Yesterday forenoon, about...
The Times, 1824-06-03T00:00:00

Yesterday forenoon, about eloven o'clock, the scaffold erected for the rebuilding of the house of Mlr. Armstrong, oilman, in Hlatton.wall, suddenly gave way in consequence of the insecure manner in which it was constructed. One unfortunate man had se- veral of his limbsbroken, and was carried tothe hospital; and three or Sour were seriously hutL GUILDRALt_.-;X. n. Turner, ceUarman with Mtr. Waters, Mme. naerchant, Old Brmad-street, and one Charles Barnard, a wine- merchant of a different description, living in the Borough, wvere charged before Mr. Alderman GABRIATT, tho former with felony, and the latter with receiving the property, knowing it to have been Turner had been sent by his mdste. to bdttle ofta btit of sherry, and apipe of port; at Air. Sivewrights, Taivstockszquare, did dn leaving the house, after finishing the job, one of the fellows whom Turner had taken in to assist him, had the misfortune to awing his coat-tall against the iron palisades at the door, and the steps were instantly deluged with port wine, from the breaking of a bottle he was carrying away in his pocket. This discovery, there being also coasiderable defidency in the exptcted produce of the pir;pe led to a communicatioa from Mr. Sivewright to Mlr. WVaters, who in conse. quence Obtained from Turner, upon promise that it should be the better for him, a confession that a quantity both of the sherry and the port had been conveyed away and disposed of to the prisoner Barnard, at the rate of 2s. 6d. a bottle. The last quantity-namel a hamper of port wine-he owned he sent off in the cart that brought the bottles; that one of his companions went with It, took it out of the cart at the end of Warwi6k;lae, oad frdrii theitne to the Borough. the dtiver of the cart also said thai a hamper had been so put in by Turhers, and taken out at Warwick-lane, as he described.i It was immediately evident upon this statement that the Alagis. rate had nojurisdiction in the case, the felonv being committed in 31iddlesex, and the stolen property received; if it was receiyed by Barnard, in the borough of Southwark. The evidence of the felonry too, rested entirely on the confessi6n of Timuer, which having been obtained by promises could not be used against hiwii, and though the carean corroborated as t the fact of carrying the hampes, he kiiev nothing of its contents. Mr. Waters and Mlr. Sivewright were anxi- ous, if possible, to proceed against the receiver, as even worse than the thief; but here, again, on consultation with the Magistrate, insu- perable difficulties occurred. By stattte a receiver may be indicted before and even without the conviedon of the thief- but though Turner's evidence, corroborated by the carman, might be suflicient proof of the felony as against the receiver, they neither of them could speak to the factof the property having been received by Barnard, tne hamper having been taken from the cart by one of the other fel- lows not in custody, a.d nopat of the property being traced to Bar- nard's possession. Under these circumstances, the Magistrate could only lament his inability to assist the gentlemen, ansdboth the pri- soners were discharged. TowsN-RtsA -t.ree powerful Irishmert, named Bartholomew Hurley, MiSchael Tooney, and Wslliam Driscol, were cbarged as ringleaders in a riot, in Green-alley, Tooley-street. The disturbance originated in party feud, the continued source of bloodshed and disorder in the neighbourhood and according to the evidence of Anthony Gorman,. also an Irishman, a principal suf- ferer, and others, it coibmenced in the public-bouse of Mr. Leary, where he (Gorman) was accidentally met by the three prisoners yesterday morning, and fallen foul of with menacing taunts the effects of a cherished grudge; and between whom and the prisoner Hurley a fight afterwards took place, when Hurley, having his nose split and his left eye closed, and likely to be beaten, the otber two made a savage rush upon his antagonist, and beat him into a state of insensibility, covered with blood. John Kinsev, the ofEcer, stated, that in consequtence of in- formation that a man was killed, he repaired to the spot, armed, at- tended by assistants, and found upwards of 30D persons col. lected of theprisoner's faction. Having, aftera desperate resistance, secured the three men at the bar, and stamt them in custody to the Borough Compter, his attentien was turmed to the protection of the prosecator's life, which would doubtless,; but for the timely inter- ibrence, have been sacrificed to the 1;ary o;f the snob, and conducted himr to a place of safety, surrounded by the cutlasses and pistols of hlejacket of the prosecutor steeped in. blood, was produced. The prisoners Dziscol and hiotrley being proved aggressors, were ordered - find gpod bail, and Tooney dis halrged, with .admonitiQp, it appneaing he was less implic4ted.