Morning herald., 1837-09-12
A scene in the Police Office.

Iime-Asnday morning past 1.
After an absence of TWO years, we mingled IN the
motley crowd that attended the "watch delivery
Yesterday. The old place looked as natural ever
There sat Justice Lownds with the same severely
calm counteEance as in days Of old, now and then
lit mp by rays of benevoence, well as intelligence
the same unbending severity of manner--the same
dogged determination to see that
Justice be done, though the heavens should fall;7
the same gentemany demeanor and neatness of ap-
parel that distinguished him, to say nothing
about the same anxiety to return home,
Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head
Upon his own delightful bed"
and get a couple of hours capital snoezing before
breakfast. Andby his side there the little, indus
trous, kind hearted clerk, William Calender; who
never threw an impedlment in tae way whenever, of
erst we wanted information for the amusement and
instruction of our readers; and of whom, far
cur information and knowledge of him extends, we
can safely say
.".None know him but to love him.
None name him but TO praise"
Our fat funny and familiar friend, Captain Fisher,
also there but of the rest we only remark
that change cemeth over ALL We looked for the
faces that once knew, and 10 !" they were not"
But" the general reader remarks, what has all
this TO do with police report? 2" Much or little,
something or nothing depending for its appreciation
upon the capacity Of the queris; so let go for
what it is worth. We have yet to get the hang"
of the Office, and that done, will be hanged but
we will
Bring reports
as good as those of by-gonc days
Sorry were we to see five or six young females
(soms well dressed, and very well looking,) among
the calendered uprts and right glad would we have
been could they with proprety have been SENT sans
ceremonie to their several homes with the heavenly
admoDlton of Him whose whole life spent for us
labor was Of love, to " 20 and sin more" But as
the of true Justice like that of true love,
did smooth, most of all these ral fair
sent back 10 rough II out in Bridewcll.
"They all were young, and beautiful"
Dr. hut ta tha abaI fbaI
plead, seen no more below" they had fallen from
their high estate OF innocence and purity; and as
Except n erring sisters slame'
so all sympathy for their sufferngs, we presume,
would be nooted at as maudlin Yet each one of
these young girls once innocent and happy as
the gayest belle of Broadway or New Brghton--each
one was once the pride of dear mothers eye-the
antcipa ted delight of fond fathers heart each one
has doubtless lsped, in early life precepts OF purity
aad pIety; and il is not too much anticipate that
each may yet be reclaimed from the of her
ways. But leaving divlnes and DISCLAIMERS 10 do their
duty, proceed 10 do ours, by entering into details.
A tall, comsy, cleanly, and wellfavored young
female with an i'll arranged mouth, stood up TO an
swer TO the name Of Elizabeth Harding. She was
born, bred and brought up in the Bay State but be-
ing deficient in tho common acuteness of Yankee
girls, suffered herself TO be seducea by scoundrel-
Ere she Numbered sixteen summers"
With the rapid strides made by women who once
enter the paths Of poluton she soon became drunk
ard and swearer.
She lived in Mulberry sr,et-supped out and was
locked out which accounted for her appearing at the
police Office on wet morning, atred IN a light mus
lin slip, pointed lace boddice white Grape hat, and Gu
riousy constructed panialetes-whch showed oil,
TO immense advantage, figure, that for fautessness
might have been used as model for the Venus dc
Uedicis. She was not what she had been-what she
should be- what she mouid be, If Mr.. Lownds
would let her 60 She promised TO live with her
washerwomaa for one day and with her mother till
tb. .i.,,, l.., Of both of Tlp lu
took time to consider her case and the wachman
took her, as a case, to cell IN bridewe
mild, modest maronly old lady came up at this
early hour TO complain Of curiousy clad character
who looked not Of the earth, and yet was on i"
and who might very well manage to play one of the
witches in Macbeth, without any change Of costume,
coantennce, complexion This unblessed, ,unbeau-
ifu bipcd answered TO the appellaton of Lucy Lore
north though in her present state and station she did
not seem worh the love of solitary soul. The palm
OF poverty and pollution had been placed heavily up
on her, and she was banned and broken beng
Petticoats, under garments Of any kind, condition,
or character, she evidently had not her sole attire
consisting of a cream coored calico frock, drawn in
at the waist by string Of the same materal-the
only ornament to her head being old cotton hand
kerchef Ike Joseph's coat, Of many colors and 50
Astounding in holes that her heavy tangled and mat
ted hair sirayed in undsguised profuson, or confu-
sion down neck that once might have been white,
but which was now evidently unwashed. This libel
on the lovely SEX charged by her accuser with
'decoying decent women from happy homes to haunts
of infamy' and was remanded, for her manifold
| faults
Margaret Thomas, was the Oldest most medde-
some and i'll m.favored Of the five. She said she was
woman, every inch and atom of her, ana she would
prove to the perfect satisfaction OF the police before
she had done with them and she did prove il before
she left Mr.. Lownds presence; fpertnacty piquan-
cy provoking perseverance, and powerful and perpe-
lua, play OF the tongue prove any thing she was an
orphan, ana wnatwas worse widow. She had own
ed store for "a years, $50 said her staemen) at the
corner OF East Broadway and Market streets, which
was IN the Court Of Chancery out Of repair, and
which y was out OF her power to procure possession
of-so she left il 10 the God OF Heaven (her own
words to take II from between the teeth Of the law
yers-and she got drunk and drImmed up recruits to
drive the present denzens out Of IT, and she hoped to
forced to forcgo
"The measure OF her erea revenge"