Police.
The Times, 1824-10-11T00:00:00

i1lAar9sto,f-erotYgF._-.ee, thre beadle of Coopers'-hall, who was a few days aeo ckarged, before the LORD MIAYOR, withi havin e comemitted a most croize assautlt trpon his wife, U11derwvent a secondi exatmination on Saturday. Air. Mr'add, the surgeon who attends Mrs. Lce, stated, -hat bis patint' symtom wee imrovd, ni that be apprehended no fata conequeces rom he wund iner head. An 'tbscess had take plce, nd rs. ee as s'u,ectto extrzordinary terrors in conseuenc of cnstat illtreament;endit was motprobatble have reaulted. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ haer, 1iwoi The prisoner's sinhicitor stated, that his clienit was ready to givet bail, and requested that, as hie was readly to enter into secuirities to separate fromn and provide for his wife, he might be dischar`gMr froM custody. 'The LORD M1AY011sasid, he did not kno*~ whether he was nor bound, in justice, to commit the priRconer under Lord Eilenbrsrough's Act, for cutting and nmaiming his wife. The solicitor submitte, that it was lthe sufgeon's opinion that thie wound had been inflicted withi a blunt instrument, and that there was no evidence to prove that the preisoner haRd struick his wife with any wreapon. Under Such cdrcuinstances, fihe chance of a conviction under the ace alltededi to would be quite out 01'the quratton. The LIoRD M'tAYORL asked 11n:, Lee whether she saw any in- strument in her husband's hand when, he struAck her on the lead ? Mfrs Lee repliedi in the negative, but she hiad every reason to be- lieve that the oldA knife was, thie weapon used. There was no other ims-rument In the room except a candlestick, andl thie kni"fe was found upon the spot whiere the assault was committed. The prisoner's servant girl, into whbose armsn Mrs-. Lee fell senee2- less uipon receiv~ing the blokw, said she did not 6cce the blow given. It was done in oni instanat, and the prisoner appeared to be in a dread- Theurgon aidhe as on'incd hat the wound was Inficted withtheknie, hichwasbroen,andhad an edge exactly corres- pondng wth te mrks n hi patents cap~. The Lan MYOR earsned te brken knife, and said that lie was convinced t-hat if one part of the edge hati colne in contact with the poor womran's; head, a fracture and death w.uid h-are been thie consequence. He didl not know how he could let the prisonier go at lairge under such circutmstanee. There might still arise fatal con- sequencest. Mlr. Wiadd said it was possible. He had known it to be the case, that thtee or foot weeks after an injury on the hiead, and after the patient hadleft confinement, fatal consrqueniees followed on, account of the concussion of the brain. Mvrs. Lee begged for God's sake that careidhould be taken to keep her tauaband away fromn her, lie had often vowed to destro) her, and wouild, she was sure, despotEch her, if he was ever allowed to go niear 'her again. A gentlemian stated, that wphen he went to see Mrs. Lee, ti,e poor wolmall actuaily shook like an aspen leaf, int the apprehension that It was her husbatid's footstops she heard en the stairs. The prlsoner-Mly Lord, I hope yows will take baili, at,d iet mie go. It will be my ruin if you doni't. I never used that knife, and never saw it before. Pray do, mny Lord,p ray do. The LoRLD MATRos.-' never witne.,sud a more hortible ease of outrage in my life and shall certaInly require unexceptionable bail. You must give 48 'hours' notice of bail. The prisoner said, upon his honour 'he lhad no ide-a of doing her any injury, but he. was gireatly exasperated.-Hie war sent back to Tt LJORD MNAYORt, in allusion to thle State of the streets,, said, that he had passedi through the most frequenited, and found that the Obstructions were as great as ever he remiembered theim to have been. The drivers of carts were, it appeared. tdetprmined to do all they could to increase the impediments to traflic. Not a streetkeeper diti he see, with the exception of two, wrhere they were most required. Mtr. Cope, the Marshal, said, thie officers wecre mnost busily occu- pied inll attr wher their presence was absolutely necessary. The LOtD AIAYOI fatid, hie was surprised at the conduct of those who suffered most frotiu the nuisance, in not coming forward and giving evidence against tito very large ob.Atructions. He saidA the activity of persons was nowv ar'd thenl exhibited against poor fruit wonteni, who were hunted fTomT place to place, and exposed to ex- pense, and aUl tortis oifinconvenience, whiile the driyers ofecarts were permitted to clioke up the wray for a great length of time, and to abuse those whlo expostulated withi themi on the public injury they wtere doing. lfis L-ordshtip then gave peremtnpory direction'S witlt re- spect to tile Streets. An officer complainedl of theconduct ofa man in a cart, who caused great ronfttsiorn amonigst the various vehicles, andI refused to drive ac- cording to the existing regulationp.. Tite LoRDn AAYORt ascertained that tile conduct of the tiefendant wast such as the officer had described it to, be, but he also learnedl that the officer had exceeded bin, authoritv by striking hirm. Ilis Lordship imamediatelr dismissed ttit coniplaiint, on tite groundI that the officer could havei succeeded in clearing awav the obstruction without striking a blow, whichi should niever be inflictedi, except in a ease of'the greatest extremity, by any Of tile poliGCe. The officer saidi he had been greatly irritated by the conduct. of' tite def'endlant, whose beltaviour was the mnost groDss titat could he imagined. A personi who witnesised the transaction said it was impossible for humnan patience to endure the conduct of the tdefendant. The LoULD AIAYOR siaid, he knew; the genieral propriety of the officer'ts conduct, but in titis case lie wvas not jutifed,. Ile ,had ex - ceedled his authlority, and the defendant shoutld not pay any expenses. t~t) CL DRAL L..~--Alchough every body has heardi of rewtardls to be patd to flremeti far attending witht their 'engittes at fires, few but titose who have had tile misfortuae to be called on to pays uct rewards know much about the suibject. Tite statute (14th Gico. Ill., cap. 711 directs that there shall be paid by the clhurcliwardeas or oiverseerN of the poor of the parish in which any fire happiens, rewards of bOa. for tite first engine titat shall arrive in gooti order, 20s. for thei secottd, lOs. for the third, ant INl. to the turticock who ehall draw the fir'u water-plug. The-se rewards the charch warden or overseer is boundi to pay on the pmoduction to him- of' the certificate or direction, if in tlte county, orone juist ice of tle peace, and if in the cityv of Londoni. of the Aldermian, his dleputy. or twvo of' thc Common 6ornncilneni oif the ward and if such rewa'ds shiall have been paid for "any fire in airchimney; only, or first beginning in, and occaioned by, th'e raking lireof at cimne ony," theni tAte tenant or occupier is to repay the chaLrcitwartden -the rewards so paidi, or suchI part thereor as tit~e magistratte shall, on ltearing the case, a-wartd and dirett. Mlany are the excuses to resiist this repayment : tite oupousition, however in the following case is tiovel, as proceeding uipon something like a Mr. eckith th ehuchwrde ofSt. Sepulchre's parielt, had paid he rwardf~tJs for fir in he hneV%of_AMr. Smnith's houjse, No. 4, Kig4tret, nowbll. r. Sith *demnurred to the repay- mentof te sae, nd bth te getleen attended at this office oni Satuda toSEY taetedcso fte ttittg imagistrate, Mr. Aldier- The Churchwardern put in tAte certificate praperly signed, on whi ch he had paid the reward. This Alr. Smith urged w%as not suffficient, and required that proof Shtoultd be given that his chimney had ac- ttahly ,been on fire ; hisd(enial of tite fact being the grountd on whiclit he resistd the rePavntent. Mr. Beckwith contended that time sig- natures of the two Cammon-Coiutcilmen was of itself eSufficient evi- dence of that fact. Al r. gniith atked, did they see the fire? Ai r. Beclcwith replied, that he didnot know that they had:. he was., how- ever, prepared wvith three witnesses whoi did, whom lito accordingly called- lMr. Sims, a housekeeper, andl a neighbour of Mr. Smith's, de- posed to seeing his thimney on fire between 10 and 11 o'clock on the nighit of~ the l'4th of September last. He saw not only sparks, but flamies and flakes of fire issuing oult of the chimney. Banks and Pike, two city officers, dep~osed to the'same effect. There seas no dloubt in thie opinion o t all of them, thlat the chim- ney was on fire, and mutch alarnt was created in the neighbourhooil by It at the time. Neither of these witnesses went into trte house, bust formed thieIr judgment from what they saw outsitdte. M Ar. Smith said, there 'was a great deal of difference between a fire in a chimney, end the chimney on fire, He was not there at the time but that there was a fire in. his chimney hie allowed ; that his chimeywa on fire, however, heo positively denied. ar.d could prove. Indee, cthe th~ing was Impossible. Ilis ~himney had not a par- ticle of sOOt In it, but swas as clean as time walls of that Juxs- tice Room. Thie upper story of the houise was used aLs at 6abinet manufactory; there was a stove in it for the purposes of the workmen, whic'h had a pipe communicating withl the chiim- ney. Thiis, like all other chimneys on the upper story, was of course of no great length, and when a fow shavings, oir pieces of wvood were thrqwn on the fire, fromn the great drauight in the stove, sparks would fly ouxt at the top of' the chimney. This he could prove was the case in the present Instance, and if this was to be eonsideredl asB acltimtey on fire-, his chimaney was on fire half-a-dozen timnes in a day. indeled, he could not carry on his business.wjitlout it. The object of the statute was to prevent, mischief by fif~e, but no mis- chief was to be anprehended fromq his chimney any m~ore than there was from the chimneys of steamn-engines or of foiges, where the flanaes were constantly seen bursting out from the top, but which were extingsished as soon as thney got into the air ; and if he, and the owssgr of such works, were to be liable to the paynient of these rewArdil on such occasions, they most give up their business alto.- getber.- Otto of Mr. Smith's workmnen was called, who stated, that he was in the workshop at the time; that he threw some shavings on the fire in the stove, and from the great draught some of the isparkE might have been drawn out at the tqpof the chimney, and that was all; for there was no soot in the chimney to be oni fire. The only other person whio saw the state of the stove and chim- ney was the ftreman, atnd *hifle this discussion was going on, he came into the office His accoar,t was, thiat there was no fire. In the chimney, biut that the flue of the stove partainly was on fire. Mr.. Smith said this flue, as it was called, was an iron pipe, about four feet long ; it maight, by the great draug'lt, have become red hIot, but ho did not comprehiend how this could be said to be onre f tisEY i ,5r. Alderman AxLYsaid, itwas in vain to call upon him to say whether the chimtney wasi on fire or not: he was not there to sea it. and couJd only form his opinion from the evidence before him;I and there were four wItnessest who all swore the chinuney wag on fire. Withregrd o te seamengnesandforges that Mr. Smith had alldedto,thechihanys o tem erecarried up to a great height, 5ss~ ay pars r fre ssingfrm temwould be extitaguished be- foretheyfel upo anyhin. Nosoin Mr. Smiith's case:- lighted Blialng frm hs chmne wold allon the roofs of nei hboutls' houses befbre they rwere extingutishedd he thought titere was danger and cause for alatrm; and MlP. SrmitIh should prevent it by rasina, his thimney. From the evidence before him, be was bound to decide that the chimnrey was on fire, and he acwordingly awarded that Mr. Smith should pay the whole amount. Mr. Smith appea-ed by rno means satiSfied with titls decision, and thc Act o wirtg htim 14 days fbr paying the money, he should hbe sid ta, vi; lE-inf in y,eer terutine w ietherjr Jiot be 1vo'Jld epp.alagai:;-t the awlard mna4e by the Aiderrtan.m ;1ARr.RonouOn-STRaET.-Jolen 1farok;ns, o.e of the watch- meo of .lar.icbone parishi, was brought to this office on Saturday, charged- by Air. Suhnderson, proJpri3eor of rhe Oxford c offehouse, it (yGfort,street; with creating a riot 2ud disturbance' at his, house os that ymwnintc. AIjr. Sau.ndersun stid, that about eight o'clock that morning the prisoner came into the coach-yard of hiE hoese, and asked togo to a. certain part of the building, whicn was granted bim; but ln a few mintutesafter Air. Saunderson saw him going into one of the stables, and having followed him, heasked him w eat h te rnted there? The prisoner replied very insolently, and said he had been there to look after a man thtat had robbe) hint. Mr. Saunderson, however, knowing the falsehood of this assertion, turned him out ofthe placee, upon wvhich the prisoner ingstred u pon being admitted inrit the house to drink, and on )eing refused, he collected a mob round door in fiont of' the house, saying he had been robbed; and Ite bo. caine at length so riotous, that Mr. SaunAersou was cmpelled to send for an officer and gid-e h,iM into custody. lrlr. Saundea.ozs said, that although the prisoner now appeared to be tolerably sober, he was at that time verv much intoxicated. The prisoaer, In lis defence, gave the following ctrioas account of tbe transai:ion. He saiJ, ihit being rather unwell, he went into Mr. Saunderson's coach-yard, arug. asked the permission a1reay mentioned, and while he was in the plzee to whicli be had rtirey,r his watch, chain, and seals droppetd down his trousers, ard came down at his shoe, and jast at the instant a man ran into the place, and snatching up the watchn made off with it into thFe stable; he (the prisg'er) pursued hil, and was about to seize him in the stahie, when M1r. Saurderson came up, and laying hold of him (the pri_ soner) turnel hinm eat of the place, and struck hiim several times, and by that ineans gave the man an opportunity of escaping with the watch. Alr. Saundergian declaredl there was not a gyllable of truth in thig statement respecting the watch. There was no man in the place at all at the time. nor any one in the stable but the prisoner.himself. The officer wvho too; the prisoner into custody confirmed Mfr. Saunderson's assertion that the prisoner was inwxicated, and Mlr. DYEB, the M argistrate. believing the story of the watch a nierd fairy tale, finod the prisoner 5s. for being diulnk. The p,isoner exclaimed, thbt if he had 1001. in his pocket, lie would not pay one farthing of afine, and in default he was locked up- A gentleman, residingin iGlocester-place, Portman.stsuare, applied to the M1agistrate, to know what mDode of redress be should pursue under the following grievanez, to which he had been subjected The gentleman said, that he was in the habit of frequenty rcceiv. Ing parcels from -various parts of the country, coiveyed up to towrn by the coaches, coming as near his resjsepcc as the Glocester coffee.. houtse, in Piccadilly, the porterage from wb2ch to his house is comnpa rativulv trifling; but, insteaE of bringing thepat,els totbeirproperdres. tination in Piccadill, Y-ihey aredroplped at somne ofate coach-housse-tan she way, either in Holborn or Fleet-street, and from abenre sent by A porter to hia house, putting him to an unniecesary epease of a considerable suri more than he ought to pay. On that day he re_ ceived a bare, sent to him by a friend in the country; nd instead oF its being drolppd at the Glocester Coffee.hoase, it came to him by a porter from a coact'-office in E{olborn; atid it cost him as much as the carr;age of it to town bty the coach had cost his friend. illr. DrE R said, that this waLs certainly a very great hardship, and one that is werv generally cosnplained of. lie (AIr. Daer) him. self han frequently had cause to complain of a similar grieianre, but unfortunately there Is no reme-dy for such an abuse provided by the Porterage Act; and he really cou ld not give him any advice hovr to correct the evil. HATTONa-ARDEs.-JO)III V'erorio a very sgwar ,Young fellow, was brought up at this office on Saturday, in ctstody of Waddingetn and Berry,two of the Bow-street patrol, under the following charge :_ It appeared, that between the hours of twelve and one o'clock orn Saturndgr morhing, as a kentleman niamed Dare, who in conneeted with the London (East) Gas Light Company, was going round to in- spect the l-mpn tn the Goswell-street-road district, lie nbserved a person coominK close behind hima: Alr. Iahre quickened his pace, but the fellow closed with him at a place calle;1 the dead-wal's, and niak- ing a sudden rush, threw Mr. Dare completely off his equiiibtium, and before he had time sufficiently to recover himself, his assailant rsade a erasp at his watch chain, which, however, beinr protectaed by a strong steel euatd, tie usissed the watch, thoughthe chbin broke in the centre. The robber immediately made off, 111r. Dare calling out "1 Stop thief-" but owing to the darkness of the night he got clear awav. Informnation ot the circumstance belng girvn to WVad_ dington, vwith a description of the person, he and Berry, anotner patrol, succceded in apprehending the prisoner, whomn. Mr. Dare j immediately identifled. and the broken chain, with tle seal attach- ed, he let drop at his f'eet on apprehension. In consequence of the ntn-appearance of Jlr. Dare, who was inn able toattend, Mlr. L.smaci remanded the prisoner until Monday. W't dd' gton stated, that this is the third attempt made to robM3fr. Dare, whose duty it is to go round a certain district at stated hours of the night to see that the lamps are in otder; and that gentieniata i1al little heFitation in ssving, that the prisoner, VTernom. was always of the party: in the latler instance, he appeared to have no asto. ciates wha;dser. Vernom is said to be a well-known character, having lately suf_ tered three months' impribonmrcnt in the House of (.'orrection, for a. felony of which he was convicted at the Old Bailey sessions. Just ats the office was sbout to close, an elderly female, of rather respectable exterior, made her appearance in the outer room. ard' after casting an inquiring glance around her, she was precipitately about to retire, when one of th offiCeCrs in attendance demanded her business. " IAll business," said the lady. " is not with youvteyo are not the .Justfce e" The officer did not assume that distinction, but still contended, that if the Lidl hatl any communication (of a public nattre) t.o incke te the magistrate. it was his duty, as of.cer of the dav, to usher to the presence. " No." said the ladv ";n business is of too important a nature to admit of delay. f must see the muristrate in person." Yielding to tthis prcssing soilicd_ tation, the officer was in the aet of introducing this important corn.. municant, when another officer, v.whoj uat entered theapartnsent, cric9, "Stop-where afe you taking that woman? Slit has seen the magistrates often enough." The iair lady did not seem mitch so relish the interruption, but she was forced to submnit, and the second officer bv a few interrogatories drew forth the following ex'raor- ditnarv communication :--" I wanted," said the applicant. I, to ask the magisarates' interference for me in a case of great moment. There isa conspiraev formed against my h ifte,and the conspirwors ee, my husband (everv lady k'sows who ie'is), Napoleon Buoniuarn-.tbe Devil himself. and IKing Sulonon; and the whole batch are arinkilag now at A public-tliuse in Leathcr-lane." After sutch a declaration, the officer who was for taking in3,tle ladv' politely to!d her it seas a case it which tlie magistrites had no 'power to interfere. " No power," echloed tbe poor maniac. I None, weiatever." rejeined tle: officer. *' Then," continued she " I will eo to Sir Richard Birnie, for lie has law enough for ten devibi, and power enough for tea. BuoriiA prtes, and he'll protect i Is." t seems the poor Woman is. most respectably connected, btit having lost her reason in conse- quenceof a brain fever, s.be note wanders about in this manner, kur; is perfectly harriles. _ POLICE.