Police.
The Times, 1824-12-18T00:00:00

Dow-STRtET.-Ycsterday two persons of gentlemanly exterior, | who gave their names Williamn Ellwand and Rsbert Johrs Breretan, I the former a powerfully-made rnan, about 6 feet high, were brought from St. Clements watch-house, charged with a violent assault upon Thomas Elerries, a respectable.looking young man, who stated him. self to be a journeyman coach-maker. The complainant stated, that he was going along Pickett.street, Temple-bar, between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday evening, when he overtook three gentlemnen, two of whom were the defetid- ants, walking slowly, arm-in-arm, and taking up the entire breadth of the pavement: he was obliged to step into the gutter to pass them, and had just regained the pavrement, in doing wYhich he brushed slightly against one of them, when Mr. EllwanC'hitnuck him a blow which brought him upon his face in the dirt ; and he had scarcely got upon his feet again, when the other defendant, Mr. Brereton, without the slightest provocation, struck him two severe blows. HIe then caUed the watch, and gave the two defer.dants in charge. George Hughes, a fellow-workman, corroborated the foregoing statement, as did a watchmnan in part. The latter complained also that the defendants grossly abused and shook him as be was taking them to the watchhouse. AMr. Ellwand, who seemed to treat the matter as exceedingly un- important, said, that he had had the misfortune to lose a great manv silk handkerchiefs by the dexterous tricks of pickpockets. and was, conmequently, very much upon his guard in that particular now. On Thursday evening, at the time mentionied, he felt the hand of some one in his pocket, and knocked, as he believed, that same person down. He could not say that the complainant was the person who put his hand intohis pocket, or whom he knocked down, for it was dark. The watch was called, and he anul his friends were surrounded by a crowd of watchmen and other people, and were in imminient danger of being hustled. The watchman said, that the story of the hand in the pocket was an after-thought of the defendant's. As he ancd the other watchmen were proceedinig with the charge to tho watchhouse, he heard Alr. Ellwand say to AIr. Brereton, " We must get over thisocrape by savirgthat this fellow attempted to pick my pocket" Mr. MrENsHuULL-.O nonsense? nonsense, don'tattempt to bolster up your case by such a story as this. I cannot believe tbat a gentle. man would be guilty of such -conduct. Watchmin.i-l am speaking nothing but the tnth, yout Wnorhip. *Mr. .M1It;sULULL said he should leave that part of the accusation out of his consid6ration altogether ; it was nlot likelv that such a thing could have been said. Aui assault, however, had been proved agaissttbe defendants, anld they must find bail. They were held to h ail accordingly. |MAIRswLao~UG.sTgEnT..Yesserday Henlry PFrestofs, but I whose real name is Henry Ddass, Dand William Tlompson, I whose real name is wiiam? Li7ntott, who have Beeri several days in custody upon a charge of breaking in to the premises of Meslia, Lane, tailort and drapers, in Old R3uraigtonW.lce.t, -iere brugttni !b ree Mr. RoB, the Magistrate, for a final examiaation. Sineg-thenpv-. prehension of'thesb prisoners they havobeen oncetmanaferred to&Dow, street office, where thev undCTrwentan1 exmination on 'Wednesda~y last, onl suspicion of having been concerned, with -a Jew, mnamed.: Abraham, now under sentence ofdeath for the ofibunce, in a burglary at the hiouse of lilr. Frazer, in Norfolk-street, Str4nd. On that oc- casion. a little dog of All. Frazer's., "which maad.ar alarm, hudlji ; head nearly severed from its lbody by the thieve-" anti as these. pn- sonora are supposed, from what ap"peared -at-Bsw.strrec4 to, ha,ve been the ,perpetrators of that-creml - ct, thiis office wa& yesterday crowdled to excess, amiongst ~itom were many whoe cause .to., se men susprected of -,o wanton an act of barbarity. Mlr. Frazer-and his solicitor, MVr. Moore, attendled tsehacanisna- tion andthe ollwingwas he eidece -tak-en 2igaimst the pririonera. CharlsJone, a oy abut 14yearof age, deposed, that Iie is its the srviceof Mssrs ane ad us allleepe, in a recess at th,e bac partf te wre-oom whib ionte gotid.floor, andthestreet.door. of wich s i Savle-rw~ ntthre i a oor ofcorninunicatiuon be-' tween th eback and front-part of thie wareouse, thiraugh which uaper- son must pays before he can get to the street-door. The back- part Of the wAarehouse, where the witness slept, is lighted -by a sl.y,. I ght itn the leads. Abrout two o'clock on the morn-ing .of Monday, th t inst., the witness was awoke by something heavy fallintr ore thie warehouse floor, as if a perso - had jumped downsfrom -the skyn. ligt, nd n aminte r to aley heheard a whizzing noise, as of' thesuden ighingof mach,anda lghtat the sameinstant,itruick upo hi thouh te cevce f te oor of the reecs, where be slep. H thn hard one th ontheground-, as if persons weretossng p fo somthig, ad h ad a man's voice say, " D-ns it,tak cre f he oo:" eoonafer heard the doorof comma-- ncaition between the back and front of the warehouse opened. ~He was then convincedi that there were thieves in-the place, andc he stole softly from his bed, and crept through a trap-door, by which a com- muanication is had with Alrl. Lane's dwelling-hiouse, in Burlington- street, to which he proceeded, and calledi up) Mr. WilliaLm Lrise,yeiho returned witi hiim over the leads to the parapet over the street-door of the warehouse in S2vile-row. Air. Lane fired a pistol to give the alarm, anid just at that time, the witness, on looking from the leads, saw a man drmessd in black, wliom he believes to have been the prismier Durliam,walk away at a quieck pace from near the street- doour. Witness fuirther said, that wheni he wvent- to bed the night before, tse street.door was doable lockted and double b-ulted. After hearinig several other witnesises, the magistrate, ask-ed thec risoners if they wishedl to say any thing, but they declined doing so. w~e then told them, that in this case they might consider themselves as fully commiitted for trh- I; hut they should not be for the present Rant to Neevgate, because bie believed Sir Richard Birniie wished to see them again at l3ow-street, and with a view to their being-sent there, they should he detained in custody hero utntil WVcdnesds.y next, upon which dlay, whatever might occur at Busw.street, they shouldi be committed to Newgate. All thie witnesses were then hound over to prosecute. Durinig the examiination, thie sister of Durhamn, ani interesting young woman, whose family are very, respectable, wvas in attendaince in an adjoining room, where she continued to weep till the time in a most distressing mianner. She came to know the resultaf the exa- mination, and probability as to rhe consequtences. The Magistrate, who pamid every attention to her anxious inquiries and sceened to sympathize muich witb the poor young womant's feet.. ings, assured her that if transportation shiould be the wonsetquence of' thepreent o an oter nvstiatin,respecting her brother, it woul bea vry frtuatecircmstnceboth for himnself, and for-his famly;andas or he attr, e tougt they should not feel much Thesiser aid tat ow ll op efrecaimngher brother wag at n ed, t wuldbe hewis oftie moheran friends- that he should be transporte, but they hope there was nothing more se- riois awaiting his offece Thie Magistrate said that this -was a subject upon whicla he couldl not cive her anvarnswer ; that wasrto be decided by anotheretribuNasL This young ms'n, who is of very genteel aprpeatance and address, was pprntied y hi moher wh isa most respsectable lady, re- sidig wth wo therson an a augter in Arundel-street, in the Strad, o amerhan inthecit, ad a premiium of 1100 vidneat; paidwit him Hehowver olied is apprenticeship before his timewasexpred5ans ashe ws gvento idle habits, his friends lit- tedbin ou fo th Wet Idie, a anexpense of 1001. moret, and, procured himn a situation in Demerara, where, however, he stopped but a shtort time, and returned to Enlad.In about two mnonthis after his return lie was brought to thi ofice aving been found in the area of a house is Great Russell-stet ith a bundle of skeletont k-eys by his side ; he was then conimite b UOXANTT,tberma- gigstrate, to the house of correction for tremnh; but before thea exKpiration or this termn his friends procuired fromn thte King. through. the Secretarv of State, a pardon or remission of the remaining part of the sentet',ce, on condition of his being sent, as his friends deter- mined, to Van Dieman's Land. For this voyage and settlemaent he was fitted out agaitsi, at a considerable expense6, s his family, and a sum of money given to him, besides paying 20, guineas for his pws- sage; but the day before the ship sailed be escaped from on board, and wa-s not heard of (hiis friends suppasing he had gone on tise vov- ag:!) until hie was taken up for the burglary at bfi r Lane'sz. I4a was yesterday genteelly dressed in bla~ck, and conducted hirmselff with great decorurm, but perfect indifferente. HAT T0y.KOARDEN,.-MT1. B. F. F'lowerdewe, one of the most ec- centric, miost unfortunate, and (strange to say) mRost happy, of the whiole histrionic fraternity, was bromtght up at this office, to mnake (as hie calledl it) his drst appe-arance in a niew line of busines -,or, inx. othier words, to answer the complaint of a certain little boy, w'hose head happened to come rather eael.apropos within the reawh of Flow- erdew's baton (a brave oak sapling), whilst he was charging, as lie conceived, in kingly character, therude invaders of his throne. The boy not comprehending exectlythe royal [prerogative offirst.rateactors., to knocken thehead oftheur.fortunate aitxiliaries ofthe scene,and the blow being also somewhat too heavy even to bear the name of a prac..- tical joke, he cumplained alouid ofthtie injury he had sustained, and pravoked a spirit of insatrrection amongst the liege subjects of our itnaginary sovereign, whose proper pertson wasq dragged'straightway before Mr. Sere 'ant SELLON, to anaswer to the charge aforesaid. WVhen brouxght before this latter personage, poor Flowerdewv de- scended from his high estate, and certainly demeainedi himself it) all respects with appropriate recollectioa of the ci-devanst king anti the actual maigistrate. Thie juivenility of the comtplainant made it necessary that he shouldI answer certain interrogatories, as to the place "1where liars go to,"&C.. before the oath was allowepd to be administered ; and, fortunately for Flowcrtlcw, it so turnetl out, thiat the! youngster wvho shiould have been tleponent in thjis case, had always been at play when hisi com- panions were at Catechism;, and he being unable to make the eseecs- sarv replications, hiis testimony could not be received on oadi, and Flowerdew was once more "free as air."~ But tiie getting rid of' the charge was not the least of his case; he knew thiat those mischievousl annoying gentry-the reporters- woulsi stize wvithi avidity thec opportunity thus presented of'holding hiii up to niotice in a ridiculous caricature ; and it would be indeed tauforrunate, if the laurels he had won in thie field (he wasg a soldier, to') o htti, nd he halet gtheedon the boards of Covent- gardn ad te Surey shuld e bighed,withiered, and decay-ed, by he estlenia vaonrn~ f hei pes. idae his own speech.~ In rde, tetfor, t contrac thsefearful consequences, he re- soled tt -rcin a epot f Iis wncase, which follows, verhatim cilbeai,a preions earreca Hatngardn.Caledonian Rosrius again! ! !!-B. F. Flewer.. dew teCldonian Roscins, passing through liolborn, on Thurs.. day,te1t of December, between the housts of six and seven o'clock P. . I(suula ininumerable crowd followed, hunted him like a fox oabac),till at last, struck by a cross covc, costermonger, lie wsbytebl,snt into a snost respectable oil.clorh-ma- nulkturrssop ihntwo or thiree doors of Newton-street., Hih olborn ; stayed a fewv minutes to shelter, when the proprie- tor, eru of his windows, requested the Caledonian Roscius to dipee themb He, "nothing lotb," with his "squeavr" it hishn,dsesd pell.vmell, upwards of two hundred of tag, sa,anbo-al" when, Unfortunately, a dusty Bnb (not the real One) threatene tok thrust his dusty fist into the Roschis' fair face The Hiero (if Watroo igy uatre Bra&, and Brussels_. could not brook this: he flourished his wooden stword, allow7 squewer," and prepared to guard, cut six right and left, bdc unfortunately the bead of a little b&v tedt 'the last blow ; he, the said' boy, was advised to charge him with the watch. Flowerdew took refuge in the late Lewis's establishment, where he has con. ducted the business for 12 years past, when a Mr. W'ilckze. a-.... (set abega on horseback,'and h e'll iide to liell) intende'd teacher, and Dr.NgBody, ga:ve himn up, and delivered in charge, but lie (Dr. Eadv) wYas too good a jutlge to appear before that " most worthny and 'uprightjudge," Sergeant Salon, who, onhearingthe boy's tal,, gave him such scriptural questidiSs, that the boy, could not answer. Mfuttum in pa-uva-Mlr. Flowerdew was honourably ac5quitteff, taklens to tite Rose,' and it, a bowl1 of punch dlrank I DTjuwje,at its; teno!-Sir Richard Bimnie and Sergeant Sellor.! " WORtSetP-STsRErT.-JOhn, Baxter, a person of considerable no- toriety in this distirict, was brought before the sitting magistrates (Mr. BI3.'VET and-Mlr. Ossopt,xE), under the following circeni- stances:-q Lock, a constable of St. Luke's, was passing through Finabury- street, Finsbury-square, a little before nine o'clock yesterday morn-. ing, in coinpany with another parishi constable, wben, observing the- prione ontheoppsit sie 0' te wy,carrying a basket which appare toCotai soe wigty attr,he was induced, by his knolede o th prsonr'schaactr, oGross over and stop him, for: the urpse f ispetingtheconent ofthe basket n raising the7 lid e prceied ome ottes, hic apeared to be filled with wine;: ana or te ske o a mnut exainaton,he conveyed the basketi and bearer to the watchhouse. Ther b?dscvre ht the basket contained six bottles of wine, from whiich the tops of the corks had been recently' cut. I-e thereupon proceeded to the prisoner's lodg-. ings in Ropemaker-street, and on searching there, found the toes of six corks, sealed with the seal of' the "WineCompany. 11 Fleet-street :" end in a hamper conitaining some parkding-straw, a slip ot parchimest, withi a direction to somie person in the countrey- He aso oun intheroo a square dleal 'oox, the discetion on whicr had been obliteratedl, containing a quantity, aipparently about one cwt., of Epsom salts, of very good qualitv. He then immrecia-tely gave informnation of the circumnstances. at the Wine Compan ,yr Of.. flee itn Fleet,street, in consequence of which one of the clerks of that. estaWlishment attended, who identsified -the seal-on the corks as the impression of that Cemnany's seal, end also recognized his owns hand-writing in the direciion on the parchment. It was not, how_ ever, he said the direction of any parcel of wine recently sent out, but must have been taken off some hawiper that had been retarsed to the Company's warehoase, andhad been probably thrown amongst the straw. The prisoaer was remanded for further examination on Wednes- day next, when it is hoped the owner of the salts may be discovered. Jam,ns Field, anotherperson distinguisbed by the pglice, was exa- mined on a charge of stealing a large iron hand-mill, under circunlt. stances of rather extraordinary coolness and daring. The prosecutor John Stichstub, a broker. residin.g-in AvtiUerv_ passage, Spitaleids, s-ated, that abount two o'ldok yesterday, lisl attention was called to the prnsoner, then proceeding along the pf a sage with the ill now produced ona his knot, whicb he knew tohavei- been lying, but a few minutes before, ona table insideof' his sbop, where it was expased fr sale. Hetherefiorestopped the prisoner, ands gave him into the charge ofo a onstable. The prisoner, when asked whataceount hehaid to give nf himns-lf' said that he was a porter, and was standing near Spiralfields.rnarket w;aiting for a sob, when a countrymoan, of whom he knew nothing came up to him and said he would give hi1 sixpence to carry something fbr him so the Cathirine Wheel Inn, Bishopssate-stree. He assented, and was led by the countryman to Ardller'.passsage where they went into a broker's shop, and the cnantrinsan-pinred the mill, to which the prosecutor now laid claim, upon his knot telling him to take it directly to the Catherine WheeiL The coun7. tryman then left him, and he was proceeding to follow tlheorders.he had received, when the young woman callcd after bin, upon which he stopped, and the prosecutor gave binm -ito the custody of a coon stLble, on a charge of inking the mihl.l-.lc was rcmanded for-furthLt examination. - POLICE.