The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

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BREAKING INTO A PAWNSHOP.

At the City Police Court, on Tuesday, Tames Har-
rison was charged with having broken into the
the shop of Mr. J. L. Brown, No. 306, Oldham-road,
and stolen a cash box containing £8 16s. lid. and
other articles. Mr. Brown stated that he formerly
lived in the house adjoining'his shop; but on ac-
count of his health, he took a residence elsewhere,
and let off the house next door to his shop to the
prisoner, who had lived there for the last twelve
months. There was a communication between
the house and shop when the former was occu-
pied by himself, but when he left he had
this means of access to the shop blocked up ;
and since then the premises had been entirely un-
connected with each other. It was his custom at
night to leave the cashtex concealed amongst the
goods. It usually contained from £8 to £lO, for the
use of the shopmen the first thing in the morning.
The box was invariably left unlocked. For some
months he had missed cash from the box to the'
amount of £4 or £5 per week; and in taking stock
recently there were goods to the amount of £2OO or
£3OO which could not be accouated for. He called in
the assistance of the police; and on Thursday last,
he and Sergeant Torr examined the premises.
They found in the cellar a place which aroused
their suspicions, and a watch was kept. On Monday
evening he left his brother and Police-constable_
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stair in the cellar, so as to form a communica-
tion with the prisoner's house. This was the same
place he had before noticed as being suspicious.
The hole was large enough to admit the prisoner
or anyone else his size. On examining the shop,
he missed the cash box from its place. It was
afterwards shown to him by a police officer, but
nothing was gone from it. At the police
station a lamp was shown to him, which he identi-
fied as one he had missed from his shop. The cash
box contained £8 16s. Id. in gold, silver, and cop-
per,—Joseph Butler, a police constable, stated that
in company with the prosecutor's brother he was
watching the shop on Monday evening. Both of
them were concealed. About half-past seven he
heard a noise in the shop as if some one was walk-
ing about, and in about a minute afterwards he
saw the prisoner coming up the stairs with
a lighted lamp in his hand. The prisoner was
in his shirt and drawers, and had no shoes
on. The prisoner went to the place where the
cash box was kept, and pulled out a bundle,
which he placed on the floor. He opened
him.
lid of the box, when he (Butler) ran towards
The prisoner had a lamp in his hand,
threw at him (Butler). The lamp struck which
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the head and made him stagger for a bit. On
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caught hold of the prisoner,
a trap door into the
but
the recovering
latter himself,
slipped
through
cellar. The witness followed close
in behind,
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and saw
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the prisoner go through a hole
tried to follow, but, having all his clothes on, he
stuck fast. He then went to the back door, and
was about to break it open, when the prisoner came
out, still in his shirt and drawers, and, after a
struggle, he was secured.—The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial,

The German journals bring the news of the death
of the venerable poet, Justinus Kerner, who lately died in
the arms of his children, at,the age of 76. All readers of
German literature are acquinted with the poetry of Kerner,
some of whose ballads are peculiarly sweet, simple, and
graceful. But Kerner was better known to many in an-
other
a believer in, and expounder of, the once
acuteness—ass • a
famous revelations of the " Seeress of Prevorst."
MURDER IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—On Saturday
evening, a man named John White, a farm labourer, was
walking at Lake, near Sandown, in the Isle of Wight, with
a young woman, whs for some time past has been house-
keeper to a pensioner named Joseph Wooden, when Wooden
waylaid them, and deliberately stabbed White, his death
being instantaneous. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause
of the murder. Wooden has been apprehended.