The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-10 00:00:00

meet on the day of his trial. Not only was a pri-
soner entitled to hear the whole that the witnesses
had fo say h- was d.,;titkd to erc,;L-
examine those witnesses—advantages he was deprived
of when the case went at once to the grand jury.
Mr. Hilleary, so far as regarded himself, would, if
the matter was so serious as Mr. Humphreys seemed
to think, have brought it before the magistrate; but
this was a charge of the prisoner getting money and
transferring it to his own benefit, which was only a
misdemeanour, and quite a different case to that which
Mr. Humphreys had alluded to. The prisoner's legal
adviser could expect no commiseration when it was
considered that his client had made away with upwards
of 30,0001.

Mr. Humphreys did not want commiseration. He
only wanted justice.
Mr. Hilleary should most certainly do what the law
empowered him. _ _ _

Mr. Humphreys thought the proceeding a very in-
decorous one, and he protested against it as it was
rarely resorted to in these times.
The prisoner, having heard the depositions read over
to him, was conveyed to Newgate.
An Irishman, named George Hetherington, who
gave his address as 3, Mitre-court, Temple, barrister-
at law, was brought up for final examination, charged
with obtaining goods under false pretences, and also
with getting money on pretended cheques.
The prisoner has been remanded five or six times,
and during those examinations it appeared that he had
represented himself as a barrister, solicitor, agent to
the Duke of Richmond, and, in fact, any character
that suited his convenience. He had taken lodgings
and houses in different parts of London, running
away before the quarter was due, and duping all the
tradesmen in the neighbourhoods where he located
himself. His versatile genius knew no bounds, and
the latest of his achievements, which was the principal
cause of his being at present in trouble, was his trying
to become the lessee of the Theatre Royal, South-
ampton, but the landlord, not liking his customer, and
ascertaining that he was not worth a farthing, refused
to accept him as a tenant. It was to go down to
Southampton to effect this object that he borrowed
the money and gave a cheque on the firm of Messrs.
Harris and Capper, of Cornhill, who said there was
no account there, nor did they give the prisoner any
authority to write orders upon them. When taken
into custody he had three sets of chambers.
There were a number of persons in the court who
had been duped, but their cases all resolved themselves
into debts.

Sir J. DUKE committed him for trial, and the de-
positions being made out, were about to be read when
it was found that Mr. Harris and his brother had left
the court, upon which
Sir J. DUKE remanded the prisoner until Thursday
next, and told the officer to be sure to have all the
witnesses in attendance.
BOW-STREET.

A woman named Mary Davis, of 19, Frances-
place, Blackfriars road, and a man named John Pike,
of no settled address, were brought before Mr. Henry,
by Perry, a policeman, charged as follows :
It appeared that Perry was on duty in plain clothes,
on Waterloo-bridge, at seven o'clock on Friday even-
ing, when he saw the female prisoner, who was well
dressed, coming from the Surrey side of the water,
followed by two men, one of whom was the male
prisoner. The woman walked into different streets,
followed by the men, occasionally speaking to them,
during which time she accosted several gentlemen who
declined going with her. The policeman then took the
two prisoners into custody, but the other man escaped.
The woman was well known to the police as having
lived with thieves for some time past, and both parties
had been seen together and followed by the police on
a previous occasion, and were suspected of having
committed robberies upon gentlemen.
The two prisoners were fined 40a. each, or three
weeks to the House of Correction.

A young woman named Miry Ann Phelps, who
stated that she was formerly a servant, but now
obtained her living in the streets, was charged on sus-
picion of being concerned with others in manufactur-
ing base coin.
The prisoner occupied a room opposite the Model
Lodging-house of St. Giles', in the house 43, Charles-
street.

Sergeant Thompson, of the detective force, having
occasion to suspect her, ascended the roof of the Model
Lodging-house, from which he could see into her
room, and thence saw the prisoner, with two men
and another woman, actively engaged in melting
down Britannia metal spoons, &c., and pouring the
matter into moulds, apparently of halfcrowns,
shillings, and sixpences. Before he could reach
her room (which he entered at the window
by means of a ladder), her associates had left the
apartment, doubtless with the base coin in their pos-
session, some of which he had seen them filling and
rubbing up after taking them out of the moulds. He,
however, succeeded in capturing the woman and all
the melting apparatus, moulds, ladles, &c., which had
been used for the purpose.
The prisoner declared that she had no hand in
bringing the things to her room, which wag visited by
the men, who knew her, and said it had been done
by a well known smasher," who had quarrelled
with her in order to " fix a plant upon her."
She was committed for trial.
MARYLEBONE.

John Frewin (alias Rainy) and Erheard Crewe
(alias Mitchell) were charged before Mr. Long with
having burglariously entered the honse of Colonel
Robert Anstruther, 7, Monmouth-road, Bayswater,
and stolen property to a large amount.
It appeared from the Colonel's evidence that,
on the preceding morning, about a quarter to six
o'clock, he was awoke by one of his servants, and
from what he said he hastened down stairs, and
found, upon entering the drawing-room, that six
drawers had been taken from a wardrobe and placed
on the carpet. Upon making examination of the room,
he ascertained that from various parts thereof there
had been stolen a silver snuffbox, made in the reign
of James 1., another richly carved Indian one,
which belonged to his uncle, General Anstruther,
and a third, enamelled and gold mounted, having on
the lid a miniature portrait of the Duchess cf
Hamilton, all of which he set a great value on; and,
in addition, he ini.ssed a Scotch mull, silver mounted,
a powder horn, a dirk, some silver spoons, candlesticks,
wearing apparel, &cc. He afterwards discovered that
an entry had been made by the back kitchen window,
the bar of which had been forced, and the sash thrown
up. He immediately gave information of the
robbery to the police, who, suspecting the
prisoners, succeeded in apprehending them in
William-street, Lisson-grove. A third party was
with them, but he instantly made off as fast as he
could. As the prisoners were being taken to the
station house, and when near to it Frewin was heard
to say "Ding it," and Crewe threw something
away. On Frewin there were found a box, a knife,
and some duplicates. The box proved to be the one
which had belonged to the colonel's uncle.
The prisoners were remanded to Thursday next.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Peter Young and Henry Dickenson, two deter-
mined-looking fellows, both recognised by the police
as convicted thieves, were placed at the bar before
Mr. Arnold, charged with burglariously breaking
into the premises of Mr. Frederick Biglin, proprietor
of extensive wine stores in Old Swan Brewery-yard,
IVhitechapel.
The evidence given in the case proved that the pro-
secutor's premises had been forcibly entered upon a
second occasion, only about a fortnight previously to
the present, when property to a considerable amount
was carried off by the thieves, and, information of the
burglary having been communicated to the police,
they made inquiries after the perpetrators,
hut unsuccessfully until the preceding night, when
Sergeant Kelly and Gifford, two detective officers of
the LI division, received an intimation that the
burglars intended a second attack upon the same
premises, and they therefore went to the neighbour-
hood at 10 o'clock, and secreted themselves in an out-
house which commanded a full view of the yard
leading to Mr. Bigiin's stores. They remained so
concealed for more than an hour without anything
occurring to arrest their attention ; but at length
they heard the sound of footsteps approaching, and
immediately afterwards saw the two prisoners and
another man stealthily creeping up to the side en-
trance of the wine stores, with a hamper, apparently
empty, on each of their heads. On reaching the
trapdoor leading into the cellarage, the third man
threw down his hamper and returned to the street, to
keep watch whilst his associates committed the bur-
glary, and almost at the same instant the officers heard
a loud report, resembling the discharge of a musket,
succeeded directly after by the sound of glass and
bottles rattling in the cellar. They now thought it
high time to snake their appearance, and on hastening
from the outhouse where they had lain concealed
to the cellar, it became evident that the report they
had heard had been caused by the violent forcing up
of the iron bar which secured the front of it, and on
descending into the cellar, the flap of which was wide
open, they detected the prisoner Dickenson in the very
act of removing a hamper of claret from the back of
the store to the front, in readiness to be carried off.
Before he had time to attempt an escape or give the
slightest intimation to his confederate, he was pounced
upon and flung to the ground by Sergeant Kelly,
who held him down to preclude resistance, and the
second man (Young) was secured immediately after
by Gifford, who found him crouching down upon
his hands and knees behind a pile of hampers at the
back of the cellar. Upon getting the men up and
searching them a heavy life-preserver was discovered
upon the person of one of them, and on examining
the cellars a box of lucifer snatches, a crowbar, a
hammer, and other housebreaking implements, were
found in different parts of them, which, together with
the prisoners and a claret bottle, nearly the whole
contents of which they had poured down their throats
i❑ the short time they had been there, were safely
transferred to the station.

Air. AR11014) directed the depositions to be tAlicill