The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-01 00:00:00

The late Extensive Seizure of Watches and Denmark and Germany since 1852.
SECOND EDITI.O.?
Jewellery,

At the Clerkenweli police-court William Bull Clarke
and Hannah Ann Clarke, man and wife, and Charles Cul-
lingworth were again placed at the bar, on remand, charged
with having a large number of gold and silver watches, gold
earrings, and other articles of jewellery, of which they could
not give a satisfactory account. On their being placed in
the dock, Matthew Charter, aged 25, a gasfitter, of 9,,Wharf-
road, Old Ford, was charged with stealing from the count-
ing-house, 6, Newcastle place, Clerkenwell- close, a quantity
of gold chains, gold pins, gold brooches, and gold earrings,
value £250, the property of Mr. Sidney Cherrill, wholesale
jeweller ; and Frederick Levin, age 40, of 6, Mill-lane, Dept-
ford, common lodging-house keeper. with receiving part of
the above property, well knowing the same to have been
stolen. _ _

Mr. Lewis, of Wilmington-square, Clerkcnwell, attended
prosecute on behalf of the Precious Metal Protection As-

sbciation.
The facts of the examination of the first three prisoners
have already appeared, and it may be stated that owing to
the publicity that has been given to the proceedings owners
have been found for some of the property. There are still
some gold and silver watches, amongst them a valuable gold
openfaeed one by Dent, still unclaimed, and which can be
seen at the Old-street police-station.
Mr. Lewis said that before he went into the case of Charter
and Lewin he intended to complete the case against the
other prisoners. He intended to indict Charter as the prin-
cipal in the robbery, and the others as rece:vers of the pro-
perty well knowing it to be stolen.
Inspector Bryant produced a gold chain, which he stated
he found on Cullingworth when he searched him on the 4th
of September. He also saw Police-constable Fowell take a
gold chain from him. On asking him how he became pos-
sessed of it, he said "You know all about it. The chains
belong to Mr. Cherrill."
Mr. James William English said—l manage the business
for Messrs. Cherrill, wholesale jewellers, of Clerkenwell-
close. The two gold chains produced by the last witness,
and which he stated he took from Cullingworth, are two of
the gold chains stolen by the witness Connolly, on the 4th
of September, from Messrs. Cherrill's premises. I identify
another gold chain, produced by Mr. Farmer, pawnbroker,
of Amwell-street, Clerkenwell.
Police-sergeant Evans, said he took the pawn ticket of
the gold chain produced out of the pocket-book which Cul-
lingworth had in his possession.
Walter James Burgess, assistant to Mr. Farmer, pawn-
broker, produced the gold chain alluded to, and said it was
pawned on the 14th of September last by a man who gave
the name of Henry Martin. He could not say that either
of the prisoners were the party who pawned it. The
duplicate produced by Sergeant Evans was given to the
person pawning it.
Mr. Lewis stated that that completed the case against the
prisoners Cullingworth and Clarke.
Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if there was any other case against
Cullingworth.
Police-sergeant Evans said that the watch which he was
wearing had been identified as one that had been stolen at
the Croydon Steeplechase.
The prisoner Cullingworth said it would be seen from the
evidence of Connolly that he (Connolly) sold the chains to
Clarke. He (the prisoner) did not deny that he had pur-
chased them from Clarke, and as for the other property,
Clarke gave them to him to pawn for him. He had no
guilty knowledge.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that would be a case for the jury to
decide as to the guilty knowledge or not.
Mr. Lewis then went into the case against the other pri-
soners, and called
Joseph Connolly, now a prisoner in the House of Correc-
tion for the robbery from Messrs, Cherrill'e. His statement
having been read over, he added the following with reference
to Charter and Levin. He said—Charter asked me to rob my
employers, and he enticed me to do it. He was at the work-
shop door on the 4th of September, when 1 took thejewellery
and I then gave him two bags, containing guld chains, gold
brooches, and other articles.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—You say he enticed you; how did he
do that ?
Connolly—He said he would take me into the country if
I could get some things out of the bags and bring them to
him.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Were you to have any share of the
profits ?
Witness—Yes: and he would take me into the country
and give me some money. I gavehim the two bags of jewel-
lery, and he did not give them back to me. I went to
Clarke's with Charter. Charter asked me to go with him to
Whitechapel, as he had a man to buy the goode. I know the
prisoner Levin, and he lives at Mill-lane, Deptford. Charter
and I went to live in Levin's house. I went there out of the
way, and Charter took me there. There was a woman with
Charter of the name of Eliza Richardson. I have seen her in
court to day. I heard a conversation with Levin and Charter
about the jewellery. He had shown some of the brooches to
Levin, but he did not say where he had got them. Levin
said that if Charter would wait his brother-in-law would
buy the whole of the jewellery.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was Levin asked if he knew anyone
that would purchase the goods?
Witness—No. Charter said he had some nice things up
stairs. and showed him the brooches. He gave him a pin,
and sold him a pair of earrings for 10s. which were worth
about £2. There was no question asked by Levin as to how
Charter came possessed of the property. When Levin said
his brother-in-law would purchase the property, Charter
said he had a man in London who was purchasing it. A few
days afterwards there was a quarrel between Levin and
Charter about the jewellery. That was after we had been
to Claree's in London. We then found that Eliza Richard-
son had taken the jewellery and £32 105 to Levin's private
house, in the Broadway, Deptford. Charter asked Levin
for the jewellery, saying, " Give me that parcel and the
money."
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did ho say what parcel?
Witness—No. Levin said, " I have thrown the parcels
and the money into the river.' Charter said, " You dont
mean to tell me that you have thrown nearly £lOO worth of
goods and and £32 10s. into the river ?" Levin said, " I
have ;" and Charter said that such an answer would not do
for him. Afterwards Levin gave up the £32105. I did not
see the parcel again. I afterwards returned to my father.
Cross-examined by Charter—l gave the bags to you at
the door.
Charter—There was another man that you gave the bags
to in Red Lion-street.
Cross .examination continued—l did not give the bags to
young Cavanagh.
Charter—This is not the first time he has robbed his
master. He stole a pair of earrings.
Witness—l purchased a pair of earrings, and gave them
to a young woman.
Charter—l do not deny that lam a thief, but the witness
has told me on several occasions that he has robbed his
master, and also that he took gold out of the men's boxes.
Mr. English said that Connelly did buy a pair of earrings
of him.
Susannah Welsh—l went by the name of Eliza Richard-
son. I have married since. I reside at 32, Cambridge-street,
York-street, Bethnal-green, but not with my husband. I
know the prisoners Charter and Levin. I took Charter and
the witness Connolly to Levin's, and lodged with Charter
there. I saw the jewellery he had with him. I gave it to
Levin's wife. I gave her some money as well, but I do not
exactly remember the amount I gave to the wife, because
I wanted her to take care of it, as I was afraid, I asked
Levin for it the next morning, but he would not give it to
me. He said, " I .have thrown it over the bridge." I said,
" Give me the money," and he said he had thrown that
over as well. He said he had done so because he was afraid,
and that he had given it to one of his lodgers, and his lodger
told him he had thrown it into the water.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was Levin ever told 'where it came
from ?
Witness—He asked me if it came from town, and I told
him I did not know.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said thei case had better stop where it
was at present, as it was getting late.
Levin—l deny all that the witness has stated, If the bag
had been dropped over the bridge it could have been easily
seen, as there was not water enough to cover a boot.
Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the whole of the prisoners to
a future day.
Levin—Will yon take bail for me ? lam a respectable
man, and have never been in trouble before.
Mr. D'Eyncourt declined to take bail at present, except
for the female Clarke.

(From the Examiner.
It was on the 25th of January, 1852, that the
King of Denmark announced by Proclamation the

scheme of the new Danish Constitution, which was
afterwards communicated to the Federal Diet, and

formally accepted by it in the July of the same year
as satisfactory. This was the scheme that con-

verted the Government of Denmark from an abso-
lute to a constitutional Monarchy. By the Procla-
mation the King became pledged not to incorporate
Slesvig with Denmark Proper, to connect together
all parts of his dominions in equality of political
rights, and, to deal even-handed justice to the
Germans and the DAnes in Slesvig.

Now Denmark Proper had already obtained, in
1848, a free Constitution, and the first step to the
establishment of the promised geheral Constitution
was that the Parliament of Denmark Proper should
be reduced from a Sovereign to a Provincial Assem-
bly, retaining a deliberative vote. To this it con•
sented, and the Danish Government then established
by octroi, in 1854, a Constitution—somewhat mo-
dified in 1855—for all the King's dominions. A
General Council of the Realm, or Rigsraad, was
founded, based upon equal representatio❑ of all
parts of the monarchy, according to the ratio of
population and taxation. Denmark Proper, with a
population of about 1,600,000, sent 47 of the 80 re-
presentatives; Slesvig, with a population of about
410,000, sent 13; Holstein, with a population of
556,000, sent 18; and Lauenberg, with a population
of 50.000, sent 2. A normal budget was framed
for the regular housekeeping expenses of the
monarchy, and the financial control of the Assembly
limited to grants asked in excess of this.
This constitution was established by octroi ; for
the one good reason that in no other way could a
constitution ever be obtained. The whole policy
of the German Duchies, Holstein and Lauen burg,
being to make themselves untenable by Denmark,
to make 0:2 establishment dependent upon the good
pleasure of their provincial assemblies would have
been to continue for ever the confusion that the
octroi was meant to abate.

So it remained only for Holstein and Lauenburg,
according to the usual policy of obstruction, to pro-
test against the attempt thus made to thrust on
them fulfilment of the King's pledge for their bene-
fit. Little Lauenburg complained to the German
Federal Diet, and the Diet demanded abrogation of
the Constitution of 1855, for the two Duchies, of
Holstein and Lauenburg, within the Federation.
Many form of concession were tried, but none would
satisfy the malcontents, and by an ordinance of
November 6, 1858, Holstein and Lauenburg were
put out of constitutional union with the other parts
of the Danish monarchy.

Rights and liberties were thus thrown away, but
there was a poiut gained towards further agitation.
Holstein and Lauenburg being cut off, there re-
mained Slesvig attached to Denmark Proper by the
common constitution. Could they not construe this
into incorporation of the Duchy with the monopoly.
True, there was no change whatever in the inde.,
pendent local jurisdiction of the Slesvig Assembly
or in any of the distinct privileges of the Duchy.
No matter. Holstein was out of the constitution,
Slesvig in; that could be mystified easily into a
case of incorporation.
But the next claim made for Holstein against Denmark
by the Federal Diet was by a decree of March 8, 1860,
and another of February 7, 1861, that until H:Astein left
off disputing over the constitution, the Assembly of that
German Duchy should have equal power with the
Rigsraad in controlling the affairs of the whole Danish
monarchy! This absurd claim was compromised by Bri-
tish intervention, it was simply agreed that Holstein
should be asked for no more than its share under the nor-
mal budget towards general expenses of the Monarchy, a
modest share fixed in proportion to its smaller population.
Negotiation was continued, and in the summer and autumn
of last year the German claims gradually advanced in
impudence until they settled into these demands : That
whatever was left of the Danish Constitution should be
destroyed. That anew Constitution be submitted to the four
Provincial Assemblies of Denmark Proper, Slesvig, Hol-
stein and Lauenburg, and that until these agreed--in other
words, till Doomsday—the four Assemblies shoulp divide
among themselves into four equal parts the power over the
affairs of the whole Monarchy I Could there be more im-
pudently iniquitous proposals for the ruin of Denmark than
that 50,000 Germans of Lauenburg should neutralise the
million and half of Danes in Denmark Proper, and so leave
it to the Holsteiners with the help of the Government As-
sembly of Slesvig to execute the will of Fatherland on the
whole Danish Monarchy ?
Yet even in this direction the temperate counsels of the
Danish Government went to the utmost limits of prudent
concession and forbearance. An ordinance of March 30
last decreed that no law should be valid in Holstein until
it had obtained the sanction of the Holstein Assembly,
also that no expenditure beyond the sums fixed by the
Normal Budget of 1856, should fall upon Holstein without
its Assembly's previous approval. The Danish Govern-
ment at the same time expressed willingness, if the Diet
wished that it should be so, to abandon its claim of right
even to Holstein's share under the Normal Budget, and
leave to the Holstein Estates unrestricted control over the
finances of the Duchy. Only, if the Assembly of Holstein,
in using the rights thus conceded, differed from the Rigs-
raad as to general laws, it was defined that it could do so
only by an act of separate legislation that, so far as it went,
divided Holstein from the rest of the Monarchy, as a
Duchy that had enacted for itself such independent laws.
fo readjust the Constitution of 1855 in accordance with
the new concession of autonomy to Holstein, Ryas modi-
fied, without touching any of the existing rights of Slesvig,
into the new common Constitution for Denmark Proper
and Slesvig sanctioned on the 18th of last month.
It was impossible for the Diet to meet this extreme policy
of concession otherwise than by rushing into an extreme of
violence. And so it was under threat of Federal execution
that, by a decree of the 18th of last July, and by another
decree of the Ist of last October, the Federal Diet demanded
the repeal of this last inconvenient concession to the
utmost rational demands of the ILvlsteiners, and was
compelled to bring to the front its iniquitous arriire
pensee, by passing beyond the affairs of Holstein and
Lauenburg to express interference with the Danish
Duchy of Slesvig, after which the Germans hunger. So
matters stood when with a little sense of the nakedness of
its bad cause, Germany took eager advantage of the death
of the late King of Denmark and the uprising of the
wretched Augustenburg pretender, to raise a fresh cloud of
false issnes, and by adding wrong to wrong, muddle them,
selves or others into the belief that if they could see it all
through the confusion they would find themselves some-
where at least a little in the right. It is quite easy, as we
have shown, to blow the smoke away and see the plain
truth that professorial Germany delights to darken with a
far-fetched gibberish of irrelevant archtealogy from the
creation downward.

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