Star.
London, England, 1819-08-05 00:00:00

RIOT AT THE LIVERPOOL BRIDEWELL..

At the Borough Se.sions, Peter Riley, aged 22,
IVm. Troy, 19, Wm, Fraser, 41., James Whelan, 35,
Bernard Len' a, '25, Fredrick &Hanlon, 21, James
Grimes, 22, and Owen M'Donald, 33, were indicted'
for a riot at Liverpool. These were the men who, as
our Readers may recollect, were apprehended for
having been active in the serious riot and tumult at
the Dock Bridewell, on the evening of the '22d of
June last, when the Bridewell was forcibly broken
open by the mob, who released sever tl prisoners that
were in confinement there, and vio'ently beat two
men connected with the Dock Police, and afterwards
attempted to throw them into the Old Dock.
Mr. LANI 2 stated ,the case to the .Ibry, and gave a
suscinct narrative of the origin and progress of the
riot, as well as of the tumultuous and disgraceful
transactions of the mob on the eveningin question.—
He then proceeded to call evidence to substantiate
the charge against the defendants.
A great number of witnesses were examined on the
part of she prosecution, most of them connected with
the Dock Police. Their evidence proved that all the
defendants were with the mob during the riot, and
that some took a more active part than others in the
riotous proceedings of the evening.
Several of the defendants called evidence to esta-
blish an alibi at the time of the disturbance, but the
testimony of their witnesses seemed not to be entitled
to much credit.
The RECORDER summed up the evidence with great
precision and correctness ; and then laid down the
law with respect to persons engaged in riot, namely,
that every individual who does not separate himself
from a riotous assemblage, is responsible, in the eye
of the law, for all the violcnces and excesses which
that assemblage may perpetrate.
The Jury, after some consultation, returned a ver-
diCt of Guilty against all the defendants, except Wm.
Frazer, who was of course acquitted.
The RECORDER, after seriously admonishing the
prisoners, passed sentence upon them, that. they be
imprisoned for eighteen months in Preston House of
Correction. •
Some of the prisoners, when removing from the
bar, behaved in a very indecent and outrageous man-
ner, and directed the most disgusting language against
the Bench.
Charles Burns, 23, was afterwards indicted for
having assaulted and struck Mr. Broadley, Superin-
tendent of the Dock Police. The assault arose out of
the above riot. It being suspected that some of the
men belonging to General D'Evereux's Legion had
been active in the disturbances at the Bridewell, Cap-
tain Boyd, their Commanding Officer, requested Mr.
Broadley to come to the ground where they were ex-
ercised on the South Shore, for the purpose of seeing
whether he could recognise any of them as having
taken part in the riot. Accordingly, about 11 o'clock,
en the following morning, Mn Broadley, with save-
of his assistants, proceeded to the ground. When
he came near Jackson's dam, he saw between two and
three hundred men of the Legion, and the defendant,.
Burns, among them ; many of them had stones or
lumps of copper dross in their hands. On perceiving
this, he addressed them, saying—" My good fellows,
I am not come to molest you, but to meet Captain'
Boyd." They replied—" You villains, go back, or,
we'll have your lives !" Instantly the police was co-
wered with a shower of stones, which knocked down
sonic of them, and dispersed the rest. Mr. Broadley
was seriously cut on the mouth with a stone. One 'of.
the police escaped into a field adjoining, and saw
Burns throwing stones after Mr. Broadley, and the
other officers of the police, when they were retreat;
lag from the mob.
The prisoner, in his defence, endeavoured to prove
an alibi on the morning the assault was said to have
been committed ; the prisoner did not, however, call
any witnesses.
The Jury returner a verdict of—Guilty ; and the
Court sentenced him to seven days imprisonment.

Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, some',
thieves bseke into the dye house of Messrs. Breddell
and Shabet, in Fashion-street, Spitajfields, and stole
30 lbs. of silk, with which they got clear off.
Tuesday evening, a fine lad, son of Mr. HILL, a
broker, in Tothill-street, Westminster, went to bathe
in the Thames, but got beyond his depth, and being
unable to swim, was drowned. The body was found
in a few minutes after, and conveyed to the Sawyers'
public-house, Stangate.

POLICE.

GUlLDHALL.—YesterWilhattetv Morton, a sol-
dier in the Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards, was
charged before Mr. Alderman IlEvuar with felony.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been drinking in the
tap-room of the Ship and ,Star, Sparrow-corner, Mi-
not ies, on Tuesday afternoon, about five o'clock, and
shortly after his departure, the landlady, Mrs. Ken-
'yon, on going up stairs, discovered that she had been
robbedof a cotton gown. On her mentioning her
loss in the tap-room, Mrs. Morris, the wife of an In-
spector of Tools in the Tower, who with her husband
happened to be present, remarked that she saw the
soldier come from up stairs, and thought he had been
a lodger; suspicion immediately fell upon him, and
every endeavour was used, but without effect, to as-
certain the way he had gone; inquiry was also made
at the different pawn=brokers in the neighbourhood,
but to no purpose, and the property was given up
for lost. An hour or two afterwards, the two females
being out together shopping, met the pr isonerin New-
gate-street, near Ivy-lane; they both recognized him
as the person who had been in the tap-room; and
though he was a stout fellow of six feet high, they
had the courage to seize him, and managed to hold
him between them, in spite of all his exertion, till an
Officer was sent for, who conveyed him to the Comp-
ter. On searching7him there, the gown and also a
shawl, the property of-Mrs. Kenyon, which had not
been missed, were found wrapped round his body....
The prisoner, in his defence, said the girl of the house
agave them to him to pledge for her. Unluckily for
Ns veracity, there was no girl kept in the house; he
was therefore committed to Newgate for trial.
OUTRAGES At WEST-END FAIR.—Bow-STREET
°Film—Yesterday the fifteen men who were corn-,
mitted for re-examination, on Saturday, were brought
Ilup from different prisons. Since that time one of the,
prosecutors who then gave evidence against some of
the prisoners, we are concerned to say, has been dis-
covered to be in a deranged state of mind, supposed
to be occasioned by the injury lie sustained in his
head, from the violent blows be received from large
bludgeons.—Jay, the Constable of Hampstead, who
was wounded and left senseless by the mi,.creants,'
and who is still in a very weak state, detailed the
particulars of the attack made upon him. He was
conducted into the strong-room to view the fifteen
prisoners, but he could not identify any of them ; he
suspected three, but his opinion was not sufficiently
strong to swear to any of them.
Smith, the proprietor of the flash booth, underwent
another long examination, when it appeared his booth
was filled with known thieves during the whole of the
Nfonday, and on Tuesday, till the evening, when the
number of the Constables was increased. It was sus-
pected that the booth was constructed for the ac-
commodation of thieves, there being as entrance
from the back, supposed to he for the admission of
thieves when they had committed a robbery, in order
that they might have an easy access both ways.
..A
number of handkerchiefs, supposed to have been
stolen, were found in a box in the booth. The Ma-
gistrate agreed to discharge him, on hiS promising
to appear again when called for; at the same time
assuring him, tat if he was brought before him at
any future time for keeping a booth at that or any
other Fair, and it was the resort of thieves, he should
commit him for trial, as accessary to the robberies.
Mr. Robert*Suggate Pretyman, a linen-draper, of
Woo istock-street, Bond-street, stated that he, accom-
panied by a friend, went to West-End Fair on the
evening of Tuesday se'nnight, about half-past eight
o'clock. He found himself surrounded by a nume-
rous gang of men, supposed forty or fifty, when he
received a violent blow on the back of his head. He
did not see the man who gave him the blow, but it
was given with considerable force; he was then rob-
bed of his hat and his pocket-handkerchief, which he
had put into his hat, to guard against having his
pocket picked; he was then knocked down, and the
pockets of his pantaloons cut out. Mr. Elder, who
was in company with Mr. Pretyman, confirmed his
statement.—George Furian, the Headborough of
Hampstead, said he apprehended the prisoner, War.
Fletcher, in Smith's booth, in the Fair, on the Tues-
day evening, -when he found upon him a hat and
handkerchief, which Mr. Pretyman proved to be his
property: he also produced Mr. Prety man's panta-
loons, with the pockets cut out, and blood upon them,
the effects of the wound be received.—Mr. Pretyman
applied to the Magistrate, to excuse him from being
bound over to prosecute; assigning as a reason, that
at the time the Sessions at the Old Bailey would be
held he should be abroad upon business and pleasure ;
which the Magistrate refused to comply with.
Some of the prisoners were discharged, no charge
being substantiated against them ; the others were re-
manded for another examination.
MARLBORLIUGH-STREET.—The two prisoners John
Henley and Barper, who stood charged with,
capital offences at West-End Fair, were re-examined
before R. BAKER, Esq. and the Office was crowde&
,with persons who had been robbed. 'l"lny. daring con,
.duct of Henley .has been already stated; in addition,
-a fresh charge was
,preferred against him by a young
man named Moseley, of Charlton-street, Fitzroy-*
square. The prosecutor stated, that he was attracted
40 a spot in the Fair by the shrieks of a female, and
he was.knocked down by Henley's gang, and robbed
of a gold chain and seals, but he saved his watch.l
tiloost after this he was again attacked by Henley, who
endeavoured to get his watch, and knocked him down.
Witness resisted, and knocked the prisoner down in
return, and by that means got away. The prisoners
were fully committed for trial—Henley on three
charges, and Harper on that preferred by Kelly, for,
attempting to steal his watch, in conjunction with
the other prisoner.
Fostozar.--Richarri Pryor, the young man who
itands charged with forgery on Messrs. Martin, Son,
sod Hughes, and for whose apprehension a reward
of £5OO has been offered, has succeeded in effecting
his escape to America. On his arrival at Liverpool,
,he put up at an inn in that town, kept by a person.
who was formerly a waiter at the London Coffee-
house, Ludgate-hill, and in that capacity had known
Pryor as an occasional frequenter of that house. No,
suspicion 'however, was entertained respecting him ;
but on the arrival of the Newspapers of Friday last,
which stated the: partkuliriof .the fbtrty, the inn-,
keeper wrote to the parties in town, stating the fact
of Pryor's having been there, and informing them that
he sailed from that'port, in a vessel bour.d for Ame-
rica, on the Sunday preceding, viz. the 25th ultimo.