The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLE.RICE IV WELL.
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rectors of the poor of St. Pancras with having been
concerned in a burglary in St. Pancras Workhouse,
and stealing twenty sovereigns and 1551. in silver
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Mr. Prendergast attended for the prosecution, and
Mr. I luddlestone for the prisoner.
The prisoner was brought from the House of De-
tention in a cab, in a very weakly condition, and was
allowed a seat during the investigation.
William Cockerill, a constable, No. 10S L division,
being sworn, identified the prisoner as having gone
by the names of William Morgan, William May,
and William Coleman, and being concerned some
years ago in the Custom-house robbery, with Gowell,
Jordan, and Sullivan, and who were convicted for
that offence. The prisoner was indicted, but not tried.
Several witnesses were examined to move that on
the night of the robbery, the Bth of Vebruary last,
the doors of the strong-room, &c., were locked, and
all appeared safe, end that ou the following morning
the robbery was discovered.
Robert Clarke, a cab•driver, proved that between
twelve and one o'clock on the morning of the 9th of
February, the prisoner was supported into his vehicle
with his leg broken, when he drove him, according to
instructions, to Guy's Hospital, Borough. On his
road he was ordered to stop at a house in the neigh-
bourhood of Blackfriars-road, where a man looked out
of a window and came down and conversed with the
prisoner for ten minutes.
Sarah Tiffin proved having found four skeleton
keys, and Jamestnwin a dark lantern, near the spot
where the prisoner was found injured, which were
handed over to the police of the S division. The
keys opened the doors of the vestry-room, &c.
Lockerby, 180 S, deposed that subsequent to the
commission of the robbery he was consulted by the
parish authorities to make inquiries into the matter,
when he traced the prisoner to Guy's Hospital, where
he visited him in plain clothes, and found him lying
in bed. He asked him how he got his thigh broken ;
he replied that he had slipped down on the pavement
at the other side of Westminster-bridge. Witness,
after some conversation, told him he was an officer,
and he should take him into custody on suspicion of a
robbery ,at St. Pancras Workhouse on the night of
the Bth of February. He replied, " Very well, all I
have to do is to prove to the contrary, I suppose."
Witness left a constable with him.

Mary Reading, a pauper girl, was sitting at the
gate of the workhouse between twelve and one
o'clock on the morning of the 9th of February,
when she heard a heavy fall, and some one exclaim,
three times, " God help me, I am killed!"
Mr. Prendergast said this concluded his case.
Mr. COMBE said he should commit the prisoner for
trial, and, with the usual caution, asked if he would
say anything in his defence.
Mr. Huddlestone said, if the Bench was determined
to adopt that course, he would reserve his observations
and the defence for the prisoner's trial.
The prisoner was conveyed to prison in a cabriolet.

MAR YJEB OAT.
Long before the opening of the Court some hun-
dreds of persons congregated in its immediate vicinity,
in consequence of its having become known that a
man was in custody for having attempted to violate a
child only four years of age. The prisoner, whose
name is Henry Welley, is a blacksmith, and so great
was the indignation excited against him, that Inspec-
tor Wiggin, of the D division, found it necessary to
bring the prisoner up in a cab.
Several witnesses were examined, from whose evi-
dence it appeared that on the previous afternoon Mrs.
Jane Roberts, residing at No. 17, North Wharf-road,
Paddington, sent her little girl, Emma Louisa, out to
play, and while playing she was taken into a field by
the prisoner, who was caught in such a situation with
her as to leave no doubt whatever with regard to his
intention to perpetrate a repo ; the child screamed,
and the prisoner was given into custody. A certifi-
cate from a surgeon was put in, which stated the
nature and extent of the injury caused.
Mr. BROUGEITON asked if the prisoner was known,
and the reply made by a constable was that he had
been in custody before for an assault of a criminal na-
ture upon a child eight years old.
The prisoner denied the allegation made against
hip•
:, and said that all which had been sworn by the
witnesses was false.
Mr. BnouGirroN remarked that a more atrocious
case had never before been brought under his notice,
and remanded him till Tuesday next.
lle was then locked up in the cell, and at half-past
si▪
x, when he took his seat in the police van, upwards
of 600 persons had congregated at the door by which
he made his egress. Twenty constables were present,
and but for their interference the prisoner would no
doubt have been roughly handled while getting into
the vehicle which convey ed him to his destination.