Police.
The Times, 1824-08-24T00:00:00

GulILDITAT.r..-AmQng8t thc numerous obstr ictions aid atinoy- ances in the public streets, which it has been the endeavour of the LOnD MII.YOi, to remedly antl remove, is that occadioned bv thie hackney-coachmen crowding together on the stand, in almaost cveryv great thorouchfare, a greater number of carriages thaln is allowed by aw. The limited number for the coach-stand in ChempMide is 2(1; and, by the statute, a clear space of eight feet should be kept be- tween each of thema. It is no uncommon sigit, however, to see 3l) and even 40 conches on that statid; and in suich cases they arc una- voidably placed so close together as to form an impenetrabile line along the centre of the street, so as to render it daingerous, if not Impossible, for a passenger to cross. There is another practice among these fellows, which occasions irtill greater inconvenience On driving to a stand, and finding it full, they draw up parallel with the coaches, waiting till one of them should be hired, to takc their r o ensah. st.nd, and thus fo r hc time maintaining a do-.blc ine of coaches. Very general caution has been given to them, but without effect, and in consequence, about a dozen of the drivers were brought up on sutmmons before Mlr. Alderman AISaLEY, upon the complaint of .Mr. Herring, the inspector of city police, for offences of this de- scription, some from the stand in Holborn, but principally front that in Chcapside. The foil penalty inflicted by the statute for these offences is 20s., but as the object of this procectling was rather ex- amplc, in the hope'of preventing the repeition of the evil, than the ifiction of punishment, the Alderman, after stating to themr that it was the determination of the magistrates ihat the provisions of the statute should be complied with, and a space of eight fcet be kept clear between eacl carriage on all the public stands, and cautioning them that tipoti a second offience the full penaltv would inost assur- edly be inflicted, contented hinielf with convicting thenm in the mi. tigated penalty of 56s. together with 3s. costs. BOWV-STvETEr..Yesterday Robelt Ball, the young man charped on suRpicion of wilfully setting 'ire to art apartment occupied by him at the house of Mlr. Fearn No. 97 in the Strand, as stated in a former paper, was brouzht up,and underwent a fiial examination. Air. ALLEY and Mr. H!ARMER attended as counsel and attorney for the prisoner; and an attorney also appeared to coniduct the pro- secutiorn on behalf of the San Fire-office, in which establishment the prisoner had effected an insurance previous to the fire. The follow- ing additional evilence was called:- WVilliam Bond, a journeyman tailor, in the employ of AMr. Fearn, deposeci, that on the eveiirig of the fire the prisoner ctme into the workshop, whichi is at the top of the house, and observed to witness and his fellow-workmen, " What ! are you hard at it still ?" The witness hiaving to finish a Job by a particu- lar time, and being in want of some necessary articles, he asked the prisoner to be good enough to request MlIr. Fearn to send up what he requredl. The prisoner said he vwould do so but observed that lie wanted a light to go into hiisown room. His reoon was immediately under the workshop. Witness gave hiim a piece of twisted browit paper, lighted, and lie left the rootm, but returned andi saiid it had gone out. lWitness then drew a piece of cotton cord across the tallow of tile candle, lit it, and gave it to the prisoner, whu went down to his own room. About half-past ten o'clock witness stnd liis commade felt all at once an invincible drowsiness conic over them, and although itlcy had not finished their work, they could not resist their inclination to sleep, and thiere- fore threw themselves along on the shop-board to indulge in a short nap. The witness was jttst dropping asleep, whesi lie smelt fre very strongly,and calling to his comnrade, they both jumped up, ran out, and found Mr. Wood, one of the lodgers, endeavouring to break open the door of the plisoner's room. There was a htCe found in the ceiling of the prisoner's room, wlhich must have been recently made. The rafters were visible through this liole. Alr. Wood, the lotiger alluded to, ewas examlined at great length, and related the circumstances receding and following the discovery of the fire. as they were detailied in our report of last week; with the addition, that when the prisoner came into Alr. Fearm's apartmenz some time before he left the house fbr that night, Mrs. Fearn ob- served that he smelt very stroug of turpentine. His answer was that he had been taking some paint out of his clothes, but that he had done it two or three hours before, and that he thought the smell must have gone off before that time. Another witness of thc name of Skeel deposed that he went into the room immediately after the fire was discovered, and saw some pieces of rag avti spes Ttaiek up agairst the wainscntting, and tsc jamnbof the chimney, and that oil and turpentine had been recently smeared upon thie dloorand wainscotting. A gentleman from the Sun Fire.office proved that he prisoner had effec ed an insurance to the amtount of 4501.-viz., 3001. fbr stock, 1001. for fixtures, and 501. for furniture. The prisoner, during the examination, repeatedly interrupted the witnesses, and insisted, in spite of the warnings of liis counsel andl attorney, on cross-examining them scriatini. When the evidence against him Was brought to a close, he commenced a long and vehe- mently delivered defence, the whole tendency of which was so much incrimination of himself that Sir R. BruytirE earnestly conjured hinm to desist, and he at length ceased.-He was fully committed to Newgate for trial, and the witnesses were bound over te prosecute. AIAtYLEBoNE-oFFrCE._.In the course of last week a case of assault was brought before the Miagistrates of this office, in which Mliss Bolt, a mioliner, was the complainant, and mrs. Newnhain, a lady of fortune, residing in AManchester-street, the defendant. T he particulars of the case as detailed before trie magistrate were pub- lished in the daily papers of the fullowing day, from wvhence they were copied and published by one of the ballad printers in the parish of S. Gites. with the addition of a copy of verses, purporting to be a poetical account of the affair. These were sung and sold about the streets by the usual itinerant venders of the halfpenny publica- tions, several of whom on Friday morning placed themselves imme. diately in front of Mrs. Newnhanf's house, where they kept alter- nately singing and crying their papers, to the lio ssmall annoy- ance of that lady. Application was made, in consequence, and Ml1orris, one of the officers, went to the spot, and rook the papers from those persons he founcd there, telling tlhemn to come to tlhe office if they wished to have them restored. None of them camse, but yesterday the solicitor of MUrs. Newnisam presented himself before the sitting Mrlagistrate (Mr. RAWsLIX- soN) to complain of the conduct of these partie.c, and also of the report which hal appeared in the neFspapers, to which all the mischief and annoyance was ascribed. The report was described by him as a most scandalous e.v parte statement, and that it was the in- tention of dIrs. Newnbam to procecd against the reporter. Mr. RAWLINSOV, in reply, observed that he certainly had ob- served the newspaper reports to have been in mnany instances vet y in- correct; but whether soln the present case he could not say, as he was riot present at the examination. lIe could afford the applicant no as- sistance. UNroN-LsALL.-Yesterday, a medical student of St. Thomas's HXospital was brOI1ght bCefre It J. iOsrASnsEn, }Bsq,, charged with parading up and downl in forontof the (lobarg Theatre, dressed in rolune'a clothes, on Saturday oight. Clarke, the officer who at- tends the Coburg, stated, that being on duty at the above theatre on Saturday night, between P nnd lIO 'clock, he observed a tall and lanl y-lookmng personage promenading backwards and forwards on I lte pavement, bi.,rc. rhe Los entrance, dressed in female attireoi' the most faihionable debcription. (The clothes werehere produced. and tconsisted of an ciegant l,ehorn bonnet and plume of feathers, a splendid silk dress, torgether with a reticule aud fidse fiont-adoGnetl. with a profusihn of auburn ringlets.) Thjis dreEs, Cl-r e-saRi4the defendant appeared in on Saturday night, and from hii ret'lAe8abhle length (the defendant being upwardaoef asx feet in heigtt), a(tacte.1 together a multitude of people by bis singular appemrance. Ttte 'crowd increasing fast, and the aventues leading to the theatre being cotmtpletely blocted t up in consequence, he approached ihe defendant in order to request that " she wpuld move off," he (Cla:Tke) cenceiving it to be. visit frmn a girl of the town. who nightie wvalks on the Ntrtlh side of Holborn, Jbetween Leather-lane and Gray's- inn-lar,e, nickna'zed the " lonument." He, however, on exaimin- in" the defendl:nt's festssres, discoveredl his sex by a 'arge air of Whislkers, and forthwiSth put ite question to the defendart, WhO an- rwered in a squeaking voice,tht he ]rad as much right to walk there as5 any body else. Clt rke sud he tbought the revers', and proceeded to take h?im off to the wnech..house. which he had some difficulty in accompishing, beirg followed by an immense mob at their hels, Calin7g out, " Let tthe lady go: vou have no business with her." Thle defendant, at the watch-house, admitted his sex, stating that he had dressed himself in laties' clothes out of a bit of a frolic. The iMaistrate.-_" I amt very glad he was locked ttp on Saturday night." Then, addressing the defendant, asked him who and what he was. The defendant replied, with a choni-fallen countenance, that he was a student of St. Tho.uar's Hlospital, anld resided in the neigL- bour1qood, where he was well known. He was prepared to bring forward persons to answer for his respectabilitv. The M igistrate observed, that he had acted in a very foolisht man. cr, dressed up in the gew-gaw tiings just exhibited. 'rite defendant stated, that the fact was, On the night in qucsdoa he was at a party. and a number of ladies being present, it Iwas pro- posed that he should dress himself up in one of their clothes. An interchange of dress then took place, the landy putting on his, end he the lady's. After having exhibited himsrlf for some time, Lo the grcat amusement of the company, he thought he would have a bitof a lark," and aecrordingly slipped, unpe2ceived, eutof the house and walked down to the 'Coburg thieatre, where he was so untfortunate as xu be pt'ketl ,n 'bv a constable, antl lodgee in the w%tcI-hou%e. He now saw the foliv of the thine, and hoped the .Ml agistrate would look over it. 'he doctor was then discharrged, and the clothes given up ttj him, on his promise of not publicly appearing in thg-j again. Towx tAL.-A te'low naimed Richard L.awrence was charged under the fIlrlowing atrecioui Circumstances :-lary Hiarrod said sl:e la% the molther of the prisoner's w;ife her daughter was in hourl v ex- pcCtation of giving birth to an infant, andhadsenttoher (the wienesst ir.t plring her to get possession of the child-bed linen she had pre- pared fron her husband, who she feared woulid iriake awav with ':tenr to affin%l mearns for his licentious courses. She accompanitd tier ji3:tehter fot that ourpose to her houte, and stood at the door whilst she z2nt in. (Here thiswitness fainted.) .loh Vrillianig,, the naster of thc prisoner1 stated that he hadl Called at Otne prisrnes's 7otlging so know wvhy he had not come to his work. l1'lrlilie was there, tbe prisoner's wife came in. Three words hi1 not passed witen the prisoner strick tlier with all his force belot tIte w,hzit!, till she fell senseless, and continued his silicnc- by stamning upon her in the seine part. Alderizain .. .J. SMs t 5r5H.1s it possible that as a man you couild haivc witnehised this, withiout interterin,? W?'illiams._Ofn my oath I waq afratd of tnart iife; there were 30 persons in the ronm who thrratened me. A midwife was sent for, who dceclared. miem s a sur,ceon wvas sentrfor she would die. Kimsey, the officer. said Ire found thie woman faiinting. The prisoner attempted to qualify, what he had done, when Mr. Aldermnan SMI'ITe ordered him into instant confinenment, and refus- ed bail of avil descriptiort till tire woman was pronounced cut Ot. danjgecr, anti 8tent his officcrs off direcLy to the parish surgeon, to affZord assistmnce. POLICE.