The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-21 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

MariaAldred was brought up in custody of Sergeant
Gooff, 8 L, and charged before Mr. Elliott with steal-
ing two 51. Bank of England notes, the property of
Lieutenant Alfred Cooper, of the Honourable East
India Company's service. From the evidence of Mr.
Cooper, it appeared that he was stopping at the house
of his brother, in Oxford-terrace, Clapham, and that
on the night of the lath of last month he missed two
Sl. notes, which he received on that day, and inquired
from the prisoner, who was then his brother's servant,
if she knew anything about them. She replied in the
negative, and he sent her to the person from whom he
had taken them, to get their date and number. On
her return she said she could get neither, and
added that he.must have lost them out of doors. On
subsequently searching for the notes, Mr. Cooper
found a number of pawnbroker's duplicates sewn
up in a silk band, but did not disturb them, and
in a few days after he also saw some more
' duplicates in the prisoner's workbox, one of
which related to a watch pledged for 12s , and ano-

ther for a ring pledged at Air. Barnett's, near the
Surrey Theatre. He spoke again to the prisoner
about the notes, when she replied that there was no
use looking for them, as she felt certain he must have
dropped them out of doors. He, Mr. Cooper, subse-
quently called at Mr. Barnett's, where the ring was
pledged, and then discovered that the prisoner had
passed a 51. note at that shop. The prisoner was
discharged from her situation on the 3d of the pre-
sent month, and on the 7th witness called at the
pawnbroker's.
Henry Winch, shopman to Mr. Barnett, a pawn-
broker, in St. George's Circus, produced a 51. note
which he had received from the prisoner, and which
had all the appearance of being new when he took it.
The prisoner, when she passed the note, gave the name
of " Dyer," and her address, 10, Kent-road.
The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that on
the evening the notes were lost, she went out on an
errand, and on her return she found them lying on the
kerb-stone outside the door.

She was fully committed for trial.
The Count De Taxa Dembecke, the Polish im-
postor, who stood remanded from Saturday on a
charge of ♦agrancy, was finally examined.
The prisoner, who is a stout person of about sixty
years of age, is one of the boldest of his class, for
after knocking with the utmost authority at the street
door and asking fer the lady or gentleman of the
house, he without ceremony walks into the drawing-
room or parlour, as the case may be, and causes con-
siderable alarm to the female inmates. On the pre-
sent occasion he described himself as an old French
officer lately returned from America. Horseford, the
mendicity officer, said the prisoner was known to the
society since 1832, and had been repeatedly com-
mitted to prison as a common beggar.
Mr. ELLIOTT committed him for three months to
Guildford House of Correction.

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