The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

HATTON.GARDEN.

A young man, Who passes under the various
names Sellinger, or St. Leger, Arthur, Jame:, &c.
and.is one of those individuals who, by means of
fictitious characters and false representations, have
lately succeeded in obtaining situations as servants
in some of the most respectable families at the
west-end, and whose only object in doing so is to
acquire facilities:for committing future burglaries and
robberies, Alas brought up for re-examination on a
charge of felony.

It appeared that the prisoner lodged at the Star
Coffee-house, in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square,
wherein a very little time his real character was learned,
and the consequence was that he:was denied further
accommodation, and received notice to leave. On
the day of his departure a female lodger in the
house missed a gold ring, a gold seal and key, to-
gether with a silver guard, from off the mantel-piece
in her room, and the suspicion was that the prisoner
had stolen them. He afterwards went to lodge at
No. 6, Riding-house-lane, where he stole a quantity
of wearing apparel, and was immediately given into
the custody of police constable Murray, No. 26, of
letter E. division, who, on searching him, found in
his possession an impressio❑ in red sealing wax of
the seal above-mentioned.

In the latter case there was no prosecution, and
the Magistrate did not think the evidence in the for-
mer sufficiently strong to commit the prisoner.upon.
Murray stated, that from inquiries he had made
into the prisoner's circumstances, he had ascertained
that he and another person of the name of Hamilton
had some time ago introduced themselves by false
characters and recommendations into the service of
Major Dodd, of No. 8, York-buildings, Regeni's-
.park, as footmen. They represented themselves as
having lived in a similar capacity with a family of
great respectablity residing in Beaufort-square, Bath,
and the written characters they produced were to
the same purport. Major Dodd, however, prudently
wrote to Bath, to ascertain whether or not those
representations were true, and the. answer he' re-
ceived was, that there was no such square, nor say
such family residing in Bath, as mentioned in the
recoMmendatiOns of his servants. As soon as they
understood that Major Dodd had received this in-
formation,-and that it was his determination to place
them both immediately in custody, they absconded,
and neither of them till now had been since heard
of. Avis, one of the officers of Marlborough-street,
was in attendance, and identified the prisoner Its.
having been charged at that office some few months
ago with stealing a quantity of plate from a respec-
table family at the west-end, into whose service he
had introduced himself by means of those false re-
presentations and one of those fictitious characters
alluded to.

Mr. LAING ordered that he should find bail as a
loose, idle, disorderly character.
A man of the name of James Fezekerly Burdon;
formerly an agent in the Insolvent Debtors'-court,
but at present a vocal performer at Bagnigge-wells,
was brought up in custody of Edwards, the officer,
on a warrant charged with obtaining money by
falsely representing himself as an attorney.
The prisoner denied the charge; and during the
investigation, which was of considerable length,'
conducted himself toward the Magistrate in a mari-
ner highly unbecoming and insnlent.
Mr. LAING said, under all the circumstances, he
must be obliged to discharge the prisoner.; but he
recommended the prosecutor immediately to inform
the authorities of the Law Association of the matter.

LAM BETH: STREET.
Charles Thompion, a baker, residing in Ratcliffe-

Mr, Alexander Sloane, who has a medicel este-
blishment in Noble-street, city, and
.another in
Argyle-street, Oxford-street, was on S tturday
charged before Mr. BitoootyroN. and Mr. BENerr,
with deserting his wife and a child, who had become
chargeable to St. Leonard's parish, Shoreditch. •
The female wheeclaimed the doctor as her hus-
band had hi en taken into custody about a fortnight
before, together with her sister, charged with pawn-
ing.proPerty friun their furnished lodging, but upon
inquiry into the case it appeared that they had been
driven to do so by want, and had actually been with-
out food two days. Their landlord, on hearing the
distressing tale, refused to prosecute them, and they
have since found an asylum in Shoreditch Workhouse.
Catherine Sloane being sworn, deposed, that her
htearand was Mr. Alexander Slnaue, then present.
He deserted her . four years
,ago list March. She
was turned out of his house. For the last eleven.
months he had refused to contribute in the least to
her support, althongh she had frequently applied to
him at his house within'that time. He denied being
her husband. She had a child about eleven month,
old, of which he was the father, and it Was now
.chargeable on Shoreditch parish.
Mr. BROUGHTON—You said you had lived sepa-
rate from your husband four years ? Mrs. Sloane
—I have, Sir; but I have slept with him
Mr. Harmer, who attended with Dr. Sloane, asked.
the witness, as she was of the Catholic religion,
whether she considered the oath which she had taken
as. binding ? Mrs. Sloane—Binding, Sir ! Most
assuredly I do. He allowed me for some time 20s,
a-week, then 10s., till, eleven months ago, he ceased
•to allow me any thing whatever. During the time
that he was paying me, I had occasional intercourse
with him at his house.
This was strongly denied on the part of the th-
fendant.
Mrs. Sloanei—lt has never been my wish to ex-
pose him. Ile knows that for ten years I lived
with him respectable and respected, nor ever be-
trayed or disgraced him; and till he became inde-
pendent, he never disowned me as his wife. Sloane,
you're present, and you know it is so.
Mr. Hartner—Where was it that you were mar-
ried to • him ? Mrs. Sle,ana—At Liverpool, by a
Catholic, priest. We were both_Calhlies.:
A paper, of which the fallowing is 'a copy, was
then put in anti rend by the Magistrate :
" January 8, 1916, were married Alexander Sloane and
Catherine Petit.- Present John and Elizabeth Warnock.
Token from the band-writing of the lbw. IVm. Tarleton;
Seal street, Liverpool. •
Augu.it 10, 1826. (Signed). "V. GLOVER."
Mr. Harmer—You know Signor de Curia, the
Brazilian, to whom Mr. Sloane gave an asylum in
his hous:e ? Mrs. Sloane denied that she had ever
known Signor de Cutta improperly.
Mr. Harmer—Then since Mr., Sloane tented you
out, you have been on bad terms ? Mrs. Sloane
said no, not always; for there-had been intimacy:.
between them, which resulted in the birth of a child.
Mr. Harmer—And where did this intimacy take
place ? Mrs. Sloane—ln his own house.
Mrs. Harmer—Will you swear that there has
been such intercourse between you for the last three
years ? Mrs. Sloane—Yes.
In her further cross-examination, she stated that
last January site went to lodge in the house of a
Mrs. May, where she lay in. Mrs. Mance, with
whom she had before lodged, came there to see her,
but never said that her apprentice was father of the

Mr. Harmer—Did not Mr. Sloane discontinue
the payment of the money because that was an
illegitimate child ?—Mrs. Sloane had never given
any reason to her, but she understood he had told
other people so.

Mrs. NI-Griffin, an independent lady, stated that
Mrs.. Sloane's mother had formerly been in her ser-
vice, and she therefore felt an interest in their family.
At the time of their separation, Mrs. Sloane came
to her, saying that her husband had turned her out,
and begged of her to interfere to promote a recon-
ciliation between them, as she tad done before. She
went accordingly and talked to Mr. Sloane. He
was in a state of agitation, seemed distressed in
mind, and irritated against his wife, but he did not
accuse her of criminality, or say that he suspected
her fidelity.
. _ _

To questions by the Magistrates, the lady replied,
that she did afterwards hear that the defendant
charged his wife with an improper intimacy with the
Brazilian, but she did not believe it, and it was ber
firm persuasion that Mr. Sloane's mind had been
poisoned. She had knowa Mrs. Sloane for many
years, and her conduct was always strictly coVrect
and proper.

Mary. Mance stated, that Mrs. Sloane, after hay-,
ing been turned out by her husband, came to live in
her house, and was there between two and three
years. About two years ago, Mrs. Sloane went out
about six in the evening, saying that she was going
to her husband's house in Noble-street. She did
not return till between one and two o'clock in the
morning, when she was brought home in a coach by
Mr. Sloane7B footman, who told the witness when
she spoke to him, that they had just come from
Noble-street. At other times servants had come to
take Mrs. Sloane. to Noble-street, and the wit-
ness had herself accompanied her there, and seen
her enter.

The witness was cross-examined with a view to
show that she had herself suspected her own hus-
band, and ;even his apprentice, and jMrs. Sloane;
but she denied that she had ever expressed such
suspicion, laughed at the suspicion intimated against
her husband, and said she was sure Mrs. Sloane
would hare nothing to say to such a boy as the ap-
prentice. Mrs. Sloane was, in her opinion, a much-
injured woman. She had known her for a week to-
gether with nothing to eat but a bit of potato.
When she left the house she was pregnant, but that
did not surprise the witness, who knew that she
had, as already stated, frequently been to visit her
husband.

Eliza Warnock (Mrs. Sloane's sister) being
called, was questioned by Mr. BROUGHTON as to
the truth of the statement she had before given of
her husband having been captain of the Echo mer-
chant vessel, and cast away upon Sable Island 'in
1826, with other circumstances which she had
mentioned, calculated to excite an interest in her
favour. The truth of her story had been denied,
and she was represented to be an impostor by Mr.
Harmer, then present.
She declared solemnly that she had told nothing
but the truth, and produced documents which
placed it beyond question.
Mr. Harmer then admitted that in that respect
he had been led into error by his instructions, but the
error arose frOm her having given a different ac-
count of herself a year ago.
Mrs. Warnock then stated that'she cattle to Lon-
dint twelve months ago last October, and took a

Previously to the departure of the Rev. ED-
WARD VALPY from this city, the young Gentlemel, his
pupils, at the Free Grammar School; gratefully presented
him with an elegant chased silver cup, having the follow-
ing inscription thereon :