The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-06 00:00:00

IN RE d. BELL.

The bankrupt, who was a tailor and draper, o
Ludgate-hill, passed his last examination without op•
position. The debts were 800 f., assets 2201.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

Ann Butler, a prostitute, was charged before Al-
derman Hooper with the following robbery :
A Mr. Cooper said he changed a cheque at the
Bank, and in the evening, while drinking with a
couple of friends, he picked up with the prisoner, who
followed him into an Alton alehouse in Fleet-street,
after which he retired with her to a small private
room at the back of the bar, where he fell asleep, and
on one of his friends coming in to look for him the
prisoner darted out, and on recovering from the
effects of what he had drunk, he missed three Bank of
England notes for 51. each, Nos. 97,837-8-9, and 12
sovereigns. Having communicated his loss to his
friends, one of them went to the Bank and stopped
the notes, while prosecutor gave information to a po-
liceman, who had cautioned him while in the prisoner's
company of her character, and subsequently apprehend-
ed the prisoner drunk in a low public-house in Clare-
market, but none of the money was found upon her,
nor had any traces of the lost notes been obtained.
Alderman HOOPER inquired what kind of house it
was in which the alleged robbery took place.
The officer said it was an Alton alehouse within a
few doors of Temple-bar, and that a sort of betting-
office was held there as well.

Alderman HOOPER said it must be a very strange
kind of house to keep a private room behind the bar
for such purposes, and ho would remand the prisoner,
in order that the character of the house might be in-
quired into, and time allowed to enable the officer to
trace the notes.
MARLBORO UGH-STRE ET.

John Connell was brought up before Mr. Bingham,
charged with the following fraud :
It appeared that in the parish of St. Giles there
was a charitable fund placed at the disposal of the
clergy for the relief of deserving poor in the district.
The mode of administering relief was by giving tickets
to applicants, entitling the bearer to a certain quantity
of useful articles, to be furnished by different shops,
to which the tickets were referred.
Ann Donald, of No. 35, New Compton-street,
chandler-shopkeeper, said she was authorized by the
Rev. Mr. Welsh, curate of St. Giles's, to supply goods
to the bearers of tickets. On Monday afternoon a
boy brought a ticket dated the 4th of October, and
witness gave him the articles named in the, ticket.
Witness watched the boy out of the shop and saw
him give the articles to the prisoner, who was waiting
outside. A second ticket was brought to her shop
that day, and from what witness had previously
learned she gave him into custody.
James Planche said he knew the prisoner for about
three weeks, in consequence of lodging with him in
the same house. The prisoner gave him the ticket,
and told him to go to the last witness's shop and get
the things.
The Rev. William Welsh, acting curate of the
parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, was in the habit of
making out orders on Mrs. Donald for the relief of
the poor of the parish. The two orders produced
were not in his handwriting. All witness knew of
the prisoner was that he came to the vestry on Mon-
day for a ticket, and his name was put down with the
intimation that his case would be inquired iuto.
Police-sergeant Smith said when be took the pri-
soner into custody the prisoner told him the orders
were written by Planclie.
The witness Planch6 said this was untrue.
The prisoner was fully committed.
MARYLEB ONE.
Willies Jarrett was brought up by Allison, an in-
specting-sergeant of the D division, No. 8, and placed
at the bar before Mr. Broughton, just as he was
about to leave the bench, on the charge of having, by
conspiring with a man named Keen, not in custody,
obtained, by false and fraudulent pretences, property
to the amount of nearly 1201. from Mr. Pinnock, a
flourfactor, residing at No. 1, St. James's-terrace,
Harrow-road.

Prosecutor, on being sworn, said—Between six
and seven weeks ago the prisoner came to me with
Keen, of whom I had some knowledge, and who had
told me previously that he was going to bring me to a
friend of his, a respectable man, who, having just
opened a shop at No. 10, Southampton-place, South-
ampton-street, Camberwell, was desirous of purchasing
a quantity of flour. I sold to the prisoner (the man
alluded to) ten sacks of flour and ten quarters of
oats, amounting to 271., which I believe he fetched
away in a van, an understanding having been come to
that the money should be paid in the course of the
next week. Soon after this the prisoner came to me
again with a baker named Nicholson, of Camberwell,
and I then sold to him (prisoner) 50 sacks of flour,
which were to be paid for, with what he had had
before. He was then indebted to me 107/. He was
to have the flour from the stores at the Great Western
Railway, Paddington, where I had a very large quan-
and I was to send it to him ; but on the
tity deposited,
following day he told me that he would remove it
himself, as he had a horse and cart of his own, and
that I was to allow him 4d, per sack for his trouble.
He sent two vans, and the flour was conveyed away
therein from the stores. In a day or two afterwards pri-
soner wrote me a note, stating that he wanted a load
of hay and straw, and I replied to him, informing him
that I had none by me. On the succeeding Monday
he brought to me 50/., and ordered 50 quarters of
oats, which, in a day or two, I sent in. I subse-
quently sent a load and a half of hay to his house,
and on my coming home from Reading market upon
the day it was delivered, my men made to me a re-
presentation which led MP to believe that I bad been
defrauded. After the first ten sacks were sent in by
me I met Keen in the Corn-market in the City, and
he (Keen) then told me that he had seen shortly be-
fore three notes of 50/. each in prisoner's hand. Keen
further said that prisoner was a respectable man, and
that he had been living in Clare-market; he had
sold him (prisoner) flour, and had been regularly paid
for the same. From information which I had received
I went to Horsemonger-lane gaol on the Monday
after the hay was sent in, when I found he was there
in confinement, and he told me he had got into trou-
ble through being security for the payment of money
owing by another person, who had been purchasing
some cottages; he expected to be out that night, when
he would lose no time in calling upon me, and paying
the whole or the greater part of what he owed me.
He, however, did not conae near me, notwithstanding
what he had said, and on my making inquiries in the
neighbourhood of his dwelling, I ascertained that the
shop was shut up, and that soon after the flour and
corn were delivered the property was disposed of to
various parties. He is now indebted to me within a
few shillings of 1201. Since the last transaction I
had with him I have not set eyes upon him until to-
day.

James Pinnock (son of prosecutor)—This after-
noon I and my brother were going along the Bays-
water-road in a gig, when I perceived the prisoner,
who turned sharply round a corner and commenced to
run as fast as he could. I got down and watched
him into a public-house, at the back of which he at-
tempted to scale a wall. My brother drove after my
father, and on bringing him to the house prisoaer
was given into custody.
Mr. Henry Greatorex—l lived next door to the
prisoner. I remember the 10 sacks of flour being
sent in, and I saw them taken away from the pre-
mises as early as five the next morning.
Mr. BuouauTorc—Did you understand from pri-
soner when you sent in the ten sacks of flour that
they were required by him to he used for the pur-
pose of baking? Prosecutor—l did, Sir. He dis-
tinctly told me so.
Mr. T. Franklin, landlord of the Rose, Edmund-
street, Camberwell—l know the prisoner. His shop
was closed about a fortnight ago. He first opened it
seven or eight weeks since. I believe there are a
great many sufferers besides Mr. Pinnock.
Jacocks, 233 D—l went to the Swan, West-
bourne-green, this afternoon, and there took the pri-
soner into custody. He asked me what I had against
him, and I told him that he was in my custody for
swindling. The prisoner made a lengthy statement,