the shop; and the prisoner, who was painting hi the.
front part. began a conveitution with her. lie remarked, that bac
should like to know which was the window—meaning, as she sup..
posed, her bedroom window--aad afterwards asked her to take t
walk with him some month* ; but the told bim that the could'
not, for the had her business to mind. She went into a seal p.eo.ir"
at the end of the shop, for the purpose of lighting a fir.., and he mak•
a cbnir and sat near bet, and began stirring In. paint. seer 4414
him atbat be supposed her master would say if he found him site,,;
. there? end the pliaoter engird, that be should not care if tier mast
Lrhind
• did are him. After sonic further conversatieleonalsesedadbervaneedand
gruel
her, seised her unawares, and completed the crime with which he-
was now charged. (Tbe girl here gave evidence to estMbsh a
capital offence.) She was deprived of the power of giving any'
alarm at the time, but the prisoner having r
the place, she.wein up stain and informed her mittressof what bad=
occurred.
The Matistrate was informed that the hoax is situate at did
corner of Glotwever.cmitt, in Whitecruss.uteet, and the whole nt
the -front unglazed and completely exposed, the abutters being down
at the time.
Mrs. thimsdale said that the girl came to her room early in the
morning, and informed her of what had occurred. A surgeon tvhia
had examined her found her injured in the way desesibed.
'Me prisoner, who declared he was innocent, was ream tdied for
a further et sminat ion.

Two officers who were sent to inspect the premises, said that thp
small parlour in which the act was said to have hero committed,was
tittle more than twenty feet in the rear of the shop, the ft/natant
sides of which are completely open.

UNION-HALL

Stioeummeo.—Yesterday a respectably dressed woman, named
Marie Elea, way charged befnre Mr. Swasitv with baying stolen A
cape thaw, value PI from the shop of Mr. Davis, a itneadraper,
in Newingtun Causeway.
It appeared that the prisoner bad concealed the shawl in her
basket. and it was found in her poyseadon after she had quitted
the shop.
Bbe denied all knowledge of how the shawl got into her baker,
blot iv.. committed for alai.

Jbesky, who form-sly held a situation in the anima Mu*,
wa4 bonight before Mr. Cataluna,. !barged with a dt.cription of
felony which has become extremely prevalent of late, an I by which
several tradesmen and shopkeepers in the metropolis have suffered
considerable losses.

Mr. William Ives, a cheesemonger, residing at Britton. seated
that on the 221 ult. the prisoner came to his shop, and having q.
lected a ham and eh . the price of which amounted to
9s. Ljd, desired the articles to be sent to his residence. Grove
Cottage, Tuise.hill, together with the difference in bilver for two
sovereigns, adding, that on delivery the mkt would be I.
mediately settled. Nothwithstanding the prisoner's respectable
appearance, the cheesemonger instructed the shopboy who was
sent with the articles, not to leave them at Grove Cottage
without the money, and cautioned him to be most particular
on the road, if the prisoner or any other person should meet
him, not to part with the goods until the price of them was
put into his bands first. The lad having received kis instrac.
dons, then proceeted towards Tuise-hill, and on arriving near that
place he was met by the prisoner, who, affecting to be in a passim
about the delay in sending the goods, then took two sovereigns ow,
and throwing them into the boy's basket, snatched them up quickly,
and transferring them again to his peeket, said " Those siweret*
are not for you—give me the basket containing the things, sad
also the change you have brought, and take this hve-pound heslk
back to your master, and desire him to send the remainder of
the money in lard, butter, and cheese, at the same time mitt*
a piece of paper purporting to be a check for the whole NUN
drawn on Sir William Curtis and Co. into the bey's hauls,.
The lad hesitated at first to part with the goods no those condition. •
but the prisoner silenced his scruples, saying the check was sepood
as the Bank, and that as he was about having a dinner party jet
day, dispatch must be used in sending the remaining ponies pt kin
order. The boy was at length induced to give op the ham sod
cheese, together with the change, to the prisoner, in romp for
which he got the paper purporting to be a check. It is needles* to
add that the check was subsequently discovered to be deo valat,
having no signature to it; and that no such person as Mr. WilliaM
Hostelry resided at Grove Cottage, Tube Hill, nor was known M
that neighbourhood. The prisoner eluded detection ever since the
transaction occurred until yesterday, when the complainaot's boy
happening to meet him in North Brixton, gave him into custody.
The prisoner, who seemed to be in a very perturbed state of
mind, and held down his head during the examination, was asked
by the Magistrate whether he wished to gist any account of him
self ? In reply to which he said that he was driven to the greatest
eltremities ever since he lost his situation in the Customhouse
and that Aire necessity alone impelled him to commit the uffente
with which he was charged.
John Grossmith, the taker who formerly held a situation I*
mit in the Custom-house, said that be perfectly recollected the pl-
ainer having filled a highly respectable situation slew year/ .49
in the Customs.—The prisoner was fully committed.

MR. MARIN% Pike, " extraordinary
woluptuaty, the leviathan of the Walk.mill pool,.was
found defunct in his native element about three weeks
since. His length when dead was three feet eleven
inches, greatest girth tweoty.five inches, weight 291bs.
9oz. The bones of his head, which has been dissected
by Mr. C. J. Greatrez, of Eccleshall, are preserved ass
natural curiosity. He is supposed to be the original
" pikeirll" put into the pool in the ninth year of the
reign nf Queen Elizabeth, A D. 1587.
A fatal accident happened on Monday night it
' Wheal Specs is Mine to• a man named William Ham.
He was at work in the engine-shaft along with two of
his comrades, when something falling struck bias on
the back part of the head, and without speaking he fell
to the bottom 41 the shalt, in which there were twenty
fathoms of water, and instantly sunk. The body was
after much labour got op, and an inquest held upon it
at the account house before J. H. J. mes,' Esq. coronet,
when a verdict of “ Accidental Death" was returned.
It iv melancholy to add, that the deceased has lefts
pregnant wife and three helpless children. Western Ls.
winary.

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