The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-07 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS- TUESDAY.

(Before Mr. HEDGER and a Bench of Ma istrates.)
James Clarke, a young man, formerly in the employ of a
newsvender, was indicted for stealing .a sill from a baker's
shop, containing a quantity of loose silver and halfpence.
The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to seven years' trans-
portation.

Peter Laurie, a sharp-visaged man, was indicted for steal-
ing a bridle, the property of Mr. Grove, a saddler and bar-
nessmaker in the Blackfriar's-road.

About eleven o'clock in the morning the prisoner was seen
to walk up to the prosecutor's shop door, at which several
saddlery articles were hanging. The prisoner unhooked a.
bridle from amongst the articles, and clapping it under his
arm, began to make away at a quick rate, when he was stopped
and the bridle taken from him, and he was given into custody.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoner was
sentenced to three months' hard labour at Brixton.
A man named Jackson was tried and cunvicted of stealing
a pair of boots from a shoemaker's shop in Bermondsey. The
offence having been proved, the prosecutor, in answer to a
question from the chairman, said that the pr'Auner had been
tried and found guilty at a late Sessions at the Contral Cri-
minal Court of a similar offence to the case for which he was
now indicted.

Under those circumstances the Court sentenced the prisoner
to be transported for seven years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

For some days the LORD MAYOR has been ccougi,cd in in-
vestigating the circumstances of an extet.sive silk robbery
committed upon the premises of Mr. Edward Fellowes, of
Broad-street. The robbery was effected by the assistance'of.
,some of the most skilful cracksmen of the metropolis. Alder-
man WHITE and several other gentlemen connected with the
silk trade attended during the examinations. of which we give
a compendious account below. Mr. , Nobler, jun., , was em-
ployed for the prosecution, and Mr. Charles Phillips and Mr.
Clarkson, the barristers, and Mr. Wontner, the solicitor, at-
tended for some of the prisoners, who, in consequence of the
remarkable nature of the case, were one alter the other sepa-
rately examined. The first person placed at the bar was a lad,
nearly eighteen years of age, but of very small size, and youth-
ful appearance named William Sherman.
William Fisher, a man in the employment of Mr. Fel-
lowcs, on the 15th or January, at six o'clo,k in the even-
ing, left the counting-house, having rec•_ived the keys from
the porter of the cellar, where he considered everything was
safe. In the warehouse, which was the cellar, to the en-
trance to which there were three there was a large
quantity of different sorts of silk, and at eight o'clock he was
informed that the door was open. Upon going to the build-
ing he found that thieves had entered by means of picklocks,
and carried away a considerable quantity of good. It was
evident that they had been disturbed, for they had left behind
a lot of silks which they had put together, With the view of
taking them away. A skeleton key was found in one of the
locks, and an old camlet cloak with a fur collar was lying near
the fireplace. In the passage, near the ball door, there was
found a large cane-stick. Witness knew the boy at the bar,
and his father. The boy had been in the employment of Mr.
Fellowes as an errand-boy up to October last, and had had
access to the warehouse continually ; but Mr. Fellowes bad
recommended him to another situation. Witness saw the boy
in the warehouse on the Ist or 2d of January, and was told by
him that he was in the employment of a hatter in the Bo-
rough, for he did not go to the place provided for him by
Mr. Fellowes.

Peter Richardson, porter to Mr. Fellowes, saw the boy in
the warehouse on the 2d of January.
Mr. Edward Fellowes, the owner of the property, stated
that the boy had been in his employment, but having no occa-
sion for his services; he recommended him to a gentleman in
Aldermanbury, on account of his capabilities and apparent
good qualities. On the evening of the 31st. of January, wit-
ness was sent for to the Mansion-house, as the boy had been
brought from Oxfordshire on suspicion of having been con-
cerned in the robbery. Witness upon arriving at the Man-
sion-house was told that the boy would say nothing to the
officers, but wished to see him. Witness then went, accom-
panied by Mr. Pearson, his frienk, with whom the prisoner
had previously lived, into the officer's room, and told the boy-
that he might say what he pleased, but he need not say any-
thing except he wished it. The boy then stated that he bad
been in the warehouse a great part of the clay on the 2d of
January, and that the porter had locked him up two or three
times on that day. He contrived whiie in the warehouse to
get impressions of all the keys, in wax, v, hieh was gig en to
him by one of the accomplices in the robbery, with directions
how to take the impressions. He then mentioned the name
of the person who made the skeleton keys with which the
doors were openek named other parties who were concerned,
and amongst them his own father; and said that they came to
the house at half-past five o'clock in the evening.
Here the boy said, " Do you mean that I shall be a prisoner
or a witness if I co••.firm the account ?"

The LORD MAYOR—I shall hold out no promise to you. You
can exercise your own common sense.
The boy—lf I an't to be a witness, shall I be a prisoner?
Mr. nobler, jug.—Certainly, unless you procure good bail.
Mr. Fellowes then proceeded—The b:;y stated, that when
they came down Broad-street, seeing a light in the connting-
house they walked about ; and on their return, seeing that the
light was out, they rang the bell, and that not being answered
they judged that all were gone from the counting-house, and
then they rang the hell of an office up stairs, belonging to an-
other party, and then the door being opervd by a party from
above they entered. They then opened the door with the
skeleton keys, and began to pull the silks out of the cupboards,
the boy pointing at those of best quality. They had brought
some bags with them, which the boy had made of pieces of
wrapper, and they filled them with silk, and also took part of
a bale which lay in the cellar. They then thought they heard
some one coming down, aed. two or three of them scrambled
out in a hurry. They also heard a horse in the street, which
greatly frightened them. They had brought a spring cart
with them from the west end of the town, and they ctrected
that it should wait in Finsbury-square till it should be wanted.
The boy concluded by stating that he was sent off to the coun-
try next morning.
Mr. Hobler, jun., said that he did not propose to produce
any further evidence at present as to the boy.
The boy then said he bad nothing to say at all.
Joseph Sherman, the father of the boy, was then ordered
the bar, and Mr. Fellovt es' statement was read over to ti

He declared that he never was at the place in his life.
The prisoners were then remanded.

BOTV-STREET.

Edward Brencldey Haywood, who was dargel with. ex-
tracting a 51. note, two half-sovereigns, and two half-crowns
from a letter which was posted at the Cornhill Two-penny
Post-office on the 16th ult., was brought up yesterday for
final examination. The prisoner was fully committed fur trial.