Police.
The Times, 1824-11-16T00:00:00

MANA',%SION-I5Ob~SE.-!untp,7rey Aarke, one of the most epespe. Yate thieves in this City. was brought before the LOwaD ntAYon, charged with having robbed a w evehue.Offlwsr of his vatci yesterday morring. dooker, the revelueyofitcer, stated, that as he was going oulong St. Mary-axe, at 20 minutes after 8 o'clock yesterday morning,' a companiote by a brother officer the prisoner walked up to hiri and made a vio le at is wateia, which he succeeded in getting out of the fob.ehe Lwitness immeda tel -eized the prisoner by the arm' and a very great strutggle tosk place betwveen them, dluring which tte thief threw do wsithe watch in d nepair of getting off with it He then suddenly disengaged himself from the grasp of Hooker. and ran off as hard as he could, thirough a number of alleys and lanles. The witness and hiis friend, hoewever, followed him cIosely, calling outo Stop thief," and succeeded in apprehending bim. The robbery and the pursuit took place in the 'presence of numbers of people. The officers said that thistinf was certainlyone of the most daring and incorrigible they hadl evOsr beheld, and that there w~as' hiot a stone or a boartI inNcwgete with whkh he was not well acquainted. hlewa.s fullycommittd feorftrial, and as hewo wc oingouth, he told the Lrord M4ayor that he knew nothing at all about it. An' impression has; been madle by our report respecting thie appli.. cation of the Rev. Air. Taylor for the Lor-d1 M1ayor's patronage and sanction to thie institution whiche the Rev. Gentlemnan wvishes to esara. biush that his Lordhiu's refusal anitunted to a prohibition. There was a partof the proceedings which .e could not hear, buto. whch we have since been infor-med, that wHil explain that part of the Case- accurately. When th~e Lord Miayoir hiad, expressed his'- conviction that the Reverentl applicant had taken as mistaken view of the saibject, and that he (the Lord Mlayor) could not sanction it, Ailt. Taylor said that though the first public meeting had been ad.. vbrtised in the public papers, and thiough he hiad gone to what wvas to Iiirp a heavy expense in bringing it forward, under the conviction tliattits ten ency was beneficial, and could niot be inijuriotus, yet if hi8 Iseotiship. said he would prohibit it, the order should be molst st;b- nilssively attended to, andcaretaltentha.tno meeting should be held at all. The LoanDMAYOtt.-ldid not say tlhat. -Imay be mistalken, but i amisorry that such .an-application hap been makdetoMsue t all. MIr.Taylor.-Then, if you pkeise, its lhal1 stand asit this abpl. cation neverlhad been maLdeto you 4 aid Iplcdga my word, thatyomsr Lordship's atiise shiall in no way be m-adle use of by me. as saiio. inig it any way. The Lioar MAYIAOt assented. fCil- -A tradesman, whio resides-itt the city cam to the ,tistice R*oon to cmplin f a emakabe grevace. The Liord Mlayor had re- tird fom is utyattheusul hur,anthe unfortuanate tradesman reqestd tat ~l. Feblr, r tseChif Mrshl,would enable him o bingto ustce womn wo hd cmmiteda robbery upon him ndq 'er exraorinay cicumtanc. Te thlief was no othe thn awomn hehadni~rie 22years ago. Mr. 1-lobler caked htim wliethei thee was -no alternative in this ease, atnd whietlier he coula not settle the buisiness without ex posing hiis wife? The trcadesman saidl, tlta-t unfortunately shie was not his wife, but that facet lito lita not learned until witltin a f'ew days, when he found tt%t his son and dlaughter, who wvere highily respectable in society, we re illegitimnate. The woman whiom hie believed to helhis wife, had actedl in the most exemplary maniner, both as a wife and a mother, until a short timie ago, wheni she begati to neglect hier home, and to- dirink. At lengthi she absented herself enttrely, lie wfent, in a sta-te of" distraction, to look for her, cuid foutnd her in the company of a Inan with whibaii slie seemed to be ott the mosst familiar termns. lie inimediately quitted hser in disgust at such a breach of fidelity, after s- many years of matrimonial hiappiness. Sools afterward's, how- ever, shle wrote tP him, begging tltat hie would take her back ; that she was quite penitent, and would never leave him again. For the sake of hisa Children, he conisented to receive her. She thien, in her owni justilication, told him that the man she haa been in companiy with, had been married to her a yeatr before slite hutd become thle wife of hier second husband, and hiad been or- dered off to India three or fotir days after tlteir niatriage that he remahinel thiere so long witlsout nicking aniy communicatibn to her,e as to convince her he was dead and that site thought sacis a state- ment so thle nan who next courted. her- would prevent an offer of' Union, for whichi she was, ver-y anxious. She mnarried again under thlose circusttisances, and sIte Ocever hteard a word -about her tirst husband( until a shiort time ago, whets he appeared suddenly, and claimead Iaer as hiis own. Shm was afralid to resist, anid he gave her, drink and quiite bewildlered hier brain. At last, she fouind that he was a bad fellow, anid was determritted to) have nothing to do with him as long as she lived. The complainanat made inquiries, into those circumnstances, and ascertained that his- wife posi- tively wras thie wife of the person whom she had described. The comnplainant thought this fact considerably palliated hier offence, anti lito believed hier contrition to be sincere, ate wshowever,'dIs- aPpoiitreti and mnistaken. She remainedt long enouigh in the house of hier secona husband to iteal all thie plate, table-linen,- sheeting,- &c. She ackd u al ths popety,anddecmpe toherflrst husband, who,it seme, enonraesiher o plnde,andwhois, we under. The por trdesmn she tear on is i ctlra con who are hearbrokn atthe ondut'-o- thir other.H adh did nlot waitt to prosecute the unfortunate womnan, whto would, no doubt, be soon w,retched enoetglt, -and whlotn nothing should ever induce him to take home again. All he waitted wvas what she had stolen, atid whichi was the 6oly -property lie hatd put together for Iiis clhildren. Ani officer was sent to negotiate withi the first, huisbAnd, who, it'lie does not dieliver uip the property, will be apprehended for the felony. G5JILDHAL.L..A reSpectcble.looking old mast, who gave h4is name Thomuas Reynolds, and who lias, is seems, formerly movedl in a respectable sphiere of' life, buit is now an iamate of the Ironmon. yers'-Oompany's alms-Itonses; iu thie Kinwsland.road, was chargedi by Tlhomas Ivemney, the servant to the Brentford carrier, with at- temnptinig to trick him out. of 10Os. Q.d in tdie following manner :-Thse prisonier tnrouight a small parcel to Mlr. Stephensa's, the Mlagpie and btum-p, Newvgate-street, tie bootming-housce for the Brentford car- 'o,directed to 1 Mlr. Mlerril, wvatch-maker, Breutford," witha lOs. Scl. niarkced on it, and desire'd Ivcerne to give hiin that m-oney, and Air. rilerril would -repay 1dim on the delivery of' the parcel. The carrier happened not to have to much money abouit him, and the prisoner would not leave the parcel. He brouight it again, however, on Saturday, when the carrier was better prepared, but he having lecard of the tricks of this kind that had been played off sonie time azo at the wes4t elitl of tile town, tllought it righit to consult Alr. Striephen upoin the snbject. At his suggestion, the prisoner was in. fune tat iflie came in, the landlord would give him the money : he ttid so. and was detained; the parcel was opened in his presence, cnd foutnd to be two ptieces of wood enveloped in a bedl of hiay. Before the Alderman (WAtTle UCAN) theC prisqoner pleaded distress ats the cause which hiad driven him to so dishonest an aLttempt. He liad a wife cuid family, he said, and had been out of emnploy for a very con-siderable time. P'ike, the officer, who searched hiim, anid who had since ascertain- ed his situationt to be as already stated, p reducd a pretty strong proof that his distress was not very sirgent, lie having 4s. 6d. in hiis pocket wheit taken into custody. Mlr. Stephens, the landlord, said he had received information that this trick hadi been practised very successfully lately at the receiving-.houses for the errand carts in the city, and although nio money had beau obtained from him, he didI not doubt but that if the prisoner wecre remanded, hiis person would be identified by somle of those who had been dlefrauded. Mlr. Alderman WVArrTtseAw.-If you landlords who keep receiv.. ing-1in1sses for errand-carts want protection and assistance fromn me, you ought to do something for the public. You let the carts standi too long at your doors, antI cause great obstructions in the streets, and OCCasionally danger to the passengers. MVr. Stephens.-Not now, your Vorshipii. Youiwill fltd there tin been a great alteration in that repcIte amongst all of them, since you first comnplainied of it. Mtr. Aldermnan WAtTlyM1A2q.-.Well; let tite prisoner be re- manded till to-miorrow. The newvspapers, no doubt, will notice thie case,atid do you snake every inquiry yourself in the mnean timne. AIlAtXr.itORO ucee-aT nEET.-Yesterihay Barrtiet Pattene in the service of the Hon. Vescy Fitzgerald, Ml-P., as butler, was btouglst from St.-Jamres's watchdiouse upon the following charge:-. 15lrs. Mary Ashford, a respectable-looking elderly female, statcd, that sihe had bteeni left as housekeeper in chiarge of Mfr. Fitzgerald's house, No. 107, Pall-mall, Mlr. Fitzgerald himself being on the Continent. Time dlefendant Pateten, whio is butler in the famiily, also resides in the house, and since the departure of Air. Fitzgerald, lie has been in the consutrnt haLbit of bringing wyomen of the town into thie house, arid entertaining themii withi suppers, drink, &Sc. Witness; lhad trequently remonstrated with the defendant uponi the inipro- priety aiud danger of introduinetg suchl persons iitio his master's house, particularly as there was plate tO the value of upwvards of 9,60111. ott the premises ; and since Mlr. Fitzgerald left town several small arti- cles of plate have heen rmissing, whiich thae defendant has even tone the length of saying she (the witness) must have taken. Site aid, thlerefore, determiined to lint a stop), by some meansl or other, to the introduction of such cliaracters. On Sundlay night, about 10 o'clock, the dlefendant again brought in ani improper woman, andl witness4 toldl him shteshouit not ba suffered to remain ; he, however, treated tier remonstrances with abuse, and sat -down to (Irluik with his coin. pattion. Witness thien wvent out, and brought in the watehbman of thle street, whom she desired to turn the woman out, but the defend- alit miet them at the door, anid knocked the watchman down, aind ttext assaulted the witness in a desperate manner. Assistance was, however, procured, and he was takeni to the watch-house. The de- fendant tlenied to Cthe watchman that there was any strange female in the liouse, but tue witness told hiint whtere lie would find tier, and where he accordingly did find her, andi tiurned tier out. This stattement, as f'ar as he was concerned, was fullyconhrmied by Strong, the watchman, wlho desceribed the conduct of the defendant as most violent andl despierate. The defendant Cleclared the whole statement of Mrs. AshforCd to be unfounded : he never, he said, had introduced any improper females into the hiouse: he hiad been 13 years the confidential servant of Mr. Fitzgerald, antI it was too bad t1hat the woman should be credited in preference to hinm. The 11agistrate said, that the evidence of the watchman wras quite sufficient to corroborate the complainantes statement in this case. The two assaults were clearly proved, the mRgistras'e said, and the tdefendant musit ttberefore find bail upon bothi. He also observed, that hie hoped, although Air. Fitzgeraldi was on the continent, he might, thirough the med(ium oli the p ublic press, come to a knowledge of whiat a trust-worthy servant he h ad left behind him in the tdefen- dant, and how safe his property was. The defenidant said, thatt Mlr. Fitzgerald would certainly see the papers, for, althiough lie was ahbroad, he left directions to have a newspap er regularly forwvarded to him. The Mlagistrate said, that lie hoped, then, that the defetidant woutld scud a paper that contained an account of Isis (the defe-n- dant's) faithful attention to his master's interes-ts on the present oc- casion. The defendant was then loecked up for want of bail, and the con- stable said that Mlrs. Ashford was in so much dread atid alarm of the defendant that she was fearful of remaining in the houise when Ile shiouldI be liberated. The Magistrate said, that lie would take care to hiave suich hail (two resplectable housekeepers, in 401. each, upont each charge of as- sault, and for his keeping the peace in the mealn time) as would se- cure her against any furthier violence. In a slhort time after, two persons came forward, aind, after an inquiry into their respectability, were accepted as- bail, and time de- fendant was discliargedl. A young wroman, named HaPrile Johnson, wap charged by a young fellow, of verysliabby appearance, namied James Shiinpsan, wvith grossly abusinig, and ultimately assaulting him, about two o'clock in the morning, in Bond-street, which compelled him to give her in charge to a watchman. The girl, in liar defence, gave this account of the transaction- sheIsaid, that the coniplainant Was a dischargea watchman from the parish of St. Mlarylebonne, and that he was by trade a journeymian slioemaker; but notwithstandiiig all this, and the shbabby appear. ance hie then cut there w-s not a greater blod, or more conspi- cuous daudg, paraeAed .l1ornl-street ; bat hie never turnied out until about one o'clock in the morning; from that tAmale ,4ntil dav'-lights he wast beeeni Bod-stest cvakin upnd down, strutting, aLbout dresedn aairofmlitry verlls hots ndsurs,andasplenidjdlfur- boud hssa clakandearngo hihedaneleassapturned upln S'd tvuit Ta wo a tmno h en sed IVrs. H{ill, who is we kniown in Bond.street, and with her lie retires home every niorning, when the hour of departure arrives. Knowing his real history the girl said she began to ridicule his tnilitary appearance the nigtt before; and for this it was that he gave her in charge to the wiatchman. The wvatchman in Bond-street confirmed the girl's statement as to the extraordinary exhibition whlch the complainant makes nigbtly in Bond.street, in polnt of dress. The MTagistrate said, from the white and delicate appearance of the complainant's hands, it was very clear he did not work much at' the trade of shoemaking. The girl was immediately discharged. H.ATTOI;nGAuDE,7;._SenzeI Sowerby, a shopkeeper residing in Gray's-Inn.lane, was biought up under a warrant, charged witn a very iudacious outrage committed on the person of brs. Mary Anne Collier. The .complainant, a young lady of respectable munners and appearante, stated, that betFveen eighth and nine o'clock on Friday xsight, she wa. passintg tbrough Gray's-Iiiin.lae, -;7hen the prisoner, who was closing his shop, let one of the-hutftere falloutof his hanid, whether through accident or design, ' she would not under- take tQ say_bu.t the result' wa5 alike unfdrtumnate, as'it itrack her on~ the head withi stch force, as, fbr a time, to render her ineapable of suoporting herself, and she was obli'ed to leat against the wall.' hilst In thait state, the prisoner aprotibled, -ind is accents rather of irony than of-soothing said, " What'a the matter with you, mv pretty dear-why do yott ustaid bere alone ?" Not having saufi- cicintiy rccovercl the stanDing effects-ef thleblow, she could notim- nnediately reply, thoug sensible of the 'Iiplied meaning conveyed in this' unfeeinDg address, and snerelv-notioned im' to Iliveher b instead of doing 'so, heoaded insulttoinjur,b'ytoking ber sttd- dhenly in his armts, forced 1i hand into lher bo'son; and used other indecenlt liherlice with her pcrso, $his' freshoandidptovoke.d in. dignity at lcngth aroased her to a sense of her situation, and she struggled for release, and called lbr nssistance; however, by the superiority of his strength, he had nearly fbreed her into a dark pas. sage, when the approach of the watchman and another person in- duced him to set tier free, and he then took refuge in his own house. The prisoner, in defence, admitted the talling of the shutter, wlich was entirely accidental; but for the remainder of tie charge, he declaredit was altogether false. I'he Mlagistrate taked complainant if there were any persons pre- senlt who could speak to the fact ? The complainant replied that there were not. The prisoner. however, said, that he would proUMce a witness on his behalf; and beintg ordered to do so a gawky clownish sort of a I personage, with a countenance strongly irradiated by copious liba- tionsat the shrine of Bacchus, stepFedt torward, and addressing the Bench in liquid tones, satid-"i; hy, here it -that's me-soplease you, Sir, I'm the witneasfor this here ood *nan of course." Rlagistrate-Wiiar do you know of the affair ? Writness-.NVhy, l'li tell you, Sir, of course. 1 used to come i baCk and forward to this here man';s house, so 1 know'd a11 about it of course. Mlagistrate.-That don't follow of course. Do you iknow anv thing about the assault comnolained of_were you present ? Witness (sornewlhat poset).-Ale f_.present-assaul-tj Mlagistrate.-Did you see any part of it ? Witness.-See ?-no-yes-no-that is, I mean what I sawv I am going to tell, please Glod for you know I'm a witpess, of course. lIggistrate.-Well, then, as a witness of course, let us have your story. The story was then told2 and a most confused one is was, longl enough too; but as the Alagistrate did not conceive that it tended in the least to the mitigation of thie charge, the defendant was ordered to X find gcod bail. WORSHIP-9TREEf. Alr. Samunel Serwel, a respectable trades. man living in Charles-street, City-road, appeared before the sitting magistrate, Mir. s0o1s.0 , to answer to a charge entered against him in the watch.house book of St. Luke's, of being drunk and dis. orderly in the street on Saturday night, and aasauliting the watchman in the execution of his duty, Samuel Berry, thie watchnan in Cbarles-street. statUd, that be- tween two and three o'clock on Sunday morning, the prisoner walked up to the yard.gates of itr. Hilder'i brewhouse, which are close to his watch.tox, and there proceeded to commit a nuisance, and wit- ness told him tO lesist from what le was toing and to walk on. Tfhe prisoner thereupon, he said5 began to abuse himn, and as he persisted in refusing to go av,ay after repeated admo30nitiOns, Wiutess took hold of him for the purpose of conduting him to the vwatch.house, when Ite made a violent reslstance, and struck him. Mhr. 3ewell, being called on tbr hlis defence, aid he was on his way home a little after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, when he stoppedin .r. Hilder's gateway for a momnent. The watchman ordered him to go on, for that he must not stoD there. He ans".er- the watchman, " Very well ; then I'll go O,- an(i fint somle other place." He accordinglI proceeded a little further, and coming to a dead wal, sotightthat felier which he had been interrupted in a for maer attempt to procure. Here again the watchPeb n came up and said, iYou must not do it there neithier; and if you don't go along, 1'1l take you to the watch-house." He answered, thatif the watch. nan wished to take him to the watch.llouse,he was willing to go. TheI watchman then seized him by the collar, anti 1:!oceeded to drag him alongR auDi upon his remonstrating,shook Iihn violently and addressed him In abusive latiguage. fie then perceived that the watchm.an was drunk, and was anxious to provoke hin to strike; he, however, was sufficiently collected to refrain from doing so, and accompanied hinm, unresistingly,to the watchhosee,where, after the charge was cntered, lie gave bail for his appearance, and was released. Mr. OsBorntE said this was a fit case for investigation as to the coRduct of the watchmani, and the presence of two Alagistrates be ing requisite for that purpose, he ordereo it to stand over until his brother Magistrate should be in attendance. Alr. BEN RTT hRving sonte time afterwards taken his seat on the benchb, the investigation was resumed, and it appeared that as they were retiring frosm the office, the watclhman, addressing AM r. Sewell, I said, " I'll vwork you for this yet." ! Jill, Taveedie, the night constable, being examined, said, thati B3erry certamly was very drunk when he gave ir the charge. He had nerer seen him so beforc, thoughl he had known him a long time as a watchman. Air. Hilder, the brewer, and Afr. Jarvis, a master tailor, in Charles-street, said they had known Berry eight years as a watch.- rman; and that during that tiie he hIad, until the present occasion, i conducted himself with propriety. The watchman then raid, " Please your Worships,Alr.Seweil says that I was drunk ; now lie must have been drunker than I was, for he says it was a little after twelve, when it was a very little before three o'clock in the morning. The night constable, in answer to questions from the magistrates, gaid, iMr. Serrell was pnrfectly sober at the time, and that it was a little before one o'clocl$. Ir. Sewell said, the watch?tan did not strike himr, but collared and shoolk him violently. , Alr. OsSORWsE said, "' I and my brgther magistrate disapprove greatly of the conduct of the watchman on this occasion: but two respectable housekeepers of the parish having spoken highly of his character and previous good conduct, we fee] disposed to treat his present misconduct more leniently than we otherwise should. We cannot, however, let it pass without a strong mark ef our censure; we therefore order himt tO be suspended from his service as a watch- snail for one week,and to pay a fine of five shillings for being drunk." POLICE.