The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-08-05 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

RIOT
AT THE LIVERPOOL DOCK ERIDEWELL

At tire Borough • Session', Peter Riley. seed 2'Z
We. Tray. 19; We. Prater. 44; Jaynes lllaolow,
35; Bernard Lesion, 25; Fa ederick &Bantam,
; James Crimea, 22; and Owen 31'lloaald, 33;
were indicted for &tint et Liverpool. 'these were
themes who, as ear Roeder' may recollect, were
apprehended for hawing been active in the' 'MOSS
riot and tumult at the Dock Dridtwellom the evening
of the 2211 of Jane last, when the Bridewell was
forcibly broken open by the mob, oho released see..
rut Prisoners that were in confinement there. and
violently beat two men connected with the Dock
Police, and afterwards attempted to threw them
lots the Old Dock.
Mr. Lana stated the case to the Jury, and `see a
succinct narrative of the origin and regress of the
riot, as well as at t►e temelteoes end disgraceful
trensections of the mob on the evening in wresting.
He then proceeded to call evidence to sabstaotiate
the charge spinet the Defendants.
A greet semi*, of witnesses were esamined on
'the part of the Prebeention, most of them connected
with the I).•ck Police. Their evidence proved that
all the Defendants were with the mob doting the riot,
and that some Intl a mote active part than others in
the linings proceedings of the evening.
Several of the Defendants called evidence to este.
WWI an alibi at the time of the disturbance; bat the
testimony of their witnesses seemed not to be entitled
to teach credit.
The Havannas summed ep the evidence with greet 1
precision and correctness; and then laid down Biel
law with respect to persons engaged in a riot—names.
ly, that every individual who does not separate him.
self from a riotous assemblage. is responsible in the
eye of the law for all the virdencesand means *hid
that assemblage may perpetrate.
The Jury, after some consultative, returned a
verdict of Gal/4.090t all the Defendants, eacept
W. Frazer, who was of coarse acquitted.
The ftscoascn, after seriously admonishing the
Primness, passed sentence upon them, that they be
imprisoned 18 months lo Preston noose of Corm.

'ion.
Seine of the Prisoners. when removing from the
bar, behoved in a very indecent and estregeoes men•
ner, end directed the most disgusting Isngeegesgsiost

the Bench.
Clarks Burns, aged 23, was Offends indicted
for having assaulted sad struck Mr. Brutality, So•
periotendent of the Dock Police.
The assault arose oat of the above riot. It being
suspected that some of the men belonging to General
117Eerfrees Legion had been active in the distorts.
ahem et Brides,ll, Captaio Boyd. their Command.
ing offiCtr. reemeeted Mr. &codley 10 come to the
wend where they were energised on the South Shore,
for the purpose of seeing whether he could recognise
any of them as bating taken part in the riot. Ac.
confine', oboe elms o'clock on the following
townie/. Mr. Broodley, with several of his assist-
ante, proceeded to the ground. When he came near
J k.ort's Dee, be saw between 2 and 300 men of
is Itteion, and the Defendant Burns among tbem;
"ban, of them hod Items or lamps of copper dress in
timer bends. On perceiving this, he addressed tbess,
'allot, " My good fellows, I am not come to site.
Het )0)4, bet to meet Captain Boyd." They re•
piled. " You villains! go bark, or sell have your
lives!" Instantly the Police was covered with a
shower of stones, which knocked down some of time
and dispersed the rest. Mr. Broadley was seriously
cot in the month with a stone. One of the Police
escaped into a geld edioining, and sale the Defendant
Berns throwing stones after Mr. Brendle, sod the
other Officers of the Police when they were retreating
from the mob.
'rho Prisoner, in his defence, endeavoured to
prom an alibi on the souring the assault was said to
have been committed; ha did not, however, call any

•itnelUH.
The Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty, and
dee Court sentescidl his to wee days' inprieaa•
mat.

IVE.sT. END FAIR.

--mme—
Yesterday the fifteen men who bad been committed
from Kno.street es Saturday last, were brought ep
for rossaminatioa. Since the! time, one of the pre.
locators, who formerly pee 'widest" easiest some of
the prisoners, has been discovered to be in a deranged
state, occasioaed, it is supposed, by the wooed' he
had received on his heed. During the investigadoe
now going es, Jay, the constable, of Hampstead, who
was shockingly maltrested at Ilse fair, was yesterday
led into the Office with bandages on his bead. He
stated, that he was on duty at Went-end fair, on
Monday leveeing, the 46th of July, wham, cheating
some brother officers were attacked by • gong to
rescue a robber, whom they had in custody, he went
with all possible speed to their assistance ; he Wes
attacked with great sioleece by several of thorns,
who held up birettas shove his head, so that he bad
no power to resist; his staff was wrested frees him ;
be was knocked down, sod best with his staff in a
most inhume mouser, the effects of which were very
visible, and be remained quite insensible for some
' time. He was conducted ions the strong room to
view the fifteen prisoners, and ascertain if eny of
them were amens these who attacked Wm, but be
could not identify any of them ; he suspected three
of them, but ibis opinion was not sufficiently strung
to swear to them. Constables and special constables
did not derive so moth assistance as they otherwise
might, owing to their not being know• distincly to
each other.
Smith, the proprietor of the lash booth, under-
went another long esantinatios whew it appeared
that his booth was filled with known thieves dwing '
the whole of Monday, while the constables were eat
numerous nor powerful enough to apprehend them,
1 till the evening of Tuesday, when their soothers
were se mesh imaged that they surrounded the
booth, and apprehended 37 knows thieves and die.
orderly persons. ft is supposed that the booth iterti
was communised for the accommmistion of thieves,
there hying an entrust., from the beck, supposed to I
be for the *delineate of thieves, when they had com-
mitted a robbery, So have an access both ways. A
flambee of handkerchiefs, supposed to have be 1
stela, were fused is a boa in the booth. The an-

elm to this was, that persons left O.• them who
had no money to pay for liquor.
The M AGISTR Ass drew 2 dife►ant eonclaslon; and
although the Prisoner denied that he dill not know
the wen ohs resented to his booth were thleves. he
ad a strops iodisation to commit him as as UMW-

ry ; however,
Mr. Patel attended, and urged that no buss had
been made out against the Primmer,
The Si ACISTRAIL agreed to discharge him% so his
premising to appear when celled fur; at the same
time inswing hint, that if be was brought beTrs him
again for keeping a booth at that or aui other fair,
and it proved to be the resort of thieves', he lipoid
commit him for trial. for • Jury to decide whether
he was accessory to the robberies which wen com-
mitted at fairs.
.A number of Gentlemen sod ethers new 'Mottled
1 view the Prisoners, sod the annpletest cue inst
is. of the Prisoners, Woo Fletcher, ,study ut.
Mr. Reheat Seggat• Prelims, a liesse.draper, of
'Weedsteck-street. Bond-street, stated that, owgega..l
by a friend, he went to West-mid Fair, isW
riliste:dolly evening, the 27th of July, when, at about
belf-past eight o'clock, he found himself serneedoll
by a sewers., gen of on, ho supposed es easy,
es 40 or 50, Goo whom be received • Molest bleep 1
• the heck of his head. Wheels did not me On
men who pee him the blew, but it was given with
considerable force. lie lees thee robbed of his W.
and also his pocket-handkerchief, which he bad pet
tote his hat, to guard against having his pocket
picked. lie was then knocked down, the pockets of
ibis pantaloons cut oat for his money, &c.
Mr. Elder, who was in company *lib Mr. Pm,-
man, cookrosed his statemeet, and described ma
attack on himself by the same gang, who robbed
him of silver, &c.
George Florian, the headboronglt of Bampsteed,
said be apprehended the Prisoner, Wes. Fletcher,
in Smith's Booth, in the Fair, en the Tuesday eves.
ing, when he found upon him a bat sad handker-
chief, which Mr. Freq.'s', proved le be the same he
was robbed of ; and the bat 'hewed proof of the vio-
lence of the blow gives at first, as the top was vet
through. lie also produced Mr. Pretymsu's pante-
oith the pockets cot out, end bleed epos
thee, she effect of the wooed be received.
Mr. Pret)evan applied to the Magistrate to 'scam
him from being hound over to prosecute, assigning as
a reason that at the time the Smola° in the Old Bailey
would be held be should be abroad upon besinessard
Onsets ; but the Magistrate refused to comply, this
being one of the completest cases that bed come be.
fore him, and he accordingly bound him and his
friend over to prosecute the some ; informing hie that
if lie applied by affidavit on the first day of Middle.
sea Sessions, he bad no doubt the Court would wit
object to emending his retognitsece to the follooioe
Session, and would not feel any difficulty keeping
such a fellow as the Prisoner some time Wager is

rrilYsiestne.rderilliaeyil.y,atthllle
tiorilib.okreitepeglostrreethet,
King:he:ollTc le/
lend Edward Harper, troderwent a long esansina.
lien, charged with basing committed the most daring
depredations at West.end Fair; and with robbing
Pscidiogten, and cutting Mar with some sharp Ism.
sent. The street was crowded with palms' armies,
to view the Prisoner Holley, captain of a most
setorioes gang; and on his being brought up, the
troth was so great that the passage and oflics wet co a-
-1 p'eirly crammed by persons who had been robbed at
the fair, and much beaten.
Kelly now stated, that no the second night of the
fair at West-end, be was at the toll-bossy, ethos a 1
cart drove ep costainiog Healey and Harper, ad
*metal other young men. While they were paliok
their money to go throogh, Henley struck him with
lisomething over the head, and said, that mow of
thos, nights he would mark him, and asked him,
it If he wanted any more iron, 'meld be 'rampart
another moo I" (alluding to the circumstance of
Kelly having prosecuted one of Henley's gang, for
stealing some boo from off his premises, whew he was
found guilty end transported). They then got out
of the cart, surroooded Ms, and attempted to steal
his watch, bet failed. In defending himself, ha re-
mised cuts with a knife or some sharp instrument
over the lingers. Kelly was of opinion that the
Prisonen' intention was to hare robbed him, think-
lag he had money about aim.—Another pers.. cor-
roborated Kelly's evidence, and the Prisoners were
fully committed to Navigate.
William Moses charged Henley with rubbing his
at West-end fair. He Mated, that he was take at-
' tacked on the road to the fair,
__ in the company of Ave
Or Sig others; sad ,wore to Heels, being the person
who atm& him, and knocked out one of his teeth,
and made him senseless, while they robbed his.
Henley was folly committed to Newsate, to lake his
trial ou three distinct charges.

POLICE.

MAIr11011•110V111.—Tioday the LORD M /AMR wok
engaged for a conidetable Ingtb of time with a pri.l
tato esaminotion in his parlour, at which the City;
Solicitor attended.
Terri persona, named John Leadsmen and Julie
Redfern, had been approtheoded sticking op bills le
the street, between one and two o'clock that morn. \
ing, by the officers mach night, and after sch de.
liberation, lodged In the• Cooper. The offence, it
any, uncommitted in the district of the Sitting Al. i
detain, and the names of the Prisoners were insetted
in that list ; bet as anon es the circumstance was
cosamouicated to his Lordship,. he directed them to
be brought before him at the Mansion-hoose.—Se.
seral of the posting-UM were produced; they bore
the impress of a printer in Lung-terse, sod were
merely advertiverroints that the speeches delivered at
the late Meeting in SmiihSelol, and the Ilesolutions
agreed to, were printed, and might be bed at a place
therein nested. The Poisoners were ant regular bill.
stickers, and it was sespecend they might be the pin.
ties who posted the late seditious hood•billi, bet no.
thing of that kind invested aaalnst them. After a ;nig
hearing, they were both discharged.
EARLY DEPRAVITY.
Harrow.oAeogii.—Jobis Cole end Ilene:, Nor.
gin, two boys, the eldest tint eaceeding II *ears.,
age, were brought to the ohne, ore by Ilinthes
Litadfutd, the weetteoper of St. Leke'spatish, sod