Police.
The Times, 1824-08-11T00:00:00

AlANINstt1ougE.Yeaterday a whoale family of the Jewis.-I Persuasion01, consisting of father and mnother, a son, and four daugch. tors, named Lyon, were charged with having, comtmitted a dreadful assault upon a Jew, namned Iqaaes. It app)eared from the evidenice, that old Abraham Lyon had been aI greAt favourite in the synagogue, in consaequence o;f a strict ob. .ervznce of the Levitical law himrelf and an enforcemnent of a like observance in hlis own tribe as well as hisi family. As he was by trade a baker, ie was licensed by the Hfigh Priest to bake the bread eaten during the Passover. This sacred office he had performed for many yearn h Ut having beeni detected in ani act of disobedience to the law Of Moses, he was dismissed. fin Leviticus it is enacted, that no Jew shall travel on horseback or in the highways durine the Sabbath, or other days whtich it is comimanded to keep holy. Savme Sabbathsr ago, old Is8aacA, father of the prosecutor, was walking near Totten. ham.crosR, when he perceived old Abrahamn Lvon proflanely pleasur- inXgitin a hrse and cart along the high)wav. Old Abraham shortly a er received a call to attend the High.ptiest, before whom he was in due forma charged and convitced of a, forgetfulneis of his duty.I diegraded fromi theofflce ofbaking the unileavened bread,and dismissed upon the authority of the Old Testtament. This dtismisital and disgrace gave rise to a quarrel, of whi'ch Duke'8-place wa the scene. T'he prosecittor stated, that on IWednesday aftelr. noon, he had been to the east end of the town, anid that he re. turned vwith one of hbs brethren through Pettic'oat.'lane. As they passed the house of oldi Abraham, the mother, four dlaughters, anti ,on,spaguo him like so mnany natives of the wilderness, and bahisotat he fell to the earth. The women beat him with their bandsB and feet, and the son, he believed, stabbed ' hinti witih a knife. hlowever, he received several severe wounds ; his arm anti hands were severely cut, and one of'his fingers was nearl v separated from the rest. He believed that he should hare diedl -under their hands, had not his brother approached, and -with assistance saved hi.m. fie recollected nothiing, anti wra in a state of insensibility for three hours. Upon awaking, he found hitnself under the care of a surgeon, sore in every part, severely woundied, and extiausted fromi loss of blood. The brother of thie psoseeuntor described the conduc t of the d efenid. ants as savage in the extreme. After the woenin had prostrated his brother, young Lyon stoodl over himn with a knife, declaring that the bowvel8 of im shotuld appear; but no stab wasengv,nitr wasq the thireat put into execution. 5 eOgvn ete Another of the Jews, who had nothning to do withi the strife he. two-en the parties, swore, that in his life he never surw wotnen so fu- rtous as thiedaughters of Lyor. were inthieir attack on tthe rosRecutor. Witness believed the poor fellow's life was saved by his throwing himselIf ott his prostrate body. The solicitor to the defenidant called witnesses to prove that the prosecutor had cut hishands tby thrusting themt.hrough apane of glaks, One Alyers saidi he wowid swear that yottngl,yon waus not pra!cent, becauset lie was a leper, and of course in bed. Wiitne-ss, however, saw nothing of'the fray. Thie mothter of the Lyon fa-mily said tier dauighters wete eY.asiper. aled at seeingz her stretck by the prosectitor on the eye. There wvas nlo mark. and thte LutRii hllAYORt said thtasa far as lie could see, the attack was a very aggravated onie. :ie was Voryto see so titucit of the spirit of vindictiveness manifesting itself. He then ordlered all the tlefendants, except old Abrahiam, againist whom nothing was alleged, to find bail. (ULI)HnsAr.e..-Our readlers, will recollect the robbery oftlte Bal- loon Birmingham coachi about two vears ago, whe,1 a considerable b)ooty in notes of trite Birumingham Bank w~as obtained. For this robbery Charles Crowder, a notorious London thief, was subse. quently tried at thec Old Bailey, and acquitted, under circumstances whichi did any thing hut eswtablish hiis innocence. One Charles Turnley, a brother-in-law of Crowder' s, and of character equally no. torious, was incltuded in the stame indictment, If e was not, bow. ever in custodly. O'ne or tw'o persons have been taken into custody for passing some of thzese notes, but no connexion c-ould be traced between them and Crowder or Turnley. Yesterday, however, a well.dressed young female was brougn, up before the sitting Alder. man,Sir aaes SSAw,Bert, onthechare o pasingtwo of, thes stoen otes whogav hernam Eliabet Tenley an whomi theoffcer reogize asthewie o Tunle~ nd he istr,we be- liee, f Cowdr. i'hs ltte isat resttein onfnemntat Liver. poo fo coe rbbey, at is ifewas in attendance upon her Air. Steadtnian, haberdasher, No. 38, Beech-sttreet, Barbican, s1tated, that as far back as February last, thie prisoner purchased tome small artictes at his shop, fo-r witch she paid with a 51 Birmirngham bank-note. Fromr her appearaicw, and the notes being payable in London, he very readily tock it. without any suspicion, giving her the change, upwards of'41. It h ad since turned out thatrit was one of-the notes stolen from the Ballooni Birmjinghamn coach, anid the hankers in thie country had, on his application, refused payment of' it. He had never heard nor secen arty thing of the prisoner since till Monday evening, when the again camie to thle shop as a purchiaser, and tendered in paymient a second note of the savqe description and amount, on which he had her taken into custody. Williarn Double, the slhopmari whso hiad attendedI on her, said, lie recognized her immediately as the person who had psased the form er note in February, andi on' his mentioniing the circumnstance to her, she acknowlediged the fact, but said she was not aware thiey had beeni stolen, and taking out a 101. Bankc of England note, offered to takec the two stolen notes. back, and let him reimburse hitnself for Cthe for- mer one, and also take the amount for what she hiad just purchased. His master, hiowev'er, suspecting that the 101. note might likewise be either a forgetl or a stolen one, detained both that and the Birr esingham note she iatil tendered. Ont inquiry, the 101. bank note nas foun"d to be a genuiine one. The prisoner, who maintsined the most perfect self.posisession. when ase fse had any thin g to say in her defensee, replied, &" No; not till shie hadl consulted her solicitor, AMr. Humphreys,s who was at present out of town, and would not return before Thursday. She would, however, jirst say, that she never allowed to the shiop. mantha sh ha pased the former note; indeed,she should be able to prove she was not in London in February lnas. As r. Steadman was not thten prepared with the necestary proof that the two notes produced wvere part of the stoleni property, and as the pri'soner herself was desirous of procuring the attendance of her solicitor, she was remandedl for further examiniation. BOW.sSTxEET-V..eRterday Wilieant Steve-Bs, a lad well known to the police as a practised thief, was brought up, charged with as- saulting Mfr. liorne, A salesman in Covent-garderi.market, and robbing Ihim of his vwatch, Mr. Horne was. asqing the corner of Hart-street and James. xtreet, gbout one o'cl'ockl yesterday torning, whe~n the prisoner and two othters who were lounging against a post there, surrounded hi,addeprisoner preesd against him in front, while t-he other two pOt their arms, around him and drewv out his watch. They all ran awuty, and two escaped, bittrite prisoner wa,ssecured. The watch was, not found, In his defence the ptisoner denied that lie was one of the three who"1 robbed the gernmans ' but the watchman as well as th6 pro- sec$o'rsw'ore to hfis being one of the party, and he wvas commnitted. JtseWs Mat4eer, a journeyman butcner, swax charged with beinK concerned in a gross tff~g upo on of the dismotunted patrol be. longing to this office, 'he atroll was ort duty near the gate of Vaux- -hall-bridge on MVonday night, wvhen he saw a cart, driven by the de- fendant, so comipletely cra'nraed with pe-rsots,that he was deternmied If possible to 2scertain thte number, in order to take the opision of a magistrate as to whiether the driver was not amenable to the provisipnti of Mvr. Martin's Act for punishing emelty to aninmals. While following, and( loo'king into the cart wish this view, some of the fdhlows riding staw him, and ex- claimed, 1' What is the peeping at? Let's serve him11 out." Six or seven of them then jutmped fromn the cart, and ptummelled the poor patrol nio~st unmerci fuily5, and their blows inereased in vigour, when hq. said he onily wanted to take the naime and number on the catt.' The prisoner gave him a tremendous blow on the eye, and the patrol geWied hilif, a-nd in spite of the efFiurts of the others to ef. feat a rescue, heLd hilt tintilasasistance came, and he was conveyed to the watchthouse. Illfather, in defenice, sad the pah'ol sttreck himn first. He was comn- mir "d int default of bail, It was stated thati the cart, drawn by a misftable half-starved hiorse, containled no less than 10 persons I MARYLV6xloEs-oirrtcr.-A few days back, 9pplicationl ws made to the Alagistratta df t)ils otfice for a summons a-aoent Mr. Woadgate, of Pitt's Heuat Mewis, lay.fair. by a. geteaIh ;;ted himself to be Caytain W'alts oa Maidsa-hill, paddingtonl. The' fp;~anant sitated, thatt about three ttionths ao lie bought four horses of Atr ;,,rodgate, wbo is a horse-dedlers lor the sum Of 3101., and for welsiclt he pain him 151. iln cah, sand thd rtenainder in two billis of 1001. each, qccepte by' two dillierent Parties, both of whom were respctable, and who would, beyond doubt, PaY themn whe,n doie. In the interim, however, Milr. WVoodgote had taken it into his head that thne bills woula neverl be paid, bnd had therefore resolvedI on re-possessing himslelf of hir, horses, which he effected a few days back, haLving neaiduo the peron at whose stables they sweere k ep t, to giveL th'em ao'veer tuo hilm, by YPrIeten diN g th at h e had theAuthority ofamTagistrate for demanding them. On thtis statemnent, Air. HosKicti (the sitting magistrate) grant- ed a summons, the: hearing of which wats appointed for one o'clock ~reiterd*y. L,ong, however, before that hour the office was crowded b,y. trad&renmeisn whose debt the comPlasinant had contrived to git, and who heariDgof this afflir bthuoght Ita favourable time for exhi- 'biting their charges against 'him. Four or five Sheriff's officers we1 alo its wibuseade in t he avenues leading to the office, ready to pounce upon .their :prey the instant be madle his appearance. At -t*o,p focrnCatiWllsadrrived,bhut a professional gen. s.iemrivn, whose name otir reporter tuaderstood to be Lewis, stepped iza aaril antz tted to the I'd astlurate,that. he had that momenit learnt fr.s,m the Captain's groom th'at he had been about an lhour before, wh'.le onl the road to the office, arrested on a writ for 4UL., andl which ar're4t he considered as designed to prevent his attendance there- he thern'ore boped the Diagjtrate would,unley thea circmIntai=sce Per- [mit thle hearing toi stanid aslurned for a fortnight- IMr. HOSKIN$a inquired of Mr1 . Woodgate, whether he bad anY thing tuy QbjCcA to thp, proposed afljonrsncnt, to which bzrcpliedi that it might be inconvenient to him, or aing himout of' his bussi- ness, but is he was anxi-ous rather to,sneef the captain, titan other- wise, he skhould not object to the adjournmaent. at the same time, sit he was then before the magistrate, hewould takte tint opportunmity tct apply fobm warrant against 'the captain, foFr having eaeft'auded bimu oiut of his four horses by false pretenees. The captain, lie observed, aboat two months agoy caine to his stables, and after drscribing him. self as a captain in the army, sand aLan as the possessor of extensive estates in Staffordshire, went on to state that he~ wanted- to pstr. chae Isi god bsss, nd ftr smefurther conversatio. witnesit becam so ipresed wih a eliefofhe%p,actability a tociinsent. to sel hi fou horss, wich e sqelected from hist stock., for he sm of3L11., o whih hereceived 1St. in catsh,. and 'heremindr i tw bils f 101.e-ach, at th-ee monthse date. One of these hills vwas aecepted by Captain Barker, of Seething-lane, Tower-street, and who was described as a person holding a situation under Govemrnent of the value o0f 8001. per annumn. On the conterary he had discovered that hill stituattion was at, the utmost only M00. pez annumn, and thath%S was at the time of signing the bilf, and is now, a Tprisoner for debt is WVhitecross.street Prison. The other bill was accpted iy ir. Fair- man, a horse..dealer, of White Hart-yardi, Tot'enham-coureTo.vnd, of' whom witness knew something, and beieved hits to be a safre man ; it trne ou, hoeve, tat h wa mitakn, zs this .pc-rson's name bed,abot afortigh bak, apeaed n te ,azetle, Amon(g the liKe ofbolsrusa.Wines, n dscverngthese flies,, wert to Bow- stret.an thre taed he as, aid asadvised torecoverhishorses Mvr. H0osasNa,after conflirring with Mlr.GesFFITyrTe,obsa~raed,tbae no false pretence had been showni which would 'utifyp i n rn. log his warrant, and whichi he thierefore declined doing. A person here stepped forward, and stated himself to be a groce-r, and that he had been induced to s-iv's credit to a considerableam,ount to the cantain, in consequence of the groom having given it out thtat. his master was a man of' larg-e property, and that in addlition, he was abou t to he married to a-n heiress, who lived inL Clangea-street. Ile had received an acceptance in paxrt pavment, but which had Ibeen d!s- honoured indeed, the person on whom it was draws. declared his. accepotance to be a forgery. He had afterwards~ been prevailed onl to give up thle acceptance into the hands- of thte captain's confidential servant. No part.of the debt had. bees paid him. difr. kent, of Na. 2, North Bruton-mewfs, lierlelev-quare, nleXL camne forward, and stated, that he had credited Captalin I llir, to the amount of 35., for which he had received h is acceptance, but which had been dishonoured, and was then eight lweeks over due. Sevjesal other tratdesmen who baa been duped bY similar represen- tation, alsO dletailedl their cases to the magistrates. At last a person who stated his naareco be Giles and that he lived in fit. John'silane, Clerkenwell, advanced, saa declared hinmself a frienad of the Captain's, to whiom, he staid, he hadl advanced 2,1171., and that he wvould besides pay any claims whiclh might be outstm&d, intc, however large their amounit. I 1 Vill vou pay me the armoLnt of my acceptasce ?I exclaimed ~i r. Kent.'-" I will," was the reply. " WilC~l you nay rie ?"' "Wi!l yolu pay me ?" burst from eachi corner. of the office ;and to. whc nuiries Mr. Gil"s replied that he would, each of them, if thycudget an order for himT so to do fromR the Captain ; buit he could not pay, any one of them without tharorder. "1 Oh, if." was- u tteiwe] with an1 accent of deKpondency bY several creditors, and was instantlv followed by a gener-l burst of laughter. Air. GRis-sT'HS observed, that the promise was muds altered by the condition then attachied to it. He. however, should decline hearing any furthier statemecnts at that time, either one wray Or the othier. It appeared that Captain WVallis intended coming to the office, on whiich occasion such creditors as though-, fit could attend. The parties thea left the office. In the cotass of the morningr, the groom of Captain Wallis ap- peared on a summois, charging~ him with having set his dog a-t an Italian ladl whno called at the house at Maida-hill, about some images lie had left there. The-complainant -tate-d thtat he left some images by deedre of the CaPtain, for him to look at. and for such of them as he seleced he W-Is to have been paid ;but findinig, after calling several times, that 'to selection had been inade, he at last determined on deamanding his. imagwes back again. On his calling for this purpose, he, after somne difficulty, obtained them) from the groom, and was in thie act oe stooping to put themn en hishead, when be set the dog at iiin. and which bit himr severely in the thigth. ThiR sxtatement was confirmed by another Italian lad., who accompainiedi the complainant, as also by the appearance ofihethigi, the markson which werexufficiently visible. The groonm denied having set the dog upon him, aind sspid that1 the boYs pslagued the dog, andl thereby brought, on the evil of which theY nOwA complained. Mlr. GRIFFITrHS, however, ordered himrt to find bail to answer ti.e charge at the sessions. HATToOX-ARI)x~.-esterday Mr.Fredz7rick Seogoood, n Jew- slier, of 56, Red Lion-street. Clerk-en well, appeared to a sUmmons (which, in consequence of Air. Seagooe's absence in WOircester, couldl not be served for some day-s since Mir. Parkrins's first applies-. lion), to answer the complaint o'f the ex-Shieriff undcr tte following circuimstances ; 5Ir. Parkint, who wasR accompanied to the office by an rrlsh gen-. tleman, named Captai Kearns, stated, that on the 24te-I ut., au he was Lgoing thirough Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell. abouat ten o'clock in the mnorningr, with his; friend, Catptain Kearns. be stop- ped at the coiner of a, court whbile hlis friend went into .a nouse to inquire about a watchi that was undergoing repair. While gazingt into a shop, the defendant came up. tared Itimithard ini the face, atid ask-ed him if his naTme was notu erk-ins ? On htis acknowledging this, honourable distincetion he look- ed at die defendant an .aid "I think I kno yu :arno i the per-ion that stole my clog ?"Upon this the defendant began' to abuse 1himi, and calledI out-,' Look at the ex-Sheriff; what's bme- come of poor Byrne?" witlh various o!her observations of the same kitid. on thie ex-Slteriff attem-pting to retire down the court, firom the incteasing notice that he was receiving fromn the mob, the de.- fendant haAded to his cler, shbag of jewellery which he was carring, and so effectually blocked up the passage down the court, byss'd ing opposite to, the complainant, ~tat ft wras with difriculty he could get to hlis friend (the Captain) for protection. Mfr. LAti\nG-Did the defendanit strI-e you ?-No. Did he ki ck yo ?N. Did lhe put 'isfist in 'your face ?-No. B -] d Jhe any thing in his hand to strike you ---No; he put his bvg out of lisa hand. Thctifhow did he obstruct you P-Byv following me down the court. Was there a mob collected aroonn 'You ?-Oh ! no doubt. How many ? Were there more than ten persons F-Rrally I can't say. Here the Captain, a very intelligent writness, stepped forward, and observed, " You're not entering into the merits of this case properlyr, let -me be examined." This request was assented to There was, howver anunepeteddely i hi gving his testimony. 'When' Waiwriht,theoffcerin aitng,wasabcoat to swear him, he re- lime th pemisson or oingso o ay pet-son btitt a magistrate; thisbeig reistd, h ulimatls-co tend to be sworn by the of. fler, ot ithut,howver pontig ot to him the penalty which lieexpsedhimelfto or uchan ssmption of authority. H-is testimony went to prove, -that on dir. Parkias arriving at the holuse wh~ere he was visiting, he was fIollowed by a mob of persons, acc-u- mulating C'rom all quarters, end thierefote be advised iais friend to re- Jlair for safety to the nearest police-office By Mr. SeagKoodit solicitor..-.How close were those people to Mr. Parkins's person ?-I don't know what you mean by his person. Were they within 20 yards; of him ?-They were ast close as the audience here are to me-cocne. now there's an answer for y-ou. Do you swear that, Sir ?-I did. But lo0 You P-I do, dlid, and wiill. On, the part of Mdr. Seasgood, it wa-s tstated by his solicitor, that ont the m-orning jin question, as Mr. Seagood was rassaing the ex-Sheriff, he asked him, poInting to s print-shop, if it was~ not acIhysnit's shop, sod Iteing struck with the strangeness, of the questioti, he looked closely at tile ctomplainaill., who certainly charged himn with having stolen his dog ; upon which bhe resorted ,by calling him a liar and a thief. Several Witnessest de-posed, thai there w~ere only a few boyis collecttsd about the ex-SberifF, whomi he had hiimself attracted -by the violencee of his manner. As neither the charge of assault inor riot coueld be substantiated. the Magistrate dismisised the case. ,,Ir. Par.kitis, on thiis decision being made4 preferr-ed asesond com- laint against MIt. Seagood. Hie stated, that about fourv years ago his ho use in H erefordshir was robbed to a considerablelextent, cf various articles, and of' jewellery, to she amrount. of 2,000-that ti'e principal person conceruied in it, named Avery, v'ho had been lvnged. confessed, previously to his execution, that a man nawned Parry bxd4 taken away on the night preceding the i-obberv, his favourite yard: ddog, othe baimatian breed. This dog was afterwards traced to tli dfendant's house; and on hisgoing there, theugh the personsain the house denied any knowledge of the circumstance, thse moment the dog heard his voice, he broke liia chain, and ran to his master.. This circumstance, coupled with that of the eefendant's sendfing tee him in the mrost submissive manner about a mnont-h ago for a ecaata- tee of' this said Parry, Miom he was about to take into his service, thirew a very mynsterious cast on the defendant's character. The de.. fentlant's solicitor was about to explain how Mr. Seagood became: potssesed of the dog ; Mfr. LANG(, however, put an ena to the case., by observing, that as this charge was- not urged during four years, he could not think of enterinig into it now, in consequence of any in- tempyerate language which might have passed between the parties. Us O-stAtLL--A young man, of dLecent appearance, applied to the sitting Magistrate for advice lHe wanted, he saidl, a warrant for the appearance of a gentleman of very' considerable notoriety, whio lied charged him with having comtpounded a felonyy. AMs. CasAscaxE. inquired who this gentlemani was. Applicant.-It is no Jess a persnage thani M5r. Henry Hamt, the Celebrated coffee-coaster. I want to have a warrant granted for his apprehensiioni, in order that he may appear before your Worship, and substantiate hisq charge, if he can do so MVr. Cl1AhsnE5tS--Have yo-u been carrytng on the same trade, in opposition to dlir. Hunt ? Applieant.-.No, I am not exactly a coff'ee-ro-aster : but if Mr. Hlunt is allowed to tradur-e n)' character without the slightest cause, I think the least satisfactioni that I amt entitled to is a warrnt calling on binsi to appear at the bar either to prove what he has against mue, or to retract the charge in the face of the world. Thie Miagistrate sa id, that he could not assist the applicant; he had hisremdy,if r.Hunt had really injured his character, by action andif e aplid t hi atorny, e wuld nodoubt, put him in tlie Appicait.! tinkisi a ardcas tht 1cannot have a warrant forhimto pper hre.11 nvied imto come up voluntarily be- for th Bech,butli reuse, satig,that if he (Hunt) appealred at a police-oflice against hinm, he would be obliged to falow3b a the prosecution, and hang h im. Air. CHAN3ERnS again repeated his inability to asist the appli. cant, who withdrew, declaring it to be his determination to carry the business into a court of law. An Irish bricklayer, named Pratt, was charged with turing him wife into the streets. AMrs. Pratt said, that the night before her husband caine home at alate hour, and without rhyme or reasou turned hmerslfandtw cil- dren into the street. She had given him no provocation, farthertht telling him that h e was a blackguard for neglecting his lawful wfe, for the embraces of o.her men's wives. Pr'e, in his defence, declared, tbat if ever one man was =mre unfortunate than anotber in having a vyien for his wife, he was that self-same man. lVhen she takses the fit into her beid, she sets abotlt and breaks all tle erockery in the room- even the chairs and tables go to wreck; and the night before, uia smash- ing all the cops and saucers in the cupboard she wdesnclished sixteei squares of glass with her bare feet. "'l ;his condrct: yoar lionours, irritated me, and I a-dmrtthat I put her gentl,s' iwn the street by the shoulders, as tle easiest atd bet rmas.ner of,tffing lid of her. If thie Lord would take he to himself, it wots4lbeene cf I the gatest blessings&" IMm. Pratt here xclaimed. Ah I Jemmy Pratt, II live to tor. ment you yet, with the blessing of God" Pratt.-There, your Worshipf, hear tht; it shows -ou tm,bat a wornan I have to deal with i this is nothing to what I am used to. I shouldbe willing to giv er hfmy erinp to live separate. The lagistratesthoughtthis the mostadvisable plan, EdPratt promised to allow her lOs. a week oat of his wages, if 2he woplcl kecpiaway entirely from his habitation. poUcE.