The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-29 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN..

POhl C.E.
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UAW STIIIIIT.—.COVIDIT thaonst NUISANCES.—Sator-
rIay, the proprietors of•the Old and New Hummums, in
Covent. Garden, applied to the Sitting Magistrate (Mr.
Haw). for his advice how to proceed under the folio,' foil
eircumetaaces:-&-.They. -stated, that they suffered very)
material injury in these • butioess. in consequence of their
houses beteg so blocked up with market carts, that hem
usidqight.to tea or Nevelt o'clock in the forenoon, egress
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* yttrium watzlinoat isnpossible. Gentlemen sojourning
411111elt bens*', end wishing to .leave town early in the
morning, were under the necessity of walking to the
bottom of Southampton Street, in the Strand,Mefore they
could get todbeirnarrierea; mid the noise and confusion'
weft .almost insufferable. These nuisances had vet.,
materially increased of lets, in consequence, as it appeared
'to illesi, of lbe.lressees of the Market under the Duke of
,Bedford having let off every foot of the market ground to
tataltiteepets of every deglutition, to the total exclasion'of
ltbegrowers, who were do. consequence obliged to make'
One Wes, is the eernettading streets. The applicants
,humbly etibmilted. that unless this state of things was
'Altera* It would be :utterly impossible for them to carry
on thole business.. , • , ..,
Mr. Haate,expinalndhle surprise that they should apply
to him on the subject; hot it bad, he said, become quite
a Whim' lately log people to call upon the Magistrate to
do those things which they ought to do themselves. In
bhe present case, the remedy was entirely in their own
ands, if they would bet bestir themselves.
Mr. Hewitt (of the Old Hummums) replied, that they
bad rep!atedly complained to the constables and beadles of
the parish, but their complaints produced no good effect
'rhymer; de the contrary, the nuisance was becoming
More and more intolerible every week.
I Me, HALLS—Bat why depend upon the constables, when
the Metropolis Paving Act empowers soy person what-
ever to seize an obstruction and convey it to the Green
Yard?
Mr. Hewitt said. it would be quite impossible for him
or the other parties complaining to go shoot such a ser-
vice. Hundreds of leaded carts and waggons were ar.
ranged along the streets, and the horses taken away. It
was sot to be supposed that be and his friends could hire
ether horses to drag those waggons and carts to the Green
Yard; and even If they did. how were they to withstand
the violent opposition which would be made by the
owners?
The Magistrate said he did not think it was so serious
an affair as they seemed to apprehend; but, if they thonght
proper, they might proceed by the more tedious, and less
effective mode--by information ; and he would do all in
his power to abate the nuisance complained of.—lnform-
ations were Geer..Jingly laid. against several substantial
growers, sod summonses issued thereupon.
Tot BAsses.-Eight more bakers were convicted in
the usual penalty of 40e. and costa, for selling " 'telt-quer-
tern" loaves, on the information of Johnson. There was
nothing interesting in any one of these case..
Maateneoutin STEEKT.—(tII Satunlay, John Brennan,
a tailor, of Carborton-street, Fitzroy-srptare. charged four
females. the eldest of whom was not sevent-en years of age.
with leaving robbed bim, at 12 o'clock on Friday night, of
his hat, which cost him twenty-seven shillings, a blue hag.
containing a gentleman's dressing gown, which he had
brought from the Temple, and would not hare lost for ten
guineas, and a sovereign. A young man, named Cody, was
pot to the bar with the female prisoners, as a participator
in the business.
The tailor's story was as follows :—lie was going' home
through St. Giles 5, when he fell in with two of the girls,
who ushered bim to their lodgings at a notorious h 'use,
kept by Mrs. Cody. at No. 9. Maynard-street. St. Odes's,
a house from the window of which a man was thrown a
few days since. Struck with the extreme youth of one of
the girl., be lectured her upon the immoral comae of life
in which she had embarked ; but not suiting toe example
to the precept. he immediately gave the ladies three shil-
lings to briog in gin and beer. When this potation was
finished, be yielded to the entreaties of the ladies to re-
plenish the bottle, and rave one of them a sovereign to
procure the supply. This lady's name was " long Jane,"
.and she was not now forthcoming; neither was she on the
preceding night, for she decamped with the sovereign, the
bag. and the hat. The other ladies retired soon after,
leaving the tailor to brood over his loss. He naturally be-
came vehement when he lost the solace of the ladies com-
pany, and the comfort of the twenty-seven shilling hat,
and the blue bag. with the Templar's dressing gown: but
was soon obliged to decamp himself, for another girl, and a
young thief las the tailor described a lad who entered the
mom with ber) menaced him fiercely, if be remained " row.
ing ;" lie was,-therefore, under these circumstances, under
the necessity of retiring down stairs, and he carried with
him for his protection the candlestick e hich stood on the
table, and the pewter quart out of which the ladies were
drinking whilst he was lecturing. In this state, without his
diet or bag, and armed with the pewter and brass, he request-
ed the aid of two watchmen whom lie found in the street.
i'They agreed to go to the honer, hut, upon ascending the
I staircase, they refused to advance to the room, cursed the
tailor, and sent him about his business. lie then repaired
1 to the watch-house, where the constable of the night said
he could do nothing for him, unless ha brought the parties
before him. 'l'be tailor complained bitterly of the con-
stable's supineness, and said that a woman who sat next
him appeared to be the real constable of the night, and had
jibed mid jested' upon his misfortune. The watch•
house door was then shut in his face, and, recollecting that
it was time for him to move houniwards, be covered his head
with the tail of his 'salami', and went home. It would
seem, from the statement he made to the Magistrate, that
he let his wife into the secret of his mishap, for, upon his
getting oat of bed at six o'clock the next morning to leave
home, she followed hitn, and, as women are often wiser in
their generation that men, she rapped up a constable, and
tracked her Wiliam'. to the house in Maynard-street, St.
Giles's. Upon arriving there, the tailor found a young
man named Cody, the son of the keeper of this den of in-
famy, opening the shutters. Cody asked him what he
wanted ; he said, " Really. Sir, I don't come here without
business ; I want my hat and my bag, of which the girls
robbed me up stairs last night." Mr. Cody was of course
perfectly ignorant of having improper company in Ms
noose; nevertheless, he accompanied the tailor, his wife,
and the constable up stairs. Upon arriving at the second
floor back room. " There is the spot" said the
tailor. Cody knocked, and three of the ladies at the bard,
opened the door. Then followed the tailor's interrogatious,l
"Gins, keep the sovereign, Lint give me the hat and the
bag." Cody affected to be very angry at the girl's fingering
any man's property, and asked what they had cane with it.
One of them desired bias to go to Mrs. Clanchy's, in
Church-line, where " hang Jane" had taken it. Cody went
accordingly. and retnrned, saying that Mrs. Clanoity knew
nothing about the business. He was, therefore, very sorry
he could render no farther service to the tailor.
The girls, übn evinced the most hardened profligacy,
denied all knowledge of the roldiery, upbraided the tailor
for his inconst alley In his wife, and said, that when he west 1
this morning he asked them for gin. They had all, it tip-
*eared. interchanged their.clothes, to puzzle the tailor
0 his identity, but he ne ore he knew them front their faces.
Mr. CONANT staid they must lied hail on suspicion of the
olsiv. i : ..;
i Cody asked for what he, was to find hilt?
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at r. t...unaslT.---FOr keeping, this ,iitottletly house. •• •
Cody,-.1 know nothiLg of the Loose,. except to ledge
;Isere. •
Mr. Cita:yr.—What's your btftitie,ii—l Wind' 4e
hackney coacher at the theism' at iiight. ' '
Dar Wind,
of the officers Sad that OS was this sit of the ma-
nias% who kept the holes in blitzed:4kt. She-trise is
nustorly about the twan that av INV bdt Of ht IV.O low

this week. The officer added, that this fellow, who denied
all authority in the house, bid at this moment the key of
it id his poiltes, and was in the act this mornintof Teeth'.
lag the rent.front the lodgers:
• Cody was compelled to yield to necessity, and all of them,
except one girl, were ordered to find bail.
A person of the name of Williams stood charged for an
,asseult and an attempt to resents a prisoner, in Long Acre,
ream Leary, a watchman, who, with another watchman,
proved the assault, and he was ordered to find hail.—Mr.
dates, a parish constable, and a ;minim. and glazier, at
No. 26, King street, Bloomsbury square, was then charged
:for the same offence. Mr. Acres, in liis defence, said that
!he and. a Mr. Woodroffe were together, and seeing six or
!seven watchmen drag one unfortunate woman with • great
t-toelty,.lte'only'rebnonstrate.l with them by observing that
There were plenty of them to bring -one female with more
jttntlenese:—The eatchtners persevered in their charge.
and after an adMonitioti from the Magistrate (a ho observed
that protection, and not opposition, should be expected
froM a constabley; be was ordered to find hail.
Jaynes Larkin. the driver of the hachnercoach 289, ap-
pe.ired at this office on Saturday, to e summons charging
him it ith an imposition as to his fare, of rather a novel de-
scription. Mr. Tribe, a respectable wine merchant, resid-
ing in. Woodstock Street, Oxford Street, stated that on the
31st instant be had a party of friends spending the evening
at his holm, and about II co!clock, when they were about to
depart, the defendant was called with his roach from the
Stand, to cony...), some of the party as far as Marshaen
Street, Westminster. When the defendant drove up to
the door. Mr. Tribe, in order that his friends should have
no trouble or delay when they got home, paid the coach-
man the fare he demanded, which was 25., unknown to Ibis
Ifriends. One of them, when they were getting into the
coach, asked the defendant how much his fare was. Upon
which Mr. Tribe said, "Oh, I have settled that—l have
paid the fare." " Not you, indeed," said the defendant,
" yoU have not paid me a farthing." Mr. Tribe asserted
Isis having paid him the fare, and the drfend int as positive-
ly denied having received any money, and the consequence
was, that the party were so touch alarmed at a man who
could have the effrontery ant diihonesty to deny the fact,
they refused to proceed in his coach and discharged him;
Mr. Tribe at the same time taking down his number. Mr.
I Tribe now positively swore to his tiering paid the 2s. to
the defendant, and Alr..CoNaarr asked the cuacbmsn what
answer he had to make to this charge. The defendant said,
that the accusation against him was altogether filar. He
had not received a farthing from the gentleman, and the
whole story was an invention, for he hail no conversation at
all with any Of the party until they were getting into the
coach and asked hint his fare. air. CONANT asked Mr. -
Tribe if any person saw hint pay the money to the de-
fendant, not that he (Mr. Cosaxe) had the slightest.
doubt as to the tenth of air. Tribe's statement; but as the
frodant still so positively persisted, it would be as well Katy
Person witnessed the transaction. Mr. Tribe said, that two
of his servants saw him pay the 2s. to the defendant, but Ise
did not think it necessary to bring thew with him : bow.
Ever, if the Magistrate would adjourn the case for a short
time, they should be provided. Alr. Tribe further observed.
that the denial of the offence now by the defendant appeared
very singular. because he had that inarnino called upoo
Mot, Mr. Tribe, an,l with tears in his eyes acknowledged
that lie had received the money, and entreated, on emotes
of hislirgefamiy, baying. as he sail, six opildren, that im
might be forgiven; but Mr. Tribe twill that he thought be
owed to'the public to bring such a rase before the Magis
trate. air. Conant asked the defendant what be meant bge
denying now what he had acknowledged in the seotniag.
He replied that be never had acknowledged
He merely called to request ti:at be might
nut bring the case forward, because lie knew that'
at all events he should be fined; hut as for re.
ceiving the fare, as stated, lie never ilid, Ma. Conant
asked him if lie wished the case put off until other wit-
nesses could be brought forward to corroborate the evidence
of Mr. Tribe. The defendant said be saw no use in putting
it off, for it would be all the same to him in the end, but
be would never scknowldege the charge against him, al-
though he could not disprove it. There messed now to be
some doubt as to how the defendant became liable to a pe•
natty isi this case, as he had been discharged by.the party
and did not refuse to carry them, nor did be receive more
than his proper fare had be so carried them. Mr. Conant,
howiver,decided that the defendant having been called front
his stand and discharged without his coach being made use
of, he became entitled to Is. ; hut in this instance he re-
ceived 25., and kept them, to which he clearly had no rig,
and for this overcharge lie tined the defendant in a penalty
of 10t, and 6s. caste.
Mr. Tribe said, that understanding the man really had a
large family, he lied determined to relinquish the penalty,
whatever It might be, in bis favour, and he would himself
have been the costs out of pocket, had it not been for the
impudent manner in which ha still persisted in denying
what he (Mr. Tribe) hail solemnly sworn to.
Mr. Tribe said he now wished the penalty to be given to
any charity Mr. Conant thought proper. The defendant
said he could not pay the penalty, and his mistress, who
was present, refused to pay it for him. He was therefore
committed fur 1-I d cos to the House of Correction.
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MAILLIBOIIettGrt STSZET.—{In Saturday, nonce Farmer, alias Edwards
a man who had been a butler In several families, but latterly has thought
proper to adopt a living of a more questionable kind, and /Valiant Li.tdang-
ton, were brought before Mr. Alderman Consist, charged with liousedimak-
Ing. From the statemeut of evident*, the foilowiog are the particulars of the
robbery and singular capture of the.househreakers :--On the ith instant, the
detelling-house of Mrs. liuM, of Qoebbe.street,during the absence of the family
at prayer..was broken into; and property of very eonsiderable rabic, consist-
ing of a feather bed, sheets, couiderpanes, bolsters. blankets, table linen.
seventeen wine pluses, ten slicer tea and two sliver table spoons, some cruet
stands. Ike. was etelen,and no elite could be obtained to the daring depreda-
tors until Friday iast, when a yowls man, a servant out of place, came into
this oilier, and requested some °Moen might accompany imp, stab, knee
where two burglars were, the Magistrates dispatched Plonk sod ?Pretest
with hiutto the place. a public-liottre Little Fulani-street, bat on their
marlin! the" birdswere gown." The young man then described their persons,
and said to the morning Mrs. Butts premises were plundered. he saw the two
men at the door, and had no doubt they were the depredators from tbs.
d ption the officers gave. Farmer was one of the two, and forthwith pro.
needed on a seavet of the gal houses. and accidentally met him as they
err passing through Tottenham Court Road, lie on being taken into ousted!
Lecaiiie contused, but denied the robbery, and on his way to the office, be
pointed out to Green, a Beadle and Paid uh, 1 have only drank with that
man a few miontes since." /Pesten! 90011 after asked Green whether any
body was with them, and he answered " yes, Bill Leddingion," who was also
taken Into custody,:and with Farmer were identified by the young man, a.
the men who were lurking roundSuirs house on the morning of UM
robbery. Search warrants werenisssued, issued, and Leddington's house. which is se
Imam of accommodation, containing eighty beds in George Street, St. Giles,
was searched, and in various parts were found some blankets, bolsters.
counterpanes, and Meets wine glasses, which were identified by Mrs. Balla*
her property, and were stolen on the morning the house was robbed. la
Farmer's lodgings were found, two wine glasses, the bed, a bolster, and
blanket, and some emits' without the slicer head, which were parted the
property stolen. None of the spoons were toond.
The prisoners protested they knew nothing of it, and were remanded until
Wednesday nest.
Martvaba•Ltoxata.--OnSstarday,RobertKirbywas brought
into the Office by Hooker the Officer.
Mrs. Elisabeth Jones stated that she occupied the parlonr
in the house,,lio. '2, Orafton•court, Paddingtoo-street. The
prisoner lived in the kitchen. A few months ago he
lust his wife, and he was left with two little girls and a boy
about four years old. Since his wife's death be bad formed
an acquaintance with another woman, who bad so poisoned
his mind against his offmring that be daily inflicted upon
them the most cruel tortures. The screams and moaning
of the babes were heard by the neighbonrs day and night.
Witness has .seen him beat the elder girl with a thick
stick till she was &cession, and whilst in that state be has
taken her by the heels, and dashed her head against the
ground. Teat day, about twelve o'cloa, he hal served
her in a similar manner, merely because she had not boiled
punt potatoes for his,dipner. The poor girl ran into the'
court, sad, from the ilohntiCe she bad received she fell at
the itreo.6the'ilobr, . ,
Mary thirdedir said, Nitshall
,haiirs in. the 'nigh. t. stir
itriird' the cries of the cin areas and the blows that wit' •
tiren by
c the s piiiatner. Slit hid tititiltiOned them as the
So:Se their tether's atecr,"and the. elder, child bail told
, tribe( Istigikild her icoai the room, *off do all "the Work
'of the place that because she was unable to perform it,- be