The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

POLICE.

Ortannatt..—Biehard York, who keeps an rating
!,rise, No. 33, Fleet-uiarket, appeared on summons, to,
answer the complaint of Martha Wyhttrd, a very decent-
14oking ;irl, /theta 16 or i 7 years of age, for illegally
detaining her clothes. The girl stated that she had
lived some time in the service of Mr. York, and had re-
ceived from him such gereral ill-treatment, that she de-
termined to quit, and accordingly left his service on the
Friday previous, which she thought herself at liberty to
di), as there was nn agreement, for warning between her
and her master: she took part of her clothes with her,
and on calling for her box, which contained the remain-
der. on Monday ?horning last, Mr. Yoik refused to let
bee have it.
'l'4e defendant, in jnstifioation, said the girl had atoln
some apples, which he should have to make good, and
be lied detained her clothes till the paid for them.
The Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, inqui red into the.
fact, and finding the accusation frivolous, directed him
to deliver the girl her clothes.
The defendant went grumbling away at this decision,
and in a few minutes afterwards the girl was brought
into the office. in tears, and placed at the bar as a pri-
armor ; York, in a fit of revenge, having actually given
her in charge for felony, to Davis, one of the officers is
attendance in the outer room.
A general feeling was excited in favour of the girl,
and several gentlemen in the office went to her, and
encouraged her to bear up. Mr. Alderman Cox also
cantioned the prosecutor as to the consequences of pre.
freeing so serious an accusation. Hires, however, dal
termiaed to proceed, and seas accordingly sworn.
,The story he told was, that a balls sieveof appleshad,
'bee left to he taken fare of, last Saturday was a week;
thae on-FsWaytafter the prisoner bad left his service, he
ifthp.., obs'erved that some of them were missing; hp thought
about a third part; and on making inquiry, his two
s , srvanta told him tlrat they had seen the girl eating
apples of the same kind, and that they bad eateb sonic
also, which she gave to them.
Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's clerk, observed, that
' what' he Fold was sot evidence.
E • Me. Alderman Cox was aware of that, but thought it
t was of importance to the girl's character that the charge
1. ,hosild he folly investigated,. and therefore directed it to
be taken down.
The prosecutor proceeded to state that when the girl
called forte, clotheabe charged bet with therobbery. She
itegied it, and he thee told her that she should not have
• her box, till her fathei, or her friends paid him ss. 641.
for tie apples that wets atisssng. In answer to quell-
tient horn-the Alderman, he said the apples were placed
in a yard to which any body might have access, that be
never saw the girl with any of them, and knew nothing
but what the servants bad told him.
Mr. Alderman Cox ob d, there was not a tittle
of evidence at present before him to criminate the'
girt, but offered to remand her, if the prosecutor
thought he could bring witnesses to support his charge.
Mr. York, who had by this time cooled, said -he
wished not to proceed, and desired she might be dis-
charged, which was accordingly done; the Alderman
at the same tine desiring her to remain till the
}rosiness was over, when be *Mild advise her in what
Way 'to proceed under the circumstances that bad oc-
hued. ' ,
All this tpokplue ou Tharaday ; and yesterday Mr.
York attended lb. office, hpressed to the Alderman
Els tetra* Air' that had happened, and offered to make'
the girt asjf reparation that might be thought proper to
pivevdthether proceedings.
The girt ins then celled. She expressed no symptom
of hinnies upon the occasion, wanted no money from
lier.saister, and only wished that her character might
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A,„„... Cox enggested that Mr. Yoh should
fe pitffirn:in the public prints. This be was wit-
-1 a to do, and an advertisement was accordingly
drawn op,lifitAteet satisfactory both to the girl and hey
master, the lanes-undertaking to pay all the expenses of
pithlicatlen, , •
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0V SttikirtA MDACBgaII.--411 the early part of: kit
week • later wise received by' Sir RICHARD Rinsch frinil
Mil Ifinve,lated at his seat: Onpsall, Leicestersbire,
detailing tbe palatial% of an greaten% tannic, corm.
Ailed upod his Lirdship's gamekeeper and 'assistants
~ he e ganjrnof Reichert', and requesting that ad :ape.
s'.llfritild Meernifghtbe sent down to endeavour to beiag
thiroffendertito justice. Sir It. Blame immediately
t-Spate-bed 'Bishop, one of the principal officers, to
(lapse% and nOOll inquiry be found that on the night
cif the 231 of' December, between 11 and 12 o'clock, as
Thomas Jennings, gamekeeper to Lord Howe, and two
assistants, wile going over the plantations, they met a
gong of poachers, tire in number, armed with guns.—
The poachers challenged the gamekeepers, and a gette-
r il sent& ensued, in the course of which Jennings hair-
ier collared one of the poachers, fell with him, and the
pun of the latter went off, whether by accident or design
it was Impossible to tell. The shot took We effect, bat
time posher' having obtained the mastery,Jennings and
Inis awistatitn were beaten about the head with the butt
earls of the guns, which the poachers had with them,
,total they were sensetess and weltering in blood. Jen.
Wive has elate been in extreme danger from the wounds
Ideweived. Bishop, after some days' inquiry, obtained
enelt information as induced him to go to Nottingham,
• diltance of forty miles, where he apprehended a man,
ti' merl John Cloosey, and conveyed him to Ashby-de-la-
Z rich. He next soreheaded two brothers, named
Janes and John Walker, at Packington, in Warwick-
sA•ire ; and at Ashby-de.la-Zotich he took Itoht. Ooosey
sot Joseph Roby into custody. After remaining a
ri At in confinement, they were taken berate the ttev.
.I,,hn Pidduck Clarke, a magistrate at Ashby, when
Baby made -a-fell confession of the affair, anti being ad-
s-inert as cvi !ence for the Crown, implicated the other
Putt prisoners. In corroboration of his ststeMenet wit-
nesses were called who proved seeing the live together
on the evening of the outrage, at a short distance from
thegrnanda of -Lord Howe.
• Tits two Waiters and the (looser (not brothers) were
fettle conffinitted to Leicester goal for trial ; and Holly
waif detained to give evidence.
HirfaK O.IItDEM.—.-Thomas Welator,hetween 16 and
17 "teen of see, was brought before the sitting Ma-
gistrate. charged with a daring and impudent highway
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Miss Rebecca Pitman, the prosecutriv. of 44, Rath-
', me Place, deposed that about twelve o'clock that day
'be was going aleng St. John Street Road, and was in.
r)nirintrot some person her way to the. City, when the
prisoner cone up and snatched the reticule out of her
hand and ran elf with it ; she ran after him, calling
out "stop thief.' There were several persons passing
at the time; one man pursued the prisoner, railing out
";tap tide," and he Mall stopped by a baker who hap-
py:led to be passing with a h.'ket fall of bread. When
toll prisoner was pursued he threw away the reticule,
%Odell A.- picked u;); she never lost sight of him until
be was secured ; she was positive the prisoner was the
person who robbed her; in ernstching the reticule out of
bar hand he broke the steel chain and gilt clasp. Here
▪ prodneed the reticule, and part of the contents were
taken down by the clerk, viz.: a heath ',fuse; containing
4.. in silver, a silk handkerchief, a pocket book, and a
p,ir of gloves; it ►ikrutise contained several other Red-
eem, which abestood in immediate want of, which were
returned to her, and the reticule and the articles named
Were delivered into the possession of Edward Read, the
offieer, to prodece on the trial.
The prisoner declined saying any thing In de7enre,
and was committed to Newgate fur trial.

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