The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-15 00:00:00

'and requested him to return Lady Walsham's letter,
which he did, with a Post-office order for 10s. In De-
cember last witness sent the same woman 1/., in reply to
a similar appeal. The various begging letters produced
appeared to witness to be in the same style and hand.
writing as those forwarded to him, which he had do-
stroved.
Proof was given that-the Post-office orders ,had been
paid to the prisoners.
The male prisoner said the Magistrate need not trou-
ble to inquire into this ca::e. He admitted that his wire
did write the letters to Mr. Ellison, and did receive the
money from him; but that gentleman had been induced
to relieve his wife •by Lady Walsharn's letter, and by
the fact that two of his brothers were in his service, nei-
ther of which could be called a " false pretence."
Mr. HENRY-But the letter represented that she had
lost a child, and was unable to bury it.
The prisoner said he did not write the letter, and
could Lot be supposed to know what was in it. Lady
iValsinun knew his wife, and the letter was a legitimate
one.

Horsford, a mendicity constable, said that the wo-
man had admitted to him that she never had a child in
her life.

Mr. HENRY considered that the charge was fully made
oat against both the prisoners in the present ca.: e. His
worship inquired if the prisoners bad been previously
convicted?
Mr. Ferguson, clerk to the society, stated that they
had, hut the convictions had not Leen returned.
A long conversation then ensued between the magis-
trate and the mendicity officers relative to the treatment
of these cases. his Worship thought they ought to be
taken to the sessions, as he had no power to inflict more
than three months' imprisonment, which was no effec-
tual check to the system; but the obstacles to such a
coarse seemed to he considerable. In the first place, the _
MemHefty Society had no funds to defray the expenses
of prosecution; secondly, the benevolent individuals
who had been cheated of their money would not come
forward to prosecute; and thirdly, when they did pro-
secute, the prisoners were almost invariably let off
with three months' imprisonment—a result which would
have been secured by a summary conviction, without
any of the trouble or expense incurred by the parties
concerned.

Mr. HENRY regretted that such offenders could not
be punished more severely. His only course, under the
circumstances, was to sentence the prisoners to three
months' imprisonment.; but ho strongly recommended
the society to take the subject under their consideration.
After the removal of the prisoners his worship inti-
mated that a charge of forgery, at common law, might
be substantiated against the male prisoner, if satisfac-
tory proof could be given of his having forwarded the
letter, purporting to bear the signature of Mr. Taylor,
to the lady from whom the sovereign was obtained.
John Hebellich, charged with feloniously entering the
warehouse of his late employers, Messrs. Shoolbred and
Co., drapers, &e.. of Tottenham•court-road, and steal-
ing upward of 504 was fully committed for trial.
IVOR S TR E.E T.
A tall muscular fellow, named James Blacheft, who
was recognised by the police as having been before re-
peatedly in custody for various offences, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Hamill), charged with burglariously
breaking into the premises of Mr. Robert Barnes, a
tradesman in Spitalfields.
The prosecutor's son stated, that having been left
alone in the premises on Sunday night last, he carefully
secured all the fastenings and retired to rest, but between
one and two o'clock the next morning he was alarmed
by a smothered noise in the sitting room below his bed •
room, and upon hastening on to the landing he saw a
man's arm thrust through a glass door at the foot of the
stairs, from which one of the panes had just been cut
out, endeavouring to draw back the bolt which held the
door inside. The man had a lighted candle in his hand,
' which threw a strong reflection on his face, and after no-
ticing him sufficiently to resider a mistake in his iden-
tity impossible, he ran to one of the foot windows
and called loudly for assistance; but before it arrived
the burglar had effected his escape, and upon ex•
amining the premises he found that an entrance
had been gained by breaking through a skylight
over the kitchen, the iron bars of which had been so
wrenched out of their fastenings as to be capable of
admitting a man's body. The burglar had then made
his way into the shop, the tills and drawers of which he
had ransacked, and after subjecting the furniture of the
parlour to a similar process, was endeavouring to force
access to the upper part of the house when he was dis-
turbed in his operations, leaving behind him in the yard
a fustian jacket, in one of the pockets of which wero a
cap and silver spoon, the latter of which had been left-
the night before on the sitting-room table.
Police-constable 159 II stated, that hearing cries of
" Police!" and " Thieves!" from the last witness, who
told him that the house had been broken into, he ran
round to the rear of the premises jutt in time to see a
man vault over the back wall in his shirt sleeves and
without a hat, and dart down an adjoining turning; ho
pursued him through several courts end streets for more
than a quarter of a mile, when he unfortunately struck
his foot with such violence against a pile of paving
stories as to severely injure his uncle, and while inca-
pable of moving from pain the thief availed himself of
the accident to get away; but he twice turned round in
the course of his flight, and the second time, being close
to a gas-lamp, he had a full view of his countenance, and
could positively swear to the prisoner's identity.
Sergeant Wakefield stated, that having before had the
prisoner in charge for felony, he felt satisfied, from the
description the first witness had given of the burglar, that
the prisoner was the same man, and having succeeded in
tracing him to a low coffee-house at Whitechapcl, at
three o'clock that morning, where he found him in the
company of a number of thieves and desperate characters,
he took him into custody.
The prisoner altogether disowned the fustian jacket
produced by the police, and stoutly denied all know-
ledge of the robbery ; but he was positively sworn to
both by the prosecutor and constable who had pursued
him, the former stating, that upon his being brought
to his house that morning he had instantly identified
him ; and

Mr. ILormILL, considering the case clearly esta-
blished, ordered him to be committed till that day week
for the depositions of the witnesses to be taken against
him.