The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-23 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Our readers will remember that on Tuesday last
we gave un account of the examination of four men,
named Weston, Price, Shoolim, and Smith, charged
with stealing 8301.
On Wednesday evening Mr. Broadbelt, the grin-
dim( witness against them, came up to this office in
a state of great alarm, and begged Mr. WYATT to
grant him a private interview. Mr. WYATT, how-
ever, declined so doing, and Broadhelt then pro-
duced the following letter to the Magistrate, and re-
quested his advice and assistance
6$ Broadbelt,—Sir,—You will do no good bythat 3bo/.
business, for before you can appear at the Old Bailey you
shall be atiff, you You shall never give your evi.
deuce at the Old Bailey unless you swear that they are not
the men, and then we won't hurt you, and the person who
robbed the ge►nman is out of the way, so you can never
find lam or me. And us for the oldtMagistrutes, and

Walker and Wyatt, they shall have pepper, and the oiteera
likewise. One is my relation ;do all in your power to
save him, for God sake, and then I will do nothing to you
nor the others. Pray, pray, intercede, or Wan Diemen's
Land will have them, for God sake, and at present I
remain, " A COMPANION."
" P.S. I will drink your health over a bottle of wine;
I am if I don't."

Mr. WYATT, after reading the letter, said that he
need not be at all alarmed, though Mr. Broadbelt had
done right in submitting it to his (the Magistrate's)
notice, and advised him to be very circumspect in
hie conduct.
A man applied to the Magistrates for assistance
under the following circumstances :—He stated that
about three years since l►e bought three seals and a
key at the shop of Mr. Cochrane, a jeweller, in
the Whitechapel-road. They were warranted fine
gold, and he gave 3/. 10s. for them. He had since
discovered they were nothing but brass.
The Magistrates said they could do nothing for
the applicant, and advised him in future not to give
money for any thing until he had first discovered that
it was what it purported to be.

HATTON.GARDEN.
011 Monday last we published the particulars of a
burglary and robbery committed on the premises of
Mr. George Collier, No. 72, Hatton-garden, book-
binder, which took place on the Friday night pre-
vious, or early on the Saturday morning. Last
night three persons, supposed to be connected with
that transaction, were brought to this office, and
placed at the bar before the sitting Magistrate, Mr.
Serjeant SELLON ; their names are Ann Richardson,
Anne Dyer, and George King, and the circum-
stances under which they were apprehended are as
follows :
Mr. Busain, one of the police inspectors, of letter
G division, as soon as he received information of
the burglary and robbery in question, sent several
of his officers with specimens of the valuable and
splendid albums stolen from Mr. Collier to all the
pawnbrokers and booksellers in London and its sur-
rounding neighbourhood, to afford them an exact
description of the property, and to request that if
any books of the kind were offered in pawn or for
sale they would stop them, and also secure the in-
dividuals in whose possession they were found.
This mode of proceeding had the desired effect ; for
on Wednesday evening one of the albums belonging
to Mr. Collier was offered in pawn at the shop of
Mr. Maslin, pawnbroker, in the Westminster-road,
by the prisoner Richardson, and Mr. Maslin, recog-
nising it to be exactly similar to the specimen he
had before seen, stopped it, and gave the prisoner
in custody to a police constable, Brown, No. 39, of
letter B division. Richardson then at once stated
that she received the book from the male prisoner,
who, she said, sent her with it to pawn it, and be-
yond that she knew nothing whatever concerning
the book or its owner. King, who is by trade a
tailor, was immediately taken into custody at his
lodgings, in Hertford-place, Waterloo-road. He
declared that all he knew about the book was, that
he had received it that evening from the prisoner
Dyer, who was an acquaintance of his, and who re-
quested him to take it to a pawnbroker's and ascer-
tain its value by offering it in pawn. He accor-
dingly took the book, but not being in a condition
to go out himself, at the moment, he delivered it
to Richardson, who is a relation of his, and sent
her with it. Tn consequence of this information,
the police-officer proceeded to Dyer's residence, at
No. 33, Wellington-street, Newington-causeway,
and there apprehended her. When taken to the
watch-house, her statement was, that on that day a
strange man, rather tall in stature, engaged lodgings
of her, and that he deposited the book in question
with her as a guarantee for his taking possession,
and for his payment of the first week's rent. Not
knowing the value of the book, she handed it over
to her friend King, to ascertain that for her in the
manner already described. Mr. Collier, alter iden-
tifying the book produced as his property, and as
one of the number stolen, observed, that it was a
strange neglect on the part of the police, that the
prisoners' lodgings had not been searched, from
seven or eight o'clock the night before, when they
were taken into custody, till ten o'clock that morn-
ing, when he was made acquainted with it, and
suggested the propriety of its being done.
Brown, the constable, said that his inspector was
not at all aware of the nature of the case.
The officers of this establishment said that the
burglary and robbery were published in the Go-
vernment police reports, and also in the Hue and
Cry Gazette, both of fich are circulated among all
the police stations.
Mr. Busain, and Edwards the officer, stated to
the Magistrate, that the husband of the prisoner
Dyer had been found guilty at the last Old Bailey
sessions but one, and sentenced to seven years'
transportation, but on what charge they did not
know.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON observed that there was a
man of the name of Cook charged before him that
morning, under very suspicious circumstances, with
having been concerned in the same robbery, and us
he had beers remanded until Tuesday next, he would
also remand the prisoners at the bar till that day,
that all might be brought up together for further
examination. This was accordingly done, and the
parties left the office. •