Police.
The Times, 1824-12-09T00:00:00

MANION.to~uosE...The inhabitants. of the neighbou,rhool ofl Houndsiditch halic for Rome time kept an oflicer at thelr own expense to watchi th2tahonsinableden oftLhieves, receivers of stolen goos, and proMttutEs, Aagel-alley, into which, tfpropertv is'oneeconveve,ter never ekis. a the slightest clianceoof its recovery, the fheilities for de- stroying- all mnarks,I'w which identity can be- established being of the most, extraordinarv krind. The officer -stated, that a's hie was watching the entrance to thig den, he saw a miati. namned Georire Bailey, antd another, running towards it witht a chiest of tea uipon their shoulders. He caught thetm before thev turned down the alley, where they could ini as- Instant have tnasisfeiredl the tea to another vessel and burned the chiest. One of-.the thieves escaped, but Bailey was taken into custody. He said it was all a mistake of the officer's. The dlriver of a cart stated,that liehadloaded hiis c-srt at Crutched.. friars warehouse, in order to convey it to Shoreditch, and thni in Bishepsgate..street he missed the. chest of tea producted, for the value of which he was accountable. It *as'about a quarter past five when he missed it, The chiest was then iidentified by the owner, and the LottD MAxon sent Bailey to Njewgate to take his trial. It wase stated that AngecL.alley continues to be as greata. nutsance as ever. If'by any aecident a stranger ventures into it, he may be considered lucky if he escapes merely uaked, and with whole bones. BOWC-T.txET,._Ye8terday Clauidius Samunel Desas,ges, dean Bo~nnet, anid GtUWauime Durntaine a'lias Delatre, three Frenchmen), were brought before Sir RICYIAItD Bzstscr, and und erwent a very long examination on thze charge of' kaving, by violent threats, ex- torted fror4 DI!. Thebommery, a Frenchi merchant, re(iding in the city of London), certain valuable seeturities..naniel v, 290 shares in a mercantile company, c~alled "1The Paris and iAladrfd WVoollen Clotlh Companly." It appeAred by the teatiniony of several witnesses, that some timne ago a company of merchiants, in Paiis obtained from the King of' Spain a 4.'Roval Concession" for the exclus.ive mnanufacture of wool. lend~coth% -at Miadrid, and agents were appointed by the Company in various parts of Europe for the sale ofrshares. The agents in london- were Miessrs.Evartli and Thebommery, of Broad-street, c-ity,whio had been intrusted with 1,000 shiares for sale. I'Ihe banker to the com-. pany, at Paris, is M. Verret. Some short time ago the defendants went to the gentleman ahove.mentioned, and represented themsselves to be employed by Al. Vernet, the Paris banker, to raise mnoney for binm upon th shBares which Mescsrs. Evarith and 'rhebommery bed in their possession, vnd desired to be furnished with a quanitity for that purposb. The shbaft1s were then at about 451. per share, and were in the nature of Excbequer..bills, bearing interest and payable at Mtadrid or Paris. Mtesses. Evarth and Thebommery refused to part with any of the shares until thtey were better satisfied that the defendlants had authority to dispbse otf them. Desanges pressed re- peatedly to have some stipplied to htm, and siaid he kneW a capitalist who would imnmediately advance money upon them. After bieing steveral timies pressed to give the name of his capi- talist, Desanges at length said it was Kinnear, wvho, it may be recollected, was one of the parties in a very celebrakted case in the Court of King's Bench, some six or seven years ago. The defendants repeated their demand several times, and were as eften positively refused : at which, it waa stated, they becamne des- perately enraged. A few evenings ago, they went together to the private counting-house of Ml. Thebonimnery, in Nicholas-lane, Lomba.xd-street, anad finding Ibins there alone, they com~menced a series, of thireats, whicis were to be put in execution. unless he gave up to thiem the shiares whiclh lie bad in his owni possession. They saitd, among othier things, that they would immediately publish a letter wh-ichi should affect thie credit of the Company and also the credit of their (31essrs. EvArth anid Thebommncry's3~ house, and Bonnet, in a violent rage, swore he would plunge a poniard in thie heart of M. Thebommiery eAnless their demand was complied with. Unider the terror of these throatis. M. Thebonitnery gave up 290 of the shares -in quxestion, withi which th-e defendants left the house. Mlr. Eva-eth came in before thiey left the house, and Ibuind his partner in a great fright, and the defeondants in as great a passion but he was toe late to prevent thenm obtaining the shares. - l. 'hebocmi mery immediately conveyed information of this transaction to the Comnpany at Paris, and on Tue-sday night M.. Pierre Audriel one af the managing partners, arrived in London, and a warrant was ob. tamned from Sir RICHARD BIR-vcEs for the apprehension of tlie do.. fendznts. Bishop, Mlorria, and Nichiols took thecm into custody in a few hours. Thie above facts were sworn to, anld M. Audriel swore that the shiares were the property of himiself and partners, and that they had gvn ithiedefendants no authority to dispose of them. Ti,.e defence set up was, that they were authorized and employed by AL! Vernet,, the Paris banker, to raise money upon thesse %hares in titis couintry, he being a partner in the Company, anid their banker. On thec othe-r side, it was denied that .It!. Vrnthdaypwro Afte a ong xamnaton, r. ermr, who attenided for the comlaiant, ntiate tht is liets nl desIred, to have the shaes esore, nd o b potete frnIthe threatened violence of thedelndint. I thy oal gie p the hares, no moere would be rquied o thm thn t entr ito recognizances to keep the peace Trhe defendants satid, they had lsinms upon Ml. Vernet, and they shoud no gie opthe hises util heywere satisfiedt. The omplinans sad, tey wuld ot object to the shares beinig impundd a ths ofic unil t culdbe ascertained wliether they had ay clim upn Id Vernt, ad ifthey fiad, it shouild be settled, but heycoud nt coasn tht te dfendants should keep posses- At length Desanges went with an officer atnd Air. Harmer. and broughit the shares to the office, wherc they were tied and sealed with the official seal, and Ml. Audriel, having affixed his own seal, they were depositedlin the ma,gistrates' drawer. The. defendants Dutiiaine and Bonnet were held to bail in 1001. each to keep the peats. Desanges, not having himself used any direct threat, was discharged uniconiditionally. UNION-HALr.--ALLEGZD CttAttGS OF MuitrizuYester. day a mian named Amnbrose Gunndzll was brought before thec sitting megistrate, R. .J. CrIAMixEns, Esq., charged en tsuspicion of having murdered a woman named Anne Bruton.- One of the overseers of the parish of St. Saviour, Siouthwrark, stated that the deceased was admitted into the workhouse of that parish on the 4th instant, arid she expired the following day. The parish siurgeon who attended her pronounced that she d ied in consequence of the typhus fever, hut observed that her tongue exhibited a very extraordinary appearance, being s4welledI to an enorniouis size, and quite black. Iimnedliately subsequcnitto her death, strong reports prevailed. in'the neirhbour. hiood whiere the deceased lived before she was taken inte the workltouse, that her death proceeded from the inruries she bud received from the prisoner; that en the night of' the024th of- No- vember, several persons who reside in the samne street, (Park-street, Southwark>, heardl cries of murder proceed from the house in which the dleceased lodgedI ; and somne of the lodgers in the samne house had since stated, that the deceased having heen indebted to lien landlord (the prisoner), some rent for her apartment, that individual was plainly heard to ill-treat her, by knocking her head against the wall, this noise from which, and tier cries, were distinctly hecad. Frons thesRe circumstances, aee well as thie following letter, wliicht was re- ceived by Mlr. Gale, thie beadle of' the paslsh.. 1To Mr. Gale. "Sir,.-As I have been I n Formed of the dleath of Anne Bruton, I think it my duty to state, that I have beet, informed th-at shie eame by her deathi in oponsequence of a blow fromi her landlord, owing to a quarrel betweeni themn abouit a few sweeks' rent s'he was indebted to himn, which, c-an be certified by a number of the neighbours in P'ark- street., Her datughter knows somiethIing about it. Don't neglect this case. (Signed> "3 J. a C1tAXT.` they (teliseprish officcrs~, conisidered it tfieir dluty to sitate the cir- cumstances above related, to. the magistrate. On hearing the above statemnent, as the prisioner was not then in custody, the Mlagistrate directed that he shiould he immtdiately apprehiended, when. Glanno-n the officer undertook lthe task, and' secured. him at'a ehom t distance from thle office.. Ann Bruxton, the deceased's clanghter, was examinied : the stated, that on the night of the 24th of No~vember, her miother, who, ap- pcared-to be rather its liquor, eame homne and proceeded up stairs to. her roomn. Soon after she entered the room, witness went out in order to fetch a pint of' porter for her own suipper but shie had starcely got twio yardsL from the hall door, when she'heard her mo- ther call out 'm nurder" several times.. Wiitness ran back into the liouse in consequence. and founsd the prisoner knocking a nail into the door of her mother's apartment. NYitnes asked himn what he did thiat for, and he replied that he wanted te fasten her in. Wiit- ness told him if ho v~ish ed to mnake a prisoner of lien, to do so in a proper tuatmeg,1bitt not to fasten hier up in her own room : that the prisoner m4ade e~tr no reply to this, but walked down stairs, ard. that witness,ona going isto the apartment, observed her miother standing up against the wall - crying. Witness asked what was the' matte'r with hee', when -lie replied, " That murder. in), villain (mneaning the prisonier) triedI to throttle m-e.i Mliness desired her to state in what way. Bex mot'her explained it, by ut- ting her liand to her neck, aa4 signifyingzlthat her landlordV at gaped her by, the thras.t and shook her violently againist the wall. Shme ppearedi to, be very ill atter this, g~rid-witness put her to. bed. Hler illneRssIncrease~d, when* witness commuinicated,lher dangerous sitkks,tion to the. parish officers, who removed her to th e ,workiousse, whiere ebbe died the day following that en, whielb she was admitted, in reply to the Magistrale's question, the wvinliess declared that her motheri had been ueclininq in hbealth since the night oni which she siAted she had'reeelwed the injuries fromriii.5. Gun nell, The prisoner havingg been cautioned in the usual way niot to ansawer the. charge in the Presenit'stage of the proceedingrs, euoless hleip ishied to do to, int'imated, 'thatt as he, wan an lan6ident man, he felt no danger in tlii the truthi.Ile then procee led to give thle follo.wing accounat, wvhii uwi asken down by the chief clerk ;- -0n tise nigist suesiened, the deceased came hiome veiry tip3'y, and attempted to walk up stairs, but was go ovQrcomne withI lilaor% that site was unable to proceed, and lie, seeing-the situ- atton ini which she wias, assisted her up to her room, after which" he went down, and in about half an hour afterwards, be heard, a n'oiac, proceed froin the deceased's 'rooml, as if she addc her dnauclhter were quarrelling, upon which he agaits asceendted, andl desires that less noise wrould lie made. The old. lady ciried out from within on hear- Ing himn, "Go to hell with1 you.'" The daughter then went out for beer. atid before two miiiiitci elapsed she camne baLck again, whitle ha (witnes) weeinte act of fasteninig the door, -in order to prevent the old wma fis fllngdon hestir ad rele a he ons.He r;a,~h aded,goig iapp fo warans aattst omeofiisnigk Witstod tor 2 e tff i t-nee ad, i f~kT tra ti g tnO int R e h d, e sa V1I~Ce le u~ eer tuer 1-ti deese with 44 ,ioqne -fi poRer6.v aIg h6 i Miigitrat remndedtI~epnsoer utilthe rs Inqestisknon, ndin hjisn.~ntue directed ht6 ti' sargeon ber q ? stdt x m nct e b 4 t h e e ae i uey Th rin='!ee al btit iirj,e - POLICR.