The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
James Wentworth was brought b-fore the Lord
Mayor charged under the following cireur..stanees.
Witcher, A 27, detective metropolitan police, said
that a few days ago he was ses for by the Secretary
to the Trade Protection Society, who gave him such
information as induced him to gc to a house in Saville-
row, Regent-street, in the cells of which he found
and apprehended the prisoner.
Mr. Richard Beck, a memler of the Society of
Friends, residing at 6, Colernin street, in the City,
said, on the sth instant the prisoner called at my
house and gave me the card of Mr. Reynolds, whom
I knew to here been a custoner of my partner Mr.
Smith, and who, he said, recmamended him to me.
He gave me an order for goals (surveying instru
merits) to the amount of 100 i, and from what Mr.
Reynolds said of him I was sttiafied with executing
part of the order, but he objected to receive a portion
of the goods, and I delivered the rest to him. We
would not have delivered the instruments if it were
not for Mr. Reynold's statemeit.
Mr. H. Reynolds, of No. 15, Cambridge-terrace,
Hyde Park, and 42, Moorgate street, surgeon, said
about the 7th or Bth of August the prisoner called
upon him for the purpose of faking a house of him,
No. 31A, Saville-row, Regent-street. He told me he
was an engineer, and the son of Godfrey Wentworth,
Esq., of Woolley-park, Wakefield, a banker, well
known to every one in the eity of London, and if
inquiry were made in the City I should find that such
was the case ; that he was a relation of Earl Fitzwil

Ham, and cousin to Lady Augusta Wentworth, my
neighbour, of No. 11, Connaught-place, Regent's.
park ; that he was an engineer to the Indian Railway,
and had just returned from Alexandria, where he had
been for the last two years assisting in making the
survey, but it had been lost in the transmission from
Alexandria by the Post-062, authorities, and hi.
was at that time in communication with Colonel
Maberly on the subject; that he was also an
engineer to the Northern Counties Coal Company,
which had recently been established in Agar-
street, Strand ; that the house in Agar street was
under repair, and that a Mr. George Ray, an extensive
coal proprietor in Sunderland, was managing director,
and Mr. %Vormold, a banker at Wakefield, was one
of the leading men, in fact the man of money, in the
association. The prisoner also said that he had been
to Sunderland, and had made surveys of the mines of
coal belonging to Mr. Ray and the company. I
made some inquiries in the City, and the result
was that I believed his statement to be correct, in
consequence of which I let him may house in Saville-
row. I subsequently gate Mr. Beck information
upon the subject.
Mr. Beck—l heard from Mr. Reynolds that the
IIUG permission to use his card, but from
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satisfied to execute the order. I had not had deal-
ings with Mr. Reynolds myself, neither had I seen
Mr. Reynolds at all.

The -prisoner was remanded till Monday, when it
is expected he will have the opportunity of seeing
other persons to whom he h:s been a customer.

A Jew boy, named Jo- s- e;;l7l3enclon, was brought up
in the custody of Robinson IVebb, upon the charge
of having been concerned with another boy, named
Emanuel Jacobs, in a robbery.
The shop of Mr. Abrahams, of Houndsditch, had
been rubbed some days ago of a large quantity of
spoons, and Emanuel Jacobs and the present prisoner,
who are known to the police as very ingenious
thieves, were seen by Webb and Noon, under sus-
picious circumstances, in the neighbourhood of Pet •
ticoat-lane. Jacobs was apprehended, and a number
of the stolen spoons, which were identified by Mr.
Abrahams, having been found i❑ his possession, he
wi,s committed to prison. The present prisoner, who
was represented as the regular nurse and educator of
infant thieves, contrived to get away upon the occa-
sion, but was apprehended by Webb on Wednesday
night.
Webb said the prisoner, Moses Bendon, has been
remarkable for a considerable time fur carrying before
him, suspended from his neck, a basket containing
hard eggs or oranges, and he manages to engage his
hands with the pockets of gentlemen while he pretends
to be honestly employed. He is generally accom-
panied by one or two boys of very diminutive size,
and he is in the habit of going into shops under pre-
tence of selling, and if nobody happens to be in the
way his little company are sure to carry off all they
can. If there happen to be a shopman behind the
counter then Bendon's excuse is that he wants to sell,
or he wants a situation. Some time ago I saw him,
with his basket before him, pick a gentleman's pocket,
but as the gentleman would not appear against him
the sentence was but slight.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, this is a very
bad account I hear of you. The Prisoner—Yes, your
Lordship, but I did not steal the spoons. It was the
other boy, and I happened to be passing as he came
along, and they grabbed me.
The LORD MAYOR—How old are you ? The Pri-
soner—Somewhere about 13 years old, I think'
Webb—The moment he is at liberty he'll have a
crowd of children to go to and bring up to thieving.
It is impossible to conceive what mischief he does.
There was a crowd of thieves waiting for his comrade
Jacobs, who was committed the other day; and some
time ago, when I had this boy in custody, his brother
and sister attempted to rescue him.

The LORD MAYOR said the case was a very shocking
one, and some inquiries must be made about such a
system as that described.—Committed.
GUILDHALL.

James Bissell, a private in the Scotch Fusilier
Guards, at present stationed in the Tower, was placed
at the bar before Alderman Farebrother, on a charge
of being drunk and indecently assaulting a young
man named Burrows, in the Owen Glyndwr public-
house, Bartholomew-close.
David Jones, son of the landlord of the public-
house, and other witnesses, were examined, and fully
established the soldier's innocence of the gross charge
that had been preferred against him, and that all the
prosecutor had stated was false.
The prosecutor cross-examined them, but received
flat contradictions to every question he put, and at last
he asserted that none of them were telling the truth,
for they were not present.
Alderman FAREBROTIIER said he should discharge
the prisoner, and give him a certificate to his com-
manding officer of the utter groundlessness of the
charge, and to explain why he was away from the
barracks. The prosecutor himself ought to be indicted
for perjury.
Two young men, the one wearing moustachioes,
and the other spectacles, who gave their names as
William Charles Hitehin, of Tavistock-row, Covent-
garden, and Benjamin Henry Mayes, of 23, King-
street, Covent-garden, were chargA with obtaining a
quantity of papier-mache trays, value 261.103., under
false pretences, from Mr. Oliver Dobbins, of Stafford-
street, Wolverhampton, and 20, King-street, Smith-
japan and tin-plate worker.
George Trew, 26, deposed to taking the prisoners
into custody, and finding on Ilitehin two memo-
randum-books, two knives, and 3d. There was no
entry of the present purchase. There was also several
letters. On Mayes he found an invoice for plate glass
to the amount of 171. 17s. 7d. On making inquiry
at the Savoy-wharf, Savoy-street, it appeared that the
order had been executed, but the prisoner was not to
be found since. There was another sitnilar invoice of
Mr. Gluag's, of Blacktnore•street, Drury-lane, to the
amount of 71., which had not been paid. He might
also add, that on the way to the station he detecred
Mayes in the act of tearing some papers, from which
it appears he was starting a lean .office in Wellington,
street, Stithid, etting people to paint and fit up the

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