Star.
London, England, 1826-07-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL

Miss Harriet Barnes, a dashing young female, was charged with
attempting to carry into the Debtors' Prison, Whiteeross street,
above a gallon of gin and rum. She was 'topped at the lodge gate,
and the spirits were found in a basket she carried in her hand. A
solicitor stated, that her beer had been un(ortunately thrown into
the gaol just as he was about to marry her, and at her second visit
he had requested her to:bring in the liquor; she declined, but he
continued to urge, and she to refuse, till they came to a downright
quarrel; and it was under a threat that he would cut her acquaint.
ance altogether, if she would not oblige him, that she at length
assented.
Mr. Alderman Avxws said, he could not surely be expected to
believe this pretty love tile. If rigour was ever necessary to re-
press the introduction of spirits into the prison, it was now, when
instead of dejection meeting the eye within the walls, there was
revelry, tvmult, and viciousness. He sentenced fair Harriet, in
default of paying a fine of 101. to six weeks' hard labour.

BOW-STREET.
Doctor Bally, and Miss Elisabeth, his daughter, aged 18, were
charged with assaulting Ellen Healey, their maid f ail-work. The
complainant, it seems, went to see her mother, who was ill, with-
out asking leave, and on her return she found Miss Eady busy
cooking the dimmer; she had spoiled the fish, and in taking them
op, they dropped in pieces about the kitchen floor. Ellen was
anxious to assist in taking up, the rest of the dinner, but Miss Ell•
ninth called.her a good-for-nothing honey, and struck her in the
breast repeatedly; and the Doctor himself came down and shook '
bet violently, and threatened to kick her out, if the did not leave
the house quietly. The complainant called -as evenness the Doctor's
man-servant, a strauge-looking lipre, from whom everybody in-
stinctively shrunk back as be approached, but be swore that no
blew or shaking took place.
Mr. HALLS said, where such conflicting testimony bad been ad-
duced, he could not bold the parties to bail, but Ellen might, no.
vertheless, go to the Sessions and indict if she thought fit.
A mechanic charged one of the privates in the Foot Guards with
thrusting his bayonet into the side of his right eye, is the yard of
St. James's Palace. The complainant said, that he was amongst
the crowd in front of St. James's Palace, to hear the band play, and
the prisoner and another private, who were on duty at the gate,
prevented the crowd from entering as they had been allowed many
years. He kept back till the sentinels went to their posts, when
some of the people were admitted, and he was forced in by the
crowd pressing behind him. The prisoner came up from his box,
and presented his musket, and thrust the point of the bayonet into
the side of his (witness's) head near the eye; be (the sentinel) then
burst into a fit of laughter, and exclaimed," you have got it : I have
given you a poke in the eye." It was done wilfully.
A witness was called, who corroborated the above statement.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that be had received orders
from his serjeant not to admit any one into the Palace yard ; that
be tried to keep the crowd back, and in doing so he accidentally
scratched the face of the complainant.
Complainant—Scratched ! Why it entered half an inch, and the
surgeon, in St. James's-street, ordered me to-bed. You laughed,
and said " you bad poked my eye out."
Soldier—l said no such thing; you would net go back, and I was
obliged to use force. If I bad let you in, I should have been pu-
nished for disobeying orders.
The sentinel who was on duty with the prisoner, said, that the
crowd thrust in, and they were obliged to use their muskets to keep
the crowd out. He was sure that his comrade did not thrust bit
bayonet into the complainant's eye wilfully, He admitted that his
comrade laughed, and said, " You ought to be glad that I did not
poke your eye out."
The Sergeant of the Guard was examined by Mr. Haus, and be
said, that Colonel Freemantle had given orders that no person should
be admitted into the Palace-yard that morning.
Mr. HALLS said that be should dismiss the case. The soldier
had acted properly in discharge of the orders he had received from
his superior Officer and the complainant had no right to thrust
himself into the Palace-yard, when be was told that he could not
be admitted. Soldiers were but men; and he was often surprised
that they acted with so much temper, subjected, as they often were,
to gross insult. In this case, if the soldier had not obeyed his
Officer's orders, he would have been punished; end; for obeying
them, he (the Magistrate) was called upon to send him to prison;
but he should do no such thing. The soldier had acted in confor-
mity with his orders ; and, if any one had acted wrong, it was the
complainant himself. The soldier was discharged.
A charge was heard in the private room, of a young Gentleman,
whose intellects were impaired, having attempted to murder his
father, by stabbing him with a dirk, which he had bought for that
purpose. • It was proved by the evidence of a great number of wit.
noises that the young man was deranged ; and certificates of surgeons
to that effect, as required by Act of Parliament, being produced, he
was conveyed to a Lunatic Asylum.