Police.
The Times, 1824-12-29T00:00:00

DiANSION-H0I1sE.-Ever since Joseph Ady, who has been so long an annoyance at the .Unclaimed Dividend-officc in the Bansk, succeeded in quashing the conviction against himaunder the Vagrant Act, in the M?ayoralty of Alderman Heygate, he has used the name of that gentleman itn his communications to all parto of the country, as a sanction to his trade as a finder of claimants to stock. The repeated complaints made agairst this person by-poor men, vwho have been induced by his assurances to come to town from d:dtant parts of the country, in order to recoive nioneey in the' Unc2aimed Dividend-office, have been no check whatever to him, and he wrltos to noblemen and gentlemen with as little Ihesitation as he does to the mechanic and the labourer. The following note from MIr. Ady, addressed to Earl h2archmnont, Scotland, was recelved a few days ago:- " The iundersigned is able to inform you of soMiething he believes considerably to youi advantage, on the receipt of 20s. for his trouble. - ' Respectfully, " JosEPH ADY. c" Hatter, 16, ojoundsditch, London. "No lettersi receivedI unless post paid. -Referee, William Heygate, Esq., L.P," Alderman Heygate received the following note, enclosing Mr. A,dy's, and addressed from Marchmont-house, Dunse, Berwick- shire, on the l8th inst:- '" Sir,-X consider It as an act of courtesy f*om the eircufgtance of your name being placed as a referceeto the eielosed lithographic statement, to transmit it immediately to you, presu;siing that it would not prove an object to the person for a single purpose to go to such an expense. I have not any knowledge wbatever of the indivi- dual whose name is placed to the enclosed statement.-I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "W. RUaXM CANDIBELL." To Wm. Heygate, Esq., London.'" AldermaTn Heygate intended to wait upon - the Lort Ayavor upon the subject, but was not able to do so. Ie therefore wvrote to Mr.Hobler, anxious that the public mieht net be deceived by the Last paragraph of Mr. Ady's note. The following i a copy:- "Dear Sir,-T am very sorry that I have been prevented from calling at the Mansion-house, ns I intended, respecting Joseph Adv, who stiU continues his unauthorized use of my name, as you will perceive by the enclosed letters. Ag this is going on to a great ex. tent, and may mislead many respectable persons in distant parts of the country, (indeed, I know it has done so), I think you would do a real service to the public, and at the same time to myself, if you would take an opportunity of making the fact public at the Justlee- room, that Ady has not, and never had, the remotest authority to use my name. His motive, I presumne, matst be to annoy me, in cohsc- quence of what occurred at the Justice30toon when I was Lord AMayor. X feel convinced that the present Chief Alagistrate, my exceUent.suc- cessor, will feel a pleasure in doing the public this gervice, and will deem my request reasonable, inasmuch as it is connected with the official station which he now holds. I am, &c., ' " W. HEYGATE.9' The LOtD MAYOR regzetted that it was not in his power to act upon the occasion in any other manner than by. publicly reprobating the liberty which was so Impudently taken with Alderman Hey- gate's name. ' 4 Alr. Hobler said that M1r. Ady, upon being applied to on a former occasion, for having dared to use Alderman Heygate's name as a referee, promised as soon as the letters he bad sttuck off at the time, to each of wbich was the same reference, were distributed, he would alter the name of the referee. rhe-promise, however, was not kept, it would appear, for the Alderman's name now invariably accompa. nied that of Mr. Adv In the communicatioas made by the latter to people who might svallow the baiL - Thle LORD sIAYOR said it was extraordinary, after the frtequent mention of the distresses and disappoipbtlent which took place in consequence of the;silly Tellance upon the pro3ise held out, to find that there were still persons who acted as if Ady was really an au. thorzetl agent. GUILDIHALL.-CHRISTS5rAS PBESENTS.-PORTERArE.-This season of the year generally brings the Porterage Act into pretty frequent requisition, and when it is known, as it wvas stated at thiH office yesterday, that there were nearly 3,OOD parcels of different de- scriptions for delivery on the morning of Christmas-day at one inn only-Mr. Waterhouse's, the Swat.iwith-Two.Necks, Lad-lane-it may be easily conceived, that with the mistakes that must altuist unavoidably arise from the confusion in sending out such a number, and the advantages that may be taken of that confusion by those who are inclined to be guilty of inuiositions, thb causes of complaint must necessarily be numerous; andl th only wonder is, that to few of the publie seek the remedy. A parcel directed for Dr. Pinclkard, Russell-square, was-delivered on Christmas.day..morning, for which the charge of 4g., carriage and porterage together, was made by the porter who brought it from the 8wan-wath-Two-Nccks. This was theught to he an exorbitant charge, ant the more so as there appeared marked upon the parcel, the figures 2s. 2d., which it vwas conjectured miaht be tbe amount of the charge for carriage; and-if it was so, Is. lOd. was evi- dently an imposition as for the porterage. The porter, however, said it was all right' and his assertion could not at the time be con- tradicted, as theporter could not produce a ticket, having, as he said, lost it ifitkie eonfusion among such a number of paredls, and the4y. werc a.~rdingly-paid him. Dr. Pinckard took the trouble to inquire at the.-ui, and after some trouble, got a sight of a book in which the parcel.;ais entered to hii name, -and the money for it ac- counted for tfftiewbookkeeper as 3s.-namely, 2g. 21 carriage, lOd. porterage but being unable to procure the name of the porter. he summoned thb innkeeper, and accordinigly Jarnes Phlhpen, MAr. Waterhouse's bookkeeper, appeared yesterday, before* Mr.. Alder. man CRowD9n1, to ainswer the complaint, which,. from the shape of it, was necessarily for sending out 'the p:rcel- without a ticket ; the deliverimtnZthe parcel without A tiTihko beihg ab bfcdnce fot which the porter only could be liable; . h As to the facts, there was no disagreement-betveen Dr. Pinckard andi the defendant, the latter allowing that 3s., the snm accounted for to him, was the proper charge, airitt that coaaetuently- theDoctor had beeni imposed upon. No-bl,-hawdver,-' he id, -irsted with thle inn; and he was now.ready to swear. that -a regular ticket had' been made-out ant- aent with *teparc romiliciofflce: -}Frol the i aubee of parcelb they bed to delive' aVstt- 0 szwl of the ye ar, they were obliged to employ extra hands, aud he had not been able to find out whbo was the mnan that delivered this patticular parcel. Dr. Piniekard urged, that as all the porters were. answerable to tlie bookkeeper for the amouint they received, and ashe had actually received 3i. on account oftthis pareel, he musAt know at least who the iman was from whoam he had receivedi It andI that no eniplovrnent of extra hands could create any confusion as to this particular. Thesumn waa acecounted forin the clerk's check-book, and he must of course have a mem-o-randum whio p aid it for himp. The dloctor, who is, an.LL.D., moat probably concluded that t his spas a dlilemma not to be' got out of. The bookkeeper solved the difficultv immediate. iy. They employed persons as liead-porters of diffi'etnt dissrictN, and altbpntgh hie could not speakc positively, he most probably received it fromh ite h'ead porter of the Russell-square district, in whichi cwe the paicelimigit. bave been delivered by one of the extra hands edii ployed by him. Dr. Pinekard naturally enough inquired, co-uld he not have aseertolned that fact, andI got. the name of the man ? Thie bookikeeper replied that there wouldl have been no difficulty to d that, if the doctor had not been so prompt in his movements. rhe ar- rival of the magis-trate'ssummons hadl created an ularm,. whichwould pet all the fellows tupon their guard against confessing a single syl. 4(able, s,o that he doutbted whiethier he shoeld now be able to ascer. tIn wowas the person that delivered it ; but he was readv to sw ear that the ticket was sent with it. T,his, he seemedI to thinic, ex- cirpated the proprietor of the inn, and the slifficulty of the Daictor's finding thle potter was likely enough to deter him from further pro- ceedings..J) r.Pinckard, hovwever, expressing his deternmination nor to besgo defeated if redr;eis was obtainable, and the Alagistrate hold. ing hat he popritor as bund o prve,in order to relieve him.n sel frm te pnaly, o wom he ickt wen made outt was deli. vere, te cse as ajounedforfurther hearing, and the book. keepr ws reuird toprouce heneither the man or at least his WORSsesP-STsEET...Yesterda,y a young man, with his head bound up), -'presente-d himself before the sitting magistrate, Alr. TwyFORD, with an application for a warrant against John 7arno, Of the Bowv-street patrol, stating, in support of his application, that 'about 10 o'clock on Mfonday niight, he went into the King's Armus public-house, in Selater-street, I3ethnal-green, to fetch. a pint of beer, and as he stood at the bar to be serred, John Vann, of the BOW.street- patrol, and Goodwin, the conductor of a party of the patrol, entered the house, and drawing their eutlasoses proceeded to flourish them about at every one they came near ;and the former gave him a severe cat on thte head without the slightest provoca- tion or a single wrord being spoken onl his part. , This statement having been confirmed by Thomas Bunney, who Ikeeps the houise in ~~estion, the AMagistrate ordered Goodwin and Vann, who were boXin the neighbourhoodi, to be sent for, and, on theIr appearing, the complainant, at the Mlagistrate's desire, repeated his'statemenit in their presence, and called upon a man namied- Robert Iron, who stated that he was in the patloar of the King'si Arms;, and, hearing an iaproar in. the passage, he Tan to get oat of the, way, wvhen he saw the complainant stanading at the bar. Good- wln and Vann, the laitter of whoma was bleedling -profuisely,,- were filhiirisllithg fhieir swords about, and Vanrn aimed a blow at him, fvhl6h missed him, but cat the comnplainant on the hiead. Thw' Magistrate then,asked tke offic-ers wvhat they had to say in anlswer to the c'harge thas preferred againstthiem. .Goodwin Raid, that -about twenty minutes before eight o'clock he Was proceeding with 3.Thhn Vann down Phtenlx-sttreet, when they saw a mob of about 30 people; on approaching whom they heard a groan- ing, which proceeded ftrom a woman whio lay on the grou.nd bleed- ing. Thiey asked whnt ~,aa the matter,landa boy said ayoung man hadjlfoclie.dthe *'man dlown. Theyraised her up,andlasked her who it was that struck her,n4nd she pr-inted ourt ayoung man,named John (Mdwell, who, on witness attemping to seize him, took to his heels. Vann, by his direction, pursuedhi into a house, which Colwell said belonged to hi% mothier-in-law, in which he took refuge, and witness fhllowell~ kceeping off' the mob as well as he could, thev lhaving de- clared: 'that the youing man should not be taken. They' catered the hous and asked Colwell to go quietly with -them, which he re- ffised,% an a little man who wvas in the room swore that he shouild not go, and, catching up a poker1 inflicted a furious blow uipon John Vann. After some struggling, they succeeded in oDverpowering end securinrg with handcuffs both Coliwell and the little "an who had de- fended hiim, and were conducting them to the watehhouse, when theo little man contrived to slip the handcuffs, and ran off down St. John. street, pursued by Vann, who could not, however, overtake him. Having lodged Colwell in the watchboaise, witness made some in- quries respectirng the man who had escaped, in the course of which helearned his name; and abouat half-past nine o'clock, Vann having -joined himn again, they proceeded together to the King's Arms, kept. by Bunney, which they knew to be a house of con- stant resort for thieves and other dlesperate charactersi. They looked into the tap-room in search of the man who hiad escaped from them; and a mian named Josephs PAiUip.s, whom hie (Good- win) had. some time ago had in custody on a charge of felony, stood at the bar and made an insulting noise with his mouth as they passed. Hle(Goodwin) remonstrated withbhim, and atall man 7ho stood by took up the matter on the side of Phillips, and after a few insulting speeches went away into the parlour. While Phillips and' foun thepreent omplinat an Roert Ironshldntedoro kee itshu. H puhedthe asde,and forcing oe h or a JohnYua surouned b a reatnumer of men, wowr etn andkicinghin in hemostfurios maner. H-e (Gow)ruhdi andsiziaVannbyrhcollr,drggedhim out of theomterfan endevourng t retin im, nd cntiningto assauthmwhbls and ick asvioenty ad a raIdl astheir fury allowed them. Obspvin th tal ma, wom h ha beorementioned, to be the mos aciveandmishieousof he ssalats, he. (Goodwin) rushed forwvard to secure him, but was prevetd Wrhen they got out of the parlour inito the passage, every qart and pint pat within reach of the assailants wvere hurled 'at thetr heads, and hearing John Vann, who.had drawn his cuitlass to defend himself, crv Ouit, " I am a murdered man; they'll be the death of me!" he (Goodwin) looked round end saw the present complainant. endeavouring to wrest from him the cutlass which he had seized with bothi hands, and another man was aiding him in the attempt. He andi Vann were: both nearly exhrausted with' the exertions they had made and the violence they hqad undergone, and seized an opportunity of malkingtbeir retTeat. Jul~n 'Vann said, that while Goodwin was talking with Phillips in the Da8sage, he wenit into the parlour to look for the little man who hs-1 sitruck him with a poker in the former part of the evening. He Oa~ne soonerentered the aoor, than one man ran against him, and another drew a long clasp knife to attack him, whom he avoid. ad by steppIng aside. The whole comnpany, of between 20 and 30 persons, then rose up, and some one cri'ed out " Douse the glim." The lights'were instantly put out,t and he was knocked down, and the party kicked him and jumrped on him, and beat him in the mnost savage manner. He drew his cutlass, and got upon his feet to defend iii-nself in thebest waybhecould. Afterhe hadobeen dragged out into the passage, he raw the comiplainant thirow a quart pot, whieh stTuck him with great violence. and hie then certainly did rush at him, and gave him the cut on the ke-ad which had been made the foundation of the present complaint. The complainant, Bunney, the publican, and Irons, the witness, all concurred in the declaring that both GoodIwin anid Vann were intoxi- cated, and that Bunnev, whose head was cut, received his wound in InterferingR to defend Vann. Both Vann and Goodwin declared that, although they repeatedIly called for Bunney, they did not see him at all during the afrray, and Richard Varco and another constable of Bethnal.green dleposed, that they saw Vann and Goodwin at 12 o'clock, after the affray, at which time they were both perfectly sober. The Mlagistrate said, that in his opinion the officers had hail a very lucky escape. After wrhat he lied heard of this affaoir. he would not interfere; but would refer the parties to Sir Richard Birnie, at Row-street who, if they felt themselves sufficiently con hident in the jti stice of itieir c'ause to make en application to him. would certainly sift the whole affair to the bottom, and see that ju&tlce was done to all azrties. L NION.TSAL.L.--Yesterday morning, when the sittingMeagistrate, R. J. CsrA=rEas, Esq., entered the office, Hall, thechief consta- ble, upon Presenting his daily report, stated the following particulars relativie toa man who is suspectedI to have been knocked 4lown and robbed. The unfortuate man now lies in Guy's Hospitall with his head dreadfully fractured, and scarcely any hiopes of' his surviving. ffall spld,that when hereceived the infonnation of the state in which the man was foeind, he instantly set about an inquiry, and gathered the facts which he had now to disclose. On Sunday last, he pro- ceeded to the Whiite Bear public-house, at Kennington, the land- lord of which, Air. Harley, commiunicated to hinm that a brcklayer, named Abrahamn Fry, who- was in the habit of frequenting his houe, ad eendisoveed n Crismasmorning, about half. pas nie oclok, yig I anunfnisedroom in one of the new houss, nw- eectig inthe ashwv, tBixton, with his hea4 next to the .bulldin,g,aRd wholieard ecans procee.lfrom thence in the morning; when hier husband came hfolme, she mentioned the circum- stance to him, andl he accordingly went inito the building, and oh. served a man lying crouchedl witli his head and the greater part of htis bodv thrust into the unfinished place for the grate in the room; this indilvidual-conceiving that he was only a drunkcen man, who had sought refuige there, did 'nt take any furthier trouble in the business, but went his way to work. Soon afterwards, a mian named Tyler, who hawiut fish about the neighbourhood, happening to .pass that way, heard groans Issue from the building, and he instanatly went in in and discovered a man lyinig in the situation as seen by Puttick, he immediately proceeded to examine the state i'n which he appeared. On dragging the man ouit of the fire-place, he discovered -that his head was cut in a shocking manner, and blood profusely streanA.ing from the wround ; the unfortunate man gave but faint signs of life, from the injuries which he had received, and there were no symptoms then of his, having been in liquor. Tyler then left thRe sufflerer,and ran off'for a surgeon,who promptly attended,and had the 'wounded man conveyed to thle Swean public-house, at Brixton, where he was proniounced to be in a dying tt in consequence of an extensive fracture on the left aide of thehed Subsequently the unfortunate man w as conveyed to Guy's Hospital. fall stated, that upon hearing the circumstances from the persons above.named, he vent to the buildings where Fry had been found, and on examining the' apartment he discovered a quantity of blood on the spot where he had been ling, and also at the en- trance into the house he saw marks of blood, apparently as if caused by aome person taking hold of the door.aost with bloody hands the impressions of the fingers being quite visible. After Laving done this, the chief constable went hack to the sign of the White Bear, and received the undermentioned account of a man named Roddis, against whom, he said, some very strong circum- stances of suspicion attached. It seems that Fry was in tre habit ef sleeping in a room up stairs in a house in the bottom part of which he was found lying on Christmhtn morning. On Christmna.s-eve he had been drinking at the Wlite beps with Roddis, and he left that house at an early hour, for the parpose4of goiRg home. Fry was then quite sober, as was also Rd4isz wht, soon after the departure of Fry, asked if he could be accoindogated with a bed, saying that he was possessed of only one shilling. Ile epfthere that night, and after having paid for his bed,.he wont out the next mornirg at six o'clock, and returned airi at eight o'clocrl, when he went into the tap-room and was observed to have a'Clt sovereigins and some silver in his possession; lie immediately coQineenced drinkiRg and treating some persons who were in the room. During the time Roddis was carousing, a person entered the lVhite Bear and told the landlord thata man named Fry was discovered in an unfinished hause nearly murdered. The landlord, upon hearing the report, we-t into the tap-room and informed the persons there of it, and proposed that thWe should all go and assist the poor man,and convev him to his (the landlord's) house. The other men, on hearing the circo?mstance, immediately started up for that purpose, exccpt Roddii6, who exhibited nodisposition to leave the house; however, at length he eonsentel to accompany the others, and on the road thither he got awayunperceived by the men, who missed him the mometnt they arrived at Brlxton-washwav. Hall stated that he has since as- certained that this man has absconded. The unfortunate man in the hospital, he Wdded had tv/o sovereignw and somne silver ln hio yocket on lesving tlfi White J3ear oni Uhrifstmaceve. WNsn he was discovered the folloving moraing in the BitaMAi- da=Thc, he had not one farthing in his pockets. Roddis, it ap-)eara. isz butcher, out of employment, and %-a% frequently in the babit, rince his discharge from his last plane, of sleeping along vwith Fry in the house alluded to. The Magistrate, on hearing the wholeof t,he above circamcatasces, directed Hall to go down to the hospita .anid'ascerttiin whether FIly Mwaa in that state te give his deposition in thet erent of,ids death. The chief constable returned, and Informed the MAgistrate tba Fry was raving mad in consequence of the fracture of his skull, anld that bat little'hopes were entertainetof his recovery. Hall is noD0 Collecting all the information he can with reapect tr the manner in which the poar man-has cnme by the dreadfulinjurief. POLI CE.