Police.
The Times, 1824-12-21T00:00:00

MiANS1OXtHo1us E.-The subscription for the Spanish and Italian r6fugec* it carried on with a spirit corrmspanding with the urgency of the case. Numbers ot gentlemen waited yesterday upon the Loan MIAYORL with contributions. Indeed, the business of the justice- room was frequently interrupted by the benevolent intrusion of the contributors, and between taking notes and taking money, the labour of the Chief Clerk has increased tenfold. The Committee, to which we understand several of the highest naMet inl thc countrv are to be added, will, it is expected, meet on 'Wednesday for the purpore of mnaking regulations as a sccurity against imposition, and to admi. nister the relief so abundantly pouring in every day in the mostelfec. tual manner. It is, we believe, the intention of the Committe to ap. ply to Generals Alina and Quirega for their assistance. As those two distinguished persons are qualified to ascertain the real claims and deserts of the refogees, their mere presence in the Committee will operate beneficially as a eheck upon the ingenuity of schemers, who will, no doubt. see temptation in the efforts of charity. A gentleman waited upon tie LORD MAYoR. and recoinmended the ease of the ladv of Colonel Prado to his Lordship's connideration. 'The Lonn MAYon, in reply to the application, stated, that the Committee wouild investigate the case as soon as they assembled, and he must refer tlie applicant to them, as they would possess the means of investigating all cases with eflect, as well as of relieving the 8ufferers. His Lordship observed, that there wana strong disposition amongst the convivialists anti the comifortable retired shopkeepero, who were in the habit of meeting iogether to smoke their pipes, to centribute to thc aid of the unfortunate SpaiaxdiB..nd Italians. He had re- ceived several surns which were collectid over the cheerful glas, and he calculated'largely upon the assista-nce of all " generoua soulp." GUILDAI.IAL.-Mr. John Ratcliffc, a licensed victualler, but at present out of business, and residing with his father-in.law, a re- spectable maltster, at Strand-on-the.Green, near Kew-bridge, having occasior to come to town on Friday, on business with MIr. Jvwart, so- licitor, Tokenhouse.yatd, in passing along Basinghalltstreet. on his way thither, observed a great crowed. artd two men struggling very violently together-one insisting that the other should go along with him, and the other usiPg his utniost efforts to get away. everal persons in the crowd, aid Mr. Ratctiffe among the numiber, inquired what the man had done; and getting no satisfactory answer, Mr. Ratcliffe interfered, insisting that the man should not be ill-used ; and at lengtlh exerted force to separate them; on which the one ran away, and the other gave 'Mr. Ratciffe ia custody to a Wgorship. Rtreet officer, who happened to come by, on the char e of having rescued a felon: and he was brought, with a mob atbis heels, in custody to thisoffice, before.1Mr. Aldgrniiii TuoszirsgN. The corn plainant, Air. Dyball, wlhoi keeps the Red Lion public. house in Typestreet, Chiswell-street, stated, that the person MtSr. Ratclife ha rescueed f'rom him was one George William Russell. I1bat he had stolen from his house, on the 13th of October last, a htill of exchange, for 151. 7s., drawn upon him (Dyball) by 1Mr. IKean, varnish -maker and aceepted by him, Dyball. lie had been lonking to apprehend itussell ever since, and meeting him thatmnorn- ing In Basinghall-sircet, immediately seized him, when he wvas rescued from him, as we have already described. With regard te the felony, rlt. Dyball swore, that he left Bit. Kean, Russell, and a man named 6reen, together in his parloar, while he stepped out for a minute or two, and at that time the bill' was lying on thg table near to AIr. Keans; and on his re- turn and nmissing the bill, Green told him that Russell had taken it tP and gone away with it. This was all the evidence then given of the felony. Dyball further said, that he frequently called out in the crowd in Basinghall-street tbat he waa taking the man for fe- lony. In this- he was erroborated by one of the by-standers, but another by-stander and Blr. Ratcliffi himself declared that DvbalI never said one word about felony till after the man was gone. Upon this evidence Sir. Ratelifde was remanded till the next day, wlten !1 r. Dyball was to produce the necessary evldence that a felony had beens committed by Russell. On Saturday, at the re-exasnination, Alr. Btmphreya attended on the behalf of K r. Rateliffe, and urged that there was no legal ground for detaining him. To constitute the ofiened of rescue, it must be proved that the party rescued had committed a criminal ofieneen that the rescuer had knowledge that he-was in euztody for a eriminal offience-and lastly, thaf the person tescued was in lawful custody. AIr. DybaU was nG ofhcer. and his merely caying that hee as taking a mn for feloDy, evce if Mr. Rat"e henad it, he wv not bwopd te idl sve its 8He ltnel nattlie ofdie yaifeo : and how, then etuld he be aid to know that the man had committed afelanv i I? tbe man had been in custodyofan officer, Mtr. Ratelife'&wouldiin aw haveheeni bound to know; bitt Mr. Dybal's tellingl him ?o, he'wtwi nit bound to notice tn6i was thie mnan in lawfti1 custody. tlj, been laid down by lr. Baron Wood,that tolatithorise a privte lrsoo arret a felon,kt,vas nedeessary that he should see the Ioiny .comn- tnitted, and atr6t thernan at the time. Mr.lumphreys's ob'ects DS however, were over-ruled, and the case proceeded, The only addi tionl evdene inattedane wa Mr.Wigey, solicitor, Clermant's. Inn,whdstatd tat Slby a Serif'sofficer, paid hiini, with other monica?a bt;il of etchangs for 151 7 drawn by Iesne upon Dyball, and acepFted by the latter, nnd that tile bill was now in the hands af Yesterday Mlr. Ratcliife was akain brought up before Mlr. Alder. man Crtewi cR2 and to the pAisprise of every body, Russell, the al- leged felon, wa in atteaalanc e at liberty in the room, Dyball never catice offerting to give-bina inito cuistody Mir. Keane, the drawver of the bill, now appeared, and exrpres8lv! awore that he gave the bill to Ruwell, who promised to discount ii, ana give him the proceeds'. "le did not," said ir.lKeane "bring me, the money, nor the bill; but he did not rob mc of it. "he billwas my property, and I endorsed it over to him." Being asked if Dyball! knew at the time that he (Mir. Keanle) had given the bill to Russell, I he replied, " Certainly hi did." Some altercation here arose between I Dybali and Keane, as towhetherany value had been received for the! bil and some mutual accusations as to the transaction passed, which we forbear to notice, as not at all connected With the charge against Wr. Ratcelife. The evidence of Air. Keane negativing the fact that any felony had 'been committed, there was no longer any charge against Jr. Ratelifte, and that gentleman was set at liberty.; T Thermaterial distinction betweeti an officer and a private person is thiD.-.that an officer may net upon infbrmation* a private person only on his own actual view and k;nowledge of the oapince committed. According to the evidence in this extraordinary case, Dyball did not know that Russell had taken the bill, but only that Green told him so; yet ir. Ratcliffe has been detained in custody four days,on a chargeof lnowingly rescuinga felon, whentheutmost! that was prove as to his knovrledge was, tbat Dyball, who did not knov that RusseU had committed a felony, told him so; and it,at last appeared that no felony had been committed. lr. Ratcliffe felt highly indignant et the manner in which he had been treated, and exprcssed his determination to seek redress at law, for the false hit. prisonment. AlRLfUOROUG5IXsTRL;ET.-YeSterdav ASr. Venttra, who has been in custaiY everd days, uporn a charie of biggamry, was brought up for a second examination. It will be recellected, that Mlr. Ven. tura is charged with havin X, in the year 1819, intermarried with Mlrs.! Caroline artlett, a wvidow lady, residing at Shenly-hill, in Hert.. fordshire, he having been previously married to Frances Henrietta Colborne, who was then, and is still, living. On the first examina. ! tion it was contended, on the part of Air. Ventura, that when he* aontrated the marriage with Lady Colborne, her husband, Sir James Cplborne1 was then and is still alive, and that consequently that narrigeiheng vdd, his marriage-with Ars. Bartlett was good and valid. Mr. Adolphus, as en the former occasion, yesterday appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and M1r. Butler, the clerk of AIr. Harmer, attended for Mir. Ventura. When Mr. Ventura was placed befote the Miagistrates, lir. But- ler said, that he was novw fully prepared to prove that Lady Col- borne was a marriev woman whose husband was living at the time she contxacted the marrage with Mr. Ventura. Sir James Colborne, the husband to that lady, was in London at present, and he (Mr. Butler) ex ected him at the office every moment. In the courso OF a little time Sir James Colborne entered, and being questioned by Mir. Butler upon the subject, said, that in the month of la , in the year 1791, he was married in the city of Limerick, In Tleland, tl Frances Henrietta Green, the lady alluded to in their proeedings, on that occasion; she was given away bv her brother, a gentleEnan of great respectability in that country, yre siding at his seat, caUed Anne Mount. Mr. Green was a gentleman of about 3,000L a year fortane, and was married to 'the Ron. Miss Alassey, of that county; and was also a magistrate of the county. .M1r. Adolphus said, that he did not mean to throw any reflec- tion or doubt upon the statement made by Sir James Colborne ; but however worthy of eredit the assertions of Sir Jarnes Colborne might be they were not, in point of law, that sort of satisfactory proof Qf hia{ ,avrlage vith A is8 Green that'would be sufficient to exonerate Ur. Ventur fromo the present charge. There must, to do this,beproduced either the roper certificate of such marriage, or the evidence of som e person who was present at it, independent of either of the parties contracting it. Alr. Adolphas asked Sir Jamnes, if Mr. Green, the brother, was Sir Jamies Colborne said that hebelieved he was; he had no reason to think otherwise. Mr. Adolphus asked if the marriage took place aoording to the rites of tlhe Establimhed Church, or those of' the Roman Catholic, because, if the latter, a full proof even of such a marriage would not be sulflcienit? Sir James Colborne saia, that the mnarriage took place. according to the rites of the lWstablished Church. MIr. Adolphus said, that hee had a prieuafacie case against Mr. Ventura, to go to the sessions-with, as he had clear and decided le- gal proof of his having contracted two marriages with two ladies now--livng, and as his client, Mrs. Bartlett, the complainant in this ease, had never heard or known any thing of this marrigae of Afi5s Green with Sir James Colborne, except as a mere rumour, it would he necessary to produce the most undoubted proof that such a marrage had taken place. The Magistrates said, that under all the cireumstances, as the case was now narrowed to a very small comppss-namely, the proper proofof the aariage of Miss Green with Sir James Colbornc._it would be bttter and mnore satisfactory for all parties to have the case adjourned, until ouch proof-could be adduced. It was then arranged that the further hearing of the case should be postponed until the 4th of January, to give time for the produc. tion of Mr. Green from Ireland, or a proper certificate from a clergy. man of die Established Church, who performed the ceremony, or of its having been. performed according to the rites of that church. Ar. Ventura was then remanded to he ,Rouase. o?rc$ neilte Mr. Butler said, that two years ago some infbrmation was given at this very office, connected with a charge of bigamy against Lady Colborne herself. Mra. Bartlett, accompanied by several friends, was in attendance. WonsurP.sTEEwT._. enj`a?in Wilson, u5fieree-looking, dirty, ill-conditioned f'ellow, was broughtbefbrethesittingmnagistrat (Mr. OsaonxE) for examination, by John Tweedie, a constable of St. Luke's parish. Air. Castlei pawnbroker, of Oldl-street, stated that the prisoner had, about halt an hour previously,called at his shop,with a half.hoop diamond ring, set with a double row of brilliants, which lie effered in pledge for three shillings. Ilis appearance but ill according with the idea of the lawful possessor' of so valuable a triiket, witness asked him where be got got it? His aaswer was, that his wife bought it at Port Royal, in Jamaica, and heflaid he did not know how much she gave for it. but he believed it was about two dollarsm The ex- tremue improbability of his story induced witness to have him taken into custody, iln order to his being examined before a magistrate, touching his possession of this ring. The prisoner, in answer to the intcrrogatories of the magistrate, I stated, that he was a labourer, and generally employed in assisting bricklayers. He bad been tlree years in the employ of Air. Palnier, of Finsbury-street, who is net at present in, town; but he had not been there for a fortnight past, because there was no work for hiim to do. He badt served eight years on board a King's shiq, and his wife, who died last September twelvemranths, went with him to sea on board the F8k soloop of war in wllich they sailed to Jamaica in the spring of 1816. He was Aischarged from the Ask in 1818: he now lived in Crew.court, Mloor-lane. lHe had never shoiwed the ring to atny person, norhad he ever told any body that he had such an articlcein his possession. The improbabl'ity of this story was greatly heightened bv the evidently destitute condidion of the man, and by the finding 'n his possession of a pawnbroker's duplicatc for a trowel plcdged onlv a few dayi s back for iid.-Hc wa} co7mmitted for further exwmination LA.rsaEwsesTaxaw.-Ycesterdav a young man eofvery respectable department, named Lewis Abrahaens, was brought up for final ex- amnination before Sir D. WILLIAMS, charged with having stolen a box of jewels and other valuables, the property of William Henry Bryant, Esq., of Clarke's-terrace, St. Oeorgc's.in.the.E3st. The value of the jewels waa abouit 1201. Upon evidene ot' the robbery being heard, the young man was committed for trial. UNIO-NrRAXLL.-A Air. Je.ffcott was brought before the sitting MIagistrate, charged with using divers threats to a female of respect able appearance, named Parsons. Tbe complainant stated, that some timie since she lodged at Air. Jeffcott'a house, and having heard a very unpleasart report about the neighbourbood, wbhici involved her character, sbe determined upon leaving the place altogetheb: and previously paid Air. Jefliott every farthing she was indebted to him, for rent, &c., anm then re. moved to arnother part of the town. Since her removal, the tet'end. ant had called at her new ledgingg, and there invented and cir- culated a atritig of the most abominaable fal-elthuods, respecting her moral conduct anid declared that if she did not pay hin a sove- reign, which she said be pretended she owed binm, he wotuld tell a ;secret which would blast her reputation for ever. In conisequence of these threats she was so dreadfully alarmed, that she now applied to the Mlagistrate for his protection against such slander. The defendant, who is a mnan at least upwards of 60 years of age, here declared that Ai rs. Parsons was indebted to him onle pound,and he went to her residence for the purpose of nsplyiug for it; but in- stead of the debt being paid, or meeting with any civility, the ladv thought proper to abuse hint for asking for t. The A agistrate asked what threats he had held out o her. Airs. Parso7ns.-Se reparted in the house, Sir, that I wanted ac- tually to get into bed along with him, his wife lying at his side at the sa7ne timse, Defendant._I said what was true, and 1 now say it before the ma- gistrate. The M agistrate o bservcd, that even supposing this t be fact (which he very muchl doubted), he should not have published the woman's weakness to the world. Birs. Parsons most solemnly declared, tbat it was a gross false. hood, " fbr," added she, "in it likely that I should have invitCd the caresses of a man wha is old enough even to be tn y vraudfiither? No, Sir, was I of that lasciviou s disposition that the old rman repri- rents, I could very easily make a more select choice tdian ilr. JefF. cott. Loo k at him , your Worship, see if he is ani obje t tha t woultd excite the feelings of any woman." ifr. Jefifrort certainly is no blessed with a very prepossessing coantenance, his face being frigiht. fully scarred and disfigured with the ravages of the s mall. o,be- sides having in additiot, a hare-lip. The Magistrate reniarked, that there ws no accounting for tastes; at the same time he could not believe there was any "trth in tlhe ac- eusation made by the def'evndait, who n, hhrned not to go near Wrs. Parsoanj, and direted that the wa?rrant shouldl :ontiue in force gagainst him for a fortnight; and if' duringthat period he should rc. peat such conduct, he would be liable to be brought up again, and punished. lr. Jefflcott, on retiring, declare d that h e would keep away from lhar entirely, for ida wife vowsed vengeanc tgainst him if lie did not. The excavations at Farmars conitinue to give birth ho niost itterestirig discoveries. On the G th, there were founa several piecesof inosaic work, of diflfe ret ala(tes; som Me rare antique grden serpentine; some large ivory ins and rollers; a delicately wrought instsument in ivory, apparet]y a mnusical instrilmeiit; several wild bear's tusks, one of which is eight inices in lengti; and a brozze ring, having two birds well designedand hiollowed in the e etal. On the 10th, tb e pavement of an a, artmeit was discovercd, which con- sisted of squares of polished marblet- and a pretty bronze stazue of Marss, five inches in hteSht. The (loti is represented naked, and wearing a helmet. In his left hand is a sword; his right hand is raised, and seesa to have rented upon a lance, wiich has not been found..,..Gafgnani Uese.Mw'r POLIC&