The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-11 00:00:00

POLICE I,\TELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A young mart :tamed George Jeffery was brought befote
the Lord MAyor, charged with having robbed his master,
Mr. Gibson, jeweller, of 71, 13:shop3gate-street
of gold and silver watches and other vaivable property.
Mr. Gibson stated that the prisoner had been his ,hop..
man about five months. On the 29,h of June witness

missed trout his shoi;-window a gold watch. He took
no particular notice of the circumstance in the
presence of the prisoner, hut mete:y said, "We
must see and find it." Next morning he was in-
formed by the prisoner that it was found laying under a
tra), and it was replaced in the window. His suspicions
were aroused by the conduct of the prisoner, and upon
looking uv, r his shop-book, he ascertained that there were
other articles of value missing, such as gold and silver
watches, spoons, &c. Ile said to the pii:oner there must
be something wrong ; I must go through my stock.
Nothing further was said on that day, but on the succeed-
ing day the prisoner, seeing him going through his stock,
came up with a small phial in his hand, and said, " I now
surrender myself to you, as the watch you missed I rohbed
you of, and if you do not forgive me I will take this,"
alluding to the phial, which contained laudanum. Witness
said to him. " Will you plunge yourself and your family
into misery for a paltry geld watch ? IF that's all, I will
not prosecute you," and got the drug from him. Witness
then said, "Is that all ?" The prisoner said, '• No, I have
robbed 300 to a great extent." A policeman who ass
passing by was then called in, and the prisoner was given
into custody. NVitness afterwards went over his stock
and missed a great: many articles of jewellery, and the
prisoner's father deliver( d to {lira a list of the plundered
propetty in the handwriting cl the prisoner.
The policeman found up i n the priaoner duplicates of
property wench the prisoner had stolen front Mr, Gibson
and pledged.
It appeared that the young man began to plunder his
master, who was a very kind one, almost immediately after
he was taken into the house —Remanded.
Esau Haywood was charged wi ft having robbed Mrs.
ilLebael Scales, of Old Ferd, near Bow, of a Batik of
England note for 401.
Mr. Scales stated that tie prisoner had been servant to
Messrs. William and Edward Scales, et No. 44, APgate
High- sift et, carcass-butchers, prosecutor's sons, about five
or six wet ks. On Thursday, the 25th June, about
hait-
past nir.e in the morning, witness gave two letters to the
prisoner at the house .n Oal Ford, requesting that he
would put theist into the Pose-i.ffice at Bow.. One of these
letters contained the 401. Batik of England note, No.
3 713, and data d 7th of May, lti4o, which had no writing
on tee fruit of it when it was inclosed in the letter. Wit-
ness vivid to the prisoner, on giving him the money-letter,
" take care of that letter, Esau, for there is money in
it." It was directed to witro'ss's hankers, Messrs. South,
Payne. and Smith. On the following Saturday, one
ut w 'lncases men mentinned to hint that Esau had gone
away. Witness then suspecting that all was not right,
sent to his brother':, and found that neither letter nor Bank.
note had been received. He sfterwards ascertained that
the .due rate had been taken to the Bank of England,
where cover, igns had be: n received for it; and he d.sco-
vered a name and address on the note which he had no
doubt was in the prisons... writing.
_ Upon making inquiry
into the pii=oner's ehavarer, he found that the very letter
rec,anmending bins as an honest, industrious man, was
written by the prisoner himself, in answer to a written
application directed to Hastings, with reference to his con-
duct and qualifications.
Mr. Sales subsequently stated, in answer to an obser-
vation that it was imprudent to entrust so much money
to a pi rscit r•mploycd in a menial situation, said that it was
quite impossible to carry on business in that trade with-
out confiding large sums of money to persons so employed,
anti be was proud to siy that he had never had, durin the
whole ti ne he had been in the trade, known or ever braid
of an instance of dishonesty in the individuals so confided
in. lie had very frequently put hundreds of pounds into
the hands of a poor fellow who bad nut a shilling of his
own beyond his wages in his pocket.
It was proved by clot ks in the (lack, that the 13
rnk-
note alluded to nad been exchanged for sovereigns on the
25th of June, and that no Bank-note for 401, had been paid
• at Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, from Mr. Scales,
who kept an account in the house in that month. '
Mr. William Scales, son of the prosecutor, stated that he
had sent the prisoner to his father's house on the morning
of the 2d of June, and the prisoner returned about eleven
o'clock on the same (ye:mug. At twelve o'clock the pri-
soner said that he bad received a letter from Isis mother,
who was extremely ill, and requested that he might be al-
lowed to go to see her. Witness at once gave him leave to
go. and paid bins his wages up to the day. The prisoner
did not return to his work, but was apprehended and charge d
with the robbery. Witness had no doubt that the name
and adelress on the Banknote was in the handwriting of the
prisoner.
Mr. Edward B. Scales, partner of the last witness,
stated that he knew the prisoner's writing well, and believed
the name and address on the note to have been written
by him.
The prisoner said that the letters with which he had been
intrusted were given to him OH the Tuesday, and that he put
them in the Bow Pore-cffice nr xt Mottling. It was all a
mistake about T hursday. Besisles, a person could actually
se.' the letters deposited in the Bow Post-utlice through
the hole throuvh which they were dropped.
prisoner was committed for trod.

THE COB HAM MIIRDE Mr. Harvey
Combo on Tuesday arrived at the Convict Gaol, Springfield,
for the purpose of seeing Jones, the man
poachersnssldsb has
who
confessed
that he was the principal of the gr.g
mur-
dered Cripps, the gamekeeper. Jones accurately detailed the
circumstances of the affray, and admitted that he himself struck
the fatal blow. As, however, he is now under sentence f
transportation for life, no further steps will be taken against
him. Junes has divulged to Mr Neale, the Uovernor, a long
catalogue f crimes, in the commi-sion of which he has been
actively engaged, and hir statements base been found, on in-
quiry, in several instances, to be perfectly true.— Chelmsford
Chroticle.