Police.
The Times, 1824-10-15T00:00:00

MAr.sog...ycsteaay fr. fue, tl" A ecachiasker, accompanied by Mr. LA~w, his cotunsel iClad his colicit*r, arid Mr. Dixon; of the repository in Barbicani, wil) Aifr. ALLE]r, hisi coUn. eiel andihis, solicitor, attended at tile Juistice.troo, for, sto it was an, dersitood, a final determination uponi the care which wAs reported in our aperof Tes aid, he-t relythoughit he had disposed of theeae etiely ad houd eYe harmoreoffr. It was explain- ed y te pofesjoal en ho ttededIn behalf of Air. Meeter, thatin cnseqenceof te prmise mae to r!Odutre additional cii. denc~ i wa ageedthatdieeas shuldbe adjournied for a fittber The Chief Clerk said, he understod this to be the case, and that suninon5,es haA been issuea hIn consequence. The Loatn MAIyon gaid, he was re4dy to tlke the cas, as the parties were present.- but ol'erving a frightful ly lonfibrief in the handls of Mlr. Law, his IZordship expregssed ii hope thiat he should not be visited with the conitents. Ir. fAWroietogive as littl* ats pOssible of it. When the case cAefrtbfr hsLrsl,Iir. Stephens, the solicitor for Mlr. Dio,i hs ossintestolenl carriage Wm foand. pro. raise topouetercitgiven by- Camipbell for the money gd.. vanceu ostyA Dxn. Woutld Mr. 'DOIs"ns solicitor now PrDd If It ~was produced and fbund to agree with teacntgvnin the first Instance ;? Mr. Dlxon, thien rio frhrpoeinsshould be taken) in she cuse. Mr. a.LE.~Yo mayproced as fatr as yoi eatn. it has been tudaciousl ttmycint, who is as honourable a man is ay i thecit of ondn, hs ben uilty of 2ecehwing goods cnoingthe tobe toln. fte th corsethat has been taken withhim I illconent o gve ou othng.I date yout to proceed, tad efyyouto rov an 014agansthim I hall esdrige him W ~rig a acionaganstyouto ecoer amaesfat a inaliciowi PrO. Mr. LiAw.-.There has bee crno pro6ecutlan. Thiere haxonlybeen nInir.The learned gentleman then sad that if the receipt wereprodcedit could only be to thie %dvantage of Mr. Dixon, and wol aify r. Mlesser, from whom the carriage had been stolen. The Las MAAyon said hie 'as costvinced t'hat Mr. Diston,what. aver course hi one ight think it necessaryr to adopt, hail no objection to thesi iueinquiry. His Lordship declared that in his opinion hr a not the siUghtest ground for a chargte against Mfr. Dixon.. The case was plzin and aivaple. The carriage was brouight to lis Repository, andti oney was advance upont it, in the :very (lay mode of doing business by the mnoat rmpectiLble houses transactin& on commnision. The cArriage was publicly exposed in the Reosstorr, which was as publin as, any kst.sisead.warn therc offered flr sale.. MAr. Thxon nr~lst iye beenmtiad to haveppr- rnitted this,If lie had kroVs the ilgtlo' bessoe t. t wouild have been madness to have even admzitted an article, nuder tchcirumsance, ito is pemies.C-ertainly no cbarke could be madeaganstan ndiidua wih lss ounation. Mr.LAWagan ske th slictorwh aPppeare for Mr. Dixon, Mr. r.rry.Wh,st amhereneihert creciptnor any other scrap of paper shala be produxced. Thtil ewnd in anothier place. Mlr. Dixon here presse-d forwvard wlth some papers and a hook inL his hauds, but wasrestrainedbyvhis counsel. He,however,ashowed the entry made by his'cierk in his book, fn which it was stated that 341. had beent advanced to a Air. Campbell, recommended by Mlr. Page, on a carriage which waa to be sold for IOD], There vwas no entry of sale miade against It, aRd the charge incurred uipons the transaction was only 14s. Air. LAWv, when asked by thte LonxD MAAyo? whetfier he had asty thing more to adduce, admiitted that he had not, and declinedp~ro. :eVdn ayfurther.-The case wat then discharged. Mr. Dixon complained of a conspiracy ts injuire this chawracter. The Loan AIAToa assured him, that in the present case therewais nohnrgainst hit chbaracter. A rnchman, named Vitrier, was summoned before the LoaD AlAyolt to answer for the ofTence of' asnaailtlng Air. Mtoney the " hair decorator." of Threadneedle-street, the i4ihabitarits of which hatve been often annoyed by the oQntests tbr superiority between Mir. Mtoney and Air. MN'Alpine. itllr. Aloney stated, that the defendant was one of hi.s discarded servants, who hiad gone to the tioan ef hisR rival, anid identified him. self with that par. The other itight witnesswassta onding in his shop, when the d2efedant walked in and a ittint In his face, with. out saying a word, turned own his ripel. andg walked ofF. The wit- ness was Very anxious to state that lie turned away the detfendant because he dd not thiink him fit for either of his shops. Defendant.-" My Lee, I never spit in his fact. cause I nevaronce go into his barber'agop1 Three of Mr. Mloney a. miinor decorators, or splitters of hair%, camne forward, and swore moAt positively to the fact, whichi tw as posi- tively contradicted by the defenidant. It was alsoswornthatthe Let- ter had often come to the shop-doot and threatened Isismaster'sgri- val. In the course of the examination the deferolatnt exclaimied against one of the witnegsts-s... He not there at the time,my lor-he no see mne spit." "At what timae ?"1 said the Loasts M4AYox. ",Why you said just now that nothing of the kind occurred." The defendant said lie merely went to ask whether Air. Mioney in. tendled to transport himn. The defendant's frend staid that *ras the only? obje-ct of the visit, and Zhat lie saw no assiault of the kind. Hie refused to sweat that the Frenchmnan had not actea raLther htastily on the occasion. The LORn MlAYon was indignant at this fencing with facts, and ordered the Frenchmian to find bail. Mlr. Mloney, with a degree of generosity whieh would do honour to any hairdresser, raid, thitt as &le -Frenerunsn was a foreigner, he would not lharass him, but accePt An apology. The apology was the mae;andth Lotn AYR hpe threwsiuldbe MO mare BOW.STRrEsT.-In VednesdAy'spp.per wegave at account of the application of a young girl, whose name we stAted to be Lucy Mlar- tin, to Air. HALLS, the Magistrate,underre.dnusstarces which,u~or hershowing, aippeared to be extremely distreasisig, ahe representing that shchad been hired at Brighton, and brought to londonbyane. derlylady, who hd,u uon alighting from the stage.coach dtiven off in a hackney chariot with her (applicant's) trunks, and leitt her a desti. tute wanderer. The apparently unafrected modesty satd sirmplicity of the girl won the sympathy of all wrho happened to be pre. sent, anti lr. Pallg the Magistrate, determnfind to save her from the ruin which seemed Inevitable if xhe was rulYered to go away unprovided for. The worthy magistrate with this view sent her to St. Martin's workhouse, there to remain, andl to be providetd with every comtlort, until the officer could find her mistrest, or something else could be done frrlier. It happenea thtat on Wednesday atfternoon Furlong, one of the patrols of this office, saw in a morning l'alaer tfie particulars of her application on the day before, and it imrniediaecly brought to his recollection, that otne evening about thiree weeks ago, he was in a publiedioute called the Re Liou, leading to the Borough miarket, whien a young woman, whose appearance corresponded with the description given in the report in question, came in, andI with the same sisupli- city ot' manner which characterired her application haete, told almost precidely thiesamlie tory. Se iti sitie was hiredat Brighton by two lradies, whoa, spon Arriving in lrondcm, had drivren uff in a coacth with her luggae as well as their own, givitig an address which she found to he a iaie one. Sonic tradesauen who were in thehouse compassionated lier stituation, subscribed saime monty for her im- mediate support, and in a day or two procured her a. situation in the famflv of a gentleman of the name of Wood, residing in Grace. churc'h-strcet. Furlong felt samost convinced that it muust he the same girl, .and immiiediately went to Mir. Wood to make inquiry ; and that gentlenian said that the girl whom he hiired, after being eight or miiiie days in Isis service, absc-onded, taling with her a sovereigni and 14s. in silvrer 'belonging to him, and a quantity of weatring-apparel, the property of his daughters, Furlong next canie to timeofice, andl learning that the girl was at St. Eu artirt's work. hos,he went there, anid instantly recognizedi her to be the samne gilhehad seen at ttie Red Ljion. He searched her anid fouisd II. Isf. lid, in 1her pocket. She kas brought bfeth aistralte on WVednesday erenting, and, oni heing qusind h ea ocry, and admitted tihat shie was thec persn hoastte edLn,in the Borough, ass the night mentiomed b h arl Mr. WVood being unable to attend,sh .comte on the chiarge of felny untIl Friday (this day.) AfAae.aORoUGir.swaMET...On Wednesday evenings Olt the tituse, of thie Magistrate's sitting at this odlice, Mir. GraltavA, the aeronaut, aecorapaisied. by two frienids, Mr. Adausrs, a picture. dealer, In i)uke's.ceourt, St. Mlartii's.lsne, and M1r. farfggea, en. otlher respectable txetdesman, of St. Jamoes's parish, appled for a warrant against a muan uponi a charge of a mnost ouitrageous easamit commsittedi under the following ciosusustaners: Ali. Griaham stated, that he hadl been ftroa cndaye past, making preparatiOns, in the neighbourhood of afin~satramith, to, make an ascent its his balloon f'rom thjat place e nd., haVing bees so far ad- vanced in hia arrangemneres as to reqmtire the presene of thet bhAoso itself on that inorning, he azordintgly tool, ia, sold other snateriala nmeesry for thAe ascent, out withi bint in a tax-cart to liansiser. smiths, accotopanie by his twvo friends, Mr. Adamss and mi.. Fargues, who were memnbers of his Managing Commnittee. About six o'cloeck that evening, having concludeA thteir busiteea at hlam. inergntith for that day, they were returniung to town all three in the cart. In cantiing through the i{mmrmta oepilee.gate, they p%idC the toll, and recivedi the usual ticket, vrhkcls was to pass,them to Hyde.p.irk.rorner. Whent they arrived at thke Keaslingtoa turn. Pike-gate, Air. Adams was driving, and drew up to give thie ticket to the mnan aLt the gate: this fellow, however, withiout asking for the ticket, or sayimig a word, seized the horse's head aarl alrove the cart back agailist a heap of sto-es, so as istsrlv to upset it. Mir. Adainisgavre tlte reinis to Mr. Fargues, andjusmpe4 out of1hs cart; and, point up to the mnAn, holding the ticket ill litm hatnd, said, " 'or Gond p sake whAt are you about? don't uPset the cart, here is tie ticket." pani which this rufian, withouxt a single obse a- tion, stePped back, and, aitising a terrific blow with his fista Adans, levelled him withthie dutt. Es2r.Fawge,ueii hsaed fhl outrage comiritted on lils friend,leaped aoit oDfthe cart, and rave the reins to Air. Gralham, in order to take kthe name of the ruruian who made this wan ton attaekupoia Mr. AMals ; and., while lookiug at the name over the toll.hodse door, tht rav'age fellow slso aittcked Mr. Farguies, ankd struck him such a treusendous blow oat thte jaw *s very nearly to fracture it in a agru mnifne,r. TIh.r_ however succeeded in ascertaining thc fellow's name, ard droie drectlyto this office to represent the ease to the lnaiistrate. Air. Dysrt, the magistrate, who was sitting at the time, said, thbat it was not usual to grant warrants in the evening upon charges of aps. sault; liut this appeared to be of so atrocious a natute, that Lie would inot hesitate in granting a warrant instantly. The warrant was accordingly Issued on the oaths of lifr. Adol and Mt. Fargues against Georgae oble, the toll-taker in ouestion, and placed in the hands of Clements and BallU:uitwo acti4oficers who went folly prepared to nieat any resitance tat wighit be oiire by bo desperate a ruflin as this fel ow Was dcg4sod to be. Theic oicers proceeded d1iTectly to the KEnsintgtot.gat and tere- foPUtid the fellow on his post; and their issstructI0o4 wte to htow him hone of that indulgence thatIs ehlown todefendlaltsup ordinaryssAstiHts, bnt to take him offinstantly, and lock hlt~ up itt the wUhteti.h.ouasI When thle officers made known their buslness,the feUlldVaerted and: said, " So you have got a warrant for niae, have ynu P OhVI but you must not take me witl you until s ome one conmes to take care of the gate." " Oh, but we must," said the officers, CS andwiU, utless some one does comie in a very short titqe." The offier, tsot wiash ing to leave the jate unattended, waiteda reasonable tie and no, one making his appearance, they would lelaygo longet a dragged the fellow ofFTaa deposited him In the #atkhiioiase efo St. OGorPg's btr the night. Yestrday he was broufght ttp auto h,ttbeotke st%tt thusgBs be- fore Sir G}stnGZ FA.IiYStAT. hnht fiiix'aut Mr. Atgims, sand Air. Fargues ogin attelided, and restated the SSttcutiars~ the out. sage, as we havt abovte gIvent thucmn. ^ rdlidf dY&de f I Ha itiitii, E tsM p3Slsig tbepate t the Cline theoutra was comrniteed, ttended aTlo at the office, and confirmed the rtatement of the cmnpiainant in every respect. The prisoner, in his defenceI said, that when 'Mr. Adlnts jump- edoiut of the cart, heran up tohin, the prisoner,and thruast the ticket Into his face in a most insulting manner. Alr. Adams and the whole arty positively denied thif. Sir trsOItGE FARRANT said, that it was that sort of aggravated asaSult for whlch the prisener must find more than tihe ordinary bail. He must, therefore, nnd tsvo respectable houeekeepers in S01. each to bail hin, and his ownrecogniZ3nce in 801. Atnta Emilia Chapman. a young woman was brought from St. Pancras watchhouse, where she had been placed the night before, I under the following circumstances :-A watchman stated, that as he was going hi rounds about ten o'clock the night before, near the Adam and Bve public-house, on the Hampstead.road, be foupad this woman lying on the pavement in a state of intoxication, and upon lifting her up, he dlacovered that she had a small coffin under her arm, and upon opening and examining the cofin, he found that it contained the bocy of a dead child. He immediately conveyed the wornrin and ber burden to the watchhouse, and she then said that she had been in attenrcanceas a nurse upon a Mr.s. Barnes, residing in King..street, Holborm, who had the night before been delivered of this child, which was still-born, and that Mrs. Barnes gave her (the prisoner) directions to take the child in the coffin and inter it in the burying ground of St. Pancras parish, whither Rhe waS proceeding when she was found by the watchman, having been suddenly over.. come by some spirits atidwater shehail drank tbat evening. A per- son was senftinstantld to the house of the mother to ascertain the truth of this story, and it was found to be perfectly correct. The medical gentleman who attended dirs. Barnes yesterdar. I came to the offlce, and, on the hearing of the case, stated, that t6e womar1's representstionswereguite true; and that she had been the nurse. The woman w8as of course discharged, and the remains of the in- fant ordered to he interred according to the direction of the mother. QUxsN*sv-QuARE.-Jarms Jones, otherwise James Thames, was charged with intermwgrying with Sophia Wood-his lawful wife, Sarah Joner, being stiU alive. Nrs. Sarah Jones, a woman of no very preposessing appearance, being sworn, said, that in'the yearI 1799 she was a spinster, of the teider age of 15 years, and resided with her friends at Hereford. The prisoner was then in the 36th Regiment of Foot, and being then a fine young fellow, he gained her aff'ections. Their courtship was carried on clandestinely, and her Tnarriage took place unknown to her parents.-The Alagistrate asked I if she was mrmried by bans ?-She replied that the marriage took place in Lent, and by licence, and double fees were paid. She aeconpataied the prisoner to Ireland. and in 1808 he left her in England, and went to join the army in Snaii. He returned in 1812, but had. not ltved with her since 1808. A 8hort time ago she disovered that the prisoner was living witb Airs. Sophia Wood, whom he had married at St. Martin's in the fields. Magitrate (to the prosecuaix.)-You say you were marred by licence to the prisoner, and that yonr father was not acquainted with the marriage till after it was solemnized? Prosecutrix.-Ye", it is the truth. Magistrate._You were only 15 years of age, andl you could not have been legally mnarried without your father's signing the licence. Prosecutrix..-lI can't tell how it was managed; but I remember, thatt persons who'accempanied me and the prisoner to the Proc- tor's te get the licene, went out, as I suppose, to get the signature of my father, and they returned and said it was signed. MWagistrate..- And you afterwards went to the altar, knowing your father's signature wag forged, and there awore there was no irnpedi- ment why you should notbe married. Prosecutrix._I was so young, that I was not aware that themar- riage was illegal. Magistrate.-You have no lawful claim upon the prisoner; but I will hear what the second wife says. Sophia Wood, a good-looking yeang woman, said she was mar nied to the prisoner at the church of St. Aartin-in-the-filds, on the 11th of Sept. 1815, they had lived very happily ever since- he vag an exceUent husband, and she had had three children by him. (This witness wXas in tears during the whole of the examiration.) Magistrate.-ls it your wish to prosecute the prisoner? Wittess.-Oh, no, God bless your worship lI hope you will par- don him for mny sake and my children's sake. The Mlagistrate said she was the injured party, and if sbe did not comnplain he should discharge the prisoner. The witness exclaimed " God bless you, Sir,a thousand thanks," a nd evietoed the strongest &eelings of gratitude to the iMlagistrate for dismissing the case, and the prisoner accompanied her home, much to the chagrin of the prosecotrix. UNtO'X-RtALL.-A genteel-looking young woman, named Law- rence, acc0ripaniedby her nmother,applied to the Mlagistrate for pro- tection agantst berhusband, to whom shehad been married only three months. Shestattd, thather husoand, who was one of the inidestof men before their marriage, was riow transformed into a perfect brute towards her. About threeweeks after the ceremony, she received such barbarous treatment from him, that she was frequently oblieed to get out of bed, and fly to her mother's residence, fearful of beingmur- dered, when irt the height of his rage. She added, that she was not aware of ever havinogiven hinm reason for such usage. The wnother cerroborated the daughter's statemcnt as far as related to the unseasonable hours at which her child came to her house at night, declaring that she could not live with her husband, for ahe was afraid of being murdered by him. The Alagistrate asked the applicant If her huxband had actually put any of his threats into execution. The young woran replied, that he had beaten her brutally only the night before her application here; and, lifting up her veil, ex- hibited a black eye, the consequence of a blow he gave her. lier hutband, she said, was informed of the step she intended taking, and advised her to appear before the mnagistrates, and bv that means get a div,rce, which both were anxious to obtain. Hr. S uArBY observed, that many persona foolishly imagined that It wras in the power olf magistrae to sepsate man and wife. tverai applications of this nature, he said, had been made at the effice on therabject, and the parties were sadly disappointed, when they were informed that the remedy for effecting what they so anxiously applied for, nanel, a divorce, was only to be obtained in the legal formn at Doctors' Commons. The applicant, when she heard the magistrate's remarks, appeared to be one of the number who felt the disappointment, as she came therein the ful anticipation that all would be settled. She declared Ihiat she was afraid to go home. The Magistrate tben directed an assault-warra;tt to be immediately executed on her husband, who was soon afterwards brought up in custody, when the above-mentioned Circumstances vwerestated again&t him. lfe, in reply, told the magistrate that hig wife had grossly exaggerated the facts, for she was the aggressor, and ought to have been standing in his place, for her abominably idle and lazy habits, ever since their marriage. Me (the defendant) was an industrious man, and expected, whei he married Mrs. Lawrence, that she would miake as industrious a wife; however, in this he was disappointed, for the firat week had scarcely elapsed before she wanted, and would have, her breakfast ia bed; nothing but tea, toast, or muffins, would go down with her; she had a bellyful of them at first; " but," said the defendant, " surely, your worslhip, she was not to be indulged in this expensive living for a continuance; why, it would have ruined me in a short time." He then argued witle her on the expensea that had been incurred since they were Joined together, but she w0uld not listen to reason. If he wear out oftnorning, when he camne home not a morsel of breakfast was pre- pared; in fact, he was the drudge, and at length determined to alter the system; and as words had no effect upon her, lie tried what a little gentlej correction would do, and accordingly procured a strap, :nd bestow.e a little chnstisement on her one mnorning she refatset te make herself useful. This was the sum.total of his of iececs. The wife and her nietber both dedared that there was no such thing as living with himi. The Mlagistrate took infiaite pains to bring about a reconciliation, but all to no purposc, when he was ultituattly obliged to hold the defendant to bail. iovti. ,