The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-03 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

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POLICE.

M arrstoarotouse.—A man nitned Dynan:, who keeps
shop in Field-lane, was broughtbefore the Loan MAYOR,
upon rather an extraordinary charge.
Mrs. Eames stated that a man earned Sheppard, who
was next door neighbour to the prisoner, hail been ap-
prehended some time ago upon a charge of receiving a
1 isle piece of iron which belonged to the Gas Light
Com pany, and which had been stolen a short time before.
Shaprarel was committed for trial, and during his stay
in prison, Dynam told witness that he would ontlerake
to get Shappard out of the bobble altogether, it money
was advanced for the purpose. Witness consented to
make an endeavour for the ontirtunate man, and got to-
gether the sum of 251. in the hope that he would escape
conviction by its i ofiuence. The hour of trial approach-
ed. and the prisoner told the witness there was occasion
for tuore money, and that the moment that was pit' she
might depend upon a prosperous conclasion to the case,
witliont the interference of lawyer, barrister; or Judge.
Confirmed in her expectation by this assurance, the wit-
ness raised 11/. more through friends and the pawnbro-
ker, to the later of whom she was recommended by the
ptisener, to whom she gave the whole of the money the
moment she became possessed of it. The day of tail ar-
rived, and the unfortunate Shappard looked about in vain
for an aivittal. Mr. Dynam was not to be seen—the
evidence proreeileill—notiody seemed to care for the event,
ease' t SI-air:led, who, to his surprise and honour, was
convicted, and sentenced to be imprisoned sus months
and whipped. L'niler these Orem:is-wee., the witness
considered that the prisoner bad obtained the money
upon false pretences.
Mr. HUMPHREYS, the solicitor, attended for the pri-
soner, and stated that Shappard had 'Petitioned upon his
trial that he tint not the assistance of Counsel, in Ponce.
((mend' of the low ebb of his pocket--an ascount which
little aereed with the present charge.
The prisoner wt:s ordered to find hail.
licii.ottatt.—Thos Tilpard an 1 JF,n. Cooper were
brought up yesterday before the Sitting Magistrate, Al-
derman T. S'attill, charged with a robbery under the
following circumstances:—
The neighbourhood of Friday-street and the Old
Change have of late been much infested early in the
mooning by a set of fellows lurking about and watching
tlsr it opportunities of robbing the wholesale waiebieuses, ,
generally at tkat hour empird only by the several per-
secs cleaning them oat, preparatory to bosineas. A little I
lecture S o'clock yeaterday mottling, the journeymen at
work in the *shop of Mr. itlaki•slee, carpenter, Friday-
street,
observes! four suapicioes fellows, two of whom
were tier priLenPrS, apparently upon the 1 ink out. Mr.
Blakeslev's foreman in ronseqaence dispatched one of the
men for :Jackson. an officer of the Ward, who at'rnded
immediately, and stationed himself at-the corner of Dis-
taff-lane. to he upon the watch. Evans, the porter, at
Mr. Drithoife, wholesale hosier, directly opp *site, had
also got sight of the fellows, and was in censeqnence
keeprso his eye apon a package Which stood in the pas-
'age of Ms master's warehouse. While thus watched.
one of the fellows planted himself against Mr. Blakesley's
situp 'o take the attention of the men working there; a
second, the prisoner Tilyard, placed himself against Mr.
Pothoit's warehouse, to prevent the view down the
street; and ender cover of this supposed screen the pri-
soner Cooper very deliberately took the box from Mr.
Duthoit's passage upon his !shoulder, and was as deliber-
ately walking away with it up the street. Sou-of
131akeeley's men pursued, and alter a desperate straggle,
secured Cooper,
y the box. Tilyarii, who run La in a
contrary direction, was met and taken by Jarkson, the
esthete, but in ea confusion the other too fellons wade
their escape.
The box was produced before the Magistrate,andi len-
tifiecl by Mr. Unthoit as his property; it merely conteined
some wrappers.
Cooper did not atterrpt any defence for himself, but
asserted the innocence of Tilyard.
Jk4h the prisoners were committed for trial.
Boa -arnarr.—J. TIMMER'S MATRIMONIAL SPE,O..--
tror old John Turner was brought before the Mattis-
+fates yesterday, charged, for the second time, with
having beaten his wife.
John Turner lived a haebelor in the world fur many
years, and a jocund bachelor he was—always merry, and
always industlitius whenever he was in the workin4
hu-
ewer. lie got into love too, occasionally, for the lasses
liked him, anal he liked the lasses, and one of them was
even kind etionali to bless him with a daughter; but he
alwayi stuck stiffly to his hachelorship, for wedlock, as
le said was "an awful thing." At length, about 19
months age, be found himself approaching his sixtieth
year, and beginning to fed " lonesome and moped,"
awl then he thought within himself that wedlock might
not, perhaps, he such au awful thing as he. in Lis
younger days had considered it, awl then be thought be
wool-I venture upon a matrimonial spec. at all events. So
he diet, and went and fell in love with Mrs. Mary Ma-
craw was noticing loth to be courted by John TurnerMa-
she even professed to love him, and in due time they
were n artied. But it was a sad spec. for Julio Turner,
and. he soon found that wedloil; was a touch more awful
thing ti au he, with all hie fears, had ever contemplated.
It was nottriog but mangling from morning till night—
ZnanC'e. mangle, mangle, and John Turner Inuit turn
the to.ngling a heel, rove, as he said, " till the puspra-
Jiox ran down the hollow of his back like water down a
brook:" and if lie did not turn the wheel fast enonele,
is loving spouse never failed to mangle his ears, poor
man; lint Jo en Turner bore it all like a hero, and a cine-
times. though very rarely, he resented it like a hero;
and these el sentings bare twice brought him in custody
before the Magistrate, though he has only been married
a abed 16 mouths.
On the present *cession, Mrs. Turner—A very decent
sort of body, need 46, deposed thus:—" Your Worship, 1
wants noticing but peace ; hot my husband, John Tur-
ner, is a eery had man, and can't, get it no how. No
Jolt of work pleases him so well as wattling me, your
We ship; and I've born it and bore it with the most ex-
emplary pail-ace, -as Mr. Nukes says, for this twelve-
ru atli last, come the fift of May: till last night, and
lb a 1 certainly did turn again—
' 'You did !--and pray which got the best of it ? asked
the Magistrate.
Mrs. Tallier replied that sne Isle not know exactly;
but it was a fail, she said, that she was black, and blue,
-ant all manner of colones, with the repeated beatings
Jahn Turner had given her.
John Turnlr stook his head and sighed; and his
spouse called Mr. Obadiah Nukes as a witness in her
behalf.
Mr. Obadiah Noises cam • forward. lie was a tall old
tresn in soectacies ; and he said John Turner wen the
ugliest little else tello-v that ever ratite into a body's
home. for he wits Always jawing and bea'ing his wife ;
and there was nu peace tor
" And has the ;comas no faults r ak.ed the Magis.

trate.
•• Why, fur Or matter of tliute" qitoth Mr. Oba.lialt
Nokes, tl.e *maws is • coati woman eu ugh—or limes
go." An 4 he thou began to speak agai mit John :fumes.
again; but .his stopped by a.king who, bed
the best of it in the a.iault sminedia•ely its question—
last night's battle.
Mr. Obadiah Nokes replied, Dear me I your Wor-
ship. its a tuortal isnunsobillty for me to soy—tiler were
*p, at.d Scuffling down, and at last Mrs. Twiner
was topmost.'"
Jobe Tarim was new called upon to speak for him•
solf. and he began by showing the hack of his baud
and livid from some recent violence ; bis cars
and peck curiously interlaced oath scratches ; athl suu

dry bumps on the birch Obis bead. He assured his Wor-
ship, that his wife beat him three times every day, and
very often in bed at night, in such a dreadful manner.
that•all the neighbours admired at her. Their battle of
last night, he saidovas caused by his endeavouring to
save his daughter from her fury; but eyed then, he
merely pushed her away, and she directly put her hands
to her ears and " ;screamed ten thousand murders."
Then Mr:Obadiah Noires, who is as bad as herself, came
down stairs, and taking off his spectacles, seised him by
the throat, and held him whilst his wife almost beat 'situ
to a mummy.
Miss Turner corroborated her father's statement. She
merely called at the house to ask him how he was, when
her angry mother-in-law flow at her and " tore her bonnet
like an eagle." Her father attempted to save her from
further violence, and then Mr. Nokes and her mother-in-
law beat him most unmercifully—so much so that she
could not beer to see it, and therefore went away, leaving
them in the midst of their work.
Mrs. Turner anti her friend Obadiah were very desir-
ous of rebutting this statement by farther evidence ; but
the Magistrate put an end to the matter by ordering
John Turner to find bail to keep the peace towards Mrs.
'turner; and Mrs. Turner to find bail for the assault
upon Miss Turner; and they having no bail ready, lie
further ordered that they should both be locked up iii the
same cell until they had.
John 17catlicratone, a yonngman of very respectable
connections, was committed on a charge of robbing his
furnished lodgings. He admitted the charge to be too
true; and said he was drawn into the commission of the
oflence by an abandoned woman with whom he had been
foolish enough to form a connection.
Richard Taylor, a carman in the employ of Messrs.
Ward and Hood, distillers, in Queen-street, Oxford-
street, was charged with furiously driving a horse and
cart along the Strand; thereby breaking several shop
windows, and endangering the lives of his Majesty's
subjects.
The charge was made by Mitchell, one of the street-
keepers in the Strand, and substantiated by a host of
respectable witnesses.
Ile was tined in the full penalty of 20s. under the High-
way Act, and adjudged to pay for the windows Ire had
broken.
MARLCOROCCII•STnEET.—D. Fatty, M. O'Callaghan,
and Cain. were charged with rioting. Souse Irish-
men were di irking togc.ltrr on Monday evening, in the
New-road, when a tight ensiled between two of them,
which in due time extended to the whole group, and ul-
timately to the pa by indiscriminately. One of the
Irishmen, named Mqß'rath, was nearly killed. The pri-
soners were ordered to find bail.
A Gentlemaa residing in Charlotte-rtreet, Fitzroy-square,
was charged with having destroyed a bill of exchanee,
tinder the following circumstances :
A clerk in the banking house of Messrs. Coutts and Co.
stated that the bill to question was the acceptance of the de-
fendant, which was paid into their house, and becoming due
that day he went to demand payment of It. He sent the
bill up stairs by the servant, and presently the defendant
came down and walked out of the house without saying a
word about the bill. The clerk asked him either to return
it or pay him the amount. Tire defendant took the bill from
his pocket and tore it in pieces. T.ie complainant having
co:lected the fragments from the ground, the defendant
snatched them from his hand, and Instantly swallowed the
whole. The bill having thus dissppeare I. he thought he
was hound to sive the defendant into custody.
The Gentleman being called upon to say what he had to
urge in defence. said, he certainly had destroyed the bill in
the manr described lie assured tIM Magistrae h did
not don soe with any criminal Intent. The truth was, hee had
had the misfortune to accept bills for a friend to the amount
canOtli., for which he had never received one farthing value.
This was one of those bills, and such was the state of irri-
tation ioto which he was thrown by the appearance of It for
payment, that lie did that which he was very sorry for. The
object of the amount of the bill to him was nothing ; he was
in possessiou of property to the value of 2.t1001. n-year, al-
though he was at present rather embarrassed, in conse-
quence of the irregular payment of his rents. While making
this statement, the Gentleman appeared in a state of great
mental agitation.
tablSomand e Gentlemen who attended, said he was very respec-
e, man of undoubted property.
Mr. Dyer said that the best way for him would be, to pay
the amount of the bill ; unless he did so, he must be ordered
to find bail fur the assault in forcibly taking the bill from the
owner.
The complainant said, all he wanted was, to have the
amount of the bill ; which the Gentleman agreed to pay, and
the affair ended.
Thomas Dixon, a watchman belonging to St. George's
parish, attended to answer the complaint of Mr. Croker,
of the Admiralty, a relation of Mr. Croker, the Secre-
tary. This gentleman stated, that on Thursday night
last, as be was returninghotne with some friends through
Conduit-street, they met this watchman, and Mr. Croker
very civilly asked him what the hour of the night was?
to which lie replied, that lie ought to know that himself.
Mr. Croker remonstrated upon the impropriety of his
making such an answer, and said he was not doing his
duty; upon which the watchman seized him by the col-
lar in a most violent manner, tore his coat, waistcoat and
shirt, and dragged him to the watch-house, refusing even I
to let bins call at the house of a friend on his way, in'
order to procure bail. Mr. Croker added, that the aim.
sive language the man used towards him and his friends
the whole way to the watch-house surpassed any thing
he ever heard. Ile called them a set of scamps, black•
guards, and every scurrilous epithet.he could thinkof.—
When they got to the watch-house, so satisfied was the
constable of the watchman's improper conduct, that he
refused to take the charge against Mr. Croker.
Two Gentlemen who were in company with Mr. Crot
her at the lime, corroborated his statement, and said they
never saw any thing so bad as the watchman's conduct.
The defence set up by Dixon was so little satisfactory to
the Magistrate, that be said he felt it his duty for such
gross misbehaviour to suspend him for one month, and
that any reusissierief ti part of that-time 'would depend
upon the good character that might be given him by
some respectable persons.
Yesterday, M. a constable employed by the
inhabitants of the New-road and Regent's Park, was
brought rip on e summons, charged by T. Whalen, a
Alary-la-honne constable, :vith gross neglect of duty, by
cowardly running away, although armed with a blunder-
buss and cutlass, during a serious riot and disturbance
en Monday night last, an account of which was given in
our paper of yesterday.
Whalen being sworn, stated, that on Mclnday evening
during t! e riot he was called to the spot, and in the heat
of the battle, while the sticks of the rioters were flourish-
ing in (platters, he thought it must prudent not to in-
terfere until he procured some further assistance. Ile
accordingly went to the prisoner,/who he knew to be well
armed, and requested bis ass stance. The prisoner with
a cool sieliberatiun took Lis blunderbuss, and laid it
:sews his eras, and accompanied witness to the spo: ; on
!Melt he (witness) malted into the midst of the rio
wthen
ers,
and aorehended leo of them, whom he collared,
he expected the prisoner to have assisted him; but. not a
little to his alarm and astonishment. on losking
:round,
he saw him running across the fields with the deadly
waapon over his his shoulder. and leaving the scene of
action with far more speed than he cause to it.
The prisoner. in his defencq, said, that he did not
ran away through fear. but on witnessing such as alarm-
ing riot He returned to his watch-box in the fields to pro.
core his rattle, which he had forgotten. He denied
Whalen*s statement of his having a cutlass, but con-
t.:wrest having a blunderbuss.
'lke rJagistrate thought him a cowardly Whie, and
was surprised that the Vounnissioners of 11 nods and Fo-
rests should hare such'! protecter. He was very nr.fit fur
his situation.

tog.
He confessed being; acquainted with Connor, but knew
nothing of the quit rel.
The Magistrate reprimanded him, and discharged him
from the office.
Illaar-ta-nonsts Oynca.--Darby Macauley, ism
bronglit to this office, on ac carge of migrating an in-
tere ding looking young girl to whom be bad connmit-
ted a breach of promise of marriage.
It appeared that Maucanley some time ago had formed
an acquaintance with the eirl. He professed excess
I,er a'-
ive
love, in return for which Miss was (vial in .
ferliens, and granted him every tiling. Her mother
looked on him as one of the family. He occasi malty
made prosecutrix pre enta, the first he made to her was a
gold ring, which put her very much in mind of the wed-
ding, and caused her to feel no doubt of its taking place;
her mother prepared every thing, and was quite rejoiced
at the anticipation:of her daughter being so well provided
for. but tll. on his lost visit pet a question which blasted
all the pleasing hopes of the parent, and turned the joy
of the expectine bride into disappointed grief. 0.) pay-
ing this last visit he had the impertinence to ask, "To
how touch he was going to marry ?"—or, in utter words,
" That she (the moth meant to give?" The word
" Nothing" confounded the swain, who bale adieu to
Mrs. and her child. His visits were less then usual;
whenever he came, the tines, ear-rings, and trinkets,
seemed to be his only oloject, a• d the by mimes' altar as as
never thought of by Mr. M. unless reminded of it, and
then a deaf ear was paid. At length they considered him
an intruder, and the mother and dangliter forbade hint
the house, and attempting to eject him by force, he as-
saulted both of them.
The defendant was ordered to find bail.
John Williams, otherwise Frederick John William
Norton, was brought before JOUN RAW LINSON, Iraq.
and underwent a final exasuitiat:on on a charge of
burglary.
Mrs. Mary Johnston, stated, that sloe resided at No.
4, Spring-st reet, Marv-li -bonne. On Wednesday evening
the 2Gth of March, she was in the kitchen, when bear-
ing footsteps of some persans in the passage, she ran op
stairs aril heard the street door suddenly closed; on
loolcin g into the fr nt parlour, which was standing open,
she miser.' a valuable table cluck ; witness, on examin-
ing two other parlours, discovered they had bred entered,
and several valuable articles stolen.
Pere: ng, watchman, apprehended the prisoner in Pad-
dington-street, in a harlotry-coach, which had broke
down, and in which was the clock. In his pockets were
found a tea-pot, and a cream jog, also a swill trunk,
containing three gold seals, chain. ring„ necklaces, &c.
which were identified by the prosecutrix as her pro-
perty.
Tile prisoner, who said he slionli reserve what lie
had to say until a future Jay, was fully committed to New-
gate for trial.
UNION-HALL.--SEICIDE PREVENTEII.—A decent looking
female, about the middle age, was yesterday brought before
D. King, Esq. by Gill, the officer, from the watch-house,
where she had been taken the preceding night, having made
an attempt to destroy herself.
Gill stated, that 'shoat two o'c'ock that morning he was
passing through the Mall, in Guildford-street, Southwark,
when his attention was excited by the cries of a female in
distress. lie hstened and found that they issued from the
common sewer, a filthy ditch running through the grove. lie
spoke to the watchmen, and they examined the sewer with
their lanterns,when they .'iscovered the female present in the
filth, and nearly lifeless. After much difficulty they succeed-
ed in getting her out. nearly smothered in mud. The account
she gave of herself, and the reason she assigned for commit-
ting the rash act, was, that her husband had believed very'
cruelly to her, anti had turned her out of doors, and tout she
had latterly experienced such treatment from him, that she
was tired of her life. The officer said she would inevitably
have been lost had not he gone to her assistance.
The Magistrate ad bised the poor creature to return to her
husband, and if he refused to tag her in, or support her, then
to apply to the parish, who would procure her redress ; but
upon no account whatever to offend the Almighty by cow.
muting self-destruction.
The poor creature said she should net according to the
Magistrate's suggestion, and left the office.
James Freeman, residing in Benne:street, Blackfriars,
was brought up on a warrant, charged with cruelly ill-
treati Ise his own daughter, about ten years of age.
The little girl stated a series of ill treatment received
by her trout her unnatural parent. A few night ago her
father, she said, came house at a very late hour, and for a
trivial offence struck her in the eye, and blackened it (her
face exhibited the marks of theblow.) He then knocked
her down on the floor, kept her in that position, and pre-
vented her crying out by stuffing his handkerchief in her
month. 'f he child stated main- other acts of barbarity
tonards her, and ultimately declared that she went in
danger of her life.
A number of the neighbour', residing in the street,
proved that the child's screams wore to be beard at all
hours of the night proceeding from the house.
The father, in expisnation of his conduct, stated that
the child was of a most perverse temper, and he was
obliged to have recourse to chastisement, in order to
bring her to a sense of obedience to her mother and
himself.
The Magistrates severely reprehended his conduct to-
wards his clsil l ; and gave directions that she should be
taken care of in the Parish IVorkhouse, until a situation
could be procured for her. In the meantime the father is
to allow the parish ss. a week for her support.
A Tilley TAKEN BY A Doo.—A young man, named Moses
Clifford, was brought up by Clarke, the officer, on the fol-
lowing charge of feluuy :
Mr. John Pusey, residing in Elizabeth-place, Lambeth,
stated, that about II o'clock last night, he was slttiog with
Isis family In the front parlour, when he was surprised at the
incessant barking of a small dog of his In the yard ; he went
out and found that the animal had secured the prisoner by
seizing him by his breech ; on looking round he found that
the pigeon-house had been broken opendrod robbed of four
fancy pigeons. Llt
The prisoner fell on his knees, and begged for mercy.
admitted getting over the fence, and stealing the pigeons;
that he had put them in his bag, and had thrown them over
the wall, and just as he was getting over, the dog seized him
first by the leg, and then by the breech, and there held him,
till he was secured.
Upon the intercession of Mr. Pusey, and it being the first
offence known to have been cm committed by the prisoner, he
was discharged, with an admoonition.

On Saturday, Henry Shaugnessv, the Quack Doctor,
was flogged through the town of Arid, pursuant to sen-
tence at the last Assizes of Limerick, fur assaulting a
very young femde.
About one o'clock in the morning of Wednesday last,
(the 26th ult.) the house of Mrs. James (who keeps a
small shop on Barking-tye) was attacked by a gang of
men armed with bludg.ons. One man entered the bed-
room in which she with her mother, aged 131, and a
young women, her niece, slept, by breaking the glass
and frame of the window ; another man mounted the
ladder to s ipport his companion; a third remained be-
low. The man in the room detnanded her money and
keys, and taking her pockets, &sired to know how much
money wee in thew, and on being told about 41., swore
that if she did not get more instantly, be would kill her;
but on the cry of 6. Murder" from the niece, he threw
the pockets nut of the window, and the three departed.
On first seeing the man at the window, Mrs. James
jumped out of bed sod went down stairs for a sword that
-he bid in the house, expecting to attack the man before
he should have entered toe room • nut finding the sword,
she took up a hook, which be aim was in the bed-coons
on her returnloucked out of her hand, and gave her
a very violent blow on her right um, and another on
the fare.— (B ury Gazette.)