Star.
London, England, 1828-07-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDIkALL.

Yesterday Joseph Sheppard, a middle aged man, was claserd
with stealing a basket containing three dozen composition dolls.
value two pounds. John Price, an apprentice to Mr. Batten, a
doll maker, was passing through Bew Churchyard with the pro-
perty in big possession, and was accosted by the prisoner, who was
standing in a doorway without his bat, and who asked him to
fetch him a cabriolet, and ordered the boy to leave his basket.
When the boy returned with the cabriolet the prisoner and basket
were guile, but an (Aker had secured them.—The prisoner was re-
manded.
BOW...STREET.

CHA sot or Moants.—Yesterday Timothy Coehrens,James Berry,
Cornelius Mora, James Sheer, Jeremiah Murray, James Hayes, Dennis
Burke, Jonathan Casey, Tim Connor, and Catherine Casey, were
charged with having murdered a man known as " Long John," and
one of their companions, on Sunday night, at Wimbly, near Harrow.
It al.peared that the prisoners and deceased were thinking in a
party at the Green Man public-house, at Wimbly. They were
all haymakers, and had their forks. A quarrel arose among them
and they left the house. About a furlong front the Green Man,
Long John was stated to have been murdered by John Casey, who
had stabbed him in the breast with a pitch-Fork. The evidence
adduced against them was that of several labourers, wbo were
present, knd accused all the above prisoners as having ill used the
deceased. Mary 4 the wife of John Casey, had jumped on the body
after Long John had been dead some time.
Sir li. Hiatus considered that she had acted under the influence
of her husband, and discharged her, but remanded all the others
till Thursday.

H A TTON—G A R DEN.
Alexander West and John Smith were charged with stealing a silk
hindketchief, the property of Thomas Halls. Waddington, the
Officer, stated that while on duty the preceding night, at the fire in
Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, he observed the prisoners take a,
handkercigef from the pocket of the prosecutor. He instantly,
with the assistance of another Constable, seized them with the pro-
perty upon them, which was identified by the prosecutor.--The
prisoners were committed.
Two other lads, named Armstrong and Ned, who were observed
attempting ,to pick pockets at the same place, by the same officer,
were committed to the House of Correction for sir weeks.
WORSHIP•STREET.
James Kelly, Martin et-oven, and Catherine Griffin, were charged
with stealing dram-glasses from public houses. On Saturday night
Kelly and two others were at the Two Brewers, in Bunhill-row,
and immediately upon their departure, Mr. Thornton, the landlord,
missed a dram glass from the bar. He followed, and overtook
Kelly and another man, and in a basket, which Kelly carried, were
found two glasses, one of them plain, and the other engraved with
the name of Mr. Wade, of the Bricklayer's Arms, Whitecross-
street. Kelly was committed for trial, and the others were discharged.
Weltistx Roseman, a weaver, was charged with embezzling one
hundred yards of silk, worth about 201. The prisoner said, that at
two o'clock on Saturday morning he got up, and found his room
had been entered and his work stolen. He went to bed again and
lay till Me o'clock, when he got up and was at a loss what to do,
al d sent for some gin. It appeared, however, that he had not men-
tioned the alleged robbery to any one; but on the contrary, when
met on Saturday evening drunk, by his employers' foreman, be
told him the work was up stairs.—He was sent to the Tread-mill
for three months.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
An elderly man, of most respectable appearance, who stated
himself to be a solicitor, was brought before Sir G. r- ARIAN;
charged with stealing a work called " A Treatise on the Art of
Painting," in two volumes, from Mr. Mores's auction rooms, Old
Bond-street.—lt appeared from the evidence of a person in the,
employ of Mr. Mores, that the prisoner entered the auction rooms
that morning. and inspected a collection of books which were on
view previous to their being sold. In the course of half an hour
afterwards he observed the prisoner walk out of the rooms, and
suspecting from his bulky appearance that be had something con;
eealed about him, be followed him into the street, and drew from
underneath his coat the work now produced, which was published
at four guineas. The witnesses insisting that he should be taken
before a Magistrate, the prisoner entreated to be set at liberty,
sa)ing he was a Gentleman in distress, and had been driven to the
commission of the acne* through want. Tbe prisoner appeared
extremely reluctant to give bis name and address, and inquired if
bail would be accepted? Sir Giotto' refused to take bail, and
committed him to Newgate for trial.