The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Isn. 30.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Robert Smith, and Million
Warner were brought before the Lord Mayor under the
following circumstances. There was a remarkable fact
connected with this case. Warner had on the day be-
fore been examined as a witness against a person charged
with having in his possession a quantity of linen of con-
siderable value, which had been obtained from the pre-
mises of Messrs. Chaplin and Borne, of Upper Thames-
street, by means of a forged order, and is in the employ-
ment of the same extensive firm.

William Luck, 430, said—About 7 o'clock this morn-
ing, I was in Cheapside. I saw the two prisoners
standing at the entrance of Fountain-court, ix Cheap-
side, and I crossed to the opposite side of the way, and
watched them. I saw the prisoner Warner at the cor-
ner of the Court. He bad his hands up against a brass
plate which was fixed at the corner of the house, No.
31, Cheapside and Fountain-court, and the other pri-
soner was close to him at the same time. They both
stooped against this basket (producing a basket contain-
ing a plate.) In the course of a minute Warner lifted
the basket on the head of Smith, and they walked up
beside each other to the corner of Newgate-street, and
Warner than stopped, and had a cup of coffee in the
street. At that time I got the assistance of another
police constable, and we went up to Smith and asked
him what he had get in the basket, and he replied
"Nothing." Parr, the constable who was with me,
said, "Let us look into the basket," and then Smith
threw the basket down and ran away. Parr followed
and took him into custody, and I took Warner into
custody. On examining the basket I found this brass plate
and parts of three screws. The prisoners were taken to
the station-house, and searched there, and I found on
Smith a screw-driver and a knife, and on Warner a
knife and 9d. Smith refused to give his address.
Warner gave his correct address. The prisoners had
walked together from Fountain-court to the end of New-
gate-street. A great many robberies of this kind have
been lately committed in the neighbourhood of Cheap-
aide.

A gentleman here stood up in court and said that he
'ffee one of the
Warner managers ofChaplin and Horne's establish-
ment, and that he knew to be in the employ-
ment of the firmyears, and to be consid-
ered one of their upwards of 6
The prisoner Smith men.
said—l never saw this man (allud-
ing to Warner) before i
/I. West (427) was taken into custody.
yesterday morning al, maid
2-0 I saw the prisoners together
mutes to 7 o'clock, in the
Old Jewry, in conversatiomn:
asljollowed them up Cheap-
side and down King-strsleatrge ;tea I could see them.
About that time a very
stolen. lam
hl'fasl saw together.
court, nor
positive that they are the persons :
Warner—l was Not ix Fountain-
side, till I was taken into custody,
by the Lord
in Cheap-
Luck (430), in answer to questions
Mayor, said—l never lost sight of the prisoners. That'
°
were about 2or 3 minutes together in Fountain o
When I first saw them, the basket was on the :eground,rt-
and I saw both of them stoop towards it. Afterwards
they lifted up their bands towards the brass plate. It
was sufficiently light for me to see. There is other evi-
dence to prove that they have been seen together before
this day.
E. Williams 473) said—.f: a quarter to 7 yesterday
morning, I was close to Gresham-street, and I saw the
two prisoners pass up Gresham-street, towards Alders-
gate-street. Smith was Carrying a basket. I am cer-
tain that Warner was the man who was with Smith. I
identify Warner by his dress. I thought it was fish
they were carrying. I heard of the loss of a plate soon
afterwards. •

Warner (who was stated to be extremely punctual in
his attendance at the wharf) denied that he had been
in the neighbourhood of Cheapside on Monday morning,
and said he had gone from hi. house at the west end of
the town to Ramble? wharf his place of bnsiness, by
quite a different route on that day.
William Loreday said—l sell coffee in Newgate-street
in the morning. At six minutes to 7 o'clock this morn-
ing I saw Warner cross over from Cheapside to my
nand, at the corner of Nonate-street. He came up,