The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-13 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.

A respectable-looking man named William Wood,
butler to Mr. P. L. Hynes, 61, Portland-place, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Long, upo❑ a charge of
having robbed his master.
Handley, a vigilant officer of the D division, No. 199,
deposed that on the previous night, about ten o'clock,
he saw the prisoner come out of Mr. Hynes's area, car-
rying under his arm a green baize bag. Witnes asked
him what he had with him, to which he replied, only a
few coals, which he had brought from Tottenham-
court-road; and when questioned as to whether he had
not just left his master's area, he said, " I acknowledge
that I have done so, but I hope you won't take me, for
if you do it will be my ruin for life."
Mr. LONG—What did you find upon him?
Handley—ln addition to 521 b. weight of coals, which
were in the bag,, ho had in his possession a quantity of
bread, meat, &c.
The prosecutor said he had no doubt that the pro-
perty produced was his, and requested that a remand
might take place, in order to afford time for him to
ascertain if he had been plundered to a greater extent,
the prisoner having had the care of much valuable pro-
perty in the house.
Mr. LONG acceded to the prosecutor's wish, and re-
manded the prisoner (who had nothing to say) until
Thursday next.
WORSHIP-STREET.
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Charles Wingfield, 17 years of ago, the son of a re-
spectable tradesman in Bishopsgate-street, was charged
with having, in conjunction with a youth named William
Gilbert, grandson of a tailor and outfitter in that neigh-
bourhood, and who already stands remanded from this
court upon the charge, burglariously entered the dwel-
ling-house of an upholsterer named Timothy, in High-
street, Shoreditch, and stolen a quantity of plate and
other property.
The prosecutor's premises were broken into during
the night time, in the early part of November, and the
thieves, who carried off plate and other articles, left be-
hind them, in one of the bed-rooms, the lamp of a dark
lantern.l It was evident to the police that the house ha
been entered through a trap-door in the roof, which
could only have been got at through the adjoining pre-
mises, and hearing that Gilbert, who had been kindly
adopted by his grandfather after the death of his parents,
had been seen in repeated communication with well-
known thieves, Smith and Turpin, of the G divison,
searched Mr. Gilbert's premises, and, after discovering
in one of the youth's boxes a silver gravyspoon, tea-
spoon, and pair of sugar tongs, found, upon examining
a recess in the counter, a dark-lantern secreted
there, to which the lamp left at the prosecutor's
fitted, besides a skeleton key and eight street-
door keys, not belonging to the house, but one of
which, it afterwards appeared had been stolen
from the house of a tradesman named Cheale,
in Providence-row, Finsbury, at which the pri-
soner had been in the habit of calling upon a profes-
sional gentleman. Gilbert was thereupon taken into
custody, acknowledging his participation in the burglary,
and the officers having subsequently received informa-
tion that the young man Wingfield had also been en
gaged in it, they went to his father's house and accused
him of it, when he at once confessed his guilt, and,
taking them up into his bedroom, pointed out a drawer,
in which they discovered a second gravyspoon, two
teaspoons, and a parasol, which were all the share of the
plunder, he said, that had fallen to his lot. On showing
him the dark-lantern found in young Gilbert's posses-
sion, he recognised it as the same they had used in per-
petrating the robbery, and mentioned the name of a
lamp-manufacturer in Bishopsgate as the persoa of whom
they had purchased it, who, when called on, confirmed
the assertion. He then entered into a circumstantial ac-
count of the manner in which the burglary had been
ffected, and declared that he had been induced to en-
gage in it solely through the instigation of his con-
federates.

The prosecutor identified the property produced by
the officers as having formed part of that stolen from
his premises on the night of the robbery ; and the pri-
soner who now merely said, " I plead guilty to the
charge, and have nothing more to say," was remanded
till the day appointed for the final examination of
Gilbert, when the case will be formally completed
against both.