The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-11 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

rdieard (Before the Recorder.)
Wilder, 23, labourer, was indicted for steal-
ing a quantity of oats, the property of James Daily, his
master, and Aaron Buckland, 23, tinman, and Edmund
und
Buckland, 17, labourer, were indicted for feloniously
receiving them.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Lilley and Mr. Ro-
binson defended.red t thai. prosecutor is a farmer in the
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neighbourhood of Harmondsworth, Middlesex, and
Wilder, who was his ostler, had been in the
habit of
stealing his master's horse feed, and upon the occasion
giving rise to this indictment had tied up a quantity of
oats in a handkerchief, which the Bucklands were seen
carrying away. The constable, who saw this, stopped
them, and asked where they got them. One of them said
he did not know, and the other said from Wilder, the
ostler, who had given them to him. This turned out to
be true, for according to the statement of the witnesses,
they had them given to him in a public-house by Wilder,
and the only question which arose was whether they did
not know them to have been stolen, Wilder being, to
their knowledge, prosecutor's ostler, and the oats being
I of the most expensive description, and used for the feed
of racehorses, of which the prosecutor is a breeder and
trainer. The two Bueklands were tinkers, travelling
with a donkey.
The Recorder said there was no case against the Buck-
lands' and the jury had not returned a verdict against
Wilder when we went to press.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
John Watkins, 27, pawnbroker, was indicted for
embezzling various sums of money from his master, Mr.
Attenborough, the pawnbroker of Fleet-street.
The prisoner pleaded guilty.
In answer to the court, the prosecutor said that the
prisoner had been some years in his service, and was a
most clever shopman. The greatest confidence was
placed in him, which he had abused most grossly, and
robbed him to a great extent.
The Common Sergeant said it was a bad case, and
transported him for seven years.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY.)

ATTEMPTING TO EXTORT MONEY FROM THE CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.— William Wilson, 24,
Belvedere-road, commercial traveller, was placed at the
bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with following and
attempting to extort money and place from the Right
Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. by threatening the hon. gentleman with immoral
conduct.

The Hon. Gentleman, on being sworn, said—The de-
fendant seeing me in conversation with a young woman,
who was waking by my side, just below Coventry-street
and Oxenden-street, last night, about twenty minutes
past twelve o'clock, came up and began to use words
which I could not well understand, upon which this girl
expressed alarm, and laid hold of my left arm. I told
her she need not be afraid, nothing would occur to her.
She had already told me where she lived, and I advised
her to go home, and I walked along with her. The
prisoner then addressed me by name, saying he would
expose me. I proceeded onward, and he followed me
the young woman still expressing great alarm. When
we came to a door which she said was her door (I believe
it was in King-street, Soho, but was not certain),
; she then ran in, and I desired the prisoner to
, leave me, which he refused to do. I walked on, and
turned one way and another, to get free of him, but he
kept close to me, stating that he admired my public cha-
racter much, and had long observed me, that he must
,now expose me, that he would do this in the Morning
Herald this day, and among the whole of the Conserva-
tive party. With these threats, he mingled a statement
that he did not wish to do me any harm, and that if I
would make it right with him, or give him a good ap-
pointment at Somerset-house or elsewhere his lips should
be closed. In answer to this—being I fear angry--
I charged him with being a liar, and I used
more than once the expression, int he should
not have from me either a sixpence, or a
situation, and that if he did not leave me I must appeal
to the police for protection. The prisoner stated he
would not do that, and that he would give me in charge
of the police. He then said he would be contented if I
would allow him to write me a letter, to which I an-
swered, " Sir, do exactly as you please," repeating my
former words about not giving him either a sixpence or
a situation. All this, with more similar matter, was re-
peated again and again, for some time, while I was walk-
ing, and in the hope of seeing a police constable. I saw
none till, having tried Regent-street, I came into Sack-
ville-street, when I saw 187 C. I stated to him
my desire to be rid of the prisoner, and the con-
stable told me to go to the station. I did so,
and made the charge. On the way to the station he
repeated the suggestion that I had better accede to what
he had offered for my own sake. I told him that any
act of mine I had no wish to conceal, and that he was
not justified in imputing to me the intention on which
he had founded his claim ; an intention which, being
upon my oath, I most solemnly deny.
Inspector arkes C division, after proving receiving
the charge, stated that the prisoner, in reply thereto,
made a statement, which he took down in writing, and
now produced, and of which the subjoined is a copy.
William Wilson, 24 Belvede e road, Lambeth, com-
mercial traveller, states that about half-past twelve
on the 11th inst. he saw Mr. Gladstone addressing
a lady of his acquaintance, in Panton-street, Hay-
market, and they immediately turned down Panton-
street, and walked about 50 yards down the first turn-
ing in Panton-str2et, and then made their way across
Coventry-street and Princes-street, where he charged
Mr. Gladstone with being in company with the lady
above alluded to. He then said he had no desire to make
an exposure of one he so much admired, and whose cha-
racter was known to be so unspotted and pure, and that
he might take it as a moral proof from one so humble as
Mr. Wilson ; and, further said, if Mr. Gladstone would
procure him a situation that he would not expose him,
and, if not, he would communicate Mr. Gladstone's
conduct to the Morning Herald newspaper, and also
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To this statement the prisoner attached hisLsignature.
Inspector Parkes further stated that the prisoner said
it did not matter to him what would be the result, if it
was even transportation, so long as his name was asso•
ciated with a person so great as Mr. Gladstone, who was
one of the greatest men of the day.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, had no
desire to put any questions, and would endorse the paper
read by the inspector. His character would bear the
strictest investigation, and he was sorry for what he had
done.
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