At the Marlborough Street Office, on Saturday, Samuel Evans, known
as " Young Dutch Sam," a prize-fighter, was charged with as- saulting a Policeman, and Lord Waldegrave with an attempt to rescue him. Evans was ordered to find bail, and Lord Waldegrave was fined five pounds. The Peer had got very drunk in his brother delinquent's reputa- ble company. He tried to pass the matter off as a joke, but did not succeed.
Robert Miers was committed on Tuesday from the Marylebone Office, to take his trial on a charge of setting fire to his o en premises, in High Street, Marylebone, with intent to defraud the Union Fire. office. The evidence against him was very strong. There is no doubt of his having removed considerable quantities of valuable articles from his shop, and of his having rendered a false inventory to the Fire-office. The proof of his having actually set fire to his house was not so con- clusive.
At the Lambeth Street Office, on Wednesday, Mr. Alsop, who re- sides in Bearbind Lane, a lonely spot between the villages of Bow and Oldford, attended with his three daughters to state the particulars of an outrageous assault upon one of his daughters, by a fellow whose existence even has been deemed apocryphal ; and who goes by the name of the Suburban Ghost, or " Spring-heeled Jack." Miss Jane Alsop, one of the young ladies, gave the following evidence, the first which actually proves the commission of violence by the Ghost— About a quarter to nine o'clock on the preceding night, she heard a violent ringing at the gate in front of the liou•e; and on going to the door to see what was the matter, she saw a man standing outside; of whom she inquired what was the matter, and requested he would not ring so loud. The person instantly replied, that lie was a Policeman ; and said, ‘• For God's sake, bring me a light, for we have caught Spring-heeled Jack here in the lane." She returned rate the house, and brought a candle, and handed it to the person ; who appeared enveloped in a large cloak, and whom she at first really believed to be a Police- man. The instant she had done so, however, he threw off his outer garment, and applying the lighted candle to his breast, presented a most hideous and frightful appearance, and vomited forth a quaotity of blue and white flame from his mouth, and his eyes resembled red balls of fire. From the hasty glance which her fright enabled her to get at his person, she observed that lie wore a large helmet and his dress, which appeared to fit him very tight, seemed to her to resemble white oil-skin. Without uttering a sentence, he darted at her, and catching her partly by her dress and the back part of her neck, placed her head under one of his arms, and commenced tearing her gown with his claws, which she was certain were of some metallic substance. She screamed out as loud as she could for assistance ; and by considerable exet tion got away from
him, and ran towards the house to get in. Her assailant, however, followed
her, and caught her on the steps leading to the hall door ; when he again used considerable violence, tore her neck and arms with his claws, as well as a quan- tity of hair from her head : but she was at length rescued from hi. grasp by one of her sisters. Miss Alsop added, that she had suffered considerably all night from she shock she had sustained ; and was then in extreme pain, both from the injury done to her arm, and the wounds and scratches inflicted by the miscreant on her shoulders and neck with his claws or hands.
This story was fully confirmed by Mr. Alsop and his other daugh- ters. One of the daughters said, that the fellow kept knocking and ringing at the gate after she had dragged her sister away from him, but scampered off when she shouted from an upper window for a Police- man. He left his cloak behind him ; which some one else picked up, and ran off with.
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