Police.
The Times, 1824-09-04T00:00:00

MAySIOXwOUsE....An old seamran who has been a very hard- fi~ghter, Ibut is now shelfed, and is sutbject to extravagant fits of pa5- sion, in consequence of a severe woundi in the hiead, applied to thie LoRD MAYOR for a pair of breeches and shioes. Hie has been an.. nually in the habit of asking this favour and receivitng it, buit this visit wa's quite unexpected, as he had called at the Alansion-house six montlhs before. The chtief clerk asked him why hie dia not dlividle his Yisits as e used, between the West-end and the East. Biecausel" said he, '1 Lord Castlereagh, wvho used to supplyme isdead, and the Prin.ce Regent is turned Kig ad I am now afraid to break his windows:- but when he was Regent, I knew hiim too well to think any thing atbout hiis anger." The LoRD AMAYoR.-1Vh.aE have you been doing since I saw you:? Sailor.-I hAve been amuising myself at York. The Loani MAYoR.-In whiat manner? Sailor.-...Begging, miy Lord, begging. The LORI) MTAY oR.-I ami surry to hear a fellow who fought so hard for his country, say that he is conitenit to turn beggar. Sailor...WAhat would you have me do ? I can't get work. I mLst beg. Whiat brings me here now, but to beg? The LORD MAYOR-Well, yott shiall succeedl for once L'ou shall have a pair of shoes ard a- shiiling. Sa.ilor.-And a pair of breeches too'? The LoRD MArort.-.No, no ; I can't give breeclhes. Go to the I West-end of the towni for themi. Salr(looking at his breeches)....You would'lt. hiave toe go to visit atte other end in such a shabby state ? ThLoanD AlAYOst.-.You mnust niot beg in the city. Sailr..-..'ll tell you what I'll do, my Lord : it was formerl' the case, tat the Lord Mlayor used to have his fool as well as the King; now 'II never beg again if you take mne as youir fool. TheIJOlD 11A,yoO.-Iy peor fellow, the Lord Mayors of these dys dlon't want fools. TIhey perform- all the duties of'tliat charac- ter itnselves; at least asfa as my observation ha-; gonea. Sa1ilor.-.God knows, thiat was the reason I never applied till niow for the situation. MVr. HOSLER mnentioned, that the seam-an hiad beeni a verv spirit- ed fellow, and never was known, to have cotnmitted a dishonest ac- tion. He appeared but seltiorin at the Alansion-house, andl seldomi requiyred any thing but a pair of shoes, which th;e Chilef Magistrate alway ,gave to him. Hie was known, utpon being refused similar treatmnent at Carlton-hiouse, to break the wimdows, and to pay the same sort of compliiotent tol,ord Castlercagli'slhouse,in St. James's square. The LORD illAYOIt, in consideration of his services and his wanits., ordered that he shouall have the breechies as wvell as the shoes. MARLBOROsGHwsTRaEET.-M4rr. Hfathaway, a botcher, residing in Southampton..terrace, was broughit to the oflece, upon a warrant. pb Waleo, the officer, clharged with a desperste otutrage and astault. rhbe warrant also included~ a IMlrs. WVhite, who, by the 11odowing statement, appeared to be the prineipal in the transaction, but thie officer did not succeed in apprehending her Mlrs. Haynes, the complainant, stated, that shec has resided for some time past at No. 7, tiouthamipton-terrace, and that Mlr. I-athi- away has but lately come to reside in that neigh bouirhood, and on his doing s.o, solicitedI her custom, whiceh he ever tsince enjoyed. Somne months ago a gentlemian, whomn she understood to be of great re- spectability,' succeeded in winning her affections, and became a fa- voured visiterat her house, but whether he was a miarried or a single man she never knew or took the trotible to inquire. On Saturday last, as site and her friend were sittig in hier parlour, betwcen eigh't andi nine o'clock, taidng their wine after dinner, a knock ate to tile srt-dor and it was no sooner opened tItan a lay entered, andl first taking the precaution to lock the street-doorindead pat the ke in he -pckt, sthe rushed into the parlour, and commenced smxashing every article of furniture, tables, chairs, lookinig-glasses, decanterst, SEc., a' the samec time exclaiiming thau. before she stopped she would have witness's life, and that of her own husband also, who, Mrs. Haynes now, fortlhe first time, learned had Ibeen for so many months her coinpanion. The lady announced her name to be White, and consequently the gentlemazn maust, be Mr. White- The husband, as rioon as he could recover from his sur. p risc, (if any thing could surprise him), laid hiold of' the wife, and foored her. MVrs. Wt.hite ea 'ed murder-a mob of about 1110 per- sons collected about the houise, burst open the doors and wrindowvs, enitered the house, and, on hearTing from Mrs. White her statement of grievancesi, joined with her, and, proceeding over the whole house, smaslied every article in it, broke a valuable pianoforte and a beau- tiu uta opeces, carried away almost atll her wearngn-apparel, stole hier reticisle, and some sovereigns in it, atid no doubt wo.uh,l as they, expressed aL determination to do, have torn-MrsM. Hiaynes herself to pieces,had she not, with great difficulty, cLambleredl over an a3djoin.. ing wallI, ancl taken shelter in a neighibour's house ; and ZMlr. WhVite escaped from their fury in an equally miraculously wayr, with alinostI every stitch of clothes torn froin his backc. The charge against Mtir. h.Iataway was, that he was the ringleadler of thi outrgeousattack upo the hous;e, and vowed tite destruction Mr.1-Jtliwa litend vrycooly o tisrecital, and when called upo fo hi deenc, sid,tha ofMr.Whie,irs. White, or Mrs. H syes, e knw nohingmorethanthathe ad served the house, No. , fr a hor thn wih met. n Sturday evening last, as he was standing at his own door, whc was within three of Mrs. Hlaynes', lie lheardI desperate cries of murder fronti No. 7, which' at- tracted a vast crowdl of persons, who insitsted upon being admnitted;- and ein atfirs reuse, thy frce on of the shutteri of the par. hou-widow ati aw uan,wit awoman under him, hiis knee upo he stmac, ad edraourng o sranle her. The mnob was thenabot t fore tte oor whei smebthyinside opened it, atnd the row resed n; ad o theinsantthe man frozii within inad hi sae ho thle crowdl, after a desperate struggle. ilr. Hahwy wowsoure of thle verv last, he saLid, that en- tered tehue ett the assistaince &f the woinan in the par- lour, w' m h i o succeed in recovering for a long timle and shec then related to the people how this Mirs. Hlaynes had been kept by her husband, and lived splendidly on the Droduce of her industry ; and that e-very article in the house, and 'the house itself', were purchased wittls her mnoney. Upon this appeal, the mob did certainly join Mr s. White, and he believed the house was retty well cleared out ; but as for himiself, AMr. Hathaway declardta he did notliing mnore titan assist Mlrs. White to recover from hier half.strangulation. Several persons, neighbbours, whio entered thes house at the garne titne, confirmea the statemtenit of AMr. Hathaway, and Mlr. ROE, the filagistra said thiat, under all the citcumnatances, he dlid not consiider Mr. ~Tathtaway liable to be hield to bail, and discharged the warrant. IVith respect to Mirs. WVhite. Wales, the officer, said, that he had been three timnes to her 'house to apprehiend her, bust could not find her. She keepsi a brothel, No. 36, Lisle-street, Leicester-squalre; andl hier hiusband, who has caused all this uproar and contention, is the notoriouts Huxfley Wihite. IIATTOw-GARtDEN.-Yesterday,George IMen was broughtup for final excaminatiotn, on a charge ot'horse-stealiiig, at Elthami, in Kent. Theprisoner, it appeared, hiad formerly lived as groom to a gentle. mnan in Surrey, atid by his ttniform good conduct and sobr-iety, had continued so to ingratiate himsBelf into the goodI graces of his em.. ployer, that lie was admnitted to the fullest confidence, ard became, in fact, a kind of " major-clomo" in the domestic arrangements of the family. Possessed of' a handsome person and aL peculiarly in. sinuating address, young Iden determined not to content himiself in the hiumble capacity of even as favoured domiestic, bat boldly aspired to the still higher hionour of lils young mistress's hand, who, in an unguiarded miioment, consented to unite her fortunes to his. During the absence of the family, (at least the elder branches, wlio were then in town,) 1dem, the confidcate, was left in charge~ of the hiouse, and, seizing this opportunity, he pressed his suit with the youing lady (not quiite sixteen) so -vlry successfuslly, dieat she becamne the companion of his flight, though it has since ap-. pearetd that neither of them actually knew w'here they were going, or when to stop. The circumstance was happily discovered alniost imime,I tdiatelv after, and the fiugitives were traced into Kent, where it seems 1den fias some connexions in the ran k of respectable farmierst,though lie preferred alife of servituide intil love taughithim ambition. A tear. rant was placed inthehaands ofKinsecy, one of the Union-hall police- officers, whso succeeded in recoverg the young lady, sand gave her back to the boysom of hier distractegafarnily. 1ler companlion, how-. ever, was aware of the pqrguit, and kept out of the way. D~isap. pointed in the hiope of succouar fromnhis fripntIs he becamne deape.. rate. While in t'his state, he is presumed to liave commtsitted the offence with which he isnow charged. it appeared from the evidence.thait he brought the horse to London on the evening of'Wednesday the 25th of August, trod not being able to get a purchaser in thie Smithfield-mnarket, he tOok it at two o'clock on the folilowing morning l's White'st, in Sharpe's-ahley, a horse siauigliterar's, sand knocked up one otf White's men, to whom he ofTered it for 21. l0s., thought the aLnimal was sworn at 261, vabue, Mtr. WVhite. it seems having with great propriety instructed his maen never to putchase uxnmr spiouapearance, deoltried interfering, amid referred Ideni pao Baioley, rs who took hlint into custody, anddeandheoren suspicion. A hesaring took place the follown da eoedr ergeant SELLOV anid the prisoner was remane mtf h wer should come lorward to claim the animal,whc,iwaqut clear, had hern stoles. In a few days grr r oh re,afamr fBthamn, in Kent, crae tup tot townit se arc of a stenor,ad from DSmiith- field was refeir-ed to Air. 'White's, whnlie iecl dentified the animral as his property. MIr. (Oree's carter proved the horse to have been, at woal: on the mnorning of the 25th uIt., et a very early hour, wheni it suddenly dis. appeared. Idea stated, in his dlefeqge, that hr got the horse froiA' a strange man oim the Tunbriitqg roAd, who desired himn to sell it in Londoin. The prisoner was fully, committed for trial. WOx HIlt.-ST usE..-Yec8terday,betwceen twelve and one o'clock, a very respectably,dressed. ian, 'also said his name was Stephen;', wasbroghttothi oficeina sateofintoxication by two of thle' No oonr ws lte~,g~onIn ustdyPlaced at the bar, titan a midlleag4 lrnle,ingaylaylie ttire, stepped forward, and withmuc of~rnstio tnher annr, equested, as she had, from oxQlyc o buattty ot winesin te outrageous conduct of tire PIsolice-A-fieers, followed, in order to speak in bebalfof "'the poor man," and ac she was afra:dofmissing the itage if she were detain. ed. Asat she might be heard at once. TheA Magistrate (5Mr. TRYFoGD) acceded to her-tequcat ; anid having been sworn, she described herself as Bits. Ferne, ofDu-hamn- place, D.4ston; and then proreeded to say Ahat the tman had been most shamefully treated bv the officers, and had done nothingthat coul4 be ofrensive to any body in the world. DMfr. TWYFOn.D-" W4hy, n2a'am the man is at this momnent completely intoxicsated; and den't jou think it a vcrY great isui- sance for a man to be roLing dnrnk aboat the streets of ihis towen at noon.-da v"' Mlrs. Ferne.-." Oh, dear! no, Sir; not in the least." She then said that she saw the-man walking Aion., High-street, Shoreditch, and her attention was drawn towards hiiii by observing thte Bow- street patrol seize him by the collar. and proceed to irag him alon7g with great violence. upon which she told them they ought to be aslhamed of tlhemselves " to ill-sue any maai in that manner." Hav- ing concluded her statement, she dropped a cartesy to the magistrate, and withtirew. The patrol then state:l, that observing a pers,on in a state of in- toxication, calling out verv loudly, and gesticalating with great vio- lence, followed by a great number of people who gathered round hi-m as he went along, thev went after him. He entered a conk's shop, antI conducted himsel?in a verv boi6terous manner; and on their re- questing him to go quietl honme, he attacked them with gret fury, collaring and striking them repeatedly. A mob coHected and brbuied them, and endeavorrred to force the man from therm They reneir- ed their persuasions with him to go his way peaceably. but be refus- ed, and persevered in his violence towards them; so that they were at lengtl obliged to take him into custody. Thomas Vann, one of the constables of this office, said, that he sawg the Bow-strect patrol surrounded by a mob, who were abusing, bullvins, and ill-treating themn, using their utmost entdeavour to persuade the drunken man to go quietly home; but he would not, and he behaved in the most violent nmanner to them, and struck them repeatedly. Amonez the ctowd of persons who were express- ing themselves in the most abusive terms to the patrol, he partico-. larly observed the female wlho had given her evidence, whom he heard repeatedly cry out-" The rasc,ls, tbey ought to be asharned ofthemselves; the villains, they only want to get 5s. ofthe poor man." Seeing the mob deterttired upon intimidating the patrol,he told them not to suffer themselves to be made lools ot by anv one. but to take the man to the office; which advice they followed. The prisoner, stretching out his arms with great violence towards the Magistrate, exclaimed-" Who's aftaid of you ? I have doe nothing to be afraid of." AlMr. Tw-yePoa.s) then oraered, that for being drutnk and conduseting himself improperly towards a Magiatrate, be should be loeked up until he was sober. in about two liours afterwards, a very respectable tralesrnan made )is appearance befc-c the Miagistrate. and said he was a friend of the unfortunate person who had been locked up. He -as a man in a vcry respectable wav of business; but the circumstance of adaughter, on whom he almost aoated, having drowneri herself a year or twego. had unsettled ilis mind. and the most trifling excess in drinking in- ftria!ed him almost to nmadness. He added, that a lady, named Fermic. had informed him that his friend had been very bhamefulry treated by the officers. Mr. TwvYFOstD saidi, he had heard that lady's account of the matter. and ha(l she been present to hear what he had afterwards learnt of Ier conduct, he siould haveheld herto baiL lWiith respect to the unfortunate person in custody, bail nmust be given for h-s ap- pearance at the sessions to aaswer for the assault upon the patroL Bail being then put in, the prisoner was given into the ca-e of his friend. POLICE. }- l--