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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . CAPTAIN SHEPHEAKD AGAIN . Thomas James Eolloway , a respectable-looking lad , 17 years of age , was indicted for stealing a cloth coat , value £ 6 . 10 s ., the property of Captain William Shepeard , R . N ., his master . Mr . Payne appeared for the prisoner . Captain Shepheard said the portmanteau from which the coat was taken , was at the time , if he might borrow a phrase or expression from his learned friend on the right ( Mr . Payne ) in
transitu . ( Laughter . ) When the coat was taken there was pinned to it an artificial sprig of myrtle furnished to him by a sweet young lady in the Burlington Arcade . ( The coat was produced . ) Why , said the captain , in answer to an inquiry whether he could identify the coat , here is the very pin put in it by the young lady herself , but the myrtle is not here . Oh , yes , the coat is mine . My lord , she is a very pretty young lady , but married . ( Loud laughter . ) Mr . Payne—Mad ! why then there ' s a good pair of you .
The Captain—who said she was mad ? I said she was married , sir . God forbid that I should say she was mad . Oh , no she is not mad . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Payne . —Well , captain , you borrowed the phrase in transitu . Now are you yourself not always in a state of transitu ? The Captain—No , I am not always in transitu , I wish I
was . Mr . Payne . —Why , you are never more than a fortnight without being in transitu to a station-house . The Captain—Yes I am , if they let me alone . Mr . Payne—Are you not very often at station-houses ? The Captain—Yes , indeed I am , but that's not transitu ; that ' s durance , you know . ( Laughter . ) I wish you to know that no man ever yet shook the imperturability of my good humour , and therefore you need not try it on now . But you may . Yes , do . Try , and you will see . ( laughter . ) I ' ve given you warning , you know .
Mr . Payne—Well , are you not the celebrated , Captam Shepheard who figures so often at the police-courts ? The Captain—Yes , I am ; but recollect I am not responsible for all the nonsense they put in the papers about me . Allow me to ask if you have seen the " Morning Herald" of to day . ( A laugh . ) Mr Payne—No ; I have not . The Captain—Well , then , I wish you had ; for it contains , in a letter of mine , a complete refutation . It does , indeed . ( A laugh . ) Mr . Payne—Were you not fined at Brentford , for stabbing a man with a fork ?
The Captain—Yes , I was . I was fined 10 s . by the magistrates . Mr . Payne—And confined , too , by the magistrates , were you not ? The Captam—Oh , no ; you know that well enough . I was confined by the police , not by the magistrates They fined me 10 s , but very improperly , you know that . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Payne—And then you summoned him for detaining a portmanteau and he proved you owed him money . Yes , that was so .
Mr . Payne—and you produced as a witness the lady with the lovely foot , the shape of which was sent to Chiiia as a model , and which you wanted the magistrate to look at , but he he refused —( loud laughter ) the Exhibition foot , captain ? The Captain ( with glee)—That is precisely so . Ah my friend , how delighted the magistrate would have been had he seen it . I wish you had seen it . You would not have laughed at it—no I ' m hanged if you would . ( Much laughter . ) Mr . Payne—But you used to shoot arrows into her leg , did you not ?
The Captain—Ah , so she said . He here made use of an expression too indelicate to be repeated , and excused himself for using it by assuring the court that it was a common technical phrase in the profession he belonged to . Mr . Payne . —And you amused yourself sometimes by biting off dogs' tails ? ( Laughter . ) The Captain—1 tried the thing once on a puppy , but did not succeed . No , I did not succeed , so I did not try the experiment again . Mr . Payne—And you used also to pull flowers out of other people ' s gardens ?
The Captain—Oh , yes , hollyhocks ; it was only hollyhocks . Mr . Payne—And you were taken before a magistrate for beating two boys , and fined ? The Captain—Yes , I was fined 51 . ; I was indeed . ; and I was locked up . But , as you ask the question , I must explain the circumstances . I was fined 51 . It was on a Saturday , and
I had but 11 . ; and as I could not get the % l . on Sunday , why , I was in Cold-bath-fields till Monday . I summoned the officers for what they had done , and shall again most certainly . I ' ve put the whole thing before her Majesty ' s Secretary for the Home Department , and shall have the officers up again , assuredly , though the magistrate improperly , as you know ( winking at the learned counsel ) , dismissed the summons .
Mr . Payne—And you said , " When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw—hem—Shakspeare ?" The Captain—And do you never quote Shakspeare ? I beg your pardon , when you do , you should quote correctly , Just turn to " Hamlet , " and see what he says on the subject of the southerly wind , and hawks , and handsaws , and you will see you are wrong in your quotation . Ahem ! I ' ve a witness here to prove it . Mr . Payne—What , the lady with the lovely foot , who used to live with you as your wife ?
The Captam—Not the same . It ' s a lady though . Would you like to see her ? Mr . Payne—No , thank you , captain . How many times have you been locked up in station-houses ? The Captain—Which station-house ? You know I must be particular in answering this question , as I'm on oath . Let me see , twice at Vine-street , once at Westminster . Now , mind , I give you this information gratuitously ; it has not yet appeared in the papers . ( Laughter . ) I was once for throwing an oyster-shell through a fanlight . Mr . Payne—Where you ever in a lunatic asylum ?
The Captain ( to the Court)—My lord , to that question I must give a very discursive answer , if I am to answer it at all , If it can be considered that such a question has anything to do with the case , I will reply with pleasure ; but I must go on at ength if I once begin . Mr . Payne—Oh , very well , I will not press it .
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The Captain—Well , I ' m sorry for it . I wish you had . The jury , after a short consultation , Acquitted the prisoner . The prosecutor then went to Mr . Payne , and cordially shook him by the hand , laughing heartily . He caused considerable mirth among the counsel by saying to " his learned friend , " " Ah , my Jeremy Diddler , have you such a thing as a half-a-crown about you ?"
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GUILDHALL . Attempted Smcmv .-- ] % Uza . Bentl y , a good-looking female , about 30 years of age , was charged with attempting t o commit suicide . The prisoner was seen by a policeman rushing down the steps of Blackfriars-bridge , on Friday night , and he followed
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, and was just in time to prevent her from plunging \ nio n , water . He took her to the station , where she expressed a d termination to destroy herself , and even attempted to hane h self with her shawl in the cell . She was drunk and had u *' custody on several occasions for similar attempts . Her hus ]) a . j attended and complained of her drunken habits , and she en plained of her husband ' s conduct towards her . He earned " , much as 36 s . per week , and spent it all in profligacy . ^ , that which first drove her to drinking . She earned money ]\ *? self as a singer . —It was finally arranged that she should ' mak '* herself chargeable to the parish , so as to enable them to comi l her husband to support her . l
ohop Lifting by a Lady . —A middle-aged , respectable-looking woman , named M'Norton , was charged before Mr . T yrwhit with having stolen 55 yards of silk , the property of Mr . Turne silkmercer , &c , Islington-green . —Mr . Turner said he saw th ' prisoner , while bargaining with one of his shopmen , secrete tl ° property , and after she had departed he gave her into distort ^ of a police-constable , who took the silk from a bag concealH under her gown . —Mr . Wakeling , solicitor , made a feeline ' . in ootn
peai to the prosecutor and the magistrate , requesting th-it the charge might be withdrawn , as his unfortunate client wa « deranged in mind through drunkenness , occasioned by domestic afflictions of a peculiar nature . —Mr . Turner said she was v > er fectly sober when she purloined his property , and he felt U hi * duty to press for her committal . —Mr . Tyrwhitt observed tin he must refer the matter for the consideration of a higher tri bunal , and she was committed for trial , good bail being- titan for her appearance . '
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38 THE STAB OF FREEDOM . Atoust 28 , 1852 .
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MANSION HOUSE . Skittle Sharping . —John Mulloney , George Collins , and Saml . Bidgely , were charged with having cheated Daniel Barker of cash amounting to between £ 3 and £ 4 at the game of skittles . —From the statement of the prosecutor , who was not a bad skittle player , two of the three prisoners induced him to play against the third , by offering to bet upon him and supplying him with spirits and water . They had , it appeared , tried in vain to be allowed to play in some grounds , because the landlords happened to suspect one or two of them of sharp practice at the game . At last they took the prosecutor to the Sun public-house , Bishopsgate-street , where they asked to have the
ground to themselves . The landlord consented to the proposal , and , suspecting that there was some intention of making a victim , immediately afterwards communicated with Ward , one of the city detective police , who entered the premises in plain clothes and watched the whole of the proceedings of the prisoners . It was quite evident to him that the prisoners were in confederacy to plunder the foolish fellow , who at first played for 5 s ., and was allowed to win , and afterwards played as high as £ 1 a game , at which , as a matter of course , he lost . As they were all retiring , at about 12 o ' clock , the prisoners were astonished to find themselves tapped before the bar by the officer , who had taken care to have two other constables in readiness
to assist him . —Ward , the officer , said that in consequence of what Mr . Towsay , the landlord of the inn , said to him , he went into the skittle-ground and looked on at the play . He saw at once that the three prisoners had a " plant" upon the prosecutor . One of them in setting up the pins took care to keep them at a distance from each other when , the prosecutor was goin to knock them down and to put them close together when the other player ( his confederate ) was to fling the ball at them . The two fellows who were not playing were loud in betting in favour of
the prosecutor , and took care at the same time that he should not be without the other excitement to continue the game till all the money he had in his possession was to his belief irrecoverably lost . "I have known Ridgely , " said the officer , "to be a skittle-sharp for a considerable time , and I have known the other to be the companion of people of the kind . The moment they thought they had all the young man ' s money safe among them they coolly put on their coats and were walking away , but they were immediately introduced to the station-house . "The prisoners were committed for trial .
Solomon Wanted . —Jane Mooney , a county Cork woman , was brought before Alderman Challis charged with havimg stolen a child , the son of Catharine Margaret Toohey , and also a native of the south of Ireland . Mrs Toohy , who was greatly agitaten during the examination , said , I never beheld the prisoner until this day , when I saw her in Heneage-lane with a child in her arms begging . She was sitting on the step of
a hall door , and I had my daughter with me , a girl about 8 years old , who identified the woman as the person who had stolen her brother , and identified my baby at the same time . The prisoner said the child was her own , and had been born in London-road , and baptized in Carey-street chapel , in the city of Cork . She had come over with her baby about five months ago , and she could prove that it belonged to her , and to no other woman in the world . Alderman Challis said he was
certainly placed in a very great difficulty , from which , however , he trusted the vigilant enquiries of the police would in a short time relieve him . There were circumstances in the case which would fully justify him in remanding it . The case was accordingly remnaded .
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WORSHIP STREET . An Unnatural Son . — William Liss , a young man of dissipated appearance , was charged before Mr . D'Eyncourt witb having violently assaulted and seriously injured his father , an infirm and elderly man , carrying on business as a coal merchant in Globe-road , Mile-end . Mr . D'Eyncourt strongly animadverted upon the brutal and unnatural conduct of the prisoner , and ordered him to pay a penalty of 5 Z . or to be committed , in default , for two months to the House of Correction .
Robbery by a Prize-Fighter . —A tall muscular fellow named Jeremiah M' Grath , a well known prize-fighter , but who now gave the name of John Rogers , was placed at the bar before Mr . D'Eyncourt , charged with the following daring highway robbery upon Mr . Samuel Smith , a printer , residing in the Backroad , Kingsland . —The prosecutor stated that while returning home through High-street , Shoreditch , at a late hour on . the night preceding he found himself suddenly surrounded by a number of blackguard-looking fellows , who pressed upon him so as to prevent his proceeding , and while endeavouring to force his way through them he was forcibly grasped round the waist
by the prisoner , who held him tightly for a time with one hand , and with the other jerked , his silver watch out of his pocket . The prisoner then relinquished his hold of him , and dexteriously applying some sharp instrument to his guard-chain instantly snapped it , leaving the chain round his neck , but stealing the watch . Witness immediately seized the prisoner , notwithstanding their physical disparity , and demanded the restoration of his property ; but the prisoner made the most strenuous efforts to escape from him , and on finding that the witness would not loosen his grasp , dragged him along for a
considerable distance by main force , and then dealt him such a heavy blow under one of his ears as to partially stupify him and compel him to let him go , upon which he took to his heels " like a racehorse , " as the witness described it , and it was only after a long and severe chase by two gentlemen who had been spectators of the robbery that he was at length overtaken and given in charge . —When called upon for his answer to the charge the prisoner declared that he knew nothing of either the prosecutor or his property , but he was ordered to be committed until that day week for the completion of the evidence and to adduce formal proof of his former conviction .
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BOW-STREET . A Naval Martyr , —Police-constable James Strinqer 193 r < appeared before Mr . Henry , by direction of the Commission ers ot lolice to answer the charge of having improperly taken Captam Shepherd into custody , on the night of the 11 th ' t for an alleged assault upon a little boy , and Inspector lister was also present to meet the charge of having used insuW language to the gallant captain at the station-house . -Captam William Shepherd referred to the circumstances of his havin * struck a little boy with his cane , as he was going into his club which circumstance was referred to when the captain was last
before this court . Police 193 C then took him into custody although he stated his address ; and when at the station house Inspector Lister treated him the utmost insolence , told him hc was drunk , and locked him up all nght in a solitary cell He thought a captain in the royal navy was entitled to more re spectral treatment than this . —Mr . Henry : Have you been drinking to-day , Captain Shepherd ?—Captain Shepherd : Drinkmg ! yes ; I have . I drank a bottle of ice water just now and a glass of soda-water at Hooper ' s over the way . —MrH
. enry I think you have been drinking something stronger . —Captain bnepnerd : Indeed I have not , though . —Mr . Henry : Then I must ask you another unpleasant question . Have you ever been confined in a lunatic asylum ?—Captain Shepherd ' : Yes I have ; and I'll tell you why . I have a few thousand pounds and my family—to get the control of it-loeked me up for sixweeks . I paid Dr . Locock fifteen guineas to let me go out to see my wife , at Maidenhead , when I found she had gone . I saw through it all directly . I demanded a commission of naval
men , not lawyers or doctors , but naval men , men of my own stamp I said I was willing to be judged by them , and I was judged . A here I am . —Inspector Lister : Would your worship be pleased to ask the captain if he has not a bottle of brandy in his possession at this moment?—Captam Shepherd : Yes I have , undoubtedly . Also a bottle of something else , which I anrgoing to take home . —Mr . Henry : It would be a mockery of justice to allow this scene to proceed further . I cannot
entertain a charge preferred by a drunken man . The summons is dismissed . —Captain Shepherd : Oh ! very well . I am always amenable to the law , as 1 said before , and I bow to your decision . —The captam then returned to his cab , and , having invited the driver to partake of the contents of his brandy bottle ordered him to drive off . ' Female Suicides . —Three cases of women attempting to destroy themselves were brought before Mr . Henry . —The first was that of a young married woman , who stated that her husband
, whose name was Searls , was a clerk in the Customs and had deserted her since the Derby day , having also taken away her three children . She could not say if her husband had lost by the Derby . —The constable and park-keeper , who apprehended the prisoner , stated that they found her near the ornamental water opposite Marlborongh House , in a state of creat excitement , apparently from drink , and fearing that she was about to destroy herself took her into custody at the water ' s edge . —The prisoner expressed herself very sorryand her sister
, stated that she had been in a lunatic asylum . —The magistrate granted a summons on sight for the prisoner ' s husband ^ but as it subsequently appeared he could not be served , the case was remanded . —The second case was that of a sailor's wife , who , when m a state of drunkenness , attempted to throw herself into the river ; and the third that of a woman , also drunk , who got over the parapet at Waterloo-bridge , but held on . —The prisoners were remanded .
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side ot him . The prisoner jumped up directly he saw the fitness , who approached closer to Faul , and discovered that his handkerchief was fastened very tight about his neck , and j ust above it , fastened as tightly as possible , was one of the man ' s braces , with the end tucked in under the brace . The prosecutor was quite black in the face , his eyes were starting from their sockets , and his tongue protruding from his mouth three or four inches . Ronaldson , fearing suffocation would ensue , and having no knife , endeavoured to unfasten the neckerchiet Side 01 him . Thfi rn'iennpv l ' nmnoJ , -.- « j :-. ~« a 1 .. i . ~ .. „ . „ ± i , «
wit-THAMES . Robbery and Attempted Mmider . —Charles Coddin , the son of Irish parents , aged 25 , described as a rope-maker , but who has long been known to the police as a desperate thief , was brought before Mr . Ingham , charged with attempting to murder Charles Faul , an iron plate driller , and robbing him of a watch , valued at £ 6 , and divers moneys , his property . —A carpenter , named William Ronaldson , of 4 , Duck-street , Popular , who behaved very well in the matter , said he was passing over a meadow , called Abbott ' s-fields , Limehouse , on Sunday evening between 6 and 7 o ' clock , when he saw the prosecutor lying insensible on the grass , and the prisoner kneeling down
alongand brace in the usual manner , but was unable to do so in consequence of having a bad thumb , and leant over the apparently dying man , and unfastened his brace and neckerchief with his teeth . Ronaldson then raised the prosecutor from the ground in an inclined position , and the blood started from his nostnk and he vomited the contents of his stomach on the ground- The prisoner , who had betrayed the alarm and agitation of his m" " ' was about to leave the spot , when Ronaldson desired him to stay and asked him where the prosecutor lived , to which he at w * j replied that he lived at Blackwan , and then he said he 1 ^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/6/
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