The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COUit-1,
The session at the Old Bailey commenced yesterday,
being the second under the present, Mayoralty, an
interval of only four days having elapsed since the ter-
mination of the last session. The Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, Alderman, Sheriffs, Recorder, and other of the
civic authorities entered he Court shortly after ten
o'clock, and the Grand Jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded briefly to address them.
He said the unusually short interval which had occurred
between the present and last session rendered their duties
on this occasion comparatively light. Since the calendar
had been made up twenty names in addition had been
sent for trial. The calendar now comprised the
names of eighty-four prisoners for trial. The cases
were of ordinary magnitude, few of which required any
remark from .him. Thero were, however, three cases
which he would just call their attention to. The first
was the case of a foreigner for stealing a quantity of
wine orders and Portuguezre bonds, which, by a certain
Act of Parliament, viz., the 7th and Bth George IV.,
was comprised as a larceny. Without expressing any
strong opinion upon it, he would say he thought, it
a case requiring further investigation. The next
was against a person for stealing and secreting a will,
made by a relation of the prisoner. If any person
should be found guilty of stealing or secreting a will it
was considered and construed as a misdemeanour, and
the party charged, if convicted, was liable to the punish=
ment as of a misdemeanour ; and he thought this
also was a case requiring some further inves-
tigation. Thew was . a man who had been
remanded frera„the last sessions on a charge of cutting
and wounding. This case he also recommended them to
put in the course of further inquiry. The other cases
neither invoked points of law nor fact, further than their
own judgment would surmount, and he therefore at once
remitted them to their duties.

Mr. Commissioner HoLnov-D—l see but one question
to which the answer has been omitted.
Mr. AsnuasT—And that has been most unfortunate
for me.
The Bankrupt—l had no professional assistance.
Mr. ASHURST—When did you begin to send out
goods through 'Walden ?—Early in July. I well
give the narrative of Walden's goods now. Early in
July, the goods were sent from my private house at
Westbourne Green, and from other places, to Mr.
Walden's house at Chelsea. , These goods, I
think, amounted to about 1,200/. Having left on a
Saturday night, about the middle of July, to go
to - Cowes, on a visit to my family, I was
surprised on Sunday morning to receive a letter from
Mr. Hayward, my confidential manager, in which he
stated that lie was surprised to hear that Mr. Walden
had been offering, and had sold, some silks. I came
to town that evening, and with Mr. Hayward went
to Mr. Walden's residence, at about eleven o'clock at
night. I found him in bed, but called him up,
and asked him if he had committed a breach of trust by
selling any of my goods.* At first he said he had not
done so, but after pressing him a considerable time and
insisting on seeing the goods, he then confessed that he
had taken a large quantity of silks to an inn
in Holborn, I think the George and Blue Boar,
and having engaged a room or rooms there,
he had called on several retail houses in the trade to
sell them. • He did sell them to Messrs. Sewell and
Cross, but those gentlemen honourably declined having
the goods, except with a good reference ; the goods
were therefore taken back in a cab to the George
and Blue Boar, and he subsequently offered them to
-.Shoolbred and Cook. Mr. Gregory Cook made an offer
for these silks, the value of which at cost price amounted
to about 700/. -After having made an offer for the goods
be would not complete the purchase, but sent his buyer,
who subsequently made Mr. Walden drunk, and
succeeded in obtaining the goods at a lower price
than they had before been sold to Mr. Cook.
I think the amount they realised was 2041. Mr. J. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
Cook stated that he would not give more, as they had GUILDHALL.
'1 nompson , on a charge of defrauding Mr. 'l'. Powell of
just had to pay 1,000/. to keep him out of Newgate. Two very respectable-looking persons, named Fletcher
the sum of 50/. Mr. Pelham attended for the prosecution.
Finding the goods had been sold in this reckless way, and. 7aylor, were placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
and without my knowledge, I told Walden that
the prisoner Taylor was introduced to him as a general
. tchornpuagnhiehdis
although he had robbed me I would fergive him if
he would assist me to get back the goods. The complainant stated, that about a fortnight since
hchnonnt
He promised to do so. On the next morning, Monday,
I removed the remaining portion of the goods from agent,_ who had very extensive connections amongst
Walden's house, and then conferred with Mr. MY-ward the West Indian consignees, and he (Mr. Powell) ac-
eouttß.uiurms ininglciaamlu,uttots,puatrcahalasregaeqpuearnutuinty,
as to how we should get back the goods. We decided
should of fancy articles,which
plan
:—That Mr. Hayward
engage the same rooms at the inn, they having
folding' doors, or a door leading from one to the other, tage profit. The goods were brought to London, and
on the following
and that Walden should go to Shoolbred and Cook, and stored in a room in Lime-street, until their shipment,
tell them he had done something wrong, and get one ofthe prisoner Taylor giving him the key of the room as a
the firm to come to the outer room to hold a con- security for the payment of the money advanced to
ference with the rightful owner of the goods, who should tr
e ect the purchase. For about four days subsequent
be in the inner room, the door being left ajar. The the goods were left untouched, but on the fifth Taylor,
buyer, before alluded to, of Messrs. Shoolbred and Cook in company with Fletcher, brought a locksmith and
did come to that room, and Mr. Hayward and him (the burst open the door, when he removed a great quantity
buyer) held a conversation, without seeing each other. of
them, which were pledged at several pawnbrokers in
After a good many threats the buyer, cm the part of the neighbourhood. .
Shoolbred and Cook, consented to return the goods. A number of other witnesses being examined in sup-

John Twomey, 35, was indicted for stealing 2601b5.
ar
weight of currants; also other ticles, value 601., the pro-
perty of Edward Wilkins, his master.
Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prosecution, and
stated' the case, from which it appeared that the prisoner,
ne years back, had been in the employ of the prose-
e w, who is a wholesale confectioner in St. John-street,
Clerkenwell. The prisoner left his service some time
ago, and through the instrumentality of the prosecutor,
entered the police force some few weeks back. The
prosecutor met the prisoner, and the latter wished to re-
turn to his former service, and the prosecutor having
such confidence in him took hint again into his service.
A fortnight back the clerk to the prosecutor saw the
prisoner put his hand into a barrel and take up some
currants, which he put into his pocket. The clerk told
the prosecutor, and the prisoner was given into custody,
and on his lodgings being searched the property named
in the indictment was found. A great quantity of other
articles were found, consisting of nutmegs, figs, spices,
plums, liquorice, almonds, raisins, allspice, pimento, and
a great variety of confectionery articles. The prose-
cutor was in a large way of business, the returns being
from forty to fifty thousand a-year.
These facts were proved, and the Jury returned a ver-
dict of Guilty against the prisoner, and he was sentenced
to seven years' transportation.