The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-05 00:00:00

MARYLEB ONE:

Captain Henry Bell, alias Stewart, (a military officer on
half-pay), a dashingly-dressed young man, residing in the ,
Hampstead-road, was placed at the bar for final examina-
tion on the charge of having plundered taverns, lodging-
houses, billiard-rooms, &c., of property to a considerable
amount, and the office was literally crammed with witnesses,
&c., bringing with them many of the articles stolen. The
first case gone into was preferred by Mr. Samuel Hunt, the
proprietor of extensive billiard-rooms at 109, Quadrant,
and from the evidence given it appeared that on the 28th
ult. the prisoner entered one of the rooms as above, and
began knocking the balls about with his cane, and during
the absence of Mr. Hunt's son, who went below4O deliver
a message to the boy, he (the prisoner) escaped unperceived
from the premises, taking with him
.three balls, which it
was subsequently ascertained that he had pledged. ion the
' same day for eight shillings, at the shop of Mr. Fitaem, a'
pawnbroker in Oxford-street, in the name 'of Charles Mor-
ton, ,St. Jame's.street: The prisoner, in reply, said that
the balls were his own, and that he had purchased six of
them for half a sovereign. The next charge against
him was for robbing Mr. Thomas Jackson, of the
Globe, Bow-street, of a silver tea-spoon and five mus-
tard ditts, on the 26th ultimo, on which occasion he
walked into a dining-room up stairs, and called for a plate
of pie ; having eaten it and quitted the house, the disco-
very was quickly made that he had taken from the several
tables the articles in question, upon which on the same af-
ternoon, he obtained an advance of 10s. at Mr. Hedge's,
Drury-lane. Mrs. Ann Elliott, with whom the prisoner
some time ago lodged, in Somers' Town, proved that he
had on leaving her house carried off a large table cloth and
pawned it in Skinner-street. Mrs. Mortimer, of Duke-
street, Manchester-square, brought forward conclusive evi-
dence of the prisoner having during the period he lodged
with her, stolen various articles of wearing apparel,
and that at one period she preferred against him a charge
at Hatton-garden office, but for want of sufficient proof he
was acquitted. Mr. Shepherd, a billiard-table keeper in
the New-road, established against the prisoner a charge of
robbery, similar to that committed by him in the room of
Mr. Hunt, in the Quadrant. A policeman said that on
taking the prisoner into custody in the Hampstead-road,
he found in his possession seventeen duplicates for different
descriptions of property pledged.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial on the whole
of the charges.

UEEN-SQUARE.
EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY.—AMCS Williams was
placed at the bar, before Mr. BURRELL, charged with
stealing a large quantity of plate, consisting of silver table
and tea spoons, tea pot, wine strainers, &c., from the resi-
dence of Thomas ,Howard, Esq., of Herne-hill, Camber-
well. The prisoner had been observed on Thursday week
singing ballads on the hill. In the evening of the same
day it was discovered that the plate which had been on the
side-board in the parlour had been carried off, and on in-
spection it was found that there had been a small hole cut
in one of the panes of the parlour windows, and the fasten-
ing having been removed, the perpetrator of the robbery
had entered from there. Mr. Davis, of the London-road,
proved that the prisoner brought him the articles on the
evening of the day the robbery was committed. He re-
fused to buy them ; and, believing that they were stolen,
he sent for a constable and gave them into custody. On
inquiry it was _ discovered that the plate belonged to Mr.
Howard. The prisoner was*ommitted for trial.
THE RIVAL OmNtsusEs.—Thonzas Watkins, driver of a
Paddington omnibus, was brought up on a summons ob-
tained against him by a conductor of one of the New
Company's vehicles, charged with the following gross mis-
conduct :—lt appeared. from the evidence of several wit-
nesses, that on Wednesday last, as the two omnibuses were
proceeding to the Bank, complainant stopped at the end of
Rathbone-place to take up a passenger, when defendant,
who was annoyed at havinr, been previously passed by the
other, started his horses, which gallopped off at full speed,
and attempted to regain the lead, by dashing between com-
plainant's vehicle and the coach rank, without having half
space enough to effect his object, the consequence of which
was that the pole of the latter vehicle entered the sides of
the former just above the seat on which several ladies were
placed, to the extent of two or three feet, and had any one
been seated at the precise spot at the period of the occur-
rence, the consequences must inevitably have been fatal.
The defendant denied that he was going at a greater rate
than seven miles an hour, and said that the accident could
not have been prevented owing to the complainant pulling,
up short, and omitting to give the usual signal of his inten-
tion to do so.
Mr. HosxiNs, after censuring the conduct of the de-
fendant in very severe terms, ordered him to pay 40s. for
the offence, and 30s. for the damage done, together with
all costs.