The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

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he went tome, be left _some cruets in the warehouse,
to which be Would net allow any one to have access
but Sullivan. Aftet Sullivan went away in the evening,
witness went into the warehouse, and massed. six cruets.
"Moir this he went with officers to Glover's shop, and
law those six, as well as several other cruets, which he
411e* to be his property. The witness is of the Jewish
'persuasion.
A police-nicer said, thatin consequence of directions he
bad received from the prosecutor, he watched the boy Sul•
r liven on the evening of the 9th of October, going out of
'Ms master's house; be lost sight of him near Glover's
bones, and did not see him till the next morning, about S
o'clock, when he was going from Solomon's house.
William Read, a police officer of Hatton-garden, said he
searched the shop of Glover, on Monday the 12th, and there
found a qnantity of glass. The shop was in Mutton.hill.
The glasses were exposed to sale in the window, with a
variety of other glass.
Solomon being again called, swore to the articles taken
from the prisoner's shop being his property. He knew the
articles from the size; they %ere made by a great manufac-
turer at Birmingham.
Glover, on being called on for his defence, handed io a
written paper, in which he declared that he never had any
dealings with Sullivan; that be had been in the habit of
buying glass from several persons ; that glass-blowers in
London and other places manufactured articles exactly like
those which the prosecutor then produced in Court ; and
that, as he had openly exposed for sale all the glass in his
possession, lie could not be snpposed to have received any
of the articles knowing them to be stolen.
Several persons gave the prisoner a good character fur
honesty.
The COMMON SERGEANT gemmed up the evidence.
The Jury, after deliberating for a short time, found both
the prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Attar said there was another indictment, for a
similar offence, against Sullivan, hut be should not proceed
en ie The boy had borne a good character fur sou.e years,
and there was little doubt of his having been induced
by the other prisoner to commit the thefts of which he
was convicted.
Win. 'Forster was tried for embezzling the sum of 51. le.
ed., the property of Tbos. Evans.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case on the part of the prose-
cution. He said the prosecutor was a respectable inn keeper
at Ealing, with whom the prisoner lived, in the capacity of
a post boy, and on whose account he received the sum in
question, and converted it to his own use.
Mr. Evans said he bad authorised the prisoner to receive
the sum in question from a Mr. Caruthers. He never came
back with the money ; and witness did not see him fur about
13 months after.
Mr. Caruthers produced Mr. Evans's receipt for the
money, which was paiel to somebody, but he could not
say to whom.
The COMMON SERGEANT here observed that there was
no proof of the prisoner having received the money.
He was therefore acquitted.
Joe. Hastings was convicted of stealing from Elizabeth
Mortimer. a common woman, with whom he went home to
peel the bight, a purse and some money. •On account
of the good character given of the prisoner. and an offer
naule to give him employment, he was tined one shilling
and discharged.
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MaNsioN llocsg.--Yesterday a Gentleman nante•l
Brooke, summoned the proprietor and porter of an Inn,
for an overcharge made on the carriage of a parcel sent
from Pakenham, Norfolk, the charge entered in the trifi.:r
books being 31. tel., and that marked in the ticket deli-
vered by the porter to Mr. Brooks as., including 101.
porterage. The desk who attended fur the proerietor,
stated in his defence, that a ticket had been given to the
porter with the correct charge. but that he bad lost it.
fie porter admitted this, and said that be made out a new
ticket, essing the charge as neatly as possible.
'Phe Loan Macon thought it a gross imposition on the
public, and fined both the proprietor and porter in the
penalty of 401. each; for the Act positively directed, that
a ticket, written by the book-keeper of the office should
be delivered with the parcels and in case the porter
delivered a parcel without such a ticket, he was liable to
the above tine. He regretted not having the rates of
carriage from the county of Norfolk; for which great
blame was attached to the Clerk of the Peace who was
bound by an Act of Parliament to forward a return to the
Lord Mayor of such rates, when fixed by the Quarter
Sessions. The subject merited the attention of Members
of Parliament, and more particularly of the Member for
the County of Norfolk, and he hoped the matter would be
made public, as it was of general interest.
BOW-STRILIAT.MTSTERIOVS Occuatteece.--•Yeaterday
Ruthven, one of the principal officers, brought two persons
in his custody on suspicion of being concerned in a murder.
supposed to have been committed on Friday last, at,
Aldenhaen, near Watford, Herts. Their names are Thur. ,
tell and Hunt. The former, it is said, is the son of a I
gentleman, formerly of Norwich, and the other lately kept
the Army and Navy Coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane. The
murder is supposed to have taken place in consequence of
the report of a pistol bring heard, which was immediately
followed by the groans of a person apparently in great
pain; and on the following morning a quantity of blood
was discovered on the spat, and also a pistol, with time
muzzle choked up with a substance like brains ; a hand-
kerchief and a knife were found at a short distance, and a
gap had been forcibly made in the hedge through which it
appeared the body had been dragged, as blood and brains
were found on part of the bushes. A strict search was
made for the bode, but without effect, and the place where
it is secreted still remains undiscovered, although thirty
persons are employed in different directions making search,
for it. Information was transmittal to Bow-street, and
Itutliven was dispatched to make enquiries, when lie
succeeded in gaiuing such information as induced him
to apprehend the two Prisoners, which Le did yeverday
morning at their lodgings, in King-stret t, Holden Square;
a coat, much stained with blood, was found in their
possession, and also a pistol, which is supposed to be
the fellow to the one found in the fields. ltuthven immedi-
ately set off with them in a chaise to Watford. where they
will undergo an examination by the Magistrates on the

spot.
The Governors of Greenwich Hospital, it seems, have
determined to form a gallery of pictures of the repr,senta•
tions of all the sea battles in which the English have been
engaged, from the earliest times. These are nottn be new
paintings, but authentic pictures executed at the iliffereut
periods, or as soon as possible after the respective actions
took place. ft is said that among other celtinated pictures,
that of the Death of Nelson, by West, will be there. The
visits of the public (for the gallery will be open. as the ball
and chapel now are) will undouhiedly, before lung, repay
the Hospital their expense in collecting.
HATTON OARDIIN.—Mr. Franks, of Chariton Crescent,
Islington, appeared to asm tins obtained by the driver of
the hackney coach Nu. 733, fur refusing to pay one a filling
back fare (rani the Angel hill, at Islington, to the nearest
edaell stand on the pavement, it being 7 o'clock in the even-
ing before he was engaged.
. The defendant stated, that he took them:melt from Smith•
field to the Angel at Islington, and paid Did. as his fare ;
but I.e certainly did not consider himself liable to the back
fare claimed, as there is a coach stand within 30 yards of
where lit was set do'vn, and the distance from Smith-
field to the Angel being very little, if any thing, more
than a niile.
The Magistrates differed entirely from the coachman in
his construction of the law, declaring, that in fixing , back
fares, the nearest coach stand was ineint by the legislatitre,
and mot the neatest stand-on the pavement. The summons
wits therefore 4isulissed with costs •