The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-05 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday Richard Phillips, grocer, of Pickett-
place, Strand, who was remanded. on Thursday
last, on a charge of feloniously altering a receipt for
money, was brought forward for a final examination.
The evidence of 'William Houghton,Flintan, the
prosecutor, was read over.
Ford, the gaoler, produced the receipt, and proved
that he saw the prisoner produce it at the last ex-
amination.

Mr. Jones, a barrister, who appeared for the pro-
secution, questioned Stone, the prosecutor's porter,
with respect to the receipt, when the witness again
positively swore that the receipt which he gave was
for 6s. 6d. only, and that the figure 5 and the letters
1. a. d. were afterwards introduced.

Mr. Jones, upon this evidence, pressed for the
committal of the prisoner upon the charge of forgery.
The pi isoner declared that the receipt as it ap-
peared was written by the witness Stone, in his
(the prisoner's) shop, and he moreover declared that
so far from his being a swindler, or connected with
any gang of swindlers, he did not owe more than
401. in the world, and the stock in his shop was
worth ten times more than that amount. He com-
plained bitterly of a combination, which he said had
been formed to destroy him, and charged Mr. Flin-
tan and other parties with having broken open his
house while he was in prison, and taken away hams,
sugar, candles, &c.
Mr. Taylor, a respectable tradesman, residing in
Holborn, came forward and said that the prisoner
obtained goods from him to the amount of 91.45. Btl.
and afterwards refused to pay for them on the
ground that they had never been delivered, although
he (Mr. Taylor) could produce witnesses to prove
the delivery of the articles.
The prisoner denied the charge, and said that the
account between Mr. Taylor and himself had been
paid, as he could prove by his shopman. The pri-
soner then requested that two witnesses who were
present might be examined on his behalf to prove
that they saw the witness Stone write the whole of
the receipt.

Sir R. BIRNIE said it would indeed be odd if
such evidence could be produced, after the direct
testimony of Stone to the contrary. If, however,
the prisoner desired it, he (the Magistrate) was
wiling to hear the witnesses.
Mr. Harmer's clerk, who appeared for the pri-
soner, advised him to reserve h►s defence for a
future occasion, but the prisoner having persisted in
calling his witnesses,

A young man named William Ball, who lived in
the prisoner's employment, came forward, and hav-
ing been admonished by the Magistrate to speak the
truth, was allowed to be sworn, and in answer to
questions put to him both by Sir 11. BlitNIE and
Mr. Jones, be declared that be stood next to Stone
when he wrote the receipt, and distinctly saw him
make the figure 5, and also the letters 1. a. d. As
soon as Stone wrote the receipt, he went away,and
he (witness) took it to the prisoner, who was in the
parlour. _

After a lengthened examination, the prisoner was
fully committed for trial, upon charge of altering
the receipt with a felonious intention,—an offence
for which the late Act introduced by Sir R. Peel
specially provides.
In the course of the morning, a person who stated
that he was clerk to Mr. Buckstone, a solicitor, ap-
plied to Sir IL Maw to know the amount of bail
that would be necessary its the case of Mr. Newton,
the gentleman who was last week charged with hav-
ing used threatening language to his relative, Cap-
tain Thomas Ilipkins, and who was committed to
prison fur want of sureties.
Sir It. IlinNtr: replied, that Mr. Newton, by his
conduct towards his lute Majesty, the Duke of
Wellington, and others, had clearly proved himself
to be u person not fit to be ut large; and therefore
he .(the Magistrate) felt that he would not be justi-
fied in admitting him to bail upon any terms. Ap-
plication, however, might be made to a Judge.
The applicant then withdrew.
A woman, who gave the name of Margorct
Dyke, %vas charged before Sir It. BMW: last night,
with having attempted to pawn a valuable painting,
of the Flemish sehoolot the shop of Mr. Cameron,
pawnbroker, in the Strand. She first said that
gentlemen gave her the picture to pawn, but the
account which she gave to the Magistrate was, that
she had received it from u lady in her confinement,
for the purpose of raising money upon it. Prom
this contradiction it is supposed that the picture has
been stolen from some public or private collection.
The prisoner was remanded until next Thursday,
and in the mean time the picture lies at the shop of
Mr. Cameron.
MARLIIOROUGH-811mm

Yesterday Itri/ham Oddy and Rachel Oddy, hut.
band and wife, the former a corporal in the second
battalion of the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of
Guards, were brought before Mr. lion, the sitting
Magistrate, on the following charge:—
Miss 111a►y Whitfield, a young lady residing
with her brother at No. 73, in the Regent's
Quadrant, stated that the female prisoner had been
in her service for some time, but quitted it about
two months ago. On the sth 'of fAugiot lust she
(Miss Whitfield) having bad occasion to pay away
sonic money, went to a drawer where she kept a
considerable sum, and took from it what money
she required, leaving behind 1801 in Bank of Eng-
land notes. From that time until the 18th of Sep-
tember, lest month, she had not any occasion to go
to the drawer again, but art that day, when she
went to take out some more money, she discovered
to her great amazement that the whole of the 1801
was gone. The female prisoner had quitted her
Service before the sth of AuguSt, and consequently
the money was safe after she had left i but in about
a fortnight after that- day the prisoner •called to re-
quest a written character -to another place that she
was going to serve in, and it was suspected that on
that occasion she took some opportunity, of abstract-
ing the money, from. the , arovrer,otas,thtolsteered;
weres no
one else on Whom the slightest suspicion could be
cast. - Miss Whitfield said that she did not know
the numbers of either of the. notes that she had
awaypaid
ind
ifor)ettittsoteseq drawer,uentiy
left stolen, -but site knew

that amonrit the ,liatter, thitaloo4l two 20/. notes,
and a 501. note.

Ballard, one of the 'onion belonging to this office,
stated, that on receiving information of the l'obbery
from. Miss Whitfield's brother, eJIII 1110 some u
picion attached to the female prisoner, he set about
endeavouring to trace tome of the notes which was
an extremely difficult task, as not one of the numbers
were known. After sever* days' exertion, how-
ever, he succeeded in discovering that the male pri-
soner had changed a 201. note lately at is house in
Knightsbridge, on which he wrote his own proper
name and address, and that a few days before he
bad lodged besides, in the hands of Messrs. Green-
wood and Cox, the army-agents, 18/. to purchase
his discharge from the service altogether. On
learning, these facts, he (Ballard) went down im-
mediately to Windsor, where the male prisoner was
quartered with his regiment, and there found the
wife also, and he took them both into custody, anti
brought them up to town. On searching the per-
son of the female prisoner, be found on her two
101. notes, nod in a box belonging to her he foUnd
a small purse, which contained a 20/. note, and on
a further search, in turning over some foul linen in
a drawer, he shook out a 50/, note, making in the
whole 901:, besides the 181. lodged in the house of
Messrs. Greenwood and Cox. He found alsd in
the apartments of the prisoners a large assort-
ment of fashionable female dresies, which it ivas
evident had been but recently purchaied, as they
were quite new.
The female plisoner declined saying any thing at
present on the subject of the charge, but the hus-
band said that be was totally ignorant of the tran-
saction complained of, and the best proof of hlsin-
nocence, he said was, that ha put his own name
and address on thy 20/. note he got Amiga, at
Knightsbridge.
The prisoners were both remanded, to have the
attendance of the person of whom Miss Whitfield
received the notes.