Star.
London, England, 1828-06-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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MANSION—HOUSE
Yesterday Thomas Wakefield, the younger, was put to the bar, on
the charge that he had been found, between the hours of ten and
eleven on Tuesday evening, behind the attic door of his neighbour
John Messiah, pgainst the peace of the King, &c.
Mr. Messiah, who is one of " our peoples" residing in Dyke's-
place, stated that the prisoner was the son of a publican residing
, near him, and some months ago be had called and made proposals
to him to address one of his daughters as a matrimonial suitor, but
.that he (the complainant) not entertaining a good opinion of the
prisoner, had at once declined the honour of his alliance. Since
that period, he had been in the constaut habit of besieging the com-
plainant's house, and annoying both himself and his family. On
the preceding night be found the prisoner congealed at the top of
his house, and on ordering bins out, he (the complainant) was
grouly insulted by him. On being sent away, the prisoner re.
turned again between twelve and one o'clock, and disturbed the
complainant and the neighbourhood by violently ringing his bell,
and he therefore begged the Magistrate to grant him protection by
binding over the prisoner to keep the peace towards the complain-
, ant and his family.
Mr. Hobler strongly reprobated the conduct of Wakefield, for
prowling about in another man's house, and said, that if he were
annoyed by such a visitor, he would make him decamp out of the
first-floor window. He added, that as a Jew, Mr. Messiah would
probably object to marry his daughter to a Mali of a different creed,
although the suitor were the first Nohlenian in the land.
The prisoner observed, that the complainant's daughter was not,
a Jewess. but a Christian, as het mother had been; and that he
had obtained the consent of her mother's sister, which, with the
consent of the Lady herself, was all be conceived necessary.
The complainant exclaimed with vehemence, that he Would ra-
ther see his daughter hanged than married to such a man.
Sir CLAUDIUS SuntaN Hurrah who sat tor the Lord Mayor,
ordered the prisoner to be discharged, on finding bail to keep the
peace, and be of good behaviour.
BOW-STRF.ET.
Yesterday a young lad was charged by his master (Mr. Robert
Day), ,a manufacturing jeweller, with robbing him of a piece of
gold value 12s. It appeared that on Friday last, after returning
from the Old Bailey, where he bad two other apprentices convicted
of a similar offence, Mr. Day was informed by lons of his young
men, that the prisoner had been detected in offering for sale some
gold cuttings at the shop of a refiner, who lives in Broad-street, St.
Giles's. The young man, it appeared, had slime suspicions that the
prisoner, on leaving the workshop for the night, had purloined some
gold cuttings. He therefore followed, and dogged him to the shop
of Mr. Rouen, where he had him taken into custody. On being.
searched by the constable, 1 pieces of gold were found in his
pockets, and Mr. Rouen stated that he had offered one of the pieces
to him for fifteen-pence, but that he. had refused to purchase it.—
The prisoner was fully committed.
Nicholls, a coal-heaver, was brought up upon a warrant,
charged with having grievously beaten his wile Susannah, a very
decent looking young woman, who swore that her spires, was in
the constant habit of beating her. On the previous night he struck
her in the face without any provocation, and such was his general
violence, that she felt it expedient to have him called to task for his
conduct before a Magistrate.
" Oh now, Sue," exclaimed the defendant," Oh now, Sue, tell
the truth. Lord bless your Worship, I loves that ere girl toe well
to hurt a hair of her head, except for kindness; she knows I do—
now don't you, Sue ?"
" No, indeed, I do net," retorted Sue; " your Worship, he's
always a failing' out with me, as be says, for the sole pleasure of
making it up again."
" Well," said Bill, " and does it'not show as how I loves you ?"
—" Yes, it is pretty love indeed," said Sue, " to be always abusing
me in this sort of way. I am come of respectable parents, your
Worship, although I have married a coal porter; and I have made
that man a good wife since ever we have been married."—" Of
respectable parents," exclaimed the defendant in a fury, holding up
his dirty jacket, " Why as for the matter of that, .Sue, you might
not have mentioned it. Your father, you know, was one of the
same cloth. Why, your Worship, her father was nothing more
than a snob—(A laugh).
Mr. HALLS—WeII, never mind ; but tell me what you have to
say for using your wife in the manner you have done?—" Why
then, your Worship," said the detendant, " We had peas and bacon
for supper"—( A laugh).
• Mr. Hat.t.s—Oh never mind your supper, but come to the
assault. " Well, but your Worship. said Bill, I can't get through
without my supper. We vere eating our peas and bacon for supper
last night, when a very silly dispute arose about my poor sister, who
is gone dead. Sue first gave me a dab in the chops, and I then gave
her one in return, arkd that is all.",
A witness was ailed on behalf of the wife, whose evidence
established her case, and Bill was ordered to find bail.
" Come forward Ned and Jack, and bail me." said Bill to two of
his brethren, who appeared in the Office. Ned and Jack came
forward accordingly; and stated they would become answerable
for Bill in any sum his Worship might name. As however they
were top•beavy, and reeled in his Worship's presence very much,
they were rejected, and Bill was locked up.
HATTON GARDEN. •
Rebecca Musses, alias Barrett, and .Poacher Matthews, were charged
with the following street robbery:
Eby. Grainger' said,''she arrived that morning by the Uxbridge
van, and shortly after alighting met with the prisoners, of whom
she incluiredthe way the Btrand. They said they woold'show her
the road, but hardly had they gone a few steps before they caught
held of her shawl and lace cap, with which• they seta& of Bbe,
however, followed then% •to a house in Peter-street, Saffron-hill,
Where they were apprehended by an piker: The property lest was
I net thoweadowThe ptimmusieracidly committed.
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:NARY—LA—BON Ng.
Yesterday Mr. Joseph Ksarn, the coach proprietor, at the Ring.
Arms, Holborn-bridge, was required- to answer four inforipations
lodged against hitt LSy Johnson, fur neglecting to-have the stammer
the places from which certain stages set out, and•to which they;
were going, Tainted on the tors and panels, agreePhiy to the
statute .2-5 Geo. 111.
Brooks, the informer's witness, came forward to prove that the
offences took place in February; the Informations represented them
to be in May, a fatal disagreement, and Lord AIONTFORD dismissed

them all.
Atkinson, another informer, charged a seller of intermediate beer,
in Little Ogle-street, with suffering it to be drank and consumed
on his premises. without being licensed according to law, and he was
convicted in the lowest penalty, £lO.
The defendant gave notice of appeal and security.
WOR9IIIP--STREET.
Yesterday a further examination of the persons named Flowers,
charged with cruelty to rwo children intrusted to their tare some
years since, was resumed. A long inquiry respecting the identity
of a girl about sixteen or seventeen years old, suppost:d to be the
lost child, was gone into. The girl admitted that she had run away
from the defendants w!len she was twelve years of age, in company
with another girl. and at ber persuasion. There was, however, a
discrepancy in her statement, and the Magistrate postponed the
further hearing.

QUEEN-SQUARB.
Yesterday Mr. Humphries, a master builder, in the Vauxhall-
road, was charged with knocking down a watetniait, named John
•Jackson.. Mr. Humphries said. that he always made it a rule wheel
he crossed the water, to give the waterman fid, although the fare
was but one penny. lie offered the watetnian that sum, but he.
demanded 164. which he certainly refused to pay him. The waters
man then seized hint by the collar, and 'were he should not go.
until lie.paid him, and he cersainly struck hint in the face. Several
witnesses confirmed Mr. iluniphiies' sta,enteot, who declared, that
if they bad been seized upon in the same manner by Jackson, tbef
would have knocked him down. Air. I,aittu,.rir immediately dis-
missed the warrant.
William Creed, Proprietor of a Blackheath coach, and several,
others, were fined in mitigated penalties, un tt &Mg informations
laid against them by Byers the informer. The amount of penalties'
was thirty pounds.
UNION—HALL.
Yesterday a seafaring man, named Howell, was brought up on a
warrant for assaulting a man named West, under the following
circumstances—
The. complainant, who is a fishmonger, stated that on the. pre.
ceding day, while engaged in his business, the defendant entered
his shop, and after bestowing sundry abusive epizbets on him, struck
him with great violence about the head and face. There were
several persons in the shop, he added. who witnessed the assault.
Mr. CMAX2IIIIS.—Did you give him no provocation?
Complainant.--Not that 1 am aware, Sir.
The Defentlant-,—l admit having struck him, but then he did
that...which was as bad as stabbing me to the heart—he deprived
me of my wife.
Mr. Citaataxas.—How did he deprive you of your wife?
Defendant—While I was on the American station, he took ad-
vantage of my absence, and seduced my wife.
The complainant here exclaimed, I did not seduce her—she
seduced me, and I consider that I am not to blame."
The defendant could not help expressing his indignation on hear-
' ing the avowal, and replied to it by exclaiming in seaman's phrase,
" You lie, you hulking son of a sea-cook—she did not seduce you,
for I have heard the whole yarn; and know that as soon as I got
under weigh' you watched her by day and by night, and was always
on the look-out after her, until the poor d-1 struck to rim at last,
and now you are coward enough to turn a broadside on her, after
all her favours to you." The defendant then proceeded to detail,
that on joining his ship he left his wife 21. 10s. a month to support
her while he was away. On his return from sea on Monday last,
he proceeded to his old-quarters, in the hope of seeing his wife ;
but on his arrival there he might as well have been shot, he said,
on hearing from the neighbours that she had abandoned the place
for two months, and was then living with another man, whom lie
(defendant) afterwards discovered to be the fishmonger. On this in-
telligence he went there, and seeing his wife in the parlourolesired
that she would leave the place. and accompany him, her lawful
wedded husband, home. The fishmonger opposed his wishes;
" and I admit," said the defendant, " I gave him a sound drubbing
before I left the shop ; for what right had he, I appeal to your
' Worship, to refuse giving up my wife, when I was willing to take
her back, even after what had happened?"
The complainant was asketl.whether the defendant's wife was
still under his roof ? He replied in the affirmative, saying that she
was not disposed to go back to her husband.
Mr. Cumesees—You have injured the poor fellow, and yet have
richly deserved the licking he gave you. . I shall discharge this war-
rant ; aed if you interfere in preventing the man and his wife from
coming again together—that is, if it is his wish—you will again sub-
ject yourself tosimilai treatment; ash I promise you, you will have
no tedreis here.
The sailor, after having declared his determination of getting his
wife back from the fishmonger, then left the Office tot that purpose.

OLD BAILEY, JUNE 4.

OLD COURT.
Before )Ir. Justice ARA'.
John Donohaugh, aged 17, was indicted for assault.
'ing Patrick Holland, and stealing from his person a
coat, waistcoat, and other articles, his property.
The prosecutor stated that he lived in Charles-place,
Goswell-street. On the 6th of April, about ten o'clock,
be. was in .Green Arbour-court, Golden-lane; he *as
r.okisig to a friend when 'the prisoner came up and as-
iatsked bins, and took trom him his hat. The prisoner
then called to some companions—five or sir of them
issue up and.strnck him several blows, and otherwise
ill-usedirim. They then dragged him into a skittle-
ground, threw him down, and pulled off his shoes. He
called to the landlord for assistance, when the thieves
said it was only 44 a lark." The landlord told him he
must get out of it as well as he could. The thieves
eventually stripped him of everything but his trowsers.
He had at the time 11s. in money which they took
from him.
The piosecutor's testimony was confirmed by other
witnesses, and they identified the prisoner.
The Jury found him Guilty. •
The RECORDER immediately sentenced him to be
transported for life.
Before the Recoarota.
James Anderson, Mary Young, and George Morris,
were capitally indicted for assaulting Thomas Johnson,
and robbing him of a sovereign and other property.
The prosecutor, a young man, was induced to accom-
pany a woman of the town to a house in Old Pye-street,
Westminster, and after remaining some time with him
she lett him in the room. Shortly afterwards the pri-
soners entered the room, and beat the prosecutor till he
was in a•senseless condition, and turned him into the
street half naked, and his pockets were rifled of a so-
vereign, nine shillings, and a handkerchief. The pro.
secntor said he was a single man, and he was quire
sober when he entered the house. He had. received the
sovereign the same night from a Mr. Howell.
• Several witnesses, who discovered the prosecutor
sense'ess in Pye-street, were examined, who stated, that
Anderson and-Young were found in bed with another
woman in a room two doers from the house where the
prose moe had been robbed, and Morris, when ap.pre:.
hen.-ed, said, that the woman that accompanied the pro.
'secotor to the house was his wife.
The prosecutor swore most positively to the prisoners,
and he identified.* handkerchief which was found in the
prisoners* bed.—The witnesses all stated that the pro-
secutor. was perfectly sober.
Anderson, in his defence, said, that on his return home
that night he found a man in.his room; he knocked at
the dOor, and not being able to get admission he broke
the door open. The man !muck him over the head whit
a stick, and kicked him, and attempted to Allow blip
down stairs.
Morris, in 'his defence, said, that when he came home
Anderson told hint what 'the prosecutor had done to
him, and he (Morris) assisted Anderson. to expel the.
prosecutor. Morris said that he should call the woman
who had lived with him to corroborate his statement.. :.
A iroman'Whe called herself Mrs; Morris bdtered the
Witness's boa. She said that on the night in questiOn
the pineeintor met her in the street, and .she-toolrlins
to ;be-haul where she cohibited With Wait) end where

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the other prisorer lived" The prosecutor was with her
a short time, and afteewarcli wished to temain with her
all night/he would not go out; be w.as -drunk, 4mt „lie
leis him; she was sate he was drunk, aed would petite
in saying so if fifty witnesses had sworn he was sober;
the handkerchief which the pr,secutor had sworn to.she
knew to be the property of Mary Young, having et
it in her possession before that night.
The RECORDER repeatedly cautioned the witness,
while e e was giving her evidence ;bin she persisted in
swearing in contradiction to the witnesses fur the pro.
secution.

The prosecutor was re-called, and he again swot* td
the identity of the handkerchief, and pointed out a part
which was unhernmed, and had been mended.

The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the
Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoners usiilli._l
Death. _ _ _

The RECORDER told them to prepare for that death
which so soon awaited them (Andes son burst into tears;
and Morris declare., that he was innocent); he could
not bald out any hope that the,r lives would be spared;
The Recorder ordered the witness Mary M,lfis to
be brought before him ; and the Short-hand Writer
having read his notes of her evidence, his Lordship
committed her to Newgate for wilful dud corrupt per.
jtiry. She was then taken into Newgate by the
Officer, cursing and swearing at the Recorder for coca.
,nirtiog her.
T;:e RECORDER adjourned to the New Cou•t; to pass
the sentences on the convicfc.

NEW COURT.

Tile RECORDER havi'ig • Acen his seat, the following
pristm•rs received their enteTices:
Deayst —William Pable, Henry Greenland, Thomas Dormer
James Barber, Henry Jones, William Rice, Thorn„
Thomas Maddox, Frederick Thomas, and Thomas Flight, far
stealing in a ihvviling.ltou-e proiierc y above the Yalu:, of .€5; Lev,
Brent. for felonioli.iy caning lire-AVIIM and reseirim; sniuggltd
goods mar Hastings ; JO.lll Motogomery, for uttering lot ;,d £lO
notes ; Janice Anderson. Mary Noting, and George Mani, for
assaulting and robbing Thomas Johnson.
TRANSPORTATION YOR Lure—Sophia Fitzpatrick, Eliza' Taylor,
John Serge, Isaac Gray, Abraham Shaw.
Fos Fos:titian Yam's—Ann Cooper, glary Ann Smith, Richard
DickenaonJohn Magrath,MatheW Bury, Catherine Follet, Henry
Smith, Edward • Brown,— Sarah Briggs, John Franklin, Samuel
Halls, James Squires. John Sykes. Mary Dound, J tines Morley,
Ellen Frazer, John White, Mary Hubbert. and Louisa Harris.
Foe SEVEN YEARS—Harriet Williams, John Preston, William
Bentley, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Jones, William Samuels, Joh
Williams, Mary Pullen, Elizabeth Bailey, George Bailey, Ana
Day, Francis Haynes, Mary Ann Boys, Eliza Hicks, W. T. Wright.
Wittialll Pritchard, John Davies, John Seymour, Henry Big:*
William Hamilton, Henry Payne, Wm. Salters, EliZibeth Besk,
Mary Wilson alias Dobree, Richard Arnold. Sarah Waters, Mary
Ann Williams, Thos. Baker, John Adams, John Arkiti.on, Sara-
rockier; a Brown, U. Hutton, Mary Edwards, J. W. Chapman,.
Charles Bingley, Elisabeth Martin, Wm. Jones, ;Michael tlerpirs
Arthur Stedman W. Smith, John Phelps, Catherine Spirkest
Rebecca Halls, lames Thompson, John Chapman, John Wolkar,
Samuel Morris, Sophia Mendoza, Edward Lewis, George Cowry
Ann Johnson, H. Haynes, John House, John Griffith% Isobel;
F.dwards Thomas Bexley, Elizabeth Disney, Lewis Bird, Jsiti
Moss; Edward Jones, Wm. Hartnett, James Cros•ley, W. Ansor
Jahn Abrahams, Leah Abrahams, Isaac Lewis, Charles J. Branii.
,John George Jeff, W. Williams, Sarah' Hall, John Mackintalg
James Brennett, Jas. Corley,' W. Somers, A. Hall, and W. Meal;
Two Yea's' baressonatr—Natbats Pcosset and Ann Cathay.
ONe TZAR AND TO as Wutereti—John Nelson and J.
Oats YEAR—John-Williarni, James Bygrove, George Taylor, IL
Miller, Samuel Pullen, James Degmriaond, and Robert Higgs. ,
Str:Motaus—William Acton, Thomas Baker, Thomas Chap.
man, W. Connor, W. Pei' se, Barnard Allen, Genrge-Fuller,Japos
Homes, Mary Ann Naylor, James Riley,. Henry Morgan, J
Midges, James Harding% Harry Fowler, William. Thomas, Jason
Weston,.and Thomas Roberts.
Taiga Monans—Jobn Sims, Henry Leveridge, Philip Haut,
James Neal, George Donald Islacfarlane, Chas.. Mactarlane, Law.
rence Lynch, Henry Brady, Michael Kennedy, William Rune%
M. Mourn, Robert Hayward, Margaret Hull, Donald Phelan,
Peter Smith% James Aston; and Cornelius Glanville. The two last
to be whipped.
Two Monens—W. Mills, Mary Wheeler, Maria Brown, Joke
Paterson, and George Smith.
A number of petty offenders were ordered to different periods,
lof imprisonment ; about six boys under fourteen years of age soh
tenced to be whipped in the gaol and delivered to their Woo;
and the Court adjourned to the next Session.
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Yesterday an Inquest was held at the Anchor al
Hope, Camberwell, on the body of a youth, 13 yeand
age, named Edward Wilkinson, who belonged to ale'
Licensed Victuallers' School. The deceased went with
some other boys to bathe in a bath in Addington-
square, Camberwell; having undressed lion-elf,. be
stood on the edge of the bads, and saying to his com-
panions, "Now for it, I am going off," plunged head-
foremost into the water, and having been seized- with
the cramp, was, drowned. A verdict et Accidental
Death was retutned.
Sunday, while Vie family were attending Divine Sere
vice, the house of Mr. Willis, of Thornas,si reel, Ken-
ningtoo, was entered, and a watch, a quantity of silver
.spoons and apparel stolen.
Monday the dwelling-house of. Rosser. Waraor,
-Esq. at Wimbledon, was broken open, and a lame yaw
city of wearing apparel and some silver spoons stolen.
Saturday the house, No. 2, St. James's-place, Old
Kent-road, was broken into and robbed of a quantity
of plate. The thieves regaled themselves with two
bottles of wine in the kitchen, after dispatchirig which,
,tbey had the audacity to break into the adjoin.ng house,
and stole therefrom several articles of plate.
Friday morning some villains stole a brass mortar,
weighing upwards of half a ton, belonging to the Ho-
nourable Board of Ordnance, out of an inclosed pad-
dock, opposite to the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
The take of salmon in the Clyde is much greater this
season than the last. They are now plenty in Glasgow
market, and sell at from 18d. to 2s. a pound.
BOTANY BAY, Om 17.—The female prisoners by
the Harmony, were all landed in good order and con-
dition, in the Dock-yard, on Saturday morning. Time
were eighty of them on the whole, wives, widows, a'd
spinsters ; and though few could be set down a, having
an extravagant portion of what the world calls beauty,
the flush of health was on their cheeks, and ail were
cleanly and marvellously well apparelled. Some sor-
rowed at the thoughts of their coming fortunes, and
some apparently with impressions of regret, at partibg;
and one looked anxiously for the husband she had bees
long parted from ; another to a brother or other rela-
tive ; while some might be regarded as strangers in the
land of their exile. Their baggage freighted two large
boats ; and when a proper distribution of their bundles
and band-boxes, and other formula had been gene
through, the women hied them to their several served
in Sydney, and for many a weary mile bey , ,!‘d it.--
Among them was a girl not exceeding fourteen you',
of age. Had there been four times the number oc
1 women mere than were landed, there would not have
been wanting masters and mistresses to receive t!ierl•
Paper.

DIED.
At TarboltOn Manse, the 17th ult. the Res,. John Ritchie. D
At bath, Mrs; Maria Maclean, widow of Lieutenant Co:oati
Maclean of Kinlochalline.
Rev. Joseph Cock', for tbietrsix years Minister of Ole 5(lWe
Cock's),
Chapel. Halifax

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