The Sun. — 1832-09-04 (London, England)

THAMES POLICE.  Yesterday t he attention of the Magistrates, Messrs. BALLANTINE and BRODERIP, was occupied for several hours in investigating a charge of assault preferred be a German sailor, named Henry Larnders, against William Mitchell, a plasterer and stenciller, under the following extraordinary circumstances :  • It appeared from the evidence of the German, confirmed by other witnesses, that a few weeks ago, having become possessed of some property, he con• verted it into ready money, and entered into partnership with a man named Wilson, a harness-maker, to open a green-grocer's and chandler's shop in Upper John•street, Back-lane, St. George's in the East. In the course of a short time, he found that Wilson paid more attention to his (the German's) wife than decorum warranted, and he frequently complained of this, but without causing any change in the behaviour of his wife, and he thought the best thing he could do, would be to go to sea again, and accordingly procured a ship. On Saturday night the prisoner .2alled at the house and said he was a Thames police officer, and had come to turn witness out of the house, for nothing belonged to him, and nothing he should have. Wilson and witness's wife encouraged him to take possession, but he refused to go away, and the prisoner remainedsonouenvt eeorrfsinat iihtideier hftheeheroehudhas.odeu no no iasblt business infgepehsr Ntsev. sateshnNeacrieee:xooat fpn drdlevassyeil nsototviriedie,du‘rvipi hiTin tigow tahnids rt ei itnuer.n e dW‘7li,ittnhe sosn %ev et on t t hi no hoaorcs eh. o f policeman,Tahey opened the shutter above the door, and demanded admittance, when the prisoner flourished a knife, and said he would cut his -- ears off if lie attempted to enter. Ile was about to open the door, in defiance of this threat, on which the prisoner struck him a dreadful blow in the face, and lie was in an instant covered with blood. The blow was followed up by others, and he was severely beaten. The policeman then interfered, and took the prisoner into custody. His wife and Wilson had since retained possession of everything. Mr. BRODERIP particularly inquired of the officer if any intimacy existed between Wilson and the German's wife. was,th a aWndilsoitn and the wife of Larnders had employed the prisoner to weTllhkenop‘,ovlnicetmo represent himself as a Thames-police-officer, in order evidence, said atnhesaniedigthhbatoutrhheoroed to mfrirg.hTiteßnoptlEleßlGp,eramfiaenr. hto e al reianvge otthhee rh o u se. this was a most infamous transaction, and it was evident there was a conspiracy between Wilson, the prisoner, and Larnders' wife, to defraud the foreigner of his wife and property. Hs convicted the prisoner  in the full penalty of 6/., and, in default, to twc months' imprisonment.  Mr. BALLANTINE said, that in addition to ti' sentence passed by his Colleague, the prisoner mus find bail, himself in 401. and two sureties of 204 each, to keep the peace for 12 months. Edwards, a policeman, No. 43, K, stated, tha Larnders had attempted suicide that morning, ant produced a pistol, a quantity of gunpowder, ant some shot, which he found upon him. The Ger. man had loaded the pistol, presented it at his breast and fired it ; but at the moment he drew the trigger a person, who suspected his intention, seized hi• arm, and the ball glanced by the side of his coat arid passed off in another direction.  Mr. BitdtiEntt, asked the German why he at, tempted such a rash act  tirnders replied, that on Saturday night he odd Wilson come out of his wife's room, after she had gone to bed, with nothing on but his shit-, and this had so preyed on his mind, that he determined to make away with himself.  The wife and her paramour (Wilson), who were in waiting, were then ordered to be brought into tl e office, and Mr. BALLANTINE censured her coo. duct in severe terms.  The woman answered in a flippant minner, that Wilson had never entered her room at all, Mr. BRODERIP had no doubt that she had carried on an improper intimacy with Wilson, and that both were engaged in a vile conspiracy to cheat the husband of his property.