The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-12 00:00:00

MAR YLEBONE.

BURGLARY AND ROBBERY.—POLICE VIGILANCE.
—Yesterday Edward Aultin and Alfred Bailey were
placed at the bar before the sitting magistrate, Mr.
Broughton, charged with having burglariously entered
the dwelling-house of Mr. Brandard, an artist, resid-
ing at No. 41, Ampthill-square, Hampstead -road,
and stolen therefrom property to a considerable
amount.
Prosecutor gave evidence to the effect that on the
same moring, about five o'clock, he was aroused from
his sleep by a constable, who told him that he had
found his front door open. He hastily arose from
his bed, and dressed himself, and on going down stairs
he ascertained that his drawers had been plundered of
wearing apparel and many articles of jewellery. It
further appeared that when Lockerby, 180 S, went
to examine the premises, he saw upon a chair in the
parlour the impression of a foot, and he felt satisfied
that it was that of the prisoner Bailey. A sharp
look-out was kept for the parties by him (Lockerby)
and Mason, also of the S division. The prisoners
were both taken into custody at ten in the morning,
as they were walking down Wilsted-street, Somers
town. Each had upon him a shirt belonging to the
prosecutor, and a silk handkerchief also. This was
taken from the neck of one of the prisoners.
The officers, in reply to the Magistrate, said that
the entry into the house had been through the parlour
window. Some lucifer matches, which had been
picked up by the police, had been strewed about in
different apartments. One of the prisoners had, upon
a former occasion, been convicted, and the other. was
a well-known associate of notorious thieves.
The prisoners, who had nothing to say, were re-
manded till Tuesday next.
EMBEZZLEMENT.—Richard Glenister was placed
at the bar for re-examination, on the charge of having
embezzled money received by him for and on account
of his master, Mr. Hood, a haker, carrying on busi-
ness at 28, Park terrace.
The cases were clearly made out against the priso-
ner, and upon them he was committed for trial.
LAMBETH.

Yesterday John Perry Hening, Henry Roberts,
and Thomas Croton, who have undergone several ex-
aminations on charges of defrauding the public, by
representing themselves as belonging to the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which
society was not in existence, were again placed at the
bar, before the Hon. G. C. Norton.
Mr. Ferguson, the chief clerk to the Mendicity
Society, the members of which are the prosecutors
in the present case, informed the magistrate that
amongst the papers found in the possession of the
prisoner Hening was a document, stating that a
meeting of the committee of the Animals' Friend
Society had been held at the Duke of Clarence public
house, in the London-road, and that the financial
portion of the business could not be proceeded with,
as there were not a sufficient number of persons pre-
sent to form a quorum. To contradict such a state-
ment, he (Mr. Ferguson) should call and put into the
witness-box Mr. Fisher, the landlord of the house in
question, who would prove that no such meeting took
place at his house.
Mr. Fisher was here sworn, and deposed that an
application had been made to him some time since
to let his room to certain persons, but he understood
they were a society of Odd Fellows. He did not,
however, let the room, and consequently there had
been no meeting at his house, nor had he ever seen
any of the prisoners, to his knowledge.
The prisoner Hening here remarked that it was
possible the circumstance might have escaped the re-
collection of Mr. Fisher, but true it was that there
had been a meeting of the committee at the Duke of
Clarence about twelve months ago.
This Mr. Fisner denied, and said that about that
time, three private societies of a certain description
were held, and he could safely swear that he had no
let a room of his for the use of any committee or so
ciety, as he should not, on any account, let any com-
mittee sit in a room in his house without knowing
what the business and objects of such committee were.
Mr. Ferguson here informed the magistrate that
since the last examination he had received from Mr.
Frederick Stockdale, whose name appeared in the
printed books as the treasurer to this " Animals'
Friend Society," a letter, to which he wished to
direct his Worship's attention.
Mr. NORTON replied that he had also received a
letter from Mr. Stockdale, which he should read.
His Worship here read the following letter:—
" Shaldon, Teignmouth, Sept. 10, 1848.
" Sir,—lt is impossible to describe the nature of
my surprise and the indignation I feel by finding my
name introduced on the examination of three indivi-
duals at the Lambeth Police-court. Now, Sir, I beg
most distinctly to state that I never authorised any
person to add my name as treasurer to this apparent fic-
titious Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
neither have I ever received, either directly or indirectly,
know nothing whatever of the parties implicated,
any sums of money on account of such society. I
excepting Hening, who I accidentally met some years
since in Exeter. I accidentally met him a second time,
on leaving my late residence, two years since, when he
said he was collecting subscriptions; but I told him
it was not in my power to become a subscriber. Some
months since a person called at my residence, and I
was not a little surprised to find that my name had
been used clandestinely, and nut knowing the party
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Mr. NORTON, after reading the above letter, re-
marked that he thought that Mr. Stockdale would be
a most important witness on the trial of the prisoners,
and recommended Mr. Fergusson to have him in
attendance.
Hening hoped he would attend, when he had no
doubt he would give a very different version of the
affair. It was natural to expect that Mr. Stockdale,
after the ex parte statements that had gone forth to
the public, should repudiate the society, but he forgot
to mention in his letter that he (Hening) had spent a
Sunday with him just as he was about to leave town,
when the whole of the conversation related to the
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The prisoners were again remanded.
CLERKENWELL.
Yesterday William Grindley, a respectably-dressed
young man, who said he was the son of Captain
Grindley, of the 43d Light Infantry, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Combe, charged by Mr. Isaac
Jacobson, jeweller, of Oxford street, with stealing a
valuable dressing-case under the following circum-
stances :

It appeared from the evidence that on Monday
morning, about a quarter to ten o'clock, the prisoner
entered the shop of the prosecutor and requested the
shopman to show him a dressing-case. He produced
several, which the prisoner carefully inspected, when
he said they were inferior in quality. The shopman
then told him that he had some silver dressing cases,
and produced one ; on examining which the rizisoner
said it would exactly suit, representing that he was a
dealer, and he was anxious to show it to -4 gentleman
on approbation, and he would be allowed something
for his trouble. Mr. Jacobson, jun., entered the shop
at the time, and on the circurnstar.ice being explained
to him, he cons ented to let the,
prisoner take it with
, him, conditionallythat the shopman should accom-
pany him. The prisoner said that the gentleman re-
sided at North Bank, and willingly assented to the
shopman going with him. They crossed the Re-
gent's Park together, until they arrived at North
Bank, where a boar.] was stuck up at No. 35,
North Bank, with art inscription that the house was
"to let." The pr;,soner then told the shopman
that the gentle man who had deputed him to procure
him the dressi ng-ciase was going to the continent,
and was abou t to let the house, and requested him
(the shopman) to let him have the desk to show, and
to wait outride, whilst he (the prisoner) took it to I