Police.
The Times, 1824-02-05T00:00:00

MAV9rOX.HOtSE.-A labOrnmt Man was cArged y ., Smith, attomey to the East India Cornpany with havitg stoltil - mall quantity of sugar, the roperty of the &mrpany. Tbe prisoner, who is an elderly man, and had borne an excellkntt character, was see s tooping down near a cask, and oon ats somne 5tigar lfas found in his hat. HSe wasq not seen talrin thestigar_ The Losen MAoR-0 said be could not think of cottiuttingthe prisoser, upon evidence which, so far from appearing cose s, would be scouted in a court of justicc. ilr. Smith was convinced that the testimeny twas strongenough to convict. and denied that a jury would reject it. The LoRD MAYOR1-It would not stand before a jury for a mo- ment, and the Jadge would scout it. The nan's previous cha- racter, and the trivial v.alue of the sugar you accuse him of having stolen, would be powerful arguments against his conviction. L cannot think of commaitting him. Mlr. Smith again requested that the Lord Mayor would protect the Company by sendmng the maa for triaL. It was really not to be endured that as ssternlof robbery should be cat ried on against the es- tablishnnent with impunitv. The LO RD MAYOR desired ii2r. Smith to consider for a moment that the prisoner had a large family, and an excellent character, and that however strongappearances were ngninst him, it would be thIm man's total destnrction to send him to the Old Bailey. Mr. Smith then begged that the prisoner ccight he remanded for some days. The Lonn MAfYOR said, he certainly should not Jo so. All the evidence against him had already been heard, and if tcere was no ground for committing him, there, could be no ground fo. remand.- ing hint. Mr. Smith still pressed his point, but the Lord Mayor was Vit to be prevailed upon to detain the man a moment longer. His lord- ship observed, that the man's chance of obtainmng a situation nor was a thousand times greater than it would be if he were to undergo a trial at the Old BaileY; that if he had stolen the sugar, the de- termined manner in vhich he had been followed would operate as a warning to him ; and that it would be most unmerciful to ruin the prospects and the famUly of an unfortunate fellow, who had lived to an advanced age, under such circurmstances as had been brought forward againsthim.-The priscrer us then dismi-.sed. BOW-STuEET.-xfetkiay the three bothers, named Thiompopn, who stand charged vith rob,.hry to a large amount in the house of T. P. Miacqueen, Esq., 1M.P., unazzwent a final cxamination, which lasted from hala PaSt one until fire o'chsck. in addition to the former evidence, that s' a jeweller, named Car- neg-y, living at 57, King-street, Soho, was taken. Bishop and Avis, of this office, having been unremitting in their exeredins to trace the property. succeeded in obtaining informatien which led them to the house of Carr,egy, whee they found a valuable pearl nectae be. longing to Mlrs. Ilacqueen; and in consequence of the arcoutit be gav e of it, he was taken into custody, and commiuied on Monday nighte !last by Sir R. Birnie for re-exam{nation yesterday, when Mr. Ado!- I phus attendled as his counsel. Tlie Maeistrates, howvever, upon cotsn- |sideration, were of opinion that there waRs not suficient eridenc-e to gop to a iury against ntm as a receiver, ann ite was autitutca a wituiess ior the Crown. He stated, that on the day after Christmas-day, the pri. soner JPameS Thompson (as he believed) caine to his hoase, and oftered fir sale a pearl necklace, wvith diamond clasps. Mitness said the pearls would not do for him, and the prisoner said, " Per. baps you will purchase thtl diamonds?" Witness agreed to do so at gt. per carat, aind the diamonds were cut out fromn the clasp and. weich_l. They' weighed a little mnore than 3 carats. After some fartier; ct,,:.rsation, witne-s. agreed to purchase the pearls at 2s. eacih. Tnere vc 78 in the necklace, and he raid the prisoner for the pearls, diamonds, .-nd gold. something short of 201. He had a book in which was a sca2'QiT prices of pearls, and accordingi to the size of those produced, he be Lveil them to be worth about 2Gs. each on the averagv. Sir R. BiRN-rE.-And so, belitSiei thei to &e wortlh 25s. each, you pturclased thlem at 2s. .Mr. M I NsH VULL.-It was your duty, Sir. to have told the younn man that he could not have coine honestly by th nn, an& to bavehA him detained. Cartegr.-Yes, Sir, I acknowledge I ought to hav: done so. I Wras imprttdent. Sir R. BIRItsF-Impruden?t I it was something very Wu?tlch be. yond iniprudence. It was stated that the necklace cost originally 300 gttineas, and that the pearls now were worth dOs. eacls, at the trade price. After evidence was adduced by wvhich the Highland dirk, a Chi_ ness .a-veil sn,,ff ho-, -'ad.rase. and several other things, the pro- perty of illr. Alacqueen, were traced to the pnsoners, they were all three fally commnitted for trial ATAR1,1ouROIGH-ST'IEET.-A miserable-looking poor worna in the last state of wretchednes.s, and labouring under the worst effcctsi of a loathsomne discase, was brought to the office by a gentleman re- siling in the neighborrhool oF Fitzroy-square, who stated to the nmagistrate, that this unhappy creature had lived for several years respectably in St. Pancras parislh, but had been deserted by her hus- band, and left in a state of the greatest poverty and distress, wbich drove her into a coursc of life, the effects of wfiich she waii now suf- fering in an extreme degree; and understanding that she had been refused anv relief by the parish to which she belongs, and as the wretched Nvoman. was laying about the streets aU night, the inhabit- ants of the neighborrhood determined to bring the case before the magistrate, anti deputed him to do so. The womlan being asked to state her application to the parish, she said, that having waited on a MIr. Austin, one of the assistant over- seers of the parislh, and stated to him her wretched situation and claims oni the parish he refusied to admit her to the infinnary or give her any relief, but abused her in the most gross language, applying to her the niost foul epithets, and upbraiding her with thecompTi.nnt she laboired under, and ultimatelv turnei her away. Mllr. Austin, who was present, was asked by lr. DYER, the ma- gistrate, to explain this conduct, wvhen hle denied having ever seen the poor wionian before, although from his manner of doing so, and the consistercv of thle poor wvoman'. account, it was evirtent he had, she having been sent to him by another officer of the parish nated Depall. for the riurpode of relief. Alr. DyEn said, that it was most inhur-an to insult the misfor- tunes of the unhappy creature, and instead of relieving her to taunt her with a disease to which, from her deplorable appearance, she was likel to fall a victim. IfMr. Atistin said, that he would m-ake application to have her taken into the Middlesex Hospital, but she could not be admitted in hec state to the parish ixfirmary. Jl r. DYER said, that he cared not about application to this or that hospitaL but desired that the p0cc -woman should instantly be pro. perly attended to, and that day not suffered to pass without such being done. POLICE.