Police.
The Times, 1824-12-23T00:00:00

AIAW8lO5XO usE._A poor miserable-looking woUlan, with tbreealmostnakedachilfren, came to the Justfce.room to complain against the overeeers of the parish on which she stated that she ad. a claim, for refusing to assist her. She declared, and every one in the room believed her, that she and her children were ttarving. The LORD BIAYOR asked her whether she was a married woman, and whether, if she was her husband had deserted her? The p oor object replied, that her hutsband had not deserted her; but ha, been drzg-xed away from lher tix weeks ago, and flung into Whitecross.otreet prizon, where he was to lie God knew hoow long. Hislordslhip inquired whether it was for debt her husbandl was sent to prison ? She sid he was taken away from his poor family for neglecting to have his reeo nizanace discharged. The LORD M You._Then 1 suppoe he was bail for wome person ? "No," said she, " he was comn,itted for an assault. and there was no prosecution; but that would'nt do. He was arrested for not dislcharging his recognizances, and we are without a morsel of bread in consequence." The LonrD MAYOR immediately relievedt her, and summnoned the parishb-oRcers to rnswer her complaint. His Lordship m6ntioned, thathewaseonvinced, ffom intelligence which hadlately reached him, that coinplaintoof thirkind would beremedied asgpeedilyas possible. Bow-5T1ziiET.-Vesterday ifaint KiUpatrick, a young mnan of reapctable appearance, was brought up in custody of Vi'ootton, a condluctor of patrol, charged with robbing his emfloyer, B1"r. Milacbeath, a jeweller, cerrvrmg on business at No. I , Ryder's- court, Leicester.square, of jewellery to the amount of 2031.; and James IVaher, a master working.jeweller, was charged on suspi- cson of receivingpart of the propertv,knowing it to have been stolen. ft appeared by the statement of Mir. Mach eath, and another vwit. 'eIs, that the prisoner had been in his service about eight months as hahpman, and he entertained so high an opinion of his character, that he was treated with the u=most hisdndess and confidence. For the last four months the prosecutor had constantly missed articles from hia stock, particularly gold seals, but he could not detect the thief. Of the prisoner he had not die slight- ect saspicion, aetliough his wife often hiated that shie thought it could be no one ehlc. At length, bv muere accident, the real o%lnder was discovered. On Thursday night last. the prisoner was out, and rs. Alacbeath having occasion to do something in the back part of the shop, where there was a desk used exclusivelv by the prionei, tshe taw that it was left open. She looked into it, and theTe taw nine gold pinst, come silver perncil-eass, scissors, and other articles, wlhich she knew were her hnsband's property, and had been tmissed from the shop. She called M1r. Mtacbeath, and said to him, " It is aa I have long suspected: I have di6coveredl the thief." He tnade a futhoer euarch, and found some pqawnbroker's duplicateg ftrgold seals and other property. WVhen the prisoner returned, he was told of what had been discovered,and hebecameexcceciingly a,'itatedl, and said lie hued taken the things, but he hoped he shotld oe for. given. He was diEmissed from the house, and Mr. Maclhcath, thte nexi day, cetaboat making further inquiries; and gaing to the pawn- broker's, whoseduplicateshebhad found, heascertainedthat many other paycels ofjewelleryj his pro crty, had been pledged or sold. I-e also examined his stock, and ffiund that he had been robbed to thpainount of 2001. at the least. He caused the prisoner Kilpatrick to li apprehended, and in consequence of information, lie went to .le ellop of the prisoner WVillsker, and told him, that he understood he h2d parchased jewellery of Kilpatrlck, and desired that it might be produced. WV21sher's answer was, that he had made only a purchase of some gold ping, all of which be had sold, but bead tihen one of them in the shop, whicls had been rcturned to-hint for the purpose of being repaired& This one was shown to Wlr. Alacbeath and he immipaitely knew it to be one of a parcel of 9 dozen pins whiich he had misaed from his atck. Willsher said he had purcnaced a dozea, and that Kilpatrick told him thiay belonged to'hia fothr who hadi bought tlena at a sale, and wished to get rid of ellem. fir. isacbeath's groand of suspicion of a guilty know. lrd.ge on the part of Willsher, was that he had formerly beerneru. pkscd by him Md that he (Willsher) knew-perfectly well that uvap in prosecutor' pservice, lie thereiore cavsed him also to bei apprehended. The prlcecer kfltrlck, who is a very young ana, stood, during te eexamltaudntl, lea on the bar, aecmingly overwhelmed with clsan~e and de3pair. Trowards the Ictta part, he covered his ?LVVhh 1u b 9 aM Webedf aueI., ae oeiR l lng,. Wlishe dealaved that he was innocent, and repeated wbht he-had said to !1oFa IUacheath, that he believed the pins belonged to Kilpatrick'. fatber. The prisoners were remanded for further examination. Kilpatrick's father, who was said to be a very reipectable trad0e man, was present, and it was reaUy diRtrecsing to observe the e5et produced upon him by his son's situation. T2hc unfortunate sma=at witc clasped hands, gazing in mate despair upon his sar., while the tears rolled incessantly down his cheeks. Thu prosecutor also seemed consilerably afFected. UNIoN -HAL ..On Tuesday a man ofdecent appearanee. named FVailm Keaas, was brought berbre the aitting mngitrate, it J. CHAxInERS, Esq., in the castody of Pople, the constahle,z7ho atp prehended hi-m the previous night, for comming a desperate ds- sault upon his wife, Amy Keats. VImrs. Keats, on coming forward to give her evidence against her husband, exhibited a face dreadfully bruised and swellen, the ef- fects of thebeating she had received from the defend=t; both heg eyes were blackened, and there was a dc-p cut across the bridge of her nose. She stated thati she lives at No. 5S, Elliott's-row, Prospect-place, Southwark; that she and her husbdnd lkeep a hoase for lodgers. and that amongst other lddger, a dergyrman of the name of Vaua occupies two tmum in the house; that oa lIloadhy night iMIr. 'Vaux happened to step into her yarlour in the abcenceoGf her husband, and while in conversation with that gentleman, her husband came into the room. and ill used her t theterrible mrrder which she now appeared before the magistrate. The Magistrate asked Atr. Keats vhere the aelgym= wassdurng the time her husband was beating her ? The complainant replied, that cbe was so ugitated at the momnent that she oOuld not recollect what became ofhim ; but the bWeie6d1to the best of her.reeollection, that he had fled oit of the raom - when he perceived the violent psmon in which her husband ppearaeL IIa. it not been for-theinterpo.ition ofwome of te other1cdrtl uhe really thought her husband would bmve murdrcdlher. Pople, the officer, who took the dcfendant into C=Ay, ws etaUed. Ie said thaton Monday night, about 120'o ; he V7s-raled out of his bed by e woman, who desired him for .s cae tobashen down to Mr. Keats's house, for that peron wa tn murderg his -ife. The officer immediately proceeded thither, and uauide The hall-door, on the steps, he observed two candles buring hi candlesticks, the light from which enabed him to di=ver- gat quantities of blood on the ground of the little garden In front of thE house. He then knocked at the doer, which was oed bi Keats, who held a bankerchief up to her face, which was Iftera'ls- steeped in bloodL On looking at her face, he coald imarcely diEceri a feature in it,so completely was it battered. Indeed, said ths officer, so shocking and disfigured was lmrs Keats's face, on thntnight, that I cannow scarcelybring myself to believe that she is thesmepren. Mrs. Keatg here assured him tiat rbe was, and that the swell. ing had abateh in consequence of the application of raw bef ea theaffected parts;- The officer proceeded to etate, that on entering the prlour he dis. covered everyarticle In the room destroyed, the waolecft efurni. ture, consisting of tables, chairs, andlcoking.g!anses, lay infn,'. ments in a heap, on the floor , the remains of decantero e?d wine- lasses aLso were strewed about in all directi6tn. "in facq%m said Pople, "J1 never saw such a acme of destruction f pro. perty in one room in mr life." The door of the parlor, -he observed, had been knocled off its hinges in the heighteflhe row. After having examined the state of confusion in which tbings were, he questioned Mrs. Keats relative to it, and in reply abe told him that a gentleman wholodged in the housebad ju:tstepped Into the parlour to ask how she did, when her busband zudderlv ca;e in upon them, and Without TCquiring or asking any expplanauon, com- menced a most violent attpck upon he,, whisch she was mminced would have proved fatal to her had not some of the lodgers come ta her assistance, and saved her. DuringLhetime thisconvation ws; going forward, the defendant came int6 the room, who, upon seekZ the officer, asked him. what be wanted these F Being told, he dl4 rectly said, " You atop here, and I will feteb the parcon to you." Pople told him that he did not want the parson, for it was hfbthe defendant) that he wanted, for beatinghis wife. The defendant them exclaimed.eu_ Surely you don't want to take me into custody it is the parson who has been t},causeof lthisublc,ndh eiGtheman wh:o should he taken up." Pople added, that he Icd the defendlantoff to the vwatchhonse. The MaIgistrate now asked the cletendant what couldhaveindtsced him to commit such a barbarous outrage upon his wife ? The de. fendant expressed his contrition; "but," said he, " I was great cx asperated on coinine home, at 11 o'clock en the nigbt mntloned, to. find the Rev. Alr. Vaux (the namo the defendant prenounced, an well as we could understand) iittiog with my vife in the parlour, drinking wine together." The wife here interrupted the defeidant, saying, " Ab, Keats, you know Well enoUgh, was it uot fbr the parson, you wonld not bave a house over your heed, or a bit of brlead to put into your mouth. You knew anl this, and yet you be. hlaved in the manner you did." The defendant wvas proceeding to give some furtherexplanation re- specting theintinacysubsisting between the parson andhis wife,when the Magistrate obserred,tha hehad heard quite enough of theimse-to call upon ihim (the defendant) to put in bail for the assault upra his wife, and remnarkedl, that the defendant might be miastalcn with re. spect to the nature of the reverend gentleman's visit to his wife, for it might hsve been to atmimatersame surritual conaslation to her. The defendant sighed, and shook his fiead. About an hour after the decision of the ease, MAs. Keats agai came to the office, and eupplicated the magistrate to disczhare ber husband without bail. The application vsr refu.sed. TOWSX-UALLT-Jr. Janes flopkirs, leather-seller, Wi9, Tooeley. street, appeared to a summous issued at the auit of Mr. Wiiam YalU, corn-dealer, 17, London-road, St. George's-fields, to rhow cause why he refused the delivery of a bill of exchangafor l41k L9s, the circumstances of the case being these:_ The bill in question weas drawn by the complainant, 1r. lRl1, upon and accepted by a Mr. William Bladclj and Vwn came days over due, when the complainant received the following writen no- tiecc:.-- A bill orr Bieck tics due at , TeSoeyssielQlviarE- December 12, 1824." On Blondoy, the 2911, of DeCember, lhe complainant caUed in consequence at the house of the defn. dant, as directed, to take up the bill. Bat Mr. Hopkins being ftro home, he gave the umount in sovereigns and silver into the hands oftlic defendant's servant, who stated that the bill had not been left out. Being under the necessity of attending the Court of King's Bench as a witness, and trusting to the respectalility of the defendaznt, be delayed calling for the hill until Saturday morn- i:: g last, having the preceding evening received a letter, etstng that the bill had been dishonoured. on which occasion he saw the defen- dannt Hopkins, who told himi such could not be the case, aS be had zhe bill abore stairs, and brought down to the eomplainant a bill drawn also upon the samne individual, M r. Black, but bv another person, for 161. 4s., and with which biU, he, the complainazt, habd no earthly connexion, and which wvas three niontha svert ue; at the sfame time acknowledging the receipt of the 141. 19s., cayigit was 11. 5s. intinus of the awlount. The coudplainant refused to accept the proffered bitl,as one with Tihich he hsd no coacern whatever,nnd now sought the recovery of the bill the amount of whiclhe bad id. The negotiation and retrgrade of the bill in questton was here distinctly set forth bv Mlr. Hall, rahen lAlr. Hopkins replied, that he had been possessed of two bills, to neither of which lie attached much security-oneof theni lie retarned ander such iompression, the other remained in his hands, three months over due; andti pon receiving information from hits errant that 141.191. had been left to take up " Black's bill," he exclained " I am glad to see the money," and kept it in part payment of the bill he held for 161. Alderman J. J. S3eITra.-Your admission amounts to this.- you held two bills, the one good, and the other bad, and you un- blushingly confess tbat yo have appropriated the money left for the pavment of the good bill to cover the defaleatien of the bad one; it is a shameful and disgraceful transaction. Mlr. Hepkins.-A reporter is present, and I should hope that nothing but what is correct will be taken down. AlderrmIn S t- I.-The reporter has my permission to state that which I havejust uttered, and which I now repeat, and trunt it ill be atde public-that it is a most disgraceful t ion Mlr. Hopkins' eonduct berebecamesacas tocall for the nrrgi.. strate's order to have him taken from the room; and afteward in- ferm- ed Mr. fEll his resource lay in an ectios of trover, as 'he bad no power to relieve him; wihich mode Mr. Hall expreseted his deter. min,ti=n to resort to, and left the office with some observaties oEn the defendant we absctain fromn repcatins wit we =.br POLICE.