The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST Two RESPECT-
, ABLE PERSONS.-Mr. Wm. Winchester, tailor, of Mad-
dox-street, Regent-street, and Mr. Charles Edmonds, of
Brown street, Ed g ware - road, were charged before Mr. Knox
with stealing from the person of Susan Stroud, a licensed
hawker, of 5, Selby-mews, Portman-square, the sum of 4s.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap-
peared for the accused gentlemen.
The prosecutrix said that on the previous night while on
her way home through Oxford-street, Winchester seized
hold of her and Edmonds grasped her dress, and then ran
away, and she missed 4s. from her pocket. Winchester
would not let her pursue the other man. On a policeman
comiog up she gave Winchester into custody, and subso
gum, ly the other. _ _ _

Mr. Lewis cross-examined the prosecutrix in a most
searching manner, and at considerable length, in the course
of which she admitted that she had been in custody twice
charged with felony, and several tunes for being drunk, but
said she was not convicted. She might have been iu cus-
tody other times, but did not remember it, and she was
always being looked after by Sergeant White, of the D
division. She had never been charged with robbing chil-
dren of their clothes. She did not know what felony
meant without it was stealing. She had been to see a
respectable servant home, and had two pints of ale with her
at a public house, and stayed till it was closed. She did
not know whether her friends paid the person she was once
charged with robbing the money that she should not
appear—but she did appear, and she was discharged.
She thought the man who grasped her dress and took her
money was like Edmonds.
Benjamin Leadsmen, 83 D, said on going to the spot he
found Mr. Winchester held by the prisoner, and she at
once charged him with stealing 4s. from her, saying that
he held her while the other grasped her dress and took the
4s. out of her pocket. Ho told Mr. Winchester that he had
better go to the station, and subsequently the other prisoner
charged was given into custody.

In answer to Mr. Lewis, the constable said he knew the
prosecutor for years, and to be out late at nights. He had
found Mr. Winchester to b 3 a master tailor in Maddox-
street, and a highly respectable person.
Mr. Knox said it appeared to him to be an impucl3nt lie
got up by the woman ; she could not have known how
much she had lost, as the constable found her holding Mr.
Winchester when he came up. He should discharge both
the accused, who would leave the court without the
slightest stain on their character.
Mr. Edmonds said that he had never seen Mr. Winches-
ter before he was given into custody.
The accused then left the court.

STEALING MARKED MONEY.—SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY.
Samuel Knapp, a young man in the employ of Mr. John
Fletcher, baker, 12. Nassau-street, was charged before Mr.
Knox with stealing some marked money from the till of his
em ploy cr.

From the evidence of Richard Aylett, 192 C, it appeared
that, about 11 o'clock the previous night, he went to Mr.
Fletcher's, and in consequence of what Mr. Fletcher in-
formed him, he marked a quantity of money, consisting of
threepenny and fourpenny pieces and copper, and placed it
in the till. He then concealed himself in a kitchen level
with the shop, and, some time after, he heard the shop door
close, and on stepping from his hiding-place and asking
the prisoner what he did there, he replied " Who are you ?"
Having told the prisoner he was a police constable, he asked
what money he had about him, and on his turning out the
contents of his pocket, 55. 4id. in marked money was found
upon him, which the prisoner admitted was " the
governor's." He then took him into custody, and on
searching his box he found a bag containing 7s. worth of
farthings and seven
pots of jam.
Mr. Fletcher said that he saw the constable mark the
money produced. It was the practice to leave the coppers
and the threepenny and fourpenny
pieces in the till all
night, and it was in consequence of money being continually
missed that he communicated with the police. He believed
the prisoner had been systematically robbing him.
Remanded.