Police.
The Times, 1824-04-07T00:00:00

.MARLeBOw OUGHRSTREEET- A Young man named lchnry ClIo bY, who certainly, to judge from appearance, could have had. dro necessity to comnlit a paLtry jobbery being very elegantly dressefd, and wearing a gold watch and valtuable appendages, was charged with robbing a lady named Brown of asilk shawl, aboull. o'clock the night before, as she was returoing ho l, t bouthe Haymarket from a frien's euV,SThri home. tlirough the, Hayiarkt frm afrind's house The Prisoner, she said cnime suddenly behind her, and snatched the shawl now m her shoulderR, a-and ran off wjith it. ,q ,( ns produQe from. herhouder, ad rn of wth t.Clark, .a watchman, 'als'o saw the prisoner snatch the. Abawl, and while ruanni off' conceal it under his coat. Witness pursued him as far WasXsrdo i where he came with great force againstanother watsh came to the grourfd, and thc prisogter varsthin eatma n The prisoner, on being quiestioned by Mr. Dyen , the magistrat said that he is the son of an ext drpr and merc e residep with his father, and lie-js ina fewSdgya to be artnclei to a, respectable solicitor wvhosc nane he mentioned. ay declared that- he had no idea of robbing the-lady, and snatched, ftb dhawe oue tof fun, he being rather fnfoxicted y.::etiu.ttae&-C Therdae ' -'a. young- man with him at the time; 'to wlioni heihadeiAefnTio-ed whitet-a on *of taking the shawl infun. :4ktaRkithew , ent heIaly,said,. on beiga aain questionedtitfLi but i r nrown expresseds bt d,<trisj 3, tn,ahd. dbs;ate,rongl ured the magxstrateitdisibar'ijWpri'oner The coutstableio yn6k. ian:wei'cerlai . 'as not soberiwhen: broughtit:ithbitctjS Te wllole evidente was tfken down by the C1erk e b die -lz'e t - .ses,ih {rb f'hfis t>,en esL xgC and tO examine the -young men who was with himt at the time: upot this wil.tum whether the parties shaU be- bound over, to prosecute and the prisoner be committed for trial ' : Should thistrn out to haie been what is termed "a lark,"'it way beb hy esde, co athxcYeer 4fio thumth6eiibl'ecrueIteaupon 8a'hildren.. roffi .thie' etail gve .ii eiJidence by;s-veta'l wtnesse, i ap peated thaia a60,ut2 2syedi SiBCC the fetmape nnisoner snarried, the. mn 'iles cno hsei aletond'husiiand, having' th'e 'children by-a. former halsban4-d tsince jibis second . marrialge .the neighbourhood zof his retsidence vwas contin.;at,y m 3 s8tate of uproar sr.d alar%n jiy th'e conbBidIs hetwen her giathehubsbtnd,they seldom agieeiDg, onbly .p one thiing, t'at-of ill-treiting the children ; and to ca7rvthis more severely into execution, 43 stifling the 'cals of bumanity they made-therfsslves intdxiqated, and the!i cdmmenced a scene of b3rbarou cmelty, the ecitst ot 'rwhich shocied every pceson In the office, anjn many ittstinc&s *a.i such that we cannot lay b'efore our readersa. The- two youngest children, a boy and girl, of 4 and 6 Years 6f age, were generally confined in a closet, and when they implored f6od, their unnatural protedtors -wwould dash him against his little sister, and then- most unmercifully beat him with a stiek, and sometimes an iron rod: the screams of the children freguently aroused the neighbourhood, and- at- tempts, were made to forse the room doors but it -was alwaYs secured. Some persons said they perceived the woman lashing the children vitli whipcord and a sharp instrument the sides of which were covered with pins. An elder girl of 15 years of age was, when at home, -also subject to gross ill-treatment; but having run into thle street with her brother to save hi.n froiil the fury of thepri- soners, so far exposed their.cruelty as to cause the 'neighbours 'to take summary voneance on tlhem, and rescue the infant girl from their clutches.' The children were placed under the direction of the parnsh oflcers,. who, in a n1anner the rmost praiseworthy, paid them every humane attention. BttLt the elder girl suffered severely for cailsig this exposure; she was seized and flung intO a rooni by her mother: who, incredible as it may appear, was present, and connived at her being criminally abused by a rufia in lher keeping. On this last savage act being made known by the poor girl, who is eitreinely ill fto- the effects of .the shocking outrage violently comrnitted on her person, warrants were obtained at -this office, and Staples, after a very close pursuit, succeeded in tak- Cg both prisoners into custody, the woman being at the time in a state of intoxication, She, at the cxaininatian, claimed the priyleTge of..having her chldreu.- returned to her, but they screaied net, and clung to the persons in whose charze they wer; crying, " Don't let us go we shall be beat for notling always. The lMagistrate strongiy reprobated such inibuman cruelty, and held themn in ball, themselves in 801. and sareties in 401., with 41 hours' notice ta pearattthe sessions. The officers had great difculty, iu comducting them to prison. to protect them from the f iry ofan immense crowd that hadassembled. POLICC