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MAEYLEBONE . The Betting Shops . —Robbery by a Butler . —Tfios . Scott , butler to Matthew Foster , Esq ., M . P . tor Berwick-upon-Tweed , who resides at Believue House , Hampstead , was charged with having plundered his master of plate to the value of upwards of 250 L—Prosecutor being sworn said—The prisoner has been my butler for nearly sixteen years , and had the care of the plate . He did not sleep in the house . On Friday night last , 1 missed
a valuable Highland dirk from my museum room and on the next morning , in consequence of information which I had given at the police station , some officers called upon me , with the view of properly investigating the affair . At live ovi Saturday , the prisoner , who had been absent since Friday night , returned , and , on iny asking him what he had done with the dirk , he said he knew nothing at all about it . A great deal of plate having also been missed , he was questioned respecting it , and he denied all knowledge thereof : but he afterwards admitted that he
had made away with it , alleging that he was willing to make good the loss , or using words to a similar effect . —Mr . Broughton ( to prisoner )—Have you any question to ask your master ? —Prisoner—No , sir ; what he has stated is quite correct . — Lockerby , 180 S , said—On Saturday evening , between six and seven o ' clock , I and Inspector Byron went to Mr . Forster ' s , and the prisoner was told that we had come about the dirk , but that he need not answer any question unless he should think proper to do so . Mr . Forster mentioned to him that lie had lost
the dirk , to which the prisoner replied that he knew not where it was , and that he had not been in the room where it was kept for the last three weeks . Prisoner then left the apartment in which this conversation took place , and on his returning in a few minutes Mr . Forster told Mm that in addition to the dirk a large quantity of plate was missing . Prisoner gave up the key of the plate chest , which was in a room at the top of the house , and on my going up with him to the apartment , accompanied by the inspector , the chest was unlocked , when I desired him to take out the plate which was there . He did so ; and on the
articles being examined , I read over to him a list of the property which had been abstracted . He declared that he knew not where any of these things were with the exception of a rosewater dish , a pine dish , some ladles , and a few other articles enumerated by her , and which he told me were down stairs . ( The list alluded to was handed b y Lockerby to the magistrate , and it appeared therefrom that amongst the costly plate stolen were 36 table forks and 24 table spoons , together with waiters , ladles , &c . ) I went below with the prisoner , who searched the pantry , and at length admitted that he could not find any of
the things which he had told me he should there meet with and would readily give up . The rose-water dish has since been found in the house . After the search which had been made as I have stated , I went into the dining-room with the prisoner , and Mr . Forster coming in at my request I told him that none of the articles upon the list had been met with , and he ( Mr . Forster ) then gave the prisoner into custody . In my presence the prisoner , after being duly cautioned , told his master that he had made away with the plate , it was a bad job , and he was
very sorry for what he had done . In his box in the pantry I found 20 duplicates for plate , upon which ho had raised 100 Z . 12 s . On the way to the station-house prisoner said to me , " I have been a good servant to Mr . Forster lor 16 years , and this is the first dishonest thing I have committed . "—Prisoner here shed tears , and said— " Mr . Forster has been to me the best and Jrindest of masters . "—Lockerby further stated that in the possession of the prisoner he found several betting office tickets . — The prisoner was remanded .
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was fully corroborated by two other respectable witnesses , and all most positively swore that the prisoner neither struck or attempted to strike the constable . —Mr . Norton , after hearing the whole of the witnesses , observed that it was perfectly clear that the conduct of the constable was highly improper , arbitrary , and most unjustifiable . In the first instance he had no right whatever to order two decent young women , as tlia witnesses appeared to be , to " move on" as he had done , and his
testimoney aoout tiio prisoner having struck him three or four times without his resentin g it was not only highly improbable , but wholly contradicted . Such conduct was not to be tolerated , and he should at once discharge the prisoner , leaving him to seek redress through the police commissioners for the injuries he sustained at the hands of the policeman .
WORSHIP STREET . Dabusg Highwa y Robbery . — William / Smith , a man of noto nous character , was placed at the bar before Mr Ha-nmill charged with being concerned with a number of other men who have escaped apprehension in the following darino- m ' o-hwav robbery :-Mr John Coutts , an engineer , in Gragam-ttre / City-road stated , —l was returning home between twelve and one o ' clock on the night of the 16 th instant , when upon reaching Jic comer of Providence street , City-road , I noticed a * ane oi lour or live men clustered together . They regarded mo in such a manner as to excite my apprehensions , and thrnkhi- if they robbed me at all they would endeavour to steal my wSch wluca was worth five guineas , and attached to an Albert chain I instinctively placed my hand over it , and attempted to pass tiiem Before i could turn the corner , however , the whole of . he fellows surrounded and pushed mo about , and , although I . still kept my hand firmly fixed on my waistcoat pocket I felt my watch suddenly jerked out from boneath it , and koken away rom its totaling . Tho prisoner was the nea ^ t of S gang to me , and I therelore seized him and cillerl < viHV + ! police , but he struggled with such detent te a tto contest ensued between us and his cor&dovit- J \ l , \ i with tho greatest difficulty , and wS ^ Vl ^ TaS ofneer , upon Ins arrival , could secure and lodged hnk e to-house The prisoner , who stoutly denied aU Xt \ ™ of either the other men or the mn-novhr nn 7 -Ti , & he had done had been in * Jk £ m \ If ^ ^ what justly seizing hold of Mm , SS cd Ik t P rosccut f ™' ingly wishecf to make it appeal thtf V I"T ^ Y ^ SCem " but i constable named JoR oto wa ^ f 8 % honest , ing identified him as Cto £ & ffiW f d iiav ' ibr felony , deposed to l ^^^ T ^ Ml
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Court and seeing the prisoner tried for a similar offence wi he was convicted , and sentenced to a lengthened term ' of prisonment . The prisoner upon this became silent and ^' depositions of the witnesses having been taken he ' wiefi ? committed to Newgate for trial . S il % Alleged Starvation op a WivB . —Bicliard Cooper a \ ¦ neyman blacksmith , was charged at the instance of thV ivi ^' authorities of St . Luke ' s , with having caused the death ofT wife , Elizabeth Cooper , by depriving her of sufficient tbn-1 . !' i other acts of ill-treatment . Mr . Albrey , clerk to the t f clerk of St . Luke ' s , reminded the magistrate that the defend ?> was brought up last week upon a warrant charging him ' V having cruelly neglected and ill-treated his wife , wno had 1 ' admitted into the workhouse with one of her children bur " the absence of evidence on that occasion , the case was order" ! to stand over for further investigation . The poor woman W since then remained in the workhouse infirmary in a state ''' f extreme debility and prostration , uader which she ^ r , Tdua ! sank , and died on the preceding evening . He was now iu'f condition to prove that her death was mainl y occasioned 1 - the harsh and unfeeling conduct of the prisoner , who hadViyher without food for days together ; and after hearing evident to that effect , he trusted that the magistrate would order lu ^ to put in bail to await the result of the coroner ' s inquest . \ l > Hammill said , after the evidence he had heard , he had no Iicsi " tation in remanding the prisoner , and should require hunYfind substantial bail for his appearance on that day week . ' ' \\ prisoner was not able to produce the req aired sureties -inci ™ ,,
carried oif in the van . Assault a ^ d Eomjbky by a Pjuzk-fighter . — JeremkU M'Grath , a well-known athletic prize-fighter , way placed at the bar before Mr . Hammill upon two distinct charges of a » 4 a vated assault and robbery . About a month ago , or perhaps n ther more Mr . Wolf Pleisner , a German jeweller , was i ) ro » e « f
ing Home through Commercial-street , Whitechapel , at a l ? tB hour at night , when he was accosted by a woman of notorious character , named Elizabeth Williams , who inveigled him into i house , up a court in Keate-street , Spitalfiolds . There he became so frightened at the aspect of the place that he offered the woman money to let him go , but she locked the door and de manded still more of him . He tried to get out of the room kit she thrust him back , opened the door ajar , and called out loudly as a signal , upon which two powerful fellows rushed in and W stantl
y felled him to the ground , where they held him while the woman rifled his pockets , from which she took his purse con taming two sovereigns and some silver . Mr . Pleiser res i sted this robbery as well as he could , and shouted loudly « i > olico and » Murder , " but the most powerful of his assailants < Wd him by the mouth to stop his cries , and , having draped iiim by mam force along a dark passage , flung him headlong into % cellar at the rear of the house , about seven or eight feet h depth There he lay stunned , bleeding , and helpless , for a considerable time , but upon recovering his senses groped ahou * the cellar until he found a ladder , or rather a portion of one up winch ne scrambled , and got back into the room where b had been first maltreated . The room was in entire darkness and , not knowing how to find the way out , he indiscreetly a ^ ain commenced shouting for the police , but the instant ' liehad given this intimation of his escape from the cellar , the whole oi his assailants returned , and after beating him about the face and boay with great severity , flung him out into the street Hie woman was afterwards apprehended , and now stands committed for trial , but both her male confederates successfully evaded the police until the night of the 21 st instant , when the prisoner M'Grath , with a gang of other fellows , set upon a printer named Smith , of Kiugsland , whom he plundered of his watch , and struck so violently in the face as to partial ! y stun mm . 1 he prisoner was placed in a cell with six or seven other men , to give him a fair chance of escaping detection but th *
moment Mr . Pleisner caught sight of him he unhesitatinely selected him from the rest , and was so positive in his identification of linn that he could , as he stated , have picked him out ironi oOO . ihe prisoner stoutly protested his innocence of ail Implication m the first mentioned assault and robbery but expressed his intention to reserve his defence upon the . second and the depositions of the witnesses having been taken bv Mr ' iiurlstone , the second clerk , he was fully committed to NeWte for trial upon both charges .
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LAMBETH . Unjustifiable Conduct op a Policeman , —Thos . Dowbridge , a youth , was charged with assaulting police-constable William Rogers , 174 L . —Rogers , whose burly appearance formed a striking contrast to the shrimp-like person of the defendant , deposed that on Saturday night , between the hours of eleven and twelve o ' clock , while on duty in the London-road , he ordered some females who were speaking loudly at the door of a irabliphouse , to " move on" upon which the prisoner not only abused nun but struck him four or five blows , th o first of winch knocked Off Ins hat , and he was compelled to take him into custody .- '
lhe prisoner , in reply to the charge , declared that the statement of the constable was wholly untrue , as would be shown by his witnesses .-Two young women , the one the sister and the other an acquaintance of the prisoner , were calls : ! , and dowsed tint they had accidently met at the door of the public-house and being intimate acquaintances , they got into conversation but not in a loud tone of voice , and they had not been there q moment when the constable came up and desired them + n
" move on , " and toid them that if they did not do so he should take them into custody . The prisoner , who was staivlmV in the public-house , hearing what the constable had said , came to ^^ the door , and asked what they had done and why they shonld ( S ^ St % fe ? the , ^ -honse ? The constable ' reply was , that ^^^^ SjP ldll 0 ttake tliein ] ie sll 0 uld ldm » and at the same time ^^^^ ouredtolayholdofhim . The prisoner retired into the ISsRftBP ^ T *! .. " * S Wed hy tlls constaWe , who , after fiM ^ m ^^ S ^ ^ mmS ^^ nm ^ clothes , dragged S *| f l | ® the station-house ^ Thc testimony of the young woman
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SOUTHWARK . Cruelty to a Doxkey . —Daniel Downs , a costermonger , was charged with cruelly working a donkey while in an unfit state . —Thomas Almond , an officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , stated that on Saturday morning he was in the Bemiondsey New-road , when he saw the prisoner driving a donkey cart , heavily laden with greens , &c , which the animal could hardly drag along . He then perceived that something was the matter with the shoulders of the donkey , as the animal winced very much , and the flesh was a great deal swollen . He stopped the donkey , and on lifting the saddle he discovered an old sack , doubled four times , and under that a
large raw wound about a foot long and two inches wide in the centre . It was almost in a state of putrefaction , and smelt most offensively . The donkey could hardly stand . lie therefore took the prisoner into custody , and brought the donkey to the station for his worship ' s inspection . —Mr . Combe went to the yard and examined the donkey , and on his return remarked
that he never saw a poor animal in such a dreadful state , and he was surprised that any one could be so cruel as to work it . —Mr . Combe said that as he had heard a good character of him he should give him an opportunity of curing the donkey , and adjourn the case for a fortnight . The officer of the Royal Society would call at defendant ' s stable as often as he could and ascertain whether he attended to it , and if not bring him ur > for severe punishment .
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ture , in the act of opening and destroying letters , and placing their contents in his pockets . Witness called to him , and said , ' Wnat letters are you destroying ?> ' He looked up and said , ;< What , Mr . Bculthorp ? " Witness then asked him to let them inside , and he did so , upon which Cole then began searching him . Tho prisoner took two half-sovereigns and some silver from his waistcoat pocket . Witness asked him where he got them from ? He said that he had had them for some time . Cole took a small box containing a gold fancy ring from the
BOW-STREET . Post Office Robbery . —Theobald Philip Butler , a clerk in the General Post-office , was placed at the bar before Mr . Henry , charged with stealing five letters , containing gold and jewellery , the property of the Postmaster-General . Mr . Walter R . Scultliorpe , president of the London district department , stated that he accompanied Inspector Cole to the basement of the building shortly after two o ' clock on Monday afternoon , for the purpose of watching the prisoner , who had been suspected , and followed to one of the water closets . They saw him through an
aperpnsoner . Witness said , " We have seen you open two letters and this money came out of them . " The prisoner replied , Yes , I took half a sovereign from each letter . " They took him up stairs , where witness said , " You had three letters on Saturday , one of them containing jewellery ?» He made no answer . Cole produced a coat that was usually worn by the prisoner in the office , and had been taken from the cloak room . He took three gold rings from one of the pockets . Witness said , " The letter contained six rings . " The prisoner said that ho had bartered three of the rings for the one found in the little
box and 9 s . A plumber who had received directions to examine the closet came up stairs , and produced some fragments of letters which he had found there . These were pasted together , and five letters were made up from the pieces . They were directed as follows : — " Mrs . Wood , 19 , George-street , Blackfriarsroad : Mrs . T . Lockyer , Upliine , near Lyme-Regis , Dorsetshirs ; Mrs . Ramsden , 1 , Camaby-street , Leeds : Mrs . Pink , 4 , Ckandos-street , Landport , Portsmouth : and Mrs . T ; Pinger , Churchgate-street , Harlow , Essex . " All these letters would
pass through the hands of the prisoner in his ordinary occupation , to be sorted . There was a postage-stamp on each , which had not been obliterated . The prisoner had been in the Postoffice about 12 months . Mr . Henry . —At what salary ? Witness . —At a salary of 70 / . per annum . Portions of a sixth letter were found , addressed to some person in High-street , Deptford : but only the final letters of the name {^) could be traced . Mr . Henry remarked that it was a great pity , and really very extraordinary , that parties did not avail themselves of the postoffice , order . The prisoner , on being asked for his defence to the charge , said , —1 admit that I opened the letters , and took the jewellery and the money , for I have lost 4 , 000 ? ., the cost of my father ' s commission in the army and my own . There was never any thing against my character before this . Mr . Henry committed him for trial .
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GUILDHALL . Robbery w a Police Court . —Henry Jones , alias Percy was charged before Alderman Parncomb with the tbllowin" daring robbery :- On Monday last , immediately on the magistrate ' s leaving the bench , a gentleman m court complained that ho had had his pocket picked of his handkerchiefwhen the
, police constable 411 , who was near him , inquired by whom and having his attention directed to the prisoner , he turned Mm suddenly round , and say the missing handkerchief han « w from his pocket , and accordingly accused him of the thai ^ and took him mto custody on the above charge The urivmpv when caxled on for Ins defence , said he had been in the fifth and
sixth divisions oi the city police force , which he had left about nine years . He acknowled ged with contrition that he was guilty of the misappropriation of the prosecutor ' s uroperfcy but did not take it under the circumstances that had been stated . Re saw tne handkerchief fall from the gentleman ' s hat apd being reduced to rags and extreme destitution , hunger and want tempted him to put tho handkerchief into his own pocket instead of returning it to the owner . The prisoner , who crb ! bitteny ouruig the time occupied in taking the evidence , was then fully committed to Newgate for trial .
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CLERKENWELL . Murderous AssAULT .-Jb / m Wright , aged 40 , was finally examined before Mr . Come , charged by Mary Ann WrHit , ms wife a respectable well-looking young woman , witlilwvinj ; stajbed her with intent to murder her . —Tho evidence of the wife , which was given with groat pain , showed that on the night oi the 16 th ult ., the prisoner rose from his bed , procured a kmte and stabbed her in the neck , side , and arr as .-i ' nsoiwr said , I was excited and agitated at the time . I was worked up to a pitch of frenzy , and am sorry that I have injured my wife . —irosccuta ( crying)—You have repeatedly sworn that yon would murder me . 1 have eleven stabs on my person-Committed . J L
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THAMES . A DlSIJTEHESTED " PATRIOT , " A RlIFFlAKLY LOYALIST , Afl » a Just (?) Magistrate . —Peter Sheffield , a man about fifty years of age , was charged with abusing Mr . G . A . Richards , a tradesman , of Salmon ' plane , Limehouse . —The comp lainant said that he had posted in the window of his shop a bill referring to the Militia Act , displaying its discipline clauses and their operation , with a view to dissuade , persons from enlisting in the new corps . Tho defendant came there about twelve o ' clock
and appeared very much offended with the contents of tho bill . and made an attempt to tear it down , and said the act w « the law of the land , that a militia was necessary , and that the bill ought not to be in the window . Ho advised the def endant to go away , and said he had a rio ; ht to have the bill stuck « P i " his window . The defendant then began swearing at him mm threatening him , and , a mob having collected , he was ol ) li {^ t ( l give him mto custody . Mr . Yardlcy-What induced yon W put the bill m your window ? Prosecutor—I do not know particularl y ; to draw attention to my shop . Mr . Yardley-A verV ridiculous proceeding—most absurd indeed ; and I must say » oi
was a most impertinent proceeding on your part to put bilk that land in your window . Why should you put bills in your window , advising people not to enlist in tho militia , when ^ act has been sanctioned by the legislature and the govern ^' oUhc country ? The proceeding is a most objectionable one-* ne Prosecutor—He said , "If you don't take it out oi J ^ window , 1 will doit ; " and he called me a thief and a rogj " before all my neighbours . The prisoner , in a somewhat m' ^ ing manner , said he did not like to sec the bill , ** *? headed , " Flogging in the New Militia , " and on the head on was an engraving of a man being flogged at the halberds *» a cat-o ' -nine-tails , the blood streaming down his back , and u
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1694/page/6/
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