The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1862.

mercy, and it was stated that there would he no
other home for the family but the workhouse.
Mr. Payne said this was truly a painful caw, and
he thought, under the circumstances, he would be
justified in altering the sentence, which wast that he
be impri-ioned and kept to hard labour for six weeks.
There was applause at the back of the court, but
it was suppressed by the officers.
The jury in the box, as well as the jurors in wait-
ing, immediately got up a subscription amongst
them, and to which we believe everyone contri-
buted, which was handed to the poor woman, for
which she expressed her deepest gratitude,
John Hurd, 19, and James Jennings, 18, were in-
dicted for stealing a table-cover and other articles,
the property of Napthali Meyers.
Mr. Martin prosecuted, Mr. Taylor defended.
The prisoners got in at a window of a charitable
institution of Baron Rothschild's, at Beiford-
square, Stepney, and stole the articles in question,
a little girl seeing Hurd come out.
The jury found Hurd guilty, and acquitted Jen-
nings.
Mr. Payne sentenced Hurd to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for twelve months.

POLICE EV7ELLIGENCE.—Nov. 4.

GUILDHALL—ALLEGED FORGERY OF A BILL
OF EXCIIANGE.—Edward Braundbeck, a dealer in
sewing machines, was placed at the bar before Al-
derman Hale, charged with forgery.
Mr. Benham appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Holt conducted the defence.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner
called upon Messrs. Pitt Brothers, sewing machine
manufacturers, of Cleckbeaton, in Yorkshire, in July
last, and requested that certain goods should be sup-
plied to him upon credit. The state of his account
was not considered satisfactory, and the prosecutors
therefore declined to extend their credit, upon which
the prisoner said he had two bills of exchange for
£lB 15s. 6d. and £l6 10s., which he gave in reduc-
tion of his account, and was accordingly supplied
with other goods on credit, but on the bills arriving
at maturity they were found to be worthless, and
farther inquiry elicited the fact that " W. Peters
and C 0.," the acceptors of the £lB 153. 6d. bill were
not known at the address given on the bill, and
there was no such number as 25 in George-street,
Commercial-road East, where it was alleged Peters
and Co. carried on business. The prisoner had since
adrnittel that there was no such person as Peters
and Co., and that he should have to pay the bill
himself. A comparison of the handwritings of the
drawer and acceptor of the bill led to the conclusion
that the whole had been written by one person, and
several witnesses stated that, to the best of their be-
lief, the handwriting was that of the prisoner_ In
reply to the charge, the prisoner said lie had been
swindled out of the amount of the bill which he
had received from a man named Peters, but when
he found out that Peters did not live at George-
street, he merely said that Peters and Co. were no-
body, and not that there were no such person.
Alderman Hale committed defendant to Newgate
for trial, and refused bail.
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF £250 WORTH OF
PROPERTY.—Rubert Smith, alias Jackson, alias
Moss, alias Henderson, was charged with burgla-
riously breaking and entering the premises of
Messrs. Berthold and Co., of 13, Little Britain, and
stealing a large quantity of silk and other goods, to
the value of about £250.

Richard Balkwill and Charles Howard, a couple
of labourers, were employed in repairing some pre-
mises situated opposite to the prosecutors' ware-
house, shortly after six o'clock in the morning,
when they saw the prisoner and another man come
out of No. 13. They stood on the doorstep for a few
minutes, after which they closed the door and
walked away in the direction of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital. In about a quarter of an hour or twenty
minutes the prosecutor came to the warehouse, and
after be had been in a few minutes he came out and
called the policeman on duty, with whom he re-
entered the warehouse. About seven o'clock the
prisoner came back alone, put the key into the lock,
and was about to open the door when it was opened
from the inside by the policeman, and the prisoner
ran away. The witness Blaekwill followed the
prisoner into Falcon-square, where he saw him
throw something down an area.
Mr. Dullens, of the firm of Berthold and Co.,
umbrella manufacturers, of 13, Little Britain, said
he locked up the premises on the previous evening,
between seven and eight o'clock, and on the follow-
ing morning he came rather earlier than usual to
business, and on entering the warehouse he saw
half -a-dozen packages and bales, which he knew
were not there over night. He immediately called
in a policeman and examined the premises, and
found that every desk, drawer, and box, had been
broken open,-o and their contents, consisting of 16
pieces alpaca, three dozen silk umbrellas, six
dozen alpaca umbrellas, two pieces of silk contain-
ing 220 yards, 16 gross umbrella materials, and
other articles, all packed up ready for removal. He
concluded the thieves would come back for their
booty, and had not waited many minutes before he
heard a key put in the lock, upon which the con-
stable ran out and eventually captured the prisoner.
There were signs of the thieves having been in the
warehouse all night, as they got at some wins and
appeared to have enjoyed themselves, for they left
only empty bottles, with the exception of some
cyder which they took for Champagne. The lock
of the street door was not forced or injured in any
way.
Sergeant Oram said he found the prosecutor's
tool- chest was the first thing broken open, as the
tools had been used in forcing all the other places.
He produced a skeleton key which had been found
by another officer in the area in Falcon-square,
where the prisoner was seen throwing away some-
thing. The skeleton key had been tried in the lock
of the street door and found to unlock it.
Police
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proved three
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for burglaries, in different parts o London, during
the last seven or eight years, for which the prisoner
had undergone two terms of 12 months each, and
one of 18 months' imprisonment,

Th. prisoner, who reserved his defence, was fully
committed for trial.

BOW-STREET.---Mr. Edward Capel White-
burst, of Guildhall-chambers, City, and Lower Bel-
grave-place, Eaton-sqipr, solicitor, was placed at
the bar, charged with inciting the prosecutor, Mr.
George Blake Leheup Rogers, of Grosvenor note),
late cornet in the sth Dragoon Guards, to commit
an unnatural offence.

The case excited considerable interest from the
high standing of the prisoner both in his profession
respectable position,had
and in society, and from the fact that the prosecu-
before the public in Westminstercer-
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Smyth and Mr. Abrams for the prosecution; Mr.
George Lewis, jun., and Mr. Bury Hutchison for
the defence.

Mr. Rogers, the prosecutor, having taken his seat
in the attorney's box beside his solicitor,
Mr. Lewis requested the magistrate to order the
prosecutor to quit that position. After alluding to
the case at the Westminster-police court, Mr. Lewis
said that he wondered that Mr. Rogers should take
the liberty of sitting there.
Mr. Rogers removed to the seat usually appro-
priated to witnesses.
Mr. ~myth said the charge which he had to pre-
fer against the prisoner was of a most serious and
distressing nature, and he regretted to have to press
such a charge against a gentleman of acknowledged.
respectability, especially beingt a
(Mr. Smyth's) profession. I
appearedem b e that
prosecutor, who was a gentleman of wealth and
position, had unfortunately got into company with
some soldiers, one of whom was brought up at the
Westminster police-court, upon the charge of rob-
bing Mr. Rogers of his watch. The soldier de-
fended himself by some charge against Mr. Rogers.
The case was adjourned, the soldier being ad-
mitted to bail upon his own recognizances. That
case was reported in the newspapers. After
the appearance of that report Mr. Rogers
received several anonymous letters, one of which
would be shown to have been written by the
prisoner. The letter contained a proposal of
an infamous nature, It commenced, "If Mr. Rogers
really desires," &c., and it closes with a proposal
that Mr. Rogers should on the following evening,
at six o'clock, present himself at the top of Consti-
tution-hill, under the arch, wearing a pair of white
kid gloves, when the writer would introduce
himself. That letter was directed to the address,
11, Queen's-road West, Chelsea, which Mr. Rogers
had given at the Westminster police court, and
which had appeared in the papers. Mr. Rogers
had in the meanwhile removed to the Grosvenor
Hotel, and tho letter was forwarded to him there.
It bore the postmark 25th October. A second let-
ter in the same handwriting, bearing the postmark
30th October, was received by Mr. Rogers. The
writer said he presumed other engagements had pre-
vented Mr. Rogers from keeping the appoint-
ment, and he proposed another appointment
at the same place, also at six in the evening. Mr.
Rogers handed over the two letters, and all the
anonymous letters he had received, to the police. A
third letter was received, in which the writer ex-
pressed his regret at learning that Mr. Rogers had
li c and
this Mr. Rogers been ill, and proposed an appointment on that day at
thatth to e sang place
poe. After Rogers delivered
Rogers had occa-
sion to write to the Tinzes a letter which appeared
in that journal, and in which ho gave his address
at the Grosvenor Hotel. On Monday Mr. Rogers
received a fourth letter in the same handwriting
al the other three, Addreggied to biro at the (roe-