The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-16 00:00:00

TEE STATESM4N

he woman was then introduced into the Office, and on
the prisoner beholding tier he seemed amazed, lifted up his
hands, and when she at;:nitted the prisoner was her hut-
hand. Ile immediately cried out, " You are not my wife.
ton are my sister." She instantly echoed, " I am not
his wife, your Worship, I am his sister." The prisourr
then desired her not to answer another question. lie re-
quested she might be removed from the- Office, as lie
wished to communicate somethiog to the Magistrate.
She was then taken away into another room. " flow can
the woman be your sister," said the Magistrate, " fur ate
declares she is an Irishwoman?"—"She is my sister-in-
law," answered the prisooer. lie added, if his Worship
would forgive him this one offence. to he was a foreigner,

for sale, contrary to An Of Iltpliipeepc, by which he was he would return to his own country.—" But where is your
liable to a penalty of 51.
'wife?" inquired the Magistrate. The prisoner wonld not
Mr. Hodgson stated, peerless tp th answer. Ile, however, abused Mr. Plank, who recognisede evidence being.
heard, that it was customary with the publicans in Inc him as being a suspicious character.
nctiehbonrimeel to send out their servanti at all hours oil The Magistrate then told the prisoner he would be sent
the dap, even on Sunday, hawking beer in trays, and that' to Tothill-fielde' gaol for three months.
all the respectable neighbours are annoyed by the constant Prisoner—l hope not, your Worshie ;be as merciful as
cry of " Beer, beer," without its being ordered. To pat possible,
a stop to the nuisance was his only *motive for laying the The Magistrate told him it was an act of lenity sending
present information. He then called his servant to prove bim to Tuthill-fields ; for if he were to go to she (louse of
the charge, John Davis deposed, he is servant to Mr. Correction, he would hare to lebour et the treadmill.Hodgson ;on last Sunday evening, about half past eight prisoner-1 would rather BO to Tothill-fields, if they had
o'clock, the defendant'sserrant was hawking beer about the as good diet as they have at the House of Correction.
street in a tray, calling out beer.; witness's master told him Magistrate—Perhaps your wife will be able to assist
(witness) to go and buy a pint of beer from him I he did you.
so, and paid two-pence ferthing forst ; the beer was not Prisoner—l shall not ask her, neither do I wish to hurt
ordered ; witness bought it as he might buy apples, or any her heart by describine my situation.
thing else that was hawked about the street. l'he delen- Magistrate—How do you know the diet of the two
dant put 1 questions to Mr. Hodgson, but was in- pas", e
formed by Mr. SERGEANT SELLON, the Presiding Magis- Prisoner-1 have been at b.th place*, your Worship, and
they are bad enough ; but at Tothill Fields we had bread
trate, that it Wes better for him to be silent, as Mr.
Hodgson slid not press for a conviction, and that his motive and water, and at the House of Correction plenty of mew
and soup ; if it had not been for the wheel, it would have
was to put an end to the nuisance; that the offence was
both against the condition of the recognizance he metered been pleasanter.
into, and the tenour of his license, and by Act of Parliament Magistrate—Well ; you mar take your choice, either to
he was subject to a penalty of 51. for the first offence, 101. go to the tread-mill or"l'othili Fields.
for the second, and 1001. and the forfeiture of his license Prisoner—Thep 1 will rather go to the tread-mill, far I
forthe third offence—Abet his license authorised him to shall lire better.
sell beer in his house, and no where else. The Magistrate He was then committed for three months to the House
read the defendant a long lecture, and dismissed him on of Correction.
paying the costs. MARTLEBONE.—A young Irishwoman, named Mary
Mr. Sergeant SELLON, etre having consulted his brother Casey, was brought np on a warrant obtained against her
Magistrates, yesterday gave his decision respecting the by the parish of St. alarylebone, charging her with having
important mtestion whether parish officers have a right to stolen the child she then bad in her anus, a fine little girl,
insist on knowing the residence of the mother of any about eighteen months ol 1. It appeared that the child
Illegitimate child, which they only pay towards the mutin- was her own, but had been sent to the workhouse to be
by maintained. She was told that it was improper is her to
tenance of as the agent of the putative father, end are
him reimbursed, and when they are acquainted with the take away the child, bet that she should be permitted to
residence of the father, and with the place where the child visit It whenever she liked.
ie at nurse. The Learned Sergeant observed that by an {Vermin. System—The driver of the hackney coach
No. 720 was summoned to appear yesterday before Wm.
Act of Parliament, parishes are empowered to cause the
BEKETT, Esq.. for not depositing a shawl left in his
nether or father of any child to be apprehended on a
coach, at the Haekney.coach office: fur by 55 George 111. Magistrate's warrant, if he or she shall refuse paying on
c. 159. s. o, every driver not carrying' property left in his
demand the pension ordered. Now bow is the parish to be
secure from loss if it does not know their residences ? or coach within four days after it is so left, awl depositing the
bow compel them to perform the conditions of the order of same in the Hackney coach office, is liable to a penalty not
affiliation. As he considered the parish had shown good exceeding 201.
reasons for refusing payment of the pension, he should Mr. Berry, a gentleman of respectable apprarance, stated.
dismiss her application. that on the 2.211 of September last, Mrs. Berry eilearea
QUILIN-11QUARE.—John Beeden was charged with de- the defendant's coach, and on quitting it she had left her
serting his wife, a respectably dressed woman, and four shawl in the coach. It was true the shawl had been site*
small children, and leaving them chargeable to St. Marge- returned, but that was io consequence of the search which
ret's parish, Westminster, which parish sued bim for a
which they expended upon was made for it.
sum of 61., money
his family. The defendant alleged it was a scarf, and not a 'shawl,
Ile consented to allow Ss. per week, and was ordered to which "s left.
find security for the payment of the sum. Mr. BILNITT directed the shawl to be produced.
MARLBOROUGH 87E1/BT.—Frederick Haase, a middle- Mrs. Berry said, that it is the scarf or shawl, which ever
aged man, of decent appearance. was yesterday re-ela• you
pleaae.to call it. that 1 left in the coach.
mined, charged with having endeavoured to obtain money Magiotrate.—l cannot please to call it ; you must prove
from Mr. John Jerznan, goldsmith and jeweller, St. James's . to sue that it is a *bawl which you left.
Street, by means of fictitious recommendation's and false Mance, the officer, on looking at it, said it was a scarf ;
representations of distress. The prisoner has long been it was of s long form, and that of a shawl was more 'Hoare.
known to practise his tricks upon the benevolent, and has 6lagistrate.—lf it he a scarf, I meat dismiss the mine
once or twice suffered for them ; however, he has again mons ; for in proceedings for realties, names ought to
successfully carried on his schemes since he was last libe. he precise and „ruin ; and seeing the defendant without
rated from prison. Mr. Fagan and others of the Mendicity v. ligel adviser, it is my duty to take the objection.
Society, hearing the prisoner was taken into custody, came Mrs. Berry said, that the article when purchased, was
to witness the examination, of which the following is a brief purchased as a shawl, and they bad always called it so
outline : afterwards. Perhaps a dictionary would define it. .
On Tuesday afternoon the prisoner applied to Mr. Jar. Johnson's Dictionary haviag been consulted Ivy the Clerk.
mao, to alleviate a most distressing case. Ile said that he lie stated, that "Scarf" was defined to be " any Skier
had been recommended to him by Mr. Nosada, a jeweller that bulge loose on time shoulders, and " Shawl '' a part
of Coventry Street; and by Mr. Parkinson, demist, of of modern female dress brought from India, a kind of
Sackville-street. He tben presented a letter, purporting to cloak.
be written by an attorney named Crows, of 14, Bishops- Mr. Meters was of opinion, there was a distinction
gate•street, to which the names of many persons Were ash- between the two, and if this was a scarf, it ought not
scribed in different kinds of hand-writing, with various to have been named a shawl in the proceedings ; and its
sante of money affixed. The substance of the letter was, that account be dismissed the maroons, which he recent-
tbat the prisoner's family was in the deepest affliction, he meuded to be before the Commissioners. At the same tine
having two children lying dangerously ill of the small pox, he thought Mr. Berry doing good to the public by pre-
end that his wife had recently met with a dreadfal calamity, carding spinet the driver for this offence.
she having unfortunately had a fall, which shattered her The complaint was then dissnisted, on on understand-
leg so severely, that amputation was necessary to save log that is should net disparage a future decision.
her life. Unton-uett.—Yesterdity, Ella. Betlend4us leer and Elks
Mr. Jarman considered the !letter an imposition, and told Dunn were brought before R. F. Cuteness, Esq. charged
dm prisoner he %mild not relieve ids. Upon which the with having feloniously stolen and misread we pillows, one
latter broke out into a volley of abase, which induced Mr. sheet, and one pillow case, from their ready furnished swede
J. to have him conveyed to this office. The Sitting Ma- memo in chapel...wet, Lambeth. Elisabeth Bellenden
gistrate (on Tuesday evening) questioned the prisoner re- Ker, who, although destitute of decent clothing, had the
specting where his wife's leg was amputated, and where appearance of having seen better days, represented herself
he resided. The prisoner said, "he would sooner lose as near lineal descendant of the late Duke of Roxburele,
his right arm" than answer those questions. He was ac• and as such had written letters to Lord Mulgrave and the
cordingly sent to the watch-house, and Mr. Nosada and Duke of Portland, from whom abe obtained some relief.
Messrs. Parkinson, were written to, requesting to know Mr. CHAMBERS questioned the prisoners as to the fact of
"ether they had authorized the prisoner to use their their having made away with the property mentioned. bliss
Names. Ker declared that she finew nothing about the things laid
Messrs. Parkinsons did not attend, but they wrote say- to her charge, and her servant also totally denied any
lag that the prisoner was wholly unknown to them, till knowledge of them; however, on searching the latter at
about a fortnight back, when he pestered them very the bar. the duplicates of the stolen articles were found in
much for money ; to get rid of him they gave him half- her pocket.
1147011'n. Mr. CHAMBERS, under all the circumstances, orderd
Mr. Nosada said he knew nothing of him, and cone- both prisoners to be remanded ; and in the mean times gave
quently did not recommend him to the complainant. directions that the blendicity Society should be informed
The chief officer, Mr. Plank, having learnt that a woman of the ease.
was outside the doors inquiring for the prisoner, suggested
to the Magistrate that she should be called in and ez- I On Sunday last, a wan eniellyeti in carrying out parcels
attained. She accordingly entered, and said that she was from the 'relate' den coach, on its arrival in this town, was
the sister of Ilause (the prisoner was not then at the bar), observed by two men in the employ of Mr. Sharp, of the
and his not going home In the evening, as usual, alarmed Mitre Tavern, to go into the Mitre yard. From his man-
lier exceedingly; she feared that some accidenthad befallen ner, suspecting all was not right, they looked through a
bim, and went to Middlesex Hospital to inquire. On small window, and saw him bteak open a parcel, which
learning that he was not there, she could not conceive contained a quantity of game and some papers. The men
what had become of him, and was wretched about it; at did not immediately apprehend him, but gave information
length she accidentally learnt he was taken to the watch- of what they had seen to E. Poolly, the constable, who
house on Tuesday night, and was to be brought up at this found him at the Rose and Crown, and lodged him in the
Office for examination. watch-house. This was about the middle of the day, and
The Magistrates inquired where she lived? She replied the watchhouse faces up High Street, yet, singular to relate,
at Islington. She was asked to name the street; at this the prisoner contrived to break through an inner partition.
she pretended to faint away. After remaining ten minutes and taking off the lock of the, outer door, he succeeded ikt
in a feigned illness, she confessed that she was the wife of making hits escape. The stolen parcel proved to be one
Haase, and that they lived at No. S, Little Chester- sent to T. L. Hodges, Esq. of Hetusted.—(dfaidetoue
street, Mary-la-bonne. Gazette.)
The Magistrate then inquired how long she bad been ADJOURNED INQUEST.—SINGULAR CASE.—Yesterbv
married, and was told two years. He asked if she had the Inquest upon Mrs. Ann Anthony. the wife, of Michael
Anthony, offee roaster,
met with any accident lately? She replied she had nor, Worcester Place, Garlick MI,
but some years back, when In service, she had her shoulder ,syas resumed, .
hone broken. He then inquired if she bad injured her r hames . , Street before THOMAS SHELTON, EST and a re•
at the Brown Bear. Garlick Hill, Upper
leg? She answered she had slightly, but it was quite well spectable Jury. Verdict—Natural Death.
now. it was manifest to every one present that she had no
wooden leg. She was then taken into the private room, '
and Hause was then placed at the bar without his suspecting
that any one had been examined. On being questioned
as to whether the letter he had presented was true or not,
be most unequivocally declared it was all true. He
underwent a minute examination as to the particulars of
This marriage and his wife's accident. He said that be had
been married eight years,- es ti that his wife hail her leg'
amputated above the knee about eighteen months hack.
But he persisted in his determinetion nut to name the place
where the operation uas perfumed, nor the place of his
residence.

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BIRTH.—On Tnesday morning, in Driminirt-vtreet. Mrv. Danl.
tain, of three childsen, two boys and a girl; who, with the mother, are doing
well.
34 ARRIEn.—on the 13th instant, at Reading. the Rev. Philip, Filleul.
Rector of St. flrelades. and Lecturer of St. Aid:ibis*, Jersey, to Catherine
Elizabeth Blanch, fourth daughter; and the Bev. Peter French, of Wading.
to Penelope Arabella. youngest daughter of Dr. Valpy, of Reading.
On the lath of January last, at Walcot Church, Rath. John Sam. Williams,
Esq. late of the 3d Regiment. of Bengal Cavalry. to Harriet, second daushter
of Captain Dyer, of the Royal Navy, and Mete to the late Sir J. Dyer. hart.
On Monday. the 13th instant, at Scampton. near Lincoln. Thome Water-
house Ram Esq., of the Middle Temple, London, barrister at law. to mail
Ann, fourth daughter of the late Rev. Dr. lllingwerth.of the former plate.
DIED.—Ou Friday. the lOth instant, at Herebii d, aged 7ti. John Wehhe.
Westun. Esq.. of Sutton place, In Surrey,and ot Sarnesfield Cora. is Here*
fordshlre.
On Saturday, the 11th inst.,in the 24 year of ins age,O. Viscount Lewis-
ham, eldest sun of the Earl of Dartmouth.
On the IGth of May. at Bombay. Captain J. F. Longlands, third son of the
late T. Longlands. Eeq. of Great Queen-street, Westiniosi er.'
On the 16th instant, Sarah, the wife of Peter Holman. Eel. of Newirgtoo-
plaee. Kennington.,
On the 14th inst., in Bridge-street. Southwai k, in the year of his age.
A. Pott, E.
On 31onilay, the 6th inst. at his house, in the Albany, Piccadilly, .. .N .
Johnson. Al. Is,
On the 14th inst., at Great °eerie'. near Ilford. Essex, in his 91st ycar,J.
Jones, Esq.

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