The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

John Swallow, the foreman of the tailors in the ser-
vice of Mr. Pigott, army contractor, Fore-street, was
brought before Mr. Alderman Sidney, charged with
robbing his employer.
Mr. nobler defended the prisoner. _ . .

Mr. Pigott stated, that fn consequence of receiving
an anonymous letter, addressed to him at his country
residence, he stopped the prisoner as he was about to
leave at half-past six o'clock on Saturday. Witness ob-
served there was something bulky in his pockets, and
asked him what he had there. The prisoner replied it
was his own property. Witness desired to see what he
had, adding, that if he was honest he would not care.
The prisoner pulled from each pocket a short length of
linen, measuring six yards each. He asked the pri-
soner how he came by it. He said he bought it of a
man named Roberts, who worked for Mr. Kaye, slop-
seller, in Aldersate-street ; that he was to give him 4s.
for it
(about half its value) ; and that he was waiting
outside for the money. The porter was sent out, but
no person answering to the name or description was
there.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY asked how long he had been
in employ, and what wages he earned ? Mr. Pigott
said he was a cutter, and he gave him 265. per week.
He had been in his employ ten years. At the prisoner's
lodgings he found some cuttings in cotton and linen,
which he presumed had been carried off by the prisoner,
from their texture corresponding with that used in the
army work.

Afr. Hobler asked if there was any mark on the
12 yards of linen by which he could swear to it ?
Mr. Pigott said there was not, but it exactly
matched the linen used in the business. He produced
a pattern.
Mr. Alderman SYDNEY asked if he could speak to
missing 12 yards or any greater quantity ? Mr. Pigott
said he could not miss it. It would be within the duty
o: the prisoner, if required, to keep an account of the
quanti:y used. Be had cut up many thousands of yards,
but had not been required to keep an account.
Mr. Hobler urged that the case only amounted to one
of having possession of property, and not satisfactorily
accounting for it. He believed Mr. Pigott had pressed
the case with great sorrow, and had no wish to see the
prisoner convicted at the Old Bailey.
Mr. Alderman SYDNEY, after some consideration, said
a summary conviction would amount to a severe punish-
ment. It would deprive his family for a time of his
earnings, and reduce them to distress, and it would
brand his character, and stand in the way of his ob-
taining or keeping employment hereafter. It would
be long before he would regain his position in society.
He adjudged him to be imprisoned two months in
Bridewell. _

BOW-STREET.
George Meade, charged with stealing a waistcoat, a
pair of boots, two linen shirts, and one flannel shirt, the
property of Capt. Otway, of the Scots Fusileer Guards,
in whose service he had been, was again brought up.
Captain Otway identified the waistcoat, boots, and
shirts produced as his property.
The prisoner was committed for trial on the charge of
stealing the waistcoat and shirts, which the Captain
valued at 1/.
The prisoner was then charged with obtaininc, goods
from tradesmen upon the false pretence that they were
for Captain Otway. Two cases were entered into ; one
for obtaining two pair of boots and a pair of fur soles
from Mr. Buhl, bootmaicer, of Burlington-arcade ; and
the other, of obtaining a black silk neckerchief, or black
satin neckerchief, a cravat, flannel waistcoat, and a pair
of gloves from a linendraper in Piccadilly. The property
obtained from Mr. Buhl was to the value of 21 lls., and
the neckerchiefs, &c., were valued at 2/. 13s.
The prisoner was also committed on these charges,
to which he made no defence, being admitted to bail in
his own recognisances for 501., and two sureties for 251.
each, but on the charge of felony he was committed
without bail.