Police.
The Times, 1824-11-06T00:00:00

llit~SO~-Iour.-..Yesterd,iy % deputation Fvaitcd upan the Loxnn MJAY01I, from the Goveornors of"' the LFetnleOrphiam Asy. lurn," and ixtted, thlat from the report of the traieaci1o3ij of the Juhttcc.room,- th le tahslAtsi ba.ndiica're a femal&~b~phan, wom lhewas desirous Of.Obtaining ad:nission,for' 1ntoWtheir charity. They piagented to lis Lordship a book.of the fules by Which they were governed, and,beggedi thaWiiefacts-of the cVt~'shduld'be communicated.to them. Edinb,whO erEidu~,~~fl3flgs6thersto, o out to Poyals; upcmjh fab ypreaen~tron h~t~ tey w tldtierefind'eivllized lfe; ati&uxce. andhap~mess, Th Society wer aware, 'o~the~ nicdum f te pess hp fatlly~ntue hoszepen0spor.v* InheI160ee, but the father had coltratea i disease, the produce of climste anahardshipi which xoon released him from all mortal in. ,nictions; and the mother quickly followed, frunthesamecause, ag. g9vited by the pangs of separation. This child, theisst ofa respect. l, e, mily,i waI lelt in the rare of another emigrant, .vho, having -tahNs ihsproperty,b ,going after the new government; iii the hope - .wotnmKgbmesnlngorohuenthe eyes of his countrymen, was cOmpil1ed topleei 'her in the haids of the Lord M'ayor, until sorne Iiatt,Uiti*Jo couldzbe,. foued. which. might humanely put such a con- itrueiior spoii it ltt ules as would not exclude so untbrtunate an ob. Jectjt: Thre h'ad been iever.atbereasesof this nature to whichrthe presivery prerly nd'feelingly directed the public attention, and in hich Ipuqlic, subscription- had been efFectually used. This orphan had been cupportred on the residlue of that subscription, and his Lordship was extiemely anxiaus, Before the expiration of bls ayoralty, to have-her ina 'permanent manner provided for. The nurse, in whose care she had been placed, had conceived an at. tachment for,'and'was desirous of keepin- hier, even at her on ot, but the wewothn was very poer, and cottf not be expected to be able to serve the cbild. The gentlemen of the deputtation said they wsre happy to be able to3ut into effect his Lordsnip's wishes-on the subject. They would, In eed, be unworthy of the support which they rectived from the public, if they hesitated to give every advantage whicht their institu. fion affb6rded to such a ease. The-.LoxnD lIVAyGa oin,z warm terms, -thanked them for the readyv manner in whlichl they had coameforwdrd to anticipate his wishes. It was-not every institution which he hadhad to dealwith in the course of biS lAIayoralty, thatcameforward.ith such prompt benevolence to relieve a case of (listress ; and there were some institutions which Wcoal aaffrd to -send every dependent'they had to-a bozrding school. so$mmense were thz con'ibLt4ons leviedupqn the charitable for their gupport. lHe hd often mt with - freezing adherence to the letter of nice ditinctitnist which ixcudedthegteater numberofthedestitute objects o the-ielAefof whonisthe nioney.of the public was expressly given. Isii Lotdship, in aU'iding to tbe niannerin which the deu- tqtson bOfme informed of the case,-nbherved. that it formed another otrang proof-of ,the cbsoluteneeessity.of publishing occurrcffces at police.officez, If that practice vwre given up,("nd-hetrusted kwould no), the eauseiDf hurrity wolid sustain irreparable-injury; for not only did-police reporting operate tathe orevention and detection-of ernime, but it placed befors the eyes of the 'charitable the sufferings of the unfortunate, d gave an instructive-lesson to the inexpe.. rienced. W4hpgt thead of thv organ to.which he alluded? numbers of Vefpgeas might hae 'ertslhed, and many widows and orphans 1ou0d, t4 his nowle&re, have wept in vain; tbr th?ir miseries would have recevedsno aleviation hut empty pity, notwithstanding the number and wealth of our eharitable insttitutions, A man named Smithr was brought up 4hasgedvwith having stolen a v bluahle box from the shop of.Mr. r4aithewa, a broker, in Budge- row. Nr. Afatthews stated, that hMs'-hop was opened in front, and scarcely a day passed, RithoAt deereasing hlis stock something or other, the thieyes being rnost active in his neighbourhood. 1e had boen s tSh habit of selling glasses of various einds, but heb2adlost zn many, that he was obliged to give up that branch of his busincss. At last he reidored all the light goods to the back part of the shop, but even there it appeared they were 'not safe, fi;r on the day before yesterday the prisoner marc4ed into the shop, to the distance of five or six yaras, took up ahox of value, and walked ofF wi it. He was, however, pursued and aDprelended. - 'T'he LORDI, IA4YO,i said, the prosecutor must take some share of the blame to himself; for what had he to expect when he exposed articles calculated to tempt the poor who passed by? P Why could he not havt e a glast front like those of other tradesmen ? Alatthewa said, the gtreet was so narrow and the shop so low and dark, that the articles could not be RCert through a glass-window. The question wias, whether he or the thieves were to give up business. The prisoner here said, that what the prosecultor had stated as to the darkness of his shop was perfectly true, and was the cause of his (the prisoner) being in his present situation. fie had, in fact, gone into the shop' for the pLurpose of purchasing the box, but he foand the plaee sn dark, that he could not see the artidle properly, and be tQol it nott to the door to see whether it was the thing that would suit him. While he was busied in examining it, he was suddenly seized-a very odd sort of treatment that, for a customer. The constable, who had the prisoner in custody, here observed, that not only the shop, bat the strcet must, according to the prison. er's account, have been too dark for the examination of the box for the custqn1gr was caught rnnning with It through Bucklersbury. Thb oAeRs l MAYOR Wshed to know what money the prisoner had about him. No more than a few shillings were found apon his person. The prisoner was then comnmitted for trial, BOW-STREET.-On Thursday evening, a well-dressed young man, who give his name John Bronp1r, but whose real name was satid to be George, was brought aefore Sir R. BIRKxE, charged on suspicionof robbing a gentleman of his watch In the pit of Covert- garden TIheatre. Ur. Qeorge Jones Abram, the prosecutor, went inte the pit bt the theatre at the opening of the doors on UVednesday night, titd in en- deavouring to secure a good seat, he pushed on with others, and at that inistant he obsered the prisoner pressing against him in a verv peculiar rnanncr, And getting first behind and then in front 6f him. Eeh t ght it singular at the time, but fro n the appear- ance of the prisoner, he did not suspect him of any thing dis- hioitest. The prtsoner took a seat near himn, but in a very short time bh disappeared, In about tlree quarters of an hour AIr. Abram missed his watch, and he imme(liately suspected that the prisotcer must have taken it. 1e looked about the pit, and at leni,th saw the prinotner standing it another part among a crowd. Ile looked stea. dIi r at hi, ana the prisoner observing this went out. AIr. Abram fol hed, hutnot in tiune to stop the prisoner, who went straight in- to the street. The check,taker, however, being informed of Air. ,L ra,nss loss and suspicion, sent two constables after the prisoner, 'adhe was brought back. He was searched upon the landing-place, vrhere the box of the check-taker is placed, but nothing found upon him. }{e was taken back into the thteatre, and in a few minutes a gentleman passing out, saw a watch upon the spot where the prisoner had been searched. This proved to be the prosecutor's watch, and the prisoner was consequently detained. The prisoner protested that he knew nothing of the robbery; and being asked why he left the theatre irnmediately before the conclu- slon of the play, he decared he did not leave before the curtain fell. Two witnesses swore that the curtain had not fallen, even when the prlsoner was conducted back to the pit. Sir R. Brs isE said, there might be some doubt as to the prison- er's guilt but the evidence was too strong to allow of his discharge without tie interventIon of a jurY. The lrisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. MIAaaRoaouQia.-stEET.-.Yesterday Mr. Joins Wiflsn R.eeves, an elderly respectable-looking man.3, was brought before Sir GEO.RE FARKAYT upon a waTrant, chargedl with assaulting Mr. Fredeic!k Howard Burnett, who keeps a druggist' sahop in Duke- street, Grosvenor-square. Mr. Barnett, who is a young man about 20 years of age, stated that the defendant came to his house, and caused a great noise an3 riot atthe door, andi upon his (M3r. Burnett's) requesting him to desist and go about his business, the defendant struck him and kicked him severely, Mr. Reeves, in his defence, said, that of all the acts of ingratitude that were ever witnessed or recorded, the conduct of the complainant ,an this occasion surpassed them. AIr. Reeves then proceeded to state, tlhat the complainant was his own son. Certainly, an illegitimate son ; hut he had from his birth brought hin up as if he had been born in wedlock, and so tender was he even of the boy's fcelings, that all the family, even Mlrs.Reevesherself, never knew that hestood in any other relation to, him than that of nephew. The complainant, ir. Reevea said, had rever been away from under his roof, but brought up in the most tender manner until his cdqcaLion, upon which a great deal was expended, had been completed, and he was then ap. prenticed to a druggist, and had been always cloehed, and every pre. vision mrade for him, at his (Air. Reeve-s's), expense. The coin. plainant had now set up in business for himself, althaugh he was but jUst 20 yeare of age, and has got marriede about a fortnight ago, without even saying a word of his intention tohim (Mlr. Reeves' notwithstanding all he had done for him; and it waa to remonstrate with hritm upon his ungratefal conduct, and the neglect he had of late experienced from Itim, that he went to the complainant's house, where he met with stch contemptuous treatmentt as certainlv made biinfbrget himself for the moment, and he gave the boy, he acknowledged, a boy, on the ears for his ingratitude ; but little did he expect that his orni son, for wthom he had done 8s mauCl, would have tiken out a warrant against him, and have hiin dragged before a mag istrate. AIs. Burnett did not deny his relationsship to Air. Reeves, but treated the observations about gratitude very cavalierly and made, what appeared to be, very unnecessary allusions to Mr. Reeves's misfortunes in busincess, and his present embarrassments. Sir GEORrGg FARRANT said that hea hd nothing to do with any rart of the case except the assault, and for that, as it ;was sworn to, r. eeves must enter into his own recognizances, Tills Air. Reeves dld, and was discharged. Two elderly respectably dressed womnen, named ZiL-a,eth Wrat- soneand Afary Perlins, were brought before Mlr. CONANT, the magistrate, on Thuraday evening, chatrged with shop-lifting. 4dsopman in the einypy of AIeasra. LimbertandSon, linendrapers andmercerm, No. 61, fofd..street, stated, that the two prisoners camse together into the shop about six o',clock that evening, And asked to look at some children's dresses; and wvhile the wit, ners was exhisbiting some for their inspectoio, he suddenly missed off'the counter a roll of sarcenct, containing 16 yards,and worth about41. Thierebeing no other persons in the ahop but the pri. soners, hie 'charged them with having taken 4t, but they firmly de- nied it- he then closed the door, and uas qonducting the prisonets into the back-pariour to have thema scarciiea, when he saw the pri. sonerwatLtson drop the roll oPssareenet from under her cloak upon the fiGor he then sent for _yalentine, the officer, and gave theim both into custody; and on their being searched by the officer he only fouad upon each of thieni Is. 'd. in silver, so that they could not lhavle pa8tl foX'the articles they asled to looli at. Tbe prisoners, who refgs4d In the most positive manner to give any account of themselves, or thelir residence, aot ottlv declared thut they were entirely inlnocent of the charge, but alse quite ignorant of any knnwledgo of each other, never having met before in their lives. The Magtstrate said, that t'hey had no doubt, very good reasons for refnsmXg to tell where they lived;hbut as to the storv of their in- noctetnceg thtey 1must tell that so a jury..,Tbey were thten fully comn- mitted f1or trial. ~ ~ ~ ~ Ila fll A1AtYLE;iONEiOSXPF ...-A Mr. Woodean% appeared to on in formation o'taitiod against hmn by vAr. 'Whfite, the Distti6t Sir, veyor fer havinigimade windows in the party walls of abouse which he h-A recently erected, contrary to the provisions of the 23d and 4X,h sections o't an act passed in the 14th of George Ill,, entitled _ The Bailding Act." The object of the act is to prevent houses beitig biilt of improper materials, or in a way calculateui to afford facilities for the progresn of fire; and it is On the latter account that pwntty wali are required to be built witboent any openings whatever. ,ros the importance of the object, tire enforcement of the enact- rmrts hag. beci, confitled to tie'District Surveyors. Ip the present instance 'the offlnce was etimitted; and it appeared, that through ig. nozance of the Iayw qp. that point, Mr rWoodham hald so constructed hiK houtie, thegt. the blocking up 'of the windows (whiclh he is COIr, lX X o do) will he attended with serious inconvenienceto him, MBr. RAWLI,sSON ant'A1r.GItirrrTna mined in expressingtheir oainions, tbht as many snew erections were being made in all parts of t i ditrict, and tas others mrighht rrr qually iniadvertently, it woul4 6 idisaletoceircutlte a btief sumroarky of'what was, an' what was; not allowed, 1i1s. W[iTE' remitrket, that hc knew of no way by wlhlch tliat abjet cold b soWell obtained as by thte pubb'ditv which was given of ases hgo Ghi the pp9ce offices by tire dslli pad. As respcte the~ame ten before them2 his only ooject' was' the due dlshag~'o big1submd4stlcs,.and RtAir. Woodhami would undera take t blocktip tb widw,h mold'giv6 iima i month 'for so ;oing, and. itM~ Klsean time theulstform'tion mighitstandover; with a n i t u bewtlhri iAmmediately -on the Mr. t Vnjo4hen u dexpress ed has thanks Thethg&forbearaaice' shown -' JJiuOsr-RALL '-Yasterday T.Aomgs fJeno {2vh wlassome' days. .. ,nought x'ae ,,, ~, . sr, c .arged ..ih having ilf mfteE a inulr species of imprssil_N1 undmrwent &.final. or. animatio. Mr. i es,teproprietor of the Br ghon coach, atternd- ed hind Monk, thle driver.eP7t7rtetorO.2eBtightone sated lIr. H,nes produce-s an unon.yzous letter, irhiclt-he stated be had received sincXe the Lstamnton of the p7rigoner, a;nd which, uafreetronlashs>bleour-of it, -was wztoNenby thatinid " QQnttenen,.No doubt you rill besuprie'sd oh TcCCa;ls i letter. fi-om tepeso who. but atfeww dys azo, inipropexlyobtained- fromi you the ouis-oif 145- Si- retssetoyui as-psler. I 1s. aunfortninj pitonk oit offd." pl .ne . -r out moe o ieds. oes trs domeoshs.a tern-tiv prised on you.. Somempnnths~`ago,*Inever cotenlpe such e an .st assured, gentlemen, thatrtheasiut PhaIvb -- turn to You the moment liave it-in rnypower, IRckewteg 5 tL Magnitude of the crime,and withthbe -greatest co su'bsc'beibuyself (and in-fact I-am) a iserable individuaL Air. Mlosik lnow :old the magistratel that M~r. Attre,e thet' gen&tli manx~esiding at Brighton, to 'whom the parcel, contdlniog nothing but two oe'three foldhs of- brown paper, was ~.adressesi -was on~ a. tour, a-ad for -which the landlord- of the WVhite Buit L-hb. dVanc'C the sum of 11. 3s. 6d. to the prisonier uper- tse -representitw,e thtbs. "fr. Attree would refund the&same, it being Pbalance-.ocf S#zccouu-se dae to (lhe prisoner by that gentleman. The above slim, nt-vill.bL recollected; was marked on the outside of-4e-parcel,- as -the ba- lance due, and from the known respectability. of M?. Attree;_Monk undiertook-, upon h'Is owtespo'biln,t a tesmoI.-'-C-. over to the prisoner, *h8 went away. Sulisequently;the-1?iaua- was di-covered, and the prisone:r was apprehended onVVnei_Ttli Clapham, at Mir. [lines's booking..offce, wvhile ini tl*;at~of endets.~ vouring to play off'a similar fraud. Th e ~II Igistra t observed, th at th ere wan no, n'sedssit 'ofhi. the attendlance of .I r. Attree, na thut ease -was sufHrienl-upir~ be he vidnceofthe landlord of th WVhite Hart at Mshm r~ The risoer ws ten aked f h wasdispsedto say any. tb$zg- wit rspet o he llgedfrud Heepied tT he hait'notbink to tat inhi~defnce en hewasfuly cmmitedfor trial. POLICRe .- 4