Police.
The Times, 1824-05-27T00:00:00

'IUTr.DUALL.-The circumstances of the fraud committed bv Walsh upon the late Master of the Rolls, whicl niust be fresh in tile rcollection of our readers. ,zave risc to the statute 52 Geo. lII., cap. 13, commonly cal3cl Sir Thomnas Plomer's act, by which agents of aU descritonons secreting or applyingto their own use any bill. &c., contrary to the sDecial purpose for which. it was intrusted to them. are deemcd guiltv of a misdemeanour, and subjected to 14 y ears' transportation. To the honour of the comm erc.al world there naa siot, we believe, been a single conviction under this act. The first serious comp2aint under it at this office occurred vesterday, be- fore . r. Alderman Cow. 31r. ThorRsss Garner RidConond, surveyor and estate-agent, Pinac's-st.eet, Baak, was brought up in custodv of slarrison; the rwrshal:man, charged with appropriatinr to hiisown use the pro- ceedi. of a bill of excnange for 1251. lO., delivered to him in t!se capacity of a bill.broker, for the purpose of being dis- counted. The short facts were these:-3Mr. William. Hale, a person residing at Salisbury, having laid claim to an estate as the descendant from the great Sir Matthew Hale, and be- ing in vant of monev to prosecute his claimn in law, obtain- ed frorn a friend of his, MNr. Alaxwell, a rcspectcble butcber in Newgate.market, two acceptances, for the purpose of getting them discounted. He was recommended by 1Mr. Maxwell to the defendant, as a bill.broker, who would negotiate the business ; and accordingly gave him a written instruction to get one of the bills for 1251. lOs. discountecd agreeing to give him as a premium for so doing 251. lOs. The bill, which was to run six months, was de- livered :o the defendant two moaths ago, since whichl timc the coin- plainant had only oren able to obtain 331. from him-; and although he 'aad repeatedly demanded the return of the bill. offering to pay the sum advancea, he had not been able to obtain that or the balance. The answer to his applications on this su'bject uniformly was, that he wonld try to get the business done inext day. Mr. Partington, the solicitor, appeared for the defendant, and stated, that the sum that had been advanced on the bill was not 331., but 581.; that Richmond hail never acted as, or pretended to be, a bill-broker; and that there had been an erpress areemcent between t*e narties, that a part of the I.01. shoultl remain in the defi ndant's hanas. until it should be seen whether the bill were honoured or not, in consideration of his having become responsible by endorsing it. This latter fact Alr. L{ale positively deniel on his oath. The defer.dnt admitted the money he had Liven Mr. Hale had been advanced by agentlerman who held the bill, and expressed his .-llngness to return the bill upon beingTepaid the money advanced, renmunerated for his loss of time, and rimbuarsed his cxpense. {No, you shal not have a farthing expenses," replied 3Ir. Hale's solicitor; and after somne further discussion, the defendant insisting upon his expenses being paid, M1r. Alderman Cox said he conceiveil a case had been madc oct to warrant his sen ling him for trial, and le stood cornmitttd.-The defendant aftcrwards found bail. l,FATTOh--GARDEx._ Yesterday Johtn Rcsnn,1. 1)q.. was brought un from Pentonville watchhlouse, charged with havir,; robbed AIr. Douglas of 2,400i. in bank-notes. lWriles, a constable of C'lerlen wel, deposed that yesterday evening lie was sert for by lr. 1onglas, of Pcntnnvie, who desired him to take the p.isoner into cs.ady, as he bad robbed him of the above-naned suni. The pri. ScDer at tEle time was in MrI. Douglas's house. and on scarchi2ng bini -wer'. found on his person two notes of a thousand poundcs eachi, one of three hundred, and a hundred pound note. He immediately took hiu to the lvatchhouse. A Solicitor attended on behalf of each party. It was urge4 on the part of the defendant. that there was a good deal of money tramnsactihoms between the parties, originating out oF accoirtmodation_ tielr, sund txoe conceir aotoat he had some claims on complainant, the proscutor, after a good deal of discussion between the parties, consented not to press tlse charge of felony, but to have the mo- ntey paid into the bands of some respectable baniker, until their private accounts wrere arranged. Thc parties then retired -vrith WiZlles, the constable (who had*.lhe meney in his posses3- sion since the preceding evening), to lodge it in a banking-house in Lurnbaad -treet. TowNirALLt A case of mucli novelty was hleard at this office, the ovezseers of St. Olave's parish calling on the magistrates to punish a young woman named Eleanor Cody, a pauper in their workhouse, undera dormant act of Parliamenit of the 7th of Jamnes I., for incontinence, as the mother of several illegitimate children. The eomplaint was, that the delinquent had, during 8 years' resi- 'lence in the parish, given birth to three illegitinate c'aildren, who became chargeable, independent of one born in theadjoining parish of St. John, Horslcdow s, and being nov centcie of a fifAt. The parishioners deemed it high time (the fsther of them all, having eluded their utmost vigilance) to shield themselves fronm the bur- densome effects of her prflfigacy, by the enactments of the aforesaid statute, and have her committed to prison. AIderrman J. J. SatriT, with whom sat Aldermai WoOD, after perusing the act, said, th it during 20 years that he had sat as a ma- gsstrate, no similar application had ever been made to him; it re- iained, however. for the parish to sbow that the female before him came under that description of persons contemplated by the act, which expressly says " lewd and dlisordetly." Tb is he considered could rot be 'done, as it was in liis recollection, that on a former ap- Cearance of thUs wroman before him. their own beadle bad described er asone "moresinned againstthan sinning," the father of herchil- dren having basely deserted her; and that she was, with the excep. tion of her attachbnentto hiim, of modest, sober, and unimpeachable conduct. With this admissios staring him itn the face, he consider. ed the provisions of the act had nothing whatever to do withi her case. Alderman WOOD perfectlycoincided. In the different country lirisons he had visited, he found many persons who had been corn- nttted under'the statute in question, but they were of the most abain- doned classes-outcasts, who overwhelmed the parisbes with the off- Spng of indiscriminate intercourse. The greatest fault attributed to this poor womar. was fidelity to a worthless fellow, against whom a warrant, if applecd for, would issue. Theparish offieers relied, that warrants had long since been granted, the effects of which the father eluded with a dexterity truly a ris5ing; baffling their most industrious efforts to takec him; but satil hcon rirvihng by straeagemt continue the illicit connewion in spite Alderman WOOD-._" CH'S a clever fellow to keep clear of you -when you catch him, we will award merited punishment." The overseers inquired what was to be done ? The woman might ,povide them with a scorC, if not stopped. AddernSan 1SXTU-_~ ' No doubt, it is the commencement of a bad course, which. you can only arrest in the person of the man - your own admisuons vitiate the case as against her, and it is our duty to dismiss it.-Th e woman was then discharged SIOGNHALL...Yesterdayaa man whostyledhimslf "lrBi, Kinz and ~ GrandAlastr of all theCo tuoa"wsbogt before Li, A. ALLEN, Esq,charged under the fowing circumstances - M~r. Qsboe.,landlord of the 3rickaes rs tWalwortb, s.tated, tha te defendant came tond hi the largest aprmn nit, sayirng that he was theKn fteCauos n ihad alicencegto display his imperial cabalistc owerorerhepu. lie. The landlord, not doubting the veracity of his statement cordingly let- him the large club-ro nhshuefrtody,i which heexhibited his entertainmients to a-group of persons who kept his house inastateofuliror arndconfusion dunn the t After the audience hadl retired on the second nig?ie of thi exhibi tion, the defendant immediately began to pack up his machiner, and was about to leave the house withlout saying a word, nor hinting at paym.ent for the roo; when the cominlsinant, seeing the trick about to be put upon him, said "Mr. Conjuror, 1'11 takecare you do not conjure yourself ont of tl:s house until you pa-me for tay room." U rpon which the conjuror runed round nd wore " he'd ptunch bis eye out, *fhe uas not suffered-o depart. He then at- tempted to leave thehouse, but was prevented by the complainant, weho callel the watchman, and gavehim in chare. M r. ALLEN n aked the defendant if he had a licence or authotity to exhibit ini public? The defendantreplietl that he had, and produced a bit of greasy taper, which, after considerable pains in deciphering, was found to eean zauthority for his acting asa trumpeter. Mr. A,Lz-.-.This is no licence fo sexhibiting your entertain. 'ment at public-houses. The defendant said that it was the only licence he ever had, and Iast it h ad uzer been queadomd befote. He had, he nsid,'tsebo lionr to Lxhmbjt bleficr their Mlajeeties -at Fzogmo?~e fete whrh as'tonshe th v neaHcads,of Englandl bY his cdi-inanding the Prince of Orange's diamonid zifi. td pass from one hand to the other 1itilout.touching it. After this phenomenon, he sard, thiyill rose withastonishment, and with one voice of honoirearobain eclafimed, he had totaliy eclipsed all those conjurors wo ever ait-: tempted thisprodigy;' Hehbad also thebhonour tobceint'fer toper- form before agreat number ofpersonsofdistinctiois, am'ongst whom were the following :-The Duke of Bedford, the Archbishop of York, liord Castlereagh the A-ehdleacon of Canterbury, Lord Kelsb,-tile Duke of NoWbfok, LordEi`henborough, Sir Vatkin Wil. Hianws Wynu, and several otheis of tlhe'Nobilotv. Ar. ALLEN observed,tht tbhati had, nothing at all to do with the charge wihichi he was n3ow brouight tip for. AIr. Halla,theChiefConstable, stated, that the defenaant had performed at sowero, th low public-houses about Rent-street, wvhere he generu]ycllectd- crowd of vagabonds. He (the 'con'. stable), had morethan once cautioned publicans agairist allowing such exhibitionis atterhUse. lAlr. Ar.Lnr; told the detEndaat that if he persisted Mi'exhibtig hlis petfomiances at publi-c.houses, the very niext tiie he wa's brought before hirm on tha-t cbarge, he- would rend him. to. Brixton for. a montlh. TheMalgistrate then advised Mr. Oshb~rn to sumions him) to the Cosurt of Requests for the price of the roomin hicahwiei he entertaiined the audience The three -men Spcncer, Johnson. and Darer, wbto'have under-' gone. several examinations, charged on suspicion with the.murder of Alary WVilkins, at Caiberwell, were put to the bi. The magistralte observed that there w,asnot siffiaieh's'e~iadePcA h- fore him to send either of the prisoners before a jury,$notwi'thstand- ing both Johnison, and Spdncer's- account of their proccedings after having left the uafortunatewoman had~~~ ben combkc , -ttly.fasift6d by ihlr an Mr. Kan,of he~Vhie Hrsepubhc.whouse.. Wiith ie. poesble,and et own o hi famly n Deonshre, hic lepro. PoLICI?.