Police.
The Times, 1824-07-03T00:00:00

QtVr.sDALr.-Among the "disorderlics" brought before the sitting magistrate, MIr. Alderman Tnompsow, on Mlonday, were two young men, who, without any apparent provocation, had ill. treated a woman of the town, and torn her clothes. As it would have been but q poor satisfaction to the girl to have bound her over to prosecute, and the young men having some character to lose, of- fered to make her every compensation in their power the mag,strate allowed them to settle the business between themseives, and it was subsequenfly reported to hin that they had dene so by giving the girl l0x., and the yssung men were accordingly discharged. On his way home fromn the office, however, the Alderman was accos ed by the girl herself, who complained to him tthat Thomas Smith, the constable of St. Bride's, who had the young men in custody, got from them 30s. to settle the affair, but had only given het lOs., keep- ing the sovereign himself. The subsequent dlay the Alderman di- rected Smith to be summoned before him; he, however, did not attend, but making his appearance vesterday with another charge, the Aldenran took that opportunity of investigating the accusation against tite constable himself, who, in excuse for not having attended upox the summons pleaded he had never received it, There are, said the Alderman, certain disgraceful practices of the constables and watchmen in the city, whenever cases of trivial as. sault are allowed by the llagistrate to be settled by the parties making compensation for the damage or injury they have commit- ted, of claiming and receiving a portion of such compensation for themselves. This, as far as lies in my power, I shall take care to put a '.;p to. It is very seldom that I permit cases of this sort to be so settled; but in the case on Monday last, I did allow it, and I now learn that the young men paid 30s; and that you kept a sove- reign for yourself, and gave the girl only 10s. This was directly con. trary to my orders; you were not assaulted,and had no claim for any part of the money. You only had the parties in custody, as the Constable, and you are paid for doing your duty. Smith.-Please your Worship, that is quite false. WVhat I re- ceived was a voluntary gitt. I did not ask for anything, but the girl gave itre Avr. lldci n Tuo5rPsom.-I am differently ihformed, nor is it likely that the girl would give you the greater part of the money. Where are the watchmen P Mloore. one of the patrols, now stood forward, and stated, .that the girl told binm that Mr. Smith had received 30s. from the gentle- men, and had only given her IO.., and she supposetI he meant to di. vide the rest with the watchmen. Ile (Moore) h received nothing and r. Smith said he should give none of them anv of it; he should keep it bimself. Mlr. Smith had frequenentle' done so before. Smith said he had only kept 7s. of it. The other 13s. he had given to the watchmen and patrol. Gregg, one of the watchmen. said Smith gave him and Fishburn, his fellow watchman, Gs. eachi, and they gave a shilling each out of it to Johnson, the patrol; so that it appeared that though the only evidence examined before the magistrate was Gregg, who saw the disturbance, and took the parties into custody, a second watchman and two patrols had contrived to get mixed up with the charge to share any booty tbat might accrue,besides the constable of the night; and most probably but that loore was shut out of the distribution, he would never nave egged on the girl ts make complaint, and the magistrate would have heard nothing of so shameful a transaction. As Smith persisted that the girl voluntarily gave him the s9- vereigo, and asshe was well known on the thepaao in Fleet-street, the MIarselalman was directed to obtain her attendance to-morrow (thi. day.) MIARuLBnOUGse-STssEET.-.Mr. RoE, the magistrate at this ofliee, was yesterday occupied for a considerable time in the exami- nation of a young man who was brought to the office in a backney- coarh, upon the following singular and extraordinary charges:- 'The prisoner p)resented perhaps the most remarkable appearance that ever was exhibited at a police-office. fe was dressed in a scar- letjacket, richly embroidered and ornamented with broad gold lace, a pair of crimson cloth trousers, ornamented up the sides with broad gold lae also, a black stock, a shacco, or light dragoon's cap, boots and long brass spurs, and his eyesstreaming with tears. He Is a re. markably slight genteel figure, very fair complexion, and wears mus- tachios. Being placed at the bar, Alr. Cooper, horse-dealer and Ii- veryvstalsle.keeper in Grosvenor-mews, came forward and stated, that the prisoner came to his stables about ten days ago, and presented lis prixted card, " Ilenry Caple Conuyers, 9th Lancers," saying that hehad justbeen appointed tothatregimeut, arid was preparing to join, witis which view hecame to purchase two horses for the service. Air. Coopershowed him several,andhepitchedupon two,forwhich heaRreed to pay 160 gaineas; but sying that he was going toritop in town some days, and would not use the horses about the StreetM, he reduested to have a pair of hacks for himnself and his servant. Mlr. COooper halppened to ktiow the servant2 who haa been only hired the day be- fore by the prisoner, and he let him hate the horses, wblch lie has beet rz.dirwe about for several days, while, in the rnteuenae m, Dr4S Coolll WU, ptepaht hovie.cbodie, sadalery, &t,, for the peisoner, according to his dirietirsis. (n the Inst occaxion, however, that he- called, Mir. Cooper happenled to get a peep at the -prIsoner's,. shirt, which isipriar-ei to be q0 a Vory'da?k coloutl fbiran offlicer of,the 9th Lancers ; 9and aithioua he lXnew tbe'Conyeye fasmilylin Essex to be highly respectable, e.- be-gan to suspect somiething wrong, anfd' mentioned his suspicio to aperson who had been in the ~service of hisi Royal Hihness th'Duke ci! York, and who now liolds a situa. tioii in thie revenue. I'i person went with Air. Cooper to the War-office, where thewee iniformed that there-was no person of the ameo Coycraliite 9th, nor was tlhere likely to be ; and that upwardIs'of fifty persons had already beeni to' the office inquiri ng abou thesam peron. ponthis Ifr. Cooper said thiat he hadl no doubt the priso-ner was a swindler, and determined to secure him whennext he called. The prisonier, howrever, had not calledsinee,nor had Mlr. Cooper he.vd ny thing of him until that morninig. As5Cr- vent of M%r. tooper'shgippene to be on busriness at thieHorse Bazar in Portland-street, whin hesaw the prisonler strutting about in his presentclress, armn-in-irm with ageiitleman now present. The ser.. vant told the prisoner that be would insist on his comnilg to speak to Air. Cooper about the putrchase he had made, and accordingly they all got into a coadi anid drove to Mir. Cooper's, whio immedi- ately bTought thie party to this, office. eMr. Ron then ordered the pyisoner to be searched, anid oni unbut- toning his beautiful lacea coat, a most extraordinary sight was exhi- bited, realizing thec most, extravagant caricatures of the Dandy uribe. His shirt was not dar bIt blc, ancl almost in ribands, and there was no waistcoat to hide any part of it. On proceeding further, Plank, the. chief offices, who siearched him, found in hils trousers. pocket a pistol loaded to the mazzle, and primeri, and a large bottle of laudanuim about half-filled. Mtr. East, a t-ailor, residing in Duke-street, SL James's, next camenforwavrd,. and aaid that a servant whom lie liad formerly knwna liig with a genitleman that dealt with him, called on him and said that ebelid jusat been lired to Captain Conyers of the 9th Lancers, who whitted an entire ft-out to join the regiment, and wished Mr. East to have the job; Mfr. East accordingly waited uipon the Captain at the B3edford Hotel, in Coven' gardens,where he appeared to be livinghin very ereat style. The Captain, who is the pre,s,e,nt prisoner, confirmed what the servant had said, anid gave MVr. Eatanrder foT 701, worth of uniform, &c., for the 9th Lanceers ; part of the order was executed, to the amouint of about 20'.. anid the things delivered to the prisoner at the Redford Hotel, who told Mfr. East thiatwhen theorder was comp'leted hie would giveacheck uponliis bankers for the whiole amouint ; but when he next inquiired for the prisoner at the hotel, he found that he had decamped, and he saw no mlore of him until he saw him by accident passing with AlIr. Cooper in the coach, and hie followed him to the office. Thie rest of the order Mr-East said was completedl at hiome, and the things being mnade for so alight a masn as the prisoner, they were totally useless John Smith, a groom, residing at No. 10, Circus.-street, stated, that some mionths ago the prisoner, who then called himself Liord De Mlontfort, and occupied a boute splendidly furnished in Glb- cester-place, applied to Air. )tonng, the manager of the Horse Ba, zatir,to ptirchsoe two valuAble horses then to he sold, the property of-`Sir Thomas Malcolm, and actually did agree upon terms for the horsesi, hsaying also that hig wanted a groom, and Mlr. Young sent the witness to his "lordship," who immnediately hired himat a liberal wages, clothes, &e. The, witnesqs referred for hiis character to the Earl of Oxford and Lord IHarlev wvithi whomi he had lived, and the pioer calledl on their LorJslips, and took up his chiaracter; but wv hen" witnes9s next went to Glocester-place, he found that hisg new snasster had decamped, and since thlen he had seen nothing of him until that mcirning at the Bazaar. The gentleman' who was wvalking in the Bazaar with the lprisoner was nowasked by Mlr. Ron, wvhat lie knew of thle prisoner, and what his own name was ? The gentleman said, that really he was so shamiefully duped by the prisoner, as he nowv clearly sanw, he should feel obliged to be ex- cused entering at all upon the subject. Mlr. Roe, however, insistedl uipo-n an answer to his inquiry, when the gentlemani made, asl well as we could hear, for he spoke in a whiisper, the followingr statement : His namne, if we understood riglit, is Captain Wilson, andl he said that he met the prisoner soriee days ago, accideotally dIiniing in the same coffee.room at the west enid of the town, anid having got into conversation, the prisoner told him that his name was Paget, that he wasi the nephew of the AMarquhs of Anglesea, andl he had just been ap- pointed to the 9th Lancers. Hlavinig a high respect far any mnember of thatfiamily,Capt.W vilson nototilv becameintiniatewith him butintro- dluced him toal i.srespectable-fiiends in towin,with many o?whiom lie had dined,andevens,lept at thefr ouises;and nocircuimiaeazce whatever excited his suspicion, until Thursdlaylas,t, when he was invited by the prisoner to dline wsith hireat Biunet's hiotel, in Leicester-sqaare; hut afterdining in a most sumptuous manner, and drinking a good (heal of champagne, the bill was c4lled for, wheon suddenlyr the prisonier discoveredI that lie hiad not dtawn an intended check that day upon hiis banker, anid politely requested Captain Wilson to defray the chiarge, which he did, to the amount of five sovereigns all but 4s. He met hiim again that mnorning in the extraordiniarv dress he now wore, which is not the dress of any regiment in'the service, and walked with him for a shert time in thie Bazaar, whien MVr. Cooper's maiin accosted him. The buttons on the scarlet jacket were here examined by Plank, and found to bear the inscription-"' 13th Native Bengal Infantry." Air. East-said, that thisa perit of thie dress did not belong to him, but the crinison trousers did. The prisoner here saul, that he got the jacket that morninlg fromi a ew in. Newport-strect, with whoin he exchanged his own plain clothes for it. Plunk hiere observed a small pocket wlhichi had escaped his, search, andi putting his handi in, took out a paper, in which wag, contained two checks, one for 351. and the other 251., in these words: "Pleae to ay Gorge laIls E ,' "Sudeliff, 'June 24, 1824. Pleae t pa Gerge ials, sq.or bearer, thirtv-five oounds, whbich p lace to ny account. " EDWARD AMARKLAND. "cTo Miessrs. Hammersley and Co. bankersi, London." MIr. Ron hiere observed that this purported to he the signature of Mlr. Alarkland, the magistrate at Queen.square office. There was also in the pipe-r one of those imitationl bank-notes issued by MVr. Aiaealpin, the hairdresser in Threadneedle-street, for 1,0001. At this period of the examinatioa Atr. Ron called upon the pri.. soner to give soine account of himself, when he stated that his real namne was Efenry Lowve, that his father is Mir. Thomas Lowe, a merchant, havinig his coutnting-house at No. 115, Lower Thames- street, tand his private house at M5anor-place, Walworth. That he hirmself bad been placed by hIsl father in thte oMce of Mlr. Elston, a merchant, No. 20, Basinghall..street, hut not liking confinemnent, he went home again to his father's hiouse, whiere he remained until a month ago, wheni he ran away, and enlistedi as a private soldier ini the 78th regment, and was attested at Queen-square office, before life, Markiand, the mangistrate; but when he got to the depot of tise reg-iment, the Adjutant toli hiim that hiis constitution was too delicate, and toot soldiering would soon kill himn; and haLving got a furlough from the Adjutanit, he camne to town to get his friends to buy him oflf, but he hiad ilot been near any of them yet. Hie had no doubt, however, that his father would ipay all the demaands upon himn if he were made acquiainted with his situation. He said Etha the witness Smith was maistakeni in saying that he liad hired him as a groom several months- ago$ for he was then in the coanting-hioase of Mlr. Elaton. dir. Rot asked him whathlis age was ?-n'e said 17 thisa monthi. The 11 aistrate asked how hie came by those checks on Ham. -ers 's bank?-He replied, that he wrote them himself, merely frhis amuemeont; but lie had no idea of making use of them. He took the namne of Mir. Atarkland from the Couirt Guide, but he would have as soon token any other name. Mlr. Ron observed that it was much more likely that lie made the imitation from Mir. Mlarkiand's signaturTe to the attestation. As to the imitation bank-note found on him, the prisoner said that he got it from Air. AMalealpin, on whiom lie called a few days ago to have his hair cut, in company w-itls a Air. Shiapioniere, the son of en officer of riasrines, with whom he is acquainted, and who lives in the Albany-road. Mlr. RoE asked himn what his object was in carrying a loaded He epled,tht hs dterisnaton asif any person should lay hold f hi, to ut te pitol imeditelyto his own Tnousth, anid blo hi brinsout ad te ludaiumheintended to drink. Nsfact, he ad ran haf te cntets f te bttle the night before at Cap- tain Wilson's house, wherce hie slept. Captain Wilson acknowledged that he did sleep at his house. Mlr. Ron now referred to the Directory., anid found that Alr. ".Ves- ton is thfe merchantes name who lives at 1 15, Thaemes-street. The prisoner, in explanation, said, first, that his father was a part- ncr of Mr. Weston's; and again, that he was only managing clerk in the establishment. Mlr. Ro n said, that this was a case which requiired strict investi- gation, and ordered the prisoner to be remianded for frther exami- nto,uothe charge of obtaining goods under false pretences from M.Es,tetailor. The difficut o-ws o osn the prisoner Into a prisoni in thieextraordinary dress aund appearancebhe exhiibited; and the pri- soner himself feeling the full weight'of this obstacle, and crying as he continued to do dutring the wvhole examination, roared out, "For God's sake, -will any body lend sme a coat? It wasultimately dtecided that a messenger sliouldi be despatched to his father's for a change of dress, and if not procured, then he Must osnly$gure awav as he is in. Toihilifields prisoni for a few days. It was observed in 'ihe offle that this young man, if dressed in plain clothes, bears A resemfblance to young Robinson, Mlr. Abra- ham's apprentice. Thie pistol, checks, &c. are in the possessiion of Plank. lIATT()X.GAR1)EX.....lrS. MargareCt Thdtknd, a mantua-mnaker of no small celebrity amnong the ladies of SafFronl-hill, appeared to answer the complaint of Airs. Anne Banfield, for unlawfully pawn. ing licer beautiful new Waterloo-.blue Norwich-crape gown. The com- plainant stated that she employed defendant to mauke the gown, andI as it required numerous alterations and amendmeiits after slIte had brought it honie, she sent it-back agatin. Instead, however, of re- ceivinig icer gown, the duplicate was sent to hier in a neat envelope, withl" Mrs. Rutland's comnpliments to Silrs. Banfleld." AlIrs. Rut- land, in her defence, statedi that thoughi licer charge for making a own o alit foks as ~. ld.,shehadundertaken to makce IVIrs. anesassews5 frend,for s. d., on an express condition of recivig radymoey.Shetoo te gown home lat Thursday week an caledsaceasiexyup o Mnda lh payment, without succss.On unda Mr. Bnfild wre he ownin question, and a neate or pettir fitwas ever een t wasthe dmiraion f all Bagnigge-wells. When she called on Alonday, Mirs. Banfield ex- claimed, taking the gown in hler hand, " Do you call this, Mladam, a flounce ? It's neither flounce, rouleau, nor festoon; and I'm sure no lady, who had anything of a handsome shoulder, wrould be seen with such an claulet as this." As Mrs. Rutland perceived that these defects were pointed out only to retard the payment, she took the gown away, pawned it for her half-crown, and sent her the duplicate in the politest way she could. The lagistrate, though he did not conceive Mrs. Rutland justified in showing such contempt for the jurisdiction of the Court of Requests, yet aUlowed that sbe had strong provocation for summary redress; he accordingly told Mrs. Banfield she mustbe contented with the possession of the ticket. Thin decision led to the exchange of mnany handsome compliments between the ladies,when they withdrew to the outer office. Yesterdav a young lady appeared on behalf of AMrs. Tooke, Te- siding in tIa%ton-garden, to answer the coniplaintof the driver of the cabriolet No. 8, for refusing to pay bim his lawful fare. The driver stated, that he took lrs. Tooke and a young lady from Hntton-gaiden to Kennington and back again, a distance ex. ceeding five miles and a half, for which he sleinandedl 3S., being at the fixed rate of two-thirds of that of hackney-coaches. Thelady who attended stated, that on engaging the cabriolet the driver gave them to understand that he would charge them at the rate of 2s. an hour, and accordingly they took care to keep within the hour; on their retUTIr, however the drivef told them that it was optional with him to'charge either by time or distance.; As they conceived this a gross deception, they refused the payment; for - had they been aware of the fact, they would havereemained much longer in the countly air, as IMrs. Tooke's lehalth wa0 very delici3te. The lsIagistza%s ose xsferring to the act? informed tl>e lady thatno gs?eerebt was binding in the east, omd regretted that he Mutt dee,de the case against her. The lady then paid the fare and eosts, amouniting to 10s. Afr. Tims, the vestry elerl.orf the parish of St- Pancras, waited on the Magistrates, in-consequence of*tsbeing intimated to hIim that the magistrates hoped the parish would interfere to prosecute, in the case of an outrageous asraulf committed by Peter Duncan. an ath- letic Irislh labourer, on Illiss Sarah Crotteaux, an interestinrI.looking French girl, as sbe was passing some nights ago from WhIite Con- duit-house towards Gray's.inn-lane. Thentagistrates' clerk gave the particular6 ot the case to M r. Tinm% (thte offlce being previously cleared of females), who was so con vinced of the uncommon brutality of the case, that he assured the magis. trates he had no doubt the parish would prosecttc. The case should be comrmunicated to the Board ott Tuesday next. Qu tlN-sQuARE._Jamss Cook, a stNut, athleti -lookmg feUow, was brought before EDWARD AIARKLAyD, Esq., sitting magistrate, and ch.arged with having committed a most indecent assault upon a deafold lady, Mrs. 1lary Lancaster. Alrs. Lancaster stated, that the prisorer came on Mondav last into her room, in a lane in Tothill-stree, when l.e behaved so inde- cently, she had flung a pail of water on him he then uluUed her aud tore such of her clothies as he could lay his hands on, after which he forcibly took her out of the room, ana biogrtht her down stairs into the lane, when he put herdown. and thren hintself tpon her. Two other persons who resided in the lane, and witnessed the prisoner'sconduct, corroborated Mrs. Lsncastesls statement. The prisoner, in his defence, denied he had acted indecently, until provoked to it by the conduct of the complainant. lWhen she flung the pail of waler on him, lie wanted to give her the same sauce, and took her in his arms for the purpose ot giving her a wetting in the channel: in doin;g this, he slipped and fell on her, whiich made her make such a piece of fuss. Il'r. ThIAUKLAND.-It was very naturalfor her to fling a pail ef water on you. Your conduct, which is swarn to by the three per- sons, has been most abomninable. You sblasl findbail for theassault. TOWN-1AALL.-L.Mtry M'Carlhy, a poor Irishwoman 77 years of age, applied1 to ilfr. Alderman J. J. SourTH on Thursdav, for relief, the parish officers having, as she stated, refused granting her any, al- though she claimed a settlement derivede nfr fourteen years' resi- dence._The magistrate immediately direc.ed an order to be made out tor Is. pecr day. Ycsterday she appeared again, accOnpanied bvy Mr. Little, the beadle of that parish, who applied for a psss to send her back to Ireland. Alderman SateTH then said, he had hiped some modifications would have taken place in regard to the Vagrant Act previous to the rising of Parliament. He was of opinion ithad never been contem- platedf to send a poor creature dropping into the grave from the coran- trr, after a settlement of 14 vears; and whh this impreesion on his mind, lie wauld not grant the required past. Mr. I,ittle said he hnd morlel acted in mcnseaquence of the orders of hiT superiors, and would directly convev tle intelligence to them. Alderman Sas-rTue told the peor tottering creature, that until the right ofsettleinent could be disDuted, no person, he cotnsidered, had any power to send her out of the country. POLrCs.