The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUILDIIALL.—Between three and four o'clock on the
morning of Wednesday, Mr. Crooks, shoemaker, who
occupies the shop only, at GS, Fore-street, Ce iop legate,
was called up at his lodgings in Union-street, Mt ortirlds,
by the watchman, with intelligence that his shop was
broken Into. Ho his arrival there, he found th ft the
door had been forced with a crowbar from the outside,
land the greater part of his stock removed from the dlr.
frrent shelves, and parked up in five separate sacks, ready
to take away. The thieves, it appeared, were disturbed
rln the act of breaking into the shop, but they hail previ-
ously effected their entry, Ey picking the lock, and pack.
ed up the goods. While, however, they were wailing, must
probably for a coach, to convey tb e goods away, they pulled
to the door, and the spring of the lock having caught,
they thus accidentally shut themselves out, and were re-
duced to the necessity of forcing the shop door, to get
in again. The thieves effected their escape.
Iliaxxos-oa nnex.—Yesterday, Mrs. NaChad 11i4-
cock, a matronly looking woman, about .10 years of age,
of respectable appearaace, and well dressed, was brought
up in the custody of William Read, jos. one of the °th-
ereof on a warrant, charged by Sophia (the wife of
Joseph) Wintehburn, with receiving one shilling and six-
pence from her on account of telling her fortune. Real
stated, that by virtue of a warrant he took the prisoner
into custody at her lodgings, in the house of a stayina-
ker, 20, Theobald's-road, where she was living in the
greatest luxury, and be understood she was visited by la-
dies of distinction for the purpose of telling their for-
tunes; he searched her apartments, and found she
wanted for nothing, having plenty of money, clothes,
and every necessary; lie found a pack of fortune-telling
cards, which he produced ; he also found several letters
from ladies in high life, all on the subject of Lavine thr:r
minds relieved by the prisoner's advice. Mrs. Winte.-
burn deposed to paying the prisoner one shilling and
sixpence on Tuesday last for telling her fortune.—
There being other charges of a similar tuturtt
against the prisoner, she was remanded till a future day,
when some of the members of the Society for the Sap•
pression of Vice will attend to prosecute.

MIIIIDER.—An inquest was held on Wednesday at the
Three Kings, Clerkenwell Close, before Thomis Stir-
ling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of a labouring man,
name unknown, found dead, in Skinner's Fields, Spa-
fields, on Monday evening last. The deceased was su?-
posed to have come from Hertfordshire; he bad worked
for a short time in the above fields. When the body was
found, there appeared on it several severe bruises: Vie
head in particular was much injured. It being the de-
sire of the Jury that the bead of the deceased should be
opened, the inquest was adjourned for that pu•p,'e.
Mr. Weldon, surgeon, opened the bead awl neck of th«e
deceased, and the inquest having resumed yesterday, h •
stated that on removing the scalp, be discovered se% e.
bruises not discernable before. There was no fiaeture:
upon removing the cap of the skull, he found tie vessels
in a most turgid state •, the small vessels of the iirier p et
of the brain were filled with red blood, occatiorie,l by viu-
lence; he examined the sinuses of the head, the right j a-
galar vein was knotted from the quantity of coagtilized
blood it contained, occasioned by blows. The tlea,:i of
the deceased was occasioned by the injuries received on
the head and neck. Verdict—Wilful Murder ag.int
some person or persons unknown.
Noumea, Max. 2.—There wa; a very large show of
Scotch cattle on the hill on Saturday, but the spring
being backward and feed scarce,few sales could hew
and what few beasts were sold, were upon lower terms
than of late. The sheep pens were well supplie.i, ri.l
prices much the same as last week. Pigs were plentilal
and rather cheaper. Very few horses at market.