The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

A lad named Pugh, and a man named Roddick, in
the employ of Messrs. Besley and Co., type founders, of
Fann-street, Aldersgate-street, were charged before
Alderman Sidney with robbing their employers.
It appeared from the evidence of police-constable 42
G, who was on duty last evening in plain clothes in
Compton-street, Clerkenwell, that he saw the prisoner
Pugh go into a marine-store dealer's in that street, and
dispose of a parcel of brass cuttings. He questioned
him about it, and he said what be had sold was the per-
quisites of the shop, and the prosecutor's foreman would
inform him so. The quantity sold was Vbs. The foreman
stated to-day that Pugh bad been in the prosecutor's
employ about 5 years, and that the men were not
allowed to take the cuttings. When the prisoner Pugh
first offered the marine-store dealer brass cuttings for
sale he refused to purchase them, desiring him to send
his father to him. Roddick, in the evening of that day,
went to the marine-store dealer's, represented himself
as the boy's father, and sold the cuttings.
The prisoner Roddick contended that he bad only
acted according to the usage of the shop in taking the
cuttings. They had always been allowed as the men's
perquisites.
The foreman denied such was the case.

Alderman Sidney said there could be no doubt the
property was illegally taken. Roddick he was obliged
to discharge, because the property bad been sold by the
marine store dealer to a person who bad melted it, and
could not therefore be identified. Pugh he remanded
for a week.

ROBBERY AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER'S.— William
TVetherley was charged with stealing a cash box from the
bar parlour of the King's Arms, Philip-lane, Wood•
street, containing 101. in gold, 255. in silver, several
silver spoons, rings, two dock warrants for two hogs-
heads •f brandy, and an American 20-dollar gold-piece,
the property of Mr. Stinron, and George Howse, with
attempting to dispose of the 20-d ollar piece, knowing it
to have been stolen.

Bull, one of the city detectives, deposed that the pri-
soner Wetherley kept the Greyhound public-house at
Croydon, but left there yesterday to enter on another
public-house at Waltham Abbey. Yesterday witness and
Mr. Stinron went to Waltham Abbey, and in the church-
yard first saw Wetherley. He told him he was a police-
officer, and that he took him into custody on a charge
of stealing a cash-box from the prosecutor. He replied he
knew nothing about it. Witness asked. him where
Howse (his father-in-law) was. Prisoner called him from
three or four men who were standing near. When he
came over witness asked him where he got the gold
dollar piece he had yesterday at Croydon. After being
silent for some time, he said, "I shall not answer any
questions until I have seen a solicitor." He
then took the prisoners into custody. At the
police station there Wetherley threw his arm round the
prosecutor's neck, and said, " For God's sake don't pro-
secute me ; consider my wife and child." He afterwards
brought the prisoners to London ; and, at Moor-lane
Station, Ho wse, in reply to a question from the Inspec-
tor respecting the gold dollar piece, said, " I'll not sacri-
fice my child." This morning, after the prisoners were
in the cells at the Guildhall, they sent for witness.
Howse said, "I am very sorry, officer. I did not tell
you the truth yesterday; I had the dollar piece from my
son-in-law, Wetherley. lam innocent of the robbery."
Wetherley said, "Yes ; Mr. Bull, my father-in-law,
knows nothing about it. I committed the robbery my-
self, and he is quite innocent of it."
Mr. Stinron deposed that he knew the prisoner We-
therley very well indeed, but not the other prisoner. He
last saw the cash-box about 7 o'clock on Wednesday
evening last, in a drawer in a desk in the bar parlour.
The drawer was locked. He moved the cash-box, with
its contents, about half-past twelve o'clock the same
evening. Wetherley was in the bar parlour that even-
ing. He corroborated the officer's statements, adding,
that on the way up to town Wetherley said "he had
destroyed all the papers that were in the cash-box," and
detailed the articles and money he found in it. The
cash-box he threw into a pond at Croydon. Prisoner
made the statement to him voluntarily. Witness had
received three spoons, three rings, and some postage
stamps from a female at Crcydon, whom he believed
to be Mrs. Wetherley. The gold dollar piece was like
the one he lost. The spoons and rings he could identify
[his property.

The prisoner Howse endeavoured to raise a sum of
money on the gold dollar piece to pay out an execution
on his premises at Croydon.

Howse said he bad not the slightest knowledge of how
his son-in-law became possessed of the gold coin. It
was given to him by bis son-in-law, who, he thought,
had come by it honestly.
The prisoners were committed for trial.