The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
G UIL Dll A L L.
Thomas Jones, CharlesWrght, and James Willis were
placed at the bar before Sir R. W. Carden, charged,
Jones with stealing a box, containing books and other
c ry
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a Company,stee a
valuable property, the goods of the Great Western Reit-
bs and Wright
robbery.tliValriighhte and Willis with being can-
ard by Alderman Finnis on
Tuesday last, who adjo.uyrned the examination, admitting
Wright to bail. The following are the particulars of the
inquiry:
John Francis, police-constable 212, said that on
Monday afternoon' about four o'clock, he saw Wright
and Jones, the latter carrying a large box on
his
shoulder, in Long-lanp. At the corner ol ur-
street they appeared undecided which way to
proceed,
when Wright said to Jones, " Come this way, it is the
nearest." At that moment they had separated, and were
going different ways, when witness took theta into cus-
tody. Junes at first said he did not know the contents
of the box, bat afterwards said it was given him by a
stranger, who gave him 6J. to take it to the Royal
Hotel, in Bridge-street, Blackfrears, to where it was ad-
dressed. At the station Jones sat on the box, and when
ho was removed a new pair of stockings were picked
up near the spot. On inquiring at the Royal Hotel wit-
ness ascertained that the box was one of seven belong-
ing to a Belgian of the name of Frederick Bohn, who
had booked them at Bristol to go by the Great Western
Railway, but six only had arrived safe. Witness thou
went to the Paddington station of the Great Western
Railway Company, and there learned that soon alter the
arrival of the goods train that brought the seven boxes
one was missing. Willis was callea in, being the car-
man to Messrs. Younghusband and Son, agents to the
Great Western Railway Company, and interrogated as
to who rode with him on Monday last on his leaving the
station with a van load of goods. Ho stated that he
picked up with Jones just outside the station, mid he
rode with him into St. John-street, Clerkenwcll. Willis
delivered his load at Islington. Witness then took him
into custody.
Mr. Edward Johnson said that on the morning in
question he saw Jones, who had been in his employ, on
the platform of the Great Western Railway station.
The van driven by Willis left the station at ten minutes
to eleven o'clock in the morning, and Jones was there
as early as nine o'clock.
W. Black, a porter on the railway, said that in going
to unload the truck he found only six boxes addressed to
the Royal Hotel instead of seven. The van driven by
Willis was not at that time loaded.
Alfred Bill, the clerk of the wood shed, said that
strangers were not allowed on the platform when goods
arrived, and the prisoner Jones had no business there at
nine o'clock in the morning. It would be impossible to
get a single package or a load through the gates without
a pass from the proper authority. The interonce, there-
fore, was that Jones conveyed the box in question from
the station in the van driven by Willis, who obtained a
pass for his load only, and not for a specific number of
packages.
Mr. Frederick Bohn identified the box produced, the
lid of which had been broken open, and further stated
that he booked seven packages at ristol, and only six
of them arrived.
A man of the name of Fletcher, at whose house Willis
delivered his load of goods, deposed to seeing Jones with
Willis, and the box produced, in the otherwise empty
van, as it left his house.
Several other witnesses were examined to complete
the necessary chain of evidence, and the prisoners were
then asked what they had to say ?
Mr. nobler, on behalf of Wright, who appeared the
most respectable of the three prisoners, said that the
evidence affecting his client was of a very tri-
vial nature, and could be explained away in a few words.
The fact was, the prisoner Jones owed Wright a little
money, and meeting with the former accidentally, iu
Long-lane, he was requesting payment, when the officer
took them into custody.
Sir R. W. CARDEN said that - Wright had been guilty
of some deception when the constable told him he was
wanted with the man with the box. His reply was that
he knew nothing of the man or the box. Under these
circumstances ho must leave his guilt or his innocence
to be decided by a jury. He would, however, admit him
him to bail in two sureties in 504 each, and his own re-
cognieences in 1001.
The prisoners were then committed for trial. ,
MAR YL EBONE.
Yesterday William Henry Cole and Eliza Marriott,
the latter of whom had been out upon bail from the 16th
instant, were brought up for re-examination, charged
with having been concerned in uttering forged cheques,
drawn upon the bank of Sir Claude Scott and Co., No. 1,
Cavendish-square. The court was, as upon former oc-
casions, much crowded.
Mr. Lewis, solicitor, Ely-place, Holborn, attended as
before for the prosecution, and Mr. Hempson, managing
clerk to Mr. Vaughan, Paddington, for Cole.
The particulars of what previously transpired have
already appeared at some length in our paper, and it
will be remembered that two distinct cases of uttering
Were already shown, and that the accused were taken
into custody by Sergeant Williamson, 30, and Sergeant
Sanders, 29, of the same division, both of whom have
been very active in getting up evidence in connection
with the case.. It will be borne in mind that the ac-
quaintance between the prisoners commenced several
weeks ago, while it was raining hard, and that Cole then
politely offered her (Marriott) his umbrella,
Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate (Mr. Long),
giving a resume of the antecedent investigation, when a
remark, in which the then sitting magistrate, Mr.
Broughton, concurred, was made, expressive of a belief
that the female was an innocent instrument in the hands
of Cole.
Mr. Fell read over the voluminous depositions which
he had taken, after which
Mr. Lewis proposed, in order to further properly the
ends of justice, that Marriott should be admitted as a
witness.
Mr. Limo considered that such a course was the best
that could be pursued, and she (Marriott) was accord-
ingly put into the box and sworn.
She gave evidence at some length, and in addition to
her previous statements, she said that, at the instigation
of Cole, she had; without the slightest idea of there
being anything wrong, endeavoured to get cash for two
other cheques, one at Mr. Marshall's, a baker, at the
corner of Ampton-street, and the other at Mr. Robin-
son's Old-street, St. Luke's. The whole of the cheques
were alleged to be drawn by Mr. George Howell, 22,
Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, one of them made payable
to Mr. Webber, butcher, Edgeware-road; a second to
Mr. Collard, Tichbourne-street, Paddington; a third to
Mrs. Marriott; and the fourth to Mr. Robinson. Tho
one drawn in favour of Marriott was found by Serjeant
Sanders under the cushion of the cab in which he con-
voyed Cole to'the station-house.
Hempson cross-examined the witness, and in reply
CO questions put by him to Marriott, she said, "I work
at millinery and dress-making when I can get any to do.
Ido not see gentlemen. If I had got change for the
cheque at Mr. Robinson's, Cole was to have given me
5L out of charity to me, knowing, as he did, the diffi-
culty which I and my sister were in?'
Mr. Howell proved the whole of the signatures pur-
porting to be his to be forgeries.
In answer to the charge, Cole, at the termination of
the first examination, said that what ho had done with
regard to the cheques alluded to was owing to severe
losses which since he had quitted business he had sus-
tained. It was far from his wish that he should
have brought the female (Marriott) into any trouble;
but his misfortunes had occasionally affected his mind.
Mr. Fell having read over the additional evidence,
The prisoner, after being cautioned in the usual way
by Mr. Long, was asked if ho was desirous of saying
anything, when, by the advice of Mr. Hempson, he de-
clined to make any defence.
He was then committed for trial.

7'homas Barris, lodging at 21, Little Carlisle-street,
Portman-market, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Long, charged with having, while in a state of intoxi-
cation, attempted to set fire to his apartment on Saturday
evening last.
Several witnesses were examined, and the prisoner
was remanded till Monday next.
HAMMERSMITH.

Mr. Frederick Lester, of No. 28, Cameron-square,
Chelsea, appeared before Mr. Beadon to answer a sum-
mons charging him with having unlawfully picked some
flowers from a grave in the West London and West-
minster Cemetry, Earl's-court, Kensington.
Mrs. A. S. Stockley, a lady residing in Sydney-street,
Brompton, said one of her children had been buried in
the West London Cemetery, and she was in the habit of
planting flowers upon the grave. On Friday week last
she was in the cemetery, and while watering the flowers
upon her child's grave, she saw a party of persons walk-
ing along, including the defendant, who had a female by
his side. As he passed the grave he stooped and picked
some of the flowers which were growing at the side.
Witness told him he ought to be ashamed of himself for
robbing the dead, and ho replied, " Dear Lady, you
ought to excuse my ignorance." Witness comraunicatfi'd
with the constable of the cemetery, and the name of the
defendant was obtained. Witness was in the habit of

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planting flowers very frequently upon the grave, but they
wore not allowed to remain there long, as the visitors
were constantly picking them as they passed.
Tho constable said his . attention wa.i called to the
grave, and he found some of the flowers which had only
been a short time planted plackod from the ground.
The flowers upon the various graves in the cemetery
were constantly being plucked by the visitors, and the
company were determined to prosecute every person
discovered in the act. .

The defendant denied the charge; and called the
female who was walking with him at the time, and bhe
stated that she never saw her companion touch the

flowers.
Mr. BEADON believed the statement of Mrs. Stookley,
end inflicted upon the defendant the mitigated Pc"ltY

of 103.' and 23: costs.
The defendant immediately paid the money.

A deputation from the Canada, Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick Railway Company had an interview with
Sir John Pakington on Saturday at the Colonial•otfiee.
ville, was, at the Winslowsler
committeds ndu M r . e
The deputation consisted of Lord Dudley Stuart, sir
Richard Brown, Mr. Thomas Alen; Hankv, M.. B
Boothb y , 51 r . lao'tnh ot.mh Newtonea Thomas ahtn fio:
inst.,d
charged with
TR
THROWING AT RAILWAY AlN.—David Pi I
peoenttyof sae sio n farmers
,Aylesbury
Gaol fur trial under the General Railway Act,
• n the 21st of April, at the •
having o pariah of N
villa, wilfully and maliciously thrown at Newton Long-
along the Buckinghamshire Railway. a train travelling
adduced, it appeared that on the day From the evidence
threw from the road over a bridge named the accused ,:
duced, at the luggage-train, a stone, which was pro- !
Bletehiey; and that he afterwards.which was on its way to
saw him a gallon of ale;to .toH.: C°iiLete.
gave two, persons who I
saw. The company did prevent their •tallirarwhat they
magistrates thought not press for a committal, but the
the case demanded it.