Police.
The Times, 1824-08-03T00:00:00

MANsTOX seOUsE.-Yesterday TUomas Ilankers, who Was ex- amined on Saturday on a charge of having shot at a nserchant on 'Change on Friday, was brought up again for re-examination. A certilicate was produced from Dr. Box, thie physician of the Compter, who stated that he had exarirned the prisoner, and found hiim to be labouring under great debility, and a lowness of mind bordering upon insanit-t Mr. Arroli, boot and shoemaker to His Afajesty, residing in Re- gent-street, said that the prisoner had been in hiA service for more than five years.* He was aober, remarkably industrious. and earned from 3Ss. to two guines per week, from which he had, by his extrem.e frugahty, it was stated, saved sufficient to purchase the business and stock ot a shop in the general line, for which he was to pay 1001. About a month since he mnarried, but before that time he appeared in a particularly low and desponding state, so much so, that he (dlr. A?roll) remarked jocosely that the young man looked "as if he were going to execution, and that it was a pity the execution (meaning l the marriage) was not soon over, that he might return to his work with the same regularity and spirit as before he fell in love." Were a yoahg woman of respectable appearance and demeanour presented hersilf before the LORD MAYOR in great grief, and stated that she had been the wife of the prisoner about a month. On Wedneaday night he left her in a veTy low state of mind, and she had only heard of him since by the account which appeared i the i newspa ers of his apprehension on Friday. She was so much agi- tated, that the LORD MIAYoR abstainet from questioning her mi-. nutely. Simmonds, an appraiser, of 34, Old Compton-street, stated that he was engaged by theprisoner to appraise thesteck and furniture ofa shop he had agreed to take, in Falwood's.rents, for himself and his wife. The witness went on Tuesdlay and Wednesday to value the goods. During the last day the prisoner came, corrected the witness in seve- ral items, and acted in such a manner as to leave no doubt of his sanity; but as the time approached for payment he hung back, and wished the settlement to be adjourned. It was intimated that this would be inconvenient. lie then became more and niore troubled, i and went twice down into the cellar. Witness had not the least I doubt, from circumstances, that he had each time tried to suspend himself, but that the place was not sufficiently high. He at last said he would go and ta'se a mouthful of air, and he never returned. The prisoner then underwenta long interrogation from the LORD AIAs-OR, in the course of which he appeared to be labouring under' great mental agony. ISe admaitted that he had represented to his wife, that he was possessed of money, and so he was sure, but he has lopstl it, and lost it, too, hy his owr, fault. Wrhen pressed on this point, he said that the greatest sum he ever had at one time was 301., and that I he had intruseed it all to a bad womar named Harley. This woman was known to liis wife's sistcr. lie could no; be prevailed upon to state any thing further. The LORD aVAf OR ordered him to be remanded, that further in. quiries might be rnade. A man named Manning charged MIr. Beckwith, a merchant, residing in Thomas-street, with keeping a ferocious dog unrnuzzlod anld at liberty. Msanring, who is a porter, xtated that he was going down Thames- street with a truck, when in pansing the defendant's cart, a savage dog sprung out and bit him on theain. He showed the wound that had been occasioned. Mr. Beckwith said the complainant's story was materially untrue, and called his porter to contradict it. The porter, however, fully confirmed the complainant's statement, but said the dog was a mere pup, and had not yet had experience enough to discern the proper persons to bited The coiu I innnt, who is a poor Jrish labourer, was dreadfully afr;tld that heshould have the phloby. MIr. Beckwith assurede him the dog was not mad. Mlanning.-Your honout, though the dog's not mad now, he may be one timne or other, and I shall have the phoby too. The LO D MJAYOR said, if dOgS were kept in carts, they should, during the present time at least, be kept tied and muzzled. But he l considertd itwould be the most proper to keep boys instead of dogs to protect tbe property. Mr. Beckwith admitted tbat it was proper in this weather the dogs ahould be kept muzzled and tiedi, as his dog should be in future; but with submission to hbis ordship, dogs were also lately requisite to protect carts. In that very cart there were at tie thne two port- able chests of opium, worth 5001. ; and the thieves in the Street were ! numerous and vigilant. Dogs, besides, could got steal, and boys would require others to watch them. The LoRtD MAYOR said, he would inflict only a penalty of lOs., and gave it with the costs to the poor man who was bitten. It will be recollected that the apprehension of the persons who were tried for the robberv of Nr. Irainea, Earl Cow'per's steward, i in Hertfordshire, was principally orwing to the activity of Eesketh, I the city officer, who, immediatefT after publicity was given to the robbery, very narrowly watches all the notorious receivers of the city, and ob,erved Dudfield, of Shire-lane, going into the Bank, and receiving 550 sovereigns, in exchange for Bank of England notes, i which were changed at the banking-house of Currie and Co. inCorn- hill; that at the subsequent examination of Dadfield before the ! Lord Mayor, who investigated the case with great minuteness and ability, it appeared that the Ban,k of England notes had been ex- changed for 'ambridge notes, which were suspected to be part of' the bundle of coantry notes of. which Mr. Haines had been robbed, and that the Lord Mayor having obtWaned other information of an Important nature with respect to the robbery, detained the 550 so- vereigns, which Daidfield had about him in a bag, under the im. pression that it forinsted part of the produce of the robbery and sent l)udfield before the Hlertfordl Miagistrates. The apnrehension of Dudfield under such circumstaRces was a cue to the oflcers of the r,everal police-offices. They imrnsdiarely began to leak after the. thieves, who were known to be dealers with this celebrated fence, and the apprehension of the men whovwere tried in Hertfordshire was the cossequence. The Ljord Mayor did not think it necessary to transmit the 350.sovereigns to the Magistrates in lIertfordshire. ln the coutre of the weekf MlIr. Richardson, Ear! Cowper's solicitor, applied to the Lord Atayor for the 550 sovereigns, submitting that the cash was undoubtedly part of the produce of the robbery,ant asit would not be possib3le to bring forward sovereigns in evidence on the trial, there would be no impropriety in giving them up. to Earl Cowper, vho wouLd take care that- the Lord Mafyor should sustain no injury in the event of a failure of the testimorny upon the trial of he should feel no objection to give up the sovereigns, provided Earl Cowper gave him an instrumrent in. demnifyinig him from the consequences of an action in case of the acquittal of Dudfield. Vn Saturday Air. Richardsorn waited upon him Lordship with the neces7sary instrument, and informed him that Earl Cotvper also agreedjtn the propriety of a sn castion made by his Lordship, thiat 109~hould 2emainimn the hspds of the Chief Magistrate, to be, divided amongst the oficers entitted to the published reward in the event of the conviction of the prisoners. The LOUD MAYoR Ilten put Into the hands of Dir. Richardson 450 sovereigns. MARLDsotOUGrss-TR5'RT.-On Sattrday last, air. Rent, the livery sitable-keeper ihaBruston-mewrs, the father of the younq girl, Moara (not tesiza m ent, p ie se case has appeared in the poblc pa - pers, came to this effic and complained to pMr. Roe, the MUagis- trate, that in consequene of the mis-state tenta lut forth ia the pa- pers respecting li treatment of his daughter, a most seIious injury had been done to him in ins business. Mfru Ro said, that he liw d sro doubt tbesame partieswto gave publicity to the accusatioOs which were brought againsst himm would give equal publicity to a ny thing he might offer mn his justification. Air. rent then l aid, that if the tigistrate would permit him, lue would bringtforwada person, named Whittakter, and his uvite, witsl whot. thi daughtet lodged fra a eonniderable time, whileoatof -phtsce,ihohad toldhim.tbeniostshatnelitlcanductof her, and wrould prOVe hen to be one of sie worst of characterL fUMr. Roni saiid, that if AL- Eent. thounzhr it proper to make .such in attack upont his-daughater's .reputation for the purpose of counter- aeting any thingsaid injurlous to.him, he (Mr Roe) could not re- fuse to hear ;iny persons be iaoghl protice. Mr. Rent then left the offlpe, 5xing one o'clock yesterdsy to bring forward %Vtittaker and his wde, . to blast the reputation of his daughter. gestetday tide frl attended tO hear what charge Whiltaker and his wifeiould binag Nain~tt her; but up to the dosing of the offlie neithe~r. .Kent or his waitnesses ma3de their appeararne ; and fIr. kig, sddretsiog the girl;said thsat h?was glad to fli;dsat her fai er ildr.ot'dbi&ntiate any bf hisnecuzsathons agunst hes, tosact dtoat, if he could, froml the spirit with which lie seemed to act towrards her, fie would have comne forward. He (Mr. P.O.- ba3lerefovo bound tosay, than be did not believe one word of thec assertions to her prejudice. Plank, the chtief officer, told 111t. Roe thatin-quiries had been made of Whittaker, who is a very respe-aable' trian, a ser- geant in the Guarls, and his wife, respecting this girl's conduct while itn them; and they both declared, that dusring eleven weeks that she lodged with them, dio girl could have conducted hIerself with more proprietv nor as there the slightest stain upor her moral character. PUak then stated, that in consequene of the )publicity given to the y'oung girl's unfortunate and destitute situvtion, irnu- merable applications had been made by the rfost respectable famni- lies to take her into their service; amonjst many otfiers were mrs. Williams, a ladyresiding at BetchworthVtcarage, nearDnring, Sur- rey; Mr. Newland, arespectable solicitor,in Craves-atreet - the Rev. Mr. Packe, &c. But that which seems the mosteligible in her present state, wishing, as she does, to be removed as far as possible from the reach of herfather, from whom she dreads some violence, istheofiTerof Mr. Burnett, Writer to the Signer, in Edinburgh, but whose coun- try residence is in Aberdeenhire, and at prsent stopping at Slaur.h- tar's Coffee-house, to take her with him to Scotland, as nursery -meid in his famtily. T his gentleman has requestedi Plank to have aU her wants, in point of clothing, board) lodoing, &ca properly uttended tO the whole expense of which be wifi instantly defras until she leaves towon. Plank also showed a letter, of' the moat feeling kind, written to him by a gentleman uamed Baker, describinginseif s the father of 16 children, and eaclosing a half so-ereign for the Poor girl, Maria Kent, whose case of great hardship he saw in The Tnt newsnepr. - ALI these sources of future protection -votild have been, no doubt, closed to the poor gi, had her father succeeded in his cldeavour to ruin her cLaracter. In the course of his complaint-on Saturday, Mr. Kent said, that Colonel hitme, and a number of otlher gentlemen, had removed their horses away from his stables, saying, that they could not think of allowing them to remain under the care of a man who had treated his daughter as he wasTepresented to have done. QUEsE-SQ17AREa_x.amu4e Flack, a young man celegantly dressed, was charged with stealing a great quantity of linen ana woollen goods, the property ot his employer, Mr. Joseph Railton, hnendraper, of' Mo. 22, Prospect-row, Chelsea. Aliiss Catherine Railton, sister of the prosecutor, stated, that h r brother went to Maidstone on Friday, previous to which he charged her and the other members of the flamily not to let the prisoner leave the house dtring his absence, with any pareel, utnless they first ex- amined it. On Sunday mnorning, about II o'clock, be cawne down stairs with a blue box, corntaiining a large bundle, and finding the street door locked, he asked the wtmess for the key; she refused to let him have it. and on coming into the passage, and seeing the box, she asked him if he intended takingthat with him? he replied "Yes." She told himn her brother's orders, and he then took the bundle and box up stairn. She then sent for Hiumphries, a constable, who went to the prisoner's room with her youngest brotber. Isaac Railton stated, that he went upstairs with unumphries, and on goir.g into the prisoner's bed-room, the prsoner was ticre. Hum phries searched the room, and found the blue box, but it then had only wearing apparel :nd no bundle in it; Humphries then looked out of the windowv and saw along the patapet of the adjoining house, the bundle which the wirness had seen in the box. Writness, at fltmphries' request, got out of the window to get the bundle, buit it 'ras too heavy for him, and he was obliged to throw it into the garden. Humphries took the prisoner down stairs into the drawing. room, and then brought up the bundle. James Humphries stated, that he examined the bundle in the pri- soner's presence; there were 21. 4s. 6d. in silver, and 4s. 6d. in copper in it, which the prisoner owned, and the othercontents of ihe bundle consisted of difrerent broad cloths, a piece of Irisb linen stockings, gingham, &c. On the lirisoner were found a beautiful gokl watch-ehain and seal's, :vo sovereigns, and 30s. ,Mr. Joseph Railton, the prosecatOr said the prisoner had been his 8hopman for about six months, since which time he has as. certained that he had been seen leaving the house with parcels on a Sunday morning, and he has many times missed vaiuable property. Suspecting the prisoner of stealing these artitles, before be left Chtl_ sea on Friday, ie directed his sister not to let the prisoner leave the house withi a parcel unless she first examined it; and, if he refustd to let her examine it, to send for an officer. He identified all the articles as his property; they were worth upwards Of lOL_Thc pri- soner was fullv committed. EATTOX-GADiDE.N.-Yesterday William Whlteky, s very miserable-looking young man, wYS brought up in custody of aparish constable, charged with stealing a common hand-saw, value 2s. 6d. the property of Alr. John H ughcs, of Loower-street, lslington. On the case being proved, and the parties bound over to prosecute, the prisoner burst into tears, and declared, in the most emphatic manner, that for three days he had not tasted a rmorbel of food-that ne had no settlement ir. L,ondon, and that the parish-officers to whom he ap- plied would gre at him no relief. No almernative was leP. but robbery or starvation. The Magistrate observed, that the plea of distress could not now avail the prisoner, though it might berreafter be re. ceived in mnitigation before a jury and in all cases of refasal bv- parish7 officers, the applicant fr relief should immediately miake the case knowrn to the magistrates for the district, who would not fail to order sutci supplies as the applicant's necessities would authorize. '1'he prisoner was fully committed. UNION--HALL.-A gentleman of the Jewish persuasion, named. Levi, attended at the office before R. J. C1AMtEBEtS, Esq., for the purpose of eiakiing a compllaint avainst the chief officr who attends abtuxlall- ardens, relative to a desperate assault which he said was conmritted on a brotherof his, in the above place of amusemrent, and on which occasion the officer refused to taketheoffenrding partiesinto custody. i I r. Levi said, it was at the express request of Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan Amobassador, in whose suite his (iM'r. lIeri's) brother was, that he came forward to state the earticulars of the gross out- rage comiuitted on an individual belonging to the Legation. MAr. Levi, who described himself as a Spanish merchant, then proceeded to state, that he and his brother went to Vauxhall-gardens on Friday night, and, about ten o'lock, asS they were prnmenading the pavi. lion, his brothe7 happened to pass tbrough a boX in which sa?t a coDn_ pany, consisting of maes and femnales. H1is brother might have looked earnestly at them; however, one of the party invited him into the box., ,nd asked him if he would take a glass of wine; his brother very properly declined accepting the invitation, intimating that they were per.ect strangers to him. 'lThe words wer scarcelyuttered, wher. out reished oneof the men and gavehis brother a desperate blow in the eye, which knocked him backwards. Hl is brother being unable at the morment to rise, he (complainant) called for an officer, wvhen the one alluded to came forward; and, although he saw the state in which his brother was from the violence, he refused to take the par- ties who consmitted time assault into custody, obsert'ing thac he was not authorized to do so, and at the samie time saying that if he and his brother did not go quietly they would get vwel quilted, for the parties who were in the box were all iriUing coves; the consequence was, the offending parties were allowed to leave the (iardens, and lis brothier had now no opportunity of having redress for the injuries he received. The Magistrate inquired whether the complainant or his brother were intoxicated at the time. The complainant produced the Vautx- hall supper-bill, to show thast the quantity of wine drank by his bro, tiher and him could not have affected either of them. Mlr. CIsA31aaaERs.-IDid the officer see the assault committed on your brother ? The complainant.-No, he did not see the assault ; but be saw the condition in which my brother was, from the cffecnjof the bea. ing, and the parties were pointed out to him. Thle officer' alluded to s ated that lie was not present in tdhi pavi- lion when the assault wvas cotamitted, but he was attracted there soon aftcrwards by the uproar. He saw the gentleman now com- plaining, as well as one whe had been assaulted, and fromn the report of all those whe observed the circumstances, he (the officer) was in. formed that these two gentlemen were exceedinglyimpertrierittosonit laties and gentlemen who were in a party by themselves in a boq; that they had stopped two or thre times in their promen4de at this box, and gazed on the company in a very marked and ini, pudent manner. One annong the party at length got ulp, and addre=sing himself to the individual who was opposite, asked him if he woulil step in and take a glass of wine. Te inriation wnas refused with a contemptuous sneer. Uporn which one ger.n tleman got up from the table, and expressing the rudeness witt, which his party had been treated, struck one of the persons and knocked him down. Every one present exclaimed, thuat he de- Served the threshing he received. Under these circumstances, he (theofficer) forbore takirg the parties in:o custody. Mr. Levi, lie added, wished to give charge againrst the whole party, consisting of men, woinen, and children. The complainant said, he was convinced the females who sat irt the box were some of the Fleet-street ladies, and that the officer should have done his duty by taking them ali into custody. The Mlagistrate observed,that as the officer did not see the assault actually ommitted, lie was not warranted in caking the charge, par- ticulariv as all the persons who witnessedl the transaction expressed their disapprobation of the complainant and hIs brother's conduct on the occaSion. Allr. Levi then having procuted the address f 0onte of the genwlemen belonging to the party who assaulted his brother, left the of ice, fot the parpmse of acquaintin oftheesultof his complaint, POLICE.