The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

POLICE.

Massiox-cou sc.—Yesterday a baker named Dixon, who
resides in Little Esstchesp, charged a flour-factor, of Mark-
lane, with having sold to hint flour mixed with some material
which injured the flavour and colour of the bread made from
the article.
It appeared from the statement of the complainant, that se-
veral bakers in the metropolis have been subjected to heavy
losses in custom, as well as in the immediate and irreparable
injury to their stock by being supplied by flour-factors with
flour adulterated in a vary high degree. This adulterate°
was supposed to be accomplished by mixing with the wheat-
flour, large quantities of barley, rye, or bean-flour, or some
inferior farinaceous substance, which only resembled wheat-,
flour in colour, and which, when worked up, gave the bread
a sour and disgusting taste. The complainant said he had
received no less than 73 bushels of flour, one-half of which
was the material of which he complained.
The case was then ordered to stand over for investigation
on a future day.
TAos. ro►ter. the boy who drove the Greenwich coach, and
ran over Mr. Fiulayson, was brought up for a final main-

.ition. _
'• The certificate of the !surgeon was produced, stating
that Mr. Finlayson was going on well towards recovery,
after the amputation of his leg, and might now be considered
out of danger.
The LORD MAYOR, under these circumstances, was wil-
ling to admit the prisoner to bail. His Lordship declared
his intention of prosecuting with severity any one of those
drivers who, either by negligent or furious driving, endan-
gered the lives or limbs of his Majesty's subjects. Not a
day passed in which they had not some instances of the wan-
ton carelessness of the drivers of these short stages. It
was but yesterday that Mr. Payne. one of the City of;
fieeri, Will ran over at Edmonton, by a stage conch,
which was racing with another. Tne law must be put in
force with the utmost severity, to protect the public from the
auleance:
fautcnnau..—Abont six weeks ago a young female of
very reputable appearance was brought before. the then Sit-
ting Magistrate (Mr. Aid. J. J. Sas ivu), under circumstances
which excited considerable interest. She had been obs.rsed
on the banks of the New Canal, in the City-read. evidently
meditating self-destruction by throwing herself law the,

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wlsllCAfoing ease teamed Mandeville, residleg in apencer-
street, °Gowen-stye* of ber to tee house of a friend
of his in the netgfrea. till she rammed from her
ottliotion, and suboo4W/Willittlerteok to see hey hems •to
ber 'ritto4 who, Otepoeliselleil from her, nehisdie Brute-
wiek,ol. ThowitTehonoWPMPt
_alsmodingly umemplleirl ber
to a house mermasegoet peat aver-
lion to, lag going to the dew entit her ; beelleoetere let her'
go by urger, bat pereakiag her retuta *Nod imeeedlately..
and not befog able to get fie" her any satisfactory town
why she bad not gone fik be went to the how himself, when
the persons protested to how nothing at all respecting her,
except that a person of that deseriptioa had rung the. all
up early in the morning, Insisting that she lived there, Dar-
ing the interval of this conversatiott the hod rim of; on
his return home, however, beauldentally overtook her, sad,
`u he could get nothing but Incoherent accounts from her.
he gave her into the custody of the watchmen of St. Andrew's
park*, froas whence she was takes to the. Compter.
Her conduct before the Magistrate Winced the belief that
her mind was disordered, and she sou directed to be taken
are of in the Isfirmary there, where she remained for tree
or four days, apparently under the Inifuelace of insanity. Der-
log this period she talked incoherently of Mrs. Duncan, of
Brunswick-square. of Capt. Drown, of Whitechapel, and her I
undo at SbiAds tke. 11cr name she stated, during this pa-
rosysm, to be Matilda Maria Temple, and her age between
meaty-one and twenty-two. At length she seemed gradually
to recovee.her reason, and then told the followlig welhoon•
meted story—
She was the only child, she said, of Mr. Temple, of
Milstoncastle, Shields, the proprietor of several extensive
Goal pits there ; at his death, about four years ago, she
had been deprived, by some claims that bad been set up
against the property, of all that he bad left, and weat to
reside with an uncle, at Newcastle; and subsequently,
on account of some disagreements with a female acqualm-
sum at the same place; having a great desire sooome to
Leiden, this lady wrote to her brother in London, to
meet her on the arrival of the ship, and to $6B her placed
in some respectable hon.e as a lodger, nstil oho, could
procure the situation of companion to a lady. She at-
tired in, London a few days before Christmas last, was
inot,hy the supposed brother, who took charge of her
tracks and herself, saying, beowas about to place her
with Mrs. Duncan, a lady of respectability in Beenswick-
square; after driving about in the coach for a great
length of tine, they alighted where there was a large
archway across the road, and a clock projecting over the
street, and they went op a n arrow passage to a house
where she bad been confined, till the morning. of the day
she was foetid near the Canal, On the first night of her
arrival at the house, the gentleman gave her supper and
wine, and in the morning she discovered he had been
with.her all tight, tad had effected her ruin while she
was in a state of stupefaction.. He called several times
afterward", but she had not seen him for some days, and
understood he bad gone to sea previous to her effecting
her escape. The person why had got possession of her
father's property, she stated, was a Mr. Brown, Mile
End Road. , 1,
This story was believed, and the girl, by direction of
Sir Claudius S. Bawer (who was the Magistrate
next is rotation, and was made acqnainted with the
ficts,) committed to the care of Mr. Jones, the consta-
ble who originally had her in custody, and who took
her tobis own house, from whence she applied, as she
said to Mr. Brown, who had received her kindly, ant
wished her to remain with him (Jones) till proper clothes
could be provided for her, when he would send her back
into the country. Under these circumstances she re-
mained with the constable's family for four or five weeks,
when she at length disappeared, and on inquiry. Mr.
Brown neither knew or had ever heard of such person.
Sunday evening last, she was apprehended at another
Iran of the canal, playing off the same trick of attempt.
ing to drown herself; she was prevented by an officer,
and taken to Worship-street, from whence she was sent
by the Magistrates to be taken care of in St. Luke's
workhouse, under the idea, from the incoherency of her
manner, that she was not in her rigbt mind. Her old
friends in the city beard of the 'Air, and she was in
consequence brought up again yesterday, at this office.
before Mr. Alderman Bridges, Sir C. S. Hunter also at.
tended. when her real history was fully disclosed by a
letter which Mr. Joints's. the Vestry Clerk or SL AO.:
drew's, had received in answer to his inquiries from Mr.
Straker, of the Walker Colliery, near Newcastle, and
which stated, thst the real name of the prisoner was Ann
Robson, that ber father and brother were labouring
men at the coal pits there ; that about four years ago, a
young man, named Wigham, to whom she was to have
been married, was accidently killed at the West Moor
pit ; since which she could never settle to any thing, and
they thought her at times insane.
Mr. Brown knows nothing of the girl, and she ap-
peared, bad used his name, as knowing he was con.
nected with the Temple Coal Mines.
After some consultation between Mr. Alderman
Bridges, Sir C. S. Hunter, and the City Solicitor, the
prisoner was directed to be taken care of, till sha could
be conveyed back to her friends.
Bow-srnmer.—A Solicitor, attended by several trades-
men, applied at this office to Sir It. Bra no and Taos.
HALLS, Esq. for a warrant against a woman for obtain-
ing goods to a very large amount by false and fraudulent
pretences.
The solicitor rated that the woman, who was of dash-
ing habits and imposing manners, had, by a well ar-
ranged plan, duped the tradesmen alluded to out of goods
to the amount of several hundred pounds. She first of
all applied to him, representing herself to be the'sole
surviving relation of an eminent builder lately deceased.
who bad died intestate, and that she was entitled to his
property, and desiring ha would take such steps as were
necessary to put her in possession of it. He undertook
the matter, and proceeded with all possible despatch with
the preliminary parts of the business. In the interim she
went to the tradesmen, on whose behalf be was now ap-
plying, and (baring previously taken a house) ordered
goods of the most expensive description to be sent home,
which she was to have upon credit. She told them the
same story as to her recent acquisition of fortune, and
referred *CM to him for the truth of her statement, and
he having no doubt upon the subject, confirmed as far as
he could all that she bad said. The goods were supplied,
but it had since bees discovered that ber story was a
string of falsehoods; that she bad a mother and other
relations living. and that she was not entitled to a ski!.
ling of the deceased builder's property. She was now in
possession of the goods, and had openly avowed her inten-
tion to sell them,
The Magistrates were both decidedly of opinion that
this was not a case within the statute of false pretences,
observing that the woman had merely told a parcel of
naked lies, which by common caution might have been
detested and exposed.
HATTON-OARDEN.—Yesterday Mary Bradley. aged
14, hlizabeth Duman, aged 14 and Bridget Connor,
aged LI years, were brought up in the custody of Jo.
sepb Cadby and Francis Felten, street-keepers on the
Foundling Estate, on the following charge
The prisoners, in company with another girl not in
custody, were going from house to house on pretence of
selling flowers, which the youngest of the prisoners
carried in a basket; they went into an old clothes shop,
under the Colonnade. whence they stole a black silk
spencer and a sew pair of children's shoes, from thence
they went into an opposite shop, on pretence of buying
some gingerbread nuts, from whence they stole a new
gown, which was missed as they were going out; they
were stopped and searched, when, under the flowers in
the basket, were found the spencer and three pair of new
shoes—also a bricklayer's trowel, which it appeared
they had stoles from a building near Buelonocriare
whilst the °weer was at dinner; the gotta was net
found, it being carried elf by the girl who tasted bee
escape.
The prisonerS were fully committed for trld,