The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-05 00:00:00

MA RLBOROU GH-STREET.

Yesterday a young man, named Edward Kelly,
who stated himself to be a compositor, was brought
before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate, charged by
one of the new police constables, with stealing several
books from the Cheshire Ch€ese public-house, in
Vinegar-yard, during a fire that unfortunately raged
there on Saturday night last. The prisoner was
fully committed for trial.
A powerful-looking young fellow, a native of Ire-
land, named Fuller, was charged under a warrant
with desperately assaulting a Mr. Nangle, one of the
assistant-overseers of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-
Fields.

The Magistrate told the prisoner that he must find
good bail to answer the asault at the Sessions.
1 he prisoner was then locked up.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday evening an investigation took place
before Mr. BENETT, touching a robbery committed
a short time since upon the Imperial Gas Com-
pany's premises at naggerstone. The counting-
house was broken open during the night, and pro-
perty to the amount of between 3001. and 400/.
abstracted from an iron safe, which had been opened
with a false key, and was left locked by the robbers.
It was apparent from the circumstances that the de-
predation had been committed by some person or
persons well acquainted with the premise:, and seve-
ral persons have been in custody on suspicion.
Several of the directors of the Company, with
Mr. Wilde, their solicitor, were present on the part
of the prosecution. One of the stolen notes was
said to have been paid into a bank in the city; and
Mr. Cope, the city marshal, was in attendance with
some of his officers, who, as well as the officers of
this district, have been engaged in the endeavour to
trace the robbery to its source.
Thomas Chittenden, who had been in the Com-
pany's employment as a smith, was first placed at the
bac for examination.

It appeared that he had been discharged shortly
before the robbery, having been detected in convert-
ing some iron upon the premises to his own use. It
was suspected that he had made the false key rrhich
opened the safe, and the direction upon an envelope,
in which some cheques that had been stolen were
afterwards returned, was believed to be his hand-
writing. Ovenden, the constable, produced a paper
upon which the prisoner, while in custody, had been
induced to write his name and address; and upon
Comparison, the character of that and the writing
upon the envelope were found very nearly corres-
pondent.
A man named Hanson, a workman in the Com-
pany's employ, was examined,
.and stated, that one
day he went to the smith's shop to get some assist-
ance from a man who worked there with the pri-
soner Chittenden. The latter was then alone, and
told him the other man was gone out. The pri-
soner was at work filing up a key, which lie had in
the vice, and which the witness believed to be about
the size of the key of the safe. When he went into
the shop afterwards, the key had been taken out of
the vice.

Some private discussion now took place between
the Magistrate, Mr. Wilde, and Mr. Cope, as to the
propriety of admitting the evidence of a young man
who was himself suspected of being accessory to the
robbery.
Henry Tomkins, a respectable-looking middle-
aged man cue of the foremen of the company's
works at liaggerstone, was then brought up and
placed at the bar with Chittenden ; and George
Reynolds, the young man just spoken of, being in-
troduced,

Mr. BENETT explained to him the nature of the
suspicions against him, and asked him if it was his
wish to give evidence; and he said it was.
Mr. Wilde then, at the Magistrate a suggestion,
gave him an acquittance from all consequences on
account of the charge against him; and, thus re-
leased, he said it was his own desire to tell all that
he knew about the matter in question. He was
then sworn, and gave evidence to the following
effect:—He is by trade a bedstead-maker, but out
of work; and on a day which lie could not exactly
tell—but it was on a Saturday—he met with the
prisoner Tomkins (he did not know the name, but
pointed out that prisoner) at a public-house in
Shorediteh. The prisoner, after some conversa-
tion, offered to give him a job, sndsappointed a
meeting for Monday evening, betwe n six and seven

They met, and had a pint of he awl w,n'el to
Haggerstone church. When th,y w..re oppo-it,• the
chinch, which ;s near ow ,t h p,i•mier
arke.l him if he would do 11 j,h P.
the MO ore of the job, and the of a r,v,rds
told him it was to go there and rt mune rno,ey,
adding, that it must be done On Wv.inuSday
as there was then more money thew. I told him
(said the witness) that I dared to ,ay be contd get
some other parties to do it, bet he a,icl he Irad ap-
plied to some others, but was disappointed. The
witness added, that five days after he lie:lrd that the
robbery had been committed, and wt lit to the pri-
soner, and told him he heard that be had got the
robbery done, but Tomkin, slid that he had not.
Mr. BEN ETT—When he told you that he pp-
plied to other parties, what did you 1., ply ? Situated
as you now are, it is your duty to tell the whole
truth.

Witness—l said I'd have nothing at all to do
with it.

Mr. BENETT—When (lid you next see him ?
The evilness said that on the followinv SAturdety
morning he saw Tomkin( at his house, and said to
him, "So you've done this job." The prisoner
replied, that he had not seen any thing of the money,
that he was at home awl in bed 11,:it night, and
that the parties he had spoken to had 11Fril and had
done it without him. Three mornings after that he
sent 30s. to the witness, and last Sunday week gave
him 30s. more, telling him not to ►.av any thing
about the proposition that had been made to him,
This witwess, in answer to furt!,er goes:ions by
the Magistrate and by the solicitor, admitted that
when he left the prisoner, after the conversation
opposite the church, he had noqexactly made up his
mind on the 7fubjecr ; but he then went to Mr.
Balls, a friend, told him that he had H job put into
his hand if lie liked to do it, and related to him all
that had passed. Balls advised him to have ►nothing
to do with it, and he followed that advice.'
The magistrates' room was then cleared, and
after some private consultation, the two prisoners
were remanded.