The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-01 00:00:00

I'OLICE.

WAT R &El%
Friday evening a charge of felony was brought.
against Miss D. a young woman of a very genteel
appearance, itt stealing a box of clothes, the pro-
perty of a young girl, who resides with a Mrs. Clarke,
who keeps a double house (so. 15 and 16), in Ed-
ward-street.
The substance of the charge was, that the clothes
IV the girl were stolen one evening about three
mouths ago, when she left the house. On Miss D.
being called upon to answer to the charge, she stated
that Mrs. Clarke oectipied both Nos. 15 and 16 ;
one of them denoted what it was, from the appear-
ance of the door-way and the passage ; the other
had, strictly, the appearance of a respectable private
house, so the gentlemen might pass iii and out, day
and night, without any particular observation being
;•vnade by the neighbours, or those passing by. It also
answered the purpose of deception with females, to
• put them into one house, and then introduce then'
into the other : sometimes dressed up as if they
had just arrived 'from the country, or as ser-
vants ; at others,• as fine ladies, as It suited the
purpose of Mrs. Ctarke, and as she could play upon
the credulity of gentlemen. The doors of communi-
cation between acted with springs, so that they were
not observable by 'strangers, or by those who were
not apprized of the deception. Miss D. stated, that
she paid Mrs. Clarke two guineas a week for her i
lodging ; one guinea, for her board; one guinea per
wi..ek for coals and washing.; six shillings in the
pound out of all the money •she received from the
gentlemen who visited tier; and seven shillings a
time for the loan of dresses to receive company in.
About three months since she quarrelled with Mri.
Clarke, because she would not receive the visits of
.Colonel G. who is a very disagreeable• awn, old 1
enough to be her graudfather' and in consequence
' she left her house • anti site had learned that a Peer '
and a Member of the House of Commons had (eased
to visit Mrs. Clarke's house because she had left, ;
she being their favourite. She had not made it a i
secret where she find• 'removed to in Oxford-street. '
and she had no'donbt but they could have found her
if•they wished ; and she 'considered the iharo
•
spite, because she 'would not return to the, house.
On Friday afternoon, as she was passing throughl
Pall Mall, she met les. Clarke and two of her
' nymphs, when they informed her of the charge they
had against her. She denied any knowledge of the;
box of clothes, and expressed her readiness to go'
before a Magistrate, to meet the charge, and she ac-
companied them in a coach, and waited at the Brown
Bear public-house till the Magistrates sat in the even-
ing. Mrs. Clarke did not deny her course 'of We;
'but she said she bad tried dress-making,, but could
.not make it answers and was glad to try any thing.
tor a living,. to enable her to pay .hor rent and taxes.
Miss D. was discharged, there not being.any proof•
of evidence against her.. .

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MAIiLBOROIIOIII-STVET.
A hackney coachman of the name of Pinot, was
yesterday tined.-40s. and vests, for insolence and ex-
tortion..
He had been hired at the Haymarket Theatre, to
go to Portland-road, for which ho demeutled three
shiiliags and sixpence. A gentleman and two ladies
wore in the coach, and the extortion was at first re-
sisted, but the defendant refuted to leave the house,
and was extremely abusive until he was paid.

.Q1.1E1,-SQUA lE.
Yesterday George Radford, nearly 70 years of
age, residing in Angel-court, NVesttninster, was coin.
mitten for trial, nu a charge of attempting to com-
mit a rape op the body of an infant only nine years
of age.. On.his laavin4 the Office he was-asAailed by
mob of women, with mud and ()they missiles,
and it was found,:expedient to hare an additional
guard of six officers to conduct him to Totbill-
fields-prison.

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UNION-HALL

Ann Ashmore was yesterday examined on suspi-
cion of having been concerned in robbing the house
of Mr. hilt, a publican in Bermondsey, of 51. in
silver, and a silver watch.
It appeared that early on Sunday morning, Mi.
Bill's house was entered by some person, and the
property in, question taken from a closet in the bar.
The cellar door, which had a bar on it, was opened,
as if the thieves had entered that way, a hole baring
been made with a gimblet, through. which it appear.
ed a person might put their finger; and open the
door. On Golf, the Officer, however, being sent
for next morning, he was fully persuaded, on ex-
amining the cellar-door, that the hole had been made .
after the door was opened, and by some person on
the inside of the house, and these stisiiiiions were
fully confirmed on applying a gimbles with was
lying near the spot, and which was used by Mr. IEII
to pierce the porter butts.
The Prisoner, who lived servant with. Mr. Bill,
and who was taken by him without a character, was
called and questioned, when Goff recognised her as
In old acquaintance, and her answers confirming
the suspicions before entertained, she was taken be-
fore the Magistrate, and by him committed for re-
egee‘ination.
Guttnti A LL,
A. pier woman, named Charlotte Mdtris,„ tesiding,
in the neighbourhood of Doctors' Commons, charged'
David Melt, her WO; With steeling ,froin her
bank-notes to the amount of 10%. togethec,"With-some
silver spoons. basis, 'she said,'far llitevii oi :four
days before;theanency wits jakii, had heewrittich
distress, that he was fini* to upon b. and
water. 'Swing
.hihi drank dlfferent dines' that she
lest, Iheemoney, behig the .only ground ors,Tijicititi
she - cotld adduce, 'th. . Worthy. , A.tdernian ilgellidled
M ltriloner. „,
. ...- ' ' -It litll)l#4lliititF.lo. •
`Aster " ' decenAytdetibled woman, apparently
l'br'etti -.I) by the Parish Ofli.

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L'SOieers aitsWitt, Iglie int by As-.
`Oart^and 'oedeskot seentioitien, charged with 'be-
Awing berselfi • on.litinday last; in a very disorderly
spay, at St, John's. Chapel, Redford-square, byi
making grin:mots at the Cleigyinen Whilst performing
iersice,sits& foe disturbing the congregatiow
brother inistreliselitft, wthich‘ tit eppearedf she had;
aspoatesily. &melon threw Seed aystwar:c esti rely, The'
Defendant. with in beetle/ogee, thatsboluultlited is
toe onwioordf the Rev. GOA. fee iteatirtans yffwv
wilsii/htmll4oosin her promisee which lie meteropoiii
formed,- which he denied', .bhp srawninsistitidilisttial
House of Correction for three mouth,.