Police.
The Times, 1824-08-12T00:00:00

DItANSI0N }tou&E.-Alr. .Sraie, a wealthy carcass butcher of lVhitechapel-market, appeared before the LORD *MlAYOR, charged by Williamn Johnson, a vender of neat by retail, with having created a riot, and endangered thelife of the compiainant. Johnron stated, that he had unfortunatelv taken the benefit of the Insolvent Act, and owed lhe defendant for a few sheep-a calamity whlich raised in that gentleman the utmost animosity. No sooner did he (complainont) quit thc court for the market, than all the buitchers set upon, and hunted him out of it like a mad dog. Mr. Sca les, upon one occassion, urged on the slaughternen -vwith the cry of " There goe3Johnson,the informer. -lie lads," and suddenly they set up their pursuit, mzaking him fly for his life. He believedl they would think no more of putting a knifite into hitn thisi into one of' their own sheep, and he declared tbat uunless the Lord A.ay.1r pro. s.ecsed him, he could not enter the marker except at the haz&rd of hirie. Alr. Scales said lie had only served this complainant as the Qua- ker served the dog that bit him. " Friend," taid he, " I will not kill thee, but I will give thee a had name." The fact was, Mr. Scales said, the man before his Lordship hadi bought five sheep of, him, and then took thc benefit of tthe act; af'ter which, he bought eight shieep of his son, without saying a word about the fbomer deal- ing; and because he had got a receipt in the butchers' way, Ol Ull- stamped paper, he lodgexl an information under the Stamlp Act, and was now trying to Tecover the penalty in the Court of Exchequer. Be-sides, he was the son of Johnson, the informer, who hadt clone so muci mischief amongst the bakers anl publicans. Those things in. duced the defendant to caution his neighbours against such a person. The complainant declared that he only wished to be enabled to buv mneat in tile market like another tradestnaLl. Mlr. Scales said he might enter the market, but not one ounce of meat should he buy there.-He was then ordered to find securities to keep the peace, BoWvSTfEET.-Yesterday an elderly gentleman, respectably though singularly dressed, was brought before MIr. IllNS11sULL, h,' Josm. one of the horse piitrol, Stationed upon the Essex road. I he patrol stated, that about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, be was on duty sn the Ronford-roati, when he met thedefendant tra- velling down the road on' foot, carrying a small portmantefu and2 a blue bag, seemingly well filled. Hi e stopped him and asked himn wherche was going: and hesaid3oGravesend. '- Wh"ny, mv friend," s.aid the witness, " this is a queer wvay to GIravesend. W'hat have you got in the portmanteau and bag?" Tehe detiendant said it was nothing to him: wlht he had WaS his owvn. The patrol answereti that he mus3t s1ee what he had; and he took hint into custody, an,i conveved him to a public-house on the road-side, where, itvh the assistance of one or two others, ie searched his person as well as IisI portmnanteau and bag. The eefendant made very violent resi tance to the search insomuch that two were obliged to hold hitii down, while the third examined his pockeLts and baggage. lie was subse- quently lodged in alock-up-house. The patrol here produced what he hail found tipon thte defendant's person, as well as the contents of the bag and porttaunteau. Thev consisted of linein and wearirg apparel, sharing alpnaratus, sIoes, .slippers, a waicli, a few keys, anct other triflingarticles, with two purses, one oontaining sonte sovereigns and silver, and the othcr some goldl coin w'hich are current in tite West Intlies. AlMr. Albi sHsuuL..-Do you suspect that any oi' tiese ithings have been stolen ? Joss.-No, Sir, I do not now ; bitt I did at the time. Mtr. AjlMessnui.r..-Did hlg give vou no other answer titan I " Vhat's that to you ?" whet you asked hiim what he had got ? I Joss.-He said " Clothes ;" und iviien I asked *'What clothes." lie said " Why clothes to wear to be sure." Ar.AliNsllustt..(tothe(lefendant).-Pray iwhat isyysurname,Sir? Defendant.-Aly namte, Sir, isStracitan). Air. AItNSHULL.-Wlht are you, Sir? Air. Strachan.-I have lived in the West Indies, where I was a planter. t was born in London. Mtr. llls NSSIu.m..-Have you any friends in London ? Alr. Stiachan.-Yes, I have. Alir. AtsNsitetr-.L.-Whereabouts ? Mlr. Strachasn.-In Oxendon-street. Mr. MilrstsueLL.-And where were you going ? Air. Strachan.-I was going to Gravesend. Air. 3Al117S1ULL.-But you were much out of your road. Dir. Stradian.-1 was traveling my own road, and no on,c as conceive, liad a right to molest me. I was very roiigily treated, in a way that I never experienced before, even in the land of slaves. I have always understood It to be the duty of a patrol to protect, and not molest, the public. Mr. MtNS1s1m.i_- %Vhy I thinik really thlat tile patrol has done no more than itis duty. You were travelling late at night, with bag- gage about you, and you did not give satisfactory answers to the patrol. Mir. Straclhan.-I had asrighit to teasel at any hour I liked. But it was not my fault that I was walking at that hour. I travelilet some distance by a coach, and I was recommnended to an inn for a bed, but at that inn they said they were full. I applied at two or three other houses, and the answer was the same, and therefore I was campelled to walk on. Air. Mtis4utt.-1 repeat, that I thtinl; the patrol was right in St nig y6u. ok.8trithan.0BuB. he had ilo right to treatme roughly, and afterwards to puit me in a lock.upzhouse. I would wish to ask you, Sir, one qdestion.. Sdpposing a publioar has not a vacant bed, and a traveller demands enterlainment, ot rather refuge for the night, is not the publican bound In law to allotw Jie traveller to sit up in his kitehio- tnn_ranm nr -nm ail,s, ,,art nfhiq house ? alr. ANsnurtLr.. -That ifi a question wvucn I really amn n pre-nu p,ared to answer. A publican is undoubtedly bound to furnish you with a bed if he hitve one; but whether, his beds being all engaged, le; t abliged to give you leeve to sit up in his house, is a point which lbdnnbt glUV a decided opinion topon. hir. Straehati.-Mllel, Sir, I have been arrested on my way, and brought back to London against my will. Pray who is to remune- rate me for the expense and inconvenience I have been put to? Mr. M'7suus.t. I am sorry. Sir, thatyou have been so incon- vehiencedt but I cannot remunerate you. Yon were travelling iatc at night; *ou haid biggage with ou; you refused to give satisfactory 3svwcrs. and afterwardsresiste3 the patrol in his endeavours to -earch you, and You therefore compelled him to bring you here. You were sot in the oaRd to Gravesefld. Air.Strachan.-Iwas going toTilburyFort,andacross toGravesend. Joss._Even then, Sir, you were out of your road, at lcs"t you were going very much roundabout. Air. Strachan.-I had a right to go which vay I veased. If 1 can- not have redrces here, I sha I seek it elsewhere. MIr. Strachan then took his packages, and departed. AIMALBoaoUsSTItZET.-YeSter,y being the day appoted for the final cxaiination of Clhanles Stevens, Wrin. Bo:rct, rnd Richlard SklilUia, who have been sonie days in custody, the tormer chlaged with feloniouslv disposing, for his own use, ot a vast qua.n. tity of property, belonglng to Air. Richardson, carrying on" the linen. drapery business in Oxford-street, under thec firm of AMalcoiib anid Jamnes, to whom he was shopman ; antd the two latter with receiving and disposing of the sane, knowing it to lec stolein. The o1i-ce, at an early hour, was crowded to s ffbcation, by tradespeople in thtat line, Itomii Bond-street, Oxford-street, and all the surrounding neighbouThood, atid it was vwith the utmost difficulty that the ap- proaches to it cotld be kept clear. The centre of the office was filled with large packages ansl boxes of the stolen proprrty discovered at various; linendramers, e., to the value of n.any hundred pounds. I At half past One o'clock thc three persons were placed at the bar, I before II. Ill. DYER, Esq.5 the sitting maglFtrate. I oS'r. D)Y}:R, the magistrate, now read over the wlole of the evi. |dence ar, he had bken .it down at the former examination; afttu Iw*;hich lr. White, o,f t)!e Grn of W'hite and Greenwell, lIne-. . raper in BI:rk*i.rs.ro:d, wILt examinLd. He said thiat he had known-the n,oroner Shillito for sonote timite, and frequently bought liren ,is'oFhinct lower pEicis than he n ltgedfiy1l, buy then, and he frequentlv.qiueitiored. him how lie c:tme by, theui.; alwaysr said, 1th4tl3bfiga fan with a command of money, hejbo%ich: very cheap, and sold very cbeap. lAr. White had novusplEion of itla hone6ty. The asatpsrxcl of goods boucht of him are noxe at tele office, consbstine of Irish linen8, cantbric5, &c., for the whole of' whichehepaidbinsm1601. Mdr. Richaidson here produced his book& by which itappeared. that these very ,goodns cost him 203!. 7.s. 6d. Air. IlAn .%f l., at the same timne, said that nothing imprnper was imp utedl tAo fir. White, att it 2ppeared he had, before he dealt with Slbillito. had a reference, and receved of him a good character. A,r. George, of the house of Geoire anA Evans, linendrapers, said, thatt they purcha.sted goods of Bowen, throegti, Shlslitat, con- sisting of sarcene:s, irish linen., &. amounting to I201., stine of whiich were at the office; the rest had beer. sob!. ilr. .31ules, linendraper, in. Blackfriars-road, sid. that he hasliatd dealings forsix vears with Shil'to andialwayszthoughtbim a respectable man. Th&lste goodt he bought of him are nowat tha office. and consist of shieeting, nankeens, trigh Enens, &c. Il r. Richardsonmsid, that these identical goods were ente*ed in Bowen's books to Shillito, and in Shillito's boolks to Mr. AMules. Pamplin, a porter, said, that he was in the con9rfatbabitof canrry ing goods, by the direction of Steen,s, from AMr. ieChAt&='sa# Bowen's house. A shopman of Air. RochFord's, a pawnbroker, in iduetre treet, produced three pieces of Irish linen, pledged by Sterenrs foP 1.1 A shopman of AMr. H arrison, pawnbroker, produced Dinttc s.4ait ble ahawls, pledged by Stevens. Jobn .loscroft, one of AIr. Riehardson's shopimen, deto-sed, ;6fat a short tine before the discevery of the present robbery he ac4' denta.lly met Shillito, and said to hin, that he understood he had- lately heen purchalsing some goods, and selling tiem very cheap; hut Shillito denied it; and on his asking him as toea y .raolntigeof Bowen or Sterens, both of whom were suspectet, he delated tlhtst he never knew any such persons, or hbd any dealings with perdd" of the name. Air. Richardson now examined all the properto arr tlhe fioor, aid, with few exceptions, p-roved the whole to be hlis, and irevrr so'd by hin to any one. He knew them by the penci-imarl;s m'de by him;t self, somr,e of which were perfect, and others partly oblitcra-ecd, Gt tLhe various articles.-The orisoners were fully committed for tfisL UTIO:e.eAL.L_.-Yesterdav a gentleman applied to tbe sittifz magistrate, It. B. ALLaN, .8sq., for aidvice as to hoe' he was to act in a c.ase which he considered as one of base fraud. Sonic few dayc since a man ot' respectable addrcst, who sttted his name to ba Bunger, came to his house, and represented himseif as having na pressing occasion for some csah, and at the szame ime produced tbe duplicates of -everail paintings, wiich were in ptedge ai different pawnbrokers, .hich hs "s-id he would dispose of, 02t and out, tbr 45L, although that was very much below their real valee. T41ey were in Pledge, hie sai. for trifling suris, not exceding a fiftit+f part of their value, and l,a-l been executed by an artist -of tite first eminence, who, having painted them. liad been caipelled tf part with thern, and had af erwards disposed of the tickets to him. The artist alluded to was acknowledged by the cegtmo.scCeni as a first.rate painter of landscape subecstit Orne ticket was then teigected front the bundle of duplicates. of a painting, on whicb Mr. Arcthalt. a pawnbreker, of the Wesiminster-road, bad advanced Sl. 'PTis particurlr drawing was also descrihed as brine worth at least 3W.1 Upon these representations the applicant closed the bargain, and irnmediatety alvanc d the reqtuired suni, and was put into posses. sion of the Auplicates. On the tbilowing day he mrentioned the transaction to a friend, who was a picture.dealer. and thete went Mo-. rether to examine the merits of the painting, which waspIedged Ibr .51. The picturc-dealer, on seeing ,he landscape, at once pronounced it to be a Jaub. worth less money trian even the pawnbroker had lent lipon it. The other shop., Were also visited where tie remaintler of che paintings had been pledeed, and all of them, it was soon a.scertaind, were of the same worthlessness us ithe one te iv had already in. specte. These drawinzs were all pleiged in the nanie of Wtlliams. anti that getutleman hat., in con.etquence, been applied to, and ac- quainted of ttic fraud. but he disclaimed all knowledge of Bunger, from whom the duplicates were received, and also atat that the paintings in question werc not the produc:ion of his pencil. Under these circurmntances, the applicant requested that a warrant might be isseed for the apprehensitsn of Bunger, who he coosdiered hall cheated hih out of a large sum of motey, by representauonn whicl he knew vwetc perfectly false. Air. AL.LEN said, he had no doubt but that a gross inposition` had been practised, btut as Bungcr had told a tale, the truth or failse. hotod of which might have been ascertained before the bargain wa-. concluded, he did not consider it was a case with whiich he couid in- terfete. It' the duplicates had been fabricated, or there had beetr any other circumstance et' fraud about the transaction, whicb, by common prudence.couid not have been detected. thern he would hr.av assisted t:e applicant; hIt as it was, the only remedy to be had was by a civil process. o w-POLICE