Police.
The Times, 1824-11-17T00:00:00

AIAw5Iow-HousE.-mn the course of yesterday, a gentlematn called at the Miansien-house for the purpose of " blowing tup" the whole of thc city police. Hc told AMr. Coe the Mlarshal, thAt hie had a very narrow escape of being robbed of a pocket-book, contain- ing 2501. in bank notes, and a large amnount in other securities, In Fleet-street. He hiad just sto&t .sptoisite to the place wrhere the fire took- place, for 20 minuLtes or half an hour, looking at the mischief that hid been done. He suddenly felt a twitch at his pocket, and uponm examnination, foundi thiat a hiole had been cut In the pocket, but not large enough to permit the pocket-book to be pulled throughi. This outrage was, hie said. committed in the broand day, when the officers wvere in the neighbriurhood, andi he thoughit it re4uly a neglect of duty upon their parts, which deservcd to betot evl Air. Cope said thie complaint was cornpm tl grondls. Ted officers of the city exerted themselves, and the fact was weit known to the public, to the verv utmost; but it was miost unreasonable to suppose that so limited i nuimber of officers could have guarded the p-ackets of the thousands and tens of thousands of individuslg who were led by cariosity, accident, and business, to the place where the fire had takeen place. It was. lie submritted, an act very little short of madness in a person who had a suim of monley about him to pass through a place where he mutst know immense crwds were uaserm- bled andwhee ofcouse te pckpoket must expect to find mnore Seveal prson wh witesse th conust f te officers in Fleet- stret dclaed hatthe wee atonshe attheefFectLal manner in whic thy rmovd te imedient toa fee assage along Fleet. It was stated by Leadbetter, the mrarshlalrian tct the LQILn MJAYOR, that before water could be obtained OinLtllgato-hill or in the immediate neigbourhood of thiefireat WlilkinaQn's, an hour and a half elapsed. Thiie firemnen and the fire-engin-es were all In readli- ness the iomient after the alarm was given, in consequeceic of the contiguity of the fire in Fleet-street, but they mighit tPs well have been at a dlistant part of the town. Some ptrsons have intimated that a destrgctive delay has often ta~ken place on account of the ab- sence of the turn-cocks. This was nagt the ease with respect to the fire of Mlonday night. The plugs were all pulled out immediately after the alarm was given, and the firemen were standing idle and lheartily cursing the water-rompanies for their unrelenitluig disregard of the complaints and solicitations of'te pulilie. The individuals in wyhose premises the fire raged aTe greaItly in- debted to the exertions of Aldermin Wood, who superintended the whole of the arrangements, toa the indefatigable exertions, of the city mnarshtals, and the officers under them, and to* the vigour and courage of the firemen, who, perhapls, neyer exhlbited greater zeal th.n,upo,n these two successive disasters, in vshlch they repeatedly-exposed their lives, anid seemied to vie with each other in acts of intrepidity. It is necessary to observe, that when the aity of' london wq4 suip- plied with water by theold Thames Water Company, thiere was very seldom any comnplaInt of ani Indifferent supply. Complaint is now uniformly the langu,igeof all who witnesst tebreaking out of a ?ire, notwithstanding the solemui assurances of the New River Company, that the supply should be liberal to a proverb. WVhen the cominittee who negotiated upon the subject of sup plying the cit of London with water, Asked the Cornpany whieiher they had water enonpgh to suip ply the city, they replied that they had water enough to dro'wn all London, and It was expected that on occasions of fire a deluge would be let in upon the streets; insteadl of which, the water seems to be measured ouit as if it was purchased by the quart or the gallon. It is cal- culated, that if the supply of vater had beeni imnmecdiate, the mils- chief wouldi have been, comparatively witht what has taken place, inmmaterial. We are happy to learen, and it further shows th~e ac- tivity of the police, th4t very few thiefts took place, aiid that no serious robbery I.n the neighbourh-ood of the fire was heard of. BOW-STrISEET.-Yesterday a respectably-dressed Young woman, who seemedI by her nmaniner to possess an abundanice of the milk of hiuman kindnesso, withi but a very small portion of' what is called knowledge of the world, approached the b?llch, and cqrtsing re- spectfully to the magistrates, reqaested their assistance tinder these cmrcumnstances :-Shc stated that about eleven years ago a youniger brothier of hers, who fromi hais infanci hiad beeni addicted to wild habits, absconded fromt his pareats, andl enlisted into the 83a Regi- ment of Foot. None of the family had ever seen huin fromn the hour of his enlistment, and for the last four or five years thiey hiad not eveni heard of him. On Suiitlay night last, about twelve o'clock, as s8he anid her uwPtlitr were retiring to rest, thecy lheardI & loud knocking at the door, and the applicant opening it, saw a tall and fine-looking young mian in the stable dress of a dtragoon, who asked hier if she hiad not a brothter who aonie years ago rail away and enlisted for a soldier ? She repJied in the affirmia- tive; and suppositng that tie visitor had brolghat some intelligence of her brother, invited himn into the parlour. and he there aekedt her, sniilinglv, what she would give to see hiimi? She replied that she shou~ld bec most hiappy to see him, but shte hadl itothiing to give, ob- serving, " I have no property, Sir, in thie world, but whiat you see about m e.9" The visiter then turnect to her mother, and said, " Don't you know me ?" Her mother said ahc had n'o re- collectioni of hiim. " indeedI I" replied thle soldier, " whiy it'si ra- ther stranage that a mother shiould not kitmow her own child. I sin your son, mny dear mother." TIme applicant anct her mnother sta-red at this aninouncement, and doubted its truth ; for they could trace none of thec lineam-ents of the family in tie face of tue soldier ; but recollecting thiat he was but a growing boy when he left thien,, ar,d that loig servic somietimes effects a wonderful change, they began to believe that lie was really their long-lost relation, and they were coo-. tirmed in thecir belief whten he mentioned several fanmily matteris of a prIvate nature. They emibraced him very affectionately, atid although thc hour was late, they procured himn meat and drink, aindwhil at supper lie entertained thecm with a brief' narrative of hia serviceg abroad. Hoe 64im h- r- leari iaed -3-fly-the day before at the Londen Docks from foreign service, thiat he was then without mnoney, but that he hlad arrived at the rank of serant-major, and was to go on the followinig morning to the Dukt of York's office, to receive arrears of pay. They, knowing nothing of military affaitrs, believed this to be true, and congratulated him of course on hisi good fortune. The applicant had a small goldI watch, whl'ch hap- pened to be lvig n thie table, and her supposed brother took it up and said,"T is isa pretty watch, sister; IwA'nt awatch, and shall keep it." The applicant taid shemust object to that,for the watch was apre- senttfromna particular friend, and shecoiild not part with it. He,how. ever, laughed, tind pwit it in hiis poeket, and she, conceiving him to be only in, Jake, esaidno more about it. Thiey nmade up a bed for him and in the morning thle applicant was stirring betimesi, and having prepared breakfast for hier newly-found brother, she cleaned his boots, l,ruAshedl his jacket, anti Diepateti himi as well as she could for his visit to the Duke of Y'ork's olffice. M'li iile heo was taking his bireakfasts, she said she woulti gzo and fittch her brothers atid sisters, who livedt hard by, to see timin; but to this he objected, observing, thiat he (lid niot w'ish to be " reviewved" in that inanneejust then. She pressed it, and he thecn said, " Do you suspect that I am anot your- brother, thiat you want mc to be reviewed by atll the famni- ly in. this manner? I am sheabby now ; stop till f ain smarter." Shec and her mother thought this very odd, but attributed it to pride, or they mighit, perhaps, have hadA some suspicion. WVhen he had finished his breakfast, lie walked out of the pirlouir, as they supposed, merely to tiie tloor, but they were cdeceived, fb)r he went entirely away, and they saw no more oif hImn. He to'ok Iher gold watch with hiim. Mr. HACLLS said the story was a very siagtilar one. He couild not hielp wonidering at thle credulity of the applicant and hier mother, especially whe they both declared that there was not the slightest trace of their relation to be observed in the features of tite impostor. That siervice mast be harLd, and the climiate extraordinary indeed, whichl Qould efrect so total a chanze that a mother and a sister could not diiscover the slightest resemiblance of what their aoti anti brothier formnerly war. An active officer was then dtesire(i by the malgistrates to niakie in). qiiiry, aned enideavour to apprehendi the iniposter. ,Patrick 8Slieen, an Irishiman. was brought before Sir IL Bi ltiEns, at the instance of the parish officers of St. Giles's, eni the charge of hiaving cruelly beaten and tortuired hiaison,. achild eight years ot'age. Bowers, one of the beadles of St. Giles's, going his rounds in time coturse of tiue day, saw the little boy sitting uponl tlte step of' a do6r hecar the Seveni Dials, crving, and rubbiitg his barck seem ingly in great agony, The beadle asked what alicea him~ andI the childI said, that lils father hadl treated hiim so cruelty, that he was oblige4 to rut, iaway, and hbe was afraid to re' turn honic. The beadle askedhim isome questions, an(tihesaidthiat hit; father was in the habit of' beating hinti until the blood flowed, stud that lie had that day come homeo fromi tme gin-shop, and, with-. out ay cause, he striApped Ihim naked amid lashed hiim withi a thick rope upon the bare skin, uintil he cuit the flesh and made him bleed. lHe cried with tile pain, anti because he would iitint hld ititi tongue, hiis father seized hilm by time two ears Red thirew hilm upon ttime fire. h-is bact; rame against the liot bar of the grate,, and was burnt. TIhec beadle hearing this recital thtou'ght it his titty to represent the case to thie parish-officers, aiid took the.boy with hiim. They exautlined lila back, and foundi a burn extending across fron, one shoultler to thle otlher, wliich had evidiently been occasioned by a hot bar. The back was also muchi lacerated, anid time chiild exhiibited other niarks of ex- tYelnme il-treatmient. '.fhe defendant dlid not dcnly the charge, and urged in the way of extenuation, that tIme boy was perverse and obstinate, addaing, that he tho4ghtt eyery father hald a right to do as he pleased with hiis Own chiltd, and that lie did not see whlat righlt ether people lhad to in. terfere. Sir R. BtiLnsE said the law imast teachi the cdefendlant that this doctrine of his was very erroneous. Thie Psrishiofflccrs had done great credit to thctmiselves by bringing the case forward, and lhq hoped tlicy woulit follow it uti by, a prosecutioni. The defendant was ordered to give '48 hourtl notice of bail1 and was meanwvhile comrmitted. Ml4RLR0uou(;vis..s.sitgg*...A letter was yesterday hainded to Sir GEOnRGE FAuhItAauT, time magistrate at this office,puorigt come f'roiti tivo young gentlemeni, but nonaesine portit,gddrso ing their comnplimnents to the mnagistrate, and enclosing two sove- reignsi, for thie tse of the yottag girl, Margaret SulliVan whose dig- tressing caste they saw desribed iIn the public papers. 9-svcrat tther applicalons have beennmade respectingg he'r, wilth the nmost hutuintite offers to bef'riend hier. This suii,, which is the only pecililiary aid received, wvill of course be applied by thec woovtilyit;agistrate'in theg beat manlier for the poor girl's adrian~se MA Y LEBONEt0-rl'at...A.few daysback, lVnm. Brittoin Dy. son applied to Alf. lJogiiis tor a stuimonis against Air. Suitton, late Lndmtlord of the Globe, In Upper Baker-8treot, for detaining, a qu!ittcty of apparel belonging to himi. It may be remembered that the coplaiianst s tile yog t woasconimitted to Newgtite about a Year -and.a half ago, qii the 'coroner's %vwanctt, charging hiut, with the mnurder of am young femiale of the name of Eliza Antltolty; (to whom lie hail for a length of tinme been paying his addresses), by throwing fier into the water near WVe3tminster-bridge. Ott t(le'trlaL a veidict was re- turnel, thsat both entered A hg water tof s the ingtention of mttioally dro-vtting themaelves ; and tlintg6 after the first imritcner t a-, altered his mint and saved himself' Thhe verdict titur specihlly re- tutned waas, by the Judge, declared to be tantahiounty to one of guilty; ftt, tinder the pectliar ciretminste nces of thie csse a Yre Ye- selitathot, was made to illsi Majesty, whie was gia'iiously 'Pleased to grant bin a free dn Since 'then, about. f'our mnonths ago, a chage asIreere against himi of hiaving attemupted to violaite the person of a femnale servant residing at No, 6, York-place. -'It ap- peared that at tha t time he resided with Mlr. Suttoti, of' the Glo0be,- and had beeni sent to the hiouse withs beer, when the liberty complain. ed of wras takien. He was couiusitted -frouui this office foir tria, and was 4t the last session b74t one fowid guilty, and.ggqnteuc4 .to' a he cane to tole oirlcc and comPlaIned that part of the apparel whIict at the tme of his a riehenalon he hadl left at the house of' Ar. Sut- ton h&c been witbhhet fo him by that gentleman. Mlr. Hloskiret declined granting a Otimmopis4 bhut consented to allow an officer to caill on Air. Sutton, and apprise him of the comLplaint that had been mnade ;and in consequence of this arrangemeist, both parties yeuter.. day tteded before Air. GA?'z)TS. llson tated, thaton being taken into custody by Buckeridge, he Ilft the wholeo -his apParel in tat elset in the room where he slept, a-nd. whii had sineI been delivered into tpo e t of at friend, by his direction, with the eaception of certain. ror' in a re,t lie produced. f dsuttrs, in reply, called forward his seprant, nproved that all the articleOS which eould be found belonrigng to ed were deli- vered utp t his friend; a5k d to r. Slxtton, on hits ol n -ipart; declared that he never went up into the mienservaotts' room, and therefore could not know who wras there. Tor.GprFFiTerS thoughtthc statement made fully exoneratedeir. nuatton. Ithwasa casein which he ad no Poweretointerfere, andhe must therefore refer the parties to another tribunal. A decent-looking tb iddle-aged wo5ean, whose mannter and style of discourse provead she had associatedl with pervons of re: heI . lity was brought u on a charge of stealing a lace cap fromi tea hop of 31r. Harris, miner and haberdasher, of Chelnotted.street, Fitz- roy-square. The prirsner gave her name Sarah Der-ingeon. The prosecutor's wife stated, tht t the prisoner entered their shop that morning, and asked to look at some lacearticles whichwere procured, when sbe contrived to abstract the cap in question. It was immediately missed, anr the prisoner pusnued, and on being eliared wlth the thert, the prohuced the arttile. Its value was 7r. Te a prisoner admitted the theft, but pleaded distress in exte- nuatito. Sle siaid sei had been the wife of a respectable London merchant, who died nine years ago, leaving her a moderate co.pe. tency, of which, by the treaclhery of one of the executors, it was her misfortune to be defraudeg. Swh e, hsd sinc atrugsled hard to maintain herselfiand her three chjren whom she haa by hier hus. band; and it was frIom tho distress that t'hev were in (tie chiildren not having a morsel af bread to eat), that she had been tempted to ncorn. mit thie theft ofw whih she then stood charged, Air. harris complainead that they were continually suirfring from depredations of this kind.Sthe w2s fully committede. Oar Reporter, throsteuh the miedium ofo the gaoler, endeavo.aed to learn her a4dres, without successi ; but w as enabled to ascertain, tlhat lri story about the distress of berchildren s not strictly true, as she has only one with her, the otier two being at the house ofa rolla tive at Norwich These particulars upre mentioned to show the ne- cessity ofinquirie being onae byfthos, of our readers whose sym- patly b night possibl be excited in her favour. U!s. SaAr4ahTayVlorsterday Tlwmt Tay p tlor, one of the men belong!ng to a. darinK gang which has commnitted so many bur- glaries and robberies in Newington and ylV orth, was hrouglit be- fore R. J. CHeAawith s, Eqo., charge witd bithaving been concerned in breakinhg open the hourse of Ars. Sarah Taylor, in Park-ila-, llValwortls, Froms the evidente, it appeareI that tie r iouse of Mrs. Taylor bac been entered by thieves on the 24th of October last, and considerable pieoerty stolen. Purhy, wlo was for some lengrth of'time leader of the gang, was apprehended the day following that on which wrs. L aylor is house had been robbed, and a quantity of the property stolen robend.i his possession blie was subsequently commpitted for trial. During thieinvestigation of' tle circ:umstance before the above ,agi ra iteft came obet in evideno that the prisoner Taylor had bn observed in the company of ourdy on the niglit en which the robbery took lilce, ani immediately upon his apprehension,the offi- cers, having intination of whle facts, sought after Taylor, who could not be found until within a few days ago, wben he was taken into castody by a watchman. The following evidence was given against him : DJrs. Sarahi Taylor stated that the dayrpreceding that on which she had hbee robbed, the e prisonoer Taylor, whom she acd a sligt acquaintance with, cathe to her house,and observing a piece of board upon which there wag a repregentation of a mangle againmt her win- dow, he took It ftom itshlace observing. that sch a dao b wats Tot we orthy of being display oa on her wiidov, and then smashing it in pieces, said that lie culd replace it bvtsubtstiutsng a new one. Se was angry with hio at the time for ths libertyhhe had taken, bitt was not conscious: of the reatol he ha foif breaking it until after she had been robbed. This piece of board, sne sain, was always placed in such a sitcuationin her window, that any cersons attempting to open it fromathe autside must, in their endea,vors, knock it down, the noise from which woutld giv-e the alarm to the persons within. After shebad been robbed, it was discovered that the thieves entered her house by forcing the window where this board was usually placed, and froml thatcircumstance, together with thovemalready stated, she suspectedi the prisoner was coneraed wito the men who has been already ctom nitteil for trial. Airs. Valenvtine, anot her witness, stated that on the morning *ars. Taylor's house hatl eeii broken open, she ramv Puedy and Taylor in company together they left a house where they had beenedrinking hmand smoing vTac iefiyfthydrtinefrwihtirpase. and smoking, eaho wai fnith a pipe in his mouthv. A Watehinan stated, thateon exaiining that part of Ars. Tav- lor'slhouse which had been entered, immediately after the robbery, lie obsterved two empny t c saide onthe groind, close to the win- dow byu whiphnhed thene ckgot into thevho use. Thism evi ence was orve trbrated oub yde ine otheo r wies, a nd w l the prisoner was committed. By the er,acditiityatnd eertio of S at ow, one of the constablis of ,ewinsc things formdabloweda wisw nearly broken up, as most of tose ompoing t ae ben t ied ndconvicte. Abfather aend surton" nM Carter,were charged with having co m m it te d an assa ult on an old m an an d h is w ife, all resid en t alt JohiiSwain, the coiplainant, statedl, that the assault arose under these circustanesa s -On the 5th of November, a number of'the boys belonging to the stcibhorrheood, among whom was voung Car. ter, catne in front of his house, and proceeded to let off' crackers, quibls, and Roitanccanudpe, to the great terror of his (complainant's) wifa. Upon observing the state of' agitation in which his tife was, he went otut, and requiested the boys would remove to some distance and amuse themselves. This they refused, and threatened to burn himpand his wife in offigy,fthey durst interfere with their pleasures. ile wos in consequence obligetd totake out a summons against youTg Carter, who wrA isned Ss. for letting off fire.works.'Ever since that conviction, the comnpila,ant declared that his wife and himgelf have been annoyed in rery waity possible by he crowds of youngster Not content, he said, with callin'g c teomby the vilest names, they atuelk a pole tu p in front of the dloor, witia eat suspended by the necki ; and every time , rs. swainiiven- tured outside the doors,v he was followed by the boys, calling out after her,and imitating the cry ofsa cat. "Really,"oala the comnplains ant,~' if such things are allowed,my wife and I'hed a thtousand timies better be in purgatory." ote r. Carter's bay, he said, was prominent in all these goings on and when he spoke to the father on the sub- ject, he wvas assaulted by him. Both tea r efendantgdecglred that the old man anEinhis wife csn- jured up a thousand strange thiin s in theirtinds; the fact was, they were the greatest bores in the s nighboriood, and wahile they were in it there never would be peace or tranquillity. True it wa", the pole withi the cat upon it had beLen placed before the door,butthiey hadl neither liaiid, act, or part it. Reed, thie constable, knowing all the parties, represenited tse complainanit andsighi wife as of very irritable tempers-, and( the idle boys, taking advantage of it, certainly played rniny tricks upon them. The defendants were dlischarged upon p%yment of thte costs. In the course of the niorning, Reed, the constable of Clapham, gave information that a large trunk, containinig considierable pro. pert , had been cut fromi behiind Mlajor Crawford's carriagge, o-n the road between Upper Tooting and Vauxiiall turnpike. It appeared that Mlajor Crawford xvaes returning fromi his country residence on MVondaynight between cight and iiine o'clock, wheni the p'sstillions stopped at the above turnpike-gate, theltrunk, was missed. An invcn- tory of' the property stoleni was sent to the office, which consisted of, beslides a usknu iSvof other property,arnecklace, chain, andecar-rings;, for bracelets, a. large gold heart and chain; dit ig n eea ornamental rinigs. The trunk, notwithstanding it was ftLster,cd withi a patent chain amid two straps, was cat away hy the expert thieves. poLICE.