The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

LA MBETILSTR E ET.

On Saturday evening at-six o'clock, as Mr. NORTON
was about to leave the bench, John Shore, a cab driver,
was brought before him on suspicion of picking up and
concealing a pocket-book, containing 1851. in Bank
notes. From the evidence it appeared that on the day
before a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Butcher,
Smith, and Co., carpet and rug manufacturers, of Great
Marlborough-street, had been s7nt to the City to get
cash for country noes, amour•ting to 1851. He got
on the top of a Mile-end omnibus, and shortly after
getting off, at the corner of Cornhill, he missed the
pocket-book in which the notes were deposited. Mr.
Dry land, a respectable tradesman, residing at 34, High-
street, \Vhitecbapel, stated, that .betw•ean 12 and 1
o'clock on the day before he observed the aacuscd pick
up a black pocket-book in the High-stret, and put it
into the pocket of his fustian jacket. He then pro-
ceeded up a gateway in company with another rerson
and got into some place, as he, witness, lost sight of
them for the moment, and such was his impression
that it was a pocket-book, that he took the number
of the prisoner's cab, so that he might be traced in
the event of any such article being lost. On that
-morning witness saw an alvertiscment in a morning
paper describing the lass of a black pocket-book contain-
ing a number of bank notes, and he felt it his duty
once to communicate with the party whose reference
had been stated in the advertisement. The prisoner
produced a black leather case in which he kept his brass
badge or number, and said, that on Friday, at the time
stated, he hid dropped it, and that it was it, and not
the pocket book, which he had picked up. In corrobo-
ration of his assertion, he called a man of colour, named
Davis, who declared it was the badge, and not the pocket-
book, Lc (Shore) had picked up. The pouch produced
was so like a pocket-book, that Mr. Dry land would not
take on himself to say that it might not have been it
that bad been picked up by the accused. There was
this difference between Mr. Dryland and the prisoner,
that the latter de: lared he was dressed, at the time he
picked up his badge, as he then was, with a dark waist-
coat with sleeve, whirl the former swore he bad a fus-
tian coat vr:th large pockets on. M,. Dryland also swore
that the accused and the other man got out of his sight
in the gateway, while both the latter said they did not ;
and that the accused had gone up the passage a yard or
two to put on his badge.
Mr. NORTON said he was inclined to believa the
statement of the accused, and discharged him.

MARYLEBONE.
John Tandyn Jenkins, a butler, in the employ of Mr.
French, of No. 1, Great Cumberland-street, was
charged by his master with having robbed him of four
silver spoons.

Mr. Wontner appeared for the prisoner.
Mr. French, being sworn, said that the prisoner had
been in his service about a month, and had charge of
all his plate. He was yesterday morning disturbed
from his bed about one o'clock, and on getting up he
found that the prisoner had la a strange man into his
house. In consequence of this he gave him into cut-
tidy, and in tl:e presence of a policeman looked ovt r his
plate, and missed four spoons. There was nothing el,e
gone. He said that they would be here presently, ani
he (witness) having none alp stairs for a moment,
heard that the ;prisoners gave a ticket for the spoons
to Mrs. French. He did not see this.
James Hitchcock, in the employ of Mr. Bailey,
pawnbroker, knew the prisoner, and remembered him to
have pawned the spoons produced, on the 13th of
February, for 31. 10i. Ile then stated that I,e was
a butler tin a family, and had brought them from bis
mistress to pledge. He did not say in what family.
He questioned him as to his name, and he gave that
of John Jenkins, for Mrs. Wilcox, 81, Gloucester-
p'ace, who was housekeeper there. The value of the
spoons was about five pounds, perhaps a few shillings
less.

Mr. French said be could swear to the spoons,
both from his crest, "a dolphin," and frt.in the raakor'e
name, " 'lwyeroso, of Dublin."