The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

John Jenner, the landlord of the Yorkshire Stingo
beor•shop in Blackfriars-road, and Thomas Wyatt, were
charged with being concerned in stealing a cheque on
Meiars. Prescott and Co. for 197/. 10s., the property of
Mr. Edward Bansly, of the Star Inn, Bawdsey, near
Woodbridge, Sufi,

On the-termer examination the complainant did not
attend to prosecute the charge, in consequence of, it
was alleged, his having received back the sum of 197/.
10s., of which he had been plundered in the manner al•
ready described. The magistrate gave directions that
Mr. Ransly should be compelled to attend this day, and
in compliance with those instructions the complainant
accordingly presented himself in court, and intimated
his readiness to follow up the charge. He admitted
that, on Tuesday last, after the investigation concluded,
and he had left the court to go into the City, when ho
was passing near the Town-hall he was accosted by two
men, who addressed him on the subject of the loss of his
money. They induced him to enter a public-house, and
when there one of them, whom he had seen on the day
previously at the Yorkshire Stingo, asked him if he
would forego any prosecution if the whole of his money
was restored to him, adding that there would be no oc-
casion for his appearing again before the magistrate,
Subsequently to this conversation, both the men wanted
to quit the house, but he insisted that the one whom he
met at the beer-house should remain, threatening at the
same time to give him into custody if he attempted to go
away. The other man, Wyatt (now at the bat), then
went out, and returned in a few minutes with a bag,
and placing it in his (complainant's) hands, said,
" There is your money; you'll have no further
trouble in the matter, and you can get into the
ountry now as soon as you please—the sooner
the better." He then reckoned the contents
of the bag, and finding it contained 191 sove-
reigns, at the desire of the prisoner Wyatt he gave him
a receipt for that amount, and they then separated. The
complainant added, that he was rejoiced in getting back
so muck of the money, which he thought was gone for
ever; and that acting under the impression that he was
not doing anything contrary to law, he left town and went
into Sutiblk. The complainant then produced the bag
which contained the sovereigns, given into his hands by
the prisoner Wyatt.
Mr. COTTINGHAM here inqnired of the complainant
whether he had any recollection of having seen Wyatt '
in the Yorkshire Stingo on the evening he was playing
there—whether he was amongst the persons who were
tossing with him for money ?—The complainant replied,
that he had not seen that person until the Tuesday he
handed him over the bag of sovereigns as already de-
scribed, fie also said, in answer to further questions,
that Jenner, the landlord of the Yorkshire Stingo, did
join in the play himself, and that before he gave him the
cheque for 1971. 10s., he (Jenner) did lend him some
money, to the amount of 31. or 41., and that that person,
he had no doubt, was acting in collusion with the other
parties to plunder him of his money.
Mr. COTTINGITAM remarked, that it was clear Wyatt
had engaged himself in the offence of compounding a
felony, and that that offence applied to the complainant
as well as it did to him; that the latter person had
throughout the affair acted most improperly, for instead
of calling for assistance and giving, at all events, the
man he had seen at the Yorkshire Stingo into custody,
he received back his money, and permitted him to go at
large, and also absented himself from this court on the
day he was directed to be in attendance at the re •
examination of the charge. As regarded Wyatt, it was
certainly a favourable point in his behalf that he was not-
identified as being one of the parties present at the
Yorkshire Stingo on the evening in question.
Wyatt said, I wish to give my explanation of the mat-
ter. I don't want to conceal anything. lam a shoe-
maker, and work very hard at my trade; and on Tuesday
last I met a young woman that I know, and she gave
me a bag containing sovereigns, and asked me to give it
to Mr. Ransly in the public house. I took the money,
and accordingly gave it to that person; and that is all I
know about it.

Mr. COTTINGftAM-WhO is the woman? Wyatt—
She is in fact a woman of loose character, that I have
met at the Surrey and Victoria Theatres; her name is
Mary, but I don't know her surname, or where she lives.
Mr. Burton, a clerk in Messrs. Prescott's bank, who
cashed the cheque, was then examined, and he stated
that Wyatt was not the man who came there and had
the money.
Mr. COTTINGLUM, at the conclusion of the examina-
tion, said that he should bind over the complainant to
prosecute, and that it would be left with the judge before
whom the trial took place, whether it would be considered
necessary to include him in the indictment fur com-
another weak, in
orderer pounding the felony with the other prisoner Jenner. At
all events, he should remand both the prisoners for
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apprehension of the-
action; and Berry, an active policeman,
who knew from