The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-02 00:00:00

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MANSION Houss.—Yesterelay,' nearman, the porter,
who was charged a few days rime with basing stolen three
valuable rings at the Auction Mart, was again brought up
on a charge of having stolen a telescope.
Mr. Williams, of the Auction Mart, stated, that for
some time past he bad been injured to such an extent by
robberies committed in his Sairroom, as almost to prevent
trim from taking the responsibility for the safety of' the
property, unless at an increased premium for the risk.
He had had property taken from the 'Sale-room to the
amount of 1001, at one time; he bad therefore thought it
Lie duty to prosecute the prisoner. When the latter was
seareimd, some duplicates of various property were found
upon Illion, and amongst.othei things a telescope was traced
to a pawnbroker's. Winn'ss recognised it as his property,
and as having been stoles' ft his Sale-room sp fir back
is March last.
Mr. Mills, belonging to the house of Parse, London-wall,
proved that the prisoner pledged the tescope at their shop,
and afterwards redeemed it. The sbopman to Mr. Smiler
proved that the prisoner's wife sold the telescope at their
shop on the same day it was taken out of pledge from Mr.
Purse's. The prisoner, when called upon for his defence,
dehied any knowledge of the telescope; and declared that
he knew nothing of that about which the parties bad been
talking.
The LORD blavoit said, a clear ease hall 'been made out
an the part of the prosecutor, ahll it must be met before a
jury. The prisoner then declared that it was the first of-
fence of which he had ever been guilty, and be strongly
begged for mercy. He was fully committed to take Lis
trial at the Old Bailey.
A young waterman, a tall insolent looking fellow, was
brou4ht before the Lord Mayor by his parish officers, n
an order of filiation. He was attended by a youtt..gfe
and two other young women.
An interesting yonntezirl swore that he was the fel of
the child which she held in her arms.
The eaterman denied that that Could be the case, he
was, nine months before the birth of the child, in
Whitecross-street prison, for being the father of another
chill.
The girl, who was greatly agitated, swore that she went
to him in prison, and supported him by taking to hito every
farthing site earned and all she could get. It was there the
intercetursetookplace, which he now denied in so barbarous
and ungrateful a manner.
The defendant, in a surly tone, said, if the child was his,
he could not pay for it.
Ile was informed that he most be made to pay for it, and
that Isis offspring was not so excellent as to entitle it to be
maintained at the public expense.
The defendant said that lie was ready to pay one half the
expense fur the future, If the mother was made to pay the
other half.
The girl immediately promised to do her utmost to suit-
port the child herself, but she could not pay more than one
half the expense.
The expenses already incurred by the parish were then
claimed, hut the defendant- denied his ability to pay them.
lie tt as told that he must woe k to make them ep, or that he
would have to work in Bridewell at the treadouill, and
work too for nothing. Ile said he didn't rare—cou'dn%
help it—and was immediately committed td Bridewell to
srd labour (i. e. at the tread-mill). fie Went away in a
surly humour, sternly pushing aside his wife, who was in.
tears at his cu:nmitment.
The tread-mill has iii some places been applied to cases
of the above description with good success, as the offenders
have tie fore they were at work on the mill many days, in-
sisted on their right to be married, choosing that &hema-
tite. it is to be presumed, as the lesser evil.
OVII.DII.at..—UTTERtSG COUNTERFEIT COlN.—Jarnes
Soli:/s, a journeyman pastry-cook, wbo had been remanded
en a charge of uttering liaise coin, was brought up for final
examination, when Mr. Powell, the Solicitor for the Mint,
reroenssed him as an old ailimintstice, who 114.1 but lately
Crest lilier.del from cossfinement tor similar prsetices.
prins .er went into Ts.h:t's Dog public house, St. Paul's
Clustishvaril, -stay last week, fur a twopenny. glass of rum,
which this-sift for with a half crown; he received 2s. 4d. in
change, and ono of the shillings be shortly afterwards
returned as bail. On Thursday morning early be came
again for too pennyworth of rom, and again gave a half-
crown, but was this time wisfied with his change. Itefere
he 1,3 t the tap lie asked two sixpences for a shilling, and
gave a had shilling. In the afternoon he returned, demand-
ed two-pennyworth of ruin, and tendered a half crown,
which bring a bad one, and Foy, one of the patrol of
Cistle Iltycard Ward, happening to be iii the house, was
immediately given in charge. On searching him no
Ind money sass found, but Ise bad 12s. 63. in small
e'sange, and no less than 3s. 5.1. in copper.—The prisoner
wee committed in default of bail..
Bose STREET.—ROBBERY or LADS ANNE DASIIWOOD.
Derby and Panic: fit'earthy were brought be
fore Sir Buimic' Blame, yeeeerdsy, chargeni--the former
nit!, stealing, end the last-r with receiving a large quantity
of plate, the property of Lady Anne Dasiewoo I. Her La-
dyship, a-tended by Gen. Frederick Maitland, was present
at their examination.
It eppeses that Derby was butler to her Ladyship, and :r
that he availed himself of the facility that situation gave
him, to perlodu more than a hundred different pieces of
phite—slich as forks, spoons, &c. His ill gotten gains,
however, have done him little good; for, though It is not
inure thin sit weeks since he quitted her Ladyship's service,
he is already the most abject personification of human
wretehedness we ever beheld.
There was something very singular in the manner of this
snan's apprehension. Short!y after he left Lady Dashwood s
service,he had the temerity to come aluiost daily to a public
is Bow Street, nearly adjoining the office, and there
amuse himself by inveighing against her Ladyship, and
complaining of the treatment he had received at her hands.
On one occasion, whilst he was thus bolding forth, Tailor
—a patrol belonging to this office, happened to he present ;
and it inunedistely occurred to Lim—to use his own words,
that "all was nut right ; that there was a screw loose some-
tchcre ." Ii ',sever he raid nothing at the time, but took the
lir.; opporunity of making an erquiry at her Ladyship's
town resiiiess-e. in Montigite Place, and there he learned
that his suspicions were just—that, in fact, her Ladyship
lasl been robbed to a large amount by a man who bad re-
cently quitted her service. In consequence of this inform-
ation be immediately looked out for the man be had heard
holding forth against her Ladyship; hut lie had disconti-
nucel his visits at the public house in Bow Street, and, hav-
ing no clue by which to trace him, he had little hope of
succeeding. Nevertheless. I.e continned his search indefas
tigably in every part of the town likeiy to be the haunt of
such a man; but still without success; and he bad give.
lip the pursuit as hopeless, alien, at a late hour on Sunday
night, as lie was passing au obsenre gateway, at the upper
end of Mitcham Street, Lesson Drove, he heard some person
snoring heavily. He instantly called the watchman to bang
Isis lantern; and there, under the estteway, in a worn oat
hackney coach, hr found the er-butts fast asleep! On theit
teat to the ivalcb house, he reatily gave such informalon
as led to the apprelien-ion 41 the other prisoner. Daniel
fillhirthy, by whom, he said. the greater part of the plate
had been pledged. On searching the butler at the natch
• house, several pawnbrokers tickets, for some of the articles
pledged, were found between the inner and outer sole of
his tattered shoe.-
A tare quantity `of the st.lea property was produced
hereto the Magistrate by four diffesent p sienbokerss, who
deposed that the greater part of it was pledged by the pri-
soner Daniel M'Carthy, aced the rest by the butler.
The whole of the property so prO4lllve‘l, adult the excep-
tion of one silver fork, tnts identified by her Ladyship -11.
having been stolen, eitt er front her house iu Montague-
Flare, or her other-hew in the C.:coigns of St. George's