The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-24 00:00:00

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reign, and silver to the asnottet of two 'pounds, the pro-
perty of James Lacy, undo the following cirramstanoes :
About a mouth ago, the prisoner hired a ready tainislied
room in Lacy's house, in Tottenham-place Tottenham.
court-road, and after occupying It for a few days, abscond-
, ei, having first extracted the above property from a box
whirl; be broke open. He contrived to avoid being appre-
entled, although be was frequently seen about town ; and
'ltou'oneoccasioo, met the groscoutor in the street, hut by
his adroitness, effected Isis escape, although a hue and cry
was raised after him. However, a ran of ill luck, in the
coin:pinion of his depredations on tam public, effected what
the vigilance of the police could not ; for, after parting
with the last shilling he possessed, and having endeavoured
in vain to recruit his finances, be made a virtue of necessity,
and on meeting Lack, one of the Bow-street patrole, cur-
rendered himself a prisoner at discretion, and confessed to
the rubbery of his landlord, the prosecutor. lie was ac-
cordingly taken into cuatody, and lodged in the watch
house until the morning, when Mr. Lary attended and
*ratified him as the man who emptied his store box. He
4M fully committed.
Vary lima Bart(tif..a miserable looking young creature,
who has been several times before the magistrates upon
various charge', was brought up by Sharp, a patrol, charg-
ed with assaabing Mr. {:over, a florist, in Covent-garden-
market; and, by ebuggiag him with offences of a horrible
kind, collecting. a sob about him, and placing him in con-
siderable danger.
It appeared that about nine o'clock at night Mr. Gower
•iin,sts young Wend of his bed left their employment in
Covent-garden, and were going over Waterloo-bridge home,
ad scarcely turneltget of the Strand when they were
smeared by the prisone‘tirho caught h•W of his friend, sad
requested him to give her some money. He refused, and
she Immediately commenced a course of abuse and invec-
tive of the most horrible Iliad, accusing them both of bar.
ing committed a nameless offence on the steps of Mari luo-
tirWge. The accusation was rep'ated several times in a
loud tone, and 0 crowd having collected, Mr. tamest felt
himself ohliged to give the prisoner in charge.
A gentleman, who was passing at the time. corrobo-
rated the. statesneat of Mr. (lower and his friend.
The prisoner's defence consisted in a simple denial of the
conduct imputed to her.
Sir it. lisants observed, that he teas glad that there was
an Act of Parliament which enabled him to punish such an
offender as the prisoner without putting the roseentor to
the trouble and expenee of going to the sessions to prefer a
bill of indictment.
Thepri•o* was committed as an idle and disorderly
peellea.fer ntill 'month to the House of Correction. It is
stated to the commencenseet cf this account, that the pri-
Meer had been several times before the magistrates ; she
wasoncedlarged with robbery, and for wantef sufficient
wrideaceitteaset at liberty i in a few hours after she threw
erself inteSthe Thames, and upon being dragged forth by
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watering" abs *aa with great difficulty restored to life.—
was taken to a house in White Hart-yard, but in a day
et two afterwards, she jumped (runs a window and broke
her leg, Some humane persons procured. her admission
so in hospital, where she was cured, and since her :is-
,charge she has eoetiuued in the same votligate course of
ille• . ,
MARLOOROVCII-511CCT.—Yesterday three yelling men
Sot 6 0 women were placed at the bar before Mr. Draft,
rtbe SlagistrAte, charged with being coaccesed in
'sllo.- ir wing extraordinary robbery. They gave their
poet Joiut-anal Thomas Asbury. bothers. Johs Cruses.
Aldridge. Hasodsh Thumpeus, Hannah lairs. Eliza
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yesterday morning be succeeded iu apprehending She eight
'prisoners et the bar in a house it Buckeridge Street, St.
tilleel. The officers wbo attended him stated that Jane
&labs, who was servant its the house, acknowledged that
box similar to that described bad been brought to the
tuse on Monday tight by Groves, and she produced some
of the artistes it contained, of trifling value, that tvere
given to her as presents; and said that the other female
prisoners, who were up. stairs, had other articles of the
property given to them in like manner. The officers then
proceeded up stairs, and found all the other prisoners in
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led; and oa searching the apartment found the artistes now
produced, a few pearl drops. and three or four rings of little
value, hut there was no trace of the box or the principal
articlesit contained.
Scofield, the officer, said, that whedionveying Groves
to the office that morning, he voluntarily confessed to fatal
that he was the person who took away the box, and gavel
it, with its rooter:to, to John Asbury to dispose of. whol
sold it for 251., but said he only received 61. for It, and only i
gave hien, Groves, 31. for his share, thus cheating him of
Isis due proportion of the spoil ; and for this reason, be
said, he was determined to tell the whole truth.
L Groves was now questioned as to this statement made t o
the officer, and he acknowledged that it was all true. He
did not. he said, go with John Asbury to dispose of the
box, nor did be know where he bad sold it.
.John Asbury was now brought in, and examined seise.,
rattly. He acknowledged that Groves bad brought the
Mot, &c., to llockeridge Street, on Monday evening, and
went with him to dispose of it; they both sold it together
at a Jew's shop in Prince's Street, Drury Lane, for 61. ith.,
of whitio sum Groves got half. The shop where it was sold
was as well known to Groves as to him.
The prisoners, except Han*b Yates, who was discharged,
were remanded for farther examination. ..
The male prisoners are all very young, and Groves, the
priacipal in the rpbhery, appears front his language and
manner to be very superior to the rest.
The prostfutor said, that independent of his pecuniary
lees, whit:kismet be his ruin, he hes also lost his liccese,.
alai& was talsis box at Ille time if wits stolen ; ail there
seems little chance of recovering either it or Coe property.
ManetealostNe Orrice.—An iofarmation, under the 4th
of the present King,cotnnionly called l' the Ttrrnpi ke Act,"
was yesterday filed at the instance of The Parish Trust of
Patldingtois,•ageinst Messrs. John Drewe and John Bell,
the builders, for having erected a certain sloop-front or
window, in the turnpike road called the Edgeware Road,
which projected beyond the line of building, as repeated
by the Statute. The. penhlty was merely 405., and the
removal of the totoplaltied nniaance.
Mr. Drove is theyogprietor of a number of houses in '
lie Edgeware Road, ad 'sere thequestiod Secidedagainst
him, It would bd calclented to ruin his property in that (
direction. ,••• .
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Mr. Thomas °Mons, 'S or to the district, stated, t,
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drat the defendantliaillouilt ' it,houses, and la one "4 a
them had ereeteta shop-front, lr ikh encrosebettuion• '
turnpike road:' w • 4 .. • V
Mr. N11.1311'1 asked the witness 1141 bias slsorfrant wu h,
decorative seltirlbti.
. Mr. Onions admitted it was:, ' . :.. • • lir
Mr. Pitt LW PS then said the ease Mast fall to the groped; hut
as odtt.cmgit, in conseqnence of the passing of the' Act or ":.
thelltn• of the present tilng,' Several clauses Of the 14th ;ft,
I tietkee 111. were repealed, being from 36 to li7 inclitailve, •Be
nil; tittiS.lJ, vet it did not rt ;real the ;Stlt Clause,. which eh,
authorised any repo to erect, next to
Iris house, any tie-. "4
attentive of decorative knot, eotniee, coping.'portiro,lor •iem
iron palistoks„ anti hitt atria had certainly'fully complied Lit
Twit the terms of the Act of. Pall went. . -•". •
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Auk bit Ibe a thief:. Whorls "gle "' o • ntossits g n vie" rrannan I ulna. MU,: a slut, iv A ,
raptor
1 hiraute hielooplat aor beitir4swindled Jenkins, and Jame liebbs.
iosay. cad i. situation. sfaadant Daniel Burgess is a lionised hawking jeweller, residing married men
its i **Sag ii•se to his e the otlwr et No. 24. Doke 'Street, Grosvenor Square. On Monday to be weddet
neestoii.... at Soo .he feetwo . call hi. last Ito load a stall is °Aged Street, near the corner of word " wife
' • . st, 1., a„ Mitt Park Lane. Between 5 mall 6 o'clock in the evening he nature.
osself Ibis: s. '. • • .1. .••• diardlall tie jewellery in aho s whirls The mere
inciter blife should Rosser. ••
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• imw,ooolll4l6lll6llll.trar Wear yDr doolitentaut
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sdle or door, to cry mu • . •
as load he could call. Dit 'at a ikeevent leaving the boo on the stel aea • ' - qii 481
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I. getting Worse* whams sad the door; ,_ . a . • •
Who kept an fipple-stall seer the spa; but on his return Ir
Previous,
of year lifivesit otiest eregain; split 7,_) .
i no that the boa and all its cosiest' had disappeared.
had had ha Id Is of tho 'r bb ' 1 ted od •
hand I o ery cm A ; a in lb, „woo,
at fear ieeleek insparittes s
ter of the rove." No one onswired "potion, it b
i feat_ obeyed kW. Wilsess coati sot mrsoequonro of information be received,
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