The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-04 00:00:00

ELOPEMENT.

The family of Mr. Perkins, the landlord of the large
public-house and liquor-shop, called the White Hart, in
High-street, Shadwell, London, were thrown into a state
of great affliction, on Saturday evening, by the elope-
ment of his youngest daughter, Miss Mary Perkins, a
very pretty girl, aged sixteen years.
It appears that, for some time past, an Irish police-
man, named Michael Henessey, of the K division, No.
118, had been in the habit of frequently calling at the
house, and paying particular attention to Miss Perkins,
which had been observed by many, but was not noticed
by her parents. On Saturday evening, while serving in
the bar, she requested a labourer, named Miller, One of
her father's customers, to go to the back of the house and
see if Henessey wa.3 waiting about, at the same time
directing him, if he was there, to return and give a nod,
but if he could not see him, he was to shake his head.
Miller went out, and observing Henessey, returned and
gave the signal as directed, on which Miss Perkins went
up stairs under some pretence, and threw a bundle con-
taining her wearing apparel out of a back window, which
was caught by Henessey, who made off, and soon after-
wards Miss Perkins walked out as she was sometimes in
the habit of doing, without any cap or bonnet on. The
elder sister, believing that she had gone out to call on a
neighbour, took no notice of her absence, until Miller
observed that if Mary was gone out she was gone for
good; when she communicated the circumstance to the
father, who immediately went in search of his daughter,
and sent other persons in every direction, but no tidings
of the fair fugitive have yet been ascertained; but it is
strongly suspected she is secreted in somelOdgings hired
by the policeman. A parish officer has since waited on
Henessey at the station-house of the division, No. 34,
Lower Chapman-street, where he has for some time
lodged, but he denies all knowledge of Miss Perkins'
retreat, and alleges that he was on duty when seen near
Mr. Perkins' house, though his beat is half a mile distant.
A neighbour saw him receive the bundle which Miss
Perkins threw out of the window. Henessey is a very
illiterate man, nearly forty years of age. A sergeant of
the same division, named Edward Shaw, No. 14, a mar-
ried man, is suspected of being, concerned in the elope-
ment of Miss Perkins, for on Saturday- morning Miller
was the bearer of a letter to him from her. On Monday
Mr.. Perkins applied to Shaw for the letter, but he said
he bad destroyed it, and refused to divulge the contents.
The affair has caused a very extraordinary sensation
in the parish of Shadwell, where, since the late murder
of Wood the waterman, by a policeman, the police force
has been in very bad odour. Another circumstance,
though not connected with the affair, is somewhat extra-
ordinary, and is the subject of much conversation. A
few hours before the elopement of Miss Perkins, her fa-
ther received an intimation from one of the superior offi-
cers of the police, that compiaints had been made that
his house was a disorderly one, and that when ostensibly
closed for the night, bad characters were re-admitted and
allowed to remain, and that an information must be
lodged against him if he did not conduct it better in
future.

It is but right to state that the White Heart bears a
good character, but it has been for some time very much
resorted to by policemen. The White Hart obtained
some notoriety during the inquest on Wood, from the
fact of its having been the house from which he was
violently thrust by one policeman, before he received the
fatal blow from another.