The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Ycsterday 7'homas Gardner and William Merril, each
about ten years old, were placed at the bar before Mr. GROVE
and Mr. GIBSON, a county Magistrate, charged with stealing
a 501. note.

Inspector Robinson, of the G division, on the previous even-
ing received information that two lads had called at the
Temple public-house, Old street road, and tendered a 501.
note, for which they asked change, but which they were
refused, as th• person they offered it to had his suspicions
that it was stolen. He in consequence went to the house.
He requested to be shown the note, but was refused.
He then required to know the number and date of it,
which also was refused. He subsequently apprehended the
prisoners, when he ascertained that Gardner bad been applied
to by Merril to obtain the note changed. On questioning
Merril, he stated that his master lived in Aldersgate-street.
He gave the wrong name of his master. Witness, however,
eventually succeeded in tracing his employer.
Mr. Ritchie, cheesemonger, Aldersgate-street, said that
the prisoner Merril had been in his employ as errand boy
about a month. He saw him on Saturday in his counting-
house, where he was a considerable time; and, 'on being t sked
by him why he was there so long, he said that he was cleaning
his shoes. The note was in his cash-box, in the desk, and the
keys of the desk were upon it. No one else was there during
the day.
Mr. GROVE directed that the note should, be produced.
The inspector said that the person at the Temple refused to
give it up, as also to attend.
A summons was issued against him, and the inspector, who
was accompanied by Sergeant Ellis, was ordered to bring him
forthwith. In about an hour's time the inspector arrived with
him, when
Mr. GROPE asked why he was not placed at the bar along
with the other prisoners ? The inspector said that he wanted
to explain the ground of his refusing to give up the note.
Mr. GROVE rbmarked that he had been called upon by the
inspector, who had told him that it was stolen, and he was
liable to be placed at the bar as the receiver of stolen property.
Mr. GIBSON—You ought to have given the date and num-
ber of the note when asked by the inspector.
Mr. Powell, who was brought up by the inspector, said that
he acted for the proprietor of the Temple, and in detaining
the note he did it for the purpose of forwarding the ends of
justice.
Mr. GROTE observed that he would have shown such was
his object if he had given it up to the inspector, who was not
a stranger to him.
The prisoners were then remanded. Merril acknowledged
that he had stolen the note.

An inquest was taken on Saturday at the Silver
Cup, Cromer-street, on view of the body of Ann Staines, a
maiden lady, aged 58, who died under the awful effects of
passion. Mary Ann Small, No. 83, Cromer-street, said that
the deceased kept a toy shop at No. 82, in the same street.
On Wednesday last she had some words with a lodger: The
quarrel lasted some time, and when she and her lodger parted
the deceased wa: very much agitated. During the quarrel
the lodger threatened the deceased with violence. The next
day witness was in the shop, when the deceased heard the same
lodger call a person from the opposite side of the way, when
she asked if that was not Mrs. Smith? She almost imme-
diately fell down and expired. A surgeon was
That called in im d
-
mediately, but life was extinct. Verdict, " e ecease
died in a fit, brought on by the excitement into which she was
thrown by the violence of her lodger."
The wife of William Chirgwin, of Breage, labourer,
and her brother, were taken alarmingly ill a few days since,
and, on calling in a medical man, it was ascertained that poison
had been largely administered to them in their tea. Suspi-
cion instantly fell on the woman's husband from his having
refused to part/me of the tea, and from his having ab.
!Tended as soon as the fact was discovered. He has since
been taken, and has undergone an examination before the
county magistrates, but from want of sufficient proof to war-
' rant his detention he has been discharged. The wife, to
whom he bad only been married about three months, is dead ,
but we are happy to learn that her brother is in a fair way of
recovery. Rumours are still afloat, which we refrain from
inft, but it is hoped that the perpetrator of this diabolical-wae;
will soon be brought to justice.—Cornwall Gazette.
An inquest was held on Saturday in Giltspur-street
Compter, en the body of a man named Dixon, aged. 39, ho
was found on Sunday in a state of insensibility, a,la in a most
!i!thy condition, in the streets, and beingeonveyed to the
co,nptee, died there on Thursday. The sis!er
posed that. for some years past, he had aof di-ce«scd
devery irre-
gular life, subsisting by what little he could obtain by going
me,s,ges at the diligent inns in the citylrmetly his (de-
eeased's) prospects were very good, ardl ;fe was left 3501. by
his mother; but this SUM not answetir;g his expectAtions, he
gqn::ndcrcd it away, And snb;equently expressed a perfect
reekiesisr.esskoifj:,,sft :1 lodging, ge
Fur
rseveraleraure c,n pit he had not
slept ir any
aettirg some kind of
shelter in mews or stables, Verdict, Natural death."