Police.
The Times, 1824-01-13T00:00:00

MAnLBOROUGII-STREET.-Three votg men,who gVe their name;rnle Tk4oms farrslial Charks Si?ns, and John Eers wM brought from St. Pancras watchebuse, chabrged with the followIng assaultr :-31r. Alorley, a linendraper and haberdeashe7 resldinc i Bishopsgate-street, stated that between ll and 12 o'clock on Sun. day night, he was at the house of a lMrs.Barnes,No.38,Thomsugh street, Bedfordsquare, and was very comfortably seated In the parlour, when he heard a tremendous noise up airs, czoutgh to tear the house down, andproceededtoascertginbte causc Onenterin- he drawing-roorn he found the three defendants oonducting them.. selves in a n;ost notous manner, end remonstrated t such con duct, but w,las instantly seized by the three, an d forctinty ed soat of the room and pushed downstairs. Hethenc2led the watchman, and Jlr. RoE,the magistrateasked thedefendants vhattheybadtoeay o this charge. Mr. Sims, whoacted as spokesman on theoccasion, de. dared that thewholeaFair arose from tie impertinentinkrference of MrL Morley The act Was, be and his friends had been spending the ay with aparty,and were returning home. When passg through they wvent inta this house, which is nothing bLt a house of 11 fame, and were drinking some wine with lmrs Barnes ihe rawinroom, and laughing rather loudly, when this lWr. Iorley, wbom~s they considered to be a sort of assistant in the house, came up to interfere, and they certainly did turn him outeffteroom, which they thought he richly deserved. Cosins, the watcbhouse. constable, here came fonvara, and also charged Blr. Sirs with an as. sault upon him while securing the party at thewatchbouse, and ldr ROE ordered that Sims should find bai}, both for the assaulton Xor- ley and that on the constable. andthat theothertwo should findbail for the assault onAlorley only. Joeia Afurviy was chaLrged with stealing a valuable baroete ftrom the h6use of AMr. Stokes, No. 101, Great Russell-street, B3loomsburr. It appeared by the evidence of a man amned Smith, who works at a house opposite to Air. Stokes's, that about eight o'clock that uporning,a boy came in to him and told him there were two very aus- picious-looldng men lurking about the doorof lMlr. Stok-es'shouse which wasopen, andevidentlydesignedtoenterit. Smithiwatelia fora littletime, and saw the prisoner enterthehouse; and return with the barometer produced in his hand; he then joined the other man, awnd both ran off' towards St. Giles's. Smith, however, pur. sued. and the prisoner finding himself dosed upon, turned round and flung the barometer at the witness, and of course smashed it, as it now appeared. He was at length secured, but his comapanion made his escape. The prisoner said in his defence, that he could not deny the charge, but vas driven to the commission of the offence by the rsost urgent distress and wantr lie was fullr committed for tnal. UNhOS.HALL.-Yesterdav a man nDam i'Jizes Gray, who has been for a length of time in the employment of AMessrs. .Maudslay, engineers, in the Westminster.road, was brought before IL J. CIMABERS, Esq., charged with having robbed his employers of a number of working twols, and other property used in the concern. Lr. lMlaudrlay stated, that from the nature'and extent of his bui. ness lie is necessarily exposed to the depredations of dishoneo work. mell. The prisonerwas in lis employment, and from the charaeer and&good conduct af the man, Mrs honesty was never imgeadied. unti the present instance. On this occasion one of the workmers tool-chests was broken open and robbed; it was then suspected that the prisoner must have bad some hand in it, and an officer, ntoam_ panted by Mlr. Miaudalay,jun., went to hia lodgings, where the lat. r, to IS astonishment, dscovered a great quatity of propeXty bes onging tothe iirn, which had been stolen from the premi ammond, the oicer who apprehended the nrisoner, produced the properey; a greae pate of whiph w-as identified by MAessrSm Aauta lay.-.-he prisoner was commnitted. POLICE.