The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-06 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday Mrs. 8- C-, the lady who has
been some days in custody, charged with stealing a
piece of lace from the shop of Mr. Warde, a linen-
draper and haberdasher, in Piccadilly, and in whose
possession, when searched, the sum of nearly 8000/.
in Bank of England notes and India bonds was
found, was brought before Mr. Ron and Mr. Draa,
the presiding Magistrates, for final examination.
From an early hour in • the morning the office was
crowded to excess, so great was the interest excited
by the already published account of the prisoner's
apprehension under such circumstances, and amongst
those present were several females of fashionable ap-
pearance, but who they were or what, if anything
beyond curiosity led them there, we could not learn,
for there seemed to be a good deal of well-arranged
mystery wrapped round the prisoner's history, her
connexions, and friends. In the crowd, too, we ob-
served a pretty thick sprinkling of men of the law,
induced thither, no doubt, by the most disinterested
and benevolent feelings towards the prisoner, and
with no consideration whatever to the published ac-
count of the lady's wealth, and we understand, in-
deed, that some of them had the great humanity
and kindness to visit her in prison, and offer her
their gratuitous services.

The prisoner, who appeared to have suffered
much from mental anguish since her imprisonment,
was placed before the Magistrates in custody of the
gaoler of Totkill-fields prison, where she has been
conned.
The first witness who was called to have his de-
position taken down by Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chie
clerk, was

Mr. Page Warde, who deposed that he was a
linendraper and haberdasher, residing at No. 51,
Piccadilly; that on Tuesday the 28th of September
last, about half-paat three o'clock in the afternoon,
he went up stairs to his ware-room from his shop,
leaving no one in the shop but a young lad, his ap-
prentice. A short time before he went up stairs he
had sold several articles of goods to a lady, one of
his regular customers, which he was to send home,
but he had not yet packed them up, and they lay on
the counter. He had not been up stairs above half
an hour when the apprentice rang the bell for him
to come down, and when he did, he found the pri-
soner with the apprentice in the shop, and she said
that she wished to see Mrs. Warde ; but Mrs.
Warde being just then engaged, he told the prisoner
she would be down in a few minutes, and be then
set about packing up the articles that lay on the
counter, and which were to be sent home. In doing
so he missed some yards of lace that had been rolled
up, and he searched about in every direction, but
could see nothing of it, and he questioned the ap-
prentice respecting it, hut the latter told him he had
not seen it, and said that no one had been in the
shop since he (Mr. Wards) went up stairs, except
the prisoner, lie (Mr. \Verde) then questioned the
prisoner, but she denied all knowledge of the lace,
and seemed very indignant at being suspected. He
however told her that the lace was gone, and that
the apprentice and herself were the only persons
in the shop since he had placed the lace on the
counter ; that he could not suspect his appren-
tice, and that, reluctant as he was to adopt
such a proceeding, he must insist on her being
searched. To this proposal she immediately
assented, and said she had not the slightest ob-
jection to be searched, and asked him to search
her then on the spot where she stood. He told her
that he could not think of either searching her him-
self, or having her searched in so public a place as
the shop, but begged of her to step up stairs and
that Mrs. Warde would there search her. To this
she strongly objected, and on Mrs. Warde being
called down she wished again to be searched in the
shop, but Mrs. Warde would not do so, and at last,
after a great deal of difficulty, the prisoner was in-
duced to go up stairs, when witness shut her into a
private room with Mrs. Warde, and left them toge-
ther. In a few minutes Mrs. Warde rang the bell,
and on his going up stairs she told him that the pri-
soner would not permit her to search her. He then
told the prisoner that he was quite satisfied she had
die lace in her possession, and that if she did not
submit to be searched quietly he should send for a
police constable and give her into his custody. Upon
hie saying this the prisoner put her hand into her
bosom arid drawing out the roll of lace threw it
down upon the table, saying " there it is." He
then sent for a police constable and gave both the
prisoner and the lace into his charge. The lace now
produced was the same that the prisoner had taken,
and was worth only 13s. although it contained five
yards and a half.

Mrs. Mary Warde confirmed the evidence of the
lust witness.

Police constable No. 16, letter C, was called in
by Mr. Ward° to take charge of the prisoner and
the lace now produced, which he accordingly did,
and on examining a reticule, which the prisoner car-
ried in her hand, he found a very large roll of lace
and a lace cap, which he also produced.
Mr. Ron said that he was not aware of this latter
fact, that any other lace was found on the prisoner.
It was not stated on the former day, as it ought to
have been. If it had, the fact might have got be-
fore the public, and an owner might have been
found for this lace also.

Mrs. \Verde said that as to the cap she really be-
lieved it was one the prisoner was bringing to her
as a pattern to make others from.
This being the whole of the evidence, the pri-
soner was fully committed for trial, and all the wit-
nesses were bound over to prosecute, but the Ma-
gistrates gave directions that the unfortunate lady
should not be removed to Newgatc until the lateit
day before the Sessions that the law required.
The police inspector, who had charge of the large
amount of property found by him on the prisoner,
asked what he was to do with it ?—Mr. 'WE desired
him to give it all back to the prisoner, and to he
very sure that he gave it into no other bands than
her own. To take her alon'e into a private room,

and count it alt over to her. See that she wrs
tisfied it was right, and take her written acknow•
ledgment for it.

TOWN-HALL
Mr. George Willson, of the firm of Willson and
Bankchoffer, tobacconists, Toolerstreet,was charged
with assaulting Francis Baukchoffer, ,the son of bis
partner.
Mr. Alderman AmEY—You must find bail tO
keep the peace.
Mr. Willson immediately put in bail, the Who
of the complainant expressing bis determination to
indict him at the Sessions.