The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-11 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

A boy, named William Barker, was brought
before Sir JOHN PERRING yesterday, charged with
attempting to steal some bolts for fastening shutters,
from the show-window at Mr. Simmons's, silver-
smith, in Holborn.
The prisoner was committed to Bridewell for
three months.

save him into the bands of the pollee, end he was
examined before Mr. Rawlinson at this office on
Monday, and remanded. No person having come
forward to claim it Mr. RAWLINION 10101. hiM,hell
he was brought up again yesterday, that he might
be at large if he gave bail for his appearance ; but
before he quitted the dock, a smart young woman
stepped forward, and said she had a charge to make
against him, for he had stolen her watch, and, under
a promise of marriage, which he never made good,
he defrauded her of nine sovereigns. Her name Is
Caroline Skill, and her story was, that in July last,
about the beginning of it, she met the prisoner, for
the first time in her life, in the New-road. He took
particular notice of her, and persuaded her to walk
into Kensinton-gardens with him, and they after-
wards drank tea together at Bayswater tea-gardens,
and he made marriage overtures to her, which she
did not reject. A fortnight afterwards she met him
again by appointment, and he then persuaded her
to give notice to quit the service of a family in
Grand Junction-terrace, Edgeware-road, with whom
she lived, that he might marry her. In this instance
she visited him at his lodgings, No. 10, Adam-street,
Nlarylebone. She took her watch with her that she
might be punctual to her time in returning, and, as
she left the house he said, " Why do you carry your
watch in your hand ? If you have no bag let me
put it into my waistcoat pocket; I am going home
with you, and I'll give it you before we part." They
parted in the Edgeware-road, and she forget to ask
him for it, and he did not give it her. At the ex-
piration of another fortnight they met again away
from home. She told him her month's warning would
expire on Monday, the 24th of August, and he said
if she would come to Adam-street on that night,
and sleep with his landlady, he would take her to
church on Tuesday morning and make her his wife.
She asked him for her watch. He said he had un-
fortunately left it at horn., but as they were to be
married so soon it was of no consequence. They
were out-asked- at Marylebone parish church, and
on the 24th of August she left her situation, and
went to Adam-street. He told her he bad ordered
a new suit of clothes to be married in, but he did
not know how to get them for want of money. She
asked if the tailor would not trust him. He said
no, and she lent him nine sovereigns, and went to
bed with the landlady. She got up between eight
and nine in the morning, and went to his room, and
he was gone, and he had taken his things with him.
She went to the house of a gentleman in Harley-
street, whose service he had lately quitted, and the
butler told her he had been there at seven o'clock,
and had taken his trunk away, and she never saw
him again until that morning in the office.
The prisoner treated the matter with the most
hardened indifference, and as he stood at the bar
taunted the young woman for her credulity and haste
to get married ; and told the Magistrate he finished
his courtship of six weeks by going to Barnet and
spending the money, which he declared he did not
steal, for she lent it to him that he might appear as
a gentleman. The felonious detention of the watch
he could not refute, and he stood fully committed
for trial respecting it ; but he will be brought up
again on Monday that the owner of the spoon may
appear against him.
Just before the young woman came forward he
was complaining to Mr. RAWLINSON of being un-
justly imprisoned on an unsupported charge, and
locked up together with thieves and pickpockets.
After her case had been heard,
Mr. RAWLINSON told him, much as he professed
to dislike the company he had left behind him at
the new prison, unfortunately it was his lot to he
sent back to them.