The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

THE LATE BULLION ROBBERY.

Samuel Seal, a jeweller, wholas been twice remanded,
upon a charge-of having in his possession 106 'ounces of
gold, of the value of 3711., supposed to have been stolen,
was brought before Mr. Alderman Wire and Sir IL W,
Carden, at the Mansion-house, in custody of Ilaydon,,
the detective officer, for further examination. The
court was densely crowded during the investigation with
bullion dealers, railway officials, and carriers, bullion of
which the above is supposed to have formed part, of the
value of 14,0001., having recently been either lost or
stolen, on its passage from Gracechurch-street to Paris.
Mr. Steele,,a solicitor, attended on the part of Messrs.
Chaplin and Co., the carriers ; Mr. Lewis again appeared
for the prisoner.

Mr. Steele—l attend, sir, for the purpose of watching.,
the proceedings on the part of Messrs. Chaplin. I ap-
prehend that anybody may appear for the purpose cf
tendering evidence.

Alderman Wire—Do you appear as solicitor for the
prosecution ?

Mr. Steele—Certainly not. Mr. Chaplin is here to
give evidence of what he knows about the matter, and
not as a prosecutor.
Alderman Wire—lf he is a 'witness who can throw
any light upon the transaction I am bound to hear him.
I am not bound to bear anybody on his behalf.
Mr. Steele—Messrs. Chaplin are booking-office keepers
to the South-Eastern Railway Company.
Alderman Wire—lf there is any witness who you
think may further the ends of justice, I am perfectly
ready to hear him, but it is not my duty to hear any-
body on his behalf.
Mr. Steele—At the last hearing the solicitor for the
prisoner laid great emphasis upon the fact of no robbery
having been proved to have taken place.
Alderman Wire—l cannot hear you, you know that ;
you know that it is contrary to law.
Mr. Steele—lt is a course pursued 'every day—that
the magistrate should be informed of what evidence can
be elven.

Alderman Wire—Put the witness into the box, and
we shall hear his own statement.
Mr. Steele--I will tell you what it is, if *Yu will not
receive it.

Alderman Wire—l do not say that I will not hear
the witness, I say distinctly that I will not hear you un-
legs you appear in some character diitinct from that of an
advocate of a witness. If the witness is present, lit him
be put into the box.

Mr. Steele—A case was heard only yesterday at
Guildhall in which the advocate was allowed to appear
for a witness.
Alderman Wire—l do not know that that advocate
had any right to appear there at all.
Mr. Lewis—All this is done for the purpose of pre-
judicing the case against the prisoner.
Mr. Steele—No, it is not ; you said the other day
there was no proof of any robbery having been cow
mitted.

Alderman Wire—l cannot take any other course, un-
less I say to the crentleman, there is the door.
Mr. Steele—Then I will not Fay another word. Mr.
Chaplin is here to give evidence if you wish to hear him.
His evidence ought to follow that Df other persons in
court, but it is idle to call him without also examining
these persons to show the delivery to him of certain
packages.
Mr. Lewis—This is one of theinconveniences resulting
from the fact of there being two competing bodies pre-
FPnt to prove their blamelessness. The South-Eastern
Railway Company on the one side, and Messrs. Chaplin
on the other.
Mr. Steele—No, that is not so.
Mr. John Chaplin, of the Spread Eagle, Gracechurch-
street, carrier, then entered the witneQs-box, and baying
been sworn, said—When I was here the other day I
heart Mr. Lewis, the prisoner's solicitor, say that no
robl.ery of gold had been represented. I attend to prove
that a robbery has been committed.
Mr. Goodman (the chief, clerk).—Be good enough to
consider that you attend not as an advocate, but as a

witness. Simply state what you know. Never mind
what the solicitor for the prisoner stated. If you have
lost anything, or if you have had anything pass through
your hands, and know anything about it, state the par-
ticulars.
Witness— In one case a box, said to contain gold
coin, was brought to my office in Gracechurch-street, by
a clerk or servant of Mr. Spellman, money-changer, of
Lombard-greet. The box was delivered into my hands
on the 15th ult.
Mr. Goodman—What did you do with that particular
box?

Witness—l placed it on the counter before me, until
I hat made out the waybill which was going to the
railway. I then took the box with me in a cab to the
South-Eastern Railway, at the London-bridge; and de-
liverea it to the station-master, Mr. Weatharell. The
address upon it I copied in a book, which I have not
with me. It was "V. Spellman, Paris." I think it
was 26, Rue Rivoli. The packet was weighed, and I
left it, and took a receipt for it. It was booked, and
the value declared at 7001. That was not the only packet
I took at that time. I also received a box, which I
believed to contain gold, from Messrs. Samuel, Thomac
and Co., and which was booked as a parcel of value.
Its value was declared at upward. of 6,0001. I also re-
c-ived on the same day, from Messrs. Bult, a .parcel
which was declared te, consist of bar gold. I delivered
all three parcels together. They were weighed in my
presence, and I took receipts for them. They were ad-
dressed to different persons. That from Messrs. Samuel,
Thomas and Co., I believe was market " P. D.," and
had no further address on it, but I bad documents stat-
ing its intended destination, which I delivered with the
box at the railway station. Messrs. Bult's parcel was
marked " L," and had a number on it, but I do not re-
collect what it was.

Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l have been applied to
for the value of the parcels in two of the cases, namely,
Messrs. Thomas and Mr. Speilman, but no actions have
been brought against me. I have attended the two
former examinations at this court, and was able to give
evidence of the same facts on these occasions.

Mr. Lewis—Then why did you not do so ? At whose
instigation are you doing it to-day ?
Witness—l do so because, when I was here the other
day I heard you say that no robbery had been commit
ted, and I. thought I could prove that the gold had been
stolen.

Mr. T. Rance, assistant to Messrs. Samuel, Thomas,
anti Co., bullion-dealers, of Royal Exchange-buildings,
paid—On the 15th ult. I packed a box of gold in bars,
marked "P. D. 184." I then delivered it to Messrs.
Chaplin's men, who took it from our office. _

' Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l have not examined
the gold produced. That which I packed wag nearly
pure gold—it was better than standard. Its gross weight
was 2,1251 ounces. (The witness here examined the bar
gold produced by the officer.) This isnot like our gold,
and is inferior to it. (The granulated gold was then
shown to the witness.) I cannot at all tell what this is;
it is not like our gold. Ours was in six bars, and was
not like this.

Ha,yon, the officer, having stated that he was not
prepared with any further evidence at present,
Mr, Lewis submitted that no case of unlawful posses-
sion of the gold had been made out against his client,
who had purchased it at the docks of a man who had
recently come from Australia, aEi he stated to the officer
at the time of his apprehension. He (Mr. Lewis) also
submitted that in tire event of the Bench thinking that
the ends of justice would not be satisfied without a
further'remand, it was a case of such slight suspicion,
that his client's own personal recognisance only ought
to be accepted as bail for his appearance on a future
occasion.

Alderman Wire, after consulting with Sir R. W. Car-
den and Mr. Goodman, said the prisoner must be fur-
ther remanded, but he would take bail. The prisoner
must enter into his own recognisance in the sum of 1,0001.
and find two sureties for 5001. each.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT FLETORER'S SHIP-YARD, LIME -
HOUSE.—On Thursday, John Seymour, aged 56 years, in
the service of Messrs. Fletcher, ship-builders, Limehouse,
was engaged between decks of a large vessel in course of
construction, when he by some means lost his equili-
brium, and fell a depth of fifteen feet, whereby he sus-
tained a fracture of the base of the skull and other injuries,
which caused death. The body awaits an inquest.
The Court of Assizes of the Henault has just been oc-
cupied three days in trying a woman named Gras, and
a man named Arnaud, for poisoning the husband of the
woman. On the 11th January the man' Gras took to
his bed, suffering from violent vomitings and pains,
which increased, and on the 15th he died. Foul play
being suspected, the body was examined, and a quantity
of arsenic was found in it. It was then ascertained that
both the woman and Arnaud (with whom she was sus-
pected of intriguing) had frequently purchased arsenic,
and that they had both been seen to mix some substance
with the food prepared for the victim. The jury declared
both the prisoners guilty, but with extenuating circum-
stances, and the Court sentenced them to hard labour
for life. The woman, on hearing tfie sentence, uttered
loud cries, but the man was perfectly unmoved.
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