The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

MORE POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES. —This morning n
middle-aged man, named Rickard Walker, a sorter in
the General Post-office, was placed at the bar, charged
with stealing two letters supposed to contain money.
Mr. Peacock; the Post-office solicitor, attended for the
prosecution.

Mr. Willis Clare stated that he resided at Mile-end,
and was an inspector of letter-carriers. The prisoner
was a sorter in the General Post-office, and was on duty
this morning, when his attention was called to the
prisoner by the repeated passages he made by the
lift, and 41so at receiving letters from him out of the
ordinary course. The lift communicated with the let-
ter-carriers' department and the inland department.
He (witness) then gave instructions to see whether be
travelled up in company with other persons or singly,
and from information he bad received be sent for the
prisoner to attend him at h:s private room, and upon his
arriving he accused him of secreting letters, and that he
believed at that moment he had some upon his person.
The prisoner denied, the accusation, and stated that he bad
no objection to be searched, but that be bad changed his
coat during the morning. Smee was then called, and he saw
him (Smee) take the two letters produced from the pri-
soner's pocket, which bore the day stamp. One of the
letters was directed to Mr. K. Tuck, Great Western
Stables, London-street, Pa ldington, and the other to Mr
H. Toorner, 117, Lerrington-street, Vauxhall-road,
We.tininster. On the letters being produced, the pri-
soner said he knew nothing about them, and that some
person must have placed them in his pocket. The pri-
soner had been in the service of the Post-office for
nearly 15 years, and his salary was IL 15s. 9d. per week.
Smee, one of the police-constables at the Post-office,
stated that about 10 minutes past 8 this morning he was
called into Mr. Clare's office, and having searched the
prisoner found two letters in the breast-pocket of his
coat, which he handed to Mr. Clare. On asking the
prisoner to account for their being in his pocket, he
stated that he did not know the letters were in hie
pocket, and that some one must have placed them there,
as he had changed his coat early in the morning and left
the one he then wore for some time under the stair.
The cent, an old black one, was then shown to Mr.
Ohre, who stated that the assertion of the prisoner was
false, as he had not worn the black coat the whole of
the morning. He then took the prisoner into custody.
Cummins, one of the sorters, at the Post-office, said
the prisoner and himself came on duty at 5 o'clock this
morning, and his notice was specially directed to him by
the repeated journeys be made by himself to the lift,
when there was room for him to ascend with other
parties. The coat he had now on was the coat be wore
the whole morning. He had • watched him the whole of
the morning, and he could swear that the prisoner never
changed his coat ,

The magistrate asked the prisoner what he had to say
in answer to the charge, when he repeated that the
letters must have been pladed in his pocket by some
villain.

The prisoner was then remanded to enable the writers
of the letters to attend, but it was intimated to him
that next week he would be committed for trial.
Grace, a letter-carrier, was this morning fully com-
mitted to take his trial for stealing three letters.

Citcsrles Simpson, the Barnet letter-carrier, was also
committed for trial this morning for stealing a letter.