The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-10 00:00:00

GANG OF BURGLARS.

Yesterday Mark Herds, aged 22; William Watts, aged 25 ;
James Brown, aged 33 ; and Thomas Fuller, aged 22 ; were
put to the bar, on an indictment, charging them with btr-
glariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of James
Alexander de Reimer, in the county of Middlesex, and steal-
ing therein 14 silver spoons, value 101. and other property ;
and Charlotte Banfield, aged 22, was also put to the bar,
charged with being an accessary after the fact, harbouring
them, &c. well knowing them to have been guilty of the bur-
glary.
Herd and - Banfield said they went to bed between eleven
and twelve o'clock, and that the other three prisoners camo.up
in the morning. Watts and Fuller said they went to break-
fast at Herd's. Brown said he knew nothing whatever of the
robbery.
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TheßEconnEn summed up the evidence to the Jury, who
after a short deliberation, found all the prisoners Guilty.
The RECORDER admonished the male prisoners not to lose
any part of the short time left them, to prepare for their fate.
They were knowh to be most desperate characters,. and it was
his duty to hold out no hopes of mercy to them. The female
prisoner, on hearing this doom, went into fits, and was carried
out by the officers.

A ilentleman, at the close of the trial, stood up and claimed
a silver box containing thirty counters, that had been stolen
from his house, which had been broken open a few days before
the above robbery, and which was found at Herd's lodging.
The officer stated, that he had compared the implements found
at Herd's, and they corresponded exactly with the marks on
the above premises. Herd, we understand, had once before
been ordered for execution, hut his life was spared. The
whole arc well known to the officers to be most desperate cha
ratters.

The RECORDER said the country was highly indebted to the
Officers, who had been the means of bringing those desperate
men to punishment, and The Prosecutor owed entirely to them
the recovery of his property.

Frederick Middlesex was sentenced to one year's imprison.
ment and hard labour for feloniously uttering base silver.

Physiok, a pretty girl about twenty years of age, was
indicted for robbing Mr. Baker, tallow-chandler, of Foley_
street ' • and Sophie Stephenson was charged with having re-
ceived the stolen property, knowing it to have been illegally
come by. _ _

The Prisoner Physick, it appeared, was a house-servant to the
prosecutor, and, after a service of three days, she decamped
with his cash-box, containing certain writings and papers, two
five-pound notes, eight sovereigns, and a guinea. The evidence
against her was conclusive ; she was apprehended at Chatham
on the 2d of November, (five days after the robbery,) and con-
fessed the fact. Stephenson, who was a woman about 40, kept
a house of ill-fame in Westminster. It was proved that she had
received the property from Physick immediately after the rob-
bery ; that she had changed one of the 51. notes under circum-
stances of concealment, and that she had given false accounts as
to the manner of her becoming possessed of it.
Physick admitted her guilt, but said that Stephenson was
innocent: she had not known the property to be stolen.
Stephenson said that she understood the property to have been
a bequest from Physick's grandfather.
The RECORDER charged the jury that the offence of the
first prisoner was capital.
The Jury, against both, found a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Baker (the prosecutor) then stood up, and begged to re-
commend Elizabeth Physick to mercy. He had great reason
to believe that the whole had been done at the instigation of the
prisoner Stephenson ; and that the bulk of the money had fallen
Into her hands. When he (Mr. Baker) had apprehended Phy-
sick at Chatham, he had found her without a shilling ; and he
heard she had been sent away from Stephenson's house two
dais after the robbery with only eight shillings in her pocket.
rhe RECORDER said, that Mr. Baker's recommendation
should be attended to, and would doubtless have its weight.
For the prisoner Stephenson, he should at once inflict upon her
the severest punishment the law would allow; and she might
prepare herself, therefore, to be transported for a term of four-
teen years.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 9.

SALE OF PLACES UNDER GOVERNMENT.

J. C. Clarkson was indicted for obtaining, under the false and
fraudulent pretence of selling a place under Government to
John Anderson, the sum of 1001.
Lord LOWTHER and the Right Hon. N. VANSIT TART
were on the bench, subpcened to give evidence on this indict.
meat. The defendant was an elderly man, of respectable ap.
pearance. _ _

The particulars of this case have been already twice before
our readers, and we have now only room for the evidence of two
witnesses.

The Right Hon. N. Vansittart was examined from the bench.
He stated that there were several clerks in the revenue 'depart-
ments. He never, to his recollection, signed any appointment
to Mr. John Anderson, and never saw the defendant before in
his life.

Viscount Lowther, one of Lords of the Treasury, swore that
he never saw the prisoner, and never wrote him a letter in his
life, nor did he ever,sign an appointment to Mr. Anderson to
be one of the clerks of the revenue-office.

The Jury found a verdict Guilty, without a moment's he-
sitation.

The CHAIRMAN, in palsing sentence, observed,. that this
was as complete and systematic a fraud as he ever recollected.
He only regretted that this was a prosecution upon a statute
which deprived the Court of all power of passing a sentence
commensurate to the offence. ,The sentence of the Court was,
that he be fined 190/., and imprisoned for one year in the House
of Correction.

THE RING V. JOHN WEBB WESTON.

The defendant was this dayCalied iit;-;eceive the judg-
ment of the Court. Mr. ALLEY prayed the judgment upon
him. The sentence passed upon the defendant was to pay a
fine of 100/., and to be imprisoned for one month.