The Sun.
London, England, 1807-10-16 00:00:00

POLICE.

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1-1 AT r o • AtthEN n drew 11 .the per,soli
who st.inds Qharged with, having sible!) the content's
of ► •iis.trindts Ut Gentluinen, and al,o of servants;
in various -inns, &c. Hatchett's, in Piccadilly,
the White i-lorse, in Feuer-lane, and a great many
ethers, was brought up tbr further examination yes-
.terday, to which day it was adjourned a. week ago.—
' Several pawnbrokers appeared with various articles
of wearing'apparel, and some watches,e which were
pledged •witli them, of which the duplicates were
found in the Prisioner's,hotise, but none came to
Claim the goods, ,except those which we are about
to mention in the following; account
John W.hartbn, waiter at the White Horse in Fet-
ter-hoe, ,said, that about the first of the present,
month, the Prisoner came to their inn, saying he
wanted to have apartments there, . and the usual ac-

commodation; that his servant was comilg with his
• portmanteau 5 and a person scion came with a trunk.
Ile Was. tilvre 'six nights ; sometimes he"slept- there,
and sometimes lie did not ; he occupied one room
the whole.titne ; he came in generally about twelve
o'clock ; he breakfaSted it, the coffee-room on the
morning when he went away; he came down about
nine in the morning, and staid in the coffe-room
until about hall-past ten ; he then went up into his
apartment, and rhe,witness Sakti him coming down
again into the coke-room ; he then paid for all he
had that morning, he making it a custom :to ply
daily and regularly for every thing he had 5 he 'took
away his trunk by means of a porter, and went into
nulborn, where he tools. a: coach, and direaed the
coachman to drive to 'the end of Oxtbrd-road,t The
witness saw, him go away 'with the trunk.- Soon Af-
terwards, the witneSsoiin consequence of information
he hail received, went to, look at his box, and found
it open, and the contents taken away. . This was
about half an
.hour after the Prisoner went away.—
There were in his trunk, when lie saw it last before
that time, tour pair of small-clothes, four waistcoats,
lice shirts, nine'neck handkerchief, and two pocket
ones, seven pin: of white stockings, and two'silk
ones, and' four one-pound notes, The trunk wasin
the room which is numbered. 38-9, The witness
being thus robbed, went to the
.waterman who be.

long;t1 to the stand of coaches in Holborn where. the
Prisoner took up, described. him, and made alt the
inquiry he could; but was,not able to oh.tain any 41._
formation. He did the same, thing ut the stanil of
coaches in. Oxford-street, but without success. Hu.
asked every watchman :and,7 watch-house-keeper,
whether they had any knowledge (*such a person;
but could obtain no information.' He went into
every baker's shop in the neighbouttoodbf Oxford-
street, which was the place to which-the. Prisoner
bad ordered the coach to be driven; r but at last,' by',
the e6sisianee, and in company withTrott,,the,Con.:,,-,
stable and Police Officer, he .found. the., Prisoner
in'a public-house, ',Tailed :the Portman Arms, in,
Upper. Berkeley-street. He was smoking. his 'pipe,
and drinkinglin and water, in company with .seve-
Tal others. - It was discovered that . he lived Within:.
three 'doors. of this public-house, fie was searched,
but nothing fotindonliin belonging to the witness,
exectit-a pair of black kerseymere small,clothes, and;
a pair- of black silk stockings, and them lie had on
:
when apprehended.
,:'These .the witness swore to
positively, as-they ,were produced in the (Mee* No
Bank.notes were found en the. Prisoner, When he ,
was challenged with having the clothes on which
belonged to the witness, he said that could not be,
for one of the buttons Or them had beep Cd for six
months, during- which time he had them on. The
stockings were not marked, but the witness knew
them well..

TwOvaistroats,• prochwed by a young man of the
name of John Stone, shop-um to, rki r.- Marriott, a
Vawnbrokyr, of High-street, Mary-1..!-bone,.whicli
were pawneJ at their shop, by a woman, under the
of Llizabet h Collins, -of •Berkeley-sireet, the
1 nes4; :Wharton, swore-to. be his. .;

tiViilrartr Stall said, ,he was under-waiter at :the
White Horse; : Fetter.lane ; said IA odw' Prisoner
going to the, hackney coach, on .the morning he left,
Horse.. In about half an hour after the,
Witneis returned, be discovered that his trunk had
been opened:; 1t swod behind the door of the .roorrr

Number 3s-9 ; he had locked •it the night before
lost out of his trunk a silver watch of the value of
two guineas, auri also -two, coats, two; waistcoats
t neck handkerchiefs, a pair,Atitnall-elethea',
which Ciad.ll9, particular. mark uPon.them. The
watch had •a particular, ,4„ej, and seal; to it. The NY t
neSs had sepu,tilose_.ootlies 'since, and knew Allem
as well as thtt,wat.chrwhicli were produced by Stone,
the pawribrOlttYs;ahopman. . •. , .
Trott, the Constable, said, that in consegnance of
iniiirmation;'.he went in.compauy with the witness,
N.V,harton, alici Mr. l latthett, of the Piccadilly Hotel,
to vvhose aOlvity the iippreliending Of the Vrisonet
was greatly owing. They found him at the Port-
man •Arms, (Jpper. Berkeley-street, where he was'.
,drinking with his cotopinions ; he took him into
custody, and' took from tutu :the witeh, now pro-
diacesi, anti also oUt of •lii9 .pocket Fr t4y which
open?d the doOr its which hc.• was said.
to live, No, 8, Upper' Berkeley-street, where there
was the Priatmer's 'wif6 and three. children. In this
house Trott' fyind a rAst Jainker of duplicates,
which the Prisoner said ware'his..--:
Ben Felidiek, a porter at the White Hoite, said, •
he lc.* a' watch, live shirts; and Rime snicking s,
froth No. 8-9, oil the day above tti&otioned.
watch was wortli„orlind cost him, two guinea and r
a half. - • • r
11ros..MaCkinder said, he Was-the landlord of the
house where the Prisoner lived x hit b'n houSe was
in.Blandtbrd-street. The key produeed, he got ut.
. either Mr:fintebett 'or Mr. Trott, on the night the
Prisoner Wai apprehended.' -Tt was' the key 'of the
rt.;c4-door. • The Prisoner took it• of the Witness,
at.,,the:litter efid'of February or beginning of March,
and commenced' as a rented tenant atlady-day last.
Alt those Witnesses haying signed their,deposi-
, tiona were bound over to appear to gik a of idvaiCe
an inditiment to, he preSentell the,l'i.i
anter for felony, before the next Sesdon at the Old
'rhe' Prisoner was remanded, and., ordered to he
iy.)ught up again UtlTucticlay nwtt, when all pawn-
I); .:!era and other parlies concerned in this prosecu-
were desirest4o'uttend at FL o'clock, precis,:ly.