The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-04 00:00:00

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St){11ili:41;11. AnslONS.—Fat oar.
7-emmaw---
Mary Thmiter wee Witted for an assault on a poor
woman, her neiebbone.
-' The defendant proposei to upon the rise herself. and
when informed thaushe must wait for her time, paced
round round the iveiteure, Ilk. a bear In a jingle, to
iiist iereor Atsielraerri.
.114 1104. Mit lteart: whirls turned out to be not/ling
• vont then. the r.r Unary ranee. of hostility between neigh-
"mots; the defendant orasealtowel herptrole. Her speech,
dine inanrer, Icr looks,' left no doubt that she bad rotn-
roitted the asssulti or was ready to commit one at a mo-
ment's prorocalm. She then called her , witnesses ; but
a. none appeared, she ordered Plummer, her husband, to
stand np.. The min obeyed ; he stood upright, and look-
ed to the commander—smelt was the power of habit in a
rtrßnge pfare.
The Jury fowl her Guilty; and the poor man looked
eareely for the sentence. Was it imprisonment—was lit
oepara,iort of any kind?
Th. iteCORMIR directed him to became bail for her Feido
Iteliarionr, on whirls rendition she was discharged.—N r
• was min—peter nas husband more disappointed than popr
Plummer.

POLICE:
Matisectst House.—Melerd Tarrant, the shoplift of
• a person named Tomkinit, who sells furniture in Moer.-
tirldq. appeared) before the totes Maras ..to answer the
complaint of M. llooten, for obtalahlg money under false
presences.
From the statement of Mr. and Mrs, Mooten, the follow.,
lug facts appeared i—They went, a morning or two ago, tee
the, wellitnown Brokers liOw in. Moorfieldo. to purchase a
bed atirl'mettriess. and at the house clone Mullet they paw
some irides of the kind that Please 4 them. /bey wera.
• liked right goiness.• which they refused tit glee ;;and after
I looking into other shops. without
.peepoeing to 'wettest.,
• tiles' went array. (tithe evening, however, they yearned.
to Slonrfields, when it was dark, and looked about for
t: Ilullrt`s shop. The defendant then pointed to Tomkins's.
aid that was Mullet's, and pretended to be acqoaint-
• rd withtbeir hitsinesst for :bey mentioned to him, .when
they were !oiling shoot, that they bad been bargaining at
llinlitt's for. a. bed. They then accompanied.. the
defrndant.who rather shoved than led them, into Tomkins's
Noise, %here they asked to see the old gentleman they
1;a I spoken to in the inoin'ng, and they were told that he
slias out; hut that tie defendant would do their hos(iless as.
well. They then said they would give 71. 10s. for the bed
end Matti-as, for Which they bed asked eight guineas in
the morning, and the defendant eitasented to hate the
offer. • Upon going up stiles. they found that they were in
the wrdhg house, and that the beds they saw were not to
• be compared to thug at Mullet's. The defendent, however,
hid I•siotedoPrib getting the money 'before "they were to
see tete bed, and refused to return It; so that they bad no
t 'tentative but by application to the Lord Mayor. •
It beither appeared, that the fellow had token care to,
give the receipt an Tonikins's name, but he huddled it op
together, es the complainant said, and it was so dark that
tile writing retold not be seen.
The defendant said that the complainant had selected
the bed in his master's house in the morning. tie ad-
mitted that he nas in the habit of stretching a lit:le to
get a condoler, Reid that it was the practice of the Row,
that the trade apploved of aged encouraged it,—an 1 that j
he was'nt a going to let a chance go. " We have," raid be,
0 a right to get a customer bow we can, or how can -we,
:Ray our rent and fates?"
, the LORD MAYOR advised Tarrant to pay back the 71.
Iris. and escape a more disagreeable arrangement which,
might take place befo:e 22 of his equals.
Tarrint•—•What, my Lord, ant 1 to have nothing for the'
time that was occupied with these people? and what's snore.
1 surprise my name will appear to morrow allover thetown
IC the newspeptro.
Aldriman Lucas, who sat with the Loan blernit.—lf
` your time was occupied, it was occupied in representing-
other people.
His Lordship then raid that the conduct of the defendant
was a palpable trick, and should come befire the pahlic is
srtions shape, if the money were not returned.
The defendant said, he would represent the case as it
. now stood to his mast. r.
• . Mr. Wood, whose uatnplAint against Mr. Dando appeared
in our paper of yesterday, *minded, and sated to the Lord.
'• Mayor, that Mr. Dand) had offered the I I!. transmitted to
. him, !we required an acknowledgment, without consenting
' to pay for the stamp; ands ill persisted in withholdiag the
' letter in which the money .had been enclosed, and to
whjch, the complainant was as mach citified as to the
"'ley lf
' itse
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•, :lte tem) Marna Immediately sent fur Mr. Pandit, aim
pea .ily.obeyeel the message, mid at the suggestion of his.
Lnlabip, c ',tented to give op the letter, as well as the,
money. dlr. Woo.l then consentel to give a receipt.

li honaht..—A cause of some interest rain, on fur hear-
ing yesterday. The plaintiffs were Captain Page. of the
Prince of Waterloo Strain Pail• t. an 1 M. airs. Brown.
. brothers, merchants, 157, Cheapside s and the defendant,
. William iliiseitmu, desk to Mr. Bot:erill, merchant, Wood-
street, Cheepaide. Mr. Harmer attended for the plaintiffs.
The defendant did not answer the • 1111 l mons, hut his em-
ployer, Mr (Wirt% appeared on his behalf, he being tin-
. avolditly absent.'
• • The evidenee sent to establish the following facts :
Cattalo Pave bad been entrusted by a Mr. Hotterill, rc-
aidsoi et •OS'end with a parcel containing bills of ex-
. thane., and wiser se. ;irides, for the sum of 3211., to be
delivered by him to the house of Messrs. Brown, of Ch-ap-
elec.:which, on bis arrival (the 13th. of September), lie
. gave to a person mooed William Lawrence, with orders to
•t eli.er it according to the direction (Messrs. Brown,
theapsisle, i (Eldon). Lawrence took the parcel, an•l went
with it to. the house of 3k. lloterill, .not certain that lie
'1.a,1 not a pare, 1 for that gentleman also/ where he showed
it to the defendant Wiseman, aware of his knowledge of the
Plrtire• Wil Mae 100 ii 'iA *at al hi" hand, said lie knew
, the parti s well, and would give it to there himself. Law!
react replied that he would rather take it according to
orders;Ali but the other persisted in, detaining it, not-
; sti4mtautling the t desire of Lawrence to the con-
trars,.giiitig him a
Id shilling:fur, his trouble. In the mean.
lime,essrs. Brown received a letter of advice, nointioning
that a parcel containing 3.211. in bills of exchange, See., had
'beepient to therm by. Gaptain irsge....Kuiprised at not
lerking it, gory made Imptiriee, And !tweed the fore-
going particulari.', The:Wall% now Emile.; upon the
defendant to deliver -op this parcel, which bad been traced
into Ids bands. •
Mr. Botterill said he 11101kMat prepared at present, to
enter into! regular defenee elf thodefendent's conduct I hut
there Were reasons, Which should be laid before his Wor•
slip; if.timie were allowed, which would make it apparent
that Wiseman had acted properly. This tnneli, however, tie
stoull say. that a liege sum of money was due In him from
Db. Ib rerilt, -of ttsrend-(who wars his fstlier), and he
wished to bring him to some settleu.ent by holding the
parcel. He himself bad been on the Contin-nt during the
transaction. His clerk would he fortb&Ming whenever his
Worship thought proper to appoint.
A florin n•Scuo LET remarked. t h it whatever tr snsit-tioos
tlict4 wire 13;tivren Mr. Puttee ill anti his fattier, they Jrsd
nothlooo d 0 with the gyiesiiiin• at issue. Mr. Itotterill
sausi.know, as a merchant of Lendon, that the instant any
propertyipasses (iota the hands of one person to be con-
vey's! to 'towhee, it comma to be-bis property, and becomes
• thigit him to whom it The cow was impel-lent.
atr• was antiotts iattO. pollee to all Parties. Ilia Wor-
ship then„ yeetiest .ut the parties, adjourned the ease
star till ithmeitow Oil 47).

.THE ST

ROW STRUT.—NTATT D. Bliers.—A Mr. Bonus WV
bronchi before the Magistrate
.yesterday. on a warm",
charging him with having enevousty assaulted oat
Wyatt. The parties are opposition coachmen—Mr. Bones'
driving the new Marlow coach, and Mr. Wyatt the old ori.
(real one.
Mister Wyatt deposed that, on a certain day named, the
old original lUarlow and the new Marlow met at the White
Write Cellar—each trying to do the hest for itself. Whilst
there he spied a lady of his acquaintance, as had often gone
down the road with him, and. he. very naturally, went
to her amtraid, " flow do you do. Marm ?" To which
she replied. " Pretty Well—thank von, Sir." Then he it.
minded her that he'had often had the pleasure of driving
her, and be repressed a hope that the next time she wanted
to " go dowb" she wonld give him " a caviar and she was
just going to tell him that she certainly would. when
Mister Bonus came ep. and gave him a thump in
the mouth kicked him both before and behind as
quick en lightning. and nimbi him spin round like a tea-
-1 tglater
Mister Bonns, in his 'defence., admitted the thump and
the two kicks, but he gave,. very different account of the
circumstances which led to them.' According to hint, he
—Mr. Bonus—found Mr. IT4mit on the step of the new
Marlow, talking to a lady inside, and trying lo
her out of it by telling her the old Marlow would take her
down' for less money.. Mr. Bonne, as the driver of the new
Marlins., was of course very much annoyed at this, but still
he kept.his temper; and,asking Mr. Wyatt what. business
be had upon the step of his coach, he put him gently
aside ; *hereupon Mr. Wyatt did a very dirty trick, and
said, " Take that :—it's more than you are worth." "If
you do that again," said Mr. Mims "•I'll knock you
down." Mr. Wyatt did do it again, and Mr. Hones wits as
rod as his word.
This statement was substantiated by several very respect-
cads, and 14, Wyatt was annulled.
MARLBOROUGH STRIPT.....raII office was yesterday much
crowded to hear the 'examination of josh. Farmer and
If illiarn Liddillgtors,..who bale been some days in custody.
On a cbarge of -breaking into and' robbing the house of
Mrs.. Bull, a lady. 6f fortune, No. 54, Welbeck Street,
daring the hotirs of Ovine Service, on Sunday, the 7th
Sept. Mrs. Bull attended, with her solicitor, and a
number of respectable friends; Mr. Char. Phillips, the
Barrister, attended for Liddington.
Agnes Tomlinson, who had been left in charge of the
house in the absence of ides. Bull, stated that on the day
in qnestioo, she secured all the doors and, windows, and
went to Church about eleven o'clock, When she returned
at one. she fOund the area gate and street door open, and
saw that the house had been entered through the kitchen
window, the bars of which were forced.
The house Was plundered of a vast deal of property.
consisting of down Bede, pillows, bolsters, and bedding of
every description, together with a qnaotity of glass ware,
silver tea and table spoons, and some valuable wearing
apparel.
A large quantity of the property, which bad been fottnil
by the officers. Winitcott and Clements, who apprehended
the prisoners in their apartments, was produced, all of
which was identified by this witness and Mrs. Bull. This
Lady said, she could swear positively to the beds end I
pillows, as she had herself superintended. the making of
them, and they were formed differently from what those
articles were in general.
William Howard, a servant out of place. deposed, that
about eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, hiept. 7, he was
passing through Queen Anne Street, near Well:seek Street,
and saw Fanner shout he bad long known as a butler in
several families, standing in conversation with the other
priaaner at the corner. Witness stopped for some minutes
to speak with Farmer, and during that time he ,observed
the other man attentively, as be bail a very extraordinary
dirty appearance, and witness would now swear that Lid-
dingten was the same man. 'Sarah Liecen. an elderly
woman, said, that about the same time, on the same day
spoken of by the last witness, she stir two men condor
from Welbeck Street, loaded with beds and bedding ;
heads were so covered that she could not see their faces, but
from the appearance of the legs and -breeches of one, she'
believed him to be the prisoner Liddington.
Mr. PUILLIPS said this wasrathera curious mode of idols
tifring a person, by seeing a pair of legs and breeches,
walking along the strict.
Airs:Hank Coadie, who lodges at No. 25, James-street.
Alanzbester-square, where Farmer also lodged under the
name of Edmonds. and when a part of the property now
produced was found, ;aid that about twelve o'clock on the
Sunday in question she opened the door for two men, who
came in loaded with beds, ice. and they went up to the pri-
goner Farmer's room; site did not see their faces as the
loads concealed them, but she believed at the time, and
does now, that they were the two prisoners ; for a short
lima after she saw Liddington go out aid' some of the
things ; she had before repeatedly seen him at the house.—
The evi lace, which was alt circumstaotial. here closed ;
and the prisoners having nothing to say, except that Lid=
dington s rid he bought the goods at a sale, 1S wontha ago,
they were both committed for trial.
Qcstee-Soueste.-1111110LARY.—Yesterilay information'
was given at this Office of a most extensive burglary
committed at the house of Mr. Francis Aberdeen, No. SS,
Statford•plare. Pimlico, on the night of the Ist instant.
When the family went to bed the house was left properly
secured and locked, and in the morning, when the female
sery sat came down stairs, she was serprised to find the
doors all open. the front and back parlour in confusion,
the drawers and cupboards rifled, and every thing valuable,
consisting of silver table and tea spoons, plated articles.
westing apparel, and other property stolen.
FIATTON-GARDEN.-ITames Haickins and John Coned
were charged by W. Lee, an officer, on suspicion of stealing
two pieces of Bandana handkerchiefs, each piece con'ain-
ing seven handkerchiefs, and also about four quarts of
brandy. The Bandanas and brandy were forfeited, and the
prisoners discharged from the felony, their whitest being
taken for the purpose of proceeding against them for the
penalty.
LAMBETH-STRSET.—An unfeeling mother, Elie. Pincent„
Was put to the bar, charged with cruelty to her female ins
fast, about two old.
J. Sanders, night constable of St. Beorgelgrathe-East,
stated, that information was brought to him at the
watchhouse, on the preceding night, that a small child
was lett locked up in a room in a house in Thoims•reet.
is a state of starvation. On proceeding thither; lie feand
in one corner of the garret, an infant as described, lying at;
a piece of dirty rag, and covered with a fragment of a thirty
sheet. A chair and a stool were the only articles of fund-
tare in the place. and there was neither fire nor candle, nor
any symptoms of snclittliings having been used there of
late.. The people of the house stated, that they had for some
time past been nightly disturbed by the cries of the suffer.:
Jag infant, which it, Inhuman par tit generally left in the
condition just described, alma six or seven °OA in the
evening. and did not return to it until 'six or seven the
next morning. tin her return yesterday morning,, she was
taken into custody.
The account she rare of herself was, that she had been
usaintaned for some years by s seaman belonging to his
Majeatv's ship Itemilse,by whom she had this child. H+ died,
she wild. shout six months ago, and from that dine
she had been left destitute of the means of support. -She
admitted, however, tint she bad ne 'eel jail lute applica-
tion to the parish for relief. • ''^ r• " • • •
The infant, which she held in hernnn tippeared to be
reduced nearly to a skeleton, by Obi it_4444
endured ; and' the Magistrate ordered fi to be titbit froL
the inhinian mother and delivered irtle ebkige of the
parish officers, with dir ctioni for, iritk all
possible care and tenderness.-- •