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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 6.

GUILDHALL.—THE BANK NOTE ROBBERIES
Awn roucErtanc, AND TIIII RANGELAND JLWEL-
LERY ROBBERY.—Benjamin Samuel Redburn, who
has been several times examined relative to a va-
riety of charges arising out of the great jewel rob-
bery at Kingaland, and the extensive forgery of
bank notes, was brought up for final examination
before Alderman Abbis, when the owner of the gold
was brought forward and his evidence taken.
Mr. Mullens, the solicitor for the prosecution,
said he had no further evidence to offer.

Mr. Lewis then addressed the Court for the pri-
soner, and very ingeniously argued that the offence
under the statute of unlawful possession of the por-
tions of bank-notes produced could not be sup-
ported as such, as there was no evidence to trace
the personal possession of them to the prisoner, or
that the place in which they were found was ex-
clusively occupied by him. On the contrary, it
was shown that others had access to the prisoner's
room in his absence, and there was nothing to
prove that at any time he was cbserved in any
secret occupation. It was therefore manifest that
the evidence was as strong against those who had
access to his room as it was against the prisoner
himself. He was sure the worthy alderman, if he
were on the jury, would not convict the prisoner on
such evidence, and he therefore thought he would
not commit the prisoner on that charge. With re-
gard to the charge of stealing notes, it was quite clear
that if the unlawful possession could not be proven,
the charge of stealing must fall to the ground. In
reference to the jewellery, all he had to say was
that the property had found its way into
the prisoner's possession, after a lapse of time, such
as could be a satisfactory answer to the charge, if
sent to the Old Bailey.
Alderman Abbiss said Mr. Lewis's observations
would have carried more weight with him if it had
not been for the extraordinary conversation over-
heard by Inspector Foulger. Under the circum-
stances he had made up his mind to commit the
prisoner for trial on all the charges.
Committed accordingly.

WESTMINSTER.—CABS AT THE EXHIBITION.
—IMPORTANT C/VVITION.—Mr. Frederick Owen,

Mr. Owen expressed his opinion that the new
way through the park must be deemed a public road
for all the purposes of the Exhibition.
Mr. Arnold said that with the statute before him
declaring that the commissioners' measurement
should be conclusive evidence of the distance from
place to place, he was decidedly of opinion that if
the cabman had driven through the park he was
entitled to the fare for the distance set down by the
commissioners, although measured by the street
routes. Supposing a dispute arose upon a distance
not in the table of fares, he did not know whether
the park-keeper would permit the court wheel to
enter the park to measure. He must order the de-
fendant to pay the 6d and 5s costs.
Mr. Owen observed that had the police given
time, when he alighted, for a moment's explanation,
all would doubtless have been settled without com-
ing there.

Mr. Arnold recommended the cabowners to send
a memorial to the commissioners upon the subject
complaiied of.

WORSHIP-STREET.---Yesterday Thos. Horne,
a well-dressed man of 28, was charged with felony.
The prosecutrix, a good-looking woman named
Martha Alured, stated that in 1859 the prisoner
was introduced to her. He afterwards paid his
addresses to her, and they were engaged to be mar-
ried in August ast, and she some time afterwards
found that she was likely to become a mother.
In September, 1860, her sister, who resided at
Harleston, in Norfolk, died, leaving her all her
wearing apparel and other property, and the pri-
soner accompanied her down there in the following
month to receive possession of it. The property
was packed up in three trunks and a packing-case,
and was directed by the prisoner to be forwarded to
the goods station of the Eastern Counties Railway
in town, whence, upon their coming to London, he
transferred the boxes to a coffeehouse in Church-
street, kept by her cousin, Mr. Mayell. They had
not been there long before the prisoner removed
them from Mr. Mayell's house to his own, in Lee-
street, Kingsland, and she saw the goods safe at
both places. At various times during this period
the prisoner had borrowed sums of her, amounting
in the whole to £l4, for which he told her he would
allow her interest. He gave her an 1.0. U. for the
money. This she placed in an envelope, which she
deposited in one of the boxes at the prisoner's
house, but on going to this box in March last she
found the envelope in it, but empty. The prisoner
after that treated her with great coolness, and con-
tinued to do so until the 20th of May, when she re-
ceived the startling intelligence that he had paid
for his passage on board the Matilda Wattenbach
emigrant ship, then in the East India Docks, and
about to sail for new Zealand, where a great num-
ber of persons, Nonconformists like the prisoner,
had determined to form a settlement. She and her
cousin, Mr. Mayell, immediately called at the pri-
soner's house to demand possession of her packing-
case and trunks. They obtained them with some
difficulty, but upon opening the boxes and case a
quantity of her property was found to have dis
appeared. Mr. Mayell therefore applied to the
police en her behalf, and on accompanying Excel!,
a constable of the K division, to the docks on the
morning the Matilda Wattenbach was to start on
her voyage, they caught the prisoner on the quay,
just as he had been to see his baggage properly
stowed away, and gave him into custody.
Mr. Mayell confirmed the prcsecutrix in as many
facts as he was concerned in, and added, that on
calling at the house of the prisoner to obtain the
restoration of her property the prisoner refused to
deliver the case and boxes unless they paid him for
18 months' warehouse-room. The witness told him
to make out his demand, and the prisoner wrote
out a bill for 16s. The witness said he would
pay the amount at once if he would allow them
to see the contents of the trunks, but that the pri-
soner refused to do.

Excell deposed to accompanying the prosecutrix
and last witness on board the emigrant ship, by
order of the magistrate, and stated that on over-
taking her at Gravesend, which she had then
dropped down to, they found that a good portion
of the prisoner's luggage had been stowed away in
the hold and could not be got at. The officer in
command pointed out the rest of his luggage. In
one of the boxes were found a number of articles
which the prosecutrix at once identified as hers,
and as forming part of her stolen property.
Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, for the defence, believed
he had a perfect answer to the charge, and that
the prisoner's conduct would not turn out so heart-
less as it now appeared. He trusted the magis-
trate would accept bail for his client, and not lock
him up till the sessions.
Mr. Leigh said he could not see that the pri•
soner was deserving of any sympathy from him;
it was altogether a bad case. He did not think
he should be doing his duty if he accepted bail
under such circumstances, and he should decline
to do so.

The prisoner was then fully committed for trial.

WANDSWORTH.—Robert Lacey, an omnibus
driver, was charged with being drunk, furious
driving, and causing the death of Mr. William
Gooding, a gentleman residing at Dalston.
It appeared that between nine and ten o'clock on
Wednesday night the prisoner was driving a party
home from Epsom races in a private omnibus drawn
by four horses. The deceased was seated on the
end of the off-side seat. On reaching the Clapham%
road a great number of carriages of every descrip-
tion were endeavouring to pass each other on their
way home. As they proceeded several heavy car-
riages passed him on the near side, and by degrees
his horses veered from the centre to the off-side of
the road. The only one passing in a contrary
direction was an omnibus, and from the state of the
road the driver was proceeding on his near side,
close to the kerb. He, seeing the danger, pulled
up, and as the prisoner passed, his off fore-wheel
caught the off fore-wheel of the other omnibus, and
they became locked together. In the collision the
deceased's leg was jammed between the irons of the
two off-side seats, in which position he was obliged
to remain some minutes, until the two omnibuses
were extricated. It was found that his leg had been
caught below the knee, and was literallye deceased
to pieces. A surgeon was sent for, and th
was lifted to the roof of the.
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shortly afterwards expire
was asked if he was the driver of the four-horse
omnibus he stated that he was not. He was taken to
the station, and, according to the evidence of two
constables, he
was found to be under the influeon
fr,ce
of liquor. Considerable damage was done to the
omnibus;td the
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aonthder
a virindow and
Three gentlemen, friends of the deceased, who
sat in front of the omnibus, stated that the prisoner
was perfectly sober, and that he drove the horses
at a steady and cautious pace.
Mr. Murphy, an omnibus proprietor at Dalston,
and who was one of the party, also stated that the
prisoner, who was his employ, was quite sober,
and bore an excellent diakacter.
Mr. Dayman thought the unfortunate occurrence

SOUTHWARK. Sarah roast and Sophia,
Weeks, two very respectable-looking young vie-
men, who refused to give their address, were placed
at the bar before Mr. Combe, charged with stealing
a gold watch and chain, worth 40 guineas, from the
person of Mr. Richard Wilcox Boyle, in a railweY
carriage, on the journey from Epsom to London.
Mr. Richards the inspector of the Brighton and
Epsom Railway Company's police, was in attend'
ante to watch the case.
The prosecutor, a gentleman residing at West
Ham,Essex,said that on the preceding day he went
to Epsom. Races by the London, Brighton, and Ep-
som Railway, and a little after 9 o'clock he got into
a second-class carriage at Epsom to return home.
Two gentlemen sat opposite to him in the compart-
ment ; himself, the two prisoners on each side of
him, and two gentlemen occupied the other seAt.
Prior to his getting into the railway-carriage be
unfastened his guard and deposited that and his
watch in his waistcoat-pocket for safety. As soon
as the carriage was filled and the train started the
prisoners commenced singing, and reached across
him to each other, About ten minutes afterwards
he missed his watch and chain, and feeling setisfied
that the prisoners were the thieves, betook no notice
or said anything of his loss until the arrival of the
train at the terminus,London- bridge, when he called
a constable and gave them into custody. Shortly'
afterwards his watch was found. The prisoners saw'
that he had put his watch into his waistcoat-pocket,
as he had to wait in the station two hours for the
train. About an hour before starting they came up
to him in a very nervous state and told him that
some one had picked their pockets of their money
and railway ticket, and that they had no friends at
Epsom. Unless some one, they said, would take
pity on them, they would have to remain about the
streets at Epsom all night. Believing from their
appearance that they were respectable young wo-
men, and that such was the fact, he told them that
they should not be lost for a friend, and he went
and purchased tickets for them, and they followed
him into the same carriage.
Mr. Combe inquired whether he was sober then.
The witness replied that he was perfectly sober,
and he acted as courteously to the prisoners as if
they bad been his own sisters.
Police-constable 78 H said that be was on duty
on the platform of the Brighton and Epsomßailway
at London-bridge when the train came in. The
prosecutor called to him from one of the carriages
and gave the prisoners into custody for robbing him
of his gold watch and chain. They both indignantly
denied the charge; hut East seemed very uneasy,
and when near the Stone's-end F olice-station, she
dropped the watch from her hand. Perceiving
what she was about, he caught hold of it, and then
he asked her where the chain was. She pointed to
the pocket of her dress, in which he found only a
small gold chain.
The prosecutor informed his worship that that
was merely the chain which had been fixed to the
guard, with a key attached to it. Both prisoners
had been carefully searched at the station, but the
other chain could not be found.
Inspector Richards and Scannell, a detective of
the South-Eastern Railway, said the prisoners were
not known. From what they had heard they
thought they were young at the trade.
The prisoners pleaded "guilty," wishing the,
matter settled at once, as they did not want their
friends to be acquainted with their disgrace.
Mr. Combe sentenced each to six months' hard
labour at Wandsworth.

COUNTRY MARKET A.S.

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BIRMINGHAM-JUNE 5.

Thero was a short supply of English wheat, which sold
at barely last week's rates. Foreign at is under the cur-
rency of this day week. Oats, beans, and barley rather
cheaper. Peas were firm at late prices.

MANCHESTER-JUNE 5.

English wheat in short supply, and sales took place very
slowly at the prices of last Tuesday. A fair inquiry for
foreign, without any further concession in price. Oats anti
oatmeal were rather easier. No material change in either
beans or Indian coon.